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    Prompted by ^^, and having only seen a high-quality screener, I downloaded and watched the real deal today.

    I agree far more with ^ grades.

    I said it all before a long time ago in the main movie thread. Great scenery, some fantastic scenes (a few), slow, too long, weak character development, and so-so story.

    I certainly didn't think he was deserving of Best Actor for moans and monosyllabic grunts.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Looper
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    I am using all my power to resist giving it a 10 but you cannot give it less than 9.5/10


    It is a good movie, let's go 8.

    There seems to be a lot of Last of the Moheecans in this movie, which is a movie I'd give a 9 to, perhaps a 9.5, but the Revenant is nowhere near a 10 imho...
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    As I said, maybe 7.5 overall - without the bear scene - 6.5.

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    I thought there was more than a suggestion of sexuality in the bear scene which I could have done without...

    Even you would have struggled with that bear, Davis!

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    That was a badass bear, no doubt. I have no idea what to do in the event of a bear attack - I think the guidance is play dead and after a while he'll get bored of eviscerating you and wander off.

    Sounds sketchy to me. Probably a fine theoretical plan unless you're the dude getting his balls clawed off while he snacks on your face.

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    Enjoy reading this thread.
    Don't think you guys have reviewed "Truth" with Robert Redford, surprisingly good movie, surprised it was made! I like surprises!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Airportwo View Post
    Enjoy reading this thread.
    Don't think you guys have reviewed "Truth" with Robert Redford, surprisingly good movie, surprised it was made! I like surprises!
    Never heard of it. Looks quite interesting. DL'ing now. Thanks.

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    Star Wars the farce awakens thingy.

    Complete shite, good CGI, 3/10 because I downloaded an HD copy.

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    ^ I just watched that too... It was good, but not amazing: 7.5/10 An enjoyable watch.

    You feckers giving 3/10 and 9.5/10, what you been smoking?


    Davis, you can't play dead with a bear because it'll kill you; you're in its domain, it knows and it's not happy, so run out of the domain or fight...

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    I used to watch Yogi Bear and BooBoo - they never bit anyone. They were just in it for the picnics.

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    So, you're suggesting that if Dicaprio had thrown an apple or a grape towards the attacking bear then we'd have been saved from 45 minutes or so of a bit tedious and non-believable recovery in -20 mountain landscapes with no food or shelter ot support or anything but the Grim Reaper for company?

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    Yup. Ham sandwich or two would have done the trick.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bettyboo
    There seems to be a lot of Last of the Moheecans in this movie, which is a movie I'd give a 9 to, perhaps a 9.5
    Put the crack pipe down Betty!

    I watched LOTM for the first time about 2 months ago.

    I was googling stuff about Daniel Day Lewis and I realised here was a DDL film I had never seen so I was stoked about watching it...

    Oh dear... It was a passable way to spend 2 hours but I can bear-ly remember a thing about it now.

    I will definitely remember several moments from The Revenant 5 years from now never mind 2 months.

    I am sure LOTM was a decent enough film back in 1992 but today it is a pale shadow. The biggest disappointment was DDL who has been so visceral and raw in some of his more recent roles but back then looked very ordinary by comparison.

    The Bear Attack was the best example of technical virtuosity in the Revenant but there were several other outstanding examples.

    It was true that I had consumed a quantity of Belhaven IPA and Twelve Nights Cotswold Dark Ale but I do not believe that my judgement was severely impaired when I recall being awestruck at the ferocity and realism of the action on more than one occasion.

    The Revenant is the current undisputed state of the art for mixing nature with action.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bettyboo
    There seems to be a lot of Last of the Moheecans in this movie, which is a movie I'd give a 9 to, perhaps a 9.5, but the Revenant is nowhere near a 10 imho...


    You're also making a good case that Daniel Day Lewis is a much better actor than Leonardo DiCaprio, which I wholeheartedly agree with. And I always thought he should have got one for The Unbearable Lightness of Being. That was one of those movies that was better than the well-received book, IMNFHO. The book got a 4.1/5 on Goodreads




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    ^Another DDM movie which I have not seen.

    I actually remember not seeing this movie although I did not know until now that it was DDM movie.

    I remember because I was walking past the cinema with my 18 year old GF when we are at uni and she said-

    ~Oh that looks interesting - 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being 18'

    I pointed out that 18 was the certification, not part of the title.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Looper View Post
    ^Another DDM movie which I have not seen.

    I actually remember not seeing this movie although I did not know until now that it was DDM movie.

    I remember because I was walking past the cinema with my 18 year old GF when we are at uni and she said-

    ~Oh that looks interesting - 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being 18'

    I pointed out that 18 was the certification, not part of the title.
    Really ought to see it. It's hip. Set in Czechoslovakia during the Velvet revolution which came to nothing but Russian tanks in the streets of Prague in the '60s. But it's not a war movie. Lewis is a doctor and Olin and Binoche (the two sexiest girls you could want to see) and both are after this doc's dick. Fuckin' A. What beauties? If Lena Olin isn't one of the sexiest actresses there has been in a while, well lookit Juliet Binoche in probably her first English film.

    I think of it as a 60s hippie period piece and they must be hard to come by. I mean, how long ago was that? And, yeah, the scenery changes to California. Who would complain about Prague, though?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Looper
    ^Another DDM movie which I have not seen.


    Quote Originally Posted by wjblaney
    But it's not a war movie.


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    I meant DDL (Daniel Day Lewis)

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    Selma

    Dramatically competent account of Martin Luther Kings organisation of the Alabama march for civil rights and votes for blacks.

    Nothing that has not been done before in terms of general cinema but reconstructs some interesting details about the texture of life in the south in the sixties for blacks and the political games between George Wallace and Lyndon Johnson.

    A reasonable way to spend a couple of hours.

    7/10

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    Quote Originally Posted by cyrille
    Sometimes this place is like a bad imitation of 'Drunken Bakers'.
    Post-critiques critiques are sooooo yesterday.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Looper
    I meant DDL (Daniel Day Lewis)
    Were you afraid your post was going to be ignored?

    Don't kiss-ass Cyrille.

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    Selma is very predictable and PC, like the Butler and 12 years a slave it's all white bad black good but oppressed, the negative aspects of MLK just get white washed out When Rosa Parks gets mentioned in films they never tell you she was not the first victim chosen by black activists in a seating on the bus dispute. They dropped the first one that they were touting when they found out she was single and pregnant and also decided she was too black to evoke as much sympathy as Parks who was lighter. Hollywood is not history.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Davis Knowlton View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Airportwo View Post
    Enjoy reading this thread.
    Don't think you guys have reviewed "Truth" with Robert Redford, surprisingly good movie, surprised it was made! I like surprises!
    Never heard of it. Looks quite interesting. DL'ing now. Thanks.
    Just watched it. Quite interesting. Thanks. Enjoyed it.

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    "Forsaken". Keifer Sutherland, Donald Sutherland, and Demi Moore. 2016.

    Fucking awful...just awful. Generic western you've seen done (better) fifty times. Keifer puts in his usual wooden performance as the damaged Civil War veteran turned gunfighter who hangs up his guns. Daddy, whom I loved in Kelly's Heroes and the Dirty Dozen, sucks as the gunfighter's preacher Dad.

    Demi Moore (GI Jane), whom I loathe, was the only bright spot as you could get a laugh at how old and wrinkled she's become.

    Because it's Easter, and I'm in a forgiving mood.....5/10.

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    ^ I told you so!

    That was the worst acting performance I think I've ever seen; Keifer is so so bad...

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