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

    @tim i dont remember much of that from Spectre, not great to be forgettable

    I think the recent ones after Casino are burling together because they have less briefcase helicopters, volcano lears, space stations

    No Time to Die has an island.

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

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

    After watching a how its made doco on the movie I rewatched Forrest Gump for the first time in ages. IMHO the movie has aged very well. Brilliant acting, a kick ass soundtrack, and a wonderful story. 5 shrimp boats out of Jennys

    What's the documentary called? And on what platform?

    I posted it on the doco thread. It's called The movies that made us(?) On Netflix. Each episode is focussed on a different movie. Forest Gump, Jurassic Park, Die Hard, Home alone, among others. Great series

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

    I also decided to check out Kate the other night and also Birds Of Prey. Maybe I should re-watch Atomic Blonde for the set.

    Gunpowder Milkshake. Maybe Salt?

    Not to mention all the awesome, awesome asian movies with chicks dealing out extreme violence.

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

    @bovidae have a look at Peppermint while you are at it, Jennifer Garner.

    Cheers - that was rather good.
    Tit-watch: zero.
    3.5 homeless people living on the street out of 5 massive empty unlocked warehouses right next to them.

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    Joker.

    Dark, miserable sad. Really hard watching, not for me.

    However. I cannot think of a better performance than
    Phoenix. In anything. Ever.

    4 laughs out of 5 bad teeth.

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

    Joker.

    Dark, miserable sad. Really hard watching, not for me.

    However. I cannot think of a better performance than
    Phoenix. In anything. Ever.

    4 laughs out of 5 bad teeth.

    Agree. I didn't really enjoy it. I get the movies are getting slightly darker but I like the Comic appeal of Marvel and DC rather than the documentary type movies.

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    thank you, thought it was just me, the joker is my go too example of the difference between a great film/acting....and an enjoyable experience

    i also still have question around a "joker" movie with almost no connection to batman, the joker has said several time hes nothing without the Batman and thats why he hasn't killed him when given the chance

    i think they could have changed the title and like two characters names and it would have just been this awesome original film about a guys descent into madness

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

    i think they could have changed the title and like two characters names and it would have just been this awesome original film about a guys descent into madness

    Maybe then it would be too obvious that they're just doing a remake mish mash of King of Comedy/Taxi Driver?

    I think Phillips said it was also easier for them to get funding under The Joker banner.

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    Buddy Games: Warning. If you see this movie on your streaming service and think "oh, it looks like fun, looks like a Game Night style movie, oh and Olivia Munn is in it too", slap yourself and go and watch some paint dry. What an absolute turd. It goes for raucous shenanigans comedy but just doesn't pull it off.

    This is in my top three worst movies I've seen this year along with Chaos Walking and ZSJL. I think Amazon deserves to give me a month free subscription for putting this in the highlighted section of the service.

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

    Joker.

    Dark, miserable sad. Really hard watching, not for me.

    However. I cannot think of a better performance than
    Phoenix. In anything. Ever.

    4 laughs out of 5 bad teeth.

    Yep. Was really good. Makes the other Joker performances (including Ledger) look like campy shit.

    Still scratching my head about why there was a prerelease freak out. The dude wasn't an Incel and was banging a hot black woman. He murders some white yuppie arseholes on the subway. I thought it was brilliant how an essentially good person can become completely effed up because of the way he's raised and treated by his caregiver and then society. I think the scary part is how this kind of "uprising" could definitely take place in a post-covid world.

    Digression and half arsed undergraduate review over. Excellent film and one of the few I could actually continue watching to the end these days.

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

    Buddy Games: Warning. If you see this movie on your streaming service and think "oh, it looks like fun, looks like a Game Night style movie, oh and Olivia Munn is in it too", slap yourself and go and watch some paint dry. What an absolute turd. It goes for raucous shenanigans comedy but just doesn't pull it off.

    This is in my top three worst movies I've seen this year along with Chaos Walking and ZSJL. I think Amazon deserves to give me a month free subscription for putting this in the highlighted section of the service.

    seriously you looked at that cast and thought you might get any more than a polished turd? Expectations far too high. I laughed at times, not as often as I liked, it was pretty bad but not bottom three of the year. I have seen a few I just couldnt even watch to the end during lock down and most I couldnt even remember the names

    ..one was some poor budget comic attempt called archenemy (I lasted 30 minutes)... Thankfully I havent watched the other two you have mentioned.

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

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

    Buddy Games: Warning. If you see this movie on your streaming service and think "oh, it looks like fun, looks like a Game Night style movie, oh and Olivia Munn is in it too", slap yourself and go and watch some paint dry. What an absolute turd. It goes for raucous shenanigans comedy but just doesn't pull it off.

    This is in my top three worst movies I've seen this year along with Chaos Walking and ZSJL. I think Amazon deserves to give me a month free subscription for putting this in the highlighted section of the service.

    seriously you looked at that cast and thought you might get any more than a polished turd? Expectations far too high. I laughed at times, not as often as I liked, it was pretty bad but not bottom three of the year. I have seen a few I just couldnt even watch to the end during lock down and most I couldnt even remember the names

    ..one was some poor budget comic attempt called archenemy (I lasted 30 minutes)... Thankfully I havent watched the other two you have mentioned.

    In the big budget line surely Wonder Woman hits the top three turds.
    Watched it last night and resorted to FFWD through the obvious set pieces. Then it even managed to jump it's own shark toward the end. Massive pile of crap and I am now really worried the the same director is going to ruin Rogue Squadron.

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

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

    Buddy Games: Warning. If you see this movie on your streaming service and think "oh, it looks like fun, looks like a Game Night style movie, oh and Olivia Munn is in it too", slap yourself and go and watch some paint dry. What an absolute turd. It goes for raucous shenanigans comedy but just doesn't pull it off.

    This is in my top three worst movies I've seen this year along with Chaos Walking and ZSJL. I think Amazon deserves to give me a month free subscription for putting this in the highlighted section of the service.

    seriously you looked at that cast and thought you might get any more than a polished turd? Expectations far too high. I laughed at times, not as often as I liked, it was pretty bad but not bottom three of the year. I have seen a few I just couldnt even watch to the end during lock down and most I couldnt even remember the names

    ..one was some poor budget comic attempt called archenemy (I lasted 30 minutes)... Thankfully I havent watched the other two you have mentioned.

    I think I just saw the title, thought Game Night, saw Olivia Munn and thought schwing, and then hit play. TBH, I find most of the cast funny in some things.

    I've managed to avoid watching too many crap films in lockdown, in fact I think I've seen some good ones I have been waiting to get around to or wouldn't have seen otherwise.

    @Crucial WW84 wasn't good but it was more watchable than the three I mentioned, it helps having Gal Gadot on screen for nearly all of the running time.

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

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

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

    Buddy Games: Warning. If you see this movie on your streaming service and think "oh, it looks like fun, looks like a Game Night style movie, oh and Olivia Munn is in it too", slap yourself and go and watch some paint dry. What an absolute turd. It goes for raucous shenanigans comedy but just doesn't pull it off.

    This is in my top three worst movies I've seen this year along with Chaos Walking and ZSJL. I think Amazon deserves to give me a month free subscription for putting this in the highlighted section of the service.

    seriously you looked at that cast and thought you might get any more than a polished turd? Expectations far too high. I laughed at times, not as often as I liked, it was pretty bad but not bottom three of the year. I have seen a few I just couldnt even watch to the end during lock down and most I couldnt even remember the names

    ..one was some poor budget comic attempt called archenemy (I lasted 30 minutes)... Thankfully I havent watched the other two you have mentioned.

    In the big budget line surely Wonder Woman hits the top three turds.
    Watched it last night and resorted to FFWD through the obvious set pieces. Then it even managed to jump it's own shark toward the end. Massive pile of crap and I am now really worried the the same director is going to ruin Rogue Squadron.

    that was drawn out far too much..and became quite a stinker

    Perhaps we need a new thread to determine the biggest pile of dung for movie watching in the last year

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    @bayimports We could call the thread the Kruse Files.

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

    @bayimports We could call the thread the Kruse Files.

    Haha, although he deliberately sets out to watch stinkers, I assume @bayimports is meaning big budget/studio movies that are crap?

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    @rancid-schnitzel said in Re: Movie review thread...:

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

    Joker.

    Dark, miserable sad. Really hard watching, not for me.

    However. I cannot think of a better performance than
    Phoenix. In anything. Ever.

    4 laughs out of 5 bad teeth.

    Yep. Was really good. Makes the other Joker performances (including Ledger) look like campy shit.

    Still scratching my head about why there was a prerelease freak out. The dude wasn't an Incel and was banging a hot black woman. He murders some white yuppie arseholes on the subway. I thought it was brilliant how an essentially good person can become completely effed up because of the way he's raised and treated by his caregiver and then society. I think the scary part is how this kind of "uprising" could definitely take place in a post-covid world.

    Digression and half arsed undergraduate review over. Excellent film and one of the few I could actually continue watching to the end these days.

    No he wasn't, pretty clear that was all in his head.

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

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

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

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

    Buddy Games: Warning. If you see this movie on your streaming service and think "oh, it looks like fun, looks like a Game Night style movie, oh and Olivia Munn is in it too", slap yourself and go and watch some paint dry. What an absolute turd. It goes for raucous shenanigans comedy but just doesn't pull it off.

    This is in my top three worst movies I've seen this year along with Chaos Walking and ZSJL. I think Amazon deserves to give me a month free subscription for putting this in the highlighted section of the service.

    seriously you looked at that cast and thought you might get any more than a polished turd? Expectations far too high. I laughed at times, not as often as I liked, it was pretty bad but not bottom three of the year. I have seen a few I just couldnt even watch to the end during lock down and most I couldnt even remember the names

    ..one was some poor budget comic attempt called archenemy (I lasted 30 minutes)... Thankfully I havent watched the other two you have mentioned.

    In the big budget line surely Wonder Woman hits the top three turds.
    Watched it last night and resorted to FFWD through the obvious set pieces. Then it even managed to jump it's own shark toward the end. Massive pile of crap and I am now really worried the the same director is going to ruin Rogue Squadron.

    that was drawn out far too much..and became quite a stinker

    Perhaps we need a new thread to determine the biggest pile of dung for movie watching in the last year

    i quite like the first WW, end battle a bit shit but i liked the idea of the bad guy just basically nudging people to do what they do, war, biggest issue i had is aries could have actually been an ongoing badguy and that could have given more reason for the decade jumping WW does, a couple of movies where she pops up in war ravaged times trying to hunt him down

    WW84...was not good...even in concept

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

    @rancid-schnitzel said in Re: Movie review thread...:

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

    Joker.

    Dark, miserable sad. Really hard watching, not for me.

    However. I cannot think of a better performance than
    Phoenix. In anything. Ever.

    4 laughs out of 5 bad teeth.

    Yep. Was really good. Makes the other Joker performances (including Ledger) look like campy shit.

    Still scratching my head about why there was a prerelease freak out. The dude wasn't an Incel and was banging a hot black woman. He murders some white yuppie arseholes on the subway. I thought it was brilliant how an essentially good person can become completely effed up because of the way he's raised and treated by his caregiver and then society. I think the scary part is how this kind of "uprising" could definitely take place in a post-covid world.

    Digression and half arsed undergraduate review over. Excellent film and one of the few I could actually continue watching to the end these days.

    No he wasn't, pretty clear that was all in his head.

    that was great, when you click he is actually full on delusional, and has been for most/all the film, not just a nice/weird guy driven the extreems

    @rancid-schnitzel said in Re: Movie review thread...:

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

    Joker.

    Dark, miserable sad. Really hard watching, not for me.

    However. I cannot think of a better performance than
    Phoenix. In anything. Ever.

    4 laughs out of 5 bad teeth.

    Yep. Was really good. Makes the other Joker performances (including Ledger) look like campy shit.

    campy shit might be a bit far, he was still nowhere near the comic book camp of the joker, and he is a comic book character after all, the other jokers all had a guy that dresses in a bat costume to play off so you know...fit for purpose

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

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

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

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

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

    Buddy Games: Warning. If you see this movie on your streaming service and think "oh, it looks like fun, looks like a Game Night style movie, oh and Olivia Munn is in it too", slap yourself and go and watch some paint dry. What an absolute turd. It goes for raucous shenanigans comedy but just doesn't pull it off.

    This is in my top three worst movies I've seen this year along with Chaos Walking and ZSJL. I think Amazon deserves to give me a month free subscription for putting this in the highlighted section of the service.

    seriously you looked at that cast and thought you might get any more than a polished turd? Expectations far too high. I laughed at times, not as often as I liked, it was pretty bad but not bottom three of the year. I have seen a few I just couldnt even watch to the end during lock down and most I couldnt even remember the names

    ..one was some poor budget comic attempt called archenemy (I lasted 30 minutes)... Thankfully I havent watched the other two you have mentioned.

    In the big budget line surely Wonder Woman hits the top three turds.
    Watched it last night and resorted to FFWD through the obvious set pieces. Then it even managed to jump it's own shark toward the end. Massive pile of crap and I am now really worried the the same director is going to ruin Rogue Squadron.

    that was drawn out far too much..and became quite a stinker

    Perhaps we need a new thread to determine the biggest pile of dung for movie watching in the last year

    i quite like the first WW, end battle a bit shit but i liked the idea of the bad guy just basically nudging people to do what they do, war, biggest issue i had is aries could have actually been an ongoing badguy and that could have given more reason for the decade jumping WW does, a couple of movies where she pops up in war ravaged times trying to hunt him down

    WW84...was not good...even in concept

    for the record I didnt mind WW either, I was also referring to WW84 that was drawn out far too long

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Buddy Games: Warning. If you see this movie on your streaming service and think "oh, it looks like fun, looks like a Game Night style movie, oh and Olivia Munn is in it too", slap yourself and go and watch some paint dry. What an absolute turd. It goes for raucous shenanigans comedy but just doesn't pull it off.

    This is in my top three worst movies I've seen this year along with Chaos Walking and ZSJL. I think Amazon deserves to give me a month free subscription for putting this in the highlighted section of the service.

    seriously you looked at that cast and thought you might get any more than a polished turd? Expectations far too high. I laughed at times, not as often as I liked, it was pretty bad but not bottom three of the year. I have seen a few I just couldnt even watch to the end during lock down and most I couldnt even remember the names

    ..one was some poor budget comic attempt called archenemy (I lasted 30 minutes)... Thankfully I havent watched the other two you have mentioned.

    In the big budget line surely Wonder Woman hits the top three turds.
    Watched it last night and resorted to FFWD through the obvious set pieces. Then it even managed to jump it's own shark toward the end. Massive pile of crap and I am now really worried the the same director is going to ruin Rogue Squadron.

    that was drawn out far too much..and became quite a stinker

    Perhaps we need a new thread to determine the biggest pile of dung for movie watching in the last year

    i quite like the first WW, end battle a bit shit but i liked the idea of the bad guy just basically nudging people to do what they do, war, biggest issue i had is aries could have actually been an ongoing badguy and that could have given more reason for the decade jumping WW does, a couple of movies where she pops up in war ravaged times trying to hunt him down

    WW84...was not good...even in concept

    for the record I didnt mind WW either, I was also referring to WW84 that was drawn out far too long

    WW was good aside from the fact they went with WW1 instead of WW2 and then made the Germans out to be Nazi-like. Should have just gone WW2.

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