Movie review thread...
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Saw the Gerard Butler "...Fallen" trilogy was on Amazon Prime. Fuck those movies are a lot of fun. Remorseless fucker-upperer of bad guys, and only the occasional one-liner to break the unmitigated violence, splosions, and poor tactical choices from just about everyone except Gerard Butler.
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@nta said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Saw the Gerard Butler "...Fallen" trilogy was on Amazon Prime. Fuck those movies are a lot of fun. Remorseless fucker-upperer of bad guys, and only the occasional one-liner to break the unmitigated violence, splosions, and poor tactical choices from just about everyone except Gerard Butler.
Is that the one with Aaron Ekhart as president, and the North Korean baddie?
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@kirwan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@nostrildamus the Batman gun thing is an often repeated criticism for the Synder films.
But for it hold you have to ignore the 1989 film (where he kills people all the time) and the many comics where he uses guns.
Particularly Frank Miller stuff. Christ he had a tank in that one.
You keep writing Synder not Snyder. I thought it was a typo but now changing my mind to you believe the film was directed by accounting software. That wouldn't surprise me. (Incidentally, I thought Affleck was good in The Accountant and Gone Girl).
But taking Tim Burton as canon? Please! He dumped Helena Bonham Carter! -
@nostrildamus I blame auto correct:)
I take canon as canon. He’s used guns plenty of times, and killed as well.
I linked some comic examples above. It’s a silly criticism.
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@mokey said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@nta I really enjoyed the first one, but the London one was dire.
That's what I love - it is monumentally, stupidly, about the explosions and bad decisions that people in authority would never make.
Like in the first one where the Koreans are pelting across the whitehouse lawn, all the secret service agents rush out the front door to greet them, some using handguns, in the most exposed elevation they could find. No-one with any sort of tactical training would do that.
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@nta said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mokey said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@nta I really enjoyed the first one, but the London one was dire.
That's what I love - it is monumentally, stupidly, about the explosions and bad decisions that people in authority would never make.
Like in the first one where the Koreans are pelting across the whitehouse lawn, all the secret service agents rush out the front door to greet them, some using handguns, in the most exposed elevation they could find. No-one with any sort of tactical training would do that.
Next you’ll be telling me Commando is unrealistic.
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@mn5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@nta said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mokey said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@nta I really enjoyed the first one, but the London one was dire.
That's what I love - it is monumentally, stupidly, about the explosions and bad decisions that people in authority would never make.
Like in the first one where the Koreans are pelting across the whitehouse lawn, all the secret service agents rush out the front door to greet them, some using handguns, in the most exposed elevation they could find. No-one with any sort of tactical training would do that.
Next you’ll be telling me Commando is unrealistic.
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@nta said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mn5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@nta said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mokey said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@nta I really enjoyed the first one, but the London one was dire.
That's what I love - it is monumentally, stupidly, about the explosions and bad decisions that people in authority would never make.
Like in the first one where the Koreans are pelting across the whitehouse lawn, all the secret service agents rush out the front door to greet them, some using handguns, in the most exposed elevation they could find. No-one with any sort of tactical training would do that.
Next you’ll be telling me Commando is unrealistic.
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@nta said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Saw the Gerard Butler "...Fallen" trilogy was on Amazon Prime. Fuck those movies are a lot of fun. Remorseless fucker-upperer of bad guys, and only the occasional one-liner to break the unmitigated violence, splosions, and poor tactical choices from just about everyone except Gerard Butler.
From eight years ago:
Olympus has fallen is a throwback to completely over the top movies. Park your brain somewhere before watching it. It is a movie for a rainy day when you're sick at home. Any suggestion you're operating more firing synapses than required for existence will have you groaning and developing a migraine at the stupidity in the plot.
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@antipodean said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@nta said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Saw the Gerard Butler "...Fallen" trilogy was on Amazon Prime. Fuck those movies are a lot of fun. Remorseless fucker-upperer of bad guys, and only the occasional one-liner to break the unmitigated violence, splosions, and poor tactical choices from just about everyone except Gerard Butler.
From eight years ago:
Olympus has fallen is a throwback to completely over the top movies. Park your brain somewhere before watching it. It is a movie for a rainy day when you're sick at home. Any suggestion you're operating more firing synapses than required for existence will have you groaning and developing a migraine at the stupidity in the plot.
I'm not a Gerard fan. But he was badass in that film
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caught London has fallen one night on TV last year...wife really enjoyed it, had to go back and watch Olympus and then even rented Angel, it was the same with the Fast and Furious series, ended up watching them all...just a reminder i really will never understand my wife
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looking for a movie last night and i realised i have never actually seen Scarface
So i threw it on
Boy is that movie overrated. Fuck it goes forever, feels like it drags, and yet just jumps forward. It feels like immigrant gets off the boat, immigrant gets in to drug business, I'm the boss now! i'm really rich. and now I'm fucked. Yet it's 3 pretty boring hours.
Whole heaps of some good old fashioned Al Pacino overacting.
Yes it's 40 years old, but other movies of its time did it way better.
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@mariner4life I've also never seen it. I think I got up to the stage where they were in a disco or a party or some shit, and realised I'd wasted an hour of my life.
Better in meme format.
It is interesting to look back at some of the multi-hour epics they made back then, and see people talking about LOTR or The Hobbit being over 2 hours more recently. It has all been done before.
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@mariner4life said in Re: Movie review thread...:
looking for a movie last night and i realised i have never actually seen Scarface
So i threw it on
Boy is that movie overrated. Fuck it goes forever, feels like it drags, and yet just jumps forward. It feels like immigrant gets off the boat, immigrant gets in to drug business, I'm the boss now! i'm really rich. and now I'm fucked. Yet it's 3 pretty boring hours.
Whole heaps of some good old fashioned Al Pacino overacting.
Yes it's 40 years old, but other movies of its time did it way better.
Thank god I'm not the only one. I keep getting crucified on here for saying some movies held as greats aren't all that.
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@antipodean said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mariner4life said in Re: Movie review thread...:
looking for a movie last night and i realised i have never actually seen Scarface
So i threw it on
Boy is that movie overrated. Fuck it goes forever, feels like it drags, and yet just jumps forward. It feels like immigrant gets off the boat, immigrant gets in to drug business, I'm the boss now! i'm really rich. and now I'm fucked. Yet it's 3 pretty boring hours.
Whole heaps of some good old fashioned Al Pacino overacting.
Yes it's 40 years old, but other movies of its time did it way better.
Thank god I'm not the only one. I keep getting crucified on here for saying some movies held as greats aren't all that.
By contrast, I'm sure Godfather 1 and 2 are still farken boss
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@canefan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@antipodean said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mariner4life said in Re: Movie review thread...:
looking for a movie last night and i realised i have never actually seen Scarface
So i threw it on
Boy is that movie overrated. Fuck it goes forever, feels like it drags, and yet just jumps forward. It feels like immigrant gets off the boat, immigrant gets in to drug business, I'm the boss now! i'm really rich. and now I'm fucked. Yet it's 3 pretty boring hours.
Whole heaps of some good old fashioned Al Pacino overacting.
Yes it's 40 years old, but other movies of its time did it way better.
Thank god I'm not the only one. I keep getting crucified on here for saying some movies held as greats aren't all that.
By contrast, I'm sure Godfather 1 and 2 are still farken boss
I won't hear a bad word said about either. Obviously 2 is better...
