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Steve Jones

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Saw a great film last night: The Wrestler with Mickey Rourke in the title role playing a wrestler (hence the title!) in the twilight of his career. And what a performance it was! Collosal! Marissa Tomei was great too.

Which reminds me of another great film from this year: Before the Devil Knows Your Dead, also with Marissa Tomei, about a robbery which goes badly badly wrong... Fantastic!
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Steve Jones:
Saw a great film last night: The Wrestler with Mickey Rourke in the title role playing a wrestler (hence the title!) in the twilight of his career. And what a performance it was! Collosal! Marissa Tomei was great too.

Just finished watching it... wow! Awesome.... Mickey Rourke is amazing.

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Slumdog millionaire also a good one!Rafal W. edytował(a) ten post dnia 04.01.09 o godzinie 23:43
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Just finished watching it... wow! Awesome.... Mickey Rourke is amazing.

Astonishing! He carries the film so well... you can't take your eyes off the guy.
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Slumdog millionaire also a good one!Rafal W. edytował(a) ten post dnia 04.01.09 o godzinie 23:43

Just finished watching Slumdog Millionaire: fantastic film! The plot's a little farfetched, but it's all done with such class!
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Steve Jones:
Just finished watching it... wow! Awesome.... Mickey Rourke is amazing.

Astonishing! He carries the film so well... you can't take your eyes off the guy.

It's also set in Jersey and I can assure you that it really gives you a 100% accurate image of the mentality, slang and just over all vibe of this state.

Also, I do like Mickey Rourke he's made some bad choices in his career and I think this is why he is the perfect person for this movie.

Are you familiar with "Angel eyes"? It's an older 80's flick where he also plays the main character.


Just finished watching Slumdog Millionaire: fantastic film! The plot's a little farfetched, but it's all done with > such class!

Class would be a great way to describe it. Have you seen "Mongol" yet?
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Hellboy II - quite decent, i like this kind of movies. Sci-Fi, Fantasy - that's my stuff ^^

007: Quantum of Solace - always likes Bond and Quantum is one of the best movie about the best british MI6 agent (Casino Royale was avrage)

Hancock - haven't seen Will Smith on a silver screen for some time but i really like this movie, same as Hellboy. Hancock is just awsome, never to many superhero movies

IronMan and The Dark Knight - both movies i was waiting for, and they were awsome! i hope there will be a sequel to Ironman because its quite obvious we will se yet another Batman in near future...Grzegorz Gruszecki edytował(a) ten post dnia 05.01.09 o godzinie 14:46
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Andrzej S.

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As from all those which I have seen.. or actually did not ...

I loved Sweeney Todd, and had alot of fun watching Hancock.
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I found "Get Smart" pretty funny and interesting.
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Steve Jones

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It's also set in Jersey and I can assure you that it really gives you a 100% accurate image of the mentality, slang and just over all vibe of this state.
Excellent! I was wondering where the hell it was set.. it wasn't all that obvious.. any idea what that town is on the coast he takes his daughter to?
Also, I do like Mickey Rourke he's made some bad choices in his career and I think this is why he is the perfect person for this movie.

Are you familiar with "Angel eyes"? It's an older 80's flick where he also plays the main character.
Do you mean Angel Heart?
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Watching "The Wrestler" as we type.
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Steve Jones:
It's also set in Jersey and I can assure you that it really gives you a 100% accurate image of the mentality, slang and just over all vibe of this state.
Excellent! I was wondering where the hell it was set.. it wasn't all that obvious.. any idea what that town is on the coast he takes his daughter to?

It's Asbury Park. You can see in the background the now infamous Convention Center. Asbury used to be booming with Casinos and life, now days it's a crack town... the convention center used to host big time raves at the beginning of the 90's.
Also, I do like Mickey Rourke he's made some bad choices in his career and I think this is why he is the perfect person for this movie.

Are you familiar with "Angel eyes"? It's an older 80's flick where he also plays the main character.
Do you mean Angel Heart?

Yes! sorry...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092563/
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Steve Jones

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It's Asbury Park. You can see in the background the now infamous Convention Center. Asbury used to be booming with Casinos and life, now days it's a crack town... the convention center used to host big time raves at the beginning of the 90's.

Interesting... just checked it out on the map. Looks really close to New York geographically, yet the feel of the place from the movie was really far removed from that.. Was that a fair impression?
Do you mean Angel Heart?

Yes! sorry...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092563/

Excellent film. One of my faves. Remember watching it for the first time.. I was 17 or something. Loved the film!
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Interesting... just checked it out on the map. Looks really close to New York geographically, yet the feel of the place from the movie was really far removed from that.. Was that a fair impression?

It's a very specific town, it used to be the heart of NJ. Before gambling was only licensed to casinos in Atlantic City, Asbury Park was the Vegas of Jersey. Since it was so close to the city it was controlled by Gambinos. They had a boxing rink, casinos lined the board walk; really nice architecture. After the ban, everything died; the 80's brought the crack epidemic and Asbury turned into a shit hole with some great empty buildings. It's a perfect city to use for this movie, it is the perfect depiction of the American dream gone totally fucking wrong. Bruce Springsteen is from Asbury Park. There was (I haven't been there in a while so don't know if it's still opened) a place called "The Stone Pony" it was there for years and years, The Boss played there, Bon Jovi and later on it turned into a punk/hardcore/rave type place; it was NJ's CBGB's.
All the Casion buildings are abandoned and now are hosts to trees and tall grass inside (really cool inside, sort of like a jungle inside of a building haha). The town itself at one point was suppose to get lucky and some investors actually put money into it, but for many reasons they have failed, so there are scores of unfinished buildings and parking lots etc.. it's a seasonal place and the first decent beach on the jersey shore but the town has not much to offer, old buildings, boarded up very poor. Off season it's full of burnt out surfers doing construction etc...
since it's fairly close to nyc, it attracts younger new yorkers, pretty specific crowd.
There are other places along the Jersey shore like Pt. Pleasant, Spring Lakes, Wildwood, but they are all the same and full of drunk, high and obnoxious high school kids from all over the tri state area.
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Tomasz U.

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Go and see Gran Torino. Good stuff.
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I've seen only few:)
1. sex&the city - predictable but nice
2. cloverfield - I happen to like movies shot with hand-held cam
3. Sweeney Todd - because I adore the Depp
4. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Krystal Scull - just because I saw some cristal scull at the British Museum one month ago
5. Battle for Haditha - mockumentary - extremely touching
6. Persepolis - my favourite for 2008
7. Wanted - saw the first 20 minutes than fell asleep

that's that...lots to catch up
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6. Persepolis - my favourite for 2008

That was a good one!
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Steve Jones

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Danny Boyle, Mickey Rourke and Kate Winslet bagged a bunch of Golden Globes

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/jan/12/golden-g...

I'd agree with Danny Boyle and Mickey Rourke, but haven't seen Revolutionary Road with Kate Winslet... Any good?
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Małgorzata Orzechowska

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I must add something. Few days ago I watched "vicky cristina barcelona" by Allen... loved it... I wonder what you think about that.

Oh and also "Happy go lucky" is one of my favourite.
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Magdalena B.

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My types:

Mamma Mia - light and nice, I love the music!
Sweeney Todd - because it's musical and I like J. Depp very much
Lejdis - just great ;) also nice music
Juno - great soundtrack and nice movie
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"The Wackness"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYb7K1_Zbfw

I was very nicely surprised by this flick... expected something completely different... even the trailer is misleading.
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Mamma Mia :))

And just today or actually yesterday :) I saw 'Curious case of Benjamin Button'. Excellent.
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