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  • KruseK Offline
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    @tim said in Re: Movie review thread...:

    I'm watching the latest dadsploitation movie, Nobody. Now the inciting incident is beating up some guys because they were drunk and got on a bus? They're really have given up.

    I think you might have missed some bits.

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    @kruse There was nothing else! Shit movie.

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    In America, there's a burglary every 11 seconds, an armed robbery every 65 seconds, a violent crime every 25 seconds, a murder every 24 minutes and 250 rapes a day.

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    @tim I can't believe you deleted my Just Tim thread.

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    @tim said in Re: Movie review thread...:

    In America, there's a burglary every 11 seconds, an armed robbery every 65 seconds, a violent crime every 25 seconds, a murder every 24 minutes and 250 rapes a day.

    I'm sure I've seen this film somewhere but can't for the life of me think of where.

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    @tim said in Re: Movie review thread...:

    In America, there's a burglary every 11 seconds, an armed robbery every 65 seconds, a violent crime every 25 seconds, a murder every 24 minutes and 250 rapes a day.

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  • mariner4lifeM Offline
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    @antipodean this right here is fucking top level Ferning

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    @antipodean said in Re: Movie review thread...:

    @tim said in Re: Movie review thread...:

    In America, there's a burglary every 11 seconds, an armed robbery every 65 seconds, a violent crime every 25 seconds, a murder every 24 minutes and 250 rapes a day.

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    Crime is a disease. He's the cure

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    Holy shit Starship Troopers is great fun especially if you haven’t seen it in years.

    Still awesome, enough of a piss take to be a bit of a laugh along with some incredible sci fi action.

    4.5 what’s your malfunction Rico out of 5 the only good bug is a dead bug.

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    @mn5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:

    Holy shit Starship Troopers is great fun especially if you haven’t seen it in years.

    Still awesome, enough of a piss take to be a bit of a laugh along with some incredible sci fi action.

    4.5 what’s your malfunction Rico out of 5 the only good bug is a dead bug.

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    @kruse said in Re: Movie review thread...:

    @tim said in Re: Movie review thread...:

    I'm watching the latest dadsploitation movie, Nobody. Now the inciting incident is beating up some guys because they were drunk and got on a bus? They're really have given up.

    I think you might have missed some bits.

    I'm right in the middle of this, as I said earlier in the thread can't understand how much you guys are hyping it and conversely can't understand how much @Tim is hating on it.

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    The Little Things
    Well... what a crock of shit.
    Expectations were middling after the recommendations/references earlier in this thread - but even in the initial scene of "girl being stalked - oh how scary" - shit, how many things to pick apart in that?
    And then the actual "detective procedural"/"mystery crime thriller" starts...

    • the one and only interesting mystery in this was figuring out how the movie got to be made.
      And it's not that much of a mystery, it seems fairly obvious...
      A shitty crime-thriller is presented to some movie companies in the 90s.
      It is rightly dismissed as crap.
      Se7en comes out, and is a hit.
      Somebody finds this script, and says "Hey - if we re-worked this to be heaps more like Se7en - we could make some money"
      So somebody re-writes bits so that there is a semi-idealistic white kid detective with a lovable family, a jaded black detective, and a psychological show-down in the middle of nowhere
      But then, the real twist - it gets made... 25 fucking years later.
    • TL;DR: This really was like an Asylum-level Se7en remake, but 25 years after the fact, and somehow managing to cast Denzel and Mr Robot, amongst a decent supporting cast

    Just... What The Actual Fuck. I like digging holes, but I ain't gonna dig more than one if I've got a guy who I legitimately think is a murderous fluffybunny to do it for me.

    2 "Dig This Hole For Me, Prick"s, out of 5 "Yeah, fair enough - that reveal of historic girl #3's death was a very, very slight redemption of the overall tripe"

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  • NepiaN Offline
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    @kruse said in Re: Movie review thread...:

    The Little Things
    Well... what a crock of shit.
    Expectations were middling after the recommendations/references earlier in this thread - but even in the initial scene of "girl being stalked - oh how scary" - shit, how many things to pick apart in that?
    And then the actual "detective procedural"/"mystery crime thriller" starts...

    • the one and only interesting mystery in this was figuring out how the movie got to be made.
      And it's not that much of a mystery, it seems fairly obvious...
      A shitty crime-thriller is presented to some movie companies in the 90s.
      It is rightly dismissed as crap.
      Se7en comes out, and is a hit.
      Somebody finds this script, and says "Hey - if we re-worked this to be heaps more like Se7en - we could make some money"
      So somebody re-writes bits so that there is a semi-idealistic white kid detective with a lovable family, a jaded black detective, and a psychological show-down in the middle of nowhere
      But then, the real twist - it gets made... 25 fucking years later.
    • TL;DR: This really was like an Asylum-level Se7en remake, but 25 years after the fact, and somehow managing to cast Denzel and Mr Robot, amongst a decent supporting cast

    Just... What The Actual Fuck. I like digging holes, but I ain't gonna dig more than one if I've got a guy who I legitimately think is a murderous fluffybunny to do it for me.

    2 "Dig This Hole For Me, Prick"s, out of 5 "Yeah, fair enough - that reveal of historic girl #3's death was a very, very slight redemption of the overall tripe"

    Hahaha, that was funny in a complete WTF is going on way, but as I mentioned earlier in the thread I think the Se7en comparisons are being way over done in relation to this movie.

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    @kruse said in Re: Movie review thread...:

    The Little Things

    The give away is when the same person writes, directs and produces a movie. You could say it's to protect the artistic vision, but normally it's cause no one else will touch it.

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    The Courier

    Based on the true story of Greville Wynne a British salesman who is recruited to transport Russian secrets in an effort to ease tensions in the Cuban missile crisis.

    I know little of this guy to know how much is fact based but was a decent watch with Cumberbatch as Wynne.

    3.5 WTF is he eating out of 5 its a Russian prison what do you think it could be...

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  • KruseK Offline
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    @antipodean said in Re: Movie review thread...:

    @kruse said in Re: Movie review thread...:

    The Little Things

    The give away is when the same person writes, directs and produces a movie. You could say it's to protect the artistic vision, but normally it's cause no one else will touch it.

    Shit - I didn't notice that. That makes it worse... I assumed it was movie execs who had shoe-horned a shitty script into an even shittier movie by insisting on all the Se7en-parody bollocks.
    But this was one guys vision, from start to finish? WTF?
    And he was proud enough of it to actually release it to the public? He's shat out a monster - a morning-after-12-pints-of-Guiness monster of a turd - and then decided to put it in a glass box and parade it around in front of the family.

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    @kruse said in Re: Movie review thread...:

    @antipodean said in Re: Movie review thread...:

    @kruse said in Re: Movie review thread...:

    The Little Things

    The give away is when the same person writes, directs and produces a movie. You could say it's to protect the artistic vision, but normally it's cause no one else will touch it.

    Shit - I didn't notice that. That makes it worse... I assumed it was movie execs who had shoe-horned a shitty script into an even shittier movie by insisting on all the Se7en-parody bollocks.
    But this was one guys vision, from start to finish? WTF?
    And he was proud enough of it to actually release it to the public? He's shat out a monster - a morning-after-12-pints-of-Guiness monster of a turd - and then decided to put it in a glass box and parade it around in front of the family.

    Upvote for the description.

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  • Rancid SchnitzelR Offline
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    Rocky IV. Nuff said.

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  • CatograndeC Offline
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    @kruse said in Re: Movie review thread...:

    @antipodean said in Re: Movie review thread...:

    @kruse said in Re: Movie review thread...:

    The Little Things

    The give away is when the same person writes, directs and produces a movie. You could say it's to protect the artistic vision, but normally it's cause no one else will touch it.

    ... Monster of a turd - and then decided to put it in a glass box and parade it around in front of the family.

    Aaand I am immediately transported back to when a Roysl Marine that played at our club described his time aboard the Royal Yacht Britannia. Apparently some of the lower deck crew had isolated the plumbing and extracted a turd that was purportedly that of Princess Margaret and had mounted (said turd - for @Notrildamus) in a glass case.

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    @catogrande said in Re: Movie review thread...:

    and had mounted in a glass case.

    had mounted the turd, not the princess, hopefully.
    Back to your story...The souvenir was reputedly lost in a game of poker after someone had struck a royal flush.

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