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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>But then i had a re-watch of Gone Baby Gone, which is fucking excellent. </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>It is just dull. And stupid. (But pretty scenery.)</p> -
<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> -
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<p>Yeah I just watched the trailer too. Dreadful. Unfunny, uncharismatic, insulting and totally contrived. This years "Gods of Egypt", no question. What a waste of $150m. </p>
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<p>Isn't Gods of Egypt this year's Gods of Egypt?</p> -
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<p>Watched Creed last night. Very good. I though Stallone was sensational in it, I can see why he got an oscar nom now.</p>
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<p>i watched this last night, pretty good alright, and agree on Stallone.</p>
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<p>guess this is the start of a new era of Rocky movies?</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>
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<p>If you're gonna have a big fat woman in there she'd better be EXCEPTIONALLY funny......looks like I won't be watching this for the same reason I don't watch Seven Days.</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>
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<p>If you're gonna have a big fat woman in there she'd better be EXCEPTIONALLY funny......looks like I won't be watching this for the same reason I don't watch Seven Days.</p>
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<p>The first scene in the trailer is a shocking rip off of the original.</p> -
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If you're gonna have a big fat woman in there she'd better be EXCEPTIONALLY funny......looks like I won't be watching this for the same reason I don't watch Seven Days.<br><br>
The first scene in the trailer is a shocking rip off of the original.</p></blockquote>
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It just looks like an SNL sketch parodying the film. I just can't get my head around why they would take such a strong and popular brand like Ghostbusters and turn it into some kind of cheesy chick flick. I thought they actually liked making money in Hollywood. -
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<p>It just looks like an SNL sketch parodying the film. I just can't get my head around why they would take such a strong and popular brand like Ghostbusters and turn it into some kind of cheesy chick flick. I thought they actually liked making money in Hollywood.</p>
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<p>If anything this has made me want to dig out a copy of the original and have a gander and see if it's stood the test of time, it would be damn near 20 years since I last saw it.</p> -
Yeah it looks like they've tried to make it a dumb "comedy" with lots of stupid one liners, which is not what the originals were like at all. Lame.
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I see Sacha Baron Cohen's latest film has bombed , I always thought he was a bit of an overrated one trick pony anyway so I'm not surprised . What does surprise me is that anyone in the movie industry thinks anyone would want to see Rebel Wilson on the big screen and hd . <br>
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<p>I liked the dictator far more than Borat and quite a bit more than Bruno. Disappointing to read that it might be no good.</p>
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<p>Rebel Wilson that's her name. Looks like a fucken talking Whale, based on her success that foul mouthed lard ass from Seven Days will rule Hollywood in a year or two.</p> -
Borat was just " let's all laugh at Johnny Foreigner while sneering at the yanks" , never saw the dictator . Stoked he's not playing Freddy Mercury too. <br><br>
I don't find Rebel Wilson in any way funny or entertaining , I'm sure her directors gave a contingency plan in case she loses a foot to diabetes part way through a film.
