RedFive said:
greenpenguino said:
Ziggy Stardust said:
Barry Lyndon.
Every frame looks like a magnificent painting.
10/10
lol
no.
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greenpenguino said:
RedFive said:
greenpenguino said:
Ziggy Stardust said:
Barry Lyndon.
Every frame looks like a magnificent painting.
10/10
lol
no.
TV's Frink said:
greenpenguino said:
RedFive said:
greenpenguino said:
Ziggy Stardust said:
Barry Lyndon.
Every frame looks like a magnificent painting.
10/10
lol
no.
And now back to our main program...
I'm planning on seeing X-men: First Class sometime this week
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Catfish. Don't let anyone tell you about it. Just go see it. It's not for everybody, but you won't know until you see it.
(Not yet available on Netflix Streaming)
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Finally saw The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Good little movie, but why the heck did people blow it up to such huge proportions? 3.5 nose rings out of 5
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Beats me. Maybe the US version will be a bit more.captainsolo said:
Finally saw The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Good little movie, but why the heck did people blow it up to such huge proportions? 3.5 nose rings out of 5
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Super 8. Simply fantastic, and the kids play their roles great.
8 out of 10 balls.
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xhonzi said:
Catfish. Don't let anyone tell you about it. Just go see it. It's not for everybody, but you won't know until you see it.
I saw this a few months ago and really enjoyed it!
captainsolo said:
Finally saw The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Good little movie, but why the heck did people blow it up to such huge proportions? 3.5 nose rings out of 5
I think people were more into the books than the movies. Although I have heard they were good too. Kinda want to wait for the American version, though, only because of Fincher.
Saw 'The Negotiator' 3 of 5
SamJa and Spacey were a bit underused.
I thought it might work better if the characters were reversed. The peacable family man pushed to the brink and actually cracking up while the don't-give-a-sh** badass comes to negotiate. The negotiator might be in on the plot (more evil than insurance fraud) or he might just want to eliminate the trouble maker.
Just watched for the first time outside a theatre Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince On DVD.
I wish now that before the whole Potter film thing kicked off a decision was made to make a short snappy version for the cinema and a nice looong form version for the DVD market as it worked rather well in the cinema but I felt rather short changed when I saw it at home.
In contrast the theatrical versions of the Columbus early films were bum numbing and a bit too long but the extended versions by ADM are the favored versions here at the Chateau.
It's also rather murky, not in a stylistic 'it's a gloomy story so let's set the mood' sort of way either.
Strong performances all round and so 3.9 balls.
My impression of the J.J. Abram's film Super 8:
JJ: I have this awesome idea for a scene where these kids are making a movie with an old super 8 camera just like we used to do back in the old days (right! right!) and then all of a sudden BLOOSH! the train blows up and they're suddenly in a REAL summer blockbuster movie just like the one they were filming! It's like, a play on their imaginations!!!!!
SS: Oh man that sounds awesome!
JJ: Yeah! Yeah! And there's a MONSTER on the train too that gets away! And all these government guys come and they're all secretive and we're not sure what's going on!
SS: Oh wow I'm so intrigued! Then what happens!?!?! How does it end!?!?!1
JJ: Well..... I was hoping that's where you came in...
SS: Oh... I see... well shit, I ran out of good ideas years ago.
JJ: Hmm.... How about some character stuff? Nothing?
SS: Well.. I guess we could just recycle every single lame, cheesy, overdone, melodramatic element of every single movie into the few underdeveloped characters we have. People eat that shit up, trust me man.
JJ: So you're saying we can just bullshit our way through the last hour or so by shoving the drama down people throats and we don't even have to come up with our own character development?
SS: More or less.
JJ: Sounds good bro, lets make some cash!
Honestly though, I was severely disappointed. How could you guys like that trashy excuse for trash of a movie?! It was terrible!
I'll admit, for the first 45 minutes I was in love with Super 8. The train crash scene was probably one of the best scenes I've ever seen in a movie, it was brilliant. But unfortunately, it was all downhill from there.
The parents were by far the worst part. Just sooo cheesy and unimaginative. "Why don't you just run away, just like your mother!!!" Excuse me whilst I vomit. I'm pretty sure I've seen these characters in about 500 other movies. I understand that it was an homage to classic kids summer blockbuster movies or whatever but that excuse only goes so far.
"I got you... I got you..."
*pukes*
If you've already seen X-Men: First Class, see that again, instead of this.
4/10 Schweddy Balls©.
Up
Actually a fantastic film.
9/10 ball-oons (Tee-hee I'm clever)
BloodnoseThePirate said:
Up
Actually a fantastic film.
9/10 ball-oons (Tee-hee I'm clever)
I disagree. It's one of my least favorite Pixar films.
Ziggy Stardust said:
BloodnoseThePirate said:
Up
Actually a fantastic film.
9/10 ball-oons (Tee-hee I'm clever)
I disagree. It's one of my least favorite Pixar films.
I agree, I really lost interest in the plot the moment the house landed and the talking dogs arrived. On the other hand, I love all of the Toy Story's and especially The Incredibles.
I think Cars is the worst. I don't mind Up but I've only seen it once. My favourite is probably WALL·E, especially the first half where there is virtually no dialogue. Maybe the first Toy Story. Nemo is the most overrated.
doubleKO said:
I think Cars is the worst. I don't mind Up but I've only seen it once. My favourite is probably WALL·E, especially the first half where there is virtually no dialogue. Maybe the first Toy Story. Nemo is the most overrated.
Yeah, Cars was pretty forgettable. WALL-E was pretty good, I still enjoy it. Nemo wasn't that great to me either.
I just wish PIXAR would go back to making original movies and not all these damn sequels! (although Toy Story 3 was good)
Tonight I saw Aztek643's fanedit of the Silent Hill movie.
It's still deeply flawed by the two heaped infodump scenes which and I'm not sure how could be successfully excised without a Adywan style reworking.
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Ideally a Silent Hill film should reveal as few plot details as possible and then present them in a Carnival Of Souls/Lost Highway fashion.
I rather liked the Sean Bean subplot but removing it does make for a more focused female story.
That is somewhat hamstrung by the production decision to use designs from the male led games.
Vile distortions of fetishistic nurses work in a story about a sexual repressed man but as Rose shows no signs of being remotely lesbian they don't quite fit here.
However the Janitor plays on female horror and arguably Pyramid Head shifts to be a male predator rather than his original incarnation as an expression of self punishing male guilt.
The scenes shifted to flashbacks didn't need to be in monochrome but their repositioning was skillfully done.
Toning down a few lines of dialogue was good I wish a few more lines had been cut too.
The ending could do with a bit of a tone down too but I'm not sure how to do that either (some of the barbed wire attacks would work better obscured by darkness and as awful as Alice Krige's character is the barbed wire 'intrusion' is a bit too OTT for my taste).
On the whole it's a much better version of the film than the original, which is the best video game adaptation I've yet seen.
3 balls out of 5 for the film
4 balls out of 5 for the general improvement over the original.
doubleKO said:
I think Cars is the worst. I don't mind Up but I've only seen it once. My favourite is probably WALL·E, especially the first half where there is virtually no dialogue. Maybe the first Toy Story. Nemo is the most overrated.
There are a lot of parallels between WALL·E and 2001: A Space Odyssey, you'd be surprised. Just another reason I consider WALL·E one of- if not the- greatest animated movie ever made.
Recently Watched:
Star Trek - 9/10 balls
Dumb & Dumber - 8/10 balls
Super 8 - 3/10 balls
I know it's repetitive, but the more I think about it, the less I like it... ugh
I might've taken your critique of Super 8 more seriously, but the fact that you gave Dumb & Dumber 8/10, my anticipation is stronger than ever.
"The other versions will disappear. Even the 35 million tapes of Star Wars out there won’t last more than 30 or 40 years. A hundred years from now, the only version of the movie that anyone will remember will be the DVD version [of the Special Edition], and you’ll be able to project it on a 20’ by 40’ screen with perfect quality. I think it’s the director’s prerogative, not the studio’s to go back and reinvent a movie." - George Lucas
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EyeShotFirst said:
I might've taken your critique of Super 8 more seriously, but the fact that you gave Dumb & Dumber 8/10, my anticipation is stronger than ever.
C'mon man! Dumb & Dumber was one of the best comedies of the 90's!
Pretty bird. Yes, can you say pretty bird? Pretty bird, yeah pretty bird... Polly want a cracker?
The Adjustment Bureau.
Not nearly as good as i was hoping. 1 Ball.
the problem is that it shifts gears from a thriller to a fairy tale. It becomes a story about a guy and a girl and everything else takes a back seat. And it has pretty much a Deus Ex Machina ending.
ferris209 said:
EyeShotFirst said:
I might've taken your critique of Super 8 more seriously, but the fact that you gave Dumb & Dumber 8/10, my anticipation is stronger than ever.
C'mon man! Dumb & Dumber was one of the best comedies of the 90's!
Pretty bird. Yes, can you say pretty bird? Pretty bird, yeah pretty bird... Polly want a cracker?
I liked it as a kid, but I can't really watch it any more. Jeff Daniels and Jim Carrey are so aggravating, while I generally love them both. I just can't watch a movie like that.
"The other versions will disappear. Even the 35 million tapes of Star Wars out there won’t last more than 30 or 40 years. A hundred years from now, the only version of the movie that anyone will remember will be the DVD version [of the Special Edition], and you’ll be able to project it on a 20’ by 40’ screen with perfect quality. I think it’s the director’s prerogative, not the studio’s to go back and reinvent a movie." - George Lucas
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