Movie review thread...
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I've been on a small movie watching binge:<br />
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Captain America: Chris Evans and Tommy Lee Jones. Competent comic book movie, although they messed up the CGI when he was puny - especially in the car, he grew and shrunk with each cut and angle. Chris Evans actually impresses me as an actor when I'm unsure if he should. I actually believe his characters.<br />
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Crazy, Stupid, Love: Steve Carrell, Emma Stone, Ryan Gosling, and Julianne Moore. Pretty good rom com type movie with some pretty funny parts, a decent story hindered by an obvious twist. <br />
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Drive: Ryan Gosling. Wow, I'm really confused about this movie. On the one hand I really enjoyed it, on the other hand the existential-ness of it just pissed me off. I thought it was a good story which would have been better without the number of long slow motion scenes. Critics love it, but probably for the opposite reasons that I do.<br />
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30 Minutes or Less: Jesse Eisenberg, Danny McBride, the indian guy from Parks and Rec, and a hot indian chick. A heist comedy with Jesse Eisenberg kidnapped, had a bomb strapped to him and forced to rob a bank. I thought it was bloody funny. It's the only time the parks and rec guy hasn't annoyed the hell out of me. And the indian chick is stunning.<br />
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Centurion: McNulty from the Wire and Michael Fassbender. Story of the legendary Roman 9th Legion who went missing in Northern England/Scotland. Pretty good action film.<br />
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The Guard: Brendon Gleeson and Don Cheadle. A small town irish policeman helps the FBI hunt some drug smugglers. This was bloody funny, Gleeson is hilarious and Cheadle is basically good in anything he does. -
Bought and watched The Mark Of Zorro from 1940 with Tyrone Power . A bit cheesy and the actors had a bit of swagger about them as they did in those days . Bloody good , the way a classic old movie should be .
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Cowboys & Aliens (& Indians/Native Americans) - what you expect is what you get; cowboys, aliens, indians, shooting, western landscapes<br />
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Mongols - having just finished Wolf of the Plains, was keen to watch this, it alos had some good reviews. However, I am a little conflicted, the film states it is based on leading historical accounts and the book is pretty much a translation of a phonetic Chinese version, given there was little recorded history of the events in the life of Temujin/Genghis. While there are alot of similarities these 2 stories of his life, are still quite different (varying names aside as this is explained in the book as to his reason for name changes) I think I liked it, but was sitting there wondering if I'd have enjoyed it more had I not read the book or if I'd of enjoyed the book as much had I watched the movie first. -
This looks pretty epic<br />
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[url]http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/lions_gate/theexpendables2/[/url]<br />
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Awesome cast as well<br />
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Cast:Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Chuck Norris, Terry Crews, Randy Couture, Liam Hemsworth, Jean Claude Van Damme, Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger -
[quote name='Toddy']This looks pretty epic<br />
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[URL]http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/lions_gate/theexpendables2/[/URL]<br />
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Awesome cast as well<br />
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Cast:Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Chuck Norris, Terry Crews, Randy Couture, Liam Hemsworth, Jean Claude Van Damme, Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger[/QUOTE]<br />
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That cast is nothing short of obscene, and I mean that in the best possible way. Bruce Willis must look at the rest of those explosive, greased up muscleheads and wonder how the fuck he ended up that echelon of action hero much like Ringo Starr wondered how he ended up in the Beatles. -
Got around to "Senna". Excellent<br />
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Just watched "Winter of Wells the Documentary" about Wanaka's Wells family. Good mixture of a family story and brilliant skiing cinematography by Local film maker Tim Pierce. The shots following Byron down the half pipe using a remote control helicam are awesome. -
Catch 44; Bruce Willis (more an extended cameo role) Forrest Whittaker and [URL="http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1113633280/nm0015196"]Malin Akerman[/URL] (only good thing about the movie) - rubbish! Don't waste your time!
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[quote name='MN5']That cast is nothing short of obscene, and I mean that in the best possible way. Bruce Willis must look at the rest of those explosive, greased up muscleheads and wonder how the fuck he ended up that echelon of action hero much like Ringo Starr wondered how he ended up in the Beatles.[/QUOTE]<br />
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He can thank Cybill Shepherd (she got him the part in Moonlighting because he was cute). -
The Inbetweeners Movie: If you like the TV series then you'll love the movie! (If you haven't seen the series then watch it now). Some may criticise it for being too bright/happy etc but I think it was a great way to finish. There were some great laugh out loud scenes and I was in fits of laughter to the point of choking in some stages.<br />
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[quote name='Toddy']This looks pretty epic<br />
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[URL]http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/lions_gate/theexpendables2/[/URL]<br />
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Awesome cast as well<br />
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Cast:Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Chuck Norris, Terry Crews, Randy Couture, Liam Hemsworth, Jean Claude Van Damme, Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger[/QUOTE]<br />
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The first one wasnt bad, an odd mix of good dialogue alongside really fucking awful lines. I did like the digs at each others movies, though. -
The first Die Hard was pretty cool <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /> Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber was a great villain
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[quote name='Tim']the greatest xmas movie of all time...[/QUOTE]<br />
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That would be Patti Rocks.<br />
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(This Sporting Life is also pretty awesome, especially if your idea of a fun Christmas is getting your teeth bashed in on the rugby paddock then getting high in the dentist chair before hitting the hard stuff at the team Christmas party.) -
My 4 movies I try to watch at Christmas (that are all set at Christmas) are...<br />
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Die Hard (1)<br />
The Long Kiss Goodnight<br />
Scrooged<br />
It's a Wonderful Life -
Had the house to myself on friday so went for some out n out boys movies.<br />
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Conan<br />
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Shit! Do not waste your time let alone your hard earned.<br />
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Cowboys and Aliens<br />
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Ok. I do wonder how good this movie could have been minus the aliens. The western aspects, stereotypical injuns aside, were excellent. Harrison Ford is a much more interesting bad guy than leading man these days. Daniel Craig, ridiculously tight pants aside looks like he'd make a pretty good "man with no name" type character too. Just a shame the plot was so far fetched. It's sci-fi I know but it was a bit ridiculous.<br />
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Plenty of good bit though so still worth a watch.
