Movie review thread...
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@victor-meldrew I've seen enough people in my time claim false Valor or embellished their careers to smell a rat from a mile away.
As it turns out I'm not alone.
Who dares lies: why do so many men pretend to have been in the SAS? | The Spectator Australia
Sir Christopher Lee, who died last month aged 93, knew how to play a part. One of the consummate actors of his generation, whose career spanned nearly seven decades, his versatility on stage and…
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If you want to see another truly shit conformance by a great actor, check out Brando in The Island of Dr Moreau
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@antipodean said in Movie review thread...:
I've seen enough people in my time claim false Valor or embellished their careers to smell a rat from a mile away.
Well I've never met him so I really can't comment. What was he like?
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@victor-meldrew said in Movie review thread...:
If you want to see another truly shit conformance by a great actor, check out Brando in The Island of Dr Moreau
Yes I've seen that travesty. Hard to believe it's the same actor that was such a presence in A Streetcar named Desire or so brilliantly portrayed Colonel Kurtz.
Perhaps he needed the money. The Willis-Cage effect?
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@victor-meldrew said in Movie review thread...:
@antipodean said in Movie review thread...:
I've seen enough people in my time claim false Valor or embellished their careers to smell a rat from a mile away.
Well I've never met him so I really can't comment. What was he like?
It's the patter; bullshit claims of secrecy, avoidance of details, etc.
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@antipodean said in Movie review thread...:
It's the patter; bullshit claims of secrecy, avoidance of details, etc.
From personal experience, Lee sounds pretty normal to me.
My ex-FiL (WO1 in the REME) would talk about his military career pretty openly, but never, ever about his time in Oman in the early-70's. We only found out after his death he was involved with running transport for the Hereford folks.
PS: Niven's record is pretty well documented and he opened up about his war experiences just before he died. It was pretty horrific and the experiences haunted him all his life and that was the main reason he never talked about them.
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I’m not sure if Lee was bullshitting or not. I’d like to think the latter.
I am sure he was a deadset cinematic legend though.
Speaking of legends here’s a story about the greatest of them all…..
The day Clint Eastwood almost drowned after crashing in a US Navy Skyraider off the coast of Northern California - The Aviation Geek Club
The day Clint Eastwood almost drowned after crashing in a US Navy Skyraider off the coast of Northern California
Clint never embellished his record ( he never saw action in Korea ) but sounds like he could handle himself in real life
Clint Eastwood
Through extensive, exclusive interviews with Eastwood (and the friends and colleagues of a lifetime), Time magazine film critic Richard Schickel has penetrated a complex character who has always been understood too quickly, too superficially. Schickel pierces Eastwood's monumental reserve to reveal...
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@antipodean said in Movie review thread...:
@victor-meldrew said in Movie review thread...:
If you want to see another truly shit conformance by a great actor, check out Brando in The Island of Dr Moreau
Yes I've seen that travesty. Hard to believe it's the same actor that was such a presence in A Streetcar named Desire or so brilliantly portrayed Colonel Kurtz.
Perhaps he needed the money. The Willis-Cage effect?
He had an island to keep running, ironically.
But his acting/effort was the same he was just saved in the edit for Kurtz.
He was a great actor but incredibly lazy.
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Don't Look Up
Netflix's latest big star lineup revolving around 2 scientists and their attempts to bring a world-killing comet to the attention of the powers that be.
Most of the movie is a great satirical look at modern politics, society, and mainstream + social media. There are a lot of themes that apply to climate science of course, with the phrases "scientists all over the world agree that... " etc. The optics of the situation for a sitting president wth mid-terms elections are just around the corner, and so on.
DiCaprio, JLaw, Streep, Blanchett - pretty good lineup and they deliver. The guy who plays Teddy Oglethorpe is great as well. Ariana Grande's turn as a bimbo pop star was quite good as well. The tech billionaire I found hilarious. Ron Perlman's "hero" was LOL worthy.
A good watch and somewhat thought provoking about the things we already see wrong in society, whatever your political or social leanings. I think you can easily back it with this quote from Carl Sagan:
4 BASH modules out of 5 failed launches.
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@nta it had a great premise for a 90min movie, unfortunately they went for another hour on top of that dilutes the message.
Did we really need a full Ariana Grande song?
Awesome cast that was completely wasted.
1 naked body double Streep arse out of 5
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@nta said in Movie review thread...:
Agreed it was a bit long.
@kirwan said in Movie review thread...:
1 naked body double Streep arse out of 5
If it was 90 minutes, would that change your rating at all?
It would certainly dull the feeling of being hit repeatedly over the head with the same message over and over.
They repeated the “we are all going to die” tv show scene three times.
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@kirwan said in Movie review thread...:
@nta it had a great premise for a 90min movie, unfortunately they went for another hour on top of that dilutes the message.
Did we really need a full Ariana Grande song?
Awesome cast that was completely wasted.
1 naked body double Streep arse out of 5
Hard to be preachy in 90mins.
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aside from Cosmic Sin, metioned above (as it was earlier than the bottom of this) here is a list of Bruce Willis' work in the past year and coming up...certainly going for quantity over quality, I mean the last 'box office' he was involved in was probably The Lego Movie 2 in 2019 (where he was himself)
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@taniwharugby said in Movie review thread...:
aside from Cosmic Sin, metioned above (as it was earlier than the bottom of this) here is a list of Bruce Willis' work in the past year and coming up...certainly going for quantity over quality, I mean the last 'box office' he was involved in was probably The Lego Movie 2 in 2019 (where he was himself)
Demi must be stinging him for cash like a mother fucker !
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Dune
Well, it's fucking big.
Villeneuve can be a bit of a weird cat when it comes to directorial choices, but I reckon this time he's onto something with the style and pacing of this epic attempt at the umovieable book.
The audio works thematically with the scope of the vision in each scene, flowing or jarring as necessary. Some of the dialogue I lost a bit in the layers of sound, tho I'll put that down to my hearing as I age
.Chalamet has some serious chops. I've seen him in a few things now and the guy has presence. Good support from the rest tho I found Ferguson's Jessica to be a bit high strung for a Bene Gesserit. A lot of her turmoil in the books is completely internal, which is hard to deliver in a visual medium.
6 Ornithopters out of 5 Heighliners.
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That's a great book BTW.
The movie version of his book Contact was pretty good as well.
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@nta said in Movie review thread...:
Dune
Well, it's fucking big.
Villeneuve can be a bit of a weird cat when it comes to directorial choices, but I reckon this time he's onto something with the style and pacing of this epic attempt at the umovieable book.
The audio works thematically with the scope of the vision in each scene, flowing or jarring as necessary. Some of the dialogue I lost a bit in the layers of sound, tho I'll put that down to my hearing as I age
.Chalamet has some serious chops. I've seen him in a few things now and the guy has presence. Good support from the rest tho I found Ferguson's Jessica to be a bit high strung for a Bene Gesserit. A lot of her turmoil in the books is completely internal, which is hard to deliver in a visual medium.
6 Ornithopters out of 5 Heighliners.
Am going s 9ometime on holidays in the bext 29 dsys or so. Mrs Boo declining, Ms Boo Jr may tag along for Zendaya and/or Timotheeee whasshisnoodle. Hoping its worth my 13yo memory of the book.
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@canefan said in Movie review thread...:
Red Notice Netflix
Great light hearted fun caper film. Reynolds, Johnson and Gadot were well cast, Gal was smoking hot as ever. 4 eggs out of 5 double crosses
Thoight it was crap.
1.5 cliched one liners out of 5 easily anticipated ,plot "twists".
Bruce Willis | Actor, Producer, Writer
