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Tina
Beautiful little Samoan film. Heartwarming comedy with some dark moments.
Samoan music teacher at decile 1 school in Christchurch loses her daughter in 2011 quake. 4 years later she's still grieving and reluctantly ends up at a snooty elite school. It isn't as stereotyped as you would expect except for a couple of the teachers who are caricatures.
It's beautifully shot, it's funny, the acting by the lead Anapela Polata'ivao is measured and understated. Gently examines racism, class and Samoan identity.
It'll make you laugh, cry and both at the same time. Has a couple of twists. Doesn't have the saccharine ending you anticipate. The singing is glorious especially the final curtain. Audience applauded at the end!! Also did a collective intake when the main character was called a black bitch.
5 acapellas/ 5 harmonies
edit: Because this is the Fern. No tits
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3.5 wackos out of 5 Wacos
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I finished watching all the MCU movies up to Avengers End Game with my three boys, and this may trigger Tim but I thought they were excellent. I do say that in the context of seeing the enjoyment my boys got out of them, e.g. getting excited when Iron Man is F'ing shit up, so that may influence my review, but overall the build up to End Game was really good and even a bit emotional at the end there.
We are now working our way through the Xmen movies and they are also great fun, Wolverine in particular is the boys favourite at the moment, they cheer whenever he gets the claws out. Hugh Jackman really was peak male performance back then.
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@No-Quarter said in Movie review thread...:
I finished watching all the MCU movies up to Avengers End Game with my three boys, and this may trigger Tim but I thought they were excellent. I do say that in the context of seeing the enjoyment my boys got out of them, e.g. getting excited when Iron Man is F'ing shit up, so that may influence my review, but overall the build up to End Game was really good and even a bit emotional at the end there.
We are now working our way through the Xmen movies and they are also great fun, Wolverine in particular is the boys favourite at the moment, they cheer whenever he gets the claws out. Hugh Jackman really was peak male performance back then.
Its hard to remember what a movie event those 2 Avengers movies were.
Endgame in particular, it made $1.2B USD world wide in its opening weekend, that will never happen again.im not a Super Hero/Marvel fanboy in any sense but those movies from Iron Man to Endgame were so fucken well done.
Since then Marvel has totally shit the bed, they really should have walked away for a few years instead of flogging a dead horse.
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@No-Quarter said in Movie review thread...:
I finished watching all the MCU movies up to Avengers End Game with my three boys, and this may trigger Tim but I thought they were excellent. I do say that in the context of seeing the enjoyment my boys got out of them, e.g. getting excited when Iron Man is F'ing shit up, so that may influence my review, but overall the build up to End Game was really good and even a bit emotional at the end there.
We are now working our way through the Xmen movies and they are also great fun, Wolverine in particular is the boys favourite at the moment, they cheer whenever he gets the claws out. Hugh Jackman really was peak male performance back then.
Also should add its great watching films with your kids, introducing to a range and genres you enjoy.
im doing that at the moment with my youngest daughter (12 nearly 13) shes gone from kid movies (pixar, disney etc) into firstly the Godzilla v Kong films last year to Marvel/Venom and monster films i can let her watch,. Classics like Tremors which she loved.
its a great to share your fav's with your kids as they get older.Counting down to when shes happy to watch Horrors....
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@Virgil yeah it's great, my eldest is 12 so I have a list of classics to watch with him now. We've done the Godzilla movies, I'm now introducing him to some of the classic action heroes of the 80s and 90s mentioned a few pages back. Awesome bonding
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my boys and I are off to watch Revenge of the Sith on the big screen tomorrow.
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@mariner4life said in Movie review thread...:
my boys and I are off to watch Revenge of the Sith on the big screen tomorrow.
Tempted to catch it over here for its re-screening too.
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@antipodean agreed.
Only watched this when nothign else was on, and enjoyed it.
Def one of those rare movies that punches way better than the story promises!
3.5 alarms to take a piss out of 5 uppercuts to the jaw
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@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
Looks good, will hopefully keep me entertained until 28 months later gets released
Looks great, I'm a sucker for good zombie flick/tv/books/games. So many start good but go off into cheesy, or unbelievable territory like giving zombies intelligence. 28 Days later one of the best, wasn't as enamoured with 28weeks later. First season of Walking Dead was probably the best Zombie adaptation I've ever seen.
Currently playing an open world zombie apocalypse survival game in VR, utterly terrifying.
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@Rembrandt said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
Looks good, will hopefully keep me entertained until 28 months later gets released
Looks great, I'm a sucker for good zombie flick/tv/books/games. So many start good but go off into cheesy, or unbelievable territory like giving zombies intelligence. 28 Days later one of the best, wasn't as enamoured with 28weeks later. First season of Walking Dead was probably the best Zombie adaptation I've ever seen.
Currently playing an open world zombie apocalypse survival game in VR, utterly terrifying.
A post after my own heart.
What I shared literally looks like someone copied the notes of 28 days/weeks/The Walking Dead and didn't even change their name at the bottom. Is there anything new they can bring to the table I wonder ?
( Apart from being filmed in NZ masquerading as the US by the looks of things )
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@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
Looks good, will hopefully keep me entertained until 28 months later gets released
Looks basic - but that's my scene.
Was also an excellent primer for a rabbit-hole of youtube recommendations. Stand Your Ground also looks like a Kruse-level dumb-as-fuck thing-to-watch. -
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Havoc - Tom Hardy, Timothy Oliphant, Forest Whitaker
Pretty decent, lots of John Wick.level killing
3 massacred gangs out of 5 corrupt cops
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Saving Private Ryan
After a few years break I decided to watch it again on Anzac Day.
Still amazing. Still hits hard. Still SO amazingly made.
That bit where the allies disembark on the shore and get mowed down by machine gun fire is still shockingly in your face. Repeating what I’ve already said on here in the past but I watched it with my Granddad before he passed on VHS and he was in awe ( and slightly traumatised again ) by the realism of everything being a war vet as most of our Granddads were.
Captain Miller and his squad are a bunch of guys you genuinely like and relate to.
Tom Hanks never better. Of the supporting cast Edward Burns, Tom Sizemore and Adam Goldberg were standouts. Vin Diesel impressed in his smaller role too. Even Matt Damon was good !
The whole premise is maybe slightly cheesy but doesn't really detract from an incredible movie experience.
5 sticky bombs out of 5 FUBAR missions
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@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
Saving Private Ryan
After a few years break I decided to watch it again on Anzac Day.
Still amazing. Still hits hard. Still SO amazingly made.
That bit where the allies disembark on the shore and get mowed down by machine gun fire is still shockingly realistic.
Captain Miller and his squad are a bunch of guys you genuinely like and relate to.
Tom Hanks never better. Of the supporting cast Edward Burns, Tom Sizemore and Adam Goldberg were standouts. Vin Diesel impressed in his smaller role too. Even Matt Damon was good !
The whole premise is maybe slightly cheesy but doesn't really detract from an incredible movie experience.
5 sticky bombs out of 5 FUBAR missions
Little fun fact, at the time Tom Sizemore was notorious for his drug use so he was made to take a drugs test every day of shooting.
Spielberg told him if he failed a single drugs test he would be fired from the film and they would reshoot everything he had previously shot with a new actor. -
@Virgil said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
Saving Private Ryan
After a few years break I decided to watch it again on Anzac Day.
Still amazing. Still hits hard. Still SO amazingly made.
That bit where the allies disembark on the shore and get mowed down by machine gun fire is still shockingly realistic.
Captain Miller and his squad are a bunch of guys you genuinely like and relate to.
Tom Hanks never better. Of the supporting cast Edward Burns, Tom Sizemore and Adam Goldberg were standouts. Vin Diesel impressed in his smaller role too. Even Matt Damon was good !
The whole premise is maybe slightly cheesy but doesn't really detract from an incredible movie experience.
5 sticky bombs out of 5 FUBAR missions
Little fun fact, at the time Tom Sizemore was notorious for his drug use so he was made to take a drugs test every day of shooting.
Spielberg told him if he failed a single drugs test he would be fired from the film and they would reshoot everything he had previously shot with a new actor.Michael Madsen woulda been a good like for like replacement
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@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
@Virgil said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
Saving Private Ryan
After a few years break I decided to watch it again on Anzac Day.
Still amazing. Still hits hard. Still SO amazingly made.
That bit where the allies disembark on the shore and get mowed down by machine gun fire is still shockingly realistic.
Captain Miller and his squad are a bunch of guys you genuinely like and relate to.
Tom Hanks never better. Of the supporting cast Edward Burns, Tom Sizemore and Adam Goldberg were standouts. Vin Diesel impressed in his smaller role too. Even Matt Damon was good !
The whole premise is maybe slightly cheesy but doesn't really detract from an incredible movie experience.
5 sticky bombs out of 5 FUBAR missions
Little fun fact, at the time Tom Sizemore was notorious for his drug use so he was made to take a drugs test every day of shooting.
Spielberg told him if he failed a single drugs test he would be fired from the film and they would reshoot everything he had previously shot with a new actor.Michael Madsen woulda been a good like for like replacement
Yeeeah he’s much more reliable
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@Virgil said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
@Virgil said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
Saving Private Ryan
After a few years break I decided to watch it again on Anzac Day.
Still amazing. Still hits hard. Still SO amazingly made.
That bit where the allies disembark on the shore and get mowed down by machine gun fire is still shockingly realistic.
Captain Miller and his squad are a bunch of guys you genuinely like and relate to.
Tom Hanks never better. Of the supporting cast Edward Burns, Tom Sizemore and Adam Goldberg were standouts. Vin Diesel impressed in his smaller role too. Even Matt Damon was good !
The whole premise is maybe slightly cheesy but doesn't really detract from an incredible movie experience.
5 sticky bombs out of 5 FUBAR missions
Little fun fact, at the time Tom Sizemore was notorious for his drug use so he was made to take a drugs test every day of shooting.
Spielberg told him if he failed a single drugs test he would be fired from the film and they would reshoot everything he had previously shot with a new actor.Michael Madsen woulda been a good like for like replacement
Yeeeah he’s much more reliable
Tarantino woulda probably fired him if he sobered up too much
Opus (2025) ⭐ 5.7 | Drama, Music, Thriller
