The Movie Review Thread

[mossy1200]

Im going to have a whinge.

Readings had $10.00 movie tickets but earthquake damage caused closure for a while.

Result The Embassy movie ticket price for Rogue 1 $24.00 (3d).

[Akzle]

killer elite (2011)

statham man and deniro and some other geezers doing stuff for 2 hours.

standard fare action shit, based on IRL story.
nothing to let it down except the guy on sound effects. find me the AR that sounds like a browning. 30 and i'll show you one that's about to fall apart. also providing long gun overwatch... standing.
yea fucken right.

9/10 for the genre, well delivered, car chases and biffo...

-edit-
clive owen and domnic purcell, would be the other draw cards.

and it has all my clichés and clive has a moustache.

[F5 Dave]

Im going to have a whinge.

Readings had $10.00 movie tickets but earthquake damage caused closure for a while.

Result The Embassy movie ticket price for Rogue 1 $24.00 (3d).

$20 at Lighthouse Petone and comfy couches.

As Iwas leaving Beardy was already boring his friends with some technical continuity issue which he will be spewing out on the internerd currently.

Fukim, I liked it , people take movies too seriously.

[Crasherfromwayback]

Watched this tonight. It's quite fucking good.

[Virago]

Star Wars - Rogue One (or "Rouge One" as half of NZ spells it - perhaps a prequel to Moulin Rouge...?)

Essentially a stand-alone fill-in movie, it covers the time period between Revenge of the Sith and the original Star Wars. It revolves around the Rebel attempt to steal the plans of the almost completed Imperial Death Star. As such the overall plot outcome is just a little predictable - I mean, they must succeed, right?

It introduces a whole raft of brand-new characters, well played but not all of them fully engaging. This fresh face was necessary though, due to the difficulty in reviving 40 year-old characters in a believable fashion. Some roles were actually reprised - the Imperial Commander Tarkin (originally played by the long-since departed Peter Cushing), and also Princess Leia. Both were achieved using the latest GCI facial technology - which was well done but not really 100% successful, the faces looked just a very tiny bit faked and plastic.

This movie has a definite darker tone, and in my opinion not really suitable for small children - although parents are taking their kids to it in droves. There's very little in the way of (intentional) humour in this Star Wars movie. But there's certainly plenty of action.

I went along expecting to be disappointed, but left feeling pleasantly surprised. I'd give it a 7.5 out of 10.

[Kendog]

Star Wars - Rogue One (or "Rouge One" as half of NZ spells it - perhaps a prequel to Moulin Rouge...?)

I went along expecting to be disappointed, but left feeling pleasantly surprised. I'd give it a 7.5 out of 10.

That's how I felt.
I liked it overall, but the ending made the film. We all know what happens but it gave me chills, really well filmed.

[F5 Dave]

What do you mean? The Robut was hilarious.

[R650R]

Cartel Land 10/10 epic true story..... don't want to spoilt it so wont add any more comment at this stage, 99c rental on iTunes at moment.

[FlangMasterJ]

Watched The Town last night. Another film that I hadn't got around to watching for some reason. It was very good. Ben Affleck is really coming into his own these days. Solid 8.5/10

Also watched The Accountant. Once again another solid flick with Ben Affleck. 7.5/10

[OddDuck]

The Shallows.

Lone surfer vs giant shark, within a stone's throw of safety. Very tight movie, small cast, small location, and they use absolutely everything. If you want to see resourceful - both the action on screen, and what they've done to make the movie - then see this. People have commented on how yum Blake Lively in a bikini is (and they're not wrong) but there aren't really any glamour shots in the movie, it looks like the director went to some trouble to deliberately avoid them to make the action stronger.

Solid 8 / 10, not quite the equal of Jaws despite the marketing, but still very good.

[Akzle]

transpecos 2016

all y'all that enjoy the not-thinking americos shit will dig it.

they actully list it as a thriller. i remain unthrilled.

three gringos on border patrol, while well acted, even well set, drag you through a pretty predictable story,
worse, you get it through the lens of a fuck-drunk camera guy. honestly, the filming ruined what little potential this movie had. which was slim as it basically seems like republican propaganda. (thaym maexicuns is terken aer jerbs! and drugs y'all!)

all the points are for the acting. everyone else involved can suck a fucken burrito.
5/10.

[mashman]

Star Trek - Beyond: 7.5/10. The weakest of the bunch so far. Still very watchable in many ways, but felt a little hurried and cobbled together in too many ways for my liking.

Star Wars - Rogue One: 9.5/10. Great film from start to finish and for me it's probably the best of the series. I doubt you'd have to have seen the rest of the films to enjoy this one, but it'd certainly help. Fine big screen movie.

[Drew]

The Gambler

Marky mark surprised me. He clearly prepped for a while before filming, and he plays the self loathing protagonist well.

Needs more boobs in it.

[Akzle]

the secret life of pets

ostensibly childrens'. being animated and shit.

but has elements of python (a psychotic bunny) and other hilarious shit (a poodle that listens to SOAD, ie) I dare say I would watch this again (with lés baung)
and since most of this pixar shit is flogging the same poor whorse, this one stands above...

7.5/10

Rock'n'Rolla

wannabe take-off of the lock-stock londonium-thug genre. I'm sure i've seen it before.
while not art, does tick enough bokes to see you to the end of the thing, though unlikely to be watched twice, or recommended to friends. a chortle or few. does thread artful elements, but they get drowned out in the beigery.
doesn't use much guns, instead street gangstas and implied violence (bonus point)

7/10

[pete376403]

The Hollow Point - USA / mexican border smuggling (NOT drugs!). Ian McShane as a tired old cop, Jim Belushi as one of the bad guys, John Leguizamo as the really bad guy. No sex, lots of violence.