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@antipodean said in Movie review thread...:
Gettysburg
At over four hours, this should have stayed as a TV miniseries. As a movie it's punishment for history students. The amount of needless scenes feels like everyone involved tried desperately to do a defining moment in America's history justice and no one had the balls to do anything worthwhile in the edit.
Overly romanticised in its portrayal, performances contrast between wooden and overacting, and the dialogue is full of poetic monologues.
If you have to watch it you should start at 3:28 into the movie, when the battle actually begins. IMO all the build up is tedious and unless you're an American with a hard on for Civil War re-enactment give the whole thing a miss.
haha i watched this late last year as well. Fuck it is looooong. And yes, there are a lot of very earnest monologues. And Cartman's character in that particular South Park episode made a lot more sense after watching Sheen.
I still thought it was pretty good.
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@Tim said in Movie review thread...:
@antipodean said in Movie review thread...:
Not a glowing recommendation. Formulaic bargain bin "straight to DVD" as we used to say.
Still better than over 90% of the slop that is released now.
That sounds over the top but it’s possibly accurate. Good grief there is some absolute shit on Neon and Netflix
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@Tim said in Movie review thread...:
@antipodean said in Movie review thread...:
Not a glowing recommendation. Formulaic bargain bin "straight to DVD" as we used to say.
Still better than over 90% of the slop that is released now.
Unfortunately true. Which is a sad indictment on the industry these days.
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@antipodean said in Movie review thread...:
@Tim said in Movie review thread...:
@antipodean said in Movie review thread...:
Not a glowing recommendation. Formulaic bargain bin "straight to DVD" as we used to say.
Still better than over 90% of the slop that is released now.
Unfortunately true. Which is a sad indictment on the industry these days.
Indeed, long gone are the days where you’d bring home a couple of decent DVDs from the store and way more often than not you’d have a good night watching.
We have SO many options nowadays but it’s extremely hard finding decent ones. Netflix and Neon are full of Liam Neeson/John Travolta/Gerard Butler/Jason Statham turkeys that you just know are gonna be utter shit.
Add Frank Grillo to the list, cool guy, dynamic personality but makes some absolute crap.
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@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
@Tim said in Movie review thread...:
@antipodean said in Movie review thread...:
Not a glowing recommendation. Formulaic bargain bin "straight to DVD" as we used to say.
Still better than over 90% of the slop that is released now.
That sounds over the top but it’s possibly accurate. Good grief there is some absolute shit on Neon and Netflix
This.
I made the mistake of watching Warrant on Netflix last night. A post civil war western with Neil Mc Donough, who is usually pretty good. By the cringe it was awful. Wooden acting, nonsensical dialogue, cliches by the million, appalling writing and pathetic plot.
Avoid. Avoid. Avoid.
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@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
@Bones said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 yeah Dogs of War is a definite swerve unless you're @Tim.
I assume (hope) you're not talking about the classic 80s movie with Christopher Walken?
Fuck! Fucking hounds, not dogs.
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@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
@Bones said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 yeah Dogs of War is a definite swerve unless you're @Tim.
I assume (hope) you're not talking about the classic 80s movie with Christopher Walken?
Or War Dogs, which was great and featured Ana De Armas for the first time that I can recall
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Watched Goonies on the weekend, holds up well.
5 Babe Ruth's out of 5 One-eyed-willies
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Steve McQueen's (the director, not the dead actor) Blitz
Allegedly the stories of a group of Londoners during the German bombing campaign of the British capital during World War II. Liked the way it didn't sugarcoat how people acted during the blitz (crime tripled and people were really, really nasty to each other at times) and the real personal problems people faced working in factories and with their children being evacuated.
Have zero problem with colour-blind casting and the use of a mixed-race kid as an outsider centre point is inspired, but it's almost as McQueen just couldn't resist the temptation to show his anti-racist progressive credentials in this film. All the black protagonists and lead females are invariably portrayed as noble while the less pleasant characters are always male and white.. It's the sort of thing which would appeal to a Guardian film critic but in reality makes the film deeply flawed.
In many ways a great film, in others an absolute mess of a film.
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The man is a joke
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its really interesting, logan is often considered one of if not THE best marvel film and it properly ended...and yet they seem to not have batted an eyelid at making a mockery of it
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@Kiwiwomble said in Movie review thread...:
its really interesting, logan is often considered one of if not THE best marvel film and it properly ended...and yet they seem to not have batted an eyelid at making a mockery of it
the call backs and how it was handled was superb.
Hugh Jackman really is a beast, loved the 4th wall jokes.. The 'he's normally shirtless but let himself go since the divorce'' especially.
