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

I saw "Land of Mine" (aka "Under Sandet") on YouTube the other night. I had seen it twice when it was in theatrical release earlier this year. One of the best movies I've ever seen.
 
Saw three movies this weekend.

Baby Driver - excellent. Really really fun.
Dunkirk - great, bad editing, but a really good movie. The British Left will hate it.
Valerian - blech. Pretty but a terrible, ridiculous, boring story, dripping with SJW nonsense. Really bad casting as well, although Cara Deleyebrows was better than I thought she'd be.
 
John Lee Pettimore III said:
Saw three movies this weekend.

Baby Driver - excellent. Really really fun.
Dunkirk - great, bad editing, but a really good movie. The British Left will hate it.
Valerian - blech. Pretty but a terrible, ridiculous, boring story, dripping with SJW nonsense. Really bad casting as well, although Cara Deleyebrows was better than I thought she'd be.
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Can't wait to see it:



Scherensammler said:
Yes it is. Watched it last night (this time without skipping forward). Felt like way too long to stay interested. The CGI sequences looked sooo artificial.
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I hear that it's worth watching for David Beckham's cameo appearance alone. The perfect example of why acting should be left to the professionals and not your best buddy drinking mates.
 
I finally saw Hacksaw Ridge. Is this movie trying to elicit sympathy for the imperial fighting Japanese? because it's not humanly possible...
 
The Lost City of Z. Absolutely beautiful movie on Percy Fawcett life. Highly recommended. A gem. Reminded me of the Moutains of the Moon by Bob Rafelson. It will change you from Marvel universe shit.

 
I'm watching Viceroy's House. You know what's amazing? Jinnah, Gandhi and Nehru all studied and trained in Britain. University of London. Cambridge.

Hugh Bonneville still sometimes comes off as Lord Grantham though.
 
formby said:
Why is it amazing?
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Because they all trained and came of intellectual maturity in the country they wanted to be free from the yoke of. Sort of reminds me of all those al Qaeda people who studied in the States.

It makes me question their use of ethnic attire. Sometimes they wear it - for popular rallies with the common Indian, but then in posh and official settings you see them in a business suit and tie. Which image of them is authentic? This is with the exception of Gandhi although he was in different attire as a budding lawyer.

It reminds me a bit of Mugabe who rails against the whites but then ends up having a Rolls Royce, embarks on London visits, and has tea whilst watching cricket. You can't be more hypocritical than that.
 
Its a long time since many white guys were any good at cricket
 
The "Baywatch" movie is out. The bad reviews and poor performance at the box office do not surprise me.
It's just a collection of bad jokes and foul language. I could not have cared less about any of the characters or the stupid plot.
If you have watched the Red band trailer you've already seen the "best" bits.
 
Scherensammler said:
The "Baywatch" movie is out. The bad reviews and poor performance at the box office do not surprise me.
It's just a collection of bad jokes and foul language. I could not have cared less about any of the characters or the stupid plot.
If you have watched the Red band trailer you've already seen the "best" bits.
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How does Priyanka Chopra look? That was the only reason why I wanted to watch it. Then I realised she's not a lifeguard.
 
Fwiffo said:
How does Priyanka Chopra look? That was the only reason why I wanted to watch it. Then I realised she's not a lifeguard.
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I think she is past her prime (the neck is just plain ugly), despite the tight dresses.
I don't get the American thinking that high price tight dress equals classiness.
Just go and watch the trailer. Her screen time is rather limited, most of it is taken up by the Rocks fat smile.
 
Scherensammler said:
I guess she just isn't my type. And that wrinkly neck is off-putting. Seems to be a prominent feature here in the UK, even on younger aged women.
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She's 35. Would you rather the ones pumped up with botox?
 
Fwiffo said:
She's 35. Would you rather the ones pumped up with botox?
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Salma Hayek looks a lot hotter despite her age. No lizard neck...

BTW, I found "The Hitman's bodyguard" way too long and not really that great. Watch the trailer and you have most of the good scenes.
 
Scherensammler said:
The "Baywatch" movie is out. The bad reviews and poor performance at the box office do not surprise me.
It's just a collection of bad jokes and foul language. I could not have cared less about any of the characters or the stupid plot.
If you have watched the Red band trailer you've already seen the "best" bits.
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Very sadly, I came to the original Baywatch after Big Wednesday. Anything that approached surf culture and coming of age drama afterwards without the same level of respect towards comedy and tragedy was doomed for failure.
 
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watched two movies that really went to reinforce why i don't watch many movies nowadays:

first, saw wonder woman. what a horrendous pile of shit. really awful cgi and this overwhelmingly bad acting made for such a shitty movie. i actually skipped through several of the sections. the plot made no sense whatsoever and i kept wondering how long the movie had left.

then, on a whim, i decided to watch the godfather again. its been at least five years since i've seen it. the camera work, the music, the acting, the whole fucking thing was great. really just a masterpiece. and even though its three hours long you never feel it at all.
 
The 1970s Wonder Woman series was great. I use to like it when they would do a WWII episode.

I watched Godfather Part III a few weeks back, even that seems tremendous compared to the utter dross that passes for the movie industry now. It's been en masse crap since the early 1990s. Remember when all the technicians went out on strike to complain about the lack of quality in the films being made?
 
This forum is full of Godfather lovers including me. I watch it from time to time too. I still prefer the first film to the second though. The story seems tighter to me.
 
You know I've never watched the godfather. I have a complete series on DVD still in a sealed pack
 
John Lee Pettimore III said:
Rose-colored glasses.
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Not really, compare Linda Carter with the new Wonder Woman....one's a girl, the other a sexually vibrant entity in her prime. Shit, Linda even looks good now for her age.

fxh said:
You know I've never watched the godfather. I have a complete series on DVD still in a sealed pack
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Why haven't you watched it? There must be a reason, a grudge, or something that has stopped you watching this cinematic masterpiece?
 
I wonder whether or not younger audiences have a long enough attention span to watch a complex film like any of the Godfather/ Mafia films.
With many having the inability to pay attention for more than 10 seconds it's no wonder that so many newer films have to have something happening in short sequences. This is why plot holes don't matter any more, since so many can't remember what happened in the last scenes.
Pretty much the only really enjoyable film of the last 2 years is Deadpool. Even when watching it again and again I didn't want to skip ahead.
 
The last year I was watching all the movies nominated for best picture at the Oscars was 2006 - The Departed. Since then I haven't been following much.
 
Don't you think a lot of this is due to the rise of must-watch television? If you have a really good, character-driven story, you can tell it just as effectively on television/streaming than you can on a 30' screen, for a much smaller cost. The movie theater experience is really only advantageous for telling highly visual stories.

There's nothing about the Godfather that would be taken away if you watched it on a 60" screen at home instead of in a movie theater. You can't say the same for Fury Road or Guardians of the Galaxy. So more and more of the "good" movies - character-driven, great stories - are going to move to streaming services, while the movies will be starving for visual movies that may or not have great stories or character.
 
The question is whether some visual stories need to be told. Transformers. The first one was novel, but after that it seems to be recycled derivatives ad infinitum. I find the excessive use of computer graphics makes movies less believable -- not more believable. It was fun to see hundreds of thousands of soldiers the first time but once you've seen it once your eyes start detecting what is fake and what is real.
 
Fwiffo said:
The question is whether some visual stories need to be told. Transformers. The first one was novel, but after that it seems to be recycled derivatives ad infinitum. I find the excessive use of computer graphics makes movies less believable -- not more believable. It was fun to see hundreds of thousands of soldiers the first time but once you've seen it once your eyes start detecting what is fake and what is real.
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It's a movie. It's all fake. Nothing is real.
 
watched the new the mummy last night. it was predictably awful. although russell crowe wasn't half bad as a dr. jekyl.
 
Rambo said:
watched the new the mummy last night. it was predictably awful. although russell crowe wasn't half bad as a dr. jekyl.
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Russell Crowe was in The Mummy?

I thought it was Tom Cruise. Crowe's so old he's a supporting actor now?
 
Fwiffo said:
Russell Crowe was in The Mummy?

I thought it was Tom Cruise. Crowe's so old he's a supporting actor now?
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yes and yes. apparently, Universal has decided to reboot The Mummy as some sort of 'Monsters Universe', wherein all the movies are tied together with various monsters.
 
Rambo said:
yes and yes. apparently, Universal has decided to reboot The Mummy as some sort of 'Monsters Universe', wherein all the movies are tied together with various monsters.
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Maximus the Gladiator is supporting cast!? I saw the trailer for it which only had the woman and Cruise. I thought I'd check it out but it looked a lot darker than the original trilogy, which had a comedy element that I found attractive. Thanks for the tip.
 
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