Movies to look out for in 2017

[Angcheek]

Not heard of Ghost In The Shell before so managed to find a 1995 copy to watch, I presume this is the original.

 

A bit of Blade Runner and The Matrix in the various characters' exploration of the meaning of life and purpose.

 

A bit cheem at times but quite ok lah.

I heard the story was Hollywooded ... effect was good story so so

[Blueray]

I heard the story was Hollywooded ... effect was good story so so

 

Yeah, once this sort of stuff gets Hollywoodised will lose its essence and original attraction already.

 

I like the cartoon Avatar but once it became The Last Airbender I was   .

 

Guess will give Ghost In The Shell a miss at the cinema then.

[Ender]

Just watched Split. The rotten tomato rating was good. But I fell asleep watching it. For a psycho thriller, it is pretty low on suspense, thrill and horror.

I heard the story was Hollywooded ... effect was good story so so

Hollywooded= japanese characters act by ang mo?

 

It will be horror if any of the jin yong stories become hollywooded.

[Lala81]

Just watched Split. The rotten tomato rating was good. But I fell asleep watching it. For a psycho thriller, it is pretty low on suspense, thrill and horror.

Hollywooded= japanese characters act by ang mo?

 

It will be horror if any of the jin yong stories become hollywooded.

I watched a bit of the great Wall last night. Haha quite OK.

[Angcheek]

Just watched Split. The rotten tomato rating was good. But I fell asleep watching it. For a psycho thriller, it is pretty low on suspense, thrill and horror.

Hollywooded= japanese characters act by ang mo?

 

It will be horror if any of the jin yong stories become hollywooded.

So Split is good bedtime movie ... maybe that way it will get 5 star

[Blueray]

pre-Wonder Woman Gal Gadot in Fast & Furious.

 

 

[Ender]

Just watched The Autopsy of Jane Doe and The Founder. Both good movies and entertaining.. Jane Doe has excellent sound effect, best is to watch it with your Home theatre System.

 

The Founder is the mcdonald story. God acting and story telling.

[Jman888]

watched this last week, directed by Singaporean but film in Thailand. Quite a touching movie.

 

 

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ku1ZPsWqM0

[Blueray]

Just watched Split. The rotten tomato rating was good. But I fell asleep watching it. For a psycho thriller, it is pretty low on suspense, thrill and horror.

 

 

Yeah, Split was just too long, too slow and too unfocused. I did not care for the surprise cameo by the time I reached the end of the movie.

 

Actually kinda think the 3 girls deserved to be abducted cos instead of helping the father with loading the stuff into the car, just sit inside the car and pah handphone and chit chat. 

 

This director's best movie to date still remains The Sixth Sense.

[Stratovarius]

Watch FnF8 last Thurs. I would give 7/10. Dwayne and Jason have a very comical chemistry. Tyrese still funny but weird w/o Sung Kang around. Seems that the series is going to push Dwayne to fill Paul's position in a very different way. Charlize theron is quite good, but lacks abit something to make her a full blown b***h. Maybe is because she did not fight much. Just running here and there.

Cars are still there but with less emphasis. One of the most beautiful one is probably the red stingray. Brian and Mia were briefly mentioned and a scene as a tribute to Paul is made at the end of the show. All in all, a nice show but something in the family is missing. Just not as complete as the cast in 5 and 6.

[Jman888]

watched this over the weekend, the familiar HK police and robbers story, 100% HK style (except for some foreign actors).

 

[Watwheels]

watched this over the weekend, the familiar HK police and robbers story, 100% HK style (except for some foreign actors).

 

 

I will never watch this kinda show. In the past Jackie Chan had already bored ppl continually with "police story". It's like watching a different show with different actors but with the same plot. I think strictly for AL fans.

[Bismarck]

Watch FnF8 last Thurs. I would give 7/10. Dwayne and Jason have a very comical chemistry. Tyrese still funny but weird w/o Sung Kang around. Seems that the series is going to push Dwayne to fill Paul's position in a very different way. Charlize theron is quite good, but lacks abit something to make her a full blown b***h. Maybe is because she did not fight much. Just running here and there.

Cars are still there but with less emphasis. One of the most beautiful one is probably the red stingray. Brian and Mia were briefly mentioned and a scene as a tribute to Paul is made at the end of the show. All in all, a nice show but something in the family is missing. Just not as complete as the cast in 5 and 6.

Watched last week. Without Paul walker the FnF series does seem lose a bit of stream and a representative of Japanese cars/GTR. In the movie only Paul can match up with vin in driving skills and without him there is no reason to even have street racing anymore.

[DACH]

Thor: Ragnarok

[Tianmo]

watched this yesterday, courtesy of AutoGermary/Opel SG. Real funny and great action, very fun and entertaining. @radx, go watch, no regrets. Seriously I wont mind to watch it again.     

 

[DACH]

watched this yesterday, courtesy of AutoGermary/Opel SG. Real funny and great action, very fun and entertaining. @radx, go watch, no regrets. Seriously I wont mind to watch it again.     

 

Ya, it's really damn funny, but the music is not as good as the first movie. Story line was rather unconventional with Ego the living planet replace J'son as Star Lord's real biological father.

 

Do wait for the mid and post credit scenes, quite a number.  

[therock]

Guardians Of The Galaxy Volume 2 – movie review

 

 

Ensemble movies are all the rage now, and so are comic book based ones.

If you look at the top ten movies of last year, you will see that short list dominated by movies that combine these elements.

 

The first franchise was also the movie that propelled Chris Pratt from a relatively unknown and rather pudgy TV actor into an A list action actor, who is moving from one blockbuster to the next.

 

Guardians Of The Galaxy (GOTG) itself was itself a sleeper super hit. Coming out of nowhere to blast into the stratosphere of awesomeness in the middle of much larger comic franchises, which were also hitting their stride. So what does the second movie in this franchise have to offer?

 

Well it does subscribe to the bigger, badder and louder style that bears some similarity to the Fast and Furious series, but one big difference is how you can tease out a reasonable story amidst the mayhem and like the best of the action movies it has humor and romance thrown in. My gold standard of this genre is “Raiders Of the Lost Ark”, and a swashbuckling, devil may care Harrison Ford whipped, swished, kissed and leapt onto the big screen and into our hearts.

 

Here Chris Pratt isn’t Harrison, but he does try hard and manages to combine that magical concoction of being a superhero of sorts with the right added amount of comic relief, and a little sizzle with Zoe Saldana thrown in. There is genuine chemistry between the cast members, and they look like they are really having fun whilst blasting away the space monsters and villains.

 

Like the best blockbusters, despite a plethora of action to keep the fans appetite for blasts and booms happy, there is also a good plot, and we find out more about each character, both the bright as well as the dark side. And it’s often the latter which pulls the fans in. Movie goers enjoy seeing that these action heroes are not perfect and have little secrets beneath the veneer of superhero-ness. Kurt Russell adds a new dimension as Peter Quill’s father Ego, whilst the turn of Mickey Rooker also adds more depth to his arrow whistling personality.

 

Little Groot is a hoot, and each character gets more meat in turn, which giving plenty of space (pun intended) for further development.

 

We also see a few faces turning up near the end, which suggests that the ensemble will be expanded ala The Expendables. This series is destined for even more greatness.

 

For those home theatre fans, I would say that this one is a no brainer when the Blu Ray disc comes out. Run out and pre-book yours. The surround action, as well as the bass are all demo quality.

 

Finally the standout of the movie is often not the action, not the acting, nor the CGI, but the soundtrack. And this is what makes GOTG what it is. Volume 2.

 

GOTG would have been just another action movie in space based on a comic book, but it was significantly elevated to the status of stardom by the awesome 80s soundtrack, and that wonderful Sony Walkman. In GOTG 2, the music again adds that extra bit which makes it just that bit more wonderful and propels this movie into one of the best of the year. No doubt it’s early days yet in 2017, but I will put my money where my mouth is and venture to vote that this movie will be one of the biggest hits and most enjoyable movies of 2017. It’s no Oscar award contender, but it will certainly be one of the movies that I will take out of my collection and watch over and over again. I will certainly take out my old cassettes and play that funky music many times over.

 

Highly recommended.  

[Blueray]

watched this yesterday, courtesy of AutoGermary/Opel SG. Real funny and great action, very fun and entertaining. @radx, go watch, no regrets. Seriously I wont mind to watch it again.     

 

 

you "make signal" to @Radx ah ?  

 

Yes, its a nice movie. Silly story takes on life of its own and just keeps going on and on. 

Edited May 3, 2017 by Blueray