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I quite like kid's animated movies I watched with the family when younger and often try and catch sequels/remakes when the come out, so tried Moana 2.

My advice: don't

Bland, pointless, boring, paint by numbers waste of time, even for a kids movie.

1 at least there was popcorn out of 5 can I have my two hours back please.

canefan

Took Ms CF Jr to Wicked. I wasn't familiar with the Wizard of Oz story, or the Wicked musical. But I quite enjoyed it, sort of a Hogwarts and Wizard of Oz mashup.

Rancid Schnitzel

Napoleon. Holy fook this was bad. Farking awful. Appalling not only in terms of historical accuracy but was also a meandering mess with umpteen scenes of Napoleon mulling over some issue while eating. The final Waterloo battle had some cool scenes, but was ruined by an absurdly camp performance by the dude playing Wellington and a guy with a fůcking sniper rifle!!! Complete trash.

Blink Twice. Also shit. Potentially interesting premise about billionaire luring people to his private island and abusing them (shades of Epstein) but poorly executed, poorly acted and boring. Only interest in seeing what Christian Slater and the kid from Sixth Sense are up to these days. Clearly not much.

Machpants

Best thing about Napoleon was war pigs song on the trailer

NTA

Wicked

Having seen the stage show a couple of times, it was going to be interesting how they translated it with basically unlimited square metres to play with.

My complaints: they fucked arrived with a couple of the songs too extend the timing of certain scenes. That's it.

Overall tho it was pretty bloody good. Arianna Grande is actually fucking funny and her voice is far better than I expected from a pop star.

5 talking goats out of 5 Jeff Goldblums.

NTA

Side note: while I grew up with parents who had a decent appreciation for musical theatre (Gilbert & Sullivan's featuring prominently), it was my wife-to-be's family who got me genuinely interested when I moved to Sydney.

Her father was actually one of the leading percussionists in Australia in his younger years, and first call for any show coming to town. Also toured Asia a few times with Australian productions, and when he was just a teenager went to Vietnam as part of the entertainment.

One of our first shows together was Chicago which was interesting for me, sitting in the third row: very attractive women wearing not much and gyrating on stage.

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MiketheSnow

@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Movie review thread...:

Napoleon. Holy fook this was bad. Farking awful. Appalling not only in terms of historical accuracy but was also a meandering mess with umpteen scenes of Napoleon mulling over some issue while eating. The final Waterloo battle had some cool scenes, but was ruined by an absurdly camp performance by the dude playing Wellington and a guy with a fůcking sniper rifle!!! Complete trash.

Blink Twice. Also shit. Potentially interesting premise about billionaire luring people to his private island and abusing them (shades of Epstein) but poorly executed, poorly acted and boring. Only interest in seeing what Christian Slater and the kid from Sixth Sense are up to these days. Clearly not much.

I enjoyed Blink Twice

MN5

Arcadian

Nicholas Cage is actually really good when he tones down the Nicholas Cageness. I was genuinely surprised.

Rest of the movie is a bit meh though. Post apocalyptic, have to be indoors before dark so as the bad monsters don’t get us type shtick that we’ve seen a million times before. Judging from his do there are no issues with getting hair dye when the world has ended either.

@Tim will hate this flick.

Others might think it’s ok.

2.75 clearly filmed in the UK out of 5 pretending to be in the US.

nostrildamus

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@dogmeat because zombie movies are the dumbest and dullest genre fare

I didn't think Braindead was dull or dumb.

Victor Meldrew

Alien: Romulus.

I was actually unsure if I'd watched this before, a month or so back, and had forgotten all about it. Yes, it was that bad.

1 pile of dog poo out of 5 kilos of dross.

Kruse

@Victor-Meldrew said in Movie review thread...:

Alien: Romulus.

I was actually unsure if I'd watched this before, a month or so back, and had forgotten all about it. Yes, it was that bad.

1 pile of dog poo out of 5 kilos of dross.

Yeah, watched that on an airplane screen yesterday. About all it deserved.
It tried to get away with "we're effectively just re-doing the original Alien, for Gen-ZZ", but much worse, and incessant/inane"nods" to the original. Fucking insulting. "Get away from her, you..... .... bitch".

Nepia

@MiketheSnow said in Movie review thread...:

@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Movie review thread...:

Napoleon. Holy fook this was bad. Farking awful. Appalling not only in terms of historical accuracy but was also a meandering mess with umpteen scenes of Napoleon mulling over some issue while eating. The final Waterloo battle had some cool scenes, but was ruined by an absurdly camp performance by the dude playing Wellington and a guy with a fůcking sniper rifle!!! Complete trash.

Blink Twice. Also shit. Potentially interesting premise about billionaire luring people to his private island and abusing them (shades of Epstein) but poorly executed, poorly acted and boring. Only interest in seeing what Christian Slater and the kid from Sixth Sense are up to these days. Clearly not much.

I enjoyed Blink Twice

Yeah, there's been some harsh marking the last couple of days with this and @booboo's Moana 2 review. Well, excluding Napoleon, that really was bollocks and deserves it's harsh marking.

Blink Twice came late in the eat the rich trend of movies of the last couple of years but I enjoyed it too.

I didn't think Moana 2 was anywhere near as good as the original, especially not the songs, but was an amiable well under two hour watch (not sure where Booboo found an extra half hour of footage ).

The Silver Fern

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