Movie review thread...
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@antipodean said in Re: Movie review thread...:
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@antipodean said in Re: Movie review thread...:
I know I should see this before reviewing, but I'm prepared to make a prediction and say you should see it. A cross between Unforgiven and Gran Torino
Yeah, I was right. Much more Gran Torino than Unforgiven.
3 beaners out of five crackers.
A movie with Clint in it automatically get's at least 4 out of 5
Aw actually,apart from "Every which way but loose" and "Any which way you can"
You'll understand when you watch it.
is it still at the movies ?
Surely a Clint Eastwood fan would have already watched it..?
I'm ashamed to say I haven't.
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Maybe Im not as big a fan of Clint as I thought I was. I have no desire to see what was once a fairly large screen presence dwindle away to skeletal and ancient. It's not how I choose to remember Clint.
Also MN5 Bloodwork, Trouble With The Curve and Absolute Power were absolute shit.
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@raznomore said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Maybe Im not as big a fan of Clint as I thought I was. I have no desire to see what was once a fairly large screen presence dwindle away to skeletal and ancient. It's not how I choose to remember Clint.
Also MN5 Bloodwork, Trouble With The Curve and Absolute Power were absolute shit.
I didn't mind Trouble with the Curve, although I'm quite a fan of the baseball movie as a genre.
The Mule was ok, but the threesome scenes were just weird ... I assumed they were taken from the story it's based on, but nope, just Clint wanting to show the world he's still got game I guess.
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Triple Frontier
I flicked past the reviews on this as it was on my Flix list.
About an hour too long, which meant I flicked through the movie a bit as well. Besides the primary action scene - which IMHO was too soon in the movie - the whole "struggle" back half of the movie just didn't resonate.
2.5 clever paint jobs out of 5 hot South American chicks.
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Gets half a mark for Benn Affleck getting shot through the head
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@NTA for some reason I think they seem to like his swagger and the way he acts as he seems to play the same kind of character for the varied roles.
Interestingly, I believe he turned down the lead role in 50 Shades due to not wanting to be type cast following it...
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@taniwharugby said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@NTA for some reason I think they seem to like his swagger and the way he acts as he seems to play the same kind of character for the varied roles.
Interestingly, I believe he turned down the lead role in 50 Shades due to not wanting to be type cast following it...
He turned it down as it was a few weeks after the end of SOA, and he couldn’t get his head around changing characters so drastically in a short time.
I also think he wanted to dodge the bullet when he saw the script
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@taniwharugby said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@NTA for some reason I think they seem to like his swagger and the way he acts as he seems to play the same kind of character for the varied roles.
Interestingly, I believe he turned down the lead role in 50 Shades due to not wanting to be type cast following it...
I first saw him in Undeclared and completely didn't recognise him when I saw SOA. He didn't have that swagger back then.
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@Nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@taniwharugby said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@NTA for some reason I think they seem to like his swagger and the way he acts as he seems to play the same kind of character for the varied roles.
Interestingly, I believe he turned down the lead role in 50 Shades due to not wanting to be type cast following it...
I first saw him in Undeclared and completely didn't recognise him when I saw SOA. He didn't have that swagger back then.
He was also in Queer as Folk. Slightly different swagger in that.
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@Kirwan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@taniwharugby said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@NTA for some reason I think they seem to like his swagger and the way he acts as he seems to play the same kind of character for the varied roles.
Interestingly, I believe he turned down the lead role in 50 Shades due to not wanting to be type cast following it...
I first saw him in Undeclared and completely didn't recognise him when I saw SOA. He didn't have that swagger back then.
He was also in Queer as Folk. Slightly different swagger in that.
I have memories of that being big in the UK when I was living there, but I didn't really watch any tv then ... WTF did I use to do with my time?
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@Nepia those were before SOA though werent they before he became big time...I mean that medi evil one he did...shoulda just chucked an SOA jacket on him
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@taniwharugby said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Nepia those were before SOA though werent they before he became big time...I mean that medi evil one he did...shoulda just chucked an SOA jacket on him
Yeah, they'e before. Maybe he can get back to pre swagger some day?
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@Rocky-Rockbottom said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Trainspotting
Trainspotting 2rewatched 1 and then 2 back to back. had to crank volume to 120 db's to try and grasp the FUCKING Scortish accents.
Was expecting sequel to be lame. In fact, they've should have made it lame on purpose, that would've been an accurate reflection of life in your 40's/50's: lame, undignified and generally pretty fucking disgraceful. i'm 50 this year. Didn't our ancestors all fucken die about now? Can't help but feel some sort of biological chime intoning "fuckit mate, that'll do."
Plenty of scenes in T2 reminiscing the lads "glory days" that REALLY reinforced how awesome it is to be young, dumb and full of cum. Wow, Renton even shoehorned in an update of his "Choose Life" speech for 2017 too.
Cue google: spoiler :
Choose designer lingerie, in the vain hope of kicking some life back into a dead relationship. Choose handbags, choose high-heeled shoes, cashmere and silk, to make yourself feel what passes for happy. Choose an iPhone made in China by a woman who jumped out of a window and stick it in the pocket of your jacket fresh from a South-Asian firetrap. Choose Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram and a thousand others ways to spew your bile across people you've never met. Choose updating your profile, tell the world what you had for breakfast and hope that someone, somewhere cares. Choose looking up old flames, desperate to believe that you don't look as bad as they do. Choose live-blogging, from your first wank till your last breath; human interaction reduced to nothing more than data. Choose ten thing you never knew about celebrities who've had surgery. Choose screaming about abortion, choose rape jokes, slut-shaming, revenge porn and an endless tide of depressing misogyny. Choose 9/11 never happened, and if it did, it was the Jews. Choose a zero-hour contract and a two hour journey to work, and choose the same for your kids, only worse, and maybe tell yourself that it's better that they never happened. And then sit back and smother the pain with an unknown dose of an unknown drug made in somebody's fucking kitchen. Choose unfulfilled promise and wishing you'd done it all differently. Choose never learning from your own mistakes. Choose watching history repeat itself. Choose the slow reconciliation towards what you can get, rather than what you always hoped for. Settle for less and keep a brave face on it. Choose disappointment and choose losing the ones you love then as they fall from view, a piece of you dies with them until you can see that one day in the future, piece by piece they will be all gone and there will be nothing left of you to call alive or dead. Choose your future, Veronica. Choose life
Best scene in any Trainspotting movie ever
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So I made a mistake, I let my 19 year old niece choose the movie to go to this weekend. Five Feet Apart. It's a teenagers with life threatening illness movie. It's really, really, really bad. It's stupid to go with it's badness. I've seen watchable versions of this movie (the one with the guy from Baby Driver and the girl from the Descendants was ok) but this was just plain cabbage and the book it is based on must be terrible.
The mostly female crowd seem to lap it up though. There were tears and cheers. My niece liked it although she was apologetic for picking it.
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In Tranzit
Based on a true story of German POWs being sent to a Soviet prison camp run by women. If you can overlook the thin character development and bad Russian accents, Vera Farmiga shows her tits.
That's not enough to save it.
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I watched that Fyre Festival documentary last night, what an amazing, sad, and thoroughly modern story.
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@mariner4life said in Re: Movie review thread...:
I watched that Fyre Festival documentary last night, what an amazing, sad, and thoroughly modern story.
Which one, The Netflix one?
Think of the poor bastard who thought he was going to have to suck some guys dick so they would have water..
Have to admit seeing those entitled millennials getting conned and the sheer terror they must have gone through (no wifi, only tents!)
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@Virgil said in Re: Movie review thread...:
If you really enjoy seeing others suffer find the original fyre Facebook page. Laugh reading all the posts where people are tagging their mates about how awesome this will be...
surely that doesn't still exist
