The Movie House - Part 10

Views on Train to Busan?

It is quite intense. Watch 28 weeks later first you scrub.

Already watched it.

Onyx wrote:Views on Train to Busan?

Great first hour. Last hour turned into special olympics.

Pretty sure MT will love the last hour and dislike the first.

Movie so far.

Bah gawd this is almost No Escape levels of suspense.

4.5/5 - Train to Busan

Intense edge of your seat stuff. Hearts still beating fast ffs.

Pls go

the ending

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Valerian and the City of A Thousand Planets

A stunning movie visually, as expected. I saw it in 3D naturally for that reason. The world-building of this flick is amazing. The montage of how far humanity came in space travel and alien contact at the beginning was great. The introduction to the major species as well as Alpha (the main planet) was also great. The plot itself was ok. Like with Avatar, it was more of a cautionary tale of how humanity are their own worst enemies and how that impacts other species.

The acting was poor honestly. Dane Dehaan is simply not a good lead for a movie like this. No charisma, no comedic timing on his lines. Both he and Cara Delevingne looked rather bored most of this movie. Their eyes looked so dead and lifeless. The romantic scenes were simply cringe. Rihanna's small part was also horrid. When she's invested in a role (like with "Home") she can do really well, but in this....just no. Awful. Her character was quite simply offensive. Clive Owen, who was supposed to anchor this cast, was decidedly average. I think it's down to how his character is written though as he's typically not a cowardly or even comedic actor in his roles. This just wasn't a good fit for him.

Overall, this was definitely a Besson movie. A passion project for him surely. It will probably do well in Europe and other places internationally, but here in the States, it bombed horrifically. Personally and despite that, I really want to like this movie because of the world building and visuals, but the acting and weak writing prevents it unfortunately.

6/10

You know the movie was good when people were crying after they left.

My god that was such an intense experience. Its a top 3 Nolan film for me easily. Glad I spent the cash on 70mm IMAX but jesus was it loud. Swear it was louder than the Kendrick concert.

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Main takeaway from the film is that Tom Hardy is the greatest actor alive.

This movie almost didn't make me feel any emotion at all though, and I can't see myself rewatching it.

Completely agreed. There were no emotions in that film (apart from

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which is the only reason why the movie isn't lower than a 7 for me). Surprised considering that's nolan's speciality and it was a war film.

Agreed about Tom Hardy. Amazing actor.


I'll watch it again though after I get Nolan collection whenever they decide to release it. Maybe I missed something in the first watch.

Right now, this is my ranking of the films I have seen of his.

1) The Dark Knight
2) Inception
3) Interstellar/The Dark Knight rises
4) The Dark Knight rises/Interstellar
5) Dunkirk


Interested to see which film out of TDK, Inception and Interstellar M99 rates below Dunkirk Also need EG and ES to watch it asap

Any list that doesn't have Prestige as no 1 is a bad list imo.

Will I like any of these?

No Country for Old Men
I Saw the Devil
Apocalypto
Dunkirk
No Way Out
Heat
Enemy
The Grey
Edge of Tomorrow
Bourne Series

1. Inception
2. Memento
3. Dunkirk
4. TDK
5. The Prestige
6. TDKR
7. BB
8. Interstellar
9. Insomnia
10. The Following

Also completely disagree on there being no emotion. The fisherman and his son's storyline on the boat with Cillian Murphy was even more emotional than Tom Hardy's arc.

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Same with the young lads on the beach.

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Onyx wrote:Will I like any of these?

I Saw the Devil
Apocalypto

Those two

Onyx wrote:Will I like any of these?

Edge of Tomorrow
Bourne Series

Bourne is amaaazing, It'll be difficult to adjust to the absence of Matt Damon in the 4th but the 4 movies are worth it ( The 4th has Rachel Weisz and she runs in it as well so WORTH IT )

Edge of tomorrow is great as well, Had a crush on Emily Blunt for 3 days after that.

MT doesn't like action movies

Then i'd recommend 27 dresses mate @MT

Nishankly wrote:Then i'd recommend 27 dresses mate @MT

It's not that he doesn't like action movie. He only likes one very specific kind of movie

Freeza wrote:

Nishankly wrote:Then i'd recommend 27 dresses mate @MT

It's not that he doesn't like action movie. He only likes one very specific kind of movie

Let me guess Apocalyptic ones preferably pertaining to something non-human like Zombies?

Hello everyone!

I just wanted to say that I've seen Fences yesterday. For me, it deserves a ten. It got very emotional after 30 mins and in the end I cried. For me, the acting was perfect.

Last week I saw Casino (8/10), Going in Style (6/10), Natural Born killers (7/10), The People vs Larry Flynt (7/10), Trainspotting 2 (6/10), My Own Private Idaho (8/10), Victoria (the one with the berliners and the cute girl - 7/10, had something special) & Miles Ahead (about Miles Davis' life - 7/10, very good movie, would recommend it to anybody into jazz/biographies).

Next movies & documentaries on my list are: Apocalypse Now, Once Upon a Time in the West, La La Land, Deep Web, Inside Job, The Salt of the Earth, Dear Zachary

I would appreciate your opinion regarding my watchlist, especially if you have anything notable to mention about any of the films listed above.

Just came back from Dunkirk, agreed with RG. This is probably Nolan's worst film, the movie felt very pretentious at times. But thats the least of my concern, like most, i had an extremely hard time hearing the dialogue, but that is usually forgiven if the music is amazing. It wasn't in this one, not for me at least.

Also, i hope Nolan steers clear from realism and real life stuff, his movie are best when there are element of fiction or sci fi in it.

6/10