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Last night, I screened Tim Burton's Corpse Bride. A know, the movies been out a week already, but that was a limited release; it's now everywhere.

The Movie was excellent. It gave you the feel of The Nightmare
before christmas while keeping the appeal of a maturer movie. The
detail is amazing. The puppets all have human "like" feature, not
like nightmare's sphereical skulls.

The music was also great, I tried to find a copy on the Internet, but failed.

The story actually fits well. The dead only walk the earth for hauntings and curses.

Spoiler: [Highlight area with mouse]<br style="color: white;">
<span style="color: black;">The
corpse bride, named Emily, was killed waiting for the man she though
she loved, They were to be wed underneath a creepy tree in the
woods. Her husband to be used her and mortally wounded her.
As he left her there to die, she pronounced her vows, hopeing her true
love would show up and resue her; thus curseing herself.[end]</span>

More Spoiler: [Highlight area with mouse]

Victor shows up in the woods because he
just got thrown out of the church of his own recital because he can't
remember his vows. Well he's trying to practice his vows and
finnally gets it right and slips the ring on what he thinks is a
root. The next that happens is right of one of those haunting
movies with Victor running and the corpse bide floatiing along. [end]

I loved this movie, I only wish it were longer than 1:15.

When it comes to puppets, Tim Burton is the master.

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Watched Vanilla sky again for the second time. The first time I watched it was a little less than 2 years ago.

I loved it both times.

Go see it with at least two friends if you haven't seen it yet.

you know? i never really much cared for Vanilla Sky. I didn't like that the mustang got smashed...

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I tried sniffing coke, but the ice cubes kept getting stuck in my nose.
http://www.dimebowl.com

At least it wasn't Cruise's vintage Ferrari.

saw the longest yard. great movie.
i wuite likes Vanilla Sky. took me two watches before i fully understood it.
im going to see Revolver on thursday. loooks good ill tell when i get back from the cinema.

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I watched the Longest Yard two nights ago. What a crappy
movie. It was so MTV it'll boggle your mind. The only
humour was "haha, he's gay". It was such a bad bad movie. I
can't explain it any other way. Plus it had Adam Sandler in it,
that just kicked it down a few notches.

saw Revolver on thursday.
i have to say it was an excellent film.
different from Guy Ritchies previous films (Snatch, Lock Stock). it was essentially a gangster film but mixed in some very interesting psychological thriller parts.
im going to have to see it again, i didnt quite get it the first time
i would recommend to anyone, go see it!

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"I would blow your f**king head off! ...if I could afford it. I'm gonna get another job, start saving some money... then you a dead man!"

I saw the Longest Yard Yesterday. It's okay... It seemed like one big advertisement campaign. Mainly for McDonalds. Burt reynolds is cool though.

I also recently saw Hugh's mom. Whoowee!

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I tried sniffing coke, but the ice cubes kept getting stuck in my nose.
http://www.dimebowl.com

Watched Vanilla sky again for the second time.

I watched it again while I was in Italy, when all the dialogues were
dubbed in Italian. It's quite interesting watching Tom and
Penelope conversing in Italian.

I saw "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" on the flight back from Italy. It's a
nice action flick, with lots of it (especially the finale) resembling a
good FPS game. It almost inspired me to create a map based on the
final fight of the movie. I don't plan to start because I think
there will simply be too many prop_physics for the engine to handle.

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"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." -- Toulouse-Lautre, Moulin Rouge

I watched Soviet film "The Man with the Movie Camera" (1929) recently,
as well as the French movie "The Rules of the Game" (1939).

I sort of understand how before its time the Soviet film was, but I
just couldn't stay awake. The French movie I very much
enjoyed. Some very vibrant characters and some great camerawork /
direction.

If you like older movies, I'd recommend it.

I had to watch "The Rules of the Game" for a film class about a year ago.
What a bunch of terrible people (which was the point)

The character Octave, played by Jean Renoir, 1/2 wrote and directed the film.

Flakey French society.

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Blame it on Microsoft, God does.

My favorite character was the Gamekeeper, Edouard Schumacher.

I watched Kill Bill volume 1 a couple days ago, great movie.

Bought House of 1000 Corpses last week, cause it was only 4 quid :biggrin:
Absolutely ace, if you like horror films, especially old skool stuff
like Texas Chainsaw, The Thing, Evil Dead etc I highly recommend :biggrin:

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Hello there.

I just saw Top Gun. Is it just me, or is this movie gay (as in aimed at
the minoritary homosexual public)? Or was it just ye olde perverted mind
at work?

I also saw Robin Hood: Men In Tights; Mel Brooks is one of my all time faves!

Maddox would agree with your Top Gun interpretation.

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=five_s**tty_movies

That or you read too much maddox, since he's explicitly addressed Top Gun's 'homosexual' factor.

[edit]

Didn't notice the new page with the same reference

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I read too much Maddox :biggrin:

Can't wait for his book...

And yes, RH: MIN is a hilarious movie, never gets old :biggrin:

Top Gun's definitely gay (mmm, topless men playing beach volleyball...), RH: MIN I didn't find funny at all, Longest Yard looked alright from the trailer I saw on Conan, but apparently you guys don't like Sandler so there ya go.

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One day you'll know what you're talking about, I can hardly imagine

Maps! - Audio blog!

Just watched Serenity. Awesome movie.

It started out kinda slow, but after the first 10 minutes it picks
up. I think the movie did a great job of summing up the
series. The part I like the best was when there was a huge ship
battle between the allience and reapers and firefly was sipping through
them all. If it was Imax, I would have wet myself :smile: .

I'm not all to good at discribing stuff...

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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.

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

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• My yr11 Economics teacher

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 :biggrin:

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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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.

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

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

heh... was that deliberate?

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 :wink: I'm such a TV show junkie these days!

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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).

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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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
:biggrin: Desperate Housewives, Lost, the Simpsons, Without a Trace, Friends,
Frasier, West Wing, Nip/Tuck, Six Feet Under - the list goes on and on
:smile: 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 :sad: ) but where there's a will
there's a way :wink:

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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.

Yeah I read about that yesterday - pretty good news I'd say :smile: 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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fraggard said:
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<DIV class=quotetitle>? quote:</DIV>
<DIV class=quotetext>Maddox is nothing more than a popular blowhard regurgitating sentiments much more eliquently expressing by a certain Mr. Tarantino:

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

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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I Ain't Gettin' On No Plane, Foo'

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.

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Nickelplate said:
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.

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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 :smile: ) - 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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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.

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!!

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.

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Ok, let me establish things here. I'm not a fan of TV based, or B level sci-fi. I've never been a big fan of StarTrek, DeepSpace 9, Babylon 5, or any of these types of shows. I never even saw the 'Firefly' series that Serenity was based off. When I saw previews of Serenity, it didn't get my attention, at all. The only thing that prompted me to see it, was the reaction some of my friends had to it.

That said... I LOVED Serenity. I would highly recommend going see this movie in the theatre, with the big picture and big sound. Trust me on this one, It's worth it. If you loved Han Solo, the humor of the original StarWars, and good ole fashion 'bad guys' who aren't afraid to be bad. GO SEE THIS MOVIE!

This topic is 123 pages long. God damn, how many "few great movies" are there?

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Going to see Serenity tonight, pretty psyched. It's been ages since I've seen a really good sci-fi movie.

Also going to see either Appleseed: The Movie or Ghost in the Shell 2:
Innocence next week, as they are screening for a limited time in
capital cities around Australia. They both look incredible, and I've
really been enjoying Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex on tv.

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'Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!'

Both are okay.

Appleseed has the better plot of the two ... Innocence just pissed me off. It looks terrible, for starters. And what I mean by that isn't that there's bad CG ... but it's very obvious what is CG. It doesn't blend together well ... at all. On the other hand Appleseed is all CG and has a pretty good story, it's entertaining. GiS2 takes over half the movie to really get into the plot. There's just intermittent gun fights ... sort of. Over-emphasised slow downs ... blah, I thought it was terrible. The first movie was better ... and better then that is 2nd Gig. So, I'd suggest seeing Appleseed if you were to choose. Come to think of it I may got buy Appleseed if I can find it under $15 with the fancy metal case.

As for Ghost in the Shell 2 ... I wouldn't really care to ever watch it again unless it was edited to make a more coherent plot (The 'just music' version looks ...) As it stands it was just bits and pieces tied together with strings, up until the end, then it still isn't tied together well. And that's not called "mystery", as some people tried to pass it off as ... which is, obviously, BS, since mystery would keep you intrigued ... and give you a natural and unavoidably obvious truth at the end ... It was just a really simple plot wrapped in an overly complex structure. Kind of like the original, but they didn't pull it off ... At all. The ending feels so ridiculously forced. I don't know, the action is cool though. So, I guess that's a plus, but I hated the movie as a whole.

So, yeah, see both if you like, but if you have to choose one ... choose Appleseed. (They're both my Shirow anyway) If you want something that really looks amazing, see Steam Boy, the story and everything is okay, it just looks fantastic ... you just have to stop and go ... "That's CG?!"

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azelito said:
This topic is 123 pages long. God damn, how many "few great movies" are there?

Isn't it apparent. There are exactly as many as it took to get you to reply as well.

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I guess my settings have changed, it's only 62 pages for me :sad:

Just got back from seeing Serenity, best Sci-fi movie ive seen in ages :smile:

Beat me to it. It was absolutely awesome, very much in the vein of Star
Wars type story and adventure. Easily one of the best Sci-Fi
movies/shows I've seen recently, definately better than War of the
Worlds. Hopefully it'll be a lesson for Hollywood, you don't need a
huge special effects bonanza to make a good sci-fi movie. A solid story
makes the movie, not how much you spend on the cgi. Five Stars.

I was leaning towards Appleseed. The trailers looked incredible, an
amazing mix of cgi and traditional animation. Unfortunately they don't
seem to be around long in cinema's here, and usually only in Dendy
cinema's, which show a lot of 'art house' films.

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'Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!'

Actually, critics gave Serenity 4/5 stars. . .

However, the viewing public gave it 4.74/5 stars.

The movie is the second highest critic rating in the theatre right now,
the first being I believe constant gardener. But serinity has the
highest viewer rateing, somthing tell me a bunch of Serenity fans
stuffed the polls.

When you work at a theatre on slow days, it get very slow, especially if your the only one schedualed to work box that day.

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hmmm only 19 pages long for me.

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