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@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
Downsizing
Intriguing premise and quite thought provoking even if it is 100% bullshit. Matt Damon ( very bland as he often is ) volunteers to shrink down to five inches tall in a bid to not consume so much of the earths resources, do the humanitarian thing etc……
Starts promisingly but really boring as fuck unfortunately
It would have been so much better if……
A rogue normal sized person or at least a bunch of rats attacked the settlement ?Christoph Waltz is pretty good fun playing the same character he always does and the Vietnamese woman is a bit of a hoot but ultimately this flick is not worth your time.
2 tiny settlements out of 5 parties at the neighbours house upstairs
1000%. The premise is brilliant and the film could have been a classic, but is boring cråp. Hugely disappointing.
Would you downsize you reckon?
No chance. Whilst living like a king just like Dougie Houser advertised might be appealing and the thought of 500 grams of steak lasting months would be terrific I’d be worried about cats, rats, spiders etc.
Or just someone who I’ve wronged getting revenge and standing on me and squashing me, grabbing me and throwing me into a wall or just putting me in a glass jar and letting me suffocate.
I’ve really thought this through way more than I should have.
Yeah. Just one normal sized person with a lawnmower could cause absolute carnage. Shit even drunk idiots could kill thousands.
Seriously, how did they fůck this film up?
I can see it now. Loads of small people at a concert or gathering and a disgruntled ex friend, co worker or whatever goes nuts with a Masport.
The small people lose radio contact with the outside world and have to resort to their own little weapons to take him out.
Such a lost opportunity
Shit that would have been cool.
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"Mark Wahlberg also did one with a similar storyline, but much lower grade." Apart from the Departed and with Will Ferrell, this guy just bores me, has as much charisma as height.
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@nostrildamus said in Movie review thread...:
"Mark Wahlberg also did one with a similar storyline, but much lower grade." Apart from the Departed and with Will Ferrell, this guy just bores me, has as much charisma as height.
I won’t stand for Wahlberg being criticised…..especially if Matt Damon is being praised in some quarters
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@antipodean said in Movie review thread...:
The Meg
You need to be starved of oxygen before turning your brain off for this. Statham is doing this between begging Guy Ritchie for a role and F&F. Uncle Bully appears to be taking any role that pays. And this is the high water mark for some Australian chick who appears to have mistaken superglue for hair gel.
Action scenes are simply unbelievable, the dialogue and acting are mind-numbingly idiotic, and not in a single iota of deliberate satire way.
My boys loved Jaws…..( the original, not one of the shirty sequels which even Michael Caine hated despite being in one of them ) and hated this. Sometimes less is more.
I suggested it as an option while scrolling through movies as options and got four thumbs down.
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@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
@nostrildamus said in Movie review thread...:
"Mark Wahlberg also did one with a similar storyline, but much lower grade." Apart from the Departed and with Will Ferrell, this guy just bores me, has as much charisma as height.
I won’t stand for Wahlberg being criticised…..especially if Matt Damon is being praised in some quarters
He was good in 3 Kings
And 2 guns
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@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
I won’t stand for Wahlberg being criticised…..especially if Matt Damon is being praised in some quarters
I'll reserve my final judgement until I have found and played Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch: Make My Video, the Sega video game.
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@canefan said in Movie review thread...:
He was good in 3 Kings
And 2 guns
so basically movies by numbers.
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Wahlberg's only skill is acting surprised. And I use the term acting in a deliberately vague sense.
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His older brother Donny (he of NKOTB
) is a much better actor. He was the farked up former patient who shoots BW in the 6th Sense. Also had a gig in Band of Brothers. Unfortunately probably best known for the Saw films. -
@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Movie review thread...:
His older brother Donny (he of NKOTB
) is a much better actor. He was the farked up former patient who shoots BW in the 6th Sense. Also had a gig in Band of Brothers. Unfortunately probably best known for the Saw films.He was brilliant as Carwood Lipton
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@antipodean said in Movie review thread...:
Wahlberg's only skill is acting surprised. And I use the term acting in a deliberately vague sense.
And confused. Surprised and confused. Fucking master method actor at being surprised and confused.
Huh?
Wha...?His lines "Do I have insurance? It's an alien spaceship!" and "Honey, pass me my alien gun." in one of the Transformers movies though... brilliance.
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Lone Wolf McQuade
- What a glorious hot mess
- Everything good and bad about a 1980s movie
- Essentially a set-up for "Chuck Norris vs David Carradine"
- Everything else - didn't make a lick of sense
- Even that showdown - didn't make a lick of sense. A life-and-death showdown - and both contestants took multiple options to give the other guy a chance.
-- And then, finish it by throwing a fucking grenade? Weak sauce. - Must re-iterate - EVERYTHING good and bad about a 1980s movie - just thrown into a blender
- It's like they saw the success of every other movie of around that time, misunderstood the cause/effect, and then just threw it together into a movie
Fucked up, beautiful hot mess. I got drunk just by watching it. Can't even think of a better way to describe 3.5 <something about plot-jumps> out of 5 <plot clumsinesses>
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@Kruse said in Movie review thread...:
Lone Wolf McQuade
- What a glorious hot mess
- Everything good and bad about a 1980s movie
- Essentially a set-up for "Chuck Norris vs David Carradine"
- Everything else - didn't make a lick of sense
- Even that showdown - didn't make a lick of sense. A life-and-death showdown - and both contestants took multiple options to give the other guy a chance.
-- And then, finish it by throwing a fucking grenade? Weak sauce. - Must re-iterate - EVERYTHING good and bad about a 1980s movie - just thrown into a blender
- It's like they saw the success of every other movie of around that time, misunderstood the cause/effect, and then just threw it together into a movie
Fucked up, beautiful hot mess. I got drunk just by watching it. Can't even think of a better way to describe 3.5 <something about plot-jumps> out of 5 <plot clumsinesses>
No mention of Barbara Carrera ?
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So watched a few movies yesterday so here goes
The Flash - the one that took ages to get to done. Is this a comeback for DC? Marvel have looked off the boil of late and this was actually an enjoyable watch with many cameos, including a very good Michael Keaton. The plot is based on the Flash’s speed to travel in time and thus creating/explaining the DCU version of the multiverse. So although a lot of the story is conveniently done before it is done extremely well with a mix of old and new material. Really well done even if a bit of CGI not done that well 3.5 out of 5
Sisu - reminds me of the John Wick movies, a man with nothing left to lose goes on a rampage against some Nazis. Quite good, but given a few write ups was expecting a bit more than what I watched. Still an enjoyable violent death count 3 out of 5
Shazam, fury of the gods - can see why this was not like by critics, if I wasn’t on a plane looking for something I had not seen, may have not even have watched it. Highlight was the credits where even “the peacemaker” cast didn’t want him. 2 out of 5
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Thank you to those who recommended The Creator
That's the best movie I have seen in forever.
5 stars. All the feels.
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@mariner4life said in Movie review thread...:
Thank you to those who recommended The Creator
That's the best movie I have seen in forever.
5 stars. All the feels.
I’ve heard good things although I’m slightly wary as it stars Denzils son who has been in nothing but crap, hopefully he turns it around here.
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He is sooooo fucking good in this. So good.
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I watched Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. It did feel like a bit of a victory lap, with cameos from familiar characters, and a sort of play on the Temple of Doom with the young sidekick. I did enjoy it, Madds Mickelson was great, I felt it was a nice way to end Harrison Ford's era in the franchise. 4 Nazis out of 5 Centurions
