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<p><em>Jason Bourne</em></p>
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<p>It was Bourneish, in the main. The usual stuff of still digging into his past to find shit out, particularly about his Dad and whatnot.</p>
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<p>Various European locations, cool fight scenes, Matt Damon doing his thing as a remorseless fluffybunny - who surprisingly only kills 1 person the entire film.</p>
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<p>Alicia Vikander does a decent job as an emotionless, ambitious bitch who seeks to be the replacement for Julia Stiles' character, but not. </p>
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<p>Vincent Cassel is good as the ice-cold psycho mofo too.</p>
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<p>There is some questionable "hacker" activity in the movie and I had to laugh at a couple of points. Like, why the fuck does the Mr Awesome Computer Guy have all his shit connected to the internet all the time? Does NO-ONE use a black box for decrypting files these days? Disbelief suspended...</p>
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<p>Zero tits. Sorry Mariner.</p>
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<p>Anyway, it was a good date night movie with Mrs TA and I give it 4 out of 5 Guys With State-Sanctioned Memory Wipes.</p>
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<p>EDIT: Just occasionally, Greengrass needs to drop the fucking jerky camera angle shit. I understand WHY its done, but it sometimes ruins a good fight scene.</p>
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<p>London Has Fallen.</p>
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<p>I've not seen Olympus has fallen, but surely this was the sequel to Commando. Body count is off the charts, Bullshit-o-meter is just as high.</p>
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<p>A little bit America! America! but outside that, it's a decent enough action flick, maybe a little behind it's time, but watchable.</p>
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<p>London Has Fallen.</p>
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<p>I've not seen Olympus has fallen, but surely this was the sequel to Commando. Body count is off the charts, Bullshit-o-meter is just as high.</p>
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<p>A little bit America! America! but outside that, it's a decent enough action flick, maybe a little behind it's time, but watchable.</p>
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<p>3.5 dead world leaders out of 5.</p>
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<p>How bloody elaborate was the plan to kill the Jap prime minister??!!</p>
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<p>Last time I was in London (May), the planning it took to create a traffic jam on an arterial route seemed to be well in place!</p> -
<p>Suicide Squad: I liked it, way, way, way better the two Superman films that came before, if not being close to perfect. Margot Robbie and Will Smith were really good. </p>
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<p>There was some really bad scripting/editing at one point in it though where I actually had little clue what was going on. One character was included just so they could be killed (spoiler it's not Harley Quinn or Deadshot) yet they made it so obvious this was going to happen that really there was no point to it.</p>
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<p>Margot Robbie played a deathly pale character throughout the whole film and I'm not a fan of the pale yet she was still hot as fudge. She also got a bunch of the funniest lines.</p>
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<p>I didn't have a problem with Leto's Joker, people are always going to complain because of Ledger's performance.</p>
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<p>6.5 Special Forces soldiers standing around watching Harley Quinn get changed out of 10 (of the other 3.5, 1 has a glass eye, 1 is dead, 1 is blind, and the other is gay).</p>
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<p>London Has Fallen.</p>
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<p>I've not seen Olympus has fallen, but surely this was the sequel to Commando. Body count is off the charts, Bullshit-o-meter is just as high.</p>
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<p>A little bit America! America! but outside that, it's a decent enough action flick, maybe a little behind it's time, but watchable.</p>
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<p><strong>3.5 dead world leaders out of 5.</strong></p>
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Watched The Nice Guys. Ryan Gosling as a private investigator teams up with an enforcer played by Russell Crowe looking for a dead porn actress. Great chemistry between the two working with a very good script.<br><br>Definitely recommend.
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<p>Backstory here,<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=528487830784'>http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=528487830784</a></p> -
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<p>London Has Fallen.</p>
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<p>I've not seen Olympus has fallen, but surely this was the sequel to Commando. Body count is off the charts, Bullshit-o-meter is just as high.</p>
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<p>A little bit America! America! but outside that, it's a decent enough action flick, maybe a little behind it's time, but watchable.</p>
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<p>3.5 dead world leaders out of 5.</p>
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<p>Thank God America is here to Police the world, that's all I can say. Problem with that flick was the U S A, U S A.....Fucken U S A ! shit that you mention plus it tried to take itself a bit seriously. I also hate the whole "Baby, this is my last mission" cliché crap that it stole from a million movies before it. </p>
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<p>Thank God America is here to Police the world, that's all I can say. Problem with that flick was the U S A, U S A.....Fucken U S A ! shit that you mention plus it tried to take itself a bit seriously. I also hate the whole "Baby, this is my last mission" cliché crap that it stole from a million movies before it. </p>
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<p><strong>Commando was just Arnie being awesome.</strong></p>
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<p>FFS . </p>
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<p>FFS . </p>
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<p>I didn't bring it up, just offered my 2 cents for the millionth time.</p>
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<p>shame you didn't give me just 1c each time you offered your opinion....</p> -
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<p>Looking forward to this </p>
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<p>Backstory here,<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=528487830784'>http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=528487830784</a></p>
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<p>I feel like I don't need to see the movie now, having got the whole story from the trailer.</p> -
<p>speaking of Trailers....</p>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/4wq2iy/my_brother_who_is_a_lawyer_and_i_are_going_to_sue/'>https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/4wq2iy/my_brother_who_is_a_lawyer_and_i_are_going_to_sue/</a></p>
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<p class=""><a class="" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/4wq2iy/my_brother_who_is_a_lawyer_and_i_are_going_to_sue/">My brother (who is a lawyer) and I are going to sue WB and DC for false advertising, misleading visual images and gaining a profit from us and millions others due to these acts. Our case has been accepted. We begin 11.08.16</a> <span>(<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/'>self.movies</a>)</span></p>
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<p>Movie Trailers are like food menus, they give you a preview of what your gonna get. If you look at a McDonald's menu and you choose to get your favourite burger, presented/showcased in a nice picture with pickles, chicken, mild cheese(you're favourite, in-fact...that's the only reason you're getting this burger...because you love mild cheese). So you use your hard worked money to pay for this burger, you get the burger, but only to find out that...this isn't the burger you ordered. Yes it has pickles and chicken...but...it doesn't have mild cheese...it has regular cheese.</p>
<p>Suicide Squad trailers showcased several SPECIFIC Joker scenes that I had to pay for the whole movie just so that I can go watch those SPECIFIC SCENES that WB/DC had advertised in their trailers and TV spots. These scenes are: When Joker banged his head on his car window, when Joker says, ''let me show you my toys'', when Joker punchs the roof of his car, when Joker drops a bomb with his face all messed up and says, ''BYE BYE!''. Non of these scenes were in the movie. I drove 300 miles to London to go watch these specific scenes they had explicitly advertised in their TV ads...and they didn't show them to me. Adding to this, they were also 2 specific Katana scenes they advertised that were also the reason I wanted to go watch the movie. These scenes were: Katana's eyes going black, and a slow motion shot of her and her sword taking souls...in a smokey kind of style. These scenes were advertised several times in the 1st trailer and many TV ads...but they didn't show it to me in the movie. I wasted alot of money paying and travelling to go watch this movie because of these specific scenes they had advertised to me and all of us saying, ''hey, check out our preview! this will all be in our movie, come watch it on the 5th!!''. All lies. I told the theatre about this unjust act and said I didn't get what I came here to see...can I have my money back. They laughed at me and kicked me out. So I'm now taking this to court. I want my refund, the trauma of being embarrassed as I was being kicked out and people laughing at me for wanting my refund, and also the 160 pounds of fuel money I used to drive to London from Scotland.</p>
<p>If you advertise something...give me what you have advertised. Period. This is becoming a habbit with movie studios, showing epic scenes in trailers...but their never shown in the movies. It's unjust.</p>
<p>I just want to say, join me if you feel the same way. Let's stop this nonsense of false bullshitery...and don't let them bribe you with their ''deluxe premium special directors gold extended edition supreme cut'' nonsense. You should get what they advertised as their first theatre showing and what you have paid for based on what they have showed you in their advertisements.</p>
<p>Our court process will begin on 11/08/16 this week.</p>
<p>Edit: Further to us taking legal action on Suicide Squads false advertising scheme, we've launched a petition for fans and general film goers to get their refunds. If you feel the same way, please sign and together we can help make cinema better for everyone. Thanks.</p>
<p>Link: <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://www.change.org/p/us-government-wb-dc-should-refund-fans-for-falsely-advertising-scenes-that-weren-t-in-the-final-product'>https://www.change.org/p/us-government-wb-dc-should-refund-fans-for-falsely-advertising-scenes-that-weren-t-in-the-final-product</a></p>
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I feel like I don't need to see the movie now, having got the whole story from the trailer.</p></blockquote>
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<p>shame you didn't give me just 1c each time you offered your opinion....</p>
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<p>I didn't bring it up, just offered my 2<strong> cents for the millionth time.</strong></p>
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<p>You'd be well on your way to having enough for a 50 cent mixture from the dairy if I did.</p>
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<p>Dawg fight. </p>
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<p>A documentary about backyard brawling in Florida. Guy runs a fight company in his backyard with a few characters who dream of getting into the MMA. Sad in a lot of ways especially the meeting they have where the big boss dada 5000 just spouts a lot of cliches and all the guys just nod in approval. Education in the US seems to really be failing a lot of people. </p> -
<p><em>The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty</em></p>
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<p>Family movie night on Saturday, and the kids have already seen anything animated worth watching. As Little Miss the Aussie is only 8, Batman vs Superman was off the table.</p>
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<p>So we saw this instead, and I regret none of it.</p>
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<p>What a fucking excellent film. What a wonderful statement to a guy like me, in his 40s now, and wondering what the fuck he's doing with his life. </p>
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<p>Loved the scenery. The acting was great. The zone-out scenes were funny as, and the whole family loved it.</p>
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<p>5 out of 5 middle-aged men who woke up to the banality of their lives and did something about it.</p>