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Kage_Prototype said:
Watched 3 movies yesterday that I hadn't seen before: Schindler's List, Dr. Strangelove, and Stealth.

Guess which one I won't be buying on DVD.

Cause you prefer VHS?

Of the three, Schindlers list is the best, so I am thinking Strangelove?

Haven't seen Stealth yet.

I suggest you watch Dr. Strangelove and rethink your guess. :wink:

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ReNo said:
Pffft, Stealth looks like generic s**te

It's getting totally slaughtered in the press. A few mates went to watch it regardless and they walked out after an hour. Apparently the plot is basically "lightning strike causes AI plane to go on the rampage" (which would clearly happen in real life, obviously :smile: ). Where does Hollywood get this garbage from?!?

ReNo said:
Pffft, Stealth looks like generic s**te

It's getting totally slaughtered in the press. A few mates went to
watch it regardless and they walked out after an hour. Apparently the
plot is basically "lightning strike causes AI plane to go on the
rampage" (which would clearly happen in real life, obviously :smile: ). Where does Hollywood get this garbage from?!?

It really is painful to watch. It's one of those movies that tries to
sound more intelligent than it really is, when all it does is trip up
and slap itself in the face repeatedly. Remember how The Core defied
basic scientific principles? This one just pisses all over them in the
name of fast planes blowing s**t up ( in a totally unspectacular
fashion of course).

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Its a shame that Jamie Foxx is in it, after building up a pretty good reputation with both Collateral and Ray.

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He made it before he ever heard of Ray. And everything I've heard about Stealth is that it's a movie to go watch explosions in. And that was from the Actors.

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Kage_Prototype said:
I suggest you watch Dr. Strangelove and rethink your guess. :wink:

Then I am assuming you were referring to Stealth. Regardless, I cannot think of many movies that rival Schindler's list. I have never seen Strangelove, but I doubt seriously its in the same league.

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Kage_Prototype said:
I suggest you watch Dr. Strangelove and rethink your guess. :wink:

Then I am assuming you were referring to Stealth. Regardless, I
cannot think of many movies that rival Schindler's list. I have never
seen Strangelove, but I doubt seriously its in the same league.

it would be unfair to compare them in the first place, being completely
different movies. They're both fantastic movies in their own way;
Strangelove because it's funny as hell, Schindler's List because it
made me cry :sad:

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Since you seen them both, I concede to your better knowledge of the two. Fair enough?

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Dr. Strangelove or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb is a serious candidate for best thing ever committed to film, ever.

Watched both "xXx" movies tonight. One word can sum them both up. "BLEH"

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Talking about xXx - I've never seen the State of the union; but I liked Pitch Black better, anyways. But not the Chronicles. Just the idea to entrust your life to the hands of a-hell-of-a-killer is a nice idea.

BTW: The ring isn't that bad, is is?

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The original ring is terrible, it's not scary one bit. All it's got is plot and bad actors. The Remake is far better imo.

I like the remake of The Ring ... like as a movie. F**k the "is it scary" crap: it's well made.

I doubt the sequel is worth the dog s**t it's printed on though. Also, Ringu 0-2453 are terrible.

Nakata: "Hey, Hiroshi, what do you think we can do to fill in all these plot holes we made by not following the book?"
Takahashi: "Hmm ... OH! I got it! Let's make the father psychic for some reason."
Nakata: "I love it! That's so original. Too bad we didn't have money to make people look dead"
Takahashi: "Yeah, that would have been sweet if we did"
Nakata: "Yeah"

The making of Ringu went something like that.

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I like the remake of The Ring ... like as a movie. F**k the "is it scary" crap: it's well made.

I doubt the sequel is worth the dog s**t it's printed on though. Also, Ringu 0-2453 are terrible.

Nakata: "Hey, Hiroshi, what do you think we can do to fill in all these plot holes we made by not following the book?"
Takahashi: "Hmm ... OH! I got it! Let's make the father psychic for some reason."
Nakata: "I love it! That's so original. Too bad we didn't have money to make people look dead"
Takahashi: "Yeah, that would have been sweet if we did"
Nakata: "Yeah"

The making of Ringu went something like that.

You have to be one of the first people that has agreed with me on this.
On OCUK nearly everyone I have seen posting about Ringu said "it was
soooo scary" and "the best horror film I have ever seen". IMO both of
those statements are false.

I laughed more when watching Ringu then I usually do watching comedies.
But also, I must say some parts of the movie were quite bizarre, like
the clip on that video.

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The Ring was cool

Ringu blew

Stealth was cool (with a questionable plot and acting, however, Jessica Beil is hot)

Dark Tree said:
The Ring was cool
Ringu blew
Stealth was cool (with a questionable plot and acting, however, Jessica Beil is hot)

yeah thats the main reason i saw it. the actual core of the movie is a love story though wrapped around in the overused computer-turns-evil crap

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I just saw Mean Machine. It's basically the British soccer
version of the Longest Yard. It was directed by Guy Ritchie, and
has some of the guys from Snatch and Lock Stock etc.

Funny :biggrin:

I'm hooked on the new FX "comedy TV" block: "Starved" is kind of a dark
comedy about people with eating disorders, and "It's Always Sunny in
Philadelphia" is about these idiot 20-somethings who have no idea what
they're doing. They're both surprisingly good, some people even compare
it to Seinfeld or Curb Your Enthusiasm. Anyone else watch these or am I
just crazy?.. Er, don't answer that.

I wanted to watch Starved, but I never grew enough interest to figure out when it was on and sit down and watch it.

I recently saw Cube Zero. Laughable, yes. But, not too bad of a movie for free. I think the entire Cube series has some sort of merit, but none of it is worth paying for. It's one of those things that if you thought the entire series was a Sci-Fi movie series, you'd be like, "wow, that was really good". But then again, I think the first Cube movie was actually good. Just a little overrated.

The cool thing about this movie are the answers! You get a clear picture of how these people can be in this thing and everyone behind it. Really the only bad part of the movie is Michael Riley. He's been in good movies before (Amistad), but, his performance in the movie just made it feel like a crap fest. Seriously, the movie was actually GOOD before his character entered. He has nothing but catch phrases and cliche character traits. Bleh. Movie was good besides him. Also, the idea of being trapped in a Cube made up of cubes and you don't know which ones have traps and your life is on the line ... that's an awesome idea. Make a pretty cool game if done properly, not an FPS though. That'd be retarded. However, Deep Rising would make an amazing FPS. It'd be nothing but action, squids, gore, Treat Williams AND Famke Janssen. What else could you want?!

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Hey Crono,

The first Cube was the best, I think. Although: Cube Zero is actually set before the original Cube. It's just a problem that a few things don't fit anymore. Like these super soldiers. They never appeared in the first Cube. Cube2 was a little too spacey IMO. But whatever. The Cube idea is very nice. Sad they can't make more out of it.

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I watched A Nightmare On Elm Street 4: Dream Master the other day,
laughable but I still watched it to guess what would happen next lol,
only ?2 rental.

Hey Crono,

The first Cube was the best, I think. Although: Cube Zero is actually set before the original Cube. It's just a problem that a few things don't fit anymore. Like these super soldiers. They never appeared in the first Cube. Cube2 was a little too spacey IMO. But whatever. The Cube idea is very nice. Sad they can't make more out of it.

Wasn't that the entire point of the first Cube movie? You didn't know ANYTHING about why these people were here. It looked like they were trying to go for a movie that showed the inner turmoil in a group when there's a high pressure situation.

But, after watching "Zero", you go, "Oh hey, none of that mattered".

As for Hypercube ... the only thing I liked about that movie is the creepy lighting ambiance. The traps were lame. The entire plot was lame. The time shifting was cool though. But, it made sense in retrospect of all three together.

It's just sad that they went down the B sci-fi movie route.

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It's just sad that they went down the B sci-fi movie route.

Yes, pretty much. In the first Cube they never mentioned a cooperation behind all this? They just figured some kind of secret army project. I can't really remember.

It's a shame almost everything gets sucked up by some kind of commercial thought.

-later

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I just saw Wedding Crashers, it had its' moments, but for the most part
I found it to be kind of bad. They swore like idiots where they
didn't have to, and some parts were way to wierd.

I actually just saw Deep Rising last night on TV. I imagine it was a bit watered-down (no pun intended), but I enjoyed it. Pretty run of the mill, but a fun one-by-one devouring fest. :smile:

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Deep Rising is one of those hidden almost-b-movie gems that you don't
really seek out but eventually stumble into and enjoy it. The whole
Cube idea is cool. and I have seen 1 & 2....it took some patience
to actually finish 2.....didnt know there was a third........will have
to seek it out.

The Island was pretty cool. It has a good plot and some pretty
cool action sequences...overall it was too long and drawn out and too
much space in between good parts. I love Ewen in almost everything and
Johanson is friggn hot, so it was perfectly watchable.

The Devil's Rejects was a bit lame. House of 1000 corpses was better,
although Rejects was better at being a '70s noir. Good camera
angles, blurs, and use of music. Nothing really edgy, scary, or
original about it, though.

The Longest Yard (2005) was a pretty good comedy. Not that many
stupid-funny parts if you can believe it....just a good movie.
Worth a rent.

I actually just saw Deep Rising last night on TV. I imagine it was a bit watered-down (no pun intended), but I enjoyed it. Pretty run of the mill, but a fun one-by-one devouring fest. :smile:

Yes, all the gore is gone. There's an insane amount too. AND it doesn't look cheesy.

The only thing that actually impressed me about that movie was the CG. Yes, you can tell what is CG, but it's only because of the contrast of the models against the film. Other then that, it's very well done.

It'd make such an awesome game though.

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Deep Rising, is that the one with the giant sea slugs? If it is that
was a great movie, one of those B grade movies that are almost good
enough to be A grade, if not for the no name cast and cheezy one liners.

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If thats the one with the giant octopus thing that takes over a cruise ship, yeah, its awesome.

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Just watched Alexander. Not bad at all, but not an Oliver Stone masterpiece either, like the others (The Doors, Natural Born Killers, etc..). But there's one magnificent scene, the only one chronologically delayed (the director must have sensed its beauty, so he probably wanted to tease the audience). I wont say which one, in case anyone wants to see it :smile:

That or it was part of the massive re-edit he did.

Everyone HATED Alexander in theaters. That's why there's only a Director's Cut DVD. I was wondering if it was any good ... now. But eveyone, whos opinion I trust, told me it was a waste of 3 hours of your life.

I wont be able to find out which is "better", simply because, I doubt any of them would actually give the Director's Cut a shot.

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Crono said:
eveyone, whos opinion I trust, ...

I believe that excludes me :cool: ...

Man, american audience is so unpredictable. Maybe you hated it cause it was so full of gays... I must reckon it becomes annoying when Alexander can't help touching every "cute" boy he sees. Crazy greeks....

They all said it was just bad. Terrible acting, editing, and music. They said the only thing that was "good" was the scenery.

Don't consider my taste or any of my friend's taste as "American audience". Our taste in movies and what is good and bad greatly differs from the rest of the nation. 5 weeks with National Treasure as the current highest grossing movie in America is proof of that.

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I've sat through an Oliver Stone director's cut before, I'm not keen to repeat the experience. Not a fan, and easily my pick for most overrated director, ever.

Seen Natural Born Killers and Platoon and thought they were both bad movies. As a consequence anything with Stone's name on it I automatically have doubts about. On the other hand some of my friends whose taste in movies I trust like him a lot so I wonder if theres something I just don't "get" about his movies, or whether they really are bad.

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Cash Car Star said:
Oliver Stone...most overrated director,
ever.

Sorry Cash, it is my belief that David Lynch has already won the grand
prize in that category. 95% of his work doesn't make an ounce of sense.
People watch his movies and short films and go whooooah....I don't get
it....it must have been deep.......it wasn't deep, dips**t, it was
aimless and pointless. I'm not saying thats bad...in fact, it can be
enjoyable to watch. All I'm saying is that it doesn't take a genius to
shoot 30 random scenes of sex and violence with no cohesion.

On Lynch's behalf, I LOVED Twin Peaks & The Elephant Man. I think The Elephant Man is his only movie that makes sense.

As far as Oliver Stone goes, I loved Natural born Killers but hated
Alexander...not because of the gayness, (which I honostly don't
remember...probobly was snoring) but becuase the movie was so boring
and mediocre. It was an overlong lame Gladiator. It also
probably didn't help that I don't give a s**t how accurate it was to
the 'achilles' tale.

Alright, so I thought its about time I post some short opinions about some movies I've got sitting around. This list is quite biased towards good movies as I tend to delete ones I don't like.

Snatch: Great movie. Very funny. Far superior to Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. This movie is worth watching for the scenes with the fast-talking gypsie alone (played by Brad Pitt).

Fight Club: Another great movie (coincidentally also starring Brad Pitt). If you haven't seen this already you should go watch it right now.

Rat Race: Hillariously superior remake of the older movie Its a Mad Mad Mad Mad World. The idea is take a bunch of top comedy actors, and put them in a movie where they have to race somewhere to get some money. The scenes with the narcoleptic italian are reason enough to watch this movie.

Office Space: Parody of the office worker-drone enviornment at high tech companies. At first I thought it was overrated, but when I watched it a couple more times it just got better and better. Another very funny movie.

Casablanca: Classic. Great movie, but you have to be in the right mood to watch it.

The Pianist: The best WW2 movie I have ever seen, and that includes Schindlers List and Saving Private Ryan. The Pianist follows the life of a jewish pianist during the German occupation of Poland.

Hotel Rwanda: Another great film showing people doing what they can in the midst of horrible acts of genocide. Sad, but important to watch. I had no idea humans could be so cruel to each other.

The Sixth Sense: If you are one of the approximately 5 people in the world who haven't already heard the spoilers then go see this movie. Its definitely a far better experience to go into it knowing nothing.

Signs: Aliens leave crop circles. Cheesy premist and ending, but in the middle there are several great scenes with suspense not seen since Hitchc**k. One video of a kids birthday party and another scene involving a knife under a door are both particularly creepy.

The Village: If I didn't know who was directing it going in this movie might have been more interesting. As it was I figured out the plot early and it ruined the rest of the movie for me.

Lord of the Rings (all): Well-directed quality tale of good vs. evil with epic battle scenes to boot. Not nearly as good as the books.

Boondock Saints: Hillarious. Some goody-two-shoes brothers decide to go vigilante style on particularly bad criminals, while being tracked by an eccentric detective. Some awesome scenes in there.

The Butterfly Effect: I went into this expecting a terrible movie, but it turned out to be surprisingly good. A dude can go back in time and change what he did in the past, but as you should know from Star Trek, every time you change the past something always gets f**ked up. I especially liked how all the peices and unanswered questions fell together as the movie got towards the end. Neat.

The Usual Suspects: Even without the killer ending this movie would be good. As it is The Usual Suspects is one of my favorite movies. I'm a sucker for movies that bring up a seemingly unanswerable number of questions and then manage to tie them together at the end. I don't really want to say more than that. Just watch it, and pay attention to who says what.

Memento: The main character cannot form long term memories, and to mimic this effect for the audience the scenes from the movie are played in reverse chronological order. Great premise and well executed, but you really have to pay attention or you will be lost.

Black Hawk Down: Black Hawk helicopters are downed in the middle of a hostile Somali village, and the troops therein need to be rescued/escape. This whole movie is basically one huge battle. Imagine the D-Day scene in Saving Private Ryan, and extend that to the length of a whole movie. This is the definition of an action-packed war movie. I also thought it was cool how they conveyed emotions and a sense of brotherhood, etc without actually using much dialogue.

Big Fish: An bunch of folk-tales all rolled into a pseudo-biography. It definitely walks the line between believability and cheesiness, but I loved it.

Operation Takedown (Hackers 2): A dramatization of Kevin Mitnik's hacking and social engineering exploits, and his subsequent capture. I'm not sure how accurate the movie is, but it was interesting enough.

City of God: Shows kids growing up in the ghettos of Brazil, dealing with poverty, joining street gangs, etc.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: I like "headf**k" movies where theres always a bit of mystery about whats going on, and I also like Jim Carey as an actor. Thus it was quite a surprise that I found Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind to be overrated. Its not a particularly bad movie, but I didn't like it that much.

Real Genius: Classic campy movie that is a parody of top tech schools like Caltech, MIT, etc.

You Got Served: This is one of those movies that is so bad its unintentionally hillarious. Basically its about breakdancing challenges (!) in the inner city. The breakdancing is actually kind of cool and clearly takes skill, so thats a plus as well.

Million Dollar Baby: Starts out like Rocky with a chick, then takes an unexpected turn. Sad but good. Clint Eastwood is a better director than he was an actor IMO.

The Aviator: Howard Hughes builds his aviation empire. The premise sounds booring, but the acting performances make it interesting. Like The Butterfly Effect, The Aviator is a movie I thought I'd hate, but ended out liking a lot.

Napoleon Dynamite: Complete deadpan stupidity. Hillarious, if you "get" the style of humor, silly and moronic otherwise. Funnier if you watch with some friends.

Legend of Drunken Master II: Jackie Chan's best movie. The style of fighting he uses, drunken boxing, is awesome and hillarious. Sometimes he does moves that are so bizzaire and seemingly impossible that I was like "wtf", then crack up laughing because of how weird yet effective it was. The final fight scene is one of my favorite martial arts fight scenes in any movie. Also the "plot" and "acting" are great fun for laughing at.

Enter the Dragon: Bruce Lee kicks ass. "You have offended me, and you have offended a Shaolin Temple".

Ong-Bak: Martial arts movie featuring a relatively unknown guy (Tony Jaa). The fight scenes are as good as the best in Bruce Lee movies, and the acrobatics and chase scenes are as good as the best in Jackie Chan Movies. The fighting style is also very cool and completely different from the usual martial arts (lots of elbows and knees are used). The best martial arts movie I have seen in a long time.

The Machinist: Thin sleep-deprived machinist accidentally cuts off his friends hand. Paranoia and weirdness ensue. Good psychological horror movie.

Three Kings: Military commander leads some troops to steal Saddam's gold. Occasionally funny, Decent movie.

Alien: Classic horror in outer space. Some parts of it might seem cliche now since so many other movies, games, etc have borrowed from it.

Aliens: Sequel to Alien. Where the first movie had horror and suspense, this movie has action and adrenalin. Worthy sequel to such a great movie.

Apocalypse Now: Not too fond of this movie. Not sure why.

Chinatown: Classic. Private eye hired to investigate stuff in a time when LA was corrupt. Loved it.

Clerks: Black and White movie about some clerks and a bit of their lives. Interesting dialogue, but overrated IMO.

Dogma: Parody of Catholocism. Dark angels try to get into heaven via a loophole, and hillarity ensues. The more you know about the catholic church, the funnier this movie is.

Gattaca: Dystopian future where people are genetically enganced, and "normal" people are relegated to the dregs of society. The story of a "non-enhanced" guy trying to become an astronaut despite the barriers in society. In addition to the dystopian aspect, one of the central themes in the movie really resonates with me and is lacking in a lot of other movies - its not about what you are born with, but rather how hard you want something and what lengths you are willing to go to get it that determine whether you succeed in life. Great movie.

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Dark Tree said:
Sorry Cash, it is my belief that David Lynch has already won the grand prize in that category. 95% of his work doesn't make an ounce of sense. People watch his movies and short films and go whooooah....I don't get it....it must have been deep.......it wasn't deep, dips**t, it was aimless and pointless. I'm not saying thats bad...in fact, it can be enjoyable to watch. All I'm saying is that it doesn't take a genius to shoot 30 random scenes of sex and violence with no cohesion.

You haven't watched enough surrealist movies, Dark Tree. There's nothing to "catch", it's not a riddle: surrealist movies (like Lost Highway for example) work with associations, themes, like surrealist poems. A succession of words that create a particular atmosphere, an ambiance, without following a classical structure. Lynch works that way, that's why it looks aimless, but it's definitely not, very far from that. It's not easy, and it's not random.

I like "normal" movies, (good guy vs bad guys) but I prefer to watch something new, unseen. Directors like Lynch are considered geniuses because they're inventive, they create something completely different.

Crono said:
Yes, all the gore is gone. There's an insane amount too. AND it doesn't look cheesy.

Excellent. I may have to pick this one up on DVD, then :biggrin: I thought a lot of the scenes that looked like they should have been more violent seemed... odd.

Blur studios did at least some of the effects work, which might explain its awesomeness (they did the digestion scene, which you can see bits of on their site).

The United States of Leiland - A highschooler murders a retarded
schoolmate for seemingly no reason...it is a really good movie with Don
Cheadle and Kevin Spacey.

Million Dollar Baby - (Just read what mazemaster said...he was spot on)

I also just want to re-bring up some of the movies he listed that are truly awesome:

Snatch

Fight Club

The Pianist

The Usual suspects

Memento

Big Fish

Dogma

Gattaca

All of those movies will rock your face off.

The Cell - one of J-Lo's decent
movie performances. Lots of screwed up imagery everywhere; it's kind of
disgusting yet beautiful at the same time. I almost kind of want to
watch it again.

Some of my favorite movies are...

LOTR (all 3)

The Transporter

Hotel Rwanda

Black Hawk Down

Saving Private Ryan

Austin Powers 2 & 3

Porkies

James Bond (some of the older ones)

Matrix 1 & 2

Dawn of the Dead 2004

Those are all I can think of right now. I know there's a lot more than that.

Watched 5 movies in 2 nights.

Four Brothers: Entertaining and actually pretty funny, although
not a movie you have to see in theaters so if you're just kind of
curious about watching it, wait to rent it.

Mission Impossible: So much better than the second one. Worth seeing if you haven't.

Hostage: This movie was entertaining until the end. The
ending was terrible. The ex-disney actor who plays the maniac
"Mars" in the movie is hilarious.

Hustle and Flow: Decent movie. Only watch it if you like rap and hip hop.

A Few Good Men: I love Jack Nicholson in this movie. Overall really good.

Oh man, I rented a South Park season. f**king hilarious is all that can be said about it.

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Snatch: Great movie. Very funny. Far superior to Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. This movie is worth watching for the scenes with the fast-talking pykies alone (played by Brad Pitt).
There fixed it because they f**king hate pykies

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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: I like "headf**k" movies where theres always a bit of mystery about whats going on, and I also like Jim Carey as an actor. Thus it was quite a surprise that I found Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind to be overrated. Its not a particularly bad movie, but I didn't like it that much.

Ong-Bak: Martial arts movie featuring a relatively unknown guy (Tony Jaa). The fight scenes are as good as the best in Bruce Lee movies, and the acrobatics and chase scenes are as good as the best in Jackie Chan Movies. The fighting style is also very cool and completely different from the usual martial arts (lots of elbows and knees are used). The best martial arts movie I have seen in a long time.

Ah someone else that has seen Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind bloody good movie I must watch that again. Whenever I tell my mates to watch it they just look at me weard and then say ok but they never do watch it.

and someone else that has seen Ong-Bak. I was really dissapointed when it was finaly released over here cos It was only in selected cinemas and the closet one was about a hour away and I had no way of getting there.

I love the fight scenes in it and when there bombing around the streets in those trike taxi thingys.

The only film I have seen recently is Garden State it was writen, directed and stars Zach Braff (that bloke that plays J.D in Scrubs) it also has Natalie Portman in it as a compulsive lier. One part of the film I liked was when they go to Sams (Natalie Portman) house and here mum tells her that one of the hamsters is dead cos she forgot to take the wheel out. I also like the bit where they go to his mates house and get stoned and he wakes up in the morning whith balls writen on his head then he has to go to the doctors, takes his shirt off and you see that his mates wrote and drew all over his chest. The ending was a bit predictable where it was a happy feel good one.

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Apparently, the US DVD for Ong-Bak is re-edited by Luc Besson (Leon, Fifth Element) Which would make it much more then a "stunts" movie.

"Eternal Sunshine" was excellent. Charlie Kaufman is a great writer. Oh how I hope the "Upcoming Charlie Kaufman Spike Jones Horror Movie Project" is The 3 (I still think Adaptation is Kaufman's best movie, though). Any movie, if hyped, will almost never live up to your expectations. I think, the only movie I ever saw that was hyped up to me by friends which lived up was Fight Club ... but then again, they didn't tell me what happened and they didn't say anything past, "you just need to see it" over and over again.

I personally thought Garden State was overrated ... and I hate Zach Braff ... just as an actor mostly.

I'm going to get around to watching Downfall and Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance one of these days, I'll get to putting it up here. Also, See Oldboy if you get the chance. It's a great movie. I'm not going to hype it because then you'll expect too much, but it's well written, acted, and directed. Chan-Wook Park is slowly becoming one of my favorite film makers (overall).

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Apparently, the US DVD for Ong-Bak is re-edited by Luc Besson (Leon, Fifth Element) Which would make it much more then a "stunts" movie.

You say that like there is something wrong with just "stunts" movies.

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Perhaps you're misunderstanding the situation. Have you seen the movie? It has an actual plot ... and I'm not talking "Pumping Iron" type of plot. It's a good thing that it's being re-edited, especially by someone like Luc Besson. It can only get better and more coherent.

On that note: there needs to be more REAL stunts done with people's legs on fire.


[Addition]
Apparently, it was already re-edited before it hit my shores. Hm.

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Blame it on Microsoft, God does.