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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>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> -
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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>HYena Road - set in Afghanistan and follows some Canadian troops as they set about trying to find some head nasty guy whilst also trying to align themselves with some legendary Mujahideen figure form the war with the Russians.</p>
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<p>Precious Cargo & Extraction - either Bruce Willis has fallen on hard times or doesn't give a crap about the movies he is in anymore....</p>
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<p>Precious Cargo & Extraction - either Bruce Willis has fallen on hard times or doesn't give a crap about the movies he is in anymore....</p>
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<p>That's what I thought about John Travolta and his recent effort which I've forgotten the name of ( I reviewed it a page or two back ).</p>
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<p>The glory days of their outstanding work in Pulp Fiction is a looooooooong time ago now.</p> -
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<p>Precious Cargo & Extraction - either Bruce Willis has fallen on hard times or doesn't give a crap about the movies he is in anymore....</p>
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<p>Al Pacino reached this point a few years ago. Hard to believe the dude who was Michael Corleone and Tony Montana and Lt Col Frank Slade could also star in Jack and Jill.</p>
