Movie review thread...
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<p>finally got around to watching Seal Team Six, Th eHunt for Bin Laden (or whatever it is called)Â </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)Â </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> -
<p>Oh c'mon. I'm sure it would be just as 'sexy' if the hero wasn't a billionaire.</p>
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<p>On a quiet street in a nondescript neighbourhood...</p>
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<p>Mr G: How's that.</p>
<p>Mrs G: Duct tape is ok, quite pretty this Kermit green. Makes a nice change from vomit yellow. Such good value, the four rolls for 2.99.</p>
<p>Mr G. I bet Bunnings get orders for duct tape, rope and lengths of 6ft timber all the time.</p>
<p>Mrs G: I wish you'd got clamps rather than clothes pegs, these are too pinchy. Wooden ones are better than plastic.</p>
<p>Mr G: Clamps? Do you know how expensive they are? Jesus. And I forgot the pegs. Got these ones off the line.</p>
<p>Mrs G: And where might the washing be?</p>
<p>Mr G. Silence! Think about what you've done! dashes outside to scoop washing off ground, swears as trips over cat dish and rusty scooter, hobbles back inside</p>
<p>Mrs G: Game on?</p>
<p>Mr G: I think I broke my toe. But yes.</p>
<p>sounds of sex and flogging</p>
<p>Mrs G: Oh baby, the the way you handle that Transformers table tennis bat is SO SEXY.</p>
<p>Mr G: You know it.</p>
<p>Mrs G: Can you unattach me from the basketball hoop? Getting cramp.</p>
<p>Mr G: Then it's icecream time. I put a bottle of Bernadino in the fridge too.</p>
<p>Mrs G: Yum. I love date night. Wish we could do it more than once every three months.</p>
<p>Mr G: Shift work sucks.</p>
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<p>Kingsman: A great action comedy and the best Bond movie since Daniel Craig's first one. Directed by Matthew Vaughn (Kick Ass) it was just a good fun movie - in a way it reminded me of Guardians of the Galaxy, no pretensions, fun characters, good action scenes and good performances. Colin Firth, Samuel L Jackson and a young newcomer star.</p>
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Robocop remake: Fair bit of meh here. Excellent effects but that's about it. The original film made a mark because it was disturbingly violent and the Detroit depicted was suicide inducing. The scenes with Samuel L Jackson were a bit overdone.<br><br>
Guardians of the Galaxy: I noticed this film has been lauded like a mofo here and I had very high expectations. These were matched and then some. What a farking great film. Shit, even the sound track was awesome. Top stuff. Only thing I don't get is why they wasted millions getting Vin Diesel to play the tree. -
<p>Wife saw 50SoS last night at a fundraise for a local primary school (an odd choice, but its Mums so whatever).</p>
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<p>Didn't really ask her feedback beyond "was it as shit as everyone said?" to which she replied "depends what you expected I guess". Her take on the books is completely subtext - according to her, the parts masquerading as kinky sex are fairly boring. Its more about the emotional manipulation aspect where Grey looks like the dominant one but in fact the chick ends up with all the power after letting him do what he wants for long enough.</p>
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<p>In that way, I find it a parallel to the analysis of marriage: a chick willing to do whatever she has to in order to get a guy before turning the tables.</p>
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<p>But this has the more appealing aspect to more women in terms of there being a shitload of money and luxury lifestyle potential. Not to mention the mummy aspect of repairing an emotionally broken man-child.</p> -
<p>How chuffed am I that movie got horrid reviews as I asked if True-Love wanted to go see it as she read the books and she said 'no' due to everybody saying it was rubbish.</p>
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<p>STOKED!!!!</p>
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<p>Can I also add that for Valentines day her gift to me was to go play golf and we "just chill" instead of going into the city for dinner!</p>
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<p>26% on Rotten Tomatoes. Some of the reviews are seriously amusing.</p>
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<p>Unfortunately it is raking in the bucks at the box office, so more movies will be made and more unrelated businesses will be pushing their 50 shades of... advertising. And more infinitely superior sexy/BDSM books will have '50 shades hotter/darker/sexier' on their covers no matter what the author wants.</p>
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<p>And more people will ask me 'are your books like 50 shades' to which I will have to start tasering them.</p> -
<p>didn't it start life as Twilight fan fiction?</p>
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STOKED!!!!<br><br>
Can I also add that for Valentines day her gift to me was to go play golf and we "just chill" instead of going into the city for dinner!<br><br>
What a gal!!!</p></blockquote>
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You should marry her
