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Tim

[quote name='taniwharugby']he was also very good in Deadwood, Hitman, Die Hard 4.0....dont think that has made it to NZ yet (or will?) worth looking for?[/QUOTE] 
 
Yeah, it's quality TV and Olyphant is excellent in it as a guy with serious repressed anger issues.

taniwharugby

he plays that kind of character a bit, and well...maybe he has the same issues in real life?

rustycruiser

Walter Goggins also plays a great hillbilly in Justified. Shane Vandrell only 10x more redneck. A fair number of Deadwood alums had guest spots on Justified. I recognized at least 4 or 5. No Ian McShane though. Maybe next season.

taniwharugby

Don McKay; bit of an odd black comedy/drama/crime film... 
 
was a little slow to start, but once the story started unravelling, was not too bad. 6.75/10 
 
Has Hayden Thomas Church and Elizabeth Shue as the actors of note....

red terror

The scorn being heaped on M. Night Shyamalan's latest "The Last Airbender" is so heavy (many reviews calling it the worst big-budget epic ever, and kids saying they "hate" it), I'm anxious to go watch to see just how truly awful this thing is... I might have to go this weekend...

raznomore

[quote name='red terror']The scorn being heaped on M. Night Shyamalan's latest "The Last Airbender" is so heavy (many reviews calling it the worst big-budget epic ever, and kids saying they "hate" it), I'm anxious to go watch to see just how truly awful this thing is... I might have to go this weekend...[/QUOTE] 
 
How the fuck can you get things so wrong when you seemed to have so much talent. Shyamalan went from Hitchcock to Ed Wood and it makes you wonder how much of his early movies were actually his own ideas.

Quo vadis

[quote name='Toddy']Iron Man 2 opened yesterday in NZ. Not sure why it opens a week later in the States?[/QUOTE] 
 
dont even get me started, a week later? Japan is months behind with most movies, unless its Harry Potter. 
 
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nz is not bad in the scheme of things. 
 
Iron man 2 - saw it last night, it tried too hard....bombard us with special effects until our eyes bleed to cover up for a flakey plot and pray that re-habbed veteran actors RDJ and Rouke weave some magic....hmmm

Tim

[quote name='Razbra']How the fuck can you get things so wrong when you seemed to have so much talent. Shyamalan went from Hitchcock to Ed Wood and it makes you wonder how much of his early movies were actually his own ideas.[/QUOTE] 
 
I really have to take issue with this. The Sixth Sense is a terrible, terrible fucking movie. All his movies have been shit.

red terror

[quote name='Tim']I really have to take issue with this. The Sixth Sense is a terrible, terrible fucking movie. All his movies have been shit.[/QUOTE] 
 
Sixth Sense is okay, though I did predict the "twist" ending while watching. Unbreakable I actually liked. Signs was also okay - didn't love nor hate. But everything else has been humiliating garbage.

red terror

[quote name='Quo vadis'] 
nz is not bad in the scheme of things.[/QUOTE] 
 
Back in the day, summer blockbuster movies in the USA (june/july/august) didn't come to NZ until the SH summer (dec/jan/feb) which meant those of us who wanted to see Star Wars had to read the novelization first and wait impatiently for 5-6 months before it hit our screens. 
 
[QUOTE]Iron man 2 - saw it last night, it tried too hard....bombard us with special effects until our eyes bleed to cover up for a flakey plot and pray that re-habbed veteran actors RDJ and Rouke weave some magic....hmmm[/QUOTE] 
 
I enjoyed the movie, but then my expectations were nominal. It's a popcorn Marvel comicbook movie. I pretty much got exactly what I expected (and was kinda titillated to hear the use of Chris Jericho's "assclown" inserted into a major motion picture). I did think however, that the backstory tension/ revenge about Ivan Vanko (Rourke)'s father and Tony Stark (Downey)'s father went unresolved and could have been done a lot better. (And again...Nick Fury (Sam Jackson) ... where's the cigar?) 
 
The thing I liked best was actually the end of the 9-minute credit sequence, when they reveal Thor's hammer...

raznomore

[quote name='Tim']I really have to take issue with this. The Sixth Sense is a terrible, terrible fucking movie. All his movies have been shit.[/QUOTE] 
 
Im not saying it was masterpiece and most people love it or hate it. But as a first movie it was impressive IMO. There weren't a whole lot of things around like it. I thought Unbreakable was superior to the Sixth Sense and Signs had some good moments. 
 
Everything else has been horrible.

Tim

[quote name='Razbra']Im not saying it was masterpiece and most people love it or hate it. But as a first movie it was impressive IMO. There weren't a whole lot of things around like it. I thought Unbreakable was superior to the Sixth Sense and Signs had some good moments. 
 
Everything else has been horrible.[/QUOTE] 
 
Aha, actually it was it his 2nd proper hollywood movie. /pedant 
 
Horrible schmaltzy schmaltz. I should give Unbroken a fair shake some day, though I suspect it'll much the same to me.

raznomore

[quote name='Tim']Aha, actually it was it his 2nd proper hollywood movie. /pedant 
 
Horrible schmaltzy schmaltz. I should give Unbroken a fair shake some day, though I suspect it'll much the same to me.[/QUOTE] 
 
Righto. Horrible Rosie O'donnell movies aside... First intro to the genre of mystery/thriller then...

taniwharugby

Hot Tub Time MAchine - just some silly fun 
 
Planet 51 - Animated, pretty cool film, TR Jnr loved it.

Kirwan

[quote name='Tim']Aha, actually it was it his 2nd proper hollywood movie. /pedant 
 
Horrible schmaltzy schmaltz. I should give Unbroken a fair shake some day, though I suspect it'll much the same to me.[/QUOTE] 
 
Unbreakable is a great riff on the super hero genre, so if you like comics you'll love the themes and the different/realistic way they are handled. 
 
Now the thing with that movie and the Six Sense, is Bruce Willis delivers two really good performances. Once that are a stretch for his abilities, and that really holds the movies together. I really liked the Six Sense, but I saw it at a difficult period in my life and schmaltz really connected with me. To me, the best part of the film is not the flashy reveal but the mother getting some healing from her son, that scene nails me every time. 
 
So I went into his other movies hoping for big things, but they had the same production values and some of the good acting, but the stories were fucking ridiculous. Especially The Village, what a pile of crap. 
 
He got locked into thinking he had to have a twist. Twists don't work if you go into the film expecting to see one. 
 
As for the other Avatar film (nice symmetry that this one sounds terrible and the other one is most successful film of all time...), the only review I've read of it refers to it as the best parody of epic films every made. Ouch.

Tim

Doing a Death Wish marathon. Part 2 is so awesomely bad. Christ, one of the (intended to be) super evil hoods looks like John C. Reilly.

taniwharugby

Pandorum - Dennis Quaid. 
 
Pretty good futuristic sci-fi film, with a touch of zombie mixed in

Kirwan

[quote name='Tim']Doing a Death Wish marathon. Part 2 is so awesomely bad. Christ, one of the (intended to be) super evil hoods looks like John C. Reilly.[/QUOTE] 
 
I watched the first one a few months ago, loved the ending with the hilariously stereotypical hippies in the train station. 
 
Made me appreciate the ending of Gran Torino a bit more too.

Tim

[quote name='Kirwan']I watched the first one a few months ago, loved the ending with the hilariously stereotypical hippies in the train station. 
 
Made me appreciate the ending of Gran Torino a bit more too.[/QUOTE] 
 
What cracks me up about the 1st one is that he just slaughters arbitrary scumbags that have no connection to his wife's murder.

Tim

Special bonus Death Wish III death scene. Awesomeness: 
 
[video=youtube;CyXQp-HzLaE]

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