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#567102
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Last movie seen
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Contagion

This bored me, and I'm at a loss to explain how it rates higher than Outbreak on imdb. Starts out with promise, then nothing much happens and the most interesting character turns out to be irrelevant. This is a movie you could watch while doing something else and enjoy it about the same.

5/10

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#566757
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The Adventures of Tintin

Overall I was very happy with this, it was an entertaining and reasonably faithful Tintin movie. For me the style took some getting used to, I think it should have been either slightly more or slightly less realistic.

The main issue I had was with the character of Captain Haddock, who is portrayed as a victim lacking in confidence; a character trait that I would NEVER associate with Haddock. There seems to have been a preoccupation with over-explaining Haddock's drinking while trying to downplay it at the same time - hard to do considering that his alcoholism becomes essential to the plot.

I loved the fact that I couldn't tell Nick Frost from Simon Pegg - the detectives were spot on. Sorely missed in the search for Red Rackham's treasure: Professor Calculus and his shark-proof sub.

8/10

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#566349
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computer help for a dumby
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If Firefox wants to know what to do with the file then you are trying to open the file with Firefox. Open an instance of VLC and drag one of the files there to see if it plays. It may or may not play in part depending on whether the archive is compressed or not.

WinRar or 7zip should be able to extract the original file from these archives (assuming you have a PC). Make sure you have one of those programs installed, then right click the .001 file and extract to the location of your choice. You should end up with a single file.

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#566169
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3D STAR WARS for the masses...has ARRIVED!
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Darth Id said:

But anyway: is it possible that what I mistook for a phoned-in, bored-sounding Australian is actually a vibrant, nuanced and energetic Kiwi accent?  Maybe the switch improved ESB after all!?!?!?

(PS- I assure all that my mistake was in no way influenced by exposure to any cartoon regarding 'The Clone Wars'.)

No, it was still rubbish :)

(PS- I assure all that I was in no way influenced by exposure to the advertising that paid for the cartoon regarding 'The Clone Wars'.)

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#566129
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3D STAR WARS for the masses...has ARRIVED!
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TV's Frink said:

Darth Id said:

TV's Frink said:

 

Darth Id said:



none said:

Seen it three times so far.  Messa in big dudu this time!


 The fact that I get that joke...

makes me wish I'd just get the Boba Fett treatment once and for all.
You want Chris R to pull a gun on you too?

 

 I don't know what that means, but I think it was perfectly obvious that I meant I want my voice to be supplanted by a lifeless Australian drone.

Frinkin' duh, dude.

Australian?  Well done, dude.

Not an unexpected mistake though, thanks to The Clone Wars cartoon. Most clone voices seem to be Americans attempting an Australian accent.

It seems there are plenty of actors from the UK, Canada and Australia playing Americans in Hollywood, but no voice actors from those countries to do accurate sounding accents for cartoons and video games. Must be a union thing...

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#566086
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3D STAR WARS for the masses...has ARRIVED!
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Darth Id said:

TV's Frink said:

 

Darth Id said:



none said:

Seen it three times so far.  Messa in big dudu this time!


 The fact that I get that joke...

makes me wish I'd just get the Boba Fett treatment once and for all.
You want Chris R to pull a gun on you too?

 

 I don't know what that means, but I think it was perfectly obvious that I meant I want my voice to be supplanted by a lifeless Australian drone.

Frinkin' duh, dude.

Temuera Morrison is a Kiwi bro.