Movie review thread...

NTA

@canefan said in Re: Movie review thread...:

@NTA Reno was brilliant in Leon

Oh shit yeah - at the start where he emerges from the shadows with the knife and the phone...

NTA

Tears of the Sun

Another Netflix special.

Bruce Willis is a SEAL team leader assigned to get Monica Bellucci out of a jungle mission, about to be overrun by really angry Nigerian dudes. This was made in 2002/3 I think so Monica is in her 40s, and despite being dishevelled and sweaty is still hot as fuck. Even with all her kit on.

Willis makes some stupid choices, as far as the mission goes, and seems to fucking forget that Uncle Sam didn't actually want to get involved in all that rubbish. Some real Willis moves, you might say, in a TSF universe where text substitution still exists.

So instead of leaving a bunch of locals to their fate, he gets half a team killed and the others seriously shot up, because he's got a chubby for doing the "right" thing. I imagine some of the military advisers on set would have been shaking their heads at some of the tactical decisions being made once combat DID ensue.

Tom Skerrit plays the guy who doesn't send in air support until its too late. Mainly because his Lt on the ground was too stupid to ask for it.

In between all that, some tense jungle footage (all shot in Hawaii) and some wartime atrocities that really are shit, because those parts at least.

Roger Ebert's review was 3 out of 4 stars and he accurately said "Tears of the Sun is a film constructed out of rain, cinematography and the face of Bruce Willis. These materials are sufficient to build a film almost as good as if there had been a better screenplay."

3 out of 5 on the why-the-fuck-was-your-lead-scout-only-20-metres-away scale

canefan

@NTA Monica Bellucci is smoking hot. Anyone that hasn't seen her in Malena has missed out

NTA

Moneyball

Good performances from Pitt and Hill I thought. Didn't load us down with too much baseball talk which is good because I don't follow the game at all, and have no idea who the A's are.

Liked the focus on stats and the conflict with PSH's team manager, though apparently that wasn't the case at all. Well, that's what you get when someone directs a movie.

4 out of 5 home runs

Bovidae

@canefan Gotta agree about Monica - curves.

I first saw Tears of the Sun at the cinema and have watched it a few times since then. Always good fun.

MN5

@canefan said in Re: Movie review thread...:

@NTA Monica Bellucci is smoking hot. Anyone that hasn't seen her in Malena has missed out

She was great in the recent Bond too. Even at 50 ya soooooooooo would given half a chance.

canefan

@MN5 She was touted to have a bigger part but sadly she was just a piece of Bond fluff. She should have been more involved a la Sophie Marceau

taniwharugby

@Milk said in Re: Movie review thread...:

Watched Jason Bourne on Saturday and it didn't disappoint.

Just finished re-watching the first 3 again. They really hold up.

Is there any benefit to re-watching the 4th one, Bourne Legacy with Jeremy Renner? Or do they just forget that one ever happened?

I watched the new Bourne movie, I liked it, simple formula. Car chase with the indestructible SWAT truck was pretty good.

The other one could be watched as a stand alone movie IMO, and then is just another action flick.

3 David Webbs out of 5 Jason Bournes

MajorRage

Olympus Has Fallen

Good action flick - 80's style bullshit and dialogue, but totally worth it. Butler is a good action hero.

4 US flags out of 5 angry Koreans

Mokey

Every time I see promo for Fantastic Beasts I keep reading it as Fantastic Breasts, and think nice work, Hollywood...oh. Damn it brain, stop doing that.

NTA

@Mokey said in Re: Movie review thread...:

Every time I see promo for Fantastic Beasts I keep reading it as Fantastic Breasts, and think nice work, Hollywood...oh. Damn it brain, stop doing that.

LOL Mokey trigger image:

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Mokey

@NTA Stop it.

canefan

@NTA Sorry what was the question again?.....

NTA

@Mokey said in Re: Movie review thread...:

@NTA Stop it.

Stop what?

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(That's the last one I promise - I know you have writing to do ;))

Mokey

@NTA Bastard.

(First set is better. Second set will be down round her bellybutton in a few years...)

NTA

@Mokey said in Re: Movie review thread...:

(First set is better. Second set will be down round her bellybutton in a few years...)

(In a few years, this GIF will still be on the internet, and those tits will live on forever more, like Sir Hardwick's lust for the kitchen maid in "Every Inch The Hard Wick, A Novel")

Mokey

@NTA said in Re: Movie review thread...:

(In a few years, this GIF will still be on the internet, and those tits will live on forever more, like Sir Hardwick's lust for the kitchen maid in "Every Inch The Hard Wick, A Novel")

Don't give up your dayjob, cupcake.