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01-09-2020, 08:33 PM | #16 |
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01-09-2020, 09:28 PM | #17 |
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Just got out of the theatre. This movie deserves the praise that it’s getting. The way that it was shot in one shot continuously through long sections was really really impressive.
The story was good, the acting was good and the music was good. I might go see this one again I liked it that much. |
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01-10-2020, 08:48 AM | #18 |
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01-10-2020, 08:50 AM | #19 | |
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The last war movie I really liked (other than the documentary They Shall Not Grow Old) was Hacksaw Ridge. |
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01-10-2020, 08:52 AM | #20 |
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Not to derail the thread here, but you guys didn't like Midway? I get there was a lot of story to tell and only 2 hours to do it, but I thought they did a nice job there.
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01-10-2020, 08:54 AM | #21 |
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01-10-2020, 09:00 AM | #22 |
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Oh shit - how could I forget about Midway? Yeah, I liked that a lot.
I think my brain sort of compartmentalizes sea based war movies and land based war movies. |
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01-10-2020, 09:02 AM | #23 |
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Fair enough. There are a few structural problems in telling THAT story, but I don't think I can get behind someone hating that movie.
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01-10-2020, 09:12 AM | #24 | |
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Edit: Have not seen Midway, but the ads made the movie look bad. I'll give it a look if it comes to one of my streaming services. |
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01-10-2020, 09:18 AM | #25 |
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I went into Midway with fairly low expectations and was pleasantly surprised. It also helped finding out later that several things portrayed in the movie that seemed unbelievable actually happened. It had a nice old fashioned war movie vibe to it and didn't throw in any silly ass subplots. CGI was mostly solid, despite some obvious video game aspects that in this day and age are sadly unavoidable.
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01-10-2020, 10:16 AM | #26 | |
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01-10-2020, 04:26 PM | #27 |
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Just saw this today. It was really good. Cinematography was amazing.
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01-10-2020, 04:39 PM | #28 |
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01-10-2020, 07:27 PM | #29 |
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Mendes knocked it out of the park with this one. Just a great film from start to finish and left me drained (it was intense as hell!)
Definitely see it on the biggest screen you can. |
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01-10-2020, 09:38 PM | #30 |
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Don’t get me wrong. I love Dan Carlin but he’s like 12 hours into the buildup of Japan and not done yet. They covered it in like 8 minutes or so.
For the sake of the movie, I think they did it right. You just have to roll with the “trust us. They’re psycho” and move on. |
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