Movie review thread...
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@mn5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Is that the one where he turns up to kick ass and chew bubble gum and he’s all out of bubble gum ?
Nah, that was John Carpenter's They Live - Great line
Not a great film, but not a bad film.
Jeepers, he was certainly no Rock or Bautista was he ?
He could choose his scripts well though...
The plot of Hell Comes to Frogtown is worth a read...
Some highlights...
Setting: a post-apocalyptic wasteland where few fertile men and women exist due to atomic fallout.
A group of mutant amphibians ... capture a group of fertile women and are using them as sex slaves.
Sam Hell (Piper) is a nomadic traveler ... captured by an organization of warrior-nurses,... who reveal that they located him by tracking the trail of pregnant women left in his wake.
Their original plan was to use him as breeding stock with their collection of fertile women, but ..., the group presses Hell into service as a mercenary; he is to infiltrate ... "Frogtown" and rescue the women.
... he is forced to wear an electronic protective codpiece ... Having already taken numerous samples of reproductive material from him, he is now deemed far more expendable than the women themselves.
...Hell ... quickly learns that a device Spangle carries will shock his genitals if used or if he gets too far away from it. ...
I'll skip the rest of it, for fear of spoilers, but it includes a reference to "the notable "Dance of the Three Snakes" sequence" -
For some reason I can't recall, I watched the G.I. Joe movie the other night.
Tonight - I watched the sequel - G.I. Joe Retaliation
The first - was some stupid light hearted fun based on some shit childhood toys.
The sequel... a constant assault on one's intelligence. There is literally not a single minute when I haven't thought "no, but, what, no... that's fucking... no..."
Just. So. Stupid.
I'm fucked if I can think of a 1.5 stupid things out of a 5 nah this could have been good stupid fun.Edit: at the climax... and it's worse... it just doesn't make sense. None of it makes any fucking sense. I get the throwing in every vehicle possible as a throw-back to the toys we were tricked into buying as kids, but still... it doesn't make any fucking sense.
My childhood storylines utilising a mixture of GI-Joe toys, Knight-Rider car, sister's Barbies, Optimus Prime (fucking sweet toy, bought with my Bonus Bond winnings), and some other shit I built myself from wood/nails - made more sense.
Fuck. You. Hollywood. For making a shit movie from an admittedly shit base childhood toy/cartoon. -
@kruse oh those movies suck sooo hard
Sienna Miller looks pretty good in the first one.
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@mariner4life said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@kruse oh those movies suck sooo hard
Sienna Miller looks pretty good in the first one.
I think I saw somewhere that there was a new one in the works, so revisited the old ones.
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Just on shit movies; Escape Plan. It's amazing that something that stars Stallone, Schwarzenegger, Jim Caviezel, "50 Cent", Vinnie Jones, Vincent D'Onofrio and Sam Neill can be this bad. It's almost as if there was no money left over for a scriptwriter.
Even more astounding is they made another two.
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@antipodean said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Just on shit movies; Escape Plan. It's amazing that something that stars Stallone, Schwarzenegger, Jim Caviezel, "50 Cent", Vinnie Jones, Vincent D'Onofrio and Sam Neill can be this bad. It's almost as if there was no money left over for a scriptwriter.
Even more astounding is they made another two.
that is not quite true, they made another three, the last one expected to be released this year, but apparently made
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I rewatched True Romance last night.
Such a good film, stellar cast too! Patricia Arquette is hawt AF in it too.
4.5 Pimps out of 5 Sicilians
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@antipodean said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Just on shit movies; Escape Plan. It's amazing that something that stars Stallone, Schwarzenegger, Jim Caviezel, "50 Cent", Vinnie Jones, Vincent D'Onofrio and Sam Neill can be this bad. It's almost as if there was no money left over for a scriptwriter.
Even more astounding is they made another two.
that is not quite true, they made another three, the last one expected to be released this year, but apparently made
I guess that way it can't be in the running for worst trilogies.
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@taniwharugby said in Re: Movie review thread...:
I rewatched True Romance last night.
Such a good film, stellar cast too! Patricia Arquette is hawt AF in it too.
Great movie. So many memorable scenes including the fight between Alabama and Tony Soprano.
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@taniwharugby said in Re: Movie review thread...:
I rewatched True Romance last night.
Such a good film, stellar cast too! Patricia Arquette is hawt AF in it too.
Great movie. So many memorable scenes including the fight between Alabama and Tony Soprano.
Gary Oldman and SLJ steal the scenes with their cameos....but then again Brad Pitt is terrific....as are Tom Sizemore and Chris Penn.....then again there’s the scene with Walken and Hopper.....fuck what a movie !!!
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@mn5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
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@taniwharugby said in Re: Movie review thread...:
I rewatched True Romance last night.
Such a good film, stellar cast too! Patricia Arquette is hawt AF in it too.
Great movie. So many memorable scenes including the fight between Alabama and Tony Soprano.
Gary Oldman and SLJ steal the scenes with their cameos....but then again Brad Pitt is terrific....as are Tom Sizemore and Chris Penn.....then again there’s the scene with Walken and Hopper.....fuck what a movie !!!
Haven't watched it since I saw it at the movies. Must rewatch
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@canefan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
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@taniwharugby said in Re: Movie review thread...:
I rewatched True Romance last night.
Such a good film, stellar cast too! Patricia Arquette is hawt AF in it too.
Great movie. So many memorable scenes including the fight between Alabama and Tony Soprano.
Gary Oldman and SLJ steal the scenes with their cameos....but then again Brad Pitt is terrific....as are Tom Sizemore and Chris Penn.....then again there’s the scene with Walken and Hopper.....fuck what a movie !!!
Haven't watched it since I saw it at the movies. Must rewatch
You and me both. Even Christian Slater is good if I recall.
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Nobody
5 Better Call Saul out of 5 John Wicks
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@antipodean said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Nobody
5 Better Call Saul out of 5 John Wicks
Bro, too many spoilers, I hate it when reviews give away way too much of the plot.
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Nobody
5 Better Call Saul out of 5 John Wicks
Bro, too many spoilers, I hate it when reviews give away way too much of the plot.
You know I'm not that sort of person but I'm willing to risk it this time by mentioning some of my favourite things; kittens, V8s and claymores.
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Nobody
5 Better Call Saul out of 5 John Wicks
Bro, too many spoilers, I hate it when reviews give away way too much of the plot.
Having seen the trailer and now @antipodean's review, I'd say don't look at anything more about it and go see it.
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@antipodean said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Nobody
5 Better Call Saul out of 5 John Wicks
I probably missed 20 minutes of this due to the idiot cinema worker who sent me to the wrong theatre.
Can't say that I think it comes close to your rating, but it was a good fun action film with some decent fight scenes and some 80s throwback action.
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@nepia I think it does realism and fun better than John Wick
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@antipodean said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@nepia I think it does realism and fun better than John Wick
Only if you discard the ending for realism, and then add the ending back in for fun.
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@antipodean what do we call 4 bad movies? A quadzilla?
