Movie review thread...
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@Bovidae said in Re: Movie review thread...:
After talk of Tropic Thunder in the TV Series thread I thought it was time for another watch.
Robert Downey Jr is still as funny as ever as "the dude playin' the dude, disguised as another dude", and this is Tom Cruise's best performance.
5 Kangaroo Jacks out of 5 full retards
Simple Jack you mean? Great star turns by Jack Black and Danny McBride
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@MajorRage said in Re: Movie review thread...:
John wick
It’s ok, not amazing. Keanu still can’t act.
3 dead Russians out of 5 Boss 429 Mustangs
Piss off
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@raznomore said in Re: Movie review thread...:
I should have known better.
I gave my afternoon to The Last Days Of American Crime on Netflix.
It’s a steaming pile of horse shit. Nothing worth watching. Even the tits aren’t worth it.
Avoid, avoid, avoid.
A damning indictment.
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@raznomore said in Re: Movie review thread...:
I should have known better.
I gave my afternoon to The Last Days Of American Crime on Netflix.
It’s a steaming pile of horse shit. Nothing worth watching. Even the tits aren’t worth it.
Avoid, avoid, avoid.
The review on rogerebert.com
Poorly written, ineptly directed, and possibly the longest movie ever made in terms of how it feels, the only thing notable about “The Last Days of American Crime” is that it made it this far in the filmmaking process. Someone should investigate how that’s possible.
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on the advice of a few, i watched Draft Day
Pretty bloody good actually. Considering the subject matter, they managed to make a decent story. Costner makes good sports movies.
At the end i really wanted to know how the picks turned out. But then i remembered we are talking about the Browns, so all of those prospects they selected actually turned out to be rubbish, or got hurt, while the one they don't take turned out to be amazing.
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365 Days on Netflix.
Hard to describe because it's so batshit crazy. Suspect it may get a bit of a cult following. Basically lead man kidnaps lead woman and decides he'll give her 365 days to fall in love with him.
5/5 for the frequent sex and nudity, the billionaire toys (5 min sex montage on a super yacht), the shopping, and locations.
1/5 for the plot because nothing made sense, very little gets explained, and you kind of jump from scene to scene thinking wait, what? Why? (There is mafia and gangsters and family v family battles, jealous ex girlfriends etc etc.) The final scene is clearly a setup for upcoming movies because it stops rather than ends, and in a bizarre way.
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@antipodean said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@raznomore said in Re: Movie review thread...:
I should have known better.
I gave my afternoon to The Last Days Of American Crime on Netflix.
It’s a steaming pile of horse shit. Nothing worth watching. Even the tits aren’t worth it.
Avoid, avoid, avoid.
The review on rogerebert.com
Poorly written, ineptly directed, and possibly the longest movie ever made in terms of how it feels, the only thing notable about “The Last Days of American Crime” is that it made it this far in the filmmaking process. Someone should investigate how that’s possible.
Fuck, I'm just about to watch this. Maybe I won't unless it's so bad it's good ? ( like Showgirls or something of that ilk ? )
In much better news the ex wife has given me the go ahead to watch the Alien/Prometheus series with my boys. To steal a quote from another franchise I quite like, "This will be a day long remembered"
Any idea what order to do them in ?
I'm thinking chronologically ie Prometheus/Alien Covenant/Alien/Aliens/Alien 3/Alien Resurrection......then part of me thinks do I go with the order they were made and start with a couple of Bangers ? unlike others on here I like Prometheus/Covenant so I'd love to start with them but the plotline might be a bit confusing for them ( as it is their Dad ) Do I go for Alien/Aliens first up and look at the others as flashbacks ?
Open for suggestions......
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@nzzp said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@MN5 Alien/Aliens. THen it doesn't matter, but you'll lose the raw impact of Alien by watching anything else first
I would agree with this. Not because I've seen all the latter ones and know what I'm talking about, more that it is likely the SFX on the first will look a little lacklustre if it follows the later ones?
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@nzzp said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@MN5 Alien/Aliens. THen it doesn't matter, but you'll lose the raw impact of Alien by watching anything else first
Good point. I think everyone knows which scene you mean.
@Catogrande said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@nzzp said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@MN5 Alien/Aliens. THen it doesn't matter, but you'll lose the raw impact of Alien by watching anything else first
I would agree with this. Not because I've seen all the latter ones and know what I'm talking about, more that it is likely the SFX on the first will look a little lacklustre if it follows the later ones?
Hmmmm, not so sure, they still hold up pretty bloody well from memory. Alien 3 had some pretty shit SFX though ( and no coincidentally is easily the worst of the franchise for me )
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@MN5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@nzzp said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@MN5 Alien/Aliens. THen it doesn't matter, but you'll lose the raw impact of Alien by watching anything else first
Good point. I think everyone knows which scene you mean.
Bishop? That scene is my most memorable.
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@Kirwan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Have to start with Alien, then Aliens. The rest the timeline doesn't matter. Alien3 is actually not that bad either, and I really enjoy Alien4 which is supposed to be the worst one.
The prequels and Predator ones are just dumb.
I half agree with the last statement. I loved the prequels. Less said about the Predator crossovers the better though.
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@Kirwan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@MN5 There is a good movie trying to get out of the prequels, but the story and characters are so mind numbingly stupid.
SPOILER (kinda)
I lost my brain at one point, where they found a cute little alien on a strange planet AND THEN JUST REACHED OUT TO PET IT. FFS people, I'm trying to suspend disbelief here.Not a fan of much after the first two (which were totally different, but totally superb).
