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Post 28 Jan 2013, 1:30 pm

rickyp wrote:D'jango
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty
Moonrise Kingdom
Argo
Lincoln
Les Miserable
Life of Pi (3d version)
Skyfall
Hunger Games

Ok, I don't go to the cinema much, and so I tend to be about a year out of date by the time films get to cable TV. Still I did go to see one film on that list, and that was Skyfall. As far as I'm concerned, it was an average Bond. As part of a kind of 'reboot' series (Casino Royale had Bond as a fairly new guy, Skyfall introduces Moneypenny) and with an actor who plays Bond far better than he does some Swedish journalist* it was good. But Javier Bardem was awful, just awful as the bad guy. Anyone who knows who David Walliams would be hard pressed to tell the difference.

I'm not going to see Hunger Games any time soon - read the book recently and it's OK but nothing special as far as post-apocalyptic Young Adult fiction goes. Similarly, I've read Life of Pi and don't want the film version to spoil it.

The other cinema trip last year was to see Ted. I loved it.
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Post 29 Jan 2013, 8:53 am

just looked at the rotten tomatoes best reviewed list.... and it reminded me that I loved Loopers.....

The movie Life of Pi won't ruin your impression of the book. Especially if you see it in 3D. It actually expands and improves on the imagery of Pi on the boat immeasureably.
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Post 29 Jan 2013, 8:58 am

Depends on what my impression of the book was, dunnit?
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Post 03 Feb 2013, 3:28 pm

we saw Lincoln last night ... I don't think it was a great movie, but I enjoyed watching the history. Previously I had only thought of the amendment to end slavery as a noble endeavor, which of course it is. But it was interesting to see the raw politics of it including the vote buying that was involved. The House was just as unruly then as it is now; history really does rhyme.
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Post 23 Aug 2013, 7:47 am

Although not a 2012 movie, has anyone else seen Code 46? I thought it was very well constructed and reasonably complex. In fact, when I finished it, I decided to watch it again from the beginning because much of it went over my head the 1st time.