Flyboys
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Re: Flyboys
Not seen it. I take it you wouldn't recommend it either?Kristatos wrote:Watched this on DVD last night. I don't have much to say except that if you thought the CGI in DAD was bad....
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Re: Flyboys
Not unless you come up with some drinking game whereby you take a shot every time you see a war movie cliche. You'd be vewwy vewwy drunk by the end of the movie.Skywalker wrote: I take it you wouldn't recommend it either?
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Re: Flyboys
Just for a brief moment, I thought you were practicing your audition to replace Johnathan Ross as a film critic.Kristatos wrote:Not unless you come up with some drinking game whereby you take a shot every time you see a war movie cliche. You'd be vewwy vewwy drunk by the end of the movie.Skywalker wrote: I take it you wouldn't recommend it either?
“I'd like to thank the Royal Marines for bringing me in like that and scaring the s--- out of me,” Bond Hardman Daniel Craig.
Re: Flyboys
It was meant to be a Rowley Birkin QC impression.Skywalker wrote:Just for a brief moment, I thought you were practicing your audition to replace Johnathan Ross as a film critic.
"He's the one that doesn't smile" - Queen Elizabeth II on Daniel Craig
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Shawshank Redemption
Platoon
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Aliens - Location: On the side of truth and honesty. No room for sheep - just shepherds.
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Re: Flyboys
Never watched the 'Fast show'.Kristatos wrote:It was meant to be a Rowley Birkin QC impression.Skywalker wrote:Just for a brief moment, I thought you were practicing your audition to replace Johnathan Ross as a film critic.
“I'd like to thank the Royal Marines for bringing me in like that and scaring the s--- out of me,” Bond Hardman Daniel Craig.
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Re: Flyboys
Flyboys is "based on a true story" without having a true story to tell.Kristatos wrote:Watched this on DVD last night. I don't have much to say except that if you thought the CGI in DAD was bad....
All of the characters were generic tokens for their phenotype. Fat rich racist with a change of heart, the loner, the hero, the minority, the lion...
actually the lion was true to the history.
Althou the French girl I thought would have been a improvement over Eva Green
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Re: Flyboys
Actually, according to the credits, it was "based on THE true story". Apparently, there is only one true story, and Flyboys was based on it.Blowfeld wrote:Flyboys is "based on a true story" without having a true story to tell.
"He's the one that doesn't smile" - Queen Elizabeth II on Daniel Craig