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yea war of the worlds aint that bad, and all those '4stars' for tom cruise are on the radio times website.. and thats pretty much most reliable source for film reviews..
i says hes a pretty gd actor, he always gets into the role unlike many many other actors..
I went to see X-Men 3 the other day at our new cinema - the first in the town since the War. Really enjoyed watching Jean-Luc Picard and a beardless Gandalf trying to out-camp each other!
Not enough character development, even though I understand Ms Berry demanded that she get a bigger role.
Totally disappointing ending and banal hook to sequel.
I don't really do chick flicks........ I love Amelie (aka Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain and various other titles, depending where you live - check imdb.com)
It's a beautiful film about an innocent French girl who who works as a waitress and decides to try and make the people around her happy in her own quirky way. 'Course, she has to fall in love while she's at it.
I love Rocky Horror too Wezz. And Hair. And ummm West Side Story, My Fair Lady, Oliver!, ..... I'll stop now, before I really start getting embarrassing
Im a big fan of world cinema and the most recent movie I have seen is 'Night Watch' or Nochnoi Dozor in Russian. Basically its set in Gothic Russia and is a modern day Vampire story, losely its a little like Underworld.
The story can get a little hard to follow via the subtitles (which are amazing btw) in the middle of it but considering the budget its a lot better than most Hollywood movies. The CGI and camera work are also pretty impressive.
Im a big fan of world cinema and the most recent movie I have seen is 'Night Watch' or Nochnoi Dozor in Russian. Basically its set in Gothic Russia and is a modern day Vampire story, losely its a little like Underworld.
The story can get a little hard to follow via the subtitles (which are amazing btw) in the middle of it but considering the budget its a lot better than most Hollywood movies. The CGI and camera work are also pretty impressive.
I used to know every word to the movie and every word to all the songs. Midnight showing!! Rice, toast and all sorts of other stuff. I even used to get up onto the stage in front of the screen with 7 others to do "The Time Warp"! Man, that takes me back. Good times. lol!
Sas, I loved "Hair"! It's still one of my most favourite movies! And Oliver was a family tradition every year when it was on TV. "Wheeeeere...is love? Does it fall from skies above?" lol!!
I also loved "Babe". Always, always will. It's beautiful.
Im a big fan of world cinema and the most recent movie I have seen is 'Night Watch' or Nochnoi Dozor in Russian. Basically its set in Gothic Russia and is a modern day Vampire story, losely its a little like Underworld.
The story can get a little hard to follow via the subtitles (which are amazing btw) in the middle of it but considering the budget its a lot better than most Hollywood movies. The CGI and camera work are also pretty impressive.
I LOVED that movie!! On DVD in the UK, Nochnoi Dozor was available in Russian with English subtitles, or English with a selection of other languages as subtitles. A cracking film- very Underworld, or Matrix-meets-Van Helsing kinda feel. Mrs Padawan's parents liked it enormously, and it was one of the few movies we could all sit down and watch due to our various language barriers.
As for personal movie tastes, I tend to go for science fiction, fantasy and horror films, especially the older Universal and Hammer classics. I've also got a fairly comprehensive collection of Carry On films (UK comedy)- I have around 24 of the 31 made.
That's the one where he plays the Iranian emigre? Yes, that was very good. I also liked him in Sexy Beast where he plays a really different character, totally evil like a force of nature. I love actors who don't always play the same character in every movie they're in a la John Wayne. Brian Cox, not a big name but an excellent actor, is another one who plays all sorts of roles very well.
Yes, that's the movie where he plays an Iranian emigre. And let's not forget Ben Kingsley's amazing performance in Gandhi! We rented Sexy Beast once, and I just could not get through it. Couldn't even watch 30 minutes of it...not sure why. I just didn't like it.
Brian Cox has been in many movies. He's one of those actors you'd probably recognize by sight. He's been in screwball comedies (Super Troopers, Rushmore), action movies (X-Men 2, The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy), horror movies (The Ring), historical romps (Braveheart, Troy), dramas (Adaptation, 25th Hour), a couple of gay-themed movies (The Lost Language of Cranes, L.I.E.) and many, many others. He's always good, even if the movie sucks. I'm really looking forward to him as Dr. Finch in Running With Scissors, a truly wacky and bizarre book!
"House of Sand and Fog" was such a beautifully art directed movie. The atmosphere was like another character in the film, it was dense and the colours were like emotions and I love anything Ben Kingsley's in. Haven't seen "Sexy Beast" yet, though. I can't place Brian Cox but I'm going to be on the lookout now.
"House of Sand and Fog" was such a beautifully art directed movie. The atmosphere was like another character in the film, it was dense and the colours were like emotions and I love anything Ben Kingsley's in. Haven't seen "Sexy Beast" yet, though. I can't place Brian Cox but I'm going to be on the lookout now.
What you havent seen Sexy beast?-he's right here...open your eyes.
Brian Cox... mm he isn't great and after seeing xmen 2 i started to notice him everywhere... bourne supremacy,troy for a start and in Sharpe..
i prefer Sean Bean.. hes a gd actor.. shame he always gets killed.. (goldeneye,equilibrium,lord of the rings,patriot games) i would guess im missing a few deaths of his here
i remember at least anothe rmovie where he dies.. and is buried alive when some s
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federicaSeeker of the clear blue sky...Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubtModerator
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Sean Bean doesn't always die...even when he should....Look at the 'Sharpe' series.....
His wounds would normally kill anyone twice as big and twice as mean.....! But no!
Our Sharpe lives to fight another day!! (And another...And another.....)
in goldeneye sean bean is 006 and he's obviously had his life saved endless of times by 007.. (who is irish)
in sharpe its the same
BUT... whenever sean bean fights an irishman he dies.. i mean come on..
if theres an irishman protecting him he survives every time.. after all Harper is in sharpe.. and if i remember correctly in patriot games hes fighting harrison ford (an irishman)
soo sean beans life in films depends clearly on who he's fighting and who is on his side .. mainly irishmen
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federicaSeeker of the clear blue sky...Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubtModerator
Sean Bean has been totally underrated. He came to the USA...and always they stick him in some crappy, under-written part. Personally, I think he has become disillusioned and that he has not 'weathered gracefully' due to personal problems. Even in the Lord of the Rings trilogy...I felt his part was given short shift...but I always thought that Boromir's character was poorly developed by Tolkien as well.
Did anyone ever see him in the BBC miniseries 'Clarissa'? He was good in that...and ever since then I've been rooting for him.
Netflix is great. Especially when you have a child and she likes to watch the same movie for 2 months! No late fees. And yes, they carry all the same titles as a rental place and I think you can get the new releases on the same day, or maybe it is just one week later?? You should check it out. It's so nice. They just give you the prepaid envelopes to send the movies back to them...it's a piece of cake.
Cool! And I know what you mean about children watching the same movie over and over again. It's like...they are trying to absorb something beyond the word level.
I just watched wolf creek - realistic.. horrorish.. kinda thingy.. lol.. slow to start was gd movie but i dunno.. if you have no patience watching slow starters then dont bother
Catch me if you can - not much action in it, but i enjoyed it, its very good and keeps you awake for the majority of the film, needed to be shorter
7 samurai - a stonking great 3 hours.. but really worth it. Great characters and although fight scenes are preetty crappish.. they are just acceptable and with the story and fine acting,directing its a winner
I'm with screenselect - all dvds in UK they have - cheapest prices - but im getting fed up with their lazy service.. i've waiting like 3 days some times for them to send out discs.. im thinking of cancelling .. its pathetic
Hostel is a movie about two guys and an Icelander they pick up in their travels across Europe.
They find titties that eventually lead them into this group of people that pay money to be able to beat and kill and torture others. "Others" being drifters or travellers to a foreign country where it might be difficult to trace them.
I knew it was going to be tough when it started out with a guy using a pair of boltcutters to cut off a young woman's toe.
The power drill to the kneecaps was kind of tough to watch as well as taking a scalpel and cutting this dudes Achilles tendon. The chainsaw that lopped off this one guy's fingers wasn't too tough - but the blowtorch to that chick's eyeball was a tad upsetting.
The moral of the story? One way or the other, boobies lead to suffering.
Needless to say, I'm staying away from formerly Eastern Block countries when I travel to Europe.
I've got to find out if we have Netflix in Canada. People are raving about it all the time online and I'd love to be able to have a service like that. Currently I have to go 20 minutes into town and choose the older 3 day rental movies in case we can't make it into town the next day. It sucks.
I just saw "Birth" with Nicole Kidman playing a widow about to remarry when she meets a 10 year old boy who insists that he's her reincarnated husband. The wallpaper in her expensive apartment (and her mother's, played by Lauren Bacall) drove me nuts. Lots of ambiance, slow, a little like a Swedish movie.
I also saw "Hero" which was good beautifully directed, edited and the art direction was really superb. The action was incredible. The story...not so much. A little too much Chinese back patting for me.
I saw "Raising Helen" for fun and because I adore Kate Hudson. It was O.K. Light.
I saw "White Noise" about EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomenon) which is picking up the voices of spirits on tape recorders. Michael Keaton was in it. It could have been so much better. But I always say that about horror and supernatural movies. I always think I could have written a better story. lol!!
One of the funniest films I have seen is "Black Cat, White Cat":
It is as though Four Weddings And A Funeral had been reimagined by Fellini with a cast of crazy Balkan rogues and a background chorus of farmyard animals. Cinema is seldom so hyperactively busy, deliriously charming or surreally humane.
Verdict
Watching Black Cat, White Cat is like gatecrashing a wild party - even if it is never quite clear who or what (apart from life itself) is being celebrated.
- Lawrence of Arabia (I made my girlfriend watch it last weekend - long but a real epic),
- Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma and Jay and Silent Bob strike back (for Jason Mewe, snoogens)
- The Lord of the Rings trilogy (because, even though I thought they lacked some essential elements of the original modern classic set of books, I am a complete tolkien nerd so they must be included)
- Ghostbusters 1+2, Groundhog Day, Lost in Translation, etc (for the almighty Bill Murray)
- The Way of the Dragon (not to be confused with Enter the Dragon this film was directed by Bruce Lee and opened me up to an entire world of eastern culture - Thank you Bruce)
- 20+ Jackie Chan films (for the scriptwriting... =P and Jackie's old school Buster Keaton expressions and amazing stunts)
- Finding Nemo (the best computer animation I have ever seen - and a quality Disney story mine! mine! mine! mine! mine! mine! mine! mine! mine! mine! mine! mine! mine! mine! )
- The Matrix trilogy (obviously!)
- Spinal Tap (I have seen this film a hundred times and it is without a doubt the funniest improvised film I have ever seen. The first time I watched it I thought 'what is all the fuss about?' and then I realised that all the cast were American and the almost the entire film dialogue was improvised. "It's like... I'm really influenced by Mozart and Bach and it's kind of a mixture of the two, like a Mach piece.")
- Lots of Japanese 'anime' (animated films) the most notable of which would have to be Akira.
- The Wallace and Gromit series (for the simultaineous Britishness and universal appeal of the characters and stories. "Cracking bit of toast Gromit!")
- The Ring (Japanese version) (I really don't go in for 'scary' films but this one had me scared to be alone in a room with a tv for a few months. Much more psychologically scary than the American remake).
- Seven years in Tibet (as Harrer struggles with some of the initial issues all fledging Western buddhists must 'ascend' when beginning on the path {and Brad Pitt's German English accent! "Shaat up!"}) read the book if you ever get the chance!
- Seven Samurai (for obvious reasons and for being an enthralling film, despite the length. I disagree with what was said previously in this thread - the fight scenes were realistic and brutal. The scene when a practise session between one of the 7, the skilled swordmaster, and an unknown samurai escalates into a real challenge is one of the best pieces of martial arts choreography I have ever seen, and I've seen quite alot =D)
Sorry for the long list but if you haven't seen any of the films listed then give them a go - you might be pleasantly surprised! (or not!)
mm yea. the 1v1 scene in 7 samurai is good but most of the action at the end is not as good.. ppl getting poked gently with spears and dieing and stuff like that.. i still enjoyed the film a great deal.. i just like to point out very minor things that could have ben improved.
Yea way of the dragon is by far the best bruce lee film .. i love it.. amazingly Chuck Norris does a decent job in it and i find his hair style funny.. Chuck is one hairy dude..
i have no idea how you can put jackie chan films down for script writying.. ??
I saw Drunken Master.. that was very decent. probs best Jackie Chan film.. cept rush hour.. merr
Hero does have a good storyline lol although its a bit 'Greater Good' and for some reason this is frowned upon by a lot of ppl nowadays.. at least over in Europe and im sure USA it is. I found the story quite easy to understand.. i missed a few things 1st time round but i got the majority of it and after the 2nd time watching it i understood everything.
HAS anyone seen SAW 1 & 2 they are fantastic movies.. i mean i really enjoyed them..
Any Berserk fans here?
and screenselect has all the region 2 dvd's i thought..
I did see Saw 1, and thought the acting was so terrible, that I could hardly even stand to finish watching it in the theater! My husband felt the same way. I won't even bother seeing the 2nd one.
I don't get to see movies very often...it is a treat. And there are genres of movies that I don't watch 'just because'. My pallid excuse is that they don't do anything to improve the world or enlighten me - but I know I'm a hypocrite when I watch an action movie like 'Die Hard' and shout...'yeah...F**k 'em up'.
Do I have a wrong view...by absolutely not watching certain movies?
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i says hes a pretty gd actor, he always gets into the role unlike many many other actors..
as for your porn titles eeeh
Not enough character development, even though I understand Ms Berry demanded that she get a bigger role.
Totally disappointing ending and banal hook to sequel.
Despite that, it was fun.
It's a beautiful film about an innocent French girl who who works as a waitress and decides to try and make the people around her happy in her own quirky way. 'Course, she has to fall in love while she's at it.
I love Rocky Horror too Wezz. And Hair. And ummm West Side Story, My Fair Lady, Oliver!, ..... I'll stop now, before I really start getting embarrassing
Sas :buck:
The story can get a little hard to follow via the subtitles (which are amazing btw) in the middle of it but considering the budget its a lot better than most Hollywood movies. The CGI and camera work are also pretty impressive.
The Iraq war?
Palzang
I wanna see that.
-bf
It's listed on Amazon as being released on DVD on June 20, 2006.
Palzang
I used to know every word to the movie and every word to all the songs. Midnight showing!! Rice, toast and all sorts of other stuff. I even used to get up onto the stage in front of the screen with 7 others to do "The Time Warp"! Man, that takes me back. Good times. lol!
Sas, I loved "Hair"! It's still one of my most favourite movies! And Oliver was a family tradition every year when it was on TV. "Wheeeeere...is love? Does it fall from skies above?" lol!!
I also loved "Babe". Always, always will. It's beautiful.
I LOVED that movie!! On DVD in the UK, Nochnoi Dozor was available in Russian with English subtitles, or English with a selection of other languages as subtitles. A cracking film- very Underworld, or Matrix-meets-Van Helsing kinda feel. Mrs Padawan's parents liked it enormously, and it was one of the few movies we could all sit down and watch due to our various language barriers.
As for personal movie tastes, I tend to go for science fiction, fantasy and horror films, especially the older Universal and Hammer classics. I've also got a fairly comprehensive collection of Carry On films (UK comedy)- I have around 24 of the 31 made.
Palzang
What movies has Brian Cox been in?
P.S. I like movies, in case you couldn't tell!
Palzang
Yeah... you do know too much about movies, Pal.
Get a life already.
-bf
Palzang
I have that DVD too. It's called "It's a Pal's Life".
Pretty seedy and steamy in some parts! Especially that one S&M scene with the goat. She WAS sooooo baaaaaaaaaaaaaaad.
I just watched Hostel last night. I don't know why I do that crap to myself. I had to keep looking away from the screen in a couple of spots.
-bf
Brian Cox....
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004051/
It was a sheep, I swear it! Oh, wait, that's where syphilis came from, isn't it...
What's Hostel? Is that like in "Hostel Youth"?
Pzang
BF - so Hostel was pretty nasty, huh? My hubby wants to see it and told me that I would definitely NOT want to see it!
What you havent seen Sexy beast?-he's right here...open your eyes.
i prefer Sean Bean.. hes a gd actor.. shame he always gets killed.. (goldeneye,equilibrium,lord of the rings,patriot games) i would guess im missing a few deaths of his here
i remember at least anothe rmovie where he dies.. and is buried alive when some s
His wounds would normally kill anyone twice as big and twice as mean.....! But no!
Our Sharpe lives to fight another day!! (And another...And another.....)
in goldeneye sean bean is 006 and he's obviously had his life saved endless of times by 007.. (who is irish)
in sharpe its the same
BUT... whenever sean bean fights an irishman he dies.. i mean come on..
if theres an irishman protecting him he survives every time.. after all Harper is in sharpe.. and if i remember correctly in patriot games hes fighting harrison ford (an irishman)
soo sean beans life in films depends clearly on who he's fighting and who is on his side .. mainly irishmen
Did anyone ever see him in the BBC miniseries 'Clarissa'? He was good in that...and ever since then I've been rooting for him.
Palzang
What about "The Cooler" with William H. Macy? I love him and that was an awesome movie.
I watch way too many movies. Netflix rules!!
I just watched wolf creek - realistic.. horrorish.. kinda thingy.. lol.. slow to start was gd movie but i dunno.. if you have no patience watching slow starters then dont bother
Catch me if you can - not much action in it, but i enjoyed it, its very good and keeps you awake for the majority of the film, needed to be shorter
7 samurai - a stonking great 3 hours.. but really worth it. Great characters and although fight scenes are preetty crappish.. they are just acceptable and with the story and fine acting,directing its a winner
I'm with screenselect - all dvds in UK they have - cheapest prices - but im getting fed up with their lazy service.. i've waiting like 3 days some times for them to send out discs.. im thinking of cancelling .. its pathetic
Hostel is a movie about two guys and an Icelander they pick up in their travels across Europe.
They find titties that eventually lead them into this group of people that pay money to be able to beat and kill and torture others. "Others" being drifters or travellers to a foreign country where it might be difficult to trace them.
I knew it was going to be tough when it started out with a guy using a pair of boltcutters to cut off a young woman's toe.
The power drill to the kneecaps was kind of tough to watch as well as taking a scalpel and cutting this dudes Achilles tendon. The chainsaw that lopped off this one guy's fingers wasn't too tough - but the blowtorch to that chick's eyeball was a tad upsetting.
The moral of the story? One way or the other, boobies lead to suffering.
Needless to say, I'm staying away from formerly Eastern Block countries when I travel to Europe.
-bf
I wonder if that was the "moral of the story" they were going for when they came up with the idea of this movie??
Regardless, that does not sound like a movie I want to watch! Yikes.
-bf
I just saw "Birth" with Nicole Kidman playing a widow about to remarry when she meets a 10 year old boy who insists that he's her reincarnated husband. The wallpaper in her expensive apartment (and her mother's, played by Lauren Bacall) drove me nuts. Lots of ambiance, slow, a little like a Swedish movie.
I also saw "Hero" which was good beautifully directed, edited and the art direction was really superb. The action was incredible. The story...not so much. A little too much Chinese back patting for me.
I saw "Raising Helen" for fun and because I adore Kate Hudson. It was O.K. Light.
I saw "White Noise" about EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomenon) which is picking up the voices of spirits on tape recorders. Michael Keaton was in it. It could have been so much better. But I always say that about horror and supernatural movies. I always think I could have written a better story. lol!!
I would have to say either Gladiator or Kingdom of Heaven are my favorite of the bunch.
(From: http://www.channel4.com/film/reviews/film.jsp?id=101213&page=2)
My personal favourites include:
- American Beauty (for the kid next door),
- Lawrence of Arabia (I made my girlfriend watch it last weekend - long but a real epic),
- Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma and Jay and Silent Bob strike back (for Jason Mewe, snoogens)
- The Lord of the Rings trilogy (because, even though I thought they lacked some essential elements of the original modern classic set of books, I am a complete tolkien nerd so they must be included)
- Ghostbusters 1+2, Groundhog Day, Lost in Translation, etc (for the almighty Bill Murray)
- The Way of the Dragon (not to be confused with Enter the Dragon this film was directed by Bruce Lee and opened me up to an entire world of eastern culture - Thank you Bruce)
- 20+ Jackie Chan films (for the scriptwriting... =P and Jackie's old school Buster Keaton expressions and amazing stunts)
- Finding Nemo (the best computer animation I have ever seen - and a quality Disney story mine! mine! mine! mine! mine! mine! mine! mine! mine! mine! mine! mine! mine! mine! )
- The Matrix trilogy (obviously!)
- Spinal Tap (I have seen this film a hundred times and it is without a doubt the funniest improvised film I have ever seen. The first time I watched it I thought 'what is all the fuss about?' and then I realised that all the cast were American and the almost the entire film dialogue was improvised. "It's like... I'm really influenced by Mozart and Bach and it's kind of a mixture of the two, like a Mach piece.")
- Lots of Japanese 'anime' (animated films) the most notable of which would have to be Akira.
- The Wallace and Gromit series (for the simultaineous Britishness and universal appeal of the characters and stories. "Cracking bit of toast Gromit!")
- The Ring (Japanese version) (I really don't go in for 'scary' films but this one had me scared to be alone in a room with a tv for a few months. Much more psychologically scary than the American remake).
- Seven years in Tibet (as Harrer struggles with some of the initial issues all fledging Western buddhists must 'ascend' when beginning on the path {and Brad Pitt's German English accent! "Shaat up!"}) read the book if you ever get the chance!
- Seven Samurai (for obvious reasons and for being an enthralling film, despite the length. I disagree with what was said previously in this thread - the fight scenes were realistic and brutal. The scene when a practise session between one of the 7, the skilled swordmaster, and an unknown samurai escalates into a real challenge is one of the best pieces of martial arts choreography I have ever seen, and I've seen quite alot =D)
Sorry for the long list but if you haven't seen any of the films listed then give them a go - you might be pleasantly surprised! (or not!)
Yea way of the dragon is by far the best bruce lee film .. i love it.. amazingly Chuck Norris does a decent job in it and i find his hair style funny.. Chuck is one hairy dude..
i have no idea how you can put jackie chan films down for script writying.. ??
I saw Drunken Master.. that was very decent. probs best Jackie Chan film.. cept rush hour.. merr
Hero does have a good storyline lol although its a bit 'Greater Good' and for some reason this is frowned upon by a lot of ppl nowadays.. at least over in Europe and im sure USA it is. I found the story quite easy to understand.. i missed a few things 1st time round but i got the majority of it and after the 2nd time watching it i understood everything.
HAS anyone seen SAW 1 & 2 they are fantastic movies.. i mean i really enjoyed them..
Any Berserk fans here?
and screenselect has all the region 2 dvd's i thought..
Do I have a wrong view...by absolutely not watching certain movies?