Movie review thread...
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Johnny Mnemonic in Black and White
(the director is a respected visual artist, and has taken the original negatives and visual effects elements, and recoloured everthing)
It was a goofy attempt to make a noir cyberpunk Total Recall, with pretty lousy action scenes and lead actors, but in black and white it was pretty striking, with some "nice shots".
Apparently the director is a respected visual artist, which comes across in many compositions, but he does not seem to be a competent film director.
It was quite entertaining, and mercifully short (just under 90 minutes).
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So finally completed my watch of all the Best Picture Oscar nominations so here's my annual ranking list. I must say I found it a very average year, usually I I’m struggling to figure out my top movies and what to leave in the bottom five but this year I’ve struggled to figure out which ones are the top movies. So anyway, here goes.
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Everything Everywhere All at Once: This movie was the sleeper hit from early in the year and is still easily the best of the nominees. I think it will win, and I want it to win.
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Elvis: This is a surprise, I never thought I’d rate a Baz Luhrmann film so highly, but I really enjoyed this. The main dude doesn’t look too much like Elvis but feels like him throughout the film, and the music is good.
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Triangle of Sadness: There’s a middle scene in this which had me in hysterics, very low brow humour (throwing up, poop etc) in an Oscar nominated film. The rest of the film was pretty good too, which was more drama and black comedy. Part of what seems like a trilogy of eat the rich films along with The Menu and Glass Onion. The Menu would be at three if it was nominated and Glass Onion would be higher than most films on this list.
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The Fabelmans: A movie about Spielberg growing up by Spielberg. Was a bit of a flop at the box office but I really enjoyed it, unlike last year’s West Side Story.
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Women Talking: A movie about the women in a Mennonite community deciding whether to leave after they catch one of the men assaulting a drugged woman, something that has been happening in the community regularly. Based on a novel which is itself based on a true story.
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Top Gun: Good fun movie.
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All Quiet on the Western Front: If I have never read the book or seen either the 1930s or 1970s films then this would likely have rated much higher. The visuals are spectacular, but I think it’s the worst of the three in presenting the narrative. The others, and the book, utilise the school scenes to better highlight the idealism of the students where this one just seems to throw them in it without any character development, if I hadn’t read the book and seen the other films, I’m not sure any character outside of Paul and maybe Kat would have made any impression.
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The Banshees of Inisherin: Actually, this might win. I hope it doesn’t. I don’t believe the hype. Gleeson and Farrell are great in it, but their performances can’t overcome the fact the story is pretty stupid. I got a wee bit caught up in the hype directly after seeing it but after a day’s reflection I realised I was pretty disappointed by it. It’s no In Bruges.
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Avatar: The Way of the Water: It’s in 3D, the effects are good, the story is bollocks, I won’t go see the third one unless it too gets nominated for a Best Picture Oscar. Could have been 10 if the number 10 didn’t annoy me so much.
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TAR: Like Banshees this has a great performance, but it’s in a bollocks pretentious arty film that doesn’t need to be. This could have been an under two hour movie telling the same story in a straightforward manner and it would have been much better. But it’s not.
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@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
So finally completed my watch of all the Best Picture Oscar nominations so here's my annual ranking list. I must say I found it a very average year, usually I I’m struggling to figure out my top movies and what to leave in the bottom five but this year I’ve struggled to figure out which ones are the top movies. So anyway, here goes.
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Everything Everywhere All at Once: This movie was the sleeper hit from early in the year and is still easily the best of the nominees. I think it will win, and I want it to win.
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Elvis: This is a surprise, I never thought I’d rate a Baz Luhrmann film so highly, but I really enjoyed this. The main dude doesn’t look too much like Elvis but feels like him throughout the film, and the music is good.
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Triangle of Sadness: There’s a middle scene in this which had me in hysterics, very low brow humour (throwing up, poop etc) in an Oscar nominated film. The rest of the film was pretty good too, which was more drama and black comedy. Part of what seems like a trilogy of eat the rich films along with The Menu and Glass Onion. The Menu would be at three if it was nominated and Glass Onion would be higher than most films on this list.
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The Fabelmans: A movie about Spielberg growing up by Spielberg. Was a bit of a flop at the box office but I really enjoyed it, unlike last year’s West Side Story.
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Women Talking: A movie about the women in a Mennonite community deciding whether to leave after they catch one of the men assaulting a drugged woman, something that has been happening in the community regularly. Based on a novel which is itself based on a true story.
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Top Gun: Good fun movie.
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All Quiet on the Western Front: If I have never read the book or seen either the 1930s or 1970s films then this would likely have rated much higher. The visuals are spectacular, but I think it’s the worst of the three in presenting the narrative. The others, and the book, utilise the school scenes to better highlight the idealism of the students where this one just seems to throw them in it without any character development, if I hadn’t read the book and seen the other films, I’m not sure any character outside of Paul and maybe Kat would have made any impression.
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The Banshees of Inisherin: Actually, this might win. I hope it doesn’t. I don’t believe the hype. Gleeson and Farrell are great in it, but their performances can’t overcome the fact the story is pretty stupid. I got a wee bit caught up in the hype directly after seeing it but after a day’s reflection I realised I was pretty disappointed by it. It’s no In Bruges.
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Avatar: The Way of the Water: It’s in 3D, the effects are good, the story is bollocks, I won’t go see the third one unless it too gets nominated for a Best Picture Oscar. Could have been 10 if the number 10 didn’t annoy me so much.
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TAR: Like Banshees this has a great performance, but it’s in a bollocks pretentious arty film that doesn’t need to be. This could have been an under two hour movie telling the same story in a straightforward manner and it would have been much better. But it’s not.
Thanks
Will visit some of those
Word on the street is the long established critics will silence the children and All Quiet will win
See what I did there? 🙄
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@MiketheSnow said in Movie review thread...:
Word on the street is the long established critics will silence the children and All Quiet will win
See what I did there? 🙄Nope, no idea. Speaking of Nope, I'd rate it above most of this list too.
TBH, I also wouldn't mind All Quiet winning.
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@Tim said in Movie review thread...:
Please bring back quality UK crime thrillers.
Watched The Long Good Friday a few months back. Still the benchmark
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@Tim said in Movie review thread...:
Watched Croupier for the nth time.
9/10
Masterpiece.
Please bring back quality UK crime thrillers.
And cast Clive Owen as an aging James Bond.
I really need to seek out this movie to see if the plank is actually good in it.
As for Bond, it would be an interesting direction for them to go with a charisma free void in the main role.
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@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
@Tim said in Movie review thread...:
Watched Croupier for the nth time.
9/10
Masterpiece.
Please bring back quality UK crime thrillers.
And cast Clive Owen as an aging James Bond.
I really need to seek out this movie to see if the plank is actually good in it.
As for Bond, it would be an interesting direction for them to go with a charisma free void in the main role.
Watch it…..Daniel Craig made some good quips occasionally
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@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
As for Bond, it would be an interesting direction for them to go with a charisma free void in the main role.
You haven't seen Lazenby's turn as Bond?
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@nostrildamus said in Movie review thread...:
@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
As for Bond, it would be an interesting direction for them to go with a charisma free void in the main role.
You haven't seen Lazenby's turn as Bond?
I thought Owen was good in Shoot 'Em Up.Timothy Dalton was similarly lacking in humour
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@nostrildamus said in Movie review thread...:
@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
As for Bond, it would be an interesting direction for them to go with a charisma free void in the main role.
You haven't seen Lazenby's turn as Bond?
I thought Owen was good in Shoot 'Em Up.Nope, haven't seen Lazenby's turn, but I thought it was going under a critical reevaluation of late?
@canefan said in Movie review thread...:
Timothy Dalton was similarly lacking in humour
Lacking in humour and being a no charisma plank are different things.
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@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
@Tim said in Movie review thread...:
Watched Croupier for the nth time.
9/10
Masterpiece.
Please bring back quality UK crime thrillers.
And cast Clive Owen as an aging James Bond.
I really need to seek out this movie to see if the plank is actually good in it.
As for Bond, it would be an interesting direction for them to go with a charisma free void in the main role.
Watch it…..Daniel Craig made some good quips occasionally
I like Craig as Bond, it's just a pity that more of the movies around him were bad than were good.
I'm lobbing Bond and Owen grenades all over the place today. Great fun.
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@nostrildamus said in Movie review thread...:
@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
As for Bond, it would be an interesting direction for them to go with a charisma free void in the main role.
You haven't seen Lazenby's turn as Bond?
I thought Owen was good in Shoot 'Em Up.Lazenby actually showed more acting chops than Connery or Moore, the scenes where Tracy died were actually quite moving. Sean Connery was cool as fuck but the fact he won an Oscar for playing an Irish Cop with a Scottish accent was a bit of a joke.
Plus Lazenby was an absolute gun in the fighting scenes.
I’d also argue when the bad guy skied into the snow plow and the snow turned red and he said “He had a lot of guts” was one of the funniest Bond one liners ever.
On her Majesty’s secret service was a terrific Bond, one of the best ever, I wish he’d done more but we got left with Moore instead ( I just used that as an excuse for a shit joke, Rog was cool too )
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Midway (1976)
- PC gone mad! What the fuck was the point of that ridiculous side-plot: Heston's son having gotten addicted to rooting the sideways jap puss-puss? Madness.
- Offended. Zero appreciation of the black-american contribution to the 1942 US Navy. Just... racist.
- Tit-watch: zero. I mean... ? Make an effort. It was one of the most important historic events in some (very limited fucking nerds) peoples list of historic events. Throw in some titties, yeah?
Pretty sure there was some shit there at the end that I got offended by, but can't remember if it was my left or right side which got tingled.
Fuck it... for use of actual historic footage, I'm going to give this a 4 Zero-hitting-the-sea..s out of 5-yankee-mother-fucker-hitting-the-sea..s.
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@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
Sean Connery
was cool as fuck butthe fact he won an Oscarfor playing an Irish Cop with a Scottish accentwasa bit ofa joke.But then again, so did Shakespeare in Love...
