The Movie Review Thread

[Crasherfromwayback]

The Shape Of Water. As always, the man is a master. Go see it.

[FlangMasterJ]

The Shape Of Water. As always, the man is a master. Go see it.

Sheeeeit! Gonna go this weekend. Amping.

[Crasherfromwayback]

Sheeeeit! Gonna go this weekend. Amping.

Yeah, I was hanging out to see it. His best film since Pans I reckon.

[FlangMasterJ]

Yeah, I was hanging out to see it. His best film since Pans I reckon.

Did you enjoy Crimson Peak? Aesthetically I thought it was great but obviously didn't wow me because just had to look back to see what his last flick was.

[Crasherfromwayback]

Did you enjoy Crimson Peak? Aesthetically I thought it was great but obviously didn't wow me because just had to look back to see what his last flick was.

Haven't seen it actually.

[Akzle]

the purge: anarchy

couldn't really be bothered with it. seen the first and this didn't seem to want to add anything to it.

26:20

[FlangMasterJ]

The Killing of a Sacred Deer

Directed by the guy who did The Lobster also starring Colin Farrell. This film has a great feel. It's very unnerving. I loved it.

8.5/10

[Akzle]

sabotage
swazinigger. but, liek, post-govenator swazi (2014) - he's old, but still handles his B-I. infact probably better than his earlier typecast stuff.
pretty well put together, nothing too OTT, Pretty toit CQ and maneuvers.
nothing challenging, but a decent action flick which manages to feel some kind of original.

8/10

a million ways to die in the west
the comedic stylings of seth mcfarlane (á la family guy fame). - a bit hit and miss for me, some rofl moments, and some deadpan supposed-funnies, some shining wit, and some literal shit: exactly as you'd expect from farlane.
on the whole: more good than bad.
charlize theron's boobs, and some other famous people (liam neeson (gets a daisy put in his unconscious arse), neil patrick harris (has a moustache) and all the incidentals all put it on brilliantly. long for a comedy at 2 hours but hardly drags it's feet, and i suppose if you looked sideways and squinted you could call it a romance as well.

7.5/10

april rain
low budget, ignorant/racist, yank propaganda, and much WTF.
not great. really.
some scenes were good, some acting was good, but then there was the majority which was just... shitty.
it felt like it was trying to accomplish too much - too many sidelines, not enough cohesion, which wouldn't have worked in a big movie, let alone this (presumably TV release).
I mean - they put on a "chase" between two fucking vespas (a chase that has little relevance or particular outcome).
Special mention must go to luke goss, but that's about it. i don't know why anyone else consented to be in it, or allowed it to be produced.

great big
3/10

a scanner darkly
by the eponymous book. rather orwellian, thematically.
done in an animated-over-film style (which is cool) though would like to see the same movie without it as i can just picture those actors in those scenes IRL and it'd be funnier.

keenu is keenu. harrelson does the druggo thing (think hunger games, not zombieland) which works well with robert downey Jr as the paranoid, also druggo type. (think fear and loathing) which keenu wrecks frequently.
also has wynona rider boobs.

as a story - great. animation - great idea, not so good ofter an hour and a half.
but as an actual film i have to rate it low. i get what it was trying to do. and i suppose it did it. it just wasn't very enjoyable.
maybe if i was stoneder. or drunker. or not enduring substance withdrawls.

5.5/10

danny the dog
jet li and moogoo freeman.
jet stars as an philosophical old blind guy who fixes pianos, and moogoo is an indentured mob enforcer...

kidding. but you'd guess that if you've ever seen a movie before. both of them do exactly the thing they always do. plot isn't groundbreaking. neat kung fu shit. pretty silly mash of genre.

6.5/10

Seeing as you liked that, if you haven't seen it, make sure you watch *Eastern Promises*. Fucking brilliant film.

eastern promises
i'd stop shy of calling it "fucking brilliant" but it's pretty good.
viggo, armen and nomi all stand out, but everyone's pretty good. well put together, bit confused by why the guy needed a retarded son - wasn't pertinent to the plot, few other niggles like that.
felt like it could have a sequel which i'm not sure would be a good thing or not. and it's a shame (spoiler)

9/10

[FlangMasterJ]

eastern promises
i'd stop shy of calling it "fucking brilliant" but it's pretty good.
viggo, armen and nomi all stand out, but everyone's pretty good. well put together, bit confused by why the guy needed a retarded son - wasn't pertinent to the plot, few other niggles like that.
felt like it could have a sequel which i'm not sure would be a good thing or not. and it's a shame (spoiler)

9/10

What did you think of Viggo's dong in this film?

[Akzle]

What did you think of Viggo's dong in this film?

uhh. it's really of no consequence to me...

[AllanB]

The Shape Of Water. As always, the man is a master. Go see it.

Not seen it yet.

BUT

From the previews the fish character looks like a rip-off of the fish character in Hell Boy.

And in Hell boy there was a flash back to the 50's scene (when they caught the fish dude) and the setting looks just the same.

Just saying ........... it ain't that new or special as a concept.

[FlangMasterJ]

Not seen it yet.

BUT

From the previews the fish character looks like a rip-off of the fish character in Hell Boy.

And in Hell boy there was a flash back to the 50's scene (when they caught the fish dude) and the setting looks just the same.

Just saying ........... it ain't that new or special as a concept.

Just making sure you know it's the same director yeah?

[R650R]

girl with the dragon tattoo, the
aw hell.
it has daniel kwag in it. and (presumably to appease the yanks) focuses too much on him, although i think this is deffo one of the better roles i've seen him in.
some tasteful nudity. and some decidedly less tasteful and more... rapey.
it's hard not to be captivated(?) by the actress, she's supremely comfortable in her own skin and just... delivers. Though generally reticent, i'm guessing that's a fair portrayal of the character and she has a subtlety that's very effective.
Bit much fuckery with finding photographs (the whole thing is 2.something hours long) but it is a hell of a story and that's my only real complaint of it.

9/10

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The other two films in triology are good too, kicked hornets nest and something else similar.... Based on Seig Laarsons fiction books they are said to be based on real life stories where he cant name names without being finished off.... He also writes non fiction books exposing non heterosexuality and corruption in Swedish politicas but they are very dry, slow and dead boring to read in comparison....

[R650R]

Netflix....

Dirty money, excellent doco series on recent scandels, watched all but the last episode which of course is a predictable dump on Trump. 9/10 (be a 10 without the trump shite)
Episode one is awesome, reveals a lot more detail and scope about the VW emmisions scandal than what was ever in the news....
And not in order rest about... Big money buying up big pharma companies and racking up prices exponentially leads to corporate asswipe going to jail.... Scummy payday loan provider with nasty fine print who racks people into debt and buys his way into top level motorsport... also looking at jail time..... Oh the beauty is the detail on HSBC bank being the worlds biggest launderer of drug/terrorism money and when told to sort their shit out deliberately hire some loser with no idea (in his own words lol) to 'manage' the new oversight process lol.....

Bill Hicks Revelations and also Sane Man stand up comedy 7/10

Comedians in cars getting Coffee with Seinfeld... mostly shit but the one with Sarah Parker from sex and city in her stationwagon is cool....

The Polka King 7/10 nice guy immigrant slowly digs himself deeper into pyramid scheme ripping the elderly, true story.... about Polish Jan Lewan (played by jack black)

War Machine with Brad Pitt 8/10 ties into the dirty money story in afganistan and the general who lost his career over careless words action around media as a side story. Mostly good action/comedy

13 hours: Secret Story of Benghazi 9/10 Great action flick about the Embassy and staff left to burn by Hillary and co.... Santized a bit from the real truth but pretty damn good flick

Babylon Season one. Pretty cool modern uk cop drama about dept trying to improve its image 9/10

The Force 10/10 Epic fly on the wall doco about Oakland PD trying to lift their game and restore public faith. Features some gritty shootings of citizens, investigation process and even shows some of the officers involved. Ends with the time when the sex trafficking and rape by officers of a vulnerable teen girl, heads roll and mayor kicks soime ass to the kerb....

[R650R]

Gods of Egypt 8/10 Pretty cool action flick, good sounds.

More fantasy than reality based but ggod flick once you get past white people playing the roles of arabs with cultured English accents, some nice female bodies about in flick....