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  • K Keith Barrow

    I tried watch 20 mins of a Bollywood film once. Despite the picturesque ladies and certain surreal charm, playing guess the plot and figuring out why the ladies were singing as if to confuse bats got wearing. Better than the two Matrix sequels that don't exist though.

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    I normally run screaming for the hills, if Bollywood approaches, but I was pleasantly surprised by the 170-minute Three Idiots[^].

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    • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

      Yep. Superman is an illegal immigrant, while Batman is a rich vigilante with (probably corrupt) contacts in high places in the local law enforcement agencies.

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      Chris C B
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      OriginalGriff wrote:

      Superman is an illegal immigrant

      Yup! Now YOU go tell him that! :laugh:

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      • P Pete OHanlon

        You had to have Buns of Steel to sit through the whole thing without going numb. Blimey, that's a long film - and it's really not the film I was hoping for.

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        jeron1
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        Was it over 4 hours? According to the ads, "If Man of Steel for over four hours, call doctor immediately!"

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        • C Chris C B

          OriginalGriff wrote:

          Superman is an illegal immigrant

          Yup! Now YOU go tell him that! :laugh:

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          OriginalGriff
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          It's too damn cold at the north pole for my taste! I'll send him an email... :laugh:

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          • P Pete OHanlon

            You had to have Buns of Steel to sit through the whole thing without going numb. Blimey, that's a long film - and it's really not the film I was hoping for.

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            Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

            You had to have Buns of Steel to sit through the whole thing without going numb. Blimey, that's a long film - and it's really not the film I was hoping for.

            So, no one told you that Superman finally learnt to put his underwear on first.

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            • Richard DeemingR Richard Deeming

              Keith Barrow wrote:

              143 mins

              That's nothing - try the three LotR films:

              • 178 minutes[^]
              • 179 minutes[^]
              • 201 minutes[^]

              And that's not even the "special-extended-directors-cut-now-with-more-Ents" edition.


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              Richard Deeming wrote:

              And that's not even the "special-extended-directors-cut-now-with-more-Ents" edition.

              My Dad and I watched all three of these in one day... :laugh:

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              • C Colin Mullikin

                Richard Deeming wrote:

                And that's not even the "special-extended-directors-cut-now-with-more-Ents" edition.

                My Dad and I watched all three of these in one day... :laugh:

                The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin

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                Richard Deeming
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                At over 12.5 hours (plus toilet/beer breaks) that would pretty much take a whole day to watch. I hope you didn't watch the appendices, documentaries and other crap extra features on the same day?


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                • P Pete OHanlon

                  You're right. It's not that good. The back story is ponderous. Jonathan Kent is particularly unlikeable, and the fight scenes while being too fast to see properly, drag on far too long. All in all, it's a film that's far too impressed with its own special effects than on character and plot development.

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                  Mycroft Holmes
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                  What, what you want character and plot development in a FX film, sha some people want everything, I don't know *much shacking of head*

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                  • K Keith Barrow

                    I did. They had plots with characters which developed etc. Superman has always stuck me as more "Superman big, Superman strong, Superman mighty, Superman wear underpants over leotard"

                    “Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed”
                    “One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated”

                    Sir Thomas More (1478 – 1535)

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                    Rob Grainger
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                    Yes, the most boring superhero ever invented. His only redeeming feature is he was early to the table - for an interesting story, just about every other hero in film and/or literature is preferable.

                    "If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough." Alan Kay.

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                    • P Pete OHanlon

                      You're right. It's not that good. The back story is ponderous. Jonathan Kent is particularly unlikeable, and the fight scenes while being too fast to see properly, drag on far too long. All in all, it's a film that's far too impressed with its own special effects than on character and plot development.

                      I was brought up to respect my elders. I don't respect many people nowadays.
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                      BrainiacV
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                      Yeah, it always puts me to sleep when two indestructible characters face off (like the Hulk and the Abomination), like, what's the point other than to chew up screen time?

                      Psychosis at 10 Film at 11 Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it. Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.

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