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<p>Really enjoyed Interstellar, usual issues with Nolan's films but it gets way more right than wrong. Special effects were epic, Matthew McConaughey is utterly brilliant, and I dunno if I'm getting sappy after having kids but those aspects really effected me.</p>
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<p>A great modern retake on 2001.</p>
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<p>I thought it was bloody good, aside from the odd occasion where it seemed to be going fully into 2001 mode (slow). I had no idea that the actor playing Dr Mann was playing him so was quite shocked when he turned up. </p>
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<p>McConaughey was good, I agree, but I don't think Chastain suited the younger actress, and TBF I think I'm a bit over her - she doesn't need to be in everything. </p>
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<p>I'm trying to work out if the cinema I saw it in had a bad sound mix or if there were deliberate parts where you're not expected to fully hear conversations - were there bits you couldn't make out?</p>
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<p>What are the issues you have with Nolan's films? I only tend to have issues with his films involving a Bat. The Dark Knights are my two least favourite of his films by some margin.</p> -
<p>You mentioned one of them, his sound mixes make it really hard to hear dialogue - but that can be a good thing because he (and his brother) write some real clunkers (Hathaway's love speech is impossible to play for an actor, but she'll get the grief for it). I did like they they went the opposite of Inception this time and tried to answer everything, so at least he doesn't rely on the same tricks each time.</p>
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<p>The Mann casting got me too, nice surprise.</p>
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<p>Regarding the Bat films, only Rises was poor. The Dark Knight is damn near perfect.</p> -
<p>I saw Fury today. Like all of the above, loved it. Pretty damn dark and gritty. One of the better war flicks I have seen in a while.</p>
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<p>So I watched Noah and Frozen this week.</p>
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<p>Frozen: was really good, once I got over the shock of it being a musical. I probably would have enjoyed it more if it didn't have the singing, or if I'd known about it going in. But, the fact I still really enjoyed it shows that it's a bloody good movie ... especially as I'm quite wide of the demographic market.</p>
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<p>Noah: I'm not to sure about. I thought it was an ok fantasy film (a genre I'm not a huge fan of and I don't consider it a religious film) but just ok.</p>
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<p>You mentioned one of them, his sound mixes make it really hard to hear dialogue - but that can be a good thing because he (and his brother) write some real clunkers (Hathaway's love speech is impossible to play for an actor, but she'll get the grief for it). I did like they they went the opposite of Inception this time and tried to answer everything, so at least he doesn't rely on the same tricks each time.</p>
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<p>The Mann casting got me too, nice surprise.</p>
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<p>Regarding the Bat films, only Rises was poor. <strong>The Dark Knight is damn near perfect.</strong></p>
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<p>Meh, Heath Ledger's performance saved that film from being as shitty as Rises IMHO. Batman Begins is my favourite of the trio and is still the start of the bottom 3 of Nolan's films.</p>
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<p>I've never noticed the sound mixes on Nolan's films before this one ... I suspect that now you've opened my ears up to it, it will be all I can hear. </p> -
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<p>So I watched Noah and Frozen this week.</p>
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<p>Frozen: was really good, once I got over the shock of it being a musical. I probably would have enjoyed it more if it didn't have the singing, or if I'd known about it going in. But, the fact I still really enjoyed it shows that it's a bloody good movie ... especially as I'm quite wide of the demographic market.</p>
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<p>How could you not know Frozen was a musical, has a CD, a bunch of rip-off youtube clips of daughters singing it as well as mock versions all over FB? Where do you live again ;)</p>
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<p>Am sure any Ferners will young daughters will attest to the fact that all you hear for months after was Let it go, let it go, belted out in wonderous tones...</p>
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<p>I thought Noah was a bit shit, but then I dont know the bible as well as I thought....</p> -
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<p><strong>How could you not know Frozen was a musical, has a CD, a bunch of rip-off youtube clips of daughters singing it as well as mock versions all over FB?</strong> Where do you live again ;)</p>
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<p>Am sure any Ferners will young daughters will attest to the fact that all you hear for months after was Let it go, let it go, belted out in wonderous tones...</p>
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<p>I thought Noah was a bit shit, but then I dont know the bible as well as I thought....</p>
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<p>I don't have any daughters, and my nieces are a bit too old, and I avoid the room where the TV is when my goddaughter watches stuff (flippin Wiggles), so it just went past me. I knew there was a famous song, I just thought it was the theme song, not one of many.</p> -
<p>I'm so glad I have no young female relatives that get anywhere near my TV by the sound of all that.</p>
<p>Hideous, and a good reason for anyone to stop breeding or check the sex of their offspring before making a decision to keep them or send the missus to a hot bath with a bottle of gin.</p> -
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<p>I'm so glad I have no young female relatives that get anywhere near my TV by the sound of all that.</p>
<p>Hideous, and a good reason for anyone to stop breeding or c<strong>heck the sex of their offspring before making a decision to keep them or send the missus to a hot bath with a bottle of gin.</strong></p>
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<p>Ouch I hope mrs Crucial never reads that.</p>
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<p>My son asked what I'd do if he had of been born a girl and I told him I'd be building a compound in the hills like doomsday preppers when she turned 15. Of course being 9 at the time he took that as gospel and asked my brother in law where he was going to build his compound and then explained what he meant when my bro in law said "wtf?". Got a few frownings for that, he sends his tuneless offspring around occasionally to sing that awful frozen song.</p> -
<p>Lucy - Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman</p>
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<p>Started off really well, and thought it was great, then the last 30 mins or it wandered well down the path into some kinda odd lawn mower man virtual reality mind fuck! </p> -
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Lucy - Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman<br><br>
Started off really well, and thought it was great, then the last 30 mins or it wandered well down the path into some kinda odd lawn mower man virtual reality mind fuck!</p></blockquote>
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<p>You had me at Scarlett.</p>
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<p>you are like my 6 year old daughter - are there girls in it? although for entirely different reasons
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<p><span style="font-style:italic;">Candyman</span><br><br>
What a delightful little movie! Opening shots of the freeway, combined with the Philip Glass score, were brilliant.<br><br>
Blu-ray presentation was OK, considering the likely quality of the film stock. Looked 16mm for a lot of the time.</p> -
<p>is that the one with the bees?</p>
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<p>The International - Clive Owen, Naomi Watts. Espionage thriller. 6/10.</p>
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<p>I quite liked this all the way through (especially a most excellent shootout at the Guggenheim) but then it started coming undone, and committed the unforgivable sin of stopping rather than ending.</p>
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<p>I like a resolution, even if it's a 'for now' rather than 'forever'. The hero got no payoff for all his effort, the villain company mosied on.</p>
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<p>Yup. And Tony Todd's deep, deep voice.</p>
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<p>Virginia Masden was pretty fine back in the day!</p>
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<p>42: The biopic about Jackie Robinson. Harrison Ford plays an old curmudgeon bloody well - but then again he is an old curmudgeon. Pretty stock standard biopic TBH, watchable without being great, but gave me a good starting point to do some reading about Robinson and Ford's character. </p> -
I saw a bit of it Nepia and meant to watch the rest but never got around to it.
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<p><strong>Virginia Masden was pretty fine back in the day!</strong></p>
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<p>42: The biopic about Jackie Robinson. Harrison Ford plays an old curmudgeon bloody well - but then again he is an old curmudgeon. Pretty stock standard biopic TBH, watchable without being great, but gave me a good starting point to do some reading about Robinson and Ford's character. </p>
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<p>Treat yourself to <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099797/'><em>The Hot Spot</em></a>.</p> -
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<p>Treat yourself to <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099797/'><em>The Hot Spot</em></a>.</p>
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<p>With bonus Jennifer Connolly too.</p>
