Movie review thread...
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@antipodean said in Movie review thread...:
The Ice Road
I watched this through to see just how shit it could be. Completely is the answer.
lol, so did I, I wanted to see how it ended but also then wished I went through the ice instead of watching it
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@bayimports my favorite bit was when the words came up at the end!
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The Adam Project
Massive man crush on Ryan Reynolds so really enjoyed this.
Great family movie, killer special effects, and well written and structured. Even if it uses the time travel tropes. Helluva cast.
5 not-a-lightsabers out of 5 totally-a-lightsaber.
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Windfall - Netflix
I really enjoyed this but boy is it getting mixed reviews and reactions. For people brought up on a diet of obvious tension, over the top characters and 'dramatic' twists I can see why they don't get it but as it is obvious from the opening shots and score that this is a homage to Hitchcock I just took it that way.
The setting and premise was clever in that it was timeless. Plemons was brilliant. Yeah, there's bits of suspended belief but no more so than most movies. You could see the ending coming but it was still watchable.
I wouldn't say it is a must watch but way better than this review IMO.3 Mexican Gardeners out of 5 Trophy wives.
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@nta said in Movie review thread...:
The Adam Project
Massive man crush on Ryan Reynolds so really enjoyed this.
Great family movie, killer special effects, and well written and structured. Even if it uses the time travel tropes. Helluva cast.
5 not-a-lightsabers out of 5 totally-a-lightsaber.
I watched this last night. Much better than I thought it would be. Well worth the 90min investment.
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The Batman….so good
Basically wrote a good thriller and then just put in DC characters in it
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@nepia said in Movie review thread...:
So, I've completed my annual Oscars Best Film nominations watch, here is my ranking of them from worst to best in case anyone is bored at work at the moment.
Coda: Kind of crazy that a movie from early in 2021 and released on AppleTV+ has received a best picture nomination. This is my favourite of the nominees. Was much funnier than you’d expect for a movie about the issues of growing up hearing in an all deaf family. Sign swearing is a crack up. Wont win anything and it was B/S it didn't receive a best actress nomination. 9/10
“Won’t win anything”…:)
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@billy-tell said in Movie review thread...:
@nepia said in Movie review thread...:
So, I've completed my annual Oscars Best Film nominations watch, here is my ranking of them from worst to best in case anyone is bored at work at the moment.
Coda: Kind of crazy that a movie from early in 2021 and released on AppleTV+ has received a best picture nomination. This is my favourite of the nominees. Was much funnier than you’d expect for a movie about the issues of growing up hearing in an all deaf family. Sign swearing is a crack up. Wont win anything and it was B/S it didn't receive a best actress nomination. 9/10
“Won’t win anything”…:)
Haha. Happy to be wrong on that one.
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If you rely on the Oscar’s as a guide to enjoyable films you’ll be forever disappointed.
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I'm seriously wondering WTF is woke about this years Oscars compared to other years?
A film kind of about disability won. Films about disabilities have won lots of years. This years winner was a bloody good film and the closest to a comedy that we'll ever see win an Oscar. And the protagonist wasn't the one with the disability.
The rest are pretty typical Oscar fair aside from Dune. One had a black lead. One had gay cowboys, as already pointed out this is now a recurring Oscar theme, the older one was much better than this one. One was Japanese. One was a musical remake from the 60s. One was set in Northern Ireland. One was about Carnies but thankfully didn't have any fish fucking. One was marmite movie that I guess will be considered woke. The least woke movie was by far the worst.
This place is always crying woke.
Also, Saving Private Ryan didn't fucking win (they should have burnt down the Oscars there and then) and The Deer Hunter is overrated.
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@nepia said in Movie review thread...:
I'm seriously wondering WTF is woke about this years Oscars compared to other years?
A film kind of about disability won. Films about disabilities have won lots of years. This years winner was a bloody good film and the closest to a comedy that we'll ever see win an Oscar. And the protagonist wasn't the one with the disability.
The rest are pretty typical Oscar fair aside from Dune. One had a black lead. One had gay cowboys, as already pointed out this is now a recurring Oscar theme, the older one was much better than this one. One was Japanese. One was a musical remake from the 60s. One was set in Northern Ireland. One was about Carnies but thankfully didn't have any fish fucking. One was marmite movie that I guess will be considered woke. The least woke movie was by far the worst.
This place is always crying woke.
Also, Saving Private Ryan didn't fucking win (they should have burnt down the Oscars there and then) and The Deer Hunter is overrated.
Hawkes Bay is overrated
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Death on the Nile Lavish version of Agatha Christie's novel with Branagh as Hercule Poirot.
Strangely empty film with stunning cinematography and Branagh's Poirot is really good and you cant go wrong with the plot, but the dialogue and casting was just so plastic, contrived and full of tick-box "diversity" characters it made you cringe.
2.5 Token Gay actors out of 5 Robert De Niro's
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@victor-meldrew said in Movie review thread...:
Death on the Nile Lavish version of Agatha Christie's novel with Branagh as Hercule Poirot.
Strangely empty film with stunning cinematography and Branagh's Poirot is really good and you cant go wrong with the plot, but the dialogue and casting was just so plastic, contrived and full of tick-box "diversity" characters it made you cringe.
2.5 Token Gay actors out of 5 Robert De Niro's
Sounds like a shoe in for the Oscars.
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@nepia said in Movie review thread...:
I'm seriously wondering WTF is woke about this years Oscars compared to other years?
A film kind of about disability won. Films about disabilities have won lots of years. This years winner was a bloody good film and the closest to a comedy that we'll ever see win an Oscar. And the protagonist wasn't the one with the disability.
The rest are pretty typical Oscar fair aside from Dune. One had a black lead. One had gay cowboys, as already pointed out this is now a recurring Oscar theme, the older one was much better than this one. One was Japanese. One was a musical remake from the 60s. One was set in Northern Ireland. One was about Carnies but thankfully didn't have any fish fucking. One was marmite movie that I guess will be considered woke. The least woke movie was by far the worst.
This place is always crying woke.
Also, Saving Private Ryan didn't fucking win (they should have burnt down the Oscars there and then) and The Deer Hunter is overrated.
Really couldn't give a stuff about an actor's skin colour, ethnicity or sexuality and prefer to judge on their acting ability. Ditto what themes the movie wants to explore. It's the quality of the finished product that matters.
But for me it's the sheer obviousness of acting quotas being filled - based on skin colour or sexuality - rather than people being picked on suitability for the role and actual quality of acting, which is a turn-off. Then you have scripts which seem to have built-in diversity stereotypes which give the impression that every family is cheerfully mixed-race, gay people happily and openly existed in the 1800's and the aristocracy was awash with BAME people. And, even worse, more often than not, the characters are weak and the roles poorly written.
I just find it a bit patronising and puerile.
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@mn5 said in Movie review thread...:
@nepia said in Movie review thread...:
I'm seriously wondering WTF is woke about this years Oscars compared to other years?
A film kind of about disability won. Films about disabilities have won lots of years. This years winner was a bloody good film and the closest to a comedy that we'll ever see win an Oscar. And the protagonist wasn't the one with the disability.
The rest are pretty typical Oscar fair aside from Dune. One had a black lead. One had gay cowboys, as already pointed out this is now a recurring Oscar theme, the older one was much better than this one. One was Japanese. One was a musical remake from the 60s. One was set in Northern Ireland. One was about Carnies but thankfully didn't have any fish fucking. One was marmite movie that I guess will be considered woke. The least woke movie was by far the worst.
This place is always crying woke.
Also, Saving Private Ryan didn't fucking win (they should have burnt down the Oscars there and then) and The Deer Hunter is overrated.
Hawkes Bay is overrated
If every province was a movie, you know Hawkes Bay would be the most profitable (including every sequel).
Also would have the award every province wants...
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@mn5 said in Movie review thread...:
@victor-meldrew said in Movie review thread...:
Death on the Nile Lavish version of Agatha Christie's novel with Branagh as Hercule Poirot.
Strangely empty film with stunning cinematography and Branagh's Poirot is really good and you cant go wrong with the plot, but the dialogue and casting was just so plastic, contrived and full of tick-box "diversity" characters it made you cringe.
2.5 Token Gay actors out of 5 Robert De Niro's
Sounds like a shoe in for the Oscars.
There's a character in the movie who's black, a feisty single-mother and who has struggled with additional prejudice as she's a female singer in a man's world and who plays an electric guitar (a bit like Suzi Quattro).
It's such a plastic character you feel sorry for the actress.
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@nepia said in Movie review thread...:
I'm seriously wondering WTF is woke about this years Oscars compared to other years?
A film kind of about disability won. Films about disabilities have won lots of years. This years winner was a bloody good film and the closest to a comedy that we'll ever see win an Oscar. And the protagonist wasn't the one with the disability.
The rest are pretty typical Oscar fair aside from Dune. One had a black lead. One had gay cowboys, as already pointed out this is now a recurring Oscar theme, the older one was much better than this one. One was Japanese. One was a musical remake from the 60s. One was set in Northern Ireland. One was about Carnies but thankfully didn't have any fish fucking. One was marmite movie that I guess will be considered woke. The least woke movie was by far the worst.
This place is always crying woke.
Also, Saving Private Ryan didn't fucking win (they should have burnt down the Oscars there and then) and The Deer Hunter is overrated.
That's because woke = shit entertainment.
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@rancid-schnitzel said in Movie review thread...:
@nepia said in Movie review thread...:
I'm seriously wondering WTF is woke about this years Oscars compared to other years?
A film kind of about disability won. Films about disabilities have won lots of years. This years winner was a bloody good film and the closest to a comedy that we'll ever see win an Oscar. And the protagonist wasn't the one with the disability.
The rest are pretty typical Oscar fair aside from Dune. One had a black lead. One had gay cowboys, as already pointed out this is now a recurring Oscar theme, the older one was much better than this one. One was Japanese. One was a musical remake from the 60s. One was set in Northern Ireland. One was about Carnies but thankfully didn't have any fish fucking. One was marmite movie that I guess will be considered woke. The least woke movie was by far the worst.
This place is always crying woke.
Also, Saving Private Ryan didn't fucking win (they should have burnt down the Oscars there and then) and The Deer Hunter is overrated.
That's because woke = shit entertainment.
I enjoyed a bunch of the Oscar nominated movies this year, thought some were complete rubbish too. Didn't think about whether they were woke or not until today's comments on this thread.
No one's forced to watch any of them. I assume there's lots of movies out there that don't meet whatever your definition of woke is.
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Panama - Mel Gibson (must have same agent as Bruce Willis nowadays?) except he was only in the movie for about 10 mins of so.
2 south American drug cartels out of 5 rogue ex Special Forces
Highlight of the film is Kiara Liz, she is fire, oh, TW - yes.
