Movie review thread...
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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".
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@booboo said in Movie review thread...:
@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".
I'm obviously an easy marker
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@victor-meldrew said in Movie review thread...:
That's a great book BTW.
The movie version of his book Contact was pretty good as well.
Agree, the book was great. Not surw how you justice in a movie though.
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@booboo said in Movie review thread...:
Agree, the book was great. Not surw how you justice in a movie though.
Film wasn't perfect but I though they did a pretty good job capturing the main elements of the book - always a bit tricky to show the actual journey though.
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@canefan said in Movie review thread...:
@booboo said in Movie review thread...:
@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".
I'm obviously an easy marker
I thought it was fun, not a great movie but a pretty fun watch, with added points for Gal Gadot.
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@tim said in Movie review thread...:
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.
There was a movie in the mid 50's called To Hell And Back - it was a biography of Audie Murphy, strangely enough starring Audie Murphy., and it is pretty good.
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@nta said in Movie review thread...:
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.
I enjoyed it
But it’s no Mars Attacks
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The Green Knight
I like Arthurian Legend. I like Dev Patel. So I put this on my Prime Video list ages ago and finally got around to watching it.
In about three parts, because it was all I could do to sit through this in 40 minute slots. Yeesh ... the pacing.
TBH it could have been shorter if it wasn't so far up its own arse in pretentious allegory. The camera work was good. The sound design and execution was good. But fuck a duck they could have shifted it along a bit.
3 green chapels out of 5 visions. And it would have been a 2.5 except for tits.
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Matrix resurrection
Simply, I enjoyed it, fun
Maybe spoilers? Skip if youre worried
I DO get the idea of “it didn’t need to be made”, the story they tell is not one I think people were asking for and it very much stands out as a 4th film, the others for their faults do tell one story
I do like how they leaned in to the making a sequel idea, took the piss out of themselves and and moved on
My two biggest problems, agent smith, even if you accept a new actor…he calls him “Tom” rather than “mr Anderson”…a different actor…acting different…is basically a new character
And I don’t actually think any of the action/fight scenes were better…or even as good…as those from the original (s)
Bruce Willis | Actor, Producer, Writer
Audie Murphy - Wikipedia
