Movie review thread...
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Watched it with my kids last night. Top notch little film. Can't wait to see the sequels. <br />
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The books are terrific as well.<br />
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The Dictator: On the whole pretty average but there are some absolutely hilarious moments. Not sure how SBC gets away with this stuff. -
Took mini Mariner #1 to see "Hotel Transylvania" yesterday. It's great fun, and looks pretty cool. Your kids will love it, and you'll get plenty of laughs as well.
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[b]Iron Sky[/b]. Crowd-sourced Finland-Germany-UK-Australia movie production. The premise is genius: Nazi's escape Germany in 1945, relocate secretly to the dark side of the moon. American president (aka Sarah Palin) sends a black man to the moon. Nazi's interrogate and kill him, and with the computer firepower from his Blackberry they are able to launch an invasion of Earth. B-movie with some terrific low-budget effects, but some of the satire is lame and the actors are playing the dialogue with tongues planted firmly-in-cheek, when playing it straight would have been much better. I enjoyed it, but it was often idiotic and I can't help feel it was a wasted opportunity. (Even the soundtrack by Laibach was mostly forgettable.) 5.5/10<br />
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[b]Dredd 3D[/b]. Starring Kiwi Karl Urban - never taking his helmet off. There is a scene in super-slo-mo 3D where a bullet takes out a bad dude's cheek, immersing the viewer in the flesh, teeth and blood flying off the guy's ripped face. There's lots of sick, disgusting ultra-violence throughout, but it reads much worse on the page than it does on the screen. On the screen, it actually looked kinda beautiful and mesmerizing - and there are shitloads of it. Good story, too. Recommend. 7.5/10. -
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Took mini Mariner #1 to see "Hotel Transylvania" yesterday. It's great fun, and looks pretty cool. Your kids will love it, and you'll get plenty of laughs as well.<br />
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Yeah Mrs TR took TR Jnr last week and she said it was really good and he loved it!<br />
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Watched a Scottish Movie called The Angels Share.<br />
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No names in it (although one of the fellas I reckon is Fullermorg) and a bit slow, but overall I quite liked it (despite being billed as a Drama Comedy, there were a few laughs) for some reason. -
I went with a couple of mates to watch Dredd 3D. Very entertaining... NOT a chick flick.
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[quote name='Baron Silas Greenback' timestamp='1349769204' post='316595']I went with a couple of mates to watch Dredd 3D. Very entertaining... NOT a chick flick.[/quote]<br />
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Man is that out already? I gotta get me a ticket. The Stallone "interpretation" was perhaps the must disappointing comic-to-movie I've ever seen but the preview for this one looked spesh. -
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Man is that out already? I gotta get me a ticket. The Stallone "interpretation" was perhaps the must disappointing comic-to-movie I've ever seen but the preview for this one looked spesh.<br />
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Judge Dredd (1995) [url="http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/judge_dredd/"]16%[/url]<br />
Dredd 3D (2012) [url="http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dredd_3d/"]77%[/url]<br />
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I find the Stallone version to be virtually unwatchable. -
Hey, it can't have been easy for Sly to shout "arm da lore!" through a mouth full of marbles, he sacrificed for his art man...
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In Stallone's defense, he didn't want to take off the helmet either. With one of the most recognisable voices and jaws in movies, he really didn't need to either.<br />
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It needed a more experienced director, and probably a british one too that understood the character. Was so disappointed after watching that movie. -
[quote name='taniwharugby' timestamp='1349748825' post='316514']<br />
Watched a Scottish Movie called The Angels Share.<br />
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No names in it (although one of the fellas I reckon is Fullermorg) and a bit slow, but overall I quite liked it (despite being billed as a Drama Comedy, there were a few laughs) for some reason.<br />
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Not a remake of Jaws then? -
guessing somethign went over my head there....?
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Fullermog & his fear of sharks, maybe...
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makes sense now!! <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/rugby/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/man_in_love.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':man_in_love:' />
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Ex[endables 2 - it smells like chicken, looks like chicken...plenty of cliched one liners taking the piss out of themselves.<br />
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I think if they wanna do a 3rd, they need to add in maybe Charles Bronson, Clint Eastwood and maybe a couple of others. -
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Ex[endables 2 - it smells like chicken, looks like chicken...plenty of cliched one liners taking the piss out of themselves.<br />
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I think if they wanna do a 3rd, they need to add in maybe Charles Bronson, Clint Eastwood and maybe a couple of others.<br />
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I would be fucking A - Mazed if they added in Charles Bronson. -
You not seen what they can do with digital these days?<br />
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