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Thought we could have one of these threads were people praise, bitch, slam, or gush over the latest films they've seen. You know...like how we do with news stories everywhere else.
Anyhow...here goes.
InGlourious Basterds. I loved this film. Seen it twice now and Tarantino's WW2 Jewish revenge fantasy is perhaps not his best film (still a toss-up between Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown for me) but its a still a fine night out at the cinema. I was expecting an all-action warfest from the trailers, but this film is not that. Yes Brad Pitt is in it and yes, he does a stupid accent, but this film is so much more than that. Its a careful dissection of a theme, identity, and how who you are in one context can vary to the extreme in another. One scene in the middle, lasting over 20 minutes, encapsulates this perfectly its the bit you'll talk about later at the pub/ride home/crack den/whatever you guys are up to.
Anything else about the plot would perhaps spoil the joy of finding out for yourself, but its worth seeing just for the performance of Christophe Waltz as the Nazi general coined 'the jew hunter'. Simply a superb concoction of menace and intrigue, he truly steals every scene he's in and must be hanckering for an Oscar next year. Then there's also brit Michael Fassbender, who does a great job as the ex-film critic turned british officer sent in to help out the basterds.
One thing to note before you go in, the germans in this flick speak german, and the french speak french, so I'd say about 50% of it is in subtitles, if you are one of those people who refuse to watch subtitled films (you know who you are, philistines!) then maybe this is not for you. Personally I'm sick of Nazi's with American accents (Tom Cruise in Valkyrie) so this was a plus for me.
Rating: 18
Violence: Lots. Not for the squemish.
Sex: References. Some crude.
Best bit: "Moutain climbing...hahahaha!"
Bottom line: You may hate some parts and love others, but its a proper movie experience, and in the world of Final Destination 4 (surely sequel potential should be negated by the inherent finality of the title? no...oh well) and Saw 6 then that is no bad thing.
I'd give it a 9/10.
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harry potter on the telly, kept awake for as long as I could for the young peoples sake but finnally ended up slumped in a zzzzzzzzz position.
Chancellor
"Layer Cake" with Daniel '007' Craig on DVD.
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"Drag me to Hell" in the cinema.
At some points it was so gross it was hilarious, but the rest of it was so shoddy Id rather of been dragged away.
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All I know is that to see, and not to speak, would be the great betrayal. - Enoch Powell, Rivers of Blood speech, 1968.
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"Donkey Punch" on film4 last night. Not the best British indie film i've seen by a long stretch.
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Orphan - Excellent, Fantastic, would definitely go see it again.
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Goodbye Mr Chips, the 1939 version, my favorite movie of all time!!
badass
District 9 in theaters. I disliked how the whole movie was a metaphor for the exploitation of Africa and yet it glorified violence at the same time.
I must be butter because I'm on a roll.
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I'm seeing that next week.Originally Posted by claire
Metaphors and subliminal messages aside, was it a good film?
For reasons which they could not comprehend, and in pursuance of a decision by default, on which they were never consulted, they found themselves made strangers in their own country.
All I know is that to see, and not to speak, would be the great betrayal. - Enoch Powell, Rivers of Blood speech, 1968.
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It was ok I suppose. Everyone else I saw it with loved it, so that's the general consensus.
I must be butter because I'm on a roll.
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I like that lion in the zion, must win lion, and they can not get the gazel to eat what do they do ?
Use force and lost in catching the gazels, they have messengers in both race to achieve their air but still failled, they did it in kilmeden once three month ago but this lion in my area are used to unprofessional and desires all the time, am in control and it does not work that ways by law in the sarengeti safari, l.o.l.
Cloud Nine.
World goin one way, people another
Saw District 9 yesterday. Going in I thought the political stuff would be laboured and heavy handed but its only a backdrop really, and its got far more action than I expected. I read this film was made for 8million dollars, if true thats value for money, great effects, brilliant central performance and fast paced and interesting throughout. Top stuff.
I liked how the prauns were all given slave names like Christopher Johnson, etc. And memo to George Lucas, this is how you make CGI characters the audience can get invested in, not like frakkin Jar Jar (meesa so crappy ruined episode one betcha betcha). The only thing I had a problem with was the mashing up of documentary and filmed scenes, thought that was a bit jarring at first.
The director Neill Blomkamp, was orginally going to be making the Halo movie, for any Master Cheif fans out there, set your awe factor to 10 and check out this short he made to advertise his 'services'.
YouTube - Halo Movie FULL by Neill Blomkamp HD [640x360]
District 9: 8/10
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Went to watch it in leicester last week. A brilliant film. It might take a little getting used to the south african accents but its a thoroughly original sci fi film. I lived in south africa for twenty years and some of the racial overtones to some of the language was hilarious.
definitely a 8 or 9 out of ten. probably the best film I've seen this year. i took my partner to see it though and she hated it. But there again she thought independance day was a great film. So go figure.
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Haha. Well I thought it looked good and original when I saw the trailer, I really want to see it now.
The other sci-fi I really want to see is Avatar. It comes out in December and its had about $600m dollars spent making it.
Last film I saw was Mongol. The life of Genghis Khan. Was a pretty cool film. Sort of the asian version of gladiator. A bit slow in places and a few plot holes but I enjoyed the story and the fighting was top knotch so I'd give it 7 / 10.
For reasons which they could not comprehend, and in pursuance of a decision by default, on which they were never consulted, they found themselves made strangers in their own country.
All I know is that to see, and not to speak, would be the great betrayal. - Enoch Powell, Rivers of Blood speech, 1968.
World goin one way, people another
Gamer.
In a word: trash. Crass, sickening, mysogynist rubbish with no plot, no characters and a charmless central performance by the one-man-charisma-vacuum that is Gerard Butler, he of "This is sparta!" fame.
Avoid. Words cannot express how much of an insult to the senses this film is.
1/10.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
E. B. White
"To be honest, you think a/c jump the fence, I say the whole college jump the fence"
The wonder that is Angelcountry
"If we're going to have a police state, at least orgainise it properly!"
Guy Outside the Chilcott Enquiry as he was led away by police for causing a 'disturbance' (thanks to LA I now know his name is Michael Culver)
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Last film I saw in the cinema was Inglorious Basterds and the o.p. summed it up pretty well.
Last film I saw on dvd was Cool Hand Luke. Bought it at the weekend, had never seen it before and I have to say it was class. Newman is brilliantly cool in it and it is definetely a film you would watch over and over again. My favourite part was when he ate all the eggs.
Chancellor
Watched about 1/2 hour of District 9 on DVD the other evening, but turned it off as both my son and I thought it utter rubbish!
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Piracy? O:
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World goin one way, people another
I asked Midas about this JM, he fained ignorance. Bloody capitalists and their funding of terrorism.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
E. B. White
"To be honest, you think a/c jump the fence, I say the whole college jump the fence"
The wonder that is Angelcountry
"If we're going to have a police state, at least orgainise it properly!"
Guy Outside the Chilcott Enquiry as he was led away by police for causing a 'disturbance' (thanks to LA I now know his name is Michael Culver)
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Where did the posts about Law-abiding Citizen and Harry Brown go?
Anyway I saw Avatar the other night, and I can think of no better word than overrated. The plot and script seemed fairly unoriginal and full of cliches. Even it's visuals, for which it is most praised, whilst generally impressive weren't exactly the kind of revolutionary new style which many critics have been talking of. I didn't feel that the 3D element really added that much to the film, and the slight benefit was outweighed by the uncomfortable plastic glasses. The film's attempt at being a political commentary felt on the whole quite shallow, although there wer some impressive elements to this.
So unproductive has conservatism been in producing a general conception of how a social order is maintained that its modern votaries, in trying to construct a theoretical foundation, invariably find themselves appealing almost exclusively to authors who regarded themselves as liberal. - F.A. Hayek
Economic Left/Right: 4.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.74
Accidental Poet
I watched "Thirteen Days" yesterday. Its about the Cuban Missile Crisis that took place in October 1962. I was a Junior (11th grade) at the time and remember the fear. Watching what went on behind the scenes and how truly close we came to nuclear war with the USSR was even more scary all these years later.
Great cast and direction. Bruce Greenwood does a killer JFK; looks, voice, mannerisms, the entire bit.
I recommend it highly
I wonder why the things that should be so simple, so natural... like loving someone and letting them see into your heart... should require so much courage?
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Went to see up with the wife and kids: not half bad, it certainly kept a 5yr old and a 3yr old entertained and any film with talking dogs must be cool! Can't beat American Pie 2 though, surely the greatest film ever made - must have an American Pie fest one night, all three films back to back: all invited.
World goin one way, people another
I managed to catch 'An Education' recently at the cinema. This film has been praised by critics and is up for a whole load of Baftas on Sunday, but I thought it was pretty crap to be honest. The acting is fine all round, but the central story, in which a young impressionable girl falls for older man and attempts to gain an education 'in life' rather than academically, was laboured and predictable. More so the whole film revels in a kind of middle to upper class smugness, its difficult to explain really, but you get the feeling everyone involved thought they were making a far more important and worthy film than they actually made.
All in all: Meh.
4/10
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
E. B. White
"To be honest, you think a/c jump the fence, I say the whole college jump the fence"
The wonder that is Angelcountry
"If we're going to have a police state, at least orgainise it properly!"
Guy Outside the Chilcott Enquiry as he was led away by police for causing a 'disturbance' (thanks to LA I now know his name is Michael Culver)
accidental genius!
Went to see "toy Story2" in 3D the other week, having seen the film on dvd 165 times and counting I have no comment to make; but T's reaction was telling "I wanted glasses with a green eye and a red eye, not these things". I was impressed with the effect, but I guess that's a generation gap thing!
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I am hoping to see 'The Last Station' next week, let you know what it is like. The last movie I saw was 'The Bourne Ultimatum.'
World goin one way, people another
Saw "The Ghost" starring Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan and Olivia Williams. Its a kind of hitchcock style (ie. tryng to be) thriller about a ghost writer working on the memoirs of an ex-Prime Minister (not too subtly based on Blair) who is getting accused of war crimes. Typical thriller stuff, one man against shadowy goevernment forces, it all falls apart in the final 30 minutes and devolves into predictable rubbish. Add an illogical ending and you get 2hours of blah blah with very little to get excited about. Guess it is kind of like Blair in that respect.
Naff. Also its got Kim Catrall from Sex in the City (the geriatric one) doing the oddest accent in the history of the world.
2/10
It is directed by Roman Polanski and rated 15. Although Polanski swears it was 18...*
*nicked that joke from HIGNFY
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
E. B. White
"To be honest, you think a/c jump the fence, I say the whole college jump the fence"
The wonder that is Angelcountry
"If we're going to have a police state, at least orgainise it properly!"
Guy Outside the Chilcott Enquiry as he was led away by police for causing a 'disturbance' (thanks to LA I now know his name is Michael Culver)
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I have recently seen Alice in Wonderland by Tim Burton.
The film itself is very interesting and has a lot of potential, however, unfortunately it just lacked the tension and the entertainment I wanted. The tension between the characters wasn't that great to be honest... It doesn't seem like they are mortal enemies.
But the thing that annoyed me most is that Alice states she is a pacifist throughout the whole film, how she cannot kill a living thing. Then, in the ending she just picks up the sword, puts on armour and kills the Jabbawocky...
Overall, not really that great...
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I saw Mulholland Drive the other day.
Confusing isn't the word.
I think I need to watch it again.
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The original "The Bad Seed."
That girl was a DEVIL! The movie has an interesting plot and leads you on some tensity
of what will happen next and few of the actors in the leading roles were convincing enough
to say they should win an 'academy award'!
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I watched "Is anybody there?" with Michael Caine. (It was on TV)
Is Anybody There? (2008)
I was captivated by the film, which is unusual for me. I can usually take or leave dramas.
The humour was a bit dark in places but a well directed enjoyable story. "Don't jump off the roof, Dad", was a fun song!
Quite sensitive at times.
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I saw SCANNERS with a keeper a few nights ago, not for the 1st or 4th time. It is my favourite film to date from the Horror genre category, and I'd say David Cronenberg is a name to watch whenever he releases a movie, like The Fly was, although I didn't like Videodrome upon my first viewing of it; perhaps next time. I watch all my films on DVD or TV (mainly Film4), hardly ever at the cinema. I like the clinical sci-fi sparsity of Scanners and the build-up to the surprising ending as if doom hangs over proceedings from the outset. Did not Christ set His face as flint to go to Jerusalem? I could watch this film again and again and still get the same fresh experience from doing so, with long enough breaks between, of course. A recommended classic!
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Anyone care to recommend a good film for me to buy/rent/download?
Among my fav film makers are Tarantino and the Coen Bros, so that sort of gives you the genre of films that I may like.
Second thing.
Why have threads like the one below been closed/locked?
Thanks
JN
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Depends what genres you like really.
Some I liked were:
District 9.
Inception was recommended to me but I havent seen it yet.
Splice (another frankenstein type story but with decent science)
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Thanks for those, I will check them out, a bit later.
I recently watched (and loved) Defendor and Kick Ass, thought they were great.
I have tried really hard to like Sin City, but, for some reason, I just cannot seem to get into it.
I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine. A rage, the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge in the other.
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The Fascist
I would highly recommend Equilibrium, a futuristic action film, with the best choreography and styling of any action film. Children of Men caught me a bit off guard, I knew it was good, but it turned out to be EXTREMELY good. Rock n' Rolla and its sister films Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch and I believe there are a few others, are quite good gang films with a lot of black humour. That's all I can think of right now, what genres do you like?
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The ones DC mentioned are very good as well, I thought you wanted recent films otherwise I would have delved deeper in my collection though
I am glad you have seen Defendor as not meny people have and I think it's an excellent film that deserves more attention than it got, a sort of Kick Ass but with more human interest.
I thought Sin City was awesome but you could try Watchmen if you are into superhero genre as that is excellent in many ways.
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I am often asked that question, F, and I draw a blank, when attempting to answer.
What genre would the following fall in to, as these are among some of my fav's.
Carlito's Way
Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead
K Paxx
Kill Bill
True Romance
Pulp Fiction
They are not really comedy, nor horror, nor really what I would call 'action'
Do they even fit into a genre?
JN
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Robert De Niro in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
The Fascist
Hmm, really have to recommend Rock 'n Rolla and the other films like it then, they seem to fit your profile perfectly.
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I saw that the other day. The opening credits was the best part. I also liked the part where the NVA was getting their butts kicked.
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I've seen the Watchmen, and I LOVED it. That is what 'superhero' films should be about, imo, none of this sterile Superman/Spiderman garbage.The ones DC mentioned are very good as well, I thought you wanted recent films otherwise I would have delved deeper in my collection though
I am glad you have seen Defendor as not meny people have and I think it's an excellent film that deserves more attention than it got, a sort of Kick Ass but with more human interest.
I thought Sin City was awesome but you could try Watchmen if you are into superhero genre as that is excellent in many ways.
Here's the odd thing about Defendor.
It was released in 2009. Yet I could not find one branch of Blockbuster which stocked it, which I found very odd. It is a brilliant film.
JN
I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine. A rage, the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge in the other.
Robert De Niro in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
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Just watched a snip of it on You Tube, and I will definitely put that on my watch list.
Thanks.
*Odd that I had never heard of it, I am usually really up to speed with this genre of film*
I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine. A rage, the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge in the other.
Robert De Niro in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Chancellor
In case anyone hasn't seen the redirect, I've moved the posts on general forum issues which followed on from here to this thread.
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Very much enjoyed Rock 'N Rolla, btw, so thanks for the heads up, on that one.
Keep the suggestions coming, please.
JN
I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine. A rage, the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge in the other.
Robert De Niro in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
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I'll share some back, now.
This was not bad, at all.
I've yet to see a 'Serious Man', wondering if anyone here has done so?
JN
I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine. A rage, the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge in the other.
Robert De Niro in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
MP
Lucky Number Sleven is very Tarantinoesque.Great film.
DON'T bother with "The Last Exorcism" I just wish I had the agent who sold that script to a studio! TOTAL GARBAGE!
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Yup, seen that a while back, and you are right, it is a good film.
I am perhaps going to watch another Coen Bros film when I get back in, later.
They make some good one's.
Would love to see them make one with Tarantino, just to see what the outcome would be like..
I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine. A rage, the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge in the other.
Robert De Niro in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
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This one is next on my list, I think.
Some people are saying it's a bit like the Matrix...
I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine. A rage, the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge in the other.
Robert De Niro in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
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Anyone thinking of watching Cutter island,dont bother
Great Book....Crap Film
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If anyone likes Coen Brothers films, and dark humour, then watch 'A Serious Man'. Then tell me what you think of the ending!!
I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine. A rage, the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge in the other.
Robert De Niro in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Two-faced Pussy
I would like to suggest to Jack et al and sundry the following works of moving art:-
Science fiction genre:
MINORITY REPORT
THE ISLAND
Classics:
BADLANDS
GET CARTER
Modern:
DISTRICT 13 (Dir:Luc Besson)
ENDURING LOVE
THE SPANISH PRISONER
Horror:
SCANNERS
DRAG ME TO HELL
War/Western:
THE BEAST
REVENGE IN EL PASO
I hope that list helps you, if you have the time.
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