Movie review thread...
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[quote name='LAKiwi']Apparently the Avengers movie they've signed up Captain America - Chris Evans, Robert Downey as Iron Man, Samual L Jackson, the guy who plays Thor. But it will be a new Hulk by the sounds of it. Inside word is that Edward Norton was a pain in the ass to deal with, so he's getting replaced.[/QUOTE]<br />
New Hulk is Mark Ruffalo. Scarlett Johanssen will reprise her role as Black Widow. Jeremy Renner will be Hawkeye. -
Watched I AM NUMBER 4 and actually enjoyed it, aside from a minor part played by Timothy Oliphant and a dude who often plays baddies, was a no name cast. Is room for a sequel, but I think it is not worth making it.
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[quote name='taniwharugby']Watched No Strings Attached, one of the new kinds of Rom-coms trying to attract the males of the world with smutty jokes, not to mention seeing Natalie Portman in next to no clothes helps too, if you dont like then, then Sneak will punch you in the throat![/QUOTE]<br />
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Damn right, and kick you in the nuts when you are withering on the ground. <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' /><br />
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Have to get my Natalie Portman fix with this movie and Thor - word is she is going to retire from movies which would be a disaster for mankind in general.<br />
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On to some films I have seen....<br />
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Catch 22 - Read the book and have always wanted to watch the film, Jon Voight is great as Milo Minderbinder though I was disappointed with Bob Newhart as Major Major. Good film overall. 7/10<br />
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The King of Kong - Use to have an old Donkey Kong arcade machine at the shops down the road when I was a kid so this was a great nostalgic watch for me. Dunno how much of this doco is real and how much is "reality tv" (especially with the dorky villain guy) but you do find yourself cheering on the underdog dork as he battles for respect with all the other dorks. 8.5/10 -
First clip from the movie that I'm most looking forward to this year, [URL="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780504/"][I]Drive[/I][/URL].<br />
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Kill The Irishman - based on the true story of Danny Greene, who was involved in the Cleveland Mafia in the 70's. Pretty good film, obviously unsure how close the facts are to reality, but still worth a watch. <br />
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I watched Water for Elephants at the weekend. Heavily promoted previews for Mothers Day but only about 8 people there. Boring predictable romantic - drama? <br />
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The elephant does do some neat tricks though.<br />
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Drive Angry - TSF fave, Nick Cage, Amber Heard (hot) William Fitchner<br />
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Odd movie title, and you have to watch carefully to work it out...anywhoo, Action-cult/satanistic kinda film, Cage's daughter was sucked into a cult and was 'sacrificed' while he was in prison, he dies, but escapes from hell to avenge his daughter, and kidnapped grand daughter from the cult leader in time to stop them sacrificing her too, all the while also evading one of Lucifers 'accountants' (played excellently by William Fitchner) charged with re-capturing him.<br />
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Now playing at Cannes?<br />
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Yup someone saw an easy way to take money off a grieving embittered old man.<br />
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Money that should rightfully have been spent strengthening the Fulham squad.<br />
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The most intriguing thing to me was that photograph of Philip with the Nazis. I was gobsmacked wondering if it was authentic. Guess I missed it when this story broke (2006), but did a google search and found out, yup, it's true.<br />
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Prince Philip has broken a 60-year public silence about his family's links with the Nazis.<br />
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In a frank interview, he said they found Hitler's attempts to restore Germany's power and prestige 'attractive' and admitted they had 'inhibitions about the Jews'.<br />
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The revelations come in a book about German royalty kowtowing to the Nazis, which features photographs never published in the UK.<br />
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They include one of Philip aged 16 at the 1937 funeral of his elder sister Cecile, flanked by relatives in SS and Brownshirt uniforms.<br />
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One row back in the cortege in Darmstadt, western Germany, was his uncle, Lord Mountbatten, wearing a Royal Navy bicorn hat.<br />
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Another picture shows his youngest sister, Sophia, sitting opposite Hitler at the wedding of Hermann and Emmy Goering.<br />
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Explaining the attraction of the Nazis, 84-year-old Prince Philip told an American academic: "There was a great improvement in things like [B]trains running on time[/B] and building. There was a [B]sense of hope[/B] after the depressing chaos of the Weimar Republic.<br />
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"I can understand people latching on to something or somebody who appeared to be appealing to their patriotism and trying to get things going. [B]You can understand how attractive it was[/B]."<br />
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He added that there was [B]'a lot of enthusiasm for the Nazis at the time[/B], the economy was good, we were anti-Communist and who knew what was going to happen to the regime?'<br />
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Philip stressed that he was never 'conscious of anybody in the family actually expressing anti-Semitic views'. But he went on to say there were 'inhibitions about the Jews' and 'jealousy of their success'.<br />
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Read more: [URL]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-379036/Prince-Philip-pictured-Nazi-funeral.html#ixzz1MeZaZxC7[/URL]<br />
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New Tintin trailer (Spielberg/Jackson) just uploaded:<br />
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I'll go watch. Christmas 2011... -
Faster; Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, Billy Bob Thornton.<br />
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Went and saw Pirates of the Caribbean 4 in 3D yesterday.<br />
Big fan of the first 3 (though the last 2 werent as good and were too muddled and ridiculous at times).<br />
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Enjoyed it alot, was better for dropping a couple of the original cast members, a much simpler plot.<br />
Less effects and thought Cruz wasnt bad.<br />
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watched Conviction - HIlary Swank<br />
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Based on a true story about a guy convicted of a brutal murder, and his sister tries to become a lawyer so she can fight for him to become free, not too bad of a movie.<br />
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I googled it afterwards and the movie obviously has it's poetic licence with some aspects left out, but I liked it none the less -
Unknown; Liam Neeson, January Jones, Diane Kruger - I guess based on the success of Neeson in Taken, this one has allowed him into a similar role (although something in this area did annoy me a little) all in all, a good film! <br />
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elephant White; Kevin Bacon, Djimon Hounsou - the latter being an assassin, and the former ex-military dealing in arms, set in Bangkok, lots of shooting, fighting, a few slightly ott gun battles as well, but easy to watch.<br />
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Pirates of the Caribbean 3D; My first experience at 3D since the days of cardboard blue and red glasses....I thought the movie fine, was as good as it's predecessors (although none quite as good as the original) and the 3D effects looked good too (although as explained, compared with...) -
Lincoln Lawyer; Matthew McConaghy (sp) Marisa Tomei, Ryan Phillipe and a few other faces I recognised.<br />
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Crime/drama/thriller - bit of a slow start, but ends up quite a good film
