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  1. Chlidonias

    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    speaking of Colin Farrell, a good movie I saw last year was "The Way Back (2010), based on the 1956 book "The Long Walk" by Sławomir Rawicz, about a group of prisoners who escaped from a Siberian gulag in WW2 and walked to India. The book is supposed to be a real account but its truthfulness has been called into question on numerous counts. The group's claimed sighting of yeti in the Himalayas has made it into cryptozoological lore. (The yeti did not feature in the movie thankfully!).

    Worth watching if you can.
     
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    Anyone here remembers MacGyver? Looks like he is heading to the big screen.
     
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    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    MacGyver was a great show. The movie has been in Development Hell for years though, so don't hold your breath. Latest I've heard is that the guy who directed Saw and other such pointless horrors is in talks for directing it. Sounds like a weird choice to me.
     
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    SAW was an awesome franchise! My only regret is that I did not see the first instalment in the cinema. The last 3D film was awesome.

    Yeah I just saw an article that the SAW director will be directing MacGyver, so I am betting on a 2014 release.
     
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    Maybe they will be combining the ideas and MacGyver will use paper clips and masking tape to escape from the death traps set by a sadistic serial killer (or whatever those SAW movies were about).
     
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    Try the first movie and you will be hooked. If not, then I will give you a refund of your time and money.
     
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    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    I've been waiting impatiently for The Editing Room to do their take on Taken 2 and finally it has come to pass: Taken 2: The Abridged Script | The Editing Room

    Utterly brilliant.
     
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    I said I was never going to pay big bucks to see the newest Batman movie, and technically I didn't. We had half price IMAX tickets that were about to expire, so we decided to check out Batman.

    Why didn't you guys say it was so awesome? Man, I enjoyed this movie the most of all the Batman movies. IMAX was the only way to see it, as they filmed all the action scenes especially for the huge screen. I felt like I was in the aircraft in the opening scene!

    I think that what I liked the most was that Batman was hardly in the movie, and indeed, the film felt like a spin-off where Bain was the star, and Batman was a supporting character.

    I rate this movie 8/10, and if I could have understood most of what Bain was saying, this movie would get a 9 from me.
     
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    Skyfall

    Fan-bloody-tastic!

    :p

    Hix
     
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    This was my biggest complaint about the movie. I felt like there were whole sequences that were only added because they looked good and didn't really add to the story. The Dark Knight was far better in my opinion but to each, their own. (I do love Marion Cotillard though:) ).

    I went to see The Intouchables with my sister the other night because she had free tickets to the alternative cinema that plays mostly foreign and independent films. I feel weird because I loved it but I don't know why. I think it's because there's nothing to NOT like about it. Just light-hearted, touching, and flipping hilarious.
     
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    Why would you feel weird? Like you said, it's a great film. Makes a change from all the Hollywood blockbuster rubbish
     
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    I disliked the Dark Knight because I felt like they added a few unnecessary scenes, so I hear you.

    The Intouchables seems to be getting great reviews, but it just isn't my kind of movie. The last good French film I saw was District 13.
     
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    Was that the one about the prawns in South Africa?

    :p

    Hix
     
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    That was "District Nine".
     
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    Thanks David.
     
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    so, based on Hix's in-depth review earlier in the thread I went to see this tonight with the expectation of it rating somewhere around the fantastic mark. I didn't really get that. In fact I preferred the last two Bond movies quite a bit over this one. It just seemed sort of wandering and non-gripping. A person along the row from me fell asleep in the Casino scene (no, seriously. Of course this is Hokitika and it was probably past their nap time, but still!).

    Javier Bardem in No Country For Old Men was a cold psychotic killer who would have been great as the villain in here. Instead we got Javier Bardem flirting smirkily with a tied-up Bond, apparently while channeling Mike Myers from Austin Powers. What's that about?!

    Bond acted like a smarmy git for most of the movie, and some of the action scenes were just not believable at all. I mean, I like action movies obviously, and over-the-top action is fine, but it has to fit the movie. Speaking of which, why did it turn into The A Team at the end, holed up in a house making booby traps out of common household appliances?

    Sigh.

    On the good side, Q was awesome!! I want to be Ben Whishaw when I grow up!

    Best line in the movie: "Welcome to Scotland!"*



    *Spoiler alert: so James Bond really is from Scotland after all! Sean Connery was right.
     
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  18. Chlidonias

    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    that was pretty cool. I always use parkour when I'm escaping from drug dealers too. The great thing about practicing parkour is that it gives you the ability to know in advance what is outside your line of sight.
     
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    Well remember that this is your neighbourhood where you would have practiced many times before. So yes, you would know what to expect out of your line of sight. David Belle's buddy was in the first Daniel Craig Bond movie - remember the black guy he was chasing on the crane and later shot in the embassy? Him and David (guy from clip) invented parkour, I believe.
     
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  20. Chlidonias

    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    there's some cool parkour moves on this clip too:
     
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