Movie review thread...

Nepia

I'm catching up with films from a few months ago. I just watched Ender'Game. 
 
I must have been inattentive at the start, or they just didn't explain, but I missed the premise of the movie. Why do they have to use kids to command their army? How did they realise this was the best policy. 
 
Ben Kingsley - WTF!!! After watching Wolf of Wall Street and seeing three different actors do completely different takes on the NZ accent I didn't think it could be mangled anymore. Kingsley was giving a different take on each sentence. Also, if you're going to make the character Maori at least teach him how to pronounce Maori properly. Or at least hire Cliff Curtis or Tem ... they'd be a lot cheaper than Kingsley too.
 
I was thinking about reading the books so read up about them and found out the author is great big homophobe, so might give them a miss.
 
TR: I thought Non-Stop was quite good as a popcorn movie.

jegga

Kingsley seems to have spent 30 years trading on being ghandi in a film, since then he's appeared in some unmitigated shit. He does a good villain though.

Catogrande

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="jegga" data-cid="432622" data-time="1402018514">Kingsley seems to have spent 30 years trading on being ghandi in a film, since then he's appeared in some unmitigated shit. He does a good villain though.</blockquote>Yeah, was quite unpleasant in Sexy Beast.

jegga

Saw Edge of tomorrow , really enjoyed it . People killing aliens with mechanical bio armor suits , a bit of the plot borrowed from groundhog day and Emily Blunt looking toned and shooting stuff up. Cruise gets a lot of hate but I thought he was great again in this role, I liked Oblivion too last year.

mariner4life

How To Train Your Dragon 2
 
Not as cutesy and funny as the first, in fact it's pretty fucking serious and my kids both howled a couple of times. But it's real good. And it looks amazing (i didn't bother with 3D).

NTA

Yeah we saw HTTYD2 yesterday and both kids had tears at one point. But darker than the first one but I thought it looked spectacular. ONLY thing that bothered me was those big arse dragons should have shaken the ground a LOT more when they were fighting

jegga

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Finally got round to watching Captain Phillips and I thought it was bloody good. One of the best movies I've watched this year.
 
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I really enjoyed that too, the pirate that survived stole the show for me.

taniwharugby

300; Rise of an Empire - If you like that style of film, I guess you will like this. Plenty of slow-mo blood splatter, despite the cold weather, loads of fake (surely) abs on show....some boobies too, but no where near as many or frequent as the abs...
 
Was trying to work out who the main actor was and he was Scott from Strike Back, also has Cersei Lannister playing a women of power again, but not as evil.

nostrildamus

Nepia

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300; Rise of an Empire - If you like that style of film, I guess you will like this. Plenty of slow-mo blood splatter, despite the cold weather, loads of fake (surely) abs on show....some boobies too, but no where near as many or frequent as the abs...
 
Was trying to work out who the main actor was and he was Scott from Strike Back, also has Cersei Lannister playing a women of power again, but not as evil.
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I watched this last night as well. I assume that the 300 movies would be huge in the gay communities - mostly just guys wearing undies and the odd cape.
 
I assumed the movie was filmed in Oz due to all the Oz actors in it but IMDB said Bulgaria. 
 
It was watchable, but I enjoyed The Lego Movie far more (which I watched the night before - not that they're similar films).
 
 
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Kingsley seems to have spent 30 years trading on being ghandi in a film, since then he's appeared in some unmitigated shit. He does a good villain though.
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I think he follows the Michael Caine style of movie making ... any crap films he refers to them as his 'new pool', 'beach house' etc etc. Looking at his IMDB page he has actually appeared in a lot more quality stuff than I assumed ... just mixed in with the turds.

jegga

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I watched this last night as well. I assume that the 300 movies would be huge in the gay communities - mostly just guys wearing undies and the odd cape.
 
I assumed the movie was filmed in Oz due to all the Oz actors in it but IMDB said Bulgaria. 
 
It was watchable, but I enjoyed The Lego Movie far more (which I watched the night before - not that they're similar films).
 
 
I think he follows the Michael Caine style of movie making ... any crap films he refers to them as his 'new pool', 'beach house' etc etc. Looking at his IMDB page he has actually appeared in a lot more quality stuff than I assumed ... just mixed in with the turds.
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I looked after I made that comment too and it was a bit harsh, there are some huge turds there and i prefer Caine over him as an actor.I love Caines line after he made jaws 4 when someone asked him if he'd seen it "no but I've seen the house it paid for". He does a lot less rubbish nowadays oo, check out his Parkinson interviews sometime, he really is a legend.

nostrildamus

Caine was in Harry Brown because he says he "just had to". If you ever had to fight for survival in a council flat against self styled toughies you will relate to this little sleeper of a movie. Or even if you didn't, a great little movie.

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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="nostrildamus" data-cid="434323" data-time="1402451971">Caine was in Harry Brown because he says he "just had to". If you ever had to fight for survival in a council flat against self styled toughies you will relate to this little sleeper of a movie. Or even if you didn't, a great little movie.</blockquote>Great film, very dark though. Caine gave one of his best performances I think.

jegga

Ive heard so many good things about Harry Brown , must get around to seeing it. A mate reckons its better than Gran Torino which I find hard to believe , my mrs reckons I'll end up like Walt Kowalski. The weird part is she says it likes it a bad thing.
 
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mariner4life

Those films are both excellent.

taniwharugby

I got around to watching Her, was an interesting concept, and sadly, certainly something I could see happening (except the OS probably wouldn't be as good)
 
Given Scarlet Johansen was Samantha, I woulda thought having her play the part of Isabella woulda been better...Joaquim Phoenix reminds me of a young Kevin Kline in this (specifically A Fish Called Wanda)

taniwharugby

Enemy - Jake Gyllenhaal
 
A bored professor happens upon what appears his doppleganger acting in a movie, so he seeks him out and turns out he is lot of what he isnt. Pretty much sums it up TBH...ws almost like half a story, leaves it open for you to decide a lot, in fact too much.
 
Then there is the ending...not sure what that was all about.
 
Has 6.9/10 on IMDB, however I think I'd be being generous if I gave it 5/10..story promised a lot, but movie, well, just never really did much

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I got around to watching Her, was an interesting concept, and sadly, certainly something I could see happening (except the OS probably wouldn't be as good)
 
Given Scarlet Johansen was Samantha, I woulda thought having her play the part of Isabella woulda been better...Joaquim Phoenix reminds me of a young Kevin Kline in this (specifically A Fish Called Wanda)
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I just watched Her tonight. It was ok. Although, when I couldn't believe it when I paused it to find there was still a whole bloody hour to go.
 
Something more my speed, I watched the new Robocop movie too. I liked it. Doesn;t have the same satire or tone as the original, but a good scifi action movie on its own merits.

Nepia

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The Art of the Steal - Kurt Russell (looking old) Mat Dillon and Legartha. Russell & Dillon are art stealing con man brothers, and Dillon, in an effort to save himself hands the Police his brother. When his brother gets out he tries to go straight...again, ok, while trying to be a bit clever.
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I watched this last night (as it was only a shortish movie) completely forgetting why I had it and was thinking who's the hot chick with black hair and where have I seen her before, then I clicked about 30 minutes in who it was and why I had the movie.
 
I thought it was quite good as a caper movie - especially as I had no idea what I was watching at the start.

taniwharugby

Korengal - follow on from Restrepo, if you liked Restrepo, should like this one.
 
Grand Budapest Hotel - IMpressive looking cast for this movie, was a little bit quirky and hammy, still undecided if I liked it or not...I think I did...

The Silver Fern

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