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    @mn5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:

    Dirty Harry

    What can you say about this movie that single handedly invented the rogue cop genre of flicks? The San Fran location, the jazzy music, the eerie tension.....Some excellent performances all round, Andy Robinson was brilliant as the psycho killer but Clint steals the show in every single scene. So many good lines and that scene in the stadium is ruthless as fuck even by today's standards.

    Naturally a bit of 1970s datedness but to me that doesnt take anything away from it. Just a goddamm awesomely brilliant flick. One of my all time favourites. As is often the case the sequels got worse as they went along but this one is a classic.

    5 44 magnum bullets out of 5 shots fired.

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    Arizona - Danny McBride, Luke WIlson and some cameos from Seth Rogen, Elizabeth Gillies along with a few other faces I have seen before.

    Bit of a dark comedy set amidst the US housing crisis and McBride is a disgruntled home owner in the middle of a gated community...

    Was ok, almost 3 accidental deaths out of 5 brand new vacant houses (solve our Housing Crisis...)

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    @rocky-rockbottom said in Re: Movie review thread...:

    The World Is Not Enough (1999)

    Oh great, the Pierce Brosnan era. Just bloody great. Another dandy fop. Actually though, I thought he was pretty great. Far more agile than old Rog. And with some wit about him. Plus he looks suave in a suit. Far better Bond than dipshit, lizard-faced, Beavis-browed Timmeh Dullton. Savile Row? Timmeh was decked out by fucken Woolworths.

    Little skinhead Begby was quite a solid wee baddie

    current Boned ranking:

    • Connery
    • Daniel Craig
    • Brosnan
    • Rog
    • Lazenby?
    • Niven?
    • everyone who ever failed a Bond audition
    • Mork from Ork
    • Frank Spencer
    • MN5
    • Timmeh!

    Brosnan third?

    Fuck I'd love to meet you one day if only to beat you up.

    Then I'd revive you, talk Bond, disagree and beat you up again.

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    @mn5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:

    @rocky-rockbottom said in Re: Movie review thread...:

    The World Is Not Enough (1999)

    Oh great, the Pierce Brosnan era. Just bloody great. Another dandy fop. Actually though, I thought he was pretty great. Far more agile than old Rog. And with some wit about him. Plus he looks suave in a suit. Far better Bond than dipshit, lizard-faced, Beavis-browed Timmeh Dullton. Savile Row? Timmeh was decked out by fucken Woolworths.

    Little skinhead Begby was quite a solid wee baddie

    current Boned ranking:

    • Connery
    • Daniel Craig
    • Brosnan
    • Rog
    • Lazenby?
    • Niven?
    • everyone who ever failed a Bond audition
    • Mork from Ork
    • Frank Spencer
    • MN5
    • Timmeh!

    Brosnan third?

    Fuck I'd love to meet you one day if only to beat you up.

    Then I'd revive you, talk Bond, disagree and beat you up again.

    Bit unfair beating up someone wearing a straightjacket.

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  • canefanC Online
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    @rocky-rockbottom said in Re: Movie review thread...:

    The World Is Not Enough (1999)

    Oh great, the Pierce Brosnan era. Just bloody great. Another dandy fop. Actually though, I thought he was pretty great. Far more agile than old Rog. And with some wit about him. Plus he looks suave in a suit. Far better Bond than dipshit, lizard-faced, Beavis-browed Timmeh Dullton. Savile Row? Timmeh was decked out by fucken Woolworths.

    Little skinhead Begby was quite a solid wee baddie

    current Boned ranking:

    • Connery
    • Daniel Craig
    • Brosnan
    • Rog
    • Lazenby?
    • Niven?
    • everyone who ever failed a Bond audition
    • Mork from Ork
    • Frank Spencer
    • MN5
    • Timmeh!

    The World is not Enough also starred Sophie Marceau and still hot Denise Richards

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  • NepiaN Offline
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    Too much Bonding on this thread ....

    To move it a wee bit current - Bad Times at the El Royale.

    This movie was a wee bit bonkers but I enjoyed it all the same. I had no idea of the plot when going in, saw a preview months ago and wasn't really what my memory expected - it was a lot darker. Stars Jeff Bridges, Jon Hamm, Dakota Johnson, Chris Hemsworth and some people whose names I don't know.

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  • MN5M Online
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    MN5
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    @canefan said in Re: Movie review thread...:

    @mn5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:

    Dirty Harry

    What can you say about this movie that single handedly invented the rogue cop genre of flicks? The San Fran location, the jazzy music, the eerie tension.....Some excellent performances all round, Andy Robinson was brilliant as the psycho killer but Clint steals the show in every single scene. So many good lines and that scene in the stadium is ruthless as fuck even by today's standards.

    Naturally a bit of 1970s datedness but to me that doesnt take anything away from it. Just a goddamm awesomely brilliant flick. One of my all time favourites. As is often the case the sequels got worse as they went along but this one is a classic.

    5 44 magnum bullets out of 5 shots fired.

    This scene does it for me every time. Awesome performances from both of them. Apparently Andy Robinson really struggled to find work after this movie cos of typecasting. Clint obviously went from strength to strength. Magnificent effort to hit someone in the leg with a pistol from about 50 metres too.

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    Watched an Aussie Alien film called Occupation.

    Was pretty average, with some pretty average dialogue, scenes and acting (lead by Temuera Morrison) but I couldnt bring myself to not finish it! 🙂

    Probably lucky it wont be a box office hit otherwise I expect a few Kiwi SJW will be all over the fact Tem plays the part of a violent ex-Con in Australia...

    I'll be generous and give it 2.5 Aliens out of 5 bullets only hitting aliens

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    This may not quite fit here but it's a pretty exemplary analysis of the 90's classic. I absolutely loved starship troopers so its so incredibly interesting to hear a theory as to why.

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    Criminal. Considering the cast they had (Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Oldman, Ryan Reynolds, Kevin Costner, Gal Gadot etc) the really interesting premise, and good start, not sure how they managed to fuck this up so badly.

    Paper thin plot, under-developed antagonists, and a parade of gory deaths that actually subtracted from the menace of the main threat really didn't help. Nor did the ticking clock deadline that everyone ignored. Lots of telling in this movie rather than showing, which meant the impact got lost. Also, Costner's character got a bit too nice. I wanted to see more of a battle between his brain and quirks/tendencies and the implanted ones.

    2 headaches out of 5 Gal Gadot has a really fine ass.

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    @mokey anything with Gal Gadot is automatically a 3 out of 5 imho

    In a similar fashion, this mess of a film gets at least 2.5 because of the presence of Amber Heard.

    3 Days to Kill - Wikipedia

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    @jegga said in Re: Movie review thread...:

    @mokey anything with Gal Gadot is automatically a 3 out of 5 imho

    In a similar fashion, this mess of a film gets at least 2.5 because of the presence of Amber Heard.

    3 Days to Kill - Wikipedia

    3 Days to Kill - Wikipedia

    I quite liked that film - I find Costner pretty watchable (in a different way then Heard and Gadot obviously).

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    @nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:

    @jegga said in Re: Movie review thread...:

    @mokey anything with Gal Gadot is automatically a 3 out of 5 imho

    In a similar fashion, this mess of a film gets at least 2.5 because of the presence of Amber Heard.

    3 Days to Kill - Wikipedia

    3 Days to Kill - Wikipedia

    I quite liked that film - I find Costner pretty watchable (in a different way then Heard and Gadot obviously).

    The only reason I watched it was because of Costner, needed more Heard and less whiny teenagers .

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    We've done "Guilty Pleasure" movies before, but i have another, Mr & Mrs Smith. It's great fun. The overly attractive leads have great chemistry. Good action sequences. Angelina Jolie is looking fiiiine. It's fun.

    Someone mentioned a couple of weeks back that the watched Any Given Sunday, and it hadn't aged well. So i watched it last night to confirm. They were completely right. It's a half hour too long. It's waaaay over-dramatised, the fucking flashback/lightening storm/historical highlight cutaways were tedious as hell. Every character is so over-done. Even just shit like the colouring is jarring on the eye. It's a football movie that goes up to 11. And stays there. Give me The Replacements any day.

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    @mariner4life I think that was me - you got further through it than I did. Platoon has aged remarkably well of Stone's films - the period aspect no doubt helping.

    I liked Mr and Mrs Smith despite the fact I'm not the biggest Jolie is fine type person. Was it a Doug Liman directed film? He usually makes decent films.

    @jegga More action, more Heard definitely - but I didn't have too much of a problem with the whiny teenager as she's the one from True Grit.

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    @nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:

    @mariner4life I think that was me - you got further through it than I did.

    Yes. I piled on that movie too.

    Platoon has aged remarkably well of Stone's films - the period aspect no doubt helping.

    Platoon is superb. The timing and cinematography is great. Music is superb. No reliance on CGI that will date.

    I liked Mr and Mrs Smith despite the fact I'm not the biggest Jolie is fine type person. Was it a Doug Liman directed film? He usually makes decent films.

    I liked everything about it except the ending.

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    First Man - Gosling playing Armstrong (Neil). I viewed it as a companion piece to The Right Stuff, From the Earth to the Moon and Apollo 13. It's a movie about Armstrong more so that about the Space Program ... but I thought the space stuff was well done.

    He was a pretty gruff guy, very competent, and kind of annoying as a character ... which if that was what Gosling was going for he nailed that performance. Good cast of character/TV actors (Jason Clarke, Coach Taylor, Ciarn Hinds, the kid from Almost Famous who looks totally different now, etc).

    There's been whining about the lack of a shot of Armstrong planting a US flag and how it's anti american blah blah blah. It's an American movie that is rah rah USA! as any of them are and there are shots of the flag on the moon ... but Armstrong didn't place the flag (Buzz Aldrin did - he's portrayed as pretty insensitive and irritable, which is bold considering he's still alive) and the moon stuff was from his perspective.

    It's a bit overlong but 4 Gemini's out of 5 Apollos.

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    @nepia Armstrong’s book was pretty good, it starts off with him as a fighter bomber pilot in the Korean War. He’s flying in a valley trying to bomb a bridge and the commies have strung cables across it and he hits one and shears off half his wing . The full story is here

    mbartels  /  Jul 20, 2017  /  Aviation History

    For Neil Armstrong, it was a Muddy Boot in Korea Before a Step on the Moon

    For Neil Armstrong, it was a Muddy Boot in Korea Before a Step on the Moon

    Neil Armstrong’s flying career nearly ended soon after it started, when he was forced to eject from his F9F Panther over Korea.

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    Venom

    Rather than be in the house during my daughter's 11th birthday with 9 of her friends (a couple of whom are utter little fluffybunnies and her friends for reasons none of us understand), I took the boy to see this.

    Pretty well done overall. Had the funny bits. The Pommy lead is good value as always, and Michelle Williams is fuckable in a skinny, lost-my-man-to-drugs kind of way.

    4 parasites out of 5 post-credit scenes

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    First Kill
    A 4.9 IMDB action thriller with Bruce Willis and Hayden Christensen

    I enjoyed it

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