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<p>OK, I'm preparing to be ridiculed utterly for this, but unlike M4L I'm comfortable with my sexuality.</p>
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<p>Tonight the wife and I went Gold Lounge (had gift cards from Xma) for Ken Branagh's retelling of Cinderella.</p>
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<p>Aaaaaaand that's about enough. Go do the rest of it on your own time.</p>
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<p>So the movie itself was actually alright - light hearted, well acted, and of course being Disney the production values were fucking spectacular. Cate Blanchett didn't have to stretch herself, but really was the stand out as the wicked stepmother and had several LOL moments actually. Makes such a great bitch.</p>
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<p>I don't know that I'd take the kids though. It just wasn't... I dunno... <em>kiddie</em> enough like your Frozen or your Tangled animated gigs. Wife agreed with me: "kids would probably get bored" was her comment.</p>
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<p>Was a good, easy viewing movie for a Friday date night with a little bit of heart string pulling (around death of a character) and the bloke who played Robb Stark being a fairly decent prince.</p>
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<p>Now, I'm off to see if a root is in the offing, or whether my cosmic plea for a win over India the other night has basically ruined that shit.</p> -
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Really enjoyed Interstellar, usual issues with Nolan's films but it gets way more right than wrong. Special effects were epic, Matthew McConaughey is utterly brilliant, and I dunno if I'm getting sappy after having kids but those aspects really effected me.<br><br>
A great modern retake on 2001.</p></blockquote>I liked this too, although the whole bending time, worm holes and 5th dimension shit fucks with your head! -
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<p>Whatever it takes. And it did</p>
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<p>Do you have an expectation of what you will get in return for sitting through some female orientated shite movie? ie either sex in the city movie=threesome</p>
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<p>Slowcoach.</p>
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<p>I think he's actually claiming he plays the long game. It's 1 hour = 1 minute so a movie is going to equal 2 minutes.</p>
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<p>Rant re: Gold Class. Man what a complete racket. You pay over double the price for a ticket (when ticket prices in Sydney are already inflated). The only benefit you really get is a comfy chair. Everything else is just bullshit. You can pay extra over priced food and drinks. Then, the first 20 minutes of the movie is ruined by the wait staff delivering the food and then you get to listen to a range of different foods crunching instead of just popcorn. Rant over.</p> -
<p>Nah love it for Reading at least. Even better on weekdays when the price is cut. No fucking annoying kids in most cases. The bogans generally avoid it. Besides the pack of fat skanks that were munching as you say, and giggling* it was good. Less dickheads.</p>
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<p>It was also quicker and cheaper than hitting the restaurant beforehand too - gift voucher being a big difference - but dessert, dinner for both of us and a glass of sparkling for the wife came in around $60. Complimentary soft drink.</p>
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<p>Nah love it for Reading at least. Even better on weekdays when the price is cut. No fucking annoying kids in most cases. The bogans generally avoid it. Besides the pack of fat skanks that were munching as you say, and giggling* it was good. Less dickheads.</p>
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<p>It was also quicker and cheaper than hitting the restaurant beforehand too - gift voucher being a big difference - but dessert, dinner for both of us and a glass of sparkling for the wife came in around $60. Complimentary soft drink.</p>
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<p>You can piss away almost that much on popcorn and snacks.</p>
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<p>Oh yeah, if you compare it with going out for dinner to somewhere decent it can work out ok*, (but for me personally I'd rather go to one of the bunch of good restaurants in Chinatown and the Town Hall area that I'd much rather eat at than eat the almost bar food at the George St Gold Class) but if you're just going to watch a movie it's pretty shit - and the wait staff moving around was more annoying than any amount of bogans coming in late (it was like people were coming in late 30 minutes into the film).</p>
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<p>I've haven't been to the Reading one, just the George St one.</p>
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<p>$60 on popcorn and snacks aye? Bloody front rowers. TBH, I just grab a bag of lollies from the supermarket before a movie.</p>
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<p><em>A Most Violent Year</em><br><br>
Pretty good movie - themes were quite compelling, Oscar Isaac does a good Robert De Niro, some good shots (cigarette smoke wafting around as the camera turns a corner) but nothing stand-out. Plot was OK but nothing special, and like most of the film was tastefully understated because there was nothing more to offer. The incident at the end was superfluous bullshit.<br><br>
6.5/10. Not even close to a Scorsese film.<br><br><em>Nighthawks</em><br><br>
33% greatness, 33% garbage (shitty dialogue/character moments aside, there are some weirdly bad shots), 33% average.<br><br>
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<p>$60 on popcorn and snacks aye? Bloody front rowers. TBH, I just grab a bag of lollies from the supermarket before a movie.</p>
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<p>Wife has a childhood obsession with popcorn at the movies. Buys the kids a massive bucket of the shit every time we go (to be fair, its the small-massive bucket, as opposed to the medium-massive and the c***stack-massive bucket, but still).</p> -
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<p>Wife has a childhood obsession with popcorn at the movies. Buys the kids a massive bucket of the shit every time we go (to be fair, its the small-massive bucket, as opposed to the medium-massive and the cuntstack-massive bucket, but still).</p>
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<p>I love movie popcorn, but stopped eating it when I started losing weight last year. Plus I usually go to a movie straight after dinner so if it's the weekend I'll have some lollies, weekdays I won't eat.</p> -
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<p>Exodus: Gods and Kings - better than Noah.</p>
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<p>Was never gonna be hard! </p>
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<p>These biblical docos are well educational!</p>
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Kill me three times - Simon Pegg, Teresa Palmer and another of the Hemsworth clan<br><br>
Any who, I thought it was a decent 6.5/10 - Pegg is a low end PI/Hitman and while following a women for a client, he witnesses her being killed. -
<p>I just took the kids to see Shaun the Sheep. I laughed out loud more than i have in any recent adult comedy. </p>
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="mariner4life" data-cid="483506" data-time="1428128336"><p>I just took the kids to see Shaun the Sheep. I laughed out loud more than i have in any recent adult comedy.</p></blockquote>
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The jokes are easier to get ?
