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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.
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...:
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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.
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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@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
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Finally got around to watching Batman vs Superman because I really wanted a Cavill fix, and fuck me days that is a terrible movie. The only small mercy is his beautiful face isn't munted by mustache eraser, but that is a very, very small mercy. Affleck is by far the worst Batman. Gadot, Adams and Lane are completely wasted. The dialogue sucks, the plot seems to be about 65 different movies stitched together with poor Fishburne getting another stupid yes, go there line.
The guy playing Luthor was believably psycho.
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Shadowlands (1993)
Antony Hopkins and Debra Winger playing C S Lewis & poet Joy Gresham in a film about their relationship. Watched it with Mrs M last nite.
Didn't think I'd like it as it really isn't my thing, but ended up really, really enjoying it. Brilliant acting from Hopkins, Winger and Edward Hardwicke (Dr Watson to Jeremy Brett's Holmes) drew me into the film and made it's 2 hour length fly by.
4.5 Fern Cascading Style Sheets out of 5 Fern HTML coding errors.
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@mokey said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Finally got around to watching Batman vs Superman because I really wanted a Cavill fix, and fuck me days that is a terrible movie. The only small mercy is his beautiful face isn't munted by mustache eraser, but that is a very, very small mercy. Affleck is by far the worst Batman. Gadot, Adams and Lane are completely wasted. The dialogue sucks, the plot seems to be about 65 different movies stitched together with poor Fishburne getting another stupid yes, go there line.
The guy playing Luthor was believably psycho.
Such a giant disappointment. It gets one star because of the gratuitous shirtless cooking scene and the bathtub scene which was cute.If you watched the theatrical cut then the story won’t make sense. The director cut solves that problem, but if you didn’t like the dialogue then that doesn’t change much.
He makes long movies that are a bit like vegemite. Im a fan, particularly of the visuals and the larger than life style he has. It’s the closest to the actual comics out there, much more than the Marvel movies.
But I understand it’s not for everyone.
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So watched a few movies over the last week.
Saw these two at the movies (have vouchers to use so have been watching lots of non blockbuster type movies lately that the cinemas are showing just to have content):
The Little Things: Denzel, Freddie Mercury actor, Jared Leto. Supposedly this is a poor imitation of Seven. I didn't think that at all. I found it a decent thriller, which I actually had no idea where it was going, with good actors.
Synchronic: This movie was ok, but it kind of went in a direction I didn't expect. Starts as a fairly gritty drama/thriller, morphs into a kind of scifi. @R-L Jamie Dorman is in it. I only had two choices of movies to see that day and he was in both ... the other was an out and out chick flick.
These ones at home:
News of the World: Tom Hanks is an ex US civil war Confederate veteran who goes from town to town reading the news from the wider area. Comes across a little girl who has to take with him to her distant family. Typical decent Hanks performance.
Galaxy Quest doco: I think this has been mentioned on here, good doco about a great movie.
A Matter of Life and Death: I've been meaning (pun maybe intended) to watch this classic from the 1940s for ages. It lived up to the hype. Surprised me that it was in colour actually (well mostly) and seemed a lot more modern than expected. It's probably only the pacing in parts that dated it - and the sound mix.
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@nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:
The Little Things: Denzel, Freddie Mercury actor, Jared Leto. Supposedly this is a poor imitation of Seven. I didn't think that at all. I found it a decent thriller, which I actually had no idea where it was going, with good actors.
Think the script for this has been in development since 1989! Was it a bit of a throw back to an earlier age?
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@kirwan oh yeah, the visuals were good. But I'm looking at it from a writing and story perspective, so goal, motivation, conflict angle. Batman's reason to have a beef with Superman was pathetic, and then got resolved super quickly (with safe word Martha, lol) I'm guessing a lot of Lois Lane's stuff got edited out because badass reporter got reduced to stupid damsel getting rescued, rinse repeat. It was such a long movie and yet in terms of story it felt wickedly shortchanged. We didn't need the bat origin story for the billionth time, yet that soaked up a good 10 mins at the start. Also needed far better set up of Wonder Woman than a few random shots of her in a plane, at an atm, taking the tech gadget at the party.
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@mokey said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Finally got around to watching Batman vs Superman because I really wanted a Cavill fix, and fuck me days that is a terrible movie. The only small mercy is his beautiful face isn't munted by mustache eraser, but that is a very, very small mercy. Affleck is by far the worst Batman. Gadot, Adams and Lane are completely wasted. The dialogue sucks, the plot seems to be about 65 different movies stitched together with poor Fishburne getting another stupid yes, go there line.
The guy playing Luthor was believably psycho.
Such a giant disappointment. It gets one star because of the gratuitous shirtless cooking scene and the bathtub scene which was cute.I genuinely don’t know how Ben Affleck is a star. He is SUCH a cock, possibly only eclipsed by Shia LeBoef
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Derek DelGaudio's In & Of Itself (2020) ⭐ 8.2 | Documentary
