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What did they explain?
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What did they explain?
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Basically shows the somalies in their village living in shacks with no food, little water and the warlords goons (possibily Al Shabaab) going in their and forcing them to go out and make money for them in order to feed their families. Most of the guys are fisherman and they have to pick teams to go out and raid the ships. They did a good job showing that they really had nothing to lose, either go out and rob the ships or go home and get killed by the warlord.
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Nah, that's not how it started at all. The reader's digest version is that huge fishing fleets have been illegally fishing off the coast of Somalia for many years. Then European & Asian countries started dumping toxic waste off the Somali shores also.
The Somali fisherman began trying to defend their waters by attacking the ships with whatever they had. Since that wasn't enough, they went to the warlords for arms & that's when it all escalated. It's also been rumored a British arms company taught the fisherman more terrorist tactics.
I was afraid the movie would gloss over all this which is why I will not see the flick & disappointed Hanks would do the flick. There's a lot more to how all this started. I just gave the cliff notes version...
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Man.. Watched the green mile all the way through for the first time.. Yes, 
at me..
Tears were shed
at me..Tears were shed
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I love her.
lawdog1
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Kate Upton, maybe Halle, are the only ones who can compete with Scarlett's rack game. Spectacular.
lawdog1
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Good one. JLH is in that same class for sure. Jennifer Lawrence is close, but probably not on that level.
I think I might be kind of bitter about JLH getting knocked up, so it caused me to subconsciously leave her out.
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Paul Rudd and Josephe Gordon-Levitt Emerge as Leading Candidates to Play Ant-Man for Marvel - http://wp.me/p2CCWq-3iI
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Rudd over jgl for ant man imo
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I'm late to any discussion on the matter, but I think it's real lame that Hunnam isn't getting a fair chance at the 50 Shades role.
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What is this referring to?
Saw Pacific Rim this weekend. All I cared about was the Robot carrying the ship down the street and swinging it like a bat.
LOVED that scene. Rest of it was meh. Pretty, but that's that. I didn't like the jump in with both feet, skip a few years, show "highlights" of everything, then wrap it all up. Develop the story better man, come on. Lone Ranger......was not miserable, the reviews made me think it was going to be flat out terrible, but really it was just a bit too corny, tried a little too hard to be funny, and was a half hour too long. But overall, there was something there. Depp was Depp, the cast was decent, even Arm and Hammer was alright. Just needed to ease back on the forced laughs. Should have let them come more natural like Pirates did it. So overall, I felt better about it than I thought I would. Won't buy it or anything, probably never watch it again, but it wasn't Hangover 3ish or anything.
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Thanks CP1708, I was going to buy Pacific Rim sight unseen but I'll just rent it on VOD instead. I was really on the fence about it because I loved Pans Labyrinth but thought the Hellboy movies were just OK (visually awesome though).
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Yall are actually looking forward to the 50 Shades movie? 
Also just from what I've heard he pulled out cuz he was too busy with SOA. I didn't hear about anything unfair in him no longer being Gray
Also just from what I've heard he pulled out cuz he was too busy with SOA. I didn't hear about anything unfair in him no longer being Gray
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I've never read the books but from what I know, it sounds like 50 Shades is a rehash of 9 1/2 Weeks...
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Hunnam pulled out because apparently the pressure he was receiving for the role was ALREADY insane and petitions were being drafted. Even some petitions that were receiving over 80,000 freaking signatures were being drafted to remove he and Dakota from the leads to be replaced with the daughter from Gilmore Girls and the guy from White Collar.
If the buzz was already THIS bad, he and his PR team feared what would happen if the film happened to get reviewed with criticism. According to them, Hunnam is happy with the roles he's been normally taking, and thought he didn't need this type of pressure, so he pulled out. Not to mention, the article I read said that he wasn't even completely finalized contractually as the lead yet, which is why it was so easy for him to pull out.
I'm actually happy about this. I really like Charlie Hunnam, and with the popularity of the book series and all of its fans already bashing him, the bar would have been unreachable, and not good for his career. Good move. Some are going to classify it as a sheepish move, but I don't see it like that whatsoever.
If the buzz was already THIS bad, he and his PR team feared what would happen if the film happened to get reviewed with criticism. According to them, Hunnam is happy with the roles he's been normally taking, and thought he didn't need this type of pressure, so he pulled out. Not to mention, the article I read said that he wasn't even completely finalized contractually as the lead yet, which is why it was so easy for him to pull out.
I'm actually happy about this. I really like Charlie Hunnam, and with the popularity of the book series and all of its fans already bashing him, the bar would have been unreachable, and not good for his career. Good move. Some are going to classify it as a sheepish move, but I don't see it like that whatsoever.
I know nothing about the books except they had every woman in a 10 block radius in heat for a good minute (thank you for that) but no matter who gets casted, they are going to get eaten alive.
No matter the woman, the man, or whatever other characters there might be, nobody is winning if the movie doesn't basically become a love story of porn.
Man, chicks were walkin around in hallways readin those books, unbuttoning blouses and ****. They were fired up. If the movie don't bring that, chicks everywhere going to RIOT.
Going to be hilarious to see how all that **** goes.
No matter the woman, the man, or whatever other characters there might be, nobody is winning if the movie doesn't basically become a love story of porn.
Man, chicks were walkin around in hallways readin those books, unbuttoning blouses and ****.
They were fired up. If the movie don't bring that, chicks everywhere going to RIOT. Going to be hilarious to see how all that **** goes.
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i watched "The East" and "The way way back"
both really good movies, steve carrells character in the way back makes you hate em,
i also watched precious for the first time...
wow that movie was way too real, nevertheless a great movie and really raw.
both really good movies, steve carrells character in the way back makes you hate em,
i also watched precious for the first time...
wow that movie was way too real, nevertheless a great movie and really raw.
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^^^Yeah, personally, I think the 50 Shades movie is doomed to failure. Just can't capture what made the books so popular even in an R-rated movie. And the readers are so opinionated about it.
My wife read all the books. She'd never heard of Charlie Hunnam, never seen him in anything and, just seeing his picture, said "no, he's not right for the movie." Very tough situation for the filmmakers and whoever is cast.
My wife read all the books. She'd never heard of Charlie Hunnam, never seen him in anything and, just seeing his picture, said "no, he's not right for the movie." Very tough situation for the filmmakers and whoever is cast.
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Hire the right actors & make sure the script is solid... You would think in theory someone should be able to do this successfully but given the producers hired actors for the leads that were universally chided, you know the project is doomed. From afar, it doesn't look like these folks know what they'e doing which is sad because they have what sounds like great material to work from with a guaranteed audience. 
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I'd love to see Charlie Hunnam in the marvel universe.. But I don't agree on Johnny storm..
Evans was a good fit.. Obviously that's not happening anymore
I need to think about it, but maybe bobby drake.. Doubt they would add captain Britain to captain america
Evans was a good fit.. Obviously that's not happening anymore
I need to think about it, but maybe bobby drake.. Doubt they would add captain Britain to captain america
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soooo Gravity was realllllly good
jpzx
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Okay, I haven't read a page of any of these books and one of my life goals is to keep it that way, but you always hear the cliche "tall, dark, and handsome". Maybe it just needs to be a tall, dark, and handsome cliche dude and he'll have a chance to succeed.
