Movie review thread...
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@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
Given that the third one was no where near as good as the original I’m not holding out any hope whatsoever that this will be worth watching some 30 years later…….
When is Hollywood going to stop and think that rebooting 80s classics isn’t a good thing ?
I guess we gotta be happy that Eddie is not played by a white woman 🤣
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@Machpants said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
Given that the third one was no where near as good as the original I’m not holding out any hope whatsoever that this will be worth watching some 30 years later…….
When is Hollywood going to stop and think that rebooting 80s classics isn’t a good thing ?
I guess we gotta be happy that Eddie is not played by a white woman 🤣
Eddie played a white man in the 80s though. He was ahead of his time.
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Just watched the Alien series/franchise... backwards. For some reason. I think it started by accident, and then I decided it would be a thing. ... nothing better to do.
Including the Alien-vs-Predator nonsense. (I've actually always enjoyed the first one... the second... yuck)
As a concept (watching it backwards) - it actually paid off in the end. Watched the original tonight... and it felt like 2 hours of homage to the others. And I had to keep reminding myself - it was the opposite.So many little touches throughout. Cornbread. Creepy android scientist... to the level of detail of how they sit at a microscope. I'm certain that the "you admire them" quote, if not entire conversation, pops up in Covenant. Just... a couple of hours of weird-reverse-reminiscence.
Tit-watch - only in the tittie-pics on the walls of cabins... in multiple movies. But I saw 'em. Titties.
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@MiketheSnow said in Movie review thread...:
Just watched
Very believable for 71
Would not fuck with Finbar
Just watched. Much better than I thought it would be. Cast is excellent.
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@Kruse said in Movie review thread...:
Just watched the Alien series/franchise... backwards. For some reason. I think it started by accident, and then I decided it would be a thing. ... nothing better to do.
Including the Alien-vs-Predator nonsense. (I've actually always enjoyed the first one... the second... yuck)
As a concept (watching it backwards) - it actually paid off in the end. Watched the original tonight... and it felt like 2 hours of homage to the others. And I had to keep reminding myself - it was the opposite.So many little touches throughout. Cornbread. Creepy android scientist... to the level of detail of how they sit at a microscope. I'm certain that the "you admire them" quote, if not entire conversation, pops up in Covenant. Just... a couple of hours of weird-reverse-reminiscence.
Tit-watch - only in the tittie-pics on the walls of cabins... in multiple movies. But I saw 'em. Titties.
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I'm in
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Pitch Black
So bad, and so good.
Wannabe Alien, on a budget, in Australia, with a director trying too many gimmicky effects.
Vin Diesel before he became a glorified boy-racer.
Tit-watch: zero
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@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
Tetris: Movie about securing the rights to sell the game from the Soviet Union in the 80s.
If you've listened to the podcast series about it then lots of it will be familiar, but still a decent watch.
On AppleTV+.
Brilliant
Must watch
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The Abyss
Wildly implausible with massive amounts of overacting. Not James' best effort.
In fact it's quite shit.
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The Chronicles of Riddick
So bad...
But - I've always had a wee soft spot for it - it was one of the movies I first saw via a DVD bought in a dodgy chinese shop in Xiamen.
And one of the very early scenes - where our valiant anti-hero battles a henchman in a make-shift arena... we watched it, and I was a little confused by the canned-laughter at Vin Diesel's weak jokes. Several times - he'd make some shit comment, and the terrified local populace would apparently chuckle in appreciation. It took me quite some time until I realised I was watching a version recorded from within a cinema, and I was listening to the dumb-as-fuck cinema audience laughing at the same gags. And 15 years later, realising how dumb-as-fuck I was not to realise that immediately. -
@Kruse you're not alone, i like the riddock movies, not claiming they're good....but weird and fun
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@Kiwiwomble said in Movie review thread...:
@Kruse you're not alone, i like the riddock movies, not claiming they're good....but weird and fun
Everyone deserves their guilty pleasures......
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Leave The World Behind
Netflix adaptation of a novel. Good cast, interesting premise about a societal collapse of some kind.
To me, the overarching message is of frustration - people have no idea what is going on without the comfort of the systems on which we rely. There is a lot of chat out in social media land of "But what actually happened??" which I think is the point: to envoke a sense of understanding, leave the audience in the dark with the characters.
Some people want this stuff tied up with a bow and presented clean-cut. I don't mind a bit of grey.
4 deer out of 5 sonic disruptions.
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damn....will still watch but now with the hope that its one of the many "bad" films i enjoy
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@Tim said in Movie review thread...:
Comic book movies are retarded bullshit for children and the worst adults in any society. If you are a Marvel "fan" then you need to go to a re-education camp immediately.
That garbage has crowded out adult genre movies for over a decade, it has sucked in new directors and actors with the money, the sooner that pathetic garbage is out of society the better. People pointing at tennis balls in front of a green screen. A cancer upon the arts.
Definitely in the death throes now. Bit like Westerns I guess. I actually think they could have milked it longer, but they took the paying customer for granted. Will be interesting to see what emerges from all of this.
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@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
Given that the third one was no where near as good as the original I’m not holding out any hope whatsoever that this will be worth watching some 30 years later…….
When is Hollywood going to stop and think that rebooting 80s classics isn’t a good thing ?
Please just stop. Dammit Eddie. It's not like needs the cash.
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@Kiwiwomble said in Movie review thread...:
damn....will still watch but now with the hope that its one of the many "bad" films i enjoy
I was hoping, given it's Star Wars origins, that this would be the Snyder film to break his run of (for me) ducks, sadly it seems not - even some of his uber fans are down on it.
In the Land of Saints and Sinners (2023) ⭐ 6.4 | Action, Crime, Thriller
