Movie review thread...
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Deadpool 2. Irreverent, mocking, multilayered, still violent childish and naughty, this was a richer film than the last. I loved the in jokes and pop culture references, the clever recreation of a classic 80s track (and it's video). DP2 was a rollicking fun ride from the start, with the Bond pisstake, right to the end with the post credits extras. 5 pre-diabetic kiwi boys out of 5 sliced up paedophile guards
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Game Night - loved it
Cargo - good watch. Different take on this genre
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Black Panther
Watched it on a plane.
Kind of fun for a start. Loved the sister who invented all the tech.
White bad guy was funny.
Bilbo as a yank was weird.
Second half got lame. Plot and logic holes you could ride a super
human... err ... superrhino rhino through.2.5 vibranium artifacts out of 5 kinetic energy absorbing suits.
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@booboo said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@bones said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@booboo Sounds like it might be as bad as Merry in 100 Code on the Hobbit thing.
You've lost me sorry .. ? ?
I've never heard of "100 Code" - but I'm guessing he's referring to another case of the "Frodo in Sin City" effect.
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@kruse said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@booboo said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@bones said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@booboo Sounds like it might be as bad as Merry in 100 Code on the Hobbit thing.
You've lost me sorry .. ? ?
I've never heard of "100 Code" - but I'm guessing he's referring to another case of the "Frodo in Sin City" effect.
Or Samwise Gangey as Winona's love interest in Stranger Things 2.
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A Quiet Place
Shout it from the rooftops, BRILLIANT
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Enjoyed Death Wish.
But hopefully one and done.
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@mikethesnow said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Enjoyed Death Wish.
But hopefully one and done.
WTF! Another remake?
I remember doing a marathon session of Death Wish 1, 2 and 3 in the late 1980s. Charles Bronson was up there with Arnie and Sly back then. I haven't seen any of them since.
A mate's relatives owned a video store so we used to get out heaps of videos to watch over a weekend, particularly movies we weren't legally able to watch at the cinema.
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@mikethesnow I watched it the other and it was ... not bad.
From the reviews, you'd have thought it was uniquely bad and morally reprehensible. It was actually quite restrained.
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I finally got around to watching “The Square” — a Swedish film with a strong underlying theme about (not too surprisingly, this being Sweden after all) political correctness that won last years’ Palm d’Or at Cannes. It’s two-and-a-half hours with subtitles, and it’s about a half-hour too long — but it’s very watchable, and half the dialogue is in English. The most surprising thing was how funny it was, and subtley skewers a lot of sacred cows in the art world. (The art project itself reminded me of Shia LeBouef’s “He Will Not Divide Us” installation, which is ripe for mockery.) Not what I was expecting. 8/10
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@bovidae said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mikethesnow said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Enjoyed Death Wish.
But hopefully one and done.
WTF! Another remake?
I remember doing a marathon session of Death Wish 1, 2 and 3 in the late 1980s. Charles Bronson was up there with Arnie and Sly back then. I haven't seen any of them since.
A mate's relatives owned a video store so we used to get out heaps of videos to watch over a weekend, particularly movies we weren't legally able to watch at the cinema.
Charles Bronson was undeniably cool but by golly he did some crap movies.
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Many of the greats did a whole lotta crap movies. Marlon Brando and Elvis Presley, to name a pair. And it wouldn’t have mattered if Bronson had only ever made crap movies except for one, when that ONE is Once Upon A Time In The West, for that role alone his place in cinematic immortality is cemented.
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@salacious-crumb said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Many of the greats did a whole lotta crap movies. Marlon Brando and Elvis Presley, to name a pair. And it wouldn’t have mattered if Bronson had only ever made crap movies except for one, when that ONE is Once Upon A Time In The West, for that role alone his place in cinematic immortality is cemented.
Damn right. He also did the Great Escape and Hard Times which were great yarns. But I've also lost count of the amount of late night crap I've seen him star in.
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@salacious-crumb And The Magnificent Seven and The Great Escape.
@MN5 The 1980s were full of shitty action movies but they were fun to watch at the time.
