If that was in London it might've been me and my wifeBeate wrote:Well it depends - a sandwich is fine but not maybe a whole three course meal, LOL. Spanner always seems to attract the eaters, I seem to remember her talking about a family picnic involving smoked salmon and chocolate mousse - in the cinema.
Green Zone
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Belleandpickle
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No, Spanner lives oop North, LOL.
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Oh ok. So lunch and dinner are the same meal to Spanner.Beate wrote:No, Spanner lives oop North, LOL.
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deancuk
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It was an average war film. More annoyingly though was the sound in the cinema in Birmingham. God bless the folically-challenged fellow who kept standing up and going to complain to the attendants whenever it went bad.
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Spanner
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ahh now i mostly don't have real issues with munchers and biddy's per se but we had been told it was a formal dress affair and i thought it rude to bring yes sangers to such an event. oh and yes dinner is what you have at noon and tea is what your big meal you eat after work.
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I used a voucher to catch this. I thought it was quite good but nothing special. A fair bit of action but I think the story telling side was so-so. I did like the Freddie character and Matt Damon was good (he is growing on me, never used to be able to stand his stuff - apart from Jason Bourne). 7/10.
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It's pretty much Bourne in Iraq but for most people (including me) that should do just fine.
If you've seen The Bourne Ultimatum and like it then this is very much in the same vein. Just like Ultimatum, it starts off at a good pace and then doesn't really let up the whole way through (and yes, you also get all the usual choppy editing and handheld camera work with it...). Not many films are made that way and it's a shame because it really works when it comes to thrillers and action films.
As for the plot, there isn't all that much to speak of - it's just the hunt for WMDs and the point that there were no such weapons and that the pretext for war was falsified (which is pretty much a well-known point by now) but I don't think the film is really striving to be a political drama anyway but rather an action thriller and at that it does suceed.
If you've seen The Bourne Ultimatum and like it then this is very much in the same vein. Just like Ultimatum, it starts off at a good pace and then doesn't really let up the whole way through (and yes, you also get all the usual choppy editing and handheld camera work with it...). Not many films are made that way and it's a shame because it really works when it comes to thrillers and action films.
As for the plot, there isn't all that much to speak of - it's just the hunt for WMDs and the point that there were no such weapons and that the pretext for war was falsified (which is pretty much a well-known point by now) but I don't think the film is really striving to be a political drama anyway but rather an action thriller and at that it does suceed.
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Saw this at WIQ on an Orange Wednesday and the cinema was 95% full, only some of those real close seats at the front which i would never sit in even if someone pa*d me as you cant see shit as your way too close. Anyway to the film and it didnt dissapoint and was what i expected, a Bourn film in Iraq. Was an action/thriller type of movie based around when the US went into Iraq looking for WMD. I would naturally compared this to The Hurt Locker as they are similar, but i havent see it yet. 7/10
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For those people who were at the screening where people where eating - are you sure those people didn't just see a sign for "Green Zone" and mistakenly think they were going into a picnic area...?! 