Movie review thread...
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I'm torn. <br />
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I really want to like this trailer, and hopefully the film, but it does look like a less fun version of The Raid.<br />
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21 Jump Street - all kinds of average, which is what I expected, but when you have 26 hours to kill, you watch what is available...
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I'm torn. <br />
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I really want to like this trailer, and hopefully the film, but it does look like a less fun version of The Raid.<br />
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The overall look of it is pretty slick though and it seems to be taking its aesthetic straight from the comics.<br />
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This is on my and Mrs DK's must see list. I don't care if it is shit, it is Judge Dredd with his helmet on! -
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This is on my and Mrs DK's must see list. I don't care if it is shit, it is Judge Dredd with his helmet on!<br />
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Hell yes. Dredd is my all time favorite comic book character, just a head of Batman. I really, really want it to be good but I don't expect it to be. -
Watched a movie last night called "Page Eight" had never heard of it, but there was jackson else on, so gave it a nudge. Basically its a political/intellegence/spy "thriller" where Bill Nighy plays an aged, weary MI5 agent who ends up having to unravel a "conspiracy" involving the British Prime Minister.<br />
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At the start it looked for all the world like one of those movies about a world weary lonely old man meets hot complicated neighbour. But that moves on pretty quick, and the intrigue stuff is pretty cool and very subtle.<br />
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Nighy his awesome, so very cool and very charming. And Rachel Weisz is as pretty as ever.<br />
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21 Jump Street - all kinds of average, which is what I expected, but when you have 26 hours to kill, you watch what is available...<br />
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I enjoyed 21 Jump St as mindless fun. I’m of the opinion that excellent movie comedies are almost non-existent these days so, for me, the bar is set pretty low. Thought 21 Jump St did a good job of riffing on its source material with inside jokes without becoming an out-and-out parody in the style of some of the other re-imaginings of eighties TV shows. Certainly not a great movie but thought it had the required “eight laughs†to be considered a comedy although I am in the demographic that remember the original show. <br />
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Finally saw Idiocracy the other day. Funny and clever without always being laugh-out-loud hilarious. Not sure whether the hooker-with-a-heart-of gold was supposed to be satire (the US army thinks that the average woman is a prostitute) or just thrown in for additional joke potential. -
Also enjoyed Page Eight.<br />
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Nighy is an enigma. Monotone voice, hardly ever smiles. Hardly ever moves his face. Not in any way a "leading man" yet is always watchable and stars in some pretty diverse and interesting films.<br />
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I have a client who could be Nighy's twin. Right down to the voice. -
I'm a Bill Nighy fan. He is absolutely brilliant as a washed up lead singer in a 70's rock band that stage a come back tour - Strange Fruit. Great ensemble cast and a movie I watch at least once a year. <br />
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Recently watched The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, another Bill Nighy performance of merit. A very gentle movie and would be a perfect stay at home and snuggle up with the missus. -
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Here is a question. Why do the British do such great ensemble movies and Holywood can't?<br />
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Brits know its about well acted characters. Yanks think its about putting as many big names together as possible and hoping star power will ultimately make up for having no plot, enjoyable characters or point. -
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Brits know its about well acted characters. Yanks think its about putting as many big names together as possible and hoping star power will ultimately make up for having no plot, enjoyable characters or point.<br />
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[quote name='dK' timestamp='1340866598' post='295146']<br />
Here is a question. Why do the British do such great ensemble movies and Holywood can't?<br />
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You mean, like Woody Allen and Robert Altman? American auteurs exist, they're out there (and fair enough, Altman is dead, but his imitators are out there). I get what you mean, but I don't completely buy it. There are loads of great independent American movies that cast well, and many bad ones that cast poorly, for any number of reasons, and big Hollywood studio movies are the same. They are in the business of making money, and if they can create a little art (and a lot of employment outsourced to NZ) in the process, all the better. Off the top of my head, the three biggest grossers of the past few years would be the Nolan Batman series, Avatar and Avengers, produced as massive blockbusters, their ensembles are not small, and I don't think those movies were poorly cast, in fact I think they were mostly inspired choices. OTOH there are plenty of occasions where you can see the transparency of movies constructed by agents and producers at a lunch table, like Coppola's Dracula, to take another example from memory, where a fairly good movie is ruined by the casting of a truly awful Keanu Reeves, without whom that movie probably never gets financed and made in the first place. -
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You mean, like Woody Allen and Robert Altman? American auteurs exist, they're out there (and fair enough, Altman is dead, but his imitators are out there). I get what you mean, but I don't completely buy it. There are loads of great independent American movies that cast well, and many bad ones that cast poorly, for any number of reasons, and big Hollywood studio movies are the same. They are in the business of making money, and if they can create a little art (and a lot of employment outsourced to NZ) in the process, all the better. Off the top of my head, the three biggest grossers of the past few years would be the Nolan Batman series, Avatar and Avengers, produced as massive blockbusters, their ensembles are not small, and I don't think those movies were poorly cast, in fact I think they were mostly inspired choices. OTOH there are plenty of occasions where you can see the transparency of movies constructed by agents and producers at a lunch table, like Coppola's Dracula, to take another example from memory, where a fairly good movie is ruined by the casting of a truly awful Keanu Reeves, without whom that movie probably never gets financed and made in the first place.<br />
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That is a bloody good call RT. I found myself nodding the whole way through that post. It's easy to remember monstrosities like NewYearsEve and forget about The Life Aquatic or Good Night and Good Luck. -
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I have watched 3 of the shittest movies of recent times recently. 2 "blockbusters" in Transformers-Dark of the Moon, and X-Men First Class, and the "remake" of Conan the Barbarian.<br />
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Transformers was utter gash. Michael Bay masturbating into a computer and spitting out a 2 hour special effects promo is just utter rubbish. And yet the least believable thing in the whole movie is that an utter weeny douche like Shia Lebouf can get a [i]second[/i] hot girlfriend (that Huntington-Whitely bird his fucking hot too).<br />
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X-Men First Class was a complete non event of a movie with an absence of plot, tension, or likeable characters. And i think i hate James McEvoy, the man is devoid of talent, or charisma, and his movies suck.<br />
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Conan the Barbarian was as expected, a big fat disappointment. I wish they would leave classic movies alone. This was a parody, and on a par with that terrible Kull the Conquerer movie that Kevin Sorbo did (despite obviously trying to be "darker"). It was a cartoon, with tits. Utter utter gash with no redeeming features (not even flashes of titty could save it).<br />
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I also watched "The Vow" with the wife. I am a simple man, and this movie was obviously not made with me in mind. The wife however, got everything she wanted out of it, a cry, a happy ending, and to perv on Channing Tatum.<br />
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Finally caught that Timberlake movie "In Time". The director and writer hates capitalism, and wealth inequality. A lot. It was interesting enough, but really all a bit pointless. -
I just watched Boogie Nights for the first time in several years. I've probably seen it 5 or 6 times now, and it gets better with repeat viewings. It's a sad, cautionary tale, of course. It's also a terrific comedy.<br />
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I have watched 3 of the shittest movies of recent times recently. 2 "blockbusters" in Transformers-Dark of the Moon, and X-Men First Class, and the "remake" of Conan the Barbarian.<br />
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Transformers was utter gash. Michael Bay masturbating into a computer and spitting out a 2 hour special effects promo is just utter rubbish. And yet the least believable thing in the whole movie is that an utter weeny douche like Shia Lebouf can get a [i]second[/i] hot girlfriend (that Huntington-Whitely bird his fucking hot too).<br />
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X-Men First Class was a complete non event of a movie with an absence of plot, tension, or likeable characters. And i think i hate James McEvoy, the man is devoid of talent, or charisma, and his movies suck.<br />
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Conan the Barbarian was as expected, a big fat disappointment. I wish they would leave classic movies alone. This was a parody, and on a par with that terrible Kull the Conquerer movie that Kevin Sorbo did (despite obviously trying to be "darker"). It was a cartoon, with tits. Utter utter gash with no redeeming features (not even flashes of titty could save it).<br />
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I also watched "The Vow" with the wife. I am a simple man, and this movie was obviously not made with me in mind. The wife however, got everything she wanted out of it, a cry, a happy ending, and to perv on Channing Tatum.<br />
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Finally caught that Timberlake movie "In Time". The director and writer hates capitalism, and wealth inequality. A lot. It was interesting enough, but really all a bit pointless.<br />
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Yes I recently viewed those 3 movies and must largely concur. I expected Transformers to be shit but Conan was farking terrible. That Jason Taumarangegteegegfe (or whatever his name is) was shït beyond belief. Didnt mind X-Men, but yes I have no idea how McEvoy is getting these roles. Must be the same people that cast Nick Stahl in Terminater 3. -
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I just watched Boogie Nights for the first time in several years. I've probably seen it 5 or 6 times now, and it gets better with repeat viewings. It's a sad, cautionary tale, of course. It's also a terrific comedy.<br />
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The first half is hilarious, the second has its moments as well, but it gets pretty sad through the 3rd act. John C Reilly's character is fucking awesome, but there are a heap of good characters really. I hated it the first time i saw it, but it has grown on me.
