This is the place to either slam or recommend any movies you have seen recently.
I won't go first because I can't remember the last movie I saw.
I am however waiting on you all with bated breath.
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This is the place to either slam or recommend any movies you have seen recently.
I won't go first because I can't remember the last movie I saw.
I am however waiting on you all with bated breath.
Tears of the sun by Bruce Willis, damn he was well hard in that, been shot several hundred times but still walked out of the jungle, hated him when he was younger though, fok the foking broadwalk you imbecile, that one when he was the hitman was quite good aswell.
Deja Vu with Denzel Washington and Val Kilmer, among others.
Pretty good despite some gaping plot holes and a few fairly ridiculous plotlines. Good fun though, 3 out of 5.
I just remembered.
I watched Jurassic Park (the lost world) the other day on one of the UBC movie channels.
Actually, I didn't watch it all because it was absolutely awful.
I enjoyed the first one after I had read the book, but this one was very poor.
I wasn't sure if it was trying to be a comedy or a parody of itself or if it was just shite.
I think it was just shite, at least the 45 minutes of it that I watched.
0.5 out of 5
"Babel" -- A great movie. Long and disturbing at times, but full of wonderful acting and great photography. The Tokyo scenes, especially the nightlife shots, were extremely well done.
This is the story of how the failure to communicate affects several families who are geographically and economically disparate.
Night at the Museum. with Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Steve Coogan
Brought my kids to see it as a Christmas treat. They seemed to enjoy it so thats worth the ticket price in my book.
I give it 6.5/10. Would have been more but Ricky Gervais was in there doing his Office role again - as the museum manager.
Standard Hollywood holiday fare.
sorry i just noticed you are giving marks out of 5.
the maths is too hard for me to convert the score though.
V for Vendetta: Excellent, the best movie of the past year IMHO. The acting by Hugo Weaving is superb. The parallel between the ficticious government in the movie ruling by fear and the current status of the USA is astonishing.
Superman Returns: Got through about 45 mins before zzzzzzzzzzzz.......
I saw this as well and pretty much agree with SBF. It was a bit silly at times and Ben Stiller can be irritating, but it was a fun movie with some amazing visuals.Quote:
Originally Posted by slimboyfat
Definitely something that slapstick-happy kids would enjoy.
^
I won tickets to it and went and saw it 3 days ago. Great in places, worth watching but not outstanding. 3.5/5
Before that I saw Borat. classic in places but the rest was crap.2/5
How were your eyes when the black women says "It's what they do." ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by dirtydog
Right you are. Too bad this one didn't get more publicity. Great film, great message.Quote:
Originally Posted by surasak
The Banquet
This is the latest Zang Ziyi movie and I quite enjoyed it. The sets are superb and the OTT butt kicking scenes are very imaginative. The plot is not bad for a Chinky movie except the ending is a bit odd.
4/5
...you forgot to say that she's totally shaggable.
Evil Dead 'The Army of Darkness'
More one liners then all the Bond films put together!:D
"Your missing two things,Jack and shit and Jack just left town."
^^ She looked a bit grim in this one.
In the end she did.
Jackass: Number Two (2006)https://teakdoor.com/images/smilies1/You_Rock_Emoticon.gif
https://teakdoor.com/images/smilies1/You_Rock_Emoticon.gif Yes, you read that right. Jackass: Number Two is a three-star movie. Why? Because, while the movie wallows in bad taste and will never be mistaken for high art, it's effing hilarious. So there. The new Jackass follows the formula of the first Jackass: a bunch of doofuses, led by Johnny Knoxville, perform extremely dangerous (and often stupid) stunts, piss people off, and do nasty things with poop and other bodily excretions. In this installment, Chris Pontius dresses up his penis in a mouse costume and presents it to a hungry snake. Bam Magera gets branded with a cattle prod—and the brand is shaped like an erect penis. (There's tons of male nudity and penis-related humor in the movie; obviously the guys have some repressed homosexuality simmering beneath their macho posturing.) And Steve-O puts a fish hook through his cheek so he can be used as human shark bait. There's more, of course, including a truly nasty scene involving horse jizz, but I don't want to pepper this review with too many spoilers. A lot of the fun of watching the movie lies in not knowing what these jackasses are going to do next.
It goes without saying that Jackass isn't for everybody, but for those of us who find this sort of stuff entertaining and funny, Jackass: Number Two will gross you out, shock you, and make you laugh your (jack)ass off. Which is just what you expected, right?
— BRIE BEAZLEY
I'm about to watch "Kingdom of Heaven".
I don't really want to, but I want to increase the post count of this thread by writing a review.
seems like an awful lot of effort involved.Quote:
Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon
you could just skip the movie, and cut and paste a review from the internet.
don't want to.
(1 more up).
Also I think I should watch more movies than I do.
I have been bogged down with various series for a while now.
Well, I won't be watching Kingdom of heaven after all.
It's full of bugs, jumping all over the place and to make matters worse, i can't delete it from my hard drive.
It tells me it is being used by another application even after I have disconnected the internet.
I want rid of it as it is a 1.37 gig download.
:(
any ideas.
Strangely, it had disappeared from my Azureus files after the download had completed.
miffed.
you could try restarting your computer (windows in safe mode) and then deleting the file.
i also had this problem once and if i remember correctly that is how i got rid of it
cheers Slimboy.
what should I download instead?
there is another thread for that. stop trying to get more posts on this one :)Quote:
Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon
Just got off the plane from LA to Taiwan. Now sitting in the EVA lounge. Watched 1.9 movies on the way over:
Scoop - A so-so Woody Allen flick with the well-endowed Scarlett Joahnsen. A good way to kill some time, but that's about it. 5/10.
All the King's Men - A remake of the thinly disguised story of Huey Long. But, we landed before the end. I think the original was better. Again 5/10.
Would it be a lot of bother for us to choose a movie and we can all review it and have a disscusion about it after??Quote:
Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon
just watched Sweet and Lowdown (1999)
the BEST Woody Allen movie since Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989), IMHO.
It stars Sean Penn as a fictitious jazz guitarist, who's obsessed with being the 2nd best guitarist in the world (the 1st is the real/legendary Django Reinhardt). It follows this tortured genius & all the whacky situations he gets into.
I would give it a 3.75/4 stars! Funny as hell & if you like old school jazz guitar, you'll dig the soundtrack too!
not a bad idea, not sure about the co-ordination of it ithough.Quote:
Originally Posted by flash
downloaded 'A history of violence' overnight.
will be watching that one later.
I watched " Secondhand Lions" last night on ubc ( I only have the cheapy package with one movie channel)
Never hered of the film before, it was quite nice :)
^
is that your idea of a bloody review RC.
'it was quite nice'
everyone will be rushing out for that one.
hope the video shops are well stocked.
:)
I watched about an hour of Star Wars Episode III last night on Star Movies.
it was not very nice.
^
this thread is going badly.
so badly in fact that the best review so far was DD's and a cut and paste job by Little Chuchock because he's far too lazy to ever put together more than a one liner.
^No I'm not.
sorry man, i only get home from work at 8pm every day so don't really get much time to watch movies.Quote:
Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon
A lot of thought when into that, I was going to put "it was allright" :)Quote:
Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon
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This movie was worth-watching. The characters are well-drawn and sympathetic. Just as young Walter (Haley Joel Osment) gets to know his great uncles (Michael Caine and Robert Duvall), we are introduced to this pair of "Secondhand Lions". Just as Walter learns to trust these two eccentric strangers after a lifetime of lies from his untrustworthy mother, we are allowed to learn the lessons of life in pace with him. There are no plot tricks, just eye-widening revelations as the story unfolds at a satisfying pace.
This is not a small quiet story, however. There is the rumor of a hidden fortune of which, it seems, everyone from relatives to traveling salesmen has heard. There are hints that it was obtained through the uncles' adventures but also that it might be ill-gotten gains. Along with Walter, the audience discovers the truth of the rumor.
There is action, comedy, danger, acts of courage, defiance, and tragedy that is part of human frailty. It's wonderfully accomplished in a way that allows older children to enjoy it with their parents. You have characters with whom you can identify no matter what your stage in life.
The director skillfully weaves the past and the present and still manages to preserve the confirmation of story until the very end. I don't want to say too much about this movie or it will spoil the fun of experiencing/watching it. Don't miss this movie.
That's conspicuous by its lack of spelling mistakes.
It's another bloody cut and paste isn't it?
All my own work :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon
It is a really nice film though, sort of grows on you while you are watching it. The type of film that should be on TV over the christmass holidays
I would recommend watching a movie called “The motorcycle dairies” with Gael Garcia, The story of the young Ernesto Guevarra and his travels through south America, long before he got his “CHE” moniker. The movie is in Spanish with English subtitles. Its nothing ground breaking just a nice story and its all shot with a sort of sepia undertone, the scenery is breathtaking and the soundtrack compliments it perfectly.
It's a good idea about the mulitple movie review. I don't care which movie it is, but it must be a torrent with a lot of seeds/leeches.
Also, we need to give people a week or so to download it.
The Motorcycle Diaries has a torrent here http://www.chomskytorrents.org/TorrentDetails.php?TorrentID=1788
It has 11 seeds and 12 leeches.
^ I'm not sure about the historical accuracy of The Motorcycle Diaries, but I LOVE that flick!
If anyone hasn't seen it, I suggest it highly!