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Rancid Schnitzel

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="mariner4life" data-cid="479437" data-time="1427066935">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? 
 
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. 
 
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.</blockquote>
 
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.

NTA

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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.</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. 
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

mariner4life

It's a funny show. The episode where the sheep try to run the farm is hilarious

Nepia

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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.
 
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.
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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.
 
Anyway I thought Knightly was really good, she can act these days. What a surprise that Levine could play a jerk boyfriend ;).
 
TBH, it wasn't really too much of a romcom - not Katherine Hiegel type movie at any rate.

Milk

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.
 
They lay it on pretty thick at the end regarding Paul Walker, but I liked it.

Mokey

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<div> TBH, it wasn't really too much of a romcom - not Katherine Hiegel type movie at any rate.
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Putting Katherine Heigl and rom coms in the same sentence is a grievous insult to all rom coms. She doesn't appear in that glorious genre, more horror, I'd say, playing a series of neurotic psychos who lure idiot men to their doom with a cute BFF, then torture them with grating shrieks and incomprehensible dialogue until they surrender, a hollow shell of their former selves.

mariner4life

Chick fight!

Nepia

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Chick fight!
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You Australians do love a chick fight.
 
 
 
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Mokey" data-cid="483759" data-time="1428266212">
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shoves you over a cliff
Putting Katherine Heigl and rom coms in the same sentence is a grievous insult to all rom coms. She doesn't appear in that glorious genre, more horror, I'd say, playing a series of neurotic psychos who lure idiot men to their doom with a cute BFF, then torture them with grating shrieks and incomprehensible dialogue until they surrender, a hollow shell of their former selves.
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Bloody hell, I come out in support of your movie choice and get thrown over a cliff for it!

Mokey

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Nepia" data-cid="483764" data-time="1428277026">
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Bloody hell, I come out in support of your movie choice and get thrown over a cliff for it!
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In romcom world, KH is she of whom we do not speak. There must be a guy equivalent - someone who plays the same role over and over and is so bad you wonder who is being blackmailed to green light the shit arse movies.

taniwharugby

NIck Cage (that oughta get Nepia going)

Nepia

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="taniwharugby" data-cid="483777" data-time="1428284384">
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NIck Cage (that oughta get Nepia going) 
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Huh? I've never been involved in the Cage hating that infects this place and I've never been that willing to defend him from the dross he's been making for money these days.
 
 
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In romcom world, KH is she of whom we do not speak. There must be a guy equivalent - someone who plays the same role over and over and is so bad you wonder who is being blackmailed to green light the shit arse movies.
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My apologies, I don't know the rules of the romcom world. Kate Hudson then .... ducks for cover.

taniwharugby

I think you are the only one who has defended him, ever 
 
In saying that, I hold out hope he might do a good one one day, unlike one of his recent expoits, The Dying of the Light or something, which was utter shite!

Nepia

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I think you are the only one who has defended him, ever ;)
 
In saying that, I hold out hope he might do a good one one day, unlike one of his recent expoits, The Dying of the Light or something, which was utter shite! 
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Probably because this place went all feral and decided that Face Off, The Rock, and Leaving Las Vegas were shit as well.
 
At any rate, I think the last movie I saw him in was Kick Ass so you seem to be in a better place to judge his recent performances than me. :)

taniwharugby

Well I liked Face Off (like Travolta as a baddie) The Rock and Con Air, but I dare say anyone coulda played the roles Cage did in them to equal or better effect

Nepia

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Well I liked Face Off (like Travolta as a baddie) The Rock and Con Air, but I dare say anyone coulda played the roles Cage did in them to equal or better effect :)
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No one could equal or better Cage's hair in Con Air!

mariner4life

To answer mokey's question, I often wonder how Jeremy Renner and that aussie fluffybunny who did avatar and the Titans movies keep getting work

Mokey

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My apologies, I don't know the rules of the romcom world. Kate Hudson then .... ducks for cover.
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KATE HUDSON?? FFS. Somebody hold my purse.
 
And have to agree re Nic Cage. Hard to believe how far that dude has fallen with scripts. Ditto for Adam Sandler. He must have dirt on half the execs in Hollywood.

Nepia

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Mokey" data-cid="483797" data-time="1428297870">
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KATE HUDSON?? FFS. Somebody hold my purse.
 
And have to agree re Nic Cage. Hard to believe how far that dude has fallen with scripts. Ditto for Adam Sandler. He must have dirt on half the execs in Hollywood.
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:) I think I best stop now while I'm um ... ahead?
 
Regarding Sandler, apparently he's all about work life balance now and his films all make money. So he gets a budget, hires his mates, they go make a movie, it makes money, he gets a share of the profits.
 
 
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="mariner4life" data-cid="483793" data-time="1428294868">
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To answer mokey's question, I often wonder how Jeremy Renner and that aussie fluffybunny who did avatar and the Titans movies keep getting work
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I don't get the Renner thing either, and the Hurt Locker which shot him to prominence was overrated. TBF, I think he can be ok in supporting roles because unlike Worthington (Titans) he can actually act.

taniwharugby

Sandler also (part?) owns a production company too doesnt he? Happy Madison or something that most of his movies are done through which is why he and all his mates are in them. 
 
Was always gonna be downhill after Happy Gilmore! 
 
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KATE HUDSON?? FFS. Somebody hold my purse.
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I'll see what Tana is upto!

Mokey

Worthington will have to stay on the stage to keep Ms Bingle in the style to which she's accustomed. And little Rocket Zot.
 
(On a side note, I have a great deal of sympathy for the offspring of people like these two clowns. I hope the wee boy can get to the deed poll office before he's too traumatised.)

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