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Sneakdefreak

Elysium - Matt Damon and some Mexicans try to escape Earth (Mexico) for a space station called Elysium (USA). A Saffa is hunting them all. Lots of Mexicans die. 7.5/10

Crucial

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Olympus has Fallen really was a throw-back action flick. i was entertained.
 
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. 
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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.
 
[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]

mariner4life

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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.
 
[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]
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 [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]
 
still, heaps of blokes got fucked up. most obvious traitor ever you reckon?

NTA

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.

mariner4life

nah, that's "White House Down" bro, it's the Volcano to Olympus has Fallen's Dante's Peak

NTA

Ah right. And u remember saying at the time that they looked the same

taniwharugby

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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.
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If it is any consolation for you, Gerrard Butler gets his shirt off... ;)

NTA

Sorry I don't swing your way.

taniwharugby

Time you came out of the closet then mate, you owe it to your wife!

Rancid Schnitzel

I see that Ben Afflick has been named to play Batman. That has to be some kind of sick prank surely.

Rancid Schnitzel

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From what I've heard Butler is more Obleix than Leonidas these days.

mariner4life

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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.</blockquote>
 
Smart move, his super hero movies are box office gold

taniwharugby

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From what I've heard Butler is more Obleix than Leonidas these days.
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Movie stars have access to personal trainers....
 
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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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THere are a few FB page started in protest!
 
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NTA

Yeah the nerdlingers aren't happy by the looks

Rancid Schnitzel

Not just nerds. Afflick would suck as Batman. Clooney was bad enough but Afflick? That's as bad if not worse than Nick Cage as Superman. Thankfully that didn't happen and hopefully this doesn't either. I'm not even a Batman fan and haven't even seen the last movie, I just hate to see such an iconic character ruined by that farking tool.

Nepia

I like Affleck, under rated as an actor and is a good director. Unlike most Hollywood actors he won't look like a hobbit next to Henry Cavill's Superman. 
Fan boys getting in a pickle is always fun too!

Sneakdefreak

This hate by the nerds is all building up to Ben Affleck pulling off the best Batman performance and winning an Oscar for it (hey, happened with The Joker*)
 
*And yes I know part of the reason for Heath Ledger getting the oscar was cause he died.Still people were against him at the start. Ditto for Bond (Daniel Craig).

Nepia

We're the Millers: This was actually a laugh out loud film, the movie theatre I was oin was cracking up so much I kept missing lines. It's about a guy who enlists a stripper, his nerdy neighbour and a homeless girl to help him smuggle weed from Mexico in an RV. It has Jennifer Aniston and a bunch of familiar comedy faces like Ron Swanson from Parks and Rec and the dentist from the Hangover movies. 
Hooroo - re: Warm Bodies. I really enjoyed that movie, it was a different take on zombies with a little bit of old school zombie action in parts as well.

antipodean

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Watched The Iceman and Olympus has Fallen;
 
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
 
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....
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Iceman is a good movie. Michael Shannon is very good at portraying Kuklinksi, a family man who kills without compunction or remorse.
 
Olympus has fallen is a throwback to completely over the top movies. Park your brain somewhere before watching it. It is a movie for a rainy day when you're sick at home. Any suggestion you're operating more firing synapses than required for existence will have you groaning and developing a migraine at the stupidity in the plot. 
 
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This hate by the nerds is all building up to Ben Affleck pulling off the best Batman performance and winning an Oscar for it (hey, happened with The Joker*)
 
*And yes I know part of the reason for Heath Ledger getting the oscar was cause he died.Still people were against him at the start. Ditto for Bond (Daniel Craig).
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Anyone remember the last time Affleck played a superhero? How fuckin' shit was that?
 
Just watched World War Z. Think a mixture of I am Legend + 28 Days Later. I don't know who wrote the screenplay, but it's not the worst zombie movie around. Worth a watch.

Kirwan

I actually liked Affleck as Daredevil, the movie was bad but not because of his performance.
 
People can get better at acting, and I think Affleck has. He was very, very good in Argo and the movies he has directed have been outstanding. Also this is Batman, FFS, it's not Hamlet. The hard part of the role is Bruce Wayne, and does anyone thing he can't play a smarmy billionaire playboy?
 
The interesting part of that news is the implication they are doing a Dark Knight Returns type story.

The Silver Fern

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