The Movie Review Thread

[OddDuck]

... and for something completely different, I just saw The Guilty. Absolutely no Michael Bay type goings-on anywhere.

Danish flick, subtitles, I already know that most of you stopped there. It's going to get remade. It'll be about a year tops before there's an English and / or US version of the same thing.

One disgraced cop relegated to 111 call center duty, one night, one very disturbing series of phone calls, starting with a panicked and distraught woman telling the man in the background that she's calling her daughter... it's a kidnap in progress. He's just got a phone and the voices over the wire. The movie never leaves the call center so you have to imagine everything that's going on at the other end of the line.

It's raw and very tight, very well done.

[pritch]

... and for something completely different, I just saw The Guilty. Absolutely no Michael Bay type goings-on anywhere.

Danish flick, subtitles, I already know that most of you stopped there. It's going to get remade. It'll be about a year tops before there's an English and / or US version of the same thing.

One disgraced cop relegated to 111 call center duty, one night, one very disturbing series of phone calls, starting with a panicked and distraught woman telling the man in the background that she's calling her daughter... it's a kidnap in progress. He's just got a phone and the voices over the wire. The movie never leaves the call center so you have to imagine everything that's going on at the other end of the line.

It's raw and very tight, very well done.

Sounds good. Generally I prefer the originals to the Hollywood remakes; 'Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' etc f'rinstance. Where did you see it?

[HenryDorsetCase]

... and for something completely different, I just saw The Guilty. Absolutely no Michael Bay type goings-on anywhere.

Danish flick, subtitles, I already know that most of you stopped there. It's going to get remade. It'll be about a year tops before there's an English and / or US version of the same thing.

One disgraced cop relegated to 111 call center duty, one night, one very disturbing series of phone calls, starting with a panicked and distraught woman telling the man in the background that she's calling her daughter... it's a kidnap in progress. He's just got a phone and the voices over the wire. The movie never leaves the call center so you have to imagine everything that's going on at the other end of the line.

It's raw and very tight, very well done.

Agree absolutely. I take it you've seen the Tom Hardy "vehicle*" LOCKE?? Similar sort of territory and very well done.

*sorry

[OddDuck]

Saw The Guilty via... (deep breath) DVD rental from Wgtn public library*.

Yeah it's a pretty clunky method but a lot of the goodies from the festivals come back that way. Saw Locke, very similar movie, maybe I was tired on the night or something but somehow it just didn't work out.

*: I love my library and deeply miss Central's enormous stack of serendipitous goodness.

[HenryDorsetCase]

I am watching that "6 UNDERGROUND" on Netflix. Fucking dire. Ryan Reynolds is good, but hardly stretched, and not really given anything to do. Typical Michael Bay bullshit. Decent chase scene in the first few minutes but very reminiscent of the one in RONIN which was done better.

Insufficient nudity too. Just some hookers gyrating in their bras and pants. Avoid. 1/10

Now, see attached for my thoughts on THE RISE OF SKYWALKER

[F5 Dave]

Stargate. The basic premise was travel through a portal, a wormhole to an ancient planet based on Egyptian culture. The team show up near an ancient building and encountered creepy as shit doghead mythical creatures. So far so good.

It then takes a dive to the omnidreadful. That's a word I just made up.

After a bit of screwing around the professor dude, who studied Egyptian hieroglyphics, could suddenly fluently speak the fucking language. Next the despotic ruler sun God Ra, turns out to be a super gay little kid.

Ok I'm glossing over some details as this was 25 years since I saw this pile of crap, but I'm still angry about it .

I was my $10 back, inflation adjusted against the pitance I was surviving on which would have been better channeled into Vodka or Adult themed magazines.

[husaberg]

Stargate. The basic premise was travel through a portal, a wormhole to an ancient planet based on Egyptian culture. The team show up near an ancient building and encountered creepy as shit doghead mythical creatures. So far so good.

It then takes a dive to the omnidreadful. That's a word I just made up.

After a bit of screwing around the professor dude, who studied Egyptian hieroglyphics, could suddenly fluently speak the fucking language. Next the despotic ruler sun God Ra, turns out to be a super gay little kid.

Ok I'm glossing over some details as this was 25 years since I saw this pile of crap, but I'm still angry about it .

I was my $10 back, inflation adjusted against the pitance I was surviving on which would have been better channeled into Vodka or Adult themed magazines.

IMO james Spader was better in movies when paired with Maggie Gyllenhaal.

[HenryDorsetCase]

IMO james Spader was better in movies when paired with Maggie Gyllenhaal.

SECRETARY.... mmmm hmmmmm

[pritch]

Just watched something called SAS on YouTube, just as well it was free. A star studded cast, most of whom number among the unemployed for the duration of the movie. I slept through about half of it. I did see enough to note that I'd seen much of it in a YouTube clip by an SAS guy as examples of things the SAS would never do.

I'd absolutely recommend this to anyone suffering from insomnia.

[F5 Dave]

Ohh yes that sounds like me,

[OddDuck]

The Happytime Murders. With Melissa McCarthy and a lot of puppets.

It's OK to actually alright. Probably best when a bit tired and in need of cheap laughs... it'd be interesting to see this back to back with Meet The Feebles, it's pretty similar territory.

[F5 Dave]

Oh now I must watch Meet the Feebles again.

Been awake , should have looked up that SAS clip dammit.

[pritch]

There have been free movies on YouTube for some time as y'all are probably aware. Quality was ummm variable(?) but the price was right.

Just lately there seem to be a lot more. I'm paying Netflix but mostly watching westerns and such on YouTube.

[F5 Dave]

Off to see star wars tonight. Don't get out to movies often and still excited by anything to do with star wars just because of the first one (IV) at an impressionable age. Obviously then came the clangers 1,2 & 3, but ya know. . .

[F5 Dave]

Well, after HDCs musings; I was surprised at the amount of nudity.