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Django was v.good.

Just watched Cleanskin - not sure what to make of it.

 

Name drop. I know one of the co-producers David Sumnall. He filmed and produced Johnny Wilkinson's fly on the wall documentary too.

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Just watched Skyfall. Harmless fun.

 

Though the Chinese person who did the subtitles needs to go on another English course.

 

Sounds like you need a better source.

 

Anyway, got Dredd ready to go. From the trailer, as said above, looks like a huge rip-off of The Raid ... but if it's half as good I'll be happy enough.

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you watched les miserables, spazmong?

 

you really must

 

Someone's trying to talk me into it but I'm having none of it. I just really can't abide musicals. The whole singing instead of speaking thing does my crust in ... and I'm thinking that might be a slight problem.

 

Are you saying I should just bite the bullet?

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Sounds like you need a better source.

 

Anyway, got Dredd ready to go. From the trailer, as said above, looks like a huge rip-off of The Raid ... but if it's half as good I'll be happy enough.

 

No, I kept them on on purpose as they were amusing. They're good ones from my 'source', no walking across the front of the camcorder on these :D

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Someone's trying to talk me into it but I'm having none of it. I just really can't abide musicals. The whole singing instead of speaking thing does my crust in ... and I'm thinking that might be a slight problem.

 

Are you saying I should just bite the bullet?

 

you'll be biting pillows, never mind bullets

 

its really, really good

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Someone's trying to talk me into it but I'm having none of it. I just really can't abide musicals. The whole singing instead of speaking thing does my crust in ... and I'm thinking that might be a slight problem.

 

Are you saying I should just bite the bullet?

 

That is exactly why I can't abide them.

 

Opera too. Fuck off!

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You get more use of the word nigger before the first lot of adverts in any episode of The Wire. I give Django 7.5 out of 10. Hugely entertaining but a shame that every mis-step in it is due to Tarantino's self indulgence. Someone needs to reign him in a bit.

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You get more use of the word nigger before the first lot of adverts in any episode of The Wire. I give Django 7.5 out of 10. Hugely entertaining but a shame that every mis-step in it is due to Tarantino's self indulgence. Someone needs to reign him in a bit.

 

that was pretty much where I'm at

 

it's good, but seen it all before with him

 

and I think he was on course for a 4/5 hour epic, but rather than end up with another Kill Bill 2 volume affair

 

 

he decided that Waltz would shoot Dicaprio, totally out of character to the rest of the film, then rushed the rest of it including the scene with his dodgy australian accent, and just finished off with a shoot off, the last 45 mins or whatever seem to just want to wrap up the film too quickly

 

 

that said, I watched it twice to come to that conclusion, it's very watchable

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Isn;t that what Tarantino does though? Build the tension for a long, long time and then there's just a sudden, almost out-of-the-blue bloodfest?

 

I certainly wouldn't say that he needs reigning in or is self-indulgent. I'd say that's just 'what he does'.

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No. The self indulgence in Kill Bill 2 and Inglorious Basterds was in the form of painful and pointless scenes of never ending plodding dialogue. The bar scene with Fassbender in Inglorious is at least three times longer than it needs to be and Kill Bill 2 should have been an hour shorter and incorporated into the outstanding first film. That Death Proof dross was COMPLETE self indulgence, as is his cameo in this one, which ranks as one of the all time worst.

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No. The self indulgence in Kill Bill 2 and Inglorious Basterds was in the form of painful and pointless scenes of never ending plodding dialogue. The bar scene with Fassbender in Inglorious is at least three times longer than it needs to be and Kill Bill 2 should have been an hour shorter and incorporated into the outstanding first film. That Death Proof dross was COMPLETE self indulgence, as is his cameo in this one, which ranks as one of the all time worst.

 

See, I enjoyed those scenes.

 

All about opinions innit.

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Agreed - you go back to Reservoir Dogs and its lean as fuck. 99 minutes and not one of them wasted. Every film since has been self-indulgent to a certain extent. I'm a fan, but it annoys me what some of his films could have been.

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the Haunting in Connecticut 2- Shit

The House at the end of the street- Shit

 

There doesnt seem to be any half decent, horrors out at the moment.

 

 

I have Skyfall and Django to watch later

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the Haunting in Connecticut 2- Shit

The House at the end of the street- Shit

 

There doesnt seem to be any half decent, horrors out at the moment.

 

 

The Owen?

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