Movie review thread...
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[quote name='Deepblue']According to the box office, Twilight, The Phantom Menace and Transformers ROTF are cinematic masterpieces.[/QUOTE]<br />
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not to mention Boyzone (or whatever those artists of a generation were called) sit alongside The Beatles...<img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /> -
I'm having a bit of a doco season at the moment and here is another<br />
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Wasteland - story of a Brazilian artist who goes to the largest refuse dump in Rio and engages the "trash pickers" in creating art from the recyclable waste. Great story, happy ending, and a few heart string pulling moments -
[quote name='Deepblue']According to the box office, Twilight, The Phantom Menace and Transformers ROTF are cinematic masterpieces.[/QUOTE]<br />
Except critics also loved Boy as well ... critics and box office v Deepblue <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />.<br />
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[QUOTE] not to mention Boyzone (or whatever those artists of a generation were called) sit alongside The Beatles...[/QUOTE]<br />
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Tron Legacy = Pile of poo
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[quote name='Tim'][I]Paul[/I]. Entertaining and amusing. Light and fairly brisk. Worth a watch.[/QUOTE]<br />
Went and saw (yes thats right i didnt actually download it) World Invasion: Battle LA lastnight, saw the preview for Paul. Looks a great watch.<br />
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Battle LA by the way wasnt bad, basically a modern warfare movie that so happens to involve aliens rather than Terrorists/Chinese/Russians.<br />
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Saw a few movies on my trip;<br />
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Social Network: excellent, even if inaccurate<br />
127 Hours: more entertaining than the premise has a right to be. Very good<br />
Inception: mind bending sic fi, well made and this generations blade runner (or total recall, for the open to interpretation ending)<br />
Red: brained dead fun with a great cast, was fine<br />
Battle LA: better than I expected, awful dialogue but 100 times better than independence day. -
[quote name='Nepia']Except critics also loved Boy as well ... critics and box office v Deepblue <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />.[/QUOTE]<br />
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I'm not saying it's shit, just that with the talent (especially the kids) there it could have been something exceptional. -
The Resident - listed as a horror, but more a thriller, was moving along alright until the finale which seemed to slip into the stereotypical 'horror' ending; HIlary Swank, 6.5/10
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[quote name='Kirwan']Saw Zombieland the other night, was far more entertaining than I expected it to be. Definitely worth watching, pretty funny.[/QUOTE]<br />
Zombieland is great, I don't really like zombie films but to tell you the truth I found it nearly as funny as Shaun of the Dead. I wound up watching Adventureland the following night not knowing the same guy (the one from The Social Network) was in both. Both worth a watch I say. -
[quote name='Kirwan']Saw Zombieland the other night, was far more entertaining than I expected it to be. Definitely worth watching, pretty funny.[/QUOTE]<br />
The cameo by BM made Zombieland so much cooler. I too enjoyed Adventureland as well, even with the eternally pale Kristin Stewart in it. The Twilight movies have pretty much ruined her as an actress for me. -
Adventureland is great, seen it a couple times.<br />
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Went to see "I Love You Phillip Morris" last night, apparently a true story about a gay conman (played by Jim Carrey) and his prison lover (Ewen MacGregor). If the story is even half-true (the multiple elaborate prison escapes, his faking his way into courtrooms as a lawyer, then lying his way uinto a position as a CFO at a big company, etc.), it's preposterous stuff. Worth a look ... 7/10 ... and probably the best thing Carrey has done for years. -
I watched the new Ayrton Senna documentary today "Senna : Beyond the Speed of Sound". Enthralling is what is was. The version I watched was sourced from the Japanese Special Edition Blu Ray DVD. Run time of the theatrical cut of the movie is 108 minutes, and it is strictly made up of old documentary footage. The version I watched was 168 minutes, and it had modern interview segments with Ron Dennis, Alain Prost etc interspersed between the documentary footage. While the insight from the interviews was very interesting and added to the movie, I kind of wish I had seen the theatrical cut. Some of the cuts back and forth between the modern material and the docu was very jarring, and took away from the story. From Googling around the Japanese Amazon site, the Special Edition Blu Ray has both cuts on it. The movie was fantastic. Some of the footage amazing, some very ominous. Watching the whole Imola weekend was just so weird. Senna's unease with the Williams' undrivability, and then the tension he felt after Barrichello's horrible crash, and then Ratzenburger's death was palpable. Knowing the ending, you still sat on the edge of your seat waiting for the Tamburello accident. It really is woorth a watch, especially if you are an F1 fan.<br />
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[quote name='rustycruiser']The cameo by BM made Zombieland so much cooler. I too enjoyed Adventureland as well, even with the eternally pale Kristin Stewart in it. The Twilight movies have pretty much ruined her as an actress for me.[/QUOTE]<br />
I was a bit meh with the cameo, it was funny, but by far movie defining to me - and then I was bemused by every critic/fan raving about it afterward.<br />
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I don't watch Twilight so thought Stewart was pretty good and quite believable in Adventureland. And I don't find pale skin attractive in the slightest.<br />
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However the other chick whose name escapes (somebody P I think) me at the moment was damn hot.
