Movie review thread...
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@Kruse said in Movie review thread...:
True Romance
- Yeah... the "ensemble cast" in that is fucking ridiculous. Watching the opening credits - name after name... it finally gets to "co-starring" - and the names keep fucking rolling.
- FFS - Samuel L Jackson with maybe less screen-time than Deep Blue Sea
- Gandolfini - pretty early in his career, being given a shot, and hitting it out of the park?
- Then let's just throw Dennis fucking Hopper in there for a single awesome racist monologue
- Never even realised that Val Kilmer was ghost-Elvis
- Been a while since I've watched this too... bizarrely, I keep getting it mixed up in my mind with the one where somebody gets hired to kidnap his boss' daughter, then falls in love. Ewen McGregor and Cameron Diaz, now that I think about it - I think? And then I get these conflicting memories as to whether it's any good or not, and then shy away from watching it.
But yeah - actually fucking good.
Ewen is great in a post Trainspotting pre Star Wars turn.
Cameron Diaz is just hot.
- Yeah... the "ensemble cast" in that is fucking ridiculous. Watching the opening credits - name after name... it finally gets to "co-starring" - and the names keep fucking rolling.
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Merry Fucking Christmas
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@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
Downsizing
Intriguing premise and quite thought provoking even if it is 100% bullshit. Matt Damon ( very bland as he often is ) volunteers to shrink down to five inches tall in a bid to not consume so much of the earths resources, do the humanitarian thing etc……
Starts promisingly but really boring as fuck unfortunately
It would have been so much better if……
A rogue normal sized person or at least a bunch of rats attacked the settlement ?Christoph Waltz is pretty good fun playing the same character he always does and the Vietnamese woman is a bit of a hoot but ultimately this flick is not worth your time.
2 tiny settlements out of 5 parties at the neighbours house upstairs
1000%. The premise is brilliant and the film could have been a classic, but is boring cråp. Hugely disappointing.
Would you downsize you reckon?
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@MiketheSnow Fucking sweet... Christmas Punisher, by John Woo.
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@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
Downsizing
Intriguing premise and quite thought provoking even if it is 100% bullshit. Matt Damon ( very bland as he often is ) volunteers to shrink down to five inches tall in a bid to not consume so much of the earths resources, do the humanitarian thing etc……
Starts promisingly but really boring as fuck unfortunately
It would have been so much better if……
A rogue normal sized person or at least a bunch of rats attacked the settlement ?Christoph Waltz is pretty good fun playing the same character he always does and the Vietnamese woman is a bit of a hoot but ultimately this flick is not worth your time.
2 tiny settlements out of 5 parties at the neighbours house upstairs
1000%. The premise is brilliant and the film could have been a classic, but is boring cråp. Hugely disappointing.
Would you downsize you reckon?
No chance. Whilst living like a king just like Dougie Houser advertised might be appealing and the thought of 500 grams of steak lasting months would be terrific I’d be worried about cats, rats, spiders etc.
Or just someone who I’ve wronged getting revenge and standing on me and squashing me, grabbing me and throwing me into a wall or just putting me in a glass jar and letting me suffocate.
I’ve really thought this through way more than I should have.
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@Kruse said in Movie review thread...:
True Romance
- Yeah... the "ensemble cast" in that is fucking ridiculous. Watching the opening credits - name after name... it finally gets to "co-starring" - and the names keep fucking rolling.
- FFS - Samuel L Jackson with maybe less screen-time than Deep Blue Sea
- Gandolfini - pretty early in his career, being given a shot, and hitting it out of the park?
- Then let's just throw Dennis fucking Hopper in there for a single awesome racist monologue
- Never even realised that Val Kilmer was ghost-Elvis
- Been a while since I've watched this too... bizarrely, I keep getting it mixed up in my mind with the one where somebody gets hired to kidnap his boss' daughter, then falls in love. Ewen McGregor and Cameron Diaz, now that I think about it - I think? And then I get these conflicting memories as to whether it's any good or not, and then shy away from watching it.
But yeah - actually fucking good.
There was a film you describe, with Ewen and Cameron. Mark Wahlberg also did one with a similar storyline, but much lower grade.
True Romance is excellent. Holy shit I don't even remember Sam L Jackson being in that! Otherwise a great cast. Gary Oldman, Brad Pitt's brilliant cameo, Rapaport, Sizemore, and Chris Penn. The final Mexican standoff in the hotel was great fun
- Yeah... the "ensemble cast" in that is fucking ridiculous. Watching the opening credits - name after name... it finally gets to "co-starring" - and the names keep fucking rolling.
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@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
Downsizing
Intriguing premise and quite thought provoking even if it is 100% bullshit. Matt Damon ( very bland as he often is ) volunteers to shrink down to five inches tall in a bid to not consume so much of the earths resources, do the humanitarian thing etc……
Starts promisingly but really boring as fuck unfortunately
It would have been so much better if……
A rogue normal sized person or at least a bunch of rats attacked the settlement ?Christoph Waltz is pretty good fun playing the same character he always does and the Vietnamese woman is a bit of a hoot but ultimately this flick is not worth your time.
2 tiny settlements out of 5 parties at the neighbours house upstairs
1000%. The premise is brilliant and the film could have been a classic, but is boring cråp. Hugely disappointing.
Would you downsize you reckon?
No chance. Whilst living like a king just like Dougie Houser advertised might be appealing and the thought of 500 grams of steak lasting months would be terrific I’d be worried about cats, rats, spiders etc.
Or just someone who I’ve wronged getting revenge and standing on me and squashing me, grabbing me and throwing me into a wall or just putting me in a glass jar and letting me suffocate.
I’ve really thought this through way more than I should have.
Yeah. Just one normal sized person with a lawnmower could cause absolute carnage. Shit even drunk idiots could kill thousands.
Seriously, how did they fůck this film up?
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@canefan said in Movie review thread...:
@Kruse said in Movie review thread...:
True Romance
- Yeah... the "ensemble cast" in that is fucking ridiculous. Watching the opening credits - name after name... it finally gets to "co-starring" - and the names keep fucking rolling.
- FFS - Samuel L Jackson with maybe less screen-time than Deep Blue Sea
- Gandolfini - pretty early in his career, being given a shot, and hitting it out of the park?
- Then let's just throw Dennis fucking Hopper in there for a single awesome racist monologue
- Never even realised that Val Kilmer was ghost-Elvis
- Been a while since I've watched this too... bizarrely, I keep getting it mixed up in my mind with the one where somebody gets hired to kidnap his boss' daughter, then falls in love. Ewen McGregor and Cameron Diaz, now that I think about it - I think? And then I get these conflicting memories as to whether it's any good or not, and then shy away from watching it.
But yeah - actually fucking good.
There was a film you describe, with Ewen and Cameron. Mark Wahlberg also did one with a similar storyline, but much lower grade.
True Romance is excellent. Holy shit I don't even remember Sam L Jackson being in that! Otherwise a great cast. Gary Oldman, Brad Pitt's brilliant cameo, Rapaport, Sizemore, and Chris Penn. The final Mexican standoff in the hotel was great fun
It's A Life Less Ordinary, it was ok but definitely a lesser Danny Boyle film (IMHO obviously).
- Yeah... the "ensemble cast" in that is fucking ridiculous. Watching the opening credits - name after name... it finally gets to "co-starring" - and the names keep fucking rolling.
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@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
Downsizing
Intriguing premise and quite thought provoking even if it is 100% bullshit. Matt Damon ( very bland as he often is ) volunteers to shrink down to five inches tall in a bid to not consume so much of the earths resources, do the humanitarian thing etc……
Starts promisingly but really boring as fuck unfortunately
It would have been so much better if……
A rogue normal sized person or at least a bunch of rats attacked the settlement ?Christoph Waltz is pretty good fun playing the same character he always does and the Vietnamese woman is a bit of a hoot but ultimately this flick is not worth your time.
2 tiny settlements out of 5 parties at the neighbours house upstairs
1000%. The premise is brilliant and the film could have been a classic, but is boring cråp. Hugely disappointing.
Would you downsize you reckon?
No chance. Whilst living like a king just like Dougie Houser advertised might be appealing and the thought of 500 grams of steak lasting months would be terrific I’d be worried about cats, rats, spiders etc.
Or just someone who I’ve wronged getting revenge and standing on me and squashing me, grabbing me and throwing me into a wall or just putting me in a glass jar and letting me suffocate.
I’ve really thought this through way more than I should have.
Yeah. Just one normal sized person with a lawnmower could cause absolute carnage. Shit even drunk idiots could kill thousands.
Seriously, how did they fůck this film up?
I can see it now. Loads of small people at a concert or gathering and a disgruntled ex friend, co worker or whatever goes nuts with a Masport.
The small people lose radio contact with the outside world and have to resort to their own little weapons to take him out.
Such a lost opportunity
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@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
He's Francis, the one in the chopper at the end who says "we're gonna have a high high" (might be slightly paraphrased).
Here speaks a true movie geek...
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@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
The small people lose radio contact with the outside world and
have to resort to their own little weapons to take him out.take refuge in an abandoned mental asylum where the teenagers fight for their lives after disturbing a bloodthirsty supernatural entity.FIFY
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The Meg
You need to be starved of oxygen before turning your brain off for this. Statham is doing this between begging Guy Ritchie for a role and F&F. Uncle Bully appears to be taking any role that pays. And this is the high water mark for some Australian chick who appears to have mistaken superglue for hair gel.
Action scenes are simply unbelievable, the dialogue and acting are mind-numbingly idiotic, and not in a single iota of deliberate satire way.
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@antipodean said in Movie review thread...:
The Meg
You need to be starved of oxygen before turning your brain off for this. Statham is doing this between begging Guy Ritchie for a role and F&F. Uncle Bully appears to be taking any role that pays. And this is the high water mark for some Australian chick who appears to have mistaken superglue for hair gel.
Action scenes are simply unbelievable, the dialogue and acting are mind-numbingly idiotic, and not in a single iota of deliberate satire way.
Oh, and just wait - as a completist, you'll have to watch... Meg 2.
- I couldn't be arsed writing a review for it. It was just... exactly what it says on the tin... How you describe the original - doubled.
And more than obviously funded by the Chinese.
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@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
Downsizing
Intriguing premise and quite thought provoking even if it is 100% bullshit. Matt Damon ( very bland as he often is ) volunteers to shrink down to five inches tall in a bid to not consume so much of the earths resources, do the humanitarian thing etc……
Starts promisingly but really boring as fuck unfortunately
It would have been so much better if……
A rogue normal sized person or at least a bunch of rats attacked the settlement ?Christoph Waltz is pretty good fun playing the same character he always does and the Vietnamese woman is a bit of a hoot but ultimately this flick is not worth your time.
2 tiny settlements out of 5 parties at the neighbours house upstairs
1000%. The premise is brilliant and the film could have been a classic, but is boring cråp. Hugely disappointing.
Would you downsize you reckon?
No chance. Whilst living like a king just like Dougie Houser advertised might be appealing and the thought of 500 grams of steak lasting months would be terrific I’d be worried about cats, rats, spiders etc.
Or just someone who I’ve wronged getting revenge and standing on me and squashing me, grabbing me and throwing me into a wall or just putting me in a glass jar and letting me suffocate.
I’ve really thought this through way more than I should have.
Yeah. Just one normal sized person with a lawnmower could cause absolute carnage. Shit even drunk idiots could kill thousands.
Seriously, how did they fůck this film up?
I can see it now. Loads of small people at a concert or gathering and a disgruntled ex friend, co worker or whatever goes nuts with a Masport.
The small people lose radio contact with the outside world and have to resort to their own little weapons to take him out.
Such a lost opportunity
Shit that would have been cool.
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"Mark Wahlberg also did one with a similar storyline, but much lower grade." Apart from the Departed and with Will Ferrell, this guy just bores me, has as much charisma as height.
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@nostrildamus said in Movie review thread...:
"Mark Wahlberg also did one with a similar storyline, but much lower grade." Apart from the Departed and with Will Ferrell, this guy just bores me, has as much charisma as height.
I won’t stand for Wahlberg being criticised…..especially if Matt Damon is being praised in some quarters
