Movie review thread...
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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.
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@Tim said in Movie review thread...:
Am watching The Beekeeper, which is pretty entertaining so far. Statham wasted far too much time on that Meg crap.
In this he's kind of like the aged version of pr0spector88's fantasy operator, and he's determined to kill Hunter Biden.
I watched this on your recommendation as there were 3 movies at the same time and I couldn't chose.
It was a good action film, while completely stupid at the same time.
I don't know why it wasn't just a Mechanic film. In fact, I prefer to think of all of Staths films like this as within the same universe, it's like he's in an episodic TV show going around helping out the weak. Stath as the 70s Hulk or The Littlest Hobo.
I now want to see one of those YT expert discusses movies type vids where they say whether he accidentally killed some of the law enforcement people he was trying not to kill.
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Napoleon.
Bit of a mishmash if truth be told. Cinemaphotography was stunning and the battle scenes outstanding, but the whole thing came across as a bit empty and unfinished.
Joachim Phoenix was pretty poor, maybe because the script was poor or he was just bored by the whole thing. Rupert Everett's Wellington was way more real and engaging despite having a limited screen time.
Bit disappointing. 3 Parisian bordello pleasure techniques out of 5 Austerlitz cavalry charges
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Movie review thread...:
Napoleon.
Bit of a mishmash if truth be told. Cinemaphotography was stunning and the battle scenes outstanding, but the whole thing came across as a bit empty and unfinished.
Joachim Phoenix was pretty poor, maybe because the script was poor or he was just bored by the whole thing. Rupert Everett's Wellington was way more real and engaging despite having a limited screen time.
Bit disappointing. 3 Parisian bordello pleasure techniques out of 5 Austerlitz cavalry charges
Most overrated actor of all time. Have never understood the fascination
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@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Movie review thread...:
Napoleon.
Bit of a mishmash if truth be told. Cinemaphotography was stunning and the battle scenes outstanding, but the whole thing came across as a bit empty and unfinished.
Joachim Phoenix was pretty poor, maybe because the script was poor or he was just bored by the whole thing. Rupert Everett's Wellington was way more real and engaging despite having a limited screen time.
Bit disappointing. 3 Parisian bordello pleasure techniques out of 5 Austerlitz cavalry charges
Most overrated actor of all time. Have never understood the fascination
He’s been excellent in a number of movies
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@MiketheSnow said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Movie review thread...:
Napoleon.
Bit of a mishmash if truth be told. Cinemaphotography was stunning and the battle scenes outstanding, but the whole thing came across as a bit empty and unfinished.
Joachim Phoenix was pretty poor, maybe because the script was poor or he was just bored by the whole thing. Rupert Everett's Wellington was way more real and engaging despite having a limited screen time.
Bit disappointing. 3 Parisian bordello pleasure techniques out of 5 Austerlitz cavalry charges
Most overrated actor of all time. Have never understood the fascination
He’s been excellent in a number of movies
He was good in U turn and the Joker movie. But yeah, it’s the fern and I made my statement so I have to stick by it
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@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Movie review thread...:
Napoleon.
Bit of a mishmash if truth be told. Cinemaphotography was stunning and the battle scenes outstanding, but the whole thing came across as a bit empty and unfinished.
Joachim Phoenix was pretty poor, maybe because the script was poor or he was just bored by the whole thing. Rupert Everett's Wellington was way more real and engaging despite having a limited screen time.
Bit disappointing. 3 Parisian bordello pleasure techniques out of 5 Austerlitz cavalry charges
Most overrated actor of all time. Have never understood the fascination
Agree, as much as I swim against the tide and think DDL hammed up certain later films (Gangs, Blood) he is genuinely brilliant in the majority of his career, Phoenix was probably last good in Inventing the Abbott's and I probably only remember that due to Jennifer Connelly's boobs.
Even his Joker which you rate is just the same performance he always gives to me.
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@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Movie review thread...:
Napoleon.
Bit of a mishmash if truth be told. Cinemaphotography was stunning and the battle scenes outstanding, but the whole thing came across as a bit empty and unfinished.
Joachim Phoenix was pretty poor, maybe because the script was poor or he was just bored by the whole thing. Rupert Everett's Wellington was way more real and engaging despite having a limited screen time.
Bit disappointing. 3 Parisian bordello pleasure techniques out of 5 Austerlitz cavalry charges
Most overrated actor of all time. Have never understood the fascination
Agree, as much as I swim against the tide and think DDL hammed up certain later films (Gangs, Blood) he is genuinely brilliant in the majority of his career, Phoenix was probably last good in Inventing the Abbott's and I probably only remember that due to Jennifer Connelly's boobs.
Even his Joker which you rate is just the same performance he always gives to me.
The flatties and I pretty much destroyed the video cassette rewinding that scene over and over. I didn’t even know JP was in the movie.
Outstanding rack ( which seems to have vanished of late, she was a million times hotter in her youth than she is today )
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@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Movie review thread...:
Napoleon.
Bit of a mishmash if truth be told. Cinemaphotography was stunning and the battle scenes outstanding, but the whole thing came across as a bit empty and unfinished.
Joachim Phoenix was pretty poor, maybe because the script was poor or he was just bored by the whole thing. Rupert Everett's Wellington was way more real and engaging despite having a limited screen time.
Bit disappointing. 3 Parisian bordello pleasure techniques out of 5 Austerlitz cavalry charges
Most overrated actor of all time. Have never understood the fascination
Agree, as much as I swim against the tide and think DDL hammed up certain later films (Gangs, Blood) he is genuinely brilliant in the majority of his career, Phoenix was probably last good in Inventing the Abbott's and I probably only remember that due to Jennifer Connelly's boobs.
Even his Joker which you rate is just the same performance he always gives to me.
The flatties and I pretty much destroyed the video cassette rewinding that scene over and over.
Outstanding rack ( which seems to have vanished of late, she was a million times hotter in her youth than she is today )
She's still hot for her age I reckon, she's just aged.
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@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Movie review thread...:
Napoleon.
Bit of a mishmash if truth be told. Cinemaphotography was stunning and the battle scenes outstanding, but the whole thing came across as a bit empty and unfinished.
Joachim Phoenix was pretty poor, maybe because the script was poor or he was just bored by the whole thing. Rupert Everett's Wellington was way more real and engaging despite having a limited screen time.
Bit disappointing. 3 Parisian bordello pleasure techniques out of 5 Austerlitz cavalry charges
Most overrated actor of all time. Have never understood the fascination
Agree, as much as I swim against the tide and think DDL hammed up certain later films (Gangs, Blood) he is genuinely brilliant in the majority of his career, Phoenix was probably last good in Inventing the Abbott's and I probably only remember that due to Jennifer Connelly's boobs.
Even his Joker which you rate is just the same performance he always gives to me.
The flatties and I pretty much destroyed the video cassette rewinding that scene over and over.
Outstanding rack ( which seems to have vanished of late, she was a million times hotter in her youth than she is today )
She's still hot for her age I reckon, she's just aged.
Too skinny now
The rack in her early 20s was absolutely award winning.
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@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Movie review thread...:
Napoleon.
Bit of a mishmash if truth be told. Cinemaphotography was stunning and the battle scenes outstanding, but the whole thing came across as a bit empty and unfinished.
Joachim Phoenix was pretty poor, maybe because the script was poor or he was just bored by the whole thing. Rupert Everett's Wellington was way more real and engaging despite having a limited screen time.
Bit disappointing. 3 Parisian bordello pleasure techniques out of 5 Austerlitz cavalry charges
Most overrated actor of all time. Have never understood the fascination
Agree, as much as I swim against the tide and think DDL hammed up certain later films (Gangs, Blood) he is genuinely brilliant in the majority of his career, Phoenix was probably last good in Inventing the Abbott's and I probably only remember that due to Jennifer Connelly's boobs.
Even his Joker which you rate is just the same performance he always gives to me.
The flatties and I pretty much destroyed the video cassette rewinding that scene over and over.
Outstanding rack ( which seems to have vanished of late, she was a million times hotter in her youth than she is today )
She's still hot for her age I reckon, she's just aged.
Too skinny now
The rack in her early 20s was absolutely award winning.
Settle down Brad Pitt. You wouldn't say no even now.
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@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Movie review thread...:
Napoleon.
Bit of a mishmash if truth be told. Cinemaphotography was stunning and the battle scenes outstanding, but the whole thing came across as a bit empty and unfinished.
Joachim Phoenix was pretty poor, maybe because the script was poor or he was just bored by the whole thing. Rupert Everett's Wellington was way more real and engaging despite having a limited screen time.
Bit disappointing. 3 Parisian bordello pleasure techniques out of 5 Austerlitz cavalry charges
Most overrated actor of all time. Have never understood the fascination
Agree, as much as I swim against the tide and think DDL hammed up certain later films (Gangs, Blood) he is genuinely brilliant in the majority of his career, Phoenix was probably last good in Inventing the Abbott's and I probably only remember that due to Jennifer Connelly's boobs.
Even his Joker which you rate is just the same performance he always gives to me.
The flatties and I pretty much destroyed the video cassette rewinding that scene over and over.
Outstanding rack ( which seems to have vanished of late, she was a million times hotter in her youth than she is today )
She's still hot for her age I reckon, she's just aged.
Too skinny now
The rack in her early 20s was absolutely award winning.
Settle down Brad Pitt. You wouldn't say no even now.
No but I’d make the boob comment. ( afterwards )
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Aquaman and The Lost Kingdom
Should really be called "... and the Lost Franchise"
I have good memories of the first Aquaman film. We were in Taupo in 2019 during January, and at a bit of a loose end after dinner. While we had to pay cash (they didn't accept Credit Card at the time), we settled in for a bit of Jason "Fucking" Momoa in what was a decent flick from memory.
So a couple of Sundays ago, we were once again at a loose end. The writers strike has given us lean pickings in terms of cinema viewing. The new Aquaman film was on, so what the hell.
The DC franchise is a dumpster fire, by and large. Expectations were low.
They were met.
The CGI was generally good. The funny parts were mostly funny. But it was just bullshit and failed at any point to generate engagement.
1 armored shark out of 5 glowing seahorses.
