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I'm watching The Gambler. I don't feel like I'm particularly interested/engrossed, but I don't want to turn it off either. Weird.

The alternative is turning 90 degrees and looking at Joans's gurning face.

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Future Warrior wrote:
Goddess Jasmine wrote:
I'm watching The Gambler. I don't feel like I'm particularly interested/engrossed, but I don't want to turn it off either. Weird.

The alternative is turning 90 degrees and looking at Joans's gurning face.

Joke's on you. I'm not there.


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I watched the original Hunger Games last night (because the shitty wifi is so slow in this hotel that I had to watch TV).

It was OK. Just, OK. Are the later ones any better, or is it all just hype?


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Future Warrior wrote:
Goddess Jasmine wrote:
I'm watching The Gambler. I don't feel like I'm particularly interested/engrossed, but I don't want to turn it off either. Weird.

The alternative is turning 90 degrees and looking at Joans's gurning face.

Joke's on you. I'm not there.

I am.

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I watched the original Hunger Games last night (because the shitty wifi is so slow in this hotel that I had to watch TV).

It was OK. Just, OK. Are the later ones any better, or is it all just hype?


Don't know about the last two, but the second is worse than the first IMO

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Future Warrior wrote:
Goddess Jasmine wrote:
I'm watching The Gambler. I don't feel like I'm particularly interested/engrossed, but I don't want to turn it off either. Weird.

The alternative is turning 90 degrees and looking at Joans's gurning face.

Joke's on you. I'm not there.

I am.

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Watched a film called "Knock, Knock" tonight.

It was rubbish. The whole notion that you're DEFINITELY going to cheat on your wife and family just because a couple of girls get their tits out was right out of order if you ask me.

Most films have points where you're urging the main character not to do something or to act differently, but this felt like this the entire way through. Stupid decisions throughout. Shame on you Keanu... Did I mention Keanu Reeves was in it? Well, he was.

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Girls with their tits out, apparently. Best cold call ever.

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I tried, oh lord I tried, to watch The Transporter Reloaded but the new Jason Statham replacement is terrible. I never thought I'd ever be saying this ever but, hnnngh, Jason Statham was a better fit and a better, oh jesus, actor. *throws up*

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Brooklyn! Beautiful film - about a girl leaving Ireland in the 50s for Malays...the US, obviously. Very funny, particularly the first half, and Julie Walters' character though they fade her out so she doesn't steal it. Not a film of big events, just lovely.

edit: oh, and the biggest laugh of the night was from the hard of hearing subtitles; there's a love scene, with the subtitle 'orgasmic grunt'. Excellent work.


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I've watched Robert De Niro in HEIST! That sounds exciting, right? Like it's trying to capture some of the cool from HEAT! And it has RDN in it! It must be good.

Turns out that it is absolute garbage, so, y'know, don't bother watching that shit.


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OH FUCK ME PEOPLE, THE INTERNET HAS THE SEQUEL TO THE BEST FILM OF 2015 ON THE DOWNLOADATRON: ATTACK ON TITAN: PART 2!

Squeeeeeeeeee! I'm going to watch the shit out of that.


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Isn't the first one about big naked people?

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Sicario - very tense. I suppose you have to call it an action film, though there's as much tension as action really. I ended up rooting for one character and then realised afterwards that I felt dirty for so doing, which hasn't happened before. Great, tense stuff. Did I mention the tension?


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Sicario - very tense. I suppose you have to call it an action film, though there's as much tension as action really. I ended up rooting for one character and then realised afterwards that I felt dirty for so doing, which hasn't happened before. Great, tense stuff. Did I mention the tension?


Yeah, pretty much every second I was just waiting for something bad to happen. It was awesome.


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99 HOMES is a very good & somewhat depressing "based on true events" drama / thriller with excellent acting from Andrew Garfield & Michael Shannon (Shannon is always great to be fair...).

Probably won't blow you away in terms of "thrills" (it's not a popcorn movie) but it's consistently entertaining & interesting.

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SOLD - That's tonight's film then, Michael Shannon is amazing so anything with him in it is worth a watch.

Last night's watch for me was:

NO ESCAPE - Sort of like a survival horror film but replace the zombies with third world revolutionaries. The surprise for me here was Owen Wilson carrying off a dramatic role with aplomb, and Pierce Brosnan is in it too. In essence it's an American family move to a third world country for the father to work (never explicitly named but Cambodia seems like a good bet), just as a revolution kicks off, and the targets of the revolution are the corrupt government and the Americans who are in bed with them. Refreshingly it isn't the usual PG-13/12A nonsense that this sort of film tends to come in at (R/15 are its ratings), and the level of tension is almost unbearably high at times. The entire family, including two young girls, is almost constantly under imminent threat of getting shot/hacked/beaten/raped to death, I was quite glad of the intermission of refreshing my glass of wine and going for a piss halfway through it all.

Directed by the guy who did the awesome 'QUARANTINE', this is a brutally efficient thriller with solid performances on every level, with not an ounce of fat on it.

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Looks a little more developed than Cambodia imo, based on the trailer. Maybe one of the smaller cities in Thailand.


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Watched 'LOOPER' instead so I'll do 99 Homes tomorrow. I should have seen Looper already but it's one of those films that I inexplicably manage to miss for a bit.

Great film, always nice to see Bruce doing some proper acting (which he's clearly capable of but often seems not to be bothered enough to try), moreover though it's a fantastic science fiction flick in the way that the genre is really capable of soaring - exploring stories and ideas and emotions made possible in the genre, rather than getting too hung up on a load of silly special effects.

I'll go 8.5/10. Emily Blunt's thighs!


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Speaking of Michael Shannon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVgxxdu-gJc


I've enjoyed the Director's previous work. Not sure about this based on the trailer alone, but when have trailers meant anything?


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but when have trailers meant anything?


I've stopped watching them, since the general procedure these days is 'condense the entire film, including any significant plot points, character development, or twists, into a three minute window'.

I remember when trailers were exciting little teasers for a film, now they're almost 'THE FILM' for the YouTube generation.


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but when have trailers meant anything?


I've stopped watching them, since the general procedure these days is 'condense the entire film, including any significant plot points, character development, or twists, into a three minute window'.

I remember when trailers were exciting little teasers for a film, now they're almost 'THE FILM' for the YouTube generation.


Totally agree.

These days, my general rule of thumb for trailers is that I watch the first half of one.
This is where the basic premise, mood & tone is generally provided, without giving too much away.

If I like the look & feel of the film, and the acting etc. I stop at the half-way mark, because the 2nd-half of the trailer is usually spoiler-tastic.

Seems to be a reasonably solid way of going about things (especially for mainstream thrillers, horror movies etc.).


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Hearthly wrote:
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but when have trailers meant anything?


I've stopped watching them, since the general procedure these days is 'condense the entire film, including any significant plot points, character development, or twists, into a three minute window'.

I remember when trailers were exciting little teasers for a film, now they're almost 'THE FILM' for the YouTube generation.

I thought your were of the opinion that films worked better spoilered?

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I've stopped watching them, since the general procedure these days is 'condense the entire film, including any significant plot points, character development, or twists, into a three minute window'.

I remember when trailers were exciting little teasers for a film, now they're almost 'THE FILM' for the YouTube generation.

I thought your were of the opinion that films worked better spoilered?


I believe I presented some research that suggested our enjoyment of films is not necessarily lessened by knowing how it plays out, and I've personally argued that some films/games/books work out better on a repeat experience because you can enjoy the tale without having to try and work out what's going on.

What I don't think I've ever done is suggest that going into a film like LOOPER for example, is made better by knowing exactly everything about it (or even an approximation of such), but I would certainly advocate that watching a film like LOOPER for a second time could be a very rewarding experience. (UNDER THE SKIN for example, which works on two entirely different levels on a first and second viewing.)

But yes there is horseshit like Bioshock Infinite whereby I said if it weren't the fact I'd spoliered the story for myself first, I wouldn't have bothered playing it through to the end. (Crap game, good story, worth playing through just to see the story play out.)


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I watched "No Escape" very shortly around the time of the Paris attacks and it made for extremely uncomfortable viewing. I don't think I enjoyed it, but that's not to say it was a bad film per se, it just wasn't...um...I don't know. The closest film I can compare it to is Hostel. Just horrific things happening with little purpose.

Oh and BEST FILM 2015 (Attack on Titan, fact fans) PART 2 that has leaked is real good looking but has a terrible Chinese dub so I sharn't be watching it until the original Japanese comes out.


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I actually felt Looper's trailer misrepresented the film. Made it look much more action heavy.

Bioshock Infinite also had trailers showing stuff that got cut from the game, including entire systems and scenes. But then that's a game where you could feel the troubled development when playing it.


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I watched 99 HOMES last night and it was indeed fantastic. Shannon is superb as expected, but the rest of the cast were top-drawer as well. The other main chap, Andrew Garfield, was entirely capable of holding the screen with Shannon, also OLDISH LAURA DERN who caused me sexual confusion because I will always associate her with THOSE SCENES in Wild At Heart. She doesn't seem to have gone down the plastic woman route that is common in America so it was nice to see woman in her late-forties looking like a woman in her late-forties.

Anyway, it's a really good film. If you know about the sub-prime crisis and the shit that all the banks were up to there's nothing really that surprising in there (see also MARGIN CALL), but that doesn't stop it being a superb piece of cinema.

9/10. Laura Dern, still would.


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So, Spectre, then. Here are my super-spoilery thoughts.

ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view!
I've been mulling it over and I'm afraid to say that it ultimately
left me somewhat dissastisfied. It just all felt rather bloodless.
Despite its many flaws Quantum of Solace at least had a very driven
Bond glowering his way through the hired hands of a shadowy
organisation that felt threateningly sinister owing to how little we
knew about it. Much of the action in the film may have been bungled,
and it may have had a muddled script, but there were enough stand-out
moments in the film to make me think that it has been judged a little
too harshly by critics. (The opera house, the finale in the remote
little complex leading to a very cruel moment by Bond with the oil
can.)

This film... well, Spectre revealed itself and... it just didn't seem
all that immense an organisation. It didn't even seem to have any
definable goals. Neither did Blofeld. Okay, so he's trying to take
over the world's network of intelligence. He's willing to kill women
and children in his chaotic bomb attacks (which play so distantly and
quietly that it's hard to get worked up in the film about them) and
he's got a secret base. But what's his actual plan once he has access
to the world's security? Is it more sinister cartel stuff? Because it
feels as if they're kind of doing that already with their 'we're
everywhere' stuff if we're being asked to believe that they are behind
Quantum as well. Well, at least we've got sinister Blofeld, eh? The
man in the movie who's reign of terror saw the deaths of... er... who
would stop at nothing in his destruction of... um... who's evil brain
drill twice pierced Bond's skull and caused him to... ah.

The man who breathtakingly achieved a scheduled demolition slightly
ahead of schedule and then crashed in his own helicopter, before being
arrested?

There's something faintly laughable in poor old Blofeld. He tries to
torture Bond to death. Bond simply blasts his way out of there with an
explosive watch which, if he had indeed been following Bond all that
time, he should really have suspected was a Q department product. He
builds a gorgeous little base in a crater somewhere. Bond blows it up.
He gets his computer programmers to infiltrate the world's security
networks. Bond's friends pull the plug. He tries to kill Bond with the
old exploding building trick. Bond simply runs out of it. He tries to
run away. Bond shoots his chopper down. With a handgun. From about 500
yards away.

Wait a minute, how did Blofeld plan to use his infiltration software
if all his computer programmers had been blown up? Wouldn't the
destruction of his surveilance base put the kibbotz on his scheme? Why
did his surveilance base have big explosive oil and gas pipework
everywhere? (Also, Bond was so close to that Austin Powers gag when he
bursts in and fires three shots from his gun and six bad guys fall
down.)

Oh well, at least we have a smouldering romance between Bond and Lea
Seydoux. She hates him and his world of guns! No, wait, beating up
Dave Batista gets her kinda hot, forget that. They're totally an item
now. Oddly, there seemed way more chemisty in his scenes with Monica
Bellucci. They really should have run with that instead. (Someone else
Blofeld entirely fails to kill, incidently. 'Go see my buddy, Leiter,
he'll protect you.' 'Oh okay, I certainly hope that nothing will
happen to me in the sixteen or so hours it takes me alone and
unprotected to get over there. Phew.'

Hmm. Well, at least we have Bond spitting and snarling and
relentlessly pursuing the architect of his recent tragedies. "It was
me, Bond. It was always me." To which Bond responds silently with a
look of, er, "Oh, okay. Good to know," and proceeds to carry on
exactly as before. He doesn't even really seem to hate Blofeld, just
views him with a degree of contempt. Which is a jim-dandy Bond
reaction normally, if the script didn't keep awkwardly shoe-horning in
lines from Blofeld about how it was really personal. (To which Bond
responds with a faint air of bafflement as if he's got some stalking
secret admirer and he can't figure out why.)

Oddly, C seemed the greater menace in all his bureaucracy, even though
he's just a hired hand. I was really hoping for an awesome bluff and
for it to turn out that HE was Blofeld, not Waltz, who really needed
more lift-traps and failure-intolerance to make an impression.Think
about it, how much more awesome would that have been? C'mon, you've
got Moriatry there. I was hugely expecting it, for Waltz to really be
an ostentatious lacky fooling Bond while C did something really evil
back in London. But no. Gngh.

And where were the other 00 agents? Were they tamely surrendering too?
You would have thought they could have helped out in a pickle, though
heaven knows Bond handled it all tidily and quickly enough.

Also, who builds a headquarters for secret intelligence out of glass
in central London, glass that isn't even shatter-proof?

Good things: Mexico. Ridiculous driving a plane bit. Dave Batista
fight. Q and M being droll. Moneypenny is very cute. Set design. Some
winning gags. Bond is still kinda fun.

Bad things: Blofeld failing evil school. Unbelievably clumsy
retro-conning to ape Marvel's bigger picture movie format.
Insufficient stakes. Inexplicably exploding bases. Stupid boneheaded
even-worse-than-Roger-Moore plot logic.


Verdict: It's practically Star Trek: Into Darkness all over again. Two and a half out of Five. And only just.

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I love you so fucking much, Mimi. Don't ever change.


Aw... hehe, :this: made me cry! See... I'm going for a lay down. Then I'm going to watch Columbo. Columbo never makes me upset.




An Angel meets Peter Falk. I do so love him in this film.

Top five film moments that make me blub helplessly.

5: A young sailor's death with Vaughan Williams Theme on Fantasia playing in Master & Commander.
4: All the Tiny Tim stuff in the Alistair Sims version of Scrooge.
3: The old man scene in Home Alone. Goddamnitt.
2: Young George Bailey reveals that there was poison in the pills to Mr Gower.
1: The glimpse of afterlife in the cloud plain scene in Porco Rosso.

And probably half a dozen more. You're not alone! And I feel sorry for anyone who can't understand tearing up at a film.

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The proper Batman V Superman trailer is out tomorrow, but this little teaser is out now!


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NervousPete wrote:
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I love you so fucking much, Mimi. Don't ever change.


Aw... hehe, :this: made me cry! See... I'm going for a lay down. Then I'm going to watch Columbo. Columbo never makes me upset.




An Angel meets Peter Falk. I do so love him in this film.


I have never heard of or seen this: I shall (get Russell to) look it up tonight. Of course, the best film that Peter Falk is in is The Princess Bride.

Also, do you not think that Peter Falk has the most lovely face? He is just so kindly-looking. He just has such a warmth in his smile and his eyes (yes, I know that he has (had?) a false eye, before someone can't help themselves from pointing this out) but he just had that brightness in the lines about his eyes from a many thousand smiles. Also, people should go bak to having hair like a 35-45 year old Peter Falk. Proper hair.

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Also, people should go bak to having hair like a 35-45 year old Peter Falk. Proper hair.

You'd look lovely Mimi.

You'll love Wings Of Desire, I think it's the best film with Peter Falk in it.


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Also, people should go bak to having hair like a 35-45 year old Peter Falk. Proper hair.

You'd look lovely Mimi.

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Watching No Escape and wow it is profoundly racist and implausible.

Looks like I was right and it's not actually shot in Cambodia, it was shot in Chiang Mai in Thailand, but people are speaking in Khmer and they have dressed it up to look like Cambodia.

I don't have a problem with the notion that there could be riots in the streets, or even civil war, in Cambodia, that plausible anywhere. But it would take a degree of escalation. I'd find it pretty hard to see it happen to the extent that the majority of the population went on a murderous rampage literally at the drop of a hat. It's astonishing.

A (relatively) swanky hotel would not just let an American go for a walk about town if there was tension to the extent that this kind of situation could arise.

The entire movie is literally framed like a zombie movie except with foreigners instead of zombies. I saw the trailers but thought there might actually be more to it than that.

Edit: If people want to see Cambodia on screen, may I recommend "City of Ghosts". First Hollywood movie that is both set and shot here (plenty of others have used it as a stand in for Thailand of visa versa), a fairly nice movie about a shady but ultimately likable dude who has to flee America because an insurance fraud he's been running has collapsed. He has a little bit of adventure, catches up with some associates, and then they get into some trouble. Pretty simple but a fairly accurate (albeit outdated now) depiction of Cambodia that is far more reflective of my experiences (except for the plot!).

Another obvious one is the first Tomb Raider movie, but that's just using some of the beautiful ancient temples as locations for Tombs.


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I don't have a problem with the notion that there could be riots in the streets, or even civil war, in Cambodia, that plausible anywhere. But it would take a degree of escalation. I'd find it pretty hard to see it happen to the extent that the majority of the population went on a murderous rampage literally at the drop of a hat. It's astonishing.

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Rwanda called.

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No Escape is great! I did say it was basically a survival horror film with revolutionaries instead of zombies.

Not sure what's racist about it either TBH. The revolution took place in Cambodia so the revolutionaries were Cambodian.


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An otherwise peaceful and stable country with no major political tension turned into a warzone without warning? That's not my understanding of what happened in Rwanda.

Obviously a generation ago Cambodia was a very different story, but it's been politically stable for around 20 years. It is not on the brink of civil war.


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Die Hard is such a good Christmas film.

The Christmas Miracle is how his vest goes from white to uniform olive.

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I've watched a film and it was brilliant.

Assassination Classroom. It's Japanese so you know what you're getting from the start: some wacky shit. Let's have a look at the plot shall we?

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The Earth is threatened by a powerful creature who destroyed 70% of the Moon with its power. Within a year the creature will also destroy Earth.


So far so Japanese.

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BUT he offers mankind a single chance to prevent this disaster


Phew, aye?

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He will let a classroom of students attempt to assassinate him.


Huh?

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but he must be the one to teach them in the ways of the assassin


Wha?

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besides teaching the students their regular lessons


Obviously.

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If any of the students succeed in killing their alien teacher they get 10 billion yen


Motivational.

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BUT the alien teacher has several superpowers


Well he did blow up a moon.

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BUT BUT the kids are armed with knives and assault rifles and handguns


FUCK YEAH!

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...the knives are made of rubber and the guns only shoot BB pellets made of rubber


Wha?

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... cause rubber is the only thing that can kill the teacher


I had a girlfriend allergic to rubber.

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But there's a catch!


Another!?

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he's also the best teacher they've ever had.


*slaps head*

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Oh, and did I mention there's a computer AI with 4 gatling guns is also a student?


Just...wha...

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And a sexy assassin assistant teacher who is oh so foxy?


*removes pants*

Say no more, when's it out on bluray?

10/10


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Why only 70% of the moon? That seems a bit ... lazy.

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Cause Japan, fool.


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Grim-beard... the noisy wrote:
The proper Batman V Superman trailer is out tomorrow, but this little teaser is out now!


That looked more than silly.

Even sillier than Moon Munch Motivational Monster Teacher Happy School.

Which I also need to watch. Obv.

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There've been a load of trailers for that already though...

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NervousPete wrote:
Grim-beard... the noisy wrote:
The proper Batman V Superman trailer is out tomorrow, but this little teaser is out now!


That looked more than silly.

Fairly sure it was a dream sequence.

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