Movie review thread...
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Rocky Rockbottom said:
Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
Bridge too far for Connery. He looks about 55 in this one. Plus the big screen would've hardly been wide enought for his fucken eyebrows by then. Jesus, once you notice the bastards you can't stop looking.
Turns out this was his last Bond film. Still better than his successor though, Roger Moore the wimpy toff.
Overall, this outing is kind of a mailed-in piece of shit. Virtually no flash spy gizmos from Q or M or whoever the old git was. They just drive around a very tinpot-looking fledgling downtown Las Vegas for a bit then later on dick around on an oil rig then the fluffybunny ends.
The #metoo crowd would chunder in their granny gruds at the zeitgeist or oeuvre or whatever of this carry-on. Basically Connery tries to fuck every single spunk the instant she appears on screen. And they're all spunks. cue Scottish brogue, "What other purpose do they have Moneypenny?"
Wasn't his last. Never Say Never Again in 1983. He banged Kim Bassenger in that one! Looked like a grandad though. Ridiculous.
Actually if we're going to complain about misogyny in Bond flicks, check out You only live Twice. Holy shit.
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Matrix Reloaded. Never seen this and am only watching the Matrix series because my kids are interested.
Some incredible action that has really stood the test of time. Bit of a strange film though. Either waaay too much action or waaay to lengthy monologues.
2 things: Keanu Reeves is a wooden as a farking lumber yard and Monica Belluci has enormous tits.
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@rancid-schnitzel Keanu has never been able to act. It's part of the reason he's so good in John Wick, whose entire emotional repertoire is binary code.
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antipodean said:
@rancid-schnitzel Keanu has never been able to act. It's part of the reason he's so good in John Wick, whose entire emotional repertoire is binary code.
When people say that you need more than looks to make it in Hollywood I mention Keanu Reeves and Rob Lowe. Actually the dude who plays Thor is also an incredibly shit actor.
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Rancid Schnitzel said:
Matrix Reloaded. Never seen this and am only watching the Matrix series because my kids are interested.
Some incredible action that has really stood the test of time. Bit of a strange film though. Either waaay too much action or waaay to lengthy monologues.
2 things: Keanu Reeves is a wooden as a farking lumber yard and Monica Belluci has enormous tits.
gets too much hate. The entire sequence from pashing Monica in the toilet, through to the two trucks crashing, is absolutely fucking brilliant action. Ripping soundtrack over those scenes as well.
It's not a patch on the first obviously, but it's far superior to the third. And it's not without its flaws, but it's nowhere near as bad as it is made out to be.
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canefan said:
Monica is underrated hawt. She was smoking in Malena
under rated? She is my A1 dream girl. First on the list. Would cut two fingers off my left hand etc
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@rancid-schnitzel I've liked Rob Lowe since Parks and Rec. He plays a really good Rob Lowe.
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Bovidae said:
The Departed
I saw this at the cinema when it was released. Still a fantastic movie with a great cast, storytelling and dialogue but could have been a little shorter. I need to watch "Infernal Affairs" to compare.
The only movie with Matt Damon playing rugby I'll ever watch.
5 Bruce Lees out of 5 Karate KIds
I love that film, watched it again a few weeks back. Internal affairs is good, too. I want to watch the Raid to compare it to Dredd.
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mariner4life said:
canefan said:
Monica is underrated hawt. She was smoking in Malena
under rated? She is my A1 dream girl. First on the list. Would cut two fingers off my left hand etc
Maybe the early 2000s version. She must be getting on a bit. Those beautiful breasts must be reaching her feet now.
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jegga said:
Bovidae said:
The Departed
I saw this at the cinema when it was released. Still a fantastic movie with a great cast, storytelling and dialogue but could have been a little shorter. I need to watch "Infernal Affairs" to compare.
The only movie with Matt Damon playing rugby I'll ever watch.
5 Bruce Lees out of 5 Karate KIds
I love that film, watched it again a few weeks back. Internal affairs is good, too. I want to watch the Raid to compare it to Dredd.
The Raid is great, similar story but completely different movie to Dredd though. I actually think I prefer some of the fights in The Raid 2 over the original.
It's been a while since I saw Infernal Affairs but it's a great movie, I was a bit worried when they announced Scorcese was doing an English language version but they got The Departed pretty spot on. One thing I think they fluffed a bit with it though was:
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The timeline seemed a bit short for Leo to be in the mob, in Infernal Affairs they stretch it out so he actually spends a long time working his way up.
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Rancid Schnitzel said:
mariner4life said:
canefan said:
Monica is underrated hawt. She was smoking in Malena
under rated? She is my A1 dream girl. First on the list. Would cut two fingers off my left hand etc
Maybe the early 2000s version. She must be getting on a bit. Those beautiful breasts must be reaching her feet now.
She's in her 50s now, so not quite the young woman in Malena, but I'd definitely go there.
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Rancid Schnitzel said:
Rocky Rockbottom said:
Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
Bridge too far for Connery. He looks about 55 in this one. Plus the big screen would've hardly been wide enought for his fucken eyebrows by then. Jesus, once you notice the bastards you can't stop looking.
Turns out this was his last Bond film. Still better than his successor though, Roger Moore the wimpy toff.
Overall, this outing is kind of a mailed-in piece of shit. Virtually no flash spy gizmos from Q or M or whoever the old git was. They just drive around a very tinpot-looking fledgling downtown Las Vegas for a bit then later on dick around on an oil rig then the fluffybunny ends.
The #metoo crowd would chunder in their granny gruds at the zeitgeist or oeuvre or whatever of this carry-on. Basically Connery tries to fuck every single spunk the instant she appears on screen. And they're all spunks. cue Scottish brogue, "What other purpose do they have Moneypenny?"
Wasn't his last. Never Say Never Again in 1983. He banged Kim Bassenger in that one! Looked like a grandad though. Ridiculous.
Actually if we're going to complain about misogyny in Bond flicks, check out You only live Twice. Holy shit.
DAF is definitely down there with the absolute worst of the Bonds. He wore a short pink tie for half the flick and as you say he looked ancient, like he'd aged 20 years since Dr No.
Wint and Kidd had some good lines.
The plot was incomprehensible.
Roger Moore was a great Bond as well though.
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Rancid Schnitzel said:
Rocky Rockbottom said:
Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
Bridge too far for Connery. He looks about 55 in this one. Plus the big screen would've hardly been wide enought for his fucken eyebrows by then. Jesus, once you notice the bastards you can't stop looking.
Turns out this was his last Bond film. Still better than his successor though, Roger Moore the wimpy toff.
Overall, this outing is kind of a mailed-in piece of shit. Virtually no flash spy gizmos from Q or M or whoever the old git was. They just drive around a very tinpot-looking fledgling downtown Las Vegas for a bit then later on dick around on an oil rig then the fluffybunny ends.
The #metoo crowd would chunder in their granny gruds at the zeitgeist or oeuvre or whatever of this carry-on. Basically Connery tries to fuck every single spunk the instant she appears on screen. And they're all spunks. cue Scottish brogue, "What other purpose do they have Moneypenny?"
Wasn't his last. Never Say Never Again in 1983. He banged Kim Bassenger in that one! Looked like a grandad though. Ridiculous.
Actually if we're going to complain about misogyny in Bond flicks, check out You only live Twice. Holy shit.
That was the Thunderball reboot by the guy who accused the Brocollis of ripping off his story wasn't it? Featured some of the worst features of 80s films
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canefan said:
Rancid Schnitzel said:
Rocky Rockbottom said:
Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
Bridge too far for Connery. He looks about 55 in this one. Plus the big screen would've hardly been wide enought for his fucken eyebrows by then. Jesus, once you notice the bastards you can't stop looking.
Turns out this was his last Bond film. Still better than his successor though, Roger Moore the wimpy toff.
Overall, this outing is kind of a mailed-in piece of shit. Virtually no flash spy gizmos from Q or M or whoever the old git was. They just drive around a very tinpot-looking fledgling downtown Las Vegas for a bit then later on dick around on an oil rig then the fluffybunny ends.
The #metoo crowd would chunder in their granny gruds at the zeitgeist or oeuvre or whatever of this carry-on. Basically Connery tries to fuck every single spunk the instant she appears on screen. And they're all spunks. cue Scottish brogue, "What other purpose do they have Moneypenny?"
Wasn't his last. Never Say Never Again in 1983. He banged Kim Bassenger in that one! Looked like a grandad though. Ridiculous.
Actually if we're going to complain about misogyny in Bond flicks, check out You only live Twice. Holy shit.
That was the Thunderball reboot by the guy who accused the Brocollis of ripping off his story wasn't it? Featured some of the worst features of 80s films
He didn't rip off anything, he came up with some of the key movie Bondisms on the early films, so owned them.
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Never say never again was pretty good on its own merits. Connery did look a tiny bit creepy hitting on Kim Basinger and Barbara Carrera was a perfect mix of HAF and Batshit crazy. I liked it but then I liked Thunderball as well. Weird that he made the same movie twice.
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MN5 said:
Never say never again was pretty good on its own merits. Connery did look a tiny bit creepy hitting on Kim Basinger and Barbara Carrera was a perfect mix of HAF and Batshit crazy. I liked it but then I liked Thunderball as well. Weird that he made the same movie twice.
Edward Fox made pompous comical M, wasn't the villain at the health spa an ex-pro wrestler? And there was even a Rowan Atkinson cameo
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canefan said:
MN5 said:
Never say never again was pretty good on its own merits. Connery did look a tiny bit creepy hitting on Kim Basinger and Barbara Carrera was a perfect mix of HAF and Batshit crazy. I liked it but then I liked Thunderball as well. Weird that he made the same movie twice.
Edward Fox made pompous comical M, wasn't the villain at the health spa an ex-pro wrestler? And there was even a Rowan Atkinson cameo
Yep, old mate Pat Roach who also gave Indiana Jones a hiding in two separate movies as different characters. I always liked his work. Great punch up this one, Bond shoulda done better though.
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@rancid-schnitzel Chris Hemsworth is actually pretty good as a comedic actor. I'd argue his entire stretch as Captain Kirk's dad, all 5 mins of it, was closer to winning an Oscar than Keanu's entire career.