Movie review thread...
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@Victor-Meldrew who knows, if the last half of the novel was written by an angsty teen, it could be spot on.
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@Bones I thought it was watchable, but agree with Black bag, I bailed on it.
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@taniwharugby said in Movie review thread...:
@Bones I thought it was watchable, but agree with Black bag, I bailed on it.
@Kruse would have a field day with cabins.
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@Bones said in Movie review thread...:
@Bones said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
Black Bag
Pretty entertaining ( if not at all action packed ) thriller.
Michael Fassbender bloody good as always, even Cate Blanchett looked decent ! Some great lines and a few twists and turns about secrets, cover ups and selling things to foreign enemies.
Thought provoking and intriguing, worth a watch.
3 lies out of 5 Black Bags
Half an hour in and about to ditch it, but will carry on if it's decent, ta.
Plus Cate is always smashing.
Ok so 90 minutes felt like 150, somehow held my interest but kinda felt like a Guy Ritchie movie without all the fun stuff. Maybe too cerebral for me.
Watchable, but I wouldn't recommend.
4 annoying shitcunts out of 10 wtf is going on.
On second thoughts ( and you know I don't agree with you if I can help it ) that's probably a pretty fair review. Maybe it was a bit too clever for its own good.
It needed more thrills and action for sure.
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Nobody 2
A bit more fun and over the top than the original, but still a good watch none.the less.
4 tranquiliser darts to the eye out of 5 bringing a machete to a katana fight
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I've seen the Beekeeper twice now. I question my life choices and the cost of my liquor cabinet.
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@nostrildamus said in Movie review thread...:
I've seen the Beekeeper twice now. I question my life choices and the cost of my liquor cabinet.
"The film follows a retired government assassin who sets out for revenge after his kind-hearted landlady falls victim to a phishing scam"
Yeah I think I'd be driven to drink too. Sounds like utter shite.
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@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
@nostrildamus said in Movie review thread...:
I've seen the Beekeeper twice now. I question my life choices and the cost of my liquor cabinet.
"The film follows a retired government assassin who sets out for revenge after his kind-hearted landlady falls victim to a phishing scam"
Yeah I think I'd be driven to drink too. Sounds like utter shite.
The choreography is mostly good, the characters have the depth of wet cardboard but it's the laboured analogies to bee colonies that really get stuck in the craw.
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@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
"The film follows a retired government assassin who sets out for revenge after his kind-hearted landlady falls victim to a phishing scam"
Who'd be a retired government assassin? Never get a days rest, FFS.
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The Beekeeper was genuinely one of the worst films i have ever seen.
this was my earlier review
The Beekeeper.
Jason statham playing Jason Statham, this time taking down cyber criminals.
This movie is fuuuucking terrible.
It was either written by AI, or some boomer who is scared of computers. In fact, the cyber criminals looked like updated versions of thr guys from Hackers.
Throw in for some reason a bunch of TMNT villains for additional ridiculousness
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@mariner4life said in Movie review thread...:
Jason statham playing Jason Statham
pretty much sums up most of his movies, particularly the ones from the last 5-10 years.
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@taniwharugby said in Movie review thread...:
@mariner4life said in Movie review thread...:
Jason statham playing Jason Statham
pretty much sums up most of his movies, particularly the ones from the last 5-10 years.
Jason Statham makes Gerard Butler look like Laurence Olivier
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@MN5 that's a stretch.
Plenty of actors once they have established themselves dial it in.
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@taniwharugby said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 that's a stretch.
Plenty of actors once they have established themselves dial it in.
Actually possibly fair. Statham wasn't an invincible action hero in the first two Guy Richie flicks, more of a cockney smartarse.
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@taniwharugby said in Movie review thread...:
@mariner4life said in Movie review thread...:
Jason statham playing Jason Statham
pretty much sums up most of his movies, particularly the ones from the last 5-10 years.
Yeah. I put Statham in light entertainment mode. If I don't want to think I'll watch one of his films, I know they're all the same, but I generally enjoy them.
In all honesty, and I know this might offend some fans of the Nobody films, but the sequel could easily be a Statham film and the original was overrated (which is not to say I didn't like them).
@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
@taniwharugby said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 that's a stretch.
Plenty of actors once they have established themselves dial it in.
Actually possibly fair. Statham wasn't an invincible action hero in the first two Guy Richie flicks, more of a cockney smartarse.
He also "acted" in that heist film The Bank Job.
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@Nepia the 2nd Nobody film was just that, larger than life action film, shooting, splosions, unrealistic survivals etc...it is what it is.
Plenty of films that cop it in here are easy to watch as they are not pretending to be anything other than what they are.
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@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
He also "acted" in that heist film The Bank Job.
He was also a comic actor in 'Spy.' He was also happy to insult Dwayne Johnson in those car-racing
ripoffs/spinoffs.
Still moves like a genuine martial arts guy. Must just have a very agreeable or in debt to the mob agent... -
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@taniwharugby said in Movie review thread...:
@Nepia the 2nd Nobody film was just that, larger than life action film, shooting, splosions, unrealistic survivals etc...it is what it is.
Plenty of films that cop it in here are easy to watch as they are not pretending to be anything other than what they are.
I found that about the first one, even when people were saying it was gritty and realistic. The final scene of the first one would have fit completely in the second.
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@Nepia I thought the 1st was a tad more 'serious' whereas the 2nd seemed to up the ante and a bit more humour, both in the sit down, switch brain off and enjoy the ride type movies, like most of the John Wicks.
