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I can understand why, but for the role he kinda had to be.
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Good then you can explain it to me.
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I watched Gamer today. It was made buy the two guys that wrote/directed the Crank movies and it's a modern-day take on The Running Man. It wasn't brilliant, but it was entertaining.
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I know its not a filum but does anyone here watch "The Wire" ?

I find it fabuluous darling, brilliant writing, acting - I've never bought a TV series on DVD before but I purchased the first 4 series & I find it a really high quality show.
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That show gets a lot of praise. I'll have to check it out some day.

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How do you like [he or she]Peep Show[he or she]?
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Last night I watched a 2007 Russian production, Leningrad, starring Mira Sorvino and Olga Sutulova. I think it's based on a true story, when during the siege of Leningrad during WWII, a British journalist (Sorvino) is trapped in the city with only the help of a policewoman (Sutulova) to keep her safe.

It really was very good. The war scenes were very reminiscent of the German film, Stalingrad, and the acting throughout was excellent.

It's just been released as a rental DVD, I highly recommend it.
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Yesterday I watched "Nowhere Boy." I think it was its last day at the Nova and it has already gone off at most other Melbourne movie theatres. I liked it, although it was really much more a film about John Lennon's adolescence than the start of the Beatles.

In some ways it helps explain his later relationship with Yoko Ono. On the one hand he was raised by a very strong woman (his aunt, Mimi Smith) on the other hand he was both rejected and sought after by his mother (Julia). His whole relationship with Julia would have been really disorienting. It is no wonder that he ended up with a strong (and strange) woman seven years older than he was.
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Watched "The Thin Red Line" on TV the other night and while it's still to long I was better able to appreciate the tone and message of the movie now that I'm a little more muture than I was the first time I watched it.
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Saw Valentine's Day last night. It was ok. Poor mans Love Actually.
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OEP wrote:Watched "The Thin Red Line" on TV the other night and while it's still to long I was better able to appreciate the tone and message of the movie now that I'm a little more muture than I was the first time I watched it.
That's a very good film, and this is coming from someone who doesn't really like war movies.
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Saw the Hurt Locker - Rubbish. 2 hours and 7 minutes I will not get back

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On the cover it stars Ralph Fiennes, Guy Pearce and then list 6 others.

Guy gets blown up in the within first 5 minutes! More like an extra.
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5150 wrote:Saw the Hurt Locker - Rubbish. 2 hours and 7 minutes I will not get back

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On the cover it stars Ralph Fiennes, Guy Pearce and then list 6 others.

Guy gets blown up in the within first 5 minutes! More like an extra.
What's with Guy Pearce and cameos? He appeared for about a total of 2 minutes in The Road as well. If there has been a more superfluous cameo, I can't think of it.
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I went and saw Daybreakers today. It wasn't too bad.
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