The Movie Review Thread

[HenryDorsetCase]

But it has Tom Cruise in it .......... I tolerated him in Oblivion - but I guessed the plot way in advance.

He appears to be paying the rent by featuring in second rate si-fi movies lately.


One of the best movies he did IMO was playing a baddie - something to do with a taxi.

COLLATERAL. He was excellent. As was Jamie Foxx.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0369339/

I am totes gay for Tom. He is very funny in TROPIC THUNDER. and he acts a lot in MAGNOLIA. (Totally worth a watch).

If you didnt enjoy PACIFIC RIM then don't go see GODZILLA. I rated both of them. And honestly do you really go see a film like that to spot plot holes? because you're on a hiding for nothing doing that.

EDGE OF TOMORROW looks great to me. Gordon R Dickson meets GROUNDHOG DAY via CJ Cherryh's Space Marines. Deffo this week.

[AllanB]

I usually forgive the Si-fi future tech holes but Pacific Rim was too much. Even Mrs B who usually missed that stuff stated half-way though it was crap. BUT I did enjoy the Godzilla before the latest release with the Ferrus Buellers dude in the lead.

I rarely enjoy Mr Cruise as an actor BUT I could totally see him playing a fucking bad arse villain - he needs to embrace this as his career future. Eventually he'll get to appear in The Expendables 5 as a baddie. Van Dan (Sp?) was excellent as the bad dude in number two.

Finished FF6 - now it may have been half a bottle of Sav followed by two nice beers (Tiger) but I quite enjoyed it. Left my brain on the couch and sat back for the ride

[MD]

Lone Survivor was a good watch and you really felt for the Guys struggling to keep each other alive. But it's a very sad and depressing ending being based on a true story (so they said). If you still aren't sure, here's a tip and spoiler alert - the title give away the outcome!

Seeing the footage in the closing credits of the actual people when they were alive and happy with their family and girl friends and pets is simply gut breaking.

[AllanB]

Lone Survivor was a good watch and you really felt for the Guys struggling to keep each other alive. But it's a very sad and depressing ending being based on a true story (so they said). If you still aren't sure, here's a tip and spoiler alert - the title give away the outcome!

Seeing the footage in the closing credits of the actual people when they were alive and happy with their family and girl friends and pets is simply gut breaking.

Bit o the old eat your friend or die scenario? Makes me wonder.....what bit would you eat first. Reckon it was a female maybe a nice bit of tender inner thigh.

[MD]

Bit o the old eat your friend or die scenario? Makes me wonder.....what bit would you eat first. Reckon it was a female maybe a nice bit of tender inner thigh.

I think we are talking about different movies buddy? I was talking about the recent Yankie Afghan war movie with Mark Walhberg.

[Crasherfromwayback]

Starring Robert DeNiro, John Cusack and my new wife Rebecca DaCosta (fucking jesus!). Fucking loved it. Worth if for the perv at her alone but a great film anyway.

[Tazz]

"The Grand Budapest Hotel"

Best movie of 2014 so far.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2278388/

[wharekura]

Cliche living/dying with cancer type movie with Shailene Woodley as lead. First saw her in Clooney's The Descendants where the support role she did was good. Then saw her in poster for Divergent showing her butt and thought that was a desperate attempt to sell the movie. So The Fault in Our Stars was a pleasant surprise. Her acting was great and believable as too her co-star.

I didn't get a sense of full on tear jerking scenes saying to myself "when will the fk will this end". The wife enjoyed it. Her glasses steamed up - good indication of chick flick film.

For me, its a film about young love, young life and its ending and foreverness. Both from a pragmatic (die and that's it) and romantic (live forever) view points - with the marriage of the two played out in the movie.

The story line reached me as this is how my wife and I are like. She believes in "die and that's it" whereas I am more the romantic. What we both do understand is regardless of our beliefs, what will be common is the pain that will come about upon passing. (not talking about being constipated with hemorrhoids)

Acting: 9/10 (very believable), Storyline: 8/10, Action: 0/10, Violence: 1/10 (a scene involving eggs), Water Works Female: 9/10, Water Works Male: 1/10 (a possibility)

[Paulo]

"The Grand Budapest Hotel"

Best movie of 2014 so far.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2278388/

yep that was a goodun

[The Pastor]

I saw edge of tomorrow and 22 jump street - both very good.

[HenryDorsetCase]

EDGE OF TOMORROW. (my choice)

I liked it a lot. I am of course totally out of the closet for Tom but I thought Blunters was excellent. It didnt need as much of the lovey dovey stuff as it had (which was about 2 minutes in a 2 hour film). I wondered how they would handle the GROUNDHOG DAY elements without it getting tedious but it was well done.

Story a bit nonsensical kinda though this is a film where you park your brain at the door and enjoy the splosions and stuff.

Really liked the practical FX in particular the exoskeleton armour suits with guns and shit.

GREAT film for your inner 12 year old. 9/10


THE TRIP TO ITALY (her choice).

Better than I was expecting. Coogan and Brydon are funny as hell and the impressions etc are good. The food in Italy looks AMAZING. Needed more (well some) topless totty but overall I didnt chew my arm off or fake my death to get out of the theatre. OK for a date night but go to an early showing then out to your local italian for dinner after and you will get lucky, guaranteed. 7/10 due to lack of explosions and bewbs.

[wharekura]

Lone Survivor was a good watch and you really felt for the Guys struggling to keep each other alive.

** spoilers ***


A scouting team on the hunt for a baddie behind enemy lines. fate and possible bad decision caused chaos which should have been a scout and out mission. however it does show not everyone with a beard and head warmer is the enemy - a bit like Schneider Lists.

Acting: 9/10, Storyline: 7/10, Action: 8/10, Violence: 5/10 (its a war movie - people will die), Water Works Female: 1/10, Water Works Male: 0/10 , Favorite scene: air support at the end, Dumb scene: Not descending from the copta sooner

[FlangMasterJ]

Doco called Tim's Vermeer. Blew my mind. 9/10

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3089388/

[mada]

Snowpiercer is pretty mean, not sure if its out at the movies as I watched it online about month or two ago. Apocolyptic sci-fi action flick. The world has gone to shit with an ice-age after global warming. The only thing left is a train which is divided between the classes. Those in the back try to rise up against the ruling class.





http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/snowpiercer/

[mada]

If you are into war movies and liked Band of Brothers etc. check out Generation War (English name) - aka Unsere M�tter Unsere V�ter (Our Mothers Our Fathers) Deutsch name. It's on youtube with subtitles under the German name.

A well made German mini-series that looks at the perspectives of the war from a group of ordinary young German friends. There has been some controversies about it (makes out that most of Eastern resistance were anti-Semitic, and the start doesn't make sense with it being 1941 and jews still living somewhat "happily" in Berlin etc) but it does go same way to show a perspective that has hardly been told - that of the non-Nazi draftees forced to fight in the war and some of the crimes they forced to commit.