Movie review thread...
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[quote name='red terror' timestamp='1360291068' post='342357']<br />
He actually does kinda make the movies I want to see. (And really, if it was otherwise, I wouldn't have taken time & money out of my pocket to go see it.) I love Peckinpah. I love Leone. I love Fuller. Django Unchained made me shrug my shoulders. My opinion. Honest disagreement. That is all.<br />
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I should really of put IMHO to be fair ... wasn't intended to be a go at you!<br />
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But I do think he's brilliant ... I'm going to watch The Master tonight and I'm trying not to pre-judge it but it's hard with Paul Thomas Anderson, Phillip Seymour Hoffman and the Phoenix guy involvement, they're all overrated to me (and Anderson was one of the directors my comment was aimed at ....). I have liked them all individually various times and the subject matter is intriguing so maybe? -
[quote name='Nepia' timestamp='1360280393' post='342322']<br />
Tarantino has got a great little list of films now, I really can't separate Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill Vol 1, Inglorious Basterds and Django Unchained.<br />
[/quote]I can, Pulp Fiction #1 for me, Reservoir Dogs was less refined but would be my #2, Django at #3.<br />
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[quote name='canefan' timestamp='1360325235' post='342690']<br />
I can, Pulp Fiction #1 for me, Reservoir Dogs was less refined but would be my #2, Django at #3.<br />
Saw Zero Dark Thirty tonight, it was rivetting viewing; Ms Bigelow certainly knows how to make a decent film.<br />
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Ms Bigelow directed one of the all time great movies,[Taniwharugby will back me up on this] I wonder how much better Avatar would have been with her directing and her ex Cameron producing. -
[quote name='jegga' timestamp='1360347129' post='342713']<br />
Ms Bigelow directed one of the all time great movies,[Taniwharugby will back me up on this] I wonder how much better Avatar would have been with her directing and her ex Cameron producing.<br />
[/quote]I really enjoyed the Hurt Locker also, but ZDT was the shizzle meddizle. I would be curious to see what she does in another genre (she hasn't made any big action smashes has she?). Not everyone can do the box office epic but with another good outing or two someone should take a chance on her -
[quote name='canefan' timestamp='1360359202' post='342727']<br />
I really enjoyed the Hurt Locker also, but ZDT was the shizzle meddizle. I would be curious to see what she does in another genre [b](she hasn't made any big action smashes has she?)[/b]. Not everyone can do the box office epic but with another good outing or two someone should take a chance on her<br />
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Mate ,she directed Point Break - quite possibly the greatest film ever made . -
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Mate ,she directed Point Break - quite possibly the greatest film ever made .<br />
[/quote]As usual my lazy research has cost me <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/rugby/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/hang1.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':hang1:' /> . That was a great film, made me want to surf so bad for the entire 2 hours I was watching. No question then, she would be the goods. How about giving her one of the new Star Wars films? -
Argo - pretty decent watch, felt it dragged a little for most of it, the last 30 was pretty tense, although I expect purely for the drama...
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[url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096087/][i]Shakedown [/i]aka [i]Blue Jean Cop[/i][/url]. Amusing viewing. -
[quote name='Tim' timestamp='1360838714' post='344084']<br />
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[url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096087/][i]Shakedown [/i]aka [i]Blue Jean Cop[/i][/url]. Amusing viewing.<br />
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Ha. I watched this once when I was about 10 I think. How did it stand up after all this time? -
[quote name='MajorRage' timestamp='1360362115' post='342738']<br />
Die hard 5... Better than 4, prob same level as 3. 1 & 2 still the benchmarks though.<br />
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Good watch, John McLane is still the man. Few nice little tributes to the original in there too.<br />
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Good to hear, because I'm planning on seeing it tomorrow. It is getting reamed in the reviews. -
[quote name='Milk' timestamp='1360857223' post='344116']<br />
Good to hear, because I'm planning on seeing it tomorrow. It is getting reamed in the reviews.<br />
[/quote]I'm going tonight. I don't think they'd ever expect to get good reviews now. Rotten Tomatoes gave it a critic rating of 12% but more telling was the 85% user rating. One for the unwashed masses methinks <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/rugby/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/hi.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':hi:' /> -
IMO the Die Hard movies are like a Big Mac; you know exactly what you will get everytime with little variance from the tried and true, they aint gonna win any culinary awards, but then they dont really expect they should win any either.<br />
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I wil be watching it at some point! -
Saw The Impossible last night . Wasn't too bad a watch either . Based on a true story and you would think it was pretty much impossible for it to have played out as it did .
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the 2004 Tsunami
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Just got back from seeing West of Memphis a docu-drama about the murders of three 8 year old boys in Arkansas in 1993 and the subsequent trial, incarceration and campaign for freedom of the three teenagers accused of the crime. The "West Memphis 3" as they became known had some pretty high profile supporters including Fran Walsh and Peter Jackson, who present the film.<br />
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[url="http://www.westofmemphis.com.au/"]http://www.westofmemphis.com.au/[/url]<br />
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You think you've heard or read of this kind of thing before but this movie really made my blood boil at times. Arakansas does not come out of it well at all and you really have to question the legal system at state level where judges, DA's and various other officials are all trying to get re-elected first and place justice a distant second.<br />
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Very powerful, long movie but I love the fact that the resurrected cinema in my town plays this kind of film on a Monday night. -
[quote name='Hooroo' timestamp='1361224814' post='345008']<br />
What's it about CJ?<br />
[/quote]Yeah the 2004 tsunami . The whole family were at a swimming pool that was basically right by the beach , the movie shows what happened to them . Good special effects sequences of the tsunami too .
