Movie review thread...
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Hidden Figures - really interesting story, well acted, if a little too heavy on some of the THIS BAD/THIS GOOD moments. Worth a watch if you are space/mathematically inclined.
4 NASA legends out of 5 walking miles to the coloured bathroom wtfuckery.Passengers - apart from the ick factor of waking up the pretty girl and basically handing her a death sentence, this movie was pretty damned dull. And the plot was kind of stupid. (The scene with the pool water losing gravity was quite visually cool though) Pratt and Lawrence did their best, but not much to work with. Liked Michael Sheen as the bartending robot.
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@Mokey Having watched it, your score for Passengers seems overly generous.
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@antipodean You are probably right.
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okay, so in a state of boredom last night, and feeling the need to watch something stupid, i watched "The Brothers Grimsby".
Holy fuck, that is probably the stupidest movie i have ever watched.
And that said, i laughed out loud more at that movie than many other higher acclaimed "comedies" released recently. That i am a juvenile who finds Mark Strong getting smashed in the face by an elephant cock funny has probably something to do with it.
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@mariner4life people always find stuff they can relate to the funniest.
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@antipodean said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Mokey Having watched it, your score for Passengers seems overly generous.
I quite liked Passengers and as I said below although I enjoyed Hell or Highwater I thought it was a bit overrated by critics and fans.
I'm in the middle of my best picture watching and have so far seen:
La La Land, Manchester By The Sea, Arrival, Hacksaw Ridge and Hell or Highwater - and it honestly feels like an average year to me. I can't even pick which one of those I rated above the others.They were all watchable and decent but nothing outstanding. Of the others I haven't watched I've been avoiding Moonlight and Lion but keen to see Fences because I'm a Denzel fan.
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@Bones said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mariner4life people always find stuff they can relate to the funniest.
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@mariner4life said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Bones said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mariner4life people always find stuff they can relate to the funniest.
You're welcome.
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@Mokey said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Passengers - apart from the ick factor of waking up the pretty girl and basically handing her a death sentence, this movie was pretty damned dull. And the plot was kind of stupid. (The scene with the pool water losing gravity was quite visually cool though) Pratt and Lawrence did their best, but not much to work with. Liked Michael Sheen as the bartending robot.
2 who the fuck planted this tree out of 5 this message will take 19 years to arrive.I'd be happy to watch a 90 minute movie of Jennifer Lawrence painting her house and still give it 15 out of 10
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@Nepia were you in La La Land to need to watch it? WTF!
Trailers of it alone allow me to know it is not gonna be my cup of tea.
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@taniwharugby Yeah, musicals like that are of no interest to me. I'm sure they play movies like that in hell!
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@taniwharugby I wasn't anti it going in (I work in a film school so I have to be a little bit open to genre's I don't usually like) and thought it was ok, just not deserving of the hype ... but I actually think that of all the best picture contenders this year. Contrast with say 2015 and 2016 where there were at least two films I thought were outstanding.
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@Nepia unless you got laid, no excuse bro!!
Shoulda been more like 'nah you guys go on, I'm going to the bar to get hammered!'
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@taniwharugby said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Nepia unless you got laid, no excuse bro!!
Shoulda been more like 'nah you guys go on, I'm going to the bar to get hammered!'
I haven't said comments like that since my uni days ... a long time ago ....
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I've seen all of the 2016 movie nominees and that was a strong year. I'm happy Spotlight won but The Big Short would have also have been a worthy winner. The Revenant was overrated - great cinematography though.
Sometimes the awards become a popularity contest and the academy probably thought Leo was due, for example. Bryan Cranston was excellent in Trumbo but that isn't a "popular" movie.
La La Land will probably win a lot of oscars with 14 nominations - they love these types of movies (e.g. Chicago).
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@Nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@antipodean said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Mokey Having watched it, your score for Passengers seems overly generous.
I quite liked Passengers and as I said below although I enjoyed Hell or Highwater I thought it was a bit overrated by critics and fans.
I'm in the middle of my best picture watching and have so far seen:
La La Land, Manchester By The Sea, Arrival, Hacksaw Ridge and Hell or Highwater - and it honestly feels like an average year to me. I can't even pick which one of those I rated above the others.They were all watchable and decent but nothing outstanding. Of the others I haven't watched I've been avoiding Moonlight and Lion but keen to see Fences because I'm a Denzel fan.
Of those, I have only seen Arrival and Hacksaw Ridge, with Arrival being a bit meh, HR was pretty good I thought, not quite Saving Private Ryan but still a pretty brutal showing.
Might watch Hell or Highwater this weekend.
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@taniwharugby said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@antipodean said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Mokey Having watched it, your score for Passengers seems overly generous.
I quite liked Passengers and as I said below although I enjoyed Hell or Highwater I thought it was a bit overrated by critics and fans.
I'm in the middle of my best picture watching and have so far seen:
La La Land, Manchester By The Sea, Arrival, Hacksaw Ridge and Hell or Highwater - and it honestly feels like an average year to me. I can't even pick which one of those I rated above the others.They were all watchable and decent but nothing outstanding. Of the others I haven't watched I've been avoiding Moonlight and Lion but keen to see Fences because I'm a Denzel fan.
Of those, I have only seen Arrival and Hacksaw Ridge, with Arrival being a bit meh, HR was pretty good I thought, not quite Saving Private Ryan but still a pretty brutal showing.
Might watch Hell or Highwater this weekend.
TBF Hacksaw Ridge probably is the best of that bunch - the loon can make a movie!
Bovidae: Yeah, it will likely win because "Hollywood" (think of Pocock Jazz hands when you read that).
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Have to say, even though I haven't seen any of the Oscar contenders for this year, I am rooting for Hacksaw Ridge as my brother worked on that movie as the Visual Effects Art Director. So it's good to hear that people have found the visuals to live up to the hype.
His full portfolio... http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1424612/
He has now leveraged his role in the production of that movie to recently take up the position as Art Director, Sony Pictures Imageworks out of Vancouver.
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Finally got around to watching Chasing Great.
I am a huge McCaw fan, and while interesting, it was pretty bloody underwhelming. Wasnt very much at all in that that we didn't already know. The priceless wee gems were very few and far between, like Dan Carter saying he'd thought he'd lost his friend in the buildup to RWC 2011 because Richie was so focused. I wish they'd gone into far more detail about the lows, eg 2007 and his various injuries, especially the broken foot, because how he mentally got past that would be a truly inspirational story. The stuff with Gemma was painfully awkward to watch, so glad there wasn't more of that. And the footage from when he was a kid was cute.
2.5 GOATS out of 5 Back to back World Cups fuck yeahs.
