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Nepia

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I don't know about digital but at Armageddon they had all of Charley's war in one book , it actually was almost as good as I remembered it. Itd be cool if they did a similar one with Johnny red too. 
The evil dude in battle action was baron Ironblood and looked pretty bloody silly even to an 11 year old me who thought the A team constantly shooting at the bad guys but not actually hurting anyone was plausible .
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Hmmm, don't know why I wrote Red Baron instead of Baron Ironblood! I think his army were called the Red Shadows. I always thought his helmut was modeled on Ned Kelly.
 
I'll search out that book although Charlie's War wasn't my favourite but a Johnny Red one would be great.

jegga

There was rumours of an animated film of Johnny red when I was a kid but I don't think they came to anything . He was pretty badass and him being a pom in Russia was an interesting angle. 
There was another one called "Darkies mob " I doubt you be allowed to call a cartoon that these days, Darkie certainly hated the japs .

jegga

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um, i'm hiding from that. while i have read the books, i haven't watched the TV show. i have seen the first 4 episodes of season 1 3 times, and then i always missed the 5th, and then had to give up. so yea, while i am aware there is nudity in it, i haven't seen enough to be giving an honest appraisal. 
i don't remember a lot of nudity from the start. Lena Headey had her kit on when her brother was doing her in the dog, but i guess that pale chick was nekid when she was getting railed by that massive Maori. can i assume it gets a bit more skinful?</blockquote>
 
From what I saw there was more nudity and some simulated bean flicking from some of the bi curious female cast. I've only seen the first series myself and Lena Headley has been strangely shy about getting naked. I'm hoping that changes .

taniwharugby

Movie 43 - WTF!! ALL star cast with apparently a series of linked short stories...i gave up after 15mins, which is unusual for me no matter how shit something is!

raznomore

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Movie 43 - WTF!! ALL star cast with apparently a series of linked short stories...i gave up after 15mins, which is unusual for me no matter how shit something is!
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Hugh Jackman and Kate Winslet were quite good working with a ridiculous prop but other wise it is one of the worst movies I have ever been subjected to. Just horrible.

Nepia

I watched Lone Survivor this afternoon and thought it was bloody good - wasn't rah rah USA like I'd heard.
 
Those special forces guys, from any nation, are frikken tough buggers.
 
One thing I thought they could have done:
[spoiler]Tied up the old man and the teen and then gone halfway up the mountain with the boy before setting him free ... it would at least of given them so more breathing room.[/spoiler]

taniwharugby

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I watched Lone Survivor (Mark Wahlberg, Emile Hirsch, Eric Bana) last night, pretty decent film, but the fact it is based on a a book which is based on a true story has me in 2 minds, or at least how much was actually true, although a little googling shows they did try to make it as real as possible...?
 
Also, the title is a bit of a spoiler ;)
 
ANywhoo, one thing that was odd -
 
[spoiler]The scene where they had captured the 3 Taliban goat herders, and the options they gave themselves. 
1 Kill them - morally wrong 
2 Free them 
3 Tie them up and leave them - they argued they would probably get attacked by wolves before being found 
My immediate thought was you start to leave the location and head towards the extraction point but you march them with you, and once you are able to make contact with base, then you let them go. 
They took option 2 and even then (reality vs movie?) they head off at a leisurely pace, and then decide to fall back rather than press on when they realised the mountain was bigger than initially thought. 
Obviously I wasnt there, never been in that situation and never will, so easy for me to pick holes in the decision that lead to the tragedy, but the fact they didnt keep going through the night also had me scratching my head, knowing they had released 3 Taliban to go collect an army...? 
I guess these kind of failed missions are based on based on a category of poor decisions. 
Oh, and the jumping off the cliffs, WTF, good way down hill to try and evade your pursuer.[/spoiler]
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I had similar thoughts Nepia...

Nepia

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I had similar thoughts Nepia...
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I thought I remembered someone discussing Lone Survivor previously.
 
I'm going to have to hunt out the book now - maybe it has more about their decision?
 
[spoiler]Regarding when they stopped, I was of the belief that they didn't have a hope of getting to the summit (before dark maybe?) and it looked as if it was open from there up so they went back to the treeline as a better defensive position. A couple of times they exclaimed that they couldn't believe how quick the Taliban had made it up the mountain. Having a read on the web and apparently the firefight was heaps longer than implied in the movie.[/spoiler]

NTA

The new 300 movie. Not as good as the first - though that would be hard to do. Plenty of stylised violence and whatnot. Didn't really like the Aussie lead but he got to faux bang Eva Green who got her norks out - though I wasn't as impressed with their form as I thought I'd be. Few other tits in there. 
Overall a solid movie - worth seeing at the cinema just for the scale of people getting chopped up and some of the slow mo cinematography

red terror

I saw the new 300, too. Too much carnage... completely over the top... only two females in the movie... Eva Green stomping around like a sadistic goth vamp... I loved all of it. Even a couple of short intentional funny moments that made me laugh out loud. If it doesn't seem quite as memorable as the first film, it's almost as good, and maybe with a few repeat viewings I might say it's equal. There really were some amazing-looking sequences. 7.5/10

red terror

Long and fairly amusing...
 
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote"> The Action Hero Championship Belt
 
From Steve McQueen to Liam Neeson, Bill Simmons determines who ruled the box office
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LINK: <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://grantland.com/features/the-action-hero-championship-belt/'>http://grantland.com/features/the-action-hero-championship-belt/</a>
 
Fans of Clint, Chuck, Sly, Arnie, etc. will enjoy. Lots of fun clips too, like this one:

red terror

Those youtube links lead to some fascinating comparative studies, such as:

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taniwharugby

Dirty Wars - Documentary based on the book of the same name by Investigative Journalist Jeremy Scahill, looking into the covert activity of the US Special Forces and the recent emergence (publically) of JSOC.
 
Interesting film.

Tim

Kiss of the Damned. 
Trash, but beautiful, watchable trash.

mariner4life

Took the mini-mariners to "The Lego Movie" yesterday. It was pretty fucking cool, but i think they were a little young for it. I was pissing myself laughing at stuff they just didn't get. But if you have kids, go to this, you'll love it. 
 
Watched that last "Star Trek" movie last night. It was a bit "meh" really. It looked cool, and some of the action scenes were great, but the story was stupid as fuck.

Sneakdefreak

Last Action Hero - an Arnie film which came out at the same time as Jurassic Park in 1993. Jurassic Park won. Still a fun movie to watch if you're killing time on a Wednesday night. 7/10
 
Transformers: The Movie (1986) - Remember seeing this in the movie theater when I was 4 or 5 years old (my sister had to take me). It is 2005 and a gigantic transformer planet (voiced by Orsen Welles) is eating other transformer planets. A lot of original Autobots and Decepticons met their Tomy maker in the sky and a new leader has to emerge in the Autobots' darkest hour. Smashes the gay stuff put together by Michael Bay and Shia Lebeouf. 9/10.
 
Also included great bad 80s theme tune.

mariner4life

so many likes, that original Transformers movie was fucking sweet. 
 
I had Hot Rod, one of my favourite toys ever.

Sneakdefreak

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I had Hot Rod, one of my favourite toys ever.
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I had Slag, the triceratops from the Dinobots. Remember being so stoked that he survived the entire film (which turned into a charge of the light brigade for my toys).
 
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mariner4life

i was in the toy shop a couple of months back with the boys, and they had re-released some of the main guys in their original form (not the shitty ones they make now, seriously, the transformer toys now fucking suck, they are needlessly complicated to transform, and they're flimsy as fuck). They had an original-form Soundwave, with all the tapes (i had all the tapes, but not Soundwave, damn stingy parents). It was $150 but i nearly bought it anyway. Soundwave was always my favourite in those cartoons, one kick ass voice
 
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