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  • NTAN Online
    NTAN Online
    NTA
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    #5311

    Point Fake versus Point Break versus Those who weren't frustrated teen wannabe surfers.

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  • MN5M Online
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    MN5
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    <blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Siam" data-cid="566087" data-time="1458455493">
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    <p>Uh oh here goes but...</p>
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    <p>MN5 don't bother mate</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>I tried to rewatch it tyhe other day and couldn't get past the cheese and ridiculousness of the bloody thing. Reeves was just a fuckstick and the whole thing looks like a 3rd form school project.</p>
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    <p>You'd need a lobotomy to enjoy that big pile of shite.</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>There I've said it....incoming!!</p>
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    <p> </p>
    <p>Aw shit son......the interweb tough guys are gonna virtually fuck yo ass up now.</p>

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  • jeggaJ Offline
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    #5313

    <blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Siam" data-cid="566087" data-time="1458455493"><p>
    Uh oh here goes but...<br><br>
    MN5 don't bother mate<br><br>
    I tried to rewatch it tyhe other day and couldn't get past the cheese and ridiculousness of the bloody thing. Reeves was just a fuckstick and the whole thing looks like a 3rd form school project.<br><br>
    You'd need a lobotomy to enjoy that big pile of shite.<br><br>
    There I've said it....incoming!!</p></blockquote>
    <br>
    I'm going to be charitable and say I merely pity you.

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  • SiamS Offline
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    Siam
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    #5314

    <p>Appreciate your restraint Jegga :)</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>I just couldn't get past how wooden and dumb Reeves was </p>

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  • jeggaJ Offline
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    #5315

    Don't, it's industrial strength pity.

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  • taniwharugbyT Offline
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    taniwharugby
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    <blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="MN5" data-cid="566089" data-time="1458455657">
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    <p>Aw shit son......the <strong>interweb tough guys</strong> are gonna virtually fuck yo ass up now.</p>
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    <p> </p>
    <p>that would include you though?</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>Each to thier own...</p>

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  • MN5M Online
    MN5M Online
    MN5
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    <blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="taniwharugby" data-cid="566096" data-time="1458457393">
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    <p>that would include you though?</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>Each to thier own...</p>
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    <p> </p>
    <p>Nope, I don't say anything I wouldn't say to someones face in a pub.</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>Quite a few 90's movies don't hold up today, Heat is a notable exception, I'll enjoy that flick til the day I die.</p>

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  • taniwharugbyT Offline
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    taniwharugby
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    <p>POint Break was a mint movie at the time (watched it ALOT at a down time of my life, was an escape) up there as one of my faves, but like you say, some dont stand up that well, I reckon its been 10+years since I last watched it though.</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>I've watched movies that scared the beejeebus out of me as a kid, and thought WTF...</p>

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  • MN5M Online
    MN5M Online
    MN5
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    <p>You'd need to go a long way to find an 80s horror that's genuinely scary. In saying that Halloween and Friday the 13th are good value to laugh at purely to watch all the jocks, prom queens, nerds, weirdos and token black people getting hacked to bits.</p>

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  • jeggaJ Offline
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    #5320

    Dr Who was scary as a kid but I rewatched a lot of those old episodes with my son and there were as cheesy as hell and not scary at all .<br><br>
    One movie I doubt I'll ever sit through again is Dead ringers with Jeremy Irons . That was disturbing and very strange.

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  • MN5M Online
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    MN5
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    #5321

    <p>Dr Who was really scary I remember despite the cardboard special effects. The one that really got me was when the shop window dummies came to life and the army guys shot them and the bullets didn't bring them down. I couldn't sleep after watching that with my grandparents in the mid 80s.</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>Fucken hell, look at the state of it though haha.</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='

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    <p>Some of the Twilight Zone episodes were farking scary! </p>

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  • jeggaJ Offline
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    #5323

    The outer limits was pretty scarey too. Do you remember sapphire and steel?

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  • TimT Away
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    Tim
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    <blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="jegga" data-cid="566101" data-time="1458458336"><p>
    One movie I doubt I'll ever sit through again is Dead ringers with Jeremy Irons . That was disturbing and very strange.</p></blockquote>
    <br>
    That is my favourite movie. Cronenberg was the king.

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  • jeggaJ Offline
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    #5325

    <blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Tim" data-cid="566128" data-time="1458463755"><p>
    That is my favourite movie. Cronenberg was the king.</p></blockquote>
    <br>
    Words I never thought I'd read, then again you like crash too . Your thoughts on bad boy bubby just to round out the disturbing new picture I have of you?

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  • MN5M Online
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    MN5
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    #5326

    <blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="jegga" data-cid="566133" data-time="1458464682">
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    <p>Words I never thought I'd read, then again you like crash too . Your thoughts on bad boy bubby just to round out the disturbing new picture I have of you?</p>
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    <p>I know you're ignoring me but that's one flick I turned off. Just pointless, sad, depraved shit and whilst some movies have to be sat through "just to see what happens" I gave zero fucks as to what happened to him.....</p>

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    <p>So just in case anyone hear was thinking about watching The Lady in The Van (unlikely but you never know - no tits, gore, violence or scatological humour)</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>Its had some rave reviews and is doing good box office but I found it self indulgent, way too long and just pointless.</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>Couple of grins at the re-creation of Camden in the 70/80's but that was it for me.</p>

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  • NTAN Online
    NTAN Online
    NTA
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    <p><em>Inception</em></p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>Another Netflix catch up here, as I'd never seen it at the movies.</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>Great idea, well executed. Had no trouble tracking each of the layers and thought the concept of dream within dream was very interesting.</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>Some of the characters were a little stilted. I found DiCaprio's character lacking a level of depth I'd expect for a desperate father, in the scenes involving his children. Maybe that was his character's defence mechanism. But I thought that performance was still better than Revenant.</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>Ellen Page is always good to watch. Think she tends to get characters right most of the time, but for a Uni student she was hella perceptive.</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>Tom Hardy was good, if a little stereotyped, as the sarcastic Englishman. Joseph Gordon-Levitt didn't get a lot to work with, and his long-term relationship as a partner with Dom didn't really present well in the film. Its like they knew each other well, but didn't give a shit.</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>I give it 4 Crazy Dead French Bitches out of 5.</p>

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  • NepiaN Online
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    Nepia
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    <p>Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.</p>
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    <p>Better than Man of Steel.</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>Ok movie but not that good. Batfleck and Gal Gadot are probably the best things in it (and TBH I have no idea what Gadot's acting is like) but the plotting just seems all over the place.</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>I think that the amount of talent involved might contribute to this, with Snyder and Nolan as producer = too many cooks. It has the poo faced seriousness of Nolan's films although at times Batfleck appears to have his tongue in cheek and he has the semi funny lines. Fishburne gets a few funny lines as Perry White as well.</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>Saw the trailers (despite doing my usual don't go in until 20 minutes after start time to avoid them) for Civil War and Suicide Squad and they both look like they're going to be good.</p>
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    <blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="dogmeat" data-cid="566216" data-time="1458513688">
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    <p>So just in case anyone hear was thinking about watching The Lady in The Van (unlikely but you never know - no tits, gore, violence or scatological humour)</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>Its had some rave reviews and is doing good box office but I found it self indulgent, way too long and just pointless.</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>Couple of grins at the re-creation of Camden in the 70/80's but that was it for me.</p>
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    <p>When I was back home in NZ a week back they were saying how it was the number 1 movie in the country 3 weeks in a row - I'm surprised the union jack won with all the oldies apparently queuing back up to watch this movie over and over again.</p>

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  • NepiaN Online
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    Nepia
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    #5330

    <blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="MN5" data-cid="566136" data-time="1458465020">
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    <p>I know you're ignoring me but that's one flick I turned off. Just pointless, sad, depraved shit and whilst some movies have to be sat through "just to see what happens" I gave zero fucks as to what happened to him.....</p>
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    <p>Try watching Bad Boy Bubby in your early 20s with your Mum and your girlfriend when it was your Mum's choice (recommended by a friend of hers). That is fucking uncomfortable.</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>TBF, a double bill with Spanking the Monkey would be worse.</p>

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