Movie What's the last movie you saw? (5)

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Justice League

Better than the rest of the DC movies to date, and I'd argue it's better than The Avengers as it finishes in more satisfying way. The lack of character work and story may be a negative criticism for some but those things work for me here as they condense the movie down into simply, "getting the team together, fight random bad guy." The fact that this cost $300m is worrisome though, as it is disappointing we never got George Miller's version.
 

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Justice League

Better than the rest of the DC movies to date, and I'd argue it's better than The Avengers as it finishes in more satisfying way. The lack of character work and story may be a negative criticism for some but those things work for me here as they condense the movie down into simply, "getting the team together, fight random bad guy." The fact that this cost $300m is worrisome though, as it is disappointing we never got George Miller's version.
That sounds more expensive than the recent Blade Runner which was a visual spectacle to say the least. Expecting it to look good when I see it.
 
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Detroit.

Great acting, brilliant tension and a very well made movie. I thought more could have been done to contextualise the film (the unlicensed bar raided at the start of the film was regularly targeted when African Americans weren't welcome in many licensed bars, the riot was in response to constant attacks by police, and the oppression from the police was more than just that of the couple of bad eggs shown in the film), which only served to soften the political point and the injustice of the whole thing. But a very strong movie nonetheless, and I did not know that background of The Dramatics, a group who I am fond of.
 

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The Circle.

This is the worst film I've seen this year, and possibly ever. There are no redeeming features here; the script, the dialogue, directing, the plot the acting was dog shit. Emma Watson could possibly be the worst actress of all time. Her face tells us absolutely nothing about what her character is thinking. She was preachy. She was shocking. She was woeful in this, as were Karen Gillan and Ellar Coltrane. The character development was non-existent, they never learned anything, nothing about them evolved and their decisions were inconsistent or they simply did things that were completely out of character.

I believe it was based on a book, but differed quite a lot from the original text. It's quite an interesting premise; the rise of social media and how far it would dominate our lives. Issues like surveillance, citizen policing, power, living our lives on a public stage etc. are probably worthy film topics, but The Circle simply covered one issue for ten minutes, then moved on to the next one. It was just so lazy. And incredibly preachy. And the ending was stupidly ambiguous. They built up this conclusion and then never told us what happened. The director was a massive smart arse. Several interesting storylines were just simply abandoned.

Tom Hanks and Patton Oswalt are good actors, but they were really bit players in all this and were under-used.

This is from Reddit;

"Ordinarily I'd assume that the end had been left open for a sequel, but that doesn't seem to be the case here, they just got bored telling the story so rolled the credits."

That's exactly how I felt.

Thankfully, I watched Wakefield after it, which was brilliant.
 

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The Killing of a Sacred Deer: Drawn out, tense and atmospheric. You know you're going to get something to think about with this director (who also did the Lobster)
I reckon it's one of those rare examples of a film being pretty perfectly casted. Farell and Kidman are strong and the young actor Barry Keoghan is brilliant. First saw him in the great Irish crime drama Love/Hate. His face is a memorable one. Will go far.
Heavy film. 7.5/10
 

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Will wait for it DVD in a kiosk for $3. But yeah really want to see it.
Took me so long to figure out what this means! It's the video vending machine, right?!

Gott say I'm not a huge advocate for cinema > couch movie watching, but I think Detroit was worth it. I saw it sitting next to this incredibly expressive person, I never seen anyone in a movie like her before. She was literally sitting at the edge of her seat, or hiding behind her hands, or jumping out of her seat, gasping, it was amazing.

Cinemas should hire people like her to sit and watch every movie.

Anyway I digress.
 

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Took me so long to figure out what this means! It's the video vending machine, right?!

Gott say I'm not a huge advocate for cinema > couch movie watching, but I think Detroit was worth it. I saw it sitting next to this incredibly expressive person, I never seen anyone in a movie like her before. She was literally sitting at the edge of her seat, or hiding behind her hands, or jumping out of her seat, gasping, it was amazing.

Cinemas should hire people like her to sit and watch every movie.

Anyway I digress.
Haha. During Justice League I was next to a huge Kiwi guy and he was loving it. Everytime one of the heroes did something he would be like "phwoar" or the drop f bomb. By the 2nd half of the movie I wss pissing myself laughing non stop, he was great.
 

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Took me so long to figure out what this means! It's the video vending machine, right?!

Gott say I'm not a huge advocate for cinema > couch movie watching, but I think Detroit was worth it. I saw it sitting next to this incredibly expressive person, I never seen anyone in a movie like her before. She was literally sitting at the edge of her seat, or hiding behind her hands, or jumping out of her seat, gasping, it was amazing.

Cinemas should hire people like her to sit and watch every movie.

Anyway I digress.
Lol, yup the vending machines. Can get new release movies for about $3 from them.

Honestly it was probably more about the traffic and getting to the cinema, rather than the price of it. I just wish my local was running it. Sometimes they do show older films- and not necessarily put them on on their actual release date. So there is hope, will keep an eye out for it. Oh yeah, I'm in the city as well not this weekend, but the weekend after. If it's still showing by then I'll definitely be able to catch it.


Idk about that expressive person tho you described. Sounds like she'd be annoying af after about half an hour max ;)
 

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Heat (1995)

A huge cast. Pacino massively over acting but it's great fun. De Niro in one of his last serious, intense roles. Kilmer before he got fat. Judd, Venora, Brenneman as the WAGs. Sizemore before, ahem, allegations...

Michael Mann does a great job of depicting the story of De Niro, the smart and ruthless major criminal - and Pacino, the cop who has made it his life to bring that sort down. The coffee shop scene between the two of them is legendary.

There's a big shoot em up heist scene then the movie drags a little on its way to 170 minutes. But it's well worth a look if you haven't seen it.
 
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Heat (1995)

A huge cast. Pacino massively over acting but it's great fun. De Niro in one his last serious, intense roles. Kilmer before he got fat. Judd, Venora, Brenneman as the WAGs. Sizemore before, ahem, allegations...

Michael Mann does a great job of depicting the story of De Niro, the smart and ruthless major criminal - and Pacino, the cop who has made it his life to bring that sort down. The coffee shop scene between the two of them is legendary.

There's a big shoot em up heist scene then the movie drags a little on its way to 170 minutes. But it's well worth a look if you haven't seen it.
Is that the first time you've seen it?
Legendary film, one of my all time faves.
That coffee shop scene was their first ever scene together in a movie. Hard to believe!
 

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Justice League: average. good that it was only a couple of hours. Feel the casting and content is good and likable but everything else like the direction, pacing and plot is pretty bollocks. Still a pretty good option to pass the time on a hot day with the action being entertaining enough. Nothing memorable about this film other than Superman's face 6/10
 

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Is that the first time you've seen it?
Legendary film, one of my all time faves.
That coffee shop scene was their first ever scene together in a movie. Hard to believe!
I saw it when it first came out and this was the first re-watch. I was already a fan of Michael Mann after Last of the Mohicans.

Did Pacino and De Niro not have any shared scenes in Godfather II ? Time for a re-watch!
 
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Justice League - as a huge comic book fan and part nerd it’s just a weird thing to say that coming out of this saying “it’s not as bad as I expected” is a positive.

If you’re like me you’ll get giddy at the hero shot of the league (but it’s nothing on the hero shot of the avengers fighting ultron and his clones) but aside from that there’s not much to love about this. Gal is brilliant, Momoa is pretty rad (although the underwater scenes make me genuinely afraid for the Aquaman film) and Ezra Miller is a solid highlight.

Affleck seems to just hate that he ever agreed to this, Generic villain is soooo generic and Cyborg is just a straight up Dues Ex Machina in every way possible but the real lowlight is Superman/Cavill. You’re just waiting for him to show up and when he does everything else that was happening is superfluous. Supes is just dull and trying to make him brooding and dark doesn’t work in the slightest.

You won’t hate it but you won’t love it and when 3 of the truly great comic book heroes (and one who has become cult worshipped) are knocking about onscreen you shouldn’t be able to make anything short of an 8. This is a solid 7/10 though.
 

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Documentary on the Voyager 1 & 2 missions, from the beginnings in the 1960's to Voyager 1's leaving of our Solar System in 2012 and entering interstellar space. What makes it one of the best documentaries I've seen is the story is told through the eyes of the scientists and the engineers who were involved in the mission, as well the people involved in the creation of the gold records. There is also a lot of images of the planets and archival footage that I hadn't seen previously.
 

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I finally went and saw this one today. I wasnt expecting much but I was hopeful it would produce. It started out really slooowly and kept going really slowly so much so I looked at my watch more than once. The end gets a bit exciting but not enough to pick this movie up. I wont be rushing to watch this again but given that I had $6.50 left on a Wallis gift card so I only paid $5.50, ate before I went and took my own drink Im not as disappointed as I could be. Also its 32 degrees or something in Adelaide today so sitting in the air conditioned cinema for 2 hours wasnt a bad thing ;)
5.5/10
 
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The Killing of a Sacred Deer: Drawn out, tense and atmospheric. You know you're going to get something to think about with this director (who also did the Lobster)
I reckon it's one of those rare examples of a film being pretty perfectly casted. Farell and Kidman are strong and the young actor Barry Keoghan is brilliant. First saw him in the great Irish crime drama Love/Hate. His face is a memorable one. Will go far.
Heavy film. 7.5/10
Can’t wait to check this out I loved The Lobster. I’ve been meaning for ages to check out his earlier films as well Dogtooth and Alps.
 

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Justice League: average. good that it was only a couple of hours. Feel the casting and content is good and likable but everything else like the direction, pacing and plot is pretty bollocks. Still a pretty good option to pass the time on a hot day with the action being entertaining enough. Nothing memorable about this film other than Superman's face 6/10
What would you say it measured in drpm?
 
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