Movie review thread...
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@canefan i enjoyed it, agree on Brosnan, does some good stuff outside on Bond.
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@taniwharugby said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@canefan i enjoyed it, agree on Brosnan, does some good stuff outside on Bond.
The Matador is one of my favs
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@nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Boss Level:
A video game repeat the same day/levels action film. An action Groundhog Day, or a more game orientated Edge of Tomorrow.
This was actually a fun action film. Stars Frank Grillo, Naomi Watts, Michelle Yeoh and Mel Gibson.
Yep, enjoyable film.
3.5 I am Guan Yin and I did this out of 5 K.Os
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@bovidae said in Re: Movie review thread...:
I've mentioned it before, The November Man is good fun if you like modern-day Pierce Brosnan. It also has Olga and is directed by another Kiwi, Roger Donaldson.
The godfather of NZ cinema. Directed & produced Sleeping Dogs - the first Kiwi feature film in decades and the first to be distributed internationally.
Still holds up today as a pretty OK film
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@bovidae said in Re: Movie review thread...:
I've mentioned it before, The November Man is good fun if you like modern-day Pierce Brosnan. It also has Olga and is directed by another Kiwi, Roger Donaldson.
Third Hottest Daniel Craig era Bond girl.
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@victor-meldrew said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@bovidae said in Re: Movie review thread...:
I've mentioned it before, The November Man is good fun if you like modern-day Pierce Brosnan. It also has Olga and is directed by another Kiwi, Roger Donaldson.
The godfather of NZ cinema. Directed & produced Sleeping Dogs - the first Kiwi feature film in decades and the first to be distributed internationally.
Still holds up today as a pretty OK film
I want someone to re-make Sleeping Dogs today. What was funny when first watching (on video/TV in the late 80s/early 90s) was I kept thinking that if it was made after 1981 they could have just substituted footage in from the Springbok tour.
Donaldson is also an Aussie poach for us to balance out the others going over the ditch.
I think his best film is No Way Out.
Also, I thought Brosnan was fine as Bond. Goldeneye is still the best Bond movie of the after Moore/Connery era.
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@nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:
I think his best film is No Way Out.
Yeah it has plenty of tension, a great plot and Will Patton was excellent.
But The Worlds Fastest Indian is his best film for me.
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@mn5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@bovidae said in Re: Movie review thread...:
I've mentioned it before, The November Man is good fun if you like modern-day Pierce Brosnan. It also has Olga and is directed by another Kiwi, Roger Donaldson.
Third Hottest Daniel Craig era Bond girl.
Definitely the hawtest skinny actress.
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Watched Predator on Disney+ for the first time in years. Fucken. Amazing. I will forgive the 80s era plot holes, brilliantly paced action film, less humour than normal Arnie which I thought went well. Tight, tense, with a brilliant baddie. 5 hand held Gatling guns out of 5 ugly as alien hunters
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@canefan still awesome aye. You ain't lived till you've seen Jesse V light up the forest with a mini-gun or seen a few fullas getting their spines pulled out.
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@paekakboyz said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@canefan still awesome aye. You ain't lived till you've seen Jesse V light up the forest with a mini-gun or seen a few fullas getting their spines pulled out.
I always love that scene where the black guy (who played Cook in Commando) is dry shaving and pushes so hard the handle breaks off
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@paekakboyz said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@canefan still awesome aye. You ain't lived till you've seen Jesse V light up the forest with a mini-gun or seen a few fullas getting their spines pulled out.
Some great lines. Jesse says chewing tobacco turns him into a sexual tyrannosaurus Rex
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Chaos Walking:
Doug Liman is usually a pretty solid director. Swingers, Go, The Bourne Identity, Edge of Tomorrow etc. Even his not as good films are usually very watchable - Jumper, Mr and Mrs Smith, American Made.
But by god he bungles this kind of high concept story, which probably had little chance of working as a movie.
It's set on a planet where mens thoughts can be heard, and are heard constantly. It was almost impossible to follow at the start when characters were both talking and thinking.
As the movie went on they appear to have made the wise decision to only have the men think occasionally.
The story is just average too. Apparently based on book trilogy, but we're not going to see the next two that's for sure.
Stars Rey, Spider-man, and Mads Mikkelson.
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