Movie review thread...
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Saw The Burial on a recent flight to NZ. Tommy Lee Jones as a funeral director business owner and Jamie Foxx as an ambulance chaser personal injury lawyer that represents him in case that will determine his future and that of his wider family. Surprisingly good. 3 stiffs out of 5 bottles of embalming fluid
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Watched the following on my return from Japan
All three movies 4 out of 5
Started watching
Got half way though. Really enjoying it.
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Very, very good
4 inhalers out of 5 bailers
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@Tim said in Movie review thread...:
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Same cinematographer as several episode of ...
... Tokyo Vice.
Is that any good?
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Your discussion reminds me of what's so good about movies - there is something for everyone and we don't need to agree on what's "good" or not.
See, I really enjoyed Poor Thing, and I'm totally good with her winning accolades for her performance. I thought it was a terrific watch.
Barbie on the other hand was kinda meh - the first hour was fun, the costumes, the music, Ken's performance, the message even. The rest then just draaaaaggggged on, as they forced more of the same message down my throat and made me sit through overblown and over-long hammed-up scenes. The fight one being case in point, it did nothing for me. Nothing about that movie screamed "award-winner" to me.
As an aside - re-watched Dune 1 it this week. It's pretty good. You're welcome.
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@voodoo absolutely, have your own opinion and enjoy what you like, you don't have to get others to change theirs
funnily enough found Barbie very similar to your view..but
Interesting you both like arguably a type of necro-paedophilia in the name of art..glad you both enjoyed it
Dune 1 was good ha ha
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@voodoo Obviously like because I agree on your first sentence, but obviously I don't agree with your Barbie assessment and Stone's performance. I'm not saying it wasn't good, it's just a 3/10 on the difficulty scale, as long as you don't go full retard (as prescribed by black RDJ) the Academy laps that shit up.
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@Billy-Tell said in Movie review thread...:
Napoleon is terrible. Avoid. Only watched because I have Apple TV. A tedious train wreck of a film.
I caught 1970's Waterloo with Rod Steiger & Christopher Plummer a week or so back. Vastly superior.
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Dune Part 1. Almost bailed after 30 minutes as it was suspiciously looking like a cross between Star Wars and Game of Thrones. And the the music, special effects and dialogue volumes were out of kilter and either too loud or too bloody low to understand.
Glad I stuck with it though - really, really enjoyable and will book another decent bottle of red for Part 2.
4 Jabba the Hutt's out of 5 Baron Vladimir Harkonnen's
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Movie review thread...:
Dune Part 1. Almost bailed after 30 minutes as it was suspiciously looking like a cross between Star Wars and Game of Thrones. And the the music, special effects and dialogue volumes were out of kilter and either too loud or too bloody low to understand.
Glad I stuck with it though - really, really enjoyable and will book another decent bottle of red for Part 2.
4 Jabba the Hutt's out of 5 Baron Vladimir Harkonnen's
i dont know what to make of that review, is it satire, are you really old..
Also Dune inspired Star Wars and probably elements of GOT as well
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@Victor-Meldrew i remember after i read the book thinking it was a quite predictable and even cliche....but then had to reminded myself that the original story invented several of these ideas that have become cliches or predicable tropes
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Would laugh if they did do this, would be easy to pair up with LVIV part golf
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@bayimports yep, story writes itself...get Shooter as head of PGA, Happy goes to LIV, Shooter is Norman, Happy stays at PGA...
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@Virgil said in Movie review thread...:
i dont know what to make of that review, is it satire, are you really old..
Well, I did first read Dune in 1973...
It was much, much better than the awful David Lynch version, but I still struggled with the opening 20-25 minutes
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Poor Things
Lasted 30 mins
Wasn't prepared to see this one out like I did Barbie.
From the 30 mins I endured anyone who thinks that Stone's performance is the best of the year is as deluded as the characters in the movie who think her character Bella Baxter is the most beautiful woman they've seen.
Small Town Wisconsin (2020) ⭐ 6.6 | Comedy, Drama
'Happy Gilmore 2' script is written says Christopher McDonald
