Movie review thread...
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[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 fun spotting all the locations though -
[quote name='Nepia']<br />
Was Lost Command a French film or was it just about the French in Indochina?<br />
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As a Frenchman how do you find Battle of Algiers as a movie PDP?[/QUOTE]<br />
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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Finally saw "Watchmen" to be honest i wasn't overly impressed. Yea the story was interesting, and it wasn't your average hero movie, but i just wasn't very entertained. Even when the hot chick got her tits out.<br />
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I also finally got to see "Wall-E" now that is a brilliant movie. Amazing the amount of emotion the could protray with minimal facial expressions and no words. Very cool, very impressed. -
[quote name='mariner4life']Finally saw "Watchmen" to be honest i wasn't overly impressed. Yea the story was interesting, and it wasn't your average hero movie, but i just wasn't very entertained. Even when the hot chick got her tits out.<br />
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I also finally got to see "Wall-E" now that is a brilliant movie. Amazing the amount of emotion the could protray with minimal facial expressions and no words. Very cool, very impressed.[/QUOTE]<br />
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I think it was nepia who said it best somewhere a millions pages back "too much BLUE PENIS.." or words to that effect. -
[quote name='Razbra']I think it was nepia who said it best somewhere a millions pages back "too much BLUE PENIS.." or words to that effect.[/QUOTE]<br />
Yeah I got a bollocking for that from the 'fanboys'. Then I got a bollocking for calling them fanboys. <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /> <br />
I was actually waiting for the 'fanboys' to go on the attack against mariner4life - they must all be reading the graphic novel for the 100th time. -
[quote name='Nepia']Yeah I got a bollocking for that from the 'fanboys'. Then I got a bollocking for calling them fanboys. <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /> <br />
I was actually waiting for the 'fanboys' to go on the attack against mariner4life - they must all be reading the graphic novel for the 100th time.[/QUOTE]<br />
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You also got a bollocking for being immature and focusing on a penis. -
Caught Avatar and Sherlock Holmes on a flight to and from Perth.<br />
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Avatar was very good ... good storyline, visually brilliant.<br />
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[quote name='Kirwan']You also got a bollocking for being immature and focusing on a penis.[/QUOTE]<br />
If I remember rightly it was a humorous quip at the end of my post and seized on by the Fanboys in attempt to discredit my post entirely. Fanboys! <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /> -
[quote name='Nepia']If I remember rightly it was a humorous quip at the end of my post and seized on by the Fanboys in attempt to discredit my post entirely. Fanboys! <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />[/QUOTE]<br />
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Umm, nope. I posted quite a lengthy retort, only one line of which focused on your inability to look away from the penis. It was a good film, with a couple of bad notes..<br />
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Jesus, the second flood has started in the Kapiti Coast, heavy, heavy rain.... -
[quote name='Kirwan']Umm, nope. I posted quite a lengthy retort, only one line of which focused on your inability to look away from the penis. It was a good film, with a couple of bad notes..<br />
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[B]Jesus, the second flood has started in the Kapiti Coast, heavy, heavy rain....[/B][/QUOTE]<br />
God is punishing the Fanboys!<br />
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It was a bad film, with a couple of good notes.. <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />.<br />
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[quote name='Kirwan']Umm, nope. I posted quite a lengthy retort, only one line of which focused on your inability to look away from the penis. It was a good film, with a couple of bad notes..<br />
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Jesus, the second flood has started in the Kapiti Coast, heavy, heavy rain....[/QUOTE]<br />
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Hated it. But I had never read the comic (sorry, graphic novel) before seeing the movie.<br />
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[quote name='cd_wilson']Caught Avatar and Sherlock Holmes on a flight to and from Perth.<br />
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Avatar was very good ... good storyline, visually brilliant.<br />
Sherlock Holmes was slow to start, but picked up as it went along. Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law were both excellent.[/QUOTE]I'm astonished Avatar still achieves visual brilliancy on a shitty airplane screen! -
It was unlikely Watchmen was ever going to satisfy fans of the comic or audiences who didn't know a thing about it. Unlike most comic books, which are written like storyboards for movies, Alan Moore was drafting deep subtext about the nature of the entire superhero comicbook genre into that story, and that was always going to be difficult translating onto the screen and would've likely resulted in even more confusion and footdragging than the plotline already did. <br />
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FWIW I hardly even noticed the blue penis - and, probably it being blue - I simply didn't care. My short-haired dog had a weiner too, but I accepted that he did and moved on, not bothering to fixate on it.<br />
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finally watched Avatar, on the home theatre...<br />
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Thought it was stunning visually, but thought the story was weak and predictable (and as such, way too long) but in the context of what the movie was, the story was fine as it didnt really try to be some great epic or more than it was.
