Movie review thread...
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/film/65707979/patea-maori-clubs-poi-e-turned-into-a-movie'>http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/film/65707979/patea-maori-clubs-poi-e-turned-into-a-movie</a></p>
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<p>This would be cool, every time we drive through there the mrs plays it on the stereo and sings along with it.</p>
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<p>Hope they get this sorted though, we didn't stop on the way through at xmas <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11381935'>http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11381935</a></p> -
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<p>Anyone else seen Pride, the movie about gay activists in London in 1984 raising money and supporting the striking Coal Miners in Wales? It is a bit warm and fuzzy at times, yet still pretty inspirational and intense at others. I did laugh a fair bit at the interactions between the various groups. Worth a watch.</p>
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<p>Anyone else seen Pride, the movie about gay activists in London in 1984 raising money and supporting the striking Coal Miners in Wales? It is a bit warm and fuzzy at times, yet still pretty inspirational and intense at others. I did laugh a fair bit at the interactions between the various groups. Worth a watch.</p>
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<p>The mrs saw it and said it was really good, the trailer looked fairly excruciating so I avoided it.</p> -
<p>World's most impressive police artist sketch.<br><br><img src="http://i.imgur.com/TqRRikb.jpg" alt="TqRRikb.jpg"></p>
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<p>It looks like Willem Dafoe and Mick Jagger had a kid together</p>
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<p>World's most impressive police artist sketch.<br><br><img src="http://i.imgur.com/TqRRikb.jpg" alt="TqRRikb.jpg"></p>
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<p>Finally saw Fury, it was awesome.</p>
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<p>Yeah, I caught Fury today too Jegga.</p>
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<p>Like the opening scenes from Saving Private Ryan, but 2-plus hours of it.</p>
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<p>Even Shai LaBoeuf was good in it. As you said, awesome.</p> -
<p>finally got around to watching Seal Team Six, Th eHunt for Bin Laden (or whatever it is called) </p>
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<p>Done documentary style (unsurprising given it was a NatGeo thing) was ok, always hard to tell with these movies how much they under/over play stuff. </p>
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="JC" data-cid="470581" data-time="1423122859"><p>Yeah, I caught Fury today too Jegga.<br>
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Like the opening scenes from Saving Private Ryan, but 2-plus hours of it.<br>
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Even Shai LaBoeuf was good in it. As you said, awesome.</p></blockquote>
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LaBoeuf was almost unrecognisable I that film, he did well. The three on one scene with the tiger was hard to watch , seeing the vets on the DVD extras was great too. -
Add me to the List of those that enjoyed John Wick.
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<p>Whiplash - I was a bit worried going into this film that it wouldn't live up to the hype, and frankly I was wondering if I would be sick of the kid who is in it as he's in everything these days! But it lived up to the hype. JK Simmons was really good in it, the kid was good, for the Jegga scale there was a pretty girl in it for a while, the drumming was really good. I have heard some people think the storyline is predictable (just checked above in thread and Barbarian was one of them) but I don't agree, I was expecting it to play out like the standard mentor/student relationship style film and it didn't in the least.</p>
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Wanted to see American Sniper and the wife was happy enough with that until she saw the trailer and wimped out. Its only the best farking trailer in cinema history. Bloody weaker sex. Anyway, saw The Theory of Everything. The Steven Hawking film. Had no expectations but really enjoyed it. The fella playing Hawkins was incredible, I mean DDL My Left Foot awesome. Reckon he might snatch the Oscar from Original Batman.<br><br>
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<p>Before I go to Sleep - NIcole Kidman and Colin Firth.</p>
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<p>Following a traumatic accident, every day Kidman wakes, all her memories form the previous day are forgotten. PIctures of thier wedding and other ones of her and Firth are there to remind her who she is. Each day when he leaves, she receives a phone call from her Doctor, also to remind her... </p>
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<p>Not a bad film, easy enough to work some of it out, but the final little twist was pretty good. </p>
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<p>White Bird in a Blizzard - Eva Green and the main chick from Divergent (she gets her boobs out too Jegga) </p>
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<p>One day her mother (Green) just up and disappears, leaving her to grow up haunted by her mothers sudden departure. </p>
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<p>Saw 50 shades on Saturday night. Meh, dinner was nice.</p>
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<p>but did you get lucky, which surely is the sole intention of going to that film... :yahoo:</p>
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<p>I made myself read the third book in the series, Fifty Shades Freed, just so I could have an educated opinion.</p>
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<p>What a fucking dire pile of shit to wade through. Christian Grey is about the most unappealing hero ever, Mr cardboard cutout billionaire who never works or makes up his mind about what industry he's in but occasionally shouts on the phone. And the sulking. God. And constantly calling his birth mother 'the crack whore'. Forever stalking Anastasia, getting mad if she does ANYTHING (eg have a drink with a girlfriend) by herself. Fucking creepy. And the sex scenes were meh. Instead of access to a crop, I wanted Ana to punch him in the face, but she just spent her time placating him. UGH.</p>
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<p>Calling the book a BDSM romance is a disservice to both BDSM and romance. Theirs is not a healthy relationship. Dom/sub is not about abuse.</p>
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<p>I do feel kinda sorry for Jamie Dornan, the character as written was just awful and he would have had bugger all to work with. But on the other hand, he's an actor. Suck it up, man, be what the part needs or rise above the base material.</p>
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<p>I made myself read the third book in the series, Fifty Shades Freed, just so I could have an educated opinion.</p>
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<p>What a fucking dire pile of shit to wade through. Christian Grey is about the most unappealing hero ever, Mr cardboard cutout billionaire who never works or makes up his mind about what industry he's in but occasionally shouts on the phone. And the sulking. God. And constantly calling his birth mother 'the crack whore'. Forever stalking Anastasia, getting mad if she does ANYTHING (eg have a drink with a girlfriend) by herself. Fucking creepy. And the sex scenes were meh. Instead of access to a crop, I wanted Ana to punch him in the face, but she just spent her time placating him. UGH.</p>
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<p>Calling the book a BDSM romance is a disservice to both BDSM and romance. Theirs is not a healthy relationship. Dom/sub is not about abuse.</p>
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<p>I do feel kinda sorry for Jamie Dornan, the character as written was just awful and he would have had bugger all to work with. But on the other hand, he's an actor. Suck it up, man, be what the part needs or rise above the base material.</p>
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<p>-rant over-</p>
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<p>Its a predictable cop -out to make one of the leading characters a 'Billionaire playboy'..just makes it easy to show off flashy shit and play on the fantasies of millions of miserable house wives who never have more than $5.00 to their name due to their worthless working class asshole husbands</p>
