Last Film You Watched
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LocalNative
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Off to see La La Land tonight. Not a huge fan of musicals, but can't ignore the acclaim it's getting.
Zatara
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This subtle, thought-provoking tale begins in a restaurant, where the intractable Gibbons (an on-point Samuel L.Jackson) muses on the precarious balance of world affairs to an attentive Neymar Jr., who has seemingly decided to trade in his lucrative footballing career for a life of public service in the eponymous XXX program. After foiling a violent hold-up with his famous footballing skills, Neymar and Gibbons are incinerated by a crashing satellite.
Cut to Langley, where Head of CIA Jane Marke (Toni Colette turning in a tour-de-force performance) explains that terrorists had gotten their hands on a device which can control all 30,000 satellites orbiting Earth, threatening the very existence of America. "The nerds down in the lab call it Pandora's Box" Colette earnestly intones, before revealing that diligent CIA agents managed to retrieve the device and restore security to the world. However, after a ninja jumps 60 feet from a nearby skyscraper, murders most of the room and stows away with the device, an international crisis ensues that only one man can stop.
This may very well be regarded as Vin Diesel's "Raging Bull", as his subtle and nuanced portrayal of conflicted agent, Xander Cage, is the fulcrum on which XXX hinges. Every micro-expression and word is laden with the weight of responsibility one might expect a man, who single-handedly murders armies for a living, would have to grapple with.
What ensues is a thought-provoking commentary on love, war and international relations, as the very depths of the human condition are explored through high speed mountainside skiing, trucktop hand to hand combat on a busy motorway and a zero gravity fight on a plummeting military jet. Ice Cube lends his gravitas to proceedings with a subtle cameo in which he eviscerates 2 elite military units with a grenade launcher. "Rock, Scissors, Paper, Grenade Launcher".
Beautiful.
After Vin Diesel has blown up a weaponised satellite by flying a jet into it, we are left to ponder some very deep questions about life, including the NSA's infringement of privacy, the positive influence of America in global unity, the benefit of cooperation over conflict and the important role of women in society. If you go to see one film this year, make it xxx
It was so, so, so bad.
Jib in lad
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Little big man.
Brilliant.
Brilliant.
LocalNative
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4737carlin
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Watched a filmed called The Lost Weekend before, film noir from the 40s with Ray Milland.
Good film about an alcoholic desperate for a drink!!
Good film about an alcoholic desperate for a drink!!
GwladysBlue
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Zootopia.
What a great film.
What a great film.
Star Wars IV A New Hope
tadao
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Robert Duvall - so good in so many things.
Josh Hartnett - cool in Penny Dreadful.
Jame Franco - another example of his 'straight' (plays a gay man) acting.
Enjoyed it, mainly because of the actors in it.
@ijjysmith
Saw the second half(?) of Payback last night, with a very young Affleck. Played a guy who built a machine that could see the future. Realised bad stuff was gonna happen, somehow had his memory wiped and ended up with ppl trying to kill him while he tried to work out what was going on. Was decent I thought.
Norwegian Cow
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any good horror movies in 3d? I want a movie where the 3d effects actually comes out of the screen and right in front of your nose.