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Rhum Express

Superb story, great actors (and based on a true story besides). I loved it.

edit: and great humoristic situations, worth to mention.

DuracellEnergizer said:

... I give it 5.7/10.

 Sorry, I'm sure you meant 5.783/10, no ?

"Solaris"

Not the most exciting film, but it had some great moments of strangeness.

Bingowings said:

^Which version FanFiltration?

The 2002 re-make of "Solaris".  I plan to look at the original soon.

Bingowings said:

Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 2.

I finally got the dvd and like two before it the literally dark scenes were practically black.

At times this film became a noisy audio adventure.

I just saw this for the first time last night.  We watched 7 and 8 basically as one long movie starting Monday and finishing Tuesday night.

We watched it home and I never found any of it to be too dark (and this was in 3D, which is often assumed to be darker than 2D).  Perhaps your display isn't cable or properly calibrated?  I thought there was a great overall tone to the picture.  The thought- "too dark" never occured to me.  It's also possible the DVD is too dark compared to either the regular BD or the 3D BD, but I don't suppose so.

Bingowings said:

There was very little tension in the big confrontation and very little sense of actual peril despite the number of people lying around on the floor apparently dead.

 

Maybe it's because you already knew who lived and who died at the end.  ;)

You can hardly blame the movie for that.

I, on the other hand, have a terrible memory for the book so watching the movie was like wading through very dull memories and a lot of the ending was a surprise to me.  I found to be tense and emotional.  The visual destruction of Hogwarts gave a great sense of melancholy that I don't think is quite possible from the written word.

I found the extra time (about 4.5 hours total) acquired in delivering the movie in 2 parts to be well used and to allow the many events to be shown without crushing the scope of the piece.  I've heard people say that they thought it was drawn out and really should have been confined to one 2.5 - 3 hour film, and I just can't disagree strongly enough.

A solid ending to a great series (how often does that really happen? practically never). 

3/3 Deathly Hallows

7/7 Polyjuice Potters

Poltergeist

Catching up:

Full Contact-lesser HK action film with Chow Yun-fat, but it's still Chow Yun-fat in a HK action movie. There is a heaven in action film. Also the first film (I think) that has a bullet's POV.

3 balls out of 4 Chows.

Drunken Master-Cheesy standard of classic martial arts cinema and I can't believe how much I enjoyed this. The key to Jackie Chan's success is the amount of heart in his films. The guy just goes for broke every single time and has that fearlesss performer quality of the great silent clowns.

3 balls out of 4 drunken ones.

Snake in the Eagle's Shadow-made just before DM, with the same cast and crew so it is virtually the same movie. Also, it laughably features the moment of the Star Wars score just before the DS explodes, and this 30 second bit is repeated in the dramatic moments.

3 snakes out of 4 eagles.

Hana-Bi. I have been looking for this film for years. First saw it 6 years ago in a film seminar, and finally got to revisit this strange un-revealing police/yakuza/character drama blend from Takeshi Kitano. Still don't know exactly what to make of it.

3.5 chopsticks in 4 eyes.

Drunken Master II-I viewed the uncut version of the film, and although not in the greatest shape and cropped-this is the martial arts film on steroids. You want a movie with fights? Look no further. But it really wasn't as enjoyable as others that I've seen and the plot is basically throwaway.

3 ax killers out of 4 fists.

Rush Hour-Why do I like this?? I still get flak for liking this premise, but it works. It works better than the latter Lethal Weapons and I love the combination of opposites. But the story gets too compressed in these films so that there is no breathing room and no room for actual development.

2.5 words out of 4 mouths.

Rush Hour 2-I think I like this one more, but it has the same if not more problems than the first. We go to Hong Kong this time, but nothing is developed at all. A waste, but some of the gags are amusing.

2.5 Cartah!s out of 4 J'mon!s

Police Story-Basically Jackie Chan as a young cop who goes up against gangsters and his own bureaucratic bosses. Taut and with really well done setpieces. Overall it just doesn't work as well as you think it should.

3 balls out of 4.

Deadline-This is a movie that my mom dragged me to. It was shot in and around Nashville and had it's premiere last night. Utter crap that is hardly worthy of being Redbox fodder.

No balls. At all.

A Boy and His Dog

A young Don Johnson in a low budget, sometimes creepy, post-apocalyptic, sci-fi movie. Any further description is a spoiler to the strangeness of this movie. It's a must see.

8 of 10 Overall, but 10 out of 10 for uniqueness.

"Octopussy"

This is one of the worst of the Bonds. The theme song lyrics should have been "He's an old time guy", not "It's an all time high". Moore is way too old, and I was truly embarrassed for the younger females that had to faun over and suggest they slept with this geezer.  The back-screen effects are particurly horrendous and obvious in this film. I don't know why people rate "Moonraker" as worse then this one. I'll take a Space Station over a second rate Circus motif any day.     

"For Your Eyes Only"

One of the better of the Moore era Bond's. This film has much more of the Ian Fleming styles sprinkled over it, yet it still suffers in places.  Moore is again too old to be playing this role, and it's a bit distracting.  A wispy romantic John Barry score is sadly missing, and what we do get (brass heavy disco themes and synthesizer muzak for low budget orchestra) dates the film. The director John Glen, is well suited for action, but his character interaction scenes are dull and un-inspired. This film had great locations, a good cast (excepting the bratty sex-starved skater and the stuffy fop that is replacing "M"). Topol is one of the best Bond allies in years, and the actor has so much personality that a bad director can do little to harm his reputation. The ice rink fight scene, the chopper vs. Wheelchair villain with cat (Blofeld?), "Q"'s segment, the Indentigraph scene, and the Olympian Hit man hurling his broken motorcycle at Bond  sticks out as being the only cringe worthy and un-needed segments of this film. Bond and Girl being dragged over a coral field in shark infested waters, the climb up the rock face, the assault on the villains' dock-side warehouse, and the ski chase on the bobsled run, are some of the best moments in the entire Bond series.            

"A View to a Kill"

Starts with some great snow bound Bond vs. USSR action, but all to soon turns into one of the worst and cheesiest lame joke and cliche riddled films of the entire sires. The producers must have felt that giving Roger Moore yet another round as James Bond was an appropriate 100th birthday gift. This film has very few redeeming qualities. John Barry's return is welcome, but his scores are now starting to sound a bit too alike. Besides the main title music and the overly repeated action theme, most of the music seems to be a re-hash of his "Octopussy" and "Moonraker" scores. The casting is just as horrible as the script is. This film is just too bad to write anything more about it.          

Fanfiltration: Agreed on all points. I've always felt that Roger Moore's Bond was a bit like Paul McGann's Doctor Who: those two were born to play the role, but were given pretty awful scripts to work with all around. Crying shame, really.

I tend to rate Moore's worst three Bond films thus: 1.) Moonraker [a.k.a. James Bond the Comedy]; 2.) A View to a Kill; 3.) Octopussy. Aside from the inclusion of Jaws, his best was probably The Spy who Loved Me. The Man with the Golden Gun, too, will always have a special place in my heart, despite some of the film's over-the-top absurdities. Christopher Lee just makes everything better (with Attack of the Clones being the one exception).

FanFiltration said:

 

"Octopussy"

 

This is one of the worst of the Bonds. The theme song lyrics should have been "He's an old time guy", not "It's an all time high". Moore is way too old, and I was truly embarrassed for the younger females that had to faun over and suggest they slept with this geezer.  The back-screen effects are particurly horrendous and obvious in this film. I don't know why people rate "Moonraker" as worse then this one. I'll take a Space Station over a second rate Circus motif any day.     

 

The song is lounge music crap, the Indian portion was completely unnecessary and showed how much they tried to copy Raiders, Roger looks worse than in FYEO, the plot is horribly overcomplicated, and overall the whole thing is just very dull. But it is a throwback adventure mixed with a Bond film which has an energy unlike the beyond tpeid Never Say Never Again.

FanFiltration said:

"For Your Eyes Only"

One of the better of the Moore era Bond's. This film has much more of the Ian Fleming styles sprinkled over it, yet it still suffers in places.  Moore is again too old to be playing this role, and it's a bit distracting.  A wispy romantic John Barry score is sadly missing, and what we do get (brass heavy disco themes and synthesizer muzak for low budget orchestra) dates the film. The director John Glen, is well suited for action, but his character interaction scenes are dull and un-inspired. This film had great locations, a good cast (excepting the bratty sex-starved skater and the stuffy fop that is replacing "M"). Topol is one of the best Bond allies in years, and the actor has so much personality that a bad director can do little to harm his reputation. The ice rink fight scene, the chopper vs. Wheelchair villain with cat (Blofeld?), "Q"'s segment, the Indentigraph scene, and the Olympian Hit man hurling his broken motorcycle at Bond  sticks out as being the only cringe worthy and un-needed segments of this film. Bond and Girl being dragged over a coral field in shark infested waters, the climb up the rock face, the assault on the villains' dock-side warehouse, and the ski chase on the bobsled run, are some of the best moments in the entire Bond series.            

This suffered from being John Glen's fist Bond to direct and coming off the heels of Moonraker. They went too far in bringing it all back down to Earth and the resulting film is very Made-for-TV in aspects. The score is awfully cheesy but this film comes alive when you crank the sound and watch on a big screen. The definition of a serviceable Bond film.

Police Story II-Lacks a really great villain, but this one crams in so many stunts and setpieces that you can't help but like it. Pure fun.

3.5 kung-fu deaf mutes out of 4 balls.

captainsolo said:

Police Story II-Lacks a really great villain, but this one crams in so many stunts and setpieces that you can't help but like it. Pure fun.

3.5 kung-fu deaf mutes out of 4 balls.

I don't know about this. I felt that Bobcat Goldthwait's Zed was a much stronger villain then the un-named bad guy in the original.  Oh, am I think of the wrong film again? *wink*