Movie review thread...
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anyone interested in the new avatar? cant say im worried one way or the other, even though its "see in the cinema" kind of film...will probably wait and watch at home
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@Kiwiwomble said in Movie review thread...:
anyone interested in the new avatar? cant say im worried one way or the other, even though its "see in the cinema" kind of film...will probably wait and watch at home
the first one was one of the most amazing things i have ever seen in a cinema. Just visually stunning.
yeah the story was a bit naff. And it's not something i have watched that many times over the however many years it's been.
But that trailer looked like it could have been from the same movie, and the visuals are suddenly not as impressive as they are no longer new.
Will wait until it hits Netflix
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@Kiwiwomble Never saw the original.
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@mariner4life yeah, sums things up pretty well
i wasn't even super blown away with the effects back then, i think because its this alien world...it almost moved too close to just being animated. I think the effects in movies like dr strange are more impressive because theyre real world things doing things they shouldn't be able to do if that makes sense
...and i just couldn;t get past sitting there thinking..."this is just dances with wolves or the last samurai in space"
@antipodean i honestly dont think you missed much, i think its probably one of the few blockbusters ive never bothered to watch again
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@Kiwiwomble said in Movie review thread...:
this is just dances with wolves or the last samurai in space
oh
you're one of those
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@antipodean said in Movie review thread...:
@Kiwiwomble Never saw the original.
Neither. That probably makes two of us.
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@Bovidae said in Movie review thread...:
Avatar was probably the last movie I saw in 3D in the cinema.
Same here.
I fucking loved it. I've watched it at least 5x since. Have shown the kids.
If you didn't get goose bumps when he flies in on the giant-flying-dragon-to-end-all-other-flying-dragons, you're not human.
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@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
@antipodean said in Movie review thread...:
@Kiwiwomble Never saw the original.
Neither. That probably makes two of us.
Three of us. I've been waiting for the re-release before the new ones so I could go see it as there doesn't seem to be any point in watching it not in 3D.
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Speaking of James Cameron films, this is a cool interview with the guy who played Drake in Aliens.
Will definitely have to rewatch that film. Scared the shjt out of me as a kid.
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Watched the latest Batman movie.
Good, but not memorable. I literally felt I'd watched it all before.
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@antipodean said in Movie review thread...:
Watched the latest Batman movie.
Good, but not memorable. I literally felt I'd watched it all before.
This had been a bit of a marmite people, I know some who think it's the greatest thing since sliced bread, and then others that think it's the worse thing since unsliced bread.
I'm clearly sitting on the fence, quite enjoyed as I was watching it and then liked it less the more I though about. Still a watchable mid tier comic book movie.
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@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
@antipodean said in Movie review thread...:
Watched the latest Batman movie.
Good, but not memorable. I literally felt I'd watched it all before.
This had been a bit of a marmite people, I know some who think it's the greatest thing since sliced bread, and then others that think it's the worse thing since unsliced bread.
I'm clearly sitting on the fence, quite enjoyed as I was watching it and then liked it less the more I though about. Still a watchable mid tier comic book movie.
I was enjoying it but it then seemed to lose its way and just dragged on. All the elements were there but they couldn't pull it off.
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Last Man Down
Short version: C-grade Rambo, done by Scandanavians, with a virus context for no discernible reason.
(By "Rambo" - I mean the character, and an amalgamation of all the movies. Yes - ALL the movies.)
Long version:
Not sure where to start, but I guess...- tit-watch... plenty of teasing that there's going to be some scand-o tittie, but in the end... just a very very outside-of-out-sideboob
- arsewatch - one of each gender (apologies to those who believe there are more than two)
- cheesy dialogue: heavy. Fucking heavy.
- Praying for peace? <context: previous cheesy dialogue>
- More will come. <in ridiculously low gravelly voice - maintained throughout entire movie>
- You don't seem too worried <here's some blonde scand-o titties'n'arse while we wait, I'm heavily suggesting to the audience>
- Fear is emotion
- This is very real
- Pain is real. Death is real.
- So is love John. And life.
- Love ends. Life ends. But death is forever.
Sorry - but after searching back to watch that scene over-and-over several times to get the dialogue correct - I'm not sure I can continue with this review. Just... so, so tired.
In general - your standard C-grade action movie, where dialogue and plot just take fucking bizarre choices. Like a stone-cold-madman was put on the editing desk.
I genuinely found myself, for most of this movie, wondering more about how the fuck these movies are SOOOO bad in some areas. Sure - I can see that low budget = low special effects. But surely standard plot, dialogue, "jokes", and simple "it makes sense" - doesn't cost anything?
2 ridiculously-convoluted-flashback-context-plots out of 5 wish-I'd-properly-seen-her-tits-es. -
@scribe said in Movie review thread...:
Watched Cape Fear (Scorsese, 1991) recently in my Covid haze. Aggrieved defendant seeks vengeance on his lawyer after serving 14 years. Great cast headed by DeNiro (channeling his innermost evil f*cker), Nolte, Jessica Lange, Juliette Lewis. 3.5 fat cigars out of 5 ‘you talkin to me’s?’
Yeah, it's good, but also check out the '62 version with Gregory Peck & Robert Mitchum. Mitchum is evil personified & makes De Niro look like a pussy
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Operation Mincemeat - about the British deception operation around the 1943 Allied invasion of Sicily.
Pretty well acted, full of tension and allegedly historically accurate (Ian Fleming is there, writing a novel between action scenes). Entertaining watch. 4 Cloned Hitlers out of 5 Dead Mussolini's
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@Kruse
LMD has been previously reviewed and the consensus chimed with your review. Just dreadful. -
@Victor-Meldrew Mitchum was so good in that movie. It's a really seamy and menacing film for its time.
