Movie review thread...
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Knowing - despite Nicholas Cage and a kak ending [spoiler:cjyxh2uz]the whole Alien deal, not to mention when you first realise there is something out of this world supernatural about them[/spoiler:cjyxh2uz] I quite liked it, a few genuine tingly moments. <br />
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[quote name='JP']Saw 21 not that long ago - one about a math's whizz who via his college professor earn's stacks of cash counting cards at blackjack - quite interesting...[/quote]<br />
if you haven't read it, try the book(s), they're infinitely better than the film. They're written by Ben Mezrich and are excellent, first one's Breaking Vegas, the second is Bringing Down the House (or the other way around). -
[quote name='Victor Meldrew']"Chinatown" for the umpteenth time. Stunning, timeless movie. A true great - script, acting, plot & cinematography outstanding<br />
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"Flightplan" with Jodie Foster - good, enjoyable film. Quite tense in places<br />
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Concur on Angels and Demons - utter shite.<br />
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Watching Soderburgh's "The Limey" tomorrow nite[/quote]<br />
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Absolutely agree on Chinatown - truly excellent. Has Jack ever been better? Also probably Faye Dunaway's finest hour.<br />
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I hope you enjoy The Limey too Vick. It didn't get much of a release in the UK but I quite liked it - mind you I rate Terence Stamp - shame he's been so quiet over the years. -
[quote name='Razbra'][quote name='Hooroo']Won tickets to the latest Horror, something to hell, to Hell is back or something like that but i hate horrors and will be giving them away.<br />
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Anyone seen it and care to give a scary out of ten rating??[/quote]<br />
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Drag me to hell? Mate absolutely fantastic! Its old school scary. None of the teen scream BS. Sam Raimi the director of evil dead and SPIDER-MAN made this one.<br />
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Saw it opening night. I enjoyed it, but didn't find it scary. I'm a mark for Raimi however. I think I may have rated it 7/10. But until you posted that, I actually forgot that I'd seen it. -
[quote name='red terror'][quote name='Razbra'][quote name='Hooroo']Won tickets to the latest Horror, something to hell, to Hell is back or something like that but i hate horrors and will be giving them away.<br />
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Anyone seen it and care to give a scary out of ten rating??[/quote]<br />
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Drag me to hell? Mate absolutely fantastic! Its old school scary. None of the teen scream BS. Sam Raimi the director of evil dead and SPIDER-MAN made this one.<br />
I'd say scary rating 9 out of 10.[/quote]<br />
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Saw it opening night. I enjoyed it, but didn't find it scary. I'm a mark for Raimi however. I think I may have rated it 7/10. But until you posted that, I actually forgot that I'd seen it.[/quote]<br />
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[img]http://www.timeoutsydney.com.au/film/newsinterviews/large-mongol31.jpg[/img]<br />
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FYI, following up on an earlier posting for [b][color=#FF0000]Mongol[/color][/b], which I highly recommend to anybody who loves the epic battle LOTR/Braveheart/Gladiator-style movies, and I was led to believe was the first part of a trilogy:<br />
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[quote]"Originally, 'Mongol' was the first part of a projected trilogy. However after the difficulty making this film, director Sergei Bodrov decided not to make the sequels. Several months after shooting wrapped however, he changed his mind again and decided to conflate his scripts for parts 2 and 3 into one script, and just do the one sequel, entitled 'The Great Khan', it is scheduled to be released in 2010." (From the IMDb trivia section.)[/quote]<br />
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[quote name='JP'][b]Saw 21[/b] not that long ago - one about a math's whizz who via his college professor earn's stacks of cash counting cards at blackjack - quite interesting...[/quote]<br />
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After Saw 3 they just got silly.<br />
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I watched "In the Name of the King" a while ago.<br />
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After seeing "Public Enemies" at the cinema last week, I decided to go retro and watch earlier filmed versions available on DVD the past week. Each one is somewhat imperfect, but each rates at least a 7/10 and deserves a viewing.<br />
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[color=#FF0000]"Dillinger"[/color] (1945) a.k.a. "John Dillinger, Killer," starring Lawrence Tierney in the lead role. Excellent pulp, with several fictitious anecdotes. They have Dillinger's gal Billie Frechette and the "Lady in Red" as being one in the same. Wrong!! Still, very cool gangster visuals, some of the footage from this film was used in Errol Morris "Thin Blue Line" (imo the best documentary feature film of the 1980s).<br />
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[color=#FF0000]"Dillinger"[/color] (1973) is an excellent, graphic violent biopic starring Warren Oates in the lead role, and Richard Dreyfuss as "Baby Face" Nelson. This one written & directed by John Milius, the screenwriter of "Apocalypse Now" and "Magnum Force." Some of you may remember Oates from that late 70s Kiwi-flick "Sleeping Dogs," as well was "The Wild Bunch" and other great films from the 60s/70s. Excellent cast also stars Harry Dean Stanton and Ben Johnson.<br />
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[color=#FF0000]"Public Enemies"[/color] (2009) is in current release, and probably won't be available on dvd for several months yet. Directed by Michael Mann, starring Depp as Dillinger and Christian Bale as his FBI manhunter Melvin Purvis. Much more historically accurate than the others, and yet I can't say for certain that it's necessarily a more entertaining pot-boiler, but definitely worth seeing to get a better grasp on the reality underlining the mythos.<br />
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I'd be remiss if I didn't also mention the immortal pre-film noir [color=#FF0000]"The Petrified Forest"[/color] (1936). An absolute gem of a film, this one doesn't exactly have John Dillinger, but this is the movie that made Humphrey Bogart a star, and his character "Duke Mantee" was based upon Dillinger. Bogie got the role because of his close resemblance, and it was the sort of character that helped define his career in the ganster genre for years to come.<br />
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[quote name='Tim']Did anyone else watch the feature length pilot for Ron Moore's new series, [i]Virtuality[/i]? It was pretty good, and it's a real shame it probably won't go ahead as a series.[/quote]<br />
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watched Let the Right on in.<br />
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I liked it, 7.5/10, a couple of really bizzaro moments though...<br />
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[spoiler:3654nn8v]the bit where Oskar spies her naked, the cats attacking that woman[/spoiler:3654nn8v] -
[i]For All Mankind [/i]- HD reissue from Criterion of a great documentary about the Apollo missions to the moon. Amazing use of the archive footage to create a beautiful experience. Brian Eno music used for the score. 9/10. Great way to celebrate the 40th anniversary of man setting foot on the moon.
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[quote name='Tim'][i]For All Mankind [/i]- HD reissue from Criterion of a great documentary about the Apollo missions to the moon. Amazing use of the archive footage to create a beautiful experience. Brian Eno music used for the score. 9/10. Great way to celebrate the 40th anniversary of man setting foot on the moon.[/quote]<br />
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Related - this odball news item hit the newswires today on the anniversary:<br />
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[quote][size=7]Moon landing tapes got erased, NASA admits[/size]<br />
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The original recordings of the first humans landing on the moon 40 years ago were erased and re-used, but newly restored copies of the original broadcast look even better, NASA officials said on Thursday.<br />
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NASA released the first glimpses of a complete digital make-over of the original landing footage that clarifies the blurry and grainy images of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walking on the surface of the moon.<br />
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The full set of recordings, being cleaned up by Burbank, California-based Lowry Digital, will be released in September. The preview is available at [url="http://www.nasa.gov"]http://www.nasa.gov[/url].<br />
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[color=#FF0000]NASA admitted in 2006 that no one could find the original video recordings of the July 20, 1969, landing.[/color]<br />
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Since then, Richard Nafzger, an engineer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, who oversaw television processing at the ground-tracking sites during the Apollo 11 mission, has been looking for them.<br />
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The good news is he found where they went. The bad news is they were part of a batch of [color=#FF0000]200,000 tapes that were degaussed -- magnetically erased -- and re-used to save money.[/color]<br />
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"The goal was live TV," Nafzger told a news conference.<br />
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"We should have had a historian running around saying 'I don't care if you are ever going to use them -- we are going to keep them'," he said.<br />
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They found good copies in the archives of CBS news and some recordings called kinescopes found in film vaults at Johnson Space Center.<br />
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Lowry, best known for restoring old Hollywood films, has been digitizing these along with some other bits and pieces to make a new rendering of the original landing.[/quote]<br />
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Rest o' the story here:<br />
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There's a really nice collection of photos here:<br />
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[quote name='Tim']There's a really nice collection of photos here:<br />
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Those are cool. About five years ago I bought two huge banana boxes of newspapers at a garage sale, one a box with fifteen different newspapers about the first Apollo landing, and the other a dozen newspapers about the JFK assassination. I asked the seller how much he wanted. He told me "five bucks." I asked, "each?" "No, both." I was stupified that somebody would take up so much storage space preserving the newspapers, then basically giving them away for peanuts. "Sold!!" Love looking back at that historic stuff. I still remember watching the Apollo landing when I was a small kid and being pretty damn mesmerized. -
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Skite: I went to grad school with one of the guys 21 based on.<br />
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Mike Aponte? Jeffrey Ma?
