Movie review thread...
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@kiwiwomble Your comment re Bond, I liken it to Point Break, they had a classic movie, and instead of re-hashing it under another name (see Fast and Furious with the same plot) they gave the same name...automatically I hated it and i hadnt even seen it.
But I am easy to please when it comes to Movies/TV, I like to watch what I watch, I enjoy it, or I don't, often I dont need character depth or plot twists or background, just a movie to enjoy, or I wont enjoy it.
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@taniwharugby generally agree, i really enjoy lots of "bad" films, but IF we're going to critique...then
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So, I've been sick this week, basically all the symptoms of Covid, have just shuffled from bed to couch and vice versa, but not Covid. So anyway, I watched some movies this week, some older and some new:
14 Peaks: Nothing is Impossible: A Himalayan dude (resident in the UK) attempts to scale all 14 over 8000m peaks in the world in 7 months. Another good climbing doco.
Copshop: Action about a cop stuck in a police station with a prisoner assassins want to kill. Ok, switch the brain off action. Stars Gerard Butler and I didn't dislike it and him in it which is a recommendation. Also stars Frank Grillo.
Love and Monsters: Netflix movie where the world is overrun by monsters so most people live underground. A guy decides to travel to find his ex girlfriend despite the fact he’s hopeless. Was a good switch off the brain fun watch.
Enemy: Early Denis Villeneuve film. Firstly, there's a bunch of dark scenes that if they're too dark on your TV you'll miss stuff. Secondly, it's about 70% good and 30% arty bollocks (which is made worse if you miss the dark scenes). Stars Jake Gyllenhal and two attractive blonde chicks (one is the French one from Inglorious Bastereds).
Riders of Justice: As mentioned above in the thread. I loved this film, it constantly changes from drama to comedy to action to black comedy etc (but not in that order).
Upgrade: Good Blumhouse film made in Melbourne about a paralysed guy who gets a computer chip inserted that gives him back control of his body (kinda) and he goes on a revenge spree.
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No time to die
Was good, wasn’t expecting it to be quite so much of a sequel to Spectre
I thought they handled the idea of someone else being 007 well, because they leaned in an made it part of the story, and she played the brash arrogant spy well
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I think the next one will be a complete reboot, new M, moneypenny and Q etc
Once again though….I feel the scene from this one will blend into all his other films with the exception of casino Royal in general and the scene at his house from skyfall, his have all been very samey, and I get the idea of a certain style…but think they’ve gone too far
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@kiwiwomble said in Movie review thread...:
I thought they handled the idea of someone else being 007 well, because they leaned in an made it part of the story, and she played the brash arrogant spy well
I was the opposite & thought she was an incredibly weak, stereotyped character with an appallingly written part. The cynic in me asks if she was a last-minute addition to catch the BLM zeitgeist.
I think the next one will be a complete reboot, new M, moneypenny and Q etc
I hope they don't get rid of all three as Naomie Harris' Moneypenny is great and one of the best characters of the Craig era. Ben Wilshaw's Q is starting to grate though.
They need to kill off the maudlin endings as well. The last scene was bloody cringeworthy.
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@victor-meldrew said in Movie review thread...:
@kiwiwomble said in Movie review thread...:
I thought they handled the idea of someone else being 007 well, because they leaned in an made it part of the story, and she played the brash arrogant spy well
I was the opposite & thought she was an incredibly weak, stereotyped character with an appallingly written part. The cynic in me asks if she was a last-minute addition to catch the BLM zeitgeist.
I think the next one will be a complete reboot, new M, moneypenny and Q etc
I hope they don't get rid of all three as Naomie Harris' Moneypenny is great and one of the best characters of the Craig era. Ben Wilshaw's Q is starting to grate though.
They need to kill off the maudlin endings though. The last scene was bloody cringeworthy.
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I thought that exact same thing.
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@mn5 said in Movie review thread...:
@victor-meldrew said in Movie review thread...:
@kiwiwomble said in Movie review thread...:
I thought they handled the idea of someone else being 007 well, because they leaned in an made it part of the story, and she played the brash arrogant spy well
I was the opposite & thought she was an incredibly weak, stereotyped character with an appallingly written part. The cynic in me asks if she was a last-minute addition to catch the BLM zeitgeist.
I think the next one will be a complete reboot, new M, moneypenny and Q etc
I hope they don't get rid of all three as Naomie Harris' Moneypenny is great and one of the best characters of the Craig era. Ben Wilshaw's Q is starting to grate though.
They need to kill off the maudlin endings though. The last scene was bloody cringeworthy.
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I thought that exact same thing.
Too each there own, seemed too intertwined in the story to be a last minute addition to me, unless changed from another character
As I say I thought she gave off the same kind off arrogant attitude we got from Craig’s bond previously before this one where he’s found the one true love of his life…for the second time
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@kiwiwomble said in Movie review thread...:
@mn5 said in Movie review thread...:
@victor-meldrew said in Movie review thread...:
@kiwiwomble said in Movie review thread...:
I thought they handled the idea of someone else being 007 well, because they leaned in an made it part of the story, and she played the brash arrogant spy well
I was the opposite & thought she was an incredibly weak, stereotyped character with an appallingly written part. The cynic in me asks if she was a last-minute addition to catch the BLM zeitgeist.
I think the next one will be a complete reboot, new M, moneypenny and Q etc
I hope they don't get rid of all three as Naomie Harris' Moneypenny is great and one of the best characters of the Craig era. Ben Wilshaw's Q is starting to grate though.
They need to kill off the maudlin endings though. The last scene was bloody cringeworthy.
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I thought that exact same thing.
Too each there own, seemed too intertwined in the story to be a last minute addition to me, unless changed from another character
Take your point but I just thought her superfluous and she stood out like a sore thumb.
As I say I thought she gave off the same kind off arrogant attitude we got from Craig’s bond previously before this one where he’s found the one true love of his life…for the second time
It would have been good if she had, but I didn't think she did. There's one scene (i can't describe it at it's a spoiler) which made me really, really cringe. The writing was really bad.
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@victor-meldrew always fascinating how people can see the same thing so differently, as I say I got very similar vibes to when we first met craig, reasonably new agent, 00 status was important to them, quite happy to walk head first into any situation
Will concede it was a bit cringy when she gave him back the 007…they’d spent the whole dim showing he didn’t care anymore
I had more trouble with remi maleks bad guy….not really sure why he wanted to kill half the planet, started well with the throw back to the story she told in spectre…but then I kind of lost his motivation
Also, wasn’t the big bad guys base from skyfall on an abandoned island of the coast of Japan?
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@victor-meldrew said in Movie review thread...:
The cynic in me asks if she was a last-minute addition to catch the BLM zeitgeist.
I don't think that's true at all. They had already swapped out two traditionally white characters for black actors well before the most recent BLM "zeitgeist".
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@nepia it would also have been pretty tame attempt to make a BLM statement, she doesn’t talk about being black, no monologue about challenges faced etc…she just happens to be black
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@nepia said in Movie review thread...:
@victor-meldrew said in Movie review thread...:
The cynic in me asks if she was a last-minute addition to catch the BLM zeitgeist.
I don't think that's true at all. They had already swapped out two traditionally white characters for black actors well before the most recent BLM "zeitgeist".
Yeah, but those roles were well-written, well-acted and very much part of the franchise. This one was completely the opposite and stuck out like a sore thumb - which put my cynicism counter to level 11.
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@kiwiwomble said in Movie review thread...:
@nepia it would also have been pretty tame attempt to make a BLM statement, she doesn’t talk about being black, no monologue about challenges faced etc…she just happens to be black
She could even have been Asian....
On that note (and being a bit more serious) I'm nominating Sanjeev Baskar as the new Q. He'd be a bit like John Cleese, who I though was bloody brilliant.
