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  • MN5M Online
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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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  • CatograndeC Offline
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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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  • mariner4lifeM Offline
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    #19506

    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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  • MN5M Online
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    replied to mariner4life on last edited by MN5
    #19507

    @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 Skywalker

    The 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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  • MiketheSnowM Offline
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    replied to taniwharugby on last edited by
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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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  • NepiaN Offline
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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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  • mariner4lifeM Offline
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    #19510

    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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  • taniwharugbyT Offline
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    wrote on last edited by taniwharugby
    #19511

    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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  • V Offline
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    replied to MN5 on last edited by
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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 Skywalker

    The 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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  • MN5M Online
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    MN5
    replied to Virgil on last edited by MN5
    #19513

    @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 Skywalker

    The 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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  • taniwharugbyT Offline
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    wrote on last edited by
    #19514

    check out this thread....

    https://www.forum.thesilverfern.com/topic/411/star-wars-vii-contains-spoilers/5326

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  • V Offline
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    Virgil
    replied to taniwharugby on last edited by
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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....

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  • dogmeatD Offline
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    @Virgil I have only ever watched the first four star wars movies (by order of production). The first three were ok but massively over hyped. The fourth killed it for me. Lucas combined syrupy sappiness with fucking awful plots and characters Jar Jar Ewoks etc. Screaming piles of shit in the main.

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  • V Offline
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    @dogmeat said in Movie review thread...:

    @Virgil I have only ever watched the first four star wars movies (by order of production). The first three were ok but massively over hyped. The fourth killed it for me. Lucas combined syrupy sappiness with fucking awful plots and characters Jar Jar Ewoks etc. Screaming piles of shit in the main.

    Dude you shouldnt be talking about this here, did you not see @taniwharugby's comment just before.
    You're gonna get us nerds in so much trouble...

    Also "The first three were ok.." ??
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  • MiketheSnowM Offline
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    MiketheSnow
    wrote on last edited by
    #19518

    The Accountant 2 is out

    So I just watched the original to reacquaint myself with the plot and characters

    So glad I did

    Had forgotten most of it

    Cracking watch and puts lots of the movies which followed it - and which were far more lauded - in the shade

    Excited to see where the sequel goes

    4 Pollocks out of 5 pens to the bollocks

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  • NepiaN Offline
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    Nepia
    replied to MiketheSnow on last edited by
    #19519

    @MiketheSnow said in Movie review thread...:

    The Accountant 2 is out

    So I just watched the original to reacquaint myself with the plot and characters

    So glad I did

    Had forgotten most of it

    Cracking watch and puts lots of the movies which followed it - and which were far more lauded - in the shade

    Excited to see where the sequel goes

    4 Pollocks out of 5 pens to the bollocks

    Yeah, I'm in a two night rewatch in prep for watching 2 on Wednesday.

    And yep, I'd forgotten most of it outside the action sequences.

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  • mariner4lifeM Offline
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    #19520

    The Accountant is excellent. Be interesting how they go about bottling that lightning twice.

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  • TimT Away
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    #19522

    Rust

    Obviously had alot of media coverage for the wrong reasons, that I reckon has swayed some peoples view of it.

    While it wasnt anything special, it was a decent enough watch.

    3 wanted posters out of 5 it was a different world back then

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  • No QuarterN Offline
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    wrote on last edited by No Quarter
    #19523

    Thunderbolts

    Took the 12 year old to see this, and it was excellent, a lot better than some of the more recent Marvel stuff. I mean it's Marvel, so don't go in there expecting a work of art like Schindler's List, but this was much closer to some of the earlier stuff and was fun from start to finish. Loved Red Guardian, he was great value.

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