Movie review thread...
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Watched a shitty VHS rip of one of Ebert and Siskel’s “Dogs of the Week”: Fighting Back (1982). Tom Skerritt in a De Laurentis produced Death Wish knock off.
Not bad at all, despite a confusing subplot, and a terrible rip.
Ebert was such a middlebrow dunce, despite being a good writer.
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@Bovidae said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 I watched that last night. I enjoyed it, and an interesting take on the Predator, which hadn't yet evolved into the alpha male with all the tech we saw in the original movie.
Yeah I enjoyed it. Some cool gadgets but definitely not the really flash stuff of the later films.
##spoiler
Lifting that bear was awesome, it made the main chicks brother holding his own in a fight for awhile slightly unrealistic but there ya go……##endspoiler
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@Tim said in Movie review thread...:
@Machpants Novel and audiobook are out now. It's like an adapted screenplay.
Ah, I thought it was a movie. Being in the movie review thread!
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@Machpants said in Movie review thread...:
@Tim said in Movie review thread...:
@Machpants Novel and audiobook are out now. It's like an adapted screenplay.
Ah, I thought it was a movie. Being in the movie review thread!
Mann wants to make the movie.
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Day Shift - Jamie Foxx, Dave Franco, Snoop Dogg
Foxx is a vampire hunter, but got kicked out of the union, and thats where you make the big bucks selling fangs and he needs money to pay for his kids braces!
Easy watch, some amusing bits.
3 razor wires out of 5 uber vamps
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Saw Northmen on the plane over to NZ last week
firmly falls into the category of a good film but not sure how much i actually enjoyed it, not a moment of levity, whole film of people just surviving...which is probably quite accurate for the setting
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The Sailor: short movie length doco about an Octagenarian who has spent pretty much his entire life at sea.
Is an interesting, but sad watch
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Death Hunt
For the ADHD kids out there, TL:DR;, etc - bad movie. Don't watch.
For the sad sacks like me who just trawl the raging rivers occasionally looking for random movies with the current year in the title....- titwatch: zero
- This movie follows the proud tradition of exactly what the title says on the tin: "the greatest prey on earth is Man"
- Seagal, or Van Damme (?) did it in nice B-Grade style. Probably both... when I think about it. I mean - who hasn't?
- I think Rutger (?) did it in nice B-grade style
- This movie did it in nasty, terrible C-grade style
- I don't know how you can make this genre boring, but they nailed it
- The most interesting scene comes early in a prologue scene... when a man is tied to a tree with some rope and... a padlock? Rope and padlock? I'm intrigued.... why the fuck?
- But...
- Then just shit.
- Sound mixing... WTF? I was concerned when they overlayed background crickets (to signify they're in the back of bumfuck-nowhere) - louder than the dialogue. Sure - the dialogue is shit, but... ?
- But at one point, I actually thought I had some other video accidentally playing on phone or something, as it was so quiet, I think they tried to remove it but fucked it up?
Just... shit.
0.5 stupid human prey out of 5 stupid human predators.
Just... so shit. The worst of all worlds... shit movie without any of the self-awareness or humour of even the most D-grade shit-movies.
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@Kruse said in Movie review thread...:
Death Hunt
For the ADHD kids out there, TL:DR;, etc - bad movie. Don't watch.
For the sad sacks like me who just trawl the raging rivers occasionally looking for random movies with the current year in the title....- titwatch: zero
- This movie follows the proud tradition of exactly what the title says on the tin: "the greatest prey on earth is Man"
- Seagal, or Van Damme (?) did it in nice B-Grade style. Probably both... when I think about it. I mean - who hasn't?
- I think Rutger (?) did it in nice B-grade style
- This movie did it in nasty, terrible C-grade style
- I don't know how you can make this genre boring, but they nailed it
- The most interesting scene comes early in a prologue scene... when a man is tied to a tree with some rope and... a padlock? Rope and padlock? I'm intrigued.... why the fuck?
- But...
- Then just shit.
- Sound mixing... WTF? I was concerned when they overlayed background crickets (to signify they're in the back of bumfuck-nowhere) - louder than the dialogue. Sure - the dialogue is shit, but... ?
- But at one point, I actually thought I had some other video accidentally playing on phone or something, as it was so quiet, I think they tried to remove it but fucked it up?
Just... shit.
0.5 stupid human prey out of 5 stupid human predators.
Just... so shit. The worst of all worlds... shit movie without any of the self-awareness or humour of even the most D-grade shit-movies.
I'm fucking embarassed to admit I watched it, but... civic duty.You need to take your talents to the world, perhaps a you tube channel or a blog?
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Watched this the other night for the first time in ages.
So good, so much tension and an underrated classic in so many ways. Kurt Russell has never been cooler and such a good support cast.
Slightly dated and shitty FX at times but nothing is perfect.
I love how open ended the finale is too. We’re they infected or not ?
4 slimy dogs out of 5 heads joined together.
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@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
Watched this the other night for the first time in ages.
So good, so much tension and an underrated classic in so many ways. Kurt Russell has never been cooler and such a good support cast.
Slightly dated and shitty FX at times but nothing is perfect.
I love how open ended the finale is too. We’re they infected or not ?
4 slimy dogs out of 5 heads joined together.
One of the all time greats and very underrated.
The sequel, or prequel actually is also pretty good, better than I had expected.
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@RoninWC said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
Watched this the other night for the first time in ages.
So good, so much tension and an underrated classic in so many ways. Kurt Russell has never been cooler and such a good support cast.
Slightly dated and shitty FX at times but nothing is perfect.
I love how open ended the finale is too. We’re they infected or not ?
4 slimy dogs out of 5 heads joined together.
One of the all time greats and very underrated.
The sequel, or prequel actually is also pretty good, better than I had expected.
Yeah it was even if it was kinda a remake. The movie geek in me loved all the tie ins to the original. Slightly inconsistent CGI and less memorable characters though.
How fucken bad was Lars with a rifle though ? Just shoot the dog already you fool.
I hope there’s some sort of sequel in the world to these two. Also a very cool PS2 game to play late at night.
