Movie review thread...
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Elvis movie was significantly better than I expected it to be. Didn’t think the guy looked enough like him, but his voice and mannerisms were uncanny. Probably the best representation of him yet.
Structure of the movie puts the music front and centre and doesn’t shy away from how naive Presley was and how evil The Colonel was. End was pretty emotional.
Excellent movie. 5 Elvis the Pelvis out of 5.
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@Kirwan I agree, (I’m not as high on the rating though) although I thought he looked enough like him to accurately portray him yet not too much like an impersonator.
It’s a very Baz film so I guess peoples enjoyment will depend on how they like his style.
I listen to Hanks on a podcast and he noted it was rewritten when he had Covid after discussions with Priscilla and other people who knew the colonel. Apparently the version we see is much softer on him than the original script.
The end was pretty dust in the eye despite the fact we all know how it ends.
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@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
Training Day
Always worth a re watch every few years……Denzil and Ethan are just outstanding and there’s a great support cast too.
There’s some things I find weird and can’t get my head around though……
Who was Roger, an ex cop or a drug dealer ? Or both ? Why did they visit him beforehand ?
How did they know that hustling Snoops character would lead them to a drug dealer with a lazy 40 grand in his room to bribe the three corrupt cops?
What happened after the Latino guys ( and Cliff Curtis ) let Hoyt go ? Was it “sorry for trying to execute you, you’re free to go”……I find it hard to believe there were no repercussions there.
Bloody good flick though.
Hated that movie. Never re-watched.
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@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
@Kirwan I agree, (I’m not as high on the rating though) although I thought he looked enough like him to accurately portray him yet not too much like an impersonator.
It’s a very Baz film so I guess peoples enjoyment will depend on how they like his style.
I listen to Hanks on a podcast and he noted it was rewritten when he had Covid after discussions with Priscilla and other people who knew the colonel. Apparently the version we see is much softer on him than the original script.
The end was pretty dust in the eye despite the fact we all know how it ends.
Gee, I’d hate to see the harsher version. It was not a sympathetic portrayal at all.
Agree about the Baz style, but it works so well with the music leading the story.
The ending was brutal.
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@Kirwan said in Movie review thread...:
@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
@Kirwan I agree, (I’m not as high on the rating though) although I thought he looked enough like him to accurately portray him yet not too much like an impersonator.
It’s a very Baz film so I guess peoples enjoyment will depend on how they like his style.
I listen to Hanks on a podcast and he noted it was rewritten when he had Covid after discussions with Priscilla and other people who knew the colonel. Apparently the version we see is much softer on him than the original script.
The end was pretty dust in the eye despite the fact we all know how it ends.
Gee, I’d hate to see the harsher version. It was not a sympathetic portrayal at all.
Agree about the Baz style, but it works so well with the music leading the story.
The ending was brutal.
I was thinking the exact same thing.
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@voodoo said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
Training Day
Always worth a re watch every few years……Denzil and Ethan are just outstanding and there’s a great support cast too.
There’s some things I find weird and can’t get my head around though……
Who was Roger, an ex cop or a drug dealer ? Or both ? Why did they visit him beforehand ?
How did they know that hustling Snoops character would lead them to a drug dealer with a lazy 40 grand in his room to bribe the three corrupt cops?
What happened after the Latino guys ( and Cliff Curtis ) let Hoyt go ? Was it “sorry for trying to execute you, you’re free to go”……I find it hard to believe there were no repercussions there.
Bloody good flick though.
Hated that movie. Never re-watched.
Nope great movie, try again
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Looks a hoot
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Clean
We all know the tried and true story of "there's this guy, right - just trying to live a modest life, despite his violent past. Until something happens, and he's dragged back into being a hard-ass mo-fo, (probably to protect some young girl he's formed an attachment to)".
What we never knew was that we'd all missed out on the obvious version of that "modest life" - a garbage man. Until now.
Adrien Brody has now fixed that oversight, thank god.And who best to provide the soundtrack to such a fundamental story? Adrien Brody.
That's right: Original Music/Score: Adrien Brody. Every second song in the credits is accredited to "Brody Beats".I'm not sure much more needs to be said. But...
- Tit-watch: zero
- Repeated flashbacks bulking up runtime: maybe 33% of runtime? (Despite which... I'm still not sure what actually happened.)
- Unnecessary close-ups of Adrien Brody's torso - 1 overly long scene
- Methods in which Adrien Brody is shown to be a swell guy:
- drives a "souped-up" car;
- feeds a stray dog;
- finds "scrap" during his garbage collection, uses that to restore shit, sells that shit to a pawn shop, uses proceeds to buy dodgy "seconds" paint, uses this lead-based paint to paint abandoned houses;
- doesn't use the hundreds-of-thousands of dollars in "past-life-suitcase" to do anything, until the obvious murderous rampage;
creeps onbefriends a pre-teen girl;- doesn't accept prescription for painkillers when legitimately offered.
1 "is that a home-made silencer for a shotgun which you've just sawn the stock off, and then are only going to use AFTER you've driven a fucking garbage truck into a house?" ...
... out of 5 "how did you ever even figure out who the Big Bad was, when there's been nothing to attach him to this?" -
@Kruse said in Movie review thread...:
Clean
We all know the tried and true story of "there's this guy, right - just trying to live a modest life, despite his violent past. Until something happens, and he's dragged back into being a hard-ass mo-fo, (probably to protect some young girl he's formed an attachment to)".
What we never knew was that we'd all missed out on the obvious version of that "modest life" - a garbage man. Until now.
Adrien Brody has now fixed that oversight, thank god.And who best to provide the soundtrack to such a fundamental story? Adrien Brody.
That's right: Original Music/Score: Adrien Brody. Every second song in the credits is accredited to "Brody Beats".I'm not sure much more needs to be said. But...
- Tit-watch: zero
- Repeated flashbacks bulking up runtime: maybe 33% of runtime? (Despite which... I'm still not sure what actually happened.)
- Unnecessary close-ups of Adrien Brody's torso - 1 overly long scene
- Methods in which Adrien Brody is shown to be a swell guy:
- drives a "souped-up" car;
- feeds a stray dog;
- finds "scrap" during his garbage collection, uses that to restore shit, sells that shit to a pawn shop, uses proceeds to buy dodgy "seconds" paint, uses this lead-based paint to paint abandoned houses;
- doesn't use the hundreds-of-thousands of dollars in "past-life-suitcase" to do anything, until the obvious murderous rampage;
creeps onbefriends a pre-teen girl;- doesn't accept prescription for painkillers when legitimately offered.
1 "is that a home-made silencer for a shotgun which you've just sawn the stock off, and then are only going to use AFTER you've driven a fucking garbage truck into a house?" ...
... out of 5 "how did you ever even figure out who the Big Bad was, when there's been nothing to attach him to this?"Good to see Brody step up now that Liam Neeson, Bruce Willis, Nicholas Cage and John Travolta are getting a bit long in the tooth.
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Nowhere Special. James Norton plays a single Dad of a little boy in Belfast. He (the Dad) is dying and trying to find a family for his son to live with before he goes. Nothing much happens but the quality of the acting and the direction while the nothing is happening is brilliant. Very, very dusty in the lounge by the end, hadn’t realised how poorly we’ve been vacuuming
5 picture books out of 5 heavily tattooed arms.
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We've all at sometime or another gone down the "take one for the team" road but you're going above and beyond. You need to take a step back and consider what effect your actions may be having on you and your wider family.
Many of us are beginning to worry for your mental health if you keep this up
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Romper Stomper
I wouldn’t have seen this film since I was in college.
A bit dated but some good intense acting from a very young and thin Russell Crowe as leader of a gang of skinheads who get their come uppance from a gang of Asians. Some decent performance and surprisingly catchy ( and extremely offensive ) songs.
3 skinhead skinheads ! out of 5 Gook bashings.
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The Burning Sea - a Norwegian disaster movie about one of the Oil Platforms in the North Sea that collapses and the impending disaster this is the prelude to.
Obviously there is a message in the film, but is more just a disaster movie, with a message.
3 collapsing rigs out of 5 man there are alot of rigs out there!
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@antipodean said in Movie review thread...:
Jay and Silent Bob don’t seem to age at all.
Dante and Randal look FUCKEN old though, I guess all those years serving custies take their toll.
Will go and see this but in typical “sequel coming out years later” fashion I won’t hold my breath it is any good.
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Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2022
Look, I’m not @Kruse, I did go into this thinking it could be pretty decent but fuck me I’m sick of invincible weirdos who get that way simply by living in their Mums basement for 40 years ( forget AB conditioning programmes, if you want to be a unit just be disfigured and hide for decades )
Utter shit, only lasted about 45 minutes. You know a movie is gonna be terrible when they don’t even have the budget to film in Texas, apparently this was made in Bulgaria.
The only hot chick bagged it early on, fuck knows what happened to the others cos I’d turned off by then. The way Leatherface killed the cop in the car was absolutely beyond stupid, using his own wrist bone to stab him, what the fuck ?
Avoid this like the plague
1 didn’t even see a chainsaw out of 5 why didn’t the cop just shoot him ?
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The Contractor
This was bad.
But I can't really say WHY it was bad.
Just... really weird 'pacing', if that's a thing?
Or maybe I'm just a bigot, and all the bothering of god early on in the piece put me off. God-botherers and uber-patriotic seppos.... ugh.
Anyway... the latest Captain Kirk... Chris something? Pine? As an Army Ranger. Who gets laid off, coz he's popping drugs for his fucked up knee. But he's broke. And wants to fix his roof. Gets recruited by his mate into a supposedly legit semi-private military contracting firm. It's run by a Sutherland. Guess what... spoiler... it's maybe not so legit. An op in Berlin goes sideways. Shit happens. More shit happens. The stiltedness of this review matches the movie. He comes back to the US. Expected Twist! Maybe undo that twist! Let's go after Sutherland! Very subdued showdown. The end.- Flashbacks... I'm getting pretty fucked off with flashbacks. Once again, this bad movie was padded out with bad flashbacks. Of a 10 year old getting a tattoo. Boo fucking hoo.
- TItwatch: zero. Which is probably for the best, the only female character was played by Gillian Jacobs, and as far as I'm aware, her personal Titwatch is zero.
1 over-the-top fully spec-ops kitted out op to take out 1 scientist, out of 5 under-kitted-out forays into the world by a man who believes he's being hunted by spec-ops teams.
And for those concerned about my well-being with this latest flurry of absolute shit movies... to be fair, I have interspersed then with some less-shit (Moonfall, Uncharted, Matrix: 4, etc), and a re-watch of guilty-pleasure Nobody.
But mostly - I've had a carrot dangling at the end of all this... I am looking forward very much to Everything Everywhere All At Once - I've got it downloaded, but now see it's still playing at the local cinema this weekend - so might indulge in that.
