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And Clubber Lang knocked him out in their first match
Movie What's the last movie you saw? (5)
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What matters is he lost the important fights, his speech in Balboa about life not being about how hard you hit summed up the series so well and Rocky would have been a much lesser movie had it finished with him winning.
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The initial Rocky was always about going the distance, just proving that he was worthy to be in the same ring as Apollo Creed. They lost that in the middle, but came back to it in Balboa & Creed
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You completely miss the point. Rocky may lose a fight but the experience makes him win in life.
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You may have missed the point of my posts because I think I agree with you, royboy2 said it so well when he said that Rocky was about going the distance and proving to yourself that you were worthy of being in the same ring as the 'champions'.
It was never about winning one fight it was about the idea that one day you will look back and hopefully you will be able to say you were good enough.
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Butterfly on a Wheel.
Great film, highly recommend. A couple's daughter is kidnapped and the kidnapper makes them jump through hoops and barrels to in order for her to stay alive. Pierce Brosnan and Gerard Butler. Intense and lots of twists. 4/5.
It's on Stan.
Great film, highly recommend. A couple's daughter is kidnapped and the kidnapper makes them jump through hoops and barrels to in order for her to stay alive. Pierce Brosnan and Gerard Butler. Intense and lots of twists. 4/5.
It's on Stan.
This is the level of film criticism we should all strive for in this thread.
That is a fantastic film, I loved it. One of the best I watched last year.
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End of the Century - an Argentine holidaying in Barcelona hooks up with a Spaniard back visiting home from his life in Berlin. During their time together they realise they had previously met and had played a key part in one another's life several years ago. A couple of confusing moments in narrative shifts aside (the decision not to de-age the actors in the flashback to their prior meeting initially threw me, as an actor only previously shown in at most a mid-shot is suddenly in close up under the harsh Spanish sun, revealing wrinkles and greys, and so actually in that moment looking older than in the present day), I thought this a very good movie. It took some warming to after a slow start, but I thought it came to actually be quite a thoughtful, introspective movie.
The Dig - directed by Simon Stone, previously best known for his work as a creative director in the Sydney theatre scene, this is his first international film. About a real event in the lead up to war in 1939, Carey Mulligan stars as an English landowner who hires local archaeologist Ralph Fiennes to find out if anything lies beneath the mounds on her property. I enjoyed the first half of this as a slow study of these two characters and their great find, a 7th century Saxon ship, and it's always enjoyable to see two great actors doing their thing (and Mulligan in a very different role to her other movie out at the moment). As the discovery leads to wide interest in the excavation, a larger cast of characters descend on the estate and the movie's narrative gets a bit unfocused, with a romance between two characters who show up halfway through the movie becoming the main plotline.
The Dig - directed by Simon Stone, previously best known for his work as a creative director in the Sydney theatre scene, this is his first international film. About a real event in the lead up to war in 1939, Carey Mulligan stars as an English landowner who hires local archaeologist Ralph Fiennes to find out if anything lies beneath the mounds on her property. I enjoyed the first half of this as a slow study of these two characters and their great find, a 7th century Saxon ship, and it's always enjoyable to see two great actors doing their thing (and Mulligan in a very different role to her other movie out at the moment). As the discovery leads to wide interest in the excavation, a larger cast of characters descend on the estate and the movie's narrative gets a bit unfocused, with a romance between two characters who show up halfway through the movie becoming the main plotline.
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Finally got around to watching Joker. Can see why people loved it, can see why people hated it. I'm more on the hate side. Was more like a series of loosely related vignettes which kind of added up to the end result depending on how much you wanted to suspend disbelief I guess. I even found myself pretty bored at times, which considering how serious it was supposed to be, doesn't say much for it.
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Yeah was average. Made a shit ton of money tho, I believe.
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Joker was an average movie raised above average by Joaquin Pheonix's performance.
I watched Flight the other night and it was the same thing, an average movie raised above average by Denzel Washington's performance.
I guess that's why they are called A listers and are paid the big bucks.
I watched Flight the other night and it was the same thing, an average movie raised above average by Denzel Washington's performance.
I guess that's why they are called A listers and are paid the big bucks.
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Is Denzel Washington underrated? I think so.
Strange to think about as he is definitely in the A-list, but it's kinda like if someone rates Dustin Martin outside the top 2 players in the AFL currently. Highly rated but still under rated.
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Strange to think about as he is definitely in the A-list, but it's kinda like if someone rates Dustin Martin outside the top 2 players in the AFL currently. Highly rated but still under rated.
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Martin Scorcese summed up this film for me: https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/01/martin-scorsese-joker
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The plane crash scene is 10 out of 10 for me. Shame about the rest of the film. Didn't mind it that much but the romance subplot thing dragged it down a lot.
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The Silence - discount Netflix knock off of a quiet place with Stanley Tucci and Kiernan Shipka. It’s fine although Kiernan plays a deaf girl (which a quiet place also did) who not only speaks perfectly but also signs half the time and lip reads, so the whole point of her being deaf becomes pretty pointless.
I’d actually forgotten I’d watched it on the weekend until last night so not great signs for it.
5/10 I guess?
I’d actually forgotten I’d watched it on the weekend until last night so not great signs for it.
5/10 I guess?
If anything I’d have Denzel as being a touch overrated for mine. He’s okay, and occasionally I’ll see the hype (Glory, Flight, Fences) but it feels like he too often just chooses crap, and for an actor considered a great his resume is pretty thin.
I kind of agree though I question whether he picks the roles that don’t stretch him or whether roles are written for him specifically cause they like him as that character.
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Denzel is awesome in Training Day.
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He's not the one of the first guys you think of as an action star but he's done plenty of action and thriller roles very well too.
I have always preferred Equalizer to John Wick.
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I have always preferred Equalizer to John Wick.
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I think I'm in the same boat on this one. His best is outstanding, and he has the charisma and screen presence to elevate weak roles, but I wouldn't consider him one of the greats. Even one of those examples, Fences, I found him quite painful to watch in.
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