Movie review thread...

Blackheart

@Hooroo said in Re: Movie review thread...:

Has anyone seen The Irishman with De Niro, Pacino and Pesci? Please tell me it is good as I really want it to be

@Hooroo said in Re: Movie review thread...:

Has anyone seen The Irishman with De Niro, Pacino and Pesci? Please tell me it is good as I really want it to be

It's only 3 1/2 hours long so there's bound to
be something in there to like

Blackheart

Balloon was worth a look as was Parasite and the Keeper.

antipodean

The King on Netflix

Well written, directed and acted. Certainly a feather in the cap of Joel Edgerton.

Hooroo

@antipodean We watched that last night. Was a good watch. I couldn't believe the reality of that beheading. CG is amazing.

Really was a brutal time to live.

My mind did drift when they were in France to wonder if people 'holidayed' in the French riveria or on the Med in other parts.

It's hard to picture relaxing and happy times in those types of docos/movies

Mokey

I watched The King today. Great story, great cast, really captured the dark moodiness of medieval England. About as historically accurate as Braveheart, though.

(Lol re the beheading. I was SURE they were going to fade to black/cut away when the blade came down. Nope! See ya head.) Other part I thought was really well done was the battle scenes at Agincourt. Just showed how shitty and difficult armor and chainmail back then was to move in. In a bog, pretty much useless.

raznomore

Dolemite is my name.

Eddie Murphy at his best. Wesley Snipes was excellent as a pompous asshole which isn't a stretch.

The supporting cast was average. Very good actors but not utilised as well as they should have been. Bob Odenkirk, Craig Robinson & Keegan-Michael Key are great talents underused in this movie. Although the latter was clearly playing it straight for a change.

But otherwise this was loads of fun, especially if you are familiar with the source material.

I don't know if Murphy deserves an Oscar nod, like some have suggested, because he is really only playing a character we have seen in many other movies he's made.

4 Muthafuckas out of 5 Signifying Monkey Feet

Kirwan

@raznomore said in Re: Movie review thread...:

Dolemite is my name.

Eddie Murphy at his best. Wesley Snipes was excellent as a pompous asshole which isn't a stretch.

The supporting cast was average. Very good actors but not utilised as well as they should have been. Bob Odenkirk, Craig Robinson & Keegan-Michael Key are great talents underused in this movie. Although the latter was clearly playing it straight for a change.

But otherwise this was loads of fun, especially if you are familiar with the source material.

I don't know if Murphy deserves an Oscar nod, like some have suggested, because he is really only playing a character we have seen in many other movies he's made.

4 Muthafuckas out of 5 Signifying Monkey Feet

This was way better than I was expecting. I know nothing about the actual guy, so at the end I was really feeling it for the premiere, I did not expect the taglines at the end at all.

Had me giving a shit about him. I dunno if we've seen Eddie do desperation like this, all the flashy comic stuff sure but this was a good performance.

taniwharugby

Danger Close - about the battle of Long Tan.

To be honest, I started watching this, it was getting late and the dialogue and acting at the start was a bit average, so almost bailed...but stayed and things did get better.

Last hour was pretty intense, can only imagine how those poor buggars felt out there, not sure if the selfish actions of one of the top brass was true, but astounding if it is.

Was odd seeing Ragnar Lothbrook as an Aussie Major...

4 I'm out of ammo out of 5 f#ck that was close, again

Machpants

@taniwharugby I think there were, as always, more sides than one to the story. Like most military misadventures there were a lot of misunderstandings, and the PBI blamed the brass. Look at the infantry slagging off the RAF as they weren't over the beaches at Dunkirk for example. That show was very much from the frontliners persepective and it always good for the ratings to have the senior officers as the incompetent other enemy - a pretty overworked trope. There were mistakes but it's always easier to see with the help of 20/20 hindsight. If you read miitary history you realise how fucked up most ops were, there is just so much room for error, so uch stress, shit happens.

taniwharugby

@Machpants the bit I was alluding to was one of the Brass after being ordered to stay behind when the APC went out to rescue the force that was under seige, he then went out, called the leader of the APC and told him to return to base to get him (after they were 15 mins out on an hour journey) as he wanted to be part of the rescue...for the dramatic effect, the APC arrived right on time, although the APC leader had sent 1 unit back to pick up this other dude rather than turn the whole fleet back.

But yeah, it is easy in hindsight to point the finger at someone up the chain, often thier decision is made with saving the larger number of lives...

Machpants

@taniwharugby Yeah I can't remmber that was 100% fact or not, I've watched the show but also read several books about it. Was it presented as he wanted the glory? I'll have to watch again now!

taniwharugby

@Machpants I'd say it was portrayed that is was because he wanted the glory, a couple of times in the movie he mentioned 'the History books will say...'

Nepia

Ford v Ferrari: I'm not a car person, box and four wheels to me (what is funny is that I was named after a race car driver) but I quite enjoy car racing movies. This is about driver Ken Miles and designer/team owner Carroll Shelby and their quest to take on and beat Ferrari in their Ford GT40s.

There's the usual bit of fuzzing of the timelines and events etc but still a good watch. Has a wee bit of a Kiwi flavour as well.

Wanted to see The Irishman this weekend in the cinema but as Scorcese has decided he'd rather make movies for Netflix it was only on at the shitty seated cinemas in Sydney, not conducive to watching a long movie. So I'll watch it at the end of November at my mates who has a projector and save my cash for the next comic book movie.