Movie review thread...
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@Virgil yeah it's great, my eldest is 12 so I have a list of classics to watch with him now. We've done the Godzilla movies, I'm now introducing him to some of the classic action heroes of the 80s and 90s mentioned a few pages back. Awesome bonding
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my boys and I are off to watch Revenge of the Sith on the big screen tomorrow.
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@mariner4life said in Movie review thread...:
my boys and I are off to watch Revenge of the Sith on the big screen tomorrow.
Tempted to catch it over here for its re-screening too.
Easily the best of the prequels. -
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@antipodean agreed.
Only watched this when nothign else was on, and enjoyed it.
Def one of those rare movies that punches way better than the story promises!
3.5 alarms to take a piss out of 5 uppercuts to the jaw
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@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
Looks good, will hopefully keep me entertained until 28 months later gets released
Looks great, I'm a sucker for good zombie flick/tv/books/games. So many start good but go off into cheesy, or unbelievable territory like giving zombies intelligence. 28 Days later one of the best, wasn't as enamoured with 28weeks later. First season of Walking Dead was probably the best Zombie adaptation I've ever seen.
Currently playing an open world zombie apocalypse survival game in VR, utterly terrifying.
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@Rembrandt said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
Looks good, will hopefully keep me entertained until 28 months later gets released
Looks great, I'm a sucker for good zombie flick/tv/books/games. So many start good but go off into cheesy, or unbelievable territory like giving zombies intelligence. 28 Days later one of the best, wasn't as enamoured with 28weeks later. First season of Walking Dead was probably the best Zombie adaptation I've ever seen.
Currently playing an open world zombie apocalypse survival game in VR, utterly terrifying.
A post after my own heart.
What I shared literally looks like someone copied the notes of 28 days/weeks/The Walking Dead and didn't even change their name at the bottom. Is there anything new they can bring to the table I wonder ?
( Apart from being filmed in NZ masquerading as the US by the looks of things )
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@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
Looks good, will hopefully keep me entertained until 28 months later gets released
Looks basic - but that's my scene.
Was also an excellent primer for a rabbit-hole of youtube recommendations. Stand Your Ground also looks like a Kruse-level dumb-as-fuck thing-to-watch. -
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Havoc - Tom Hardy, Timothy Oliphant, Forest Whitaker
Pretty decent, lots of John Wick.level killing
3 massacred gangs out of 5 corrupt cops
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Saving Private Ryan
After a few years break I decided to watch it again on Anzac Day.
Still amazing. Still hits hard. Still SO amazingly made.
That bit where the allies disembark on the shore and get mowed down by machine gun fire is still shockingly in your face. Repeating what I’ve already said on here in the past but I watched it with my Granddad before he passed on VHS and he was in awe ( and slightly traumatised again ) by the realism of everything being a war vet as most of our Granddads were.
Captain Miller and his squad are a bunch of guys you genuinely like and relate to.
Tom Hanks never better. Of the supporting cast Edward Burns, Tom Sizemore and Adam Goldberg were standouts. Vin Diesel impressed in his smaller role too. Even Matt Damon was good !
The whole premise is maybe slightly cheesy but doesn't really detract from an incredible movie experience.
5 sticky bombs out of 5 FUBAR missions
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@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
Saving Private Ryan
After a few years break I decided to watch it again on Anzac Day.
Still amazing. Still hits hard. Still SO amazingly made.
That bit where the allies disembark on the shore and get mowed down by machine gun fire is still shockingly realistic.
Captain Miller and his squad are a bunch of guys you genuinely like and relate to.
Tom Hanks never better. Of the supporting cast Edward Burns, Tom Sizemore and Adam Goldberg were standouts. Vin Diesel impressed in his smaller role too. Even Matt Damon was good !
The whole premise is maybe slightly cheesy but doesn't really detract from an incredible movie experience.
5 sticky bombs out of 5 FUBAR missions
Little fun fact, at the time Tom Sizemore was notorious for his drug use so he was made to take a drugs test every day of shooting.
Spielberg told him if he failed a single drugs test he would be fired from the film and they would reshoot everything he had previously shot with a new actor. -
@Virgil said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
Saving Private Ryan
After a few years break I decided to watch it again on Anzac Day.
Still amazing. Still hits hard. Still SO amazingly made.
That bit where the allies disembark on the shore and get mowed down by machine gun fire is still shockingly realistic.
Captain Miller and his squad are a bunch of guys you genuinely like and relate to.
Tom Hanks never better. Of the supporting cast Edward Burns, Tom Sizemore and Adam Goldberg were standouts. Vin Diesel impressed in his smaller role too. Even Matt Damon was good !
The whole premise is maybe slightly cheesy but doesn't really detract from an incredible movie experience.
5 sticky bombs out of 5 FUBAR missions
Little fun fact, at the time Tom Sizemore was notorious for his drug use so he was made to take a drugs test every day of shooting.
Spielberg told him if he failed a single drugs test he would be fired from the film and they would reshoot everything he had previously shot with a new actor.Michael Madsen woulda been a good like for like replacement
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@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
@Virgil said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
Saving Private Ryan
After a few years break I decided to watch it again on Anzac Day.
Still amazing. Still hits hard. Still SO amazingly made.
That bit where the allies disembark on the shore and get mowed down by machine gun fire is still shockingly realistic.
Captain Miller and his squad are a bunch of guys you genuinely like and relate to.
Tom Hanks never better. Of the supporting cast Edward Burns, Tom Sizemore and Adam Goldberg were standouts. Vin Diesel impressed in his smaller role too. Even Matt Damon was good !
The whole premise is maybe slightly cheesy but doesn't really detract from an incredible movie experience.
5 sticky bombs out of 5 FUBAR missions
Little fun fact, at the time Tom Sizemore was notorious for his drug use so he was made to take a drugs test every day of shooting.
Spielberg told him if he failed a single drugs test he would be fired from the film and they would reshoot everything he had previously shot with a new actor.Michael Madsen woulda been a good like for like replacement
Yeeeah he’s much more reliable
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@Virgil said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
@Virgil said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
Saving Private Ryan
After a few years break I decided to watch it again on Anzac Day.
Still amazing. Still hits hard. Still SO amazingly made.
That bit where the allies disembark on the shore and get mowed down by machine gun fire is still shockingly realistic.
Captain Miller and his squad are a bunch of guys you genuinely like and relate to.
Tom Hanks never better. Of the supporting cast Edward Burns, Tom Sizemore and Adam Goldberg were standouts. Vin Diesel impressed in his smaller role too. Even Matt Damon was good !
The whole premise is maybe slightly cheesy but doesn't really detract from an incredible movie experience.
5 sticky bombs out of 5 FUBAR missions
Little fun fact, at the time Tom Sizemore was notorious for his drug use so he was made to take a drugs test every day of shooting.
Spielberg told him if he failed a single drugs test he would be fired from the film and they would reshoot everything he had previously shot with a new actor.Michael Madsen woulda been a good like for like replacement
Yeeeah he’s much more reliable
Tarantino woulda probably fired him if he sobered up too much
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Got myself a little unreliable in the decision-making stakes - took a toke, decided I'd watch Hitman: Agent 47 while stoned.
Within a minute - got paranoid - pretty sure I'd already watched this recently.
Pivoted - now watching The Great Texas Dynamite Chase...
... updates to follow... maybe...
5 minutes in - tit-watch: all over the place; there's been tumbleweed; and a bank with confederate-battle-flag on the wall -
@MiketheSnow said in Movie review thread...:
Raw fare
4 exits out of 5 exit wounds
There's a decent interview with the directors on the 18 April eposode of the Empire podcast.
The whole thing was filmed in Bovington.
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Caged Heat
- going as expected for a while
- nightmare scene, while stoned, kinda threw me for a bit
- playacting scene wasn't particularly great for a stoned man neither
- plot isn't making much sense, but I'm sure it will all come together
-- 35min in, nothing much making sense, but that may well be a "me thing"
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@Kruse said in Movie review thread...:
Caged Heat
- going as expected for a while
- nightmare scene, while stoned, kinda threw me for a bit
- playacting scene wasn't particularly great for a stoned man neither
- plot isn't making much sense, but I'm sure it will all come together
-- 35min in, nothing much making sense, but that may well be a "me thing"
The above makes me wonder if the fern needs some sort of sobriety test before posting.
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@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
@Kruse said in Movie review thread...:
Caged Heat
- going as expected for a while
- nightmare scene, while stoned, kinda threw me for a bit
- playacting scene wasn't particularly great for a stoned man neither
- plot isn't making much sense, but I'm sure it will all come together
-- 35min in, nothing much making sense, but that may well be a "me thing"
The above makes me wonder if the fern needs some sort of sobriety test before posting.
It would certainly cull the membership
Warfare (2025) ⭐ 7.3 | Action, Drama, War
