Movie review thread...
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Jennifer Aniston was rather sexy in it though...thought it had potential with some great characters (Spacey's and Farrell's in particular)
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[quote name='taniwharugby']Jennifer Aniston was rather sexy in it though...thought it had potential with some great characters (Spacey's and Farrell's in particular)[/QUOTE]<br />
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After seeing it I couldn't believe how they had stuffed up the potential they had. Clever writers could have taken that premise and created a scenario where a complex plot went wrong but worked out alright in the end. The laughs were all hanging on the bosses' characters (and MF Jones) -
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I heard Sarah Jessica-Parker is brilliant in War Horse....
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I saw Sherlock Holmes 2 and The War Horse yesterday . Thought both were good movies if you have a couple of hours to kill .
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I watched a movie called "Too big to Fail" yesterday, i hadn't even heard it existed. Its a dramatic representation of the financial collapse in the states, centering on Paulson, and the Lehman Bros collapse. All name cast, every time someone else comes on the screen you know how it is. I really enjoyed it actually, thought it was a good way to tell the story in very simple terms. I thought it went pretty easy on Paulson (it has an overall sympathetic view of him) but at least shows he made some errors in judgement throughout the whole thing. It actually stays away from pointing the finger and saying "you did this you amoral fluffybunnies" (at leat shows all these amoral fluffybunnies had massive egos that didn't help matters) and just tells the story about what happened. Some could read into it that they try and blame the British though....<br />
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It was interesting to watch after i having seen the documentary "Inside Job" which doesn't avoid pointing the finger, just tells the story of greedy amoral fluffybunnies finding new, interesting, and completely made up ways of making money out of rubbish. Its a bit pointy-fingery in a way all of these documentaries are, but again, i enjoyed listening to the story unfold. AIG are fucking idiots. -
[quote name='mariner4life']I watched a movie called "Too big to Fail" yesterday,[B] i hadn't even heard it existed.[/B] Its a dramatic representation of the financial collapse in the states, centering on Paulson, and the Lehman Bros collapse. All name cast, every time someone else comes on the screen you know how it is. I really enjoyed it actually, thought it was a good way to tell the story in very simple terms. I thought it went pretty easy on Paulson (it has an overall sympathetic view of him) but at least shows he made some errors in judgement throughout the whole thing. It actually stays away from pointing the finger and saying "you did this you amoral fluffybunnys" (at leat shows all these amoral fluffybunnys had massive egos that didn't help matters) and just tells the story about what happened. Some could read into it that they try and blame the British though....<br />
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It was interesting to watch after i having seen the documentary "Inside Job" which doesn't avoid pointing the finger, just tells the story of greedy amoral fluffybunnys finding new, interesting, and completely made up ways of making money out of rubbish. Its a bit pointy-fingery in a way all of these documentaries are, but again, i enjoyed listening to the story unfold. AIG are fucking idiots.[/QUOTE]<br />
It's an HBO movie. The book was quite disappointing in comparison.<br />
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Totally agree about Horrible Bosses, with that cast they had the potential to do something really great, but apart from the odd bit, it just wasnt that funny.<br />
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Two recently seen, Reel Steel which would have been better without the Hollywood cheese (eg slow motion shots with musical background). And the ending was dumb. Other one was Open Home (nasty slasher flick, a couple goes to open homes, move in, film themselves killing a bunch of people then move on. The couple may or may not be brother and sister, and why they became psychotic serial killers is not actually revealed. Directed by Anna Paquin's brother (she has a bit part, as does her hubby Stephen Moyer). -
[quote name='Scorz']Gary Oldman doesn't do crap movies.[/QUOTE]<br />
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He's one of my fave actors, but [URL="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120738/"]this[/URL] was not especially awesome. -
Seeking Justice; Nick Cage, January Jones, Guy Pearce (who I think is a great actor) <br />
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Storyline; Cages wife (Jones) is brutally beaten and raped, while at the hospital, he is approached by Simon (Pearce) representing an organisation who deal out their own brand of justice, all for a return favour sometime down the track. <br />
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I liked it, thought Cage was quite good in it, not his usual dull slow talking character. -
Cowboys & Aliens is fucking cool. That is all.
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very interesting one called In Time; Justin Timberlake, Cillian Murphy<br />
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Sci-fi Thriller, where time, your time is the only trading commodity.<br />
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When you reach a certain age, you stop aging, are given 51 years credit, when you get to 0, you die. You get paid in time, everything costs you time (1 hour to ride the bus) The rich have plenty, and the poor, live day to day, most often with only hours to spare before they get credited for a days work, and often people drop dead in the streets when they cant trade more with someone.<br />
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[quote name='mariner4life']Cowboys & Aliens is fucking cool. That is all.[/QUOTE]<br />
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You reckon? I thought the end part when the majority of the cowboys and indians are fighting the aliens while the others are in the caves was crap.<br />
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Saw Tinker, Tailor,... a couple of days ago. Really liked it although the start was a tad slow but it built the context of the story and the intrigue very well. An interesting end, be good to hear what others think about what the relationship was between those two. Gary Oldman is excellent. -
"Oh my god what have we done?"<br />
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Watched three DVDs over the windy long weekend: The Eagle, Transformers Three, and Senna.<br />
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The Eagle is a pretty good action/chase movie with a lot of similarities to The Centurion (both are set in Roman Brittania, namecheck Hadrian and the Roman Empire before getting to the serious business of legionary battles and long sequences in which the heroes run from the local "barbarians" and consider who really is barbaric). Great performance from Jamie Bell and Channing Tatum is well cast as a brooding young Roman trying to restore his family's lost honour by recovering the golden eagle standard lost by his father north of Hadrian's Wall.<br />
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Senna is just awesome. Two minutes in the missus said, "Is this a documentary? I don't think this is going to be my thing." Swiflty followed to two hours of us both being absolutely captivated. Would recommend it to anyone regardless of whether they have an interest in motorsport.<br />
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Missed the second Transformers, on seeing the third that decision has been justified. If they'd spent 1/1,000th of the budget on the script they may have come up with a movie that was a cool as the visuals and the sound effects.
