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  • NTAN Online
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    @Kirwan said in Re: Movie review thread...:

    That character takes so much deadpan joy in murdering the bad guys it's impossible not to enjoy. Very much an 80s throwback.

    Yeah. Figures he's done this before so he might as well enjoy it.

    Love your stab job and stab you'll never bang bang bang work a day in your stab stab stab stab life! Explosions

    I loved the look on the Presidents face when he first killed the cop.

    "Yeah but the prick's got an AK!" 😆

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  • TimT Away
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    De Palma's Body Double is so good. Pino Donaggio's soundtrack is great (love the Risky Business parody track), and the music video for Frankie Goes to Hollywood's Relax is sublime.

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    This could be good

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    @NTA said in Re: Movie review thread...:

    This could be good

    That does look decent. As a side note fuck all the paranoid fuckheads who say the world is so much more dangerous now than in years past. Only difference is social media means we see heaps more of it nowadays.

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    @NTA said in Re: Movie review thread...:

    This could be good

    I love the story about the guy who did the autopsy on the terrorists, one of them was at the top of a staircase and shooting him might have also injured or killed a hostage so they shoulder charged him down the stairs. Unfortunately for him he landed at the feet of three SAS guys who emptied their magazines into him. The guy doing the autopsy pulled out 50 bullets and gave upand said " fuck it, if I pull out anymore I'll have to put down lead poisoning as cause of death".

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    @MN5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:

    Alien Covenant.

    I wrote a review last night but someone deleted it for some reason.

    Decent enough but probably had as much bad as good overall. Part Prometheus/Part Alien seems an apt description.

    ( in saying that naturally I'll watch it again and again )

    2.5 bad synthetics out of 5 good ones

    Watched it today since I didn't want to go to a bbq with people I don't like.

    Never been that into the Aliens franchise but did enjoy the original trilogy.
    Alien Covenant tries to hark back to those movies however you don't really connect with any of the crew in this one and don't really care if/when they die. Also, the twists and plot lines were way too predictable.
    Two and a half "Get Away From Her You Bitch" out of five "Get Away From Her You Bitch".

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    Guardians of the Galaxy 2

    Very enjoyable alrhough not quite as good as the first. A little too much going on. Rocket not quite as likeable. Sound track not as good. Didn't like what happened to Yondu. Still good though.

    4 mutant raboons out of 5 baby tree creatures

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    Kung Fu Panda 3.

    Watched this with the boy and newphew over the weekend. I didn't really like the first two so had low expectations, but this was actually pretty cool. Decent storyline and plenty of funny moments that had the boys cracking up. They both spent the rest of the night practising their Kung Fu moves on each other.

    4 dumplings out of 5 fat rolling Panda's.

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  • TimT Away
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    RIP Powers Boothe.

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    @Tim re-watched Southern Comfort a few weeks back, Booth was good in Deadwood too!

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    Sin City, 24 and more recently I watched him in Agents of SHIELD.

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  • NepiaN Online
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    Damn, in my head I instantly thought of Wings Hauser's face then clicked Powers Boothe.

    Re: Deadwood. He was the original choice for Al Swearagen but got sick before filming so couldn't take the role - so David Milch said he'd create a role for him when he got well aagin.

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    Just browsing IMDb. I wasn't aware of this about Deadwood.

    The role of Al Swearengen was originally written for Ed O'Neill. O'Neill screen tested for the role but HBO executives did not want to cast him because of his fame as Al Bundy from Married with Children (1987).

    I just couldn't imagine Ed in that role.

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    and McShane nailed the role of Swearengen, cant imagine anyone else being as good!

    Isnt there a Deadwood movie in the pipelines?

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    @taniwharugby said in Re: Movie review thread...:

    and McShane nailed the role of Swearengen, cant imagine anyone else being as good!

    > Isnt there a Deadwood movie in the pipelines?

    There's been a movie in the pipelines for 10 years now. I'd be surprised if it happened now.

    Unlike many, I thought that it actually ended ok, it may not have been the planned ending, but it was an ending.

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    @Nepia ha, first line sums up what you said

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  • TimT Away
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    @Nepia There's an actual script now.

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  • BovidaeB Offline
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    From IMDb again:

    A feature film based on the series has been rumored for many years, but the cast has cited the difficulties of coordinating the schedules of everybody involved as a main obstacle. In 2016, HBO head Mike Lombardo said David Milch had pitched a general script and that the network is fully committed to the movie.

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    @Sneakdefreak said in Re: Movie review thread...:

    @MN5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:

    Alien Covenant.

    I wrote a review last night but someone deleted it for some reason.

    Decent enough but probably had as much bad as good overall. Part Prometheus/Part Alien seems an apt description.

    ( in saying that naturally I'll watch it again and again )

    2.5 bad synthetics out of 5 good ones

    Watched it today since I didn't want to go to a bbq with people I don't like.

    Never been that into the Aliens franchise but did enjoy the original trilogy.
    Alien Covenant tries to hark back to those movies however you don't really connect with any of the crew in this one and don't really care if/when they die. Also, the twists and plot lines were way too predictable.
    Two and a half "Get Away From Her You Bitch" out of five "Get Away From Her You Bitch".

    Extremely hard to argue with any of this. The first two had characters that you knew were gonna bag it ( Hudson, Parker ) but that you hoped would go out fighting and they both did. This one struggled on that front in terms of creating sympathy.

    Visually the flick was stunning though don't you think?

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