Movie review thread...
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@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Movie review thread...:
Caine has this amazing ability to look and sound like Michael Caine on screen but not be Michael Caine on screen.
Incredibly versatile actor as well - can do anything.
Yeah steady on, definitely a terrific presence as I said but like Clint Eastwood, Sean Connery, Harrison Ford etc it’s still very much Michael Caine being Michael Caine. He’s no Oldman or Day Lewis.
I was doing to mention the difference between Caine and Oldman. Oldman completely disappears into a role physically, Caine doesn't yet still manages to be the character he wants to portray as well as Oldman et al.
And he can play any genre - tough guy, comedy, drama, rom com, musical, historical - equally well and is a bit like Spencer Tracy in that regard. Heck, he can even produce one of the great portrayals of Scrooge starring with a bunch of muppets.
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You are, of course, right.
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Would you mind yelling Mrs Cato that?
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@Catogrande said in Movie review thread...:
Would you mind yelling Mrs Cato that?
I'm not a home-breaker.
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Caine’s legacy will always be tainted by the dross he appeared in during the 70s and 80s purely for the cash. But in between he did some great stuff.
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Ice Storm
Previously I gave less than glowing review of The Day After Tomorrow. But that's 12 Angry Men in comparison to this steaming turd. The one impressive aspect of this movie is that the drooling imbecile that wrote the script is still better than McKenzie Westmore's acting.
1 bowling ball sized hail out of 5 tuning forks.
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Army Of Thieves
Before we go any further: Ruby O Fee and Nathalie Emmanuel are hawt. So hawt.
Centred around a German safe cracker, who is otherwise the most boring man in Germany. Which is saying something.
I liked the classical links and the action bits. Plenty of laughs and generally just good fun, with the events of the "sequel" mentioned almost as a peripheral event.
4 Walküre out of 4 Götterdämmerung
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Army Of The Dead
Because of course I watched this next. Duh.
Not too much brain required. Zombies. Guns. Plots. Undead tigers. Nuclear bombs. You see where this is going...
A bunch of people make a bunch of bad decisions and end up dead. That's your zombie flick right there. Still fun tho.
3.5 alphas out of 5 shitty helicopters
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@NTA said in Movie review thread...:
Army Of The Dead
Because of course I watched this next. Duh.
Not too much brain required. Zombies. Guns. Plots. Undead tigers. Nuclear bombs. You see where this is going...
A bunch of people make a bunch of bad decisions and end up dead. That's your zombie flick right there. Still fun tho.
3.5 alphas out of 5 shitty helicopters
A fun film. The prequel was even better IMHO
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Movie review thread...:
@MiketheSnow said in Movie review thread...:
Stellar performances from Cagney and Fonda
I recommend Bad Day at Black Rock with Fonda and Spencer Tracy...
Speaking of Fonda I’m about a third of the way through a film starring his daughter: Cat Ballou.
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@Billy-Tell said in Movie review thread...:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Movie review thread...:
@MiketheSnow said in Movie review thread...:
Stellar performances from Cagney and Fonda
I recommend Bad Day at Black Rock with Fonda and Spencer Tracy...
Speaking of Fonda I’m about a third of the way through a film starring his daughter: Cat Ballou.
It was actually Robert Ryan in Bad Day at Black Rock....I got confused.
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@Billy-Tell said in Movie review thread...:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Movie review thread...:
@MiketheSnow said in Movie review thread...:
Stellar performances from Cagney and Fonda
I recommend Bad Day at Black Rock with Fonda and Spencer Tracy...
Speaking of Fonda I’m about a third of the way through a film starring his daughter: Cat Ballou.
A pretty shite film imo, though saved to a degree by Marvin.
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I watched The Creator last night. Others have talked about the movie but the Making Of extra is well worth watching. Gareth Edwards did the opposite of most sci-fi movies and used guerrilla-filming techniques on location and spent the majority of the budget in post-production with ILM to add the sci-fi elements.
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I'll delete my own GOM response, seems the context to that youtube video is important...
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@Billy-Tell said in Movie review thread...:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Movie review thread...:
@MiketheSnow said in Movie review thread...:
Stellar performances from Cagney and Fonda
I recommend Bad Day at Black Rock with Fonda and Spencer Tracy...
Speaking of Fonda I’m about a third of the way through a film starring his daughter: Cat Ballou.
Love this movie
Great opening song too
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@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
The Iron Claw: Pretty decent movie about the Von Erich pro wrestling family. Stars Zac Efron and Carmy from The Bear, who are both pretty good despite being way too short for the guys they're playing.
The Von Erichs were pretty average sized pro wrestlers but massive by any other standards. I’m keen to see this nonetheless, unbelievable what happened to that family really…..
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@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
The Iron Claw: Pretty decent movie about the Von Erich pro wrestling family. Stars Zac Efron and Carmy from The Bear, who are both pretty good despite being way too short for the guys they're playing.
The Von Erichs were pretty average sized pro wrestlers but massive by any other standards. I’m keen to see this nonetheless, unbelievable what happened to that family really…..
Wasnt one of them (David?) about 6 foot 7? That is large in that era I would have thought.
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Mission Impossible: Dead reckoning
Tom Cruise knows how to make a great action film, and for me it ticked a lot of boxes. His MI films are generally well paced, involve exotic locations, and have lots of action with a little humour thrown in. Not sure when the second instalment drops, but I'll look forward to that too. 4.5 self destructing recordings out of 5 AI superviruses
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@nostrildamus said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
The Iron Claw: Pretty decent movie about the Von Erich pro wrestling family. Stars Zac Efron and Carmy from The Bear, who are both pretty good despite being way too short for the guys they're playing.
The Von Erichs were pretty average sized pro wrestlers but massive by any other standards. I’m keen to see this nonetheless, unbelievable what happened to that family really…..
Wasnt one of them (David?) about 6 foot 7? That is large in that era I would have thought.
The short brother brings the average down
