not top of my fav list but watched the remake of Total Recall and expected total pish and i enjoyed it.
Harold and Kumar get the munchies is another.
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not top of my fav list but watched the remake of Total Recall and expected total pish and i enjoyed it.
Harold and Kumar get the munchies is another.
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Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter thought it would be crap but it actually was a lot of fun and the blu ray re picture quality is very good.
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Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
You haven't heard of it? Well you soon will.
The plot:
Hansel and Gretel, having evaded a horrible fate as children in the witch's candy cottage in the woods, are now all grown up, and they have become super-cool kick-ass witch hunters – in a weirdly regressive sibling partnership – roaming the vaguely Germanic countryside armed with steampunky shotguns for the purposes of blasting witches with maximum violence.
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Another Earth was good?
Expecting it to be indie "mumblecore" nonsense, but was quite emotional.
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Re: Films you thought would be rubbish but turned out to be good...
Originally Posted by synsei
I watched a film last night that blew me away, in fact it was quite a difficult watch in places, not because it was bad or anything, it's just that the subject matter was disturbing. T'is called The Magdalene Sisters and it's on BBC iPlayer just now...
What's really shocking is the last magdalene laundry only closed in the mid 1990's and the religious orders involved haven't offered a full apology.
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My daughter bought me a film for Fathers day a few years ago....I dd not fancy it and never watched it...months later when bored to tears I put it on expecting the worst, but to my surprise it was great, and is not one of my guilty pleasures..
The Film: Shooter, starring Mark Wahlberg.......Just goes to show, don't pre judge nowt!
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I assumed the film was some Dickensian construct initially and it wasn't until the story began to unfold that I properly realised the full implications of it. Truly shocking...
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Something sticks in my head that this was originally a stage play, which caused a bit of a stir....I assumed the film was some Dickensian construct initially and it wasn't until the story began to unfold that I properly realised the full implications of it. Truly shocking...
Irish 'institutions' have a pretty history, but the alternatives were sometimes worse.
Almost a PC mentality at a time when out of sight out of mind was acceptable in polite society...
And all in the name of religion...
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