Movie review thread...
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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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@Victor-Meldrew Mitchum was so good in that movie. It's a really seamy and menacing film for its time.
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@Catogrande said in Movie review thread...:
@Kruse
LMD has been previously reviewed and the consensus chimed with your review. Just dreadful.Yeah - I was pretty sure the only reason this thing had come to my attention, was some 'orrible fluffybunny on here reviewing it, and piquing my interest. But a drunken half-arsed attempt to search for it failed, so no credit/abuse could be given.
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The latest Dr Strange. Not too bad. I have an intense dislike for Bendthedick Cumthebatch but I do like him as Dr Strange. Very much enjoyed the original.
Not the best Marvel but not the worst. America Chavez is a ridiculous character and certain things were very cringe (food is free in most universes, memory store) but there was enough action and interest to keep it going. The multiverse could be an amazing tool going forward if used wisely.
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@Victor-Meldrew I have heard and read a number of reviews of operation Mincemeat but not one has mentioned that this story has been filmed before as The Man Who Never Was.
I remember watching it as a kid. (Always seemed to be a B&W WWII movie on every Sunday pm).
at that time I thought it was a cracking yarn - done well. I reckon it would know seem very dated full of stiff upper lips and clipped vowels.
It did add a fictitious IRA German spy to the story
It also had a cameo from the guy who came up with the idea of Operation Mincemeat;
"During filming, Montagu has a cameo role, that of a Royal Air Force air vice-marshal who has doubts about the feasibility of the proposed plan. It was described by Ben Macintyre as a "surreal" moment when the real Montagu addressed his fictional persona, played by Webb"
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Halloween Kills
Not sure why I expected yet another sequel of a franchise that actually wasn’t that amazing to start with to be any good but I’m an incredibly slow learner I guess.
Just awful, awful crap on any number of levels. Why won’t the fluffybunny just die like a normal person ?
1.5 Jamie Lee Curtis isn’t hot anymore out of 5 yes it’s the guy out of the Breakfast Club
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@dogmeat said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
Jamie Lee Curtis isn’t hot anymore
She's older than I am FFS. Practically a GGILF
Trading Places was a long time ago
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@Kiwiwomble said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 she was pretty hot in true lies...although also a long time ago
Good point. In her mid thirties at that point.
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@Kiwiwomble said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 she was pretty hot in true lies...although also a long time ago
One of my favourite films. Arnie was soo good in that as was JLC. On screen chemistry was off the scale.