Movie review thread...
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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
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Got myself a little unreliable in the decision-making stakes - took a toke, decided I'd watch Hitman: Agent 47 while stoned.
Within a minute - got paranoid - pretty sure I'd already watched this recently.
Pivoted - now watching The Great Texas Dynamite Chase...
... updates to follow... maybe...
5 minutes in - tit-watch: all over the place; there's been tumbleweed; and a bank with confederate-battle-flag on the wall -
@MiketheSnow said in Movie review thread...:
Raw fare
4 exits out of 5 exit wounds
There's a decent interview with the directors on the 18 April eposode of the Empire podcast.
The whole thing was filmed in Bovington.
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Caged Heat
- going as expected for a while
- nightmare scene, while stoned, kinda threw me for a bit
- playacting scene wasn't particularly great for a stoned man neither
- plot isn't making much sense, but I'm sure it will all come together
-- 35min in, nothing much making sense, but that may well be a "me thing"
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@Kruse said in Movie review thread...:
Caged Heat
- going as expected for a while
- nightmare scene, while stoned, kinda threw me for a bit
- playacting scene wasn't particularly great for a stoned man neither
- plot isn't making much sense, but I'm sure it will all come together
-- 35min in, nothing much making sense, but that may well be a "me thing"
The above makes me wonder if the fern needs some sort of sobriety test before posting.
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@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
@Kruse said in Movie review thread...:
Caged Heat
- going as expected for a while
- nightmare scene, while stoned, kinda threw me for a bit
- playacting scene wasn't particularly great for a stoned man neither
- plot isn't making much sense, but I'm sure it will all come together
-- 35min in, nothing much making sense, but that may well be a "me thing"
The above makes me wonder if the fern needs some sort of sobriety test before posting.
It would certainly cull the membership
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Revenge of the Sith
Really fucking good. Great to see it on the big screen again. When you watch the first 2 and clone wars in prep the last 3rd is sad as fuck.
Yes the dialogue at times is clunky (deadset how did George talk to his wife?) But the visuals are amazing, the music is incredible.
I honestly believe it's better than Return of the Jedi
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@mariner4life said in Movie review thread...:
Revenge of the Sith
Really fucking good. Great to see it on the big screen again. When you watch the first 2 and clone wars in prep the last 3rd is sad as fuck.
Yes the dialogue at times is clunky (deadset how did George talk to his wife?) But the visuals are amazing, the music is incredible.
I honestly believe it's better than Return of the Jedi
Huge call, I won't entirely disagree.......perhaps the only thing against ROTS for me personally is that I didn't see it as a wide eyed kid at the Movies in Nelson with my Grandma ( who was probably wondering what the fuck she'd gotten herself in for ) like I did ROTJ.
Wrong thread but I'll post my rankings anyway......
1 Empire Strikes Back
2 A New Hope
3 Return of the Jedi
4 Revenge of the Sith
5 Rogue One
6 Attack of the Clones
7 The Phantom Menace
8 The Force Awakens
9 Solo
10 The Last Jedi/The Rise of SkywalkerThe Rise of Skywalker is an appallingly lazily written movie with tons of plot holes which they try in vain to cover up with flashy effects and bigger is better bullshit.....it is more rubbish the more times I watch it.
Somehow Palpatine returned......
Fuck off.
More like somehow someone actually paid someone to come up with that shit.
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@taniwharugby said in Movie review thread...:
Havoc - Tom Hardy, Timothy Oliphant, Forest Whitaker
Pretty decent, lots of John Wick.level killing
3 massacred gangs out of 5 corrupt cops
An OK watch
The Raid meets Gangs of London
Had a good twist which was revealed too early IMHO
3 out of 5
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@MiketheSnow said in Movie review thread...:
@taniwharugby said in Movie review thread...:
Havoc - Tom Hardy, Timothy Oliphant, Forest Whitaker
Pretty decent, lots of John Wick.level killing
3 massacred gangs out of 5 corrupt cops
An OK watch
The Raid meets Gangs of London
Had a good twist which was revealed too early IMHO
3 out of 5
I liked it but the tone seemed a bit off to me, the weighty drama feel of it didn't quite mesh with the all out Indo style action (a genre I love), some of which is awesome.
I really want to see The Raid 3 but Evans seems to be a West only filmmaker these days. Although I just found out the other day that Timo Tjahjanto (director of The Night Comes for Us - which is my favourite Indo action film) has a new film on Netflix that came out last year.
Also watched:
Sinners: Another horror style movie, but it's much more than that, it's also a music film, and a 1920/30s gangster film. In all honesty I would have preferred a straight 1920/1930s gangster film set in this world, but I still had a great time watching this. Stars Michael B Jordan (twice), Jack O'Connell, Delroy Lindo, and Halee Steinfeld and a few actors I've never seen before.
Revenge of the Sith: Since it's being discussed, I'm glad for other people who like it (I think everyone should enjoy which ever Star Wars they like even if I don't like), it's still a shit movie to me, a disappointment when I first saw it in the cinema and a bigger disappointment when I rewatched it finally during Covid. Bad script, bad CGI, bad acting, bad directing, but as @mn5 also notes I didn't see it as a wide eyed kid which likely would have given me a different view of it.
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I still think Star Wars (fuck your new names)
Is better than ESB.
And attack of the clones is awful.
But other than that you're close.My RotJ memories are lining up, not getting in and having to go the next night.
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Young Woman and the Sea
True story of American Trudy Ederle in her attempt to be the first woman to cross the English Channel in 1926.
Decent movie, with Daisy Ridley as Trudy, also starring Stephen Graham as Bill Burgess, an eccentric swimmer who had previously made the crossing himself in 1911.
Gots to say, I did get a bit emotional at the end when you saw how much it meant to so many, especially when it seems for the most part it was kept close enough to the truth.
3.5 pounds of seal fat out of 5 anti-nausea pills.
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@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
@mariner4life said in Movie review thread...:
Revenge of the Sith
Really fucking good. Great to see it on the big screen again. When you watch the first 2 and clone wars in prep the last 3rd is sad as fuck.
Yes the dialogue at times is clunky (deadset how did George talk to his wife?) But the visuals are amazing, the music is incredible.
I honestly believe it's better than Return of the Jedi
Huge call, I won't entirely disagree.......perhaps the only thing against ROTS for me personally is that I didn't see it as a wide eyed kid at the Movies in Nelson with my Grandma ( who was probably wondering what the fuck she'd gotten herself in for ) like I did ROTJ.
Wrong thread but I'll post my rankings anyway......
1 Empire Strikes Back
2 A New Hope
3 Return of the Jedi
4 Revenge of the Sith
5 Rogue One
6 Attack of the Clones
7 The Phantom Menace
8 The Force Awakens
9 Solo
10 The Last Jedi/The Rise of SkywalkerThe Rise of Skywalker is an appallingly lazily written movie with tons of plot holes which they try in vain to cover up with flashy effects and bigger is better bullshit.....it is more rubbish the more times I watch it.
Somehow Palpatine returned......
Fuck off.
More like somehow someone actually paid someone to come up with that shit.
Rogue One is too low, id have it above ROTJ personally.
Also feel you're been harsh on Solo.
Let the Nerd Wars begin...
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@Virgil said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
@mariner4life said in Movie review thread...:
Revenge of the Sith
Really fucking good. Great to see it on the big screen again. When you watch the first 2 and clone wars in prep the last 3rd is sad as fuck.
Yes the dialogue at times is clunky (deadset how did George talk to his wife?) But the visuals are amazing, the music is incredible.
I honestly believe it's better than Return of the Jedi
Huge call, I won't entirely disagree.......perhaps the only thing against ROTS for me personally is that I didn't see it as a wide eyed kid at the Movies in Nelson with my Grandma ( who was probably wondering what the fuck she'd gotten herself in for ) like I did ROTJ.
Wrong thread but I'll post my rankings anyway......
1 Empire Strikes Back
2 A New Hope
3 Return of the Jedi
4 Revenge of the Sith
5 Rogue One
6 Attack of the Clones
7 The Phantom Menace
8 The Force Awakens
9 Solo
10 The Last Jedi/The Rise of SkywalkerThe Rise of Skywalker is an appallingly lazily written movie with tons of plot holes which they try in vain to cover up with flashy effects and bigger is better bullshit.....it is more rubbish the more times I watch it.
Somehow Palpatine returned......
Fuck off.
More like somehow someone actually paid someone to come up with that shit.
Rogue One is too low, id have it above ROTJ personally.
Also feel you're been harsh on Solo.
Let the Nerd Wars begin...
There won't be much of a war, we seem pretty consistent.
Rogue One is absolutely outstanding......but ponder the movies ranked above it. I can't legitimately bump one of them for it so 5th spot it is.
Attack of the Clones which @mariner4life had a go at is half shit ( love story, political mumbo jumbo, Anakin pissing round with his mother side story ) , half outstanding ( cool villains, great rapport between Obi Wan and Anakin, amazing battle sequences, lightsabre fights ) so is ranked about right. Massive flaws but massive upside too.
The Force Awakens is comfortably the best of the sequel trilogy and had heaps of promise which the next two pissed all over.
SOLO is good fun but not a genuinely brilliant movie and ultimately a bit pointless in the general scheme of the SW universe.
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check out this thread....
https://www.forum.thesilverfern.com/topic/411/star-wars-vii-contains-spoilers/5326
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@taniwharugby said in Movie review thread...:
check out this thread....
https://www.forum.thesilverfern.com/topic/411/star-wars-vii-contains-spoilers/5326
subtle way of saying piss off star wars nerd to your own dank little corner of the fern....
Warfare (2025) ⭐ 7.8 | Action, Drama, War
