Movie review thread...
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="mariner4life" data-cid="562997" data-time="1457313379"><p>It's not overly hard to find photos of Megan Gale in the buff, but yea, i thought that was rude as well. <br><br>
I found it hard not to enjoy. Plot? development? pah! weird looking fluffybunnys in frankensteined-up murdermobiles trying to straight-up execute each other, for 2 hours? What's not to enjoy?</p></blockquote>
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<p>I didn't really enjoy it that much , the effects and cars are awesome though. It reminded me a lot of the 300.<br><br>
Also Megan Gale is naked and there's no close up? Shame on you George Miller, shame.</p>
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<p>I felt the same - I actually work with a bunch of people who either worked on the original trilogy, know George Miller, or know people involved in the effects companies so I keep relatively quiet about my thoughts on it - yay for the Fern for venting opportunities!</p>
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<p>The trailers left me cold and that didn't really change too much for me. I'd categorise it as style over substance, and it was the style that put me off. </p>
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<p>Megan Gale - good Maori girl ;).</p> -
<p>I thought MM Fury Road was a bit average...first 40 mins were pretty cool, then the next 2 hours seemed like much of the same...yeah was some good scenery in it though.</p>
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Anyone seen the new Ghost Busters trailer? I'm all for films with smart, kick ass women, but whytf would you use Ghost Busters as the vehicle for that? It's just plain weird.
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<p>see they are gonna do a re-make of Goodbye Pork Pie...</p>
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<p>Anyone seen the new Ghost Busters trailer? I'm all for films with smart, kick ass women, but whytf would you use Ghost Busters as the vehicle for that? It's just plain weird.</p>
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<p>I thought Megan Gale had ancestry from French Polynesia somewhere ?<br>
Regardless of her heritage she's very hot</p>
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<p>Anyone seen the new Ghost Busters trailer? I'm all for films with smart, kick ass women, but whytf would you use Ghost Busters as the vehicle for that? It's just plain weird.</p>
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<p>My take: Well predictably this looks shit. Here's a hint; if the movie you want to copy had Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Bill Murray in it, you're better off copying something else.</p>
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<p>Although it could be better than Ghostbusters 2...</p> -
<p>The Survivalist - kinda an apocalyptic type film, set in a time when the world is starving, normal society has crumbled and focusses on one man living in isolation in the forest. A mother and her teen daughter stumble across him, at which time his world is flipped upside down.</p>
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<p>Edge of Tomorrow.</p>
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<p>I had no idea what the movie was about, and when it started I nearly turned it off thinking it was going to be a boring as hell "action" flick. But it was actually quite cool, though it took a bit long to get to the end sequence IMO.</p> -
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My take: Well predictably this looks shit. Here's a hint; if the movie you want to copy had Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Bill Murray in it, you're better off copying something else.<br><br>
Although it could be better than Ghostbusters 2...</p></blockquote>
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It is weird. Almost like remaking Charlies Angels with only guys. What is the target audience here? No guys will want to see it and I doubt women or girls will be too keen either. A proper remake with more recent SNL alumni like Sandberg or even Ferrell would be a huge hit. -
<p><em>Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny</em></p>
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<p>The Netflix-funded follow-up to the original Chinese language version (released in 2000!), this sees a bit of hoo-hah over The Green Destiny sword from the original. Plus a bunch of tragically romantic posing and weird honour bullshit.</p>
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<p>To be honest, it was watchable, but ultimately a low-budget version attempt at the original. The drama was limited in its expression, though the fight scenes maintained some pretty cool wire work n shizz.</p>
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<p>IMO it would have been <em><strong>much </strong></em>better if they had set Ghostbusters up as a sequel with new players, as opposed to the reboot. The marketers know that too, which is why they start the trailer off with '30 years ago' etc.</p>
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<p>They could have got Ackroyd in for a cameo to offer some continuity. He keeps appearing in Sandler movies, so I know that guy likes getting paid.</p> -
<p>I sort of came around to the Fast and Furious franchise as a bunch of stupid movies not taking themselves seriously.</p>
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<p>Then i watched the latest installment. What a piece of shit. The schmaltzy first 20 minutes can go fuck itself, the rest was rubbish. Didn't finish. Crap. Avoid.</p>
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<p>IMO it would have been <em><strong>much </strong></em>better if they had set Ghostbusters up as a sequel with new players, as opposed to the reboot. The marketers know that too, which is why they start the trailer off with '30 years ago' etc.</p>
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<p>They could have got Ackroyd in for a cameo to offer some continuity. He keeps appearing in Sandler movies, so I know that guy likes getting paid.</p>
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<p>Yeah there is a fair bit of confusion there. Apparently it has nothing to do with the original, but they refer to it in the trailer to hype it up.</p>
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<p>Just saw the latest trailer. Fark me.... What have they done? This film will bomb worse than the Enola Gay.</p> -
<p>The Lucky One. Quite possibly the worst rom drama ever made.</p>
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<p>I adore the Notebook, even after having watched it a billion times, but the rest of Spark's adaptions have been pure horseshit.</p>
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<p>When I watched Safe Harbour last year, I thought it couldn't get worse. But it did.</p>
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<p>Hero is a 3 tour Iraq marine who comes home, has PTSD so leaves his sister's house to find a chick in a photo. The PTSD (possibly most interesting thing) never appears again. Heroine is a single mother who runs a dog kennel, her ex husband is a sherrif who is a fucktard and such a villainy villain you expect at any moment for him to start twirling a moustache. (But it's fine, in the end he dies when a treehouse falls on him. I shit you not.) The storyline is crap, the conflict is utterly weak, and unlike other Sparks movies, there is no batshit crazy third act plot twist for shits and giggles.</p>
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<p><em>Ender's Game</em></p>
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<p>Let's get it out of the way: Ben Kinglsey's kiwi accent starts out, as someone else said, like a fucking Saffer. But it gets better, or I got used to it. Or somehow justified in my mind that, over the course of generations into the future, the accent changed a little. Anyway, whatevs.</p>
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<p>What a massive waste of potential this movie is when you compare it to the book. Hard to cram all that into two hours I guess, but it goes from "Let's fuck alien shit up!" to "Oh noes! What haz I done!" in a very short period of time. </p>
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<p>Yeah, they played the kid like an old guitar, but the sudden switcharound at the end left me rolling my eyes.</p>
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<p>I give it 2.5 skulls-shattered-on-the-badly-designed-bathroom-floor out of 5.</p>
