Movie review thread...
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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)
★★★ 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 outstanding…..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 guy……and of course Ferrell and Marky Mark had brilliant comedic chemistry.
How good is this scene ?
“You probably think because of the beard that I’m really hairy but I’m not….shaved”
“ALAN” !!!!!
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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
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@canefan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
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
oh yeah, watched that too, was fun...."catchphrase!" i like how they just leaned into it being this Disney/marvel/starwars thing
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@kiwiwomble said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@canefan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
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
oh yeah, watched that too, was fun...."catchphrase!" i like how they just leaned into it being this Disney/marvel/starwars thing
Yeah, I didn't realise that Disney owns 20th century Fox so they brought all of their resources to bare
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No Time To Die.
Not for me. It's clear that the Bond which was a huge success, the womanising, masculine, confident character, is no longer allowed. I have no time for Bond to go woke. It's not a bad movie, and there is a lot of Bond related stuff in it, but it's just so obvious that they have toned down so much of what made Bond, Bond. So many needless things in it which I don't want to give away, in order to make it appeal to wokies.
Anybody who is expecting a straight white man to play the next Bond is completely dreaming.
2 don't out of 5 cares.
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@majorrage said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Anybody who is expecting a straight white man to play the next Bond is completely dreaming.
Really couldn't give a stuff about the skin colour of the next Bond as long as it's, well, James Bond.
Personally, I think Idris Elba would be bloody great. Has the charisma, hardness, coolness and is just so quintessentially British to be a great fit for the part.
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@victor-meldrew @ major rage
If you can have a blond Bond, why not a black Bond. Having read the books I can remember God knows how many references to him having black hair that fell like a comma over his brow, but nary a mention of his skin colour save that he took a tan quite well.
Maybe he was always black.
Edit: However, woke is not acceptable
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@catogrande said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@victor-meldrew @ major rage
If you can have a blond Bond, why not a black Bond. Having read the books I can remember God knows how many references to him having black hair that fell like a comma over his brow, but nary a mention of his skin colour save that he took a tan quite well.
Maybe he was always black.
Edit: However, woke is not acceptable
Why not instead just have a new character not called James Bond whose black?
I expect it will be Eldra myself. And if the movies good I’ll go snd see it.
But I am so sick of “progressive” bullshit. What’s next, Lady Gaga to play Winston Churchill? Lizzo to play Karen Carpenter? Jamie Chung to play Stephen Hawking?
Where does it end.
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@majorrage said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@catogrande said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@victor-meldrew @ major rage
If you can have a blond Bond, why not a black Bond. Having read the books I can remember God knows how many references to him having black hair that fell like a comma over his brow, but nary a mention of his skin colour save that he took a tan quite well.
Maybe he was always black.
Edit: However, woke is not acceptable
Why not instead just have a new character not called James Bond whose black?
I expect it will be Eldra myself. And if the movies good I’ll go snd see it.
But I am so sick of “progressive” bullshit. What’s next, Lady Gaga to play Winston Churchill? Lizzo to play Karen Carpenter? Jamie Chung to play Stephen Hawking?
Where does it end.
Or Tom Cruise to play 6’5” Jack Reacher 😀
But yeah changing the very ethos of something purely for the sake of tokenism is pretty shite.
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@majorrage said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Where does it end.
I can see where you are coming from, but Bond in the movies has changed and morphed into the modern world without losing his character. And Judi Dench was a great M and the new Moneypenny character is also great. So as long as the character of Bond remains the same, I don't have a problem.
But as @Catogrande says, a woke or gay bond would be as out of place as Quentin Crisp being played by Chuck Connors.
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Taking the boys to Bond on Satdee. Can’t wait. People overseas who I know say it’s fucken awesome so that’ll do me.
I just hope @MajorRage is exaggerating his criticisms.
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@majorrage said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@catogrande said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@victor-meldrew @ major rage
If you can have a blond Bond, why not a black Bond. Having read the books I can remember God knows how many references to him having black hair that fell like a comma over his brow, but nary a mention of his skin colour save that he took a tan quite well.
Maybe he was always black.
Edit: However, woke is not acceptable
Why not instead just have a new character not called James Bond whose black?
I expect it will be Eldra myself. And if the movies good I’ll go snd see it.
But I am so sick of “progressive” bullshit. What’s next, Lady Gaga to play Winston Churchill? Lizzo to play Karen Carpenter? Jamie Chung to play Stephen Hawking?
Where does it end.
i tend to fall down more on the "woke" side of a lot of these things....there are loads of awesome female action characters out there and to co-op an existing male one instead of writing a unique female one actually does them a disservice, thats why i dont actually mind what theyre doing with moneypenny, developed her character more with 15 minutes of screen time in each of the last few films that in the 60 before hand
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