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<p>Having seen the trailer for the new Captain America movie, and thinking it looked pretty bad ass, i thought i should watch the first two (I'm not much of a Captain America fan).</p>
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<p>The first one was okay, pretty standard fare really, but i can see why i skipped it all this time.</p>
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<p>But The Winter Soldier is fucking fantastic, i reckon it's just about the best of the "Avengers" movies, and if Civil War is as good as it looks (and the story line promises to be given the comics) then CA will easily be the best franchise out of all of them, going way past Iron Man (movies really just carried by RDJ being smugly entertaining). </p>
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<p>Having seen the trailer for the new Captain America movie, and thinking it looked pretty bad ass, i thought i should watch the first two (I'm not much of a Captain America fan).</p>
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<p>The first one was okay, pretty standard fare really, but i can see why i skipped it all this time.</p>
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<p>But The Winter Soldier is fucking fantastic, i reckon it's just about the best of the "Avengers" movies, and if Civil War is as good as it looks (and the story line promises to be given the comics) then CA will easily be the best franchise out of all of them, going way past Iron Man (movies really just carried by RDJ being smugly entertaining). </p>
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<p>Should probably watch the 2nd Avengers movie at some point. </p>
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<p>Along with Iron Man, Captain America is easily my favouriste 'Avenger' ( Thor is my least, girlie ass ex home and away git)</p>
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<p>The 2nd Avengers movie isnt nearly as good as the original, no doubt mostly due to the whole 'its so fucken cool all the avengers are together in one movie' vibe.</p> -
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<p>haha i hate that woman's movies, but it pales in to insignificance next to your loathing of her!</p>
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<p>And no TR, i don't even think she's hot</p>
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<p>If you look up career suicide in the dictionary you will find a picture of her. Shes just pissed off so many co stars, producers etc its not funny.</p>
<p>Shes known in the biz to be 'hard to work with' along with her mom/manager.</p>
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<p>I used to have a thing for her back in the day when she was in Roswell ( i um used to watch it with um an ex girl friend)</p> -
<p>I think CA is probably the only one I actually read comic books for as a kid, not sure why, but I did.</p>
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<p>Have yet to watch WS, but might give it a crack, I've not thought alot of the Avengers movies TBH, just too much I think?</p> -
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<p>If you look up career suicide in the dictionary you will find a picture of her. Shes just pissed off so many co stars, producers etc its not funny.</p>
<p>Shes known in the biz to be 'hard to work with' along with her mom/manager.</p>
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<p>I used to have a thing for her back in the day when she was in Roswell <strong>( i um used to watch it with um an ex girl friend)</strong></p>
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<p>I used to do the same - although Heigel was my least favourite of the 3 lead females.</p>
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<p>Winter Soldier is my favourite Marvel too. In saying that I didn't mind the 2nd Avengers, it was never going to not live up to the hype ... and I just looked at it as switch your brain entertainment and on that level I enjoyed it.</p>
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<p>In Star Wars news, it is about 20m off passing Avatar for the biggest US box office but missed out on taking the 2015 record off Jurassic World by $300k ... although TBF JW had a few months to make that total. $1.5B worldwide so far. Yes, I have a bit of time on my hands at the moment.</p> -
<p>Didn't i read Star Wars doesn't open in China until Feb? Which means they still get to write a few more records then?</p>
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<p>How to make all of the money in one easy step...</p> -
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<p>Didn't i read Star Wars doesn't open in China until Feb? Which means they still get to write a few more records then?</p>
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<p>How to make all of the money in one easy step...</p>
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<p>While nerding about I was reading about China. The initial estimate for China was only $100m total take due to the lack of success of the prequels and the fact that the original trilogy only played their for the first time this year.</p>
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<p>China has become a huge earner in the last couple of years, they are probably personally responsible for the continuation of the wonderful and awesome Transformer franchise.</p>
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<p>Last i read SW has broken some 45 Box Office records, its nuts.</p> -
<p>You can see all their number 1s here:</p>
<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=starwars7.htm'>http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=starwars7.htm</a></p>
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<p>What actually did surprise me is that it got a bunch of adjusted records as well (still behind the original for adjusted box office though).</p> -
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<p>You can see all their number 1s here:</p>
<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=starwars7.htm'>http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=starwars7.htm</a></p>
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<p>What actually did surprise me is that it got a bunch of adjusted records as well (still behind the original for adjusted box office though).</p>
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<p>Some of those records are cool (or boring as bat shit of your not into stats)</p>
<p>Looking at consecutive weeks at #1. Tootsie in 1982 spent 13 weeks straight at number 1, Tootsie!</p>
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<p>Some of those records are cool (or boring as bat shit of your not into stats)</p>
<p>Looking at consecutive weeks at #1. Tootsie in 1982 spent 13 weeks straight at number 1, Tootsie!</p>
<p>On the other hand Porky's spent 8 weeks at #1...</p>
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<p>Can often be a factor of what else is showing at the time.</p>
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<p>But in this case... no. Though many other execs, knowing that this was coming, would have held off on their shit.</p> -
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Virgil" data-cid="550435" data-time="1451873550"><p>China has become a huge earner in the last couple of years, they are probably personally responsible for the continuation of the wonderful and awesome Transformer franchise.<br>
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Last i read SW has broken some 45 Box Office records, its nuts.</p></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="taniwharugby" data-cid="550594" data-time="1451930968"><p>China should be into it, they make all the Lego don't they....</p></blockquote>
Nice try no its made in Denmark<br>
Shesh the trolling on here these days is pretty weak
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="jegga" data-cid="549990" data-time="1451468075"><p>I wouldn't gave thought forgetting sarah Marshall and knocked up would be called rom coms but they were pretty funny.</p></blockquote>
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I got married in the same resort that was filmed in. The line in the movie where he yells at the couple getting married in Hawaii being soooo original had me cringing, after being happy to see the place :)<br><br>
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<p><em>Pan</em> - the Hugh Jackman vehicle which was widely .... <span style="font-size:12px;">wait for it</span> ... <strong>panned</strong>.</p>
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<p>And so it should be. Was visually nice, but dithered and fluttered around like a drunken butterfly. The kids just couldn't act and Garrett Hedlund was shit. Jackman had some moments of delivery that were good, but overall I was glad this was an AppleTV rent and not a movie experience.</p> -
<p>Watched The Revenant last night. Was good, without being awesome. The cinematography will likely win an Oscar and deservedly so and Leo, Hardy, Gleeson and the guy from Son of Rambo were all pretty good.</p>
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<p>Had some dream sequences I thought could have been a bit shorter.</p>
