Movie review thread...

NTA

The NRLegraph? Get fucked! You're just pissy because they don't put enough Broncos full page photos in there for you to shoot over. Mrs Mariner must get sick of trying to chisel the pages apart.
 
Back to the movies.

jegga

Saw Everest last night, really well done and very sad to watch. Some of the shots of the mountain and things like the Hillary step etc were incredible.

Catogrande

I watched Avengers. Age of Ultron a couple of days ago. Thought it was OK but something of film looking for a storyline. Just a bit disjointed really.

dogmeat

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When I was 5 Mr Ed felt like a movie!
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I formed the Akl Uni Mr Ed Appreciation Society
 
(Back in the day every ratified organisation got a $250 grant from the Students Assoc. $250 was enough to have one decent party. I formed lots of Societies. Winnie the Pooh. the Jetsons....)

taniwharugby

I went to the Hundred Acre Wood and threw sticks off a bridge...

Nepia

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Saw Everest last night, really well done and very sad to watch. Some of the shots of the mountain and things like the Hillary step etc were incredible.
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I thought it was well done too. What is funny is that my memory had gotten the story a wee bit mixed up in the intervening years. The climbing scenes were pretty spectacular and confirms to me that I will never ever do that.
 
Emily Watson's NZ accent was god awful but I thought that Kiera Knightley's was pretty good. Jason Clarke was pretty good in the lead (of a pretty decent ensemble cast), I've been watching him since he was on Brotherhood and he's carving out a decent career for himself.

jegga

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I thought it was well done too. What is funny is that my memory had gotten the story a wee bit mixed up in the intervening years. The climbing scenes were pretty spectacular and confirms to me that I will never ever do that.
 
Emily Watson's NZ accent was god awful but I thought that Kiera Knightley's was pretty good. Jason Clarke was pretty good in the lead (of a pretty decent ensemble cast), I've been watching him since he was on Brotherhood and he's carving out a decent career for himself.
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Pleased to see the focus wasn't on Krakuer and was more on Withers, Krakuer even admitted when he first met him he thought he was a rich republican asshole but he turned out to be a good man . Also that Russian was a hard bastard and he came out of the movie better than he did in the book.
I havent seen Jason Clarke do dud movie yet but I havent seen the new terminator movie to be fair.
 
 
And the climbing scenes. Why, just why? What is the attraction? Incredibly well done though, the scenes with the storms etc.

red terror

I watched One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest last night for the first time in probably 25 years. Holds up great. Still awesome.

Virgil

San Andreas, big disaster film with the Rock. 
Cliche after cliche (estranged ex wife and daughter he sets out to rescue) 
But if you like seeing big buildings crumbling into each other and shit then you would like it. 
Clearly 98% of the budget was spent on cgi and the rock but I didn't mind it. 
Using the Mariner scale 2 titties out of 10, the daughter has a nice set and you see her for like 30 seconds in a bikini and a low cut tank top a few times

taniwharugby

Saw Pixels on the weekend - must be great being Adam Sandler. What should we make a movie about? I know, lets make a movie about all the old video games we played as kids! Great idea!
 
Was a decent watch, liked Peter Dinklage's character!

Kirwan

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I watched Avengers. Age of Ultron a couple of days ago. Thought it was OK but something of film looking for a storyline. Just a bit disjointed really.
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Lots of studio interference, has made Wheddon call time on his future directing in the Marvel universe.
 
They insisted on that weird Thor in a cave scene that mad absolutely no sense.

mariner4life

Add me to the list that didn't mind Pixels. The kids loved it, i laughed a couple of times, not a bad way to spend a Sunday arvo.
 
That Michelle Monaghan is pretty hot

No Quarter

I see Marvel are looking at remaking Blade. I loved that movie as a kid, Wesley Snipes was bad ass.

NTA

Movie night on Saturday - Clan NTA sat down to The Book Of Life by Guillermo Del Toro and all his mates. Genuine good family movie, with humour and a few jokes for the grown ups (musically speaking) as well as a load of slapstick.

jegga

Krakauaer is not happy about Everest <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/film/72532387/journalist-jon-krakauer-furious-at-his-depiction-in-everest'>http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/film/72532387/journalist-jon-krakauer-furious-at-his-depiction-in-everest</a>
 
Although it is pretty much what he wrote apart from giving the russian guy more credit for what he did which Krakauaer himself said he was due anyway.

Crucial

Silly headline. What Krakauer is saying is simply not to think you know the story just by watching the movie and is promoting his book at the same time. The movie had to leave a lot out so that it didn't confuse viewers and focus on the main characters. They leave out completely the amazing attempt at rescue by Ang Dorje and other Sherpas which is a pity. 
Interesting aside, Ang Dorje now lives in the US as a wind turbine engineer but returns each year to the Himalaya as a guide during climbing season.

jegga

Dorjes attempt was in the movie wasn't it? 
Normally stuff headlines are rubbish , so no surprises there. The movie they refer to was really bad and the focus was more on Krakauaer .

Crucial

To be fair I haven't seen the movie yet but was going by the interview with Jan Arnold when she said that playing down their part was unfortunate but she understood the film makers reasons. 
IIRC Ang Dorjee gets within 250m of Hall during the night and had to turn back. It's still something he won't talk about. Mrs. C spent a bit of time with him on the way to EBC last year and says 1996 was a subject you just avoided.

jegga

The movie shows him and two other guys trying to bash their way through the storm as they try to climb to Hall while the others at base camp follow their progress on the radio . It's quite a powerful scene because you know once they fail Halls only hope is to climb down himself .

Nepia

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The movie shows him and two other guys trying to bash their way through the storm as they try to climb to Hall while the others at base camp follow their progress on the radio . It's quite a powerful scene because you know once they fail Halls only hope is to climb down himself .
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I remember that scene, but I guess the issue was that it wasn't specific enough in highlighting it was the Sherpas and that they had been tirelessly trying to reach him. I think a couple of different cuts to the footage might have highlighted it better.
 
I think the one scene that Krakauer has an issue with (likely legitimately) - the one where he's asked to help and says he wont - might cloud his judgement of the movie. I've been flicking through his book a bit in the last few days, and although it's not credited as one of the movie sources the filmakers clearly referred to it when they made the movie.

The Silver Fern

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