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Vulcann

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Same go for the Hobbit. Wifey was dozing 20min into the show. -_-

 

Watched The Hobbit alone after a failed lunch appointment.

 

Frankly wouldn't blame your wifey as the starting was a little slow and the entire story was not impressive as far as part 1 is concerned.

 

Guess PJ wanted to stretch the novel into 3 films and so the story was, well, stretched a little thin.

 

Even the fighting scenes were not much of a thrill if you compare it to the so-called sequels LOTR.

 

Only highlight was Gollum who looked younger but seemingly more vicious as he was seen to devour a bug ugly goblin after whacking him to death.

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Vulcann

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not sure if some or all the actors were actual Seals but the movie preview was saying, the tactics, weapons and equipment were used by the real seals teams.

 

During hostage rescue mission, they used an UAV made from hard paper and reccee the target area. Cool stuff.

 

Never watched the show but it seemed that they really cast active duty SEALs leh: http://screenrant.com/act-valor-interview-...h-johnh-156256/

 

Maybe their faces were not shown perhaps?

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Wrathchild156

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Hahaha,

 

Like now, she knows

 

1) a sniper needs to compensate for wind and trajectory (Saving Private Ryan / Enemy at the Gates)

2) the importance of communications (Windtalkers)

3) artillery and how the call for fire works (Band of Brothers). It helps that I was from Arty during NS so could explain to her :D

 

Bro, which Arty unit?

Self was attached with SOAY.

 

BTW

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Vulcann

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More heat on CIA arising from the movie [sweatdrop]

 

Some how all these controversies will only intrigue more folks to go catch ZDT.

 

From Reuters:

 

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/04/...E9C3E4V20130104

 

Congressional critics of bin Laden film step up pressure on CIA

By Mark Hosenball

 

Thu Jan 3, 2013 7:14pm EST

 

WASHINGTON Jan 3 (Reuters) - Three U.S. senators, including the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, have stepped up their pressure on the CIA over its response to "Zero Dark Thirty," a new film about the hunt for Osama bin Laden.

 

In a letter sent to the CIA and released on Thursday, Dianne Feinstein, the head of the Intelligence Committee, Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin and Senator John McCain asked the agency for evidence that "enhanced interrogation techniques" produced information that helped U.S. authorities locate and kill the al Qaeda leader in May 2011.

 

The letter is the latest broadside in a renewed political fight over enhanced interrogation techniques, which some equate with torture, touched off by the nationwide premiere of "Zero Dark Thirty" on Jan. 11.

 

The movie depicts a detainee being subjected to harsh interrogation techniques, which President George W. Bush's administration later abandoned, and suggests they played a role in finding bin Laden, who was behind the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.

 

Last month, in response to an earlier letter from the senators, acting CIA director Michael Morell said in a statement that some of the information that led agency analysts to conclude that bin Laden was hiding in Abbottabad, Pakistan, "came from detainees subjected to enhanced techniques but there were many other sources as well."

 

In their latest letter, sent on Monday, the lawmakers said that an Intelligence Committee review of the CIA's post-Sept. 11 interrogation and detention program determined that an agency detainee who provided the most accurate information about a courier who led the CIA to bin Laden "provided the information prior to being subjected to coercive interrogation techniques."

 

A lengthy report on the investigation, which the committee approved last month in a mostly party-line vote, remains highly classified.

 

Feinstein, Levin and McCain requested the CIA produce evidence to back up Morell's assertion that useful information related to the hunt for bin Laden came from detainees subjected to harsh techniques, and whether it was obtained before, during or after enhanced interrogations.

 

The senators' release of the letter came a day after Reuters reported that Feinstein's committee was reviewing CIA records about the agency's interactions with "Zero Dark Thirty" filmmakers Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal to see if the spy agency gave them "inappropriate" access to secret material.

 

The committee also will investigate whether CIA personnel are responsible for the film's portrayal of harsh interrogation practices and the implication that they were effective, a person familiar with the matter said.

 

Asked for comment on the senators' latest request, CIA spokesman John Tomczyk said: "As we've said before, we take very seriously our responsibility to keep our oversight committees informed and value our relationship with Congress."

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Icedbs

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how come there is another movie called Code Name : Geromino (screening now) which is also from the same director and also on chasing OBL?

 

 

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Vulcann

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how come there is another movie called Code Name : Geromino (screening now) which is also from the same director and also on chasing OBL?

 

Bro think you got mixed up.

 

The producers of The Hurt Locker are also behind Code Name : Geronimo, not the director who is Kathryn Bigelow,.

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Bro think you got mixed up.

 

The producers of The Hurt Locker are also behind Code Name : Geronimo, not the director who is Kathryn Bigelow,.

 

Oh I see....

 

So many OBL shows....now dunno which one to watch. Seems like Zero DT has more controversy.

 

I don't even know about the Geromino one until I check movie screening.

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Vulcann

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Oh I see....

 

So many OBL shows....now dunno which one to watch. Seems like Zero DT has more controversy.

 

I don't even know about the Geromino one until I check movie screening.

 

Choose the one with more controversy [laugh] [laugh]

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Vulcann

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long movie, abt 2hrs 36mins

 

If its [thumbsup] 3hrs also no problem.

 

IIRC the most torturing movie I have watched was the The Last Emperor lasting I think 2hrs plus [:(]

 

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Davidklt

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These kind of shows best to watch in cinema, DVD or Blue ray then nice.

 

Imagine the sound of the firepower and the helo going emitting from a very good sound system.

 

Thats movie entertainment.

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Vulcann

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These kind of shows best to watch in cinema, DVD or Blue ray then nice.

 

Imagine the sound of the firepower and the helo going emitting from a very good sound system.

 

Thats movie entertainment.

 

Like that ah...

 

Ok will wait for the official launch on 17 Jan 13 then.

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Puteh83

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So action part only, what, 13mins? :huh:

 

erm, i watched til 35th min and decided to continue some other day...

what you think? :D

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