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  • jeggaJ Offline
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    jegga
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    #3968

    <blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Virgil" data-cid="469506" data-time="1422241114">
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    <p>go to imdb.com and look at anything Katherine Heigl as done, i hear she only does very good romcom's ;)</p>
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    <p> </p>
    <p>Thinly veiled "I sat through some awful movies of the vague promise of a shag afterwards" post.</p>

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  • NepiaN Online
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    Nepia
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    #3969

    <blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Mokey" data-cid="469516" data-time="1422246537">
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    <p>I don't have a tv and there is no movie theatre. I buy DVD's on special because of extreme budget restrictions.</p>
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    <p>Ahem, all good, I don't know of any good romcoms from that era. If Katherine Hiegel isn't your bag then how about Matthew McConaughy - he was in every one that Heigel wasn't in the mid 2000s until about 2 years ago.</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>Some actual recommendations:  500 Days of Summer, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, Celeste and Jesse Forever, the Before Sunset trilogy, and Say Anything is a classic old one. They should all be floating around fairly cheaply on DVD at the moment.</p>

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  • MokeyM Offline
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    #3970

    <p>Katherine Heigl movies are actual instruments of torture, and if you get dragged to one, your girlfriend is punishing you for some infraction and should probably apologise and buy her chocolate immediately.</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>I mean Christ Almighty, they don't even change the plot for them. Beautiful, neurotic, immature basket case with wise cracking bestie meets hot player, who for some utterly unknown reason doesn't sprint in the other direction, but instead relishes her sniping comments and complete lack of self esteem cos underneath the fucking annoying icing is just a sweet little cupcake.</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>Clearly the scriptwriters hate her too, cos they never give her actual human dialogue.</p>

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  • taniwharugbyT Offline
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    #3971

    <p>cos they (the male lead character) like poor Vrigil who was dragged to see them is just after a shag?</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>I mean, she is pretty tidy!</p>

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  • V Do not disturb
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    Virgil
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    <p>haha nah i was been very sarcastic, mrs virgil doesn't even watch many movies.</p>
    <p>I don't recall any of her movies i just know what she has done are fucken awful.</p>

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  • MokeyM Offline
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    #3973

    <p>Knocked up wasn't so bad, but then came doozies like Killers, One for the Money, The Ugly Truth, New Years Eve, Life as we know it...</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>Blurg.</p>

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  • jeggaJ Offline
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    #3974

    <blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Mokey" data-cid="469532" data-time="1422263016">
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    <p>Knocked up wasn't so bad, but then came doozies like Killers, One for the Money, The Ugly Truth, New Years Eve, Life as we know it...</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>Blurg.</p>
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    <p> </p>
    <p>Apart from knocked up I'm fortunate not to have seen any of those others, I think shes got a new series starting on tv that I will be avoiding too.</p>

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  • jeggaJ Offline
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    #3975

    <blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Nepia" data-cid="469519" data-time="1422247808">
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    <p>Ahem, all good, I don't know of any good romcoms from that era. If Katherine Hiegel isn't your bag then how about Matthew McConaughy - he was in every one that Heigel wasn't in the mid 2000s until about 2 years ago.</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>Some actual recommendations:  500 Days of Summer, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, Celeste and Jesse Forever, the Before Sunset trilogy, and Say Anything is a classic old one. They should all be floating around fairly cheaply on DVD at the moment.</p>
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    <p> </p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>How many times have you seen the notebook Nepia?</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>Be honest.</p>

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  • NepiaN Online
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    Nepia
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    #3976

    <blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="jegga" data-cid="469536" data-time="1422264980">
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    <p>How many times have you seen the notebook Nepia?</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>Be honest.</p>
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    <p>Once. As I've said many times I'll watch any genre of film - except for Matthew McConaughy/Kate Hudson romcoms and Heigel ones apparently going by Mokey's list above.</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>I'm secure enough in my manhood to admit to watching and enjoying all those ones I listed.</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>Watched The Drop tonight, thought it was a pretty decent film. To go all Jegga mode 😉 all it lacked was some decent totty. </p>

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  • MilkM Offline
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    #3977

    I finally watched John Wick this weekend. Awesome! Hope they do a sequel<br> <br>[spoiler]<br>... but did he just steal that dog at the end? Isn't he just doing to someone else what the Russian gangsters did to him?<br>[/spoiler]

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  • MokeyM Offline
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    #3978

    <blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Nepia" data-cid="469539" data-time="1422273658">
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    <p>Once. As I've said many times I'll watch any genre of film - except for Matthew McConaughy/Kate Hudson romcoms and Heigel ones apparently going by Mokey's list above.</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>I'm secure enough in my manhood to admit to watching and enjoying all those ones I listed.</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>Watched The Drop tonight, thought it was a pretty decent film. To go all Jegga mode 😉 all it lacked was some decent totty. </p>
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    <p> </p>
    <p>Ugh, yes, Kate Hudson has starred in some bloody awful trash. Actually, there are so many bad ones it's hard to say which is worst, but I truly loathed Something Borrowed. One of the most disgusting plotlines ever - 'heroine' sleeps with best friend's (nasty selfish cow) fiance 'hero', but it is ok cos she liked him first at law school. They keep cheating, won't tell bestie, wet mop groom won't call off wedding cos his mum has depression and is SO EXCITED about it. Blah blah blah oh lookie it's all sorted cos actually bitch bestie was cheating with fiance's friend and is pregnant to him and THE END.</p>

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    #3979

    Mokey,<br><br>Just pick up cheap some old Tracey/Hepburn movies. Or anything from the golden age of romantic comedy when the plots weren't written for teenagers.<br><br>Ironically given the reality of the times, women in romcoms from the 40's were often stronger, more intelligent and sassier than what were given today.

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  • MokeyM Offline
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    #3980

    <p>Oh yeah. Grant/Hepburn/Stewart's The Philadelphia Story is one of my faves.</p>

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    #3981

    <blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Virgil" data-cid="469506" data-time="1422241114"><p>go to imdb.com and look at anything Katherine Heigl as done, i hear she only does very good romcom's ;)</p></blockquote>I'll suffer through them just because it's Katherine Heigl.

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  • mariner4lifeM Offline
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    #3982

    <p>Katherine Heigl is ordinary, and vastly over rated.</p>

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  • jeggaJ Offline
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    #3983

    <blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="mariner4life" data-cid="469600" data-time="1422322384"><p>
    Katherine Heigl is ordinary, and vastly over rated.</p></blockquote>
    <br>
    Agreed, last time her name came up someone posted a heavily shopped picture of her as evidence of her outstanding hotness. It was the one that pops up on cracked every now and then on those 10 most photoshopped pictures of celebs lists.

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  • NTAN Offline
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    <p>Rom com - Warm Bodies. I liked it.</p>

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  • NepiaN Online
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    Nepia
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    #3985

    <p>Nightcrawler: Great movie, but man was Jake Gyllenhal creepy as fuck. He should have been in the running for best actor at the Oscars on that performance.</p>

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    #3986

    <blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="NTA" data-cid="469748" data-time="1422443355">
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    <p>Rom com - Warm Bodies. I liked it.</p>
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    <p> </p>
    <p>Yeah I really liked that too, I have no idea how Nic Hoult is a movie star (or how he dated Jennifer Lawrence for a few years), but that was very good.</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>Re Nightcrawler, saw a great idea the other day presenting Collateral, Drive & Nightcrawler as an "LA by night" trilogy. Really works eh</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>Saw <em><strong>John Wick</strong></em> last week.</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>Keanu being staggeringly cool. God its a fun film. Just some ridiculously cool shots where he excutes people while driving & so on. Its basically a Statham movie, only cooler & more violent.</p>

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    #3987

    <blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Nepia" data-cid="466871" data-time="1420104445">
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    <p>The imitation Game: I thought this was bloody good, obviously they took some liberties with the 'true story' but that's to be expected with this type of movie - which might annoy some people but it didn't effect my enjoyment of it like The Butler. Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightly were bloody good (Knightly seems to have figured out how to act in the past couple of years) and the supporting cast were good as well.</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>I think it was a good overview of Turing without being a complete life story obviously.</p>
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    <p> </p>
    <p>I also enjoyed this, I dont know alot about Turing to question or be annoyed by any liberties. </p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>Against the Sun, another based on a true story when the 3 crew of an American plane are forced to ditch it the Pacific during WW2 and it's 3 crew are left on a tiny life boat.</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>A couple of things that bugged me, not sure where it was sheer luck (in the true part) or just laziness on the part of the writers as a couple of things were rather unbelievable, but otherwise a decent story (if not a familiar one) </p>

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