Movie review thread...
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Curious Case of Benjamin Button; >2.5 hours - 7.0/10<br />
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Not a bad movie, well acted. LIttle bit of an odd ending (in terms of how, rather than why) -
X-Men; Wolverine Origins.<br />
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Liked it, 7/10, only thing I will say, is that the version I watched, is unlikely to be the one in the cinema...a few scenes still CGI, you could see the wires Mr. Wolverine had to do some stunts.<br />
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Rendition; Gyllenhal & Witherspoon ; 6.4/10<br />
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Thriller, Gyllenhall is CIA in the Middle East (Tunisia I think) and Withersppons Egyptian Husband gets carted off from Washington to Tunisia for 'questioning' -
[i]Bad Blood[/i] - Jack Thompson pretty good in this.<br />
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[i]Dead Kids[/i] - seriously WTF!!!!!! -
[quote name='Scorz']In Bruge, 3/10.<br />
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Utter, utter crap with no hook in the entire film. As soon as Farrell went kissing guys in Alexander he hasn't had a decent film since. He is now an indicator not to bother watching.[/quote]<br />
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Disagree... I loved it, found it very funny... Dark but a funny Dark.<br />
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Everything has repercussions, fat people going up bell towers, calling Canadians Americans etc....<br />
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See three of the Harry potter actors.... Fluer (Farrell's girlfriend), Alastor 'MadÂEye' Moody (Ken) and Lord Voldemort (Harry)<br />
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Saw the "Watchermen" liked it, they kept to the comic reasonably (I actually own the original comic from when the series was first released. not a reprint.) Will buy the DVD just because I have to.<br />
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Also saw the Changeling recently. Was also impressed with that, Eastwood stuck very closely to the original "True story" as disturbing as that story is and didn't cave to the desire to give it a happy ending while still leaving that possibility as the "True story" potentially has.<br />
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Did the "Boat that rocks" last weekend and loved it, bloody hilarious and a real nostalgic trip. (Remember listening to radio Hauraki as a kid)<br />
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Will be seeing Wolverine this weekend. -
[quote name='Scorz']In Bruge, 3/10.<br />
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Utter, utter crap with no hook in the entire film. As soon as Farrell went kissing guys in Alexander he hasn't had a decent film since. He is now an indicator not to bother watching.[/quote]<br />
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Also disagree, saw it on a first date and we both loved it, very dark humour so perhaps not to everyones tastes, 8/10 -
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Did the "Boat that rocks" last weekend and loved it, bloody hilarious and a real nostalgic trip. (Remember listening to radio Hauraki as a kid).[/quote]<br />
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Dunno what yr talking about here, but please elaborate! (I used to listen to Hauraki from primary school to high-school in the 1970s; listened to it a bit in the mid-80s, but it seemed to me the life got sucked out of the station. I was always fascinated reading stories about their original early pirate days in the Sixties...) -
[quote name='Rembrandt'][quote name='Scorz']In Bruge, 3/10.<br />
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Utter, utter crap with no hook in the entire film. As soon as Farrell went kissing guys in Alexander he hasn't had a decent film since. He is now an indicator not to bother watching.[/quote]<br />
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Also disagree, saw it on a first date and we both loved it, very dark humour so perhaps not to everyones tastes, 8/10[/quote]<br />
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In Bruges was an alright confection. I seem to recall enjoying watching it, but for the life of me can't remember much about it aside from Colin Farrell biting his fingernails a lot (or did I just imagine that??).
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The International; Clive Owen, Naomi Watts<br />
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Had not heard good things about this, but I actually thought it was not bad; 6.4/10<br />
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Owen & Watts are Interpol agents tracking an assassin supposedly working for a large bank who does the killing to help 3rd world countries into conflict -
[quote name='red terror'][quote name='Mainlander']<br />
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Did the "Boat that rocks" last weekend and loved it, bloody hilarious and a real nostalgic trip. (Remember listening to radio Hauraki as a kid).[/quote]<br />
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Dunno what yr talking about here, but please elaborate! (I used to listen to Hauraki from primary school to high-school in the 1970s; listened to it a bit in the mid-80s, but it seemed to me the life got sucked out of the station. I was always fascinated reading stories about their original early pirate days in the Sixties...)[/quote]<br />
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The Boat that rocks is a movie about a Pommy Pirate radio station (Broadcasts outside the 12 mile zone in international waters) set in 1966 when they were doing that. Story is fictious but has a lot of antidotes of the three British, American and NZ (Original radio Hauraki) and others that were operating around those times. (The sinking was an exaggerated radio Hauraki incident, which sank... or at least grounded twice, once in the storm that sunk the Wahine.)<br />
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The music is 60's and early 70's and brilliant, from Seekers to Hendrix and is worth watching for that alone, but the interplay between the DJs is hilarious. Has NZer Rhys Darby (Murray in The Flight of the Conchords), Bill Nighy (Davy Jones in Pirates of the Caribbean, Viktor in Underworld, Love Actually and Hot Fuzz), Nick Frost (Hot Fuzz. Kinky Boots, Shaun of the Dead). The actors based some of their roles on famous DJ in the English scene. (One is supposed to be a Kenny Everit type) <br />
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The result is a funny move that’s a lot of fun and for those of us that actually remember Pirate Radio it's a trip down memory lane.<br />
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If you like that era music and love a fun British comedy with interesting characters you'll love it.<br />
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If you like your movies to have deep meanings, plot twists and canned laughter then don't bother. -
Just saw Wolverine (the cinema version, not Taniwha's leaked one), was very good.<br />
Had good fighting scenes, nods to the previous x men movies, strong cast.<br />
If I was to compare it with the Watchmen, I'd give it a 8/10 to the Watchmen's 5/10. Far superior, it was seamless and looked like it was directed by one person not four.<br />
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Previews for Star Trek, Public Enemies and Terminator played before Wolverine. PE and Terminator both look like they're going to be great, Star Trek unfortunately looks like it's going to be shit - for one that actor doesn't look like he has the charisma of Shatner's little toe. -
Can't disagree more about Star Trek, that's looking great. Will reserve judgement about the Pine, but he's not doing a Shatner impersonation (nobody could really) and that's a good thing.<br />
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Urban is doing a DeForrest Kelly impersonation from what I've seen, and is bloody funny. The comments from the fan boys and insiders is they have nailed it, so looking forward to seeing it. -
[quote name='Nepia']Star Trek unfortunately looks like it's going to be shit.[/quote]<br />
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Disagree completely. I am not a Star Trek fan, but I saw that trailer before Watchmen and went sheeeeeit, I [u]have[/u] to see that film. Fans at the early sneak previews are saying it is the equal-or-better than Wrath of Khan, which for Trekkies is very high praise indeed. -
[quote name='Mainlander']The Boat that rocks is a movie about a Pommy Pirate radio station (Broadcasts outside the 12 mile zone in international waters) set in 1966 when they were doing that. [/quote]<br />
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I'll have to check it out. Kinda sounds like "The Goodies." (Anybody remember that episode? They started a pirate radio station, but I seem to recall they did it from a submarine U-boat.)<br />
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[quote]Story is fictious but has a lot of antidotes of the three British, American and NZ (Original radio Hauraki) and others that were operating around those times. (The sinking was an exaggerated radio Hauraki incident, which sank... or at least grounded twice, once in the storm that sunk the Wahine.)[/quote]<br />
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Didn't somebody die in one of those Hauraki accidents?<br />
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[quote] ...The actors based some of their roles on famous DJ in the English scene. (One is supposed to be a Kenny Everit type) [/quote]<br />
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I'm curious if there's a "John Peel" character. He was offshore on pirate Radio London.<br />
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Always loved how The Who's "Who Sell-Out" stylized itself on the pirate radio theme, too.
