Movie review thread...

MN5

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Your not taking about Pretty Woman are you.
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If you're ( not your ) going to try and take the piss please ensure your ( not you're ) sentences are grammatically perfect and check the spelling or else go and comment on Stuff.co.nz instead.
 
The newest Mad Max is much better than the very first one, I was thinking the Road Warrior, I always forget there is one prior to that.

Rancid Schnitzel

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Nepia" data-cid="568356" data-time="1459297692">
I think Forrest Gump has a better claim to Best Picture than Shakespeare and Juliet even in that company. 
Nothing compares to Crash though. I have no idea what was nominated that year but I'll take all of them over Crash.</blockquote>
 
Some of the winners are baffling. Adrian Brody... nuff said. Jodie Foster for Lambs? That farking Italian clown.

Nepia

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Mad Max Fury Road is incredible. A cinematic masterpiece full of physical effects at a time when blockbusters are dominated by CGI.
 
Personally, I prefer it to 1979 original, but I also prefer Mad Max 2 The Road Warrior to that movie too.
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Mad Max is extremely effects heavy (even if it uses a lot physical ones) which is why it has only recently come out despite being shot a number of years ago, but then again most films these days are. Arguably a modern superhero film could almost be eligible for an animated film nomination.
 
Oh, and it's probably the most overrated film I've seen in years. ;)

Tim

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Some of the winners are baffling. Adrian Brody... nuff said. Jodie Foster for Lambs? That farking Italian clown.
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It's a combined advertising exercise and industry wankfest. It's got very little to do with quality, at least outside the technical prizes.

MN5

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Mad Max is extremely effects heavy (even if it uses a lot physical ones) which is why it has only recently come out despite being shot a number of years ago, but then again most films these days are. Arguably a modern superhero film could almost be eligible for an animated film nomination.
 
Oh, and it's probably the most overrated film I've seen in years. ;)
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Some of the stunts are pretty fucken dangerous and impressive but overall ? not up there with the second and third of the original trilogy. Hard to root for a hero who spends about 45 minutes chained to the front of a fucken car.

Rancid Schnitzel

It's not nearly as good as what people are saying. It was impressive that the stunts were "real" and not cgi, but it's not brilliant by any means. Max is kind of overshadowed by the one-armed chick as well.

jegga

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It's not nearly as good as what people are saying. It was impressive that the stunts were "real" and not cgi, but it's not brilliant by any means. Max is kind of overshadowed by the one-armed chick as well.
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I was really disappointed after the hype. Also it ddn't have a feature role for the coolest car ever in a movie-even cooler than the 'stang in Bullett
 
<img src="http://www.diecast.org/data/sac_cars/aa72745_4.jpg" alt="aa72745_4.jpg">
 
When I was 19 or so I looked at buying a falcon coupe, that slanted back windscreen makes reversing feel like you are trying to see through the slot in a letterbox.

MN5

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It's not nearly as good as what people are saying. It was impressive that the stunts were "real" and not cgi, but it's not brilliant by any means. Max is kind of overshadowed by the one-armed chick as well.
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No iconic fight scenes as well, the "big punch up" with the giant mutant son was lame as fuck.
 
Immortal Joe or whatever his name was went down like an absolute bitch too......

Rembrandt

What Crash is awesome!...... 
...anyway just got back from an advance screening (with free icecream!) of 'Hunt for the Wilderpeople' Taika Waititi's latest. Took new Mrs Rembrandt and both of us had many laughs, kinda like 'Boy' but less serious. Definitely worth a watch and a PG rating too so pretty kid friendly.

jegga

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What Crash is awesome!...... 
...anyway just got back from an advance screening (with free icecream!) of 'Hunt for the Wilderpeople' Taika Waititi's latest. Took new Mrs Rembrandt and both of us had many laughs, kinda like 'Boy' but less serious. Definitely worth a watch and a PG rating too so pretty kid friendly.
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Sounds like its nothing like the book then. Thats a shame, I read the book quite a few times as a kid.

Rembrandt

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Sounds like its nothing like the book then. Thats a shame, I read the book quite a few times as a kid.</blockquote>
 
Never read any of his. I take it the book wasn't a comedy then?

Paekakboyz

It had comedy in it but it was a bloody good yarn about growing up and relationships between two people who were worlds apart to begin with.
 
Jegga, had wondered if the fat > skinny theme would be included. Going by the promo stuff I've seen it wasn't!!

jegga

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Paekakboyz" data-cid="568539" data-time="1459370623">
It had comedy in it but it was a bloody good yarn about growing up and relationships between two people who were worlds apart to begin with. 
Jegga, had wondered if the fat > skinny theme would be included. Going by the promo stuff I've seen it wasn't!!</blockquote>
 
Yeah the fat/skinny thing was a was one of my favourite bits of the book . For a Crump book it was actually quite emotional when he saw himself in the mirror for the first time. My mum teared up a bit when she read that part. 
I don't remember much comedy in it though, I reckon it's his best book . There's quite a lot of cool stuff covered in there you wouldn't expect In a Crump book. 
When I was in Australia I was putting my time sheet in and noticed the the guys name I was working with was Crump . I asked if he was any relation and he got defensive and asked if I knew him, when I said no he said " good , he was a fucking jerk". I left it until I got to know him s bit better and he said he was being s bit hard on Crump because with a dad like his he never stood a chance and then started telling me stories about his family which were so horrific I didn't know whether to believe them or not . About four years later I got a book called the endless fear by Crumps brother, he wasn't lying if anything his upbringing was worse than his nephew made out. Crumps father beat him so badly that he had the imprint of his foot on his neck for years afterwards , his father was holding him down like that while he whipped him with a belt. Just like his nephew said he figured out it really pissed off his dad if he didn't cry when he was getting beaten so he would do everything he could not to. After the beatings he'd go and lie under the house for a couple of days on an oilskin he had set up there. 
If you ever find that book it's bloody hard going and I don't know how the author ever found it in him to reconcile with his father when he was older. 
Well , there's today's downer.

Crucial

Sadly that violence from his father passed down the line and many of Crump's many wives and children have spoken out about the bashings he used to dish out. He seemed to have no idea how to deal with problems except hit out or move out.

Paekakboyz

There was a book/article (can't recall) from one of Crump's ex partners and it was full on. He was seemingly charming and a good kiwi bloke to the outside world but god awful to his family.
 
I've got the book sitting out at home, had been meaning to re-read ahead of seeing the movie. Great yarn, not surprised your mum teared up Jegga - as a chubby kid that really got me in the feels too!

jegga

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There was a book/article (can't recall) from one of Crump's ex partners and it was full on. He was seemingly charming and a good kiwi bloke to the outside world but god awful to his family. 
I've got the book sitting out at home, had been meaning to re-read ahead of seeing the movie. Great yarn, not surprised your mum teared up Jegga - as a chubby kid that really got me in the feels too!</blockquote>
 
By mum I may have actually meant 11 year old me as well as her. 
Apparently Crump has kids he never met and never supported financially , his nephew said he came to stay once when he was broke. One night Barry and his dad went to the pub and dad didn't come home for six months . 
The book by his ex is called In salting the gravy, I never read it . His brothers book was more than enough for me .

Tim

<a class="bbc_url" href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/malaysias-1mdb-the-secret-money-behind-the-wolf-of-wall-street-1459531987">The Secret Money Behind â€˜The Wolf of Wall Streetâ€</a> <blockquote class="ipsBlockquote">Mr. Aziz, asked about Red Graniteâ€s financing in a 2014 New York Times interview, identified the main investor as a businessman in Abu Dhabi named Mohamed Ahmed Badawy Al-Husseiny. â€œThere was no Malaysian money,â€ he said. 
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In connection with the IPIC guarantees, 1MDB reported in corporate filings that in 2012, it sent $1.4 billion to Aabar as collateral. 
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NTA

Cowboys and Aliens
 
I had seen the last half of this before, but saw it on Netflix and decided to watch all of it.
 
Not a bad concept actually. A little loose in points, but James Bond does a decent enough American accent and brings the ice-cold stare nicely. 
 
Its a good movie to help explain the stupidity in relying on ballistic firearms over melee weapons in an alien/zombie scenario.
 
2.5 Olivia Wilde's out of 5.

NTA

If it had been more of this, it would have rated 6 Olivia Wilde's out of 5.
 
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Mokey

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Get fucked all you fluffybunnys.....
 
yes I meant Romeo and Juliet but Shakespeare in Love is equally sht
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Piss off. Shakespeare in Love was a great movie. Joseph Fiennes, Geoffrey Rush, Judi Dench, Colin Firth as the villain, even a young Ben Affleck...I'll forgive them for casting Gwyneth and her mozzie bites. (She shouldn't have gotten Best Actress)

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