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Just watched Nobody
Starring the guy who plays Saul in Breaking Bad, it was a great Saturday night highly violent easy watch. Sorry of a grittier John Wick, ex-spook assassin trying to live a "normal" life accidentally pisses off Russian mafia sociopath and action ensues. A strong 8 booby traps out of 10 stolen Van Gogh paintings
I see this all the time about Nobody (assume Sorry is actually Sort) and it makes me chuckle.
The final scene is adult Home Alone and his Dad looks like he's in a panto.
Yeah when I say gritty I just mean he doesn't look as movie star as Keanu. But yes the final part is just ridiculous good fun
spoiler/GOM
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why didn't he just throw the bloody explosives at the bad dude rather than strap them to that impossibly tough glass and run at him?
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Because claymores are directional weapons that are immediately detonated unless connected to a timing fuse. If he didn't do what he did it could've gone back at them.
##endspoilerthanks I had no idea
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@MN5 i think not till 2023, i kind of remember being annoyed they were subsequent years...shit it would have been good if they filmed them at the same time and released them six months apart or somethign
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@Kiwiwomble said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 i think not till 2023, i kind of remember being annoyed they were subsequent years...shit it would have been good if they filmed them at the same time and released them six months apart or somethign
Damn right. Just like they did with Back to the Future II and III !
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@MN5 yeah, i always thought it worked well for proper two parters, harry potter (whether people like them or not) did it and it keep the excitement up, LotR did year gaps but was an event for three years just before xmas i think?
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@Kiwiwomble said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 yeah, i always thought it worked well for proper two parters, harry potter (whether people like them or not) did it and it keep the excitement up, LotR did year gaps but was an event for three years just before xmas i think?
I think the issue with Dune is they could only get enough money for part 1, and part 2's existence relied on part 1 doing well enough for the funding.
I'm just glad it did well enough, in todays era of billion dollar box offices I was worried it would need to get near that for part 2 to be made. Luckily it only needed to be old school successful.
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@Nepia makes sense, would have thought a film that could get that many big stars to sign off wouldn't have funding issues, also a proven source material
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@Kiwiwomble said in Movie review thread...:
@Nepia makes sense, would have thought a film that could get that many big stars to sign off wouldn't have funding issues, also a proven source material
Yeah pre COVID I’m sure it was a no brainer it would do well but that make have been a factor along with loads of delays.
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@Kiwiwomble said in Movie review thread...:
@Nepia makes sense, would have thought a film that could get that many big stars to sign off wouldn't have funding issues, also a proven source material
I'm not sure it's a proven source material to the general public, as opposed to us nerds. I think there was a lot of worry about how well it would do at the time despite having the most hyped director of the time.
I wonder if the stars got them a bit of extra money or helped them get the money?
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@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
@Kiwiwomble said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 yeah, i always thought it worked well for proper two parters, harry potter (whether people like them or not) did it and it keep the excitement up, LotR did year gaps but was an event for three years just before xmas i think?
I think the issue with Dune is they could only get enough money for part 1, and part 2's existence relied on part 1 doing well enough for the funding.
I'm just glad it did well enough, in todays era of billion dollar box offices I was worried it would need to get near that for part 2 to be made. Luckily it only needed to be old school successful.
One of the few movies I have got on UHD, just awesome
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I think @NTA explained it best so I might need a refresher.
The reason they don’t just shoot each other with laser guns ( like Star Wars ) is cos they ALL have special shields on their bodies is that right ?
I’m gonna nerd out and watch Dune again soon, I suspect it’s one that improves with each viewing.
@nepia I agree. This year has absolutely flown by at an astonishing rate but it feels like ages ago when I saw it, not a year or so.
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@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
@Kiwiwomble said in Movie review thread...:
@Nepia makes sense, would have thought a film that could get that many big stars to sign off wouldn't have funding issues, also a proven source material
I'm not sure it's a proven source material to the general public, as opposed to us nerds. I think there was a lot of worry about how well it would do at the time despite having the most hyped director of the time.
I wonder if the stars got them a bit of extra money or helped them get the money?
Agreed. If you’re a Dune fan your viewpoint on the film would be very different to those not so disposed.
I tried reading the book back in the day. Tried watching the shit film with Sting and thought both very tedious. Tried watching the new flick and found the pretentiousness on the same level and allied to that was the necessity to have crap dialogue purely to try and explain the story. Had to bale out pretty early.
What a pile of wank.
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@Catogrande said in Movie review thread...:
@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
@Kiwiwomble said in Movie review thread...:
@Nepia makes sense, would have thought a film that could get that many big stars to sign off wouldn't have funding issues, also a proven source material
I'm not sure it's a proven source material to the general public, as opposed to us nerds. I think there was a lot of worry about how well it would do at the time despite having the most hyped director of the time.
I wonder if the stars got them a bit of extra money or helped them get the money?
Agreed. If you’re a Dune fan your viewpoint on the film would be very different to those not so disposed.
I tried reading the book back in the day. Tried watching the shit film with Sting and thought both very tedious. Tried watching the new flick and found the pretentiousness on the same level and allied to that was the necessity to have crap dialogue purely to try and explain the story. Had to bale out pretty early.
What a pile of wank.
I get what you’re saying to some degree.
It’s certainly thinking mans Sci fi as opposed to Star Wars ( although Andor has swung things more in Dunes direction ).
To this day I still haven’t read the book but I enjoyed the 90’s Computer games and I liked parts of the 80s movie you mentioned. Definitely a weird one but elements were better than the latest entry ( I liked the Baron in the 80s film as one example )
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havent seen the 80' movie but read the book during COVID in anticipation of the movie, actually found it contrived but in hindsight i think thats because several aspects have become tropes in more recent SciFi, im sure they were original ideas when it was written
LOVED the 2021 movie though, thought they turned some of the more tedious aspects into this visually spectacular scenes and kept things moving quite nicely
was on tv a few months ago, watched and still loved it
@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
I think @NTA explained it best so I might need a refresher.
The reason they don’t just shoot each other with laser guns ( like Star Wars ) is cos they ALL have special shields on their bodies is that right ?
yes, people have shields but the shields are designed to stop fast moving things (bullets, lazers), so people have reverted to older technology (bladed weapons) as they can be worked through shields
regression of technology being one of those tropes, no computers or AI being another example of this
interestingly Star wars stole this idea for their old republic stories, people had personal shields so characters carried swords etc
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@Machpants the casting was top notch. That makes a big difference and was one of the things that made LOTR so fucking good. I like the way it handles technology and how that has led to hand to hand combat. One big part of that is the Navigators guild owning space so the factions don't really have legit space power. Imo that is where the technology setting would break down fast.
