Movie review thread...
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No Time to Die
Terrible. Total waste of time and money. Worst movie experience I've ever had. Avoid like the plague. Impossible to follow, jumped all over the place, holes everywhere, and the ending was completely missing.
0 out of 5.
OK, I s'pose I should elaborate a little on that.
It has rained for about 100 days in a row here, kids sport was cancelled, so we decide to go to Bond at the Entertainment Quarter for a bit of an outing. Youngest kid is 8, so always a bit ambitious, but whatever, we decide to give it a go.
Turn up, apparently the wife has bought the Extreme Cinema tickets - which just means a normal screen but with fancy leather reclining chairs at about twice the cost. Whatever, looks fun, lets embrace it.
Dump another $55 on 5 x popcorn and waters, good times.
Settle in for 10am session, after about an hour the youngest is bored so we throw him a phone to play with. Movie decent, other kids are a bit lost, but still coping.
The bar opens at 11am, so I decide to get the wife a glass of bubbly (it was our wedding anniversary, don't be so fucking judgy). Get back to the seat, hand the bubbly over, she has 1 sip then spills it all over herself. Has to leave the cinema to find something else to wear. Finds some trackies at the tennis shop and returns 15mins later.
Settle back in, try to bring her up to speed on the plot. By now the oldest is restless too.
Then we realise that the movie is about 7hrs long (2hrs 43mins actually), and that because we have another commitment across town, we won't get to stay for the ending.
Decide to cut our losses and leave with 40mins to go.
So all-in all, we spent about $5,000 on fancy tickets, popcorn, motorway tolls, new trackies and spilt prosecco, and got to see a stilted 2 hours of the movie, with no idea how it ends.
Good story though!
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@voodoo said in Movie review thread...:
No Time to Die
Terrible. Total waste of time and money. Worst movie experience I've ever had. Avoid like the plague. Impossible to follow, jumped all over the place, holes everywhere, and the ending was completely missing.
0 out of 5.
OK, I s'pose I should elaborate a little on that.
It has rained for about 100 days in a row here, kids sport was cancelled, so we decide to go to Bond at the Entertainment Quarter for a bit of an outing. Youngest kid is 8, so always a bit ambitious, but whatever, we decide to give it a go.
Turn up, apparently the wife has bought the Extreme Cinema tickets - which just means a normal screen but with fancy leather reclining chairs at about twice the cost. Whatever, looks fun, lets embrace it.
Dump another $55 on 5 x popcorn and waters, good times.
Settle in for 10am session, after about an hour the youngest is bored so we throw him a phone to play with. Movie decent, other kids are a bit lost, but still coping.
The bar opens at 11am, so I decide to get the wife a glass of bubbly (it was our wedding anniversary, don't be so fucking judgy). Get back to the seat, hand the bubbly over, she has 1 sip then spills it all over herself. Has to leave the cinema to find something else to wear. Finds some trackies at the tennis shop and returns 15mins later.
Settle back in, try to bring her up to speed on the plot. By now the oldest is restless too.
Then we realise that the movie is about 7hrs long (2hrs 43mins actually), and that because we have another commitment across town, we won't get to stay for the ending.
Decide to cut our losses and leave with 40mins to go.
So all-in all, we spent about $5,000 on fancy tickets, popcorn, motorway tolls, new trackies and spilt prosecco, and got to see a stilted 2 hours of the movie, with no idea how it ends.
Good story though!
lol...taking young kids to a long movie on your wedding anniversary ..priceless
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@voodoo said in Movie review thread...:
No Time to Die
Terrible. Total waste of time and money. Worst movie experience I've ever had. Avoid like the plague. Impossible to follow, jumped all over the place, holes everywhere, and the ending was completely missing.
0 out of 5.
OK, I s'pose I should elaborate a little on that.
It has rained for about 100 days in a row here, kids sport was cancelled, so we decide to go to Bond at the Entertainment Quarter for a bit of an outing. Youngest kid is 8, so always a bit ambitious, but whatever, we decide to give it a go.
Turn up, apparently the wife has bought the Extreme Cinema tickets - which just means a normal screen but with fancy leather reclining chairs at about twice the cost. Whatever, looks fun, lets embrace it.
Dump another $55 on 5 x popcorn and waters, good times.
Settle in for 10am session, after about an hour the youngest is bored so we throw him a phone to play with. Movie decent, other kids are a bit lost, but still coping.
The bar opens at 11am, so I decide to get the wife a glass of bubbly (it was our wedding anniversary, don't be so fucking judgy). Get back to the seat, hand the bubbly over, she has 1 sip then spills it all over herself. Has to leave the cinema to find something else to wear. Finds some trackies at the tennis shop and returns 15mins later.
Settle back in, try to bring her up to speed on the plot. By now the oldest is restless too.
Then we realise that the movie is about 7hrs long (2hrs 43mins actually), and that because we have another commitment across town, we won't get to stay for the ending.
Decide to cut our losses and leave with 40mins to go.
So all-in all, we spent about $5,000 on fancy tickets, popcorn, motorway tolls, new trackies and spilt prosecco, and got to see a stilted 2 hours of the movie, with no idea how it ends.
Good story though!
I’m a Bond fan and I’ll admit this review is at least as good as the movie.
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@voodoo said in Movie review thread...:
Turn up, apparently the wife has bought the Extreme Cinema tickets - which just means a normal screen but with fancy leather reclining chairs at about twice the cost. Whatever, looks fun, lets embrace it
Don't want to kick you when you're down but all the cinemas in EQ have recliners now.
@voodoo said in Movie review thread...:
we won't get to stay for the ending.
I still haven't seen the ending to Spectre as I had to rush to get a ferry back when I was living over your way (or cop a $40 plus uber) and TBH I'm not fussed.
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@nepia said in Movie review thread...:
@voodoo said in Movie review thread...:
Turn up, apparently the wife has bought the Extreme Cinema tickets - which just means a normal screen but with fancy leather reclining chairs at about twice the cost. Whatever, looks fun, lets embrace it
Don't want to kick you when you're down but all the cinemas in EQ have recliners now.
@voodoo said in Movie review thread...:
we won't get to stay for the ending.
I still haven't seen the ending to Spectre as I had to rush to get a ferry back when I was living over your way (or cop a $40 plus uber) and TBH I'm not fussed.
pretty flash in the east eh bro? certainly don't get recliners or leather seats over my way
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@voodoo said in Movie review thread...:
@nepia said in Movie review thread...:
@voodoo said in Movie review thread...:
Turn up, apparently the wife has bought the Extreme Cinema tickets - which just means a normal screen but with fancy leather reclining chairs at about twice the cost. Whatever, looks fun, lets embrace it
Don't want to kick you when you're down but all the cinemas in EQ have recliners now.
@voodoo said in Movie review thread...:
we won't get to stay for the ending.
I still haven't seen the ending to Spectre as I had to rush to get a ferry back when I was living over your way (or cop a $40 plus uber) and TBH I'm not fussed.
pretty flash in the east eh bro? certainly don't get recliners or leather seats over my way
Hoyts have been upgrading their cinemas, even the Broadway one now has recliners, so I'd assume that the Warringah Mall one would be getting the same treatment too sometime soon. EQ had theirs done back when I was working at Fox studios so that was a few years back now - I don't think I've been there since.
I prefer sticking my feet up on the chair in front (the recliners never recline high enough for me - yeah I'm a pedant) so still favour Event and Palace cinema chains.
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@bayimports said in Movie review thread...:
@voodoo said in Movie review thread...:
No Time to Die
Terrible. Total waste of time and money. Worst movie experience I've ever had. Avoid like the plague. Impossible to follow, jumped all over the place, holes everywhere, and the ending was completely missing.
0 out of 5.
OK, I s'pose I should elaborate a little on that.
It has rained for about 100 days in a row here, kids sport was cancelled, so we decide to go to Bond at the Entertainment Quarter for a bit of an outing. Youngest kid is 8, so always a bit ambitious, but whatever, we decide to give it a go.
Turn up, apparently the wife has bought the Extreme Cinema tickets - which just means a normal screen but with fancy leather reclining chairs at about twice the cost. Whatever, looks fun, lets embrace it.
Dump another $55 on 5 x popcorn and waters, good times.
Settle in for 10am session, after about an hour the youngest is bored so we throw him a phone to play with. Movie decent, other kids are a bit lost, but still coping.
The bar opens at 11am, so I decide to get the wife a glass of bubbly (it was our wedding anniversary, don't be so fucking judgy). Get back to the seat, hand the bubbly over, she has 1 sip then spills it all over herself. Has to leave the cinema to find something else to wear. Finds some trackies at the tennis shop and returns 15mins later.
Settle back in, try to bring her up to speed on the plot. By now the oldest is restless too.
Then we realise that the movie is about 7hrs long (2hrs 43mins actually), and that because we have another commitment across town, we won't get to stay for the ending.
Decide to cut our losses and leave with 40mins to go.
So all-in all, we spent about $5,000 on fancy tickets, popcorn, motorway tolls, new trackies and spilt prosecco, and got to see a stilted 2 hours of the movie, with no idea how it ends.
Good story though!
lol...taking young kids to a long movie on your wedding anniversary ..priceless
Apart from retitling said film to 'No Time to Finish', I still don't know if the film was any good?
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Rocketman.
Was at an 80's bash on Friday and I was told that Rocketman far far exceeds Bohemian Rhapsody.
That, is complete bullshit. Rocketman is a depressing tale of a guy that literally had it all & chooses to focus pretty much so nothing on how he got it all, and more about how he didn't get on with his Dad, to lesser extent his Mum & enjoyed life's excesses. Terrible opportunity wasted in my view. I can only conclude that the two guys who said Rocketman is better are totally in the closet and preferred it to the Egerton / Madden gay sex scene
2 insane costumes out of 5 arguments (even though they never argued)
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Everest
Second time I've seen this (last time a few years ago) and although I really enjoyed it a couple of things I think could have made it a lot better.
- Some shots to show just how high it is and the challenge. Very few shots give an idea of he scale of the climb & the drop offs they face
- Some more info around Weathers survival would be great. How far away was he? How did his body copy with the blizzard?
- Some maps shooting out of where they camps are / where those who passed were found.
It's a good movie, a really good movie. I guess I just wanted to know more.
4 nailed on kiwi house wife accents out of 5 stunning scenery shots.
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@voodoo said in Movie review thread...:
No Time to Die
Terrible. Total waste of time and money. Worst movie experience I've ever had. Avoid like the plague. Impossible to follow, jumped all over the place, holes everywhere, and the ending was completely missing.
0 out of 5.Yeah, I didn't think it that good either.
Close to being the worst Bond ever in my book - and I think Daniel Craig is the best Bond there's been
Youngest kid is 8, so always a bit ambitious, but whatever, we decide to give it a go.
Apparently, according to my sister, I also saw my first Bond file when I was 8
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@majorrage said in Movie review thread...:
Rocketman.
Was at an 80's bash on Friday and I was told that Rocketman far far exceeds Bohemian Rhapsody.
That, is complete bullshit. Rocketman is a depressing tale of a guy that literally had it all & chooses to focus pretty much so nothing on how he got it all, and more about how he didn't get on with his Dad, to lesser extent his Mum & enjoyed life's excesses. Terrible opportunity wasted in my view. I can only conclude that the two guys who said Rocketman is better are totally in the closet and preferred it to the Egerton / Madden gay sex scene
2 insane costumes out of 5 arguments (even though they never argued)
question, if thats kind of what happened to Elton John, these are supposed to be fantasised biographies...does that make it a bad film?
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@majorrage said in Movie review thread...:
Rocketman.
Was at an 80's bash on Friday and I was told that Rocketman far far exceeds Bohemian Rhapsody.
That, is complete bullshit. Rocketman is a depressing tale of a guy that literally had it all & chooses to focus pretty much so nothing on how he got it all, and more about how he didn't get on with his Dad, to lesser extent his Mum & enjoyed life's excesses. Terrible opportunity wasted in my view. I can only conclude that the two guys who said Rocketman is better are totally in the closet and preferred it to the Egerton / Madden gay sex scene
2 insane costumes out of 5 arguments (even though they never argued)
@majorrage said in Movie review thread...:
Rocketman.
Was at an 80's bash on Friday and I was told that Rocketman far far exceeds Bohemian Rhapsody.
That, is complete bullshit. Rocketman is a depressing tale of a guy that literally had it all & chooses to focus pretty much so nothing on how he got it all, and more about how he didn't get on with his Dad, to lesser extent his Mum & enjoyed life's excesses. Terrible opportunity wasted in my view. I can only conclude that the two guys who said Rocketman is better are totally in the closet and preferred it to the Egerton / Madden gay sex scene
2 insane costumes out of 5 arguments (even though they never argued)
I enjoyed then both. Is that okay?
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@canefan said in Movie review thread...:
@majorrage said in Movie review thread...:
Rocketman.
Was at an 80's bash on Friday and I was told that Rocketman far far exceeds Bohemian Rhapsody.
That, is complete bullshit. Rocketman is a depressing tale of a guy that literally had it all & chooses to focus pretty much so nothing on how he got it all, and more about how he didn't get on with his Dad, to lesser extent his Mum & enjoyed life's excesses. Terrible opportunity wasted in my view. I can only conclude that the two guys who said Rocketman is better are totally in the closet and preferred it to the Egerton / Madden gay sex scene
2 insane costumes out of 5 arguments (even though they never argued)
@majorrage said in Movie review thread...:
Rocketman.
Was at an 80's bash on Friday and I was told that Rocketman far far exceeds Bohemian Rhapsody.
That, is complete bullshit. Rocketman is a depressing tale of a guy that literally had it all & chooses to focus pretty much so nothing on how he got it all, and more about how he didn't get on with his Dad, to lesser extent his Mum & enjoyed life's excesses. Terrible opportunity wasted in my view. I can only conclude that the two guys who said Rocketman is better are totally in the closet and preferred it to the Egerton / Madden gay sex scene
2 insane costumes out of 5 arguments (even though they never argued)
I enjoyed then both. Is that okay?
Not really, the spirit if the fern is built on liking one and ripping the shit out of the other.
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@kiwiwomble said in Movie review thread...:
@majorrage said in Movie review thread...:
Rocketman.
Was at an 80's bash on Friday and I was told that Rocketman far far exceeds Bohemian Rhapsody.
That, is complete bullshit. Rocketman is a depressing tale of a guy that literally had it all & chooses to focus pretty much so nothing on how he got it all, and more about how he didn't get on with his Dad, to lesser extent his Mum & enjoyed life's excesses. Terrible opportunity wasted in my view. I can only conclude that the two guys who said Rocketman is better are totally in the closet and preferred it to the Egerton / Madden gay sex scene
2 insane costumes out of 5 arguments (even though they never argued)
question, if thats kind of what happened to Elton John, these are supposed to be fantasised biographies...does that make it a bad film?
Dunno. Maybe if different director told the same story, I’d enjoy it. Who knows.
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The Matrix: Revolutions
And we have completed the trilogy.
You know what, this movie is waaay better than i remember. And i think watching it closer to the end of the 2nd it does actually flow on.
Visually it's fucking rad. The battle at the dock looks cool as fuck. The machine city is really cool. And the virus-fucked matrix is a great dramatic end point.
I like the way it tells the two parts of the story one at a time, rather than the more usual Star Wars jump betweens.
My main issue the first time i saw it was that it didn't make any goddam sense. It actually does, everything happens for a reason.
Yes, there are valid complaints. It does drag in dialogue at times, and does take itself too seriously at times. And i still don't know how or why Neo was in the train station (other than it is the conduit between worlds) But some of the shit i have read about it is ridiculous.
Far better than i remember. 3.5 fuck that is a lot of squiddies out of 5 yay jesus!
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@mariner4life said in Movie review thread...:
The Matrix: Revolutions
And we have completed the trilogy.
You know what, this movie is waaay better than i remember. And i think watching it closer to the end of the 2nd it does actually flow on.
Visually it's fucking rad. The battle at the dock looks cool as fuck. The machine city is really cool. And the virus-fucked matrix is a great dramatic end point.
I like the way it tells the two parts of the story one at a time, rather than the more usual Star Wars jump betweens.
My main issue the first time i saw it was that it didn't make any goddam sense. It actually does, everything happens for a reason.
Yes, there are valid complaints. It does drag in dialogue at times, and does take itself too seriously at times. And i still don't know how or why Neo was in the train station (other than it is the conduit between worlds) But some of the shit i have read about it is ridiculous.
Far better than i remember. 3.5 fuck that is a lot of squiddies out of 5 yay jesus!
Joey Pants, going back into the Matrix to do something better for all of us:
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we'll, just bought 3 sets of gold class tickets on discount, that should get me back to the cinema
@mariner4life ment to ask, after watching the Matrix films..keen on not keen for the new one coming? i had forgotten (until seeing add when buying the tickets) thats actually by i re watched them last month
