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yeah I saw that trailer and agree, could be awesome!!<br />
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This however, also could be a different typ eof awesome!<br />
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That Ted tailer made me laugh.<br />
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Waiting expectantly for that Batman movie, it looks unreal.<br />
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Finally saw "The Adjustment Bureau" last week. Have to say, despite essentially just being a love story, i quite liked it. The ultimate in deus ex machina though.<br />
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And a classic, "Starship Troopers" so good. Cheese, good satire, Dina Meyers titties repeatedly, all sorts of awesome. -
Just sitting down to watch Bladfe Runner The Final Cut.<br />
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This will be my first viewing of any version in 30 years and I am really looking forward to it.<br />
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One thing I hope wont detract from my enjoyment is observing how the LA of 2017 as imagined in 1982 looks.<br />
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5 mins in, despite replicants and space colonies and massive stylish cityscapes [list]<br />
[]The computers are all enormous desk tops with green text and no imagery<br />
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Haven't seen Blade Runner in a couple of years but recall that Deckard eating noodles from a food van is supposed to exotic and weird.<br />
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I also like that the guy who makes the replicants' eyes works out of an apartment in a bad part of town. <br />
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The method of testing potential replicants is hilarious. Why bother with DNA testing when you strap someone into a chair and measure pupil dilation in response to a series of picture cards? <br />
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Even with all the funny little details, after all who in 1981 would have thought that half the western world would be carrying a computer in their pocket more powerful than anything a contemporary consumer could buy, Blade Runner is a great flick. Certainly one of the all-time sci-fi greats.<br />
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Looking forward to seeing what they come up with for the proposed sequel. In Prometheus, Scott seemed more interested in the synthetic human than the other characters so hopefully that means something compelling will come from it. -
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Observing how the dystopian Delta City (Detroit) looks as imagined in 1987 is actually kinda scary, 'cos it's a little too close to home. (Google "detroit" + "bankruptcy")<br />
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I'm torn. <br />
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I really want to like this trailer, and hopefully the film, but it does look like a less fun version of The Raid.<br />
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The overall look of it is pretty slick though and it seems to be taking its aesthetic straight from the comics. -
21 Jump Street - all kinds of average, which is what I expected, but when you have 26 hours to kill, you watch what is available...
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I'm torn. <br />
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I really want to like this trailer, and hopefully the film, but it does look like a less fun version of The Raid.<br />
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The overall look of it is pretty slick though and it seems to be taking its aesthetic straight from the comics.<br />
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This is on my and Mrs DK's must see list. I don't care if it is shit, it is Judge Dredd with his helmet on! -
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This is on my and Mrs DK's must see list. I don't care if it is shit, it is Judge Dredd with his helmet on!<br />
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Hell yes. Dredd is my all time favorite comic book character, just a head of Batman. I really, really want it to be good but I don't expect it to be. -
Watched a movie last night called "Page Eight" had never heard of it, but there was jackson else on, so gave it a nudge. Basically its a political/intellegence/spy "thriller" where Bill Nighy plays an aged, weary MI5 agent who ends up having to unravel a "conspiracy" involving the British Prime Minister.<br />
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At the start it looked for all the world like one of those movies about a world weary lonely old man meets hot complicated neighbour. But that moves on pretty quick, and the intrigue stuff is pretty cool and very subtle.<br />
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Nighy his awesome, so very cool and very charming. And Rachel Weisz is as pretty as ever.<br />
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It's a talky, it's completely actionless, but i liked the story, the characters, and the way it was shot. -
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21 Jump Street - all kinds of average, which is what I expected, but when you have 26 hours to kill, you watch what is available...<br />
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I enjoyed 21 Jump St as mindless fun. Iâ€
m of the opinion that excellent movie comedies are almost non-existent these days so, for me, the bar is set pretty low. Thought 21 Jump St did a good job of riffing on its source material with inside jokes without becoming an out-and-out parody in the style of some of the other re-imaginings of eighties TV shows. Certainly not a great movie but thought it had the required “eight laughs†to be considered a comedy although I am in the demographic that remember the original show. <br />
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Finally saw Idiocracy the other day. Funny and clever without always being laugh-out-loud hilarious. Not sure whether the hooker-with-a-heart-of gold was supposed to be satire (the US army thinks that the average woman is a prostitute) or just thrown in for additional joke potential. -
Also enjoyed Page Eight.<br />
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Nighy is an enigma. Monotone voice, hardly ever smiles. Hardly ever moves his face. Not in any way a "leading man" yet is always watchable and stars in some pretty diverse and interesting films.<br />
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I have a client who could be Nighy's twin. Right down to the voice. -
I'm a Bill Nighy fan. He is absolutely brilliant as a washed up lead singer in a 70's rock band that stage a come back tour - Strange Fruit. Great ensemble cast and a movie I watch at least once a year. <br />
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Recently watched The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, another Bill Nighy performance of merit. A very gentle movie and would be a perfect stay at home and snuggle up with the missus. -
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Here is a question. Why do the British do such great ensemble movies and Holywood can't?<br />
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Brits know its about well acted characters. Yanks think its about putting as many big names together as possible and hoping star power will ultimately make up for having no plot, enjoyable characters or point. -
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Brits know its about well acted characters. Yanks think its about putting as many big names together as possible and hoping star power will ultimately make up for having no plot, enjoyable characters or point.<br />
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Yep agree 100%, no ego's to get in the way of great performances -
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Here is a question. Why do the British do such great ensemble movies and Holywood can't?<br />
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You mean, like Woody Allen and Robert Altman? American auteurs exist, they're out there (and fair enough, Altman is dead, but his imitators are out there). I get what you mean, but I don't completely buy it. There are loads of great independent American movies that cast well, and many bad ones that cast poorly, for any number of reasons, and big Hollywood studio movies are the same. They are in the business of making money, and if they can create a little art (and a lot of employment outsourced to NZ) in the process, all the better. Off the top of my head, the three biggest grossers of the past few years would be the Nolan Batman series, Avatar and Avengers, produced as massive blockbusters, their ensembles are not small, and I don't think those movies were poorly cast, in fact I think they were mostly inspired choices. OTOH there are plenty of occasions where you can see the transparency of movies constructed by agents and producers at a lunch table, like Coppola's Dracula, to take another example from memory, where a fairly good movie is ruined by the casting of a truly awful Keanu Reeves, without whom that movie probably never gets financed and made in the first place. -
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You mean, like Woody Allen and Robert Altman? American auteurs exist, they're out there (and fair enough, Altman is dead, but his imitators are out there). I get what you mean, but I don't completely buy it. There are loads of great independent American movies that cast well, and many bad ones that cast poorly, for any number of reasons, and big Hollywood studio movies are the same. They are in the business of making money, and if they can create a little art (and a lot of employment outsourced to NZ) in the process, all the better. Off the top of my head, the three biggest grossers of the past few years would be the Nolan Batman series, Avatar and Avengers, produced as massive blockbusters, their ensembles are not small, and I don't think those movies were poorly cast, in fact I think they were mostly inspired choices. OTOH there are plenty of occasions where you can see the transparency of movies constructed by agents and producers at a lunch table, like Coppola's Dracula, to take another example from memory, where a fairly good movie is ruined by the casting of a truly awful Keanu Reeves, without whom that movie probably never gets financed and made in the first place.<br />
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That is a bloody good call RT. I found myself nodding the whole way through that post. It's easy to remember monstrosities like NewYearsEve and forget about The Life Aquatic or Good Night and Good Luck.
