Movie review thread...
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@Kruse said in Movie review thread...:
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@MiketheSnow said in Movie review thread...:
going to the Malthouse today, and trying to work my way through 29 WCIPAs
Top effort that man.
How far'd you get?
10... I think.
But - I've got a stupid thing whereby I refuse to order a half-pint, so... forced into trying them all a full pint at a time.
Also - it's worth noting, the hours on their website are wrong... so I'd gone ALL the way into town (a 5 minute walk), found it closed - so then was forced into having a couple of wee (pint-sized) warm-up drinks at Panhead first.Word to this post. Everyone knows you get more beer per dollar by ordering a full pint instead of a half. The Scotsman in me would definitely rather risk drink driving than get ripped off over a beer.
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@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
@Kruse said in Movie review thread...:
@dogmeat said in Movie review thread...:
@MiketheSnow said in Movie review thread...:
going to the Malthouse today, and trying to work my way through 29 WCIPAs
Top effort that man.
How far'd you get?
10... I think.
But - I've got a stupid thing whereby I refuse to order a half-pint, so... forced into trying them all a full pint at a time.
Also - it's worth noting, the hours on their website are wrong... so I'd gone ALL the way into town (a 5 minute walk), found it closed - so then was forced into having a couple of wee (pint-sized) warm-up drinks at Panhead first.Word to this post. Everyone knows you get more beer per dollar by ordering a full pint instead of a half. The Scotsman in me would definitely rather risk drink driving than get ripped off over a beer.
See... I've been looking at the size of what's being served up in most places as "half-pints"... and I reckon the Scot in you might want to re-consider.
Choice Bros, for example - I've recently deigned to do half-pints of their higher-booze offerings, as that's the only way they sell them. But they come in those glasses the shape of a can. I've got one of them at home, merch from Hot Water Brewing... and therefore know perfectly well that they hold bang-on 440ml to the brim. (Just re-confirmed, poured an 8-Wired Sunrise Express)
(I do wonder if they're filling mine to the brim though, whereas they normally don't? Or if they're otherwise giving me a different "half-pint" to the normal scum clientele. They do give me the "hospo" discount... as a favoured and valued (/valuable) customer.)(Edit: if only there was an appropriate thread for all this discussion. BTW: Beervana, anybody?)
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@Kruse said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
@Kruse said in Movie review thread...:
@dogmeat said in Movie review thread...:
@MiketheSnow said in Movie review thread...:
going to the Malthouse today, and trying to work my way through 29 WCIPAs
Top effort that man.
How far'd you get?
10... I think.
But - I've got a stupid thing whereby I refuse to order a half-pint, so... forced into trying them all a full pint at a time.
Also - it's worth noting, the hours on their website are wrong... so I'd gone ALL the way into town (a 5 minute walk), found it closed - so then was forced into having a couple of wee (pint-sized) warm-up drinks at Panhead first.Word to this post. Everyone knows you get more beer per dollar by ordering a full pint instead of a half. The Scotsman in me would definitely rather risk drink driving than get ripped off over a beer.
See... I've been looking at the size of what's being served up in most places as "half-pints"... and I reckon the Scot in you might want to re-consider.
Choice Bros, for example - I've recently deigned to do half-pints of their higher-booze offerings, as that's the only way they sell them. But they come in those glasses the shape of a can. I've got one of them at home, merch from Hot Water Brewing... and therefore know perfectly well that they hold bang-on 440ml to the brim. (Just re-confirmed, poured an 8-Wired Sunrise Express)
(I do wonder if they're filling mine to the brim though, whereas they normally don't? Or if they're otherwise giving me a different "half-pint" to the normal scum clientele. They do give me the "hospo" discount... as a favoured and valued (/valuable) customer.)(Edit: if only there was an appropriate thread for all this discussion. BTW: Beervana, anybody?)
Yeah I went last year, group of mates booked in for the early session. Stumbling out pissed as fuck in broad daylight is never a good look. If I go this year we’ll do the late one.
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@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
@Kruse said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
@Kruse said in Movie review thread...:
@dogmeat said in Movie review thread...:
@MiketheSnow said in Movie review thread...:
going to the Malthouse today, and trying to work my way through 29 WCIPAs
Top effort that man.
How far'd you get?
10... I think.
But - I've got a stupid thing whereby I refuse to order a half-pint, so... forced into trying them all a full pint at a time.
Also - it's worth noting, the hours on their website are wrong... so I'd gone ALL the way into town (a 5 minute walk), found it closed - so then was forced into having a couple of wee (pint-sized) warm-up drinks at Panhead first.Word to this post. Everyone knows you get more beer per dollar by ordering a full pint instead of a half. The Scotsman in me would definitely rather risk drink driving than get ripped off over a beer.
See... I've been looking at the size of what's being served up in most places as "half-pints"... and I reckon the Scot in you might want to re-consider.
Choice Bros, for example - I've recently deigned to do half-pints of their higher-booze offerings, as that's the only way they sell them. But they come in those glasses the shape of a can. I've got one of them at home, merch from Hot Water Brewing... and therefore know perfectly well that they hold bang-on 440ml to the brim. (Just re-confirmed, poured an 8-Wired Sunrise Express)
(I do wonder if they're filling mine to the brim though, whereas they normally don't? Or if they're otherwise giving me a different "half-pint" to the normal scum clientele. They do give me the "hospo" discount... as a favoured and valued (/valuable) customer.)(Edit: if only there was an appropriate thread for all this discussion. BTW: Beervana, anybody?)
Yeah I went last year, group of mates booked in for the early session. Stumbling out pissed as fuck in broad daylight is never a good look. If I go this year we’ll do the late one.
I did an early session last year, with a mate "in the industry", blagged our way into the KegStar provided lunch for the staff, then hung around for the late session. Didn't make it to the end... one of the few times we were both grown-up enough to admit defeat in front of the other.
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Fistful of Vengeance
Netflix attempt at SE-Asia martial arts
(Failed attempt)This wasn't great.
I don't know why americans can't do great martial arts movies.- They take Jet Li, and create sci-fi-kung-fu abomination "The One". (I will watch that again, several times, it's a guilty pleasure - but it's fucking shit compared to his "Once Upon A Time In China..." days)
- They take Jackie Lee, and turn him into a clown. (Sure - to be fair, this wasn't so much of a change... I haven't watched much of his earlier stuff, other than Drunken Master(s) - and he was already acting the clown in those)
- They take Iko Uwais, and come up with... this.
I don't know how... but they took the idea of "take the dude from The fucking RAID, but with supernatural powers, throw in some TV-level sidekicks, and throw them up against a generic supernatural baddie"... and made it boring.
- Ahh... actually, now that I read that... yeah, that is fucking boring.
Anyway...
- Tit-watch - 1. As in 1 pair. During 1 soft-lensed-to-fuck sex-scene montage. 2 titties... 1 pair. Mocha ones. Quite substantial - larger than expected. More graphic than expected, coz... Netflix. But, yeah, non-zero tit-watch.
- Action: lots. But... maybe it was because my interest was wandering, .... boring.
- Best/worst pep-talk: "Just Stop it! All of you! You're acting like children! Do I have to remind you we're fighting a God? You say you're a family... you're not acting like a family. Not one that's about to save the world... because you cannot even take care of another! ... Yes you can. ... Just get over your anger. ... Your guilt. ... Your ego. ... You might actually have a chance... you really might. So... let's remind ourselves, why are we here?" "For Jenny." "She's right" "I'm an idiot." "No I'm an idiot." No I'm a fucking idiot". For fuck's sake.
- Music... good taste in music, but very poorly suited to the movie. I fucking love a sweet Run The Jewels banger... and normally it would fit perfectly with a fight in the middle of the streets with cleavers. But in a dirty Bangkok market street... not quite.
-- Knees-and-elbows to the head in dirty Bangkok streets - do NOT match with ANY modern western music. I don't know why - but they don't.
-- drinking shitty buckets of cheap spirits and cheap mixers on Khao-San road - yeah, 100% matches with the latest modern western music being played on high-rotation. But leave not brutal martial arts. - To be fair, I wasn't paying much attention. Maybe some of the nonsensical yet bland plot... would have made more sense... if it had fucking held my attention better. How the fuck does a SE-Asia martial arts movie not hold my attention? That's my jam.
- The ending... just... what the actual fuck. It's like they watched some old wire-fu climaxes on hanging ropes, and decided to try that out, but under the supernatural big-top, and in the most boring fashion EVER. Fuck these guys.
(Edit: just accidentally re-watched some of that end/climax while confirming some other points (yeah... confirming the tit-watch). That end-scene... fucking embarrassing! <canadian accent>) - At least they didn't go for the "guys fight the guys, girls fight the girls" artificial separation of duties. They had guys absolutely wailing on the ladies with sticks and shit. I don't know if that's... progress or misogyny?
I'm going to suggest... maybe 2 bullshit green necklaces out of 5 powerless gods.
Instead - go watch The Raid, Ong Bak, Once Upon a Time in China (1,2,3), Burning Paradise (whatever happened to THAT dude?)
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@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
@Kruse I think you made the same mistake as I did. This is a movie of a Netflix TV show. So the TV level sidekicks fit perfectly.
I too thought it was an actual movie.
Ha - yeah, cheers... I did wonder - when I did some cursory side-research, I half-noticed something about a TV-show, but was too focused on confirming who each TV-level sidekick actor was, to follow up on that.
That also might explain that maybe I hadn't missed as much as I thought... the "Into the Badlands" guy suddenly having a nemesis to fight, that I was sure I'd never seen before.
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@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
@Kruse said in Movie review thread...:
By-The-Way... (BTW)...
I seem to recall there's been at least one Ferner claiming(/bragging?) that they've never seen a single John Wick movie.
Give yourself a fucking massive upper-cut, then, when your stupid head is lying on the floor mouth agape, take your dick'n'balls and give yourself a wee tea-baggin'.John Wick movies are not clever. They are not original. They ARE derivative. But they also ARE a metric-fuck-tonne of fun.
If any fluffybunny claims to like classics such as Commando, Rambo, any HK-era-Woo, any Hollywood-era-Woo, any fucking stupid-fun-guns-and-shit-action-movies-of-EVER...
but NOT John Wick... you're either a lying hipster dipshit, a dead-set liar fluffybunny, a straight-up stupid fluffy-bunny, or fluffy-bunny retard.
AND... (Sorry - meant to find the quote from the retard Welsh player who threatened the wife of another player on twitter, and cleverly re-use that, and... just couldn't. Brain-too-dumb from watching stupid derivative americanised versions of gun-fu movies.)I feel bad for never watching a John Wick movie now.
Actually no I don’t, it’s offensive you’ve mentioned it in the same sentence as Commando.
First one is very much in the vein of Commando (lots of winking at the audience)
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@Kirwan said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
@Kruse said in Movie review thread...:
By-The-Way... (BTW)...
I seem to recall there's been at least one Ferner claiming(/bragging?) that they've never seen a single John Wick movie.
Give yourself a fucking massive upper-cut, then, when your stupid head is lying on the floor mouth agape, take your dick'n'balls and give yourself a wee tea-baggin'.John Wick movies are not clever. They are not original. They ARE derivative. But they also ARE a metric-fuck-tonne of fun.
If any fluffybunny claims to like classics such as Commando, Rambo, any HK-era-Woo, any Hollywood-era-Woo, any fucking stupid-fun-guns-and-shit-action-movies-of-EVER...
but NOT John Wick... you're either a lying hipster dipshit, a dead-set liar fluffybunny, a straight-up stupid fluffy-bunny, or fluffy-bunny retard.
AND... (Sorry - meant to find the quote from the retard Welsh player who threatened the wife of another player on twitter, and cleverly re-use that, and... just couldn't. Brain-too-dumb from watching stupid derivative americanised versions of gun-fu movies.)I feel bad for never watching a John Wick movie now.
Actually no I don’t, it’s offensive you’ve mentioned it in the same sentence as Commando.
First one is very much in the vein of Commando (lots of winking at the audience)
What do you mean ? Commando is a harrowing tale of a war vet being dragged into one final mission to save his family. There’s no comedy involved.
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@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
@Kirwan said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
@Kruse said in Movie review thread...:
By-The-Way... (BTW)...
I seem to recall there's been at least one Ferner claiming(/bragging?) that they've never seen a single John Wick movie.
Give yourself a fucking massive upper-cut, then, when your stupid head is lying on the floor mouth agape, take your dick'n'balls and give yourself a wee tea-baggin'.John Wick movies are not clever. They are not original. They ARE derivative. But they also ARE a metric-fuck-tonne of fun.
If any fluffybunny claims to like classics such as Commando, Rambo, any HK-era-Woo, any Hollywood-era-Woo, any fucking stupid-fun-guns-and-shit-action-movies-of-EVER...
but NOT John Wick... you're either a lying hipster dipshit, a dead-set liar fluffybunny, a straight-up stupid fluffy-bunny, or fluffy-bunny retard.
AND... (Sorry - meant to find the quote from the retard Welsh player who threatened the wife of another player on twitter, and cleverly re-use that, and... just couldn't. Brain-too-dumb from watching stupid derivative americanised versions of gun-fu movies.)I feel bad for never watching a John Wick movie now.
Actually no I don’t, it’s offensive you’ve mentioned it in the same sentence as Commando.
First one is very much in the vein of Commando (lots of winking at the audience)
What do you mean ? Commando is a harrowing tale of a war vet being dragged into one final mission to save his family. There’s no comedy involved.
Kind of like this post?
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@Kirwan said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
@Kirwan said in Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
@Kruse said in Movie review thread...:
By-The-Way... (BTW)...
I seem to recall there's been at least one Ferner claiming(/bragging?) that they've never seen a single John Wick movie.
Give yourself a fucking massive upper-cut, then, when your stupid head is lying on the floor mouth agape, take your dick'n'balls and give yourself a wee tea-baggin'.John Wick movies are not clever. They are not original. They ARE derivative. But they also ARE a metric-fuck-tonne of fun.
If any fluffybunny claims to like classics such as Commando, Rambo, any HK-era-Woo, any Hollywood-era-Woo, any fucking stupid-fun-guns-and-shit-action-movies-of-EVER...
but NOT John Wick... you're either a lying hipster dipshit, a dead-set liar fluffybunny, a straight-up stupid fluffy-bunny, or fluffy-bunny retard.
AND... (Sorry - meant to find the quote from the retard Welsh player who threatened the wife of another player on twitter, and cleverly re-use that, and... just couldn't. Brain-too-dumb from watching stupid derivative americanised versions of gun-fu movies.)I feel bad for never watching a John Wick movie now.
Actually no I don’t, it’s offensive you’ve mentioned it in the same sentence as Commando.
First one is very much in the vein of Commando (lots of winking at the audience)
What do you mean ? Commando is a harrowing tale of a war vet being dragged into one final mission to save his family. There’s no comedy involved.
Kind of like this post?
I don’t know if it was that harrowing to get through.
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Sniper: The White Raven
Apparently based on a true story from when Russia invaded the Crimean Peninsula in 2014? when a Ukranian Pacifist Physic Professor joins the Military and trains to be a sniper.
Anywhoo, not a bad watch, although the ending seemed a bit contrived how they showed it, it may have happened that way, but it just seemed off.
@Kruse TW - yes, inside 5 mins, then no more.
3 Pluses out of 5 I'd hate to go to war!
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The Grey Man.
I liked this, action a plenty, bitof an underlying story.
Ana De Armas
3.5 so implausible moments out of 5 I guess that could be plausible...actually make it 4 cos Ana
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@taniwharugby said in Movie review thread...:
The Grey Man.
I liked this, action a plenty, bitof an underlying story.
Ana De Armas
3.5 so implausible moments out of 5 I guess that could be plausible...actually make it 4 cos Ana
I'm reading the book at the moment... soooo much implausibility... but I can see how it would make a sweet dumb-action movie.
It's made me consider some sort of action-o-meter.... ie: action vs plausibility/brain-cells
eg:
Matthew Reilly - 10/10. Suitable for SEVERE ADHD.
Jack Reacher - around... 6/10? Maybe 7? There are some discussions which aren't in the middle of a firefight.
The Grey Man - seems to be about 8 or 9.... very basic storyline/dialogue progressing from action-scene to action-scene.
Shit... I see this becoming my weekend project...Oh - and anything with Ana in it becomes a 5 for me.
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@Kruse said in Movie review thread...:
@taniwharugby said in Movie review thread...:
The Grey Man.
I liked this, action a plenty, bitof an underlying story.
Ana De Armas
3.5 so implausible moments out of 5 I guess that could be plausible...actually make it 4 cos Ana
Matthew Reilly - 10/10. Suitable for SEVERE ADHD.
use to really enjoy Matthew Reilly for a easy to follow fast paces read.....but the last few have been like someone trying to out Matthew Reilly Matthew Reilly...every one had a code name/call sign...everything over explained...recaps of stuff from previous chapters!
I just downloaded one more as its a new story and so with any luck it was just the series i was reading
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@Kruse said in Movie review thread...:
Matthew Reilly - 10/10. Suitable for SEVERE ADHD.
@Kiwiwomble TBF I reckon he writes his books almost like a movie script and would probably work better on the screen.
I think a few have been picked up by Studios having options to make them (Great Zoo of China is one I think) but these have been on the table for some years so dont think they will play out
much like another book I cant recall right now, that was a fast paced read probably better suited to the big screen, again, movie studios have had scripts written but I read it maybe 5 or 6 years back, may have even had an IMDB profile IIRC...(pretty sure the guy that wrote the book I am thinking of has done several other movie scripts anyway - hate when I cant remember crap like that)