Movie review thread...
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[quote name='Tim']Watched HD version of [I][B]To Live and Die in L.A.[/B][/I] I love that movie, especially the counterfeiting montage. Robbie Muller was such a good cinematographer. <br />
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I laughed my ass off during that Human Centipede Trailer. Pure camp.[/QUOTE]<br />
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Yip that's a great movie. Peterson really hasn't done enough in his career. I miss movies like this, just not made anymore.<br />
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I wish I'd found that trailer camp. The Dr was hamming it up a bit but the whole premise is just yuck mate. -
Yeah, really well made genre films that extend beyond the normal boundaries but aren't too self consciously "arty" (even if they looking very flashy). I love those 80's thrillers like that.<br />
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If you want an excellent crime themed, genre film check out[I] The Friends of Eddie Coyle.[/I] Between Red Terror and myself, I think it's got about 10 mentions on this thread already! -
BTW, on human centipede - between knowing a bit of anatomy, having had a few colonoscopies, and performed animal experiments, I find stuff like that very difficult to take seriously. Cracked up at his anatomical diagram. <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />
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[quote name='Razbra']Not sure where this stands as far as the thread goes. Just watched the trailer for [B]The Human Centipede. [/B]All I can say is yuck!<br />
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Im not going to link to it as I don't want to be seen as a sicko. But if you have the stomach for that type of horrible shit its on apple trailers...[/QUOTE]<br />
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[quote name='Kirwan']Well just walked out of my first movie, well I think ever. Angels and Demons, truly awful. *<br />
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<br />- OK so the babysitter said our kid was sick, but we didn't even hesitate and left[/QUOTE]<br />
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Finally saw the end of this movie on TV, farking terrible. Quite an achievement to get even worse. Ewan MacGregor was weird/terrible in this.
- OK so the babysitter said our kid was sick, but we didn't even hesitate and left[/QUOTE]<br />
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[quote name='Bones']Boondock Saints II - blerk. Don't bother. Has almost made me hate the original. Fucking pile of shit.[/QUOTE]<br />
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The guy behind the whole thing is the most egotistical loser I've seen in a while. Troy Duffy is his name. Fucking knob that guy. Had the script that everyone wanted, a fucking bona fide money tree or so he claims. But he wouldn't let the studios "water" down his vision. Which seemed to change on a daily basis. He had no experience as a director and had fluked his way to writing a bloody good screenplay. The end result was a poor movie with cult status for no apparent reason other than the director/writer is a c*nt. -
[quote name='Razbra']Not sure where this stands as far as the thread goes. Just watched the trailer for The Human Centipede. All I can say is yuck!<br />
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Im not going to link to it as I don't want to be seen as a sicko. But if you have the stomach for that type of horrible shit its on apple trailers...[/QUOTE]<br />
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I've been having a bit of a movie blitz lately. These are the ones I can remember.<br />
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Push: a Heroes type movie with Chris Evans, Dakota Fanning, and Uncle Bully himself Chris Curtis. Not a great movie but enjoyable switch off your brain for a few hours - 6.5/10.<br />
Battle of Algiers: definitely lives up to the hype. 8.5/10 (losses half a mark for being French.)<br />
Boy: again, definitely lives up to the hype. Saw my rellies in the characters. 8.5/10.<br />
Glenngarry Glen Ross: Disappointing, too much like a play (which it was based on) - but Alec Baldwin was classic in his 2nd billing role which is basically a cameo - the 30 Rock producers definitely saw this movie. The rain was way overdone too. 5.5/10.<br />
Zombieland: (I think I may have already mentioned it) was bloody good. Woody Harrelson and Emma Stone and the goofy guy from Adventureland fighting Zombies in the US. 8/10. -
[quote name='Razbra']The guy behind the whole thing is the most egotistical loser I've seen in a while. Troy Duffy is his name. Fucking knob that guy. Had the script that everyone wanted, a fucking bona fide money tree or so he claims. But he wouldn't let the studios "water" down his vision. Which seemed to change on a daily basis. He had no experience as a director and had fluked his way to writing a bloody good screenplay. The end result was a poor movie with cult status for no apparent reason other than the director/writer is a c*nt.[/QUOTE]<br />
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Didja see the documentary ("Overnight") about Duffy and the making of that movie? Friggin' hilarious. Everything from his massively inflated narcissism, his metal band "The Brood," and the way he treats his friends as slaves and then condemns them for not being sufficiently grovelling & grateful enough, is sociopathic gold. -
[quote name='red terror']Didja see the documentary ("Overnight") about Duffy and the making of that movie? Friggin' hilarious. Everything from his massively inflated narcissism, his metal band "The Brood," and the way he treats his friends as slaves and then condemns them for not being sufficiently grovelling & grateful enough, is sociopathic gold.[/QUOTE]<br />
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Not in its entirety. My best mate was at film school in about 98 and was cracking on about this movie, preproduction. Telling me it was a Tarantino type master piece in the making.<br />
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I used to be part of a self important movie club at uni and we debated the hell out of this movie when it finally came out. I'd read all the press surrounding the studios dropping out and the casting problems most of which were because of Duffy. <br />
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When I finally had the opportunity to see that doco I got sick of his "messiah" complex and just didn't bother. -
[quote name='Nepia']I've been having a bit of a movie blitz lately. These are the ones I can remember.<br />
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Push: a Heroes type movie with Chris Evans, Dakota Fanning, and Uncle Bully himself Chris Curtis. Not a great movie but enjoyable switch off your brain for a few hours - 6.5/10.<br />
Battle of Algiers: definitely lives up to the hype. 8.5/10 (losses half a mark for being French.)<br />
Boy: again, definitely lives up to the hype. Saw my rellies in the characters. 8.5/10.<br />
Glenngarry Glen Ross: Disappointing, too much like a play (which it was based on) - but Alec Baldwin was classic in his 2nd billing role which is basically a cameo - the 30 Rock producers definitely saw this movie. The rain was way overdone too. 5.5/10.<br />
Zombieland: (I think I may have already mentioned it) was bloody good. Woody Harrelson and Emma Stone and the goofy guy from Adventureland fighting Zombies in the US. 8/10.[/QUOTE]<br />
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Glenngarry Glen Ross is one of those movies where you either love it or hate it. I loved it. I liked the intimacy of it which is like a play. Its one of my favourite movies. 12 Angry Men, original or the remake, is very similar in its feel but not as moody. Give it a go if you haven't all ready. -
[quote name='Razbra']Glenngarry Glen Ross is one of those movies where you either love it or hate it. I loved it. I liked the intimacy of it which is like a play. Its one of my favourite movies. 12 Angry Men, original or the remake, is very similar in its feel but not as moody. Give it a go if you haven't all ready.[/QUOTE]<br />
I like 12 Angry Men, the original, but think that maybe Glengarry Glen Ross suffered from the hype. I'd heard all these stories about how good it was but in the end it couldn't live up to it - I usually like films based on Mamets writing too. -
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Battle of Algiers: definitely lives up to the hype. 8.5/10 (losses half a mark for being French.)<br />
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You can put the half mark back on Neps, the movie is Italian, not French.<br />
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As far as French cinema is concerned the war in Algeria never happened. There has hardly been any movie ever made about it, maybe 3 or 4 in 50 years. About as many made about the war in Indochina.<br />
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[quote name='Parcy Dal Païs']You can put the half mark back on Neps, the movie is Italian, not French.<br />
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As far as French cinema is concerned the war in Algeria never happened. There has hardly been any movie ever made about it, maybe 3 or 4 in 50 years. About as many made about the war in Indochina.<br />
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You see, when we commit torture and genocide we like not to publicise it or make movies about it. We're funny that way.[/QUOTE]<br />
French? Italian? Is there any difference? Both countries tanks go in reverse, both speak funny romance languages, both have crazy drivers on the road, both hark back to their previous glory days ... <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' />. (Just kidding - I like both countries ... really.)<br />
Was Lost Command a French film or was it just about the French in Indochina?<br />
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Saw Boy. Obv in a minority but I didn''t think it lived up to its hype. Its a nice little film with a few wry observations but its very 2 diomensional and the one thing it has to say gets boring 1/2 way through IMO.<br />
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Was Lost Command a French film or was it just about the French in Indochina?<br />
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Lost Command was a Spanish movie. Well, like BoA it was done with French money but for political reasons it wasn't made in France. And like BoA it was banned in France for several years.<br />
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I'm not joking when I say we don't do movies about our wars. Anybody who tried in the 60s and 70s have seen their career shitcanned faster than you can say "black list".<br />
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It's getting better now but for a period of 20 years, making a movie about Algeria or Indochina was a big no-no.<br />
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What's up with France and banning movies? Does the government ban them or do they just get blacklisted by the industry? Is Paths to Glory still banned in France?<br />
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Funny you say it was too mild as isn't it used as a training aid in military schools?