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I rewatched the Hobbit's recently, the first one is pretty good, the second one is ok, the third one is dire.
What film did you watch last night?
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Mr & Mrs Smith (2005)
It has all the ingredients to be a good action comedy, Pitt and Jolie obviously have great chemistry and their performances are to be commended. But it never really gels together to become a great film. It's a bit too long, the action is a bit uneven, the comedy isn't funny enough and the editing done to get a PG-13 release in the states doesn't help. Quite why it was rated 15 in the UK is mystery.
5/10
It has all the ingredients to be a good action comedy, Pitt and Jolie obviously have great chemistry and their performances are to be commended. But it never really gels together to become a great film. It's a bit too long, the action is a bit uneven, the comedy isn't funny enough and the editing done to get a PG-13 release in the states doesn't help. Quite why it was rated 15 in the UK is mystery.
5/10
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I've never managed to finish, even the first trilogy of Lord of the Rings, without giving up as I would keep falling asleep!
It's the CGI that bothers me the most as I personally think it's really awful.
I will try again at some point as I do want to see why most people rave about it but maybe it's just not for me.
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Managed a couple in the last few days
Life List - A pleasant enough movie, warm with some decent enough messages but not too preachy!
Stronger - decent biopic based around the Boston bombing. Bauman's family drove me nuts talking all over each other in each scene they were in. Good lead performances from JakeG and Tatiana Maslany.
Life List - A pleasant enough movie, warm with some decent enough messages but not too preachy!
Stronger - decent biopic based around the Boston bombing. Bauman's family drove me nuts talking all over each other in each scene they were in. Good lead performances from JakeG and Tatiana Maslany.
Watched Fast and Furious (2001) along with Tokyo Drift on Friday. Loved them when I was younger but got super bored during Tokyo Drift.
Decided to give them a chance and crack on with Fast Five last night. Got bored half way through and switched on The Mule (Clint Eastwood) which saved the evening.
Fast and Furious - 8/10 for the nostalgia
Tokyo Drift - 4/10 hasn’t aged with me
Fast Five - 5/10 on the basis there’s no nostalgia so it’s just over the top zzz’s.
The Mule - Easy 10/10
Decided to give them a chance and crack on with Fast Five last night. Got bored half way through and switched on The Mule (Clint Eastwood) which saved the evening.
Fast and Furious - 8/10 for the nostalgia
Tokyo Drift - 4/10 hasn’t aged with me
Fast Five - 5/10 on the basis there’s no nostalgia so it’s just over the top zzz’s.
The Mule - Easy 10/10
The Mule is perfection!
Watched Until Dawn - was alright but relied a lot on jump scares, etc. and squandered a lot of potential for doing something interesting with the genre and ultimately was a load of nonsense with a lot of stuff feeling like it was thrown in because someone thought it "cool" rather than there being any element of a well developed plot, little to recommend it over other efforts in the genre.
I haven't watched it in quite awhile but I seem to remember the setup was pretty good, until it lost its novelty, and there was a great action scene somewhere around the middle, the rest was pretty forgettable. It is about par for the course with movies along similar lines though the premise can only hold its novelty so long and then the writers struggle to do anything interesting with it.
I haven't watched it in quite awhile but I seem to remember the setup was pretty good, until it lost its novelty, and there was a great action scene somewhere around the middle, the rest was pretty forgettable. It is about par for the course with movies along similar lines though the premise can only hold its novelty so long and then the writers struggle to do anything interesting with it.
I'm gutted that they didn't just use the games plot and actors, so never bothered to watch it. Seems like a wasted opportunity.
Wrong thread.
I'm not actually sure what happened there as I clicked reply on deviation's post in the other thread and it posted in here without the quoted post - I'm like 99% sure it wasn't an error on my part - but I'm not sure how an error like that would actually happen.
I literally reloaded the other thread without seeing my post wondering what had happened and only found it was in here by clicking on "your content".
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Glitch in the Matrix/Chinese intelligence is watching?
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Yeah, I completely get that.
I'm not sure what version you tried to watch (there's quite a few that I initially struggled to wrap my head around!), but a lot of the CGI looking weird is due to the remastered versions that were later made of the trilogy, like the 4k version. Obviously LotR was made over 2 decades ago now, so back then, the quality wasn't great. Don't get me wrong, remastering an old series of films and upscaling to 4k or whatever has benefits, but things like CGI usually get worse unless they spend a lot of time re-rendering it all.
The CGI just looks more fake in the 4k version - it was very offputting! It worked well in the original release (aka its intended film format) 2 decades ago, but transforming it into digital just makes it look more odd.
The original theatrical cut blu-ray 1080p (2010) is the closest you'd get to the original release, in terms of colour, CGI and stuff. Maybe worth trying that version if you haven't already. Though, as you were saying, it might just not be your cup of tea! I didn't really enjoy LoTR during my very first watch tbh, but grew on me later.
Warfare - 8/10
I really enjoyed this. Solid modern war film. Wouldn't really say there was that much action in it, but what there is, is pretty intense. I'm assuming it is trying to portray things as accurately as possible being based on the actual accounts of the soldiers involved - for me it showed that modern, urban warfare appears to be a lot of tense waiting around followed by periods of abject terror, then some even more tense waiting around, and then more stress!
I really enjoyed this. Solid modern war film. Wouldn't really say there was that much action in it, but what there is, is pretty intense. I'm assuming it is trying to portray things as accurately as possible being based on the actual accounts of the soldiers involved - for me it showed that modern, urban warfare appears to be a lot of tense waiting around followed by periods of abject terror, then some even more tense waiting around, and then more stress!
Will report back as only one LOTR down so far lol
They need to be watched together back to back extended editions.
It's only around 12 hours or so
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Absolutely. They are the extended editions.
Rotten tomatoes scale represents the number of votes over 5/10, so that 82% represents how many critics voted over 5/10 within the total number of critic votes. Audience is calculated the same. Pretty interesting method of accepting all methods of rating scores.
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