Movie review thread...
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@Tim said in Movie review thread...:
@booboo said in Movie review thread...:
Frederick Forsyth's 'The Devil's Alternative'.
Sounds interesting!
Awesome book. Back in the early 80s when the Cold War was a thing.
I enjoyed it more than Day of the Jackal, which he is more famous for.
Russian wheat crop fails...
Russia considers invading Eastern Europe ...
Politburo split ...
Pres and head of KGB against invasion...
Ukrainian Rebels assassinate head of KGB which is covered up coz otherwise WWIII ...
Can't remember why but Ukrainian Rebels hijack massive oil tanker to try and publicise assassination...
Much spy stuff.Really fast moving. Like a screenplay, cutting from scene to scene: just when you're getting to the good bit you flick to the other scene.
One for the 'Books' thread perhaps, but as mentioned my favourite book ever.
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@Tim said in Movie review thread...:
How completely incompetent is every Hollywood studio? They haven't even released a major action movie with Russians as the villains since the Ukraine invasion ...
Bullet train, main bad guy was supposedly Russian.
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@MiketheSnow said in Movie review thread...:
Sign me up
Great cast, looks tense but explosive, one for the pool room.
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Rebel Moon, E01, Child on Fire - Directors ed.
- Zach Snyder is a hack. And at the nutter end of "on-the-spectrum",
Every shot looks like a painting, beautiful, lovely.
The plot/pacing/storyline - infantile/nonsensical.
Titwatch: non-zero.
Stoned.EDIT: right, so it turned out I was only able to watch the first half of that while stoned.
Watched the second half tonight...
Opinion has not changed. Zach Snyder is a fucking 14 year old with a camera.
Every single fucking scene looks pretty, but makes no sense. Or rather - doesn't add anything to a story.
Overall - 3 hours of pretty, but zero story telling.
I am fucking furious that there is another 3-hours or so of this bullshit to get through. And I'm only going to do that for the sake of completion (and the possibility of titwatch suggested by E01) - but after this, fuck Snyder. Never again. What a fluffybunny. I'll be recommending him to my 10/12 yo nephews to maybe watch his shit at movie parties with their friends, coz that's obviously his level - but as a grown-up.... a grown-up who watched Sharks of the Corn for fuck's sake - never again. Fuck that guy. The Johnny Sexton of movie-making.
Angry.
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The Highwaymen.
The story of two retired Texas Rangers who hunt down and kill Bonnie and Clyde. Set during the Great Depression, the film was tightly acted with Costner and Harrelson in the lead roles. Costner played his usual curmudgeon and Harrelson provided a little lighter relief with some inner turmoil thrown in. An enjoyable watch
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Loved it
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@Tim said in Movie review thread...:
Gotta say - searching the Bay of Pirates, while a little under-the-influence, with the search term "action usa" - led me to queueing up a LOT of content.
I haven't yet reviewed my actions in the boring light of sobriety, but I have a fuzzy memory of "Con Train", "Caged Heat", and know that there were many others I don't remember. -
@Kruse said in Movie review thread...:
@Tim said in Movie review thread...:
Gotta say - searching the Bay of Pirates, while a little under-the-influence, with the search term "action usa" - led me to queueing up a LOT of content.
I haven't yet reviewed my actions in the boring light of sobriety, but I have a fuzzy memory of "Con Train", "Caged Heat", and know that there were many others I don't remember.Jesus Christ Man, are you ever sober ? think of your liver !
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@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
@Kruse said in Movie review thread...:
@Tim said in Movie review thread...:
Gotta say - searching the Bay of Pirates, while a little under-the-influence, with the search term "action usa" - led me to queueing up a LOT of content.
I haven't yet reviewed my actions in the boring light of sobriety, but I have a fuzzy memory of "Con Train", "Caged Heat", and know that there were many others I don't remember.Jesus Christ Man, are you ever sober ? think of your liver !
Hey! I didn't say what I was under the influence of.
On the occasion of typing "action usa" into a torrent search engine - I was actually rather stoned, more than anything else..
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So... upon review... Shit that I queued up based on "action usa"
- Action USA
- Caged Heat
- Death Race - State of Division (I recall now being intrigued by this, being a massive fan of the classic Death Race 2000 - starring David Carradine and a very young Sly Stallone, and a high titwatch - should maybe do an intoxicated review of that one day, brilliant film. But anyway, this seems to be something "WWII action" and I seem to recall... sounds like a seppo plane vs Rommel tank Duel... as in, Spielberg probably watched it before doing Duel)
- The Great Texas Dynamite Chase (apparently - "sexploitation action" - not sure of my reasoning behind choosing this one)
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You guys are probably too grumpy and old for this, but I took the boys to Red One the other weekend, and it was so much better than I expected. Genuine action Christmas movie, lots of humour, some great actions scenes, and some really cool 'bad' characters that were actually based off Christmas lore from Europe. All three of my boys (3, 6 and 11) loved it.
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@nzzp said in Movie review thread...:
Ten years since Edge of Tomorrow got released. Best video game movie ever (despite not being based on a video game). Holds up brilliantly on rewatch - it is superb.
And of course
Five reboots out of five Omegas
I'll watch it at least twice a year. Brilliant movie.
