Movie review thread...
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Watched two Kingly movies on Netflix of late as I trawl through my backlog:
The King
Henry V story - pretty good. Bit of a twist on the Shakespeare but from a visual point of view it was grouse.A few Aussies sprinkled around and that Timothee Chalamet kid can act.Outlaw / King
Chris Pine rips it up as Robert the Bruce. Yeah fuck the historical accuracy - just swords and intrigue and shit. Thought he held his accent fairly well. -
@NTA said in Re: Movie review thread...:
The King
Henry V story - pretty good. Bit of a twist on the Shakespeare but from a visual point of view it was grouse.A few Aussies sprinkled around and that Timothee Chalamet kid can act.Bloody good movie IMO.
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I find Kubrick to be wildly overrated.
Eyes Wide Shut is the worst movie I have ever seen.
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@mariner4life said in Re: Movie review thread...:
I find Kubrick to be wildly overrated.
Eyes Wide Shut is the worst movie I have ever seen.
Yeah, I don't 'get' the Kubrick thing either, even though some of his films I find ok.
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BlacKkKlansman
TBH I struggled with the pace of this movie. No doubt it was good acting and after the shitshow that was his appearance in Star Bores, Adam Drive is growing on me as a performer.
Powerful ending but I felt it could have built to it quicker than 2 hours.
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@mariner4life said in Re: Movie review thread...:
I find Kubrick to be wildly overrated.
Eyes Wide Shut is the worst movie I have ever seen.
Agreed. His rep by far outweighs any evidence that I have seen. In looking at his filmography, there is not actually a lot there. 16 films over 48 years is not a huge output.
Of the ones that I have seen, I would be prepared to re-watch Paths of Glory, Spartacus and Full Metal Jacket. The rest is, to me, self indulgent beautifully shot, shite.
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@NTA I've seen the King and thought it was a pretty good film, though a couple of the more pivotal events never actually happened. Prince Hal killing Hotspur in single combat was a bit of Shakepearian licence and the Dauphin was not even at the Battle of Agincourt. But overall a good film.
I haven't been able to bring myself to watch the Outlaw King as yet. I've had enough Braveheart bollocks from Mel Gibson and the really, awfully dreary follow-up Robert the Bruce, plus Chris Pine annoys me.
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@Catogrande a lot of it was Shakespeare so not based entirely in fact.
Outlaw King will probably get in your nerves then as it fucked with the timelines a bit as well 😉 plus the Scots win 🤣
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@NTA I don’t mind a bit of artistic licence but get a bit “meh” when the main points are just demonstrably wrong. A bit like that Hollywood film about the cracking of enigma during WWII. All bollocks but it almost becomes accepted fact. Before you know it we’ll believe that Father Christmas always wore a Coca-Cola red suit and lemmings commit suicide in their thousands.
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Anybody watched the "cursed film" Antrum?😱😱
Might watch it with my husband without the spoiler below.... 👹
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@Catogrande I just saw a review for Robert the Bruce, and came here to see if anyone had watched. Sounded pretty dire, TBH, not least the 52yo playing a 32yo for no another reason than he played him in Braveheart. Disclaimer: I love Braveheart as a rollicking adventure with heroes and villains, but anyone who uses it as a historical fact resource is a giant idiot. Kilts FFS. KILTS. Wallace and Isabella. A famous bridge battle...sans bridge.
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@Mokey said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Catogrande I just saw a review for Robert the Bruce, and came here to see if anyone had watched. Sounded pretty dire, TBH, not least the 52yo playing a 32yo for no another reason than he played him in Braveheart. Disclaimer: I love Braveheart as a rollicking adventure with heroes and villains, but anyone who uses it as a historical fact resource is a giant idiot. Kilts FFS. KILTS. Wallace and Isabella. A famous bridge battle...sans bridge.
Braveheart also left out all the raping and murdering that William Wallace indulged in not to mention the french chick was born after he was executed in real life.
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@Mokey said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Catogrande I just saw a review for Robert the Bruce, and came here to see if anyone had watched. Sounded pretty dire, TBH, not least the 52yo playing a 32yo for no another reason than he played him in Braveheart. Disclaimer: I love Braveheart as a rollicking adventure with heroes and villains, but anyone who uses it as a historical fact resource is a giant idiot. Kilts FFS. KILTS. Wallace and Isabella. A famous bridge battle...sans bridge.
god you sound like my Father in Law
i love Braveheart, great movie. Historically accurate movies would make poor theatre
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@mariner4life said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Mokey said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Catogrande I just saw a review for Robert the Bruce, and came here to see if anyone had watched. Sounded pretty dire, TBH, not least the 52yo playing a 32yo for no another reason than he played him in Braveheart. Disclaimer: I love Braveheart as a rollicking adventure with heroes and villains, but anyone who uses it as a historical fact resource is a giant idiot. Kilts FFS. KILTS. Wallace and Isabella. A famous bridge battle...sans bridge.
god you sound like my Father in Law
i love Braveheart, great movie. Historically accurate movies would make poor theatre
If Quentin Tarantino was a ferner he'd definitely "like" this post
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@MN5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Mokey said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Catogrande I just saw a review for Robert the Bruce, and came here to see if anyone had watched. Sounded pretty dire, TBH, not least the 52yo playing a 32yo for no another reason than he played him in Braveheart. Disclaimer: I love Braveheart as a rollicking adventure with heroes and villains, but anyone who uses it as a historical fact resource is a giant idiot. Kilts FFS. KILTS. Wallace and Isabella. A famous bridge battle...sans bridge.
Braveheart also left out all the raping and murdering that William Wallace indulged in not to mention the french chick was born after he was executed in real life.
She was into the kinky stuff then
@MN5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Mokey said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Catogrande I just saw a review for Robert the Bruce, and came here to see if anyone had watched. Sounded pretty dire, TBH, not least the 52yo playing a 32yo for no another reason than he played him in Braveheart. Disclaimer: I love Braveheart as a rollicking adventure with heroes and villains, but anyone who uses it as a historical fact resource is a giant idiot. Kilts FFS. KILTS. Wallace and Isabella. A famous bridge battle...sans bridge.
Braveheart also left out all the raping and murdering that William Wallace indulged in not to mention the french chick was born after he was executed in real life.
She was into the kinky stuff then
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Bloodshot - Vin Diesel, Sam Heughan, Guy Pearce and Eiza Gonzalez
Opening 5 or 10 mins was almost enough to make me stop, the old 'oorah. USA USA type opening, and then Diesel taking off his military shirt so he could have his white tank top on...
But I continued (cos Eiza)
Based on a comic , was ok, nothing special, just Vin being Vin, shooting, killing, smashing shit, CGI was pretty OP though!
3 re-animations out of 5 nanites
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The Replacements
Keanu Reeves leads misfit replacement players in the NFL
My kids laughed themselves stupid. It's a very entertaining film.
3.5 durries on the field out of 5 too many eggs before the game
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