Movie review thread...
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Ok
So had a day / aftafternoon of little interest in much so watch a couple of movies.
Jurassic World. Fallen Kingdom
Am not a huge fan of the Jurassic dinosaur stuff, but quite enjoyed this one. Ending was really really dumb. Seemingly gives them nowhere to go for future movies.
Don't like the whole Indominus Rex / genetically modified kinda-dino story line thing. But given the fact it's about de-extincted paleo creatures who cares about plot holes.
And what was with BDH's lips? Far too much collagen.
So am feeling generous with 3.5 genetic modifications out of 5 really rather benign pyroclastic flows.
Slumdog Millionaire
Have bugged Mrs boo for years and years to watch this. I'd seen it, she has avoided it. Never been sure why, just she was convinced she wouldn't like it.
I warned her about one particularly horrible part (in the orphanage while their mate Arvind was singing, just before the boys escape to the trains), which we cringed through. Even so we decided it was probably somewhat sanitised depiction of life in India.
Really very clever movie.
Seemed to get dusty in the room around the end of the movie (and when Jamal recalled how he knew what Rama holds in his right hand earlier on in tge movie). And even when Salim found redemption.
5 chai wallahs out of 5 third musketeers.
Stand By Me
Found the last 30 mins of this as I avoided going to bed. Awesome movie. Must get on to Mrs boo about dusting this place ...
4.5 dead bodies out of 5 adolescent friends
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Dirty Harry
What can you say about this movie that single handedly invented the rogue cop genre of flicks? The San Fran location, the jazzy music, the eerie tension.....Some excellent performances all round, Andy Robinson was brilliant as the psycho killer but Clint steals the show in every single scene. So many good lines and that scene in the stadium is ruthless as fuck even by today's standards.
Naturally a bit of 1970s datedness but to me that doesnt take anything away from it. Just a goddamm awesomely brilliant flick. One of my all time favourites. As is often the case the sequels got worse as they went along but this one is a classic.
5 44 magnum bullets out of 5 shots fired.
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Operation Finale (Netflix)
About the kidnapping of Adolf Eichmann from Argentina to face trial in Israel by Mossad in 1960. Cut above your normal docudrama.
Ben Kingsley excellent as Eichmann, showing Eichmann's intelligence and matter-of-fact justification for the Holocaust. Chilling portrayal and good to see Kingsley playing an evil bastard for once.
7/10
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The Cloverfield Paradox
Shite. Some good special effects, buts still shite....
4/10
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@rancid-schnitzel
Dalton did his own stunts as well in his Bond films. Read somewhere he was very much into martial arts. -
@mn5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Dirty Harry
What can you say about this movie that single handedly invented the rogue cop genre of flicks? The San Fran location, the jazzy music, the eerie tension.....Some excellent performances all round, Andy Robinson was brilliant as the psycho killer but Clint steals the show in every single scene. So many good lines and that scene in the stadium is ruthless as fuck even by today's standards.
Naturally a bit of 1970s datedness but to me that doesnt take anything away from it. Just a goddamm awesomely brilliant flick. One of my all time favourites. As is often the case the sequels got worse as they went along but this one is a classic.
5 44 magnum bullets out of 5 shots fired.
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Arizona - Danny McBride, Luke WIlson and some cameos from Seth Rogen, Elizabeth Gillies along with a few other faces I have seen before.
Bit of a dark comedy set amidst the US housing crisis and McBride is a disgruntled home owner in the middle of a gated community...
Was ok, almost 3 accidental deaths out of 5 brand new vacant houses (solve our Housing Crisis...)
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@rocky-rockbottom said in Re: Movie review thread...:
The World Is Not Enough (1999)
Oh great, the Pierce Brosnan era. Just bloody great. Another dandy fop. Actually though, I thought he was pretty great. Far more agile than old Rog. And with some wit about him. Plus he looks suave in a suit. Far better Bond than dipshit, lizard-faced, Beavis-browed Timmeh Dullton. Savile Row? Timmeh was decked out by fucken Woolworths.
Little skinhead Begby was quite a solid wee baddie
current Boned ranking:
- Connery
- Daniel Craig
- Brosnan
- Rog
- Lazenby?
- Niven?
- everyone who ever failed a Bond audition
- Mork from Ork
- Frank Spencer
- MN5
- Timmeh!
Brosnan third?
Fuck I'd love to meet you one day if only to beat you up.
Then I'd revive you, talk Bond, disagree and beat you up again.
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@mn5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@rocky-rockbottom said in Re: Movie review thread...:
The World Is Not Enough (1999)
Oh great, the Pierce Brosnan era. Just bloody great. Another dandy fop. Actually though, I thought he was pretty great. Far more agile than old Rog. And with some wit about him. Plus he looks suave in a suit. Far better Bond than dipshit, lizard-faced, Beavis-browed Timmeh Dullton. Savile Row? Timmeh was decked out by fucken Woolworths.
Little skinhead Begby was quite a solid wee baddie
current Boned ranking:
- Connery
- Daniel Craig
- Brosnan
- Rog
- Lazenby?
- Niven?
- everyone who ever failed a Bond audition
- Mork from Ork
- Frank Spencer
- MN5
- Timmeh!
Brosnan third?
Fuck I'd love to meet you one day if only to beat you up.
Then I'd revive you, talk Bond, disagree and beat you up again.
Bit unfair beating up someone wearing a straightjacket.
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@rocky-rockbottom said in Re: Movie review thread...:
The World Is Not Enough (1999)
Oh great, the Pierce Brosnan era. Just bloody great. Another dandy fop. Actually though, I thought he was pretty great. Far more agile than old Rog. And with some wit about him. Plus he looks suave in a suit. Far better Bond than dipshit, lizard-faced, Beavis-browed Timmeh Dullton. Savile Row? Timmeh was decked out by fucken Woolworths.
Little skinhead Begby was quite a solid wee baddie
current Boned ranking:
- Connery
- Daniel Craig
- Brosnan
- Rog
- Lazenby?
- Niven?
- everyone who ever failed a Bond audition
- Mork from Ork
- Frank Spencer
- MN5
- Timmeh!
The World is not Enough also starred Sophie Marceau and still hot Denise Richards
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Too much Bonding on this thread ....
To move it a wee bit current - Bad Times at the El Royale.
This movie was a wee bit bonkers but I enjoyed it all the same. I had no idea of the plot when going in, saw a preview months ago and wasn't really what my memory expected - it was a lot darker. Stars Jeff Bridges, Jon Hamm, Dakota Johnson, Chris Hemsworth and some people whose names I don't know.
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@canefan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mn5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Dirty Harry
What can you say about this movie that single handedly invented the rogue cop genre of flicks? The San Fran location, the jazzy music, the eerie tension.....Some excellent performances all round, Andy Robinson was brilliant as the psycho killer but Clint steals the show in every single scene. So many good lines and that scene in the stadium is ruthless as fuck even by today's standards.
Naturally a bit of 1970s datedness but to me that doesnt take anything away from it. Just a goddamm awesomely brilliant flick. One of my all time favourites. As is often the case the sequels got worse as they went along but this one is a classic.
5 44 magnum bullets out of 5 shots fired.
This scene does it for me every time. Awesome performances from both of them. Apparently Andy Robinson really struggled to find work after this movie cos of typecasting. Clint obviously went from strength to strength. Magnificent effort to hit someone in the leg with a pistol from about 50 metres too.
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Watched an Aussie Alien film called Occupation.
Was pretty average, with some pretty average dialogue, scenes and acting (lead by Temuera Morrison) but I couldnt bring myself to not finish it!
Probably lucky it wont be a box office hit otherwise I expect a few Kiwi SJW will be all over the fact Tem plays the part of a violent ex-Con in Australia...
I'll be generous and give it 2.5 Aliens out of 5 bullets only hitting aliens
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Criminal. Considering the cast they had (Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Oldman, Ryan Reynolds, Kevin Costner, Gal Gadot etc) the really interesting premise, and good start, not sure how they managed to fuck this up so badly.
Paper thin plot, under-developed antagonists, and a parade of gory deaths that actually subtracted from the menace of the main threat really didn't help. Nor did the ticking clock deadline that everyone ignored. Lots of telling in this movie rather than showing, which meant the impact got lost. Also, Costner's character got a bit too nice. I wanted to see more of a battle between his brain and quirks/tendencies and the implanted ones.
2 headaches out of 5 Gal Gadot has a really fine ass.
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@jegga said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mokey anything with Gal Gadot is automatically a 3 out of 5 imho
In a similar fashion, this mess of a film gets at least 2.5 because of the presence of Amber Heard.
I quite liked that film - I find Costner pretty watchable (in a different way then Heard and Gadot obviously).
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@nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@jegga said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mokey anything with Gal Gadot is automatically a 3 out of 5 imho
In a similar fashion, this mess of a film gets at least 2.5 because of the presence of Amber Heard.
I quite liked that film - I find Costner pretty watchable (in a different way then Heard and Gadot obviously).
The only reason I watched it was because of Costner, needed more Heard and less whiny teenagers .
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We've done "Guilty Pleasure" movies before, but i have another, Mr & Mrs Smith. It's great fun. The overly attractive leads have great chemistry. Good action sequences. Angelina Jolie is looking fiiiine. It's fun.
Someone mentioned a couple of weeks back that the watched Any Given Sunday, and it hadn't aged well. So i watched it last night to confirm. They were completely right. It's a half hour too long. It's waaaay over-dramatised, the fucking flashback/lightening storm/historical highlight cutaways were tedious as hell. Every character is so over-done. Even just shit like the colouring is jarring on the eye. It's a football movie that goes up to 11. And stays there. Give me The Replacements any day.
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@mariner4life I think that was me - you got further through it than I did. Platoon has aged remarkably well of Stone's films - the period aspect no doubt helping.
I liked Mr and Mrs Smith despite the fact I'm not the biggest Jolie is fine type person. Was it a Doug Liman directed film? He usually makes decent films.
@jegga More action, more Heard definitely - but I didn't have too much of a problem with the whiny teenager as she's the one from True Grit.