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Bingowings said:
It's SPACE MADNESS!
Since they're like poetry, what with the rhyming and all, I find that I only need to watch three out of the six films.
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TV's Frink said:
I thought Pandorum was really underwhelming, at at parts, just plain stupid.
Which AT-AT parts in particular (if you don't mind expanding on your initial response)?
I pointed out that there are problems of logic when it comes to the plot.
Why send a space ship to a distant star when population control, colonising the ocean floor and solar system etc seem to be easier options?
Why bother having a human crew when the ship seems to be more than capable of doing the job on it's own?
You have to cut the film a bit of slack in that area if you can allow the Nostromo to tug ores from deep space when there is enough in our native solar system to last for thousands of years.
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Honestly I don't remember much about it, like I said I found it very underwhelming and the kind of movie that failed to stay with me 10 minutes later. I remember thinking there were some really awful gaps in logic but I can't remember any specifics.
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But you liked Kung-Fu Pandorum, right?
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Paul - 8 Spaceman Balls out of 10
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Police Story III: Supercop
The stunts are great as people will tell you, but the story leaves quite a bit to be desired. Fun elements yes, but too disjointed to really get into anything. And what's with the really abrupt endings? Avoid the US edit which loses 10-20 minutes.
3 balls out of 4.
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Say captain?
Do you watch the dubbed or subtitled versions or is Cantonese not an issue for you?
Normally I would never watch a dubbed picture but the action in many Hong Kong movies and telly shows is so fast that by the time the universal translator has kicked in half a dozen extras have been wheeled off to the hospital.
I also enjoy the English dubs on Jackie's films.
The Pea Pea whistle song in Project A is hilarious when dubbed.
It's also a giggle to watch the English characters dubbed by other actors also speaking English.
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I stick with Cantonese w/English subs. Never been a fan of English dubs. Usually I can follow along if the subs are slow...but some of these foreign discs with English subs have really bad grammar...;)
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"Never Say Never Again"
So much potential, so much disappointment.
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Not enough sex, sadism and good old fashioned violence!
The best thing about the film is that little piano motif that gets repeated.
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"The Living Daylights"
Too much change of location. Nice to see a new Bond, but a new director and writing team was also needed. Seems needlessly dragged out and a bit too tame in the sex department for a 007 romp. John Rhys-Davies was a welcome bit of emergency last moment casting. Hhe was called in to replace the Russian General Gogol character. The actor Walter Gotell sadly became too sick to perform all of the required lines and actions originally scripted for Gen. Gogol, so his character was given a small role at the end of the movie. A nice fresher John Barry score this time (his swan song for the series). No classic menacing master mind villain to hold things together in this film. Just a bunch of whiny and spoiled crooks. The new Money Penny was quite un-interesting and forgettable. Come on, Barry Manilow records? Dalton and she have no chemistry whatsoever. Also, this film has the worst Felix Lighter of them all. His inclusion was totally unnecessary, and totally miscast. Seems like they wanted to included everything they could think of to connect this to the rest of the series, including Max, the parrot from "For Your Eye's Only".
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All day I spent watching the "Three Colors" trilogy. Someone remind me to do a better, more in depth review later, but I will say that "Blue" and "Red" are now two of my all time favorite movies.
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FanFiltration said:
"The Living Daylights"
Too much change of location. Nice to see a new Bond, but a new director and writing team was also needed. Seems needlessly dragged out and a bit too tame in the sex department for a 007 romp. John Rhys-Davies was a welcome bit of emergency last moment casting. Hhe was called in to replace the Russian General Gogol character. The actor Walter Gotell sadly became too sick to perform all of the required lines and actions originally scripted for Gen. Gogol, so his character was given a small role at the end of the movie. A nice fresher John Barry score this time (his swan song for the series). No classic menacing master mind villain to hold things together in this film. Just a bunch of whiny and spoiled crooks. The new Money Penny was quite un-interesting and forgettable. Come on, Barry Manilow records? Dalton and she have no chemistry whatsoever. Also, this film has the worst Felix Lighter of them all. His inclusion was totally unnecessary, and totally miscast. Seems like they wanted to included everything they could think of to connect this to the rest of the series, including Max, the parrot from "For Your Eye's Only".
"Lies spread by my competitors!" ;)
Most of this is true, but as more time passes, this stands out more and more as one of the classic canon titles. I just can't seem to get enough of this odd blend of film 007 and book 007 actually being an international spy who...gasp...actually spies...and feels pain...and broods...and has dark humor...and is serious...and dangerous...and human...and a killer.
This is Glen's best Bond hands down. Top notch on the look, feel, and the gall to have such and odd rhythm that straddles the line between movie and reality. To come from the tried-and-true/trying to be a throwback/way too tired and low budget final Moore films to this is like downing three Americanos in the morning.
Leiter is beyond awful and just thrown in, Moneypenny 2.0 takes time to get used to but it works if you're not really scrutinizing (But Barry Manilow? Ugh!), the plot was a bit confused because they were never sure who they were writing for or what the production was-but this one has Richard Maibaum cutting loose and penning some golden moments (Sorely missing from Licence to Kill), Barry's score is one of my all time favorites, the villains aren't very menacing but overall the whole story feels as if it could be real and that it must in order to have a sense of immediacy and odd for a Bond film-poignancy.
And this is really coming out of Dalton's performance, which as a lifelong Bond fan (who loathes the Craig films, rereads the Fleming novels regularly, and is kooky enough to think that the 67 Casino Royale is some kind of bizarre pop-art masterwork of insanity) is one of the finest in all the films. It's markedly different, and certainly the Bond of the 80's. He got a raw deal, and is one of those really underrated actors who never got to capitalize on their talent in films.
I think I may have seen this too much. It may have something to do with being one of the Bond films I could never find as a kid, and then going overboard once I had a copy.
The little moments are so good-The opening straight out of the short story, Bond going back for Kara's Strad, The Aston returns, Bond smoking and mockingly blowing it into the air during Koskov's "debriefing", Bond and M inter-fighting, Bond thinking for himself, Smiert Spionam, Bond and Pushkin, the chloral hydrate and the end of the plane fight.
"We're free!"
"Kara, we're on a Russian airbase in the middle of Afghanistan."
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Oh,
Police Story 4: First Strike
First of all, this looks and feels really cheap. The crummy transfer I saw didn't help but at least it was uncut. Jackie is great as always but the film is very tired, looks tired, feels tired and spends a major portion of the screentime in an aquarium world theme park place. (Always a very bad idea. Always.)
Watch for Jackie's stunts, some funny gags but otherwise avoid.
2 maybe 2.5 balls out of 4 fake sharks.
And what's with all of the extremely abrupt endings in this series? They're really really abrupt!
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I love the abruptness of the endings to many of Jackie's films (especially the Police Story series) when I first saw Robocop 2 a friend and myself both turned to each other and said, "Jackie Chan ending".
Had a Darren Aronofsky double bill the other night.
Starting with Black Swan (2010).
Nice nods to Argento movies, Jacob's Ladder (1990) and The Red Shoes (1948) with some fantastically freaky moments.
I'm still not convinced that Portman is an actor though.
She is more like a well made prop.
She delivers pretty much the same performance she does in the PT during her white swan sequences and seems to channel Hayden in the black swan sequences.
It works but only because she is surrounded by a team of people that compliment what she is doing.
Sadly with the PT her jigsaw piece like most of the others seemed to come from a different set.
I still flick this film three beans for the refreshing oddness.
Next up was The Fountain (2006).
This became a point of much heated debate in the Chateau.
The better half hated it and called it, "pretentious Buddhist crap" and yet he loved The Tree Of Life (2011) with a passion.
I liked both films.
Neither offer the meaning of life on a plate but both in their way are allegories about time, mortality, love etc.
They both have strong performances, beautiful photography and production values.
But where Malick's film depicts his allegorical imagery with an eye towards the traditions of still photography (you could take almost any image from the film and hang it in a photographic gallery), the allegorical imagery in The Fountain is more painterly.
At times I was reminded of Vincent Ward's choices in What Dreams May Come (1998). I was also reminded of some of his ideas for his lost version of Alien 3.
In Malick's film the religious imagery is purely Christian (because the character doing all tht reflecting was brought up as a Christian), where as in The Fountain the influences come from religions all over the world (including Buddhism but not exclusively so by any means).
I give this one four shrubs.
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THIS MUST BE THE PLACE.
... Masterpiece (to me).
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Drive 10/10
Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow. I think it might have actually been one of those rare "perfect" films.
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Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1954)
3 epic beards out of 4
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DominicCobb said:
Drive 10/10
Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow. I think it might have actually been one of those rare "perfect" films.
I'd rather say 09/10. The begining is too entertaining and breathtaking, too bad there weren't no more sequences like this on his driving skills.
Very good nevertheless.
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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.
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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.
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This is a faster than light ship which suggests a significant leap in technology so developing a genetically designed enzyme to promote beneficial adaptations is well within the realm of that fictional universe.
Munching on the similarly adapted escaped biomass would concentrate the enzyme and speed up the adaptations.
Remember adaptations can happen in a few generations without genetic engineering so it's a lot less goofy than Ripley's unbreakable limbs and unburstable lungs at the end of Aliens.
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I don't know what is Pandorum but that "zombie" thing reminds me a very good one I saw: Serenity. I especially enjoyed the dialogues and the retro high-tech.
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The sequence where they attract all the zombie fleet to face their main ennemies was memorable.
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I saw Serenity before I saw Firefly but one look at Adam Baldwin and I wanted more.
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Never seen Firefly. Is it as good ? (One friend told me "no").