Movie review thread...
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Little Fockers; I liked it, plenty of silly laughs, some good cameos from Harvey Keitel and Jessica Alba, along with Owen Wilsons character.
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I watched Source Code over the weekend and loved it. It's no special effects extravaganza, just a really interesting sci-fi story. Jake Gyllenhall stars as a US military helicopter pilot involved in an operation to figure out who bombed a train bound for Chicago. The sci-fi part is that he has to review the last 8-minutes of memory of one of the dead passengers to figure out who did it. It starts off seeimg like a bizarre version of Groundhog Day but it really is unique and worth seeing. 8.5/10.
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[quote name='Bones']Thor (3D) - thought this was pretty cool and I'd recommend it to watch. Not sure if it's the best 3D effects, seemed a bit average on that front but was a decent movie.[/QUOTE]<br />
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Yea, i thought it was cool as well. Nothing serious, just a good comic book movie. And i loved the 3D because it wasn't over done, more used to build depth in the picture, which has way more effect than shit flying at you every 3 seconds. <br />
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also a Captain America one coming, they may as well just get the Seal that did the kill shot for the lead...<img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' />
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Apparently the Avengers movie they've signed up Captain America - Chris Evans, Robert Downey as Iron Man, Samual L Jackson, the guy who plays Thor. But it will be a new Hulk by the sounds of it. Inside word is that Edward Norton was a pain in the ass to deal with, so he's getting replaced.
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Watched No Strings Attached, one of the new kinds of Rom-coms trying to attract the males of the world with smutty jokes, not to mention seeing Natalie Portman in next to no clothes helps too, if you dont like then, then Sneak will punch you in the throat!
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[quote name='LAKiwi']Apparently the Avengers movie they've signed up Captain America - Chris Evans, Robert Downey as Iron Man, Samual L Jackson, the guy who plays Thor. But it will be a new Hulk by the sounds of it. Inside word is that Edward Norton was a pain in the ass to deal with, so he's getting replaced.[/QUOTE]<br />
New Hulk is Mark Ruffalo. Scarlett Johanssen will reprise her role as Black Widow. Jeremy Renner will be Hawkeye. -
Watched I AM NUMBER 4 and actually enjoyed it, aside from a minor part played by Timothy Oliphant and a dude who often plays baddies, was a no name cast. Is room for a sequel, but I think it is not worth making it.
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[quote name='taniwharugby']Watched No Strings Attached, one of the new kinds of Rom-coms trying to attract the males of the world with smutty jokes, not to mention seeing Natalie Portman in next to no clothes helps too, if you dont like then, then Sneak will punch you in the throat![/QUOTE]<br />
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Damn right, and kick you in the nuts when you are withering on the ground. <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' /><br />
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Have to get my Natalie Portman fix with this movie and Thor - word is she is going to retire from movies which would be a disaster for mankind in general.<br />
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On to some films I have seen....<br />
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Catch 22 - Read the book and have always wanted to watch the film, Jon Voight is great as Milo Minderbinder though I was disappointed with Bob Newhart as Major Major. Good film overall. 7/10<br />
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The King of Kong - Use to have an old Donkey Kong arcade machine at the shops down the road when I was a kid so this was a great nostalgic watch for me. Dunno how much of this doco is real and how much is "reality tv" (especially with the dorky villain guy) but you do find yourself cheering on the underdog dork as he battles for respect with all the other dorks. 8.5/10 -
First clip from the movie that I'm most looking forward to this year, [URL="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780504/"][I]Drive[/I][/URL].<br />
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Kill The Irishman - based on the true story of Danny Greene, who was involved in the Cleveland Mafia in the 70's. Pretty good film, obviously unsure how close the facts are to reality, but still worth a watch. <br />
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I watched Water for Elephants at the weekend. Heavily promoted previews for Mothers Day but only about 8 people there. Boring predictable romantic - drama? <br />
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The elephant does do some neat tricks though.<br />
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Drive Angry - TSF fave, Nick Cage, Amber Heard (hot) William Fitchner<br />
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Odd movie title, and you have to watch carefully to work it out...anywhoo, Action-cult/satanistic kinda film, Cage's daughter was sucked into a cult and was 'sacrificed' while he was in prison, he dies, but escapes from hell to avenge his daughter, and kidnapped grand daughter from the cult leader in time to stop them sacrificing her too, all the while also evading one of Lucifers 'accountants' (played excellently by William Fitchner) charged with re-capturing him.<br />
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Now playing at Cannes?<br />
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Yup someone saw an easy way to take money off a grieving embittered old man.<br />
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Money that should rightfully have been spent strengthening the Fulham squad.<br />
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The most intriguing thing to me was that photograph of Philip with the Nazis. I was gobsmacked wondering if it was authentic. Guess I missed it when this story broke (2006), but did a google search and found out, yup, it's true.<br />
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Prince Philip has broken a 60-year public silence about his family's links with the Nazis.<br />
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In a frank interview, he said they found Hitler's attempts to restore Germany's power and prestige 'attractive' and admitted they had 'inhibitions about the Jews'.<br />
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The revelations come in a book about German royalty kowtowing to the Nazis, which features photographs never published in the UK.<br />
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They include one of Philip aged 16 at the 1937 funeral of his elder sister Cecile, flanked by relatives in SS and Brownshirt uniforms.<br />
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One row back in the cortege in Darmstadt, western Germany, was his uncle, Lord Mountbatten, wearing a Royal Navy bicorn hat.<br />
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Another picture shows his youngest sister, Sophia, sitting opposite Hitler at the wedding of Hermann and Emmy Goering.<br />
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Explaining the attraction of the Nazis, 84-year-old Prince Philip told an American academic: "There was a great improvement in things like [B]trains running on time[/B] and building. There was a [B]sense of hope[/B] after the depressing chaos of the Weimar Republic.<br />
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"I can understand people latching on to something or somebody who appeared to be appealing to their patriotism and trying to get things going. [B]You can understand how attractive it was[/B]."<br />
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He added that there was [B]'a lot of enthusiasm for the Nazis at the time[/B], the economy was good, we were anti-Communist and who knew what was going to happen to the regime?'<br />
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Philip stressed that he was never 'conscious of anybody in the family actually expressing anti-Semitic views'. But he went on to say there were 'inhibitions about the Jews' and 'jealousy of their success'.<br />
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Read more: [URL]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-379036/Prince-Philip-pictured-Nazi-funeral.html#ixzz1MeZaZxC7[/URL]<br />
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