Movie review thread...
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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
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@RoninWC said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@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
may not watch
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Captain America Civil War.
Am absolutely no fan of these films, but really enjoyed this one. I thought the kid playing Spiderman was excellent and Ant Man/PR was really good. Oh yeah, and the black flying dude was great too.
I tell you what though, they can fark Black Widow and Hawke Eye right off. Those 2 suck balls. Firing arrows - awesome skill when there are guys that fire lasers. They bitch about BW not getting her own film. Well its not about misogyny, it's because she's crap. She has neither superpowers nor a cool suit that does amazing stuff.
Anyway, despite those 2 impostors I really enjoyed the film. Unfortunately the delightful person but utterly shit actor Hemsworth appears to be in the next installment so I'll probably give it a miss.
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Got a free 3 month pass when the boy signed up to PlayStation Network, so watching the odd movie.
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Hell of a lot of fun. Basically what it says: Jane Austen set in an alternative history, where Britain has been overrun by the zombie plague.
Rich kids get sent to Japan, less-rich kids get sent to China. All the poor kids just get eaten by zombies.
Its actually an interesting plot with a bit of a twist, and a bittersweet ending once all is done (stay for the post-credits scene).
3 out of 5 katan-wielding aristocrats
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@Rembrandt said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Just watched Deepwater Horizon about that huge oil rig explosion and spill in 2010 of the Louisiana coast. Very well done, well worth a watch also apparently fairly accurate for a hollywoodified story. 8 environmental disasters outta 10 fat BP execs
I watched THIS OVER THE weekend.
Didn't realize it was based on that spill until the end (as I was watching it I was wondering if it was based on it) thought it was well done too, seems they kept it fairly simple without going into too much detail about the reasons why, which worked IMO.
4 million barrels of spilled oil out of 5 million dollars a month salary for the BP execs.
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@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Captain America Civil War.
Am absolutely no fan of these films, but really enjoyed this one. I thought the kid playing Spiderman was excellent and Ant Man/PR was really good. Oh yeah, and the black flying dude was great too.
I tell you what though, they can fark Black Widow and Hawke Eye right off. Those 2 suck balls. Firing arrows - awesome skill when there are guys that fire lasers. They bitch about BW not getting her own film. Well its not about misogyny, it's because she's crap. She has neither superpowers nor a cool suit that does amazing stuff.
Anyway, despite those 2 impostors I really enjoyed the film. Unfortunately the delightful person but utterly shit actor Hemsworth appears to be in the next installment so I'll probably give it a miss.
Yeah she's shit alright
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@Virgil said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Captain America Civil War.
Am absolutely no fan of these films, but really enjoyed this one. I thought the kid playing Spiderman was excellent and Ant Man/PR was really good. Oh yeah, and the black flying dude was great too.
I tell you what though, they can fark Black Widow and Hawke Eye right off. Those 2 suck balls. Firing arrows - awesome skill when there are guys that fire lasers. They bitch about BW not getting her own film. Well its not about misogyny, it's because she's crap. She has neither superpowers nor a cool suit that does amazing stuff.
Anyway, despite those 2 impostors I really enjoyed the film. Unfortunately the delightful person but utterly shit actor Hemsworth appears to be in the next installment so I'll probably give it a miss.
Yeah she's shit alright
If you want to watch a film just for her then watch that one when she plays that alien who strips. The point is that Black Widow and Robin Hood Boy are crap.
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@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Re: Movie review thread...:
alien who strips
Please name that movie so that I might check out the artistic value of her role in that movie and compare it to her work in the Avengers movies... all in the name of art of course.
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@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Virgil said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Captain America Civil War.
Am absolutely no fan of these films, but really enjoyed this one. I thought the kid playing Spiderman was excellent and Ant Man/PR was really good. Oh yeah, and the black flying dude was great too.
I tell you what though, they can fark Black Widow and Hawke Eye right off. Those 2 suck balls. Firing arrows - awesome skill when there are guys that fire lasers. They bitch about BW not getting her own film. Well its not about misogyny, it's because she's crap. She has neither superpowers nor a cool suit that does amazing stuff.
Anyway, despite those 2 impostors I really enjoyed the film. Unfortunately the delightful person but utterly shit actor Hemsworth appears to be in the next installment so I'll probably give it a miss.
Yeah she's shit alright
If you want to watch a film just for her then watch that one when she plays that alien who strips. The point is that Black Widow and Robin Hood Boy are crap.
Thanks for quoting my post, now we get to see her again..
