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Posted by Adam Hawkins on Wed Sep 8th at 12:11pm 2004

Finally got to see 'Shaun of the Dead' last night and it's every bit as good as I was expecting. I was a big fan of 'Spaced' and the film was a great successor to it. And the pool table/Queen combo is genius

I also watched the Punisher the night before, which was much better than I was expecting. I think I was half-expecting it to be your typical camp over-the-top superhero flick (I know....he's not really a superhero!), but it was a much darker experience. Only thing I can really criticise was that John Travolta still can't act for toffee.

I watch too much TV I think....I also worked my way through the 'Harsh Realm' box-set, and it amazes me that such a good show was given the chop after 3 episodes. Great continuity with the potential to have wildly different episodes (World War II beta test area etc. ).

I've gonna watch 'Freaked' tonight I think. I managed to get hold of it finally, as I remember seeing a 'making of...' it on 'Movies, Games and Videos' donkeys years ago (1993!) and then forgetting what the film was called.

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Posted by ReNo on Wed Sep 8th at 1:03pm 2004

Hero is a rocking film - my flatmate managed to get it in Hong Kong when it was new over there (about 2 years ago) and we loved every minute of it. The fact it has Tony Leung in it means it HAD to be good

I can't remember if I've mentioned any of these asian films before, but for anyone who is interested in foreign movies they are all worth checking out...

The Warrior (sometimes called "Musa the warrior"...haven't a clue why though!)
Basically about a small group of Korean envoys trying to arrange a peace agreement with the Ming, but the Ming think they are spies and send them into exile. On their way back to Korea they rescue a Ming princess from some Mongols, and try to return her to the Mings in order to complete their mission. Loads of cool action scenes, wonderful music, great characters, and beautiful outfits have made this one of my favourite films.

Infernal Affairs
A cool crime movie set in Hong Kong, where both the police force and triads have a mole inside them that the high ranking people on either side can't identify. It stars Tony Leung for starters, so that works in its favour, and having such a great supporting cast including Anthony Wong helps turn this into one hell of a movie. It also has a prequel and sequel in Infernal Affairs 2 and 3 respectively.
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Posted by Monqui on Wed Sep 8th at 2:29pm 2004

Yeah, Infernal Affairs is a pretty good movie. It's a tad slow to start with, but it really has you wondering what's going on towards the end.

I went to go see Garden State and Napoleon Dynamite over the weekend as well- I absolutely loved Garden State, and Napoleon Dynamite is one of the funniest things I think I've ever seen. No point to it at all, but it's still hilarious.

I would suggest them both. [addsig]



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Posted by Gwil on Wed Sep 8th at 6:58pm 2004

$loth, if you consider yourself a Jay and Silent Bob fan i suggest you throw out all that crap like strikes back, and check out chasing amy, mallrats and most importantly...

Clerks. funniest film ever. not for infidels with a hatred of black and white flicks though
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Posted by $loth on Wed Sep 8th at 8:12pm 2004

? posted by Gwil
$loth, if you consider yourself a Jay and Silent Bob fan i suggest you throw out all that crap like strikes back, and check out chasing amy, mallrats and most importantly...

Clerks. funniest film ever. not for infidels with a hatred of black and white flicks though

Clerks had me lmao, some of it mainly due to it being black and white lol, I don't consider myself a big fan, but I like to watch thier bigger stuff like dogma first.

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Posted by Cash Car Star on Wed Sep 8th at 9:59pm 2004

? posted by Monqui
I went to go see Garden State and Napoleon Dynamite over the weekend as well- I absolutely loved Garden State, and Napoleon Dynamite is one of the funniest things I think I've ever seen. No point to it at all, but it's still hilarious.

I would suggest them both.

I've been looking forward to Garden State, but I just can't seem to find a theater running it. Guess I'll wait for the DVD and rent it.





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Posted by Crono on Thu Sep 9th at 6:43am 2004

Personally, I like the "viewaskewnaverse", but I f**king HATE Kevin Smith. The only characters he can write are based on people he knows (Which is terrible since they let him write for Daredevil [probably one of the worst DD writers to date]).

Although, I'm looking forward to his upcoming sequel to clerks, which he said they'll start shooting either November or January, I can't remember which.

Thank God he's not writing or directing the Green Hornet.

By the way, Chasing Amy is his best movie, its the only movie he's ever made which is well rounded and has the funniest beginning (the comic convention with Star Wars being explained as a 'slave' film).

Anyway, Has anyone checked out THX1138, I know its a re-release, but I'm still wondering what some (rather) normal people thought of it.

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HOLY f**kING s**t, TWO DAYS UNTIL APOCALYPSE!!!! Its going to be so terrible .... I can hardly wait [addsig]



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Posted by $loth on Thu Sep 9th at 8:48pm 2004

I took your advice and watched chasing amy, a lot less of J+S.B than I would imagine, but yea, its a very interesting film. [addsig]



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Posted by Forceflow on Fri Sep 10th at 6:00am 2004

I'm going to watch the Village tonight ... is it good ? (no spoilers, please )
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Posted by Crono on Fri Sep 10th at 1:41pm 2004

? quote:
I'm going to watch the Village tonight ... is it good ? (no spoilers, please )



NO it isn't [addsig]



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Posted by $loth on Fri Sep 10th at 2:40pm 2004

Its only scary too teenage girls, well thats what my friends said once they had watched it lol. [addsig]



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Posted by Kage_Prototype on Fri Sep 10th at 2:59pm 2004

? quote:
? quote:
I'm going to watch the Village tonight ... is it good ? (no spoilers, please )



NO it isn't


quoted for emphisis. [addsig]



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Posted by Monqui on Fri Sep 10th at 6:55pm 2004

vilage r bad.



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Posted by Crono on Fri Sep 10th at 9:32pm 2004

? quote:
vilage r bad.


I don't think you're letting on just how bad it is... [addsig]



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Posted by Monqui on Fri Sep 10th at 9:38pm 2004

Fine, then reference my post on page 36-37for a bit more in-depth analysis. Still, quite a bad movie. [addsig]



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Posted by Crono on Sun Sep 12th at 12:21am 2004

I saw Resident Evil Apocalypse last night ...

Why did Nemesis have to be in the movie??
Pretty much everything besides the scenes with Nemesis felt like the first RE movie (which was awesome) ... but the scenes with him sucked my ass. He's incredibly stupid looking and rediculous acting. Granted he looks exactly like he does in the game, not including the S&M leather they added, but it just didn't work ... at all. It also seemed like they stayed away from zombie goodness when Nemesis was introduced .... which pissed me off. I suppose, overall I liked it ... but its a very marginal liking. Meaning, the first one is gold in comparision. However, I did go into the movie expecting a piece of trash (which would be fun to watch).

The only thing is, it wasn't boring at any point ... so that's good, I suppose.
Its just the plot holes are gaping wide in this movie ... I suppose it'd be worth, maybe, a matinee showing, if you want to see it that is.

There are so many things they could have done to make Nemesis so much cooler .... but they didn't!

It actually looked like it was written by some guy who has loved B horror/action movies his entire live and he walked into a room of people playing RE 3 (the movie really has only minor bits and pieces from RE2 ) and watched for 20 minutes and said, "Hey, that'd work great in my movie".

I almost don't want to believe that Paul Anderson wrote it ... but then again, he wrote Soldier too ...

I need to think more about the movie, to see if anything can be justified ...

[NOTE*: It's still a blast to watch though ... I mean, one of the reasons why its rated 'R' is, "Non-Stop Violence".] [addsig]



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Posted by ReNo on Sun Sep 12th at 11:44am 2004

I must say that the Nemesis does look damn awful in the trailers, so I figured he would probably be pretty lame in the final film. Glad to hear its otherwise like the first, just what I was hoping for
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Posted by Kage_Prototype on Sun Sep 12th at 12:16pm 2004

Glad to hear my expectations were confirmed. Like the first one, only worse. I'll be avoiding it like the plague then. [addsig]



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Posted by Forceflow on Sun Sep 12th at 1:04pm 2004

I really think the village was great.

When I was watching the first 5 minutes, I thought is was going to be like the Blair Witch project (tooo much waving branches), but it was very good. The conversations were a bit long and cheesy sometimes, but the suspense was OK ...

And about the film being "only scary to teenage girls" ... well, I watched it with a friend of mine, and she thought it was scary .... but then again, I thought that too
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Posted by Monqui on Sun Sep 12th at 2:16pm 2004

Yeah, I saw Apocalypse last night too, and pretty much have the same thoughts on it as Crono.

Nemesis was a good idea in theory (a polar opposite to Alice, in many ways), but its execution within the film seemed almost tacked on. He was essentially the thing they brought in when they tired of footage of foot-soldiers blasting waves of zombies, and to have a final confrontation with the group.

Overall though it's still fun to watch. Not bad at all, really. [addsig]




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