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@Victor-Meldrew said in Movie review thread...:
@Virgil said in Movie review thread...:
Wild Geese..man i havent thought of that movie in years
Roger Moore on Wild Geese:
"Richard Harris thought I was 007. He soon found out I was more 005 and a half"
Watched a few of Moores bond films over the Xmas break. Very nostalgic for me as I grew up watching his as a kid. Campy as fuck and as they went on it was disturbing to see him get old but the girls he made out with stay young…
Apparently that was one of the big reasons why he stopped playing Bond.
Felt wrong having love interests in their 20s etc while he was old enough to be their dad… -
Bait (2012)
Horrific pile of steaming turds. Avoid at all costs.
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@voodoo said in Movie review thread...:
Bait (2012)
Horrific pile of steaming turds. Avoid at all costs.
Appreciate the heads up although I think this might have put me off too…..
‘A freak tsunami traps shoppers at a coastal Australian supermarket inside the building - along with 12-foot Great White Sharks’
Jaws still holds up to this day as an absolute classic, it’s funny how much shit it helped to inspire, including most of the sequels in its own franchise !
Hard to go past this one either……
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@canefan said in Movie review thread...:
Back in Action (Netflix). Cameron Diaz vehicle to get her back acting, it's a spy action comedy starring her and Jamie Foxx. You can see they spent some money on production, but the film is terrible, just terrible
Is it just me being a GOM or are movies genuinely worse these days ?
The amount of direct to Netflix stinkers that get released is just extraordinary
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@Virgil said in Movie review thread...:
Watched a few of Moores bond films over the Xmas break. Very nostalgic for me as I grew up watching his as a kid. Campy as fuck and as they went on it was disturbing to see him get old but the girls he made out with stay young…
Not helped that he replaced someone (Connery) who was 3 years younger than him.
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@Bovidae said in Movie review thread...:
@Virgil said in Movie review thread...:
Watched a few of Moores bond films over the Xmas break. Very nostalgic for me as I grew up watching his as a kid. Campy as fuck and as they went on it was disturbing to see him get old but the girls he made out with stay young…
Not helped that he replaced someone (Connery) who was 3 years younger than him.
Moore was sensational.
Some of his films were amongst the best ever.
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@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
@canefan said in Movie review thread...:
Back in Action (Netflix). Cameron Diaz vehicle to get her back acting, it's a spy action comedy starring her and Jamie Foxx. You can see they spent some money on production, but the film is terrible, just terrible
Is it just me being a GOM or are movies genuinely worse these days ?
The amount of direct to Netflix stinkers that get released is just extraordinary
I don't think they are that much worse, just in the past access to stinkers was more limited. You either had to go to the video store to get the failed cinema releases/DTV or have cable in the US to see all the made for cable stuff. Now all that stuff just goes to the streamers and it's easy to just hit the play button.
I think a lot of Netflix's stuff is designed to be switch of your brain stuff for as wide an audience as possible - I think the margin for error on that might be a bit higher so it may seem there's more stinkers?
Anyway, watched two more of the best pic Oscar nominees this week (5 to go):
A Complete Unknown: Movie about Bob Dylan from the time he started as a folk singer until he went electric. Not much of a Dylan fan, great songwriter but not a great voice, but I enjoyed this. Movies like this are a good place as a jumping off point to read the history for me.
Emilia Perez: The controversial nominee this year, I was mostly unaware of the controversy going into it (some of it was the portrayal of trans character, portrayal of Mexico, filmed in France). It's a musical so I was already prepped to hate it. But I didn't mind it as I really had no idea where the story was going as I hadn't read anything about it. A non musical version would have been better, and the ending was very silly.
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Over the last couple of weeks I have been working my way through the Alien Anthology box set (Alien to Alien Resurrection). Firstly I watched the theatrical release followed by the Directors Cut/Special Edition for each movie. In all instances I preferred the latter versions. I'm pretty sure I hadn't seen Alien 3 or Alien Resurrection since the movie was released, but certainly not in the last 20 years. Aliens is still my favourite because it has the right balance of sci-fi horror and action, but the original is still a classic. The latter two movies are fine but nowhere near the first two in the series. I had forgotten that Alien 3 was David Fincher's directorial debut. He's now disowned the movie although a lot of the problems are due to the meddling of 20th Century Fox. It does have the most iconic shot of the whole franchise.
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@Bovidae said in Movie review thread...:
Over the last couple of weeks I have been working my way through the Alien Anthology box set (Alien to Alien Resurrection). Firstly I watched the theatrical release followed by the Directors Cut/Special Edition for each movie. In all instances I preferred the latter versions. I'm pretty sure I hadn't seen Alien 3 or Alien Resurrection since the movie was released, but certainly not in the last 20 years. Aliens is still my favourite because it has the right balance of sci-fi horror and action, but the original is still a classic. The latter two movies are fine but nowhere near the first two in the series. I had forgotten that Alien 3 was David Fincher's directorial debut. He's now disowned the movie although a lot of the problems are due to the meddling of 20th Century Fox. It does have the most iconic shot of the whole franchise.
The only thing Alien fans agree with is the first two are brilliant.
Loads of arguing after that
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@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
@voodoo said in Movie review thread...:
Bait (2012)
Horrific pile of steaming turds. Avoid at all costs.
Appreciate the heads up although I think this might have put me off too…..
‘A freak tsunami traps shoppers at a coastal Australian supermarket inside the building - along with 12-foot Great White Sharks’
Jaws still holds up to this day as an absolute classic, it’s funny how much shit it helped to inspire, including most of the sequels in its own franchise !
Hard to go past this one either……
Under Paris was good. I am still working my way through my backlog of low budget shark movies. This weekend it was these 2 masterpieces
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@Stockcar86 said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
@voodoo said in Movie review thread...:
Bait (2012)
Horrific pile of steaming turds. Avoid at all costs.
Appreciate the heads up although I think this might have put me off too…..
‘A freak tsunami traps shoppers at a coastal Australian supermarket inside the building - along with 12-foot Great White Sharks’
Jaws still holds up to this day as an absolute classic, it’s funny how much shit it helped to inspire, including most of the sequels in its own franchise !
Hard to go past this one either……
Under Paris was good. I am still working my way through my backlog of low budget shark movies. This weekend it was these 2 masterpieces
Don’t hold out. We expect a full review.
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@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
@Stockcar86 said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
@voodoo said in Movie review thread...:
Bait (2012)
Horrific pile of steaming turds. Avoid at all costs.
Appreciate the heads up although I think this might have put me off too…..
‘A freak tsunami traps shoppers at a coastal Australian supermarket inside the building - along with 12-foot Great White Sharks’
Jaws still holds up to this day as an absolute classic, it’s funny how much shit it helped to inspire, including most of the sequels in its own franchise !
Hard to go past this one either……
Under Paris was good. I am still working my way through my backlog of low budget shark movies. This weekend it was these 2 masterpieces
Don’t hold out. We expect a full review.
With the Oscars right around the corner you will be seeing and hearing alot about those movies dont you worry.
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@Stockcar86 said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
@voodoo said in Movie review thread...:
Bait (2012)
Horrific pile of steaming turds. Avoid at all costs.
Appreciate the heads up although I think this might have put me off too…..
‘A freak tsunami traps shoppers at a coastal Australian supermarket inside the building - along with 12-foot Great White Sharks’
Jaws still holds up to this day as an absolute classic, it’s funny how much shit it helped to inspire, including most of the sequels in its own franchise !
Hard to go past this one either……
Under Paris was good. I am still working my way through my backlog of low budget shark movies. This weekend it was these 2 masterpieces
Well done that man... I tip my hat.
"Ho ho ho... you son of a fish!" - fucking brilliant. -
@Kruse said in Movie review thread...:
@Stockcar86 said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
@voodoo said in Movie review thread...:
Bait (2012)
Horrific pile of steaming turds. Avoid at all costs.
Appreciate the heads up although I think this might have put me off too…..
‘A freak tsunami traps shoppers at a coastal Australian supermarket inside the building - along with 12-foot Great White Sharks’
Jaws still holds up to this day as an absolute classic, it’s funny how much shit it helped to inspire, including most of the sequels in its own franchise !
Hard to go past this one either……
Under Paris was good. I am still working my way through my backlog of low budget shark movies. This weekend it was these 2 masterpieces
Well done that man... I tip my hat.
"Ho ho ho... you son of a fish!" - fucking brilliant.You haven’t been on here much, I was hoping these movies might get you out of hibernation
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@MN5 Yeah - was back in NZ for a month of summer, and currently my apartment is being rebuilt, no kitchen, and I live within walking distance of 12 craft breweries - so not doing much movie watching. But by fuck am I hungover.
Did watch Top Gun: Maverick over the last two nights. Fuck that's good... pretty much an homage to the original - constantly in the Danger Zone of falling into the traps that come with such a thing, but never toppling. Just - all good.
To a lesser degree - rewatched Nobody recently also. Now that I watch it with the view of it being a constant knowing-wink to 1980s action movies - it's even better. -
@Virgil said in Movie review thread...:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Movie review thread...:
@Virgil said in Movie review thread...:
Wild Geese..man i havent thought of that movie in years
Roger Moore on Wild Geese:
"Richard Harris thought I was 007. He soon found out I was more 005 and a half"
Watched a few of Moores bond films over the Xmas break. Very nostalgic for me as I grew up watching his as a kid. Campy as fuck and as they went on it was disturbing to see him get old but the girls he made out with stay young…
Apparently that was one of the big reasons why he stopped playing Bond.
Felt wrong having love interests in their 20s etc while he was old enough to be their dad…If you can find it, check out The Man Who Haunted Himself. A very different Roger Moore and proof he could really act when he wanted to or was given the chance.
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@Bovidae said in Movie review thread...:
Alien 3 was David Fincher's directorial debut. He's now disowned the movie although a lot of the problems are due to the meddling of 20th Century Fox. It does have the most iconic shot of the whole franchise.
Wasn't Vincent Ward in line to helm that but there was a falling-out with the producers?
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@voodoo said in Movie review thread...:
Bait (2012)
Horrific pile of steaming turds. Avoid at all costs.
Thanks for the heads-up. Mrs M has passed it onto her daughter and SiL - they are serious Sharknado fans - whole DVD shelf of the bloody things
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Movie review thread...:
@voodoo said in Movie review thread...:
Bait (2012)
Horrific pile of steaming turds. Avoid at all costs.
Thanks for the heads-up. Mrs M has passed it onto her daughter and SiL - they are serious Sharknado fans - whole DVD shelf of the bloody things
Jesus, I wouldn't admit my offspring were into that
Bait (2012) ⭐ 5.2 | Action, Fantasy, Horror
