Movie review thread...
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Running With The Devil
Nicolas Cage and Laurence Fishburne
Good yarn
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watched "sweet girl" on netflix, Jason mamoa action film thing, some good twists and turns for a "free" (already paid for) film
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Rewatched Unforgiven and Tombstone recently. Nearly 30 years old.
Tombstone: what a goddamn cast. Sanitised, but outstanding. Maybe Val's best role?
You gonna do somethin’ or just stand there and bleed?Unforgiven. Fark yeah, Clint is the man. Even as a retiree age, he is just the man.
It's a hell of a thing, killing a man. You take away everything he's got, and everything he's ever gonna haveBoth solid 4.5 quick draws out of 5 repeater rifles
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rewatched Bravo Two Zero
If it wasnt based on a true (ish) story, you could be forgiven for thinking the movie makers did zero research before making it, just a clusterfuck before they even went out!
3 goat herders out of 5 more KM to Syria
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@taniwharugby said in Re: Movie review thread...:
rewatched Bravo Two Zero
If it wasnt based on a true (ish) story, you could be forgiven for thinking the movie makers did zero research before making it, just a clusterfuck before they even went out!
3 goat herders out of 5 more KM to Syria
Is it a movie? For some reason I thought it was a tv mini series. All I really remember of it though is when they're out in the open and falling back in pairs shooting and the atrocious supposed NZ accent of one of them.
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@nepia yes, although was a doco made on it, trying to debunk it, plus at least 3 books on it (Bravo Two Zero, The One That Got Away and Soldier 5)
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@taniwharugby said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@nepia yes, although was a doco made on it, trying to debunk it, plus at least 3 books on it (Bravo Two Zero, The One That Got Away and Soldier 5)
I think I've read the first two books, but that was years ago, I haven't read Soldier 5.
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@nepia soldier 5 was written by the kiwi guy (under the name Mike Coburn) and the British MOD fought to stop it being released, been so long since I read them, but I think Coburn wrote his book as he didnt think it was right the way McNab portrayed one of the guys who was killed (was the 2IC I thnk)
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@kirwan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Just watched the Val Kilmer documentary, what a great film. Really personal, well edited, and doesn’t shy away from some of his stranger aspects.
On my list to watch when I subscribe to Amazon again. I read an article praising the documentary so that piqued my interest.
One of the best documentaries I've seen. Doesn't shy away from his turkeys, and the aspects of success he doesn't enjoy.
The autograph signing was a tough watch
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@nostrildamus said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@nepia I'm pretty sure in one of those Taken sequels Neeson looked as dangerous as Frank Spencer. An old, frail Frank Spencer.
Taken 3. The arthritis years.
Taken 6. This one where they kidnap his budgerigar
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@nzzp said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Rewatched Unforgiven and Tombstone recently. Nearly 30 years old.
Tombstone: what a goddamn cast. Sanitised, but outstanding. Maybe Val's best role?
You gonna do somethin’ or just stand there and bleed?Unforgiven. Fark yeah, Clint is the man. Even as a retiree age, he is just the man.
It's a hell of a thing, killing a man. You take away everything he's got, and everything he's ever gonna haveBoth solid 4.5 quick draws out of 5 repeater rifles
You just shot an unarmed man.
Well he shoulda armed himself if he’s gonna decorate his saloon with my friend.
It’s barely even in Clint’s all time top five westerns, but it’s still awesome. Says everything.
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@nzzp said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mn5 ... So the top five westerns got Clint are:
OK. I'll bite:
- Unforgiven - IMHO his best film and the best Western ever made
- Pale Rider- Mystical and the best shoot-out ever as a finale
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - the original
- The Outlaw Josie Wales - Clint being Clint
- High Plains Drifter - Truly weird
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@victor-meldrew said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@nzzp said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mn5 ... So the top five westerns got Clint are:
OK. I'll bite:
- Unforgiven - IMHO his best film and the best Western ever made
- Pale Rider- Mystical and the best shoot-out ever as a finale
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - the original
- The Outlaw Josie Wales - Clint being Clint
- High Plains Drifter - Truly weird
Hard to argue.
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@catogrande @Victor-Meldrew agree. Good list.
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@nzzp
Watch a lot of film and he's probably my favourite filmmakerI enjoy trying to see what a director does in film - how he cuts to scenes, framing, lighting etc etc. Some are complex (Kubrick, Nolan), but Eastwood seems to me to be very simple and clean and in the background - more about the actors acting and telling the story.
But being able to make something look simple takes a genius ....
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@catogrande said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@victor-meldrew said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@nzzp said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mn5 ... So the top five westerns got Clint are:
OK. I'll bite:
- Unforgiven - IMHO his best film and the best Western ever made
- Pale Rider- Mystical and the best shoot-out ever as a finale
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - the original
- The Outlaw Josie Wales - Clint being Clint
- High Plains Drifter - Truly weird
Hard to argue.
Indeed but I have to find a spot for his other two Spagetti Westerns somewhere. They are just absolute classics. It’s tough to narrow it down to five. Joe Kidd and Hang em High are both very good movies too.
Number one would have to be GBU or OJW I reckon.
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@mn5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@catogrande said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@victor-meldrew said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@nzzp said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mn5 ... So the top five westerns got Clint are:
OK. I'll bite:
- Unforgiven - IMHO his best film and the best Western ever made
- Pale Rider- Mystical and the best shoot-out ever as a finale
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - the original
- The Outlaw Josie Wales - Clint being Clint
- High Plains Drifter - Truly weird
Hard to argue.
Indeed but I have to find a spot for his other two Spagetti Westerns somewhere. They are just absolute classics. It’s tough to narrow it down to five. Joe Kidd and Hang em High are both very good movies too.
Number one would have to be GBU or OJW I reckon.
Not quite a western but The Beguiled is also a great film. Really creepy and disturbing and a bit Hitchcock-like.
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@victor-meldrew said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mn5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@catogrande said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@victor-meldrew said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@nzzp said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mn5 ... So the top five westerns got Clint are:
OK. I'll bite:
- Unforgiven - IMHO his best film and the best Western ever made
- Pale Rider- Mystical and the best shoot-out ever as a finale
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - the original
- The Outlaw Josie Wales - Clint being Clint
- High Plains Drifter - Truly weird
Hard to argue.
Indeed but I have to find a spot for his other two Spagetti Westerns somewhere. They are just absolute classics. It’s tough to narrow it down to five. Joe Kidd and Hang em High are both very good movies too.
Number one would have to be GBU or OJW I reckon.
Not quite a western but The Beguiled is also a great film. Really creepy and disturbing and a bit Hitchcock-like.
Yeah it is but doesn’t really compare as I’d call it a different genre completely.
Clint played very against type in that one.
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@mn5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@victor-meldrew said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mn5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@catogrande said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@victor-meldrew said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@nzzp said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@mn5 ... So the top five westerns got Clint are:
OK. I'll bite:
- Unforgiven - IMHO his best film and the best Western ever made
- Pale Rider- Mystical and the best shoot-out ever as a finale
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - the original
- The Outlaw Josie Wales - Clint being Clint
- High Plains Drifter - Truly weird
Hard to argue.
Indeed but I have to find a spot for his other two Spagetti Westerns somewhere. They are just absolute classics. It’s tough to narrow it down to five. Joe Kidd and Hang em High are both very good movies too.
Number one would have to be GBU or OJW I reckon.
Not quite a western but The Beguiled is also a great film. Really creepy and disturbing and a bit Hitchcock-like.
Yeah it is but doesn’t really compare as I’d call it a different genre completely.
Clint played very against type in that one.
It's a hard film to pigeonhole. Actually it's hard to think of an actor or director who does so many genres so successfully as Eastwood.
