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Posted by ReNo on Sun Oct 9th at 10:39am 2005

Don't act all hard done by Crono - you might get hilariously bad cover art but at least the games actually come out over there <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif">




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Posted by Agent Smith on Sun Oct 9th at 2:17pm 2005

Hey Wilson, sounds like you saw the same review on The Movie Show on ABC. I thought it looked great, I love the action in Japanese Anime, its always so perfectly styled.



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Posted by Crono on Mon Oct 10th at 5:10am 2005

Yeah ... but ... still. There's really not that much that comes out here that doesn't come out there. It wasn't until PSone that we started getting more titles anyway. So many great games were never released here ... which doesn't make sense, since they're usually part of series that were released here prior.

But ... what exactly is a good game that's come out here and has no date for there as of now? Because there's a lot of s**tty games out here. A LOT.


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Posted by wil5on on Mon Oct 10th at 11:07am 2005

Yeah, thats the one I saw Smith. I dont really like the action in anime, sometimes its good but usually things hang in the air too long, or fall wrong, and its distracting. The CGI style just makes everything worse imo.


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Posted by ReNo on Mon Oct 10th at 12:09pm 2005

The god damn Front Mission series post 3. The fourth game has been out in the US for over a year now, the fifth is due out in Japan at the end of the year and will surely appear stateside too, and FM Online's chances of seeing an EU release are next to none. Katamari Damacy never made it to the UK, Animal Crossing took about 2 years after the US release or something before it finally got released here, Phantom Dust disappeared off the radar, and I've been disappointed plenty of other times in the past with indefinate delays or cancellations of EU releases. True enough, MOST of the good games appear here after a while, but of the three territories its the EU that gets the short end of the stick. On message boards you often see US folks whining if the UK ever sees a release the US doesn't - Shenmue 2 was our sweet sweet revenge :P




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Posted by ReNo on Mon Oct 10th at 11:28pm 2005

My flatmates and I watched a couple of films in the past few nights, and, rarely for us, we all enjoyed them both thoroughly...

First up was Phone Booth. I'd been wanting to see this ever since it came out but not enough to actually do anything about it <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif"> Saw it in a sale at HMV the other day so decided to pick it up, and I'm really glad I did. You might think a film set almost entirely around a phone booth would get boring but it really held my interest the whole way through. Colin Farrell, who I didn't really hold in particularly high regard (despite having never seen a film of his...I must be too judgemental!), does a great job in his role, and Keifer Sutherland is also great as the voice on the other end of the phone. Gotta love his laugh <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">

Tonight we watched Matchstick Men with Nicholas Cage, who I've always thought of as a decent enough actor, but never really found any of his films to be particularly memorable (though The Rock tried its best). This is certainly his crowning moment in my eyes. Very enjoyable con artist film with a few less orthodox spins in the form of over the top phobias and a reuniting with an unknown daughter. Well worth checking out.




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Posted by French Toast on Mon Oct 10th at 11:37pm 2005

I loved both of those ReNo! I'm a fan of Colin Farrell <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">

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Posted by Crono on Tue Oct 11th at 3:29am 2005

Well, if you like Nicholas Cage, you'll like this ... he named his kid Kal-El ... as in Clark Kent Kal-El.

But, one of the only movies he's acted well in is Matchstick men and Adaptation. Maybe, Bringing out the Dead. But overall ... he's deplorable. But, surprisingly good when playing a social freak.

Phone Booth is good. Hard to believe before that Schumacher made Batman 3 and 4 :shudder:

Colin Ferrell is a good actor ... he has bad movies though. *cough*The Recruit*cough*


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Posted by Cash Car Star on Wed Oct 12th at 5:23am 2005

Just saw A History of Violence. I'm not sure I can recommend it. It's ok, the action is good sometimes, and the focus on how his family deals with him as his secret is unveiled was good. Still, pretty much every scene drags and goes on too long, whether it is an establishing shot in his daughter's bedroom, his son's "baseball" (softball) game, him and his wife having sex on the stairs or sixty-nining in her parents' house, or looking over the dead bodies at the diner.



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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Wed Oct 12th at 6:04am 2005

Just watched My Darling Clementine (1946) dir. by John Ford.

Apparently its his most well known film, but I didn't think it was that great. The showdown scene at the end of the movie at the OK Corral was kind of confusing, and there were a couple uncomfortably angled shots that seemed to break the invisible style. Anyway if you like westerns check it out... its got Doc Holiday and Wyatt Earp... and a terrible themesong.

Oh, and a Mexican hussie named Chihuahua.




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Posted by Crono on Wed Oct 12th at 6:13am 2005

Two Ford movies that are better:

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (very good movie)
The Westerner


The Searchers is alright too.

He directed so many movies/shows/films. 145 I think.


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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Wed Oct 12th at 6:22am 2005

I think I'll go to the library and check out Liberty Valance when I have free time later this week. Once tomorrow's classes are over its just coast until the weekend. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">




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Posted by Underdog on Sun Oct 16th at 4:05am 2005

Oh yeah before I forget, I saw 4 pretty damned good new movies today, and one old great one tonight. Yeah, I couch potatoed today. Was a rare treat.

  • Fever Pitch
  • Sahara
  • Monster in-law
  • Longest Yard
    and
  • As good as it gets

All top shelf movies.




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Posted by Crono on Sun Oct 16th at 4:28am 2005

I forgot to mention, I saw Serenity last ... uh ... Wednesday? Yeah ... it rocked. So now I have to watch FireFly *sigh*. Damn you Joss Whedon and your ability to write good group scenarios (Check out Astonishing X-Men if you want to see some of his stuff outside of the TV/Movie realm)

I plan on seeing MirrorMask this week sometime. I also want to see 2046 while it's still playing at a theater. I know I can get it on DVD and all that stuff, but, I don't have my sound stuff hooked up. (The cables had too much hiss so I ripped them apart)


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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Sun Oct 16th at 6:16am 2005

As most of you know I've been really into zombies recently. I watched Romero's Dawn of the Dead (1978) last week, and 28 Days Later (again) yesterday. Now I really want to watch Land of the Dead. Has anyone seen it? What were your opinions? If there's a good response I'll try to buy the DVD.




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Posted by French Toast on Sun Oct 16th at 1:17pm 2005

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  • Monster in-law
  • Longest Yard


I thought those were 2 of the worst movies I've ever seen!




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Posted by Crono on Sun Oct 16th at 8:17pm 2005

Morphine, Land of the Dead is pretty bad. I thought Dawn of the Dead was really bad. The remake is much better (it's actually enjoyable to watch without the god awful music)

Land of the Dead is like Day of the Dead: Bad.

It has some really awesome ideas and stuff, but, it's still executed poorly. I don't know why Romero wants zombies to learn ... I really don't. (Also, as I was saying before, you can't make a movie about zombies, but rather the human drama that ensues because of them. Land of the Dead is about 1/2 human drama 1/2 about zombies. It just doesn't work well)

Shaun of the Dead (Best "traditional" zombies)
Dawn of the Dead (2004)
28 Days Later

Are about the best all round zombie movies. Of course, Romero did come up with the ideas to make zombies flesh hungry ... but ... it was just an idea. It doesn't make his movies that good, because they're pretty bad. Enjoyable for cult-zombie-freaks, but, not good by any means. Land of the Dead is no different. It's pretty funny actually.

I haven't seen "Undead" it was never playing here. I heard it was good from some people then I heard it was bad ... I don't know, since I haven't seen it.

I should mention, to interest you zombie fanatics, Serenity has a take on zombie-like-villians. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">


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Posted by Underdog on Sun Oct 16th at 8:22pm 2005

? quoting French Toast

? quote:
  • Monster in-law
  • Longest Yard



I thought those were 2 of the worst movies I've ever seen!

I promise, I will consult you the very next time I want to post my opinions on movies. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_lol.gif">

Seriously, if those were the worse, you don't get out much. They were far from Oscar winners but hardly poor viewing. To each their own.




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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Sun Oct 16th at 8:59pm 2005

I enjoyed the Dawn of the Dead remake when I saw it in theaters (the bit post credits was awesome).

28 days later is awesome because of the idea of waking up into a post-zombie-apocalypse world. When I saw the first Resident Evil movie... I wished they had started right where it ended.

I never watched the second RE movie, did it in fact pick up where the first left off?

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Posted by Crono on Sun Oct 16th at 9:19pm 2005

Oh man, you have to see the uncut version: More zombies. More gore. More Ving. How could it be bad? (I saw a movie at Blockbuster I wanted to rent. It had Ving Rames AND Jim Brown! It also took place in prison. The only thing that could make that better is zombies. Well, 2 out of 3 isn't that bad, right?)

Yeah, RE:A picked up there ... see it ... but don't think you're going to like it. I love the first one (even as bad as it is) and the second one is just ... Well, I'm glad I had a free ticket to see it.

It follows the games character ideas more closely ... while craping on the actual happenings.

It's pretty bad though. Give it a rent or obtain it through ... other ... methods. Sony's already made their money back and then some, so don't feel bad.


Actually, the one thing that was fantastic about the first movie was the soundtrack, Manson's music fit perfectly. The opening and closing were also about the best parts of the movie. Just because it was shot, cut, edited near flawlessly. Man, Paul, if you just put your mind to it more often, you'd almost be a good director.


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