It features the greatest South Korean corporal punishment I've seen yet! Even better than the sitting on head thingymajig.
I recently watched the Zodiac, about the Zodiac killer. Extremely well made film. Excellent casting and acting and amazing special effects (how they recreated san francisco and other california towns from the late 60ies early 70ies is just amazing).
Unfortunately over two and a half hours the film gets a little slow, especially since the zodiac was one of the more "boring" serial killers. Also though there is a clear allusion as to who the killer was, the ending is not very satisfying since no one was ever actually charged for those murders (but that's not the fault of the film).
Definitely worth watching (4/5)
i've watched several other films recently i should maybe write about.
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I watched the pilot/first episode of the HBO series Treme, following a group of people (mostly musicians or somehow related to music) in post-Katrina New Orleans.
Coming from the makers of the Wire I had enormous expectations and so far it's looking brilliant. I love so much about it. Can't wait to watch more of this. I've always wanted to see New Orleans and this show intensifies that desire even more.
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I have been watching more of Treme. Up to episode five now. It is pretty amazing. I've been looking for a quality tv series since the end of "the wire" and this is exactly what I've been looking for.
Great cast, great location, music is beyond amazing. I really love it. Don't know when the first season ends or if they plan to continue. I really hope so. Episode 9 should be airing tonight.
Is anyone else here watching it/interested?
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Saw Red Cliff special edition, an epic film.
You guys know John Woo, legendary Hong Kong film director who went to Hollywood and did Face Off, Hard Target, Mission Impossible 2 and Paycheck?
Well before he turned to shit, he made some awesome Heroic Bloodshed movies like Hard Boiled and the Killer.
Now, he's back in Hong Kong/China and making good movies again.
Red Cliff trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3qIXQCHf94
Is like a Chinese Lord of the Rings. Well, I guess a better way to describe it would be to say that it takes the familiar Woo themes of brotherhood and friendship and then imparts it into a legendary fight between armies in ancient China.
The film is over 4 hrs long, which caused the distributor to first, seperate the film into Red Cliff 1 and 2. Then they ditched part 2 and just combined the two movies into a much shorter film which hacked away huge swathes of footage and story.
If you want to see this you have to either buy the dvds 1 and 2 separately or get the special edition blu ray which comes with both parts on two discs.
Despite its running time, I loved every minute of it. Like LOTR, it's constantly intriguing and engrossing.
I'd say the first 20 minutes is a bit of a mish mash and the action isn't as good as Yuen Woo Ping quality but the film itself is stirring and entertaining as a group of 30'000 warriors take on close to a million soldiers in a clever and well directed battle.
I just watched this:
What a great movie. Just rented it, but it was so good that I'm buying the BluRay.
Actually, I'm thinking of getting a whole bunch of Ghibli DVDs. Over here, a series of DVDs of a good number of Miyazaki's movies were released. There's Totoro, Lupin the 3rd, Princess Mononoke, Ponyo, and a couple more.
Now's as good a time as any to become a Ghibli fan.
Foolz said:And I was just thinking to myself: the only way that you could make the LOTR films worse is if they were Chinese...
Fuckhead.
SteelAttack said:Actually, I'm thinking of getting a whole bunch of Ghibli DVDs. Over here, a series of DVDs of a good number of Miyazaki's movies were released. There's Totoro, Lupin the 3rd, Princess Mononoke, Ponyo, and a couple more.
Now's as good a time as any to become a Ghibli fan.
Schweet. Beware of boxsets containing all the Ghibli films. They are fake, Ghibli has never ever, released the full set of movies in one set, so all the ebay stuff, holograms or not are always fake and usually not dvd quality. Trust me, I know from experience.
Oh yeah, if you do get Ponyo on Blu-ray know that there are two versions, one is a Blu-ray disc and DVD set. The one you want to get is the deluxe set which comes with lots of special features, a few free gifts too and is only marginally more expensive, like $5 more.
I watched this Documentary, certainly reccomended.
The Cove is a 2009 American documentary film that describes the annual killing of dolphins in a National Park at Taiji, Wakayama, in Japan from an anti–dolphin-hunting campaigner's point of view.[3][4] The film highlights the fact that the number of dolphins killed in the Taiji dolphin hunting drive is several times greater than the number of whales killed in the Antarctic, and reports that 23,000 dolphins and porpoises are killed in Japan every year in the country's whaling industry. The migrating dolphins are herded into a hidden cove where they are netted and killed by means of spears and knives over the side of small fishing boats.
According to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan's most recent progress report 1,569 cetaceans in Taiji were killed during the 2007 season, including methods other than drive hunting. The Ministry claims that only 1,239 cetaceans were killed by drive hunting, and that a total of 13,080 cetaceans were killed throughout Japan in 2007.[5]
The film was directed by former National Geographic photographer Louie Psihoyos.[6] Portions were filmed secretly during 2007 using underwater microphones and high-definition cameras disguised as rocks.[3][7]
The documentary won the U.S. Audience Award at the 25th annual Sundance Film Festival in January 2009. It was selected out of the 879 submissions in the category.[3][8] On March 7, 2010, The Cove won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 82nd Academy Awards
gamingeek said:Foolz said:And I was just thinking to myself: the only way that you could make the LOTR films worse is if they were Chinese...Fuckhead.
Foolz said:I can't imagine how annoying the people on that documenary must be. Dolphinites...*shudders* It deos look intereistng, though.gamingeek said:Foolz said:And I was just thinking to myself: the only way that you could make the LOTR films worse is if they were Chinese...Fuckhead.
There's one annoying Aussie surfer dude and he's only in it for 5 minutes. He talks in surfer lingo. The other people are all trainers or scientists. The documentary is cool because they mount this A-Team like mission to secretly film everything. They have to enlist the help of hollywood special effects to hide cameras in rocks, they have to get thermal imaging cameras like the army to scout ahead and plant underwater mics.
If this thing is every on TV again, try and catch it.
gamingeek said:Schweet. Beware of boxsets containing all the Ghibli films. They are fake, Ghibli has never ever, released the full set of movies in one set, so all the ebay stuff, holograms or not are always fake and usually not dvd quality. Trust me, I know from experience.
Oh yeah, if you do get Ponyo on Blu-ray know that there are two versions, one is a Blu-ray disc and DVD set. The one you want to get is the deluxe set which comes with lots of special features, a few free gifts too and is only marginally more expensive, like $5 more.
I didn't check which BD version was. Probably the simple BD/DVD set, those luxuries don't reach these shores usually.
I just started to watch The Wire, its on Directv now. Only two episodes in and I already feel so frustrated about the entire police system and the department shown on the show. Holy crap, I really hope the reality isn't like this but I assume it is.
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Tell me to get back to rewriting this site so it's not horrible on mobileYodariquo said:^ I recently got the entire series of The Wire. I'll be watching the first season in a couple weeks once I'm done with season 1 of the Drew Carey show.
This Directv channel 101 is going to play the full series, one new episode a week. So I am watching it like a TV show right now, the second episode just aired and it is very interesting. It really is a commentary about the justice system and the drug war, basically how fucked up it all is.
gamingeek said:There's one annoying Aussie surfer dude and he's only in it for 5 minutes. He talks in surfer lingo. The other people are all trainers or scientists. The documentary is cool because they mount this A-Team like mission to secretly film everything. They have to enlist the help of hollywood special effects to hide cameras in rocks, they have to get thermal imaging cameras like the army to scout ahead and plant underwater mics.
If this thing is every on TV again, try and catch it.
Is he annoying because of surfer lingo or because of dolphin gushing? In my experience scientists/trainers are often immune to the former, but not to the latter.
Foolz said:gamingeek said:There's one annoying Aussie surfer dude and he's only in it for 5 minutes. He talks in surfer lingo. The other people are all trainers or scientists. The documentary is cool because they mount this A-Team like mission to secretly film everything. They have to enlist the help of hollywood special effects to hide cameras in rocks, they have to get thermal imaging cameras like the army to scout ahead and plant underwater mics.
If this thing is every on TV again, try and catch it.
Is he annoying because of surfer lingo or because of dolphin gushing? In my experience scientists/trainers are often immune to the former, but not to the latter.
Surfer lingo. Dude.
Dvader said:That Cove movie would make me too sad. So is anything being done about the killings?
Nope. Dolphins are not classed as whales by the IWC so Japan can slaughter as many as they want. If you ever go to these swim with dolphins programs or seaworld or whatever, you are contributing to ther slaughter. The dolphin drives at Taiji feed the world market for show dolphins, they pick out the ones that look like flipper sell them for $150'000, then get the rest into the cove and slaugther them for meat.