Seconded. Some lovely camera shots too of blood on snow.Originally Posted by R650R
THE NICE GUYS.
Its OK. Gos gets the better lines. Rusty is good (but he looks fat and old). the daughter is excellent.
Bonus ta tas.
7.5/10
"channellling the Pleideans"
Seconded. Some lovely camera shots too of blood on snow.
THE NICE GUYS.
Its OK. Gos gets the better lines. Rusty is good (but he looks fat and old). the daughter is excellent.
Bonus ta tas.
7.5/10
I thought elections were decided by angry posts on social media. - F5 Dave
KB's Chief Cats
ah, been a bit slack on me writeups.
Hunt for the vvilderpeople. (paid 20 bob at the pictures, even)
Just call me sam!
Laugh out loud. A gruff sam neill. Kinda half finished sub/side stories though. Knives way too short to be stabbing pigs with. The most inefficient possum plucking i've everr seen. Whoever fact/continuity checked it didn't deserve paying. And are our urban youth still talking like that?? Lingo hasnt changed in in mumblemumble years...
Some scenes bought back memories of reading the book. Majestical scenery and filmed well. but pretty linear even if you didnt know the story.
Lots of lol though, so 7.5+/10
gangster squad
pretty much your usual hollywood shootemup just 50s themed. Couple gruesome mob kills which didn't fit the thing.
Completely forgettable. 4/10
cant even think what else.
KB's Chief Cats
well, if all you homos can ignore the definition of "movie" AND "review"... today i will be ignoring "movie"
Generation Kill (series, no doubt available on teh internets)
had this foisted on me by a close friend and ally.
compelling is too strong a word, but something (bad weed and red beers) keeps me watching.
it's slow. it's boring. it's fucking pointless. it has running "jokes" that aren't fucking funny.
it kinda really is 'a day in the life of'/ reality tv. and as such, is crap.
fuck knows why they bothered making it. I assume it gets to some kind of point at the end but fucked if i'm going to find out.
and every episode is a fucking hour long.
3/10
Kruger-Dunning Parts n Service
DeadPool is dead fkn cool. 10/10
Some great one liners
Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket - Eric Hoffer
Hardcore Biker
Agreed. Watched in Friday night. Lots of laughs and entertaining fight scenes.
Happiness is a means of travel, not a destination
Hardcore Biker
+1 for DeadPool, raising the benchmark for comic book based adult movies.
May we have more similar, and stop the trend of dumbing them down just for family friendly ratings.
Hardcore Biker
Well, being the heterosexual that I am, I'll not ignore your 'review', and will in fact offer a slightly different opinion of the series. Wish I was gayer and could ignore it, but I can't
I do think that if you would revisit it without the weed and beers, and some context which I'll provide, you may have a different experience of it. It's all subjective though, you may just not like Americans or war. All power to you, and everyone has different tastes of course.
For any one else wanting an alternative review of Generation Kill, well I'll leave this for you.
Here are the facts:
Generation Kill is a television series based on a book which was written by a writer for the 'Rolling Stone' magazine named Evan Wright. He was a normal civilian who actually went to Iraq at the start of the US invasion in 2003, where he pretty much joined the front line with the soldiers of the recon force who travelled in very lightly armoured Humvees, and were tasked with leading the assault, and who provided intel for the main fighting force behind them. These guys were totally alone, and not in any way able to fight the Iraq army. They just went forward and found the opposition, before waiting, or retreating depending on the strength facing them. They came under heavy fire, and were also dealing some damage themselves, or calling it in. Lot's of Iraqi soldiers and civilians died during this time in view or close proximity to them (by their hand or others).
My review:
The tv series takes the book and does the normal hollywood crap and makes it palatable to a common audience to make money, but unlike other US based films or television about American wars, Generation Kill is a little more sincere than what has come before.
The series isn't so much as "Fuck yeah! America!", it's actually more of a time capsule for popular culture, and social awareness for this period of time (2003), but obviously American based culture. It focuses on the people involved in the war, and actually displays a conscious about war and politics during this time period.
It's a gritty, true to life drama based around a normal person who gets involved in, and observes a war first hand, whilst becoming entrenched within a group of people he relies on to keep him alive, but also might kill him in the process.
It's slow and boring if you like American based war films like: Transformers or the Avengers, but if you want some story with your plot, which is based in reality, then this slow burning journey will introduce most of it's characters within a short time frame, but have you have to endure a gruelling 7 episodes of almost an hour each, with almost death around each corner for these people who some of you will actually grow to like.
War isn't fun or fast, this series is true to life. It borders on documentary at times, but speeds things up due to Production/broadcast pressure.
Great acting, authentic military gear, tactics, behaviour, pop-culture at the time, and some of the actors are the real soldiers who actually invaded Iraq, and if you have not seen this series, you may recognise some actors from further film and television work since.
9/10 - a modern day 'Band of Brothers' without the hype.
KB's Chief Cats
slow burning implies theres some spark or flame.
While i can generally agree with the above snip, on the whole, it's just fucking pointless.
I dont want to "endure" my entertainment.
"channellling the Pleideans"
unlikely. Those big tentpole movies need a mass audience and you can't alienate a large chunk of the movie ticket buying public (boys 12 -18) with an R rating.
With DEADPOOL, they always knew it was going to be R rated. So bonus Morena Baccarin tits and off colour jokes. Plus they had no money and alooooong time to work on the script. Result: best comic book movie ever. Even better than DREDD.
DEADPOOL 2 has been greenlit you will be pleased to know.
Re-watched SOURCE CODE (Duncan Jones directs, Jake Gyllenhall, Michelle Monahan). Superb time travel sci fi thriller. Absolutely brilliant and 10/10.
I thought elections were decided by angry posts on social media. - F5 Dave
"channellling the Pleideans"
GENERATION KILL is brilliant. The book is excellent, and so is Nate's book.Well, being the heterosexual that I am, I'll not ignore your 'review', and will in fact offer a slightly different opinion of the series. Wish I was gayer and could ignore it, but I can't
I do think that if you would revisit it without the weed and beers, and some context which I'll provide, you may have a different experience of it. It's all subjective though, you may just not like Americans or war. All power to you, and everyone has different tastes of course.
For any one else wanting an alternative review of Generation Kill, well I'll leave this for you.
Here are the facts:
Generation Kill is a television series based on a book which was written by a writer for the 'Rolling Stone' magazine named Evan Wright. He was a normal civilian who actually went to Iraq at the start of the US invasion in 2003, where he pretty much joined the front line with the soldiers of the recon force who travelled in very lightly armoured Humvees, and were tasked with leading the assault, and who provided intel for the main fighting force behind them. These guys were totally alone, and not in any way able to fight the Iraq army. They just went forward and found the opposition, before waiting, or retreating depending on the strength facing them. They came under heavy fire, and were also dealing some damage themselves, or calling it in. Lot's of Iraqi soldiers and civilians died during this time in view or close proximity to them (by their hand or others).
My review:
The tv series takes the book and does the normal hollywood crap and makes it palatable to a common audience to make money, but unlike other US based films or television about American wars, Generation Kill is a little more sincere than what has come before.
The series isn't so much as "Fuck yeah! America!", it's actually more of a time capsule for popular culture, and social awareness for this period of time (2003), but obviously American based culture. It focuses on the people involved in the war, and actually displays a conscious about war and politics during this time period.
It's a gritty, true to life drama based around a normal person who gets involved in, and observes a war first hand, whilst becoming entrenched within a group of people he relies on to keep him alive, but also might kill him in the process.
It's slow and boring if you like American based war films like: Transformers or the Avengers, but if you want some story with your plot, which is based in reality, then this slow burning journey will introduce most of it's characters within a short time frame, but have you have to endure a gruelling 7 episodes of almost an hour each, with almost death around each corner for these people who some of you will actually grow to like.
War isn't fun or fast, this series is true to life. It borders on documentary at times, but speeds things up due to Production/broadcast pressure.
Great acting, authentic military gear, tactics, behaviour, pop-culture at the time, and some of the actors are the real soldiers who actually invaded Iraq, and if you have not seen this series, you may recognise some actors from further film and television work since.
9/10 - a modern day 'Band of Brothers' without the hype.
Akzle is full of shit - his attention span has been ruined so he needs a crib sheet of who is who and what is what to understand whats going on.
I thought elections were decided by angry posts on social media. - F5 Dave
Learning
+1 on the Generation Kill books. Particular reference to the interplay between the two stories, if you read them back to back - Captain Fick's literate account is very careful to skip over an awful lot of the stuff that Wright focuses on, but gives more technical detail of what happens and why. The TV series is a lot better once you've read them and know a bit more about the stuff going on.
KB's Chief Cats
nope. GK is poos.
meanwhile
Prince of Persia
gylenhaaaaaaaal in something a bit different.
stuppid, jovial. not listed as a comedy but some funny anyway (in that lame dad-joke kinda way). family flick, i guess.
no great surprises, or great anything, actually.
but nifty with the time-shifty, camel jockeys doing jumpy stabby spinny shit, and horse drifting.
meh
6/10
KB's Chief Cats
Halo (4 forward until dawn)
shit.
don't know how many minutes i made but it was sub 10.
blues blothers 2000
not the first time i've seen it. doesn't have the same sex as the first. but fairly worth it. 7.5/10
die another day
seen it before, but it was long enough ago /+ forgettable enough that it was new.
hallie's jubblies. that's about it.
formulaic bond.
7/10
the cannonball run 3
still haven't seen the second. first time i've seen this.
just as lulz at the first. 8/10
memphis belle
00:14:00
no.
"channellling the Pleideans"
EYE IN THE SKY
great cast, tight script, no winners, builds tension really well. One bit is a bit lame but you can kind of imagine the Poms doing the hand wringing.
I really liked it. Helen Mirren, Alan Rickman, Aaron Paul very good.
9/10
I thought elections were decided by angry posts on social media. - F5 Dave
Fully qualified Sifter.
Thirded. Have you cats seen Headhunters? Fucking great film.
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