08-11-2006, 05:11 PM
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The last majorly interesting things I watched are the old Fleischer Studios Superman cartoons that were made way back in the 1940's. Great stuff, even if the video quality is not so hot. |
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08-11-2006, 05:19 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Canada
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The latest movie I saw was Pirates 2 or whatever it's called. The story was meh, but the baddies were the BEST EVER. Also my dad and I kept exclaiming, "Hey! Monkey Island!" like the nerds we are.
I have The Company to watch next. I'm a sucker for terrible movies about dancing (Center Stage = Best. Movie. Ever). I can't wait to see Step Up. |
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08-11-2006, 06:21 PM
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08-12-2006, 12:10 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Edinburgh
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Miami Vice
Fast cars, Fast Boats, Fast Women all shot with a moody atmosphere. Visually reminicent of "Collateral" at times. Thought it was great. Probably one of the better films i've seen this year. Very enjoyable, even the laugh out loud sex scene with Colin Farrell. Finished with one of manns trademark realistic shootouts. I would recommend it.
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08-12-2006, 06:07 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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OMG, My Super Ex Girlfriend is actually a really good film, it didnt feel like it dragged on or anything the pacing is great and this is so not your cliche chick flick, its better than Super Man Returns, thats for sure.
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08-12-2006, 07:42 AM
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Location: Washington, USA
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08-12-2006, 09:41 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2003
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I saw 2001: A Space Odyssey on 70mm at San Francisco's Castro Theater last night and it was amazing. I forgot how awesome that movie is.
Also as an added bonus, they played the film's original overture and intermission music (yeah, they included the original intermission break right after HAL reads Dave and Frank's lips in the pod). It was the best moviegoing experience I've had in ages. On the opposite end of the movie spectrum, I walked out on Miami Vice half way through. It wasn't grabbing me and I wanted to go to sleep. I got up from my seat to go walk to the bathrooms, but ended up walking all the way to my car. I thought Collateral was excellent, so I had really high hopes. Oh well. |
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08-13-2006, 01:27 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Virovitica, Croatia
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The Evil Dead. Its characters' actions lack believability, which is pretty unfortunate for what aspires to be a serious horror film, but otherwise it's Æ’ucking awesome! Now that I've seen all three, I must say this one's my favorite.
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08-13-2006, 02:29 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: United Kingdom
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Star Trek: Insurrection
While it certainly feels more like an extended television episode than an epic film, this was perfectly enjoyable. Much better than the first, third, fourth or fifth films, too. |
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08-13-2006, 04:16 PM
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It's Hard To Be Humble
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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The Big Sleep. Classic B&W Bogie film with the sharpest Hollywood-perfect dialogue ever. Every line is a keeper. Fairly sexist, but it all feels true to the period (1930s detective fiction).
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08-13-2006, 10:30 PM
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delusions of adequacy
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Melbourne, Australia
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SBS (a tv channel down here) is running a series of Jim Jarmusch films. I have unfortunately missed all of them up till now but managed to catch Night on Earth.
Interesting film. The stories where a little cliche but where well told. Dead Man is on this week and I hope to catch it. |
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08-14-2006, 04:58 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2006
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08-15-2006, 02:00 PM
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Feind der Anonymitaet!
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Germany
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Immortel
Spelt correctly. It's French, though filmed in english. I did a forum search if I'd written a review - could've sworn I did - but it returned no results, and I don't want to go through all the pages of this thread, so if I'm boring you with a repetition of old news, sorry. BoyToy bought me the 2-DVD version of this, and so I watched it again. It's still an amazing masterpiece - not technically, you can see what's CG and what's not, but you'd be surprised when watching it... it takes a moment for you to notice there are CG characters and non-CG characters. They may look differently - but they don't clash, and so it takes an ever so brief conscious effort to become aware of the difference. I'm currently listening to the song of the end credits on repeat (Venus - Beautiful Days). It's a strange story. It's a mixture of drama, sci-fi and fantasy, though the last is most prominent. It's thouroughly magical - the world is infinitely complex: the movie is based on the comics of Enki Bilal, who's also made this movie, so there are many details that make you wonder where they are from, why there are there, and those questions are not answered - you are left having to accept them, and indulge in the fraction of the universe that the story talks about. I recommend this movie - it's unusual. It's reminiscent of The Fifth Element paired with Final Fantasy (CG-wise) - though as far as I know, TFE was heavily inspired by Enki Bilal anyway, so this is certainly no copying on sides of Bilal. The story itself is fairly gritty and down to earth - but I will leave the up to you to discover.  Horus.
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08-16-2006, 12:15 PM
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Replaying: The Black Mirror Just finished: Day of the Tentacle, Broken Sword - Director's Cut To play: Black Mirror 2 |
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08-16-2006, 03:13 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: West Sussex, England
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it was sooo boring, if there wasn't a hot asian/oriental lady in this film i would've walked out. miami vice was simple and not exactly something you should recommend to adventurous people, this is not adventurous it's not risk taking it's not exciting it's cliched and stoooopiiidd |
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08-16-2006, 03:25 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Portugal
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Hah another "digital film sucks" person. I have a friend like that, everyone else makes fun of her. For the type of scene in the night where that sort of film is used, digital works a lot better than film, and vice versa. Now as far as the plot and character development go, it wasn't great, but it wasn't as awful as most summer dreck of these last few years. In the end it was so/so, but with lots of style. As I expected.
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08-16-2006, 03:40 PM
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Rabid Tasmanian Devil
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: New Hampshire
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Saw The Descent 2 weeks ago, and The Night Listener this past week. Loved 'em both, but would've preferred to see The Descent's original ending, having read about it online since seeing the film. The Night Listener was amazing, had me on the edge of my seat, trying to figure out where it was going, plotwise. Wild, and disturbing that it's based on a true story.
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