Movie review thread...
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No Way Out
Perhaps the title comes from lawyer advising his client that he has to do the movie. Standard political thriller fare. Gene Hackman playing Gene Hackman, albeit only Sec of Defence this time, not the President (Absolute Power). Some considerable overacting between Dances with Wolves guy and Sean Young.
37th minute there's a terrible kapa haka rendition of Ka Mate. That's as far as I've got.
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@antipodean One of Roger Donaldson's best movies, hence the NZ connection.
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@antipodean said in Movie review thread...:
No Way Out
Perhaps the title comes from lawyer advising his client that he has to do the movie. Standard political thriller fare. Gene Hackman playing Gene Hackman, albeit only Sec of Defence this time, not the President (Absolute Power). Some considerable overacting between Dances with Wolves guy and Sean Young.
37th minute there's a terrible kapa haka rendition of Ka Mate. That's as far as I've got.
Remember that haka bit as being cringe-worthy but the rest as being a really good film with a stand-out performance from Will Patton.
High tit-watch factor too, IIRC.
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No Way Out is awesome. @antipodean's mini review does it a great injustice.
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@dogmeat Is that the mustang from Bullit?
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@Stockcar86 yup
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@antipodean said in Movie review thread...:
No Way Out
Perhaps the title comes from lawyer advising his client that he has to do the movie. Standard political thriller fare. Gene Hackman playing Gene Hackman, albeit only Sec of Defence this time, not the President (Absolute Power). Some considerable overacting between Dances with Wolves guy and Sean Young.
37th minute there's a terrible kapa haka rendition of Ka Mate. That's as far as I've got.
It improves to be a reasonably taut example of its genre. Timing and suspense is good. Plot has some holes and the ending is poor - not enough is done during the movie to add it. Performance by Will Patton is excellent.
7/10
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Finally got around to seeing Saving Private Ryan
Bit shit really.
Opening scene goes way too long, only a few of the good guys survive the game of water bullrush against the machine guns
The guy from Sleepless in Seattle makes it through
Silly plot and they lose about 17 soldiers trying to save the astronaut.
About an hour too long.
No boobs
2 friends characters out of 5 exposed intestines
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@voodoo said in Movie review thread...:
Finally got around to seeing Saving Private Ryan
Bit shit really.
Opening scene goes way too long, only a few of the good guys survive the game of water bullrush against the machine guns
The guy from Sleepless in Seattle makes it through
Silly plot and they lose about 17 soldiers trying to save the astronaut.
About an hour too long.
No boobs
2 friends characters out of 5 exposed intestines
No he doesn’t
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@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
@voodoo said in Movie review thread...:
Finally got around to seeing Saving Private Ryan
Bit shit really.
Opening scene goes way too long, only a few of the good guys survive the game of water bullrush against the machine guns
The guy from Sleepless in Seattle makes it through
Silly plot and they lose about 17 soldiers trying to save the astronaut.
About an hour too long.
No boobs
2 friends characters out of 5 exposed intestines
No he doesn’t
He makes it through the game of bullrush
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@voodoo said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
@voodoo said in Movie review thread...:
Finally got around to seeing Saving Private Ryan
Bit shit really.
Opening scene goes way too long, only a few of the good guys survive the game of water bullrush against the machine guns
The guy from Sleepless in Seattle makes it through
Silly plot and they lose about 17 soldiers trying to save the astronaut.
About an hour too long.
No boobs
2 friends characters out of 5 exposed intestines
No he doesn’t
He makes it through the game of bullrush
Well if he didn’t then someone like Kevin Spacey, Bill Paxton or Bill Pullman would have starred in the movie wouldn’t they ?
Good God man, stop whining and stop disrespecting a classic.
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@dogmeat said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 actually I agree with @voodoo
Saw it when it came out thought it was OK-ish but failed to reach the bar of expectations set by all the hype.
Typically Spielberg. Technically proficient but overly mawkish and sentimental with gratuitous sermonising plot lines and too long.
I reckon Band Of Brothers was better. But of course they had 10 episodes to get their story across. But still, Saving Private Ryan still raised the bar for WW2 films IMHO
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@dogmeat said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 actually I agree with @voodoo
Saw it when it came out thought it was OK-ish but failed to reach the bar of expectations set by all the hype.
Typically Spielberg. Technically proficient but overly mawkish and sentimental with gratuitous sermonising plot lines and too long.
Well put. If the opening sequence wasn't what it is, people would never talk about it. Especially given the ridiculous emotional appeal at the end. Sappy twaddle.
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@antipodean but it did exactly what you would want/expect a movie to do, engage you from the outset, then they can pretty much meander along at will, throw in a few other battle scenes to keep the engagement, and over 2 hours later, done.
