It's brilliant in places.
It's a short watch mind because it was killed before the full first series was finished which is frustrating because just as you get into it, it's finished.
You need a new friend.XyZ said:
Never seen Firefly. Is it as good ? (One friend told me "no").
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doubleofive said:
You need a new friend.XyZ said:
Never seen Firefly. Is it as good ? (One friend told me "no").
Firefly being good is a fact, and if people can't accept that, I doubt their humanity.
"No" was a quick way to sum it up. He wasn't as pleased as with the film so far.
... Fortunately, all my friends are different and have very different opinions than mine, if not totally the oposite for on a lot of things. I wouldn't be interested in having some clones of myself as friends... I'd call that "how to kill your curiosity" !
Anyway thanks for the informative post. Maybe I'll have a chance to watch those series one day.
Bingowings said:
It's brilliant in places.
It's a short watch mind because it was killed before the full first series was finished which is frustrating because just as you get into it, it's finished.
Killed? Season? I don't understand.
"Firefly" is an awesome miniseries, and it sure was cool how so many people loved it that they made the last episode a theatrical film, like "High School Musical 3"
Bless your cotton socks but leave the hypnotism to the experts.
TheBoost said:
Bingowings said:
It's brilliant in places.
It's a short watch mind because it was killed before the full first series was finished which is frustrating because just as you get into it, it's finished.
Killed? Season? I don't understand.
"Firefly" is an awesome miniseries, and it sure was cool how so many people loved it that they made the last episode a theatrical film, like "High School Musical 3"
Ah. So, the film came after ! That's what I thought. (maybe I didn't understand what has been said in the previous posts).
Bingowings said:
Bless your cotton socks but leave the hypnotism to the experts.
A Bingowink ?
Not easy to wink with the left eye !
Nah it's Troy of Benidorm.
I've always been more leftwink than right.
XyZ said:
TheBoost said:
Bingowings said:
It's brilliant in places.
It's a short watch mind because it was killed before the full first series was finished which is frustrating because just as you get into it, it's finished.
Killed? Season? I don't understand.
"Firefly" is an awesome miniseries, and it sure was cool how so many people loved it that they made the last episode a theatrical film, like "High School Musical 3"
Ah. So, the film came after ! That's what I thought. (maybe I didn't understand what has been said in the previous posts).
Yup. Your best bet is to watch all of Firefly (don't skip a single episode, because each one is excellent), and then finish it off with the film Serenity. Definitely one of the greatest sci-fi franchises out there; anyone who tells you it's not worth watching needs to have his/her brain examined, in my opinion.
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... Yeah, I think he just watched a couple of episodes when he told me that. And it was just after he got the film on DVD from me. It's not the kind of stuff that you know about easily in my country.
"The Decedents" I loved this film, and I hope it wins a little golden man.
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TheBoost said:
Bingowings said:
Pandorum (2009).
How the hell did this film flop?
It's visually amazing, has great action sequences and lots of interesting ideas.
I think the orcs moving in weird J-horror fast motion was laughable. Killed the flick for me.
As for "narrative flaws" the explanation "they gave the people drugs to speed up evolution so they became Mad Max Orcs!" was some of the goofiest sci-fi-talk I've ever heard.
TheBoost said:
TheBoost said:
xhonzi said:
TheBoost said:
Saw "Pandorum"
Load of POOP. Interesting sci-fi horror premise.
Then out come the low-budget LOTR orcs moving in weird frame-rates so that the audience knows they're supposed to be scary.
Throw in nonspeaking Asian farmer so that he can have an 8 minute kung-fu fight with one of the space-orcs and a couple really predictable twists and you have a film that's biggest virtue was that it was relatively short.
Hmm... we'll agree to disagree here. I really liked Pandorum. Could you apply your synopsis to the original Alien movie? It seemed to work for that one.
It comes to that (IMHO of course) Alien was scary.
The Orcs in Pandorum were comical. In fact, the bad 28 Days Later jitter-frame that the film did when they were on screen made them even sillier. And that one line of technobabble they spit out to explain the Orcs was great: "We had drugs pumped into us to help us adapt to our new planet, but there guys adapted to living in a spaceship by becoming parkour athletes and looking like a bad Hellraiser fan-film! Oh yeah, and spikes out their backs."
If the Nostromo had some random Asian guy on it that had a karate fight with the Alien, I'd say that was crappy too.
I think this film had a fascinating premise: Waking up, no memories, where are we? Those goofy monsters and the kung-fu Korean-farmer just killed it for me.
The thing is, what if they HADN'T been orcs? What if the humans had survived being crazy scavenging cannibals for 800 years. Those would be some degraded SCARY FUCKING PEOPLE, and I wouldn't need shoulder-spikes and "The Ring" jerky movements to remind me they're scary.
That sounds familiar.
Ah yes, now I'm starting to remember why I didn't like it.
I'd rather watch it five more times than watch Aliens in it's current form one more time.
There are times that I think you're the coolest person on these boards, then I read crap like this...Bingowings said:
I'd rather watch it five more times than watch Aliens in it's current form one more time.
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 10/10
Blazing Saddles 9/10
The Princess Bride 9/10
Singin' in the Rain 10/10
The Dirty Dozen 9/10
North by Northwest 10/10
Amarcord 9/10
Swing Time 7/10
Office Space 9/10
Hannah and Her Sisters 9/10
doubleofive said:
There are times that I think you're the coolest person on these boards, then I read crap like this...Bingowings said:
I'd rather watch it five more times than watch Aliens in it's current form one more time.
;-)
Such are the perils of hero worship, once the object of adulation has been identified the provider sets about to change it, rendering all objects of interest anodyne and lacking in the qualities of coolness that drew forth the interest in the first place.
I will not yield.
Having just popped out to the shops I found "freedom" (being the brand name of an inexpensive flavour of kitchen roll).
This makes perfect sense of Mel Gibson's famous speech in the execrable Braveheart.
I instantly respect him for his thrift.
DominicCobb said:
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 10/10
Blazing Saddles 9/10
The Princess Bride 9/10
Singin' in the Rain 10/10
The Dirty Dozen 9/10
North by Northwest 10/10
Amarcord 9/10
Swing Time 7/10
Office Space 9/10
Hannah and Her Sisters 9/10
Wait...you finally watched something that didn't deserve a 9 or 10?
:p
Bingowings said:
I'd rather watch it five more times than watch Aliens in it's current form one more time.
If you keep saying things like this in public, the men in the white coats will be looking for you.
TV's Frink said:
Bingowings said:
I'd rather watch it five more times than watch Aliens in it's current form one more time.
If you keep saying things like this in public, the men in the white coats will be looking for you.
Maybe I'm looking for them :
TV's Frink said:
DominicCobb said:
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 10/10
Blazing Saddles 9/10
The Princess Bride 9/10
Singin' in the Rain 10/10
The Dirty Dozen 9/10
North by Northwest 10/10
Amarcord 9/10
Swing Time 7/10
Office Space 9/10
Hannah and Her Sisters 9/10
Wait...you finally watched something that didn't deserve a 9 or 10?
:p
I have to admit I was wondering if someone was going to notice this.
I'm actually very particular in the films I watch. I make sure that I only view movies I will like.
I only watched Swing Time because it was on the AFI 100 movies list. I didn't think I was going to love it. I didn't.
This all probably sounds pretty weird, but I could go through each movie and explain why I knew I was going to like it, but I don't really want to.
The Crow - 6/10
Play Misty for Me - 5/10
Ride the High Country.
I've always hated Westerns, because of how cliched and stereotypical they were. You can talk about John Ford all day long, but even his films get a bit tiresome in this regard. (Save for Liberty Valence) That said, years ago Leone's Westerns blew my mind, and Peckinpah achingly tore the Western apart from the inside. So, I now like good Westerns. Here, Sam Peckinpah makes a traditional Western in every sense that is dying. The two leads are wise old sages on their last legs (literally. Both Randolph Scott and Joel Mcrea were retiring.) and the world around them has changed. All of Sam's repeated themes appear here for the first time in the midst of some stunning location cinematography. A simple story that is told in a straightforward way is something that has become lost to the ages. This movie is timeless. Featuring one of the single greatest closing shots in all of cinema and that line...that unbelievably fantastic immortal line: "All I want is to enter my house justified."
4 stars out of 4 "I'm not going to get sad at the end.....oh crap"s.
Major Dundee: The Extended Version
This is the second time I've watched this thing, and the second time where I haven't known what exactly to think. The production wasn't planned well, the script wasn't finished, and then the studio took it away and re-cut the whole thing so nothing really makes much sense. But I still watch this with rapt attention. This is a movie where the Civil War Union Major is a dirty mean son of a bitch who is relegated to being a jailer out in the Southwest because he can't take orders. So he then takes a bunch of Confederate prisoners, criminals and miscreants to track down a band of Apaches who have just slaughtered a village full of soldiers. All this to get back and maybe get a promotion. It's nice and dirty. Charlton Heston is always best when his characters have a nasty side, and Dundee is no exception. Richard Harris steals every scene as the Irishman turned immigrant turned Union soldier turned Confederate turned prisoner. And James Coburn is a part-Indian guide with one arm. That last bit was enough for me to give this a go. The extended version adds back in about 12-15 minutes of scenes but there's no big exclamation of a masterpiece found or anything. It just makes a little more sense. The new 5.1 score seems a bit rushed and doesn't work as well as the original mono. But that original score has a horribly inappropriate title song that does not match the film whatsoever. Dundee is the stepping stone between High Country and The Wild Bunch.
3.5 balls out of 4.
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DominicCobb said:
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 10/10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhCHw0Ovqf4&feature=related
Oliver! 7/10
Cavalcade 6/10
The Greatest Show on Earth 6/10
Wow, watching all the Best Picture winners is not an easy task. Thankfully for me, I only had two left, and they were:
The Best Years of Our Lives 10/10
Wings 9/10
And now I'm done! I've seen all 83 Best Picture winners (84 if you count the Artist)!