Movie review thread...
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@taniwharugby said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@nepia is that the musical with Gosling?
Yup. And Emma Stone. Clearly she wasn't enough to save it....
It was a fucking musical how much warning do you need ?
Well I quite enjoyed Les Mis, Moulin Rouge and The Greatest Showman.....
Faaaa.......
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@dogmeat said in Re: Movie review thread...:
I tried to watch la la land on a Singapore flight. Didn't make it through the opening credits.
Yeah, it's a big problem when the opening number of a musical is so flat you don't want to carry on and watch anymore.
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@kirwan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Took the wife to see A Star is Born with low expectations. Was blown away by Bradley Cooper, was incredible in this.
Nice slow, deliberate paced directing too. Some great shots.
He managed make Gaga both plain and beautiful at the same time. Great grownup movie, worth seeing.
Fav movie of 2018.
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@hooroo said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@kirwan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Took the wife to see A Star is Born with low expectations. Was blown away by Bradley Cooper, was incredible in this.
Nice slow, deliberate paced directing too. Some great shots.
He managed make Gaga both plain and beautiful at the same time. Great grownup movie, worth seeing.
Fav movie of 2018.
Yeah, it's up there. It's was the wife's choice after a long list of Marvel movies.
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@mokey I can barely remember something vaguely psychedelic featuring a VW maybe?
it is the earliest I have ever abandoned a movie and I'm not one that feels my masculinity is threatened by a musical.
Mind you after the last week and given I have never raped or murdered a woman....
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if you like Jack Black, School of Rock...
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@jegga said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@bovidae said in Re: Movie review thread...:
If you consider Rock Of Ages to be a musical, I'll admit to watching that.
More for the music than the acting though...
It was pretty funny in places and the lead chick was smoking
Put her up on the hawt thread
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Creed 2: It was ok, the Drago son was pretty good in and they tried to make Ivan Drago a more realistic character this time round.
Mild spoiler so look away: One problem I have with these new films is they seem insular, like there's no big boxing world without them. In the originals they had nifty montages showing the fights (as well as the training) on their way to the big match ups which is all that's needed really. In this current one we hear about 6 fights off screen in the opening and that's it really.
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OPeration Finale - based on the true story of the Mossad hunt for Nazi SS Officer Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aries in 1960.
Ben Kingsley stars as Eichmann...bit of a slow burner, never really got going, but meandered along at a decent enough pace to keep me watching for 120 mins...
3.5 Nazi sympathisers out of 5 narrowest of narrow escapes.
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Peppermint - Kinda a cross between The Punisher & John Wick, with Jennnifer Garner as the ass kicker.
TBH I thought she did well too, looks tidy to boot! As with these types, need to ignore some of the unbelievable stuff and just enjoy the violence
3.5 corrupt law makers out of 5 dead gang bangers
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12 Strong
US Special Forces help friendly-ish Afghans beat unfriendly Afghans.
Not too bad, some cool battle effects, it's not totally over the top with the gung-ho stuff, and at least it's pretty up front that these dudes' main job was to call in air strikes.
The talky stuff can get a little slow, and the political side of it is very, very simplistic. But if that's what you are watching this movie for, then you have missed the point.
Movie does contain the best modern cavalry charge since Lawrence of Arabia
3.5 50-cals on the back of a hilux out of 5 bombs from the upper stratosphere
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@mariner4life I didn't mind it. your rating isn't overly generous.
BTW, calling in fire support is one of the best jobs in the military.
