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How do you get to see these movies again??

Are you some kind of an indian pirate mafioso?

Besides Roshomon I've only seen 7 Samurai and Yojimbo, been meaning to check out some of his later stuff like Dreams or Kagemusha or Ran.

Ran is my favorite of his films. Epic like none other.
Oh! If you've never checked out Sanjuro, the sequel to Yojimbo, definitely watch that, too. I think it's at least just as great, if not better, than the original.

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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992)

Just finished my third or fourth viewing of the series earlier today, so I popped this in. Sure, it's a wholly different work of art than the series, but I still find it an appropriate counter-point to the show, and it's still definitely one of my favorite Lynch films.

Nope. It released here yesterday.

Sorry, V, I've got to disagree..

Public Enemies (2009)

A failed character study, a failed romantic drama, a failed historical bio-pic- all that comes through in Mann's latest movie is his plentiful digital gunfire, and even that gets old quickly. There was so much potential in a film about John Dillinger, but the script is horrendously derivitive; it ignores its time period (this was the depression- did anyone notice?) as well as its characters and is more concerned with meaningless quibble and false sentimentality. Johnny Depp is adequate, I suppose, for the material he was given, but I felt nothing for his character; in a scene toward the end of the film he finds identification with the gangsters of the silver screen, but there was no double revelation involving me. Bale was an entirely seperate disaster on his own; he recklessly blends about four different accents and two kinds of speech inpediments, and his face retains the emotional resonance of cardboard. A film about John Dillinger should be full of life, moral ambiguity, depthful characters; aside from a few well-directed action sequences, this film was left cold and uncared for by a director who should have known better.

Wow...sorry to hear that. Been looking forward to this one for ages.

Thats a pretty scathing review, K. I thought the film was awesome. Bale and Depp were just right for their characters - Bale put up a solid portrayal of someone torn between two choices and eventually going with the tougher one, and Depp was very, very iconic in his portrayal of Dillinger. Mann knew exactly where his two powerhouse performers were, and he used them very concisely and intelligently throughout the script which was pacy, intelligent and explosive (when needed).

The only gripe (if one has to be VERY picky) would be the camerawork which was sometimes too close for comfort and zoomed in unnecessarily in plenty of shots. Otherwise, its a very good, solid film. Mann has outdone himself with this.

I still recommend it highly to everyone else. Watch it and form your own opinions.

Me too.

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I'll hopefully be checking it out either tonight or sometime over the weekend...will post thoughts after.

No offence Alky, but I'm kinda hoping I can disagree with you on this one :p

I do agree with this.

I truly thought the acting by Bale and by Cotillard was atrocious. Bale was really having a tough time nailing that accent, and you can clearly hear his native toung along with some kind of half-Boston accent shining through. Cotillard- well, she's a necessary element to the movie and to the ending, and when the last few frames rolled by I felt nothing. To me it was a big, long, empty movie.

Don't know who the other guy is, but IMO Bale is a shitty actor...he's most wooden in the things I've seen, which is maybe why he was perfectly suited to equilibrium...he's played interesting characters, given, but he's pretty much the same guy in every movie, you ask me...the blank, almost monotone guy.
They ought to have voice casted HIM for soundwave in TF2.
That said, I don't hate him...he was actually GOOD in American Psycho, I'd like to see a bit more of THAT guy.

I saw Transformers 2 last week.
The fight scenes were improved - not close enough to the screen to hit you in the face this time, and yes there was a bit more colour variation and better "coreography" (if that's what you'd say for complete cgi) in the fight scenes...my major problem with the first one is you couldn't much tell what the fuck was going on. One bit of a nitpick is *spoiler*
Why the fuck did Optimus who was "killed" by not much more'n a beatdown involving not a lot of head trauma, need this crazy-ass artifact to get bought back to life, but apparently megatron was good to go, even after getting the mother of all "this will fuck robots up" allspark asskicking handed to him in the first one (and sinking, sitting dormant for 2 years in the bottom of the ocean), with nothing more than "lets get some guys down there and throw on a completely different leg" and he's right as rain?
However, I wasn't watching it for anything resembling a plot.
The new transformers and decepticons kind of faded in and out of plot and existence (like the holograph chick bikes) and I thought that Devestator, assuming thats who it was meant to be, being there to suck down one transformer and tear down a pyramid was a little bit superfluous, but the beast looked alright.
The 'bots were improved, the fight scenes were improved, even if one did shamelessly rip off a God of War scene.
The "turning" deceptecons I thought was an interesting idea, and would like to see some more of that going on for both sides if there's a third. The comedy relief, a tad over the top.

I'm no huge fan of the first, in fact I didn't much like it at all - the second addressed a lot of the issues I had with the first which works for me. Bit more autobot and deceptecon dialogue this time which was cool - resembled the series a fair bit more I thought - Wish SW had "the voice" though. and the portrayal of Megatron I thought was a lot better, and more sinister this time around...

I'll give this one a 7.

Here, I'm now gonna say something - the amount of guys like over the age of 30 talking about how hot the chick in TF is and how much they'd like to fuck her is now creeping me out...I hope a lot of these guys aren't uncles...I'm 28 and she's like only 4-5 years younger than me, but I personally see nothing but "girl". Actually, I see "otherwise attractive girl with a case of bitch-face", which is a pet hate of mine...random throw-in there.
I mean, I know she's legal and all but shit guys...reminds me of the guys who would perv at their mates little sisters.

tokyo gore police ..

i'm just not finding these fun anymore... same old effects .. hyper kinetic pacing ... this one borrowed from Robocop (in style)
and just looked like every other kooky ultraviolent comic book movie and had goofy unrealistic gore effects that is in a lot of other movies .. just like this one.

I agree with you alot of Transforemrs cheebs.that movie had so many plots holes in it it's insane.

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I hate how the autobots fighting the decpticons is now a big secret that the public can't know about even though they had a huge battle in downtown L.A.
How did the goverment cover that up?

Oh and Sam;s dies for a few mintues and goes to robot heaven.WTF?

Cheebs, I wholeheartedly agree with every word you just said about Bale. I've been fascinated over the years by how popular he's gotten and recently decided it was because people fall in love with the roles he chooses- Batman, Patrick Bateman, John Conner, etc. I find him an uninteresting and generally mediocre actor, though, like you say, can't hate him because I have fond memories for many of the roles he's played (particularly Bateman from American Psycho).

My roomate and I recently had a debate- he doesn't like DiCaprio and I love him, and vice versa for Bale. To me the actors are incomparable- though this is an opinion and I know it will strike controversy here.

Assault On Precinct 13: This was really cool, good suspense, quirky humor, the music was EXCELLENT, and is probably one of my favorite scores now.
JSA: Joint Security Area: Here's a film with a clear and present message. Opened my eyes to the tension that exists between the North and South Koreas. Check this one out.
The Chinese Connection: I wasnt too huge a fan of this one, perhaps its was the god awful transfer and the fact that a guy with a deep voice dudbed Bruce Lee, he even attempted to dub his Kung Fu noises, which sounded really stupid and nearly killed the film.

I agree with you on that one. Got pretty bored with this one myself and lost interest round the half way mark.

Watchmen

WOW. Loved it! This really exceeded my expectations. Never read the comic but I'm really keen to now. Bummed I didn't see this on the big screen! This really blew me away to say the least and is now my favorite comic book adaption alongside Sin City and American Splendor.

Cool shit, I'll be watching it today...the graphic novel was pretty cool even if a little "before my time"...
Downloading, but I'll purchase soon enough if it's any good.

The Haunting in Connecticut
 

I saw it yesterday. Based on true story, it was one of the best horror film i've ever seen before. And i hope you all agree with me!

Interested to know what you think seeing as you're quite into comics. Its easily in the top 5 films I've seen so far this year.

Angel Unchained

An even lower budget version of Billy Jack meets Easy Rider.

As awful as it sounds- but a bit of fun. The romantic interest is Tyne Daly ferchrissake.

Was that the first time you have seen precinct 13? The score is great, I have it on my ipod along with a bunch of other John Carpenter music, but when the precinct stuff comes on when I walking home late at night, it's just awesome.

The Warriors (1979)

I was expecting some more actions at the end but liked it overall. Gang fights were pretty fun to watch.:)

>>: B


The Stendhal Syndrome (1996)

A regular, decent psychological thriller from Argento.

>>: B-

Transformers 2. I know it's been getting a lot of shit, but I enjoyed it. Much better than the first one in terms of plot and development. Much worse in terms of gratuitous Megan Fox scenes.

yeah that was my first time seeing it, gonna have to download the song from somewhere pretty soon myself.

Last Seen:
The Acid House

In The Heat of The Night

Transformers 2

my review :


shit blew up for what seemed like 12 hours.

The same as the first one?

:eek:

Watchmen
 

Here ya go

The comic was well before "my time" as a comics enthusiast, but I picked up the tpb about 3 years ago and read it in almost one sitting...it was unlike anything else I'd read in comics before the "superhero" bit blurring into something of a gritty mystery, with not just one or two but MANY great characters interwoven into a sad and sombre tragedy while the story was dark, beautiful and hopeful all at the same time.

The movie actually almost got it right...there's seriously so little to nitpick about here that I'm personally amazed. Everyone played their roles well enough, the costumes and tech looked right, the city looked the same. Rorsh was, as he should be a bit terrifying.
The ending, well not the very ending, but the "ending" still hit me even when I knew it was coming.
Very good job done pulling off the look, atmosphere, and feel of the comic/story.
I think I'd actually throw 8.5 outta 10 to this one.

Re-Animator (1985)

>>: A

Martyrs. My that was rather unpleasant. At the end i felt as if i were the one that was martyred. Obviously a well-done movie. Lots of unseen twists and turns. My only gripe was the ending. After having endured the previous unsettling violence i felt rather let down. i know the ending was perfectly fitting, but it still seems that it could have been better and not a played out cliche. Ashe.
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Quarantine

It was ok, the lead was too much of a screamer for my taste but it was perfectly watchable. This was probably due to the fact that it was almost shot for shot identical to REC, not a bad thing, just meant it was completely unnecessary to remake it.


Repo: The Genetic Opera

Try as I might, could not get into this, I lasted about forty minutes before giving up. Its very disappointing as I was really looking forward to seeing it but it just didnt work for me. The music and songs were not good enough to hold it together despite how good it looked.

The Green Mile
Notorious

The Spirit

Nowhere near as bad as I expected it to be from the reviews, etc. Good fun all round really kinda a mix between the Burton Batman flicks, Dick Tracy and of course Sin City

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Looks great but I found it kinda dull and the story was done more than a few times on the show. I prefer the later movies because they encompassed more elements storywise.

The Punisher

Liked it more second time round. Still prefer the Dolph Lundgren version characterwise. Still this flick fits in quite well with the old school revenge flicks I dig. Got Warzone to watch tonight so it'll be interesting to see what they do with that one.

I'm betting you'll enjoy it - it's pretty corny in a lot of places, but it's a lot darker than either of the other flicks and they pretty much nail the character. I thought it was fantastic.

Yeah, I think Warzone was the closest to the comic I've seen of the three.

Solid. That's got me pretty amped on checking it out!

The Virgin Spring (1960)

Finally very glad to see the most original tale of Craven's "The Last House on the Left" last night. And Bergman portrayed it by his unique delegate hand where faith collide with confusion & anger and the most merciful God's judgments shivered in the old war between the good & the evil.
The master filmmaker captured the tale in a genuine heartbreaking way. This is one of his most moving works I have seen so far, a film to be admired and pondered for a long time. One of the most outstanding scenes was when Tore (Max Von Sydow) wrestling with a tree that almost more than doubled than his height. He exercises it out of the ground so that he may whip himself with its leaves in a ritualistic fashion, as if to purify himself of the vengeance he plans to unleash. Tore is a man of deep faith and strict self-discipline who suddenly shocked both by the God who would allow such a tragedy to grief him and by his own wrongdoing, in savagely killing his daughter's murderers where even a young boy gets no mercy.
There was an interesting note when one of the farm hands explains at one point how the smoke from the fire finds its way up to the ceiling, but cannot go out through the opening into the free sky. The smoke doesn't know what's up there, he explains, so it stays indoors, trapped among what it does know. This could be an alternate viewpoint to the film's purely religious themes. Like all good works of art, there is no final, absolute answer. As in the final scenes when Tore made the promise to God that he'd built a church at the death place of his daughter....isn't that symbolize mankind's tired less belief & search for salvation in religion in a try to bury all the pains & restore the mercy & peace again & again in life?

>>: A+


Knowing (2009)

Decent time passing sci fi thriller.

>>: B-

The Burrowers. Pretty decent flick. Not specatacular, but it was pretty enjoyable. The setting was different, the acting was fine, and the story was original enough. The premise itself was pretty cruel. The ending even had an element of great movie-making to it. Worth a watch.
Ashe.
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