The Movie Review Thread

[Akzle]

shucks cunt. we'll make a critic of you yet.

[Akzle]

- bloody awesome - loved it.... Vicki cried... then fell asleed when it ended...

just like your sex life then?


BAZINGA

[HenryDorsetCase]

KUMIKO THE TREASURE HUNTER

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/kum...easure_hunter/


I really loved this. Wasnt expecting to (in our his n hers movie picks I picked STRANGE DAYS and SWMBO picked this). Young Japanese woman, obsessed with FARGO (the movie, not the place or the (excellent) TV series) goes to Wisconsin in mid winter to get the treasure Steve Buscemi's character buried in the movie.

Its basically a character study. Way better than my description makes it sound.

Do yourself a favour.

[pritch]

shucks cunt. we'll make a critic of you yet.

Drugs! I forgot - there's nothing about them either.

[Akzle]

Drugs! I forgot - there's nothing about them either.

and of course you just happened to remember that now

[Akzle]

red sands

actually rather enjoyed it. it's low budget. predictable and linear, and over uses cliché horror devices.
but it's got some neat camera work, creature, and artsy-ness.
a shame that "fuzzy" and "dark" were so prevalent, being clearer wouldn't have subtracted anything, but i guess shadows make up what budget doesn't cover...

not great, but solidly good.
8/10

[Akzle]

recoil

with acting heavy-weights with names like "stone cold" and "machete" this is pretty much exactly what you'd expect. an hour and a half of mindless shit.
and tits doesn't even get them out.

is what it is which is nothing great. 5/5

[R650R]

Sightseers, british black comedy, not too bad 7/10

[Akzle]

trainwreck: my life as an idiot

A dramatic comedy about a self-induced attention-deficit
disordered, learning disabled, Tourette's syndrome suffering,
balance impaired, alcoholic young man from the Upper East Side of
Manhattan and the gold-digging girl who inspires him to try to get
it together.

no faggots, this isn't my autobiography.

what it is, is a not very funny comedy, but a rather well played portrayal of addicts and misfits and mental disorder.
and stifler (a lá american pie) actually does it very well, and blondie mc tits grace kelly is equally great as the kept nympho ex-addict-ho.

everyone is beautifully cut, coiffed and shot (esp tits) and while the whole thing lacks much of a point, it's the journey not the destination, and other clichés.

actually quite ranking it. 8/10

-edit-
uprating. 8.5/10
it's stuck with me, and it really was brilliantly played.

[OddDuck]

Tell No One.

French, subtitles... OK I've lost at least half of you right there, which is a shame because it's actually pretty bloody good.

Man and wife are on romantic tryst when he gets knocked out and she gets brutally murdered. Eight years on, he's still walking wounded, going through the motions and not doing much more with his life. The cops want him for her murder but could never pin it on him. Two (more) bodies turn up at the site, the investigation gets reopened, then he gets an email. It's a link to a webcam, showing a public escalator somewhere. It could be anywhere. She walks into the frame, looks straight at the camera, walks out again...

It's the thriller that Hitchcock would make if he were alive and writing / directing in France, circa 2006. Highly enjoyable.

8.5 / 10

[Akzle]

the mechanic

it's statham-man. for a mere 1.5 hour.
but not only statham man. he gets some justin timberlake looking sidekick motherfucker.

quite enjoyable, all things considered. didn't feel the heavy hand of gunplay or biffo, and some great cinematography... i suppose that's the word, or imagery.
sure it's statham-man, and there's guns and splosms. but it wasn't gratuitous and didn't feel cheap far it.

8/10

[Drew]

the mechanic

it's statham-man. for a mere 1.5 hour.
but not only statham man. he gets some justin timberlake looking sidekick motherfucker.

quite enjoyable, all things considered. didn't feel the heavy hand of gunplay or biffo, and some great cinematography... i suppose that's the word, or imagery.
sure it's statham-man, and there's guns and splosms. but it wasn't gratuitous and didn't feel cheap far it.

8/10

I liked the movie, thought the guy playing the apprentice sucked.

[Akzle]

I liked the movie, thought the guy playing the apprentice sucked.

meh, he played the gay trouble yoof, alcoholic misfit wannabe well.

[pritch]

I wanted to see this when it was in the theatre a few months back but didn't get off my arse and go. So when I saw it listed on Apple I thought "stuff it" and and paid to watch it at home. My chairs are more comfortable anyway, but it'll probably be free to air somewhere any minute now.

For some years the Tory party in Britain has pursued an austerity programme. Some economists thought it was completely unnecessary because unlike Greece and others, Britain was not tied to the Euro. There was a lot of toughening up on benefits and people who were manifestly unable to work were forced to seek work. Failing to do so could mean the benefit was stopped. Reportedly there were cases where people actually did starve to death.

Ken Loach, the director, has a reputation for depicting "gritty social realism", this film is no exception. Loach, although he studied law at Oxford, has a body of work that does suggest he is a committed socialist, and he turned down an OBE.

"I Daniel Blake" portrays the experience of a sixty year old joiner who has never been out of work - until he suffers a heart attack. Unable to work he seeks a benefit.
At the benefit office he meets a young woman who has moved up north with her kids to avoid being put in a one room shelter for the homeless in London.

At this point I should mention that with the movie being set "up north" there are some Geordie accents and these can give some people trouble.

The movie basically follows the experiences of the pair as they try tp adjust to their new circumstances. It is laid on thick, but not too thick, for some people this was their reality. If you are a "right thinking man" you'll hate this. If you need movies with sex, drugs, and rock n roll, or happy endings (no, not that kind), you may not find much to enjoy. It is worth a watch though.

For some time I've wanted to watch "Breaking Bad" and I've just found out where I can watch it for now't. - provided I can watch it all in thirty days. By then GoT should be back?

[Akzle]

doghouse

the opening has promise, unfortunately it's not really enough to carry it through their interpretation of zombie-wimmen.
The problem. i reckon, is that they basically had a half dozen she-zombie costumes, and then extras, so they ended up over-using the 6, without developing them as charcters, and so missed the mark on both horde-mentality that zombies should have, and any depth they could have had in personalising them.

it's british, too, but not at all in the 28 days way. lads and pubs and fisticuffs. kindee in the vein of "the end of the world"
the lads do play it well, but at the end it's just genre-confused.
there's scant deaths (probably because they couldn't afford any more actors) and no guns.

not greata at all.
5.5/10