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#5841 polishgenius

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Posted 25 April 2013 - 05:32 PM

To be fair, the rumoured spoilers about what happens at the end also don't bode well for Star Trek.

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Posted 26 April 2013 - 06:31 AM

polishgenius, on 25 April 2013 - 05:32 PM, said:

To be fair, the rumoured spoilers about what happens at the end also don't bode well for Star Trek.

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Posted 28 April 2013 - 11:40 AM

Double post, apologies.

Iron Man 3 - go and see it.

Easily as good as the first one. Aside from the cool action sequences, it goes further into revealing the multiple layers of Tony Stark without getting schmaltzy in any way. Robert Downey Jr makes it look so easy.

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Posted 30 April 2013 - 07:26 AM

Sombra, on 28 April 2013 - 11:40 AM, said:

I must be the only person who didnt really enjoy it. Everyone i know loved it but I found it, other than the effects, distinctly average. Its not like I was expecting loads after Iron Man 2 but while worth watching I didnt think it was amazing. I thought the Avengers was much better as was the first Iron Man film along with most of the other initial superhero ones. Its worth a watch no doubt but not amazing. I was surprised by this as I love Guy Pearce.

Watched the Place beyond the pinmes aswell yesterday and it was not what the trailer paints it to be. Its still a decent film but I expected a sort of dramatic chase movie that focused on the family around them, like Road to Perdition maybe. I wasnt that blown away by it and neither was trhe gf who was really looking forward to it.

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Posted 30 April 2013 - 12:57 PM

Jean-Claude Van tiam, on 30 April 2013 - 07:26 AM, said:

...Watched the Place beyond the pinmes aswell yesterday and it was not what the trailer paints it to be. Its still a decent film but I expected a sort of dramatic chase movie that focused on the family around them, like Road to Perdition maybe. I wasnt that blown away by it and neither was trhe gf who was really just there because Ryan Gosling was in it and now i have to watch the frikkin Notebook for the seventeenth time.

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Posted 30 April 2013 - 02:03 PM

Indeed though I thought it looked quite good aswell given the trailer. Who knows Abyss...who knows...

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Posted 01 May 2013 - 07:00 AM

Oblivion

just meh on so many levels. A typical Tom Cruise performance but neither he nor the rest of the cast really did anything to lift the story for me at all.
pretty, I'll give it that. And that's all.

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Posted 01 May 2013 - 01:12 PM

I watched Oblivion a while ago.

Id describe it as Moon with all the trimmings but not half as good.

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Posted 05 May 2013 - 11:48 AM

Watched OBLIVION last night, and yeah, MOON with all the trimmings is about perfect as a description.

Worth seeing on the big screen for the visuals which are impressive and beautiful to look at.

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Posted 07 May 2013 - 10:11 PM

Ender's Game trailer. I don't generally put a lot of stock in trailers either way, but this one (as a commercial aiming to convince people to see a movie) is particularly uninspired IMO. Kinda flabbergasted by it to be honest.

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Posted 07 May 2013 - 10:57 PM

Can't make it worse than the book. YEAH, I SAID IT

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Posted 09 May 2013 - 03:09 AM

Never read the book, so can't say what it's like compared to the book, but doesn't look all that interesting. Harrison Ford's voiceover seemed almost lazy.

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Posted 09 May 2013 - 03:36 AM

Where's QuickTidal gone? He and I need to hash out what the third Evangelion movie is all about. WHAAAAT A MINDFUCK.

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Posted 09 May 2013 - 04:07 AM

Yah, the movie threads aren't the same without him.

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Posted 10 May 2013 - 10:51 AM

I went to see Star Trek Into Darkness yesterday. I enjoyed it but with a lot of reservations. It's typical JJ Abrams in a lot of ways: the whole movie's so hyper that it tries to blind you to the defects in the plot and writing. It's easily the most spectacular Trek movie to date, if what you want from Trek is bigger explosions, bigger special effects etc etc. It's Star Trek re-envisioned as summer blockbuster for the multiplex audience. It makes, imho, a mistake in riffing so heavily on a previous Trek story. And yet. And yet I did like it. It's all very confusing!

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Posted 11 May 2013 - 11:30 AM

Saw THE GREAT GATSBY. I really liked it, but I like all of Baz Luhrmann's stuff.

Also saw TANGLED on DVD. For Disney princess fare, not horrible.

On tap for today: IRON MAN 3. Squee!

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Posted 12 May 2013 - 10:32 AM

not remotely interested in an enders film. book was a crock of shit

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Posted 15 May 2013 - 03:55 AM

They've released the Atlantic Rim trailer:

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Posted 15 May 2013 - 10:31 AM

The funniest thing about that trailer, other than the bad acting, horrible script, and video game effects...is the fact that the Atlantic coastline has never been called anything remotely close to "rim"....that's a moniker specific to the Pacific.

Also, that Canadian actor (I can never recall his name) should be ashamed. LOL!

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