Film review thread

[hellkat]

Absolutely Fabulous the Movie

Like the telly programme, only longer.
Very funny (if you like that sort of thing), except the cast look older.
Good cameos, a LOT of cameos by famouspeeps.
Wait for it to go Netflix/Amazon if you aren't all that fussed.
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[Going]

The Jungle Book (2016) - 6/10

CGI looks good, 3D looked good, voice acting not to bad. That's about it. The story is so so, cartoon version was better. The boy that played the lead is just bad, strait out of a '90s sitcom I thought. If the Tiger couldn't eat him maybe the panther and wolves should had. Tunes, disappointing, didn't seem to have the heart in them.

Overall, an easy watch. The kid will probably get better, as this seems to be his first big film.

[Fin]

Legend of Wasaco
7.1/10

Seems like it was made by some college students (uni in US) but was good however they ruined it towards the end by making a joke out of it.

Am definitely dressing up as a clown on Halloween.

[-Matt-]

Imperium - 8/10
CIA investigation thriller - decent plot and kept interesting for the whole thing. Wasn't sure about Daniel Radcliffe in the role at first - felt like watching "Harry Potter becomes a skinhead" , but he was alright.

Warcraft - 5.5/10
Worth watching in parts, but still disappointing overall. They should of made more of it I think considering the fan base it has. The CGI of the Orc's wasn't very good either; felt more like watching a kids film for half of it.

Cell - 3.5/10
Meh. Mysterious phone signal turns half the world into zombie-esque killers. Watchable, but the plot got more and more ridiculous. Suprised someone managed to convince some of the actors to sign up to the script.

[Going]

Home - 3/10
I don't know how I got conned into watching this. It's a kids promo video for Rihanna, with her songs just no nudity.

The Nice Guys - 8/10
I thought this was going to be bad, I was surprised. Very entertaining, cop buddy movie but not being cops. The only disappointing bit, the kid didn't cop a feel at the beginning.

[Jayy]

Started watching Band of Brothers... I know it's meant to be amazing but I just never got round to watching it. First episode in and I can tell it's going to be a belter.

All I see is Ross from friends

[kawashima]

godzilla resurgence(shin godzilla) 7/10
How would the self defense force/government/politician take action if godzilla suddenly appears in tokyo? How politicians make decision slowly? Bureaucratic actions. Half of the movie is in the meeting room like. But it was interesting. Maybe cause I'm Japanese. If foreigner watched this without eng-sub, this will be 3/10 or 2/10, or even 1/10. If he likes action scenes only, I guess he'll be disappointed. This movie is liked among Japanese, but I'm not sure how overseas people watch this. I'm curious.
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[M.C]

Batman Vs Superman 4/10 - take two dead/dying franchises, stick them together and what do you get, cinema greatness? Err... no. You get a convoluted plot, over the top CGI, and three f**king hours of tedium.

They tried to create a dark/gritty film like Watchmen, when it would have be better to make another Watchmen film. I'm done with comic book films, this has killed an entire f**king genre for me.

[Moo.]

[M.C]

World War Z 6/20 - So zombie apocalypse, but its the fast type, and humanity's so utterly f**ked Brad Pitt's somehow its best hope of a cure. Its not as bad as it sounds, although the film seemed to run out of steam towards the end, almost as if they had pi$$ed through their budget. A few dubious bits but overall a good watch.

[hellkat]

Velvet Goldmine 7/10

Fairly arty-farty but a pretty good rendition of a life in the glam rock era that looks suspiciously like those of David Bowie/Marc Bolan and Iggy Pop/Lou Reed all bundled together.

If that was your era, then you might like it, all those mincers with sparkly outfits on ... if it's not, you'd probably wonder what all the fuss was about.

Not really seen much with Ewan McGregor before, so I was impressed with his Iggy Pop impression - and Jonathan Rhys Meyers is always worth a perv. Christian Bale (I knew I knew his face but couldnt place who it was) was quite good as a tortured in-the-closet newspaper reporter.
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[thx1138]

Survival of the Dead - watching it now, 5 out of 10

loses one point for not being good enough for a George A Romero film
some comedy zombie killing in it at times though


yesterday watched Diary of the Dead, blair witch, cabin in the woods, cloverfield etc etc hardly an original concept overall, but one or two original interesting ideas mixed in anyway 6 out of 10

[Going]

[Rogerborg]

Megamind (2010) 3/10

Hahahaha, you've subverted the whole good-vs-evil-superhero genre. How original! Like every. Actual. Superhero. Franchise. Has. Already. Done. Better.

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Clumsy, trite, banal, bizarrly characterised, and an abject lesson in why you should use voice actors to do voice acting.

I got an hour in, asked myself why I was bothering to watch, and couldn't find an answer. I wouldn't recommend giving it that long.

When I was done, I moseyed over to IMDB and encountered the most blatant, egregious, audicious and unlubed 10* 1-of-1-people shill reviews that I've ever seen. Really, these things make the Fanstastic (sic) Four reviews look like the soul of probity. Poor bloody show.
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[Jayy]

Spotted loads of famous actors already in it, what a gem that I never saw the first time. On episode 4 now and it's brilliant as predicted but I like war films anyway.

[Rogerborg]

[M.C]

[ninja_butler]

The Man From Uncle 8/10

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I am a bit miserly with my scores so for 8/10 you might want to read that as 10/10. I just watched this movie last night, and I cannot believe it passed me by, but then I think it passed almost everyone by, the trailers are crap and the general way the movie was advertised was crap, it's a far better movie than I was expecting and I wish I'd seen it at the cinema on a really nice big screen. It's cool, it's very funny, it's genuinely action-packed - not just cheap CGI filler - and nobody saw it.

There haven't been many good movies in the last 10 years but this is one of them.

[ninja_butler]

[ninja_butler]

[Snowdonia Rider]

I watched Django Unchained last night, it was OK. It's typical Tarantino, good suspense, funny in all the wrong ways and brutal violence. It's pretty much Inglorious Basterds but in the cowboy times.

Enjoyable 7/10.
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