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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>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 ? -
<p>i don't get it</p>
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Speak English!
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<p>he's a Westie, he's doing his best!</p>
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<p>The Kite Runner - really good storytelling & cinematography crossing from modern America to pre-Taliban/Russian invasion Afghanistan and Pakistan and back. I will admit I'm glad the hero got the shit kicked out of him as an adult near the end for being such an asshole, cowardly kid.</p>
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<p>Begin Again - enjoyed this. Sweet romcom/drama based around the music industry in discovery of a talent and creation of a live album. Keira Knightley & Mark Ruffalo are great. Even Adam Levine was pretty good as the jerk boyfriend.</p> -
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="mariner4life" data-cid="479437" data-time="1427066935"><p>it was just terrible. It was all over the shop in terms of timing. The voice-over was fucking annoying. It looked terrible (took the style of the first one, and fed it half a dozen really tacky energy drinks, like Monster, or Mother, or any of those other bogan beverages and let it loose). What the fuck was that blood effect for?<br>
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I love Strike Back, but Sullivan Stapleton is a fucking terrible actor. Eva Green is pretty ordinary as well really, and doesn't even look that great in it. Shit movie, avoid. I wish i had followed my instinct and not bothered. <br>
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Fuck, it's made 3 times it budget world wide! That almost guarantees another one of these fucking things doesn't it? Will this be the story of Themistocles being accused of treason by political rivals, and exiled to Persia? I somehow doubt it, given they already left out the best bit of his story.</p></blockquote>
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Yeah saw this the other night. Farking terrible. Loved the first film but this was crap on all counts. They even made Eva Green look like hospice chick. Glad I didn't pay to watch that shit. -
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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>My old man - being a farmer and shearer most of his life - laughed his arse off at that show. He discovered it watching with my kids one time.<br><br>
Mum said that from that point on, while they were out being Grey Nomads, he would always make sure ABC was tuned in as a priority once they pulled up somewhere in the caravan, to ensure he had News, Weather, and Shaun the Sheep -
It's a funny show. The episode where the sheep try to run the farm is hilarious
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<p>The Kite Runner - really good storytelling & cinematography crossing from modern America to pre-Taliban/Russian invasion Afghanistan and Pakistan and back. I will admit I'm glad the hero got the shit kicked out of him as an adult near the end for being such an asshole, cowardly kid.</p>
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<p><strong>Begin Again - enjoyed this. Sweet romcom/drama based around the music industry in discovery of a talent and creation of a live album. Keira Knightley & Mark Ruffalo are great. Even Adam Levine was pretty good as the jerk boyfriend.</strong></p>
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<p>At the risk of having my masculinity question again in this place, I too enjoyed this film. Interestingly it was made by the people who made the film Once. I hated Once, I couldn't stand the song and didn't warm to the characters yet everyone else in the world seemed to love it.</p>
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<p>Anyway I thought Knightly was really good, she can act these days. What a surprise that Levine could play a jerk boyfriend ;).</p>
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<p>I went and watched Furious 7. That movie is just relentless. Action set piece after action set piece (worth seeing in the cinema IMO). Totally preposterous, of course. And you just have to laugh at some of the dialogue and plot jumps, but I just enjoyed the ride.</p>
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<p>They lay it on pretty thick at the end regarding Paul Walker, but I liked it.</p>
