Movie review thread...
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Saw The Sapphires tonight. Kind of a cut-price Commitments based around Aboriginal girl soul singers in 60s Australia who end up entertaining US troops in Vietnam. It has it's moments but it's a bit, umm, crap in parts. It's got a "let's do the party right here" feel to it - made worse by the obvious dubbing when the girls start to sing and the sets start to wobble. Chris O'Dowd is the Irish manager and he's easily the best actor in it, but you don't really understand what his character is doing in the Aussie Outback and why such a pasty Celt has got a hard-on for Detroit soul.<br />
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Apparently, the film is based on a true story - but how true I don't know. Let's say I found it odd that American troops would be entertained by an Aboriginal girl band when it must have been easier to ship out the real thing.<br />
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So it sounds like I hated it, but tbh it's quite watchable. There's some good comedy and some great music. If you have to take the Mrs to the pics, this could be the best compromise available. -
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Well the Pierce Brosnan efforts less so.....could never get the image of him being that doofus on Remington Steele out of my head.<br />
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There's some truth to that, but a lot of preliminary damage had been done in the Moore era. I saw them all when they came out, and each one became less forgiving. Octopussy might have been the nadir, but for me the lowest moment has always been the pigeon double-take (2:55) in Moonraker. I get that gloriously stupid can still be glorious, but this whole scene is just ridiculous.<br />
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Holy shit. So, crashed on the couch last night, and a movie started at 8.30 that i hadn't seen, and the remote wasn't within reach, so i left it on. And yea, "The Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer" happened.<br />
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Bond dressed up as a clown was the nadir for me.<br />
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Ye gods, the ticking time bomb trope. Fuck me that was bad. And trains! What is it with fucking trains? Even in Skyfall there's a fight on top of a train. Nobody fights on top of a train. It's not possible. And yet directors and stunt coordinators continue to insist on train-top combat in defiance of the laws of physics and self-preservation.<br />
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Octopussy was bad, but The Living Daylights is just awful. Timothy Dalton's Bond might as well have been renting his arse out in Old Compton Street he was that much of a man. In a scene with Maryam d'Abo he says they have to get out of town. She says she has to go home and get her cello first. Cut to the next scene of Dalton waiting for her in a car outside her flat. Call me old fashioned but a real Bond would have smacked her in the mouth, fucked her sideways and then dumped her in the boot with her knickers for a gag.<br />
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I enjoy the Bond films more since Craig has been Bond.<br />
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Same. In fact I'm not much of a fan of Bond films generally, but of my top four, the Daniel Craig ones occupy the top three spots. Goldeneye comes in fourth because the Nintendo game was so awesome. -
Godzilla vs. Transformers.
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Alex Cross - was ok, reckon it coulda been better and also think (an extremely ripped but bordering on unhealthy looking) Matthew Fox was under-used, also the ending was a bit weak.
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Nothing beats Bambi meets Godzilla. Godzilla's greatest performance imo.<br />
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And so, The Hobbit.<br />
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Saw it in 3D and from the moment you see the titles typeface and hear the opening strains of that jaunty Shire-music it's like pulling on a warm comfy sweater. Here's Bag End, here's Gandalf, here's the mysterious beginnings of an epic journey. It's like you've never been away and in truth you haven't because all of Middle Earth is here: The soaring overheads of dwarfs running across mountaintops or the ground boiling with Orcs. Stunning scenery and underground lairs lit by evil firelight and festooned with ladders and wooden gantries. Wargs, trolls, elves - everything is in place.<br />
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Gollum of course is the best bit. Forget the rest of the CGI and the set design and revel in how they've captured Andy Serkis' performance as Smeagol.<br />
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I actually disliked the 3D. I just don't get it. But the film is visually stunning as you would expect. It's long too. As it enters it's third stage I found myself wondering when Gollum is going to appear and then how long it would be til the end. But it's great entertainment and something that will need to be seen again and again.<br />
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I saw it in 3D, and it was fine. Might be my last film in 3D though, it's a waste of time, and the trailer I saw in 2D had more detail. <br />
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I'm not a fan of 3D (nor is TR Jnr) I'll only be watching it in 2D, think they have some ways to go to make 3D a proper cinema experience IMO.
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Little TA #2 does dance classes and every year for the Christmas thing they hire a movie theatre and we get to see a pre-release. This year was Wreck-It Ralph (not due out here until Boxing Day).<br />
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Bloody good as usual for a big studio animation and as my kids are well into video games they were, in short, amazed to see Sonic wandering around. I had a chuckle at old school references like Q-Bert and pacman too
