Movie review thread...
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Just took Mrs Jack to Les Miserables . Fuck me if I didn't think I was going to a typical musical with half a dozen songs spread throughout the movie , not a three hour movie where the whole movie was being sung . I would rather dip my penis in molten lead than sit through that again . Shame as the story itself was quite a good one .
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Saw Jack Reacher last night and I love my schlocky action b grade films, but this was awful. <br />
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Had some good moments, but most of the dialogue was cringe worthy, laughable even. <br />
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Rosamind Pike ruined every single scene she was in too. And it's just infantile to frame scenes around her tits. <br />
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A lot was made of Cruises height for this film, and they made it worse by casting too many taller actors. It made the fight scenes comical as he looked like a hobbit. Plenty of short actors in Hollywood they could have used, and it's not something I normally notice with Cruise. <br />
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Not the romantic film you were after then aye <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/rugby/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' /><br />
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The Paperboy - Matthew McConaughey Zac Efron, Nicole Kidman, John Cusack.<br />
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Not too bad, a bit slow, but decent film with a trashy Kidman in love with Cusack who is in prison for murder and on death row, and McConaughey and Efron (brothers) working for a Newspaper trying to prove he is innocent.<br />
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Something about McConaughey movies at the moment? Another couple of rather, odd scenes (not as bad as Killer Joe, but still out there)<br />
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McConaughey has been campaigning hard over the years to be taken seriously as an actor. But when you make movies like Sahara or Surfer Dude, which I might add he financed, it makes it hard for anyone to look at you as a quality character actor.<br />
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But you can see where he's tried to get noticed as something more than the texas drawling pretty boy my wife drool over.<br />
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We Are Marshall, Killer Joe, Dazed and Confused, Reign Of Fire and upcoming The Dallas Buyers Club where he's tried to do a Chritian Bale in the Machinist.<br />
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TBF Sahara and Surfer dude are quite old....I thought he was good in Lincoln Lawyer too
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[quote name='taniwharugby' timestamp='1358025990' post='336850']<br />
TBF Sahara and Surfer dude are quite old....I thought he was good in Lincoln Lawyer too<br />
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THat was good though....<img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/rugby/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' />
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[quote name='taniwharugby' timestamp='1358033499' post='336900']<br />
THat was good though.... <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/rugby/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' /><br />
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Yeah I ignored your point sorry.<br />
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Magic Mike as NTA said is nice and new though isn't it.. -
I havent seen it, so cant comment <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/rugby/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />
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[quote name='taniwharugby' timestamp='1358034197' post='336903']<br />
I havent seen it [b]yet[/b], so cant comment <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/rugby/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /><br />
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Fixed it <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/rugby/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /> -
i liked Sahara........ what? fuck you guys.....<br />
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Finally got to see "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" last night. I thought it was great, and suddenly i have an urge to read Cold War-era spy novels again. -
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i liked Sahara........ what? fuck you guys.....<br />
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Finally got to see "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" last night. I thought it was great, and suddenly i have an urge to read Cold War-era spy novels again.<br />
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Ditto! As soon as I saw that movie I was off to iBooks and read TTSS, The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley's People - all of them class. -
Saw The Hobbit last night. Both Luigi and RT have pretty much written my thoughts already, though far more eloquently than i could hope to do.<br />
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I saw it in the super fast 3D of death format, and i reckon it took an hour to get used to it, and for it to stop being a distraction. It is some clear shit though.<br />
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While it's long, i was surprised how quickly it moved. The start takes for ever, and there are some superfluous bits that make the theatrical release feel like the extended version, but at the end i was surprised at how late it was.<br />
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But as Luigi said, all the important elements are there, it looks awesome, there is a heap of action. Couple of laugh moments, Gollum is great, it's shit he's done now (unless there is new shit in the 3rd movie). And now i can't wait to see the rest of the story. Surpised to see how much i had forgotten in the 20-odd years since i read the book. -
Saw Django last night, classic Tarantino. Really violent at times and his usual style.<br />
Like it alot though felt it dragged on a bit long (same length as the Hobbit), Christoph Waltz is brilliant.<br />
Probably a little too predictable though.<br />
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Saw Django last night, classic Tarantino. Really violent at times and his usual style.<br />
Like it alot though felt it dragged on a bit long (same length as the Hobbit), Christoph Waltz is brilliant.<br />
Probably a little too predictable though.<br />
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Saw this on the weekend too, quite liked it, although agree on the length...<br />
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Saw The Grey last night on Box Office. Liam Neeson and a cast of plane crash survivors go fist to fang with killer wolves. It was OK. I mean, just OK. For sure. wolves just don't act like that around humans. Why the producers saw fit to demonise a creature like that made me a bit sick.<br />
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Worse bit was when the survivors construct a rope to get down from an impassable cliff-face and they almost all die. Then the wolves that have been chasing them turn up again. Guys, there's obviously another way down ....<br />
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The ending is one of those 'The director/screenwriter doesn't know how to end the thing so he leaves it up to the viewer's imagination' things. Although I had that sneaky feeling that I needed to wait until the credits had rolled and sure enough, there's like a two second shot of the aftermath of the showdown between Neeson and the BBW. Still, not enough to be unequivocal though. -
Oh and had to bail from Django Unchained on Friday as the snow here wrecked our travel plans. Hoping to reschedule as soon as poss.<br />
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Got very pissed on Friday night instead and in a ten minute creative 'burst' wrote the outline for a film/TV show while the Guinness and zambucca's were slipping down. Surprisingly, when I woke up on Saturday morning it wasn't that shit. Watch this space...
