Casino Royal was the last movie i have seen...i like this movie......
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Casino Royal was the last movie i have seen...i like this movie......
Fast Five, it is the best one in the series.
Sherlock Holmes: RDJ in Drag.
I didn't like the first one much and the sequel even less.
In the "traditional" Holmsian canon, Jeremy Brett reigns supreme.
The Beeb's Sherlock, with Benedict Cumberbatch, is a great reimagining of the character in modern times.
Guy Ritchie tries to shoehorn a decidedly "modern" man into Victorian England and I find the juxtaposition very jarring.
The movie's ending is a total copout and a shameless bid for a third installment.
Which they'll no doubt get and I'll no doubt hate.
The Great Circle of Life will roll on unperturbed.
Hodejegerne One of the books I've enjoyed this summer was Jo Nesbo's "Sorgenfri" (aka Nemesis) a fine example of modern Scandinavian Crime fiction. Although his novel was not as "noir" as my personal favorite Arne Dhal (if you are into this kind of novels his Misterioso is a must) the style is really close. Actually he is consider the new "star" in this style. Martin Scorsese is going to direct his best selling novel "Snowman" or at least that's the rumor. So I had great expectations for Headhunters (aka Hodejegerne). I can't say that I was totally disappointed but it wasn't the "noir" I was expecting (obviously being dummy enough not to read anything about it). Roger Brown is the Norwegian version of Tom Cruise, a short action hero with a beautiful tall wife and a tall beautiful rival ( Jamie Lannister from Game of Thrones). If you are looking for an action crime thriller then it's not bad at all. Good case, fast rhythm photography, blood and mystery in a satisfactory level. Or you can wait for someone like Fincher to bring the hollywood version :D (actually I'm curious for his version of the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo)
Happy Holidays everyone.
Last i have The Girl With Dragon Tatoo movie.awesome movie....
Cowboys vs Aliens, a bit disappointing.
hangover part 2. was not as good as 1, but funny still.
Don 2:cool:
First of all, I really love innovative, nuanced rating systems and want to help you nurture yours to it's fruitful conclusion.Quote:
Originally Posted by marklefe
So, just to clarify a smidge (see what I did there?), does a "bit" fall between a scosh and and a tad or is it just north of "jaw droppingly horrid"?
I'mnot at alla wee bobbin (fuck me, did it again!) curious.
Good Will Hunting, again. great movie :)
last new movie i watched was Hanna, i think. it was ok
Inception was the last movie i saw recently..and it was a great movie...
Just got back from seeing Devil Inside. The last couple possession/exorcism movies were a lot better looking in the commercials than what they really were, but this one was really entertaining. There was a scene where a girl was bleeding profusely from her crotch. That made the entire movie for me. Mainly because it turned me on.
The only bad part was all the idiots around me hootin' an hollerin' and talking on their cell phones. This is was one of those times that I was thankful for not owning a gun because a few "homeboys" would had caught one to the temple. Actually I keep telling myself that I will no longer see horror movies as soon as they come out since that's when all the loud teenagers pack into the theater the most. But sometimes one comes out that looks so good that I forget about my last experience and go anyways.
Twilight..........
i am watching "Avatar" now
Studio bought the movie for a reported $1 million dollars which in Hollywood amounts to a week worth of cocaine and through fortuitous scheduling and a bunch of reasons that I can't understand the thing opens at #1 and brings home $34 million plus.Quote:
Originally Posted by Funkin'
And they say the movie going audience is now largely made up of undiscerning teens.
Btw re the previous two posts no movement on my "fuck off" button suggestion I take it?
Twilight Breaking down was the last movie i have seen and it was awesome...
Unintentional surely, but brilliant nonetheless.Quote:
Originally Posted by AlexJ1
OK, what happened to this thread?
Didn't it used to be a fuck-ton bigger than just 66 posts?
Anyway, to blithely carry on...
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo- Rooney Mara, Daniel Craig.
I've read the books and seen the Swedish original trilogy.
Loved Noomi Rapace.
This big budget American remake looks good.
Rooney Mara doesn't disgrace herself although I didn't feel she brought anything really new to the character and basically did a very good Rapace imitation.
Kind of like Tina Fey and the Palin creature.
Not sure how I'd react were I fresh to the material; I suspect, confusion.
Going solely on what appeared onscreen, a lot of the Vanger family plotline seemed incomplete and hurried.
So did the "second" ending, where Lisbeth makes bank.
I think I'm the wrong person to talk about this film, so disregard the above and go back to your lives.
It was determined that history needed expunging to make room for more future brilliance like "last moovie i seeing is Chipwrecked.that Alvin hes crack me up".Quote:
Originally Posted by clocker
Obviously you aren't the only person feeling that way as the movie got Oscar nods for cinematography,editing and Mara but missed out on anything else important.Quote:
Originally Posted by clocker
I don't think this analogy is working, couldn't all agree that Fey's Palin was much more entertaining than watching the agony of the real Palin? Sarah that is, not Michael.Quote:
Originally Posted by clocker
Happened to the "Omega post man wins internets" thread. These are all just spam threads dry humping the server I guess.Quote:
Originally Posted by clocker
I wached Contagion :)
For this I loose hundreds of lovingly crafted posts.Quote:
Originally Posted by henrik78
Thanks a lot, asshole.
Are you implying that henrik's wasn't equally well thought out?
Nothing personal towards henrik.
I was just raging against the machine and not going gently into that good night.
Making a stand, digging deep, winning for the Gipper.
As one does.
I recently watched the movie Seraphim Falls with Pierce Brosnan, and Liam Neeson.
Being as lazy as I am I regret the effort on my part that it took to amend the title of this thread.Quote:
- What is the latest movie you watched and what did you think of it?
Btw if I actually wished to listen to people talking but really saying nothing I would follow politics.
It is not you that has gone gently into that good night, just your lovingly crafted posts.......Quote:
Originally Posted by clocker
I've been binging on Bukowski of late. I do enjoy a soupcon of squalor to remind me I'm not so badly off, comparatively speaking. He's fascinating in a chronically self-destructive, unapologetic, unfeigned kinda way. There was a decent documentary film profiling him released in 2003 called Bukowski: Born Into This http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0342150/. This got me thinking about film adaptations of his work and how successful or faithful they are to the source material, so off I toddled and misappropriated whatever I could muster. I'll work chronologically.
Tales Of Ordinary Madness (1981) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086410/ Marco Ferelli.
This is strange. It's sorta like a Spaghetti Western, deeply European in style yet set in LA with the protagonist/antagonist shuffling into a series of sexual misadventures and heavy drinking. Ben Gazzara (who?) while bearing a resemblance and turning in a fine performance is just too sleazy and that's saying something. Very uncomfortable to watch and utterly depressing without the feeling of 'fuck it' Bukowski embodies. This is a portrayal of the older Bukowski and it just doesn't add up. If anything, he had mellowed by that stage. He had to.
Genital self-mutilation and perversity figure largely and all I wanted to do afterwards was self-harm, so it was a pretty successful European film in that regard.
Barfly (1987) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092618/ Barbet Schroeder (I wonder if anyone ever commented on the irony of the director's forename.)
Bukowski wrote the screenplay after much cajoling, discomfort and bribery, not to mention a large degree of contempt for the medium. He was unhappy at the finished product. He had major reservations as regards casting. Mickey Rourke plays Henry Chinaski, Bukowski's 'fictional' conduit and falls somewhat short in that in 1987 Rourke was far too handsome a fellow to be playing Bukowski by any stretch. Bukowski's essential character developed out of ugliness of body and spirit. He had severe acne problems throughout his life and poor early treatment by unreliable and often sadistic medical practitioners which left him pretty scarred up. Rourke plays an impressive drunk, but he's much too manic and overplayed to portray Bukowski's laconic, sneeringly resentful tone.
Apparently, Sean Penn had offered to play the role for a dollar with the proviso being that Dennis Hopper had to direct. This fell through and Rourke got the job. One wonders if this was the onset of Rourke's subsequent fall from grace. Perhaps he was enamoured with the idea of Bukowski and sought to push things to the extreme as the author tended to do. I don't know. He probably would've done it anyway. The film stood on its own, objectively, is a decent movie, with two strong central performances from Rourke and Fay Dunaway. Problem is, Dunaway is not manic enough. I'd still fuck her, and from what I've read from Bukowski, his early sexual endeavours are nothing to desire. Quite the opposite. She's too classy a broad to play the degenerate alcoholic whore Bukowski describes.
Having said all that, I reckon Rourke would make a fair breast of an older Bukowski now, what with him being totally mangled and all.
Factotum (2005) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417658/ Bent Hamer (I wonder if anyone ever commented on the irony of the director's forename.)
This, to my mind is the most successful of the tryptic. Matt Dillon has Bukowski down straight. His mannerisms, gait, delivery are spot on. He's likable, downtrodden, increasingly uglier and just the right side of tragic to swing it. Even the acne scars (though not quite enough) make an appearance.
I'd write more about it, but nobody's gonna read this anyway.
Gazzara has made a career out of playing sleazy characters.I would have thought that he's be instantly recognizable having been in dozens of movies and TV shows over 50+ years in the business.Anyway if you still have any desire to revel in the debauchery and want to see Gazzara at his best then consider The Killing of a Chinese Bookie. Only in 70's would a movie like this ever come out of Hollywood.Quote:
Originally Posted by chavis
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I've shown this movie to baffled girlfriends and eye-rolling friends who've left the room after twenty minutes. The picture was essentially unreleased upon its completion in 1976, and is now available on video only because of the retrospectives of Cassavetes' work that followed his death. The movie is considered bewildering even by many Cassavetes champions, but for me it ranks among the greatest American movies. As Cosmo Vitelli, the strip-joint owner who's a clown who thinks he's a king, the sublimely reptilian Ben Gazzara leans into an offstage mike and tells the audience, "And if you have any complaints--any complaints at all--we'll throw you right out on your ass." Like Jake LaMotta, or Ferrara's Bad Lieutenant, Cosmo is a walking aria of male self-destruction. He finally pays off the shylocks he's in hock to for his place--the Crazy Horse West--and celebrates with a gambling spree that puts him right back where he started. To pay his debts, Cosmo agrees to murder a Chinese kingpin the L.A. mob has marked for death--but that only gives the barest indication of the strange, ecstatic poetry of Cassavetes' greatest and farthest-out-on-a-limb movie. The movie is a strangely crumpled form of film noir; a classic Cassavetes character portrait, with more than the usual romanticism and self-disgust; a super-subliminal essay on Vietnam and Watergate; and an example of a one-of-a-kind lyricism that's closer to 2001 than a gangster picture. With its odd rhythms, Warholish color and substance-altered performances, it's one of the rare movies for which there exists no point of comparison.
Thank you. I will. Though I'll prolly hate it.Quote:
Originally Posted by IdolEyes787
I wouldn't have wasted my time suggesting it otherwise.
Actually, fuck all that, you cunt.
I've dug deep and all I can unearth is a 50 odd gig download of Cassavetes' filmography which includes said pulp.
Fuck that. I hope you die.
Could you please be a little more specific?Do you mean like just this instant in excruciating pain or decades from now ,peacefully in my sleep after a long and happy life?Quote:
Originally Posted by chavis
The only reason I ask is so I will know whether to be hurt or not.
Btw sucks to be you right about now.
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It always sucks to be me. Sucks to be you worse, though.
recently i saw "Kungfu Panda" and i think its a best hollywood movie .
Yes but then you're just a cunt who's only here because he has something to promote.Quote:
Originally Posted by henryadam
Perfume was the last movie i saw last night and it was really a bad movie...i didn't like it...
I watched Girl with the dragon tattoo and to be honest i had to watch it twice. I turned it of the first time because i really didnt get where the film was going and the bitch started to give me a hardon especially when she just jumps on danny craig, but other then that i didnt real;ly go much on it. Sok if u gotta bag of weed and shit to do and need a wank.
I've watched the Fincher's version of Girl with the dragon tattoo and it was worse than expected. I've liked the original (I can't find my post for that film) although I watched it after reading the book and even the first one was incomplete in describing the frighten girls of the family and Lisbeth. Well Fincher missed that part and transformed Lisbeth to Statham beating everyone around. I was expecting a different approach. Mara was good but she wasn't Lisbeth, Craig was funny he tried but he is too macho for the role.
On the contrary I've like Bullhead . Jacky is a Belgian farmer around 30 totally addicted to hormones exactly like the bulls and cows in the cattle farm he'd spent his whole life. The movie is about his journey from young kid falling in love with the wrong girl, to the madness of a terrible "accident", why he is the man he is, his relation with drug mafia, how he is looking for revenge. As I was watching his story a good crime drama, I understood that it was actually a love story of a man who went to hell for the girl and still he just loves her purely. And it's about friendship and how his closest friend in childhood sacrificed one of the most important things just because he couldn't help his friend. I'm not sure that someone who haven't lived in the area can understand the way this movie is also making fun of the stereotypes for the people of Wallonia and Flanders. But even if you miss that part of the plot or you don't like the wet environment of the cattle farm the performance of Matthias Schoenaerts as Jacky is more than a good reason to watch this movie.
Underworld: Awakening is the latest movie which I'd seen.
Awakening is a 3D action-horror film. After sitting out on 2009's Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, Kate Beckinsale returns as werewolf hunter Selene in Underworld: Awakening, the fourth of the film series. Revolves around a centuries-old blood feud between the aristocratic vampires and their one-time werewolf slaves, the Lycans. After being held in a coma-like state for fifteen years, vampire Selene (Kate Beckinsale) learns that she has a fourteen-year-old vampire/Lycan hybrid daughter, Eve, and when she finds her, they must stop BioCom from creating super Lycans that will kill them all.
This film begins with vampiress Selene waking up after being in a cryogenically frozen state for 12 years..The story revolves around when human forces discover the existence of the Vampire and Lycan clans, a war to eradicate both species commences. The vampire warrioress Selene leads the battle against humankind.
A sloppy, messy, frankly dumb action/horror hybrid, but at least it moves quickly and delivers the goods.Swedish directorial partners Mans Marlind and Bjorn Stein, who co-scripted and produced have pretty much two thoughts in their heads regarding Underworld: Awakening: that Beckinsale looks good in a skin-tight suit and flowing black duster, particularly when she lands in a casual crouch after jumping from a great height, and that CGI werewolves roaring, leaping, and getting shot never gets old. But given the film’s barely pro forma plot and generic action, it obsolesces surprisingly quickly.