Movie thread, the good the bad and the ugly... No, not that one.... a review thread.

[Count Steer]

BTW - post credit sequences are bloody annoying when you work in a cinema, all the comic books nerds sit there waiting until the very end of the credits!

My friends used to do that 'cos one of the womens chaps worked for Industrial Light and Magic. They said it was showing respect to all those involved in the making.

I wonder if they sit in the car and thank the production line team before getting out?

[Mr Moofo]

No Time To Die (Cinemas and streaming rental)
After the lacklustre Spectre, Daniel Craig returnes in his second best outing as Bond. Cracking action, gorgeously filmed locations and lovely ladies all feature in Craig's final outing.

I think I must have seen a different film. One caveat - I do wear hearing aids - but function pretty normally with them in. The soundtrack on the film was awful, indecipherable when Malik was speaking, and the French/ Norwegian bint - hence I really had no idea what was going on.
It seems like Malik had kept the teeth from Bohemian Rhapsody, and decided to use them as a prop in this film - which made the voice track even worse. On of the worst ever "dialled in" performance I have seen lately. I guess he also thought the script was shit! Perhaps he said at the start of the filming " My character has no motive for what he is doing" and the director said " yes, you are right"
There was a bit where Malik's crew managed to kill the whole of Spectre "just like that" - so why couldn't all of the world's spy community have done the same?
And then it moved onto nanobots - rather than a world plague . Maybe the script writers were worried because of Covid.

James squeeze and Craig had no chemistry what so ever - so a mono dimensional key relationship

It was a bit rubbish. Maybe when it comes on TV , I will be able to understand the subtleties as bit better.

[gremlin]

I've just realised why I was so confused watching No Time To Die.

I haven't watched Spectre.

[McNab]

No Time To Die (Cinemas and streaming rental)
After the lacklustre Spectre, Daniel Craig returnes in his second best outing as Bond. Cracking action, gorgeously filmed locations and lovely ladies all feature in Craig's final outing.

I think I must have seen a different film. One caveat - I do wear hearing aids - but function pretty normally with them in. The soundtrack on the film was awful, indecipherable when Malik was speaking, and the French/ Norwegian bint - hence I really had no idea what was going on.
It seems like Malik had kept the teeth from Bohemian Rhapsody, and decided to use them as a prop in this film - which made the voice track even worse. On of the worst ever "dialled in" performance I have seen lately. I guess he also thought the script was shit! Perhaps he said at the start of the filming " My character has no motive for what he is doing" and the director said " yes, you are right"
There was a bit where Malik's crew managed to kill the whole of Spectre "just like that" - so why couldn't all of the world's spy community have done the same?
And then it moved onto nanobots - rather than a world plague . Maybe the script writers were worried because of Covid.

James squeeze and Craig had no chemistry what so ever - so a mono dimensional key relationship

It was a bit rubbish. Maybe when it comes on TV , I will be able to understand the subtleties as bit better.

We all have our opinions, but I did say the villain wasn't much cop and I agree he was a bit too mumbling, and the French woman a bit whispery (and it turned out was whispering in French some of the time).

As for the killing of Spectre, that was the whole point

Spoiler

M developed it to target individual threats around the world whilst knowing it could be programmed to kill a whole raft of people if it fell into the wrong hands

And nanobots have become the latest go-to magic dust to explain away whatever the writer wants.

It's not a perfect film, I agree, but I thought it was far better than I was expecting it to be.

[DefTrap]

Not new, but started watching War Machine.

I don't get it -
- is it a documentary?
- is it a comedy?
- is it something, no disrespect intended, that "only services will get" ?

Or is it just a bit shit?

I quite like Brad Pitt, but his portrayal of "war hero characters" stems from the very cool (Fury) to the comical (Inglourious Basterds). This was at the IG end of the scale. Not that that's a bad thing, but it seemed to be a comic character without any laughs. And this is no Tarantino

Anyone given it more than half an hour? Worth pursuing?

So far I'm a 1 out of 10 as I turned it off.

[G.P]

Back to No Time to Die, I was wary of what it was going to be like given some of the reviews but I thoroughly enjoyed it. it didn't feel like 2hrs 40 mins, it had all the essential ingredients and I thought our Villain was just enough different to the usual super villain. After seeing the BB5 then the DBS, I thought we might have got a nod to all the previous cars.
UK Brands did well though, with plenty of Landrover and Triumph action.
I don;t know what Mrs GP paid to download it on Sky, but 4 of us watched it together and everyone gave it a thumbs up.

[Bigyin]

Venom, Let there be Carnage

If you thought the first one was a bit shit with some comedy bits, the sequel is a lot shitter

[DefTrap]

Venom, Let there be Carnage

If you thought the first one was a bit shit with some comedy bits, the sequel is a lot shitter

I was surprised Tom Hardy got involved with it (the original Venom) - I don't really like ComicBook/Superhero fillums that much but I've seen a few in passing. And this isn't the best by a long shot.

What I really didn't like was that the Venom alien character was so comic-book-like. Maybe it was just to satisfy the hardcore fans.

[MrLongbeard]

Retfærdighedens ryttere
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11655202/

Hard work but worth it / 10

[Count Steer]

Just watched Ad Astra. Beautifully filmed, great sound and music. Plot holes galore and quite slow and contemplative but enjoyed it anyway. Oid give it 7.7/10.

[KungFooBob]

Just watched Ad Astra. Beautifully filmed, great sound and music. Plot holes galore and quite slow and contemplative but enjoyed it anyway. Oid give it 7.7/10.

Spooky, I watched it this afternoon too.

It's alright. I'm scared of space baboons now.

[Count Steer]

Just watched Ad Astra. Beautifully filmed, great sound and music. Plot holes galore and quite slow and contemplative but enjoyed it anyway. Oid give it 7.7/10.

Spooky, I watched it this afternoon too.

It's alright. I'm scared of space baboons now.

Baboons were probably a nod to 2001 In the credits they included a 'snake wrangler' but there weren't any snakes...I wonder if they planned to do snakes on the biological research ship but went for a mad baboons instead!
Thought the military escort across the moon was a bit u/s knowing there were moon bandits around and didn't understand why they needed to take him to Mars to send a message in person, they could have recorded it. The space stuff was pretty good though, nicely gritty and not all nice and clean and future tech.
What was the stuff in the cylinder that got shot? Pretty effective and not really what you want stuck on the cabin wall.

[wheelnut]

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I didn't buy the watch either, like the film it was ok but not jaw dropping.

I don’t know how much it is where you are but it’s the thick end of £20k here. Just not worth it.

[KungFooBob]

Just watched Ad Astra. Beautifully filmed, great sound and music. Plot holes galore and quite slow and contemplative but enjoyed it anyway. Oid give it 7.7/10.

Spooky, I watched it this afternoon too.

It's alright. I'm scared of space baboons now.

Baboons were probably a nod to 2001 In the credits they included a 'snake wrangler' but there weren't any snakes...I wonder if they planned to do snakes on the biological research ship but went for a mad baboons instead!
Thought the military escort across the moon was a bit u/s knowing there were moon bandits around and didn't understand why they needed to take him to Mars to send a message in person, they could have recorded it. The space stuff was pretty good though, nicely gritty and not all nice and clean and future tech.
What was the stuff in the cylinder that got shot? Pretty effective and not really what you want stuck on the cabin wall.

They don't know where the Lima is, but they're going to send a message by laser.

Erm, isn't laser kind of point to point?

[wheelnut]

No I don't think it's that much, I think the official NTTD watch is somewhere between £6-7k everywhere.
I considered it (IIRC 32k AED here) but I don't think it's worth it as a watch or investment.

My Casino Royale one has gone up 206% but it was £1750 new IIRC.

Yeah, my mistake. Happened to walk past goldsmiths in Edinburgh yesterday and caught sight of this on a ‘no time to die’ display.

https://www.goldsmiths.co.uk/Omega-Seam ... p/17331586

[Count Steer]

Only 5 years behind the curve, Suicide Squad. Quite a jolly romp. Will Smith plays Will Smith like no-one else can, good Joker (Jared Leto), Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) spot on. Common is in it...for about 30 seconds.

All in all, a bit of a giraffe. 7.842/10

[weeksy]

I got about 8 minutes of it and bailed

[Horse]

1917

I'm either 2 years or 104 years behind the curve ...

I enjoyed it. There might be - to expert eyes - plotholes* etc, but it's a good story.

* 'timing' as in 'how long it takes' is one, where the film's production actually is against the timeline, is one. But I only realised after watching it, not during!

However ... a big 'However' ... I spent a lot of time watching for the cuts**

** if you have no idea what I mean, perhaps you won't

NB re 'gritty realism' ... yes, there's there's some unpleasant stuff but it's probably nowhere near how grim the trenches actually were.

Re acting, I enjoyed 'Moriarty' Brief, but entertaining

[gremlin]

On the subjects of movies, Netflix has a bit of an old but worthwhile couple of series of The Movies That Made Us. Basically documentaries about iconic movies; Aliens, Forrest Gump, Halloween, etc. Lots of talking heads from the crew and cast. It can get a bit annoying with the voice over and humourous editing, but worth a watch if you're into your cinema.

[Horse]

On the subjects of movies ... but worth a watch if you're into your cinema.

Have you seen ...

https://youtube.com/c/everyframeapainting