The Nice Guys is a really bad movie. Somehow Shane Black got it in his head to do a 70s trashy LA Neo-Noir starring Abbot and Costello. Not as funny as it thinks it and sure as hell not as smart as it thinks it is. Russell Crowe is pretty good, but Ryan Gosling is playing it like Nic Cage. Way too tone deaf of a movie to really enjoy considering how much the main characters are incompetent bundlers nonstop.
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Whatâs not exciting about stealing DVD players.
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Ah man, I really liked it! Tonally it was different than I was expecting and some parts were goofy, but I thought it worked.
I loved the interplay and banter between the main cast. And even though most of the action scenes had something silly happening, they actually felt like they had stakes. The badguys actually felt threatening and the good guys actually felt like underdogs.
I thought it was a ton of fun. In a world with $300 million Marvel movies, itâs refreshing to watch something that feels like the people making it were having fun and not worrying about merchandising options or overseas marketability.
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Both in film quality and how young Paul Walker looked.
[/quote]Suprisingly good face replacement CGI, but it was worse than it could have been - it wasnât bad all the time, so youâd just start accepting it, and then youâd get a flicker of uncanny valley, which made it SO MUCH WORSE than if it was that way all the time.
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Whatâs not exciting about stealing DVD players.
[/quote]DVD players? Oh no, my friend. Not DVD. Actual screenshot from the movie, of the truck full of shit they were robbing:
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No no no, the flashbacks from previous movies. Yeah the shopped face was a little freaky.
They have good chemistry. The problem with the movie is that the silliness came from more incompetence and luck than actually well crafted jokes. This is that rare movie I can say where the writing is good while the direction absolutely lets it down. The plot isnât even that original as a conspiracy crime drama. By the end of it, I realized that if the bag guys completely ignored the main plot with the porn starâŚlikely nothing would have actually happened because people would have dismissed it as a porno. They caused drama because they panicked over something they feared people would take seriously despite being massively powerful and influential.
Thereâs so many good movies you can find outside of blockbusters from VOD, Netflix, Foreign markets and small-budget indies that you donât need to give bonus points. Shane Black is unmistakably Hollywood.
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My preferences in the crazy bad movie chain -
3: Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift - Rescued the franchise and has the most intelligent / philosophical lines in the series, some of my favourite cars. Han is a boss. Best photography of the films. My favourite sound track. Sure has super cheese. Only one of the movies I can re-watch to completion.
Memorable Quotes:
âWow! You can read the brochure!â
âMy rideâs one of a kindâ
âFor when you blow your wad man.â
âI have money, itâs trust and character I need around me. You know, who you choose to be around you lets you know who you are. One car in exchange for knowing what a manâs made of? Thatâs a price I can live with.â
âI donât care if youâre sick as a dog or in bed with Beyonce. I call, you show.â
Car Rating 5/5
5. Fast Five - What four should have been in terms of actually getting everyone back together. Hilarious inclusion of The Rock. The movie was intended to be silly and the production team knows itâs audience. Also fun action scenes.
Memorable quotes:
âWhen you gonna give Martin Luther King his car back?â
âSame time as you give Rick James his jacket back.â
Car Rating 4/5
1. The Fast and the Furious - wow this film has cars and action and is different from other shit in the 90s. The birth of the series. Not a great film but started the terrible blight on everyone. Also Ludacris is an awesome character in this film and all subsequent appearances. Super cringe on re-watch but has some nostalgia with it. The only reason under glow lights were outlawed in Australia.
Memorable Quotes:
âI like the tuna here.â
âWhat did you put in that sandwich?â
Car Rating 5/5.
6. Fast & Furious 6 -
Super action movie cheese. Silly British villain. One of the funniest of all the films, both intentionally and not, which seems to be a hallmark of this series.
Memorable Quote -
âSeriously? Youâre a millionaire and youâre still asking for money?â
ââŚThatâs how you stay a millionaire!â
Car Rating 2/5
7. Furous 7
Like turn your brain off for real level of silliness. Suddenly everyone knows how to fight.
Yo weâre going to drive a car between buildings while crashing a party. Weâre doing everything in cars, especially in the air.
Memorable Quotes:
âYou ainât that charming bitchâ
Car Rating 1/5
2. 2 Fast 2 Furious - Almost killed the franhcise. Walker without Diesel is almost an instant tank. Ludacris saved this film as did the cars.
Memorable Quotes:
âI didnât know pizza places made motors.â
Car Rating 4/5
4. Fast and Furious - Got the originals back together. A bit long on time a bit sillier than the others yet tries to take itself too seriously. Super emo about Letty.
Memboarable quote:
âOnly pussies run nitro-meth.â
Car Rating 1/5
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Fast & Furious 6
[/quote]The best line in all of Fast6
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The Belko Experiment
It is a horror movie and specifically it is in the Death Game sub-genre of horror (one of my favourite bad horror genres to consume.) It is likely the second best of them I have seen in the film medium only coming behind As the Gods Will for the simple reason that it was not Takeshi Miike directing a CGI killer Daruma. Had some good gore and make up effects - mostly practical as far as I could tell - like all good death game movie it leaves itself open for a sequel which should never come.
As the Gods Will, is an adaption of a manga. Havenât seen the movie but the trailer looks pretty faithful. Thereâs a sequel to the manga as well. Death Games are a guilty pleasure of mine too. Try Alice on the Borderland, another manga that is slightly better than As the Gods Will.
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I am reading Alice in Borderland and enjoying it a lot and noticed the translation I am reading that they also translate âSuicide Islandâ That is a great ânot a death gameâ manga even if it is set up like a Battle Royale type situation it is more âdepressed people try to form a society togetherâ type affair.
The East Coast Giant Bomb chaps have been doing a Film and 40s series where they watch all of the Fast/Furious films while getting moderately toasted on malt liquor. Iâd only ever seen the first one, and playing their audio tracks alongside the movies seemed like a passable way to jump in.
I got up to #6 last night. 5 and 6 have both been pretty special with the entertaining stupidity stepping up as they go (5 was probably a better film, but 6 was much dumber in a way that made me smile). Kind of looking forward to seeing how daft 7 gets now, Statham showing up in the stinger of 6 and retconning/expanding on events at the end of Tokyo Drift promises great/terrible things.
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Second time seeing the film in the cinema this is a 4k re-release so I am not sure if it was the bigger screen or the restoration but I noticed a lot of details in peopleâs make up this time around. (bruising in finger print shapes on the prostituteâs Arm for an example) not much to say about the whole story or symbolism side but I am glad I managed to seperate it from inland empire in my mind.
Last night I saw Kedi, a documentary about the cats of Istanbul. Beautifully shot, and really good, I just wish it had followed some of the individual cats a bit more. Now I really want to get some cats for my new place, and check out Istanbul at some point.
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Went to a showing of Near Dark, which Iâd never seen but knew involved vampires and Lance Henriksen (Bishop). Turns out, it also stars Bill Paxton (Hudson) and Jenette Goldstein (Vasquez). For an 80s vampire horror movie, it was pretty great! The practical effects were quite well done. I could see how it inspired of Vampire: the Masquerade although VtM wouldnât have had such a happy ending.
Also this weekend, a local film festival had a showing of The LIttle Hours, a 14th century piece about a convent of asshole nuns featuring Aubrey Plaza, Alison Brie, Kate Micucci, and John C. Reilly. Coincidentally enough, it also includes a quick scene with Aliens veteran Paul Reiser (Burke).
The first 20 seconds of the trailer will tell you if this movie is for you.
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I hadnât even heard of The Decameron before watching the trailer, but I did seek out that particular dayâs story after watching the movie.
There was a skype Q&A with writer/director Jeff Baena after the showing. He has a film degree with a minor in Medieval History, and besides The Decameron there was a scene where he borrowed from Arabian Nights.
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A turtle with a candle on its back. Apparently in the story (and real life?) at night it could so confound people that thieves would use it as a distraction to rob houses.
M. Nightâs Split is a fantastic thriller! If you are a fan of his previous works, youâll definitely enjoy it!
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Guardians 2 - Really funny, fun action sequences, I overall enjoyed it as much as the first one and would gladly watch again.
Death Bed: The Bed That Eats - Didnât know anything about this, was over with friends and they wanted to put it on. I guess Patton Oswalt talked about it in some standup. Anyway, this movie is really, really bad. And sadly not bad in a fun way, itâs just a slog. Thankfully it was short.
Mommy Dead and Dearest - Also didnât know anything about this, but it ended up being a pretty engaging documentary. It was interesting enough to keep my wife and I up well past our normal bedtime. I havenât watched or listened to any of the recent documentaries involving crimes, so I canât compare it, but it was worth watching once.
Colossal - Fantastic genre-twisting movie by Nacho Vigalando featuring Anne Hathaway and Jason Sudeikis. Starts as this really neat kaiju movie and then turns into this really telling character story about manipulative relationships and substance abuse. Both actors are at the top of their game here, which really surprised me about Sudeikis because he always feels like he plays the same type of character in every role. Donât go into this movie for the monster elements, see it more as representation for the themes.
Also, holy crap this movie is so fucking relevant right now as commentary on MRA, Gamergate type shit. If you need a movie to point out âThat Guysâ to people, this is the movie.