Movie review thread...
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<p>Heat really is a fucking awesome movie</p>
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<p>It really is. Goes for ages and yet just flies by.</p>
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<p>Such terrific performances from all involved. Ya gotta wonder if De Niro and Pacino flipped a coin as to who played who cos they could have easily switched and the movie would have been no less awesome. Never realised one of the cops was Ted "It puts the lotion in the basket or else it gets the hose" Levine. That guy is a chameleon. If only McCauley could've forced himself to make a clean break and no gone back for Waingro.....</p>
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<p>4.5 Godfathers out of 5</p> -
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<p>It really is. Goes for ages and yet just flies by.</p>
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<p>Such terrific performances from all involved. Ya gotta wonder if De Niro and Pacino flipped a coin as to who played who cos they could have easily switched and the movie would have been no less awesome. Never realised one of the cops was Ted "It puts the lotion in the basket or else it gets the hose" Levine. That guy is a chameleon.<strong> If only McCauley could've forced himself to make a clean break and no gone back for Waingro..</strong>...</p>
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<p>4.5 Godfathers out of 5</p>
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<p>Spoiler Alert! ;)</p>
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<p>Yeah great movie and highlights the benefits of a first draft (the LA Takedown TV version). De Niro and Pacino on top form.</p>
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<p>Another awesome movie from that era is Carlito's Way, Al Pacino as a Cuban ex con, Sean Penn as a nearly unrecognisable Jewish lawyer and a support cast including Viggo Mortensen, John Leguizamo and Luis Guzman. </p>
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<p>71 - movie about a British soldier left behind in Belfast after a raid goes wrong and him trying to get back to the barracks while being in danger from all sides. Pretty good and tense movie. 4 foul mouthed eight year old Irish boys out of 5.</p> -
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<p>Damn straight,<strong> Carlitos Way</strong> is outstanding as well. Between them and <strong>Scarface </strong>Pacino sure knows how to make movies I love.</p>
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<p>Both De Palma. He's made some great movies (and some shockers).</p>
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<p>Best gun battle in movie history</p>
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<p>Compare the cafe meeting scene to the LA Takedown version. Turns out that acting is important! ;)</p>
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<p>Wow, never seen that, I knew it was based on another flick but never realized it was a carbon copy. Haha, the acting is shit although "Pacino" almost sounds the same if you close your eyes and pretend he cant' act.....</p>
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<p>M4L, that shootout is just epic. Always felt a bit sorry for the black dude ( can't be arsed looking up his name ), he should have messed up his boss more in my opinion.....</p> -
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<p>Compare the cafe meeting scene to the LA Takedown version. Turns out that acting is important! ;)</p>
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<p>The difference between De Niro and McArthur should become a dictionary definition for the expression <em>chalk and cheese</em>. I can't recall a more wooden monotone outside of the teacher in Charlie Brown.</p> -
<p>I am watching <em><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480669/'>Timecrimes</a></em>. It is pretty, pretty average so far.</p>
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<p>The Wolf Of Wall Street.</p>
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<p>Sensational flick, 3 hours long, but one of those movies that didn't feel anything like being that long. DiCaprio and Hill are utterly convincing in their roles, and Margot Robbie is some sensational eye candy. It's a great story (I can't help but think a fair bit of embellishment on the truth though) though and a fascinating look into one side of Wall Street from that period in time.</p>
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<p>9 Quaaludes out of 10 lines of coke</p> -
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<p>The Wolf Of Wall Street.</p>
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<p>Sensational flick, 3 hours long, but one of those movies that didn't feel anything like being that long. DiCaprio and Hill are utterly convincing in their roles, and Margot Robbie is some sensational eye candy. It's a great story (I can't help but think a fair bit of embellishment on the truth though) though and a fascinating look into one side of Wall Street from that period in time.</p>
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<p>9 Quaaludes out of 10 lines of coke</p>
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<p>An absolute shitload of embellishment, not just a bit. Decent enough flick, I found Hill an annoying fat fluffybunny as I do in everything I see him in but LDC gave a brilliant performance as always.</p> -
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<p>An absolute shitload of embellishment, not just a bit. Decent enough flick,<strong> I found Hill an annoying fat fluffybunny</strong> as I do in everything I see him in but LDC gave a brilliant performance as always.</p>
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<p>As I said, utterly convincing! It wouldn't be an embellishment to say I've come across 10-15 Donnie Azhoff's over my career. US brokers are absolutely full of loudmouth, arrogant, annoying New Yorkers of Jewish descent.</p> -
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<p>As I said, utterly convincing! It wouldn't be an embellishment to say I've come across 10-15 Donnie Azhoff's over my career. US brokers are absolutely full of loudmouth, arrogant, annoying New Yorkers of Jewish descent.</p>
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<p>"Noo Yoikers" don't you mean ?</p>
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<p><em>Man of Tai Chi</em></p>
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<p>Keanu Reeves' directorial debut in a fairly fun kung fu film with some good wire action and nods to the classic camera work of the HK style martial arts films.</p>
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<p>Keanu also stars as an angry, rich motherfucker who likes to watch people punch the shit out of each other, and sell that shit to rich, angry people who like the same in an underground fighting ring.</p>
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<p>There is a young, polite Tai Chi lad who turns to Angry Keanu to make some money to save his temple. His <em>sifu</em> is not thrilled that he's using Tai Chi for beating people to a pulp, and it turns young lad into an angry motherfucker.</p>
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<p>Lots of punching.</p>
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<p>I give it:</p>
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<p>Watched a bit of an old Cult classic last night.....</p>
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<p>Event Horizon.</p>
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<p>Nicely done sci fi/horror ( more emphasis on the latter ). Space travel is actually much fraught with danger than Han and Chewie would have us believe. Hard to say what it is about this flick but it gets in your mind and makes you think and thank fuck that you're not there in that horrific situation with the crew. Builds really nicely, loads of tension and some top notch performances from Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill and some of the supporting cast, possibly let down by a it of silliness towards the end. Those that have seen it will agree the flashbacks showing what happened to the previous crew are amongst the more "WTF that's horrific" scenes in Movie history.</p>
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<p>That movie is fucking awesome. Saw it at the movies and it was terrifying (that trapped at the edge of space shit gets me every time. Fucking Alien...)</p>
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<p>Now that I've seen it a bunch of times it's lost some of it's appeal, but it's still a good one. </p> -
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<p>That movie is fucking awesome. Saw it at the movies and it was terrifying (that trapped at the edge of space shit gets me every time. Fucking Alien...)</p>
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<p>Now that I've seen it a bunch of times it's lost some of it's appeal, but it's still a good one. </p>
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<p>It is, love the way Sam Neills character goes from straight laced geek to psycho as the movie progresses ( obviously the ship finds him the most easy to possess given he designed it and loves it so much ? )</p>
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<p>Beyond fucken excited about Alien:Covenant coming out. Set 10 years after Prometheus ( which I actually enjoyed more than most )</p>
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<p>We should have a "movies you can't help but watch no matter how many times you have seen them" thread.</p>
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<p>I watched Conan the Barbarian last night on Fox Classics for about the 20th time. That movie rules. </p>
