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@Catogrande said in Movie review thread...:
Ach. Nothing to do this evening. Not much I wanted to watch, so revisited LOTR Return of the King.
Fuck me. Just such good cinema.
Edit: But I’d forgotten how saccharine the ending was. 🤮
Yeah - last month I watched the entire trilogy "Director's Cut" - I think
- Each was so fucking long, that I was too smashed by the end of it to review
- While in most of my reviews of shit movies, I lay a whole lot of blame at the feet of the Editors... in this case, I have to applaud them. My vague memory of the edited cut was a shitload better than the Director's cut. Just so much unnecessary shit.
- And yeah - that ending. I cite again - so fucking long, I was smashed by the time it happened.
- I can't even remember... did the movies include Saruman having taken over the Shire?
- All I remember is the bullshit. "Saccharine" is not saccharine enough to describe those multiple endings.
- At several times, I was thinking "Peter Jackson was ahead of his time, promoting gay heros. These hobbits are fucking obviously bi-sexual, and there's been a WHOLE lot of homo-hobbit action going on off-screen. Filthy hobbitses."
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@Machpants said in Movie review thread...:
@Kruse no scouring of the shire, sadly
Well, that sucks. The multiple doses of super-sugar would have made a bit more sense if there was a bit of Scouring in-between.
BTW - the hobbit-bint which gives one of the other hobbits the "you're getting laid, mate" look - was my ex-flatmate. She was perfectly cast. -
A Knock At The Cabin
DO NOT
I REPEAT
DO NOT FUCKINNG OPEN THE DOOR
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Luther: Fallen Sun.
Luther was a 9/10 TV series and Idris Elba one of my favourite actors, but this was really disappointing. The basic plot was OK but somewhere between that and the script it went badly awry and the writing was a bit shit. Some of the scenes were terrifyingly good, but a lot were incredibly predictable and formulaic. The acting was real hammy in places. Tit watch -6.
6 sadistic serial killers out of 10 James Bond Villains.
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@Stockcar86 You had me at "Ninja vs"
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Ke Huy Quan aka Short Round aka Data won an Academy Award for best supporting actor! That is fůcking cool.
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@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Movie review thread...:
Ke Huy Quan aka Short Round aka Data won an Academy Award for best supporting actor! That is fůcking cool.
Michelle Yeoh won best actress, genuinely surprised by that as they love Cate Blanchett.
They only missed out on one acting award they were up for - that was the actress who lost to Jamie Lee Curtis in Best Supporting Actress.
And yep, they just won Best Picture.
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@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Movie review thread...:
Ke Huy Quan aka Short Round aka Data won an Academy Award for best supporting actor! That is fůcking cool.
Michelle Yeoh won best actress, genuinely surprised by that as they love Cate Blanchett.
They only missed out on one acting award they were up for - that was the actress who lost to Jamie Lee Curtis in Best Supporting Actress.
And yep, they just won Best Picture.
Gosh she is so bland and plain. I don’t understand the fascination at all.
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@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Movie review thread...:
Ke Huy Quan aka Short Round aka Data won an Academy Award for best supporting actor! That is fůcking cool.
Michelle Yeoh won best actress, genuinely surprised by that as they love Cate Blanchett.
They only missed out on one acting award they were up for - that was the actress who lost to Jamie Lee Curtis in Best Supporting Actress.
And yep, they just won Best Picture.
Gosh she is so bland and plain. I don’t understand the fascination at all.
Really? I think she's a good actress, she's not one of my favourites though, but really glad she didn't win for that turd of a film.
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@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
Gosh she is so bland and plain. I don’t understand the fascination at all.
Really? I think she's a good actress, she's not one of my favourites though, but really glad she didn't win for that turd of a film.
Yes, a strange take. I see that Brendan Fraser won too. Quite the comeback.
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@Bovidae said in Movie review thread...:
@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
Gosh she is so bland and plain. I don’t understand the fascination at all.
Really? I think she's a good actress, she's not one of my favourites though, but really glad she didn't win for that turd of a film.
Yes, a strange take. I see that Brendan Fraser won too. Quite the comeback.
Weirdly, in a year which I've found the Oscar movies to be pretty low quality it's probably the most I've agreed with the winners.
I haven't seen The Whale, but he's supposed to be great in it.
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@Bovidae said in Movie review thread...:
@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
Gosh she is so bland and plain. I don’t understand the fascination at all.
Really? I think she's a good actress, she's not one of my favourites though, but really glad she didn't win for that turd of a film.
Yes, a strange take. I see that Brendan Fraser won too. Quite the comeback.
The Academy showing they aren't fat shaming anymore?
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@Bovidae said in Movie review thread...:
@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
Gosh she is so bland and plain. I don’t understand the fascination at all.
Really? I think she's a good actress, she's not one of my favourites though, but really glad she didn't win for that turd of a film.
Yes, a strange take. I see that Brendan Fraser won too. Quite the comeback.
That's awesome. He's been in some shit but always seemed like a nice (if very quirky) guy. Good for him. Interestingly enough, him and Short Round were both in Encino Man back in 1992. Who could have predicted this result now? Insane.
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@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Movie review thread...:
@Bovidae said in Movie review thread...:
@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
Gosh she is so bland and plain. I don’t understand the fascination at all.
Really? I think she's a good actress, she's not one of my favourites though, but really glad she didn't win for that turd of a film.
Yes, a strange take. I see that Brendan Fraser won too. Quite the comeback.
That's awesome. He's been in some shit but always seemed like a nice (if very quirky) guy. Good for him. Interestingly enough, him and Short Round were both in Encino Man back in 1992. Who could have predicted this result now? Insane.
Sounds like a great future pub quiz question to me!
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@antipodean said in Movie review thread...:
@Bovidae said in Movie review thread...:
@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
Gosh she is so bland and plain. I don’t understand the fascination at all.
Really? I think she's a good actress, she's not one of my favourites though, but really glad she didn't win for that turd of a film.
Yes, a strange take. I see that Brendan Fraser won too. Quite the comeback.
The Academy showing they aren't fat shaming anymore?
@Nepia Alright, now I've watched it: All facetiousness aside, it's a very good movie with excellent performances from each cast member. Brendan Fraser's performance is worthy of his Best Actor award IMO.
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@antipodean said in Movie review thread...:
@antipodean said in Movie review thread...:
@Bovidae said in Movie review thread...:
@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
Gosh she is so bland and plain. I don’t understand the fascination at all.
Really? I think she's a good actress, she's not one of my favourites though, but really glad she didn't win for that turd of a film.
Yes, a strange take. I see that Brendan Fraser won too. Quite the comeback.
The Academy showing they aren't fat shaming anymore?
@Nepia Alright, now I've watched it: All facetiousness aside, it's a very good movie with excellent performances from each cast member. Brendan Fraser's performance is worthy of his Best Actor award IMO.
Ah right, I've heard that the performance is great but the movie isn't - I haven't watched it yet after recently watching TAR which had the same issue. Will probably watch it when it streams now it's got a positive review on the Movie review thread...
