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    Django Unchained, and Argo:
    http://deadshed.blogspot.co.uk/2013/...ards-bait.html

    Feckin' loved Django Unchained - a really enjoyable rollercoaster of a flick that clicked fast-and-easy from savage brutality, to uproarious laughter, to kick arse shootouts (with fantastically gloopy blood geysers from KNB) ... and Argo is a three-for-three for Affleck: it had me on the edge of my seat.

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    Resident Evil Retribution, Used Cars, and Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter:
    http://deadshed.blogspot.co.uk/2013/...evil-iffy.html

    1) About as fun as a painful bowel movement, and as well-written as a child's Christmas list to Santa.
    2) Dated, but rather fun old school comedy - plus Kurt Russell's in it, and he's always awesome ... and I'd wager one certain scene was the basis for many American teenage boys' mucky fantasies back in the early 1980s.
    3) The trouble with titles like that, is that you can never fully live up to them ... this is no different.

    Read on for the full skinny.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MinionZombie View Post
    Django Unchained, and Argo:
    http://deadshed.blogspot.co.uk/2013/...ards-bait.html

    Feckin' loved Django Unchained - a really enjoyable rollercoaster of a flick that clicked fast-and-easy from savage brutality, to uproarious laughter, to kick arse shootouts (with fantastically gloopy blood geysers from KNB) ... and Argo is a three-for-three for Affleck: it had me on the edge of my seat.
    I loved it too! The only week spot for me was Tarantino himself...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Neil View Post
    I loved it too! The only week spot for me was Tarantino himself...
    Aye - the only mis-step in the flick - he sticks out like a sore thumb. Although he does leave the movie in a rather entertaining way.

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    Can you imagine Will Smith in the role? That was Tarantino 's first choice and he even offered the part to him...
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    Jesus, that would have been bloody awful
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    Quote Originally Posted by shootemindehead View Post
    Jesus, that would have been bloody awful
    Oh, I don't know... I think it could have been OK...
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    Room 237, and Premium Rush:
    http://deadshed.blogspot.co.uk/2013/...ories-and.html

    1) That bonkers documentary about deeper meanings in "The Shining" (the film), which is fascinating and frustrating in equal measure.
    2) Joseph Gordon-Levitt on a bicycle - but it's actually exciting.

    Quote Originally Posted by Neil View Post
    Oh, I don't know... I think it could have been OK...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Neil View Post
    Oh, I don't know... I think it could have been OK...
    I like Smith, but I don't think he could have brought the burning intensity Foxx did for the 2nd half of the film.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MoonSylver View Post
    I like Smith, but I don't think he could have brought the burning intensity Foxx did for the 2nd half of the film.
    I think there's also a lot of Will Smith hanging around the neck of Will Smith, if that makes sense. Jamie Foxx is a big name, but his name doesn't get in the way of his performances - with Will Smith movies I'm always aware I'm watching Will Smith, and not whatever character he's playing (or late anyway - he was good as Ali, I thought, but as he's got bigger and bigger, it's damn-near impossible for him to be anybody else bit himself in his movies). I think Foxx did a fantastic job as Django.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MoonSylver View Post
    I like Smith, but I don't think he could have brought the burning intensity Foxx did for the 2nd half of the film.
    Agreed!

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    Quote Originally Posted by MinionZombie View Post
    I think there's also a lot of Will Smith hanging around the neck of Will Smith, if that makes sense. Jamie Foxx is a big name, but his name doesn't get in the way of his performances - with Will Smith movies I'm always aware I'm watching Will Smith, and not whatever character he's playing (or late anyway - he was good as Ali, I thought, but as he's got bigger and bigger, it's damn-near impossible for him to be anybody else bit himself in his movies). I think Foxx did a fantastic job as Django.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MinionZombie View Post
    I think there's also a lot of Will Smith hanging around the neck of Will Smith, if that makes sense.
    Actually, that is a perfect way of putting it!

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    That's because he's a rubbish actor. He can only play Will Smith. He certainly doesn't have the chops that Foxx has, that's for sure.

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    Quote Originally Posted by shootemindehead View Post
    That's because he's a rubbish actor. He can only play Will Smith.
    Kevin Costner school of acting.

    "Men choose as their prophets those who tell them that their hopes are true." --Lord Dunsany

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    I think Smith is a fine actor, the problem is just that the roles he chooses often limit what he can do. See Six Degrees of Separation, Pursuit of Happiness, even bits of I Am Legend choked me up. He's got the talent, just usually doesn't have the venue to display it.

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