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@Catogrande said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@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.
Butchered by the studio and a lot of the cut footage destroyed.
There's a semi-restored version on Bluray which is streets ahead of the original, cinema release.
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@Machpants said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@taniwharugby FFS the world is fucked
Check out Pride and Prejudice and Zombies..
It's actually quite fun in a weird sort of way.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Catogrande said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@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.
Butchered by the studio and a lot of the cut footage destroyed.
There's a semi-restored version on Bluray which is streets ahead of the original, cinema release.
I might just look that up, but then again I am reminded about my friend Dogbonker when discussing GOT. “Great series mate, you have to try it. Here’s the first series on DVD, tell me what you think“. 2 weeks later, when he returned the DVD set.“whaddya reckon mate”? “ Dunno. Haven’t got a DVD player.
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@Catogrande said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Catogrande said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@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.
Butchered by the studio and a lot of the cut footage destroyed.
There's a semi-restored version on Bluray which is streets ahead of the original, cinema release.
I might just look that up, but then again I am reminded about my friend Dogbonker when discussing GOT. “Great series mate, you have to try it. Here’s the first series on DVD, tell me what you think“. 2 weeks later, when he returned the DVD set.“whaddya reckon mate”? “ Dunno. Haven’t got a DVD player.
The potential future Mrs MN5 has never seen GOT and wants to get on the bandwagon. Whilst it was a pretty major part of my life for awhile there I have absolutely no desire to ever see any part of the show again ever. Maybe the last season put me off ? Not sure exactly.....
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@MN5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Catogrande said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Catogrande said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@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.
Butchered by the studio and a lot of the cut footage destroyed.
There's a semi-restored version on Bluray which is streets ahead of the original, cinema release.
I might just look that up, but then again I am reminded about my friend Dogbonker when discussing GOT. “Great series mate, you have to try it. Here’s the first series on DVD, tell me what you think“. 2 weeks later, when he returned the DVD set.“whaddya reckon mate”? “ Dunno. Haven’t got a DVD player.
The potential future Mrs MN5 has never seen GOT and wants to get on the bandwagon. Whilst it was a pretty major part of my life for awhile there I have absolutely no desire to ever see any part of the show again ever. Maybe the last season put me off ? Not sure exactly.....
Basically everything post books went to shit, slowly at first then (like the characters) teleporting into utter crap
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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.Watched this yesterday, better that I thought it would be and could almost be the perfect video game movie. A Bourne Identity/Video Game mix where the hero has to fight all the henchmen/women before taking on the big boss.
I missed your comment about the romantic interest ... she was cute, and a welcome addition amongst all the fighty fighters. The romance subplot was ultra cheesy in that Asian way but as she was hot it balances out for me.
I think the opening prison shoot out was a warning to other countries not to invade Indonesia - as you'll need a whole magazine to kill someone 5 metres away from you and even then there's a good chance they'll have a final go at stabbing you.
My gripe: What happened to the little girl in the end? Does she live with the hero and the cute doctor? Does she go to live with relatives? Is she now presumably in the I expect pretty shitty Indonesian system for dealing with orphans? How could they not tie off that bloody subplot.
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@Machpants said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Catogrande said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Catogrande said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@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.
Butchered by the studio and a lot of the cut footage destroyed.
There's a semi-restored version on Bluray which is streets ahead of the original, cinema release.
I might just look that up, but then again I am reminded about my friend Dogbonker when discussing GOT. “Great series mate, you have to try it. Here’s the first series on DVD, tell me what you think“. 2 weeks later, when he returned the DVD set.“whaddya reckon mate”? “ Dunno. Haven’t got a DVD player.
The potential future Mrs MN5 has never seen GOT and wants to get on the bandwagon. Whilst it was a pretty major part of my life for awhile there I have absolutely no desire to ever see any part of the show again ever. Maybe the last season put me off ? Not sure exactly.....
Basically everything post books went to shit, slowly at first then (like the characters) teleporting into utter crap
Bronn and the Hound kept things pretty fun on a consistent basis.
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@Machpants said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Catogrande said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Catogrande said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@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.
Butchered by the studio and a lot of the cut footage destroyed.
There's a semi-restored version on Bluray which is streets ahead of the original, cinema release.
I might just look that up, but then again I am reminded about my friend Dogbonker when discussing GOT. “Great series mate, you have to try it. Here’s the first series on DVD, tell me what you think“. 2 weeks later, when he returned the DVD set.“whaddya reckon mate”? “ Dunno. Haven’t got a DVD player.
The potential future Mrs MN5 has never seen GOT and wants to get on the bandwagon. Whilst it was a pretty major part of my life for awhile there I have absolutely no desire to ever see any part of the show again ever. Maybe the last season put me off ? Not sure exactly.....
Basically everything post books went to shit, slowly at first then (like the characters) teleporting into utter crap
maybe just watch the first six season then say theyre waiting for the late books to be released?
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It was perfect when the show runners were converting the averagely written books (with great ideas)
into great TV in the early seasons, then less so when they were just working off George's outline. But they had to overcome the trope of the early seasons of killing off all the main characters when fashioning those later seasons.At any rate it was only the final season where they completely balls'd it up and I'd argue a lot of that was to do with the pacing ... if they'd stuck with a normal season of normal lengthened episodes it wouldn't have all seemed so out of the blue.
Plus the early seasons were a political show, the later seasons was fantasy ... ugh.
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@MN5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Catogrande said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Catogrande said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@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.
Butchered by the studio and a lot of the cut footage destroyed.
There's a semi-restored version on Bluray which is streets ahead of the original, cinema release.
I might just look that up, but then again I am reminded about my friend Dogbonker when discussing GOT. “Great series mate, you have to try it. Here’s the first series on DVD, tell me what you think“. 2 weeks later, when he returned the DVD set.“whaddya reckon mate”? “ Dunno. Haven’t got a DVD player.
The potential future Mrs MN5 has never seen GOT and wants to get on the bandwagon. Whilst it was a pretty major part of my life for awhile there I have absolutely no desire to ever see any part of the show again ever. Maybe the last season put me off ? Not sure exactly.....
Ms Cato no1 and I did re watch some of the earlier eps just to fill in some holes before watching the final series. It is surprising how many small things we missed that turned out to be a fair bit more important. Looking at the last series, it was such a mixed bag. Some superb action but poor story arc. It seemed to me they spent the whole budget on two battles and had fuck all left for the rest. Either that or they were just fed up with the whole thing.
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Dazed and Confused
The pinnacle of existential teenage angst movies. Not as funny as it once was (maybe just familiarity) but it's still fucking great.
This movie also has, hands down, the greatest soundtrack ever. Don't come at me, I'm fucking right and you know it.
The casual drink and drug driving is fucking hilarious now.
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Went out for dinner for a sister's 65th bday on Monday evening but starting feeling quite unwell (dehydration and way overheated) early on so went home at 9:30pm and decided I needed bad movie therapy, so went for Deep Blue Sea (1999) (omg it was trash). Imagine my surprise that they actually made two standalone sequels DBS 2 (2018) and DBS 3 (2020) . Jesus They really are scouring the bottom of the barrel for ideas. My brain is still a bit mush, so tonight will be my first ever viewing of the original Sharknado. If you no longer hear from me, please advise my attorneys in the US to file suit for emotional cruelty causing homicide.
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@SynicBast that is some serious self harm. You might need to buy yourself a bucket full of chicken nuggets to keep you company
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@canefan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@SynicBast that is some serious self harm. You might need to buy yourself a bucket full of chicken nuggets to keep you company
That would be serious self-harm, I'm allergic to chicken.
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@SynicBast said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@canefan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@SynicBast that is some serious self harm. You might need to buy yourself a bucket full of chicken nuggets to keep you company
That would be serious self-harm, I'm allergic to chicken.
You wouldn't survive a night at ours. The CF juniors love chicken so we eat it for dinner most of the time
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@SynicBast said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@canefan I think the only things I avoid more than chicken are Kale and decaf
Decaf is like zero alc beer. Why bother?
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Derek DelGaudio's In & Of Itself
Pure entertainment from start to finish
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016) ⭐ 5.8 | Action, Comedy, Fantasy
