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[walpurgis]

Just finished watching 'Rogue' movie. I really wasn't expecting an Aussie film about a huge crocodile menace to be up to much, but it was actually pretty damn good, way better than anticipated. Even the music score was impressive.

[struth]

Earlier the original Dunkirk

Now. Red 2

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Been up most of night. Doh. Now the thing from another world. 1951

[Roy S]

Been up most of night. Doh. Now the thing from another world. 1951

With James Arness (Gunsmoke) as the Thing.

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With James Arness (Gunsmoke) as the Thing.

think it was roy. terrible film and sent me to sleep

[Roy S]

think it was roy. terrible film and sent me to sleep

Always been a favourite of mine, amusing the way they deliver their lines like machine guns.

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Always been a favourite of mine, amusing the way they deliver their lines like machine guns.

aye, it isnt that bad tbh, just i was tired. about to caffeine up as even mr hooker is annoying me today

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The wrath of Khan Second star trek movie. From Amazon prime

[Macca]

Taken 3 (2014)




Liam Neeson is an ex-CIA agent, blah, blah. Now don't get me wrong the first one is a good film and the fact that it is stupid in so many ways just enhances that; a bit like in 'Under Siege', 'Die Hard' or 'Commando'. Only you've got Liam Neeson who's a proper actor not a cartoon character so you get a bit of perceived 'depth'.

So as usual despite the fact that he's keeping his head down and doing jack shit, there's trouble brewing. This time he's wanted for a crime he didn't commit. So it's basically 'The Fugitive' except he's rock hard and not just a poxy doctor. Or lots of other films where at least for some of the time the hero is being hunted by other good guys. And that poses a big problem: in the other films he can go through the baddies (mostly Eastern Europeans) with gay abandon, cracking windpipes and wringing necks with no second thought.

Because as anyone who watches Hollywood films in general, or in fact the first two films in this series will know: if you are an ex-CIA agent you can take the law into your own hands, kill as many people as you need to (in the continental USA or abroad), do as much property damage as you want and needlessly endanger countless civilian lives in reckless freeway car chases, and then when it is all over you can just go back to living your normal life like nothing happened.

Providing you were well liked at the CIA of course. Obviously if you don't fit in you end up leaving and going rogue and hijacking satellites and so forth. But Liam was well liked so he's fine and he's also got some other retired CIA mates to back him up, which is nice.

But the point is yer man is on the run so the plot calls for him to fight with, overpower and escape from the other good guys; cops, detectives, security guards. But he can't be seen to be breaking their windpipes and so on like he usually does Or shooting them. That would be even worse. So they have to use the classic move that you used to see on 60s and 70s tv all the time: The karate chop that knocks a man out.

He'll be out for maybe five, ten minutes; and then he'll wake up feeling a little bruised but otherwise....okay! Hey!

And Liam has to do this a lot to get out of situations and advance the plot.

Lame.


I mean we could live with it in 'The Man From Uncle' because it added to the charm. But in this film in 2014 it just looks like lazy writing to me. At least Forrest Whitaker is good and so is his character, but he's not in it enough. It plays like some of his scenes got cut out or shortened for some reason.


Anyway, worth a watch once and that's it.

[struth]

Taken 3 (2014)




Liam Neeson is an ex-CIA agent, blah, blah. Now don't get me wrong the first one is a good film and the fact that it is stupid in so many ways just enhances that; a bit like in 'Under Siege', 'Die Hard' or 'Commando'. Only you've got Liam Neeson who's a proper actor not a cartoon character so you get a bit of perceived 'depth'.

So as usual despite the fact that he's keeping his head down and doing jack shit, there's trouble brewing. This time he's wanted for a crime he didn't commit. So it's basically 'The Fugitive' except he's rock hard and not just a poxy doctor. Or lots of other films where at least for some of the time the hero is being hunted by other good guys. And that poses a big problem: in the other films he can go through the baddies (mostly Eastern Europeans) with gay abandon, cracking windpipes and wringing necks with no second thought.

Because as anyone who watches Hollywood films in general, or in fact the first two films in this series will know: if you are an ex-CIA agent you can take the law into your own hands, kill as many people as you need to (in the continental USA or abroad), do as much property damage as you want and needlessly endanger countless civilian lives in reckless freeway car chases, and then when it is all over you can just go back to living your normal life like nothing happened.

Providing you were well liked at the CIA of course. Obviously if you don't fit in you end up leaving and going rogue and hijacking satellites and so forth. But Liam was well liked so he's fine and he's also got some other retired CIA mates to back him up, which is nice.

But the point is yer man is on the run so the plot calls for him to fight with, overpower and escape from the other good guys; cops, detectives, security guards. But he can't be seen to be breaking their windpipes and so on like he usually does Or shooting them. That would be even worse. So they have to use the classic move that you used to see on 60s and 70s tv all the time: The karate chop that knocks a man out.

He'll be out for maybe five, ten minutes; and then he'll wake up feeling a little bruised but otherwise....okay! Hey!

And Liam has to do this a lot to get out of situations and advance the plot.

Lame.


I mean we could live with it in 'The Man From Uncle' because it added to the charm. But in this film in 2014 it just looks like lazy writing to me. At least Forrest Whitaker is good and so is his character, but he's not in it enough. It plays like some of his scenes got cut out or shortened for some reason.


Anyway, worth a watch once and that's it.

Good write up Martin. Liam isnt my idea of an action man so never watched any of them. I prefer him as a serious actor. Hes too old for the action man bit