Movie review thread...
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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
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Aladdin
After being dead against this based on the previews, we decided to try out the new Sydney Metro train system (which was fucking cool) and go see this at one of the shopping centres on the line, with an open mind.
Overall - it was quite enjoyable, even with a few moments that grated compared to both the original animated movie (a classic) and the Disney production stage show we saw here a few years back. WHICH WAS FUCKING AMAZING - cannot recommend seeing a Disney production enough if you enjoy high production values. Mary Poppins also fits into this category.
Anyway, the movie overall was pretty good I thought. Humourous elements, some good CGI (and some a little "meh") and the music didn't get in the way, while not trying to be a carbon copy of the original.
It is everything you'd expect - loud, colourful, a few moral lessons, and overall quite fun. Will Smith as a giant blue mofo was a little off-putting, I'll admit, but he wasn't blue the whole time.
4 hot princesses out of 5 flying carpets.
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@NTA said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Aladdin
After being dead against this based on the previews, we decided to try out the new Sydney Metro train system (which was fucking cool) and go see this at one of the shopping centres on the line, with an open mind.
Overall - it was quite enjoyable, even with a few moments that grated compared to both the original animated movie (a classic) and the Disney production stage show we saw here a few years back. WHICH WAS FUCKING AMAZING - cannot recommend seeing a Disney production enough if you enjoy high production values. Mary Poppins also fits into this category.
Anyway, the movie overall was pretty good I thought. Humourous elements, some good CGI (and some a little "meh") and the music didn't get in the way, while not trying to be a carbon copy of the original.
It is everything you'd expect - loud, colourful, a few moral lessons, and overall quite fun. Will Smith as a giant blue mofo was a little off-putting, I'll admit, but he wasn't blue the whole time.
4 hot princesses out of 5 flying carpets.
So you finally got to choose the family movie?
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@antipodean apparently John Wick 3 didn't count as "family"
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Wait, is this serious, R rated, what the f*ck?
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from memory, like most movies that revolve around a descent in to drugs, the first half is hilarious, the 2nd not so much.
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Re watched Dunkirk last night.
I doubt it'll ever go into my echelon of classic war movies like Saving Private Ryan or Schindlers List but still definitely bloody good overall. Great tension throughout and I loved the aerial battles particularly.
Also this answered a few questions I had about the ending and why Tom Hardys character ended up like he did.
In Dunkirk, why did Farrier land on the beach & get captured by Nazis? Why not parachute? What about the other pilot’s decision to land i...
Answer (1 of 18): Spoilers ahead for Dunkirk. In the final act of the movie, after defeating the final German planes in battle, Tom Hardy's character Farrier glides his Spitfire plane over the Dunkirk beach. At this point the plane has already run out of fuel, which is shown by the propeller bla...
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Last Rampage: The Escape of Gary Tison
Based on the true story of the prison break of Gary Tison and Randy Greenwalt from the Arizona State prison in the 70's, assisted by Tisons 3 sons.
Robert Patrick is pretty good as the hard Tison, Heather GRaham was good as his wife.
3.5 kin out of 5 it was Randy's idea
Also rewatched Tombstone, great cast, great movie although last 10 seemed very rushed.
