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<p>haha i hate that woman's movies, but it pales in to insignificance next to your loathing of her!</p>
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<p>Anybody see Spotlight yet?</p>
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<p>(It's about the true story Catholic pedophile abuse scandal in Boston.)</p>
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<p>Micheal Keaton has been having a very good comeback year, another gem for him. Funnily enough, the 2nd starring role for him in a "newspaper" movie, and this one is a lot better than the earlier Ron Howard film "The Paper" (1994) although that one is a guilty pleasure for me</p>
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<p>One of the best reviewed films of the year (97% at RT), probably a little too lavish for my taste, but then newspaper critics seem to get bigger erections than usual for "newspaper" movies that get the small details correct that most audiences don't give a rats' ass, because it's about "them" and their "craft." Still, an excellent movie. Getting widely compared to "All the President's Men," and for good reason.</p>
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<p>And in an incestuous way, whereas ATPM featured editor Ben Bradlee (Washington Post) as one of the main supporting characters (played by Jason Robards), this one has his kid Ben Bradlee Jr. (Boston Globe) as one of the main support actors (played by Mad Men's John Slattery). Bradlee wrote my fave book of the past couple years ("The Kid") so I was a little worried he was going to be the fall-guy in this suspense story.</p>
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<p>Script, dialogue, pacing, suspense, acting all top notch, although Mark Ruffalo for my money needs to dial it down just a touch. He seemed a little too tightly wound in a way that wasn't fully explored.</p>
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<p>I'll give it a 8.5/10. definitely worth seeing, but not necessarily on a big screen, a DVD rental will do the trick without losing much impact.</p>
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<p>If the best newspaper flicks are Citizen Kane, Sweet Smell of Success, The Big Circus (a.k.a. Ace in the Hole), Park Row (Samuel Fuller's fave film he ever directed), Deadline USA and the aforementioned All the President's Men (...any others I can think of off the top of my head...?), I'd say it belongs in that sort of select company.</p> -
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Love and relationships are the key theme to both. One got dumped, can't get over her, meets new girl who just might be Ms Right. Other is building a relationship after a one night stand goes awry and learning that opposites can make it work. Plus both have a happy ending/happy for now.<br><br>
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Maybe , if they keep up the stealth angle of rom coms I can tolerate them . I'm guessing you'd include bridesmaids in there? <br><br>
The more I think about love actually the more appalling I remember it being , especially for Laura Linneys character . Let's be honest if you found out your mate was sitting at home watching videos of the woman you just married and coming around to your house late at night to tell her he will wait till she leaves you he'd be looking at some extensive dental work . -
<p>Having seen the trailer for the new Captain America movie, and thinking it looked pretty bad ass, i thought i should watch the first two (I'm not much of a Captain America fan).</p>
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<p>The first one was okay, pretty standard fare really, but i can see why i skipped it all this time.</p>
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<p>But The Winter Soldier is fucking fantastic, i reckon it's just about the best of the "Avengers" movies, and if Civil War is as good as it looks (and the story line promises to be given the comics) then CA will easily be the best franchise out of all of them, going way past Iron Man (movies really just carried by RDJ being smugly entertaining). </p>
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<p>Having seen the trailer for the new Captain America movie, and thinking it looked pretty bad ass, i thought i should watch the first two (I'm not much of a Captain America fan).</p>
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<p>The first one was okay, pretty standard fare really, but i can see why i skipped it all this time.</p>
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<p>But The Winter Soldier is fucking fantastic, i reckon it's just about the best of the "Avengers" movies, and if Civil War is as good as it looks (and the story line promises to be given the comics) then CA will easily be the best franchise out of all of them, going way past Iron Man (movies really just carried by RDJ being smugly entertaining). </p>
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<p>Should probably watch the 2nd Avengers movie at some point. </p>
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<p>Along with Iron Man, Captain America is easily my favouriste 'Avenger' ( Thor is my least, girlie ass ex home and away git)</p>
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<p>The 2nd Avengers movie isnt nearly as good as the original, no doubt mostly due to the whole 'its so fucken cool all the avengers are together in one movie' vibe.</p> -
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<p>haha i hate that woman's movies, but it pales in to insignificance next to your loathing of her!</p>
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<p>And no TR, i don't even think she's hot</p>
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<p>If you look up career suicide in the dictionary you will find a picture of her. Shes just pissed off so many co stars, producers etc its not funny.</p>
<p>Shes known in the biz to be 'hard to work with' along with her mom/manager.</p>
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<p>I used to have a thing for her back in the day when she was in Roswell ( i um used to watch it with um an ex girl friend)</p> -
<p>I think CA is probably the only one I actually read comic books for as a kid, not sure why, but I did.</p>
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<p>Have yet to watch WS, but might give it a crack, I've not thought alot of the Avengers movies TBH, just too much I think?</p> -
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<p>If you look up career suicide in the dictionary you will find a picture of her. Shes just pissed off so many co stars, producers etc its not funny.</p>
<p>Shes known in the biz to be 'hard to work with' along with her mom/manager.</p>
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<p>I used to have a thing for her back in the day when she was in Roswell <strong>( i um used to watch it with um an ex girl friend)</strong></p>
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<p>I used to do the same - although Heigel was my least favourite of the 3 lead females.</p>
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<p>Winter Soldier is my favourite Marvel too. In saying that I didn't mind the 2nd Avengers, it was never going to not live up to the hype ... and I just looked at it as switch your brain entertainment and on that level I enjoyed it.</p>
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<p>In Star Wars news, it is about 20m off passing Avatar for the biggest US box office but missed out on taking the 2015 record off Jurassic World by $300k ... although TBF JW had a few months to make that total. $1.5B worldwide so far. Yes, I have a bit of time on my hands at the moment.</p> -
<p>Didn't i read Star Wars doesn't open in China until Feb? Which means they still get to write a few more records then?</p>
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<p>How to make all of the money in one easy step...</p> -
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<p>Didn't i read Star Wars doesn't open in China until Feb? Which means they still get to write a few more records then?</p>
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<p>How to make all of the money in one easy step...</p>
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<p>While nerding about I was reading about China. The initial estimate for China was only $100m total take due to the lack of success of the prequels and the fact that the original trilogy only played their for the first time this year.</p>
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<p>China has become a huge earner in the last couple of years, they are probably personally responsible for the continuation of the wonderful and awesome Transformer franchise.</p>
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<p>Last i read SW has broken some 45 Box Office records, its nuts.</p> -
<p>You can see all their number 1s here:</p>
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<p>What actually did surprise me is that it got a bunch of adjusted records as well (still behind the original for adjusted box office though).</p> -
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<p>You can see all their number 1s here:</p>
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<p>What actually did surprise me is that it got a bunch of adjusted records as well (still behind the original for adjusted box office though).</p>
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<p>Some of those records are cool (or boring as bat shit of your not into stats)</p>
<p>Looking at consecutive weeks at #1. Tootsie in 1982 spent 13 weeks straight at number 1, Tootsie!</p>
<p>On the other hand Porky's spent 8 weeks at #1...</p> -
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<p>Some of those records are cool (or boring as bat shit of your not into stats)</p>
<p>Looking at consecutive weeks at #1. Tootsie in 1982 spent 13 weeks straight at number 1, Tootsie!</p>
<p>On the other hand Porky's spent 8 weeks at #1...</p>
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<p>Can often be a factor of what else is showing at the time.</p>
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<p>But in this case... no. Though many other execs, knowing that this was coming, would have held off on their shit.</p> -
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Last i read SW has broken some 45 Box Office records, its nuts.</p></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="taniwharugby" data-cid="550594" data-time="1451930968"><p>China should be into it, they make all the Lego don't they....</p></blockquote>
Nice try no its made in Denmark<br>
Shesh the trolling on here these days is pretty weak