Movie review thread...
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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. -
Don't know quite where to put this, but I'll stick it here:
"Blazing Saddles truly pulled no punches with either its satire of prejudice or its raunchier moments, but there was one joke Brooks pulled at the last minute."
"When Lili Von Shtupp (Madeline Kahn) character seduces Bart the sheriff (Cleavon Little) in the dark, Von Shtupp asks Bart if a certain size-related stereotype is actually true. A confused Bart responds, "I hate to disillusion you, ma'am, but you're sucking on my arm."
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@Tim said in Movie review thread...:
I watched the Twin Peaks pilot for the nth time. It is so damned good.
Damn fine
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@antipodean said in Movie review thread...:
(re)watched this two nights ago, and then Zulu Dawn last night.
Havent seen either in years (decades likely) but always remembered ZULU was superior
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@Virgil said in Movie review thread...:
@antipodean said in Movie review thread...:
(re)watched this two nights ago, and then Zulu Dawn last night.
Havent seen either in years (decades likely) but always remembered ZULU was superior
Might have to track them down for a re-watchI saw Zulu Dawn first as a kid, and for many years thought that it was the only movie - I just thought it had a slightly different name in different markets. So, as a kid I always preferred Dawn and didn't watch Zulu until many years later.
I think something similar happened with The Wild Geese movies as a kid. Must have depended on what the video store had in stock.
I think the sequels to both were more action and less drama so kid me enjoyed them more.
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@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
@Virgil said in Movie review thread...:
@antipodean said in Movie review thread...:
(re)watched this two nights ago, and then Zulu Dawn last night.
Havent seen either in years (decades likely) but always remembered ZULU was superior
Might have to track them down for a re-watchI saw Zulu Dawn first as a kid, and for many years thought that it was the only movie - I just thought it had a slightly different name in different markets. So, as a kid I always preferred Dawn and didn't watch Zulu until many years later.
I think something similar happened with The Wild Geese movies as a kid. Must have depended on what the video store had in stock.
I think the sequels to both were more action and less drama so kid me enjoyed them more.
Wild Geese..man i havent thought of that movie in years
As a kid i grew up watching old War movies. The Dirty Dozen, Kelly's Heroes', ZULU etc
Westerns as well, 60's and 70's was the peak time for those films (for reference i was born in '72 so watched those as a kid either on broadcast TV or VHS) -
@Virgil said in Movie review thread...:
@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
@Virgil said in Movie review thread...:
@antipodean said in Movie review thread...:
(re)watched this two nights ago, and then Zulu Dawn last night.
Havent seen either in years (decades likely) but always remembered ZULU was superior
Might have to track them down for a re-watchI saw Zulu Dawn first as a kid, and for many years thought that it was the only movie - I just thought it had a slightly different name in different markets. So, as a kid I always preferred Dawn and didn't watch Zulu until many years later.
I think something similar happened with The Wild Geese movies as a kid. Must have depended on what the video store had in stock.
I think the sequels to both were more action and less drama so kid me enjoyed them more.
Wild Geese..man i havent thought of that movie in years
As a kid i grew up watching old War movies. The Dirty Dozen, Kelly's Heroes', ZULU etc
Westerns as well, 60's and 70's was the peak time for those films (for reference i was born in '72 so watched those as a kid either on broadcast TV or VHS)Me too, used to watch them with the old man then would go outside and play war.
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Same here, I loved watching those old 60s war/westerns with my Grandad. Awesome memories.
Von Ryans express was another classic of that era.
Every time I saw it I hoped Frank Sinatra would make the train at the end but he never did
my first memory of a hero dying in a movie if I remember rightly.
