Movie review thread...

barbarian

Been off sick from work, so have been doing a bit of movie watching, especially with the Oscar nominations out.
 
Boyhood- Yeah good film, don't quite think it lived up to the hype. Unique, a great achievement, but never grabbed me. It wasn't that sort of film, certainly worth a watch though. Really long. 7.5/10
 
Whiplash- Liked it, JK Simmons kills. Great subject material, good music, decent enough plot if a little predictable. 7/10
 
Birdman- Good movie, a real movie-makers movie. Direction was great, plot had its ups and downs, probably went 20 minutes too long for me. 8/10
 
Interstellar- How is this not nominated? Bloody great film. First hour is a bit slow, but the payoff is worth it. Really enjoyed this, despite the length. Nolan is a master. 9/10

Nepia

Foxcatcher - Good film, but slow in parts. The performances are all excellent but it's a wonder that Carrell and Ruffalo were nominated for Oscars but Tatum wasn't.
 
About to read the book it was based on.

dogmeat

Mortdecai. Johnny Depp conclusively proves that Peter Sellars he ain't,. tries very hard to be a Mel Brooks/Inspector Clousseau for the 21st Century with running sight gags, ridiculously over the top performances and plot twists. The numerous issues are the gags aren't funny, the plot twists are predictable and the characterisations banal. the type of movie that thinks all it has to do to be successful is call a character Jock Strapp. Not excruciating but a bit like a wet holiday. Disappointing and you wish it would hurry up and end. 3/10

mariner4life

Watched "The Wolf of Wall Street" last night. If the idea was to create a picture of a bunch of douchebags being excessive, then they achieved it. I laughed a lot, but stories of drug abuse and hubris tend to lose me after a while. And then when the main character is basically brought down by narcissism, i found i got to the end of the movie not really caring. Anyway, the sequel is him making a shit-ton more money, and not paying back anything that he was supposed to, so the moral was fairly ambiguous. 
 
Plenty of quality nudity on display. That Margot Robbie looks pretty fucking good with her kit off.

Virgil

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Mortdecai. Johnny Depp conclusively proves that Peter Sellars he ain't,. 
tries very hard to be a Mel Brooks/Inspector Clousseau for the 21st Century with running sight gags, ridiculously over the top performances and plot twists. 
The numerous issues are the gags aren't funny, the plot twists are predictable and the characterisations banal. 
the type of movie that thinks all it has to do to be successful is call a character Jock Strapp. 
Not excruciating but a bit like a wet holiday. Disappointing and you wish it would hurry up and end. 3/10
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so your the person that went and saw it ;)
 
Its like Depp stars in shitty films with ridiculous characters just to stuff his career on purpose

dogmeat

Not by choice Virgil. Not by choice

Nepia

The Interview - I've heard this film get some bad wraps and I really don't understand it, it was bloody good. I thought it was a crack up, the interplay between Rogan and Franco was great as was the interplay between Franco and the guy who played Kim. The effects were really good too, there is one shot that would put most action movies to shame.

jegga

<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/film/65707979/patea-maori-clubs-poi-e-turned-into-a-movie'>http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/film/65707979/patea-maori-clubs-poi-e-turned-into-a-movie</a>
 
This would be cool, every time we drive through there the mrs plays it on the stereo and sings along with it.
 
Hope they get this sorted though, we didn't stop on the way through at xmas <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11381935'>http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11381935</a>

Tim

<img src="http://i.imgur.com/YFbbJTX.jpg" alt="YFbbJTX.jpg"> 
:mocking: 
I am looking forward to the Jupiter Ascending reviews.

rustycruiser

Anyone else seen Pride, the movie about gay activists in London in 1984 raising money and supporting the striking Coal Miners in Wales? It is a bit warm and fuzzy at times, yet still pretty inspirational and intense at others. I did laugh a fair bit at the interactions between the various groups. Worth a watch.

jegga

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Anyone else seen Pride, the movie about gay activists in London in 1984 raising money and supporting the striking Coal Miners in Wales? It is a bit warm and fuzzy at times, yet still pretty inspirational and intense at others. I did laugh a fair bit at the interactions between the various groups. Worth a watch.
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The mrs saw it and said it was really good, the trailer looked fairly excruciating so I avoided it.

Tim

World's most impressive police artist sketch. <img src="http://i.imgur.com/TqRRikb.jpg" alt="TqRRikb.jpg">

mariner4life

It looks like Willem Dafoe and Mick Jagger had a kid together

Virgil

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Fuck i know that guy.

JC

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Finally saw Fury, it was awesome.
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Yeah, I caught Fury today too Jegga.
 
Like the opening scenes from Saving Private Ryan, but 2-plus hours of it.
 
Even Shai LaBoeuf was good in it. As you said, awesome.

taniwharugby

finally got around to watching Seal Team Six, Th eHunt for Bin Laden (or whatever it is called) 
 
Done documentary style (unsurprising given it was a NatGeo thing) was ok, always hard to tell with these movies how much they under/over play stuff. 
 
Not as good as Zero Dark Thirty, but a decent watch none the less with a few recognizable faces scattered about.

jegga

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="JC" data-cid="470581" data-time="1423122859">Yeah, I caught Fury today too Jegga. 
 
Like the opening scenes from Saving Private Ryan, but 2-plus hours of it. 
 
Even Shai LaBoeuf was good in it. As you said, awesome.</blockquote>
 
LaBoeuf was almost unrecognisable I that film, he did well. The three on one scene with the tiger was hard to watch , seeing the vets on the DVD extras was great too.

Mokey

Saw This is The End today. That is one weird-assed movie, between Jonah the possessed, Channing the gimp and a grand finale with the Backstreet Boys. Nice axe work from Emma though.

taniwharugby

Add me to the List of those that enjoyed John Wick.

Nepia

Whiplash - I was a bit worried going into this film that it wouldn't live up to the hype, and frankly I was wondering if I would be sick of the kid who is in it as he's in everything these days! But it lived up to the hype. JK Simmons was really good in it, the kid was good, for the Jegga scale there was a pretty girl in it for a while, the drumming was really good. I have heard some people think the storyline is predictable (just checked above in thread and Barbarian was one of them) but I don't agree, I was expecting it to play out like the standard mentor/student relationship style film and it didn't in the least.

The Silver Fern

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