Movie review thread...
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Zero Dark Thirty is just so fucking good. It might be one of my favourite movies now
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@mariner4life said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Zero Dark Thirty is just so fucking good. It might be one of my favourite movies now
I think it is so much better than the Hurt Locker which won the Oscar.
Mortal Engines, average as fuck with uncharismatic actors (aside from Hugo Weaving) and lots of CGI (which is ok) and one character just disappears from the movie.
@bovidae said in Re: Movie review thread...:
I liked Suicide Squad, but I'm in the minority.
I liked it better than any of the Superman movies.
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if there were odds on Mortal Engines being a failure I would have put the house and my dog on it.
Jackson was clever with Meet the Feebles.
Talented and witty with Braindead.
Someone doing a lot with not much on The Frighteners.
A genius with LOTR.
Ambitious, too reliant on CGI and not totally in touch with the audience on King Kong.
The Lovely Bones was where shit started to really go wrong. Too soppy too muddled too much reliance on unnecessary CGI. Again totally getting the audience wrong.
I know he's a producer now but you know he's micro managing the shit out of this latest effort.
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@raznomore said in Re: Movie review thread...:
if there were odds on Mortal Engines being a failure I would have put the house and my dog on it.
Jackson was clever with Meet the Feebles.
Talented and witty with Braindead.
Someone doing a lot with not much on The Frighteners.
A genius with LOTR.
Ambitious, too reliant on CGI and not totally in touch with the audience on King Kong.
The Lovely Bones was where shit started to really go wrong. Too soppy too muddled too much reliance on unnecessary CGI. Again totally getting the audience wrong.
I know he's a producer now but you know he's micro managing the shit out of this latest effort.
Didn’t he also sack Ryan Gosling for Mark Wahlberg for Lovely Bones? Not great decision making there either
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@kirwan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Didn’t he also sack Ryan Gosling for Mark Wahlberg for Lovely Bones? Not great decision making there either
From IMDb:
The main reason Ryan Gosling quit his role as Jack before filming started, was that during read-through sessions with Peter Jackson and the rest of the cast, he felt that, at 26, he was too young for the role. Jack was supposed to be in his late 30s. Despite repeated assurances from Jackson that he could portray Jack with proper make-up, Gosling insisted that, as a method actor, he would not be able to portray the character well enough, and was finally let go. Mark Wahlberg was brought in only one day before shooting started.
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@raznomore said in Re: Movie review thread...:
if there were odds on Mortal Engines being a failure I would have put the house and my dog on it.
Jackson was clever with Meet the Feebles.
Talented and witty with Braindead.
Someone doing a lot with not much on The Frighteners.
A genius with LOTR.
Ambitious, too reliant on CGI and not totally in touch with the audience on King Kong.
The Lovely Bones was where shit started to really go wrong. Too soppy too muddled too much reliance on unnecessary CGI. Again totally getting the audience wrong.
I know he's a producer now but you know he's micro managing the shit out of this latest effort.
The Peter Jackson-y type stuff (the world building and CGI) was actually the best part of the movie IMHO. The script (by Boyens, Walsh and Jackson) and cast selection were the biggest issues. A decent edit might have helped too.
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@bovidae said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@kirwan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Didn’t he also sack Ryan Gosling for Mark Wahlberg for Lovely Bones? Not great decision making there either
From IMDb:
The main reason Ryan Gosling quit his role as Jack before filming started, was that during read-through sessions with Peter Jackson and the rest of the cast, he felt that, at 26, he was too young for the role. Jack was supposed to be in his late 30s. Despite repeated assurances from Jackson that he could portray Jack with proper make-up, Gosling insisted that, as a method actor, he would not be able to portray the character well enough, and was finally let go. Mark Wahlberg was brought in only one day before shooting started.
Also he turned up fat .
Ryan Gosling: Why Peter Jackson Fired Me From ‘Lovely Bones’
In The Hollywood Reporter's annual actors roundtable discussion, the "Blue Valentine" star says Jackson disapproved of the 60 pounds he'd put on from "melting Haagen Dazs and drinking it."
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@jegga said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@bovidae said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@kirwan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Didn’t he also sack Ryan Gosling for Mark Wahlberg for Lovely Bones? Not great decision making there either
From IMDb:
The main reason Ryan Gosling quit his role as Jack before filming started, was that during read-through sessions with Peter Jackson and the rest of the cast, he felt that, at 26, he was too young for the role. Jack was supposed to be in his late 30s. Despite repeated assurances from Jackson that he could portray Jack with proper make-up, Gosling insisted that, as a method actor, he would not be able to portray the character well enough, and was finally let go. Mark Wahlberg was brought in only one day before shooting started.
Also he turned up fat .
Ryan Gosling: Why Peter Jackson Fired Me From ‘Lovely Bones’
In The Hollywood Reporter's annual actors roundtable discussion, the "Blue Valentine" star says Jackson disapproved of the 60 pounds he'd put on from "melting Haagen Dazs and drinking it."
This. He tried to make himself look more like he thought the character should look like, and got fired.
That’s on them not Gosling.
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How I feel Jackson makes his movies is full of unrealistic sentiment and old fashioned nods to the audience. There's not edge to anything. The ideal audience for a Jackson movie is 70yo+ nana.
Man I wish Del Toro had stayed with the Hobbit production.
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@raznomore said in Re: Movie review thread...:
How I feel Jackson makes his movies is full of unrealistic sentiment and old fashioned nods to the audience. There's not edge to anything. The ideal audience for a Jackson movie is 70yo+ nana.
Man I wish Del Toro had stayed with the Hobbit production.
I'd like to see some 70 year old Nanas watching his older stuff like Bad Taste and Meet the Feebles.
I'm not a big fan of Del Toro, he's in the overrated box for me (aside form Pans Labyrinth), but then I was never going to see a Hobbit anyway so my opinion is pretty worthless in that regard.
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Falling Down
Saw this years ago, but it was on itv4 on saturday night so I settled in again. A decent flick but not an amazing one. However, Douglas' performance was absolutely outstanding. Staggering delivery of a middle aged man who truly loses the plot.
3 bad guys out of 5 double whammy burgers with cheese
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I watched Dirty Harry again last night. First time since I saw it at cinema.
Far out its still a good movie.
The period dating (cars clothes etc) is a crack-up though as is the ransom demand "$100,000 where will we get that much money?" FFS put it on yr plastic
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Watched The Last Of The Mohicans again last night. Great movie with some terrible misses in post production (like visible buses etc).
Still a good movie with a cracking end sequence and brilliant soundtrack.
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@antipodean said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Watched The Last Of The Mohicans again last night. Great movie with some terrible misses in post production (like visible buses etc).
Still a good movie with a cracking end sequence and brilliant soundtrack.
I've never seen those - I hardly ever notice stuff like that though.
But yeah, the end of that movie is awesome ... actually the whole movie is pretty great.
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@antipodean At what time in the movie?
As I've said previously, this is one of my favourite DDL and Mann movies.
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When they're vacating the fort and Munro rides past de Montcalm - there's a road in the lower distance and two buses
