Movie review thread...

Hooroo

Watched Assassins last night.
 
Man, I loved that movie for years and watched it a zillion times when it was only a few years old.
 
It did not age well but I still enjoyed it purely fo nostelgia reasons.

Nepia

As a service to the Fern I watched Hitman: 47 at the cinema last night. It was ok, it had some good action scenes in the modern style of real quick fighting (which I can tire of sometimes), with some decent shootouts, and it had a semblance of a plot.
 
Good Jeremy Renner was fine, basically just playing an ultra souped up version of his Homeland character (when he first arrived) and the Chinese chick Gollum mentioned was in about 3 scenes. I assume she is in more scenes in the version that plays in China. The actual female lead was from the tv show Boss but with an English accent which sounded a bit weird.
 
I can't remember the first Hitman too well, I think I likely enjoyed it while watching it but forgot about 5 minutes later, and this is the same.

Tim

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Furious 7.
 
It has 82% on Rotten Tomatoes. I can only assume that every critic was given a toke on a huge bong before watching it, because fark me if it wasn't one of the worst-acted, over-the-top movies I've ever seen. I would be surprised if 5% of the stunts in it were physically possible, and the cheesiness of the plot lines was truly something to behold. 
 
What was the point of Kurt Russell? All involved, then suddenly out of it? The hacker just happens to have a 10/10 body? The race scene with all the chicks with tatts in hot bodies dancing around for no real reason? The way that Staham was taken out was just plain lame, and then him surviving the crash to mutter his one liner to his missus (whose clearly a dyke, why can't he notice this?), I mean seriously, what a pile of crap.
 
Fucking good movie though, really enjoyed it.....
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Tons of people were watching it on my flight from Singapore. I was actually getting angry at how fucking retarded it looked.
 
And on that note, they're making a new xXx movie. :-/

mariner4life

My thing with the Furious movies is yes, on day one of filming they punch the laws of physics in they face and kick them off the set, but they know they are making wildly unrealistic popcorn action flicks, and just have fun with it. They require a huge suspension of belief to get through any of it, but they are pretty damn watchable. In no way do they take themselves seriously. 
 
Tim, a fan of 80s action like yourself shouldn't have that much of a problem with them. 
 
I haven't seen the 7th, and by all accounts they ramp up the "what the...?" but it's going to be hard to top the 50km long runway from the last one (or most of the shit with the tank), or some of the shit from the 5th one (like you can drive a car off a 100m cliff, and you'll be alright if you jump out of the car 20m from the water. Or the fucking bank vault that killed 100 bystanders).

taniwharugby

yeah I think they manage to at least match those, if not go that extra WTF....

NTA

And/or add tits. Just saying.

Hooroo

I am a unashamed Harry Potter fan.
 
I watched The Order of the Phoenix last night and this used to be my least liked movie out of them all but I have changed my mind. It is one of the better ones.
 
Luna Lovegood was perfectly cast

jegga

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And/or add tits. Just saying.</blockquote>
 
Michell Rodriguez doesn't bring much to the table in that regard , Christina Hendricks would balance the series out nicely.

antipodean

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My thing with the Furious movies is yes, on day one of filming they punch the laws of physics in they face and kick them off the set, but they know they are making wildly unrealistic popcorn action flicks, and just have fun with it. They require a huge suspension of belief to get through any of it
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Not huge. Complete. The problem with such movies is you either need a complete ignorance of the subject matter, or it is merely taking liberties. Unfortunately the writers are in the first category. 'Granny shifting, not double-clutching like you should'
 
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taniwharugby

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Finished watching this and thought it was really good but unsure if I lost a bit in my split viewing of it.
 
[spoiler] Was it supposed to be a big reveal that Ethan Hawke was John near the end? They played it like it was but I thought it was pretty obvious early in the movie. [/spoiler]
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Watched Predestination...bit of a mind-fucking if you start to think about it too much....but yeah I thought it was obvious, but then I started to question if that was what I had seen.
 
I liked it though!

mariner4life

I thought it was awesome!
 
[spoiler]And even thought you worked out that Ethan Hawke and John were the same, don't tell me you didn't go "holy fuck" when it turned out that they were all the same person, the baby, the girl, the guy, Ethan Hawke. I certainly did. 

I loved the way the story was told, i thought it was a fucking excellent movie, one of the best i have seen for ages.[/spoiler]

Nepia

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I thought it was awesome!
 
[spoiler]And even thought you worked out that Ethan Hawke and John were the same, don't tell me you didn't go "holy fuck" when it turned out that they were all the same person, the baby, the girl, the guy, Ethan Hawke. I certainly did. 

I loved the way the story was told, i thought it was a fucking excellent movie, one of the best i have seen for ages.[/spoiler]
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Yep, it was awesome, I didn't go "holy fuck" because I thought they'd sign posted it really well, not trying to claim I'm brilliant or anything - I didn't work out the Sixth Sense and still have no idea WTF Mullholland Drive was about, but because it was extremely well written and put together.

phoenetia

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="mariner4life" data-cid="511081" data-time="1440545263">I thought it was awesome! [spoiler]And even thought you worked out that Ethan Hawke and John were the same, don't tell me you didn't go "holy fuck" when it turned out that they were all the same person, the baby, the girl, the guy, Ethan Hawke. I certainly did. I loved the way the story was told, i thought it was a fucking excellent movie, one of the best i have seen for ages.[/spoiler]</blockquote> I didnt have a "holy fuck" moment but I did have a "ewwwwwwwwwwwww" moment as well as a "oh ffs" moment. It seemed like the writer came up with the premise first, and then tried to figure out a storyline that would fit it. I thought the premise was silly and the storyline was unbelievable however Im pretty forgiving when it comes to Time Travel movies. In a similar vein, I enjoyed Time Lapse which was similar to Primer except it only takes one viewing to understand it. Again it seems like the premise was thought up and the story line hammered in afterwards however there were more subtle clever nods through out which appealed to my geeky side.

mariner4life

I had the pleasure of watching "Leon: The Professional" last night. Even now, 21 years on, it's a brilliant movie, with 3 awesome performances by the leads.

jegga

One of my all time favourite films Jean Reno is the man .

mariner4life

It's one of those films you watch when ever it is on, it's just amazing, and so well done.

Tim

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote">You would be my Doctor, Webb. </blockquote> 
Creepy and intriguing as hell. 
No wonder UCLA financed the Blu-ray restoration. 
<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043938/'>http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043938/</a>

Tim

An internet repository of Alex Cox's [i]Moviedrome[/i] cult film selections series: 
<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://moviedromer.tumblr.com/'>http://moviedromer.tumblr.com/</a> 
The original program guides: 
<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://alexcox.com/freestuff.htm'>http://alexcox.com/freestuff.htm</a> 
His intro for [i]Trancers[/i]:

Nepia

Straight Out Of Compton: The story of NWA, or more accurately the story of Easy, Dre and Cube. DJ Yella and MC Ren are merely supporting players in the movie and Arabian Prince doesnâ€t rate a mention. The movie was produced by Dre, Cube and Easyâ€s widow which may explain that focus.
 
Itâ€s mainly about their early years, how they got started and then the fall out when Easy and the manager Heller seemed to be the only ones making any money. Has quite a bit about Suge Knight too - the dude is a bit psycho.
 
Ice Cubeâ€s son plays him in the movie and front on he looks heaps like him â€“ he was pretty good at playing his old man.
 
Obviously the soundtrack was bloody good. There were a bunch of other era appropriate songs not from NWA. I had forgotten how much I enjoyed that era of rap.

Siam

A classic Aussie film, now available on Youtube

The Silver Fern

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