Movie review thread...
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[quote name='Paekakboyz' timestamp='1363248759' post='351822']<br />
[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Django - pretty cool, well worth a watch. Leonardo and [/font][/color][color=#333333][font=Verdana, Arial, sans-serif][size=3]Christoph Waltz are excellent, Waltz's character was brilliantly written imo... [/size][/font][/color][size=4][spoiler]until his slightly out of character decision to bust a cap in Leo's ass. Seemed more likely he'd keep himself in check to help Django and his wife.[/spoiler][/size]<br />
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Heres where it fell apart for me<br />
[size=4][spoiler]The plan to get a good price on Djanjos wife had no reason to exist! [/size]<br />
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[size=4]Why would Leonardo not accept a large offer say 3 times her normal price for a slave that speaks German from another German, who wants a slave that speaks German? Seems like a reasonable request. Would have saved everyone a lot of bother.[/spoiler][/size] -
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[b]End of Watch[/b] - documentary style story of two LAPD partners working in the East LA area.Once I got used to the hand held video shots I found the movie very absorbing. The ending was a little predicatable, but did not detract from the impact. HIghly recommended for anyone who liked the Wire.<br />
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Basically the same review I was about to write. At first the cinematography I found overdone until I realised it added to the story. There's nothing new in the plot, but the interaction between Gyllenhaal and Peña is very good. -
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Basically the same review I was about to write. At first the cinematography I found overdone until I realised it added to the story. There's nothing new in the plot, but the interaction between Gyllenhaal and Peña is very good.<br />
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The realism for me was over the moment they became super cops. -
[quote name='mooshld' timestamp='1363263075' post='351857']<br />
Heres where it fell apart for me<br />
[spoiler]The plan to get a good price on Djanjos wife had no reason to exist!<br />
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Why would Leonardo not accept a large offer say 3 times her normal price for a slave that speaks German from another German, who wants a slave that speaks German? Seems like a reasonable request. Would have saved everyone a lot of bother.[/spoiler]<br />
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[spoiler]They covered that, if he said no you are left with nowhere to go. Also, if you are willing to pay 3x, how about 4, 5 or 6?The Dentist knew Leo's character as well so was anticipating his likely responses.[/spoiler] -
My take<br />
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[spoiler]I guess it is like any situation, if you are willing to pay over the odds for something, there is likely to be a reason.<br />
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[quote name='Kirwan' timestamp='1363290983' post='351889']<br />
[spoiler]They covered that, if he said no you are left with nowhere to go. Also, if you are willing to pay 3x, how about 4, 5 or 6?The Dentist knew Leo's character as well so was anticipating his likely responses.[/spoiler]<br />
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[spoiler]Yeah so you say for german speaking I pay X. Knowing you can afford 3X or borrow a bit more of your mate; His method of negotiating to get her at list price seemed a bit cheap I mean its his wife!.[/spoiler] -
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Wasn't that Austin Powers?<br />
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Holy S...! You're right. I mixed up bathroom scenes. Tom Arnold really only plays one character - himself. I guess I love him in both movies, then. It's been a while since I've seen either. -
Argo was very watchable but it pissed me off that they made so much shit up. I don't like films that are only based on reality. Ben Affleck looks out the plane window to see machine-gun-wielding Iranians trying to take down the plane just as it takes off...really?
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Watched Argo last night. It was ok, but nothing special. Felt like they had to artificially create suspense.
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[quote name='mariner4life' timestamp='1363382872' post='352261']<br />
Watched Argo last night. It was ok, but nothing special. Felt like they had to artificially create suspense.<br />
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Yeah I never really felt like the characters were actually threatened. It was all a bit tame and certain scenes like the customs/extermination squad scene felt cartoonish. -
It's funny, most people I talked about Argo with who watched it before the Oscars were all positive, since Oscar it's had more negatives - weighed down by expectation?<br />
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Of the best picture nominees I've seen it's been the best so far (I haven't seen them all).<br />
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Plus, I think people forget it's a movie (including our parliament) and not a doco, I think I said above I know more about this story due to reading up on it after the movie. -
I've got english friends that were living in Iran at the time teaching english to air force pilots before they went to the US to fly fighter jets.I'll be interested to see what they think of Argo, I've had a few chats with them in the past about their time there and they mentioned sleeping on the roof of their house because they were worried about copping a stray bullet. They also went to the British embassy to try and get some help leaving and the guy on the front desk said something along the lines of "crisis, what crisis?" while outside they were adding three extra feet of height to the brick fence and embedding glass into the top of it.<br />
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Sw it last night enjoyed it but didn't think it was Oscar worthy, loved Arkins and Goodmans characters though -some fantastic lines between the two of them. -
Um, holy fuck. What the fuck is wrong with some people??!!<br />
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I just read about the liitle shitstorm some fucking idiots in Wellington managed to create around a throw-away line in a movie. Fuck me dead. Surely Parliament, and most especially, the Prime Minister, has more important things to think about than how 4 fucking words in a movie might make people think about NZ?<br />
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This is some small minded, little brother, chippy, precious bullshit, and the fact that it got any traction is a serious indictment on our country. -
Red Dawn (re-make) just didnt have much substance to it, I guess if it wasnt a re-make it'd be a decent watch, but it was and will always be compared with the original, to which it doesnt measure up.<br />
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Also watched Tad the Lost Explorer with the kids, which is pretty good, they loved it -
Finally got to see Zero Dark Thirty and thought it was a very engrossing movie. Basically, you have to concentrate to keep up with the plot, mumbling of lines and myriad shots of men with beards and long names.<br />
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But when I was walking back home I couldn't place what it was about the movie I didn't get. And then I realised it was that I didn't like or identify with any of the characters in it - not a one of them. It was curious, usually you find someone to cheer for or empathise with but I can honestly say that every character in that movie left me cold. Even the flame-haired heroine of the piece was just an obsessional, self-centred success slave with no life whatsoever, which unintentionally or not reeked of the same blind zealotry the terrorists were accused of.<br />
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I guess this smudging of the lines between the 'good' and 'bad' guys is what Bigelow wanted because one thing's for sure, the Americans really don't come out of ZDT with any redeeming qualities at all. I didn't even get the sense that the poor boys and girls of the CIA were struggling with their conscience or humanity to do the things they were doing to keep America safe and in the process: they just seemed like robots.<br />
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Maybe in movie theatres across middle America there are people whooping and hollering at the final takedown of OBL but even here I didn't identify one iota with the self-righteousness that was supposed to be the defining point of the whole thing.<br />
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Lincoln: Not a big Daniel Day-Lewis fan but really enjoyed this film which focuses on the last couple of months of Lincoln's life as he tries to bring a final end to slavery in the USA. 8.5/10<br />
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Skyfall: Don't watch that many Bond films but was told to watch this one. Not too bad but I'm just not a huge Bond fan. 6/10<br />
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The Impossible: About the Boxing Day tsunami that hit parts of SE Asia and stars Naomi Watts and Ewen McGregor. Watched this while on a bus in Colombia. Probably not the film to watch when you are about to stay a couple of days by the beach. Freaked the girl out who I was traveling with. 7/10
