Movie review thread...
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Bah, cricket season is still on so I need to find stuff to occupy my time. So, here's my top 10 movies of 2018 - but they're only movies I've seen in the cinema (so a few arty films miss out and no place for any Netflix etc and more blockbustery types sneak in) as I have a handy list of them via my cinema chain.
So, in no particular order here goes:
A Quiet Place
Spider-man: Into the Spider-verse
Avengers Infinity War
They Shall Not Grow Old
Game Night
Blackkklansman
Deadpool 2
Ralph Wrecks the Internet
I,TonyaJust missed out (edit: I can't count and one of these should be 10th): A Star is Born (Lady Gaga can act and the dude from Alias can sing), Ready Player One (great adaption from the book), Bad Times at the El Royal (bonkers, but good bonkers), Incredibles 2 (only missed out due to better animated movies), Bohemian Rhapsody (good fun movie, who cares if not 100% true), Solo (another good fun movie that people were stupid not to see in the cinema if they didn't like TLJ).
Some other awards:
Wow, this is way better than I thought it would be (despite being batshit crazy): This could have been Spider-verse but Aquaman takes this out. Who knew Aquaman was half Kiwi and half Aussie? Basically for DC to succeed they have to make films with women and Polynesians
.This movie was shit and had an even shittier ending: JW1 was a great fun movie, JW2 was not and had the worst ending of a film in a while - I actually blurted out no don't do it, and they didn't, and then they did. I haven't been as angry at a film ending since The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.
Seriously, that one?: The Fish Fucker movie won the Oscar. WTF.
Really liked it when I saw it, but when I went away and thought about it changed my mind: Three Billboards. The Guard and In Bruges are the best McDonagh brother's films hands down.
It was good, but some peeps are going overboard about it: Mission Impossible. Decent fun action movie but hyped as something life changing. Plus, I still want them to do a straight down the line mission where they're not going against the govt or being double crossed. Just do one you fuckers.
I'm surprised I liked so many of these films: Animation. I'm not a huge fan of animation movies but they kicked (my personal) butt this year. At one stage I thought Incredibles 2 would be easily the best animated film of the year yet it's only the 3rd best.
It's made by a highly regarded director so must be good and weighty but really it isn't: Widows. Critics are praising this for being more than what it is - just a kind of average action thriller but because McQueen directed it it's been rated highly (I like his other films and didn't mind this).
Sequel exactly the same as the first yet the first is hailed as a masterpiece and the sequel isn't: I wasn't as taken by Sicario as some so the sequel seemed the same to me just without Emily Blunt. Same style, cinematography looked the same, same unrealistic bits - but called out as unrealistic this time round unlike with the original.
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@Kirwan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
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Top Gun
Like Kelly McGillis this has not aged well. The dialogue is cheesy and the final scene on the carrier is gay as.
Kelly McGillis looks like absolute hammered shit.
Tom Cruise on the other hand looks #nohomo quite decent still.
Don’t most people look like shit at 60?
She's in Hollywood. No excuses.
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I really shouldn't respond to such rancid bait but you deserve a flick in the nutsack. If the previous film in a franchise is shit, then it's a logical choice to avoid the next one. This is particularly the case if the previous two were considered disappointing. Hardly stupid to refuse to part with your hard-earned on that basis.
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@Rancid-Schnitzel If you didn't like the previous 'two' then fair enough.
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@Kirwan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@antipodean said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Top Gun
Like Kelly McGillis this has not aged well. The dialogue is cheesy and the final scene on the carrier is gay as.
Kelly McGillis looks like absolute hammered shit.
Tom Cruise on the other hand looks #nohomo quite decent still.
Don’t most people look like shit at 60?
I recall seeing an interview with her in the early 90s and was shocked to discover it was the Top Gun babe. Looked like a stereotypical lesbian who'd spent time in a concentration camp. I presume she just doesn't give a shit and I really quite respect that.
Btw Top Gun is still awesome and anyone who says otherwise can go gut themselves.
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@MN5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
2018 was a seriously shit year for movies.
There was no Bond so it can't have been that bad.
To be serious, can you even make a top 10 or was it that bad? I might check 2017 and see if that was a better year.
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@Nepia fark, I couldnt make a 10 cos I cant recall what I have seen...guess I could scan back through this thread.
Yeah, Nah!
Of your top 9...
A Quiet Place
Spider-man: Into the Spider-verse
Avengers Infinity War
They Shall Not Grow Old
Game NightDeadpool 2 ~~Ralph Wrecks the Internet I,Tonya~~ Crossed ones I havent seen, also never seen the fish one...happily chuck Deadpool, Quiet place and Avengers in my probably top 9 for the year though. BUt then I think I have watched and enjoyed more TV shows this year than movies. -
@taniwharugby said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Nepia fark, I couldnt make a 10 cos I cant recall what I have seen...guess I could scan back through this thread.
Yeah, that's why I based it on in the cinema because Event has a record of every film I've seen bar 'They Shall Not Grow Old' which I saw at Palace Cinemas.
I'd have no idea of the TV shows I've watched this year though.
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@Nepia you do realise your top 10 is only 9?
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@taniwharugby said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Nepia you do realise your top 10 is only 9?
Yep - I mention that in an edit to the just missed out section.
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@Nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
2018 was a seriously shit year for movies.
There was no Bond so it can't have been that bad.
To be serious, can you even make a top 10 or was it that bad? I might check 2017 and see if that was a better year.
In terms of what I saw at the movies I'd have to put Solo....and nothing else because I didn't see anything else.
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The Old Man and the Gun
Robert Redford, Sissy Spacek & Casey Affleck.
Redford is pretty cool and suave in the role as Forrest Tucker (based on a true story) who is a 70 something bank robber, who just loves to rob banks, sometimes on his own, sometimes as part of 'The Over the Hill Gang'
3.5 prison breaks out of 5 bank robberies.
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Titanic.
It was on TV last night so sat down and watched it. It's still a masterpiece of a movie, without a doubt, although like all epics, I think at least 30-45 mins of it could have been cut as it was pretty much so not required. And Jack could have said Rose' name at least 100 times less.
However, as a chilled way to spend an evening with the wife, it's pretty good.
4 predictable endings out of 5 hearts going on
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Downsizing.
Great idea that could have been really good but was absolutely fucking shit. Fuck you Maaaat Daaaamon.
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Been travelling NZ the last couple of weeks but managed to see some movie on the plane:
Mile 22
I like that it wasn't just a "YEEHAW MURICA!" ending on this one - very much in keeping with what I imagine the world of espionage to be like i.e. nobody really fucking wins in the big picture. Plenty of pew-pew and splosions and Ronda Rousey being mannish, while the very tasty Lauren Cohan was the lead female. Wahlberg's character is angry a lot, but has an admirable lack of fucks to give. The Asian guy Asian-guyed the fuck out of it, and the Russians got involved up to their revenging ball hairs.
4 fictional Asian nations out of 5 shouty Wahlbergs.
