The Movie Review Thread

[Akzle]

fletch lives

don't know how i've missed this for 3 decades.
late 80s comedy. clean humor and funny all the way through 9/10

the sweeney

pretty mindless POM action flick. good, though. 8/10

[FlangMasterJ]

Hell or High Water

I'm not sure why this is getting rave reviews. I found it lacking, uninspiring and pretty dull. Good acting by the cast but definitely overrated. 6/10

[Akzle]

infestation

The premise being

A slacker awakes to find himself weak and wrapped in a webbing; after realizing that the world has been taken over by giant alien insects, he wakes a ragtag group of strangers and together they fight for survival.

...should tell you whether it's going te be up your alley.

gratuitously C grade. with a capital C. every scene was overdone and contrived. every character a walking cliché.

I'm guessing they were angling for a sort of Starship Troopers vibe, and whether it was intentionally comical or not, i laffed more'n once, mostly at OTT injuries or deaths.

I'm fucking astounded they managed to make an hour and a half of it, but they did.

well played you low budget fokkers. well played.

9/10

[Akzle]

I know who killed me

meow. i saw it. and i read some reviews. and the reviews were universally negative. so i challenged myself to be bigger than the other meagre reviewers, to find the goodness in it.

but alas, even the mighty ax can only do so much, with so little.

featuring lindsay lohan, probably directed/produced by whoever was running her methodone clinic, given the... everything.

3 stripping scenes and a fuck one, and STILL no tits??! shame on everyone.

did some cutesy-artsy none-too-subtle "subconscious" imagery, which started out pretty trick, but the novelty wore off with overuse (~20 minutes) and blatancy (21 minutes) and by the full 110 it was just fucking laughable.

pretty hackneyed. it couldn't really decide what it was, some slash/gore, some cheesey horror, some almost genuine thriller, some drama(?) but all under an umbrella of shit.

if only lindsay had sold her drug-induced idea to some director with talent...and got her tits out, it could have been so much more.

3/10

[AllanB]

The Hateful Eight.

Excellent cast.

Nice imagery.

161 minute play time - a long movie. Often not a lot happening except imagery.


Good, yes.


BUT ..... I kept thinking that Tarantino is a bit overrated - he has this cult thing going on branching into mainstream interest but it's a wee bit same same.

Still - wouldn't it be great to be able to pop out a movie every few years knowing you'll make millions regardless of the subject matter or quality.


Django Unchained is a lot better. A lot better.


I give it bonus points for Curt Russell - He's bee non my TV and movies all my life and I'd have to say that age is sitting very well with him as a actor and his golden years are also his career's golden period. I'd like to see his skills pushed in a gritty emotional part.


So a Curt induced 7/10. It would be a 5 without him.

Tarantino groupies will disagree no doubt but I'd recommend you watch Clint Eastwoods Unforgiven over Hateful 8. Significantly better.

[HenryDorsetCase]

I give it bonus points for Curt Russell - He's bee non my TV and movies all my life and I'd have to say that age is sitting very well with him as a actor and his golden years are also his career's golden period. I'd like to see his skills pushed in a gritty emotional part.


So a Curt induced 7/10. It would be a 5 without him.

Tarantino groupies will disagree no doubt but I'd recommend you watch Clint Eastwoods Unforgiven over Hateful 8. Significantly better.

sometimes known as Kurt Russell also.

And his "golden period" IMO was working with John Carpenter in the 70's - his iconic roles were in THE THING and ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK (and ESCAPE FROM LA) but especially BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA.

Re THE HATEFUL EIGHT. I really liked it, and the fact it was meant to be screened in Cinemascope (but cut down because there are like four Cinemascope theatres left in the world). DJANGO is a full-on actioner. I hated De Caprio in it, and in fact think THE HATEFUL EIGHT is way better - especially having re-watched both fairly recently.

Nothing beats PULP FICTION of course.

[Akzle]

in bruges

quite enjoyed, has those two famous guys in it, playing bri'ish hitmen loik, but that's kinda just a feature rather than the plot.

very comedy, and the more hilarious for an irish accent on Farrell.

"ooo loook day're fellmin' a mudgit!"

not GREAT anything, but will heartily appeal to a wide audience i should think
9.5/10

the bucket list
jack torrance and nelson mandela fatally in hospital, then decide they want to tick off their bucket list, handily facilitated by jack being über rich.

another of those films protagonist=audience. (old people.) to whom it may be more appealing.

not great at all.

4/10

[AllanB]

sometimes known as Kurt Russell also.

And his "golden period" IMO was working with John Carpenter in the 70's - his iconic roles were in THE THING and ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK (and ESCAPE FROM LA) but especially BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA.

Re THE HATEFUL EIGHT. I really liked it, and the fact it was meant to be screened in Cinemascope (but cut down because there are like four Cinemascope theatres left in the world). DJANGO is a full-on actioner. I hated De Caprio in it, and in fact think THE HATEFUL EIGHT is way better - especially having re-watched both fairly recently.

Nothing beats PULP FICTION of course.

oops incorrect spelling - bit like spelling Cunt with a K.

Interesting - Both Kurt fans and differing opinions on his best work (I did like The Thing). And differing on the Quentin movies too. Plus I thought De Caprio played a most excellent Southern arsehole in DJango (the D is silent..).
Next you'll be telling me your Triumph is better than my Ducati

[Drew]

in bruges

quite enjoyed, has those two famous guys in it, playing bri'ish hitmen loik, but that's kinda just a feature rather than the plot.

very comedy, and the more hilarious for an irish accent on Farrell.

"ooo loook day're fellmin' a mudgit!"

not GREAT anything, but will heartily appeal to a wide audience i should think
9.5/10

"The only thing that's gonna change about you, is you might become a bigger cunt. Or have more cunt kids".

[Akzle]

"The only thing that's gonna change about you, is you might become a bigger cunt. Or have more cunt kids".

you retract that!

[Drew]

you retract that!

You take that back. You take that back about my fucking cunt kids!

[Akzle]

live free or die

i'v said it before: "an american comedy, that is to say, not fucken funny"
dumb and dumber meets... something else. not a bad story but just really lacklustre, and dry, so dry. dryer than your nana's flogged old box.

not utter shit, but hardly worth the time

6.4/10

rambo (the new one...)

old sly back for round 4. quite "reds under the bed" and some very graphic landmines, .50cals, etc but probably on par for a modern "action" flick.
don't quite know what it had to do with tho rambo story. features a lot of drunk camera-guy. (TERMINABLY FUCKING ANNOYING)

enjoyed, though.
7.5/10

shoot the duke

it was written in english. by a german who couldn't speak english.
a bit smokin' aces, a bit lock stock. all in crap english with half-translated jokes.
and i dunno the fuckwit who goes to a shoot out in white fucken pants. but there was two of em!

pretty predictable, and kinda justa-nother-one-of-THEM-storys but worth a twirl.

7.5/10

[Akzle]

postal

unappologetically low brow, and low budget, and it's all the more brilliant for it.

there's no big names, no big effects, just a ridiculous plot and lots of cheap guns. tits, shootouts, ridiculousity.

a massive win.

9/10

[Akzle]

parental guidance
wholesome family flick that pokes modern tech, and PCisms, and modern ideas about parenting. humourous enough i'll call it funny. well put together and despite being anchored in Murka and baseball, will be pretty familiar story to any western society. suitable for ages 10-100.

8.5/10

[AllanB]

The Martian

Ridley Scott

Mr Scott redeems himself for that Prometheus movie. As a side note - big Alien fan here, and drop the bucks on the BlueRay Prometheus the day it came out (I avoid theaters in CHCH...). Visually impressive, but after many viewings ..... WTF is really going on there? I have theories as do many.


Anyway - The Martian.

Lots of accolades from the critics tends to put it on my watch later list but I'm a Matt Damon fan so I gave it a whirl last night.


Very good on my rating level. I very much enjoyed the movie - Matt continues to impress and aside from a handful of 'really moments' in the plot it very much works.

A feel good flick.

Good supporting cast in the limited screen time the supports get.

Watching it again this week before I return the disk.


Now I await the next 'Alien' movie he is releasing this year .....