Movie review thread...
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@canefan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
4 hot hologram
I'm obsessed with Ana de Armas - also because she's in War Dogs. And she reminds me of a Personal Trainer at the local gym.
She was spectacular in war dogs. You must love going for a work out!
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@nta said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@canefan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
4 hot hologram
I'm obsessed with Ana de Armas - also because she's in War Dogs. And she reminds me of a Personal Trainer at the local gym.
I have a gym in my apartment building, but I could take a hike way out north west for this personal trainer I feel.
The Quiet Place: Emily Blunt and Jim from the US office. I really liked this movie, about a family living under the fear of aliens who are attracted to sound, so they have to remain silent. A kind of horror/thriller/sci fi mixup. 4 nails in the foot out of five hearing aids.
Rampage: Average film about giant animals starring the Rock and a nice Neagan. 2 flying wolfs out of 5 albino gorillas.
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I saw Three Billboards today. It drew me in, I enjoyed being immersed in the goings on of the crazy rural USA town. It was well acted, the story was interesting, there were a few twists in there, but ultimately it felt unresolved at the end. I figured the writers had set up their murderer with the initial confrontation with McDormand, but it apparently wasn't to be, although perhaps he was being protected by his superiors. The conversation between him Mildred and Dixon at gunpoint would have been an interesting one. 4.5 desperate mums out of 5 crazy racist hillbilly ex-cops
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@nta said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Avengers: Infinity War
Wow. Fuck. Wow.
6 Infinity Stones out of 6.
6? You can't just change the rules like that.
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@no-quarter you can if you have all the stones!!
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ps I know NTA has a powerwall, but pretty sure that doesn't equal infinity stones... or does it!!!
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@canefan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
I saw Three Billboards today. It drew me in, I enjoyed being immersed in the goings on of the crazy rural USA town. It was well acted, the story was interesting, there were a few twists in there, but ultimately it felt unresolved at the end. I figured the writers had set up their murderer with the initial confrontation with McDormand, but it apparently wasn't to be, although perhaps he was being protected by his superiors. The conversation between him Mildred and Dixon at gunpoint would have been an interesting one. 4.5 desperate mums out of 5 crazy racist hillbilly ex-cops
I liked that it left that component unresolved. Too many movies feel the need to have happy endings or close off all plot lines. Given the nature of the plot, it seemed fitting.
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@rembrandt said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Has anyone watched Citizen Kane recently? It's been on my 'really should watch' list for a very long time. Not sure if B&W would hold my attention enough.
I watch it about every other year. It is brilliant, especially the b&w photography (by Gregg Toland) some of the best ever. Most modern audiences likely won’t understand how groundbreaking it was, but there are still techniques that blow me away. One scene in particular that was (and still is) sheer genius at the time, is the scene of Kane’s mother inside the cabin signing away his life to a banker, while you see young Charlie through the window playing outside with his (ahem, foreshadowing here) sled. Welles wanted the scene played in tight deep focus from front of frame to the back, which was impossible for even Toland’s new fangled cameras and lenses to pull off. So their solution was a special effect done completely in camera — shoot the interior fully lit and the background though the window dark; then roll the film back and re-focus the lens and re-shoot it with the interior dark and the outside floodlit. Simple genius.
(That scene, btw, was lampooned brilliantly in an early-year Simpsons episode, with toddler Montgomery Burns playing the role of Charles Foster Kane. “Let’s roll!”)
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@paekakboyz said in Re: Movie review thread...:
ps I know NTA has a powerwall, but pretty sure that doesn't equal infinity stones... or does it!!!
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Infinity War.
3 Dead super heroes out of 5.Average.
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@nta said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Avengers: Infinity War
Wow. Fuck. Wow.
6 Infinity Stones out of 6.
I liked it, thought they managed the gigantic cast pretty well and kept up the humour of the two most recent Marvel movies (Thor and Black Panther).
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All the Money in the world - JP Getty a miserably wealthy man who refuses to pay the ransom for his grandson who is kidnapped in Italy, for 2 reasons, 1 if he did, then the rest of his grandkids would be targets, and 2, ransoms were not tax deductable.
Think this was the movie Kevin Spacey was in until his sexual assault allegations came to light and also the pay equity thing that saw Wahlberg donate part of his salary to MIchelle Williams.
Obviously based on a true story, so not sure how accurate it is, a wee bit slow, portrays Getty Snr as an absolute cnut, which I think was true.
Anywhoo, 3 miserable old rich cnuts out of 5 million dollar pieces of art
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@taniwharugby said in Re: Movie review thread...:
All the Money in the world - JP Getty a miserably wealthy man who refuses to pay the ransom for his grandson who is kidnapped in Italy, for 2 reasons, 1 if he did, then the rest of his grandkids would be targets, and 2, ransoms were not tax deductable.
Think this was the movie Kevin Spacey was in until his sexual assault allegations came to light and also the pay equity thing that saw Wahlberg donate part of his salary to MIchelle Williams.
Obviously based on a true story, so not sure how accurate it is, a wee bit slow, portrays Getty Snr as an absolute cnut, which I think was true.
Anywhoo, 3 miserable old rich cnuts out of 5 million dollar pieces of art
I'd rate it about the same. In terms of historical accuracy there's heaps of liberties taken. ( the old boy died quite a few years after his grandson was freed for example )
Google JP Gerry though, sounds like an absolute fluffybunny in real life.
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Den of Thieves
Bunch of Crooks plan a massive heist, bunch of cops try and stop them....
Very similar premise to Heat and while no where near as good ( Heat is an all time fucken classic ) it's still a really decent satisfying action thriller. Gerard Butler good as the main cop but the real surprise is the bloke from Orange is the New Black as the main criminal mastermind. He was fucken awesome. Good performances all round and a nice twist right at the end. Pretty certain every main cast member was told to get inked and smash some tin though. Basically impossible to tell the good guys from the bad guys.
4 tough, jacked inked crooks out of 5 tough, jacked inked cops
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