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<p>I watched "Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World" again on Sunday. God that's a fun boys movie, i wish to god i had seen it on the big screen, i would imagine a fair bit of it would have been impressive.</p>
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<p>I wondered why they never made a 2nd one. It seems they set up for a sequel. It was well received. It won awards. And then i saw the budget v receipts. ouch. </p> -
<p>Prometheus: Saw it on Sunday (think it was 4). Not that great considering the hype it has but I did enjoy the ending (I should have clicked when the acid blood appeared halfway through the movie).</p>
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<p>I watched "Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World" again on Sunday. God that's a fun boys movie, i wish to god i had seen it on the big screen, i would imagine a fair bit of it would have been impressive.</p>
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<p>I wondered why they never made a 2nd one. It seems they set up for a sequel. It was well received. It won awards. And then i saw the budget v receipts. ouch. </p>
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<p>It looked superb on the big screen. It did seem like it was set-up for a sequel, and the critics loved it. Maybe it was disappointing at the box office and producers didn't want to put the money up... or maybe they figured, hey we can just CGI the whole thing in a bathtub for half the cost and Creative said fuckthat (?). Dunno..</p> -
<p>Finally got around to watching Anchorman 2. I'll give it 6/10. Not nearly enough belly laugh moments and some gags just went on long enough to become painfully unfunny. (When Ron goes to dinner with girlfriend's family, the blind segment and that whole shark thing.)</p>
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<p>Did like the station brawl at the end and the weirdo romance between Brick and Chani was kind of sweet.</p> -
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<p>Gone girl, great film don't want to spoil it though. Sone superb acting in there, Rosamund Pike and the female cop in particular. Some female nudity in there too if you like that sort of thing and I most certainly do.</p>
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<p>I really enjoyed it and thought that the new Batman was really good - but to say to much would spoil it. Took me a while to figure out who the female cop's partner was - it's the kid from Almost Famous.</p> -
Finally watched The Hobbit - desolation of smaug. <br><br>
As with others I enjoyed it, been so long since I read the Hobbit I can't recall what bits they made up, but seem to recall a bit more humour in the book in a few places than the movies have had. <br><br>
Tauriel is not, and oddly, Legolas looks more the part than he did in the LOTRs movies, guess Orlando is a bit more grown up himself now? -
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I really enjoyed it and thought that the new Batman was really good - but to say to much would spoil it. Took me a while to figure out who the female cop's partner was - it's the kid from Almost Famous.</p></blockquote>
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There was a lot of stuff covered in the film , if I could remember how to do spoilers I'd post it. Even the white trash couple were great in their roles.<br>
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<p>[spoiler] except spell spoiler correctly [/spoyler]</p>
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<p>Finally got around to watching Anchorman 2. I'll give it 6/10. Not nearly enough belly laugh moments and some gags just went on long enough to become painfully unfunny. (When Ron goes to dinner with girlfriend's family, the blind segment and that whole shark thing.)</p>
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<p>Did like the station brawl at the end and the weirdo romance between Brick and Chani was kind of sweet.</p>
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<p>Thought the first half was primo but it faded in the second half and was at least 30min too long. Enough laughs to keep the legend alive I reckon.</p> -
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<p>I really enjoyed it and thought that the new Batman was really good - but to say to much would spoil it. Took me a while to figure out who the female cop's partner was - it's the kid from Almost Famous.</p>
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<p>I loved how they took ordinary mundane things and twisted them to extremes in that film</p>
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<p><span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">[spoiler] Couples who loathe each other but stay together for sake of the kids</span></p>
<p><span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">The ex who still holds a candle for the one that got away and returns to him on the rebound and inevitably treats him like absolute shit and returns to the first guy</span></p>
<p><span>How women try to change their man but he only does the things you always wanted them too after you break up</span></p>
<p><span>Also it was interesting listening to her rant about her obsession with being the cool girl and looking hot for batman and then after she left gorging herself on shitty food, the mrs said she was trying to change her appearance by getting fat but that didn't make sense as she was going to kill herself anyway</span></p>
<p><span>Not to mention the trashy press coverage and the trial by media and her lapping up the attention afterwards [ffs the blood covered swoon]. In the book she wrote a book about her "ordeal" and made a fortune.</span></p>
<p><span>​And what awful entitled fucking parents she had writing books about a girl with the same name who had a more interesting and successful life</span><span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">[/spoiler]</span></p> -
Sex tape - Cameron Diaz, Jason Segal and Rob Lowe with a small part too. <br><br>
It was okish, some bloody funny bits, but goes off the boil for large patches...for those that way inclined, lots of naked rear shots, of both main actors.... -
<p>I'd never even heard of this, let alone seen it, but now I can't wait. It's made $200,000 on a $31-million investment, and it stars a Kiwi.</p>
<p> </p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://screamer.deadspin.com/heres-what-i-learned-watching-fifas-incredible-propagan-1643394469'>Here's What I Learned Watching FIFA's Incredible Propaganda Movie</a> -
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="red terror" data-cid="455531" data-time="1413038775"><p><br>
I'd never even heard of this, let alone seen it, but now I can't wait. It's made $200,000 on a $31-million investment, and it stars a Kiwi.<br><a class="bbc_url" href="http://screamer.deadspin.com/heres-what-i-learned-watching-fifas-incredible-propagan-1643394469">Here's What I Learned Watching FIFA's Incredible Propaganda Movie</a></p></blockquote>
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So that's where Kim Jong Un has gone ... he's making movies for FIFA! -
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<p>Sex tape - Cameron Diaz, Jason Segal and Rob Lowe with a small part too.</p>
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<p>Very droll. Reminds me of the Sir John Gielgud story (in his biography) when in one of his first roles, the male actors were all told they had to wear tights. Up piped a rather high male voice, "Do we have to wear them if we've only got small parts"?</p> -
<p>Made the mistake of watching the first half of the second Anchorman movie last night. absolute rubbish. The first was piss funny, this was just waaaay too forced, and i barely cracked a smile. Turned it off. Tripe. </p>
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<p>Transformers - Age of Extinction: I almost became extinct after all 165* minutes of it!! </p>
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<p>Didnt like the leading lady, she looked like she was 15 or so, which means you cant like her, and despite finding out she is 19, doesnt change the fact!! </p>
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<p>It was ok, typical overload on the visual senses with all the special effects, story was as weak as you'd expect it to be, so you just gotta watch it for what it is...transformers.</p>
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<p><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;font-size:15px;">I watched a fascinating -- mindblowing, really -- documentary produced & directed by Penn & Teller last night called "Tim's Vermeer" (2014). It's about an inventor and NON-artist who wants to reproduce a Vermeer painting as proof of a theory that solves the "magic trick" Vermeer used over 300 years ago. It looks like he solved it -- or came pretty damn close -- on his <em>first</em> attempt at <em>any</em> painting. His quest takes years.</span></p>
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<p><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;font-size:15px;">The curious thing is -- because it's Penn & Teller -- it's kinda like the Banksy doc "Exit Through the Gift Shop" (you must see this if you haven't, it's genius), and you begin to wonder if it's a hoax and you are being conned.</span></p>
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<p><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;font-size:15px;">9/10</span></p>
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<p><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;font-size:15px;">(Also, there's a new doc about Ralph Steadman out now. I haven't seen it, but will do so shortly...)</span></p> -
<p>Death Race. The car racing sequences were great, but oh my god the dialogue was so, so fucking awful. Especially for the poor chick who kept having to spout these terrible two-word sentences.</p>
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<p>Can't talk about the plot cos there wasn't one.</p>
