Film The General Film Thread

Deebs

Deebs

Chief Arsewipe
Staff member
Moderator
FH Subscriber
Joined
Dec 11, 1997
Messages
9,076,994
Scouse said:
Got a mate who spooges over all things Alien and the trailer hit the right notes, sort of.

I guess I'm jaded and old!
Click to expand...
Count me in as one of them who jisms over anything to do with the Alien Universe.

I saw Alien when I was around 11 years old with my Mum at a friend's house across the road. We left around 11pm and I still remember both Mum and me gripping each other like we were about to fall off a cliff and scampered back over the road to our house, got in and immediately locked all the doors and turned on every light we could find.

Dad being Dad could not understand how we could be so scared after watching a film on the TV as it is not real, bless him.
 
Scouse

Scouse

Giant Thundercunt
FH Subscriber
Joined
Dec 22, 2003
Messages
36,724
Why! :(

I guess anything with Michael Keaton in it tho...
 
Bodhi

Bodhi

Once agreed with Scouse and a LibDem at same time
Joined
Dec 22, 2003
Messages
9,346
So despite some favourable reviews, it appears according to IMDB and most people who've seen it, the new remake of Road House is actually garbage and not worth the effort.

Anyone surprised about this?
 
Deebs

Deebs

Chief Arsewipe
Staff member
Moderator
FH Subscriber
Joined
Dec 11, 1997
Messages
9,076,994
Bodhi said:
So despite some favourable reviews, it appears according to IMDB and most people who've seen it, the new remake of Road House is actually garbage and not worth the effort.

Anyone surprised about this?
Click to expand...
I watched it last night, was on my lappy at the same time, just didn't touch the original imo. The baddy was a fucking comedian and the fight scenes were like something out of that shitty American wrestling thing (even worse than ours but at least we had Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks).
 
Bodhi

Bodhi

Once agreed with Scouse and a LibDem at same time
Joined
Dec 22, 2003
Messages
9,346
Deebs said:
I watched it last night, was on my lappy at the same time, just didn't touch the original imo. The baddy was a fucking comedian and the fight scenes were like something out of that shitty American wrestling thing (even worse than ours but at least we had Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks).
Click to expand...

Suspected so - there should be a rule in Hollywood, all remakes should be killed with fire before they get out of the production meeting.

PS I don't consider Dune a remake, more of a reinterpretation of a book, with less weird.
 
Raven

Raven

Fuck the Tories!
Joined
Dec 27, 2003
Messages
44,832
Yeah, it's some MMA shit in the new one, whereas it should be a dude bust'in heads.
 
Overdriven

Overdriven

Dumpster Fire of The South
Joined
Jan 23, 2004
Messages
12,762
Scouse said:
Does (s)he rate it @Overdriven?
Click to expand...

Honestly not asked - I only knew it was coming out because of a LinkedIn message where he announced that he worked on it. (He also did Expendables 4) - It's probably not going to be rated by him as it's not his choice of style, but work is work innit.
 
C

caLLous

I am a FH squatter
Joined
Dec 23, 2003
Messages
18,520
Expendables 4 was an abomination. :(

(the colouring looked fine though, he stayed within the lines and everything)
 
Scouse

Scouse

Giant Thundercunt
FH Subscriber
Joined
Dec 22, 2003
Messages
36,724
Might even make highest grossing film of the summer...
 
BloodOmen

BloodOmen

I am a FH squatter
Joined
Jan 27, 2004
Messages
18,131
Scouse said:
Might even make highest grossing film of the summer...
Click to expand...

I like Deadpool, its a nice change from the other hero movies people are just burned out on, the vulgarity and dark humour of Deadpool is what keeps it fresh.
 
DaGaffer

DaGaffer

Down With That Sorta Thing
Joined
Dec 22, 2003
Messages
18,509
Monkey Man. Enjoyably John Wick-esque (even making a JW joke at one point). Dev Patel seems like the most unlikely action hero you could imagine, but he makes it work. Confirms many of my prejudices about India, which is less good I suppose.

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. Take the "based on a true story" bit with an ocean's worth of salt; this is not a "historic" WW2 movie and there are some teeth grinding bits of nonsense, but it is fun to watch with an Inglorious Basterds sensibility, which is to be expected from Guy Ritchie. The weird thing is the real story of these characters and events would have been at least as exciting and probably a better movie if played straight with the right director
 
C

caLLous

I am a FH squatter
Joined
Dec 23, 2003
Messages
18,520
DaGaffer said:
Monkey Man. Enjoyably John Wick-esque (even making a JW joke at one point). Dev Patel seems like the most unlikely action hero you could imagine, but he makes it work. Confirms many of my prejudices about India, which is less good I suppose.

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. Take the "based on a true story" bit with an ocean's worth of salt; this is not a "historic" WW2 movie and there are some teeth grinding bits of nonsense, but it is fun to watch with an Inglorious Basterds sensibility, which is to be expected from Guy Ritchie. The weird thing is the real story of these characters and events would have been at least as exciting and probably a better movie if played straight with the right director
Click to expand...
Agree with both of those. I didn't enjoy Monkey Man as much as I thought/hoped I would based on the trailer but I suppose that's the nature of trailers. There was more downtime between the fights than John Wick (with lashings of social commentary) but those fight scenes were very well-done.

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare was grand. Pretty standard Guy Ritchie stuff, I saw afterwards that it's not just based on the true story of Operation Postmaster, it's a "heavily fictionalised version" of it. Having only seen Alan Ritchson in Reacher and a Black Mirror episode, he was pretty wild in this.
 
Overdriven

Overdriven

Dumpster Fire of The South
Joined
Jan 23, 2004
Messages
12,762
The Fall Guy - 6/10. (7/10 for Emily Blunt being in it)

Saw it last night. I think the trailer is very misleading as to what the film is about. It's okay, entertaining enough for around 2 hours, but very much a one and done. Won't win best movie of the year or the worst.

There's a mid-trailers scene btw. So hang around. Only one though.
 
Tom

Tom

I am a FH squatter
Joined
Dec 22, 2003
Messages
17,354
Best thing about the Fall Guy was Heather Thomas in that bikini.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Users who are viewing this thread

Total: 2 (members: 0, guests: 2)
Top Bottom