Movie review thread...
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actually starting to look pretty good, within the realms of action/superhero film
will be interesting how theyre going to explain away the existence of several superheros and the justice society in the same universe as the justice league that only just scrounged up enough members to beat the last dude...my money is on them just ignoring it
its a weird metric and probably not founded in anything but i find it a good sign that a lot of it is set during the day, i find these heavy CGI films cheap out sometimes by doing all the action at night so they dont have to as much detail, just hide it in shadows
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@Kiwiwomble said in Movie review thread...:
actually starting to look pretty good, within the realms of action/superhero film
will be interesting how theyre going to explain away the existence of several superheros and the justice society in the same universe as the justice league that only just scrounged up enough members to beat the last dude...my money is on them just ignoring it
its a weird metric and probably not founded in anything but i find it a good sign that a lot of it is set during the day, i find these heavy CGI films cheap out sometimes by doing all the action at night so they dont have to as much detail, just hide it in shadows
Given that Henry Cavil and Ben Afflick both are in the "cast" line up on various websites and in fact, Henry and Ben are given second and third billing after the Rock on some that I've seen, I'd say that the movie likely makes an effort to explain.
Or if they take your way out, simply put the timeline of Black Adam's return to Earth post anything that occurred in the various, Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman and Justice league movies.
BTW, saw the trailer for this at the cinema when watching Thor, Love and Thunder, and damn, I thought it looked good for a superhero movie, especially for a DC movie.
Edit, looking at IMDB (where I probably should have looked first) looks like both Henry and Ben don't appear as they aren't showing up in the full cast list there so... looks like option 2 and I'll chuck my money in with yours @Kiwiwomble
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Ambulance
I was trawling the waters of the Bay of Pirates, saw this, researched it, and decided it was too shit to watch.
"A guy who doesn't want to be a bad guy, gets trapped into being the getaway driver for a Bank Heist, in an anbulance. Action ensues"
Assumed it was a shit B/C-grade movie... not something I'd typically watch. Didn't bother downloading.
Then, somehow, can't remember how - discovered it was a Michael Bay production.
At which point...- Yeah, okay, I can go into this piece of shit, knowing it's going to be a Michael Bay piece of shit
- Kinda like, ah... fuck it, yeah, I'll take this trashy blonde home, knowing it's a guaranteed blow-job
- That blow-job being filled with lens flares
- And.. yeah.. exactly as expected
- Tit-watch: zero
- Attempts at replicating classic movie scenes (in this case: Heat) - but fucking it up - tick
- Nonsensical points of plot - tick
- Fun - yeah, sure, it's fucking Michael Bay, Blues-Brothers-esque police-car crashes - tick
- Did I mention nonsensical plot? - if not - double fucking tick
I've been belatedly playing GTA 3(s) recently... and this reminded me SO many times of that.
- Oh, and did I mention that Michael Bay has discovered drones? And guess what he does with THAT fucking technology... spoiler... using it a fucking LOT... typically starting from the tops of buildings, dropping down the sides of said buildings, to then start tracking the actual action. Fucking hack.
3 "ha-that-looks-like-it-is-a-shit-Heat" out of 5 "ha-that-looks-like-it-is-from-San-Andreas"... 's.
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@Kruse said in Movie review thread...:
Ambulance
I was trawling the waters of the Bay of Pirates, saw this, researched it, and decided it was too shit to watch.
"A guy who doesn't want to be a bad guy, gets trapped into being the getaway driver for a Bank Heist, in an anbulance. Action ensues"
Assumed it was a shit B/C-grade movie... not something I'd typically watch. Didn't bother downloading.
Then, somehow, can't remember how - discovered it was a Michael Bay production.
At which point...- Yeah, okay, I can go into this piece of shit, knowing it's going to be a Michael Bay piece of shit
- Kinda like, ah... fuck it, yeah, I'll take this trashy blonde home, knowing it's a guaranteed blow-job
- That blow-job being filled with lens flares
- And.. yeah.. exactly as expected
- Tit-watch: zero
- Attempts at replicating classic movie scenes (in this case: Heat) - but fucking it up - tick
- Nonsensical points of plot - tick
- Fun - yeah, sure, it's fucking Michael Bay, Blues-Brothers-esque police-car crashes - tick
- Did I mention nonsensical plot? - if not - double fucking tick
I've been belatedly playing GTA 3(s) recently... and this reminded me SO many times of that.
- Oh, and did I mention that Michael Bay has discovered drones? And guess what he does with THAT fucking technology... spoiler... using it a fucking LOT... typically starting from the tops of buildings, dropping down the sides of said buildings, to then start tracking the actual action. Fucking hack.
3 "ha-that-looks-like-it-is-a-shit-Heat" out of 5 "ha-that-looks-like-it-is-from-San-Andreas"... 's.
A cross between Heat and GTA ? Sign me up, sounds amazing !
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@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
@Kruse said in Movie review thread...:
Ambulance
I was trawling the waters of the Bay of Pirates, saw this, researched it, and decided it was too shit to watch.
"A guy who doesn't want to be a bad guy, gets trapped into being the getaway driver for a Bank Heist, in an anbulance. Action ensues"
Assumed it was a shit B/C-grade movie... not something I'd typically watch. Didn't bother downloading.
Then, somehow, can't remember how - discovered it was a Michael Bay production.
At which point...- Yeah, okay, I can go into this piece of shit, knowing it's going to be a Michael Bay piece of shit
- Kinda like, ah... fuck it, yeah, I'll take this trashy blonde home, knowing it's a guaranteed blow-job
- That blow-job being filled with lens flares
- And.. yeah.. exactly as expected
- Tit-watch: zero
- Attempts at replicating classic movie scenes (in this case: Heat) - but fucking it up - tick
- Nonsensical points of plot - tick
- Fun - yeah, sure, it's fucking Michael Bay, Blues-Brothers-esque police-car crashes - tick
- Did I mention nonsensical plot? - if not - double fucking tick
I've been belatedly playing GTA 3(s) recently... and this reminded me SO many times of that.
- Oh, and did I mention that Michael Bay has discovered drones? And guess what he does with THAT fucking technology... spoiler... using it a fucking LOT... typically starting from the tops of buildings, dropping down the sides of said buildings, to then start tracking the actual action. Fucking hack.
3 "ha-that-looks-like-it-is-a-shit-Heat" out of 5 "ha-that-looks-like-it-is-from-San-Andreas"... 's.
A cross between Heat and GTA ? Sign me up, sounds amazing !
With lens flares!
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@Kruse I made it about 25mins in and stopped watching.
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@antipodean said in Movie review thread...:
@Kruse I made it about 25mins in and stopped watching.
Quitter.
But, yeah, it's shit. I just went in knowing it was shit. Guaranteed sloppy. -
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Right, the wife wasn't working over the weekend so we hung out, watched some movies etc
already mentioned Love and Thunder
but, also re watched Serenity...shit thats a good sci fi flick with some memorable lines, also, why does the CGI look better than lots of stuff we see today? this was released in 2005! thats the better part of 20 years ago
and then went and saw Bullet Train another very enjoyable action film
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@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Movie review thread...:
I won't go near the latest Indy film and haven't even seen that Skulls one, but damn I loved Temple and Shorty. He was my favourite as Data in Goonies as well.
Crystal Skulls had it’s moments, not many, I loved the punch up with the big Russian……John Hurt and Ray Winstone were good additions……
But Shia Leboef is just a ghastly human being ( how did this guy become a star, it genuinely baffles me ) and so much of the rest of it was cringy.
Still, me being me and forever loyal to my favourite film franchises I’ll go and see it even though I suspect it’ll be shite. Harrison Ford is EIGHTY years old for fucks sake.
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@Kiwiwomble said in Movie review thread...:
Right, the wife wasn't working over the weekend so we hung out, watched some movies etc
already mentioned Love and Thunder
but, also re watched Serenity...shit thats a good sci fi flick with some memorable lines, also, why does the CGI look better than lots of stuff we see today? this was released in 2005! thats the better part of 20 years ago
and then went and saw Bullet Train another very enjoyable action film
Probably was using models with CGI flourishes.
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Police Academy
Some movies date really badly. Some remain awesome. Some have hugely outdated jokes which makes them even better.
PA is right smack in the middle of these. Lots of laughs still there, Guttenberg is pretty damn funny and a lot of the delivery is absolutely spot on.
Odd observation. When Hooks drives over Copeland's feet and he calls her a dumb fat racial slur ... the line with the racial slur was cut out. Why?? FFS Why??
4 Tacklebury's out of 5 Hightowers
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Explorer - Movie length doco about Sir Ranulph Fiennes
He's lived some life that fella...
3.5 I feel lazy out of 5 he's still going at 78
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@taniwharugby said in Movie review thread...:
Explorer - Movie length doco about Sir Ranulph Fiennes
He's lived some life that fella...
3.5 I feel lazy out of 5 he's still going at 78
Amazing guy, I met him in the Falklands when he was doing his series of marathons. Totally recommend his books on Scott and Shackleton
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Have you seen his wife though! I’d fuck off for 11 months of the year too if I were him.
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@MajorRage said in Movie review thread...:
Police Academy
Some movies date really badly. Some remain awesome. Some have hugely outdated jokes which makes them even better.
PA is right smack in the middle of these. Lots of laughs still there, Guttenberg is pretty damn funny and a lot of the delivery is absolutely spot on.
Odd observation. When Hooks drives over Copeland's feet and he calls her a dumb fat racial slur ... the line with the racial slur was cut out. Why?? FFS Why??
4 Tacklebury's out of 5 Hightowers
Police Academy movies are still a bit of a guilty pleasure.
Obviously the folks didn’t read the video cover when they rented it for me and Commandant Lazar was getting a BJ while giving that speech, I did wonder what was going on though.
SOOOOOOO full of 80s bad taste offensive shit…..as you say fat jokes, gay jokes, sexist jokes, racist jokes…….I’m amazed cancel culture hasn’t had a go at it.
Was Guttenburg really that funny ? I always found the supporting cast of weirdos more amusing from memory.
I always used to think Jones and Eddie Murphy were the same guy.
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@Kruse said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
I always used to think Jones and Eddie Murphy were the same guy.
I assume you're fishing for a... "RACIST!"
I do have vague memories as a kid thinking the same, but.
There weren’t many black dudes in Nelson in the 80s
