Movie review thread...
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[quote name='Luigi' timestamp='1343225563' post='299631']<br />
Saw Dark Knight Rises last week. It's good.<br />
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Plenty of un-believable shit in it, but it's a superhero movie so that's OK. Tom Hardy as Bane is totally badass, although the voice is weird and hard to make out sometimes. And you can't see much of his face, which doesn't help.<br />
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There's some great stuff in this movie, not least Anne Hathaway's ass in skintight lycra, but the lamest bit is the cliched endgame.<br />
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It's only 12A too, which surprised me, so unless you want kids talking and moving around in front of you, watch a late, late performance.<br />
[/quote]Yeah I really liked it too, despite the unbelievable shit - including a guy raised in a hole in the desert sounding like Stephen Fry. -
[quote name='Luigi' timestamp='1343228255' post='299635']<br />
To be honest Bones, if a guy looking like that started talking to me like that, I'd shit my pants.<br />
[/quote]Ever wondered what you'd look like with some black contraption covering your mouth Luigi? -
[quote name='Luigi' timestamp='1343225563' post='299631']<br />
Saw Dark Knight Rises last week. It's good.<br />
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Plenty of un-believable shit in it, but it's a superhero movie so that's OK. Tom Hardy as Bane is totally badass, although the voice is weird and hard to make out sometimes. And you can't see much of his face, which doesn't help.<br />
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There's some great stuff in this movie, not least Anne Hathaway's ass in skintight lycra, but the lamest bit is the cliched endgame.<br />
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It's only 12A too, which surprised me, so unless you want kids talking and moving around in front of you, watch a late, late performance.<br />
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Anne Hathaway completely stole the movie, I had my doubts about her but she was fantastic.<br />
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I really enjoyed the film, especially after watching it as part of one long story with the other films. IMO, it's the best interpretation of a comic book hero ever made. Some dumb stuff, but fantastic character development - with real consequences to his decisions and actions.<br />
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Great nods to the comics in this version as well, I think this is the closest I'll get to a movie version of the Dark Knight Returns as well. I always wanted that made with Clint Eastwood. -
TDKR is one I'll have to see again. Harry at AICN was livid. He has some valid points, but went overboard. I really liked it, but with a lot of reservations. There were some plot holes that took me out of the movie. I was a big mark for Batman Begins (9.5/10) - saw it at the cinema three times and thought it was the best movie that year, and sold it passionately to my friends, most because of the psychological realism. Holy shit, Batman, this feels real and believable! The casting was superb, and I loved the story. Batman has always been BY FAR my fave comic book super-hero. (Cerebus isn't a super-hero, but that's another story for another day.) I also loved Dark Knight (9/10), though didn't believe it was superior to BB. (Tho' one thing that I missed from the two sequels that I really loved in BB was the way Batman could manipulate a zillion bats to give him cover to enter & exit a building, which I thought bloody brilliant, and then Nolan dropped it.) I really liked how TDKR started - it reminded me of ROTK in the way that it simply picked up the story without having to do a prologue; yet Nolan later threw in some clunky fast flashbacks that were probably justified for new audiences, but for those of us who've seen the first two films, it was unnecessary. Agreed - Anne Hathaway was terrific. So was Joseph Gordon Levitt. I don't want to get into the plot points that I thought were mangled, as they involve spoilers, and I'd recommend anybody who hasn't seen it to go out and see it. (Score: 8/10) Nicest surprises for me was seeing Patrick Leahy as a Board of Directors at Wayne Industries; and Heinz Ward on the football team. (Bloody hell, did we have to get a complete Star Spangled Banner? If so, it should been [url="http://deadspin.com/5929877/this-is-the-worst-national-anthem-rendition-ever"]this version[/url].) My fave comic book movies of all time are still Batman Begins and Kick-Ass, tho' as Kirwan says, Nolan's Batman trilogy should really be measured as a single film. I hope Kick-Ass 2 doesn't drop the ball.
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Really enjoyed dark knight rises, probably not as dark as the previous films and over done plot wise. A terrific trilogy that possibly leaves things open for more.
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Battleship - special effects, lots of shooting and explosions, pretty much what I expected, a bit on the long side for this kind of film (@2.04hours) watchable
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I agree with Kirwan. [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif] Hathaway looked amazing and her portra[/font][/color]yal of Selina was excellent.<br />
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50/50<br />
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Excellent movie. Pretty heavy subject matter but more than enough laughs to offset that. Seth Rogen gets to play almost exactly the same character he played in Funny People but this time the film is good.<br />
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Gordon-Levett is really good as usual. It would be close to the best movie i have seen in a while. -
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Well it had to - they were against the clock! The clock is to blame.
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[quote name='antipodean' timestamp='1344234716' post='302498']<br />
Well it had to - they were against the clock! The clock is to blame.<br />
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Speaking of the clock - and this is one of the plot holes I had a tough time digesting from a perspective of psychological realism - Nolan spent roughly six hours of the trilogy convincing me that Batman is a genius, but then tries to get me to accept that ... {plot twist} [spoiler] Bruce Wayne spent five months in a hole fixated on climbing out, yet wasn't smart or inquisitive enough to investigate the identity of the only person {allegedly} to have ever escaped that same hole.[/spoiler] -
Watched TDKR last night, enjoyed it.<br />
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HAve similar (minor) issues as others.<br />
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As to your comment RT;<br />
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[spoiler]I agree with the issue over the person that managed to climb out as well, and if he had been listening properly, would have realised it wasnt Bane. Bane said he was an adult before he saw light, yet the only person to escape was a child. As it wasnt Bane, he should have realised this and tried to find out who, which would have saved alot of time and angst.<br />
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I thought the Scarecrow (Cillian MUrphy) was killed in the Dark Knight, but was he only imprisoned?<br />
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If Bruce Wayne/Batman has issues with guns, why do his vehicles have them? [/spoiler] -
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[quote name='mimic' timestamp='1344419001' post='303059']<br />
To be fair.. Batman was getting his butt handed to him when Bane said that he didn't see the light til he was an adult.. <br />
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My question is.. Did Catwoman know Bruce Wayne was Batman? Cos at times it seemed she knew and other times she didn't<br />
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She found out when Bane called him Mr Wayne in front of her. -
The Millionaire Tour; Dominic Monaghan<br />
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Decent flick about a con where people spot a well off mark at the airport and manipulate their way into the cab with them and then take them hostage and get them to withdraw money from ATM's all round a town, but all is not as it seems... -
Bernie - JAck Black, MAtthew McConaughy, guess this was supposed to be a black comedy, based on a True Story, a bit boring, although I usually cut true stories a wee bit more slack due to the content. Black is an Assistant Funeral director, and is loved by all the townsfolk in his lil' Texan town. Eventually he starts a relationship with an older wealthy widow, who no one really likes, and eventually kills her but keeps up the charade that she is still alive.<br />
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Freelancers - Forest Whitaker, Robert De Niro, Fiddy Cent.<br />
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Crime flick about a young cop (Fiddy) who gets drawn into the underworld of dirty cops due to De Niro's friedship with Fiddy's father who had been killed many years earlier. Decent enough watch. -
Saw the Bourne Legacy. Horribly miscast, a bit boring, retread of elements from the original three and it wasn't for Rachel Wiesz it would have been completely unwatchable.<br />
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The money was up on the screen I guess, it did look nice. Dumb story too.
