Review the last film you watched

[lom]

^^ Which Star Destroyer is it, the Imperial II class ?

[shehiredahitman]

I screwed up. The specs are actually for an Acclamator, not a Star Destroyer. A Destroyer's actually 10x bigger (possibly 10x more powerful) so regardless of class the Enterprise would be squashed like a bug. In fact, the entire Federation would be screwed should they not bow to the Empire.

A fairer match would be Boba's Slave 1. But they'd still be screwed. Behold.

Slave 1 spec

Main guns: 64000 GW (2 kilotons per shot, 480 rpm firing rate onscreen in AOTC for time-averaged power output rather than peak output)

Missiles: 190 megatons (tail-launched missiles; seismic charge mines are roughly 12000 megatons)

Sublight acceleration: 2500G

Operational range:not stated (however, Obi-Wan's starfighter has an operational range of 150,000 light-years, and is probably similar).

Shield heat dissipation: 3311 GW peak

Reactor power: not stated (however, Amidala's personal yacht has power output of 7 billion GW max, and is probably similar)

Max hyperspace speed: not stated (however, same-day flight from core to galactic outer-rim systems requires speeds in excess of 10 million c)

[Butterfly]

ST fans should be shot

[RandomChances]

Originally Posted by Butterfly

ST fans should be shot

With a phaser or light blaster ?

[shehiredahitman]

Hand-held phasers have a variety of settings, able to either "stun" or kill, and also able to vaporize large swaths of material. They can also be set to fire in "Wide Beam" mode, to defeat multiple targets at once. The phasers mounted on the Enterprise also can fire a stun blast capable of incapacitating groups of people on a planet's surface. Similar to the hand phaser, ship phasers can also be fired to evenly disintegrate a target object such as meteors and asteroids.

Light-blasters are used in computer games to shoot things on the TV.

The business



The toy

[shehiredahitman]

No more ST posts now. Sorry all.

[Gerbil]

"The Marine"

Oh dear.....

Made by 'WWE Films', starring 'John Cena'. I dont think I need to say more.

What was I thinking when I wasted my download bandwidth on this? Oh well, I was pretty wasted while watching it so enjoyed it in a strange, somehow shameful, way.

[friscofrankie]

"Idiocray" with Luke Wilson. Average dude, typical underachiever is chosen to be frozen in an experiment for a year predictably something goes awry he wakes up in 2505 to find the dumb people have bred all teh smart out of people, he get arrested, tested and found to be the smartest man on the planet...

Lame premise but what gets done with it is interesting for reasons I doubt the director or producers intended.

Lightweight movie made me laugh and amazed e with it's fairly accurate send up of life in Thailand. With all the people quoting advertising slogans as ultimate wisdom and the pres stating he's gonna fix things in a week with some preposterous program and so much else; reminds me of life here.

Anyone's been here a while will enjoy it I think.

[ChiangMai noon]

^
Haven't heard of that one.
Is it new?

I have watched several movies recently, they have all been crap to mediocre.
Will review tham tomorrow.

[friscofrankie]

This one is mediocre but entertaining. It's from 2005 and you can get it here:
Idiocracy 2006 DvDrip AC3 Eng aXXo » Torrentspy.com

[ChiangMai noon]

thanks.
will get that one.

[Skulldigger]

I liked Idiocracy, the description sounded like crap but they managed to craft a pretty funny movie out of it in the end.

[bustak]

I have been pretty bad about not writing a review of the last movie I saw, so tonight I'm going to break that slump!

I saw Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) & liked it a lot.

It was a good portrayal of the disconnect between people in this modern age. I agree w/ some of the gadgets that we have [at] our disposal has distanced ourselves from people around us, but [at] the same time I feel it's made the world smaller, & easier to meet people you wouldn't have dreamed of meeting 20 years ago!

Besides that, it was well written, acted, shot & directed. It falls into more of the art/independent category, which can be bad in some cases, due the tendency of being pretentious at times, but this movie went out there, but kept at least one foot on the ground.

I would give it 3.5/4 stars!

[bustak]

This is a double review, of a movie I watched last night (Flags of Our Fathers (2006)), along with a movie I saw a month ago (Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)). Clint Eastwood pretty much shot both of these movies [at] the same time, because of the similar sets & subject matter, the Battle of Iwo Jima.

"Flags of our Fathers" is from the American point of view, & "Letters from Iwo Jima," is from the Japanese perspective.

When I saw "Flags of Our Fathers," I was pleasantly surprised! The reason I say pleasantly surprised is because I saw Letters from Iwo Jima & thought it was a typical American war movie made post 1990 (ie Saving Private Ryan, Thin Red Line), except it was in Japanese, with English subtitles. It had rich colors, mixed w/ a sepia toned look, with the typical war movie cliché dialogue. Along with the back & forth of the present & the past.

So "Letters from Iwo Jima" gets 2.25/4 stars. I thought the acting was pretty good, along with the battle scenes, editing & special effects! My problem was more with the cookie cutter look & the script.

As for Flags of our Fathers, it had a touch of the above, especially the back & forth between the battles in Iwo Jima, & the battle back [at] home. But I think what made Flags better is that it really followed these characters (the men who were holding the flag in the famous photo taken during the Battle of Iwo Jima). You saw the media circus surrounding the picture, along with the controversy with its validity, the use of the picture for propaganda & the horrible treatment of the American Indian Ira Hayes. It also had the same positives as "Letters from Iwo Jima," great special effects, editing, etc..

So I give "Flags of Our Fathers" 3.25/4 stars.

[sabang]

The Mission.
Birdy.
My Favourite Laundrette.
Withnail and I (don't say u know film till u see this)
Cinema Paradiso (Do)

[ChiangMai noon]

Originally Posted by sabang

The Mission.
Birdy.
My Favourite Laundrette.
Withnail and I (don't say u know film till u see this)
Cinema Paradiso (Do)

I've seen all of them except my favourite laundrette, I have seen my beautiful laundrette though.

But this is the "review the last movie you saw" thread.

Can you review one of them or do you want us to do it for you?

[Scooter]

King Kong

Its about an ape.

[ChiangMai noon]

Borat (2006)
Sacha Baron Cohen

anybody that doesn't find this movie funny is obviously either too stupid to understand it or else agrees with the homophobic anti semetic attitude that Cohen's well practiced character portrays.

At times the movie is difficult to watch as we see Cohen ridiculing redneck American scum time and again.
My favourite scene was definitely his visit to the Rodeo where dressed in ludicrous Stars and stripes shirt he bays the oafs in the crowd with wonderful lines like...

"We, the people of Kazakhstan support your War OF terror" (massive wooping)
"I hope GW Bush drinks the blood of every muslim infidel" (woops and more hollers...the audience lapping it up.

Others that get the 'made to look stupid treatment are a group of racist frat boys and not surprisingly an evangelical church.

This movie is very cleverly done and will hopefully have right minded Americans looking at their culture and thinking hmmmm. I doubt it though, he is probably preaching to the converted.

4.5 out of 5.

[Scooter]

Eat my Arse !

[flash]

Loved the Borat movie, Very clever that man.....................for a jew