Movie review thread...
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@mariner4life said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@kiwiwomble said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mariner4life Thank you! one of the first people ive heard to have seen it
it's the only version i watch, had it on DVD.
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@mariner4life said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowhip of the Ring
20 years old!!
And based on that, thought it was time i shared it with the kids. It's still awesome, and it still looks amazing. What a fucking movie.
Told the kids they have to wait 2 years to watch the 2nd one like we had to. They we're not happy with the suggestion.
The Hobbiton tour definitely adds a bit to the first part of the movie. Like how he wasn't happy with the leaves of the tree above Bag End so he had them all removed and had artificial ones made. The tree is in shot for fucking 10 seconds!!
caught the two towers a while back on tv...still great, helms deep is a great battle
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@kiwiwomble said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@nepia yeah, 2 weeks, the thing is i just got rid of Foxtel and a lot of stuff on there is stuff i watch on there
Oh yeah, it's just Foxtel's streaming platform ... just cheaper?
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Judas and the Black Messiah: A film about the Chicago branch of the Black Panthers in the late 60s. It's about an FBI informant and their charismatic leader.
Lakeeth Stanfield was nominated for a Supporting Actor Oscar as the informant although he's actually the lead. Daniel Kaluya is the leader.
Really engaging story about an interesting time in US history.
Martin Sheen plays J Edgar Hoover, I guess President Bartlett wants to play some bad guys for a change.
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@canefan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Coach Carter. Based on a true story, Samuel L Jackson plays the tough basketball coach with a heart of gold trying to make a difference to his team of unruly ghetto rats.
Speaking of true sports stories, I was reading a review article about this movie over the weekend. I'm keen to watch it.
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What are your super powers again?
I'm rich.
Great script.
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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.
I've just watched this. Great fun. The Operator was the bomb.
Some of the fight scenes and gore have a similar feel to those on Warrior, which Joe Taslim also stars in.
I'll have to search out The Raid movies.
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@kiwiwomble good point, they could have drawn in the audience twice. You should be a Hollywood exec.
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@nostrildamus which point...i've vomited a few
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I hope no one is really a fan of Batman vs Superman. Taste is subjective but that was a drawn out dirge fest (and I've watched 4+hour Russian films).
Ben Affleck is no Batman, apart, maybe, from his chin. And Irons is wasted, wasted I tell you!
Bring back Ima Thurman in a catsuit. I'd even have Arnie back. But the Batman franchise has just become a bored rich guy in a corset trundling through his basement, pausing to look dejectedly at screencams like he was Robert Smith's fat emo goth-child, and getting dissed by the help. Oh and Batman doesn't do guns. Sorry.
Don't get me started on how Aquaman was so boring they just stole Namor and pretended local people can afford hard liquor in Iceland. Biggest pain there was the love interest though, she must have an agent as good as her divorce lawyer. -
@nostrildamus i think my biggest issue was the title
Batman v. Superman : dawn of justice .....it just not the title to start a whole cinematic universe
I think BvS would have worked better if we had a batman film before so we could see evenly where they were both coming from, a whole film of him being this paranoid hero scared from fighting crime for 20 years
edit: oh, and obviously "Martha", anyone know if thats from the comics, just such a flimsy thing to hang the fate of the planet on
I like Batfleck, im not a huge comic reader but hes one of the closest to how i imagine an older batman, and his lone attack on the dome at the end is one of my fav parts, with these four superpowered people standing watching him go in without them, it was great acting from them you can see on their faces they realise he's willing to die for this, loved it
It is weird now i think about it, i want to see the "synderverse"...and i seem completely willing to ignore things like BvS, reviews range from ok to unwatchable
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@nostrildamus said in Re: Movie review thread...:
I hope no one is really a fan of Batman vs Superman. Taste is subjective but that was a drawn out dirge fest (and I've watched 4+hour Russian films).
Ben Affleck is no Batman, apart, maybe, from his chin. And Irons is wasted, wasted I tell you!
Bring back Ima Thurman in a catsuit. I'd even have Arnie back. But the Batman franchise has just become a bored rich guy in a corset trundling through his basement, pausing to look dejectedly at screencams like he was Robert Smith's fat emo goth-child, and getting dissed by the help. Oh and Batman doesn't do guns. Sorry.
Don't get me started on how Aquaman was so boring they just stole Namor and pretended local people can afford hard liquor in Iceland. Biggest pain there was the love interest though, she must have an agent as good as her divorce lawyer.Batman doesn't use guns? Except for when does;
https://www.cbr.com/batman-gun-use-why/
Even Burtons 1989 Batman used a gatling gun on the Batwing and rocket launchers!
Him upping the violence after being manipulated by Luthor is a key part of the plot. I'm a fan of the Ultimate Cut that includes the key story pieces that WB refused to allow for time.
As for Ben Affleck, he's an excellent Bruce Wayne and Synders take on Batman is the closest we've had to a comic accurate Batman so far. The warehouse scene in BvS is peak Batman.
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@kiwiwomble As I've said before, the Martha scene is clumsily done, but the point is it makes Bruce see Clark as a person instead of an alien monster.
It's the realisation that make him realise how far over the line he's gone over the past 18 months.
Not all the movies are perfect, but these are great comic book movies. Particularly the visuals.
Marvel has the more realistic side covered (Peter Park being poor, and having to work, etc) While DC go over the top all the time.
I remember reading one comic where Superman lived inside the sun for 1000 years and came out all gold and all his powers a million times stronger.
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@kirwan i get it, i do, as you've said i just dont think its well done, i think someone thats so enraged theyre about to kill someone is more likely to temporarily forget their long dead mums name than to immediately snap out of it
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@kiwiwomble said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@kirwan i get it, i do, as you've said i just dont think its well done, i think someone thats so enraged theyre about to kill someone is more likely to temporarily forget their long dead mums name than to immediately snap out of it
Yeah, except his dead parents are the reason why he's Batman. If you are ever going to get Batman to pause, it'll be invoking his parents (particularly as he was having nightmares about their grave)
The Grizzlies (2018) ⭐ 7.5 | Biography, Drama, Sport
