Movie review thread...
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@Kruse said in Movie review thread...:
@MiketheSnow said in Movie review thread...:
4.5 Wicks of 5 Blondies
Sisu
Yep - that was fun.
Finnish Eastwood fighting Nazis as imagined by Tarantino/Rodriguez on a coke-binge.
Can't go fucking wrong.
4.5 flying body-parts out of 5 mining-picks to the skull. Or knives through the skull? Or unnecessary gratuitous shots of the insides of a human being?
Sisu.I love this movie already and I haven’t even watched it.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Movie review thread...:
Luther: Fallen Sun.
Luther was a 9/10 TV series and Idris Elba one of my favourite actors, but this was really disappointing. The basic plot was OK but somewhere between that and the script it went badly awry and the writing was a bit shit. Some of the scenes were terrifyingly good, but a lot were incredibly predictable and formulaic. The acting was real hammy in places. Tit watch -6.
6 sadistic serial killers out of 10 James Bond Villains.
Got around to watching this last night. Became very OTT very quickly.
How someone could take Elba and Serkis and make such a disappointing movie is beyond me.
Serkis was brilliant as usual and showed that the Bond producers have missed out on a great villian (wig aside).
I wouldn't say don't watch it. It is as OK as much of the other stuff around, just disappointing as it could have been better.
As a seperate point, shows set in London seem to be really struggling with finding the locations to suit the narrative these days. Case in point, trying to recreate a seedy corner of Soho when those really don't exist anymore. Editing did a good job of stitching together about 4 locations to create one short scene. Writers still stuck in the late 80s while Soho has become very gentrified.
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@MiketheSnow said in Movie review thread...:
4.5 Wicks of 5 Blondies
Watched this and it was a delightfully entertaining romp. A couple of eye roll moments, but definintely worth the watch.
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@antipodean said in Movie review thread...:
@MiketheSnow said in Movie review thread...:
4.5 Wicks of 5 Blondies
Watched this and it was a delightfully entertaining romp. A couple of eye roll moments, but definintely worth the watch.
Did you find a streamer in Oz with it or did, ahem, a friend lend it to you?
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The latter.
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@antipodean said in Movie review thread...:
The latter.
Poo's. I'm too lazy to get things off my friends these days, I guess I'll wait for the Oz cinema release.
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@antipodean said in Movie review thread...:
@MiketheSnow said in Movie review thread...:
4.5 Wicks of 5 Blondies
Watched this and it was a delightfully entertaining romp. A couple of eye roll moments, but definintely worth the watch.
Looks gloriously Finnish. Realistic? A hundred years ago in Lapland those fishermen and hunters were damn tough.
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Not being able to watch the movie until end of July but hearing about the premise I'm impressed that the Fins have managed to make a WW2 movie involving themselves where the Nazi's are still the bad guys.
The Sami people are really interesting, I've met a few at indigenous conferences, it's always good for me not to be the whitest there.
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@Machpants said in Movie review thread...:
Is it any good, normally things get pretty crap by the fourth movie?
I guess if you can turn your brain off, or enjoy the F&F franchise, then this would be thoroughly entertaining.
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@antipodean said in Movie review thread...:
@Machpants said in Movie review thread...:
Is it any good, normally things get pretty crap by the fourth movie?
I guess if you can turn your brain off, or enjoy the F&F franchise, then this would be thoroughly entertaining.
No different than the previous, then. JW is good, 2 and 3 ok. Won't bother with 4 if it's worse than 3
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@Machpants said in Movie review thread...:
@antipodean said in Movie review thread...:
@Machpants said in Movie review thread...:
Is it any good, normally things get pretty crap by the fourth movie?
I guess if you can turn your brain off, or enjoy the F&F franchise, then this would be thoroughly entertaining.
No different than the previous, then. JW is good, 2 and 3 ok. Won't bother with 4 if it's worse than 3
It's probably not worth watching it if this is the mindset you're starting from.
I enjoyed it, it's switch of your brain fun, like @Bovidae the first is still the best for me.
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@Machpants worst but is JW4 is almost 3 hours...that kind of movie should be about 100 mins only.
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@taniwharugby said in Movie review thread...:
@Machpants worst but is JW4 is almost 3 hours...that kind of movie should be about 100 mins only.
Mmm oh well if I have a few beers it'll A) seem better and b) shorter - as I'll forget half of it. If I do decide to watch it haha
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John Wick 4
- Yeah, pretty bad
- It's like they somehow looked at how successful the previous ones were, and completely misunderstood which part kept it successful
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- ie: It wasn't the whole "Table" bullshit
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- But... this leaned heavily into that... and every aspect of that was fucking shit
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- and when they tried to recreate "fight scene in a cool museum type setting" - pretty shit
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- But... when it just went back to core concept - which it did fairly often, to be fair - enjoyable
I'm going to watch John Wich again several times.
I'm probably going to watch John Wick 2 & 3 again occasionally.
I'm only ever going to watch John Wick 4 again as a drunken "why was that so shit again?" reminder. Like Lethal Weapon 4.
And tit-watch: zero.That fucking poker game. I mean... fuck you.
I appreciated some (attempts) of the nods to proper original kung-fu movies, but that was a spit-in-the-face.
Sisu (2022) ⭐ 6.9 | Action, Drama, Thriller
