I can't remember if I told you guys about a film I saw a while back.
It's directed by Yuen Woo Ping who is the greatest action choreographer of all time. The films he personally directs are usually not great though unless you hold nostalgia for his old 70s stuff.
So anyway I wasn't expecting much from this, but it was suprisingly enjoyable. Well paced, with tons of great action scenes. Very entertaining overall. It's about a famed warrior who has his father killed and his son abducted. He trains with one of the Gods of martial arts and then returns to claim back what's his. The film ends abruptly after an hour and then moves onto a completely new segment which shows how he became one of the famous Tigers of Canton, master of the Drunken style - think Fearless type action and sets. Check out the trailer.
Just finished watching the first season (9 episodes) of "Pushing Daisies" on Netflix. A friend told me it was good, and he was right! I am enjoying it quite a lot. The craziest show I have seen in a long time. 
Loved Wonderfalls. I need to see that too.
At Last it's the 1948 Show:
FUCK YOU BBC. Archive your shows you morons. :~
My Daughter's Secret:
It wasn't as bad as Mystic River.
Mystic River:
Apologies in advance to anyone who liked it. Which means anyone who has seen it apparently! /ShawshankGodfatherBladeRunnermodengaged
Literally edited like a fucking police show at times. The dialogue is lifted with no changes from the book. The dialogue in the book was bad enough to begin with so had no chance in another medium. Sure the acting was good, but it descended into melodrama at times, and the characters themselves were shallow enough that the acting felt superficial in a greater context. Very disappointing. Fails as drama, fails even more as a crime story. The book is partly to blame, but if you're adapting crap try not to follow it closely.
Mystic River was okay. Nothing great.
gamingeek said:Mystic River was okay. Nothing great.
Okay is probably a fair appraisal it's just the things that sucked really, really piss me off.
Saw this.
Good, quite good indeed but not great. It's story is nothing original but it is done very well, if cynically at one point.
If you have seen Leon, Man on Fire or A Bittersweet Life you know what this is about and how it will play out. Sadly for this film, all the films I mentioned already did this and did it better. It's still good but the film which it most keenly apes - A Bittersweet Life - is better.
But if ABLife is a 9.0 then Man from Nowhere is an 8.7
It's compelling and good to watch with some nice action in it, but it takes a while before it kicks into a higher gear. Overall a solid watch.
Saw Superman Batman Apocolypse
Probably one of the worst DC animated movies. It has a very simple no frills story and despite having omnimus characters and scenes and scenarios which should be epic, it's pretty dull.
Saw All Star Superman.
One of the best DC Animated movies which chronicles the death of Superman and his final months. It's not throwaway Superman Doomsday nonsense, it's told in a very entertaining and affecting way. And it has notable nods to the Superman Richard Donner directed movies.
I saw Paranormal Activity 1 & 2. Wanted to see something "scary" and a friend recommended those but I didn't find them scary at all. Normally demonic possession can be a fairly scary premise in a horror film and it was a good idea to do these as though they were filmed by the characters themselves (ala Blair Witch Project) but ultimately they didn't do much for me. Though I did like how the second one ties up to the first one, that was a clever touch, otherwise pretty average stuff.
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Heads up, Marvel had a picture deal with Lionsgate to make Marvel comics animated movies. That deal ended with Thor Tales of Asgard which only recentely released.
I saw this recentely.
It was meh. Iron Man and the main enemies were poorly animated CGI that would appear substandard in your average videogame. The story was pretty crap, what the thinking process over at Lionsgate is, I will never know. The great idea to face Iron Man against Chinese Ghosts and Dragons and crap?
But it was better than their Dr Strange movie which had zero personality at all.
Planet Hulk however, is good.
So has anyone seen Spartacus Blood and Sand, the TV show from Starz. It came out a year ago, its on its second season now, I have only seen the first and its one of the strangest shows I have ever seen. I swear it was made by teenage boys, the entire show is basically fighting, sex, swearing and nudity. In every scene there is either some dude getting his head cut off or boobs all over the screen (and many times penises). It's part softcore porno, part 300 like violence with the most awesome cheesy dialogue ever.
Every character talks like this, "I get my moment only to have the gods shove cock in ass!!" "You kiss my cheek only to finger my ass!" "By Jupiter's COCK will you fucking rain!!!" In fact they say Jupiter's cock at least once an episode. Cock is said more times in this show than all others in the history of TV combined.
But it is so damn juicy, so slimey and twisted. It has some of the best twists and turns, so many great backstabs and revenge plots. It hooks you in and you will not be able to stop watching. The characters are fantastic, its one of those shows where even the last dude in the credits has a memorable role. Since its release it has spawned copycats of half porno half bloody spectacle shows.
Watch it.
I saw one chapter of Gods of the Arena last night, which apparently is some sort of prequel. It's exactly as you described it. People say "fuck" or "cock" or any of its variations almost in every scene. It also has gratuitous nudity, sex, blood and violence. One dude ended up banging another dude's wife in front of other people, while one of the party attendants watched and jacked off.
Kind of fun and weird shit.
SteelAttack said:I saw one chapter of Gods of the Arena last night, which apparently is some sort of prequel.
Kind of fun and weird shit.
Yeah they made a prequel cause many of characters from the first season are dead but they were so good we wanted to see more. Also I believe the actor that played Spartacus is really sick or something.
What you saw is basically the entire show, but make sure to catch it from the start of a season to know who is backstabbing who.
I also saw an episode of a show called Game of Thrones last weekend. Boromir looks kind of bloated in there.
SteelAttack said:I also saw an episode of a show called Game of Thrones last weekend. Boromir looks kind of bloated in there.
Yeah I need to start watching that, its one of the clones I believe.
The show is based on a series of fantasy novels that everyone and their mothers are nuts about. A song of ice and fire. I'm interested enough to track down the first few books.
I saw 30 seconds of it. Saw it was exactly like that and stopped watching.
Awhile ago I saw someone say it was basically the Rome show from HBO. Glad to know I was right!
I've got the first 5 episodes of Game of Thrones to watch.
Spartacus sounds hilarious but too weird for me.
I just remembered this film that I had seen and owned for many years. It's because there are suppossed to be a lot of Ghibli fans on this site that I want to make a special reccomendation here.
Welcome to Dongmakgol's director, it was said at the time that this was like a live action Ghibli movie. It was even scored by Joe Hisashi, legendary Ghibli music composer.
The film seems to get the Ghibli qualities of respecting nature, big landscapes, friendship, whimsy and even peril and brotherhood. There is even a large Totoro style tree in it.
It's set during the Korean war, north vs south and two sets of soldiers from either side find themselves lost in some village in the countryside who are oblivious to the war around them. They welcome the soldiers and eventually they become friends. Then something happens which brings the idyllic way of life into jeopardy. It's a real shame that the director hasn't made a film in the 6 years since this movie released. It's one of those films that restores your faith in humanity.
Anyone see MK Legacy. The turned that fake movie trailer into a web show. First episode is out, its pretty low budget stuff but could be interesting. So far its just Sonya, Jax and Kano which are the most boring MK characters.