Drago
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Andy McNab was technical advisor to Michael Mann for that one.
What film did you watch last night?
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Nigeyy
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"Get Out" directed by Jordan Peele. With Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Bradley Whitford, Catherine Keener.
I watched this as I got the blu ray on sale for around a fiver, as well as based on its strong reviews I read from the online store where I bought it (world's second longest river) and when the movie was released.
Sometimes you watch something and just wonder if you are completely wrong, or if all the people who reviewed it were wrong...
While I can't say this was a bad movie, it was far, far from great and nowhere near a really good movie. I really felt like the story line was promising but took way too long to deliver. It's one of those movies that you think could have been way better.... A few plot holes too.
5/10
I watched this as I got the blu ray on sale for around a fiver, as well as based on its strong reviews I read from the online store where I bought it (world's second longest river) and when the movie was released.
Sometimes you watch something and just wonder if you are completely wrong, or if all the people who reviewed it were wrong...
While I can't say this was a bad movie, it was far, far from great and nowhere near a really good movie. I really felt like the story line was promising but took way too long to deliver. It's one of those movies that you think could have been way better.... A few plot holes too.5/10
Drago
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The Festival.
A last gasp to try and squeeze some life out of the Inbetweeners type comcept of school/uni age people behaving badly, and things going badly wrong in their pusrsuit of a legover. About as funny as a dose of the Nurembergs. I couldn't tell you how it ended as I actually fell into a coma 20 minutes in.
0/10.
A last gasp to try and squeeze some life out of the Inbetweeners type comcept of school/uni age people behaving badly, and things going badly wrong in their pusrsuit of a legover. About as funny as a dose of the Nurembergs. I couldn't tell you how it ended as I actually fell into a coma 20 minutes in.
0/10.
swee'pea99
Legendary Member
I saw that in the listings a few days back:
...and tho' my standards are very low, I decided that even I would have to draw a line at any film featuring a character described as a 'certified oddball'. Sounds like I had a narrow escape.
figbat
Slippery scientist
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- South Oxfordshire, UK
We're ploughing through the Marvel Cinematic Universe and last night reached Thor: Ragnarok. After the somewhat underwhelming Age of Ultron, through the surreal Dr Strange and the redeeming Black Panther, this one felt quite jarring. It is played for laughs a lot, with Thor ditching his mighty-hero-from-another-realm demeanour for a more witty, laid-back approach. I liked it. It lays the sci-fi on heavy, but that's how the MCU has developed. The character interplay was good and the humour was, well, humorous. I really hope Infinity War and End Game don't ruin the whole thing.
The Crofted Crest
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Two biopics using the same formula of talking heads commenting on a director's work.
First, QT8, where QT stands for Quentin Tarantino and 8 is how many films he's made. A procession of mainly Hollywood actors gushing (and I quite like a bit of gushing, you may have noticed) about what a fantastic guy QT is: best director, best scenario writer, best man to direct people of colour, a true feminist, the most knowledgeable person in Hollywood, everyone's BFF, the only person to make decent films in the past 50 years, a joy to work with, a perfectionist. The praise for his choux pastry skills, quilt designs and figure skating abilities seems to have been left on the cutting room floor. QT himself appears only as a cartoon figure, which is probably wise because he would have had to agree with all the sycophantic praise and make a bottom-hole out of himself, disagree self-deprecatingly with all the obsequious flattery and make a bottom-hole out of himself or sit on the fence and buttockly equidistance himself. A few amusing anecdotes and lots of best-of clips, but nary a whisper of a note of criticism. The initial tide of enthusiasm had ebbed to indifference within ten minutes and ten minutes later I was thinking more about that night's football match. If you like Tarantino and hang your critical faculties on the hatstand when you enter the kino, you'll love this movie
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrKGUQPRZ5o
Second, De Dick Maas Methode. Dick Maas is the most successful, box office-wise, director ever in the Netherlands. His films are in the crude, shocking and violent genre, sort of a cross between an unsophisticated Tarantino and a Benny Hill without moral restraints. Despite the social critique and keen eye for Dutch mores, it's the boobs and bums, blood and gore that pull in the crowds So, a procession of actors, cameramen, directors, producers, gaffers, grips, best boys and all the other exotic creatures of cinematic taxonomy extol Dick's virtues, criticise his weaknesses, explain how and why he made his films and the techniques involved and provide really insightful information about the man and the movie word. Dick is in the mix too, honestly and openly admitting his faults, decrying his business partner who made off with all the rights to his films and left him bankrupt.
The first clip is unfortunately in Dutch but still worth watching; the second has English subtitles but is from a crowdfunding campaign, not the film itself.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ad7sgdV_kRE
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qC7_sRh6320
First, QT8, where QT stands for Quentin Tarantino and 8 is how many films he's made. A procession of mainly Hollywood actors gushing (and I quite like a bit of gushing, you may have noticed) about what a fantastic guy QT is: best director, best scenario writer, best man to direct people of colour, a true feminist, the most knowledgeable person in Hollywood, everyone's BFF, the only person to make decent films in the past 50 years, a joy to work with, a perfectionist. The praise for his choux pastry skills, quilt designs and figure skating abilities seems to have been left on the cutting room floor. QT himself appears only as a cartoon figure, which is probably wise because he would have had to agree with all the sycophantic praise and make a bottom-hole out of himself, disagree self-deprecatingly with all the obsequious flattery and make a bottom-hole out of himself or sit on the fence and buttockly equidistance himself. A few amusing anecdotes and lots of best-of clips, but nary a whisper of a note of criticism. The initial tide of enthusiasm had ebbed to indifference within ten minutes and ten minutes later I was thinking more about that night's football match. If you like Tarantino and hang your critical faculties on the hatstand when you enter the kino, you'll love this movie
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrKGUQPRZ5o
Second, De Dick Maas Methode. Dick Maas is the most successful, box office-wise, director ever in the Netherlands. His films are in the crude, shocking and violent genre, sort of a cross between an unsophisticated Tarantino and a Benny Hill without moral restraints. Despite the social critique and keen eye for Dutch mores, it's the boobs and bums, blood and gore that pull in the crowds So, a procession of actors, cameramen, directors, producers, gaffers, grips, best boys and all the other exotic creatures of cinematic taxonomy extol Dick's virtues, criticise his weaknesses, explain how and why he made his films and the techniques involved and provide really insightful information about the man and the movie word. Dick is in the mix too, honestly and openly admitting his faults, decrying his business partner who made off with all the rights to his films and left him bankrupt.
The first clip is unfortunately in Dutch but still worth watching; the second has English subtitles but is from a crowdfunding campaign, not the film itself.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ad7sgdV_kRE
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qC7_sRh6320
Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
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- Northumberland
Watched The Gentlemen yesterday... probably need to watch it again to make sure I haven't missed anything!
swee'pea99
Legendary Member
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. Almost didn't, because I saw it when it came out, which wasn't that long ago. So glad I did. A stonewall masterpiece. 10/10. Next time it's on I'll watch it again.
Goon - I don't always watch "funny sport" comedies, but when I do I like them like Goon. Guys from American Pie and Ray Donovan are likeable in their roles, hockey is a background to fistfights and there is no Will Ferrel in sight.
In my league of funny sport movies it goes to the podium behind Dodgeball and Slapshot
4/5
In my league of funny sport movies it goes to the podium behind Dodgeball and Slapshot
4/5
Profpointy
Legendary Member
Wonderful film; a minor masterpiece even
I've lost count of how many tines I've seen this, and even though I know exactly what's coming I never get tired of it.
numbnuts
Legendary Member
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- Gone over the hill and far away
Men of Honour
