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For those who haven't read the book World War Z - a quick summary of the similarities:<br />
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What the World War Z movie has in common with the book - The Oatmeal
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Gold Class Lounge at the movies on Saturday. Saw "Elysium" with MATT. DAMON. And Sharlto Copley as a particularly badass mercenary psychopath.<br /><br />Was watchable, but fairly standard sci-fi dystopia gear. Worth seeing at the movies though<br /><br />-------------------------------------------<br />I hate autocorrect ...<br /><br />
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<p>Finally got around to watching "Zero Dark Thirty" last night. I thought it was fucking awesome. Long, but awesome. I started the movie feeling uncomfortable with "us" being the good guys, but using torture. By the end i was "stealth helicopters? fuck yea!".</p>
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<p>Watched The Iceman and Olympus has Fallen;</p>
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<p>The Iceman, based on the true story of a hitman (which I only realised yesterday has been on Discovery or Nat Geo recently too) Kuklinski? Easy watch, not sure how close it was to the actual events, but worth a look</p>
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<p>Olympus has Fallen; typical action film where 1 man can take on an army and win, at around 2 hours, a bit long for this genre IMO, but still, shooting, fighting, explosions, secret weapons....</p> -
<p>Olympus has Fallen really was a throw-back action flick. i was entertained.</p>
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<p>I watched "Drive" last night, and i am still not actually sure what it is supposed to be about. Strange movie. The gratuitous gore was completely unexpected. </p> -
<p>We have a DVD sunday once every 4 or 5 months if the weather is poke and the farm is ok and we couldn't have picked three worse movies</p>
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<p>A good day to die hard. (I loved the previous 4)</p>
<p>Warm Bodies. awful.... blimmen awful</p>
<p>Turning 40. Awful.... just blimmen awful.</p>
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<p><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;background-color:rgb(252,252,252);">Elysium - Matt Damon and some Mexicans try to escape Earth (Mexico) for a space station called </span><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;background-color:rgb(252,252,252);">Elysium </span><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;background-color:rgb(252,252,252);">(USA). A Saffa is hunting them all. Lots of Mexicans die.</span> 7.5/10</p>
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<p>Olympus has Fallen really was a throw-back action flick. i was entertained.</p>
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<p>I watched "Drive" last night, and i am still not actually sure what it is supposed to be about. Strange movie. The gratuitous gore was completely unexpected. </p>
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<p>Agree. I only got around to this the other day as it looked like crap in the trailers. Was pleasantly surprised that all of the plot holes were easily non annoying except for one (see spoiler). Good gung-ho old fashioned Die Hard (the original) type action flick.</p>
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<p>[spoiler]Everything hinged around the terrorists needing three super secret access codes but the codes were so friggin easy they could have been cracked by a spotty 13 year old hacker on a Sinclair ZX.[/spoiler]</p> -
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<p>Agree. I only got around to this the other day as it looked like crap in the trailers. Was pleasantly surprised that all of the plot holes were easily non annoying except for one (see spoiler). Good gung-ho old fashioned Die Hard (the original) type action flick.</p>
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<p>[spoiler]Everything hinged around the terrorists needing three super secret access codes but the codes were so friggin easy they could have been cracked by a spotty 13 year old hacker on a Sinclair ZX.[/spoiler]</p>
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<p> [spoiler]i know! i loved the whole "don't worry, they'll never get mine" then they got to the end "that's ok, we don't even need it. psych!" [/spoiler]</p>
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<p>nah, that's "White House Down" bro, it's the Volcano to Olympus has Fallen's Dante's Peak</p>
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<p>Question for this one: does Tatum get his shirt off? This determines whether the wife wants to see it and whether I get laid afterwards.</p>
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<p>Time you came out of the closet then mate, you owe it to your wife!</p>
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I see that Ben Afflick has been named to play Batman. That has to be some kind of sick prank surely.
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="taniwharugby" data-cid="387638" data-time="1377722207"><p>If it is any consolation for you, Gerrard Butler gets his shirt off... ;)</p></blockquote>
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I see that Ben Afflick has been named to play Batman. That has to be some kind of sick prank surely.</p></blockquote>
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Smart move, his super hero movies are box office gold
