Movie review thread...
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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> -
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<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>
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<p>I watched Easy rider a couple of weeks ago and I don't really understand the fuss apart from Jack Nicholson stealing every scene he was in. Also watched the original Shining and that is still great, got to watch Chinatown and One flew over the cuckoos nest again sometime.</p> -
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<p>No one optioning ur book mokey?</p>
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<p>Oh yeah, they're beating down the door. But until they fetch me ALL the items on the quest list, I'm not considering anything.</p>
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<p>Chumps.</p> -
<p></p><p></p><blockquote class="ipsBlockquote">[url=http://recode.net/2014/12/03/sony-to-officially-name-north-korea-as-source-of-hack-attack/][b]Sony to Officially Name North Korea as Source of Hack Attack[/b][/url]<br><br>
December 3, 2014, 10:08 AM PST<br><br>
Sony Pictures will officially name North Korea as the source of a hacking attack that has exposed sensitive files and brought down its corporate network last week, two sources close to the investigation tell Re/code. An announcement could come as soon as today.<br><br>
Details of what Sony and the security firm Mandiant will announce are still being finalized. But the sources confirm that North Korea will be named as the source of the attack.<br><br>
A Sony spokeswoman declined to comment on the timing or the news, but said “The investigation continues into this very sophisticated cyber attack.â€<br><br>
Re/code first reported on Nov. 28 Sony was investigating the possibility that hackers working on behalf of North Korea was behind an attack.<br><br>
Launched last week, the attack forced employees of the movie studio to shut down computers and work with pen and paper. Later, sensitive files including employee salary data, product plans and video files of five motion pictures were leaked to the Internet.<br><br>
The announcement will be the first public acknowledgement of what has so far been only a matter of conjecture. North Korea has sought to stop Sony from releasing a film called “The Interview†that depicts two American TV journalists who are recruited by the CIA to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un.</blockquote> -
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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>"negative Ghostrider, the pattern is full"</p>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1745960/'>http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1745960/</a></p>
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<p>Snigger.</p> -
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<p>Snigger.</p>
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<p>fuuuuuck yooouuuu</p> -
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<p>Snigger.</p>
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<p> :(</p>
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<p>I just died a little inside.</p>
