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<p>IMDB ratings are also decent, I use it a lot for the parental ratings that are added by viewers, for the pervy among you (Jegga, M4L) it usually goes as far as telling you exactly where in the movie you might see nekidness.... </p>
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<p>Yeah I find the IMDB app on my phone handy for looking up movies.</p>
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The outer limits was pretty scarey too. Do you remember <strong>sapphire and steel</strong>?</p></blockquote>
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The invisible man and the drunk chick from Ab Fab?<br><br>
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<p>I try not to read reviews before watching films. One of my mates tries to pick films with a 7.5 above rating on IMDB but that can fuck you in the ass and you'll miss decent films that aren't mainstream enough to get the big numbers and watch some by the numbers stuff.</p>
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<p>I read reviews afterwards to see what the critics think though.</p>
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<p>I see the critics are getting attacked by the Twitterati - apparently if you don't think Batman v Superman is great then you're in the pay of Big Marvel.</p>
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<p>Hooroo: Last Boy Scout is all good, I think it gets better ratings now from critics. The Godfather got slated in its first big review too.</p> -
<p>Hmm... The Godfather...</p>
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<p>I re-watched Godfather 3 last night. It gets panned all the time and Sophia Coppola also gets slated. Having to the time to critique it a bit more on re-watching I have this to say:-</p>
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<p>1. It is overall a bloody good film but suffers by not being GF1 or GF2 which were great films.</p>
<p>2. Sophia Coppola was actually quite OK IMO. Probably could have done with someone with a bit more acting chops in such a pivotal role, but all in all held up OK in some pretty exalted company.</p>
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<p>I read a few of the user reviews on IMDB sometimes...although these guys can GFT sometimes....I watched something that had a 4.9 rating on IMDB, one guy banged on about it being everything he hoped Interstellar wasn't, sounded promising as....alas, 90 minutes of my life gone, waiting for something to happen...cant even remember what it was called!</p>
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<p>Hmm... The Godfather...</p>
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<p>I re-watched Godfather 3 last night. It gets panned all the time and Sophia Coppola also gets slated. Having to the time to critique it a bit more on re-watching I have this to say:-</p>
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<p>1. It is overall a bloody good film but suffers by not being GF1 or GF2 which were great films.</p>
<p>2. Sophia Coppola was actually quite OK IMO. Probably could have done with someone with a bit more acting chops in such a pivotal role, but all in all held up OK in some pretty exalted company.</p>
<p>3. Diane Keaton is an excellent actress.</p>
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<p>I've likely said this before, the problem with Godfather 3 is no Tom Hagen/Robert Duvall. As you note it's not as bad a film as made out. Missing Hagen just left a huge whole in the movie.</p> -
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<p><strong>How bad is it that I have never seen any of The Godfather movies! </strong> I hear they are OK?</p>
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<p>How bad is it that I have never seen any of The Godfather movies! I hear they are OK?</p>
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<p>Add that to an appreciation for Panhead beer to the things we have in common Hooroo.......</p>
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<p>Any other "classics" out there that most people have seen a million times but you haven't seen once ? a mate of mine was with a chick who hadn't seen a single Star Wars, I think that takes some beating. Needless to say they aren't together anymore.</p>
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<p>As I mentioned a few pages back I've never seen Point Break. TV I know but never seen a single episode of Breaking Bad ( was the same with GOT until recently but remedied that and am glad I did )</p> -
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<p>English Patient and Schindler's List</p>
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<p>It's funny thinking of classics I haven't seen and rubbish I have paid to watch.</p> -
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<p>Add that to an appreciation for Panhead beer to the things we have in common Hooroo.......</p>
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<p>Any other "classics" out there that most people have seen a million times but you haven't seen once ? <strong>a mate of mine was with a chick who hadn't seen a single Star Wars, I think that takes some beating. Needless to say they aren't together anymor</strong>e.</p>
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<p>As I mentioned a few pages back I've never seen Point Break. TV I know but never seen a single episode of Breaking Bad ( was the same with GOT until recently but remedied that and am glad I did )</p>
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<p>I'm not one who thinks couples should have the same interests. I had a mate who used to bring his girlfriend to all the rugby matches we went too, it was annoying. ;)</p> -
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<p>You will be round up and shot when I win my revolution.</p>
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<p>if I weren't already on your list (The Wire) then you have another reason to add me!</p>
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<p>My wife and I have a lot of very different interests (she doesn't like sports, doesn't like a lot of the movies or series I like...although apparently I like a lot of what she does)...but that's probably part of the reasons why we work.</p> -
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<p>if I weren't already on your list (The Wire) then you have another reason to add me!</p>
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<p>Whangarei was going to get the Warsaw ghetto treatment anyway ... so it's bullet or starvation either way for you. </p> -
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<p>I'm not one who thinks couples should have the same interests. I had a mate who used to bring his girlfriend to all the rugby matches we went too, it was annoying. ;)</p>
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<p>I hear ya there but for someone to not have seen a single Star Wars is fucken unbelievable to me.</p>
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<p>Schindlers List and Saving Private Ryan are two flicks I watch every Anzac Day usually with a whisky or two and ideally when it is pissing down to add to the mood.</p> -
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<p><strong>I hear ya there but for someone to not have seen a single Star Wars is fucken unbelievable to me.</strong></p>
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<p>Schindlers List and Saving Private Ryan are two flicks I watch every Anzac Day usually with a whisky or two and ideally when it is pissing down to add to the mood.</p>
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<p>That is true, I have a mate who hasn't - but he just does it deliberately now to be hipster 'cool' I think.</p>
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<p>Not Gallipoli on Anzac Day? Still can't believe Shakespeare in Love won the Oscar in SPR's year.</p> -
<p><i>Man of Steel</i></p>
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<p>I actually didn't mind this, having lowered by expectations after <em>Superman Returns</em> was basically trying so hard to be the original movie, but couldn't even manage that.</p>
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<p>Its interesting that they let Amy Adams look a bit beat up, though maybe the idea was to make all the humans look fairly ordinary compared to the super-alien. </p>
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<p>The problem with all Superman films these days is that you don't have a 1950s mentality where he can just do awesome shit and occasionally some kryptonite comes along and fucks him up. Modern audiences want some conflict, some flaws.</p>
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<p>That is true, I have a mate who hasn't - but he just does it deliberately now to be hipster 'cool' I think.</p>
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<p>Not Gallipoli on Anzac Day? Still can't believe Shakespeare in Love won the Oscar in SPR's year.</p>
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<p>It's just a bit of a tradition I guess, two movies that I happen to think are absolute masterpieces.......I might branch out but it has been a tradition for a few years since I picked them both up for $9.99 at the Warehouse.</p>
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<p>Fuck the Oscars, Monsters Ball which scooped everything was a fucken horrific movie, Shakespeare in Love was made at the height of Di Caprios annoying teenage phase ( even if he was mid 20s by then ) and was a great big pile of arse too. </p> -
<p>fark, watching Schindlers List one time is more than enough (as good as it was) but Saving Private Ryan is one of those movies I do watch regularly, and if I am channel surfing and it is on, I stop and watch it to the end (as I do with Shawshank)</p>
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<p>@Nepia - I'll do the starvation thanks, I am prepared for a post-apocolyptic Zombie world, yours wont be too different ;)</p>
