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@Machpants it was short lived you are both safe, I suspect its just Val Kilmer sweaty that did it
Judging from recent pics of Val I suspect he'd get sweaty walking from the couch to the cupboard to get some more chocolate biscuits.
Tiniest bit harsh
Anyway
He was hot in Willow too....
Good god what is Val doing ?????????
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@R-L said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Machpants it was short lived you are both safe, I suspect its just Val Kilmer sweaty that did it
Judging from recent pics of Val I suspect he'd get sweaty walking from the couch to the cupboard to get some more chocolate biscuits.
Tiniest bit harsh
Anyway
He was hot in Willow too....
Good god what is Val doing ?????????
Almost there......
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I watched John Wick 3 myself last night and Sicario 2 last week. Both have been on Sky Movies so I have recorded some films that interested me. I saw both of these at the theatre and agree they aren't as good as the first movies from the series. Halle's dogs are fuckin' cool though.
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@mariner4life said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Two disappointing movies over the weekend
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
A shit follow up to a decent movie. This has nothing of what made the first one good. It's serious men "being forced" to do serious things. Except, you know, develop a coherent story that you might actually give any sort of a fuck about. And then try to cover up for that with excess blood. The end is ridiculous.
2 dead mexicans out of 5 dead mexicans.John Wick 3
The two great modern day action movies are John Wick, and Taken. Both suffer from a run of sequals that get progressively worse. And this was pretty bad. The first had heart, the 2nd had less heart, but some cool set pieces. This was basically like watching someone play a video game on YouTube. Set piece to set piece. The last bit was like watching you move through progressively harder minions to get to the boss battle.
The worst bit? Watching fucking Halle Berry move through clearing a room even easier than John, suddenly made him seem much less badass
2.5 dead mooks out of 5 wait, that guy is younger than Keanu, why is he calling him "my son"?
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@MN5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
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@MN5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@R-L said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Machpants it was short lived you are both safe, I suspect its just Val Kilmer sweaty that did it
Judging from recent pics of Val I suspect he'd get sweaty walking from the couch to the cupboard to get some more chocolate biscuits.
Tiniest bit harsh
Anyway
He was hot in Willow too....
Good god what is Val doing ?????????
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@Bovidae said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Halle's dogs are fuckin' cool though.
probable highlight
And the Matrix throwback line, because The Matrix
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@mariner4life said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Two disappointing movies over the weekend
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
A shit follow up to a decent movie. This has nothing of what made the first one good. It's serious men "being forced" to do serious things. Except, you know, develop a coherent story that you might actually give any sort of a fuck about. And then try to cover up for that with excess blood. The end is ridiculous.
2 dead mexicans out of 5 dead mexicans.John Wick 3
The two great modern day action movies are John Wick, and Taken. Both suffer from a run of sequals that get progressively worse. And this was pretty bad. The first had heart, the 2nd had less heart, but some cool set pieces. This was basically like watching someone play a video game on YouTube. Set piece to set piece. The last bit was like watching you move through progressively harder minions to get to the boss battle.
The worst bit? Watching fucking Halle Berry move through clearing a room even easier than John, suddenly made him seem much less badass
2.5 dead mooks out of 5 wait, that guy is younger than Keanu, why is he calling him "my son"?Taken is a superb movie
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@mariner4life I think I gave the same rating as you for Sicario 2 in this thead when I watched it, but I 'm pretty sure I would have said I thought that Sicario 1 was overrated and not a masterpiece as many make it out to be.
I did a back to back re-watch of them both earlier in the year and I've decided I actually prefer 2. I think the Blunt character just weighs down the first one and the second functions better as a pure action film, despite it, like 1 having pretentions of being a weighty drama.
I've also seen JW2 since then, just before JW3 came out and I rated it higher than when I first saw it too. Looks like I'm going to be rating Extraction higher in a years time.
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@Nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Sicario 1 was overrated and not a masterpiece as many make it out to be.
i liked it, but wouldn't go close to rating it amazing. It was good, and i liked the moral ambiguity. I thought 2 failed even as an action movie, because it tried to be too serious.
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Bridget Jones Baby
Boom. It sucked. Actually it didn’t need to really. The first 30 mins was full of the comedy that made the first one a decent enough flick.
But then it just got shit. Sort of a rom com, but not quite there. Zellweger swearing in a Brit accent always makes me laugh
3 didn’t get laid out of 5 after watching this so pissed offs.
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@mariner4life ooo not seen John Wick but recorded it the other night. Happy with.
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@MajorRage said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mariner4life ooo not seen John Wick but recorded it the other night. Happy with.
the first John Wick is a masterpiece
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Watched Shawshank Redemption on Netflix last night. First time in around 20 or so years. Shit it's still a banger of a movie isn't it ?
What ever happened to Tim Robbins as an actor ? Morgan Freeman is brilliant as always and the collection of supporting "know their faces if not their names" type performers are great support too particularly the warden and head officer.
The movie is tense and bleak at times but the ending and twist is so worth it ( if a bit contrived and cheesy ). It works.
4.5 dodgy tax returns out of 5 wrongful wife killing convictions
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@Bovidae said in Re: Movie review thread...:
A 5 out of 5 movie for me. The ending gets me every time.
Me too particularly as I hadn't seen it in so long. Most other movies of it's calibre I view pretty regularly so it was almost like watching for the first time !
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the amount of times I am channel surfing (particularly around Christmas/NY when it is always on) and happen upon it part-way through, I always end up watching it!
Robbins still seems to have been in alot of stuff, but not alot of blockbuster or major series...Nothing to lose is another fave of mine with him and Martin Lawrence
Dark Waters was a recent film I saw with him, was pretty good, he was the Du Pont CEO i think...
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@MN5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Watched Shawshank Redemption on Netflix last night. First time in around 20 or so years. Shit it's still a banger of a movie isn't it ?
What ever happened to Tim Robbins as an actor ? Morgan Freeman is brilliant as always and the collection of supporting "know their faces if not their names" type performers are great support too particularly the warden and head officer.
The movie is tense and bleak at times but the ending and twist is so worth it ( if a bit contrived and cheesy ). It works.
4.5 dodgy tax returns out of 5 wrongful wife killing convictions
Controversial, but do you think Freeman is actually that good? I mean, he seems to be universally accepted as being great, but doesn't he really always play pretty much the same character? His voice is superb and that goes a long way, but he's almost always this softly spoken quietly smart guy.
To me he is nowhere near a DDL or Edward Norton level
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@MN5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Watched Shawshank Redemption on Netflix last night. First time in around 20 or so years. Shit it's still a banger of a movie isn't it ?
What ever happened to Tim Robbins as an actor ? Morgan Freeman is brilliant as always and the collection of supporting "know their faces if not their names" type performers are great support too particularly the warden and head officer.
The movie is tense and bleak at times but the ending and twist is so worth it ( if a bit contrived and cheesy ). It works.
4.5 dodgy tax returns out of 5 wrongful wife killing convictions
Controversial, but do you think Freeman is actually that good? I mean, he seems to be universally accepted as being great, but doesn't he really always play pretty much the same character? His voice is superb and that goes a long way, but he's almost always this softly spoken quietly smart guy.
To me he is nowhere near a DDL or Edward Norton level
Good in the same way Clint Eastwood or Michael Caine are. Plays a a type brilliantly. I agree, in terms of range the guys you mention ( plus De Niro, Pacino, Gary Oldman, Christian Bale etc ) blow them out of the water.
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@MN5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Watched Shawshank Redemption on Netflix last night. First time in around 20 or so years. Shit it's still a banger of a movie isn't it ?
What ever happened to Tim Robbins as an actor ? Morgan Freeman is brilliant as always and the collection of supporting "know their faces if not their names" type performers are great support too particularly the warden and head officer.
The movie is tense and bleak at times but the ending and twist is so worth it ( if a bit contrived and cheesy ). It works.
4.5 dodgy tax returns out of 5 wrongful wife killing convictions
Controversial, but do you think Freeman is actually that good? I mean, he seems to be universally accepted as being great, but doesn't he really always play pretty much the same character? His voice is superb and that goes a long way, but he's almost always this softly spoken quietly smart guy.
To me he is nowhere near a DDL or Edward Norton level
Good in the same way Clint Eastwood or Michael Caine are. Plays a a type brilliantly. I agree, in terms of range the guys you mention ( plus De Niro, Pacino, Gary Oldman, Christian Bale etc ) blow them out of the water.
Oldman is often left off that list, def underrated - nobody does deranged psycho better
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@voodoo said in Re: Movie review thread...:
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@voodoo said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Watched Shawshank Redemption on Netflix last night. First time in around 20 or so years. Shit it's still a banger of a movie isn't it ?
What ever happened to Tim Robbins as an actor ? Morgan Freeman is brilliant as always and the collection of supporting "know their faces if not their names" type performers are great support too particularly the warden and head officer.
The movie is tense and bleak at times but the ending and twist is so worth it ( if a bit contrived and cheesy ). It works.
4.5 dodgy tax returns out of 5 wrongful wife killing convictions
Controversial, but do you think Freeman is actually that good? I mean, he seems to be universally accepted as being great, but doesn't he really always play pretty much the same character? His voice is superb and that goes a long way, but he's almost always this softly spoken quietly smart guy.
To me he is nowhere near a DDL or Edward Norton level
Good in the same way Clint Eastwood or Michael Caine are. Plays a a type brilliantly. I agree, in terms of range the guys you mention ( plus De Niro, Pacino, Gary Oldman, Christian Bale etc ) blow them out of the water.
Oldman is often left off that list, def underrated - nobody does deranged psycho better
Absolutely. For his range check out Sid and Nancy ( drug addicted punk ), True Romance ( white drug kingpin who thinks he's black ), Batman ( straight laced Police officer ) and Hannibal ( deformed paralyzed kiddy fiddler ) to name just a few, incredible to think it's the same guy. Freakish talent.
