Movie review thread...
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<p>Stephen Ambrose is not really a good guide to factual stuff that happened, he writes great page turning books that get people interested in what happened, but he's not known to let facts get in the way of a good read nor his target audience.</p>
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<p>You're probably right, seems an off story to invent though. A lot of the soldiers they dragged in were from places like anti aircraft crews which were redundant due to them having near total air superiority. He's a huge Eisenhower fanboy but he's really harsh on him for the lack of training the yanks gave their men from about november 1944 onwards.</p> -
<p>Menahem Golan, of the Cannon Group and Golan/Globus, died today at 85. He was one of the guys who made the 80's great.<br><br><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/aug/09/menahem-golan-successful-independent-producer-dies-aged-85'>http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/aug/09/menahem-golan-successful-independent-producer-dies-aged-85</a></p>
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<p>Cuban Fury: Salsa dancing movie with Nick Frost (the fat fulla in the Simon Pegg films) and Rashida Jones. I found it funny and Jones was stunning, she has always been hot but they always give her a stupid fringe on Parks and Rec. A good light film.</p>
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<p>Calvary: Not as good as The Guard, but still good nonetheless. About a priest who is told he's going to be murdered in a week and then has a story that follows that week in the whacky little Irish village he lives in. It could be a sequel to The Guard really.</p> -
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<p>Cuban Fury: Salsa dancing movie with<strong> Nick Frost </strong>(the fat fulla in the Simon Pegg films) and Rashida Jones. I found it funny and Jones was stunning, she has always been hot but they always give her a stupid fringe on Parks and Rec. A good light film.</p>
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<p>I've always found this guy really funny and Pegg nothing but irritating. Not in a funny way either, just really fucking irritating . Rashida Jones is hot though, I'll check this movie out.</p>
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<p>I've always found this guy really funny and Pegg nothing but irritating. Not in a funny way either, just really fucking irritating . Rashida Jones is hot though, I'll check this movie out.</p>
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<p>Just so we're clear there is no Pegg in this film though?</p>
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<p>I'm cool with that, have you seen Guardians of the galaxy yet? The mrs is going way and I think I might take Jegga jr to go and watch it again.</p>
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<p>Not yet, but I'm keen to see it after reading and hearing about it (I previously had little interest in it) ... I might se if my nieces want to go se it this weekend. </p> -
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<p>Not yet, but I'm keen to see it after reading and hearing about it (I previously had little interest in it) ... I might se if my nieces want to go se it this weekend. </p>
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<p>I was trying to convince my wife to bring my son (he's seven). Instead, I'm waiting to buy it on DVD and I have to edit out some of the non-kid friendly bits. Sigh.</p> -
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<p>I was trying to convince my wife to bring my son (he's seven). Instead, I'm waiting to buy it on DVD and I have to edit out some of the non-kid friendly bits. Sigh.</p>
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<p>What kind of non kid friendly bits? Although my nieces are teenagers so that wont matter. Is it a PG or M rating?</p> -
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<p>What kind of non kid friendly bits? Although my nieces are teenagers so that wont matter. Is it a PG or M rating?</p>
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<p>M, but nothing that a teenager would be worried about. Bit of swearing, some Groot OTT impaling of faceless bad guys. All very cartoonish.</p>
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<p>Close ups of Zoe Saldana's arse.</p> -
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Close ups of Zoe Saldana's arse.</p></blockquote>
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Going on the "special reel" presentation that Kirwan had compiled with all the Scarlett Johansson bits his wife has never seen</p></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote"><p>I think my favorite thing about Golan and Globus was how, after they split, they released two different films exploitating the Lambada dance craze ON THE SAME DAY. PS Golan's Lambada film was WAY better, since "The Forbidden Dance" features Sid Haig as a Brazilian witch doctor (!!), a safe sex message, and an ending that features a message about the plight of the rain forest.</p></blockquote>
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<p>Caught some of Michael Moore's spiel "Capitalism: A Love Story". </p>
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<p>Look, whenever you watch this bloke's stuff it feels like tabloid current affairs, but jeez he makes some good points about how rampant capitalism creates a complete screaming dud of a system. The unbridled corruption running through the halls of power in the financial sector in the USA is mind boggling. And you can see it happening here as our political systems become more lobby-oriented, run by fools who answer to rich men in the shadows.</p>
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<p>Thankfully we still have some fairly tight regulation of the banking sector in Australia (and in NZ too from what I know of the consumer protection policies) that would head this sort of thing off in the first instance. Usually whenever you see "A Current Affair" (tabloid journalism as stated above) and some bogan whining about the bank ripping them off, its because they didn't read the Ts & Cs.</p> -
<p>I watched "The Good Shepherd" for the first time the other night.</p>
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<p>A 3 hour spy movie with zero suspense, awesome. It was interesting i guess, but takes itself faaar to seriously, and is actually pretty tedious at times. </p> -
<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' class="bbc_url" href='http://thedissolve.com/features/exposition/707-comrade-rambo/'>The soviet <em>Rambo</em> (II). </a>
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<p>Starred Up - gritty and brutal Brit drama about an extremely violent teen that goes from juvenile lock up to full on adult lock up, where his dad is also a imprisoned, as his father tries to look out for his boy, he tries to make his own mark.</p>
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I watched Michael Crichton's <em><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' class="bbc_url" href='http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082677/'>Looker</a></em> last night. It was a lot of goofy fun. Some of models were outstanding.
