Movie review thread...
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@tim said in Re: Movie review thread...:
As I mentioned on another thread Snatch is still all kinds of awesome as is Lock Stock thanks in no small part to Mr Statham.
Will the magic still be there 21 years later ? to be honest I doubt it but I hope like fuck I’m wrong.
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@kirwan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
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@kirwan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@nepia it’s the same basic plot, but the beginning is quite different. Even some of the scenes that you might think are the same are actually Whedon reshoots to add shirt jokes.
Lots of side by side comparisons if you care.
Main thing to check is the Affleck wig and his weight. In the 2017 version he drops up and down between scenes.
Weirdly, at the end he looks like he’s back to his Town shape. Very thin.
I heard that last scene with Martian manhunter was a Snyder reshoot for this cut, that’s why afflecks much thinner...and older
I thought he looked younger if anything. The entire epilogue was a reshoot.
Snyder has said that he filmed that MM scene with a John Stewart version of the Green Lantern, but the studio asked him to take it out. So the compromise was MM instead, 75% of the scene was the same.
Funny thing is he wasn’t supposed to do any reshoots but did them anyway, making the point it said Zac Snyder’s Justice League, so....
They need to do a documentary about this film, so much is unusual
So he must have added in the earlier bit with MM as well? The shapeshifting.
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@crucial said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@kirwan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@kiwiwomble said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@kirwan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@nepia it’s the same basic plot, but the beginning is quite different. Even some of the scenes that you might think are the same are actually Whedon reshoots to add shirt jokes.
Lots of side by side comparisons if you care.
Main thing to check is the Affleck wig and his weight. In the 2017 version he drops up and down between scenes.
Weirdly, at the end he looks like he’s back to his Town shape. Very thin.
I heard that last scene with Martian manhunter was a Snyder reshoot for this cut, that’s why afflecks much thinner...and older
I thought he looked younger if anything. The entire epilogue was a reshoot.
Snyder has said that he filmed that MM scene with a John Stewart version of the Green Lantern, but the studio asked him to take it out. So the compromise was MM instead, 75% of the scene was the same.
Funny thing is he wasn’t supposed to do any reshoots but did them anyway, making the point it said Zac Snyder’s Justice League, so....
They need to do a documentary about this film, so much is unusual
So he must have added in the earlier bit with MM as well? The shapeshifting.
Yep, but the difference is that one was always planned. He was due to finish the MM reveal in LA but then was forced off the project.
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@kirwan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Motherbox, motherbox, motherbox....
I’m just over half way through and really want to finish so I can watch the above, and screen rants pitch meeting etc, and listen to Fatman Beyond podcast. The only issue is I have to keep watching to finish
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ths was pretty good
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@mikethesnow said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@tim said in Re: Movie review thread...:
One of the best
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The Dry
Fuck Eric Bana can act
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rewatched Lock Stock!
Top movie!!
4.5 smoking barrells out of 5 antique shot guns
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@canefan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mikethesnow said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@tim said in Re: Movie review thread...:
One of the best
Even better here in my opinion
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@bovidae said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mn5 I nearly posted that myself as that's a great scene with Walken and Hopper.
Great movie with a ridiculous number of small but awesome cameos from some huge names at the time. I need to see it again
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Having watched all 3 in 3 weeks
The Lord Of The Rings is the best movie trilogy of all time
3 amazing movies that get better with each chapter
6 beautiful NZ locations out of 5 shit it was handy those blokes showed up
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@mariner4life so fkn good in 4k
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@mikethesnow said in Re: Movie review thread...:
The Dry
Fuck Eric Bana can act
watched this last night, decent flick!
3.5 dead calves out of 5 I wondered about that
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Zack Snyder's Justice League
So I finally finished my rewatch, my Fern posting history suggests it has taken me 11 days. Even though it was likely 99% certain I wouldn't like this movie I'm actually surprised at how much I disliked it.
I don't have an issue with people liking this movie, and liking Zack's visual style etc but the people hailing this a masterpiece and voting it the best comic book movie ever are straight up taking the piss. The script issues are no different here than in the now reviled cinema version and the effects are arse.
The Good
I think Zack picked his cast really well bar one character I'll discuss in The Bad. The problem being I'd like to see them in films made by other directors (especially Cavill). I like Cavill, I like Batfleck, Gadot is still hot as fuck, Polynesian Aquaman was good even if they had that weird thing of him throwing his clothes int the water every time and Miller is good as the Flash even though I don't think he's as good as the similar TV version. I also like Jeremy Irons as Alfred.
The Bad
Ray Fisher was wooden as fuck. For all his smack talk on Twitter I was expecting an awesome performance from him, but he was the clear weak link. Maybe that's not a reflection on him and more to do with the Mo-Cap and bad visual effects that went into making him Cyborg?
99% of the time editors make movies better. This movie needed an editor. Every scene went on just a little bit too long.
Why ruin a completely decent emotional scene between Lois and Martha by having it be the Martian Manhunter when you're going to include him in the Epilogue anyway?
The visual effects/CGI were so shit. Why? The Madolorian shows you can make awesome real looking spaces with effects. So much of this film didn't look real to me, especially the big final battle which was just a dark CGI-fest with shiny Steppenwolf to light it up. The crappy effects were best illustrated by the mother boxes scene in the big battle: the boxes didn't look real, they were being held by a not real looking Cyborg who was attacked by a not real looking Steppenwolf.
How did they make Gal Gadot look like Leia in Rogue One when they did their stand together at the end of the big battle shot. When I watched the movie I just assumed it was inserted but then I saw them film it in the little Zack Snyder doco.
The low budget TV show manages to make the Flash running scenes more realistic than this super high budget movie.
Why so much slow-mo? I remember when Age of Ultron was given shit for slo-mo in its fight scenes in the opening. Every action scene in this movie had unnecessary slow-mo.
Why are people saying this longer running time made the story flow better? It didn't, and it added some completely unnecessary scenes as well.
The Rating
I think Chaos Walking might pip this for worst movie I've seen this year, but only just.
2 obviously I was never going to like this ... out of ... 5 but I really didn't think it would be this bad.
Good to get that rant off my chest, I probably don't have the energy to shit fight with you fanbois so you have free rein to heap shit on my opinion.
