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<p>Is Her a chick flick, or more aimed at chicks??</p>
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<p>Tokorev - Fern fave Nicolas Cage is a reformed mobster trying to go straight. On a night out with his new wife, a house invasion results in his daughter being kidnapped... Was alright, except the scenes of Cage screaming in pain of the loss of his daughter silently with music over the top.</p>
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<p>The Art of the Steal - Kurt Russell (looking old) Mat Dillon and Legartha. Russell & Dillon are art stealing con man brothers, and Dillon, in an effort to save himself hands the Police his brother. When his brother gets out he tries to go straight...again, ok, while trying to be a bit clever.</p> -
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<p><strong>Is Her a chick flick, or more aimed at chicks??</strong></p>
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<p>Tokorev - Fern fave Nicolas Cage is a reformed mobster trying to go straight. On a night out with his new wife, a house invasion results in his daughter being kidnapped... Was alright, except the scenes of Cage screaming in pain of the loss of his daughter silently with music over the top.</p>
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<p>The Art of the Steal - Kurt Russell (looking old) Mat Dillon and Legartha. Russell & Dillon are art stealing con man brothers, and Dillon, in an effort to save himself hands the Police his brother. When his brother gets out he tries to go straight...again, ok, while trying to be a bit clever.</p>
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<p>Nope.</p> -
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<p>Is Her a chick flick, or more aimed at chicks??</p>
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<p>Tokorev - Fern fave Nicolas Cage is a reformed mobster trying to go straight. On a night out with his new wife, a house invasion results in his daughter being kidnapped... Was alright, except the scenes of Cage screaming in pain of the loss of his daughter silently with music over the top.</p>
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<p>The Art of the Steal - Kurt Russell (looking old) Mat Dillon and <strong>Legartha.</strong> Russell & Dillon are art stealing con man brothers, and Dillon, in an effort to save himself hands the Police his brother. When his brother gets out he tries to go straight...again, ok, while trying to be a bit clever.</p>
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<p>Sold.</p>
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<p>As for Her, what's his name Phoenix has become like Daniel Day Lewis to me, I can't watch him without laughing anymore, so while I want to see it I'm not sure if I should bother.</p> -
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<p>As Tim said, it's neither. It is just an interesting concept that is really well executed.</p> -
<p>ah ok, I just re-read the brief synopsis on IMDB and see where I went wrong :)</p>
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<p>Here I was saving it for the right moment to unleash on the wife and show all the movies I pick aren't for me....</p> -
<p>[i]Sorcerer[/i] (1977)<br><br>
Very good movie, a top-notch thriller. The negative must have been very well preserved, because it looked amazing in 1080p for a 70's film.<br><br>
Not as good as the original though - especially the tragic explosion scene. The original had much less resources but executed it brilliantly. Also, the (great) soundtrack was underused.</p> -
<p>Death Race 2000 - If you remember the controversial Carmageddon video game of the 90s, it was based on this film. Stars David Carradine and Sly Stallone as two road racers who compete in a race across the US where you earn points for running over people. Actually a very funny film to watch. 6/10</p>
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<p>Death Sport - Another b-movie starring David Carradine. Bit of tits 'n' ass in it but just a run of the mill 70s sci-fi film about people trying to survive in a post-apocalyptic world. 2/10</p>
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<p>Mad Max - Mel Gibson. Aussie cops chasing Aussie gangs, who in turn start chasing the Aussie cops, until Aussie cop Max gets mad. 4/10</p> -
<p>Godzilla - Really enjoyed it i think we can all now burn, destroy and bury the abomination that is the 1998 Mr Jessica Sarah Parker version.</p>
<p>Great to see ole 'Zilla battle a couple of other beasts, story line was pretty basic but you dont need much really.</p>
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Death Race 2000 - If you remember the controversial Carmageddon video game of the 90s, it was based on this film. Stars David Carradine and Sly Stallone as two road racers who compete in a race across the US where you earn points for running over people. Actually a very funny film to watch. 6/10<br><br>
Death Sport - Another b-movie starring David Carradine. Bit of tits 'n' ass in it but just a run of the mill 70s sci-fi film about people trying to survive in a post-apocalyptic world. 2/10<br><br>
Mad Max - Mel Gibson. Aussie cops chasing Aussie gangs, who in turn start chasing the Aussie cops, until Aussie cop Max gets mad. 4/10</p></blockquote>
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Godzilla - Really enjoyed it i think we can all now burn, destroy and bury the abomination that is the 1998 Mr Jessica Sarah Parker version.<br>
Great to see ole 'Zilla battle a couple of other beasts, story line was pretty basic but you dont need much really.<br><br>
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<p>Mad Max I considered an Aussie classic.</p>
<p>And surely DeathRace 2000 is worth a higher score, Sly gets beaten up in the car park, there is a euthanasia joke and fantastic lines, plus it is running commentary sarcasm, a rarity in mainstream American films.</p>
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<p>The Double - Think this movie was trying really hard to be all dark, brooding and clever, all I took was wierd. </p>
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<p>The Patrol - almost a documentary style film that follows a troop of British soldiers while on Patrol in Afghanistan. Slow, but I think that is the point of the film, not to mention the attempt to make a political statement about the war, at only 1 hour 20, wasnt too bad. </p> -
<p>Finally got round to watching Captain Phillips and I thought it was bloody good. One of the best movies I've watched this year.</p>
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<p>Also watched Pompeii due to Virgil's promoting of it in this thread, and by watching it meant I had it going while I was doing stuff. I found Emily Browning to be quite awful, however her handmaiden was farking hot (it's a time for hot handmaidens). Jack Bauer decided he'd out ham Daniel Day Lewis for a day and Jon Snow was Jon Snow-ish.</p> -
<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote' data-author="Nepia" data-cid="432314" data-time="1401875224"><p>Finally got round to watching Captain Phillips and I thought it was bloody good. One of the best movies I've watched this year.<br />
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Also watched Pompeii due to Virgil's promoting of it in this thread, and by watching it meant I had it going while I was doing stuff. I found Emily Browning to be quite awful, however her handmaiden was farking hot (it's a time for hot handmaidens). Jack Bauer decided he'd out ham Daniel Day Lewis for a day and Jon Snow was Jon Snow-ish.</p></blockquote>
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Pompeii is easily in my all time top 1000 movies now<br />
Someone was definitely guilty of hitting Emily Browning with the ugly stick on set<br />
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<p>Pompeii is easily in my all time top 1000 movies now<br>
Someone was definitely guilty of hitting Emily Browning with the ugly stick on set<br>
For what she can be check out Sucker Punch ( <strong>not a great movie</strong> but pisses over poopeii)</p>
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<p>It had hot chicks in lingerie firing machine guns, ffs man what more do you want in a movie?</p> -
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<p>Edit your post and give mad max a 10 out of 10 or join davidav on my ignore list.</p>
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<p>Sorry didn't see this post at first since you're on my ignore list with davidav.</p>
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<p>Citizen Kane - greatest movie of all time they say. Bullshit. No tits. Spent two hours looking for Simpsons references (yes, Simpsons references). 6/10</p> -
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<p>Sorry didn't see this post at first since you're on my ignore list with davidav.</p>
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<p>Dust of War - post apocalyptic type movie that seems more like a set-up for a TV series (or maybe a movie franchise?) No names in it, minimal dialogue...</p>
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<p>Non-stop - Liam Neeson is a US Air Marshall on a plane when someone starts messaging him over the Secure network demanding money otherwise he will kill someone on board. Little bit of a twist in that as Neeson's hand is forced, he kills #1 right on time. Is an ok film, plenty of action, Neeson seems to be revelling in his new quiet tough guy roles since Taken.</p> -
<p>I'm catching up with films from a few months ago. I just watched Ender'Game. </p>
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<p>I must have been inattentive at the start, or they just didn't explain, but I missed the premise of the movie. Why do they have to use kids to command their army? How did they realise this was the best policy. </p>
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<p>Ben Kingsley - WTF!!! After watching Wolf of Wall Street and seeing three different actors do completely different takes on the NZ accent I didn't think it could be mangled anymore. Kingsley was giving a different take on each sentence. Also, if you're going to make the character Maori at least teach him how to pronounce Maori properly. Or at least hire Cliff Curtis or Tem ... they'd be a lot cheaper than Kingsley too.</p>
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<p>I was thinking about reading the books so read up about them and found out the author is great big homophobe, so might give them a miss.</p>
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<p>TR: I thought Non-Stop was quite good as a popcorn movie.</p>
