Movie review thread...
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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>Oh yeah, and the way the heroine exited the storyline was stupid too, after all her efforts, including being run over.</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>I really enjoyed Interstellar as well and didn't have any issues with the sound quality.</p>
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<p>As Kirwan said like an updated 2001 without the (same level of portentousness). </p>
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<p>Enjoyed you didn't get a complete back story instead the little details showed how truly fucked they were.</p>
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<p>Tars and Case also piss all over HAL. Gotta get me one of them for Xmas.</p>
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Crucial" data-cid="462093" data-time="1416355952"><p>Best movie I've seen in ages. Fuckin brilliant!<br><br><a class="bbc_url" href="
"></a></p></blockquote>I was out for drinks with Feargal Sharkey the other night. Had no idea who he was when I was introduced...oops. -
<p>Saving Mr Banks. LOVED this. Great cast, great story. One tiny negative: remembering how excrutiatingly bad Dick Van Dyke's English accent was in Mary Poppins.</p>
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<p>Prisoners. Good Jackman/Gyllenhaal thriller let down by last 15 minutes with some randomness and characters flicked away with no reason/resolution. 'Oh no, we never knew him'. And HATED the final scene. Seriously? After all the father went through/did to save his daughter, we don't get the emotional payoff of the two reuniting? PAH.</p> -
<p>Been chilling by watching a lot of Sky movies this week.</p>
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<p>This is the End - Not the biggest Seth Rogan or James Franco fan but this comedy about a bunch of obnoxious Hollywood actors trying to survive the rapture was pretty funny, especially Jonah Hill's Rosemary's Baby moment.</p>
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<p>Captain Phillips - Just when I thought Tom Hanks had faded away he comes back in this film. Not a bad performance by him or the pirate leader. Based on the true story of a ship captain being captured by some useless Somali pirates. We all know how it ends.</p>
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<p>Evil Dead remake - I'm a huge Evil Dead fan - Army of Darkness is my favourite movie of all time. This remake has the same gruesome scenes and a few change ups from the original but the ending had me confused.</p>
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<p>[spoiler] The ending with the main female character fighting a possessed version of herself, after being freed from possession, doesn't make much sense in the ED universe.... unless it grew out of her shoulder.... [/spoiler]</p>
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<p>Masters of the Universe - Terrible acting, terrible make up, terrible special effects, somewhat homo-erotic, extremely cheesy, terrible plot. But when Drago yells "I HAVE THE PAUA!" you're just like "fuck yeah". And the Teela chick is pretty fine for 80s standards too.</p> -
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<p>I was out for drinks with Feargal Sharkey the other night. Had no idea who he was when I was introduced...oops.</p>
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<p>Philistine!</p> -
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<p>Been chilling by watching a lot of Sky movies this week.</p>
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<p><strong>This is the End</strong> - Not the biggest Seth Rogan or James Franco fan but this comedy about a bunch of obnoxious Hollywood actors trying to survive the rapture was pretty funny, especially Jonah Hill's Rosemary's Baby moment.</p>
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<p>Captain Phillips - Just when I thought Tom Hanks had faded away he comes back in this film. Not a bad performance by him or the pirate leader. Based on the true story of a ship captain being captured by some useless Somali pirates. We all know how it ends.</p>
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<p>Evil Dead remake - I'm a huge Evil Dead fan - Army of Darkness is my favourite movie of all time. This remake has the same gruesome scenes and a few change ups from the original but the ending had me confused.</p>
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<p>[spoiler] The ending with the main female character fighting a possessed version of herself, after being freed from possession, doesn't make much sense in the ED universe.... unless it grew out of her shoulder.... [/spoiler]</p>
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<p>Masters of the Universe - Terrible acting, terrible make up, terrible special effects, somewhat homo-erotic, extremely cheesy, terrible plot. But when Drago yells "I HAVE THE PAUA!" you're just like "fuck yeah". And the Teela chick is pretty fine for 80s standards too.</p>
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<p>'This scene was disturbing and hilarious <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://m.imdb.com/title/tt1245492/quotes?qt=qt2093546'>http://m.imdb.com/title/tt1245492/quotes?qt=qt2093546</a></p>
