Movie review thread...
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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> -
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<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>Liam Neeson and Ralph Feinnes are both fucken brilliant in that, so funny to see them going from that to being reunited in Wrath of the Titans which is just embarrassing horseshit. Saving Private Ryan will always stick with me for that opening scene where the allies in the U-boats are just so brutally mown down by the Germans. My late Grandfather said the realism in that scene was just mind blowing.</p>
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<p>Shawshank ? haven't seen that in ages but really must do, great flick.</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, <strong>Shakespeare in Love was made at the height of Di Caprios annoying teenage phase</strong> ( even if he was mid 20s by then ) and was a great big pile of arse too. </p>
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<p> :think:</p>
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<p>Sorry, I should elaborate. I used to find him incredibly irritating around that time ( Titanic and that movie where he played a retard ). He has definitely grown on me as an actor though.</p> -
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<p>Sorry, I should elaborate. I used to find him incredibly irritating around that time ( Titanic and that movie where he played a retard ). He has definitely grown on me as an actor though.</p>
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<p>That wasn't the issue - he's not in Shakespeare in Love.</p> -
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<p>That wasn't the issue - he's not in Shakespeare in Love.</p>
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<p>Hey! Don't let the truth get in the way of a good rant!</p>
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<p>Silly facts! Forever ruining MN5</p> -
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That wasn't the issue - he's not in Shakespeare in Love.</p></blockquote><br>
Gwyneth Paltrows breasts are , I think of her every time I have a poached egg -
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<p>Sorry, I should elaborate. I used to find him incredibly irritating around that time ( Titanic and that movie where he played a retard ). He has definitely grown on me as an actor though.</p>
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<p>Blood Diamond and that other one with him and Jack Nicholson around the same time was where I became a Leo fan (although still think Revenant sucked)</p> -
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<p>Get fucked all you fluffybunnies.....</p>
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<p><span style="font-size:8px;">yes I meant Romeo and Juliet but Shakespeare in Love is equally sht</span></p>
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<p>What's better is that I was nodding away in agreement..... completely ignorant!</p> -
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<p>Still can't believe Shakespeare in Love won the Oscar in SPR's year.</p>
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<p>Don't start. Forrest Gump won against Pulp Fiction, Quiz Show and Shawshank Redemption. And Four Weddings was nominated that year too, God know's how, but knowing Hugh Grant cheap hookers were probably involved somewhere.</p>
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<p>Now I don't mind Forrest Gump (the book is a hoot BTW), but Best Picture? Come on.</p> -
<p>This is where I post Raymond Chandler's 1948 essay <em>Oscar Night in Hollywood</em>.</p>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1948/03/oscar-night-in-hollywood/305705/'>http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1948/03/oscar-night-in-hollywood/305705/</a></p>
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote">To those who know Hollywood, all that went on was the secure knowledge and awareness that the Oscars exist for and by Hollywood, their purpose is to maintain the supremacy of Hollywood, their standards and problems are the standards and problems of Hollywood, and their phoniness is the phoniness of Hollywood.</blockquote> -
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<p>Now I don't mind Forrest Gump (the book is a hoot BTW), but Best Picture? Come on.</p>
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<p>Don't start. Forrest Gump won against Pulp Fiction, Quiz Show and Shawshank Redemption. And Four Weddings was nominated that year too, God know's how, but knowing Hugh Grant cheap hookers were probably involved somewhere.</p>
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<p>Now I don't mind Forrest Gump (the book is a hoot BTW), but Best Picture? Come on.</p>
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<p>I think Forrest Gump has a better claim to Best Picture than Shakespeare and Juliet even in that company.</p>
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<p>Nothing compares to Crash though. I have no idea what was nominated that year but I'll take all of them over Crash.</p>
