Movie review thread...
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Watched Bohemian Rhapsody, obviously I know there are inaccuracies in there, but I thought it was a cracking film with a superb soundtrack (Being a Queen fan obviously helps)
Some great acting in there too, particularly Malek.
How the fuck could anyone have gone to Live Aid, I mean I'd have needed a catheter otherwise I'd have to have stood in my own piss if I was in the middle of that!!
5 men that lost Queen out of 5 We Rocked yous...
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as far as bizarre film titles go, this one has gotta be up there...
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@Rocky-Rockbottom said in Re: Movie review thread...:
The Accountant (2016)
The Japanese title is "The Consultant."
wft is the difference you anal little fluffybunnies.
SPOILERRR Ben Affleck the Batman stars in this one as an autistic uber-nerd accountant. Then, halfway through the film, it is revealed that, hello, Batpants has another skillset. He can also fight like John Rambo and Bruce Lee long-playing 33's going around at 45 fucking rpm. He shoots no less than 68 people directly in the face in this film. With a silencer. For stealth. Not bad for 2 hours work from a bean counter. Arnie would've said "Bill me" with perfect timing as the Cavean query mark of cordite wafts up from Corpse #69.
Body count was off the charts here, especially considering as for the first hour BatBen was mild-mannered Bruce Wayne, the aspergers klutz. Felt like an ethnography watching Batbutt and the chick, the gorgeous athletic popular people, pantomiming as autistic and awkward losers. Ching, ching motherfuckers!
51% on RT.
I enjoyed it though. It went shooty shooty interspersed with spells of BatBeany forgetting he had crippling aspergers and was actually a brazenly-confident & fearless murdering machine, shooting baddies in the nutsacks with the motherfucking anti-aircraft gun he'd rigged up in his garage. "Accounting 101, baby" Arnie would've said, chomping down on his cigar as he prepares to mulch an entire yard of home intruders into blood and bone compost. I could write this shit.
All set up for a franchise as BattyBoy drove off into the sunset. 51% on RT might be a hard sell to the studio execs on that front though.
So basically it woulda been one of the greatest actioners of all time if Arnie was in it.
I fucken despise Ben Affleck.
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Cold Pursuit: Knew nothing about this other than it stars Liam "I hunt and kill black people" Neeson. So was unsure if it was Taken in the snow or a more gritty movie like A Walk Amongst the Tombstones in the snow. It was neither, it was Liam Neeson does Fargo. It was a genuinely funny and had enough violence so that the taken crowd wouldn't be too disappointed.
4 reservations out of 5 get the Indian to do it.
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@Rocky-Rockbottom said in Re: Movie review thread...:
All set up for a franchise as BattyBoy drove off into the sunset. 51% on RT might be a hard sell to the studio execs on that front though.
I think it did pretty decent box office and was scheduled for a sequel - haven't heard if it's definitely happening though.
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@Nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Cold Pursuit: Knew nothing about this other than it stars Liam "I hunt and kill black people" Neeson. So was unsure if it was Taken in the snow or a more gritty movie like A Walk Amongst the Tombstones in the snow. It was neither, it was Liam Neeson does Fargo. It was a genuinely funny and had enough violence so that the taken crowd wouldn't be too disappointed.
4 reservations out of 5 get the Indian to do it.
Did he kill any black people?
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@MN5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Cold Pursuit: Knew nothing about this other than it stars Liam "I hunt and kill black people" Neeson. So was unsure if it was Taken in the snow or a more gritty movie like A Walk Amongst the Tombstones in the snow. It was neither, it was Liam Neeson does Fargo. It was a genuinely funny and had enough violence so that the taken crowd wouldn't be too disappointed.
4 reservations out of 5 get the Indian to do it.
Did he kill any black people?
Nope. The whole story is a beat up.
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@booboo said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Rocky-Rockbottom enough fence sitting, which was better?
I liked them both. Fargo more.
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@antipodean said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@booboo said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Rocky-Rockbottom enough fence sitting, which was better?
I liked them both. Fargo more.
I really like The Nice Guys, it was in my top 10 the year it came out and I think @Rocky-Rockbottom's review of it is all wrong.
I was never a fan of Fargo (the movie - but I think the tv show is great), I used to find 80s and 90s Coen brother films to be average, they just didn't mesh with me, but from No Country for Old Men on I've really enjoyed all their films so I really think I should re-watch their old stuff if I ever get time.
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@Nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@antipodean said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@booboo said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Rocky-Rockbottom enough fence sitting, which was better?
I liked them both. Fargo more.
I really like The Nice Guys, it was in my top 10 the year it came out and I think @Rocky-Rockbottom's review of it is all wrong.
I was never a fan of Fargo (the movie - but I think the tv show is great), I used to find 80s and 90s Coen brother films to be average, they just didn't mesh with me, but from No Country for Old Men on I've really enjoyed all their films so I really think I should re-watch their old stuff if I ever get time.
I enjoyed the Big Lebowski. Great cast, funny story, didn't do well at the box office though
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@canefan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@antipodean said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@booboo said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Rocky-Rockbottom enough fence sitting, which was better?
I liked them both. Fargo more.
I really like The Nice Guys, it was in my top 10 the year it came out and I think @Rocky-Rockbottom's review of it is all wrong.
I was never a fan of Fargo (the movie - but I think the tv show is great), I used to find 80s and 90s Coen brother films to be average, they just didn't mesh with me, but from No Country for Old Men on I've really enjoyed all their films so I really think I should re-watch their old stuff if I ever get time.
I enjoyed the Big Lebowski. Great cast, funny story, didn't do well at the box office though
I thought the Big Lebowski was the most watchable of their early films.
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I just watched the trailer for Captain Marvel. What a fucking mess of a trailer. I have no idea what that movie is about except a reasonably hot chick came from somewhere, doesn't remember it, and fights someone? Is there a bad guy?
Is this movie just a rushed in job to fill us in on who is supposed to save everyone in the next Avengers movie?
Speaking of that, why am i watching Spiderman in a trailer before he's come back in the Avengers?
Did Marvel get too big?
(yes, i will totally go to the cinema and watch all of those movies, contributing to Marvel making all of the money this year. All of it)
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@mariner4life That's the best type of trailer in my opinion - I actively avoid them because so many give the whole plot away.
Marvel - tick, Brie Larson - tick, thats enough for me, I don't need a trailer to convince me to watch it.
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Polar. A film about a top assassin that is nearing retirement and his employers turn on him. Mads Mikkelson, who I think is a decent actor, Lagertha and bizarrely Matt Lucas. You have to give credit to the Director and producers for making a film that has a pretty good cast, is about assassins, has lost of violence and gun play into a steaming pile of shite. It took some doing but they managed it.
2 Danish hitmen out of 5 stupid endings.
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@Catogrande damn...oh well I'll still watch it, cos Lagertha.
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@taniwharugby said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Catogrande damn...oh well I'll still watch it, cos Lagertha.
A sound enough reason. A small consolation is that Mads gets to rough shag some skank bird.
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@Catogrande said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Polar. A film about a top assassin that is nearing retirement and his employers turn on him. Mads Mikkelson, who I think is a decent actor, Lagertha and bizarrely Matt Lucas. You have to give credit to the Director and producers for making a film that has a pretty good cast, is about assassins, has lost of violence and gun play into a steaming pile of shite. It took some doing but they managed it.
2 Danish hitmen out of 5 stupid endings.
I found it alright, if a bit of a mish-mash.
Coming from a comic book - it was a weird mixture of Scott Pilgrim graphics/style, John Wick violence/revenge, Leon: The Professional emotional attachment... then suddenly changing for the last 30 minutes or so into removing all those things.
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@Kruse said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Catogrande said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Polar. A film about a top assassin that is nearing retirement and his employers turn on him. Mads Mikkelson, who I think is a decent actor, Lagertha and bizarrely Matt Lucas. You have to give credit to the Director and producers for making a film that has a pretty good cast, is about assassins, has lost of violence and gun play into a steaming pile of shite. It took some doing but they managed it.
2 Danish hitmen out of 5 stupid endings.
I found it alright, if a bit of a mish-mash.
Coming from a comic book - it was a weird mixture of Scott Pilgrim graphics/style, John Wick violence/revenge, the Professional emotion... then suddenly changing for the last 30 minutes or so into removing all those things.
I would watch the sequel it so obviously set up.They could have let Johnny Knoxville have a last shag at the start.
