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Re: Recently Watched, #2
Posted by Naklajat on Sun Apr 15th at 7:11am 2007


Children of Men:
One of the best movies I've seen in a long long time, I really seemed like there was a world beyond the characters, that they were just a small part of. The continuous shots were done very well, the one near then end damn near blew my mind. The story does an excellent job of conveying 'you don't know what you've got till you lose it'. This movie is also among the few to have visual effects that are truly 'special', the first time I watched it the effects never drew any attention as being out of place or over the top, they were gritty, brutal, ugly and beautiful. I couldn't really find anything wrong with this film after watching it three times.

I don't see much of any similarity to Blade Runner though, don't know where the critics got that besides the fact that it's based in a dystopian future, and it's an awesome movie.



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Posted by OtZman on Sun Apr 15th at 12:38pm 2007


? quoting aaron_da_killa
I recently watched Mr Beans Holiday ---- They where both good and funny.

Mr Beans Holiday was a huge disappointment, I think.







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Re: Recently Watched, #2
Posted by reaper47 on Mon Apr 16th at 4:36pm 2007


The Departed - Lot's of people getting shot but not as good as I hoped.





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Re: Recently Watched, #2
Posted by wil5on on Tue Apr 17th at 5:00am 2007


300 - Lots of blood, not a great deal of substance.


"If you talk at all during this lesson, you have detention. Do you understand?"
- My yr11 Economics teacher



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Re: Recently Watched, #2
Posted by French Toast on Tue Apr 17th at 10:27pm 2007


Was it any different than you expected?



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Re: Recently Watched, #2
Posted by wil5on on Wed Apr 18th at 2:11am 2007


No.


"If you talk at all during this lesson, you have detention. Do you understand?"
- My yr11 Economics teacher



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Re: Recently Watched, #2
Posted by reaper47 on Sat Apr 21st at 11:43am 2007


Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem

I've been watching this in a not-so-sober state yesterday and it's trippiest thing I've seen since Yellow Submarine. Great!






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Re: Recently Watched, #2
Posted by Rumple on Sat Apr 21st at 2:18pm 2007


Shooter: big guns, bigger explosions, good action movies FTW!


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Posted by French Toast on Sat Apr 21st at 2:21pm 2007


Shooter was the biggest piece of s**t I've ever sat through. It pulled out every cliche to support it's s**tty ass story.

Garbage film.




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Posted by FatStrings on Tue Apr 24th at 1:40pm 2007


flushed away
it's clever, funny, and to quote orph, i pissed my pants <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif">




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Re: Recently Watched, #2
Posted by Flynn on Thu Apr 26th at 10:10am 2007


"Kiss tommorrow goodbye"


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Re: Recently Watched, #2
Posted by OtZman on Tue May 1st at 9:26am 2007


Misery - Good and quite scary and disturbing movie based on the novel by Stephen King. 4/5.

Shinobi - Great Japanese movie about the shinobi. Had some great things about it, for example there could be long fights without any music at all, which is unusual and fresh. 4/5.







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Re: Recently Watched, #2
Posted by smackintosh on Wed May 2nd at 11:24pm 2007


enjoyed "Smokin' Aces" yesterday, they tried the "Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels" approach to story telling. Seemed to work okay.


don't sweat the petty stuff,just pet the sweaty stuff.



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Re: Recently Watched, #2
Posted by OtZman on Thu May 3rd at 9:28am 2007


I gotta watch "Smokin Aces", seems cool.

I watched The Shining (1980) by Kubric (sp?) yesterday, and it was nice. However, I didn't think it was that great, or scary for that matter. Could be because I was interrupted a couple of times, and the movie started to mess up about half way through, so I had to restart my comp and get angry. 3/5.







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Posted by OtZman on Fri May 4th at 10:56pm 2007


Just finished The Green Mile. Great movie that made quite an impression. 4/5.





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Posted by OtZman on Mon May 7th at 11:01pm 2007


I've recently seen:

The Shawshank Redemption (1994) - based on a Stephen King novel. Very inspiring movie about never giving up. 4/5.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) - another very good, thought provoking movie. Jack Nicholson's performance is incredible, he even got an Oscar for it. I think everyone should see this one. 4/5.

Btw, when I'm ranking the movies I've seen it's based on personal taste and how I felt when watching them. I know many movies, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest for example, deserve 5/5. That's why I might rate top movies a bit lower and an occasional not-so-good movie better than what it's generally considered to deserve, so to speak.

Right now, I'm picking movies from IMDB top 250 that look interesting and watching them. I've watched too many crap movies, always saving the good ones for later. Well, now is the time for those.







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Posted by French Toast on Tue May 8th at 3:10am 2007


Grindhouse
Shaun of the Dead
Jarhead
Fight Club
Snatch
Lock Stock
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Lucky Number Slevin
Gladiator
Alien 1&2

Make sure you watch all those.




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Re: Recently Watched, #2
Posted by Crono on Tue May 8th at 7:59am 2007


Why isn't 'Hot Fuzz' on your list? Or 'Adaptation' for that matter.


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Re: Recently Watched, #2
Posted by French Toast on Tue May 8th at 9:23pm 2007


Haven't seen either. Been meaning to see Hot Fuzz, just haven't got 'round to it yet.



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Re: Recently Watched, #2
Posted by Naklajat on Tue May 8th at 11:59pm 2007


Get around to Adaptation too, it's a must-see IMHO


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