Movie review thread...
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<p>How anyone found Arrested Development worth <strong>more than one light cycle per season</strong> is beyond me.</p>
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<p>I have no idea what that is actually supposed to mean...</p> -
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<p>I have no idea what that is actually supposed to mean...</p>
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<p>NTA is clearly a cycling fitness freak and it seeps into his everyday conversation with us laymen....</p> -
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<p>NTA is clearly a cycling fitness freak and it seeps into his everyday conversation with us laymen....</p>
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<p>I now need to see something to wash the mental image of Nick in lycra out of my mind.</p> -
<p>It's all OK now, I have just read that Harrison Ford has confirmed a new Indiana Jones movie!</p>
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<p>Yay. Hopefully his long lost son won't kill him.</p>
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<p>For once the stupid newspaper habit of replicating reaction tweets has uncovered something funny....</p>
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Jobs. This movie could have been renamed 'Asshole'.<br><br>
Might have been interesting for Apple lovers for the techie side of things, but the way he treated people closest to him turned my stomach.</p></blockquote>
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Which one is that? He came across as a colossal cock in the Ashton Kulcher one but they've made at least one more film about him . -
<p>POint Break (the fake one) </p>
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<p>Well, I knew I shouldnt, but had to have a look, going in with expectations of if they had made it without soiling the name plus a great template, it might be ok...Patrick Swayze (RIP) would be turning in his grave at how shit this was and how shit they portrayed Bodhi in this, Johnny Utah was shit, WTF was up with all his shitty Tatts? </p>
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<p>They even had a weak arse copycat scene where Bodhi just says 'dont you know who this is' or similar about Utah.</p>
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<p>THe story was a bit shit, just scratched the surface of the original 'plot' with Utah going surfing with Bodhi and his mates one day, Party that night, underground Fight club next day and then the 3rd off in fly-suits. Next day snowboarding where his 'death wish' gets one of the gang killed, they have another party and he is 'in' with the gang! </p>
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<p>Ray Winstone is Pappas FFS! </p>
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<p>Is basically an extreme sports extravaganza film...even if it wasnt called Point Break, it'd still be a bit shit.</p> -
<p>do you hate yourself?</p>
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<p>haha, no, I just thought it might be a decent action film (like Fast and Furious was, which was a rip-off of PB)</p>
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River's Edge from 1986.<br><br>
Maybe only Tim has heard of this one. A guy argues with his girlfriend and strangles her. He then tells his mates in the most casual way possible. Nobody believes him so he goes and shows them. And they then show others. And nobody really knows what to do.<br><br>
Normally Id never watch a film like this but for some reason landed on the channel. Really quite enjoyed it despite the presence of Keanu Reeves. -
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<p>River's Edge from 1986.<br><br><strong>Maybe only Tim has heard of this one</strong>. A guy argues with his girlfriend and strangles her. He then tells his mates in the most casual way possible. Nobody believes him so he goes and shows them. And they then show others. And nobody really knows what to do.<br><br>
Normally Id never watch a film like this but for some reason landed on the channel. Really quite enjoyed it despite the presence of Keanu Reeves.</p>
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<p>I think this was in most video stores in the early 90s. I can remember watching it back then but can't remember anything about it.</p>
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<p>Which one is that? He came across as a colossal cock in the Ashton Kulcher one but they've made at least one more film about him .</p>
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<p>That's the Michael Fassbender one I assume. The best Jobs movie is Pirates of Silicon Valley, an TV movie from the 90s about the rise of Apple and Microsoft.</p> -
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<p>River's Edge from 1986.<br><br>
Maybe only Tim has heard of this one. A guy argues with his girlfriend and strangles her. He then tells his mates in the most casual way possible. Nobody believes him so he goes and shows them. And they then show others. And nobody really knows what to do.<br><br>
Normally Id never watch a film like this but for some reason landed on the channel. Really quite enjoyed it despite the presence of Keanu Reeves.</p>
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<p>Heh, I think I posted some music from the sound track here last year. Not a bad movie. Very of its time.</p> -
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<p>Heh, I think I posted some music from the sound track here last year. Not a bad movie. Very of its time.</p>
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<p>You just seem to be the film connoisseur here who knows about all kinds of films, particularly films like this (:</p> -
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<p>You just seem to be the film connoisseur here who knows about all kinds of films, particularly films like this (:</p>
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<p>The film did look pretty damn good, IIRC, and checking on imdb the cinematographer shot Blue Velvet, so he must've been pretty hot shit.</p> -
<p>Watched White House Down last night and it was by and large fine for the most part as long as you ignore the standard issues like baddies who can easily dispose of everyone but turn into Helen Keller on a firing range when trying to shoot just one guy...</p>
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<p>Bad CGI aside, I was happy enough right up until the girl runs out onto the lawn waving a flag. Apparently the most advanced air superiority fighter has to be within visual range to release a fucking bomb these days and somehow the pilot sees this girl, deduces that everything is fine and unilaterally decides not to blow up the White House at 2000 km/h.</p>
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<p>I turned it off at that stage.</p>
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<p>And if I've ruined a key plot element for you preventing you from investing 2 h 17 minutes watching it, the least you can do is thank me.</p> -
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<p>Bad CGI aside, I was happy enough right up until the girl runs out onto the lawn waving a flag. Apparently the most advanced air superiority fighter has to be within visual range to release a fucking bomb these days and somehow the pilot sees this girl, deduces that everything is fine and unilaterally decides not to blow up the White House at 2000 km/h.</p>
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<p>These are <em>American</em> pilots, the best the world has ever known. Of course they can see that far, and because their <em>American</em> pilots <u>they do what's right</u>, orders be damned. Have you learnt nothing?</p>
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<p>Watched White House Down last night and it was by and large fine for the most part as long as you ignore the standard issues like baddies who can <strong>easily dispose of everyone but turn into Helen Keller on a firing range when trying to shoot just one guy...</strong></p>
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<p>Bad CGI aside, I was happy enough right up until the girl runs out onto the lawn waving a flag. Apparently the most advanced air superiority fighter has to be within visual range to release a fucking bomb these days and somehow the pilot sees this girl, deduces that everything is fine and unilaterally decides not to blow up the White House at 2000 km/h.</p>
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<p>I turned it off at that stage.</p>
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<p>And if I've ruined a key plot element for you preventing you from investing 2 h 17 minutes watching it, the least you can do is thank me.</p>
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<p>I think that's referred to as "Stormtrooper Syndrome".</p>
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<p>Any flick involving the White house is just bout guaranteed to be horseshit right down to the "dramatic" music which they recycle note for note from one movie to the next.</p> -
<p>Argo. Really quite enjoyed it, Ben Affleck is actually a pretty good director, apart from the one line that dismisses everything the NZers did to help.</p>
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<p>Of course me being me, I had to go research the true story to compare, and was pretty bloody disappointed to learn all the best bits didn't actually happen. Meh.</p>
