Movie review thread...
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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.
Licorice Pizza: As I noted earlier in the thread, I can’t stand this film. But @MiketheSnow said it better than I can:
Was hoping they all went off the cliff as the truck was freewheeling backwards.
I really disliked the performances of the two leads which doesn’t help. Boogie Nights, Magnolia, and Punch Drunk Love seem a long time ago now. 2/10Power of the Dog: Well, the NZ scenery was nice, but not much of a movie, all style over substance. Sorry Jane. Cumberbatch did his best DDL, and also stars real life couple Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons (Landry from Friday Night Lights) so lots of method acting going on. 5/10
West Side Story: I’m a fan of live theatre musicals, but I’m not a fan of film versions. Saw this with my Mum over xmas break as she loves the original. Was ok, but it’s still a film version of a musical. 6/10
King Richard: Feel good movie, easy viewing but that’s about all. Will Smith was pretty decent playing a fairly annoying character. A good support cast of the two young actors playing Venus and Serenda and John Berenthal as a tennis coach. 6.5/10
Don’t Look Up: Not as good as The Big Short, but still a fun-ish black comedy with some big stars. The credit sequence on the new planet had me in hysterics. Meryl Streep was hilarious as lady Trump and Leo and Jennifer Lawrence play scientists. 7/10
Nightmare Alley: This was the nominee I was least looking forward to as I thought it was a horror and the fish fucking movie put me off Del Toro. Anyway, it’s not a horror and there's no fish fucking. It’s actually a good drama-thriller. Was a little bit predictable in parts but the design of the film and cinematography is great. Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Willem Defoe, and Rooney Mara star. 7/10
Drive My Car: A three-hour Japanese movie about staging a play – kind of. I really did not expect to like this and set aside three separate times to watch. I watched it in one sitting and it was weirdly interesting. Some Japanese, Korean, Chinese-American etc people star. 8/10
Dune: Great version from Villinenue which did really well so the second movie is being made. Thankfully! Timothy Chalemet, Oscar Issac and Jason Momoa were all good. 8.5/10
Belfast: A movie about the Troubles that some might find schmaltzy, but I didn’t think it was. Directed by Branagh and partially based on his childhood. I think that either this or The Power of the Dog will win the Oscar. I hope it’s this. Jamie Dornan was good as the Dad and Ciarn Hinds was a crack up as the grandfather. 8.5/10
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
I watched Coda last night. Borderline couldn't stand it. Can't believe it won best film. It's the kind of cliched American film you might watch on a long haul flight to NZ. We'll have to agree to disagree but I was bored and the plot was so obvious. On this list, I've also seen Power of the Dog, West Side Story, Dune and Belfast. All but WSS I'd rate better, and WSS I'd put on a par - not as good as the 1960s version. I think I just don't like American comedies TBH.
Yeah, we can agree to disagree (as always would be boring if everyone liked the same stuff), but I don't really consider WSS or Coda as out and out comedies, and Coda is a remake of a French film.
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if ever a film was made for @Kruse I thought it'd be this
but on looking, no, that is PART 2, Part 1 stars Eric 'busiest actor in Hollywood' Roberts!!
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@canefan said in Movie review thread...:
Top Gun Maverick
I started my experience by watching Top Gun. Still a very good film, it was good to recap the story where it all began.
CF Jr had seen TGM and raved about it so I was expecting a lot. And as DM said the movie doesn't disappoint. It uses the original soundtrack, in a Star Wars like manner. Great that they used one of the original film's iconic songs. The story had a bigger mission as its centrepiece, which provided for a great finale. Lots of nods to the old film, plenty of action, and the theatre got a bit dusty ##spoiler
when Mav and Goose's son made up
##endspoilerAn all star cast, Val made an appearance, and Jennifer Connolly looked hawt as usual. 5 beach football touchdowns out of 5 impossible missions
Really enjoyed this. Actually first film GF and I have been to together. Were planning it for more than 2 years. Used money from recycling all our bottles and cans. After 2 years that was more than enough to pay for farking gold class!
It wasn't a great or complex film, but it never aimed to be. Cruise just wanted to entertain and do justice to the character of Maverick and make a worthy sequel to an 80s classic. Succeeded on every front.
Had 2 minor quibbles. I didn't like most of the other pilots. They just didn't strike me as the best of the best. Kind of like the astronauts in Deep Impact (if anyone remembers it). They seemed like teens rather than the very best pilots in the world. The other was:
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Them getting shot down then stealing a plane. That was all a bit Comical.
##endspoilerBut otherwise I was greatly entertained and if anything the character of Maverick was made even cooler. Hats off to Tom Cruise, who btw looks ridiculous for a guy who will soon be 60.
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Agree with your second quibble but the whole episode was the forgiveness arc. Having put them in that mess they almost needed a deus ex machina. But is a very minor quibble
As for Cruise - somewhere there's an attic with a painting like this
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@Rancid-Schnitzel yeah I'm willing to forgive quibble 2 as it was such a good film and by then I was okay with a little bit more silliness to complete what was a satisfying story arc for Maverick and Rooster. As to quibble one, it is difficult to compare pilots when you saw the original. No doubt Viper and Jester would have fucked all of those millennials up
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@canefan said in Movie review thread...:
@Rancid-Schnitzel yeah I'm willing to forgive quibble 2 as it was such a good film and by then I was okay with a little bit more silliness to complete what was a satisfying story arc for Maverick and Rooster. As to quibble one, it is difficult to compare pilots when you saw the original. No doubt Viper and Jester would have fucked all of those millennials up
Yeah, Hangman was like a jock character from one of those old screwball films. And who would choose the call sign Fanboy? Bob was also ridiculous. I quite liked Phoenix. GF commented on how it was refreshing that there was none of that chip on shoulder girl power bs. They were there on merit and nobody gave a shit about gender or race or who they slept with.
But what really gave me a horn is that line: "Maybe so sir...but not today."
Fark that is cool.
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still havent managed to see maverick....but can i share a revelation from watching topgun last week...the vollyball scene is just in a carpark or something.....always remembered it as a proper beach
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@Kiwiwomble said in Movie review thread...:
still havent managed to see maverick....but can i share a revelation from watching topgun last week...the vollyball scene is just in a carpark or something.....always remembered it as a proper beach
Yeah your memory fails you. I remember the court being surrounded by cars
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@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Movie review thread...:
@canefan said in Movie review thread...:
@Rancid-Schnitzel yeah I'm willing to forgive quibble 2 as it was such a good film and by then I was okay with a little bit more silliness to complete what was a satisfying story arc for Maverick and Rooster. As to quibble one, it is difficult to compare pilots when you saw the original. No doubt Viper and Jester would have fucked all of those millennials up
Yeah, Hangman was like a jock character from one of those old screwball films. And who would choose the call sign Fanboy? Bob was also ridiculous. I quite liked Phoenix. GF commented on how it was refreshing that there was none of that chip on shoulder girl power bs. They were there on merit and nobody gave a shit about gender or race or who they slept with.
But what really gave me a horn is that line: "Maybe so sir...but not today."
Fark that is cool.
I've not watched it yet, but I accidentally caught a line from one of the young twats along the line of 'who's going to teach us cos we're the best' Arseholes wouldn't last 5 mins with that attitude in any high performance role, let alone fast jet aircrew.
Anyway looking forward to the flying stuff!
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@Machpants said in Movie review thread...:
@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Movie review thread...:
@canefan said in Movie review thread...:
@Rancid-Schnitzel yeah I'm willing to forgive quibble 2 as it was such a good film and by then I was okay with a little bit more silliness to complete what was a satisfying story arc for Maverick and Rooster. As to quibble one, it is difficult to compare pilots when you saw the original. No doubt Viper and Jester would have fucked all of those millennials up
Yeah, Hangman was like a jock character from one of those old screwball films. And who would choose the call sign Fanboy? Bob was also ridiculous. I quite liked Phoenix. GF commented on how it was refreshing that there was none of that chip on shoulder girl power bs. They were there on merit and nobody gave a shit about gender or race or who they slept with.
But what really gave me a horn is that line: "Maybe so sir...but not today."
Fark that is cool.
I've not watched it yet, but I accidentally caught a line from one of the young twats along the line of 'who's going to teach us cos we're the best' Arseholes wouldn't last 5 mins with that attitude in any high performance role, let alone fast jet aircrew.
Anyway looking forward to the flying stuff!
My thoughts exactly. They looked like they belonged in a cafe texting rather than flying a fighter jet. But that was but a minor quibble. The flying scenes are ridiculous. So much cooler than CGI.
Caught a glimpse of some new Brad Pitt film that is set on board a bullet train. CGI looks cartoonish. It seems to me that alot of the CGI is actually getting worse. -
@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Movie review thread...:
@Machpants said in Movie review thread...:
@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Movie review thread...:
@canefan said in Movie review thread...:
@Rancid-Schnitzel yeah I'm willing to forgive quibble 2 as it was such a good film and by then I was okay with a little bit more silliness to complete what was a satisfying story arc for Maverick and Rooster. As to quibble one, it is difficult to compare pilots when you saw the original. No doubt Viper and Jester would have fucked all of those millennials up
Yeah, Hangman was like a jock character from one of those old screwball films. And who would choose the call sign Fanboy? Bob was also ridiculous. I quite liked Phoenix. GF commented on how it was refreshing that there was none of that chip on shoulder girl power bs. They were there on merit and nobody gave a shit about gender or race or who they slept with.
But what really gave me a horn is that line: "Maybe so sir...but not today."
Fark that is cool.
I've not watched it yet, but I accidentally caught a line from one of the young twats along the line of 'who's going to teach us cos we're the best' Arseholes wouldn't last 5 mins with that attitude in any high performance role, let alone fast jet aircrew.
Anyway looking forward to the flying stuff!
My thoughts exactly. They looked like they belonged in a cafe texting rather than flying a fighter jet. But that was but a minor quibble. The flying scenes are ridiculous. So much cooler than CGI.
Caught a glimpse of some new Brad Pitt film that is set on board a bullet train. CGI looks cartoonish. It seems to me that alot of the CGI is actually getting worse.I read that the actress who played Phoenix trained as a ballerina before getting into acting, so when it came to being turned around and upside down she had some experience with the sensation. She was proud of the fact she was only one of two cast members (I assume she did not count Cruise as the other one) who didn't spew their ring out during in flight filming
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Jurassic World something (the latest one): So, I made the claim I would never watch another Jurassic World movie after watching the second one, which I think was the worst movie with the worst ending that I saw whichever year it came out. But, needing to use up some vouchers and there being nothing else to see I went to this. And I was pleasantly surprised. It is just a bog standard blockbuster movie but that's not a bad thing as it wasn't rubbish like the previous one.
Was good to have the original 3 actors back to go along with the new cast.
Won't win any awards but decent enough 2 hours in VMax.
I also saw today that they're making a Joker sequel. Which begs the question, which two Scorcese movies do people think Philips is going to combine and remake (somewhat inferiorly) this time round?
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OK finally got to see my homo-erotic beach
volleyballrugby movie (although spoiled by some girlies in it). Was a good blast, worth seeing in the cinema. Cheesey as fuck, even more unrealisitic, but at least it didn't take itself as seriously as the first one. Flight sequences, when they were jsut valley flyiing, gave me wood. Shed a tear for my buddies lost, esp Moses -The Best Yank that has ever Existed (TM) who died in an F15 accident, when he didn't eject in time. His backseater, another buddy RAF on exchange, lived as the backseater goes out first. The Goose stuff really hit home for me.4 using two hands to pull back on a elctro hydraulic stick out of 5 flares defeating radar missiles by exploding them.
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@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
Jurassic World something (the latest one): So, I made the claim I would never watch another Jurassic World movie after watching the second one, which I think was the worst movie with the worst ending that I saw whichever year it came out. But, needing to use up some vouchers and there being nothing else to see I went to this. And I was pleasantly surprised. It is just a bog standard blockbuster movie but that's not a bad thing as it wasn't rubbish like the previous one.
Was good to have the original 3 actors back to go along with the new cast.
Won't win any awards but decent enough 2 hours in VMax.
I also saw today that they're making a Joker sequel. Which begs the question, which two Scorcese movies do people think Philips is going to combine and remake (somewhat inferiorly) this time round?
So what movies have you seen recently that weren’t influenced by previous movies? Seems to be parroting a lazy criticism of the film by people that didn’t like it’s politics.
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Hustle on Netflix
4 matadors out of 5 wolves
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@Kirwan said in Movie review thread...:
@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
Jurassic World something (the latest one): So, I made the claim I would never watch another Jurassic World movie after watching the second one, which I think was the worst movie with the worst ending that I saw whichever year it came out. But, needing to use up some vouchers and there being nothing else to see I went to this. And I was pleasantly surprised. It is just a bog standard blockbuster movie but that's not a bad thing as it wasn't rubbish like the previous one.
Was good to have the original 3 actors back to go along with the new cast.
Won't win any awards but decent enough 2 hours in VMax.
I also saw today that they're making a Joker sequel. Which begs the question, which two Scorcese movies do people think Philips is going to combine and remake (somewhat inferiorly) this time round?
So what movies have you seen recently that weren’t influenced by previous movies? Seems to be parroting a lazy criticism of the film by people that didn’t like it’s politics.
It was an ok movie, but it was a complete rehash of those other two other superior movies regardless of its politics (IIRC the director even noted that when promoting the movie). It's a legitimate criticism even if those who "like" its politics don't like the criticism.
Plenty of people with my same politics liked The Joker.
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@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
@Kirwan said in Movie review thread...:
@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
Jurassic World something (the latest one): So, I made the claim I would never watch another Jurassic World movie after watching the second one, which I think was the worst movie with the worst ending that I saw whichever year it came out. But, needing to use up some vouchers and there being nothing else to see I went to this. And I was pleasantly surprised. It is just a bog standard blockbuster movie but that's not a bad thing as it wasn't rubbish like the previous one.
Was good to have the original 3 actors back to go along with the new cast.
Won't win any awards but decent enough 2 hours in VMax.
I also saw today that they're making a Joker sequel. Which begs the question, which two Scorcese movies do people think Philips is going to combine and remake (somewhat inferiorly) this time round?
So what movies have you seen recently that weren’t influenced by previous movies? Seems to be parroting a lazy criticism of the film by people that didn’t like it’s politics.
It was an ok movie, but it was a complete rehash of those other two other superior movies regardless of its politics (IIRC the director even noted that when promoting the movie). It's a legitimate criticism even if those who "like" its politics don't like the criticism.
Plenty of people with my same politics liked The Joker.
It's a lazy critique IMO. Like I said, plenty of other films are inspired by other films - QT has made a career out of it.
Top Gunner: Danger Zone (2022)
