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Post by TheDenizen on Aug 12, 2018 2:52:12 GMT
Hell or High Water - A pair of poor brothers stage a series of bank robberies in order to save the family ranch. Chris Pine, Jeff Bridges and Ben Foster are all quite good in this entertaining if cliche'd neo-Western. The plot unfurls slowly, mimicking the sedate pace of West Texas life, and the film does a good job evoking the poverty and desperation that dominates the areas visited. Tack on a pretty fun chase/gunfight and a wonderful coda scene between Bridges and Pine just talking on a porch, and you have a winner. 7.5/10
John Wick - How did I sleep on this for so long? A group of Russian gangsters pick on a retired hitman, stealing his car and killing his dog, setting off a hilariously over the top string of revenge murders. The acting is pretty bad, and the characters nothing more than the basest of archetypes with zero development, but the action is phenomenal. Fast, fluid and vicious gun-fu fights that made me both laugh and cringe in sympathetic pain in equal doses. Bring on Chapter 2. 8/10
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Post by BakFu on Aug 12, 2018 16:01:31 GMT
Hell or High Water - A pair of poor brothers stage a series of bank robberies in order to save the family ranch. Chris Pine, Jeff Bridges and Ben Foster are all quite good in this entertaining if cliche'd neo-Western. The plot unfurls slowly, mimicking the sedate pace of West Texas life, and the film does a good job evoking the poverty and desperation that dominates the areas visited. Tack on a pretty fun chase/gunfight and a wonderful coda scene between Bridges and Pine just talking on a porch, and you have a winner. 7.5/10
John Wick - How did I sleep on this for so long? A group of Russian gangsters pick on a retired hitman, stealing his car and killing his dog, setting off a hilariously over the top string of revenge murders. The acting is pretty bad, and the characters nothing more than the basest of archetypes with zero development, but the action is phenomenal. Fast, fluid and vicious gun-fu fights that made me both laugh and cringe in sympathetic pain in equal doses. Bring on Chapter 2. 8/10 "How did I sleep on this for so long?" Same question I asked myself AFTER, of all people, my MOM recommended it to me. The answer, I believe, is two words. Keanu. Reeves. That was my answer, but I'm glad I finally listened to my mother on this one. Have you seen the sequel? Also very good. If you like John Wick, and you haven't seen them yet, The Raid and its sequel are great, stomp on the gas, ass kicking festivals. Also, for an odd but equally entertaining murder fest, Hardcore Henry! |
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Post by TheDenizen on Aug 12, 2018 17:38:25 GMT
I think you may be right with the Keanu-hate. I personally felt the Matrix movies were pretty trash at a time when the rest of the world was going apeshit over them. I'm a firm believer that Keanu's two best acting performances ever were in Bill & Ted and A Scanner Darkly...both movies where he played a disaffected stoner who could barely function in normal society. I don't think that's a coincidence :P He's just not a good actor.
But thankfully no one else is any good in John Wick either...it's all about stylishly shot super action, and nothing else, but it delivers that in spades. It actually reminded me a bit of the Clive Owen movie Shoot Em Up. I haven't seen John Wick: Chapter 2 yet, but I will for sure.
I saw The Raid in theaters and owned both it and the sequel on the day they got released for DVD. I am a massive nerd for Asian action movies in general and martial arts movies specifically.
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Post by BakFu on Aug 12, 2018 17:47:53 GMT
I think you may be right with the Keanu-hate. I personally felt the Matrix movies were pretty trash at a time when the rest of the world was going apeshit over them. I'm a firm believer that Keanu's two best acting performances ever were in Bill & Ted and A Scanner Darkly...both movies where he played a disaffected stoner who could barely function in normal society. I don't think that's a coincidence :P He's just not a good actor. But thankfully no one else is any good in John Wick either...it's all about stylishly shot super action, and nothing else, but it delivers that in spades. It actually reminded me a bit of the Clive Owen movie Shoot Em Up. I haven't seen John Wick: Chapter 2 yet, but I will for sure. I saw The Raid in theaters and owned both it and the sequel on the day they got released for DVD. I am a massive nerd for Asian action movies in general and martial arts movies specifically. DAAYUM! Almost forgot about Shoot Em Up! The only movie I have ever seen where someone is killed with a carrot! :D I thought The Matrix movies were shit as well. I got the "you just don't get it" thing, and all I really saw were people who knew nothing about martial arts pretending to be experts (By gawd, just remembered Marvel's Iron Fist on netflix... GHHAAA!). Junk. |
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Post by LankyLefty17 on Aug 12, 2018 18:03:05 GMT
The John Wick series sits as my ultimate guilty pleasure set of movies. Keanu's good/bad acting plus cameo's from all sorts of Wire/Deadwood actors make it a movie a I can throw on anytime I don't want to think. I think you may be right with the Keanu-hate. I personally felt the Matrix movies were pretty trash at a time when the rest of the world was going apeshit over them. I'm a firm believer that Keanu's two best acting performances ever were in Bill & Ted and A Scanner Darkly...both movies where he played a disaffected stoner who could barely function in normal society. I don't think that's a coincidence :P He's just not a good actor. I also liked Keanu in Constantine, he seems to do ok as the silent mopey hero. And I realize that movie shits on the comics (which are great) and the movie is mostly silly, and about 4 people actually liked it. I'll die on that hill I guess. |
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Post by Nth on Aug 12, 2018 21:58:25 GMT
I keep forgetting that as an Amazon Prime user I have access to the Amazon Prime video services. I have the app on my PS4 and I watched the Rifftrax edition of Samurai Cop which was pretty hilarious. I had always heard the legends about how awful this movie was on pretty much every level, but actually seeing how bad it was for myself was another thing. Wow. Unintentionally hilarious at every turn. Especially the scenes where you can tell they inserted re-shoot footage as the main actor with the long hair must have got it cut, so he's literally doing spliced in fight scene footage wearing a woman's wig and his hair obviously changes from scene to scene. Also watched both Deathstalker movies. I had probably seen them when I was very young as when VCR's first came out we would rent pretty much anything and everything. The popularity of Conan spawned dozens of cheap clone swords and sorcery movies in the 80's. The acting was porn level quality, fight choreography about as advanced as high school LARPers playing in the yard and pretty much zero effort put into the cinematography. Really the only thing these movies had going for them were naked porn girl extras used throughout them for random nudity. Deathstalker II even used stock footage from the original movie several times over to pad out its length. Also caught the Korean zombie horror movie Train to Busan which was actually really good.
I also watched The Last Jedi. I only consider myself a casual Star Wars fan, but after that movie, I really don't have any desire to see Star Wars movies anymore.
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Post by BakFu on Aug 13, 2018 14:20:15 GMT
Also caught the Korean zombie horror movie Train to Busan which was actually really good.
I loved that movie! One part at the very beginning involving a deer still makes me laugh when I think about it! Snakes on a plane, but with zombies, and trains, and actually a good film! I thought about another "reading movie" as one of my coworkers calls them because I told her about Train to Busan, which she watched and loved even though she hates subtitled movies. I told her about a movie from Argentina called Wild Tales, great revenge film with five, unrelated short stories. All of the stories are great, and if you're a fan of revenge stories, you will love this movie! It's one of my favourite movies of all time, and if you do ANY driving, especially around entitled luxury car driving people who believe their cars are a licence to ignore traffic regulations, you will LOVE this movie...  |
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Post by ninjabrute on Aug 21, 2018 0:50:35 GMT
I also watched The Last Jedi. I only consider myself a casual Star Wars fan, but after that movie, I really don't have any desire to see Star Wars movies anymore.
A lot of hardcore Star Wars fans agree. |
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Post by Ramon on Aug 22, 2018 14:30:31 GMT
Anyone seen The Endless? Pretty good indy horror/mystery movie, kind of Lovecraftian too in alot of ways. Check it out if you enjoy those kind of movies.
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Post by thelodger on Aug 23, 2018 6:48:47 GMT
Going to see Rifftrax Live Krull tomorrow, haven't seen Krull in forever.
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Post by Ramon on Aug 23, 2018 8:43:38 GMT
Going to see Rifftrax Live Krull tomorrow, haven't seen Krull in forever.
Krull! Now there's a classic! :D
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Post by Nth on Sept 13, 2018 12:10:05 GMT
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Post by BakFu on Sept 15, 2018 2:02:58 GMT
That looks awesome. By GAWD I love me some Coen Bros! I can't wait for this to drop! |
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Post by BakFu on Sept 16, 2018 5:28:45 GMT
So, just finished watching Den of Thieves (Pretty decent heist action movie) and came to the realization that Gerard Butler is a manly ass actor (the guy looks like the human version of old leather and smouldering cigars) and that the manly actor seems to be a thing of the past. In the spirit of the temple of the manly ass actor's main symbol, the sacred handshake of Carl Weathers and Arnold Schwarzenegger from the Predator, can any of you identify more of the few remaining manly ass actors left on this spinning pile of shit that we live on? I love strong female leads (Gal Gadot, Claire Danes, Zazie Beets, Charlize Theron (Mad Max should have been called The Imperator Furiosa Story), Uma Thurman, Scarlett Johansson, Michelle Yeoh, etc ), don't get me wrong, but the male leads seem to be getting wussier as time goes on, and it took seeing Gerard Butler whupping ass in this movie to realize that the Arnie's and Sylvester's of the 80's and 90's are quickly becoming a relic of the past. I just wonder if anyone can identify any alpha males still in existence in movies/TV these days! Michael Jai White, Tom Hardy and Jason Statham come to mind as well, can you FP fans think of any others? End of misogynistic rant...
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Post by TheDenizen on Oct 4, 2018 2:51:10 GMT
John Wick: Chapter 2 - John Wick takes a job to assassinate a high ranking organized crime leader, which results in dozens of hit men from all over the world trying to kill him. It's everything from the first movie (good and bad) cranked up to 11. It's equal parts silly, gory, and fun. The ending which leads to the inevitable Chapter 3 left me salivating for more. 8/10
Blade of the Immortal - Takashi Miike's latest blood soaked action-fest follows Manji, an immortal swordsman on a mission to help a young girl avenge the death of her family at the hands of a vicious gang of super skilled samurai. The fairly disjointed, almost episodic nature of the story betrays its nature as an adaptation of a manga, but the action more than makes up for this shortcoming. The final 30 minutes is an unapologetic orgy of severed limbs and spraying entrails that sees about 200 dudes sliced to ribbons. 8.5/10
Locked Up - A teenage American girl in Thailand ends up in juvenile prison, where the evil warden is making the prisoners fight to the death in bouts being broadcast online. Everything about this direct-to-video WIP flick is the absolute drizzling shits. Atrocious dialog and acting, a nonsensical story, the two fights you actually see are beyond weak and the climactic escape is just retarded. Even the shower scenes sucked. Everyone involved of the production of this abomination can fuck right off. 1/10
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