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I'll leave you to your revisionism.
Cry Macho
Not a great addition to Clint's body of work. I found the pace too slow, probably to fill out a skeletal script. In fact what bits there are, are quite absurd. The redemption, intergenerational personal growth story in Gran Torino was vastly better.
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@antipodean said in Movie review thread...:
Cry Macho
I haven't even heard of this. Does he have threesomes with 20 year olds in this one?
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@antipodean said in Movie review thread...:
I'll leave you to your revisionism.
Cry Macho
Not a great addition to Clint's body of work. I found the pace too slow, probably to fill out a skeletal script. In fact what bits there are, are quite absurd. The redemption, intergenerational personal growth story in Gran Torino was vastly better.
Clint is a legend and no one thinks this more than me but his best years are behind him. I’ll watch this on a rainy day but I’m not in a hurry.
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@mn5 said in Movie review thread...:
@Kruse if you’re not too busy do you think you can watch this and give us a review ?
Just the original?
Whatever you’ve got time for.
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South of Heaven
Brilliant
5 Teds out of 5 Johnnys
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Paul Schrader's new movie The Card Counter is the best film I have seen this year. It certainly has miss-steps, but is really very good.
It's the first film I have watched in 4K HDR on an OLED TV. It was quite impressive how he used that dynamic range to make the locations look even more realistically boring and oppressive.
4 and a half stars.
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The Foreigner-Pierce Brosnan can actually act!! Very Gerry Adams-esque I thought. Shame Jackie Chan forgets he is supposed to be retired but badass soldier every time he is hurt has to do his over the top "I'm hurt" facials but apart from that, and danger of doing the old IRA tropes, ok movie to pass the time.
Typical action-political thriller movie but I was never bored-no wonder, the director's a Kiwi. -
@catogrande said in Movie review thread...:
@tim All kinds of awful.
Be thankful it’s not a Steven Seagal film
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@nostrildamus said in Movie review thread...:
The Foreigner-Pierce Brosnan can actually act!!
I enjoyed this movie too. Brosnan gets to use his Irish accent.
If you want to watch a similar Brosnan movie with a Kiwi director then check out The November Man. It also has Olga Kurylenko for some eye candy.
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@catogrande said in Movie review thread...:
@tim All kinds of awful.
That was awesome back in the 80s. Although, funnily enough I don't really remember any of those scenes even though I must have watched it a few times on video.
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@bovidae said in Movie review thread...:
@nepia That's the thing. We probably all watched these movies on VHS back then, thought they were great, and haven't seen them since. You can add Bloodsport and Kickboxer for J-CVD.
I had dubs of those so used to watch them lots so will likely remember more scenes from them.
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@nepia said in Movie review thread...:
@catogrande said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Can you not apply a credit in the bank rating? Willis would have a pretty good credit balance to begin with, Travolta less so and Cage was pretty much on a nil balance to start with.
Are you using Die Hard 1-3 as credit to balance out everything?
Cage has got a pretty good balance too with Face Off, Leaving Las Vegas, The Rock, Con Air etc.
Not sure why but have never really got into Nicolas Cage or his movies.
Surely Travolta in Saturday Night Fever woukld have been up there in the scale, just pipped by Pulp Ficton
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@tim said in Movie review thread...:
Bryan Cranston
Ernest Borgnine
Ty RandolphTwo trained men, one angry local woman and the local priest take on the local crime lord and his crew of narcotic smugglers and human traffickers in a small town next to the US-Mexico border.
Far out Bryan Cranston has been around that long. Will have to look into some off his earlier work
