Movie review thread...
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@gt12 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Brilliant. Can't wait. I hope they do as good of a job as these guys:
Fantastic.
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Found On (the) Roadside Dead
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Deadwood the Movie
4 I been shot out of 5 you'll fukking live
so many familiar faces, many went on to Sons of Anarchy others onto other things, but seems the series kick-started a number of careers.
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The Mule
Clint looking extremely old and frail and he's definitely no Harry Callaghan, Walt Kowalski, Man with no Name or Joe Kidd here. A very "real" character with multiple flaws. Decent story, pretty leisurely paced and a bit bittersweet at the end.
4 cocaine bags out of 5 DEA agents ( extra points for surely being the great mans last movie )
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@MiketheSnow FUCK. YES.
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Always Be My Maybe. (Netflix)
If you need to pick up some brownie points/suggest a rom com that is actually quite funny and has Keanu Reeves playing a caricature of himself, this is the one. Top celebrity chef heroine, stoner air con installer/band dude hero. (The end credits song is called I Punched Keanu Reeves.)
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@Mokey said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Always Be My Maybe. (Netflix)
If you need to pick up some brownie points/suggest a rom com that is actually quite funny and has Keanu Reeves playing a caricature of himself, this is the one. Top celebrity chef heroine, stoner air con installer/band dude hero. (The end credits song is called I Punched Keanu Reeves.)
+1 Watched it the other night and it's amusing. From the crew that brought you Fresh off the Boat.
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@antipodean It didn't improve - it got even sillier. I guess it sort of succeeded in setting up the later timeline but was a yawnfest for me. Only watched it because it was exactly the right length for a flight last weekend
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Skyscraper
The Rock fights a building.
Well, not really. A ridiculously involved and stupidly contrived bad guy plan in an impossibly high building endangers The Rocks family. The Rock does not take that shit well. Carnage ensues. Well, carnage, and all sorts of silly and implausible shit.
It was fun, disengage brain, and watch The Towering Inferno without the impending sense of danger. But with way more The Rock.
Neve Campbell is still pretty hot, but in a housewife way these days.
3 Iron Man USB sticks out of 5 Big Jumps for a one legged man
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Stan and Ollie - another one from the same flight.
Affectionate look at the last tour of Laurel and Hardy.
Slow paced but very well acted - they get the timing, look and feel of the comic duo spot on.
You don't have to like or know anything about the two clowns to enjoy a well observed human interest story.
Its really a love story - a partnership of decades with its ups and downs that was clearly more meaningful than their (many) marriages. For a moment at the end I confess there was a bit of sand in the air inside NZ45
4 Trails of the Lonesome Pine / 5 another fine messes you've got me into.
Also caught A Star is Born on the outbound flight. Was expecting so much more after all I'd read and heard. Massively underwhelmed. So Gaga can act and Bradley whatshis name can sing. Wasn't bad but certainly didn't deliver on hype. Bit pointless really.
3 Kristoffersons / 5 Streisands
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@mariner4life said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Skyscraper
The Rock fights a building.
Well, not really. A ridiculously involved and stupidly contrived bad guy plan in an impossibly high building endangers The Rocks family. The Rock does not take that shit well. Carnage ensues. Well, carnage, and all sorts of silly and implausible shit.
It was fun, disengage brain, and watch The Towering Inferno without the impending sense of danger. But with way more The Rock.
Neve Campbell is still pretty hot, but in a housewife way these days.
3 Iron Man USB sticks out of 5 Big Jumps for a one legged man
Neve Campbell lost all my respect for not getting her tits out in ‘Wild Things’ when Denise Richards did.
My mate got that out on VHS and we watched that scene a few times before the VCR chewed up the tape and he returned it, got a fine and promptly moved to another United Video just to avoid paying.
Kids these days have it so easy with Pornhub.
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Terminator 2:Judgement Day.
Was on ITV the other night so watched it. It's unbelievable that this movie is 28 years old. Some of those special effects that were rightly lauded at the time, still look pretty fresh.
So many plot holes, but still one of the best action movies of all time.
5 Hasta La Vista's out of 5 Baby's
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Tropic Thunder
It's a sad indictment just how much the world has changed (for the worse) in the 10 years since this was released. So many scenes / themes I doubt would get past the edit now. I think the whole Simple Jack part (including the epic Full Retard scene) wouldn't get past the cutting room floor now. Not to mention having a white star paint themselves black.
Still, if you can take your woke hat off for a bit, it's still a bloody funny film. Except for anything to do with Jack Black. He's an actor I like, but not in this. Not at all.
4 Simple Jacks out of 5 Q5 planes
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@MajorRage even Cruise was epic in this.
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@Bones said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@MajorRage even Cruise was epic in this.
Yep. Apart from the dancing which was what people seemed to love. His lines and delivery were sensational. FUCK YOUR OWN FACE!!!
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Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Fuck. Yes.
Took the boy to see this with the expectation of some epic monster battles and by fuck did it deliver.
If you exit this movie thinking anything other than THAT WAS AWESOME then you need to take long hard look in the mirror and ask yourself when you became such a miserable old bastard.
4.5 three headed alpha dragons out of 5 thermonuclear Godzillas.
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THe Dirt - Story of Motley Crue.
Equal parts awesome as sad (had forgotten about the brief exit of Vince, and didnt even know about his daughter)
4 lines out of 5 groupies
Fighting With My Family - story of female wrestler, Paige. Was a decent watch, some good humour, solid performances from all the main characters.
3.5 Zak attacks out of 5 smelling what THE. ROCK. GOT. COOKING
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Deadpool 2: They were never going to be able to recreate the magic of the first one, which was probably partly built on surprise. And this was definitely a slight step down. Lacked the heart of the first one i thought. Some pretty funny moments where i laughed out loud, and i don't do that in many movies these days. Domino was a fox
3.5 baby balls out of 5 dark like the DC universes
Tomb Raider: In need of something mindless to watch, the Mrs and i sat in front of this. And goddam it, i liked it, i was entertained for an hour and a half. Alicia Vikanda is really fucking good looking. And in this she is a bit of a baddass without ever coming across as a bullshit unstoppable force. It moves along pretty quick which is good as there is not a huge amount of story to cover.
3 pretty Rambos out of 5 obvious baddies
