Even if you ignore films that have an obvious point and an interesting storyline e.g. Schindlers list good films have stories involving characters that you care about. In this case the story was dull and you also really didn't give a toss if the main characters lived or died.
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All the most pointless parts of the story were those added by the filmmakers. The original legend has a redemptive forgiveness element to it. It's been turned into a teenage boys revenge fantasy with clumsy
cliche and pantomime villain.
I understand the Apocalypto comparisons, that's no work of intelligent storytelling either but it does have a deranged energy and stunning visual strangeness which puts the prosaic The Revenant firmly in the shade. I think The Revenant has more in common with David Cameron's Avatar and it will be interesting to see if it recieves the same just criticisms for it's noble savagisms, my guess is that it won't cos this is a real film shot in real natural light as opposed to that fake stuff everone else is using innit.
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I understand the Apocalypto comparisons, that's no work of intelligent storytelling either but it does have a deranged energy and stunning visual strangeness which puts the prosaic The Revenant firmly in the shade. I think The Revenant has more in common with David Cameron's Avatar and it will be interesting to see if it recieves the same just criticisms for it's noble savagisms, my guess is that it won't cos this is a real film shot in real natural light as opposed to that fake stuff everone else is using innit.
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On a completely unrelated note to reviewing films (I didn't know where else to put this) when bad guys know they are about do die in a film and close they're eyes and don't fight it, that's one of the most bad ass things they could do.
An example being this
and this
An example being this
and this
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You're a man of simple pleasures @Sigma
Sicario
Thought this was excellent. Up there with the best I've seen this year. Yeah it's largely built around 2/3 set pieces but boy are they tense. Could've probably done without the epilogue though if I have any criticisms. But yeah, very good.
Thought this was excellent. Up there with the best I've seen this year. Yeah it's largely built around 2/3 set pieces but boy are they tense. Could've probably done without the epilogue though if I have any criticisms. But yeah, very good.
Sammo Hung must be about 82 by now.
Tits?
The Loft
Karl Urban, James Marsden, Wentworth Miller. Not a long film, only about 100 minutes. Definitely worth watching. 5 friends find a girl dead in their shared bachelor pad. Only none of them are bachelors. They have to work out who she is and how she got there.
Don't wanna give too much away, so just watch it.
Karl Urban, James Marsden, Wentworth Miller. Not a long film, only about 100 minutes. Definitely worth watching. 5 friends find a girl dead in their shared bachelor pad. Only none of them are bachelors. They have to work out who she is and how she got there.
Don't wanna give too much away, so just watch it.
Found it to be extremely bland. Del Toro was good but the rest of the cast including Emily Blunt was just too boring. For me, the movie was a waste of time.
My wife liked the movie more than me until it was revealed that
they were doing all of this to return power/influence to the Medellin Cartel because that would be less chaotic.
I didn't realise he's that old, maybe part of me reminiscing, the legend that is Samo. He was a very agile fighter for someone with his built, and even the 7 lucky stars admit that he's the best fighter out of them all.
Nobody has the charisma to go against Donnie these days, although Tyson looks realistically can give him a fight, that 3 minutes fight is ace.
Hateful 8
Was interesting until the 2nd half where it become comical, I was expectign something sherlocky holmesy, the script isn't as good as most of his other movies, what a shame for a 2.5 hours movie. The potential for some witty dialog is there. Still worth a watch if you're Tarantino's fan
7/10
Yeah that was very weird.
The movie started off on the right foot actually. Especially the one where they move in those black cars and stuff. That looked class. Then it all went downhill for me. My wife suggested this movie and was pissed with the ending.
I find it more believeable that way, they can never really weed out the cartel and it's better to have a big boss you can control. The fight's too big for one man to handle.
My only qualm with it is that how easy it is for Del Torro to infiltrate the whole compound, but it's movies.
Oh and the scores are ace, never feel so atmospherically eerie even in horror movies.
No way they would have risked so much for such a dubious and uncertain outcome - it just isn't believable.
Are we married to the same woman?
And I agree. Started off really well but the final third was a bit of a mess.
Yep.
I think the whole point of the movie was to contrast Blunts characters idealistic notion of law enforcement with the other guys being the necessary evil to combat such a brutal and ruthless organisation. That's why I didn't like the little wolf speech at the end. Felt like spoon feeding a bit too much. I'd have been happier to see it end with
Del Toro saying "Finish your dinner"
Also, a good companion piece to Narco's on Netflix recently. Similar ideas stretched out over an entire show.
I've never understood this scene. What does this achieve? He wasn't losing the battle, striking him down doesn't make him "more powerful" in any imaginable way, and if anything Luke's subsequent reaction to this bizarre suicide actually make him & company more noticeable to the other soldiers, hampering their potential escape significantly.
At best it's idiocy, at worst it's outright sabotage. Nice sets though.
In conclusion: Star Wars.
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He was able to glow afterwards. That's the power that he was talking about. Although he'd have acheived the same result if he'd eaten a bowl of Ready-Brek...or does that only work on kids.
I can't believe we actually had summat called Ready-Brek back then...very American.
I agree, the film as a whole was very good, but it was totally unrealistic to put a one fight novice in the ring with an unbeaten world champion.
Wonder if they will make a sequel.
This is the Rocky series we're talking about. Not a documentary.Maze Runner: Scorch Trials
I quite liked the first of these and this one was also decent. Just switch your brain off and watch and you'll have a good time. Way better than Twilight, Hunger Games, Divergent and all those teen movies. The acting was also not that bad 7/10
Horsehead
A woman that is tormented by nightmares tries to figure out her family history via lucid dreams. The film looked amazing, very well shot, had decent acting and a kick ass soundtrack but beyond that it was a complete crock of shit. Pretentious crap, it's like what Terrence Malick would do with a horror film. Wasn't scary, the story was too thin and a lot of scenes seemed to be placed just for visual purposes and not to advance the story. It was only 90 minutes but felt like 3 hours 3.5/10
I quite liked the first of these and this one was also decent. Just switch your brain off and watch and you'll have a good time. Way better than Twilight, Hunger Games, Divergent and all those teen movies. The acting was also not that bad 7/10
Horsehead
A woman that is tormented by nightmares tries to figure out her family history via lucid dreams. The film looked amazing, very well shot, had decent acting and a kick ass soundtrack but beyond that it was a complete crock of shit. Pretentious crap, it's like what Terrence Malick would do with a horror film. Wasn't scary, the story was too thin and a lot of scenes seemed to be placed just for visual purposes and not to advance the story. It was only 90 minutes but felt like 3 hours 3.5/10
Neither is it believable that a bunch of men from the CIA could take down the Mexican drug cartel. The whole point was that this was an unwinnable war and all they were doing here was damage limitations. That makes a lot of sense with real life as well rather then the shitty clichéd Hollywood ending of them destroying the drug trade all together. That would have been shit.
The main problem was that there wasn't really much inbetween the suspense scenes. Almost as if the director had drawn up these few scenes for suspense and then just mashed a story together to make them work. Also, everything went a bit too smoothly for me to really feel the danger and suspense of the film.
Plus, Del Toro casually breaking into a drug lords house was a bit ridiculous.
My guess is it's because he knows he's going to become one of those force ghost things, and that he can try to help Luke through supernatural means as opposed to being an old guy travelling around the galaxy.
The force ghost stuff was always a bit silly though, granted. I mean, when he says he can't interfere in the battle between Luke and Vader...why not? Just show up and constantly annoy Vader. Anytime he's giving a speech to his underlings, just appear and say, "Chopped off your legs, mate", to annoy him.
He aided Luke to destroy the Death Star
That made him pretty useful dead IMO
I have a feeling I have answered this to you previously
That sounds amazing.
We need to remake Empire and ROTJ with Obi Wan haunting the shit out of Vader!
And Yoda too when he dies. Obi-Wan tells Vader he's going to lay off him for a while, to which Vader is thankful. Then Yoda starts to haunt the shit out of him.
Or Yoda can focus on the emperor.
Wouldn't have helped much if one of those Stormtroopers had just shot him though, would it?
When have they ever shot anyone?
Actually, I've a theory that blasters are just shit from anything over 5 yards in the Star Wars universe. They're just poorly manufactured and terribly innacurate. I came to that conclusion from
Han's amazement at how Good Chewie's bowcaster was.
Someone bought me Southpaw on dvd for crimbo. Tried to watch it last night, utter crap, turned it off after 15 minutes.
The boxing scene was ridiculous, acting cheesy, dialogue (when i could understand it) even worse.
I should've know that a film with 50 cent in it would be bad.
The boxing scene was ridiculous, acting cheesy, dialogue (when i could understand it) even worse.
I should've know that a film with 50 cent in it would be bad.
Would be absolutely brilliant.
A couple of immobile geriatrics trying to stick fight? Kenobi was a better fighter in his youth, loved Maul vs Obi Wan and Liam Neeson in the TPM.
Me too. Loved how non-taunting, non-speaking the fight was. Just business.
Yeah very theatrical, the choir/score and martial arts style fighting worked well together. The prequels aren't great but they've got some fantastic scenes / touches.
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Just got through the two Star Wars trilogies. Episode III is the best one.
Good post. Agree about the set pieces defining the film but I was gripped all the way through. I think this is Villeneuves best (American film) yet. Thought the cinematography and sound was spot on too.
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