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Post by MetalBlade on Oct 14, 2008 14:35:58 GMT -1
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Post by Knoxville on Oct 14, 2008 17:17:00 GMT -1
That is fantasticly awesome!!
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Post by Woo on Oct 16, 2008 18:39:07 GMT -1
That sucks. Pointless remake.
I saw The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (sp?) at the cinema the other day. God that is a harrowing experience. It's set during WW2 in Germany about a German family where the father is a Nazi, who ends up moving the family near a concentration camp. The boy in the family, who is the main character, mistakes it for a farm and wonders why everyone is wearing pyjamas on the farm...
The film has a tragic ending that left the whole cinema in stunned. The credits were rolling but everyone just seemed to be staring at the screen after the powefull and distressing final scene. After a few minutes everyone must have been thinking that they didn't want to be the first person to leave as it might make them look bad, so we all continued to sit there. As I left the cinema there were people still in their seats, several of them teary eyed.
If you like feel-good cinema avoid this like the plague. In fact I don't know if I can recomend this to anybody as it's not a film that can be enjoyed in any way. It's a film that you can respect and you can see that it's a great movie, but there is so much darkness and dread during every scene that I can't see it on anybody's DVD shelf.
However it does paint a very real picture of the Holocast and does so from the point of few of the children, who cannot understand what is going on or why Pavel the Jew gave up his job as a doctor to become a 'farmer'. I just like my cinema to be brain-dead fun-fests that don't make me think. This haunted me for the last few days.
Good film. I won't ever watch it again though.
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Post by Knoxville on Oct 17, 2008 22:26:08 GMT -1
Max Payne:
PG-13, why oh god why? Seriously, why? The film sucked, apart from the characters it actually had very little to do with the games at all. Infact Marky-Mark even admitted to not playing the games so he had no idea what Max Payne was when he signed up for the role. The film doesn't follow the much loved storyline of the games and instead uses creatures that Payne spends a good hour hunting for. Imo, they should of used the story from the game then it would of been awesome.
Still it turned out to be just another shit video game movie.
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Post by Woo on Oct 17, 2008 23:01:25 GMT -1
Does it feature the famous bullet time effects from the game?
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Post by Knoxville on Oct 18, 2008 14:22:58 GMT -1
It does, but it's used pretty poorly.
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Post by Woo on Oct 18, 2008 15:56:58 GMT -1
What about the comic book elements from the game?
Max Payne was basically a comic come to life in game form.
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Post by Knoxville on Oct 18, 2008 22:09:22 GMT -1
They used the comic as a prologue at the start of the film. Other than that, it wasn't used. Big shame really, they really let it down. I spent the whole year hyped about the film due to the fact the director said the film "Would do the games justice"
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Post by MetalBlade on Oct 18, 2008 23:30:29 GMT -1
Just watched a great double bill of American Gangster and Eastern Promises.
AG is apparently a true story and is very much in the vein of Donnie Brascoe.
It's almost like two films in one, with the gangster side of things and the hunt for him focussing on the police work.
Very well told by Ridley Scott, as always, and fine performances by the two leads Denzil Washington and Russell Crowe.
EP is a different kettle of fish altogether, featuring the relatively untold story of the Russian Mafia in London.
Director David Cronenberg has matured vastly as a director with his last two films, this and A History Of Violence.
No longer saddled with the label of a horror director, he proves that he is a very adept character-driven thriller maker these days.
I recommend both of these films for a cerebral night in away from blockbuster popcorn shit.
American Gangster was the extended version which weighs in at almost two and three quarter hours but it's very engrossing.
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Post by Woo on Oct 26, 2008 12:22:19 GMT -1
Home Alone 4
No words can properly summon this terrible shit-filled film properly and do it justice, but I will try anyway. It's so horrible it is actually offensive. The film 'stars' a thoroughly despicable little prick who is playing Macaulay Culkin's 'Kevin' character from the first two enjoyable films and he is simply hateful. I don't encourage violence, especially against children, but I wanted to punch this boy in the face every time he pulled one of his goofy faces or laughed while thwarting the crooks.
Ah yes the crooks, it seems no matter where Kevin goes (in this case his parents have split up and he goes to visit his dad who is living in a new expensive house with a new young trophy wife) he will inevitably ended up a victim of burglary. One of them is Marv, it's meant to be the same Marv from the earlier films but is portrayed by a new, crap, actor. You'd think Kevin's Dad would recognize Marv, but he doesn't, maybe the change of actor threw him off. He too is acted by someone else this time as are Kevin's Mum and Kevin's brother Buzz and all of them are terrible. Buzz is suddenly much younger than the other films which makes no sense.
So Kevin tries to thwart the robbers all the while his parents don't believe him until we get the inevitable showdown where he sets traps for them. You'd think the traps he would use would be the highlight of the film like it was in the first two, but you'd be wrong- they are as dull as the rest of it. The imagination of these pranks had long left the series and so too is the sense of humour. These criminals are so dumb Kevin didn't really need to set traps, they would probably fuck up their plan all by themselves.
The worst scene though is the last when Kevin's Dad realises he still loves his old wife and wants to be back with her. Despite the fact that he's been shagging his new woman she takes him back in a heart beat. What kind of a message is that in a kids film?
This is complete bollocks.
No Stars.
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Post by Layne on Oct 26, 2008 13:53:44 GMT -1
I hadn't even realised there was a Home Alone 3, let alone 4.
Anyway, Saw was on Channel 4 last night so I watched that, it's not quite as good on a second viewing but I still enjoyed it.
3.2 stars out of 5.
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Post by Knoxville on Oct 26, 2008 17:34:09 GMT -1
Home Alone 4 No words can properly summon this terrible shit-filled film properly and do it justice, but I will try anyway. It's so horrible it is actually offensive. The film 'stars' a thoroughly despicable little prick who is playing Macaulay Culkin's 'Kevin' character from the first two enjoyable films and he is simply hateful. I don't encourage violence, especially against children, but I wanted to punch this boy in the face every time he pulled one of his goofy faces or laughed while thwarting the crooks. Ah yes the crooks, it seems no matter where Kevin goes (in this case his parents have split up and he goes to visit his dad who is living in a new expensive house with a new young trophy wife) he will inevitably ended up a victim of burglary. One of them is Marv, it's meant to be the same Marv from the earlier films but is portrayed by a new, crap, actor. You'd think Kevin's Dad would recognize Marv, but he doesn't, maybe the change of actor threw him off. He too is acted by someone else this time as are Kevin's Mum and Kevin's brother Buzz and all of them are terrible. Buzz is suddenly much younger than the other films which makes no sense. So Kevin tries to thwart the robbers all the while his parents don't believe him until we get the inevitable showdown where he sets traps for them. You'd think the traps he would use would be the highlight of the film like it was in the first two, but you'd be wrong- they are as dull as the rest of it. The imagination of these pranks had long left the series and so too is the sense of humour. These criminals are so dumb Kevin didn't really need to set traps, they would probably fuck up their plan all by themselves. The worst scene though is the last when Kevin's Dad realises he still loves his old wife and wants to be back with her. Despite the fact that he's been shagging his new woman she takes him back in a heart beat. What kind of a message is that in a kids film? This is complete bollocks. No Stars. Wtf? Home Alone 4? Do the UK know it's 8 weeks to christmas? Anyway, I watch Harry and the Hendersons today. Still found it quite funny. |
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Post by Woo on Oct 26, 2008 20:12:44 GMT -1
Anyway, I watch Harry and the Hendersons today. Still found it quite funny. Damn that film is almost as bad as Home Alone 4. Somehow the film manages to steer away from completly abysmal and just about stay together. ** imo |
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Post by Woo on Oct 31, 2008 14:28:38 GMT -1
Quantum of Solace
Very good Bond and a worth follow up to the fantastic Casino Royale. It lacks the punch to the gut ending that Royale had and probably isn't as memorable but it concludes the story well and does have some terrific set pieces. Hopefully the next one will now go back to the stand-alone Bond films we are used to, though we may get the final act of a trilogy. The villain was good, the bond girls were great too, the henchmen however were non-existent and the theme song is TERRIBLE. The worst thing Jack White has ever done. All in all a good film. Go see it.
****
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Post by Knoxville on Oct 31, 2008 15:49:52 GMT -1
I will when it comes out on the 14th here. Although I must remember that I need to ask to see the English version not the French dubbed like I did with Hancock.
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