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Ha! Neilsen and Rothrock are both in Mercenaries, coming out this year. A piss take of Expendables 3 with all female action heroes as the leads

Why can't they have old female action movie stars as well as male ones? Just a bit sexist.

DavPaz wrote:

Helen Mirren.

I did think about her after her turn in the Red films. Sigourney Weaver would be a good fit as well after all her action-y stuff in Aliens.

What the shitting hyper-fuck?

Isn't Pudsey a bear?

LewieP wrote:

Isn't Pudsey a bear?

<expendables 3 bollocks>.

Finally watched Four Lions. It was better than I expected. Surprisingly affectionate in places.

Mama wasn't very good.

Pretty sure no-one can make a joke out of that.

the aliens ending up being a combination of Engineer and human DNA via some really fucked up and horrible pregnancy/weaponised mutating goo

the worms we saw mutated initially became, well, mutated worms so why would her 'child' be a weird octopus thing?

the octopus baby is a proto-facehugger

BertyBasset wrote:

"The Conjuring" is a solid horror film.

It's unoriginal (typical haunted house / possession type set-up you've probably seen many times before).

It's really well done though, has solid acting & doesn't out-stay it's 2 hour run-time.

8/10 if you like this sort of thing.

Watched it last night and whilst it's totally unoriginal and even uses such staples as mysteriously banging doors and noises from places there shouldn't be noises coming from, it's so well crafted and put together that you can totally forgive it.

Also helps that none of the characters do anything stupid just for the sake of the story, and all the protagonists are well written and acted.

Basically a very solid film, I'd go as far as 9/10 if you like this sort of thing.

Under the Skin is a film about looking at a naked/semi naked Scarlet Johansen, and then watching her pick up unsuspecting Scottish blokes to "Come back to my place".

It's boring as hell. I stopped watching half way through.

I saw How to Train your Dragon 2 at the weekend with Shorts.

Whilst it looks good and has some better huge monster fights in it than Pacific Rim the funny bits are massively laboured and Cate Blanchett's Scottish accent is actually worse than Simon Pegg's.

If your kids nag you to see it I would just try and find another showing of the Lego Movie if I were you.

I agree entirely about Now You See It; it was entertaining enough and did start strongly but it was pretty incoherent.

Finger on the pulse there, Mali

Oh. god.

The LEGO Movie.

I wanted to watch it again within five minutes of the opening.

Just... amazing. Something happening every second.

Surprisingly deep too.

GazChap wrote:

Surprisingly deep too.

How's that?

The distributors ain't gonna be happy !

Author:	DavPaz [ Tue Jul 08, 2014 12:59 ]
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Helen Mirren.

Author:	Bamba [ Tue Jul 08, 2014 12:59 ]
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Cras wrote: Ha! Neilsen and Rothrock are both in Mercenaries, coming out this year. A piss take of Expendables 3 with all female action heroes as the leads Double-ha! I was just coming here to post exactly that after reading more of Cynthia Rothrock's wiki page.

Author:	MaliA [ Tue Jul 08, 2014 12:59 ]
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Sigourney Weaver

Author:	Bamba [ Tue Jul 08, 2014 13:00 ]
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DavPaz wrote: Helen Mirren. I did think about her after her turn in the Red films. Sigourney Weaver would be a good fit as well after all her action-y stuff in Aliens.

Author:	LewieP [ Tue Jul 08, 2014 13:03 ]
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Grace Jones.

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Author:	Mr Dave [ Tue Jul 08, 2014 13:03 ]
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American Nervoso wrote: Why can't they have old female action movie stars as well as male ones? Just a bit sexist. The reason? Females tend to like older men much more than Males like older women. Know your audience.

Author:	Cras [ Tue Jul 08, 2014 13:03 ]
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Doing an action film doesn't make you an action star though. Most of the women listed here have gone on to more highbrow careers and I suspect would laugh in the face of someone asking them to do the Expendables. Other than Rothrock and Neilsen

Author:	DavPaz [ Tue Jul 08, 2014 13:16 ]
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Patricia Tallman You'll know the face

Author:	Grim... [ Tue Jul 08, 2014 13:18 ]
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Bamba wrote: DavPaz wrote: Helen Mirren. I did think about her after her turn in the Red films. Sigourney Weaver would be a good fit as well after all her action-y stuff in Aliens. Nah, it never really suited her apart from Aliens. Look at ARes, for example.

Author:	Grim... [ Tue Jul 08, 2014 13:26 ]
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What the shitting hyper-fuck?

Author:	markg [ Tue Jul 08, 2014 13:47 ]
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That looks terrible, but it'll still be a lot better than Expendables 3.

Author:	DavPaz [ Tue Jul 08, 2014 14:07 ]
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Grim... wrote: What the shitting hyper-fuck? I can't wait for the game version: Pusdsey: The Dog: The Movie: The Game

Author:	LewieP [ Tue Jul 08, 2014 14:07 ]
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Isn't Pudsey a bear?

Author:	DavPaz [ Tue Jul 08, 2014 14:08 ]
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LewieP wrote: Isn't Pudsey a bear? This is Pudsey: The Dog

Author:	Hearthly [ Sun Jul 13, 2014 21:56 ]
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Alarm wrote: Finally watched Four Lions. It was better than I expected. Surprisingly affectionate in places. I concur, although I'm even later to watching the film than you It doesn't fire on all of its cylinders all of the time, but it followed through on its convictions right to the end and ended up as a genuine tragedy I think, albeit one with many dark laughs along the way - you kind of know where it's going to end up and that's what made it so sad in the final analysis. I find Chris Morris' work harder to watch/listen to as I get older, not because it's any less brilliant, but because I increasingly realise how painfully close to the truth he gets and it's not always a comfortable realisation. But yes, a fine film, and superb performances all round from the cast.

Author:	Bamba [ Sun Jul 13, 2014 23:15 ]
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Yeah, having read a different list of the changes that were made it does seem like the original script would've made much sense of the character's motivations which was blatantly lacking in a lot of cases in the version we actually got.

Author:	myp [ Tue Jul 08, 2014 14:12 ]
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LewieP wrote: Isn't Pudsey a bear?

Author:	Mr Dave [ Tue Jul 08, 2014 14:19 ]
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American Nervoso wrote: LewieP wrote: Isn't Pudsey a bear? Is that... Zardoz?

Author:	BikNorton [ Tue Jul 08, 2014 22:04 ]
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I was going to say 'what the hell, BONE-A-FIDO, pun losers!' and then I realised.

Author:	MrChris [ Tue Jul 08, 2014 22:42 ]
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Cras wrote: <expendables 3 bollocks>. Oh for fucksache. Really? They're milking that many old tits?

Author:	Grim... [ Sat Jul 12, 2014 0:57 ]
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Mama wasn't very good. Pretty sure no-one can make a joke out of that.

Author:	myp [ Sun Jul 13, 2014 22:17 ]
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Grim... wrote: Mama wasn't very good. Pretty sure no-one can make a joke out of that. scratches head I can't think of one.

Author:	Bamba [ Sun Jul 13, 2014 22:52 ]
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Just finished watching Prometheus and actually really enjoyed it. The characterisation was all over the map--not least the engineer--and the 'why the fuck is that person doing/not doing that?!' factor was pretty high, but I was gripped by it pretty much all the way through. I'm trying not to think too much about it as I don't think it really stands up to much analysis; unless a sequel comes along and works some kind of narrative fucking voodoo to tie it all up. I did like the concept of ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! the aliens ending up being a combination of Engineer and human DNA via some really fucked up and horrible pregnancy/weaponised mutating goo but it doesn't entirely tie up and seems more like someone thought it would be a cool idea so they found a way to whack it in there. I mean ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! the worms we saw mutated initially became, well, mutated worms so why would her 'child' be a weird octopus thing? Although typing this up has made me realise that ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! the octopus baby is a proto-facehugger which really should've occurred to me at the time!

Author:	Satsuma [ Sun Jul 13, 2014 23:07 ]
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That reminds me of how good it could have been. http://filmschoolrejects.com/opinions/t ... -jsarg.php

Author:	LewieP [ Mon Jul 14, 2014 0:00 ]
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Boyhood was pretty fantastic.

Author:	miki [ Tue Jul 15, 2014 8:28 ]
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Oblivion, pretty but otherwise rubbish mu favourite character in it was drone 166

Author:	MaliA [ Tue Jul 15, 2014 10:17 ]
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Now You See it - This starts off promisingly enough, but then loses its way a bit. There's enough charisma in each of the characters to pull through the scenes, but I found myself a bit beildered as to what was going on for teh final two thirds. Stuff was happening, but there ws no real indication why it was happening. It was as if the film was originally written from someone else's viewpoint, and the reengineered to be more about other people, or they forgot an entire act. Anyway, it's compentently done and entertaining enough, if you take it on a scene by scene basis, and suspend your disbelief. However, if you want afilm about magic with Michael Caine in it, The Prestige is a much better bet.

Author:	Bamba [ Tue Jul 15, 2014 10:21 ]
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I agree entirely about Now You See It; it was entertaining enough and did start strongly but it was pretty incoherent.

Author:	RuySan [ Tue Jul 15, 2014 19:27 ]
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Under the skin was brilliant. Haunting and incredibly creepy, I will certainly remember out for a long time. It's probably among my favourite films of the last few years.

Author:	Grim... [ Sun Jul 20, 2014 9:27 ]
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Hearthly wrote: BertyBasset wrote: "The Conjuring" is a solid horror film. It's unoriginal (typical haunted house / possession type set-up you've probably seen many times before). It's really well done though, has solid acting & doesn't out-stay it's 2 hour run-time. 8/10 if you like this sort of thing. Watched it last night and whilst it's totally unoriginal and even uses such staples as mysteriously banging doors and noises from places there shouldn't be noises coming from, it's so well crafted and put together that you can totally forgive it. Also helps that none of the characters do anything stupid just for the sake of the story, and all the protagonists are well written and acted. Basically a very solid film, I'd go as far as 9/10 if you like this sort of thing. There's a spin-off a-comin'.

Author:	LewieP [ Sun Jul 20, 2014 17:23 ]
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Under the Skin is a film about looking at a naked/semi naked Scarlet Johansen, and then watching her pick up unsuspecting Scottish blokes to "Come back to my place". It's boring as hell. I stopped watching half way through.

Author:	RuySan [ Sun Jul 20, 2014 19:22 ]
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You have terrible taste

Author:	LaceSensor [ Sun Jul 20, 2014 21:21 ]
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LewieP wrote: Under the Skin is a film about looking at a naked/semi naked Scarlet Johansen, and then watching her pick up unsuspecting Scottish blokes to "Come back to my place". It's boring as hell. I stopped watching half way through. fail at life

Author:	MaliA [ Sun Jul 20, 2014 21:53 ]
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LewieP wrote: Under the Skin is a film about looking at a naked/semi naked Scarlet Johansen, and then watching her pick up unsuspecting Scottish blokes to "Come back to my place". It's boring as hell. I stopped watching half way through. The fuck?

Author:	Zio [ Sun Jul 20, 2014 21:56 ]
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LewieP wrote: Under the Skin is a film about looking at a naked/semi naked Scarlet Johansen, and then watching her pick up unsuspecting Scottish blokes to "Come back to my place". It's boring as hell. I stopped watching half way through. Nothing about this film sounds bad. In other news, I took Zioette to see Maleficent today and we both really enjoyed it. If anything, I was even more into it than she was. Angelina Jolie is incredible in the role, but it's also quite a cool little twist on the plot of the original Sleeping Beauty. You can see the twist at the end coming a mile off, but it's not any less enjoyable as a result. Very impressed, definitely a future Blu Ray purchase (for when Zioette visits, obviously! )

Author:	Trousers [ Mon Jul 21, 2014 7:55 ]
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I saw How to Train your Dragon 2 at the weekend with Shorts. Whilst it looks good and has some better huge monster fights in it than Pacific Rim the funny bits are massively laboured and Cate Blanchett's Scottish accent is actually worse than Simon Pegg's. If your kids nag you to see it I would just try and find another showing of the Lego Movie if I were you.