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@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...
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not a huge Oscar watcher, generally just see the results and normally couldn't tell you when thell be on...so strangely we watch Everything everywhere all at once over the weekend....thats a Mad film, can definitely tell some great acting going on but fucked if i really followed what was going on...definitely not one you can watch while scrolling on the phone
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Finally watched Black Adam....I kind of liked it, the CGI seemed better than the last phase of Marvel ones
Also liked they called out what i thought were plot holes at first, people actually called out the random international team of superheroes that had ignored this country until it got its own superpowered person
the biggest problem i have was i want the back story of the justice society...dont know how they missed what marvel did with slowly bring them together
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Everything, everywhere, all at once.
The most gods honest batshit crazy film I've ever seen in my entire life. Trying to explain what it's about is borderline impossible. Part Matrix, part Butterfly effect, part Jacky Chan.
Completely and utterly mental.
5 out of 5. Phenomenal.
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@MajorRage said in Movie review thread...:
Everything, everywhere, all at once.
The most gods honest batshit crazy film I've ever seen in my entire life. Trying to explain what it's about is borderline impossible. Part Matrix, part Butterfly effect, part Jacky Chan.
Completely and utterly mental.
5 out of 5. Phenomenal.
I was slightly disappointed, but I was going in with fucking insanely high levels of expectation.
Very very good.
But more "quirky multiverse stuff" than "insane martial-arts multiverse stuff".
I think I was expecting "The One" - but done well, and with a bit of quirk, and a lady-fighter. (Sorry Jet Li - you're the fucking bomb, but that movie was a bomb. (Still a guilty pleasure but. Fuck... now I want to watch The One.)) -
@Kruse said in Movie review thread...:
@MajorRage said in Movie review thread...:
Everything, everywhere, all at once.
The most gods honest batshit crazy film I've ever seen in my entire life. Trying to explain what it's about is borderline impossible. Part Matrix, part Butterfly effect, part Jacky Chan.
Completely and utterly mental.
5 out of 5. Phenomenal.
I was slightly disappointed, but I was going in with fucking insanely high levels of expectation.
Very very good.
But more "quirky multiverse stuff" than "insane martial-arts multiverse stuff".
I think I was expecting "The One" - but done well, and with a bit of quirk, and a lady-fighter. (Sorry Jet Li - you're the fucking bomb, but that movie was a bomb. (Still a guilty pleasure but. Fuck... now I want to watch The One.))Always a worry with a hyped film, I saw it early on when it was only hyped as a quirky film and not an Oscar winner so had fairly low expectations, but I had the reverse with Banshees of Ed Sheeran, hugely hyped and hugely disappointing.
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@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
@Kruse said in Movie review thread...:
@MajorRage said in Movie review thread...:
Everything, everywhere, all at once.
The most gods honest batshit crazy film I've ever seen in my entire life. Trying to explain what it's about is borderline impossible. Part Matrix, part Butterfly effect, part Jacky Chan.
Completely and utterly mental.
5 out of 5. Phenomenal.
I was slightly disappointed, but I was going in with fucking insanely high levels of expectation.
Very very good.
But more "quirky multiverse stuff" than "insane martial-arts multiverse stuff".
I think I was expecting "The One" - but done well, and with a bit of quirk, and a lady-fighter. (Sorry Jet Li - you're the fucking bomb, but that movie was a bomb. (Still a guilty pleasure but. Fuck... now I want to watch The One.))Always a worry with a hyped film, I saw it early on when it was only hyped as a quirky film and not an Oscar winner so had fairly low expectations, but I had the reverse with Banshees of Ed Sheeran, hugely hyped and hugely disappointing.
I saw it well before awards season... I'd built up the hype in my own head from descriptions.
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The One
- Jet Li. Fucking can't go wrong. Usually.
- This was obviously Jet Li having had a bit of Hollywood success, getting stoned one night...
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- Doing the schoolboy/recent-movies bullshit "who would win between Iron-Man and Hulk? Between Batman and Superman? etc etc".
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- Except Jet Li had also done a shit-tonne of coke, and was all "who would win a fight between... me... and me? Fuck, that'd be cool."
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- And Highlander just happened to be playing in the background.
- Still a guilty pleasure of mine, once in a while.
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- And obviously a guilty pleasure of Jet Li's... his absurd acting of the criminal version of himself, and the photos of his other selves... pure stoned indulgency.
- Statham is Statham.
- Fight scenes are pretty poor for a Jet Li movie... too much CGI, too many effects.
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- Fuck - now I want to watch the Once Upon A Time In China series.
- Carla Gugino is kinda hot. But...
- Tit-watch: zero
- Plenty of plot-holes. But fuck it, it's super-powered Jet-Li fighting himself.
- At least they didn't play out the whole "which one of these identical pricks is the good one?" schtick. They had to do it, but they kept it short.
- They even refrained from using the "dog smells out the bad guy" trope, and even turned it around.
3.5 over-powered-grenades out of 5 that-didn't-do-shit.
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@Kruse said in Movie review thread...:
Carla Gugino is kinda
Watchmen (2009). Watch her in Watchmen.
As to the One, it's Jet Li. Enough said. Although you didn't mention Delroy Lindo. I've always liked him on the big screen and I guess he's a friend of Jet Li (Romeo Must Die)...
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@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Movie review thread...:
This would be infinitely better than the poo that's on it's way. It's really weird that they made no effort to bring him back. Expect to see more talk about Goonies as well.
fuck i would watch the hell out of that, a couple of subtle call backs, picture of indy on his wall, maybe he paid for his education, am actually going to venture onto twitter to like that tweet
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@Kiwiwomble said in Movie review thread...:
@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Movie review thread...:
This would be infinitely better than the poo that's on it's way. It's really weird that they made no effort to bring him back. Expect to see more talk about Goonies as well.
fuck i would watch the hell out of that, a couple of subtle call backs, picture of indy on his wall, maybe he paid for his education, am actually going to venture onto twitter to like that tweet
You’re both wrong. I much prefer Shia Le boef. I don’t think he’s an annoying fuckwit at all.
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@Kruse said in Movie review thread...:
The One
- Jet Li. Fucking can't go wrong. Usually.
- This was obviously Jet Li having had a bit of Hollywood success, getting stoned one night...
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- Doing the schoolboy/recent-movies bullshit "who would win between Iron-Man and Hulk? Between Batman and Superman? etc etc".
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- Except Jet Li had also done a shit-tonne of coke, and was all "who would win a fight between... me... and me? Fuck, that'd be cool."
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- And Highlander just happened to be playing in the background.
- Still a guilty pleasure of mine, once in a while.
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- And obviously a guilty pleasure of Jet Li's... his absurd acting of the criminal version of himself, and the photos of his other selves... pure stoned indulgency.
- Statham is Statham.
- Fight scenes are pretty poor for a Jet Li movie... too much CGI, too many effects.
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- Fuck - now I want to watch the Once Upon A Time In China series.
- Carla Gugino is kinda hot. But...
- Tit-watch: zero
- Plenty of plot-holes. But fuck it, it's super-powered Jet-Li fighting himself.
- At least they didn't play out the whole "which one of these identical pricks is the good one?" schtick. They had to do it, but they kept it short.
- They even refrained from using the "dog smells out the bad guy" trope, and even turned it around.
3.5 over-powered-grenades out of 5 that-didn't-do-shit.
What ? Only kinda ? Is your dick painted on ?
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@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
@Kruse said in Movie review thread...:
The One
- Jet Li. Fucking can't go wrong. Usually.
- This was obviously Jet Li having had a bit of Hollywood success, getting stoned one night...
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- Doing the schoolboy/recent-movies bullshit "who would win between Iron-Man and Hulk? Between Batman and Superman? etc etc".
-
- Except Jet Li had also done a shit-tonne of coke, and was all "who would win a fight between... me... and me? Fuck, that'd be cool."
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- And Highlander just happened to be playing in the background.
- Still a guilty pleasure of mine, once in a while.
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- And obviously a guilty pleasure of Jet Li's... his absurd acting of the criminal version of himself, and the photos of his other selves... pure stoned indulgency.
- Statham is Statham.
- Fight scenes are pretty poor for a Jet Li movie... too much CGI, too many effects.
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- Fuck - now I want to watch the Once Upon A Time In China series.
- Carla Gugino is kinda hot. But...
- Tit-watch: zero
- Plenty of plot-holes. But fuck it, it's super-powered Jet-Li fighting himself.
- At least they didn't play out the whole "which one of these identical pricks is the good one?" schtick. They had to do it, but they kept it short.
- They even refrained from using the "dog smells out the bad guy" trope, and even turned it around.
3.5 over-powered-grenades out of 5 that-didn't-do-shit.
What ? Only kinda ? Is your dick painted on ?
Aw, fuck... I just realised that she also played the baddie's girlfriend - who, from what I took away from it, seemed to smuggle a mouse-bomb into the prison, in her vay-jay-jay. SHE was hot.
Her goodie-two-shoes character in goodie-Jet-Li's world... just didn't get the juices flowing. -
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John Wick: Chapter 4
will get no critique from me, we know what we're getting into and it doesn't fail to deliver, we re watched 3 on the weekend just as a refresher and 4 is much better the 3
5 blind assassins out of 5 sunrise duels
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@scribe said in Movie review thread...:
Tongan Ninja. Anyone seen this? Looks like it might be on YouTube.
Yep, seen it - weirdly at a tiny cinema at the film distributor's place in an Auckland tower block. Good fun - you get what it says on the tin ... a Tongan Ninja. Expect production values commensurate with the budget.
I enjoyed it, memorable special effects and all!
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I’m halfway through Everything Everywhere.
Is it fun? I guess. Is it interesting? I s’pose. Would I watch it again? You’re fucking kidding me.
How the hell this is the best movie made in a year? Guys getting superpowers by shoving objects up their asses? Hotdog finger fights?
I’m very confused.
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