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<p>Camp X-Ray - a newbie army recruit is stationed in Guantanamo Bay to look after detainees for suicide watch.</p>
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<p>Not too bad a film (if not slow) although not sure on the casting of Kristen Stewart as the lead, not that she did a poor job or anything, but her sullen slapped arse face just didnt work that well for me.</p>
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<p>Have issues with a number of the scenes where they are supposed to walk a loop about maybe 8 cells checking in to make sure they are still alive, yet often she would stop and talk to the 'detainee' for minutes at a time, and even when on 'patrol' with others, they didnt seem that bothered.</p>
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<p>Watched "47 Ronin" last night. What a fantastic looking piece of crap. Some of the visuals and fight scenes are awesome. But as a movie it's a piece of crap. There is zero character depth or development (the Ronin are either the angry one, the fat one, the leader, or the faceless 44. wait, 43, Keanu is one too, we're not sure what he is). And when it comes time to settle the score, it's ridiculously fucking easy. so much tension! wait, no, the opposite of that. </p>
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<p>Seriously, what the fuck is up with Keanu Reeves? Is he even trying any more? The Matrix is my favourite movie ever, i love both Bill and Teds, Speed was kind of cool. But jesus he is terrible in basically everything now. He is especially terrible in this movie. It's really, really bad. He keeps getting paid though. </p> -
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Watched "47 Ronin" last night. What a fantastic looking piece of crap. Some of the visuals and fight scenes are awesome. But as a movie it's a piece of crap. There is zero character depth or development (the Ronin are either the angry one, the fat one, the leader, or the faceless 44. wait, 43, Keanu is one too, we're not sure what he is). And when it comes time to settle the score, it's ridiculously fucking easy. so much tension! wait, no, the opposite of that. <br><br>
Seriously, what the fuck is up with Keanu Reeves? Is he even trying any more? The Matrix is my favourite movie ever, i love both Bill and Teds, Speed was kind of cool. But jesus he is terrible in basically everything now. He is especially terrible in this movie. It's really, really bad. He keeps getting paid though.</p></blockquote>
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<p>fuck, massive oversight from me, Point Break is awesome!</p>
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<p>Virginia Masden was pretty fine back in the day!</p>
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<p>42: The biopic about Jackie Robinson. Harrison Ford plays an old curmudgeon bloody well - but then again he is an old curmudgeon. Pretty stock standard biopic TBH, watchable without being great, but gave me a good starting point to do some reading about Robinson and Ford's character. </p>
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<p>I was stuck in a hotel room recently and watched 42. It was pretty good. What's neat about watching something based on a true story is you can look things up as you go. This picture, for instance:</p>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://toolbox.studiobanks.com/content/arhenetwork.com/highlights/316.jpg'><img height="240" src="http://toolbox.studiobanks.com/content/arhenetwork.com/highlights/316.jpg" width="320" alt="316.jpg"></a></p>
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<p>You can just feel the tension.</p>
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<p>Apologies, I haven't read the whole thread but someone mentioned how good 2015 is going to be for movies. A selection:</p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10pt;"><span style="color:#1f497d;"><span style="font-family:calibri;">Star Wars VII, Avengers 2, Bond 24, Jurassic World, Furious 7, Terminator 5, Mockingjay Part 2, Mission: Impossible 5, Mad Max 4, Ted 2, Escobar: Paradise Lost, Ant Man, Point Break, Grimsby, Fantastic Four, Straight Outta Compton, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon 2, Kung Fu Panda 3 -- all coming 2015.</span></span></span></p> -
<p>there's a new Point Break? Sure sign the rapture is nigh</p>
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<p>if you love Lori Petty, dont watch Orange is the new Black! </p>
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<p>A new Point Break? The only thing more stupid would be a new Top Gun. Both are as amazing today as the day they were released.</p>
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<p>I watched a few older movies from this year over the past week.</p>
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<p>Two of them were awful and I wrote about them but the post obviously didn't work. Two were good although I expected both to be average.</p>
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<p>The Butler: Bullshit based on a true story that took all the good stuff from the true story flushed it and made a turd. I got angrier and angrier at the stupidity of the movie and it's characters as it went on so was near breaking point when I read how much of the movie was made up. About a black butler who served under a number of presidents at the White House. Stars Forest Whittaker, Oprah (pretty good), Cuba Gooding Jnr and Lenny Kravitz who both were ok, and then a bunch of cameo's by actors playing the presidents.</p>
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<p>The Rover: Looked like a cool Mad Max type movie starring Guy Pearce. Watched about 40 minutes of poor dialogue and bad acting and just couldn't stomach it any more.</p>
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<p>A Long Way Down: A movie based on Nick Hornby's book about 4 people who meet on NYE up a famous London suicide site and make a pact to stay alive until Valentines Day. Better than what it sounds and better than how it was reviewed, although about 20 minutes in I clicked that I knew the story and had read the book. Starring Pierce Brosnan, Tony Collette and Jesse from Breaking Bad.</p>
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<p>Drinking Buddies: A mumblecore movie that was actually quite good. Kind of about two workmates and their partners and them all hanging together .... Stars Olivia Wilde and Anna Kendrick as the girls and Jake Johnson from New Girl and Nixon from Band of Brothers as the guys.</p>
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<p>Also finally got around to seeing the latest X Men movie which I thought was pretty good. </p> -
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<p>I hated the butler from start to finish, Oprahs character was unlikable too. They only had one son in real life and he didn't go to Viet Nam either, I thought Lenny was better than Gooding jr who irritates me in most things he's in anyway.</p>
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<p>I thought Oprah was good in how the character was unlikeable.</p>
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<p>It was quite comic how the son turned up to nearly every civil rights moment in history. Also, basically, if the Butler's son is around someone is going to die. </p>
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<p>I thought Oprah was good in how the character was unlikeable.</p>
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<p>It was quite comic how the son turned up to nearly every civil rights moment in history. Also, basically, if the Butler's son is around someone is going to die. </p>
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<p>What was so stupid is they could have made a decent movie using the real story. </p>
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<p>As far as playing fast and loose with the truth its this years Argo without the tension and drama. How did Gooding jr ever win an Oscar? Thats up there with Helen Hunt for as good as it gets for my nomination for the Jake White most undeserving of acclaim award.</p> -
<p>It makes me sad, all these remakes cos it means the studios are struggling and unwilling to take a chance on something new. Not good for scriptwriters.</p>
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<p>Talking of classics, I watched The Philadelphia Story the other night. Grant, Hepburn, Stewart. Ahhhhhhhhh. Now that's how you do romcom. Fab actors, crisp dialogue and a whole mountain of chemistry.</p>
