Movie review thread...
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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.
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@bayimports said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@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.
The worst thing about the cinemas being closed is that I've watched a bunch of movies in lockdown and can't remember the list, when usually I check my movie membership accounts.
It's really just haircut and movies I've been struggling with in lockdown.
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Masterminds
Crime comedy, well it says "based on", but I would say "inspired by" the 1997 Lonnie Fargo armoured car heist in the US, the biggest at the time.
Yeah it's a fun watch eh, although probably largely saved by Sudeikis (note that it also stars Wiig, Galafianakis and Owen Wilson, so high potential for annoyance). 3 rednecks out of 5 ass-shootings.
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The Other Guys
Full disclosure, I like Will Ferrell's childish humour, so this Mark Wahlberg Will Ferrell cop caper movie appealed to my low brow, juvenile, full belly laugh self. So clichéd, but very funny, and Eva Mendes was hawt. 4 pimps turned cops out of 4 hawt wives
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Attrition (2018)
â â â Watched by Will Sloan 23 Oct 2020
I'm grading this on the Seagal Curve, but believe the hype: this is the Aikido Ace's best movie in at least 10 and probably 20 years. In fact, it's probably better than his last 10 films combined (if only because 0 + 0 still equals 0). Admittedly I have not seen all his direct-to-video work, but I've seen an awful lot of it.
This is only the second movie on which Seagal is the credited screenwriter, and he's unusually engaged. Unlike most of his recent movies, he's actually in this one from beginning to end, and only delegates some of the action to his younger, fitter costars. It's packed with his General Tso's Chicken philosophizing, including a Neil Breen-ish opening monologue about the problems facing our world today. The end credits roll over concert footage of Seagal playing the blues. And hey, the ponytail is back!
Mercifully, this is directed by someone other than Seagal's regular hack Keoni Waxman, which means that certain scenes are allowed some style. The movie also benefits enormously from the presence of Louis "Riki-Oh" Fan and Rudy (Apocalypto) Youngblood, which means that several action scenes are actually pretty good! Not the ones with Seagal, of course, but even his fights are a slight notch above his usual standards. There's one fight that's a straight rip-off of the opening rain battle from The Grandmaster, right down to Seagal wearing the same costume as Tony Leung. Seagal ripping off Wong Kar-wai... what more do you want from a movie? Of course it remains hilarious that an obese, immobile sexagenarian man with painted hair is treated by everyone around him as a total badass.
The plot doesn't make a huge amount of sense, but I was amused that it involved Seagal and his team infiltrating an elite global sex-trafficking ring. If there's one thing Seagal famously believes, it's that sex should be consensual. This is the sort of movie that might be called a "white savior narrative," except that I saw the recent interview with Scott Adkins where Seagal bluntly stated, "I'm not white." He claimed Native American heritage on one side and "some kind of Asian" on the other. Maybe this is true, I dunno. According to IMDB, "His paternal grandparents were Russian Jewish immigrants, and his mother had English, German, and distant Irish and Dutch, ancestry." All I know is we're all part of the same human family, so in that sense Steven Seagal and Elizabeth Warren are not white.
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@canefan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
The Other Guys
Full disclosure, I like Will Ferrell's childish humour, so this Mark Wahlberg Will Ferrell cop caper movie appealed to my low brow, juvenile, full belly laugh self. So clichéd, but very funny, and Eva Mendes was hawt. 4 pimps turned cops out of 4 hawt wives
I remember first time round being so disappointed that the Rock and SLJ bagged it so early as they were outstandingâŠ..but then after a few more views I realised how fucken hilarious the rest of the cast were too, without exception. Michael Keaton, the two bully cops, Steve Coogan, the Aussie agent guyâŠâŠand of course Ferrell and Marky Mark had brilliant comedic chemistry.
How good is this scene ?
âYou probably think because of the beard that Iâm really hairy but Iâm notâŠ.shavedâ
âALANâ !!!!!
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@antipodean said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@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.
watched, was good, think they tried for the "realistic" aspect of john wick, supposedly actually counting the bullets per reload, but i think the cut my have done them a disservice as sometimes runs out and or has to scramble to reload...and then other times she goes for ages
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The Guilty
A sort of psychological thriller film about a 911 call operator with issues who gets caught up in a hostage situation. It tried hard to generate tension but I didn't feel it was totally successful doing that. 3/5
Dirty Grandpa the uncut version
Zac Efron Robert de Niro play grandad and grandson. De Niro has recently lost his wife and wants his lawyer grandson, who has drifted apart from him, to take him on a boys trip before he shortly gets married. Plot is ridiculous, but there are some cheap laughs and the two main female actresses are very hawt, so there was some merit in it. 2.5 hawt college girls out of 5 horny grandads.
Free Guy
Ryan Reynolds stars in this Truman show style film reworked for the new generation. Reynolds is his usual self, there are cameos of a bunch of famous You tube gamers according to CF Jr, and Taika plays the villain. Disney's fingerprints are all over it with nods to the Marvel and Star Wars universes. Lightweight fun but fun nonetheless, 3.5 NPCs gone rogue out of 5 bro's
