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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
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.
De Niro and Pacino have range? Oldman is brilliant but in his last few movies just appears to be dialling it in.
Oldman, like most others of his ilk, now almost exclusively does parodies of Gary Oldman.
Hmmmm, really?
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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.
De Niro and Pacino have range? Oldman is brilliant but in his last few movies just appears to be dialling it in.
Oldman, like most others of his ilk, now almost exclusively does parodies of Gary Oldman.
Hmmmm, really?
should i have made the word ALMOST bigger so as to head off your pedantic "point" about my flippant remark?
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@raznomore said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@MN5 you better change that 4.5 to a fucken 5
No. There are a few flicks I’d give 5 to, this one isn’t quite there.
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Finally watched Joker
Can see why people raved about it. Joaquin can act and was bloody good in this, but it really missed adding another 20mins to explain more of the supporting plot, e.g. general public reaction. It never quite does enough to create the general malice of Joker, despite adequately taking you on the journey of our protagonist.
Perhaps that was a conscious choice in the script. That aside, it's a film well worth seeing if you haven't.
4 manic laughs out of 5 clown masks.
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@antipodean said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Finally watched Joker
Can see why people raved about it. Joaquin can act and was bloody good in this, but it really missed adding another 20mins to explain more of the supporting plot, e.g. general public reaction. It never quite does enough to create the general malice of Joker, despite adequately taking you on the journey of our protagonist.
Perhaps that was a conscious choice in the script. That aside, it's a film well worth seeing if you haven't.
4 manic laughs out of 5 clown masks.
Really looking forward to where they take that. Now the setup is done, and the world created, he could be a pretty dark version of the Joker. Wouldn't surprise me if they do the face peel version for a shock ending.
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@taniwharugby said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Snowy so needy!!
Mind Hunter taught me all you serial killers are a little bit competitive
The Lecter series taught me they're really happy to help catch their competitors though.
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@raznomore said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@MN5 I think we just had our first fight....don't look at me..
I am assuming they are either starring Clint Eastwood or Adriana Chechik..
Or Harrison Ford......or Robert De Niro and Al Pacino in their first ever collaboration......or one in which a bunch of Soldiers rescue another one behind enemy lines.....or the one that Liam Neeson made when he was a Austrian businessman during the war......I think a Tarantino movie or two might sneak in...
There's possibly even a couple starring Sigourney Weaver and Arnie.......( not together )
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Spencer Confidential
Netflix movie in which Mahk Wahlberg is an ex-cop who tries to solve a dirty cop mystery. It's basically an action-comedy. It falls a little short. Plot is a paper-thin cliche. Some parts you know were in there as LOL moments but just aren't any more than mildly amusing. Alan Arkin is in it, and he's old.
It's in Boston, and the thickest accent is with Mahk's girlfriend. Who also has pretty great cleavage.
It would be an absolutely nothing movie without Mahk being Mahk. We've had the discussion on here before, but i like the bloke. He's pretty funny, and good at taking the piss out of himself. This character could be in any one of half a dozen of his movies. But swap him out for someone charismaless like Jeremy Renner and this movie is a 2.
3 lobstahs out of 5 oh gee i wonder who the dirty cop is.
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@mariner4life said in Re: Movie review thread...:
But swap him out for someone charismaless like Jeremy Renner and this movie is a 2.
I agree, but there's actually people out there who rate Renner as an actor.
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@Nepia was good in Hurt Locker
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@taniwharugby said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Nepia was good in Hurt Locker
massively overrated movie
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@mariner4life I Liked it, solid 3-3.5 hurts out of 5 lockers I reckon.
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@taniwharugby said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Nepia was good in Hurt Locker
massively overrated movie
Agree, Zero Dark Thirty from same director was a much better movie, and more deserving of an Oscar.
@taniwharugby People seem to rate him due to Hurt Locker, I'm not convinced. I actually thought he wasn't too bad in Wind River, which is another overrated movie.
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@Bovidae add Primal Fear to that
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@taniwharugby But still from the 1990s.
I don't even remember his character in Birdman but he got a nomination.
Darkest Hour (2017) ⭐ 7.4 | Biography, Drama, History
