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@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...:
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@jegga said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@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 .
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.
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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...:
@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.
It’s a cool story but after listening to the podcast I’ll probably pass. They did mention they were hoping to make a movie about it, stoked for them that they did
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@antipodean said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Rembrandt interesting, a colleague of mine say it yesterday and said if you don't expect DC, it's really good and Phoenix is brilliant in his portrayal of the character. Real underlying menace.
So I finally got to this on a recent flight. "Real underlying menace" is fine, but what bothered me is his clear mental illness. I mean, all psychopathic killers probably have a little cray-cray in them I guess, but this guy started out seeing a psych, he is on all manner of medications, he is hallucinating throughout, and is obviously schizophrenic .
I prefer my serial killers to be more calculating and in control than this.
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@voodoo said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@antipodean said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Rembrandt interesting, a colleague of mine say it yesterday and said if you don't expect DC, it's really good and Phoenix is brilliant in his portrayal of the character. Real underlying menace.
So I finally got to this on a recent flight. "Real underlying menace" is fine, but what bothered me is his clear mental illness. I mean, all psychopathic killers probably have a little cray-cray in them I guess, but this guy started out seeing a psych, he is on all manner of medications, he is hallucinating throughout, and is obviously schizophrenic .
I prefer my serial killers to be more calculating and in control than this.
In the comics he has the skin on his face peeled off, displayed in a frame then stapelled back on. Yep, sounds in control and not at all crazy....
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@voodoo said in Re: Movie review thread...:
I prefer my serial killers to be more calculating and in control than this.
for me it was more he was came across as a bit simple, rather than the criminal mastermind he is...I think the lack of control is something that separates him from other criminals, but it is usually combined with his genius which makes him more menacing.
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@taniwharugby said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@voodoo said in Re: Movie review thread...:
I prefer my serial killers to be more calculating and in control than this.
for me it was more he was came across as a bit simple, rather than the criminal mastermind he is...I think the lack of control is something that separates him from other criminals, but it is usually combined with his genius which makes him more menacing.
One big thing to remember is that final scene;
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It's pretty much pulling the Usual Suspects twist. We can't trust anything we've just heard, and as the director was basing this on parts of the Killing Joke, this past/origin may be just one of the multiple choice histories that the Joke aludes to in that story (same as Ledger's Joke telling different origin stories).
Arthur may not even be the Joker.
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@Kirwan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
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@voodoo said in Re: Movie review thread...:
I prefer my serial killers to be more calculating and in control than this.
for me it was more he was came across as a bit simple, rather than the criminal mastermind he is...I think the lack of control is something that separates him from other criminals, but it is usually combined with his genius which makes him more menacing.
One big thing to remember is that final scene;
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It's pretty much pulling the Usual Suspects twist. We can't trust anything we've just heard, and as the director was basing this on parts of the Killing Joke, this past/origin may be just one of the multiple choice histories that the Joke aludes to in that story (same as Ledger's Joke telling different origin stories).
Arthur may not even be the Joker.
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Bloody hell Kirwan, that angle went entirely over my head
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@voodoo Yeah, it supposed to work however you like. But it also works if you know more of the source material or think it ends another way.
The director says he'll confirm what they intended at some point, but he's not confirmed anything other than this Joker will not be in a Batman film.
I think it's a pretty smart film.
