Movie review thread...
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@mariner4life said in Re: Movie review thread...:
looking for a movie last night and i realised i have never actually seen Scarface
So i threw it on
Boy is that movie overrated. Fuck it goes forever, feels like it drags, and yet just jumps forward. It feels like immigrant gets off the boat, immigrant gets in to drug business, I'm the boss now! i'm really rich. and now I'm fucked. Yet it's 3 pretty boring hours.
Whole heaps of some good old fashioned Al Pacino overacting.
Yes it's 40 years old, but other movies of its time did it way better.
Thank god I'm not the only one. I keep getting crucified on here for saying some movies held as greats aren't all that.
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@antipodean said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mariner4life said in Re: Movie review thread...:
looking for a movie last night and i realised i have never actually seen Scarface
So i threw it on
Boy is that movie overrated. Fuck it goes forever, feels like it drags, and yet just jumps forward. It feels like immigrant gets off the boat, immigrant gets in to drug business, I'm the boss now! i'm really rich. and now I'm fucked. Yet it's 3 pretty boring hours.
Whole heaps of some good old fashioned Al Pacino overacting.
Yes it's 40 years old, but other movies of its time did it way better.
Thank god I'm not the only one. I keep getting crucified on here for saying some movies held as greats aren't all that.
By contrast, I'm sure Godfather 1 and 2 are still farken boss
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@mariner4life said in Re: Movie review thread...:
looking for a movie last night and i realised i have never actually seen Scarface
So i threw it on
Boy is that movie overrated. Fuck it goes forever, feels like it drags, and yet just jumps forward. It feels like immigrant gets off the boat, immigrant gets in to drug business, I'm the boss now! i'm really rich. and now I'm fucked. Yet it's 3 pretty boring hours.
Whole heaps of some good old fashioned Al Pacino overacting.
Yes it's 40 years old, but other movies of its time did it way better.
Thank god I'm not the only one. I keep getting crucified on here for saying some movies held as greats aren't all that.
By contrast, I'm sure Godfather 1 and 2 are still farken boss
I won't hear a bad word said about either. Obviously 2 is better...
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@antipodean said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@canefan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@antipodean said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mariner4life said in Re: Movie review thread...:
looking for a movie last night and i realised i have never actually seen Scarface
So i threw it on
Boy is that movie overrated. Fuck it goes forever, feels like it drags, and yet just jumps forward. It feels like immigrant gets off the boat, immigrant gets in to drug business, I'm the boss now! i'm really rich. and now I'm fucked. Yet it's 3 pretty boring hours.
Whole heaps of some good old fashioned Al Pacino overacting.
Yes it's 40 years old, but other movies of its time did it way better.
Thank god I'm not the only one. I keep getting crucified on here for saying some movies held as greats aren't all that.
By contrast, I'm sure Godfather 1 and 2 are still farken boss
I won't hear a bad word said about either. Obviously 2 is better...
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@antipodean said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@canefan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@antipodean said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mariner4life said in Re: Movie review thread...:
looking for a movie last night and i realised i have never actually seen Scarface
So i threw it on
Boy is that movie overrated. Fuck it goes forever, feels like it drags, and yet just jumps forward. It feels like immigrant gets off the boat, immigrant gets in to drug business, I'm the boss now! i'm really rich. and now I'm fucked. Yet it's 3 pretty boring hours.
Whole heaps of some good old fashioned Al Pacino overacting.
Yes it's 40 years old, but other movies of its time did it way better.
Thank god I'm not the only one. I keep getting crucified on here for saying some movies held as greats aren't all that.
By contrast, I'm sure Godfather 1 and 2 are still farken boss
I won't hear a bad word said about either. Obviously 2 is better...
I won't hear a bad word said about either. Obviously 1 is better...
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@nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@antipodean said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@canefan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@antipodean said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mariner4life said in Re: Movie review thread...:
looking for a movie last night and i realised i have never actually seen Scarface
So i threw it on
Boy is that movie overrated. Fuck it goes forever, feels like it drags, and yet just jumps forward. It feels like immigrant gets off the boat, immigrant gets in to drug business, I'm the boss now! i'm really rich. and now I'm fucked. Yet it's 3 pretty boring hours.
Whole heaps of some good old fashioned Al Pacino overacting.
Yes it's 40 years old, but other movies of its time did it way better.
Thank god I'm not the only one. I keep getting crucified on here for saying some movies held as greats aren't all that.
By contrast, I'm sure Godfather 1 and 2 are still farken boss
I won't hear a bad word said about either. Obviously 2 is better...
I won't hear a bad word said about either. Obviously 1 is better...
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@antipodean said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@antipodean said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@canefan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@antipodean said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mariner4life said in Re: Movie review thread...:
looking for a movie last night and i realised i have never actually seen Scarface
So i threw it on
Boy is that movie overrated. Fuck it goes forever, feels like it drags, and yet just jumps forward. It feels like immigrant gets off the boat, immigrant gets in to drug business, I'm the boss now! i'm really rich. and now I'm fucked. Yet it's 3 pretty boring hours.
Whole heaps of some good old fashioned Al Pacino overacting.
Yes it's 40 years old, but other movies of its time did it way better.
Thank god I'm not the only one. I keep getting crucified on here for saying some movies held as greats aren't all that.
By contrast, I'm sure Godfather 1 and 2 are still farken boss
I won't hear a bad word said about either. Obviously 2 is better...
I won't hear a bad word said about either. Obviously 1 is better...
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@nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@antipodean said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@antipodean said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@canefan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@antipodean said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mariner4life said in Re: Movie review thread...:
looking for a movie last night and i realised i have never actually seen Scarface
So i threw it on
Boy is that movie overrated. Fuck it goes forever, feels like it drags, and yet just jumps forward. It feels like immigrant gets off the boat, immigrant gets in to drug business, I'm the boss now! i'm really rich. and now I'm fucked. Yet it's 3 pretty boring hours.
Whole heaps of some good old fashioned Al Pacino overacting.
Yes it's 40 years old, but other movies of its time did it way better.
Thank god I'm not the only one. I keep getting crucified on here for saying some movies held as greats aren't all that.
By contrast, I'm sure Godfather 1 and 2 are still farken boss
I won't hear a bad word said about either. Obviously 2 is better...
I won't hear a bad word said about either. Obviously 1 is better...
Just like Bill and Ted really. First film great, second even better, 3rd utter shit.
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I’ve managed to never see a single Godfather Movie. I think the Deer Hunter would be considerably greater if they chopped quite a bit out of it. All of them getting pissed at the Wedding for starters.
Scarface is still good fun to watch every few years.
So many movies that win best picture at the Oscars are utter shit. Most recent I can think of are Monsters Ball and Three Billboards. Both absolutely terrible in my opinion.
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@rancid-schnitzel said in Re: Movie review thread...:
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@antipodean said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@antipodean said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@canefan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@antipodean said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mariner4life said in Re: Movie review thread...:
looking for a movie last night and i realised i have never actually seen Scarface
So i threw it on
Boy is that movie overrated. Fuck it goes forever, feels like it drags, and yet just jumps forward. It feels like immigrant gets off the boat, immigrant gets in to drug business, I'm the boss now! i'm really rich. and now I'm fucked. Yet it's 3 pretty boring hours.
Whole heaps of some good old fashioned Al Pacino overacting.
Yes it's 40 years old, but other movies of its time did it way better.
Thank god I'm not the only one. I keep getting crucified on here for saying some movies held as greats aren't all that.
By contrast, I'm sure Godfather 1 and 2 are still farken boss
I won't hear a bad word said about either. Obviously 2 is better...
I won't hear a bad word said about either. Obviously 1 is better...
Just like Bill and Ted really. First film great, second even better, 3rd utter shit.
I'm not on that train with you, I liked the 3rd film, might have been due to it being the 2nd film I watched back in cinemas again after lockdown, but I enjoyed. Agree on Godfather 3 though.
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Indy 5 anyone....considering they should have left it at 3 i think the best the can do is break even after 4
i'd put money on they'll kill him off this time
Indiana Jones 5 Confirmed As Last Movie In The Franchise
Fans reacted surprisingly well when one of Harrison Ford's two most iconic roles was recast, with Solo gaining cult favorite status among the Star Wars faithful despite bombing at the box office, and leading man Alden Ehrenreich receiving praise for attempting to put his own spin on the roguish...
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Watched the first hour of the fanboi-athon (watching it in 4 parts) and as expected, it's really not for me. Snyder just isn't my director. Gal Gadot still looks hot, but the visual effects give me a Star Wars prequel feeling and I assume there was no editor at all on this movie. Oh and the 4:3 is stupid. I can't see what is the point of it.
Will update again when I get round to hour 2. I'm sure you'll all be looking forward to that.
Also Binge has to be the worst app out there. Shat itself three times, although the 3rd time was right on the hour mark so that work perfectly, and after the second time it shit itself it decided that the account wasn't HD, so I had to close it and log back in again for it to remember it was HD.
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@nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@rancid-schnitzel said in Re: Movie review thread...:
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@antipodean said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:
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@mariner4life said in Re: Movie review thread...:
looking for a movie last night and i realised i have never actually seen Scarface
So i threw it on
Boy is that movie overrated. Fuck it goes forever, feels like it drags, and yet just jumps forward. It feels like immigrant gets off the boat, immigrant gets in to drug business, I'm the boss now! i'm really rich. and now I'm fucked. Yet it's 3 pretty boring hours.
Whole heaps of some good old fashioned Al Pacino overacting.
Yes it's 40 years old, but other movies of its time did it way better.
Thank god I'm not the only one. I keep getting crucified on here for saying some movies held as greats aren't all that.
By contrast, I'm sure Godfather 1 and 2 are still farken boss
I won't hear a bad word said about either. Obviously 2 is better...
I won't hear a bad word said about either. Obviously 1 is better...
Just like Bill and Ted really. First film great, second even better, 3rd utter shit.
I'm not on that train with you, I liked the 3rd film, might have been due to it being the 2nd film I watched back in cinemas again after lockdown, but I enjoyed. Agree on Godfather 3 though.
Were you drunk as well?
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@kiwiwomble said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Indy 5 anyone....considering they should have left it at 3 i think the best the can do is break even after 4
i'd put money on they'll kill him off this time
Indiana Jones 5 Confirmed As Last Movie In The Franchise
Fans reacted surprisingly well when one of Harrison Ford's two most iconic roles was recast, with Solo gaining cult favorite status among the Star Wars faithful despite bombing at the box office, and leading man Alden Ehrenreich receiving praise for attempting to put his own spin on the roguish...
Provided his ghastly shitcunt of a son isn’t in it there may be a bit of hope it turns out ok.
Pretty hard to think of a fourth movie that was as bad compared to the first three as Crystal Skulls was though.
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@mn5 if the plot is good enough then they could make up some new character to go on a treasure hunt..if it needs to be indy then its probably not very good (see crystal skull), should have left it was a trilogy
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@kiwiwomble said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mn5 if the plot is good enough then they could make up some new character to go on a treasure hunt..if it needs to be indy then its probably not very good (see crystal skull), should have left it was a trilogy
Yeah I can definitely go for the whole Indy as a mentor thing and have him as a peripheral character.
For an absolute classic trilogy ( and it fucken is, no one denies that ) it has some pretty bland forgettable villains in my opinion. The new film could hopefully rectify that.
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@antipodean said in Re: Movie review thread...:
I keep getting crucified on here for saying some movies held as greats aren't all that.
I've said the same about Spartacus.
I should watch Ben-Hur at some stage.
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@nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Watched the first hour of the fanboi-athon (watching it in 4 parts) and as expected, it's really not for me. Snyder just isn't my director. Gal Gadot still looks hot, but the visual effects give me a Star Wars prequel feeling and I assume there was no editor at all on this movie. Oh and the 4:3 is stupid. I can't see what is the point of it.
Will update again when I get round to hour 2. I'm sure you'll all be looking forward to that.
Also Binge has to be the worst app out there. Shat itself three times, although the 3rd time was right on the hour mark so that work perfectly, and after the second time it shit itself it decided that the account wasn't HD, so I had to close it and log back in again for it to remember it was HD.
I read one review that said if you like Snyder films, there's more here to like. If you hate, them then there is more to hate. Just about sums it up.
The ratio is for Imax, and actually puts more content on screen. For some of the battle scenes it's great. For scenes where people are sitting at a table, less so. So much headroom.
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@kirwan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Watched the first hour of the fanboi-athon (watching it in 4 parts) and as expected, it's really not for me. Snyder just isn't my director. Gal Gadot still looks hot, but the visual effects give me a Star Wars prequel feeling and I assume there was no editor at all on this movie. Oh and the 4:3 is stupid. I can't see what is the point of it.
Will update again when I get round to hour 2. I'm sure you'll all be looking forward to that.
Also Binge has to be the worst app out there. Shat itself three times, although the 3rd time was right on the hour mark so that work perfectly, and after the second time it shit itself it decided that the account wasn't HD, so I had to close it and log back in again for it to remember it was HD.
I read one review that said if you like Snyder films, there's more here to like. If you hate, them then there is more to hate. Just about sums it up.
The ratio is for Imax, and actually puts more content on screen. For some of the battle scenes it's great. For scenes where people are sitting at a table, less so. So much headroom.
I read an interview with him about the ratio and he basically said that he really liked the way that the IMAX ratio gives you a high ceiling and thought that it was really appropriate when dealing with super heroes who are meant to be larger than life. You get to direct action up and down more than side to side which should work well with beings that can fly/jump/leap etc.
When you think of it like that then the only real disadvantage is with Flash which would explain how his scenes concentrated more on slowing time than moving from A to B fast.
