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Saw the new tinkerbell film this afternoon, very moving.

golfaddick said:

I watch Oblivion last night on Sky Premier (it came out last year sometime) - not bad , but if you can explain the plot to me I'd be grateful. 6/10 for the action sequences with the drones alone.

OK - here goes. Spoilers, naturally.
Alien intelligent life comes to Earth in the near future. Probe sent up containing Tom Cruise and saucy English bird gets captured. Alien intelligence wipes out nearly everyone on Earth. Clones Tom and English bird and sets them to work maintaining pumping stations draining the Earth's water supply, spinning them a yarn about civilisation on Titan, and their memories being wiped after some some cataclysmic previous event. Clone Tom has residual memories of Hot Russkie Babe who turns out to be his former wife, who was also on board the original probe, but jettisoned to deep orbit. Original probe is brought back to Earth and crashed, where TC rescues Hot Russkie Babe. TC clone meets an exact copy of himself (TC Clone #2) and defeats him in a fight. Meanwhile Morgan Freeman and a bunch of other people survived the apocalypse wrought by the alient intelligence and are trying to sabotage it. They explain this to Tommy, who agrees to blow the thing up. Tommy succeeds, TC clone #2 meets Hot Russkie Babe, who TC clone #1 has spirited away in secluded spot.

So - basically - Event Horizon, 2001 AD, Planet Of The Apes and (most blatantly) The Matrix all rolled into one movie.

Still enjoyable though - for the visuals and the fantastic soundtrack alone

Leroy Ambrose said:

golfaddick said:

I watch Oblivion last night on Sky Premier (it came out last year sometime) - not bad , but if you can explain the plot to me I'd be grateful. 6/10 for the action sequences with the drones alone.

OK - here goes. Spoilers, naturally.
Alien intelligent life comes to Earth in the near future. Probe sent up containing Tom Cruise and saucy English bird gets captured. Alien intelligence wipes out nearly everyone on Earth. Clones Tom and English bird and sets them to work maintaining pumping stations draining the Earth's water supply, spinning them a yarn about civilisation on Titan, and their memories being wiped after some some cataclysmic previous event. Clone Tom has residual memories of Hot Russkie Babe who turns out to be his former wife, who was also on board the original probe, but jettisoned to deep orbit. Original probe is brought back to Earth and crashed, where TC rescues Hot Russkie Babe. TC clone meets an exact copy of himself (TC Clone #2) and defeats him in a fight. Meanwhile Morgan Freeman and a bunch of other people survived the apocalypse wrought by the alient intelligence and are trying to sabotage it. They explain this to Tommy, who agrees to blow the thing up. Tommy succeeds, TC clone #2 meets Hot Russkie Babe, who TC clone #1 has spirited away in secluded spot.

So - basically - Event Horizon, 2001 AD, Planet Of The Apes and (most blatantly) The Matrix all rolled into one movie.

Still enjoyable though - for the visuals and the fantastic soundtrack alone

Thanks - now all makes sense

Had a bit of a catch up in the last few days...

Last Vegas. Think a rubbish version of The Hangover with De Niro, Freeman, Kline and Douglas. 6/10.
The Armstrong Lie. If you're into your cycling, well worth a watch. 7.5/10.
Gravity. See, said I was catching up. 7.5/10
Runner Runner. Ben Afleck runs the world's biggest Ponsi scheme and is brought down by Justin Timberlake. 5/10.

just watched - Dallas Buyers Club - twelve years a slave and American Hustle which are all fantastic films.
If anyone wants a fantastic film site streamed in HD 720p drop me a message.

msomerton said:

Saw 12 yeras a slave last night, the acting was great from the whole cast. Bloody good movie, feared it would be another roots but far better than that.

Roots was the dogs b@llocks

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charlton_hero said:

Anyone seen Searching For Sugarman? Great story. Also recommend The Devil and Daniel Johnston. Two great films.

Mortimerician said:

charlton_hero said:

Anyone seen Searching For Sugarman? Great story. Also recommend The Devil and Daniel Johnston. Two great films.

Yes great film. One of the better documentaries I saw last year along with the one about the two scots lads that posed as Americans to launch a rap career.

Yes, Searching for Sugarman is a great film, especially when you are not in the mood for something dark or violent.First I heard of it was when the guy himself was interviewed on the Andrew Marr show. The second one about the hip hop hoax sounds good too.

Saw the Lego Movie last night - really very good. It's somewhere in between Inception and Toy Story, and very funny. Don't think it's just for kids, it's really really not.

Grand Budapest Hotel opened the Glasgow Film Festival tonight - excellent! General release from 7 March, I think.

I know its not a new film , but just watched Rush on Blu Ray this week , loved it , don't know how much of it was historically accurate , but their were some funny & shocking moments in the film , 9 out of 10, thought the guy who played Lauda was excellent.

Weegie Addick said:

Grand Budapest Hotel opened the Glasgow Film Festival tonight - excellent! General release from 7 March, I think.

What's it about, Weegie? The title got my interest of course

Weegie Addick said:

Prague, it's a bit of an adventure story - director is Wes Anderson, so everything is very vivid/ cartoon-esque. About the life of the Concierge at the hotel, set in a fictional Eastern European country in the 1930s. Fantastic cast including Ralph Fiennes as the concierge, Willem Defoe as the baddy, Jude Law, Jeff Goldblum, Tilda Swinton, Bill Murray, Harvey Keitel etc. Get the feeling they had a lot of fun making it! Overall it is very lighthearted, though with a few darker undertones. Kind of Tea with Mussolini meets Brother Where Art Though if that makes any sense at all?!

I get the picture. I think. Wonder if it will make it out here though.