Films

[viberunner]

John Wick was unexpectedly awesome.

[DomDom1984]

Not sure if it's unexpected. Heard nothing but good things about it.

[TheJackson]

Say it's sold out and then see Dumb & Dumber 2 To

Even the stupid title isn't funny. I can't stop thinking about what a fucking waste of time it was.

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Even the stupid title isn't funny. I can't stop thinking about what a fucking waste of time it was.

It sounds better than Twins 2 where they are joined by Eddie Murphy who's also twin HA HA HA HA HA

[FloorFiller]

It sounds better than Twins 2 where they are joined by Eddie Murphy who's also twin HA HA HA HA HA

i think you missed the joke; DeVito and Schwarzenegger are white. Eddie Murphy is black. HE COULD NEVER BE THEIR TWIN!!!!!!!

[The Nal]

It sounds better than Twins 2 where they are joined by Eddie Murphy who's also twin HA HA HA HA HA

Called "Triplets"!!

[LondonTom]

Jesus, I just had to check google and its an actual real idea!

[Spindles]

Finally got to see interstellar. I'd made an effort to try and see, hear and read as little about it as I could and go in with an open mind. I was extremely pleased, both with the hard sci fi and the storytelling.

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Jesus, I just had to check google and its an actual real idea!

Yep and apparently without a script or director attached it was greenlit.

[t8yman]

Just been looking into the "true" accounts of "American Sniper" Chris Kyle. Deeply, deeply unpleasant by the sound of it. He apparently bragged about being called in to shoot looters in New Orleans in the wake of hurricane Katrina, although the story was never verified. But why would someone choose to brag about such a thing?

He also lied on a national radio station about knocking Jesse Ventura out over anti american language used by JV. His wife is facing a large legal bill over it.

[DomDom1984]

Aye, by all accounts, including his own, he's a massive prick.

[Spindles]

I think the controversy is that anyone who says so in public is being abused by those who can't distinguish discussion of a film with criticism of their nation. Several commentators and reviewers have received a barrage of badly spelled hate for questioning whether he was a 'hero' or even whether the film was a good one.

[Ted Dansons Wig]

I think the controversy is that anyone who says so in public is being abused by those who can't distinguish discussion of a film with criticism of their nation. Several commentators and reviewers have received a barrage of badly spelled hate for questioning whether he was a 'hero' or even whether the film was a good one.

Does the film even address whether he was a hero and how he was perceived for what he did? Haven't seen it so reliant on reviews - which suggest to me it doesn't.

[t8yman]

Oh its the most flag wavy, hooah, hero worshipping film Ive ever seen.

[The Nal]

Aye, by all accounts, including his own, he's a massive prick.

Hes a hired killer. What do you expect?

[t8yman]

Matt Taibbi, as usual - nails it.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/american-sniper-is-almost-too-dumb-to-criticize-20150121

[Ted Dansons Wig]

Oh its the most flag wavy, hooah, hero worshipping film Ive ever seen.

Doesnt surprise me with Eastwood. Tells a good story sometimes - but not the most subtle of Directors. Ah well - might be a Wednesday there's nothing else on telly watch.

[Ted Dansons Wig]

Matt Taibbi, as usual - nails it.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/american-sniper-is-almost-too-dumb-to-criticize-20150121

Thanks for pointing this out. An absolutely cracking review/ criticism

[DomDom1984]

The film is a flag waving exercise and nothing more. I'm going to judge it on an entertainment scale and nothing more, as I always do with movies, fact based or not.

[When Jokers Attack]

It's a film at the end of the day, very few films tell the whole truth. It's based on a book about his life so why would they bring the real reasons of the war into it? Enjoy it for what it is. There will always the usual flag waving idiots who will go see this and get right behind it for reasons beyond the film.

[Spindles]

That is what it is, really. The people who are all gung ho aren't behaving that way because of any message in the film, they bring that backstory with them.

[viberunner]

Hes a hired killer. What do you expect?

Plenty of soldiers, especially the higher-trained types, are thoroughly professional. Bouts of grim/gallows humour, but not so dafts as to be "believers" in that they're attacking savages on behalf of all civilisation.

Watch or read Generation Kill, or any of the SAS or SBS autobiographies, Immediate Action, Bravo Two Zero, First Into Action, etc.

Chris Kyle does seem to be exceptionally even uniquely w*nkerish compared to his peers.

[Ted Dansons Wig]

When you've got a trailer that highlights a decision on whether to choose to kill a child and his mother and then the movie is at best ambivalent about the rights and wrongs - of course people are going to bring pre-conceptions. If you can just view it as entertainment devoid of context then great. I struggle to do that - but thats probably my bad.

[DomDom1984]

I totally get people who don't want to see it, or dislike it out of principle. It's not "your bad". It's morals. When it comes to "based on true story" movies, I have none. that's all. I'm a man who just wants entertainment to be judged as entertainment and nothing else, but a movie like this is a grey area for some people and I get that.

[kaosmark2]

Watched American History X today. Brilliant film.