Movie review thread...
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@rancid-schnitzel imagine the outrage if they cast Brad Pitt as Martin Luthar King or Malcolm X.
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@taniwharugby said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@rancid-schnitzel imagine the outrage if they cast Brad Pitt as Martin Luthar King or Malcolm X.
Perfectly fine. Kirk Lazarus played Hot LZ.
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@antipodean said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@taniwharugby said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@rancid-schnitzel imagine the outrage if they cast Brad Pitt as Martin Luthar King or Malcolm X.
Perfectly fine. Kirk Lazarus played Hot LZ.
and RDJ avoided grief as he was a white guy playing a white guy playing a black guy
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@nzzp said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@antipodean said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@taniwharugby said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@rancid-schnitzel imagine the outrage if they cast Brad Pitt as Martin Luthar King or Malcolm X.
Perfectly fine. Kirk Lazarus played Hot LZ.
and RDJ avoided grief as he was a white guy playing a white guy playing a black guy
He was hilarious in that. People are so easily outraged these days. As if we don't have more pressing things to worry about
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@canefan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@nzzp said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@antipodean said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@taniwharugby said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@rancid-schnitzel imagine the outrage if they cast Brad Pitt as Martin Luthar King or Malcolm X.
Perfectly fine. Kirk Lazarus played Hot LZ.
and RDJ avoided grief as he was a white guy playing a white guy playing a black guy
He was hilarious in that. People are so easily outraged these days. As if we don't have more pressing things to worry about
Well I for one am deeply offended at tweets from young English cricketers from years ago and think it’s disgusting that he got selected in the first place.
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Right, after all that talk about Bautista, and his movies, I downloaded a couple.
Final Score- Die Hard
- But with Dave Bautista, instead of Bruce Willis
- And in a soccer stadium, instead of a skyscraper
- And there's a crowd in there, oblivious to everything
That's pretty much all you need to know. If you can't extrapolate from those 4 bullet points, to pretty much feeling like you've seen the film - I envy your lack of imagination/intelligence.
But, some bonus points you might not have envisaged:
- Titwatch: zero
- Explosions: big (actually - yeah, you'd have that one)
- Gunfights on motorcycles inside a stadium concourse: check (yep - crowd is still oblivious even after this)
- Pierce Brosnan: check. Wait, what? Is that Pierce Brosnan? What the fuck? Why.... ? What the fuck?
- I won't list the "homages" to Die Hard. But suffice to say a dead terrorist body is thrown off the roof to let the cops know the situation is real.
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@kruse I watched "his" zombie movie. Easily 30mins too long.
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@kruse said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Right, after all that talk about Bautista, and his movies, I downloaded a couple.
Final Score- Die Hard
- But with Dave Bautista, instead of Bruce Willis
- And in a soccer stadium, instead of a skyscraper
- And there's a crowd in there, oblivious to everything
That's pretty much all you need to know. If you can't extrapolate from those 4 bullet points, to pretty much feeling like you've seen the film - I envy your lack of imagination/intelligence.
But, some bonus points you might not have envisaged:
- Titwatch: zero
- Explosions: big (actually - yeah, you'd have that one)
- Gunfights on motorcycles inside a stadium concourse: check (yep - crowd is still oblivious even after this)
- Pierce Brosnan: check. Wait, what? Is that Pierce Brosnan? What the fuck? Why.... ? What the fuck?
- I won't list the "homages" to Die Hard. But suffice to say a dead terrorist body is thrown off the roof to let the cops know the situation is real.
I saw that. Decidedly average but good for a mindless watch.
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@canefan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@kruse said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Right, after all that talk about Bautista, and his movies, I downloaded a couple.
Final Score- Die Hard
- But with Dave Bautista, instead of Bruce Willis
- And in a soccer stadium, instead of a skyscraper
- And there's a crowd in there, oblivious to everything
That's pretty much all you need to know. If you can't extrapolate from those 4 bullet points, to pretty much feeling like you've seen the film - I envy your lack of imagination/intelligence.
But, some bonus points you might not have envisaged:
- Titwatch: zero
- Explosions: big (actually - yeah, you'd have that one)
- Gunfights on motorcycles inside a stadium concourse: check (yep - crowd is still oblivious even after this)
- Pierce Brosnan: check. Wait, what? Is that Pierce Brosnan? What the fuck? Why.... ? What the fuck?
- I won't list the "homages" to Die Hard. But suffice to say a dead terrorist body is thrown off the roof to let the cops know the situation is real.
I saw that. Decidedly average but good for a mindless watch.
Saw it too and decidedly fucking aweful!
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@antipodean said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@kruse I watched "his" zombie movie. Easily 30mins too long.
I haven’t even bothered finishing it yet. Zombie movies are so early 2000s.
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@tim said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Watched Don Siegel ruin the end of his career with a Michael Caine movie in 1974 - The Black Windmill. So fucking inept. Editing and script were so bad.
Michael Caine made some pretty shit movies in the '70's. Jaws:The Revenge is staggeringly bad.
Great actor though.
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@victor-meldrew said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@tim said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Watched Don Siegel ruin the end of his career with a Michael Caine movie in 1974 - The Black Windmill. So fucking inept. Editing and script were so bad.
Michael Caine made some pretty shit movies in the '70's. Jaws:The Revenge is staggeringly bad.
Great actor though.
Very diverse back catalogue: I give you "The Swarm" 1978 and counter that with "Harry Brown" in 2009. The latter is not an easy watch but a good film nonetheless.
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He was brilliant in Harry Brown - an outstanding film up there with Get Carter
I'll raise your Swarm with Ashanti, one god-awful film
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@tim said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Watched Don Siegel ruin the end of his career with a Michael Caine movie in 1974 - The Black Windmill. So fucking inept. Editing and script were so bad.
Really ?
Clint raved about Siegel and said he was a massive influence. Even the greats have shit moments.
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Paydirt
I don't know how or why I downloaded this. But a pox on whatever was the catalyst.
Just shitty. Characters are introduced with cheesy on-screen comic-style graphics, proudly proclaiming "The Brit", "The Babe", "The BadAss", "The Brawn", "The Brains", and probably some other shit I forgot.
It seems to be building up for some sort of heist, but with nothing really happening.And then "Pow" - the protagonists are flying away... and suddenly we've got the classic "this is how the heist was pulled off" exposition flash-back scenes.
Except... there was no fucking heist. And I think that's supposed to be the clever twist? Maybe?
That there never needed to be a heist, cause it was already done? Except... nah, just shit.
The genius move the main guy did, was going to prison for 6 years. Somehow, that's the clever bit.
Just... pretty shit.- Titwatch: zero
- Heists: zero
- Action scenes: zero
- Clever twists: zero
- Val Kilmers: 1. Well, maybe 0.5 - he looked half-dead - and I think that was only partially intentional
