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<p>Saving Mr Banks. LOVED this. Great cast, great story. One tiny negative: remembering how excrutiatingly bad Dick Van Dyke's English accent was in Mary Poppins.</p>
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<p>Prisoners. Good Jackman/Gyllenhaal thriller let down by last 15 minutes with some randomness and characters flicked away with no reason/resolution. 'Oh no, we never knew him'. And HATED the final scene. Seriously? After all the father went through/did to save his daughter, we don't get the emotional payoff of the two reuniting? PAH.</p> -
<p>Been chilling by watching a lot of Sky movies this week.</p>
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<p>This is the End - Not the biggest Seth Rogan or James Franco fan but this comedy about a bunch of obnoxious Hollywood actors trying to survive the rapture was pretty funny, especially Jonah Hill's Rosemary's Baby moment.</p>
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<p>Captain Phillips - Just when I thought Tom Hanks had faded away he comes back in this film. Not a bad performance by him or the pirate leader. Based on the true story of a ship captain being captured by some useless Somali pirates. We all know how it ends.</p>
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<p>Evil Dead remake - I'm a huge Evil Dead fan - Army of Darkness is my favourite movie of all time. This remake has the same gruesome scenes and a few change ups from the original but the ending had me confused.</p>
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<p>[spoiler] The ending with the main female character fighting a possessed version of herself, after being freed from possession, doesn't make much sense in the ED universe.... unless it grew out of her shoulder.... [/spoiler]</p>
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<p>Masters of the Universe - Terrible acting, terrible make up, terrible special effects, somewhat homo-erotic, extremely cheesy, terrible plot. But when Drago yells "I HAVE THE PAUA!" you're just like "fuck yeah". And the Teela chick is pretty fine for 80s standards too.</p> -
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<p>I was out for drinks with Feargal Sharkey the other night. Had no idea who he was when I was introduced...oops.</p>
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<p>Philistine!</p> -
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<p>Been chilling by watching a lot of Sky movies this week.</p>
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<p><strong>This is the End</strong> - Not the biggest Seth Rogan or James Franco fan but this comedy about a bunch of obnoxious Hollywood actors trying to survive the rapture was pretty funny, especially Jonah Hill's Rosemary's Baby moment.</p>
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<p>Captain Phillips - Just when I thought Tom Hanks had faded away he comes back in this film. Not a bad performance by him or the pirate leader. Based on the true story of a ship captain being captured by some useless Somali pirates. We all know how it ends.</p>
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<p>Evil Dead remake - I'm a huge Evil Dead fan - Army of Darkness is my favourite movie of all time. This remake has the same gruesome scenes and a few change ups from the original but the ending had me confused.</p>
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<p>[spoiler] The ending with the main female character fighting a possessed version of herself, after being freed from possession, doesn't make much sense in the ED universe.... unless it grew out of her shoulder.... [/spoiler]</p>
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<p>Masters of the Universe - Terrible acting, terrible make up, terrible special effects, somewhat homo-erotic, extremely cheesy, terrible plot. But when Drago yells "I HAVE THE PAUA!" you're just like "fuck yeah". And the Teela chick is pretty fine for 80s standards too.</p>
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<p>'This scene was disturbing and hilarious <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://m.imdb.com/title/tt1245492/quotes?qt=qt2093546'>http://m.imdb.com/title/tt1245492/quotes?qt=qt2093546</a></p> -
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<p>This is the End - Not the biggest Seth Rogan or James Franco fan but this comedy about a bunch of obnoxious Hollywood actors trying to survive the rapture was pretty funny, especially Jonah Hill's Rosemary's Baby moment.</p>
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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>Add me tot he Guardians of the Galaxy fan club! I am Groot! </p> -
<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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You forgot point break , I can forgive the man for anything after that masterpiece. -
<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>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>
