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Saw Dallas Buyers Club last night - very good.  Matthew McConaughey's weight loss was Hard News-esque.

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TV wrote:

12 years a slave. Brutal. Will win best pic oscar

 

An absolute shocker..the unease in the auditorium I was in was palpable.  

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Monuments Men on Saturday night...a bit typical of all American War movies, with Americans saving the entire free world, but not a bad watch based (very) loosely on a true story

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Dr Strangelove is always a good watch for dry humour

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Just watched pain and gain

Marky mark and the rock. How could you go right?

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Re-watched Beasts of the Southern Wild on Sunday. Absolutely stunning movie, has anyone seen it?

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Yes Fitzy.I also enjoyed it.

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sthn.jeff wrote:

Monuments Men on Saturday night...a bit typical of all American War movies, with Americans saving the entire free world, but not a bad watch based (very) loosely on a true story

Just finished the book, some of the Americanisms were cringe worthy. Felt like it could have done so much more with what was a pretty amazing story. Interested to see the film as I haven't heard positive things.

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Sanday wrote:

Yes Fitzy.I also enjoyed it.

Your excellent taste in movies has earned you your first karma. Bravo. 
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bopman wrote:
sthn.jeff wrote:

Monuments Men on Saturday night...a bit typical of all American War movies, with Americans saving the entire free world, but not a bad watch based (very) loosely on a true story

Just finished the book, some of the Americanisms were cringe worthy. Felt like it could have done so much more with what was a pretty amazing story. Interested to see the film as I haven't heard positive things.

Your better of watching the Nat Geo and history channel docos that cover this stuff. Much more factual and probably better storytelling.

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You got that right Uber. Some damn good stories on there and all factual.

Marquee
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watched Don Jon yesterday, which really made me thinkthat I should keep my broweser history clean.

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Legend
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Watched Enders Game last night was going for $25 on bluray at the Ware whare. Not too bad a movie, gotta nice twist in it. Visually quite spectacular on my LED tv.

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Bit disappointed in the second hunger games. Hate it when a movie is set up for number three


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Bit disappointed in the second hunger games. Hate it when a movie is set up for number three. But if anyone wants to know what sparked the hunger games watch the Japanese movie Battle Royale. Tarintinos favourite movie of all time.
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Bit disappointed in the second hunger games. Hate it when a movie is set up for number three


Same. But its kind of expects when it's based on a series of books isn't it? 
But you're right, so many movies do that now, have a beginning, middle then a cliffhanger for the 'next movie' instead of an ending, pisses me off. 
Didn't really mind it in hunger games though. 
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You mean like The Hobbitt?

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Yep, exactly like that. 

Captain America kind of did the same thing. Though that is more introducing an alternate story after the main one had an ending. 

Machete kills, the bad guy gets away into space, Machete says he is going to go after him, then the movie ends. Sick of it. 

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Danny Trejo = Legend.

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I see The Raid 2 is out soon. The Raid was on Rialto a couple of weeks ago. An Indonesian movie about a SWAT team caught up in a tower bloke filled with baddies. First class action and martial arts - really well done and relentless,

Think Old Boy with Assault on Precinct 13

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Watched "No. 42" last night. Harrison Forde had to act in it and did a pretty good job of it too. Excellent film about an excellent baseball player - Jackie Robinson. Sadly, I don't think much has changed in the "Good ol Boy" states since 1947 either.

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Lonegunmen wrote:

Watched "No. 42" last night. Harrison Forde had to act in it and did a pretty good job of it too. Excellent film about an excellent baseball player - Jackie Robinson. Sadly, I don't think much has changed in the "Good ol Boy" states since 1947 either.



Funny thing about baseball films, I usually think "nah, not into baseball", watch a bit anyway and get really into it. Will check it out when it appears on sky.
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Field of Dreams is in my top 5 favourite films, Major League is funny, Angels in the Outfield is a great family flick and the Sandlot three films were good family watching too. For the love of the game and Bull Durham were both very good. Next up that Clint Eastwood movie Trouble with the Curve. Hope to watch that soon.

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Just watched Sling Blade starring and directed and adapted by Billy Bob. Thumbs up

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Feverish wrote:

Just watched Sling Blade starring and directed and adapted by Billy Bob. Thumbs up

 

He should have won the Oscar for that performance not just the screenplay he is f*cking epic in that film.

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Watched "Trouble with the Curve". good film. Baseball is the basis for it but it is more about a father / daughter relationship. I thoroughly enjoyed it. A solid story and good acting from all concerned.

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I watched The Raid 2 in the cinema 2-3 weeks ago Fortean?

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Steve-O wrote:

I watched The Raid 2 in the cinema 2-3 weeks ago Fortean?



Any good?
Legend
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I am watching Red Dawn atm in a motel.

USA teenagers are awesome. The film is awesome, the storyline is da bomb.

Thank god for America.


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Is that the Patrick Swazye version?

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2012 version

Could have almost been Team America except it was "serious".


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Yeah I watched it too. Not the best but not the worst.

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Team America - Fuck Yeah!

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Operation Overdue. Doco about Erebus from perspective of DVI cops.

It may just be my faacination with the whole accident investigation that made this interesting for me.

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I work with a guy that was down there doing body recovery. Pretty horrific.

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Legend
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Just watched te last 40 minutes of The Commitments on Vibe. Friggen awesome music and I love the humour in the film.

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Just watched filth. Really enjoyed it. Its a hard book to transfer to the screen but whoever directed it did a great job.

I would say though if you can't understand the Scottish accent, then don't watch it.

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Captain Blood, starring Errol Flynn. Black and white pirate movie that is so bad its good. Better than Pirates of the Caribbean. Althou one can easily see where the latter got all of its ideas from.

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Lonegunmen wrote:

Captain Blood, starring Errol Flynn. Black and white pirate movie that is so bad its good. Better than Pirates of the Caribbean. Althou one can easily see where the latter got all of its ideas from.

No Keira, no care-a

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Late reply but The Raid 2 was absolutely awesome, yes.

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