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3 weeks 2 days ago
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Certainly not the movie of the year but it sure is a lot of fun. If you go into it with the right mindset it's a brilliant, albeit pretty predictable, adventure flick. Also Pikachu is insanely adorable.
4 years 10 months ago
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Everything about this movie is brilliant. It's got it all. Cinematography, soundtrack, acting, humour, heart. Such a great watch.
4 years 11 months ago
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVOZ7YPOakI
6 years 4 months ago
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I did a great job in this.
6 years 5 months ago
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https://youtu.be/IA594VDYEbg
8 years 6 months ago
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https://youtu.be/4SZFLseYIDQ
8 years 6 months ago
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https://youtu.be/OqH2q3KqPCM
8 years 6 months ago
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I honestly thought this was better than the first one...
8 years 7 months ago
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Reading these comments I was like "it can't be THAT bad"... trust me, it is worse.
8 years 8 months ago
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Great ending to an okay series. Followed the book alright, the added stuff was great, and the major characters were all brilliant. There could've been a better goodbye for the dwarves though, with an actual story about what happened to them and not just Bilbo. But the best thing was the transition to LOTR. Might've made me tear up a bit...
9 years 3 months ago
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Good movie, great acting, great effects, all that. But I kinda feel the split of the book shows too much. There's no real climaxe to this movie because there's just no climaxe in the middle of a book. Still a good movie but it just really comes off as a build up for the last one, which it obviously is. But, honestly, this could've all just been one movie and we'd all be happy. Instead we have to wait another year for the end which feels kinda unnecessary.
9 years 4 months ago
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I'm actually surprised at how good this was. Not the best film ever, mind you, but it was really good for a random action flick.
9 years 6 months ago
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This is terrifying.
9 years 7 months ago
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That was intense. (And Gerschwin's link works fine!)
9 years 7 months ago
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This makes me so happy.
9 years 7 months ago
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Fantastic. Must've been hilarious to film.
9 years 7 months ago
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So THAT'S why Jesus is white! No, but seriously, I spent the whole film wondering why Oldman was white, because if he really was 14000 years old he most certainly wouldn't be. Kinda ruined the illusion.
9 years 7 months ago
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Eh, felt like a longer episode but with less substance. At least it gave the story some well deserved closure.
9 years 9 months ago
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Totally okay movie, and actually pretty similar to the book. A lot of the details were obviously not included (as always when a book is filmed), and for that reason I think it really helps knowing the story and characters from before, although my friend who had no idea what was going to happen understood most of the plot.

The story was basically the same and the plot holes from the book were still there, with some added ones. For example one thing that was never explained was why the factions are secluded from eachother, and especially why the initiates don't get to meet their families etc. Actually they're just kept in seclusion to get used to their new factions and they do get to meet their parents again after a few weeks. After that they get jobs and sometimes socialize with other factions, but mostly keep to themselves to "keep the peace". Things like that were really sketchy and if I hadn't read the books I don't think the faction system would make sense to me at all.

The ending was also changed, with the spoiler and spoiler.

The most annoying thing for me though was that almost all male characters looked exactly the same which constantly made me confuse Al with Will and Peter. I literally thought they were just one guy, then two, then at the end was shocked at finding out there was a third one.
9 years 10 months ago
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That little kid was annoying as heck. The film itself was alright (but it'll never be as good as Jumanji which is very nostalgic for me), and I liked the game and the look of it all. Loved the zorgons. They were really pretty scary. But I do not understand spoiler
9 years 12 months ago
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Actually surprisingly good but the score was ridiculous.
10 years ago
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So wrong in so many ways, yet absolutely hilarious. And as always Mr McAvoy excels. Fantastic.
10 years 1 month ago
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Honestly I was kind of disappointed with this film. Yes, the story is horrifying (in a good, REAL way), and the acting was okay (not as mindblowing as I had heard it was going to be), but the title is kind of misleading... it felt like 12 days/months a slave rather than 12 years. It felt rushed while at the same time being rather long, if that makes sense? Basically the passing of time felt unnatural. At the end I almost wondered how the hell Solomon had managed to stay 12 years spoiler. Good film, with an incredibly important subject that really needs to be remembered, but it just wasn't amazing.
10 years 2 months ago
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So much better than the first one. SO. MUCH. BETTER. Except for the romance stuff, I could've done without that. But the rest was just brilliant. Smaug was terrifying and Thranduil was mesmerising. Just amazing!
10 years 3 months ago

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