Movie review thread...
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@bovidae i really enjoyed it, a good take on the immortal thing
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@kiwiwomble said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@bovidae i really enjoyed it, a good take on the immortal thing
It's on my list. Will watch soon
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@bovidae said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@kiwiwomble I watched The Old Guard again a couple of weeks ago. Obviously the ending lends itself to a sequel
Good enough that I went and actually "read" the source material.
And yeah... definitely material for a sequel. -
Kate - yeah, okay - good.
Really good.
Somebody - (antipodean or m4l?) - said "Better than John Wick" ?
Quite possibly. I certainly fucking enjoyed it, and Kate certainly loved to make sure of her kills, in much the same way that John did - but with any-sharp-object-to-hand 6-to-9 times, rather than John's one-two-bullet-to-the-head finishing move.
I guess I'll have to keep it on file for another re-watch one day, to confirm it has the re-watchability of John Wick.
One thing I considered, early in this movie, was... a lot of the shit I'm really liking, and the masses seem to be liking (fucking idiots) - ie: John Wick, Kate, Nobody - is actually pretty devoid of plot. It really is just "take a B-grade 80s or 90s movie plot, but throw style at it"...
and I'm cool with that.But, perhaps contradicting myself (but not really... probably a "twist" which could be spotted from literally 2 minutes in), I was also pleasantly albeit slightly surprised when I thought I'd seen all the knifings, and stabbings, and shootings, and gratuitous blood... and it turned out to be a FAKE Act 3... and there was another whole 30 minutes of ridiculous shootings and knifings and corny protagonist-antagonist dialogues yet to come. Fucking bonus.
Tit-watch zero. There was a sex scene, cowboy position - but with bra-on. To support those "athletic" titties, I guess.
Rating - for now - 4.5 multiple, multiple stab-wounds to the throat - out of 5 Ripley-v-Yakuza. 's. -
@mikethesnow said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Jeepers I thought that was Bill Cosby for a sec ( shudders )
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@kruse said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@bovidae said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@kiwiwomble I watched The Old Guard again a couple of weeks ago. Obviously the ending lends itself to a sequel
Good enough that I went and actually "read" the source material.
And yeah... definitely material for a sequel.oh, is it a comic or a book? i thought i looked but obviously not
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@kruse said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Kate - yeah, okay - good.
Really good.
Somebody - (antipodean or m4l?) - said "Better than John Wick" ?As good. Not better, as good.
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@kiwiwomble said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@kruse said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@bovidae said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@kiwiwomble I watched The Old Guard again a couple of weeks ago. Obviously the ending lends itself to a sequel
Good enough that I went and actually "read" the source material.
And yeah... definitely material for a sequel.oh, is it a comic or a book? i thought i looked but obviously not
Old Guard - comic. Or - "graphic novel" - as the nerds like to claim.
Fucking nerds.
But yeah - pretty good. Much more background to the sequel-setup... if I recall the story in each medium properly.
(That's the problem with having done both... they become somewhat merged in the memory) -
should be available
this weekend online to viewedit it appears release date in Australia delayed until 25/11/2021 and theatre only... boo, first reviews look good ..if you liked the last one -
@bayimports i honestly cant even remember much of the first one...not sure thats a good thing
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@kiwiwomble said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@bayimports i honestly cant even remember much of the first one...not sure thats a good thing
i actually liked it , plus the wifey likes Tom Hardy so an easy sell to get it on the watch list, good mix of comedy (one liners) and action ..looking forward to the sequel
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@bayimports i remember enjoying it and will watch this but probably not in the cinema
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@kiwiwomble I will probably watch two flies crawl up a movie theatre screen and enjoy it right now after being in lockdown for that long, if it means getting out of my house and outside 5km, Im in.
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@bayimports said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@kiwiwomble I will probably watch two flies crawl up a movie theatre screen and enjoy it right now after being in lockdown for that long, if it means getting out of my house and outside 5km, Im in.
The worst thing about the cinemas being closed is that I've watched a bunch of movies in lockdown and can't remember the list, when usually I check my movie membership accounts.
It's really just haircut and movies I've been struggling with in lockdown.
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Masterminds
Crime comedy, well it says "based on", but I would say "inspired by" the 1997 Lonnie Fargo armoured car heist in the US, the biggest at the time.
Yeah it's a fun watch eh, although probably largely saved by Sudeikis (note that it also stars Wiig, Galafianakis and Owen Wilson, so high potential for annoyance). 3 rednecks out of 5 ass-shootings.
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The Other Guys
Full disclosure, I like Will Ferrell's childish humour, so this Mark Wahlberg Will Ferrell cop caper movie appealed to my low brow, juvenile, full belly laugh self. So clichéd, but very funny, and Eva Mendes was hawt. 4 pimps turned cops out of 4 hawt wives
