Movie review thread...
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<p>It felt like whole bits were missing, and didn't get the point of the story.</p>
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<p>In the book the adults end up being happy that the war was over but shocked at the choice Ender made. Ford's character in the book was supposed to be manipulating Ender, they were looking for a Napolean with a certain mix of morals to mold. Even before Ender is recruited he near kills a bully to "not win the fight, but all the coming fights". He's a pyscho.</p>
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<p><strong>And Nepia, yep the movie failed because of that. I was just explaining why I enjoyed it.</strong></p>
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<p>In the sequels it gets worse, the "invasion" ends up being an interspecies misunderstanding and once they realise that individual human units were valued, they wanted to leave humans alone. So the genocide weighed on Ender even more and he becomes a sort of priest "Speaker for the Dead". An awful hippy basically :)</p>
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<p>So basically,<strong> just read the first book!</strong></p>
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<p>Not sure that was me? </p>
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<p>I have a much harder time separating the art from the artist these days with so many options of stuff (books to read, TV and movies to watch) so reading Ender's Game is quite far down on my list despite the fact the ideas of it are interesting to me.</p> -
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<p>Does it have pictures? TR doesn't do books without pictures</p>
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<p>Nothing wrong with picture books! </p>
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<p>indeed</p>
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<p>I knew it'd be you or Jegga! :hi:</p>
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<p>1999-1975 = 24 (actually 23 cos she hadnt had her birthday)</p>
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<p>dudes, i just grabbed the first notable that came up in the google image search. Otherwise i would have hunted around for Elle, or that hot chick from Angel, or any one of the multitudes of ridiculous women who have been talked in to this.</p>
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Nepia" data-cid="467873" data-time="1421042895"><p>How old was Charlize then? She looks quite different. Airbrushed maybe? I would have been very excited if Ashley Judd was also Mighty Nude.</p></blockquote>
I had come to the conclusion it was Judd. Doesn't look anything like Theron! -
Penguins of Madagascar: Not bad. Enjoyed it more than the other Madagascar films.<br><br>
Ninja Turtles: Pretty crap story but awesome effects made up for that. Really enjoyed it.<br><br>
Caught up with an old favourite, Bad Santa. That is one of the funniest films you will ever see. -
How to Train Your Dragon 1 & 2: My 22 month old son is absolutely obsessed with these movies. I assume he kind of understands what's happening. Bloody good movies, though the 2nd one has a rather sad moment towards the end...
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<p>Nepia , Ashley Judds been without clothing in a few films. The best is probably the Marilyn Monroe film , waaaaaay hotter than Charlize has ever been IMHO .</p>
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<p>I'm well aware of Judd's nakedness on film thank you very much ... I used to actively source it in the days when you had to go to the video store to find it unlike now with various websites. </p>
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<p>Judd was always my favourite by far (and much more so than Theron). Judd and Salma Hayek were the 90s hottest to me.</p>
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<p>dudes, i just grabbed the first notable that came up in the google image search. Otherwise i would have hunted around for Elle, <strong>or that hot chick from Angel</strong>, or any one of the multitudes of ridiculous women who have been talked in to this.</p>
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<p>Charlize is better with clothes than without i reckon</p>
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<p>I don't want to disagree with your extensive background research Nepia, but to my admittedly morally upstanding eyes Salma Hayek has gotten hotter with age.</p>
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I watched hiphoperation on a flight recently.<br><br>It did the art house circuit in NZ mid 2014 so unlikely to still be showing but worth a watch if yr on Air NZ or when it comes on TV.<br><br>Documentary following a group of 65-93 year old hip hop "dancers" from Waiheke all the way to the World Champs in Vegas.<br><br>Makes some poignant comments on ageist generalisations and mortality that near had me embarrass myself mid Ta$man
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I don't want to disagree with your extensive background research Nepia, but to my admittedly morally upstanding eyes Salma Hayek has gotten hotter with age.</p></blockquote>
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<p>I liked the first Taken film....</p>
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<p>November Man - Pierce Brosnan, Olga Kurylenko (for the Jeggas out there)</p>
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<p>IMO Brosnan was more convincing in this role than he ever was as Bond, not a bad film, lots of action, easy to watch.</p> -
Have seen the following over the past couple of weeks during down time in NZ:<br><br>
Transformers, The Robot Dinosaur One - actually wasn't that stupid up until the end. My expectations were low to start, but the final few minutes were just weird. It's like when things aren't exploding, the writers have no idea what to do. I'm not after Shakespeare, but give it at least a little thought.<br><br>
47 Ronin - enjoyed it for the most part. But the editing is what made it a poor film overall. Jumped around too quickly with ten second scenes preventing the buildup of momentum.<br><br>
13 Assassins - Japanese film included in the on-demand movies in the current digs (Quest ChCh - good spot actually). Classic long-buildup-then-massive-gorefest Asian martial arts movie. Good fun. Steeped in Shogunate politics. -
<p>Academy Award nominations are out and The Lego Movie didn't even get a nomination for best animated film. Everything is not awesome. I'm angry enough about this to write a post about it.</p>
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<p>The Best Film nominations are:</p>
<p><strong>Boyhood</strong></p>
<p><strong>Grand Budapest Hote</strong>l</p>
<p>Selma</p>
<p>Birdman</p>
<p><strong>The Imitation Game</strong></p>
<p>American Sniper</p>
<p>The Theory of Everything </p>
<p>Whiplash</p>
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<p>I've seen the 3 bolded ones, am seeing American Sniper on Sunday at an advance screening, and will see Birdman on cheap Tuesday. If I can still find Whiplash in a cinema I will go see that too.</p>
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<p>Boyhood is my pick so far.</p>
