Movie review thread...
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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.
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@taniwharugby said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@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.
I went to La La Land on the off chance of getting some action.
It's still a work in progress. The action, that is. The movie? 3.5 unco Emma Stone twirls out of 5 Gosling brooding pouts.
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Hacksaw Ridge
Holy fuck, now that is bravery. What that guy did in the worst possible conditions was nothing short of incredible. Andrew Garfield very well cast, actually they all did a good job. Enjoyed the build up (him and Dorothy were adorable), the fighting location was fucked (climbing a bloody rope net, Jesus.) Main quibble was they needed a few more cutaways from the action on the ridge so the audience could take a breath then be whupped in the face with the horror again. One long continuous sequence can lose impact a little bit, because it deadens you - oh, more guts, more legs being blown off, and you lose track of all the characters you've been introduced too. Really admired the camera work of the scenes where Doss was lowering people down the cliffside, tight, wide, tight really worked beautifully. (I did laugh when he tied the knot. Yes, soldiers, you were saved by the titty knot.)
4 CO's out of 5 just one mores.
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Iron Sky
What a silly piece of shit. Had its moments, and a couple of hot burds, but when I saw the preview I thought it would be camp as fuck. It tried, fuck how it tried. But ultimately it was just dead in too many areas.
Good concept, perhaps not quite as well executed as it should have been. If Mel Brooks did it, would have added two stars easily.
2 out of 5 white black guy.s
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David Brent: Live on the road
Brent is such a loser you just want to stop him from inflicting more pain on himself. His delusions make Trump look sane. I actually had to skip through bits of this as there was too much laughing at his (self inflicted) misfortune and not enough other laughs.
As a tragi-comic Gervais is the best but I felt it was like laughing at a disabled person with flat tyres on their wheelchair trying to cross a road with a truck approaching.
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Watched a couple of movies over the weekend, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi and Tripple 9.
This was the 2nd watching of 13 hrs for me but the first for Mrs WC. The first attempted watching was at a time I was very distracted and whilst I was glued to the TV for the battle scenes, I really didn't focus much on the rest. 2nd viewing gave me a much greater appreciation for the movie and the story behind it. Really enjoyed it and the story gave that much more punch to the battle scenes.
Certainly showed during that "rescue" scene at the diplomatic compound just how confusing war can be in such an environment where you don't know who is friend or foe and likely that are all both.
On 2nd viewing I give this a 4.25 former S.E.A.L.S. out of 5 C.I.A. fuck ups
Triple 9 was not bad, rather formulaic but still watchable. There were a few twists and wow moments but on the whole you could guess what was going to happen next.
2.5 gangbangers out of 5 dirty cops
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@dK said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@RoninWC said in Re: Movie review thread...:
2.5 gangbangers out of 5 dirty cops
Could you please define, may influence my viewing choices
@dK LMFAO, yes I should have read that and consider all possible definitions before posting.
Given it is a movie that is set in a "south-central LA" type location with lots of latino gang members, this was my frame of reference and definition for "gangbangers".
So unfortunately not the other type of "gangbanger" that would have no doubt been more interesting. There is one scene set in a very grubby stripjoint so briefly some flesh is on display but none of it worth even hitting the pause/rewind/pause buttons
