Movie review thread...
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@kiwiwomble you never been on a log flume ride?
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@tim said in Movie review thread...:
The only candidate for the next bond is Dan Stevens. Watch the great Bourne parody The Guest. He's so good in it.
Okay - yeah... I just watched that.
Totally agreed - if Dan Stevens is NOT the new Bond, I'll cut some fluffybunny.
The Guest
What a fucking bizarre movie... after 40 minutes I was sure I was watching the wrong thing... it was 100% a trashy 90's psychological thriller... a Down and Out in Beverly Hills vs Fatal Attraction.
And then... completely changed lanes.
I said "What the actual fuck is going on?" out loud multiple times.
Edit: oh - tit-watch... 1 small one, side view. -
Hypnotic
Amazingly shit. First year undergraduate acting to support a high school level script.
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@canefan said in Movie review thread...:
Don't diss him by the way he looks, the tousled tosser could get a piece of tubing pregnant.
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Attack Force Z (1981)
Started watching a 1981 movie about an oz based WW2 commando squad, Z force, with Mel Gibson and Sam Neil. Damn, why haven't I heard of this? Well after 14 minutes I'd say because the budget is tiny, the movie is awful, and the score is distractingly amateurish and cheesy.
I really wanted this to be good!
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@tim said in Movie review thread...:
Attack Force Z (1981)
Started watching a 1981 movie about an oz based WW2 commando squad, Z force, with Mel Gibson and Sam Neil. Damn, why haven't I heard of this? Well after 14 minutes I'd say because the budget is tiny, the movie is awful, and the score is distractingly amateurish and cheesy.
I really wanted this to be good!
You missed watching it as a kid in the 80s when those things didn't matter as much and the video cover looked cool.
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Shang-chi
Enjoyed, epic fight scenes, seemed to set it up for something big, who is being called and why did it trigger?
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@rapido said in Movie review thread...:
Recently watched
Fury, the WW2 tank movie with Brad Pitt. Really good.
And.
In a Valley of Violence. Western with Ethan Hawk. Ok. What is says on the tin.Both good films. Apart from the dog.
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@tim said in Movie review thread...:
Attack Force Z (1981)
Started watching a 1981 movie about an oz based WW2 commando squad, Z force, with Mel Gibson and Sam Neil. Damn, why haven't I heard of this? Well after 14 minutes I'd say because the budget is tiny, the movie is awful, and the score is distractingly amateurish and cheesy.
I really wanted this to be good!
A movie I've watched more times than the production value justifies. Mandatory viewing in one of my old units. It was permanently in the VCR.
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Mrs Meldrew saw Last Christmas flicking thru Prime and as she's a sucker for Christmas, Mrs M convinced me to give it a go. Written and produced by Emma Thompson and loosely based on George Michael's music. What an utter pile of rancid horse crap and self-indulgent drivel.
Set in London, it's a really original story about someone finding love over Christmas. You'd think it's be hard to fuck up the feel-good aspects of that, but they did. The only white, male character who isn't gay, an east European refugee fighting to stay in the UK, a transsexual doctor or a Human rights lawyer is a skinhead who screams racist abuse on a tube train. Ironically he may have had the best lines or he was the only one trying to act...
If any suggests watching it, just fucking run.
1 dry over-cooked turkey leg out of 5 mouldy Christmas puddings
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@victor-meldrew said in Movie review thread...:
Mrs Meldrew saw Last Christmas flicking thru Prime and as she's a sucker for Christmas, Mrs M convinced me to give it a go. Written and produced by Emma Thompson and loosely based on George Michael's music. What an utter pile of rancid horse crap and self-indulgent drivel.
Set in London, it's a really original story about someone finding love over Christmas. You'd think it's be hard to fuck up the feel-good aspects of that, but they did. The only white, male character who isn't gay, an east European refugee fighting to stay in the UK, a transsexual doctor or a Human rights lawyer is a skinhead who screams racist abuse on a tube train. Ironically he may have had the best lines or he was the only one trying to act...
If any suggests watching it, just fucking run.
1 dry over-cooked turkey leg out of 5 mouldy Christmas puddings
That actually sounds pretty good. Last Christmas is the only Xmas carol I can actually stand listening to, George did some bangers in the day.
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@mn5 said in Movie review thread...:
@victor-meldrew said in Movie review thread...:
Mrs Meldrew saw Last Christmas flicking thru Prime and as she's a sucker for Christmas, Mrs M convinced me to give it a go. Written and produced by Emma Thompson and loosely based on George Michael's music. What an utter pile of rancid horse crap and self-indulgent drivel.
Set in London, it's a really original story about someone finding love over Christmas. You'd think it's be hard to fuck up the feel-good aspects of that, but they did. The only white, male character who isn't gay, an east European refugee fighting to stay in the UK, a transsexual doctor or a Human rights lawyer is a skinhead who screams racist abuse on a tube train. Ironically he may have had the best lines or he was the only one trying to act...
If any suggests watching it, just fucking run.
1 dry over-cooked turkey leg out of 5 mouldy Christmas puddings
That actually sounds pretty good. Last Christmas is the only Xmas carol I can actually stand listening to, George did some bangers in the day.
I kind of liked it, never pretended to be much more than a Xmasy musical and I like Emilia Clarke so all good
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@kiwiwomble said in Movie review thread...:
never pretended to be much more than a Xmasy musica
It's just that it was a bloody awful one.
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@victor-meldrew to each their own, as I say I quite enjoyed it, but there are lots of “bad” films I enjoy
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@kiwiwomble said in Movie review thread...:
@victor-meldrew to each their own, as I say I quite enjoyed it, but there are lots of “bad” films I enjoy
I will recommend the Sharknado series in that case....
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The Hunt
Netflix. Basically a satire about a bunch of liberal elites who create a Hunger Games style setup but targeted at deplorables.
The concept is hilarious because it makes fun of both sides, and then the execution is also great IMHO. Betty Gilpin is hot. Hilary Swank is still hot.
4 Snowballs out of 5 Athenas.
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@nta I watched about 10 mins and bailed, but a work colleague said they almost did the same, but it gets better quickly after that, so I might need to re-visit.
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Wrong Turn
I remember this coming to the movies last year just out of first lockdown. I suggested it but the girl wanted to see Tenet. Not sure which is worse to be honest……starts promisingly in typical Deliverance type fashion but gets worse and worse and more and more stupid and when the young dumbasses met the baddies in a formal setting I bailed. Utter shit.
1 lost in the woods out of 5 hillbillies
When I did that I switched on In a Valley of violence
No rating just yet as I haven’t finished but I’m assuming this was a script that someone posted Clint back in the day and it got lost. Ethan Hawke does a bloody good job so far and John Travolta is considerably less annoying than he usually is so provided tiredness isn’t a factor I’ll stick to it.
