Movie review thread...

red terror

[quote name='Tim']I really have to take issue with this. The Sixth Sense is a terrible, terrible fucking movie. All his movies have been shit.[/QUOTE] 
 
Sixth Sense is okay, though I did predict the "twist" ending while watching. Unbreakable I actually liked. Signs was also okay - didn't love nor hate. But everything else has been humiliating garbage.

red terror

[quote name='Quo vadis'] 
nz is not bad in the scheme of things.[/QUOTE] 
 
Back in the day, summer blockbuster movies in the USA (june/july/august) didn't come to NZ until the SH summer (dec/jan/feb) which meant those of us who wanted to see Star Wars had to read the novelization first and wait impatiently for 5-6 months before it hit our screens. 
 
[QUOTE]Iron man 2 - saw it last night, it tried too hard....bombard us with special effects until our eyes bleed to cover up for a flakey plot and pray that re-habbed veteran actors RDJ and Rouke weave some magic....hmmm[/QUOTE] 
 
I enjoyed the movie, but then my expectations were nominal. It's a popcorn Marvel comicbook movie. I pretty much got exactly what I expected (and was kinda titillated to hear the use of Chris Jericho's "assclown" inserted into a major motion picture). I did think however, that the backstory tension/ revenge about Ivan Vanko (Rourke)'s father and Tony Stark (Downey)'s father went unresolved and could have been done a lot better. (And again...Nick Fury (Sam Jackson) ... where's the cigar?) 
 
The thing I liked best was actually the end of the 9-minute credit sequence, when they reveal Thor's hammer...

raznomore

[quote name='Tim']I really have to take issue with this. The Sixth Sense is a terrible, terrible fucking movie. All his movies have been shit.[/QUOTE] 
 
Im not saying it was masterpiece and most people love it or hate it. But as a first movie it was impressive IMO. There weren't a whole lot of things around like it. I thought Unbreakable was superior to the Sixth Sense and Signs had some good moments. 
 
Everything else has been horrible.

Tim

[quote name='Razbra']Im not saying it was masterpiece and most people love it or hate it. But as a first movie it was impressive IMO. There weren't a whole lot of things around like it. I thought Unbreakable was superior to the Sixth Sense and Signs had some good moments. 
 
Everything else has been horrible.[/QUOTE] 
 
Aha, actually it was it his 2nd proper hollywood movie. /pedant 
 
Horrible schmaltzy schmaltz. I should give Unbroken a fair shake some day, though I suspect it'll much the same to me.

raznomore

[quote name='Tim']Aha, actually it was it his 2nd proper hollywood movie. /pedant 
 
Horrible schmaltzy schmaltz. I should give Unbroken a fair shake some day, though I suspect it'll much the same to me.[/QUOTE] 
 
Righto. Horrible Rosie O'donnell movies aside... First intro to the genre of mystery/thriller then...

taniwharugby

Hot Tub Time MAchine - just some silly fun 
 
Planet 51 - Animated, pretty cool film, TR Jnr loved it.

Kirwan

[quote name='Tim']Aha, actually it was it his 2nd proper hollywood movie. /pedant 
 
Horrible schmaltzy schmaltz. I should give Unbroken a fair shake some day, though I suspect it'll much the same to me.[/QUOTE] 
 
Unbreakable is a great riff on the super hero genre, so if you like comics you'll love the themes and the different/realistic way they are handled. 
 
Now the thing with that movie and the Six Sense, is Bruce Willis delivers two really good performances. Once that are a stretch for his abilities, and that really holds the movies together. I really liked the Six Sense, but I saw it at a difficult period in my life and schmaltz really connected with me. To me, the best part of the film is not the flashy reveal but the mother getting some healing from her son, that scene nails me every time. 
 
So I went into his other movies hoping for big things, but they had the same production values and some of the good acting, but the stories were fucking ridiculous. Especially The Village, what a pile of crap. 
 
He got locked into thinking he had to have a twist. Twists don't work if you go into the film expecting to see one. 
 
As for the other Avatar film (nice symmetry that this one sounds terrible and the other one is most successful film of all time...), the only review I've read of it refers to it as the best parody of epic films every made. Ouch.

Tim

Doing a Death Wish marathon. Part 2 is so awesomely bad. Christ, one of the (intended to be) super evil hoods looks like John C. Reilly.

taniwharugby

Pandorum - Dennis Quaid. 
 
Pretty good futuristic sci-fi film, with a touch of zombie mixed in

Kirwan

[quote name='Tim']Doing a Death Wish marathon. Part 2 is so awesomely bad. Christ, one of the (intended to be) super evil hoods looks like John C. Reilly.[/QUOTE] 
 
I watched the first one a few months ago, loved the ending with the hilariously stereotypical hippies in the train station. 
 
Made me appreciate the ending of Gran Torino a bit more too.

Tim

[quote name='Kirwan']I watched the first one a few months ago, loved the ending with the hilariously stereotypical hippies in the train station. 
 
Made me appreciate the ending of Gran Torino a bit more too.[/QUOTE] 
 
What cracks me up about the 1st one is that he just slaughters arbitrary scumbags that have no connection to his wife's murder.

Tim

Special bonus Death Wish III death scene. Awesomeness: 
 
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Tim

Can't wait till I get to this one! 
 
[QUOTE] [SIZE=+1][COLOR=#666666][B] ‘Death Wish IV: The Crackdown’ [/B][/COLOR][/SIZE] 
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[SIZE=-1] [I] By Richard Harrington [/I] 
Washington Post Staff Writer 
November 14, 1987 [/SIZE] 
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C[/B][/COLOR][/SIZE]harles Bronson, law and order's Orkin Man, is back in "Death Wish IV: The Crackdown" and the bodies start piling up before the popcorn cools. This time around, there's barely any plot, just excuses for Bronson to blow people away.Gail Morgan Hickman's script is right out of the "Jack and Jill went up the hill" school, where everything is spelled out and lines like "Who are you?" "Death!" pass for snappy dialogue. 
Bronson returns as po'-faced architect Paul Kersey, whose female companions continue to have bad luck streaks, dying in either the first or the last 15 minutes of the film (this all started with the brutal murders of his wife and daughter in "Death Wish" and "DW2," in New York and Los Angeles, respectively). 
This time around, still in L.A., Kersey's dating a reporter (Kay Lenz) whose daughter is about to overdose on crack street. Fade to black for that drug dealer and about three or four dozen others who get caught up in the vigilante vengeance. 
Kersey is hired by a crusading publisher whose own daughter has overdosed to surreptitiously wipe out the city's two major drug dealers and their uncommonly inept gangs. He does this by methodically eliminating members from alternate sides until their own paranoia leads to a major blowout. Along the way, Bronson wipes out a cocaine lab, gunning down a dozen "chemists"; gives a new meaning to the term "wine cooler"; deals with corrupt cops and a dozen assassins; and never breaks a sweat. 
Neither did anybody else, apparently, from the writers and actors to executive producers Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, two gentlemen who make Aaron Spelling look like Franc ois Truffaut. 
The original "Death Wish" was a relatively taut affair and spoke to its audience's frustrations with urban crime, but with each succeeding film, justice has been replaced by body counts. 
Bronson, a chip off old Mount Rushmore, sleepwalks through the film as though someone's dangling a paycheck just out of camera range. It's gotten to the point where the vigilante isn't really motivated anymore, he's just set off, like a bomb. 
Which this is. 
"Death Wish IV: The Crackdown" is rated R and contains numerous scenes of mindless violence.[/QUOTE]

raznomore

Toy Story 3. Not a bad word to say. Brilliant movie. Laugh out loud funny and tear jerking sad. My kids loved it my wife and I loved it and you will likely love it. 
 
I only saw 2D but can't imagine 3D making it any better and have heard it doesn't. 
 
9/10 ( a little long for a kids movie )

taniwharugby

[quote name='Virgil']Watched A- Team earlier today (legit, not illegal download for once:)) 
Very enjoyable, great homage to the classic tv series. 
 
Highlight would be the guy from District 9 as Murdoch 
Maybe an 8 out of 10....[/QUOTE] 
 
yeah have to agree there, dleivered on what I expected form it. 
 
Also watched Clash of the Titans, hugely disappointed (more so because I so wanted it to be awesome, when it was just 'ok')

Virgil

[quote name='taniwharugby']yeah have to agree there, dleivered on what I expected form it. 
 
Also watched Clash of the Titans, hugely disappointed (more so because I so wanted it to be awesome, when it was just 'ok')[/QUOTE] 
 
Same,just felt flat and unimpressive. Not a movie you are left thinking about after watching. 
Miscast as well imo

taniwharugby

Repo Men; Jude Law, Forrest Whittaker, Liev Schreiber 
 
Was alot to like about this, while at the same time, equally blah...set a few years in the future where transplanted everything is the norm, and like a bank repo's your house if you default on your mortgage, Law & Whittaker repo your liver/heart etc if you default on the payments too...

Munter

Watched Inception last night. I went in thinking the premise about a guy who could manipulate dreams sounded a little stupid but came away thoroughly satisfied. I guess it is a bit like the Matrix in that it's based in a sort of a dreamscape, but Christopher Nolan did a good job of making this far fetched story seem almost real. He obviously put a lot of time into thinking about all the complexities involved and making the story make sense. Decaprio and Ellen Page were ok as the leads. Special effects were pretty cool, especially the rotating fight scene. Definitely worth seeing and I give it a 9 out of 10.

Allstar

I see the movie adapation of John Marsden's [I]Tomorrow When the War Began[/I] will be out soon. I loved those books, so hopefully it keeps pretty close to the story line. 
 
Saw [I]Date Night [/I]on the plane recently. That movie is dire, I'm glad I didn't pay (for the movie anyhow) to watch that shit. Saw a couple of other films too: [I]Invictus [/I]- was OK, better than I thought it would, except unrealistic rugby scenes, [I]This Is It - [/I]I enjoyed this surpisingly, an interesting insight into Michael Jackson's musical side. [I]Zombieland[/I] - I thought this movie was hilarious, and quite well done. Not taking itself seriously at all.

Scorz

Haha, Allstar I watched Zombieland tonight too. Awesome! 
 
"That'll do, pig." 
 
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