Movie review thread...
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Top Gun: Maverick.
Second viewing today.
I have never ever gone back to the cinema to re watch a movie.
But Junior wanted to watch this.
And by fuck I'm glad I did.
What am awesome movie.
Yeah, it's implausible as fuck. ##spoiler
I mean stealing a 40yo F14 and taking off on a taxiway with a fuel tank within the OLS (showing off coz I know what that means )
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the chick who wasn't particularly likeable and the Star Wars ... the real original and only Star Wars ... story of flying up the valley to hit the ventilation chamber ...
##endspoiler but as someone pointed out to me that everything you wanted in a sequel was there.Junior loved it. Gave it 4 ##spoiler
touching Iceman moments and gratuitous explosions
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beach football scenes not to mention loud bangs and multiple G forces.
##endspoilerMe. Second time around 4.5 from 5.
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Black Phone
A thriller about a boy that is abducted and kept in the cellar of the house.
When he is there, the disconnected phone rings and in the other end is the boy that had been abducted a few months earlier.
3 Ethan Hawke was in this Movie?? out of 5 tortured souls
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@taniwharugby said in Movie review thread...:
Black Phone
A thriller about a boy that is abducted and kept in the cellar of the house.
When he is there, the disconnected phone rings and in the other end is the boy that had been abducted a few months earlier.
3 Ethan Hawke was in this Movie?? out of 5 tortured souls
4 for me
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@Kruse said in Movie review thread...:
The Contractor
This was bad.
But I can't really say WHY it was bad.
Just... really weird 'pacing', if that's a thing?
Or maybe I'm just a bigot, and all the bothering of god early on in the piece put me off. God-botherers and uber-patriotic seppos.... ugh.
Anyway... the latest Captain Kirk... Chris something? Pine? As an Army Ranger. Who gets laid off, coz he's popping drugs for his fucked up knee. But he's broke. And wants to fix his roof. Gets recruited by his mate into a supposedly legit semi-private military contracting firm. It's run by a Sutherland. Guess what... spoiler... it's maybe not so legit. An op in Berlin goes sideways. Shit happens. More shit happens. The stiltedness of this review matches the movie. He comes back to the US. Expected Twist! Maybe undo that twist! Let's go after Sutherland! Very subdued showdown. The end.- Flashbacks... I'm getting pretty fucked off with flashbacks. Once again, this bad movie was padded out with bad flashbacks. Of a 10 year old getting a tattoo. Boo fucking hoo.
- TItwatch: zero. Which is probably for the best, the only female character was played by Gillian Jacobs, and as far as I'm aware, her personal Titwatch is zero.
1 over-the-top fully spec-ops kitted out op to take out 1 scientist, out of 5 under-kitted-out forays into the world by a man who believes he's being hunted by spec-ops teams.
And for those concerned about my well-being with this latest flurry of absolute shit movies... to be fair, I have interspersed then with some less-shit (Moonfall, Uncharted, Matrix: 4, etc), and a re-watch of guilty-pleasure Nobody.
But mostly - I've had a carrot dangling at the end of all this... I am looking forward very much to Everything Everywhere All At Once - I've got it downloaded, but now see it's still playing at the local cinema this weekend - so might indulge in that.I watched this half remembering your review of it but unaware of where I'd actually read it.
Anyway, at the very least it wasn't as bad as what you made out, definitely not a one star film, 2 1/2 maybe. It was very familiar though and the actors playing each character played into that.
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Ad Astra
It’s got Brad ( plus the usually good Tommy Lee Jones and Donald Sutherland ) and it’s a sci fi flick. Should be awesome right ?
Nothing coulda been further from the truth.
Seemed SO long, pointless and above all VERY fucken boring. Brad tried hard with what he had, they threw in a couple of action scenes to try and liven it up and the space shots were beautiful…..but no where near enough
1.5 Aliens without the Aliens out of 5 long weeks in space
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Thor: Love and Thunder
A lot of shit reviews out there for this one. However I really enjoyed it. A great mix of comedy and action. Also reminded me of Stranger Things in the fact that both have a bit of a tribute to some rock music mixed with action. In this case I feel like it was a GNR tribute and not in a negative way.It is what you expect from Taika in my mind based on his previous Thor movie. Some great cameos throughout which were quite funny too. My wife said a point should be missing for the lack of an r rated option, however we both enjoyed what was a fun action flick
4 marvel gods out of 5 missing eggplant emojis
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The Gray Man
Apparently Netflix have invested heavily (financially and strategically) in this Russo Brothers adaptation of the first in the Mark Greaney series. The idea is it will turn into a Marvel or Mission Impossible type phenomenon and help save the company.
I just can't se it. It is difficult for me to comment because I have enjoyed the books and it really has played fast and loose with the source material, but while there are some elaborate set pieces - a battle on a tram that basically destroys half of Vienna stands out - it comes across as Bourne light to me.
Ryan Gosling is miscast as the eponymous hero and they've missed the essence of the character who in the books is a far more complex and morally ambivalent character. In the movie there is less sense of menace and he is likeable. In the novels the Gray Man would never share his back story and works alone. He's the fucking Gray Man - hunted by everyone, tortured by self doubt and disgust at the moral compromises he has to make but incredibly competent. Eats special forces troops for breakfast. He is the gray man because two seconds after meeting him you're either dead or have forgotten him. He's not an all American, likeable, honest joe you could play softball with. He's a sociopath who gets dirty deeds done.
Oh and no tits
Interested in others take but for me 3 fingernails ripped out with pliers / 5 double crossing counterfeiters
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@dogmeat so, coming from someone who hadn't read the books (didn't know they were a series of books till you said it)....i really enjoyed the film, thought he production values was good, all looked like real stunts and sets, not CGI (im sure there was, just wasn't super obvious to me)
but...not sure i see it as something big or grand enough to compare to something like Marvel....like, i would watch another one....but i didn't look to see if it was a book or anything
The one i want to see a sequel of is "old guard", immortal heroes/villans who have done battle throughout time....that i can see a big franchise built on
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@Kiwiwomble yeah it is next on my list of things to watch, having not read the books, only knew they existed following a post in here.
@dogmeat on the back story bit, do you learn it in the books? If so, then they either talk about it, or do flashbacks, which can be problematic and time consuming.
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I saw The Gray Man at the cinema, liked it for what it was, think it's quite cinematic even though most people will see it on Netflix.
I didn't know it was based on books so had no issue with the casting of Gosling.
I actually thought it was a better Bourne than the last two Bournes (Hawkeyes one and Damons final one).
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The issue I have with it, and most of these style thrillers now is that they all have to be hero gets double crossed by their superiors. All the fudging time. Slightly off topic but I want to see a pure Mission Impossible movie like the TV show where they get given a mission and they do it, and the difficult stuff is the mission and not their bosses or a shadowy group within the CIA etc etc.
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@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
I saw The Gray Man at the cinema, liked it for what it was, think it's quite cinematic even though most people will see it on Netflix.
I didn't know it was based on books so had no issue with the casting of Gosling.
I actually thought it was a better Bourne than the last two Bournes (Hawkeyes one and Damons final one).
The issue I have with it, and most of these style thrillers now is that they all have to be hero gets double crossed by their superiors. All the fudging time. Slightly off topic but I want to see a pure Mission Impossible movie like the TV show where they get given a mission and they do it, and the difficult stuff is the mission and not their bosses or a shadowy group within the CIA etc etc.
so, no spoilers there then?
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@mariner4life said in Movie review thread...:
@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
I saw The Gray Man at the cinema, liked it for what it was, think it's quite cinematic even though most people will see it on Netflix.
I didn't know it was based on books so had no issue with the casting of Gosling.
I actually thought it was a better Bourne than the last two Bournes (Hawkeyes one and Damons final one).
The issue I have with it, and most of these style thrillers now is that they all have to be hero gets double crossed by their superiors. All the fudging time. Slightly off topic but I want to see a pure Mission Impossible movie like the TV show where they get given a mission and they do it, and the difficult stuff is the mission and not their bosses or a shadowy group within the CIA etc etc.
so, no spoilers there then?
Opps, TBF you learn that premise pretty early on. (I haven't seen a trailer but I expect you learn it in the trailer too).
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@mariner4life its the first scene so not a huge spoiler
im hanging out for a good old fashioned treasure hunt film, even ones like National Treasure were silly but loads of fun
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@mariner4life theyre what the davinci codes ones should have been but as soon as you cast tom hanks you're taking yourself too seriously
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@Nepia yeah I enjoyed it as well, on Netflix. I haven't read any of the books either, so nothing spoiled for me. Very much in the Bourne type of movie, even Chris Evans was fun to watch as the bad guy.
Only bad thing for me is that they were trying to make Ana look bad with that shitty haircut, but she is still hawt..