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Watched The Foreigner with Jackie Chan and Pearce Brosnan.

Quite an excellent movie. It's similar to Law Abiding Citizen and several other movies with the whole tale of revenge thing but set in London and based heavily around the IRA. It's based on the novel "The Chinaman" by Stephen Leather.

Jackie Chan's performance is brilliant playing a man who basically has nothing left to live for, playing a much darker, more series role than he usually plays. And the movie is a lot deeper than I expected it to be going into the different levels of morality the characters have on what they consider to be justified use of violence. Highly recommend it if you like action movies and spy movies.

9/10
It's definitely on my list of movies to watch.

Fyi i actually have met Jackie Chan many years ago back in Canberra. His parents lived there and had a restaurant in Dickson.
 

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It's definitely on my list of movies to watch.

Fyi i actually have met Jackie Chan many years ago back in Canberra. His parents lived there and had a restaurant in Dickson.
He has made large donations to ANU cancer research.
 

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I was having a good day until I opened this thread and you reminded me of that dickhead rian johnson
Sorry..just didn’t answer important questions..and an answer they did give was a cop out! Sheesh.. it was more like a tv episode rather than a movie.. The comedy was cringe worthy..and what they did to Luke’s character..was sacrilege! F&$k you Disney..destroying one of the great sagas in movie history and turning it into a cash cow at the expense of quality story telling..which is what movies are supposed to be about!
 

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Sorry..just didn’t answer important questions..and an answer they did give was a cop out! Sheesh.. it was more like a tv episode rather than a movie.. The comedy was cringe worthy..and what they did to Luke’s character..was sacrilege! F&$k you Disney..destroying one of the great sagas in movie history and turning it into a cash cow at the expense of quality story telling..which is what movies are supposed to be about!
Rian johnson is a wank stain. A complete utter failure

Forget the fact that this storyline was ever allowed to be produced.

When the movie first came out rian was self promoting saying how everyone was congratulating him on a job well done.

By the end of the first week of the movies release, he started doing a whole bunch of interviews trying to defend his shit story line by "explaining" the reasoning behind certain scenes and what he wanted to do.

Their PR moves after the backlash were just the cream on the top of a pile of turd.

Go to his Facebook page and see the many posts reminding him that he fucked star wars
 

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Rian johnson is a wank stain. A complete utter failure

Forget the fact that this storyline was ever allowed to be produced.

When the movie first came out rian was self promoting saying how everyone was congratulating him on a job well done.

By the end of the first week of the movies release, he started doing a whole bunch of interviews trying to defend his shit story line by "explaining" the reasoning behind certain scenes and what he wanted to do.

Their PR moves after the backlash were just the cream on the top of a pile of turd.

Go to his Facebook page and see the many posts reminding him that he fucked star wars
The Force Awakens wasn’t much chop either..just a rehash of a New Hope..
 

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The Force Awakens wasn’t much chop either..just a rehash of a New Hope..
I could accept that, the first movie of a trilogy and it set it up so that the trilogy could be taken in many different directions

Unfortunately that direction was rian johnson
 

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Just a quick question..what the f#@k was Laura Dern’s character with freaking purple hair? Little dumb shit like that just was stupid and distracting..oh why I’m at it those annoying Porgs on Luke’s island were obviously a marketing tool to sell toys..oh what about those dumb ass cleaning ladies like shit on his island..what the hell where they?
 

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I could accept that, the first movie of a trilogy and it set it up so that the trilogy could be taken in many different directions

Unfortunately that direction was rian johnson
I couldn’t accept it..as was basically the same..although Lucas pretty much stuffed up the prequels at least he tried to do something ‘different’.
 

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Just a quick question..what the f#@k was Laura Dern’s character with freaking purple hair? Little dumb shit like that just was stupid and distracting..oh why I’m at it those annoying Porgs on Luke’s island were obviously a marketing tool to sell toys..oh what about those dumb ass cleaning ladies like shit on his island..what the hell where they?
Gotta have dat powerful feminist ANTIFA member forced into the movie somewhere lol even though it makes no fucken sense.
What did you think of he chubby Asian bitch? I thought there was no extra need for her tree hugging politics and saying that whole casino (attack on capitalism) was such a waste and saving the animals was great but they left some human children still as slaves hahaha.
The writing was so lazy that the politics over took the story telling and they didn’t even care to like make it subtle, legit was made for ANTIFA members hence the braindead story writing. And the way they treated Luke just fkn ridiculous. Even though Luke is a whinny g gay gay still didn’t deserve that treatment haha
 

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Apparently black panther is extremely political buttttttt It’s also a good movie. I figured out why movies have become so left politically of late. Hollywood has realised majority of people will see a movie they wanna see even if it’s left politically, but the loud minority of the political left won’t go see a movie that’s against their agenda so as a smart person would do when they’re after money, they’ll appeal more to the loud minority (which includes 99% of movie critics) coz after all the media uses them as the spotlight and they will still get the rest of people in the cinema coz most who are either neutral or a righty will go still see a movie either way lol.
 

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I watched Downsizing the other day, god what an awful movie. Can i have 2hrs of my life back!!
If you find out where to get that time refunded please let me know.
 

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Gotta have dat powerful feminist ANTIFA member forced into the movie somewhere lol even though it makes no fucken sense.
What did you think of he chubby Asian bitch? I thought there was no extra need for her tree hugging politics and saying that whole casino (attack on capitalism) was such a waste and saving the animals was great but they left some human children still as slaves hahaha.
The writing was so lazy that the politics over took the story telling and they didn’t even care to like make it subtle, legit was made for ANTIFA members hence the braindead story writing. And the way they treated Luke just fkn ridiculous. Even though Luke is a whinny g gay gay still didn’t deserve that treatment haha
Just sad..
 

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Apparently black panther is extremely political buttttttt It’s also a good movie. I figured out why movies have become so left politically of late. Hollywood has realised majority of people will see a movie they wanna see even if it’s left politically, but the loud minority of the political left won’t go see a movie that’s against their agenda so as a smart person would do when they’re after money, they’ll appeal more to the loud minority (which includes 99% of movie critics) coz after all the media uses them as the spotlight and they will still get the rest of people in the cinema coz most who are either neutral or a righty will go still see a movie either way lol.
The politics of Black Panther is kind of confusing. It's also an overrated movie. It's a good movie but it's not as good as everyone is making it out to be.

The really weird thing is that the Wakandans (Black Panther's people) are generally very racist and segregated. They refuse to help anyone who isn't their own people. The main bad guy is trying to help all black people, but he's also rather racist against non-blacks.

It is political though. Several times in the movie they reference that all black people in the world are constantly being oppressed every day. But the movie comes across more like it's trying to explain that white people aren't the only racist people and black people can be racist too. I thought that part was really well done. It also shows the greed of the Wakandans. They're rich, have all this advanced technology and effectively live in paradise, but they refuse to share it with anyone else and refuse to help people who need it which turns many of them into the bad guys. It's not a clear black and white, good and evil thing.
 

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The politics of Black Panther is kind of confusing. It's also an overrated movie. It's a good movie but it's not as good as everyone is making it out to be.

The really weird thing is that the Wakandans (Black Panther's people) are generally very racist and segregated. They refuse to help anyone who isn't their own people. The main bad guy is trying to help all black people, but he's also rather racist against non-blacks.

It is political though. Several times in the movie they reference that all black people in the world are constantly being oppressed every day. But the movie comes across more like it's trying to explain that white people aren't the only racist people and black people can be racist too. I thought that part was really well done. It also shows the greed of the Wakandans. They're rich, have all this advanced technology and effectively live in paradise, but they refuse to share it with anyone else and refuse to help people who need it which turns many of them into the bad guys. It's not a clear black and white, good and evil thing.
So what you’re saying is, if trump wants to build a wall he is racist but if black person wants a wall it’s acceptable?
 
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