Movie review thread...
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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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@taniwharugby just a piss take, surely?
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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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@taniwharugby Now that is a must see
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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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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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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.
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@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"...
HeadshotUwais 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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@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"...
HeadshotUwais 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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@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"...
HeadshotUwais 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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@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Re: Movie review thread...:
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
I actually really liked the Christian Bale one despite its many critics. The second last one was pretty shite and the continuity and storyline are so convoluted and fucken confusing. Also the bloke who played John Connor is that irritiating Aussie bloke who I can't stand.
The franchise on the whole is an absolute Train Wreck now, luckily Alien is still going pretty strong ( although not without it's own flaws )
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@MN5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Re: Movie review thread...:
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
I actually really liked the Christian Bale one despite its many critics. The second last one was pretty shite and the continuity and storyline are so convoluted and fucken confusing. Also the bloke who played John Connor is that irritiating Aussie bloke who I can't stand.
The franchise on the whole is an absolute Train Wreck now, luckily Alien is still going pretty strong ( although not without it's own flaws )
Yeah I didn’t mind that one or at least the concept. I remember thinking after having my mind blown by T2 that an adult John Connor film would be cool. It was just rather poorly executed. And had Mr Wooden himself Sam Worthington.
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@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Re: Movie review thread...:
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
I actually really liked the Christian Bale one despite its many critics. The second last one was pretty shite and the continuity and storyline are so convoluted and fucken confusing. Also the bloke who played John Connor is that irritiating Aussie bloke who I can't stand.
The franchise on the whole is an absolute Train Wreck now, luckily Alien is still going pretty strong ( although not without it's own flaws )
Yeah I didn’t mind that one or at least the concept. I remember thinking after having my mind blown by T2 that an adult John Connor film would be cool. It was just rather poorly executed. And had Mr Wooden himself Sam Worthington.
Yes SW brings the total to three shithouse Aussie actors who have somehow made it big in Hollywood.
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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"...
HeadshotUwais 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.
Okay... Headshot
Plot: colour by numbers. Guy washes up on beach with amnesia, you can guess 90% of the rest.
Violence: extreme. Sometimes unnecessary, usually good, always entertaining.
Tits: none to speak of. Romantic interest is a fairly cute little thing. Token baddie-with-tits - attractive, one shot of cleavage.
Emotional heart-pulls: I did feel a little teary when one chap had his own machete inserted through his mouth into his tiny wee brain.
Metaphors: a couple of sweet ones at the end: one right at the closing of violence-climax, and one right at the very end.
Overall: not quite "The Bourne Identity", but definitely better than "Who Am I" - but then, I've always preferred my violence gratuitous rather than schlapstick.
Other notes: in this movie, there was a reference back to earlier in this thread - the main baddie actually pointed out to a character that she should have stabbed him in the neck, that stabbing him anywhere else was pointless. SE Asia movie-physics are becoming standardised.
