The Movie Review Thread

[Akzle]

By the way, this was on Netflix. It'd be handy if people mentioned where they saw a movie in case there's a good one and we can know where to start looking?
Thanks in anticipation.

the pirate bay / kickass torrents / any number of my close friends' and allies' jiggabyte towers.

[HenryDorsetCase]

the pirate bay

aka "Swedish" Netflicks

[FlangMasterJ]

yify movies is my go to. No bullshit, clear layout and 1080p or 720p.

[bogan]

yify movies is my go to. No bullshit, clear layout and 1080p or 720p.

You know the original yify got shut down a few years ago? quality and selection noticeably went downhill about that time, as the number of impersonators went up...

[Drew]

I can usually take or leave Matt Damon, so I wasn't expecting heaps from this film.

Turned out to be quite good I thought. Quite a few good one line laughs throughout.

7/10

Sling Blade

Reckon. Pretty good. Mmm-Hmmm.

8/10

[AllanB]

I can usually take or leave Matt Damon,

Watched the Bourne movies? Intelligent spy/action stuff - some great stunts.

I thought Elysium was good too.

[FlangMasterJ]

You know the original yify got shut down a few years ago? quality and selection noticeably went downhill about that time, as the number of impersonators went up...

Hadn't noticed any degradation in the quality. It's YTS now.

[Akzle]

there will be blood


fffffuuuuucccccckkkkk meeeeeee ccccuuuuuuuuuuunnnnnnnnnttttttt.

shit's fucken long.
only to be watched if you have some annual leave accrued.

it could well be three stories. fuck, for the length it, it may as well have been.

brilliantly played by everyone. and supreme artsy from the camera git. but fucking hell it's long.

A-double-plus for period an costume and engineering and language, and you'll have plenty of time to absorb it all, cos you'll be watching for half a fucken day.

reeeeeeeaaaaaalllllyyyyyyy not sure how to rate it. mostly, 9/10 for it's brilliance,
but it must necessarily lose 90 points, one for every minute too-fucken-long it is. and well over-soundtracked.
so -99/10.

[Drew]

That would make it -81/10 Rob.

[Akzle]

That would make it -81/10 Rob.

you forgot to carry the 1, and the adjustment factor of 11 kingfishers

[mossy1200]

Has anyone seen Split yet? I was thinking of going in the weekend.

[R650R]

The Idealist

Based on true story, B52 crashed in Greenmark near Thule airbase with 4 nukes on board, one ended up in ocean.
More drama than thriller but great 8/10 foreign language subtitled film with lots of real footage from the era mixed in.
Focuses on an investigative journalists (extinct species now) passion to find the truth.

[FlangMasterJ]

Logan.

I never bothered to watch the previous Wolverine films because I heard they were shit but Logan was fucking awesome. 9/10

[Akzle]

the worlds fastest indian
finally got around to this. a shame they couldn't have found a kiwi for the lead as hopkins murdered the irish kiwi accent. a shame too our locals didn't get more screen time, but i suppose they were only ever billed because of that actors union harrumfing.

as to the actual movie: uneccesarily long but not in a painful way. i never knew the cunt so i can't say how true-to-life it all was. had it's comical bits but hardly breaking new ground (oh!)
if it was done a bit more kiwi it would have been spot on, i reckon.

6.5/10



idiocracy

predictably stupid. is it satire or prophecy? maybe both.
funny in that low brow way.

4.5/10

[pritch]

Back when the God daughter was a teenager I read about a book “Holes” by Louis Sachar and she got it as a present. Louis Sachar writes children’s books but Holes is about a juvenile offenders programme so is presumably aimed more at teens. It was, however, also reasonably popular with adults. I thought it a bit bleak in parts for a kid’s book, but good nonetheless.

The detention camp is called Green Lake although the water has long since dried up and the lake is now a parched desert. The boys are all given a shovel and each day they each have to dig a hole in the desert 5ft deep by 5ft diameter, the length of their shovels. (I still haven’t figured out how they managed to climb out of a five foot hole?) All of this is ostensibly to improve their character; there has to be more going on but that is not immediately apparent. There are natural occuring hazards such as rattle snakes and particularly aggressive lizards with a fatal bite. Oh, and there are a couple of old curses in play.

Last night I could find nothing I wanted to watch on TV so I switched to Netflix and there was Holes the movie. Hollywood had sweetened things a bit but otherwise it seemed true to the book and I enjoyed it. It should have been true to the book because Louis Sachar also wrote the screen play. (And co-wrote one of the songs.)

Some of the kids were new to acting but the adult characters were played by well known actors.

The movie was made in 2003. There's no nudity, sex, violence, or bad language. Other than that, it's OK.