Movie review thread...
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@Nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:
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@Tim said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:
I rate this up with Boy and Hunt for the Wilderpeople.
So the harshest critics were right then. Good to know.
Yep . Really impressed with the two kids in it though .
The next movie that has Waititis name attached to it I won’t bother to watch until it shows up in my Netflix or Amazon feed.
Dead to me ... I hope all videos are filmed in portrait mode from now on!
GFYs. You were dead to me the moment I saw you admit to seeing little women .
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@jegga said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@jegga said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Tim said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:
I rate this up with Boy and Hunt for the Wilderpeople.
So the harshest critics were right then. Good to know.
Yep . Really impressed with the two kids in it though .
The next movie that has Waititis name attached to it I won’t bother to watch until it shows up in my Netflix or Amazon feed.
Dead to me ... I hope all videos are filmed in portrait mode from now on!
GFYs. You were dead to me the moment I saw you admit to seeing little women .
You'll love it when you secretly watch it on Netflix in a years time. (Actually, probably three months time with the way they turn around movies these days).
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@voodoo said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Man, I love pretty much everything Waititi has done
Agreed. Just for @tim and @jegga I'll do my list of Taika movies in order of best to worst:
- Boy
- Tama Tu
- Hunt for the Wilderpeople
- JoJo Rabbit
- Thor Ragnarok
- What We Do in the Shadows
- Two Cars One Night
- Eagle vs Shark
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@Nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@voodoo said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Man, I love pretty much everything Waititi has done
Agreed. Just for @tim and @jegga I'll do my list of Taika movies in order of best to worst:
- Boy
- Tama Tu
- Hunt for the Wilderpeople
- JoJo Rabbit
- Thor Ragnarok
- What We Do in the Shadows
- Two Cars One Night
- Eagle vs Shark
Never seen Tama tu. Not one of those makes me think “ that was awesome, I’ll rewatch it tonight “. I’m not saying they are complete garbage though.
Actually Wilderpeople fucked me off , one of the major subplots of the book was that Uncle Hec was always giving the kid shit about being fat, then they went bush and the kid didn’t notice he was thin tll he had a shower and there was a whole thing about how he thought fat looked worse on brown people than white people. Then he realised Hec never told him he was skinny he just stopped giving him shit about being fat and how cool things were going to be now everyone saw him as skinny now.
By the end of the film Riki Baker was still fat as fuck despite living in the bush for months .
I notice that you didn’t list the comedy show he had on tv , that turd made melody rules look like Curb your enthusiasm.
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@jegga said in Re: Movie review thread...:
I notice that you didn’t list the comedy show he had on tv
I didn't list any TV shows - just movies (and short movies). What TV show are you referring to? What We Do In The Shadows? The wellington one? Flight of the Conchords?
I was never a huge fan of Crump's writing so really didn't care what was/wasn't included.
I'd happily rewatch all of those tonight bar 6-8, although if they were the only options I wouldn't mind.
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@raznomore said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Radiradirah was a horrible show. But he got better and I love Taika's work. It's not for everyone much like Wes Anderson isn't for everyone.
I forgot the name . It excruciatingly bad . Spinoff tv bad .
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@Nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@jegga said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@jegga said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Tim said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:
I rate this up with Boy and Hunt for the Wilderpeople.
So the harshest critics were right then. Good to know.
Yep . Really impressed with the two kids in it though .
The next movie that has Waititis name attached to it I won’t bother to watch until it shows up in my Netflix or Amazon feed.
Dead to me ... I hope all videos are filmed in portrait mode from now on!
GFYs. You were dead to me the moment I saw you admit to seeing little women .
You'll love it when you secretly watch it on Netflix in a years time. (Actually, probably three months time with the way they turn around movies these days).
I'm taking your word on 'Little Women', adding it to our holiday catalogue (god bless Oscar season). As anyone in a relationship knows you have to take the occasional movie bullet to keep the other half happy. Best it be a bullet recommended on the fern. Review to come.
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@Rembrandt said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@jegga said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@jegga said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Tim said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:
I rate this up with Boy and Hunt for the Wilderpeople.
So the harshest critics were right then. Good to know.
Yep . Really impressed with the two kids in it though .
The next movie that has Waititis name attached to it I won’t bother to watch until it shows up in my Netflix or Amazon feed.
Dead to me ... I hope all videos are filmed in portrait mode from now on!
GFYs. You were dead to me the moment I saw you admit to seeing little women .
You'll love it when you secretly watch it on Netflix in a years time. (Actually, probably three months time with the way they turn around movies these days).
I'm taking your word on 'Little Women', adding it to our holiday catalogue (god bless Oscar season). As anyone in a relationship knows you have to take the occasional movie bullet to keep the other half happy. Best it be a bullet recommended on the fern. Review to come.
I accept no responsibility!
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Terminator: Dark FAte (Or something)
Pretty much same story as the first one, but way better Terminator sent back in time to kill someone else, Sarah Connor also goes about killing Terminators, but teams up with an enhanced chick sent back to save her times John Connor...
2.5 dead terminators out of 5 more of the same
Ad Astra
Bloody long...some great visual effects, decent story, but a bit on the long side.
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THe scene wherehe took the panel off the other space ship, managed to shoot off in the perfect direction to get through the asteroid belt and still get on his ship was a bit shit
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3.5 trips to Neptune out of 5 Space is big, but whats on the other side?
Joker
NOt sure on this one, Phoenix is a superb actor, and did bloody well, but not sure that is Joker! JOker is supposed to be a criminal mastermind, a genius mind, yet I felt he was portrayed a bit simple.
Zazie Beets is easy on the eye, although only a small part, did question what (why) was going on between her and JOker early...
3.5 clown masks out of 5 laughter filled stand up comedy shows
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Mile 22
Mark Wahlberg is an angry dick who heads a team of special operatives. They must get a dude with vital information to a plane before one of about 200 mooks shoots them first.
Lots of words, many hard to make out. Lots of cuts. Lots of shakey cams. Lots of strange pauses by the bad guys. No tits.
The "twist" can be seen coming almost immediately.
I'm upgrading it to a 2 just because a lot of bad guys get shot, and one bad guy gets his throat cut with a broken car window, which is pretty hard core. Soooo many questions come out of this, and i bet none of them are what the makers thought/hoped we would be asking.
Seems they set up for a sequel. I doubt that is coming.
2 weird broken home side plots out of 5 grenades in the hand
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Not a new movie.
Three Identical Strangers - Doco about 3 identical triplets who are adopted out separately at birth and reunited, by fluke, as young men.
It's not groundbreaking or amazingly watchable. But it is thought-provoking.
It starts out as a crazy and unlikely feel-good story. Turns into a kind of 70's-80's cringe-fest where the subjects are paraded across a range of tacky talk shows like Phil Donahue and Sally Jesse Raphael. It looks like the usual schtick where something innocent was parlayed into a gimmick. The gimmick became a business and when their popularity waned so did the business and their relationship.
If it had stopped there it would have been ok. But the reason for their separate adoption is a well-devised but evil experiment.
3 identical triplets out of 5 crazy old women that own Picassos
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Dark Waters - MArk Ruffalo, Anne Hathaway, Tim Robbins, Bill Pullman.
Based on the true story of a Defence Attorney who takes on Dupont for poisoning the waters of a North Virginian town.
3.5 teflon coated things out of 5 dissected cow parts in the freezer
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Zombieland: Doubletap
Same crew back, plus Rosario Dawson, Thomas Middlemarch, Luke WIlson, Zoey Deutch
I enjoyed it, bit of fun, some great lines.
3.5 nut allergies out of 5 T800s
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@taniwharugby said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Zombieland: Doubletap
Same crew back, plus Rosario Dawson, Thomas Middlemarch, Luke WIlson, Zoey Deutch
I enjoyed it, bit of fun, some great lines.
3.5 nut allergies out of 5 T800s
Agreed, thought it was a good fun movie ... just like the original.
The Farewell: This is about a Chinese family not telling their mother/grandmother she has cancer (apparently a thing in China) but organising a wedding so overseas family could travel back to see her. For some reason on hearing the premise I thought it would be a full on comedy (it stars Awkwafina) but it was actually a drama. Still was pretty good - 3.5 dumplings out of 5 crabs but not lobsters.
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el Camino - finally got around to watching this. Was ok, nothing special, just lacked something to make it really good.
3 oh right, thats a flashback out of 5 bags of cash
Ford v Ferrari - didnt have much expectation going into this, but thought it was pretty good. No idea how well it sticks to the truth, but story flows pretty well with some good acting.
4 overheated brakes out of 5 cnuty execs
Jojo Rabbit - had avoided reading too much about this, and it was not what I expected (trailers paint it like a bit of a comedy, not too disimilar to how Boy looks like it should eb a comedy from the trailers) but was a pretty good flick.
4 ways of killing Nathan out of 5 robots
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@Nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@taniwharugby said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Zombieland: Doubletap
Same crew back, plus Rosario Dawson, Thomas Middlemarch, Luke WIlson, Zoey Deutch
I enjoyed it, bit of fun, some great lines.
3.5 nut allergies out of 5 T800s
Agreed, thought it was a good fun movie ... just like the original.
The Farewell: This is about a Chinese family not telling their mother/grandmother she has cancer (apparently a thing in China) but organising a wedding so overseas family could travel back to see her. For some reason on hearing the premise I thought it would be a full on comedy (it stars Awkwafina) but it was actually a drama. Still was pretty good - 3.5 dumplings out of 5 crabs but not lobsters.
That’s a true story about the lady with cancer it’s on radiolab I think .
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@jegga said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@taniwharugby said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Zombieland: Doubletap
Same crew back, plus Rosario Dawson, Thomas Middlemarch, Luke WIlson, Zoey Deutch
I enjoyed it, bit of fun, some great lines.
3.5 nut allergies out of 5 T800s
Agreed, thought it was a good fun movie ... just like the original.
The Farewell: This is about a Chinese family not telling their mother/grandmother she has cancer (apparently a thing in China) but organising a wedding so overseas family could travel back to see her. For some reason on hearing the premise I thought it would be a full on comedy (it stars Awkwafina) but it was actually a drama. Still was pretty good - 3.5 dumplings out of 5 crabs but not lobsters.
That’s a true story about the lady with cancer it’s on radiolab I think .
Yeah, I think they had a shot of the actual lady at the end.
