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Saw The Holdovers over the weekend.

I'm a Payne fan and really enjoyed Sideways (good), Nebraska (fantastic), The Descendants (loved this movie)

I didn't enjoy it as much as these three. It was a good film and really captures the essence of 1970s New England well (or so I've read). But it just doesn't have the same emotional pull as other similar coming of age stories involving a teacher with baggage, such as a Dead Poet's Society. This film has nowhere near that amount of gravity.

Certainly worth a watch. But for me it's not worth of all the Oscar buzz it's getting.
 

'Leon', vs 'the dream team', vs 'hunt for the Wilderpeople', vs 'Commando', vs 'pulp fiction' maybe.

There's a few laughs, and then there's some properly in the shadow of darkness stuff that's amazingly well realised. But not nice. Ends beautifully, the least expected hero signs off. 8.5 ptsd cliche'd silent heroes out none cos that's not the formula to this. Mads finds another film to shine in. And points for the fps flavour.
 
Pittsburgh Footy said:
I just watched it last night. Wife thought it was more "meh," but I really enjoyed it.

It was definitely slow, but I thought it was actually paced really well.

I'd almost go 8 out of 10 here.

Although I can certainly see how some people wouldn't like it
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Rita_Poon said:
'Leon', vs 'the dream team', vs 'hunt for the Wilderpeople', vs 'Commando', vs 'pulp fiction' maybe.

There's a few laughs, and then there's some properly in the shadow of darkness stuff that's amazingly well realised. But not nice. Ends beautifully, the least expected hero signs off. 8.5 ptsd cliche'd silent heroes out none cos that's not the formula to this. Mads finds another film to shine in. And points for the fps flavour.
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vs 'romper stomper' also iirc.

Will watch again, I know I didn't catch all of the little jokes laid out like breadcrumbs along the plot...
 
Watched Napoleon and thought its kind of meh, especially pacing. Battle scenes and washed out color grading also not my cup of the tea.
Yeah, historical accuracy (for people who care for that) is thrown out of the window, Austerlitz is basically turned into fantasy battle, ambush on the ice (that was more of a myth). But its Ridley Scott and that was sort of expected.

Waterloo and War and Peace by Sergei Bondarchuk from 1960s are still best Napoleonic movies for epic battle scenes, but guy had 20 000 Red Army soldiers on his disposal to play Napoleonic era soldiers, impossible today.
 
Pittsburgh Footy said:
I just watched it last night. Wife thought it was more "meh," but I really enjoyed it.

It was definitely slow, but I thought it was actually paced really well.

I'd almost go 8 out of 10 here.

Although I can certainly see how some people wouldn't like it
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Couldn't get past the opening scene. Disappointing but my mind was elsewhere
 
Finding Michael

Documentary about some toff who wants to recover the body of his brother who died on Everest (just off the summit) 20 odd years ago

I have sympathy with the family but he just comes accross as a bit of a knob. I mean, they do a good thing whilst there but filming it, invading on others grief is a crappy trick.
 

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