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<p>Escape Plan - has a pretty good cast; Stallone, Arnie, Sam Neill, Jim Calviezel, Vinnie Jones, Fiddy Sent, Vincent D'Onofrio</p>
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<p>Simple premise, Stallone is a dude who gets put into a prison to test it's anti-breaking-out-ness. When he gets offered mega money to try and break out of some new secret CIA prison, he jumps at the chance, but all is not what it seems...</p>
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<p>After watching the first few episodes of True Detective, I decided to check out Dallas Buyers Club. Very good flick. Both McConaughey and Jared Leto were fantastic in it, and would be worthy winners of the best actor and supporting actor Oscars. I also recently saw the 2nd Hunger Games which was entertaining, and the Butler, which was preachy and dragged on. Enough that I started skipping through parts.</p>
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<p>A new Australian post-apocalypse movie.<br><br>
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<p>Thanks for putting that one on my radar Tim.</p>
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<p>In addition, I saw bits of the relatively new crime flick Mystery Road (another Aussie thing) the other night. Looks decent.</p>
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Last Vegas - was ok, some good laughs but coulda been better.
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<p>Just heard Phillip Seymour Hoffman has died, damn shame he was a great actor.</p>
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<p>Another one lost to drugs, what a waste of talent.</p> -
<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote' data-author="Kirwan" data-cid="412963" data-time="1391376279"><p>Another one lost to drugs, what a waste of talent.</p></blockquote>
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And will leave another big production in a quandary, he would be well into filming the next Hunger Games film as well( haven't read the books so not sure if he would be needed for both parts as it's being split into 2)<br />
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<p>And will leave another big production in a quandary, he would be well into filming the next Hunger Games film as well( haven't read the books so not sure if he would be needed for both parts as it's being split into 2)<br>
Must be a lot if nervous Hollywood execs out there, Paul Walker just a few months back now PS Hoffman</p>
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<p>They are insured against things like that.</p> -
<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote' data-author="Kirwan" data-cid="412988" data-time="1391386028"><p>They are insured against things like that.</p></blockquote>
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I'm sure they are but insurance can't finish filming scenes when the guys gone, must be headache to deal with<br />
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<p>in those movies it'd be very easy to write him out...</p>
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<p>Bye Phil, you fucking weirdo</p>
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<p>On a far lighter note, i watched "White House Down" on the weekend (Mrs Mariner wanted to watch it for the perv value, Channing Tatum is her Monica Belluci). What a complete load of shit, i was wildly entertained for the duration. As equally as ridiculous as Olympus has Fallen, but in a different way. I think at times it was trying to be a comedy? Anyway, it's dumb and fun, and i highly recommend when you are hungover. </p> -
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<p>(Mrs Mariner wanted to watch it for the perv value, Channing Tatum is her Monica Belluci). </p>
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<p>Did you laugh at her when he didn't get his shirt off at any point? I did to Mrs TA.</p>
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<p>9 - wow this was a fucking trip. Bit disturbing with the message of technology gone wrong and earth being a dead planet. But Tim Burton stumped up the money so you know what it is going to be from the start. Good animation, good script.</p>
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<p>No tits.</p>
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<p>Ultramarines - I was into Warhammer 40K as a younger man and had heard, just before I departed the hobby, that they'd started work on a movie. Disappointing to say the least, especially given the quality of PC games they've produced. This wasn't even cutscene animation quality! Story was OK, but not much made sense in terms of the universe, right from the weaponry through to the armour and tactics. I had to rewind to a teenage me to extract any enjoyment out of it, and hey in the 90s it would have looked good!</p> -
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<p>I'm sure they are but insurance can't finish filming scenes when the guys gone, must be headache to deal with<br><br>
Kinda why Lindsay Lohan never gets work anymore</p>
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<p>Happened in Gladiator with Oliver Reed, they CGI'd part of his scenes to finish the movie. These days they'll have enough footage of him to do something.</p> -
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<p>in those movies it'd be very easy to write him out...</p>
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<p>Good actor<strong>, although seemed to always play it the same.</strong></p>
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<p>I've been saying this for years to howls of condemnation from his fans. But I came to like him eventually due to the fact I knew he'd always be the same ... and many watchable actors are like that.</p>
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<p>Sad way for him to go after seemingly fighting his demons for 20+ years.</p>
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<p>Speaking of PSH, watched the Hunger Games sequel and thought it was really good (as a movie, I don't have the Jennifer Lawrence obsession of some) and set up the 3rd movie really well. It was weirdly a rehash of the first one but seemed to just be better.</p>
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<p>Recently watched Safe Haven by accident (letting my nieces choose the film to watch) which is one of those romantic movies like the Gosling and McAdams one (jegga will know the name). Wasn't good, wasn't bad, ok, it leaned more to the bad. </p>
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<p>Also watched Escape Plan and enjoyed, Arnold busting out his german was funny.</p>
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<p>Tried to watch Oz the Great and Powerful but gave up after about 1/2 an hour as I was bored as buggery despite the fact I'd seen Mila Kunis, Michelle Williams, and the chick from Rectify. If that ahem 'talent' can't hold your interest then there is no point watching anymore.</p> -
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<p>Ultramarines - I was into Warhammer 40K as a younger man and had heard, just before I departed the hobby, that they'd started work on a movie. Disappointing to say the least, especially given the quality of PC games they've produced. This wasn't even cutscene animation quality! Story was OK, but not much made sense in terms of the universe, right from the weaponry through to the armour and tactics. I had to rewind to a teenage me to extract any enjoyment out of it, and hey in the 90s it would have looked good!</p>
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<p>NTA, if you want good 40K as an adult, read the <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaunt's_Ghosts'>Gaunts Ghosts series of novels by Dan Abnett</a></p> -
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<p>in those movies it'd be very easy to write him out...</p>
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<p>Depends how many scenes he's done. By memory his character was only in the pre-final battle bits.</p>
