Movie review thread...
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Watched Cabin in the Woods, decent enough Horror, with a bit of a twist, bit disapponted with Thor, he was a bit of a pussy in this one <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/rugby/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /><br />
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Moonrise Kingdom - only watched due to the cast (Bruce Willis, Bill Murray, Harvey Keitel, Edward Norton) bit of a quirky sort of movie about an orphaned boy and a girl who run away together on a little island and the search that follows. -
"The Perks of Being a Wallflower." Promoted as the new "Breakfast Club," and I can see that, not in terms of plot, but more that we're dealing with sensitive American high-school students with "issues" where the ghosts of mental illness and suicide hang in the air. Stars the world's highest paid actress from Harry Potter, wearing a bra and very cute, but still hard to see her as anything but Hermione; and the exotic looking kid who played the title-role psychopath from "We Need To Talk About Kevin." Also - in a key role - Kiwi Melaney Lynskey. It looks to have taken place in the late 1980s - the kids are obsessed with Morrissey/Smiths, they exchange cassette tapes, and Hermione asks Kevin in the pickup truck to "turn down the noise" (Sonic Youth's "Teenage Riot") and Kevin responds by turning it louder and exclaiming "[url="
"][u][i]This[/i][/u][/url] is rock and roll!" (Nice touch.) Some things don't ring true - e.g. the kids know Nick Drake, yet (and this becomes somewhat significant) don't recognize David Bowie's "Heroes." C'mon. And graduating seniors hanging out with a freshman as their new best friend, welll, whatever. Pittsburgh looks beautiful at night, I think I shall have to visit. Unfortunate and unintentional red herring: the kid's brother plays football for Penn State.<br />
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I'm a sucker for Hollywood high school movie genre. My faves are "Fast Times" and "Dazed & Confused." This isn't as good, but has the emo feel & charm & quality of John Hughes films and it's worth a rental when it comes out. 7/10 -
I love Dazed & Confused, it's piss funny, and the soundtrack is great.
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I mention those two movies because if I accidentally trip over them on tv, I cannot change the channel.
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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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I haven't seen Goon yet, but I'm really interested in this trailer for the "Last Gladiators" documentary that opens this week. I have a gut feeling ESPN 30-For-30 will broadcast it later this season.<br />
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Anybody seen Taken 2? Worth seeing, any good?<br />
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This may sound silly, but I kind of don't want to tarnish my memories of (the great) [i]Taken[/i] by watching the sequel. -
Watched the reboot of Spider-Man last night. Basically a rehash of the previous series of films, some major differences tho ( he doesn't shoot the web out of his arms naturally but invents a device that does it for him). Certainly a big improvement on the craporama that was Spider-Man 3 but no better or worse than 1 and 2.<br />
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Ha, I watched that last night...certainly wasn't amazing like the title wants me to believe! Was ok, not one ill be in a rush to watch again
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Saw Killing Them Softly the other night.<br />
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Brad Pitt as a 'wise guy' enforcer/The Wolf type character brought in to sort out some local organised crime incident. Gritty, violent and character-driven. Pitt seems to be choosing his films carefully these days and he's pretty good in this. There's a bit of dark humour, a lot of sleaze and some very matter of fact killing.<br />
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Adapted from a book by the writer who wrote[i] The Friends of Eddie Coyle[/i]. Andrew Dominic directed. Am looking forward to it. <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/rugby/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />
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I'm looking forward to it as well - although I hope that Dominik* doesn't pace it as slow as the Jesse James one. That was a good film but the pacing was soooooooooo slooooooooooooooow.<br />
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*Just looked up the spelling of his name and he's another bloody Kiwi poached by the Aussies - TBF their film scouts got him as 2 year old so he fits in the Mils, Joe, Digby bracket of poach rather than the Quade Cooper/Sivivatu.<br />
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I haven't seen Looper which along with Killing Me Softly and the Ben Affleck movie one are the only films I've really been hanging out to see in a long time. -
Although Argo I understand has copped a bit of flak with it's very loose telling of the story....
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Although Argo I understand has copped a bit of flak with it's very loose telling of the story....<br />
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Do people expect it to be a documentary? From early reports still sounds like it's a good movie even with some of the facts not being followed.<br />
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Either way, I'm keen to see it.<br />
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My wife made a grave error in judgement and got "Rock of Ages" out on Friday. We made it through 10 mins before i was considering passing the time by attempting to cut my nuts with a spoon. Avoid at all costs.
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I don't know. There was some generic Hollywood blonde who wasn't that hot, some feminin-looking bloke, Arec Bardwin, and Russel Brand appearing as himself, and that was as many "characters" as i was introduced to before we hit our second cast-wide musical number and the words "fffuuuuuck thiiiiis" passed my lips and it got the ass.
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My wife made a grave error in judgement and got "Rock of Ages" out on Friday. We made it through 10 mins before i was considering passing the time by attempting to cut my nuts with a spoon. Avoid at all costs.<br />
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It is total shit, at every conceivable angle. Casting and performances are awful. The script is awful. The soundtrack is extremely lame. Anybody that actually appreciates rock music should avoid. The same people were behind the adaptation of "Hairspray," which was actually surprisingly good and rocked waaaay harder than this crummy piece'o'shite.
