Movie review thread...
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[quote name='Hooroo' timestamp='1370915298' post='371626']<br />
I need help with one movie. (I haven't read the books)<br />
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Just watched Jack Reacher over the weekend while baking a chocolate tart and cooking a roast. One thing we missed is why did they kill those people and also why did they set up the guy to take the fall?<br />
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Not a bad movie though and Jack Racher is a pretty cool cat despite being played by Tom Cruise.<br />
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I only just got around to it myself and as much as Crusie just doesn't fit the physical picture of Reacher he actually surprised me in that he got his personality down pretty good.<br />
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[spoiler]The bad guys knew about the sniper's past and that he was not the soundest bloke and set up the shootings to look like he had gone postal all in order to cover that among the deaths was their real target.<br />
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Seemed like a lot of overkill when they had the cops in their pocket anyway but those Reacher stories are just good yarns where you have to suspend a lot of belief anyway.[/spoiler] -
[quote name='Hooroo' timestamp='1371156585' post='372195']<br />
Cheers Crucial, Which one was the real target and why?<br />
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Did you see any of the movie? <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/rugby/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' /><br />
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[spoiler]The target was the women that owned the construction company after her husband died. The russian gang had a track record of going into cities and buying up construction companies, strong arming local officials to award them a lot of big money contracts, paying off the prosecutors then disappearing. The needed her dead to get the company.[/spoiler] -
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That looks mean as!! Should be action packed and I can't wait to see Smaug doing some damage. -
Off to see World War Z in 3D tonight!
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[quote name='Crucial' timestamp='1371173931' post='372261']<br />
Did you see any of the movie? <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/rugby/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' /><br />
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[spoiler]The target was the women that owned the construction company after her husband died. The russian gang had a track record of going into cities and buying up construction companies, strong arming local officials to award them a lot of big money contracts, paying off the prosecutors then disappearing. The needed her dead to get the company.[/spoiler]<br />
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Wow! I thought I watched the movie. <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/rugby/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /> Thanks. The thing is it was Mrs Hooroo that asked me the question and I had no idea. I knew the fern would come to the rescue -
So I got round to watching Seven Psychopaths and Cloud Atlas, two different movies.<br />
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Cloud Atlas: I quite enjoyed this once I figured out what was going on, it's basically 6 different stories (in different timeframes) and plays out like an episode of GoT jumping from story to story. The main actors (including Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Sturgess, Ben Winshaw, Hugh Grant, Hugo Weaving) play different characters in each story. It starts on the Chatham Islands, and completely misrepresents the reality. I thought they were on a slave plantation in the US but in the movie the Chathams is a slave colony.<br />
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Seven Psychopaths: Was good, but not as good as In Bruges, of the McDonagh brothers films I'd rate them The Guard, In Bruges and then this. I might have liked it more if Farrell and Rockwell weren't the two stars as I'm not a huge fan of either and they tend to grate on me. -
World War Z - I liked it, didnt think it was worth the 3D version, but still a decent flick, although the actual zombies at times were a bit comical, which detracted from their 'scarieness' (in that rule #1 would be irrelevant with these guys)
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The Master: What an absolute load of bollocks. Paul T Anderson gets more and more self indulgent with each movie (I loved Boogie Nights and Magnolia and thought There Will Be Blood was crap) and his head is completely up his own arse here. <br />
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I was quite looking forward to this due to good reviews, and its premise, but good damn it was awful. What little narrative it had was unfulfilling, Phoenix hammed it up with tics and scowls and affectations, and it blew the potential it had in its set up and earlier scenes.<br />
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Surprisingly the best thing about this movie was Phillip Seymour Hoffman who tends to just play himself in any movie (but because he doesn't look like Cruise or Pitt etc he doesn't get called on it, and at any rate playing himself can still be good), but in this one I fully believed he was his character. -
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World War Z - I liked it, didnt think it was worth the 3D version, but still a decent flick, although the actual zombies at times were a bit comical, which detracted from their 'scarieness' (in that rule #1 would be irrelevant with these guys)<br />
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Saw this last night and I was quite impressed, I knew nothing about it and thought it would be just a stock standard running away from Zombies movie but was presently surprised that it had a bit more depth. <br />
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One thing I found funny was [spoiler] that Brad Pitt's character was like the bringer of death. First he causes the cop on the motorbike to be killed by the truck going past, then once in Korea he manages to get all the Navy Seals and the key army guy at the bases killed, then he visits Israel, which until this time had been zombie free and within a couple of hours of his touching down they get overrun, then the plane he flies on gets overrun and he blows up half the plane with a grenade killing zombies, the white dog, and anyone who may have survived being zombied, as well as the two pilots who were getting him to Wales. When zombies attack, I'm avoiding Brad Pitt like the plague. [/spoiler] -
[quote name='No Quarter' timestamp='1368883091' post='366589']<br />
Yup. My partner & son were out of town one night so instead of sitting at home watching porn I decided to get out to the IMAX theatre and watch this in 3d, thinking even if it's shit it will still be awesome in 3d on the big screen. Half way through I couldn't be fucked with it anymore, what a waste of time and money.<br />
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Watched part of Wrath of the Titans the other day on Sky. Apart from a dopey plot and some really shit dialogue (Ralph! Liam! WHY???), everyone having a different accent did my head in a bit.<br />
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World War Z - I liked it, didnt think it was worth the 3D version, but still a decent flick, although the actual zombies at times were a bit comical, which detracted from their 'scarieness' (in that rule #1 would be irrelevant with these guys)<br />
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The book is one of my favourites but I'd never call that one of my favourite books. The black zombie in the cage and the dude with with chattering teeth had the cinema laughing. It should have been "The drive across america" from the perspective of Todd Waino, that would have been fucking awesome. -
For those who haven't read the book World War Z - a quick summary of the similarities:<br />
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What the World War Z movie has in common with the book - The Oatmeal
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Gold Class Lounge at the movies on Saturday. Saw "Elysium" with MATT. DAMON. And Sharlto Copley as a particularly badass mercenary psychopath.<br /><br />Was watchable, but fairly standard sci-fi dystopia gear. Worth seeing at the movies though<br /><br />-------------------------------------------<br />I hate autocorrect ...<br /><br />
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<p>Finally got around to watching "Zero Dark Thirty" last night. I thought it was fucking awesome. Long, but awesome. I started the movie feeling uncomfortable with "us" being the good guys, but using torture. By the end i was "stealth helicopters? fuck yea!".</p>
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<p>Watched The Iceman and Olympus has Fallen;</p>
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<p>The Iceman, based on the true story of a hitman (which I only realised yesterday has been on Discovery or Nat Geo recently too) Kuklinski? Easy watch, not sure how close it was to the actual events, but worth a look</p>
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<p>Olympus has Fallen; typical action film where 1 man can take on an army and win, at around 2 hours, a bit long for this genre IMO, but still, shooting, fighting, explosions, secret weapons....</p> -
<p>Olympus has Fallen really was a throw-back action flick. i was entertained.</p>
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<p>I watched "Drive" last night, and i am still not actually sure what it is supposed to be about. Strange movie. The gratuitous gore was completely unexpected. </p>
