Movie review thread...
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Lotta Netflix going through the brain at the moment. Here's the one-line review of each as I clear the List:
Spenser Confidential - Marky Mark and the Giant Black Dude fuck up a bunch of Crooked Cops working with Dominican Gangs. Lotta laughs.
6 Underground - 'splosions because Michael Bay. Snappy smartarse dialogue because Ryan Reynolds. Watchable but predictable.
The Dark Tower - Idris Elba handles a gun like a cool mofo. I thought this was pretty good for turning a King series into 90 minutes.
Robin Hood - the fucking awful Taron Egerton version.
The Titan - slow, kind of predictable, and short on decent dialogue.
RocknRolla - its a Guy Ritchie movie, so you know what you're getting. But I thought it was one of his better ones.
The Family - everyone in a backwoods French village speaks English. Lotta mafioso stuff.
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A Daniel Day-Lewis binge.
Gangs of New York
I saw this movie back in 2002 and hadn't seen it since then. I enjoyed it, but as with a lot of Scorsese films, it would have been much improved by removing 20-30 mins. DDL is great as Bill the Butcher though and Leo holds his own.There Will Be Blood
DDL is brilliant (again) as the obnoxious and ruthless Daniel Planview but my opinion of the movie itself hasn't changed, and I don't ever need to watch this again.I need to watch My Left Foot and In the Name of the Father again.
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Mr Right
A very enjoyable crime caper.
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DDL is a hack. He's serious Jim Carrey
Also Ther Will Be Blood is fucking stupid
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@Nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Bovidae As is probably well known I find those two performances comical, and not in a good way. But the other three of his movies mentioned On this page he is brilliant in.
I agree DDL does play both roles over the top, and watching these films back-to-back reinforced that.
I would make the same criticism of Javier Bardem which is why I wasn't a fan of No Country for Old Men or him in Skyfall.
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@raznomore said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Bovidae these are good points on Bardem. But in a Bond film the villain should be larger than life. NCFOM was defo hamming it up though.
He was great in Skyfall. Lame death though.
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The Lovebirds.
This is one of those annoying movies where the trailer includes all the good stuff. Even at less than 90 mins this is tedious as hell, supposed to be madcap or something but just unfunny and underdeveloped. Couple no one cares about keeps doing stupid things, cartoonish villain wants them dead, a whole lot of plot points that seem disconnected from each other (and then you get the police saying shit like 'oh, [random group]? yeah we've been watching them for ages.') The leads deserved so much better than this idiot script.
1 cyclist gets murdered out of 5 bird mask orgies. -
@Mokey said in Re: Movie review thread...:
The Lovebirds.
This is one of those annoying movies where the trailer includes all the good stuff. Even at less than 90 mins this is tedious as hell, supposed to be madcap or something but just unfunny and underdeveloped. Couple no one cares about keeps doing stupid things, cartoonish villain wants them dead, a whole lot of plot points that seem disconnected from each other (and then you get the police saying shit like 'oh, [random group]? yeah we've been watching them for ages.') The leads deserved so much better than this idiot script.
1 cyclist gets murdered out of 5 bird mask orgies.Wait. What? Bird mask orgies? What's this called again?
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@Catogrande I feel sorry for the unwitting birds. Reminds of this doozy....
Did you know that pigeons die after sex? Well the ones that I had sex with did anyway.
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@MN5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Interested to see how this turns out considering to this day I still can't decide whether I like the 1984 version or not........
Sting approaching the height of his pompous I can do anything time and you can't decide?
There is no hope for you.
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@Catogrande said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Interested to see how this turns out considering to this day I still can't decide whether I like the 1984 version or not........
Sting approaching the height of his pompous I can do anything time and you can't decide?
There is no hope for you.
Too much confusion, shitty FX and bizarre editing and continuity don't help matters.
I shoulda read the book over lockdown.
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@nzzp said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
I shoulda read the book over lockdown.
It's a great book, absolute classic. Really hard to turn into a film though, but I'm looking forward to the 2020 attempt. CGI could make it all better
Yeah some of the 1984 fx are horrific. Mainly the shield things and the spacecrafts. The worms looked ok though so I’m sure with technology the way it is nowadays they’ll be even better looking now.