[Movie] Movies/Shows you have seen recently?

Watched to when it went black and started listing the cast so not to the end, no. Should I Youtube it?

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Haha, Bruce Campbell fucking rules.

Today I watched Immortals which is a bit of cgi-heavy, Greek mythology nonsense that isn't as good as 300 or Clash of the Titans but is better than Troy. Really dark film though, as in shot at night, rather than sinister. Maybe I'm getting old but it helps me identify with the characters when I can make out their faces.

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I watched Die Hard 5 or whatever the actual, ridiculous title is the other day. It's a Die Hard film so you pays your money, you takes your chance. You know it'll be full of shoot-outs and light on plot and it is. It's a shame they felt the need to over-complicate it with a CIA plot in Russia, almost trying to make it 24 or some crap as Die Hard was perfect for its simplicity. A dude in a tower block with some criminals was as much plot as the first film needed and it's a classic. The more story they introduce the more plot-holes sneak in and Die Hard 5 is positively riddled with them, so many in fact that by the time they got to Chernobyl and had a magic spray that makes radiation go away I had completely lost interest. I know you should suspend disbelief when you watch films like this by Die Hard 5 is a step too far in terms of plot holes and it just irritated me by the end.

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This thing has gone straight to the top of my DRINK ON list.

I have a ton of similar looking recommendations if you want to make it a silly-jap-horror theme night. Machine Girl is particularly good, depending on your definition of good.

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This weekend I watched Star Trek Into Darkness and Fast and Furious 6

Star Trek I liked. It's a decent action movie with the perfect amount of references to the originals for someone like me who has watched a lot of Star Trek but was never a fan per se.

Furious 6 is easily one of the worst films I've seen in years. They lost me in the first two minutes when they expected me to believe a Dodge Charger or whatever Vin Diesel drives is could keep up with a Nissan GTR in a touge style downhill race. They lost me even more when they expected me to believe the police in London would chase a car firing a machine gun out the window at them. I know it's a movie but seeing it was mainly set in London I was hoping for an interpretation of how the British police go about catching cars, namely not chasing them en masse but simply following them in a chopper and having one car follow at a safe distance until it's safe to stop them. Also why when they need to buy some fast cars do they go to an auction, get told by the compere that they clearly aren't rich enough to shop there then somehow run his nose in it by buying a bunch of American muscle cars, the kind of things you can pick up for £30,000 or so. For that money, just go buy BMW M3's and save yourself the bother of modifying them.

Anyway the whole film is retarded.

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Last night we saw The Watch. It's a Ben Stiller/Vince Vaughn film so it's basically the same as all the other Ben Stiller/Vince Vaughn films! That said, it was actually pretty funny and Richard Ayoade and Jonah Hill are both much more entertaining than Vaughn and Stiller.

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Just watched Iron Man 3. It's a good movie, continuing the high production standards of the Marvel films if nothing else. I thought Thor 2 was better to be honest but if you're into comic book movies then there are worse than this one around ('Sup Daredevil, Phantom, both Hellboys, Ghost Rider 2, all the Batman films between the first Michael Keaton one and the first Christian Bale one, all the Spiderman films after the first Sam Raimi one and all the Superman films since Superman 2?)

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When you watched Avatar, did you manage to work out how the destroyed spaceship thing crashing into the giant tree wouldn't have done as much damage as the bomb they were going to drop on it? God damn that film has some massive plot holes in it.

Anyway, we also watched Byzantium over the weekend which is a vampire film in a similar vein to Let The Right One In, in that it's a film about people who happen to be vampires rather than being a vampire film. It was really good actually, definitely worth a watch.

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Yeah, Byzantium is very much a gritty, UK drama where the protagonists happen to be vampires. There's remarkably little eye-liner and absolutely no sparkles!

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Just watched The World's End. Unsurprisingly it's not as good as Sean of the Dead or Hot Fuzz but it is entertaining and has a few very funny moments. It has also got easily the best soundtrack of any film released since Human Traffic.

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This weekend was Wreck It Ralph which I enjoyed. I liked the references to other games at the beginning and the way they didn't explain any of them, you either got them or you didn't. What was a shame was that they stopped making obscure references to other games almost completely after the first twenty minutes at which point it became another Disney/Pixar film which is no bad thing but again, nothing spectacular. I enjoyed it more than the overly-kiddie Wall-E but given the nerd-gasms it produced from a few members here I was expecting more to be honest. Probably the best Pixar film since the first Toy Story I'd say, take that as you will.

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Hahahahahaha, wasn't it? Totally thought it was.

It was still better than all the Pixar films since Toy Story.

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I was really impressed with How to Train Your Dragon when I saw it over Christmas. It was one of those films that's on and you watch it because you can't be arsed to find the remote but actually I'm glad I did.

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Watched World War Z the other day and was pleasantly surprised. It's a bit silly and would have been just as good if not better without the whole bit about Brad's family but it's an enjoyable film and some of the effects are really good. Stand out bit for me was the escape from Jerusalem and not just because of all the smug Jews getting eaten...

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I remember Eerie Indiana, it was like Round the Twist but not quite as good.

We watched Machete Kills the other day which is a masterclass in spending a fuck load of cash to deliberately make a low budget movie. I love Robert Rodriguez films and where Tarantino takes himself far too fucking seriously and manages to accidentally make one good film for every three or four he releases, Rodriguez films are all incredibly tongue in cheek and hilarious which I guess is why so many big names queue up to be in them. If you liked Terror Planet you'll like this, if you didn't like Terror Planet you're an idiot.

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The Grey is dumb, Liam Neeson should know better by now.

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We just watched Olympus has Fallen. It's about the bad guy from Fast and Furious 2 leading a team of terrorists to attack the White House and capture the president leaving only Gerard Butler able to save everyone and avert the end of the world as we know it.

It's an ok action film but suffers from a completely implausible plot. I know you 'Merkins love your president but I suspect even you guys wouldn't sacrifice all of South Korea to keep him alive. It's all a bit AMERICA FUCK YEAH which is kinda surprising as Butler was one of the producers himself and you might have thought he would try to swerve all that horrific flag waving the US is so fond of but sadly no.

Anyway, there are better action films out there, better Gerard Butler films out there and better ways to spend the couple of hours or so I spent watching this. The bit where Washington is getting shot up by miniguns is pretty epic though and there's a lot for movie mistakes fans to keep an eye out for!

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I haven't watched a film for ages. Last one was Anchorman 2. It was funny but not a patch on the first one.

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So it turns out White House Down is fucking terrible, not sure why I thought it wouldn't be really.

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This week I watched Pacific Rim on Bluray and Fury at an actual cinema.

Pacific Rim is very silly and chock full of plot holes (Forever they can't get through the dimensional rift thing but somehow when they get through their radio still works being just one but an especially grating one) but it's fun enough if you like big mechs and who doesn't like mechs, right?

Fury is pretty awesome actually. I mean, there's not actually a plot and basically none of the main characters can act or at least their character is the same as in every other film they've respectively been in but the setting is gritty as fuck, the tank combat is brutal and tanks are great, possibly better than mechs. Plus it's a good reference source for anyone who paints model tanks. If you like watching nazis getting shot to pieces and you like tanks (and frankly who doesn't?) then it's worth a look.

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I just watched the trailer for Star Wars 7.

Stupid cross guard lightsaber confirmed real.

I am disappoint.

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[QUOTE=Tawnee Van Pelt;824935]Keeping in the topic of foreign media, I recently watched a French TV serial called Les Revenants or The Returned./QUOTE]

I started watching this when it was first on but never really got on with it, it went a bit slow for me. Maybe I'll give it another go.

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We just got through watching the first two series of The Following and it's great. It's like 24 only with Kevin Bacon and a higher body count. It does get a touch predictable and I did find myself shouting at the screen a couple of times when the characters made the same, dumb mistake the fifth time and literally everyone gets stabbed in the stomach which is a terrible way to kill someone but that aside, it really is a great show.

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Just watched 7 Days which is a French horror film (Sept jours du talion) about a dude who tortures the guy who's killed his daughter. As with most French horror it is far from uplifting but is a decent movie.

Also the other day we watched Captain America: The Winter Soldier. It's a nu-school Marvel movie, they're all much of a muchness. Terrible acting, silly story, plot holes you could drive a bus through and "Twists" that a retarded child could spot a mile away (Oh wow, he's alive, never saw that coming! Oh wow, the person you specifically mentioned three times at the beginning of the film turns out to be significant later on! And so forth...) but nevertheless it is enjoyable in a mindless way and if you've watched a few of them, you might as well watch all of them eh?

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In the last week I have watched The Interview and The Amazing Spider Man 2.

The Interview was better than a lot of people have made out. It's far from being the best film ever but there are some laugh out loud moments in it and it's worth watching if you want a dumb comedy.

Spider Man on the other hand is fucking terrible and the first time in a long, long time that I've not managed to watch a film through to the end. It's like an episode of Dawson's Creek with a better effects budget. The acting is terrible, the script is terrible, the editing is terrible, the characters are shoe-horned in and it's literally one of the worst films I've seen in years. I've not actually watched the first one and off the back of this I won't bother.

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