The Movie Preview, Review, & Recommendation Thread pt. II

Did anyone watch Mission Impossible 7 from last year? Was it any good? I'm debating whether it's worth $7.
 
Did anyone watch Mission Impossible 7 from last year? Was it any good? I'm debating whether it's worth $7.
Not worth the money. Its streaming free on Paramount and there are plenty of free month subscription codes out there.
 
I watched Role Play - mainly because of Kaley Cuoco. The story is pretty basic - Cuoco pretends she's some travelling sales person but really is an assassin. David Oyelowo is her husband. They do a pretend date night at a New York hotel. Oyelowo arrives late so Cuoco gets hit on at the bar by Bill Nighy who turns out to be another assassin. Then Oyelowo starts to discover Cuoco's real identity after she takes out Nighy.

Cuoco isn't ageing very well compared to her 38 years of age.
 
Against Rambo's recommendation I watched Mission Impossible 7.

It's a string of lengthy choreographed action sequences stitched together across some amazing backdrops with brief pauses to delve into a Matrix lite story about AI.

When did Mission Impossible turn Ethan Hunt into a merciful person? Tom Cruise could have solved a lot of problems in the nearly 3 hour movie if he just killed his enemies and not knock them unconscious. I remember earlier Mission Impossible movies being quite a blood bath.

Of the four 30s-40 women Cruise acts with - Hayley Atwell, Rebecca Ferguson, Vanessa Kirby, Pom Klementieff - Kirby looks the best.
 
When did Mission Impossible turn Ethan Hunt into a merciful person? Tom Cruise could have solved a lot of problems in the nearly 3 hour movie if he just killed his enemies and not knock them unconscious. I remember earlier Mission Impossible movies being quite a blood bath.

And this is why John Wick is a better hero than Ethan Hunt :)
 
Looking at the Oscar results last night it seems Apple blew a bunch of money on Scorsese and didn't win anything. Netflix banked on Maestro and didn't win anything either (after blowing their money on Scorsese with The Irishman).
 
I had a few old ones on the television whilst cooking this past weekend.

Ford vs Ferrari - I had no idea Christian Bale was British. Initially I thought it was strange Matt Damon was speaking in his natural accent and Bale wasn't because I had always assumed he was American. I only knew Lee Iacocca of automobile exec fame.

The Hill - Dennis Quaid is slowly becoming supporting actor in his senior years.

Babylon - Is it a self critique of Hollywood excess? This is like giving money to a movie maker who has a grudge and unlimited casting/production freedom and this is what you get. A black musician putting on black face. If it was about transition from silent to talkies I'd rather Singin' in the Rain.
 
Dune II I’d like Emo Star Wars. A little less palace intrigue and a lot more action, but still every bit as good as the first film. Worth seeing on the big screen!

I’m not sure about casting Zendaya though. She is physically striking and can act, but she just seemed too American in that role.

9/10
 
I watched You Hurt My Feelings. Tobias Menzies and Julia Dreyfus. Menzies is a psychiatrist and Dreyfus is a writer. They have a son who was destined to achieve something greater but doesn't fulfill his parents' dreams for him. Menzies listens to his clients moan all day. Dreyfus is writing a book after a memoir that didn't do well and hears that Menzies never really liked her writing anyway. He then has his own marriage counselling issues. Throw on the son blaming the parents he can't write a play and achieve critical acclaim and it's 90 minutes of watching real life people with prosaic real life struggles on screen. I felt kind of sorry for Tobias Menzies. He seemed the sane one.
 
Lady Gaga is in Joker 2. I thought she was trying to win a best actress Oscar with art films.
 
Lady Gaga is in Joker 2. I thought she was trying to win a best actress Oscar with art films.

Doesn’t seem like the worst platform to me:

In September 2019, Joker was awarded the Golden Lion, the festival's highest prize, at the 76th Venice International Film Festival.[213] At the 92nd Academy Awards, the film won the Best Actor (Phoenix) and Best Original Score awards. It received overall eleven nominations (including Best Picture) from the ceremony, breaking the record of eight held by The Dark Knight for the most nominations received by a film based on a comic book, comic strip or graphic novel.[214] Hildur Guðnadóttir also became the first woman to win an original score Oscar since The Full Monty (1997) in 1998. At the 73rd British Academy Film Awards, the film won Best Actor in a Leading Role (Phoenix), Best Casting and Best Original Music out of a leading eleven nominations including Best Film.The film was nominated for four Golden Globe Awards for the 77th ceremony, winning the awards for Best Original Score and Best Actor (Phoenix). The film was nominated for seven awards at the 25th Critics' Choice Awards, winning Best Actor (Phoenix) and Best Score and was included in the American Film Institute and Cahiers du Cinéma's top 10 films of 2019.

Having won an award at the 26th Screen Actors Guild Awards for Phoenix's performance, Joker also received nominations from other guilds including the Writers Guild of America Awards and the Producers Guild of America. It won a Best Period and/or Character Make-Up in a Feature-Length Motion Picture award from the Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild
 
Interesting. The only thing I remember about the 77th Golden Globes was Ricky Gervais and his savage ridicule of Hollywood.

That and him saying superhero movies were lazy and derivative and mostly involved pumping steroids and working out.

But yeah whatever gives her the Oscar she is looking for.
 
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I guess the premise never intrigued me before. But it's actually a great film. It isn't about romance or love at all, but rather about life, death, and the order and rules we live with.

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I've never heard of this film before, despite it being directed by Clint Eastwood. Underrated and a solid kid/roadtrip flick.


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Once again, I never found the premise that interesting. The tagline to me is a terrible indicator of what the film is actually about. It's again not a love flick and more of Seinfeld-esque look at 2 New Yorkers over time.

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Sort of a Swedish girl punk band version of the Sandlot. I thought it was fun.
 
Last ditch effort to remember the name of a film I saw 2-3 years ago. Low budget, dark, brooding and atmospheric. Dude invites his ex lover to holiday at a mansion, tricking her to think that her current bf will join them. She wears lots of slinky dresses, and we have cold dark shots of a near empty modern mansion by the coast. He ends up killing her (or she kills him). Maybe there was a cult in the basement? I really just played it in the background one night and thought the chick was super hot. Now that I want to go back and watch it, I can’t recall enough details to find it. Might have been on Prime.

Edit: I found it! Compulsion, also released as Sadie.
 
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Reservoir Dogs with vampires. It has the hot chick from Vida, Fezco from Euphoria and a few other familiar faces. 6/10
 
Watched Godzilla minus 1 finally. Really excellent. Gets a little bogged down in overly japanese drama but for a movie on such a small budget it was very impressively done.
 
Madam Web is entertaining and forgettable, derivative and very unimaginative. Better than I expected, 6/10
 
Civil War is a fucking terrible movie that has absolutely no purpose and I'm completely stunned that it was even produced much less liked by people.
 
Electric State: 6/10

Atlas: 5.5/10

No point reviewing. Both live up to the 10 second previews and nothing more.
 
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. VERY Guy Ritchie (more so than usual it seemed) and horribly over-acted, but it was mildly entertaining. Might have a new love interest for Dropbear Dropbear and Fwiffo Fwiffo . 6/10
 
I rewatched the Bourne Trilogy (yes I'm ignoring the 4th and 5th films). The Bourne Supremacy (2nd) is the best one.
 
Civil War is a fucking terrible movie that has absolutely no purpose and I'm completely stunned that it was even produced much less liked by people.
Seriously. What the fuck was that? Aside from being a little edgy and reflecting some the current trends in American politics or whatever, the old story of war correspondents as vultures isn’t exactly new. It’s just a mess of a film.
 
Seriously. What the fuck was that? Aside from being a little edgy and reflecting some the current trends in American politics or whatever, the old story of war correspondents as vultures isn’t exactly new. It’s just a mess of a film.
I think his whole goal was to make it seem like journalists were the most important people imaginable and the end result produced the exact opposite effect.

I will say the blowing up of Washington and the killing of the Trump-like president was pretty cool. The soundtrack was fucking awful.
 
Seriously. What the fuck was that? Aside from being a little edgy and reflecting some the current trends in American politics or whatever, the old story of war correspondents as vultures isn’t exactly new. It’s just a mess of a film.

I think his whole goal was to make it seem like journalists were the most important people imaginable and the end result produced the exact opposite effect.

I will say the blowing up of Washington and the killing of the Trump-like president was pretty cool. The soundtrack was fucking awful.
Haven't watched Civil War but everyone says The Bang Bang Club does the journalist angle a lot better. It was also a good movie by itself.
 
I think his whole goal was to make it seem like journalists were the most important people imaginable and the end result produced the exact opposite effect.

I will say the blowing up of Washington and the killing of the Trump-like president was pretty cool. The soundtrack was fucking awful.

There are so many books and films about how special war correspondents are - because they all return safely from their wars and then write about themselves. This one really fails to add any depth, though I thought maybe they were trying to criticise their amorality - stuff like taking photos of your friend dying after they saved your life, for example. Or letting the other guy bleed out in the backseat without helping him. Happily watching prisoners executed as long as they get a good shot. But it was such a mess, it’s hard to know if there was any ‘message’.

I used to love the band Suicide. I thought putting them on the soundtrack was cool, but it really didn’t get with the scenes.

They were trying to hard to be bi-partisan, the silly Texas-California coalition versus the four term president. The whole conflict was stripped of ideological or context for the conflict. So we are supposed to say ‘good/bad people on both sides’.


HeHaven't watched Civil War but everyone says The Bang Bang Club does the journalist angle a lot better. It was also a good movie by itself.

Haven’t seen that one. The Year of Living Dangerously and Salvador are good - as is Full Metal Jacket. I know I’ve seen or read stuff more critical of war journalists, but blanking on titles right now.
 
There are so many books and films about how special war correspondents are - because they all return safely from their wars and then write about themselves. This one really fails to add any depth, though I thought maybe they were trying to criticise their amorality - stuff like taking photos of your friend dying after they saved your life, for example. Or letting the other guy bleed out in the backseat without helping him. Happily watching prisoners executed as long as they get a good shot. But it was such a mess, it’s hard to know if there was any ‘message’.

I used to love the band Suicide. I thought putting them on the soundtrack was cool, but it really didn’t get with the scenes.

They were trying to hard to be bi-partisan, the silly Texas-California coalition versus the four term president. The whole conflict was stripped of ideological or context for the conflict. So we are supposed to say ‘good/bad people on both sides’.




Haven’t seen that one. The Year of Living Dangerously and Salvador are good - as is Full Metal Jacket. I know I’ve seen or read stuff more critical of war journalists, but blanking on titles right now.
In preparation for a trip to South Korea in September - we are watching Korean movies. "Parasite" is just being released on Netflix here I think - so will watch it again. Theres a few others lined up.

Last week we watched "Train to Busan" again - great fairly light hearted Zombie movie about - er zombies on er um er.. a Train to Busan.

As we are going to spend a (very organised) week in Gwangju (Ms has a group art exhibition) we watched "A Taxi Driver" - its a film based on a true story of a reporter/war correspondent and a taxi driver during to famous democracy uprising in Gwangju in the 80s where officially at least 200 were shot dead by troops..


 
Slogged through the first half of the new Mad Max film. I suppose if you liked the last one, you’ll like this one. The whole campy wasteland apocalypse thing doesn’t do much for me, though I loved the original avenging cop film.
 
Find Me Falling with Harry Connick Jr and Agni Scott. The latter would have looked great in her younger years. It's set in Cyprus.
 

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