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<p>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.</p>
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<p>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. </p>
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<p>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. </p> -
<p>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</p>
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>Also included great bad 80s theme tune.</p>
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<p>so many likes, that original Transformers movie was fucking sweet. </p>
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<p>I had Hot Rod, one of my favourite toys ever. </p> -
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<p>I had Hot Rod, one of my favourite toys ever.</p>
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<p>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).</p>
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<p>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</p>
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<p>Last Action Hero had a pretty cool soundtrack too!</p>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107362/soundtrack'>http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107362/soundtrack</a></p> -
<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote' data-author="taniwharugby" data-cid="421378" data-time="1396231633"><p>Last Action Hero had a pretty cool soundtrack too!<br />
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Yup sure did I remember 'blasting' that on tape back in the day <br />
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<p>Secret Life of Walter Mitty - entirely average, thought it looked good in the trailers....</p>
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<p>I am Soldier - a story about a guy who is trying out for the SAS and some of the stuff he has to go through to get there, aside from the entirely cheesy ending, I thought it was decent.</p> -
Better living through chemistry - Olivia Wilde, Michelle Monaghan, Ray Liotta, Sam Rockwell Even a few scenes with a half clothed Olivia Wilde couldn't save this. A few chuckles but just a bit slow IMO, could have been quite good, 6/10<br><br>
Oldboy - Samuel L. Jackson, Josh Brolin.<br><br>
Brolin is abducted and held captive for 20 years, once finally out he sets about seeking revenge. Some brutal Tarantino-esque scenes as he goes about gaining revenge. <br><br>
As you find out the reasons behind his kidnap, you get set up for the reveal of the final twist.<br><br>
I liked it (twist aside - which was sorta predictable in that I had thought about it, but dismissed it) -
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<p>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</p>
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>Also included great bad 80s theme tune.</p>
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<p>looks like Rocky 1 with robots! I gotta see this, have no idea why I missed it first time around.</p>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://vimeo.com/89871912'>The History of the Movie Trailer</a></p>
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<p>I almost added this short 15-min. doc to the "Awesome Things" thread, but on second thought figured it was a better category here.</p>
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<p>After the Dark - sounded very good, and was for about the first half, and then kinda dragged out, with a pretty lame final 5 mins or so.</p>
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<p>A class of Philosophy students in Jakarta are given a task by thier professor that 10 of the 20 of them have been given the opportunity to live in a bunker following an atomic blast, and each is given a profession and it is up to them to decide who lives and who doesnt.</p> -
<p>Just saw Divergent, was pretty good if you like the hunger games you'll enjoy it I think. One thing that irritated me was there are four male characters that look fairly similar and the main star is one to watch out for in the future, I think she's pretty cool.</p>
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<p>if the 4 females are similar, and hot, judging by your previous posts, I'd have not thought you would see that as an issue! ;)</p>
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<p>Unfortunately it was the four male characters so pretty much wasted on me.</p>
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<p>Also the trailer to this piece of shit screened beforehand, I'd rather remove my eyelids with a rusty butter knife than sit through but judge for yourself.</p>
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<p>ah my bad...I didnt see the 'male' bit and then saw the main character was a female....</p>
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<p>Ride Along - Ice Cube, Kevin Hart - was ok, a few laughs.</p>
