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Chewtobacca said:

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I saw it last night, and absolutely loved it.  Hopkins was brilliant.  The whole thing was beautifully filmed, and it was story all the way through; no CGI, no excessive special effects, just a thoughtful film about what is essentially a true story.  Give it a go!

I must confess I haven't seen the film but the title reminds me of a very nasty experience with a Vegetable Phall (talk about Ring Of Fire).

Bingowings said: I must confess I haven't seen the film but the title reminds me of a very nasty experience with a Vegetable Phall (talk about Ring Of Fire).

I have always said vegetable phalls give you a good run for your money.

captainsolo said:  As for Dalton, his Bond performances are fantastic but marred by production issues and less than stellar scripts. He definitely deserved more.

I agree.  Dalton always struck me as a harder Bond, closer to the way that Ian Fleming wrote the character.  I have never understood why so many seem to dislike Dalton in the role.

I actually really like Daniel Craig, although I agree his films are in some ways a departure from classic Bond.

Glengarry Glen Ross.   Very good movie.   A lot of cursing, but very good.

Oh boy...when I posted that gif, people flipped out.  And not in a good way.

Good luck.

lol (the whole bit)

Leonardo, please take pic that down,  I don't need the nightmares.

At the risk of getting Malkovich'd, I'll repost my review of a Terminator Salvation fanedit, The Essential Edition by Q2:

I find Terminator Salvation to be an odd movie - not nearly as bad as many of the reviews I've read, but not as good as it could have been.  I find it to be a entertaining movie for the most part, providing a neat view of the post-Judgment Day world we've only seen hinted at.

Q2's edit is not a terribly radical cut, but I find it works very well in removing some the stuff that didn't work, mainly the Marcus introduction and the heart transplant.  I also like spots where the machines now fail to recognize Kyle, especially in the Skynet Processing line.

I did have a few minor quibbles with the edits.
-When Marcus/Kyle/Star are fleeing the flying machine in their jeep, there's a shot of Kyle clearly speaking but his dialogue is cut
-As others have noted, I found the transition to the attempted rape of Blair came to fast.
-Although the machines no longer recognize Kyle out in the field, when Marcus accesses the Skynet computer to find Kyle, his name is there clear as day.

As I said, these are minor quibbles only.  It's still a much better version to watch.

Tech is fantastic, per usual with a Q2 release.  Video is very good on the DVD-5 and the AVCHD looks fantastic.  Audio is consistently well done as well.  The only issue I have with the tech is the lack of chapter stops - it would be nice to get some on future Q2 edits.

I will be watching this one again in the future.  8/10.

I just finished watching the Terminator telly show with the tongue twister name.

It was rather good.

Summer Glue really is a bit of Jonah when it comes to Science Fiction shows ain't she?

They win 12 Zillion Kudos points for surreal use of a Andy Stewart cover (surely a first).

I liked the first season.  Haven't gotten to the second yet.

An interesting unintentionally similarly themed double bill tonight.

First off came Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark (the original obviously as the remake isn't quite upon us yet).

I can see why it holds a particular place in the heart of Americans of a certain age in the same way that The Auton Invasion and later Ghostwatch does for Brits of a certain age (at least Ghostwatch had the notoriety of only being shown once because of the outrage it caused but once the secret is out it really isn't that scary unless you were there on the television battlefield when the thing was deployed on an audience too tired or lazy to notice it was billed as a drama).

It's a bit rubbish to modern eyes but in a way which gives it a uneasy quality all of it's own. If I saw this as a child I would have certainly had nightmares about it. Watching it now it's still got a certain something but I can't quite articulate what it is.

Jim Hutton tries his best to compete with Oliver Reed (no not that one) in Cat People (1942) for the crown of most unsympathetic husband in a genre role.

I was then under protest encouraged to sit through The Brood.

I was already well acquainted with the film from my teenage years as a gore hound and made the mistake of mentioning that I lost my first digital watch on Worthing beach and saw a poster for the film at the Dome cinema there to the better half who hadn't heard of it.

Well... it was tiny people leaping out of cupboards time all over again.

This time the film really is still as screwed up and uncomfortable to watch as I remembered it to be when I first saw it.

Like most of Chronenberg's movies there are thoughtful ideas woven into the unpleasant show. Oliver Reed (yes that one) doesn't seem to be trying hard enough but boy does Samantha Eggar make up for it (the freakiest eye rolling this side of Black Narcissus).

The problem I've always had with the film is still there.

I know a lot can be done with editing but those children are giving such a good performance of being traumatised by seeing mutants bashing people to death with wooden mallets and meat tenderisers that I can't help but think they weren't acting.

It's almost as if the director had become the Reed character and would stop at nothing to produce results in his emotional experiments.

I appreciate that film does deliver the goods but I'm just worried about the effect making the piece had on the very young cast members in a way I'm not when I watch Linda Blair in The Exorcist.

Payback(Straight Up edition)  I can't say I liked it as much as the theatrical edition.

The Disappearance of Alice Creed.

I wont say anything to give the plot away as the title already partly does that - In short it was a lot better than some of the other films I've seen recently.

The Descent.

I thought this was a remake of a British movie.  In fact, I was disappointed when I couldn't find the original on Netflix.  Turns out there's just different endings for the British and US versions, and fortunately the DVD has the British ending.  I did not see it coming at all and thought it was great.

The rest of the movie was descent decent but nothing special.  I think the caves were quite cool but I was disappointed in the creatures.

7/10

102 Minutes That Changed America.

A chronological breakdown of the period between the first plane hitting the World Trade Center and just after the collapse of the second tower edited from various sources (mostly camcorder footage) and with no commentary and minimal ambient music and sound.

There seems to have been an editorial decision to avoid the footage of the attacks and the actual building collapses (it barely shows the second impact and only shows a single perspective of the second collapse) which confused me a bit.

Perhaps it was thought that those images were already so burned into our collective memory that showing them would be pointless. Maybe the editors wanted to recreate the confusion of the day by showing us only what the voices in the footage were saying.

If it was to avoid sensationalism there was no equal restraint in avoiding footage of people clinging to the sides of the buildings and jumping, or running in panic from the two concrete dust clouds.

It was a grueling watch (as is to be expected).

I'm not sure if it was in anyway a positive viewing experience.

I felt rather uncomfortable for watching it (which is different from not feeling comfortable watching it which, is I hope, the natural reaction with the subject of the material). 

It felt more ghoulish than enlightening or informative.

The ambient soundtrack was a big mistake in my view.

The footage is horrific enough adding what added up to a minimalist horror movie emotional enhancement track seemed very distasteful and pointless.

Earlier that evening I had watched a documentary about Tania Head which while disturbing was actually informative and more respectful of the horrors witnessed by the survivor's and the pain of the bereaved family members interviewed.