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<p>Just saw The Hobbit : Battle of 5 Armies. What a great way to finish 14 years in Middle Earth. Loved the little behind the scenes before the movie started too, with interviews with all the main crew and cast from all 6 movies.</p>
<p>Not as long winded as Return of the King but the final battle was epic, saw it in 3D which definitely added to it.</p>
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<p>Hard to saw which series i enjoyed more, LOTR or Hobbit. Probably best to just sit through them all in multiple re-viewings for years to come.</p>
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<p>Edit: Also it was nice to see the new Star Wars teaser on the big screen, when the Millennium Falcon soars and you get the full on Star Wars theme the hairs on the back of your neck stand right up!</p> -
<p>That Onion review all I could think was</p>
<p>a the movie looks fantastic</p>
<p>b the way the presenter wears that vest-thingie looks so darn uncomfortable..</p> -
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<p>Just saw The Hobbit : Battle of 5 Armies. What a great way to finish 14 years in Middle Earth. Loved the little behind the scenes before the movie started too, with interviews with all the main crew and cast from all 6 movies.</p>
<p>Not as long winded as Return of the King but the final battle was epic, saw it in 3D which definitely added to it.</p>
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<p>Hard to saw which series i enjoyed more, LOTR or Hobbit. Probably best to just sit through them all in multiple re-viewings for years to come.</p>
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<p>Edit: Also it was nice to see the new Star Wars teaser on the big screen, when the Millennium Falcon soars and you get the full on Star Wars theme the hairs on the back of your neck stand right up!</p>
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<p>Might have to take TR Jnr over the next week or so!! </p> -
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<p>Might have to take TR Jnr over the next week or so!! </p>
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<p>Should be sweet, pretty much action all the way through. And is also the shortest of all the Middle Earth movies.</p> -
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Tim" data-cid="466352" data-time="1419460458"><p><em>Kill List</em>.<br><br>Well, that was pretty fucked up stuff, in the tradition of the Wicker Man and other Brit occult flicks.<br><br>Very well made, good characters, and unhinged almost to the degree of an Argento film.<br><br>7.5/10</p></blockquote>Yeah, that was some weird shit alright.
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2788710/'>The Interview</a></p>
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<p>Watched it yesterday and it's not worth the hype. Ignoring the overacting which I'm sure is deliberate, there are some funny bits, but it seems that Seth & Friends had more fun making it than I had watching it.</p> -
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="antipodean" data-cid="466436" data-time="1419587500"><p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2788710/'>The Interview</a><br> <br>Watched it yesterday and it's not worth the hype. Ignoring the overacting which I'm sure is deliberate, there are some funny bits, but it seems that Seth & Friends had more fun making it than I had watching it.</p></blockquote>So. Like most of his more recent stuff then?
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I don't want to give the impression it's that good...
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<p>Watched Old boy and Pacific Rim over the past couple of days, both were pretty disappointing . While Pacific Rim has excellent levels of carnage the story line was weak and predictable even by monster movie standards. Old boy relied on wildly implausible coincidences and the fight scenes were cartoonish. Elisabeth Olsen is hot though [way hotter than her emaciated sisters] and Josh Brolin was pretty good as usual. Colin Firth was apparently the original choice for the lead role, I cannot picture him doing it at all.</p>
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<p>About Time. Richard Curtis film with Rachel McAdams and Bill Nighy among others, so had high hopes, but was pretty disappointed. Those wicked one liners just weren't there, and the whole time travel thing was amusing in bits (like when the bloke jumps back a few times to ensure first night sex is the best) but kept changing all its rules and got rather dumb. And the actual story was a bit dull.</p>
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<p>Just saw The Hobbit : Battle of 5 Armies. What a great way to finish 14 years in Middle Earth. Loved the little behind the scenes before the movie started too, with interviews with all the main crew and cast from all 6 movies.</p>
<p>Not as long winded as Return of the King but the final battle was epic, saw it in 3D which definitely added to it.</p>
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<p>Hard to saw which series i enjoyed more, LOTR or Hobbit. Probably best to just sit through them all in multiple re-viewings for years to come.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Edit: Also it was nice to see the new Star Wars teaser on the big screen, when the Millennium Falcon soars and you get the full on Star Wars theme the hairs on the back of your neck stand right up!</p>
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<p>Am I the only kiwi who has so far, not enjoyed a single one of the Jackson middle earth movies? Much like "Some Kind of Monster", I've found these movies have destroyed fond memories formed when I was much younger.</p>
<p>Too cheesy, too sentimental, too clean, too sappy. The Orcs are pretty fking cool, but the hobbits, humans and dwarves make me cringe.</p> -
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<p>Am I the only kiwi who has so far, not enjoyed a single one of the Jackson middle earth movies? Much like "Some Kind of Monster", I've found these movies have destroyed fond memories formed when I was much younger.</p>
<p>Too cheesy, too sentimental, too clean, too sappy. The Orcs are pretty fking cool, but the hobbits, humans and dwarves make me cringe.</p>
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<p>Yeah well I couldn't stand the casting for the dwarves, Beorn, or Aragorn. And the Hobbits, too twee and Celtic.</p> -
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Bones" data-cid="466520" data-time="1419694360"><p>The Guest. Wow, what a movie... Thanks Tim</p></blockquote>
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<p>About Time. Richard Curtis film with Rachel McAdams and Bill Nighy among others, so had high hopes, but was pretty disappointed. Those wicked one liners just weren't there, and the whole time travel thing was amusing in bits (like when the bloke jumps back a few times to ensure first night sex is the best) but kept changing all its rules and got rather dumb. And the actual story was a bit dull.</p>
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<p>5/10.</p>
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<p>You're a hard lady Mokey. I thought About Time was all good and quite funny ... and it wasn't too chick flicky either.</p>
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<p>Watched St Vincent with Bill Murray last night, was ok, a bit twee but Murray was having fun as a grump and Naomi Watts was funny as a Russian hooker with a wandering accent. Melissa McCarthy managed to not be as annoying as in every movie she's in.</p>
