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mogwai

Oddly for a tarentino I thought the music was the bit that really let it down, the music through-out seemed really badly thought out. 
 
Some cracking digs in the movie too, like the bit about "In France we respect directors" <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' />

Kirwan

[quote name='mogwai']Oddly for a tarentino I thought the music was the bit that really let it down, the music through-out seemed really badly thought out. 
 
Some cracking digs in the movie too, like the bit about "In France we respect directors" <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' />[/quote] 
 
Yes, he had some pearlers alright. I didn't really pay much attention to the music, though the Gasoline song was pretty good in context, but that's the only one I noticed.

TeeJay

[quote name='Razbra']The Boat that rocked. Great cast completely wasted. One of the most unfunny comedies I have ever seen. Nick Frost wasted. Rhys Ifans wasted. Rhys Darby wasted(must the first time 2 rhys' starred in a movie together). Bill Nighy wasted. Kenneth Branagh Wasted. It was pathetic. Not one laugh out loud moment. I don't think I even smirked. 
 
Crap 
 
Sound track however was fantastic.[/quote] 
 
Thanks for the heads-up. I think Bill Nighy is great but when I saw the trailer I thought it looked rubbish. ($$$ saved!)

TeeJay

[quote name='Toddy']District 9 which was great.[/quote] 
 
Went to see it today. 
 
I think the documentary' bit went on a bit too long. I think Peter Jackson must have thought the audience were thick or something if he thought they would not get the idea' after a short intro. He should have just let us follow the storyline ourselves. 
 
Although it wasn't bad, I actually thought it was more like a dvd or made-for-tv movie than a big screen block-buster. 
 
Good ending though.

JP

Saw the latest Harry Potter movie, alas with my lack of research I thought it was the last installment in the series and thougt. "Well I might as well go see the last one at the movies". Only of course to discover that it wasn't, made up for my some poor sap blubbering away in the cinema when dumbledorph died and I recalled the parody in the Simpson's when Homer is reading the book to Lisa and changes then ending when poor greystache dies - then spends the next night in Moe's sobbing into his beer cying out "Greystache, oh greystache!!" Spent the next 15 minutes furiously trying not to bray like a donkey with laughter - worth the price of admission alone!! 
 
Movie was ok as well... 
 
Saw Ingolorious Basterds lat night, good except for the last 20 minutes where it really just got a bit silly - still what does one expect from Tanintino... 
 
Loved that Colnel Landers character - all class "Mind if I smoke my pipe as well??" Outstanding!!!

Tim

Rambo V. It's officially happening. Oh yeah. 
 
[url="http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118007920.html?categoryId=2429&cs=1"]http://www.variety.com/article/VR111800 ... =2429&cs=1[/url]

Kirwan

[quote name='Tim']Rambo V. It's officially happening. Oh yeah. 
 
[url="http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118007920.html?categoryId=2429&cs=1"]http://www.variety.com/article/VR111800 ... =2429&cs=1[/url][/quote] 
 
Fuck yeah! Impressive gross the last one got, he made that on a shoe string. 
 
Be great to see Rambo in US soil again.

Tim

[quote name='Kirwan'][quote name='Tim']Rambo V. It's officially happening. Oh yeah. 
 
[url="http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118007920.html?categoryId=2429&cs=1"]http://www.variety.com/article/VR111800 ... =2429&cs=1[/url][/quote] 
 
Fuck yeah! Impressive gross the last one got, he made that on a shoe string. 
 
Be great to see Rambo in US soil again.[/quote] 
 
Yeah, $150M box office + DVDs. Looking forward to this and [i]The Expendables[/i].

taniwharugby

State of Play, good cast, 6.5/10 
 
Conspiracy Thriller, does ok, never really gets going though.

taniwharugby

Lies and Illusions; Chrisitan Slater, Cuba Gooding Jnr 
 
Very odd movie, started off really good, and then it was like the Director musta gone home sick and some (poor)Tarantino wannabe finished it...

Nepia

I just saw everyone's favourite Nic Cage in Bangkok Dangerous - my good was it awful, and I don't even hate the guy like some of you fullas on here. 
Saw Inglorious Basterds and District 9 last week and they are both brilliant. 
Peter Jackson is creating quite a little fiefdom at Weta and giving our tri nations buddies a good leg up (as well as working with Speilberg, Cameron and Del Toro.) Inglorious Basterds rates as my 2nd favourite Tarantino movie after Pulp Fiction. 
 
Edit: I also watched King Corn which is a documentary about the corn industry in the US (how corn syrup is used as a sweetener and how corn is fed to cattle mostly - I'd explain more but don't want to give too much info away before viewing). Basically 2 guys rent an acre of land to grow corn and then investigate what corn gets used for. At the start they did some tests and found out that they were around 80% corn based nutritionally. It would be one of the best docos I have ever watched and the makers are in a class above the likes of Michael Moore and his grandstanding. They don't ambush or harass people, rather they just let the facts speak for themselves. Great movie whether you're a greenie or not (I'm far from a greenie).

red terror

I just returned from a few weeks away hiking/tramping in the wilderness. It was a two-day drive out of province, and coincidentally, right after posting a comment on the James Cameron "Avatar" thread, where I commented that I couldn't say his "Titanic" was any better than "A Night to Remember," the cheap motel I stayed at showed the film on the tv that very evening. It was the first time since I saw the movie on opening weekend (Christmas 1997) and I would like to revise my comment. The film is substantially inferior to the earlier Brit version. In fact, there was quite a lot there that I had forgotten that was really, really bad, including a historical abomination and disgrace where Cameron puts a gun into the hands of a First Officer, named Murdoch, and has him shooting passengers, that is total historical bullshit and defamation of character. That was just one thing of many that pissed me off, so I walk back some of those earlier half-positive comments.

Toddy

Saw Up on Sunday and it's another great Pixar movie. Good to take your kids to and adults can enjoy to. I saw it in 3D but I didn't really think it was nessesary.

mariner4life

watched a couple on the weekend 
 
The International: Clive Owen takes on the international banking industry. Story actually pretty good, but it really looks like they made the story too big and didn't know how to end it, so just slapped one toegether. Last 3 mins a total let down. Still, gets a pass 5.5/10 (life lesson learned from movie, don't fuck with an Italians family) 
 
Role Models: Cynic's life falls apart, and along with slacker mate has to do community service with kids. I laughed a shitload, its pretty funny stuff (i have to admist i like Sean William Scott, he is a funny fucker), its not serious, or high brow, in fact it is the total opposite, but its funny. Lots of familiar faces as all these people seem to do movies together now. 7/10 
 
Rendition: Now this was good. Egyptian American taken by authorities after they think he is involved with terrorists. Wife can't find what happened, CIA (i think) operative thinks its all unfair, lots of bad shit happens to this guy. Film maker takes a pop at US policy, torture as a method of obtaining info, and a few other causes. But its pretty well done. 8/10.

red terror

[quote name='Toddy']Saw Up on Sunday and it's another great Pixar movie. Good to take your kids to and adults can enjoy to. I saw it in 3D but I didn't really think it was nessesary.[/quote] 
 
It's probably the best movie I have seen this year. Personally, I also thought it the best 3D film I have ever seen, I thought the depth was awesome, gave me vertigo.

raznomore

Ok saw District 9 today. Excellent movie. Can't fault it at all. It does however have a whole lot in common with the 80's movie Enemy Mine(Louis Gossett jr and Denis Quaid) though. A few minor plot differences but the general political racial undertones are very similar.

TeeJay

[quote name='taniwharugby']State of Play, good cast, 6.5/10 
 
Conspiracy Thriller, does ok, never really gets going though.[/quote] 
 
State of Play.....is this a new movie or dvd? Who's in it? 
 
I l-o-v-e conspiracy theory movies.

TeeJay

[quote name='mariner4life'] The International: Clive Owen takes on the international banking industry. Story actually pretty good, but it really looks like they made the story too big and didn't know how to end it, so just slapped one toegether. Last 3 mins a total let down. Still, gets a pass 5.5/10 (life lesson learned from movie, don't fuck with an Italians family) 8/10.[/quote] 
 
I couldn't wait for this movie to come out. The trailer looked fantastic and I'm a huge Clive Owen fan. (He should have been picked as 007, not Daniel Craig - but that's another discussion). 
 
I don't think the director realised how much potential the movie had and it struggled a bit.

raznomore

[quote name='TeeJay'][quote name='taniwharugby']State of Play, good cast, 6.5/10 
 
Conspiracy Thriller, does ok, never really gets going though.[/quote] 
 
State of Play.....is this a new movie or dvd? Who's in it? 
 
I l-o-v-e conspiracy theory movies.[/quote] 
 
Russell Crowe & Ben Afflect

TeeJay

Oooooh, Ben Affleck. 
 
Gotta see that. xzxcool

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