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  • CatograndeC Offline
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    replied to MN5 on last edited by
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    @MN5 @Tim Slightly off at a tangent but connected due to Leone, Morricone, a long playing time and the title, but Once Upon a Time in America is also well worth the time investment, though the ending is a bit odd.

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  • MiketheSnowM Offline
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    #13737

    The Little Things
    Denzel
    Solid 7

    Born A Champion
    Solid 7

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  • boobooB Online
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    @voodoo said in Re: Movie review thread...:

    @booboo Breakfast Club is worth rewatchimg, its still great

    So this was on Foxtel tonight.

    Watched.

    Was ok..ish.

    Redeemed because Ally Sheedy ...

    ... much redeemed

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  • voodooV Offline
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    @booboo said in Re: Movie review thread...:

    @voodoo said in Re: Movie review thread...:

    @booboo Breakfast Club is worth rewatchimg, its still great

    So this was on Foxtel tonight.

    Watched.

    Was ok..ish.

    Redeemed because Ally Sheedy ...

    ... much redeemed

    She. Is. Awesome.

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  • taniwharugbyT Offline
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    wrote on last edited by taniwharugby
    #13740

    Instant classic!

    Make sure you watch the trailer!!

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  • NepiaN Offline
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    @taniwharugby said in Re: Movie review thread...:

    Instant classic!

    Make sure you watch the trailer!!

    I just assumed this was a @Tim post when I clicked on the trailer.

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  • taniwharugbyT Offline
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    @Nepia

    alt text

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  • M Offline
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    @taniwharugby just a piss take, surely?

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  • taniwharugbyT Offline
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    @Machpants haha nope, is on IMDB and also available to d/l...

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    @taniwharugby FFS the world is fucked

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  • CatograndeC Offline
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    #13746

    @taniwharugby Now that is a must see

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  • TimT Away
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    Didn't know that a New Zealander directed the infamous Nic Cage bomb Zandalee. Short interview with him:

    https://podbay.fm/p/the-nicolas-cage-oral-history-podcast/e/1588652772

    Cage's dick joke was juvenile but amusing. BTW, this director wrote The Quiet Earth.

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    @Tim said in Re: Movie review thread...:

    Didn't know that a New Zealander directed the infamous Nic Cage bomb Zandalee. Short interview with him:

    https://podbay.fm/p/the-nicolas-cage-oral-history-podcast/e/1588652772

    Cage's dick joke was juvenile but amusing. BTW, this director wrote The Quiet Earth.

    That film has plenty of high quality nudity.

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  • Rancid SchnitzelR Offline
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    #13749

    Watched Terminator 1 and 2 with youngest. He loved them. He swore not to watch any of the sequels.

    I heard that in the latest film Arnie is a reformed terminator with a family and kids. Ffs

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  • NepiaN Offline
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    Has anyone seen The Night Comes for Us on Netflix? Just watched it last night and loved it.

    An Indonesian action film with much of the same cast's as The Raid/ Raid 2 but if anything the action is even more brutal.

    Iwo Uwais is kind of the secondary main character but the main is another guy from the original rRaid and the Hammer Girl from the Raid 2 is also a secondary character who is getting her own spin off movie.

    https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OI-uLfVvaPs/W_1xN4uwl5I/AAAAAAAAJ88/edYZSNcdJ4IZofq59aYZJKK6jsRGMdNwwCLcBGAs/s1600/the%2Bnight%2Bcomes%2Bfor%2Bus%2Bjulie%2Bestelle.jpg

    If you like martial arts films where people can take multiple stab wounds and bats to the head then this is for you.

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  • KruseK Online
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    #13751

    @Nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:

    Has anyone seen The Night Comes for Us on Netflix? Just watched it last night and loved it.

    An Indonesian action film with much of the same cast's as The Raid/ Raid 2 but if anything the action is even more brutal.

    Iwo Uwais is kind of the secondary main character but the main is another guy from the original rRaid and the Hammer Girl from the Raid 2 is also a secondary character who is getting her own spin off movie.

    If you like martial arts films where people can take multiple stab wounds and bats to the head then this is for you.

    I started downloading within 30 seconds of seeing the screenshot, the mention of Indonesian action/The Raid, and Iwo Uwais.
    Saturday night film, sorted.
    Also, on doing a quick IMDB check to see if this was one of those I saw a couple of months ago while doing a catch-up on ridiculously awesome martial-arts films, I noticed this under "More Like This"...
    Headshot

    Uwais plays a young man who washes ashore, an amnesiac with a serious head injury whose past comes back to haunt him shortly after being nursed back to health by a young doctor. Violence ensues. Sweet, sweet violence.

    It's also already in the download queue... review to follow, I guess

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  • NepiaN Offline
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    @Kruse said in Re: Movie review thread...:

    @Nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:

    Has anyone seen The Night Comes for Us on Netflix? Just watched it last night and loved it.

    An Indonesian action film with much of the same cast's as The Raid/ Raid 2 but if anything the action is even more brutal.

    Iwo Uwais is kind of the secondary main character but the main is another guy from the original rRaid and the Hammer Girl from the Raid 2 is also a secondary character who is getting her own spin off movie.

    If you like martial arts films where people can take multiple stab wounds and bats to the head then this is for you.

    I started downloading within 30 seconds of seeing the screenshot, the mention of Indonesian action/The Raid, and Iwo Uwais.
    Saturday night film, sorted.
    Also, on doing a quick IMDB check to see if this was one of those I saw a couple of months ago while doing a catch-up on ridiculously awesome martial-arts films, I noticed this under "More Like This"...
    Headshot

    Uwais plays a young man who washes ashore, an amnesiac with a serious head injury whose past comes back to haunt him shortly after being nursed back to health by a young doctor. Violence ensues. Sweet, sweet violence.

    It's also already in the download queue... review to follow, I guess

    Yeah, I saw that one mentioned on Wiki when reading up about this one - doesn't seem to have as high a profile as this one and the two raids. Sounds like an Indonesian Bourne Identity.

    I love that pic, due to the chick and the carnage in the background ... gives a good pointer of what the movie is all about.

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  • KruseK Online
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    @Nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:

    @Kruse said in Re: Movie review thread...:

    @Nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:

    Has anyone seen The Night Comes for Us on Netflix? Just watched it last night and loved it.

    An Indonesian action film with much of the same cast's as The Raid/ Raid 2 but if anything the action is even more brutal.

    Iwo Uwais is kind of the secondary main character but the main is another guy from the original rRaid and the Hammer Girl from the Raid 2 is also a secondary character who is getting her own spin off movie.

    If you like martial arts films where people can take multiple stab wounds and bats to the head then this is for you.

    I started downloading within 30 seconds of seeing the screenshot, the mention of Indonesian action/The Raid, and Iwo Uwais.
    Saturday night film, sorted.
    Also, on doing a quick IMDB check to see if this was one of those I saw a couple of months ago while doing a catch-up on ridiculously awesome martial-arts films, I noticed this under "More Like This"...
    Headshot

    Uwais plays a young man who washes ashore, an amnesiac with a serious head injury whose past comes back to haunt him shortly after being nursed back to health by a young doctor. Violence ensues. Sweet, sweet violence.

    It's also already in the download queue... review to follow, I guess

    Yeah, I saw that one mentioned on Wiki when reading up about this one - doesn't seem to have as high a profile as this one and the two raids. Sounds like an Indonesian Bourne Identity.

    I love that pic, due to the chick and the carnage in the background ... gives a good pointer of what the movie is all about.

    Yep - screenshot is not fucking around.
    In fact, it was what made me wonder if it was one of the ones I'd watched during my martial-arts-binge a couple of months ago, together with your mention of "The Hammer Girl".

    There was one called "The Villainess" - which I seem to recall had a sword-fight-on-motorcycle scene which John Wick "paid homage to"; along with it's own "homage" to the original Oldboy hammer-in-corridor scene; and obviously the eponymous nasty/tasty lady handy with a knife, leaving carnage in her background.

    It's probably as good a segue as any to mention the others I watched as part of that binge - I don't think I was as community-minded as to share...

    Furie - another one with a female lead, this time - Vietnamese. Maybe the first vietnamese martial-arts movie I've seen? Certainly looks like Vietnam has the potential to pick up where Thailand/Tony-Jaa and Malaysia/Iko-Uwais started.

    Triple Threat - speaking of Jaa & Uwais - this is an average but enjoyable attempt at the "Superband" approach - throwing these two plus a chinamen into a Audioslave/Avengers type team-up, vs Scott Adkins.

    And, speaking of Adkins - Avengement. Rather enjoyable... Adkins not vs asians, but rather - transplanted into a Guy Ritchie set, and fighting Londoners. Lots of flashbacks, but they kinda worked - were necessary in the way the story unfolded. Enjoyable.

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    @Nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:

    If you like martial arts films where people can take multiple stab wounds and bats to the head then this is for you.

    Oh - BTW - I hope you weren't dissing the physics of this movie. Half an hour in it was fairly obvious that in this world, physics, logic, whatever - the only way to die is a slash/stab to the throat. I reckon maybe 1 fatality out of the 2 or 3 dozen during the ruckus at Kalih's apartment wasn't from a knife/glass stab or slash to the throat.

    It's got me looking into some sort of chain-mail or kevlar buff, or ruff, or cravat - for when I'm finally able to travel to Asia again.

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