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Movie Thread

Ryphon

Allen Oxlade (6)
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Awesome movie.
 

Joe Mac

Arch Winning (36)
Also not a movie but I'm half way through the 2nd season of Breaking Bad atm. Shit. Is. Epic. (someone remind me if I ever sub-edit a car/bike magazine to call an article 'Braking Bad')

Best TV I've watched since the Wire.

Agreed. The Wire was the best show I had seen until Season 4 of Breaking Bad. This season takes the show to a whole new level. The finally will blow your mind.
 

Jethro Tah

Bob Loudon (25)
Does anyone else think the young guy from Breaking Bad was modeled after Eminem?
For future reference, there is a TV show thread in Everything Else that I will reboot to the top of the list.

Back on movies, after my recent war books phase I am on a war movie phase now. Watched Black Hawk Down again last night. I enjoy it for the sheer intencity and found the only blight being Eric Bana's outrageously bad american accent. Platoon is next on the list.
 
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spooony

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Black Hawk Down is a great example of 40 year old Russian stock is better than 10 year old US stock.
 

waratahjesus

Greg Davis (50)
50/50 - pretty decent movie considering its about a young guy getting cancer, some good laughs, good sad parts to.
 

AngrySeahorse

Peter Sullivan (51)
I can't find a movie thread on here. If there already is one then I'd say merge this thread with it.

I have not been to the cinemas for ages but this year I've found there's been a few movies that have sparked enough interest to get me to go.

I watched Transcendence a week ago & today I watched Godzilla. Next week I'm watching X-Men: Days of Future Past & possibly Maleficent later.

I'd say Transcendence is good if people don't go into it thinking its going to be an action movie - because it really isn't. I'd say its more of a combo of love story meets scientific ethics (specifically electronic ethics).

Godzilla was great. Had what I expected of a monster film. Only negatives being I thought they could have Godzilla do a bit more in the movie & I'm not a huge fan of soldier-type lead characters - I prefer Everyman type characters.

I wouldn't limit this movie thread to what's in cinemas now. Movie recommendations can be as old or new as you like. Oh, & probably avoid giving spoilers away.

I'd also put in a word for The Wolverine that I saw last year (I have it on Blu-Ray now). I'm an X-men + Wolverine fan & I found this movie to be the best one of the series so far. Right combo of action & story line, Wolverine actually vulnerable & almost normal. I find some of the X-men movies try to jam too many characters into the one story & it kinda makes the characters a little under done story wise but they didn't over do it with this movie.
 

AngrySeahorse

Peter Sullivan (51)
Finally got around to X-men: DOFP. The X-men movies seem to keep getting better. This one was very good. The Sentinels were just as freaky as I remember from the animated series I watched as a kid. In fact they made them more menacing in this one. I found the story darker than earlier X-men movies.
 

Dismal Pillock

Simon Poidevin (60)
not much on films but today saw that on cable, for about 8 hours straight there would be a "Mission Impossible marathon".

Films 1 through 4.

Back-to-back.
so like a drongo i laid on the sofa and watched the lot.

MI1: ace tinpot suspense.
MI2: bit heavy on the romantic spanish guitar Vidal Sassoon shampoo slo-mo Jackie Chan bollox there Tom
MI3: wow, this one really kicks arse. full-blast implausible action. wFT was going on with the cheesy outlandish shit in #2
MI4: back to the MI1 suspense angle.

ps Tom had a hair weave between MI3 and MI4. Lustrous.

psp I now love Tom Cruise.
He is the greatest.
I am now his #1 fan.
He is the BEST.
After 8 hours I feel like I am now his captive.
I am now semi bi-curious about Scientology.
After 8 hours of Tom Cruise, I think I may have developed a case of full-blown Stockholm Scientologists Syndrome. It feels great.

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Indigo Wolf

Frank Row (1)
Have you guys seen "The Martyrs"? This film is such a beauty, it's a bit disturbing but beautiful nonetheless. You guys should see it.
 

Dismal Pillock

Simon Poidevin (60)
**SPOILERS** if you havent seen Solaris or Prometheus dont read.

SOLARIS

What. The Fuck. George Clooney goes to space station, has one big long sooky mope about his dead hologram girlfriend and then it just ends. If you crank the volume for the end credits you might even hear me yelling at the telly "what the fuck was that? It's finished?"

My Rotten Tomatoes rating guesstimate was 22%. It got 66% with the critics having a massive communal tug. "Best thriller in last 3 decades" etc. WFT. Nothing fucking happened then it ended. As Camp Leader remarked, "if it wasnt for George Clooney's face nobody would care at all about this movie."

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Georgie has massive sook about dead hologram chick in space. The End.


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PROMOTHEUS

Now we're talking! Grandiose sci-fi planets, flashing lights, deth, flashy future lighty lighty gizmos, creepy crawlies, more deth, more than 3 people in the film unlike Georgie's shit effort, little mad max buggies, epic space shit, the works. This film kicks arse. My RT rating is 92%.

Best moment was when smug humanoid robot, after travelling thru space for 2 years, finally meets 7 ft tall original human. After having rudely woken the huge lug up from his peaceful millenial slumber, he blabs some mumbo jumbo up at him and the giant lug cradles wee mans face as the little fella looks all contented, his lifes work at fruition, then the big c**t just rips the rude little shits head off and chucks it over there. "I don't care how far you've come, don't wake me up. C**t."

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DO NOT wake Stephen Moore up when he's sleeping.
 

waiopehu oldboy

Stirling Mortlock (74)
^^^^^^^ used to be a big favourite of mine but last time I watched it (admittedly shortly after seeing his wife's doco "Hearts of Darkness") it occurred to me just how all over the shop it is compared to FMJ. Still a pretty decent movie, though, and pisses all over Platoon.
 

Inside Shoulder

Nathan Sharpe (72)
^^^^^^^ used to be a big favourite of mine but last time I watched it (admittedly shortly after seeing his wife's doco "Hearts of Darkness") it occurred to me just how all over the shop it is compared to FMJ. Still a pretty decent movie, though, and pisses all over Platoon.

I preferred it more recently than when I first saw it - mind you a mate told me he feared I was going the way of Capt Kurtz so i thought I better watch it again!
 

waiopehu oldboy

Stirling Mortlock (74)
^^^^^^^^ so did he think your methods were unsound? Or could he see no method? The horror! The horror! :)

It was Colonel Kurtz, BTW.
 

waiopehu oldboy

Stirling Mortlock (74)
OK so it's not a film I've seen but the book was abso-fuckin-lutely amazing & the movie looks to have a fairly decent cast & director* so I'm really hanging out to see it:

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For those who don't know, it's about a whaling ship that had a really, really unlucky last voyage which ended with it sinking pretty much as far from land as it's possible to get. Simply amazing story that makes Bligh's look like a Sunday arvo jaunt in a jolly rowboat, eh what.

* God I hope they don't fuck it up.
 

Inside Shoulder

Nathan Sharpe (72)
Apocalypse Now hasn't aged well & Redux is more-or-less redundant so the all-time best Vietnam War movie remains Full Metal Jacket with Hamburger Hill a close second.

Just watched Deer Hunter for the first time.
Allowing for the passage of 38 years or so it is absolutely top shelf. Thoroughly recommended.
Will now have to watch Hamburger Hill and maybe FMJ before casting my vote on this subject.
 
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