Movie review thread...
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The Vanishing - Gerard Butler.
One of those 'based on true events' movies...where the true part all but ceases about 15mins into a 90 min movie, rest if just fiction on speculation about what could have happened (Perfect Storm, Open Water)
If I try to remove that part, it was a decent watch, slow burner.
3 gold bars out of 5 dead sea birds
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@taniwharugby ah yes in terms of accuracy "based on a true story" is right up there with "I won't come in your mouth"
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@dogmeat not really the same, thats more lying...and if your missus falls for it more than once, thats her fault anyway!
this is more we have 3 guys, they got dropped off on a remote Scottish Island...they were not on the Island when the next crew turned up for thier turn, these are the facts...
movie is based on what 'could' have happened in between drop off and pick up, with no one to tell the tale.
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@taniwharugby said in Re: Movie review thread...:
yeah I watched it, was decent, rushed ending though.
@Hooroo Dont watch the Haunting of Hill House on Netflix then bro, that'll def have you up at night
No chance of me watching that purely because of the title.
Bird Box suckered me in... I thought it was a metaphor...
It was stressful as fuck. The kind of movie you regret watching halfway through but then have to finish it to see what the fuck happens in the end.
The end kind of sucked for me. Yeah cool, they were saved but no detail on what was smoking them and also how they could 'kill' it
Well fuck... Guess I can take that off the watch list...
I'm actually really sorry about that. I wasn't thinking about I was giving the end away, more that I was having a conversation about it.
I will try and remember to Spoiler it next time.
My Bad!
Hah, nah that sounds like pretty standard stuff anyway.
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Smokey and the Bandit
And you thought I complained about other movies not ageing well.
This happens every time one of these floozies starts poontangin' around with those show folk fags.
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@dogmeat said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@taniwharugby ah yes in terms of accuracy "based on a true story" is right up there with "I won't come in your mouth"
Literally a LOL moment at work. Todays internet winner.
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@Virgil said in Re: Movie review thread...:
As mentioned above earlier, Raiders of the Lost Ark is a classic. Nearly 4 decades old and still better then most action/adventure films made since. How many iconic scenes can a movie have?
5 melting Nazi's out of 5 Bad Dates.If you can find a more entertaining punch up than this one I'd love to see it. I love how Indy gets some quality shots in at the end....
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@NTA said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Aquaman
Let's get straight to it: Mrs TA really liked this film
because of fucking course she did! When he said "Permission to come aboard" I looked at her, and I think most women went this way but for realsies:
However, she did claim that there was not nearly enough shirtless action. I was going to agree verbally when it came to Amber Heard, but thought better of it.
I thought the film was good - particularly casting and getting the balance of humour and action right - but they reached for the spectacular a little too often and I couldn't take it all in.
Definitely the best DCEU movie so far, and a large part of it was no doubt due to an Aussie director and Aussie crews and Aussie locations....
4 fish cakes out of 5 sea horses.
*Did I take advantage of Momoa warming up the wife back at the motel later? You fucking bet I did.
Who can blame her? Having met you I can confirm in certain light you'd look identical to JM....
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@MN5 this light...
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@taniwharugby nah too bright
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Happened to watch Jack Reacher 2, while we're on the topic. "Don't go Back?" Or something...
Anyway it was a good way to kill a couple of hours. Cobie Smulders is hot. But it's basically the same as the last movie with a different location i.e. basically every Reacher book ever.
3 dead alpha bad guys out of 5 Tom Cruises having the shit kicked out of them
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@NTA said in Re: Movie review thread...:
But it's basically the same as the last movie with a different location i.e. basically every Reacher book ever.
Agreeed - I've stopped reading them. The same reason I stopped reading Wilbur Smith novels decades ago.
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But it's basically the same as the last movie with a different location i.e. basically every Reacher book ever.
Agreeed - I've stopped reading them. The same reason I stopped reading Wilbur Smith novels decades ago.
How old are you
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@Virgil said in Re: Movie review thread...:
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But it's basically the same as the last movie with a different location i.e. basically every Reacher book ever.
Agreeed - I've stopped reading them. The same reason I stopped reading Wilbur Smith novels decades ago.
How old are you
Not that old ...
I get the Wilbur Smith fatigue. Onky ecer read one Reacher though.
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@Machpants said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@jegga considering Lawrence Dallaglio was the basis, a tall guy like Gerard Butler would do it, not a body builder type
So Mamoa would be ok then. He's a big solid unit but he's no Bautista/The Rock
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The new version of Watership Down. I'm sure I'm one of many young people who was more than a wee bit traumatised by the original. Holy shit. You think it's going to be a boring bunny movie and they're farking killing each other. Death is lurking everywhere. Remember being absolutely transfixed. So cool.
The new version is very meh. The CGI is pretty crap (rabbits look more like kangaroos and are difficult to tell apart) and the 3 main characters aren't nearly as well developed despite the makers having much more time to work with. Bigwig in particular was terrible. He was an awesome character, but in this version he's just a psycho dick. One of the worst parts was a previously minor character Clover going to look for a presumed dead Hazel when it was Fiver (to the tune of Bright Eyes) who did this in the original. Kehaar the seagull is also an absolute prick. They developed the baddies much better (had more time) but heaps of violence was cut out. Being the BBC they of course injected some SJW bullshit into it (male rabbits can't dig apparently) but it didn't make much difference and I liked how they developed the struggles of the female prisoners. But ultimately the whole thing was a more sanitised version and what's the point of that? Will definitely be watching the original again soon.
