Movie review thread...
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@bovidae they've had some success with a few of their action film, i think old guard and 6 underground are both getting sequels, rumours at least
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@kiwiwomble I watched The Old Guard again a couple of weeks ago. Obviously the ending lends itself to a sequel. IMDb shows that Charlize is going to be busy with that and Atomic Blonde 2.
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@bovidae i really enjoyed it, a good take on the immortal thing
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@kiwiwomble said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@bovidae i really enjoyed it, a good take on the immortal thing
It's on my list. Will watch soon
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@bovidae said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@kiwiwomble I watched The Old Guard again a couple of weeks ago. Obviously the ending lends itself to a sequel
Good enough that I went and actually "read" the source material.
And yeah... definitely material for a sequel. -
Kate - yeah, okay - good.
Really good.
Somebody - (antipodean or m4l?) - said "Better than John Wick" ?
Quite possibly. I certainly fucking enjoyed it, and Kate certainly loved to make sure of her kills, in much the same way that John did - but with any-sharp-object-to-hand 6-to-9 times, rather than John's one-two-bullet-to-the-head finishing move.
I guess I'll have to keep it on file for another re-watch one day, to confirm it has the re-watchability of John Wick.
One thing I considered, early in this movie, was... a lot of the shit I'm really liking, and the masses seem to be liking (fucking idiots) - ie: John Wick, Kate, Nobody - is actually pretty devoid of plot. It really is just "take a B-grade 80s or 90s movie plot, but throw style at it"...
and I'm cool with that.But, perhaps contradicting myself (but not really... probably a "twist" which could be spotted from literally 2 minutes in), I was also pleasantly albeit slightly surprised when I thought I'd seen all the knifings, and stabbings, and shootings, and gratuitous blood... and it turned out to be a FAKE Act 3... and there was another whole 30 minutes of ridiculous shootings and knifings and corny protagonist-antagonist dialogues yet to come. Fucking bonus.
Tit-watch zero. There was a sex scene, cowboy position - but with bra-on. To support those "athletic" titties, I guess.
Rating - for now - 4.5 multiple, multiple stab-wounds to the throat - out of 5 Ripley-v-Yakuza. 's. -
@mikethesnow said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Jeepers I thought that was Bill Cosby for a sec ( shudders )
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@kruse said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@bovidae said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@kiwiwomble I watched The Old Guard again a couple of weeks ago. Obviously the ending lends itself to a sequel
Good enough that I went and actually "read" the source material.
And yeah... definitely material for a sequel.oh, is it a comic or a book? i thought i looked but obviously not
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@kruse said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Kate - yeah, okay - good.
Really good.
Somebody - (antipodean or m4l?) - said "Better than John Wick" ?As good. Not better, as good.
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@kiwiwomble said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@kruse said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@bovidae said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@kiwiwomble I watched The Old Guard again a couple of weeks ago. Obviously the ending lends itself to a sequel
Good enough that I went and actually "read" the source material.
And yeah... definitely material for a sequel.oh, is it a comic or a book? i thought i looked but obviously not
Old Guard - comic. Or - "graphic novel" - as the nerds like to claim.
Fucking nerds.
But yeah - pretty good. Much more background to the sequel-setup... if I recall the story in each medium properly.
(That's the problem with having done both... they become somewhat merged in the memory) -
should be available
this weekend online to viewedit it appears release date in Australia delayed until 25/11/2021 and theatre only... boo, first reviews look good ..if you liked the last one -
@bayimports i honestly cant even remember much of the first one...not sure thats a good thing
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@kiwiwomble said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@bayimports i honestly cant even remember much of the first one...not sure thats a good thing
i actually liked it , plus the wifey likes Tom Hardy so an easy sell to get it on the watch list, good mix of comedy (one liners) and action ..looking forward to the sequel
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@bayimports i remember enjoying it and will watch this but probably not in the cinema
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@kiwiwomble I will probably watch two flies crawl up a movie theatre screen and enjoy it right now after being in lockdown for that long, if it means getting out of my house and outside 5km, Im in.
