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@taniwharugby said in Movie review thread...:
The Last Duel
2.5 hours...Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Jodie Comer and Kylo Ren
Interesting way to do it in that they tell the same story from each of the 3 main characters perspective culminating in the duel.
Good acting, a bit slow, but otherwise decent.
3 broken lances out of 5 gods will determines guilt or innocence
I gave it an extra half a weird hairdo...
@booboo said in Movie review thread...:
The Last Duel
Had the day off with Mrs Boo today and went to an early (9:30) movie.
Only a few oldies at the cinema, pretty much fitting the demographic of grey nomads deserting the caravan parks as the weather was a but dodgy.
But they all trooped into James Bond. So we had our cinema completely to ourselves. Just the two of us in the whole place. Surreal and kind of cool. Am spolit for going to the movies with other people ever again.
As for the movie, an interesting take on true story.
Two blokes, initially close friends, one (Kylo Ren) was the godfather to the other guy's (Matt Damon) son etc, grow increasingly bitter with each other, until Kylo becomes obsessed with Damon's wife (Jodie Comer).
Kylo, thinking he is in love pays her a visit, and rapes her (or does he?).
The denouement is the trial by combat alluded to in the title. "Last", as it was the last "judicial duel" in France. Truth decided by whoever won the duel as the outcome is ordained by God.
Told in three chapters (makes for a long movie, nearly 3 hours), from the perspective of each of the characters in turn, Carrouges (Damon), Le Gris (Kylo), and Marguerite.
Interesting to see how the character of the characters change in each chapter, and to see how they each perceive certain events.
Won't go in too much detail about the trial or the duel (more Medieval jousting and bashing with sharp heavy objects than any sort of chivalrous fencing with epees - real barbaric stuff). But if there's concern about women being believed about rape in the 21st century spare a thought for those speaking up in the 14th.
Have read a bit of background to the actual story this arvo. Apparently the movie gets it pretty close, and it is quite well known, and contentious, in France.
Recommended.
3.5 weird hairdos out of 5 gruesome stabbings through the mouth with a broken sword.
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@tim said in Movie review thread...:
Moonraker - a delight from start to finish. Great set design, really well shot, loads of fun, and plenty of hot babes. Moore in the "man with no name" style gaucho outfit cracked me up.
Proper Bond villains too. Michael Lonsdale as Drax. Jaws appears in that one as well.
My favourite thing about that film is that the scientist is called Dr Holly Goodhead.
I found him the weakest Bond villain in Moores tenure to be honest. Very lame and not menacing whatsoever.
Moonraker is ridiculously good fun though.
You’re forgetting that French bloke in Octopussy. About as threatening as Fred Astaire in a good mood.
Good point.
Best of the lot was this guy.
Christopher Lee was, by some accounts, a real-life James Bond in WWII who really could kill with his bare hands.
Donald Pleasance was the tops for me.
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Re-watched No Time To Die and enjoyed it way more than first time around - it's more like a Moore Bond that previous Daniel Craig outings. And I can't be the only one who noticed it was a re-make of On Her Majesties Secret Service
But the Nomi/007 character nearly wrecks the film - really bad writing and awful acting.
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@nta said in Movie review thread...:
How does he end up in so many shit films?
Fuck knows, but it's really off-pissing. I Caught Red 2 the other night. and he was awesome in that film
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@victor-meldrew said in Movie review thread...:
Re-watched No Time To Die and enjoyed it way more than first time around - it's more like a Moore Bond that previous Daniel Craig outings. And I can't be the only one who noticed it was a re-make of On Her Majesties Secret Service
But the Nomi/007 character nearly wrecks the film - really bad writing and awful acting.
elements of it but certainly not a remake…..
You’re right about Christopher Lee though. A genuine War Hero and a guy who would have been absolutely fascinating to sit down for a yarn with. No one played a bad guy quite like he did.
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@mn5 said in Movie review thread...:
You’re right about Christopher Lee though. A genuine War Hero and a guy who would have been absolutely fascinating to sit down for a yarn with. No one played a bad guy quite like he did.
Like David Niven (another genuine war hero), he refused to talk much about his experiences. In Lee's case possibly because a lot of it was classified. Ditto Roger Moore, who was a Captain in Army Intelligence and downplayed that part of his life.
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@victor-meldrew said in Movie review thread...:
@mn5 said in Movie review thread...:
You’re right about Christopher Lee though. A genuine War Hero and a guy who would have been absolutely fascinating to sit down for a yarn with. No one played a bad guy quite like he did.
Like David Niven (another genuine war hero), he refused to talk about his experiences. In Lee's case possibly because a lot of it was classified. Ditto Roger Moore, who was a Captain in Army Intelligence and downplayed that part of his life.
Wiki has it as Captain in Combined Services Entertainments, during post war conscription period..
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@catogrande said in Movie review thread...:
@victor-meldrew said in Movie review thread...:
@mn5 said in Movie review thread...:
You’re right about Christopher Lee though. A genuine War Hero and a guy who would have been absolutely fascinating to sit down for a yarn with. No one played a bad guy quite like he did.
Like David Niven (another genuine war hero), he refused to talk about his experiences. In Lee's case possibly because a lot of it was classified. Ditto Roger Moore, who was a Captain in Army Intelligence and downplayed that part of his life.
Wiki has it as Captain in Combined Services Entertainments, during post war conscription period..
Yeah quite a few of those old school actors were tougher in real life than who they portrayed on screen. Guys like Jack Palance, Charles Bronson and Robert Mitchum spring to mind.
They don’t make them like that anymore.
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@catogrande said in Movie review thread...:
@victor-meldrew said in Movie review thread...:
@mn5 said in Movie review thread...:
You’re right about Christopher Lee though. A genuine War Hero and a guy who would have been absolutely fascinating to sit down for a yarn with. No one played a bad guy quite like he did.
Like David Niven (another genuine war hero), he refused to talk about his experiences. In Lee's case possibly because a lot of it was classified. Ditto Roger Moore, who was a Captain in Army Intelligence and downplayed that part of his life.
Wiki has it as Captain in Combined Services Entertainments, during post war conscription period..
IIRC in book he says he was selected for Intelligence Corps, made an Officer and then went into entertainment after they found out he was no good. I think he was working undercover...
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@mn5 said in Movie review thread...:
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@victor-meldrew said in Movie review thread...:
@mn5 said in Movie review thread...:
You’re right about Christopher Lee though. A genuine War Hero and a guy who would have been absolutely fascinating to sit down for a yarn with. No one played a bad guy quite like he did.
Like David Niven (another genuine war hero), he refused to talk about his experiences. In Lee's case possibly because a lot of it was classified. Ditto Roger Moore, who was a Captain in Army Intelligence and downplayed that part of his life.
Wiki has it as Captain in Combined Services Entertainments, during post war conscription period..
Yeah quite a few of those old school actors were tougher in real life than who they portrayed on screen. Guys like Jack Palance, Charles Bronson and Robert Mitchum spring to mind.
They don’t make them like that anymore.
Yeah, many blokes from that era seriously hard men. Even Moore, who grew up in a rough part of London, was pretty tough in real-life when he wanted to be. Lee Marvin (another hard bastard), once picked a fight with him and lost, and called Moore "as hard as granite."
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@victor-meldrew said in Movie review thread...:
@mn5 said in Movie review thread...:
@catogrande said in Movie review thread...:
@victor-meldrew said in Movie review thread...:
@mn5 said in Movie review thread...:
You’re right about Christopher Lee though. A genuine War Hero and a guy who would have been absolutely fascinating to sit down for a yarn with. No one played a bad guy quite like he did.
Like David Niven (another genuine war hero), he refused to talk about his experiences. In Lee's case possibly because a lot of it was classified. Ditto Roger Moore, who was a Captain in Army Intelligence and downplayed that part of his life.
Wiki has it as Captain in Combined Services Entertainments, during post war conscription period..
Yeah quite a few of those old school actors were tougher in real life than who they portrayed on screen. Guys like Jack Palance, Charles Bronson and Robert Mitchum spring to mind.
They don’t make them like that anymore.
Some blokes from that era seriously hard men. Moore, who grew up in a rough part of London, was pretty tough in real-life when he wanted to be. Lee Marvin (another hard bastard), once picked a fight with him and lost, and called Moore "as hard as granite."
Yeah I heard about that, not sure how much I believe it though ? His on screen fighting wasn’t entirely convincing, he looked downright shit in some scenes. Sean Connery once beat up a few Edinburgh gang members ( prompting them to try and get him to join ) and George Lazenby was an Australian army combat instructor who trained with Bruce Lee so I think it’s fair to say they had some credentials.
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Audie Murphy was another one - he was one of the most decorated American soldiers of WW2. He also had severe PTSD.
Murphy received the Medal of Honor for valor that he demonstrated at the age of 19 for single-handedly holding off a company of German soldiers for an hour at the Colmar Pocket in France in January 1945, then leading a successful counterattack while wounded and out of ammunition.
Dirk Bogarde was also an intelligence officer in the British Army in WW2.
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If you like Robert Mitchum (and you should!) then you have to watch The Friends of Eddie Coyle. One of the greatest crime movies. Superb melancholic performance from Mitchum.
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@tim said in Movie review thread...:
If you like Robert Mitchum (and you should!) then you have to watch The Friends of Eddie Coyle. One of the greatest crime movies. Superb melancholic performance from Mitchum.
Robert Mitchum - Hollywood outsider
Ian Johnston celebrates the original Hollywood outsider, droopy-lidded actor, hellraiser and walking contradiction, Robert Mitchum
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@victor-meldrew said in Movie review thread...:
@mn5 said in Movie review thread...:
You’re right about Christopher Lee though. A genuine War Hero and a guy who would have been absolutely fascinating to sit down for a yarn with. No one played a bad guy quite like he did.
Like David Niven (another genuine war hero), he refused to talk much about his experiences. In Lee's case possibly because a lot of it was classified. Ditto Roger Moore, who was a Captain in Army Intelligence and downplayed that part of his life.
Is there a rose-coloured revisionism going on here? Wikipedia has Lee as an intelligence officer in the RAF.
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Audie Murphy - Wikipedia
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) ⭐ 7.4 | Crime, Drama
