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Posted by Cash Car Star on Sun Oct 2nd at 10:27am 2005

Maddox is nothing more than a popular blowhard regurgitating sentiments much more eliquently expressing by a certain Mr. Tarantino: http://www.tarantino.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=234&Itemid=40

What the movie was really about though was a reintegration of military strength into the United States' foreign policy, as the emotional wounds of Vietnam were slowly healing. Military strength was again portrayed as sexual desirability. The enemy is faceless, vague and impotent. America is a set of elite fighters taking their divine crusade of democracy to wherever, whenever. Of all the movies I don't agree with politically, it's probably right there at the top. And it all happened in the middle of Ronald Reagan's presidency - what a surprise there.





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Posted by wil5on on Sun Oct 2nd at 10:45am 2005

Top Gun was a movie about planes. There was shooting and stuff, and missiles.


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Posted by ReNo on Mon Oct 3rd at 6:47pm 2005

I know there was a dedicated thread about it, but I felt it prudent to point out in this one that Final Fantasy VII - Advent Children is a hugely entertaining film full of awesome fights. It is a bit lacking in storytelling, but its really hard to care. Some anime society place in Edinburgh are putting it on a big screen on Friday night, so I'm thinking I might go along with a few mates and see if there are any cosplayers - sexy, hilarious or tragic; any of those will do <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif">

Just watched the anime that comes with the film's special edition, called "Last Order". It is pretty short - just 20 minutes or so - and for people who are interested, covers the Nibelheim reactor incident, and Zack and Cloud's history. There isn't anything "new" storyline wise per se, though it does shed a little more light on it than the game does. It's action is a bit silly and over the top, even more so than Advent Children in ways, but for FFVII junkies like me its worth watching. Its more of a link with Before Crisis, the FFVII mobile phone game, than anything else really.




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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Wed Oct 5th at 2:57am 2005

Just saw Otto Preminger's "Anatomy of a Murder" (1959) starring Jimmy Stewart, and I have to say it was hilariously entertaining with some vividly lovable characters (like the judge!) who just leapt of the screen. Jimmy Stewart was so awkward it made my happy to see!

Definite recommendation to anyone who likes black and white films and feels like a few good laughs.




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Posted by Finger on Wed Oct 5th at 3:33am 2005

Serinity... kicked George Lucas ass. Go see it.



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Posted by fraggard on Wed Oct 5th at 8:31am 2005

? quote:
Maddox is nothing more than a popular blowhard regurgitating sentiments much more eliquently expressing by a certain Mr. Tarantino:


heh... was that deliberate?




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Posted by ReNo on Wed Oct 5th at 3:06pm 2005

Been watching the US TV series "Prison Break" that shows on Fox on Monday nights. Stupid over descriptive title, but its enjoyable enough. The lead actor seems a bit wooden to me (probably done on purpose, but it just makes the guy kinda unlikeable), though the rest of the cast are pretty good. Its no Lost, Desperate Housewives, or 24, but its another show to pass my time <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_wink.gif"> I'm such a TV show junkie these days!




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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Wed Oct 5th at 4:20pm 2005

I'm just curious, how does the import of TV series work over there? It's not very common that we get European shows over here (we tend to bastardize them instead of just importing them straight, which sucks).




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Posted by Crono on Wed Oct 5th at 4:50pm 2005

Remember Gatchaman? Oh wait, it was called Geforce here ... with the last episode missing.

Nothing gets ported here unless it's animated. (Probably, since it costs a lot of money to animate something, when you can just dub it) If it's really a good show, chances are they'll remake it. Like the Office. (I haven't seen it, but I've heard that they're remaking it)


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Posted by ReNo on Wed Oct 5th at 6:17pm 2005

There's not much too it really - if a show does well in the US, one of the UK channels gets the rights to show it and airs it. We get a whole lot of US shows and they make about about 90% of the worth watching TV <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif"> Desperate Housewives, Lost, the Simpsons, Without a Trace, Friends, Frasier, West Wing, Nip/Tuck, Six Feet Under - the list goes on and on <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif"> In the UK there aren't really many "big budget" shows of the same magnitude of US ones, and its cheaper to import them than try to match them I guess. Prison Break isn't actually showing over here (neither have any series of 24 past the second <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/sad.gif">) but where there's a will there's a way <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_wink.gif">




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Posted by jake on Wed Oct 5th at 6:42pm 2005

Is anyone aware of this? Please ignore if it's old hat.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4311756.stm

I know it probably doesn't belong in this thread but I thought it might be of interest.




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Posted by ReNo on Wed Oct 5th at 10:14pm 2005

Yeah I read about that yesterday - pretty good news I'd say <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif"> Peter Jackson brings Weta's special effects with him to the deal as well, so the covenant and all will be looking as good as can be I'm sure!




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Posted by Cash Car Star on Thu Oct 6th at 6:53am 2005

? quoting fraggard

? quote:
Maddox is nothing more than a popular blowhard regurgitating sentiments much more eliquently expressing by a certain Mr. Tarantino:


heh... was that deliberate?
Uhhh... yeah, sure. Completely deliberate. That's the ticket!



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Posted by Kage_Prototype on Thu Oct 6th at 5:47pm 2005

Saw Seven and Sin City again, and I still thing they're both brilliant. Bought the Jurassic Park boxset as well; the 1st uis great, the 2nd is unnessasary but still fun to watch (minus the ending bit), and the 3rd is still slightly s**tty.

There's nothing decent at the movies anymore. :x I jus bought Shaun of the Dead, gonna give that a watch tonight.



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Posted by Crono on Thu Oct 6th at 10:33pm 2005

Mirrormask is in limited release in the US right now ... that's worth seeing.

Jurassic Park 3 is WAY better then The Lost World. The Lost World has so many god awful parts. JP3 is really just ... funny. I would never pay money for either, which is why I just bought the first one. But, okay.

Shaun of the Dead: I love that movie. Sin City should have a new version in the next few months of each "book" with added stuff all individual.

Want good movies? Or NEW good movies? Like in the theater? Or New on DVD or whatever?

I could list some.


Blame it on Microsoft, God does.



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Posted by Underdog on Thu Oct 6th at 10:49pm 2005

? quoting Nickelplate
Burt reynolds is cool though.

Met Burt when I lived in Florida. He has the Burt Reynolds Ranch outside of West Palm. He is a prick, in every sense of the word. Probably justified, but since I wasn't the one who made him such, I didn't care to see it.

As for new movies, I have seen none but, I re-watched "Naked Gun 33 1/3" - Timeless humor. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_lol.gif">




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Posted by ReNo on Fri Oct 7th at 12:40am 2005

Watched a couple of films in the past few days, as a sale at HMV prompted me to buy a few DVDs. Note there may be a few spoilers in here...

Resident Evil: Apocalypse was pretty damn awful. I had hoped it would be on par with the first film (yeah yeah, I liked it), but unfortunately it didn't pull it off. As an action movie it failed outright by having really badly done action scenes - fights had far too many camera switches making it impossible to see any of the (badly pulled off) moves properly, and the gun play wasn't at all stylish. While the first film didn't relate to the games at all really, the second just pisses all over the game references - Nicholai bears no relation WHATSOEVER to the same named character from the game, Jill just seems to act like a bitch through the whole film which is against her friendly personality in the games, and the Nemesis turns good, dear lord no! There were a couple of scenes that raised a knowing smile from me - most noteworthily the one where Alice runs from a helicopter's bullet spray into armed enemy, and then drops her gun so they don't shoot, before falling down and catching it as it falls (awesome RE:CV reference <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">) - but not enough to save the movie in my eyes. At least it was cheap.

Tonight I watched Ong Bak after seeing it recieve so many glowing recommendations, and while it was definately an enjoyable film, I can't help but feel its overrated. Kudos where it's due as there were some awesome moves in there, but his fighting style (while very cool) could get a bit repetitive at times. In general there just didn't seem to be as many "oh man!" moments during the fights as you get with some of the other legendary screen martial artists. While it was certainly more brutal and realistic than Jackie Chan's comedies or Jet Li's recent CG laden movies, I ddn't find myself quite as impressed as I have been by either of them in the past. Tony Jaa, while undoubtadly an amazing fighter and athlete, didn't seem to have the screen presence of his two big "rivals" either. Definately worth watching for fans of martial arts films, but I think the hype led me to being let down a little.




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Posted by French Toast on Fri Oct 7th at 12:43am 2005

Me father bought the 9-disc ALIEN boxed set uber mega super duper thing. I watched the first one last night, and a bunch of featurettes on it. Man, Ridley Scott is a genious... I loved it.

Great movie. If you haven't seen it, watch it.




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Posted by Finger on Fri Oct 7th at 1:31am 2005

I know I am repeating myself here, but I fear that you might be missing a GREAT movie. Serenity.

This movie does what the original Star Wars did. It sweeps in and shows the CG machine how to make a sci-fi, space adventure based on interesting, bold, character design...not special effects.

Go see this movie!!





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Posted by Crono on Fri Oct 7th at 3:43am 2005

Oh God, yes, RE:A is terrible. It makes the first one look like Gold, doesn't it? You could actually argue the first movie is good now ... Maybe that'd justify our fandom?

Ong Bak was just really refreshing ... I saw it in Febuary, I think. So, Unleashed or any of that stuff wasn't out and EVERYTHING was CG at the time, it was just refreshing. And fire-legs while fighting rock.

I still want to see Serenity. But I don't think I want to pay for it ... I'm just not sure why.


Blame it on Microsoft, God does.




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