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<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>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>
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<p>Given the Dictator was an actual film rather than "everyone is in on the joke except the yanks" like Bruno and Borat I thought it was fucken good entertainment. Some awesome laughs in there.</p>
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<p>Borat is a bit like Anchorman, everyone quotes it but it isn't actually very funny.</p> -
<p>Sacha Baron Cohen + Rebel Lardarse = Train wreck.</p>
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<p>On to other films. Last Knights. Sword and samurai flick with Clive Owen and Cliff Curtis, plus cameo appearance by Morgan Freeman. Sadly nothing these three could do to save this crock of shit. Obviously just a pay check for each of them.</p>
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Oh shit i watched a bit of that the other night on Foxtel. Why did credible actors agree to that steaming pile of shit? It's really awful. <br><br>
I thought Borat was pretty fucking funny actually. <br><br>
Semi Pro was on last night. That's a funny fucking movie.
