A few films recently watched.

The plane crash scene was pretty cool.

  On 2/20/2012 at 3:40 PM, Ivan Ooze said:

  On 2/20/2012 at 3:29 PM, LUDD said:

Knowing - Watched this on telly last night with the Mrs. Could not stop laughing and taking the piss out of the dialogue all the way through. Totally enjoyable for all the wrong reasons... has Nicolas Cage ever turned down a script????

 

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out of 10

I bet there are people that buy every blueray with him, i only watch his movies for the wrong reasons too

Tried to watch season of the witch but i had to put it off cause it blowed so hard, don't think i'll ever touch another NxCx movie again

You guys should check this out:

http://www.screened.com/news/screened-presents-year-of-the-cage/3258/

Can anyone recommend the best kubrick biography? (book)

  On 2/18/2012 at 6:30 PM, auxien said:

  On 2/18/2012 at 5:55 PM, soundwave said:

Predator Ultimate Ed Blu-Ray - a controversial 2nd blu-ray issue of a very personal fave of mine gets a little overdone with digital enhancement which either works really well or makes Arnie look like a waxwork dummy and gives Carl Weathers a fetching smudged caterpillar above his top lip. Overall I think the enhancement does add a new angle over the DVD so if your a fan its worth buying although they cut out the skull steaming/polishing scene out for some reason. - Film 15/10, remaster 7.5

 

Total Recall Blu Ray - not a polished as Predator but apparently taken from the HD-DVD remaster. Again some scenes look very grainy but the fine detail makes what was the most expensive film in its time look tacky and very dated, even the technology today is better than the forward thinking gadgets in the film. Its been a while since I've seen it and I've forgotten how bad Arnie is in this film but Ironside and Cox are up there with the best bad guys ever. Verhovern's chase sequences and ott violence are welcome but I feel thrown in to spice up a very mixed bag of 80's high production. You also don't get Arines pissed up commentary like on the DVD. Film 7.5/10 remaster 6/10

 

Schwarzenegger day at Decepticon HQ? ;)

 

i saw a little of Total Recall the other day on tv, and despite having enjoyed the movie when i was in my teens, it has not aged well at all. i'm interested to see what the remake is going to be like; this is one of the movies that i think a remake isn't uncalled for.

 

i'm a huge Predator fan, i may have to pick up the Blu-ray (since i only own it on VHS). can't believe they would cut the skull polishing scene; i can't even imagine why the would. it's not exactly pivotal, but it's a telling bit of info into the personalization of the Predator....hell, maybe that's why. but he was very much personalized at the end of the movie. who knows.

 

are there lots of cool bits of extra stuff on the Predator Blu-Ray? or is it mostly just fluff?

 

its just the same extras that were on the double DVD, personally I think the overdone remastering make it different enough to warrant getting over the DVD unlike the first blu-ray issue even tho some bits look a little unreal. I also think they either took the best looking stock or fucked up with the wrong one as the German release was apparently cut and I remember this skull steam/polishing/brain sucking bit was missing from the TV version.

  On 2/18/2012 at 9:46 PM, Awepittance said:

gotta disagree with the premise that 'total recall has not aged well' , id say it's just the opposite. It makes me sad that there are no hard R big budget imaginative movies like that anymore. The only one in recent memory was District 9.

 

Jerry Goldsmith's music in Total Recall is excellent as well, he himself said it was his best score and i might agree with him there

yeah I was going to mention awesome Goldsmith score but forgot. the depressing thing was my housemate's girlfriend was round and I couldn't believe she's never seen it then she explained she was born the year the film came out!!

I think Total Recall although quite visionary to pull off in its time came out a little too early as a nip of CGI here and there could have helped a lot against other big budget sci -fi that haven't dated much like T2, The Fith Element and Starship Troopers.

saw A Serious Man the other night, what a great movie. probably going to see all their newer movies now.

The Three Musketeers 0/10 For such a high death count there was no blood fx. I couldn't get past that and turned it off 20 minutes in.

The Rum Dairy 6/10 - i think Bruce Robinson was the wrong man for the job. Good cast let down by a meh film.

Where the Buffallo Roam 6/10 - Murry did a good job but i felt was a more a very good impression than a role but if Depp didnt make it his own I wouldnt be so judgemental. Apparently they've had to change the sounddtrack from the original Hendrix/Beatles stuff. A better story than Rum Diary and worth a watch if your a Thompson or Murray fan. I'd probably give this film more a chance if Fear and Loathing wasnt such a masterpiece.

  On 2/21/2012 at 1:26 AM, soundwave said:

sci -fi that haven't dated much like T2, The Fith Element and Starship Troopers.

fior some reason i still find Total Recall to be 'less dated' than ll 3 of those movies.

I agree.

Watched T1 the other day and it still holds up well for me, more so than T2. Early CGI just looks bad. Can't imagine how bad 'The Lawnmower Man' looks. Probably will never watch it again.

I never liked 'The Fifth Element'.

most epic photo ever

the woman in black - 8/10 - really enjoyed this, felt like a proper haunted house movie of old, harry potter was a bit bland tho, he barely says or does anything in it, but anyway...good flick.

the count of monte cristo - 7/10

the grey - 5/10 - started off well but quickly became stupid...needed more survival techniques and less standing around being morons, also less afterlife lets all believe in god shoved down my throat. liam neeson is still a badass tho. should of showed the wolves more, built connections to them etc.

underworld awakening - 7/10 - guilty pleasure, hot woman in catsuit kicking butts, YEP.

  On 2/21/2012 at 2:01 AM, missingsense said:

saw A Serious Man the other night, what a great movie. probably going to see all their newer movies now.

this movie gets better every time i see it

best doc i've seen in months, maybe over a year. and i love docs.

Harold and Maude - First time I'd seen this. Charming little film. Kind of how I imagine Ian C's teenage years. 8.13/10

The Grey - The most cringe worthy line of poetry ever uttered in a film. Even cheesier coming out of Liam Neeson's face hole. I thought I was enjoying it for a minute, until I realized the only thing I wanted to do after was make a soundboard out of all the goofy shit that is said during the film.

The Mirror (Zerkalo) - 9.5/10. Had some absolutely stunning moments.

yes that's a beauty! can remember the shots of the grass waving in the wind, near that house. need to revisit!

  On 2/22/2012 at 11:27 AM, LUDD said:

Harold and Maude - Kind of how I imagine Ian C's teenage years. 8.13/10

lol what the hell is that supposed to mean

not sure

  On 2/22/2012 at 12:29 PM, thanks robert moses said:

The Grey - The most cringe worthy line of poetry ever uttered in a film. Even cheesier coming out of Liam Neeson's face hole. I thought I was enjoying it for a minute, until I realized the only thing I wanted to do after was make a soundboard out of all the goofy shit that is said during the film.

True, you do love schlocky fantasy literature. You know your cringe worthy writing!

I haven't seen The Grey yet...ill have to get back with yall on that one

but LIAM NEESON in "Taken" was pitiful..... that movie sucked harder than ol Whitney Houston smoking crap pipe resin scrape

  On 2/22/2012 at 7:47 PM, Atop said:

  On 2/22/2012 at 12:29 PM, thanks robert moses said:

The Grey - The most cringe worthy line of poetry ever uttered in a film. Even cheesier coming out of Liam Neeson's face hole. I thought I was enjoying it for a minute, until I realized the only thing I wanted to do after was make a soundboard out of all the goofy shit that is said during the film.

 

True, you do love schlocky fantasy literature. You know your cringe worthy writing!

I would say that I love the memories I have of schlocky fantasy literature.. but it isn't like I sit around reading Dragonlance or something. The philosophical aspect in the film just felt like hogwash. There is a big difference between that and FUCKIN' DRAGONZ YO, IMMA ROLL FOR INITIATIVE.

I just wish they would have nixed the religious/spiritual subtext and made a good survival movie. I could sit through a 4 hour movie of some bros just making traps, spearing wolves, karate chopping trees, turning in to cannibals, riding bears, making rope out of elk guts etc.

I have to give credit to the director for showing Liam Neeson punching a wolf in the face and saying fuck a lot.

  On 2/22/2012 at 8:57 PM, thanks robert moses said:

  On 2/22/2012 at 7:47 PM, Atop said:

  On 2/22/2012 at 12:29 PM, thanks robert moses said:

The Grey - The most cringe worthy line of poetry ever uttered in a film. Even cheesier coming out of Liam Neeson's face hole. I thought I was enjoying it for a minute, until I realized the only thing I wanted to do after was make a soundboard out of all the goofy shit that is said during the film.

 

True, you do love schlocky fantasy literature. You know your cringe worthy writing!

 

I would say that I love the memories I have of schlocky fantasy literature.. but it isn't like I sit around reading Dragonlance or something. The philosophical aspect in the film just felt like hogwash. There is a big difference between that and FUCKIN' DRAGONZ YO, IMMA ROLL FOR INITIATIVE.

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lol just finished reading Death Gate, I hadn't finished it as a kid so decided to reread the whole cycle. Epic nostalgia trip.

Ok I lied. I have the Death Gate audio book (Fire Sea) on my ipod and I've been falling asleep to it for the last few nights. I'm all up in the Nexus, hatin' on the Sartyns.

haha nice one, had that audiobook on for weeks during work. Fire Sea is excellent, favorite of the four worlds.