Movie review thread...
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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.
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Latest Ghostbusters - I can't tell if this was an actual bad movie or just an average movie. Either way it wasn't good.
@MiketheSnow Early on I was wondering how they made an attractive actress look so unattractive.
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@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
Latest Ghostbusters - I can't tell if this was an actual bad movie or just an average movie. Either way it wasn't good.
@MiketheSnow Early on I was wondering how they made an attractive actress look so unattractive.
Tossing up whether to see it. Very mixed reviews. But, how about Ernie Hudson. Holy sh1t!
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@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Movie review thread...:
@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
Latest Ghostbusters - I can't tell if this was an actual bad movie or just an average movie. Either way it wasn't good.
@MiketheSnow Early on I was wondering how they made an attractive actress look so unattractive.
Tossing up whether to see it. Very mixed reviews. But, how about Ernie Hudson. Holy sh1t!
Yeah, he looked much better aged than Akyroyd and Murray.
If you're a big Ghostbusters fan it might still tick the boxes for you.
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@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Movie review thread...:
@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
Latest Ghostbusters - I can't tell if this was an actual bad movie or just an average movie. Either way it wasn't good.
@MiketheSnow Early on I was wondering how they made an attractive actress look so unattractive.
Tossing up whether to see it. Very mixed reviews. But, how about Ernie Hudson. Holy sh1t!
Yeah, he looked much better aged than Akyroyd and Murray.
If you're a big Ghostbusters fan it might still tick the boxes for you.
Tbf Murray has looked like shit for 50 odd years.
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I had the misfortune to be exposed to 30 minutes of the Road House remake. What made-for-streaming, cheap, shitty looking garbage. Slow as fuck, under lighted and just terribly filmed, the women were all absolute dogs. I bet nobody told another man that they used to "fuck guys like you in prison."
The original was shot by the great Dean Cundey, and the rest of the crew was from Die Hard. It was deliberately over the top, knowingly camp and homo-erotic as it tweaked action cliches, full of great performances, and the violence kept escalating until it almost turned into a slasher movie. Fight choreographers were brought in from Hong Kong to make the most of Swayze's dance derived grace and acrobatics.
Fuck everyone involved in that new slop.
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A very enjoyable watch
3.5 'I did not know thats' out of 5 'to be or not to bes'
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Really nicely paced with some very dark humour
3.5 'don't buy any long playing records' out of 5 'let the music play'
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@Tim did you stay until McGregor made an appearance?
Thought the CGI was shit, especially with the car crash and the 'croc', was really odd how they all referred to the alligators, as crocs, cos they have Crocs in Florida.
As to McGregor, was cartoonish and like GTA character the way he moved with pumpkins under his arms.
Almost like they deliberately made it shit.
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@taniwharugby said in Movie review thread...:
Almost like they deliberately made it shit.
Perhaps in homage to the original?
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@antipodean said in Movie review thread...:
@taniwharugby said in Movie review thread...:
Almost like they deliberately made it shit.
Perhaps in homage to the original?
Sounds awesome, this could be THE movie of 2024