Movie review thread...
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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
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 ChristensenI enjoyed it
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@mariner4life said in Re: Movie review thread...:
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.
Shit, I'd forgotten about Mr & Mrs Smith, was in my top-3 guilty-pleasure/hangover-dumb movies for some time. Even though, like @Nepia - I don't find Jolie hot, so much as creepy weird horse-faced.
Bearing that in mind - I did re-try Salt the other night... wish I hadn't bothered. 3 attempts at starting an action franchise out of 5 Wanted was better and that's saying a fair bit.
NB: for full dirty-laundry disclosure of top-3 guilty-pleasure/hangover-turn-the-brain-off-dumb movies, the list was for a while, in no particular order:- Mr & Mrs Smith
- Any of the earlier Pirates of West Indies movies
- Death Race 2000
(fucking classic. "It's a hand grenade")
I posit a sincere "Discuss..." - as I'd appreciate some ideas of guilty-pleasure/stop-the-brain-working hangover movies. God knows I need some.
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First Man
Gosling is good as the quiet (dull, even) engineer test pilot Neil Armstrong, mathematically plotting his way thru the atmosphere. Generating pathos via family tragedy, and among his fellow astronauts on the Gemini and then Apollo programs. You understand why he's wound up like a spring
Supporting cast, cinematography, sound direction... Everything works. Buzz Aldrin comes across as a real piston wristed gibbon, I might add.
This is a bloody good film, and got the science nerd in me wetter than an otter's pocket.
5 unhappy spouses out of 5 crispy astronauts
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@tim said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Would Any movie have been a better movie if Anyone had cast anyone other than Colin Farrell?
There, I think that's what you meant to say.
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@tim said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Would Miami Vice have been a better movie if Mann had cast Josh Brolin and Benicio del Toro as Crockett and Tubbs?
Mann's casting is usually very good but Farrell and Foxx weren't exactly De Niro and Pacino.
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@bovidae said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@tim said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Would Miami Vice have been a better movie if Mann had cast Josh Brolin and Benicio del Toro as Crockett and Tubbs?
Mann's casting is usually very good but Farrell and Foxx weren't exactly De Niro and Pacino.
To be fair Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas weren't either
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@rocky-rockbottom said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Casino Royale (2006)
CGI era kicks in. Daniel Craig takes advantage, opening action scene, woah, that thrilling hi-speed fancy dan camera shit never happened in the doofusland 70's instalments. Took Craig all of 30 minutes to supplant Connery as alltime #1 Bond. Fast, athletic, even got some wee beach muscles in there. Bit wooden with the sook scenes but fuck that shit anyway. 94% on RT. Timothy Dalton? GTFO. Timothy fucking Dalton. They may as well have had Stevie fucken Hawking as 007 instead of that charisma-bypassed vanilla git.
Casino Royale is definitely the best Craig era Bond. QOS would be the worst. A boring uncharismatic villain trying to steal a water supply ? Fuck off, go and take over the world like a normal baddie.
Silva from Skyfall is a very good villain but can't supplant Christopher Lee as Scaramanga.
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@bovidae That's Johnson ensuring no one plays the part better than him.
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@canefan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@bovidae said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@tim said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Would Miami Vice have been a better movie if Mann had cast Josh Brolin and Benicio del Toro as Crockett and Tubbs?
Mann's casting is usually very good but Farrell and Foxx weren't exactly De Niro and Pacino.
To be fair Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas weren't either
Like alot of 80s shows Miami Vice hasn't aged well. The A team, Magnum PI and Knight Rider are exactly the same. In fact just about all of them are except one....
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@antipodean said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@bovidae That's Johnson ensuring no one plays the part better than him.
Can’t be long before the #metoo crowd lay into him for nailing Melanie Griffith when she was 14 and he was 22.
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@jegga said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@antipodean said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@bovidae That's Johnson ensuring no one plays the part better than him.
Can’t be long before the #metoo crowd lay into him for nailing Melanie Griffith when she was 14 and he was 22.
With a name like Don Johnson I don't think that was anywhere near the first pussy he slayed in his time.
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Mile 22 - Mark Wahlberg, Lauren Cohen, John Malkovich, Rhonda Rousey, Iko Uwais (of The Raid movies)
Expected this to be good, was ok, seemed a bit messy overall, but watchable.
Wahlberg is a intelligence operative, Cohen is on his team and they must escort Uwais to the US to get him to handover some high;y sensitive information.
3 gun fights out of 5 narrow escapes
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@taniwharugby I expected it to be bad based on reviews but I quite liked it.
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I think the ending really annoyed some people
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Cheers to whichever mod fixed my cabbage forum-ing skills.
