Movie review thread...
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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...:
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@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
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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot - Netflix
Tina Fey as journalist Kim Baker in a book by the same. Interesting look at journalism in a warzone and the reasons behind some people doing it. Cast includes Bilbo Baggins v2 and Margot Robbie, as well as Billy Bob Thornton and a couple of others.
Lots of laughs, a bit of serious shit, and a bit of a look at Afghanistan from a near-civilian's viewpoint.
3.5 broken eggs out of 5 horny AGs.
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@Machpants said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
Probably a hoax….cool poster though
Possibly? That's pretty average photoshop skills!
My excitement prevented me looking closer
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Torque
- After an aborted ride today - my bike fucking up on me after about 2 hours, waiting for 2 hours on the roadside to get picked up, a 2 hour drive back in a fucking ute, and then re-configuring my entire plans for upcoming holiday - figured I'd compensate by watching one of the worst movies about motorcycling ever
- A movie exec somewhere saw the success of "The Fast and the Furious" - and said "do THAT, with motorcycles"
- Retards were hired to carry out that marvelous vision
- I've always had a memory of it being fucking terrible - but revisit it every 10 years or so anyway
- But fuck me... it was worse than I'd ever remembered. So fucking bad. Despite Martin Henderson's best efforts, I don't foresee a Torque X in his future.
Tit-watch: zero.
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@Kruse said in Movie review thread...:
After an aborted ride today - my bike fucking up on me after about 2 hours, waiting for 2 hours on the roadside to get picked up, a 2 hour drive back in a fucking ute, and then re-configuring my entire plans for upcoming holiday
I recommend repeated viewings of On Any Sunday and The Next Chapter as a cure....
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Continuing with the classics. « Look who’s coming to dinner. » This film has really not aged well.
2 films I didn’t like on first viewing when I was much (much) younger but now seem worthy of their status: gone with the wind and Casablanca. The 2 leads in the former put in amazing performances. But Casablanca is on another level. Really is a top film and Claude rains is great as the policeman.
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@Billy-Tell said in Movie review thread...:
Continuing with the classics. « Look who’s coming to dinner. » This film has really not aged well.
2 films I didn’t like on first viewing when I was much (much) younger but now seem worthy of their status: gone with the wind and Casablanca. The 2 leads in the former put in amazing performances. But Casablanca is on another level. Really is a top film and Claude rains is great as the policeman.
Agree on Casablanca, it's great, in my top 5 films of all time. I first watched it as an adult so it was an instant classic for me, conversely I watched The Godfather as a kid and found it so boring with it's long opening wedding scene. As an adult that scene is brilliant at setting up all the players in the movie, and it's my number 1 film of all time.
Gone with the Wind was a slow boring movie when I watched it as a kid with too much romance and not enough action, and a piece of white supremacist revisionist history when I watched it as an adult.
I saw Look Who's Coming to Dinner as a kid, have never felt the urge to watch it again.
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Yeah GWTW wouldn’t get near the movies now. But the acting is first rate. I’ve now watched a heap of old films. Even watched a heap of silent movies of which Metropolis and Man with a movie camera are my favourites.
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This should be good. Witcher, Reacher and that bloke who was married to Madonna. No, the other one.
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@antipodean i watched this trailer this morning. it looks a load of fun
Also the smoking hot Eiza Gonzalez
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@antipodean Good cast. Speaking of Ritchie, his old producing partner and arguably better director, Mathew Vaughn has Argylle coming out tomorrow which also stars the Witcher and has a cracking cast.
