Foolz said:Which is why the film would proably bore you too.
Hey you, podcast now?
Watched "The Good The Bad The Weird" on Netflix today. Fantastic film! It's very funny and action-packed. I will buy this on Blu-ray soon. 
I watched "The Kids are Alright". It's not unpleasant. In fact it's very funny at points. However it's not as clever as it thinks it is in its smartass, "highly evolved" Californian ways. The plot is very simplistic. The children of a lesbian couple enquire and get to know their biological dad (sperm donor) and after they become friendly with him they introduce him to their mums. He dutifully proceeds to fuck the hell out of one of them, and the other one finds out and doesn't like it. The ending is a complete copout. The kids are alright, so everyone's alright, and marriage is hard work so it's OK to fuck around... When you are groovy and Californian that it.
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Sympathy for Lady Vengeance.
Hmm, the worst of the trilogy, actually I'm not entirely sure. Only watched it once, but I think it could really have benifted from fading to black and white. Wish I could have watched that version instead! It's much less subtle than the first two, and much more symbolic, but it is unsurprisingly very, very good. I want to see it again. Black and white this time, please.
The Goodies.
Why the hell have I not seen this before? It's like discovering Monty Python for the first time. Okay it's not as intellectually appealing to pretentious dicks as Monty Python is, but I'll be damned if it isn't equally as funny. Oh, and funnily enough, you'd have to say it's less silly than Monty Python. No tennis playing blancmanges here. Damn it, now I want to watch Monty Python too.
Ghost Dog.
RZA on the soundtrack. Forest Whitaker starring. Jim Jarmusch directing a gangster flick involving samurais, ice cream and a top notch and very funny script. What more needs to be said?
Hollow Man.
Great special effects. Terrible everything else. Terrible at the perfect level to be hilarious.
Love Love Love ... Ghost Dog.
So cool when the RZA makes his cameo
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Ravenprose said:Watched "The Good The Bad The Weird" on Netflix today. Fantastic film! It's very funny and action-packed. I will buy this on Blu-ray soon.
I told you guys about this film and the director 2 years ago. People said that it was what Indiana Jones 4 should have been.
Kim Jee Woon is the director and the next film he made: I Saw the Devil is getting the best reviews of his career and it's out on dvd this summer in the UK. If you check the movie hype thread you will find info on it.
Foolz said:Sympathy for Lady Vengeance.
Hmm, the worst of the trilogy, actually I'm not entirely sure. Only watched it once, but I think it could really have benifted from fading to black and white. Wish I could have watched that version instead! It's much less subtle than the first two, and much more symbolic, but it is unsurprisingly very, very good. I want to see it again. Black and white this time, please..
Worst of the trilogy? U suck.
I have both the normal and the fade to black and white one. You do NOT want to see the black and white one.
gamingeek said:Worst of the trilogy? U suck.
I have both the normal and the fade to black and white one. You do NOT want to see the black and white one. Still very, very good like I said. Maybe great.
Mr. Vengeance>>>>>>>>>>>>>anything else in the trilogy. Ain't even close. You know it.
bugsonglass said:Love Love Love ... Ghost Dog.
So cool when the RZA makes his cameo
PEACE.
No!
I just saw Source Code, its a good movie but I expected better cause its been getting great reviews. I found it to be average as a thriller, its more about the sci-fi aspects which are cool but its presented in a way that is too sloppy.
It's by the director of Moon which I think is a way better film. If you have not seen Moon, watch it!
I saw this:
I would give it about 3 out of 5.
Probably Andrew Laus best film since Infernal Affairs 2.
It's glossy, entertaining but a bit plot light and vacuous. The drama packs no punch, there are a few pointless ancillary characters. The action works well and its very visceral and well choreographed. Unfortunately Donnie Yens choreography is one where he can take out 4 guys in about 10 seconds so the fight scenes are far too short in length, even the end scene.
The cinematography and production values are pretty slick, colourful and classy.
Overall the film is neither as bad or as good as the reviews painted it. It's fun, but nothing special. I would recomend that people looking for a great, inventive and enjoyably asian film, check out Detective D immediately.
Saw this:
Very good, a film in the Crouching Tiger style. It's a much smaller, quieter story than say Zhang Yimou's Hero or Ang Lee's Crouching tiger but what it does, it does in a dignified, classy manner.
Solid, entertaining and classy, well worth watching.
Saw the Gallants, a film that has been nominated many times over the asian film awards season as one of the best. It is.
It's a kung fu comedy that takes old Shaw Brothers martial arts actors and stages them as 50 year old, poorly paid defenders of an old tea house.
It's action is great, acting very fun, especially with a star turn from Teddy Robbins. It's wholly entertaining too.
Dvader said:Does every Japanese movie involve swords and fighting?
Only the ones I watch.
Well, not completely.
Martial arts are the asian quivalent of US films having action scenes with superpowers, guns or vehicles.
I'm watching this right now on Netflix:
Dvader said:Does every Japanese movie involve swords and fighting?
Only the bad ones.
"Very good, a film in the Crouching Tiger style. It's a much smaller, quieter story than say Zhang Yimou's Hero or Ang Lee's Crouching tiger but what it does, it does in a dignified, classy manner."
So it's nothing like Crouching Tiger?
Foolz said:Only the bad ones.
"Very good, a film in the Crouching Tiger style. It's a much smaller, quieter story than say Zhang Yimou's Hero or Ang Lee's Crouching tiger but what it does, it does in a dignified, classy manner."
So it's nothing like Crouching Tiger?
Is there anything you say which is dignified and classy?
gamingeek said:Is there anything you say which is dignified and classy?
Nope, I wrote Crouching Tiger's script.
I watched a bunch of stuff over the last couple of days as I had a lot of papers to mark and it's much more bearable to do that whilst watching a film.
Following Steel's recommendation I watched "How to train your dragon", which I thought was a very watchable and altogether well made children's/family film. There is nothing particularly different in the animation. It is very much of the Pixar school. The story is extremely old and told many many times and doesn't stray at all from the trodden path. One thing which annoyed me was how there was no coherency in the accents what so ever. The setting was supposed to be a "viking village". The father sounded vaguely scottish, the children north american and the accents were generally a very weird mix. Anyway. Recommended for a Sunday afternoon, expecially if you watch it with children.
I watched Larry Clark's "Bully". It's based on a true story. A bunch of teenagers in a coastal town in Florida decide that the only way they can rid themselves of their asshole friend (the titular bully) is to murder him. Not only do they do a very messy job of it, but they also go about telling everyone about it, before and after they do it. Can't have been a very difficult trial and they all got pretty hefty sentences. Several life sentences, one death sentence etc. The bastard who got killed really deserved it though, so it is strangely satisfying for the viewer to know that son of a bitch got his comuppins, even if everyone else ruined their lives in the process. It's Larry Clark's best film out of the ones I watch (which admittedly doesn't mean much since the other two were Kids, and Ken Park).
Watched a low budget indie film called "The exploding girl". It's a very slow movie and not a whole lot goes on. Reminded me a little bit of Jim Jarmusch's very early films like "Permanent Vacation", in a way, though the characters aren't beatniks. It has an interesting soundtrack which is used very effectively. Decent film if you like this sort of thing. No explosions, no car chases, no magic, no kung-fu, no swordfights ... at all.
I have wanted to watch Rango for a while now and I finally got to. And it is bloody fuckin' brilliant! (forgive the foul language used here for effect). The animation is extra-ordinary, the voice acting is superb (and brilliantly casted). The story is amazing (Based on the scandal of the stolen water of LA county, also the subject of Polanski's Chinatown). I will go watch this at the cinema (something I haven't done in donkey's years). I recommend you all do the same. Brilliant, brilliant film. I watched a couple more but will log them later.
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Which is why the film would proably bore you too.