What's the last movie you saw and rate it...

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拼命三郎 - fight for tomorrow

Knew it was a cantonese film, the actors are well known and casted nicely. Script writer and director did it all himself so I had decent hopes (esp he was the script writer for all the Ip Man movies, as well as a few solid non action films). Given that, i purposely did not read any reviews so there were mixed emotions - from a old and not worthy triad dad who suddenly randomly rescues his long lost son was the premise of the movie.
Son got into an altercation in a boxing training studio with a rich kid and of course, dad helps.

The tone was nicely set, however, turns out the 2 teens's dad knows each other and this hk traid settling comes along talking about old times... eventually settles all scores. Then the movie PIVOTS to fatherly love, let me inspire you son timeline which was all about boxing... wth.

SO that's the only part I didn't like was the sudden dip in style, rocky, thai fighting rink battle it all out ending which did not end there. Movie ends with fatherly vs son bond. Very roller coaster of pivots, extremely well done with good cast (two adults were 56 and 60) and the two dead beat teens also did a good job. (one trained better than the other).

GOod Cantonese film, just not what I'm used to.

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Flow - A Latvian, French, and Belgian co-production of a cartoon. It is NOT pixar. It is not Coco, it is NOT toy story, so with that aside, don't expect the formula, the graphics and the flow (no pun intended) on the movie.
It's about a cat with NO dialogue and follows a cat trying to survive after / during a flood.
Bravo for investing 3.5 M euro and ROI with 50 Million, but doesn't mean I enjoyed the movie. The 'circle of life' theme is there, cause afterall, what else can be it about.

90% of the film worked well andyou know how it connects the dots. There are two spiritual parts which might confuse the heck out of the viewers esp if they are young.

Yes, there's bullying, there's death, but heck.. all movies are like that. Even Toy Story had bullying... so don't be alarmed.

PS - 4.5 yr production on a open source software with no storyboards and no deleted scenes... (well who is there to prove LOL).

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WTF did I just watch. This supposed to be post Avengers end game (7 yrs) ... what a joke.
I don't even recognize the director doing any huge debut for the last 13 years (Robot & Frank (2012) - was amazing btw). Then script writer did a decent one who co-wrote; Transformers One so don't blame me for not really appreciating the film (cause the script sucked).
I get it's not happy go lucky, it's not positive hollywood movie, heck, it's not even any hero type film, at least give it a chance.

Positive things were - Julia Louis-Dreyfus; hey coming from seinfield and now to this, she really didn't have a lot of 'good movies debut'. So i'm glad she pulled the role well. The movie has 4 heros, so it's important to start the introduction nice and 'explain' it's after end game, the setup was good, the background of each character was a BIT weak; i did loook past it.

The worse was the introduction of the protagonist was unique, i just didn't think the story was good. The protagonist was so so so powerful, so much more powerful than thanos... so wtf.

Then there were some forced in scenes of a father / daughter dynamic which I did NOT understand. Why add it at the middle of movie. Also at the final battle scene, they aren't super heros, yet they are really sort of powerful being able to lift up concrete.. so it was a bit puzzling.
Anyhoo; i rather watch captain america than this. Please just let these Marvel die.

PS - there were post credit easter eggs.

[nabs]

F1 - 7/10, good sequences, but I know too much about the sport to turn that part of my brain off. But decent movie.

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The Dumpling Queen (2025) - based on a true story. Written by china but directed by HK director (internal affairs). I thought it was extremely well done; mixed with classic 70/ 80s music. Haters from HK bashed it but whatever.

the cast was HUGE esp there were tons of cameos all over. Then add in a few solid, well established story line. The thing that did it for me was the personal relationship / hardship that really did it for me. My dad's family also swam and reached Kowloon / HK, got to stay at relative's house and started fast food noodle house so the entire processes were done well, esp. sticking with the times on a lot of the sets.

TL;DR - lady comes from china and establish wonton empire in HK. Really nicely done.

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Watched Heads of State tonight, pretty typical for a movie from a streaming service... had some pretty intense action sequences aboard Airforce 1 and some really cool fights and death scenes, I'd say it's really creative in that regard. Sometimes felt like Elba and Cena didn't have a lot of chemistry even as foils but whether intentional or not it came together better as things went along. Chopra is fuckin amazing in this and pretty hot too.

Jack Quaid has probably one of the best and most badass cameos I've ever seen in a movie lol... his part was an absolute riot.

7.5/10, sometimes the humour dragged a little in spots and lots of jangoism. Cool action scenes with Airforce 1 and "The Beast" (President's car)... and a pretty clumsy condemnation of Trump toward the end that I could have done without even if it's not wrong.

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^ heard some great review.

From the World of John Wick: Ballerina



Totally brainless and i knew going in this is NOT JOhn Wick. He did do a few cameo's. What was funny was i recognized it being at Hallstatt as I was just there last year but pretty sure it was green screen.

They didn't make her John Wick, she's tiny, she small and she's 'weak', so it was cool to see it didn't make her superwoman. She did get her ass kicked a few times and overlal the cinamatophy was very similar to John Wick. Will it earn more.. not a all, it just broke even so i'm surprised it even got over 100 m.

Lastly, Lance Reddick was still in the film because they had him in the beginning of film beofre he passed away. (no-nonsense concierge at the New York Continental)

it's brainless but heck, turn off urbrain and enjoy it.

[Gumby]

I thought Ballerina was entertaining, but I fear that these John Wick spinoffs won't work without John Wick. While watching the movie, I was waiting for the scenes with him in them... then again, maybe they shouldn't have spoiled his appearance in the movie trailers.

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Surprised I'm not seeing more F1 reviews.

What kind of car forum is this

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Originally Posted by mikemhg

Surprised I'm not seeing more F1 reviews.

What kind of car forum is this

Lol I just went to watch it last night.

As expected, the story was nonsense and can be ignored. Including all the manufactured drama. Just as bad as DTS lmao.

The cinematography was amazing on the other hand. Never before have you seen F1 cars at these angles, and it is SUPERB.

7/10 overall, but 4/10 plot 10/10 visuals.