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@Virgil said in Movie review thread...:
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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.
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....
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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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@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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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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@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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The Accountant is excellent. Be interesting how they go about bottling that lightning twice.
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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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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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@No-Quarter said in Movie review thread...:
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.
I saw this and liked it, but I don't think it was really any better or worse than recent offerings despite the good press it's getting.
What I think it did have which does elevate it is that it clearly has a purpose in setting up the deck for Secret Wars, which (just in my opinion) made it seem more purposeful than other films.
There's also the fact that it made two forgettable characters JD squad Captain America and Ghost seem less forgettable so that's a positive. I spent hald the movie trying to figure out what movie Bob was originally from before realising he's a newly introduced character.
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Seen the lead Sophie Thatcher in two things recently, this and Heretic. She's the best in both.
Good story, well executed - pun intended.
3.5 joshings out of 5 real as fucks
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@Bovidae said in Movie review thread...:
@canefan said in Movie review thread...:
Watched All Quiet on the Western Front last night.
The Netflix version? If so, that was very good and better than the John-Boy version. The original (1930) is still the best.
Netflix version
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@Bovidae said in Movie review thread...:
@canefan said in Movie review thread...:
Watched All Quiet on the Western Front last night.
The Netflix version? If so, that was very good and better than the John-Boy version. The original (1930) is still the best.
I think visually it's better, but I think the 1930s and John Boy versions captured the themes of the book a lot better. The Netflix one wasn't devoid of substance, but it felt style over substance when watching it.
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@mariner4life said in Movie review thread...:
The Accountant is excellent. Be interesting how they go about bottling that lightning twice.
The Accountant 2
A good not great sequel
Got a little too John Wick for my liking when it didn’t need it
Brother time was funny and well done
3 returns out of 5 audits
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@Bovidae said in Movie review thread...:
The original (1930) is still the best.
Yep. If just for the single greatest shot in movie history.
Companion (2025) ⭐ 6.9 | Sci-Fi, Thriller
