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<p>Also enjoyed eddie the eagle maybe 7/10. <strong>Have just watched 'Dark Horse' phenomonal, 10/10. Had me and mrs rembrandt rivited, thuroughly recommend. Cliff curtis outstanding based on true story about a Maori chess player champ.</strong></p>
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<p>Best kiwi movie I've seen, Curtis puts on an incredible performance. </p> -
Saw Ted 2 the other day. Thought it was way better then the original - seemed a lot more like Seth's writing with lots of funny one liners.
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<p><em>Battleship</em></p>
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<p>Mindless, gibbering, macho U-S-A! U-S-A! fun. I had to miss parts of it due to domestic duties, but it didn't matter. </p>
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<p>There is nothing more awesomely stupidly awesome than seeing someone pulling the naval equivalent of a handbrakey with a 45,000 ton WW2 battleship, before slamming a full broadside into an alien submathingy.</p>
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<p>Beautiful, sweet, giving-no-fucks madness.</p>
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<p>I give it 5 ridiculous plot lines out of 5, because it had approximately zero.</p> -
<p>Went to see Eddie the Eagle, lots of heart warming amusement, very enjoyable film</p>
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<p>13 Hours, Secret Soldiers of Benghazi...supposedly based on a true story, but with Michael Bays direction, me thinks there were alot of liberties taken, plenty of US bravado...that being said, I did like it, plenty of guuns, explosions a bit of tension and being a true story I just knew Optimus Prime wasnt gonna save the day this time! </p> -
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="NTA" data-cid="585319" data-time="1465201792"><p><em>Battleship</em><br><br>
Mindless, gibbering, macho U-S-A! U-S-A! fun. I had to miss parts of it due to domestic duties, but it didn't matter. <br><br>
There is nothing more awesomely stupidly awesome than seeing someone pulling the naval equivalent of a handbrakey with a 45,000 ton WW2 battleship, before slamming a full broadside into an alien submathingy.<br><br>
Beautiful, sweet, giving-no-fucks madness.<br><br>
I give it 5 ridiculous plot lines out of 5, because it had approximately zero.</p></blockquote>
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I love that film . It's just stupid and doesn't pretend to anything but. <br><br>
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Went to see Eddie the Eagle, lots of heart warming amusement, very enjoyable film<br><br>
13 Hours, Secret Soldiers of Benghazi...supposedly based on a true story, but with Michael Bays direction, me thinks there were alot of liberties taken, plenty of US bravado...that being said, I did like it, plenty of guuns, explosions a bit of tension and being a true story I just knew Optimus Prime wasnt gonna save the day this time!</p></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="No Quarter" data-cid="585315" data-time="1465200620">
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<p>Saw Ted 2 the other day. Thought it was way better then the original - seemed a lot more like Seth's writing with lots of funny one liners.</p>
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<p>I love the "Have you ever seen a movie with a black guy in it? That's him"</p> -
<p><em>Super</em></p>
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<p>This is a little film with Rainn Wilson (US version of <em>The Office</em>) and the delightful Ellen Page.</p>
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<p>It was kind of shit at parts, showing its production values, but overall I thought it was a great look into the mind of a guy who is a social numpty and finally just has enough of taking shit. Page was just a fucking psycho. </p>
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<p>Easy to see why they had trouble getting money and/or distribution help with this one, but I thought it was OK. They had no trouble getting a few names together, and it was shot in about a month I believe? Not a bad effort. Certainly has the ability to be a bit cult.</p>
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<p>A Tom Cruise trio.</p>
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<p>Days of Thunder: dull as dishwater, even the racing stuff. Shit plotline that tried to be Top Gun-esque, but failed in every way.</p>
<p>Vanilla Sky: Penelope Cruz was hot, but I'm not really a Cameron Diaz fan, and Tom's character was such a smarmy asshat I maybe cheered when he plummeted off the bridge.</p>
<p>Collateral: By far the best of the three. Tom was actually quite a good villain, and Jamie Foxx bounced off him well. Decent plot too.</p> -
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<p><em>Super</em></p>
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<p>This is a little film with Rainn Wilson (US version of <em>The Office</em>) and the delightful Ellen Page.</p>
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<p>It was kind of shit at parts, showing its production values, but overall I thought it was a great look into the mind of a guy who is a social numpty and finally just has enough of taking shit. Page was just a fucking psycho. </p>
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<p>Easy to see why they had trouble getting money and/or distribution help with this one, but I thought it was OK. They had no trouble getting a few names together, and it was shot in about a month I believe? Not a bad effort. Certainly has the ability to be a bit cult.</p>
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<p>3 Kevin Bacons out of 5.</p>
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<p>Directed by James Gunn and I assume helped him land the Guardians of the Galaxy - so has a bit of pedigree.</p>
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<p>Now You See Me 2: Crazily plotted but watchable. A Woody Harrelson, Jesse Esineberg and Dave Franco out of Four Horseman and Mark Ruffalo.</p> -
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Tim" data-cid="585588" data-time="1465344879">
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<p>This is funny:<br><br><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href=''>
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<p>Haha = that's a crack up - although it's a bit of an effort to try to figure it out from that link at first.</p>
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<p>In slightly related movie news apparently Alicia Vikander was 10 pin bowling in Darling Harbour on Monday. I walk through Darling Harbour every lunchtime. That Michael Fassbender is lucky I only found this out today as he may have found his lunch cut. ;)</p> -
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<p>Collateral: By far the best of the three. Tom was actually quite a good villain, and Jamie Foxx bounced off him well. Decent plot too.</p>
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<p>That was the first movie where I actually thought Tom could act. His portrayal of Vincent was excellent.</p>
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<p>This is funny:<br><br><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href=''>
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<p>That's excellent.</p>
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<p>Watched The Dark Horse last night. Genuinely good.</p> -
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<p>Crocodile Dundee 2. Not as good as the original, but still had quite a few laughs and just an awesome 80's ness about it that make it totally worth a watch.</p>
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<p>The "if Mick wants his clothes back" scene still makes me laugh.</p>
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<p>Took itself a bit more seriously than the first one but still some great humour. Probably worth another watch now I think about it. I remember my Mums Womans Weeklys had stories of how Hogan dumped his wife for the chick he starred with, talk about an upgrade haha</p> -
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<p>Crocodile Dundee 2. Not as good as the original, but still had quite a few laughs and just an awesome 80's ness about it that make it totally worth a watch.</p>
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<p>The "if Mick wants his clothes back" scene still makes me laugh.</p>
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<p>he can bloody well get himself!</p>
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<p>I love that part of the movie.</p>
