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Re: Horrible Bosses

#131 Post by canadian_turtle » Tue Jul 12, 2011 10:09 pm

Greenwich was seriously overbooked. I've heard people talk about overbooking before but luckily had never experienced it before however today I got there at 10 past 6 and was lucky to nab one of the last seats (a single all the way to the side). By 15 past 6 everything was full and about 25 people were aimlessly wandering around looking for seats that weren't there. They were escorted out (to a second screen I hope for them?) and our movie didn't start until 6.45

I really enjoyed the movie but I didn't think it was as amazing as I expected it to be from the reviews on here. I really liked the story and the characters were all fab in their absurdness but I just didn't laugh out loud as often as I did for instance at Bridesmaids.

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Re: Horrible Bosses

#132 Post by mandmc10 » Tue Jul 12, 2011 10:12 pm

Jenifer Aniston and Kevin Spacey stole the show for me!

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#133 Post by evilzadi » Tue Jul 12, 2011 10:12 pm

I actually got to Greenwich around quarter to seven even though I had left pretty early. Apparently there was some collision or something near makro and all the buses were on diversion which lead to a massive traffic jam. I was in the same spot for 25 minutes!! When we got to the cinema we were told that we can't go in but the manager was giving out vouchers instead. Happy with that! More times i can see Harry Potter :D
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Re: Horrible Bosses

#134 Post by Jayman » Tue Jul 12, 2011 10:14 pm

canadian_turtle wrote:Greenwich was seriously overbooked. I've heard people talk about overbooking before but luckily had never experienced it before however today I got there at 10 past 6 and was lucky to nab one of the last seats (a single all the way to the side). By 15 past 6 everything was full and about 25 people were aimlessly wandering around looking for seats that weren't there. They were escorted out (to a second screen I hope for them?) and our movie didn't start until 6.45
The second theatre too was just about packed to the limit. It started late because, as the usher mentioned, they needed to copy the movie onto another server due to it being a digital print. What a high-tech age we live in :)
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#135 Post by Beate » Tue Jul 12, 2011 10:16 pm

The same age in which SFF can claim not to have received the prints on a day when other cinemas clearly have and were making digital copies...
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#136 Post by Jayman » Tue Jul 12, 2011 10:20 pm

*Edited my silliness*
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#137 Post by Doris » Tue Jul 12, 2011 10:23 pm

Hilarious film, lots of laughs from a near as could be packed Harrow Vue.
I thought this was better than Bridesmaids, more laughs. 9/10

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Re: Horrible Bosses

#138 Post by kevinknapman » Tue Jul 12, 2011 10:56 pm

Enjoyed this a lot. Crude but very funny. Admittedly some of the jokes didn't quite hit and the resolution wasn't quite as ingenious as I'd hoped it would be, but when it was funny it was really funny. I laughed out loud a few times ("Where does he get the energy......oh yeah" "Shouldn't that be Motherf*cker-over Jones to avoid confusion").

The bosses were all fantastic. Kevin Spacey was great if slightly channeling Buddy Ackerman from Swimming With Sharks, Aniston was very good too (and surprisingly sexy on occasion), Colin Farrell was disappointingly underused though but hilarious in the few scenes he had. Jamie Foxx also on good form as the murder consultant. Bateman and Sudeikis were fine but it was Charlie Day who got most of the best laughs of the trio. It was worth seeing for his coke-fueled Ting Tings singalong alone.

It was also good enough to make me forgive Seth Gordon his involvement in remaking King of Kong as a mockumentary (the dumbest idea ever) and for daring to remake War Games (one of my favourite films of the 80's).
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Re: Horrible Bosses

#139 Post by marjoreemarjora » Tue Jul 12, 2011 11:23 pm

Saw this in a very busy small screen in Ocean Terminal today.

Loved it, so much funnier to me than bridesmaids. think we have all worked at some stage for bosses we could not stand so totally empathised with them, but never wanted to kill mine.

Really good mix of stars and even enjoyed Jennifer Anniston tho never really been a big fan of hers. Now Captain Hornblower aka wetman well he was quite a surprise.

Thought Jamie Foxx well used, but Colin Farrell's role could have been bigger.

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Re: Horrible Bosses

#140 Post by kevinknapman » Tue Jul 12, 2011 11:40 pm

Would really love to have been a fly on the wall when Ioan Gruffudd had to explain to his family which character he was playing in the film.
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