[Bauchelain the Evil]

Sombra, on 29 March 2010 - 11:12 AM, said:

I'm going to go out on a limb here and agree with Apt on the Ocean's franchise:
11 - Very good
12 - utter, utter crap. As in considered suicide by donating brainz to Abyss type crap. Decided against it because I thought my extra polluted thinkymeatz might give him the runs.
This is as opposed to my normal level of polluted thimkymeatz.
13 - good, but it's mostly because you were so appalled by 12

And I have seen Ben Hur maybe 5-6 times. Awesome film, even these days.

Which begs the question: Who is the modern equivalent of Charlton Heston at the top of his form?

Please. It might have been considered a great film in its time but watching it now makes it completely ridiculus and cheap.
As for the Ocean's thing I have to completely agree with Apt.
Hmm, there is something wrong with the above. sentence.

[amphibian]

dktorode, on 29 March 2010 - 08:14 AM, said:

Watched LADY VENGEANCE on the weekend, great movie... very different tone to OLDBOY but i gather its because there is a female protagonist.
Now i just got to watch SYMPATHY FOR MR VENGEANCE and id have seen the entire revenge trilogy!

Anybody seen it?

I hated Oldboy. It was technically proficient, but the story was abysmal. I can understand the basic conceit, but it was shoddily handled and became largely an excuse for set-pieces of not that awesome violence. Besides choreography, the hallway scene wasn't that great.

[knight of shadows]

So I watched Dune for the first time and honestly it was one of the absolute weirdest movies I have ever seen the only thing it succeeded in was making glad that I hadn't read the novel. I never was a huge sci fi fan I usually just stick to fantasy so maybe that's my problem.

[Gothos]

Oh My God, man, the film has VERY FUCKING LITTLE to do with the books. Lynch did what he pleased with the characters, the PLOT and THE HOOD DAMNED SETTING and he really, really fucked up. Don't, just don't make it a benchmark of the books.

If you want a visualization, watch the HBO series "Dune", which is actually pretty much almost canon (they made Irulan into a frontline character)

This post has been edited by Gothos: 30 March 2010 - 06:49 AM

[dktorode]

amphibian, on 29 March 2010 - 08:23 PM, said:

dktorode, on 29 March 2010 - 08:14 AM, said:

Watched LADY VENGEANCE on the weekend, great movie... very different tone to OLDBOY but i gather its because there is a female protagonist.
Now i just got to watch SYMPATHY FOR MR VENGEANCE and id have seen the entire revenge trilogy!

Anybody seen it?

I hated Oldboy. It was technically proficient, but the story was abysmal. I can understand the basic conceit, but it was shoddily handled and became largely an excuse for set-pieces of not that awesome violence. Besides choreography, the hallway scene wasn't that great.

you should try LADY VENGEANCE very very different film to OLDBOY, some people say its better, not me....but some

[dktorode]

Gothos, on 30 March 2010 - 06:46 AM, said:

Oh My God, man, the film has VERY FUCKING LITTLE to do with the books. Lynch did what he pleased with the characters, the PLOT and THE HOOD DAMNED SETTING and he really, really fucked up. Don't, just don't make it a benchmark of the books.

If you want a visualization, watch the HBO series "Dune", which is actually pretty much almost canon (they made Irulan into a frontline character)

lynch turned the weirding way into some sort of gun or something....i watched it recently. Was disappoint.

[Aristai]

Gothos, on 30 March 2010 - 06:46 AM, said:

Oh My God, man, the film has VERY FUCKING LITTLE to do with the books. Lynch did what he pleased with the characters, the PLOT and THE HOOD DAMNED SETTING and he really, really fucked up. Don't, just don't make it a benchmark of the books.

If you want a visualization, watch the HBO series "Dune", which is actually pretty much almost canon (they made Irulan into a frontline character)

It was the SCI-FI Channel not HBO...But ages better for sure.

[Gothos]

Aristai, on 30 March 2010 - 08:17 AM, said:

Gothos, on 30 March 2010 - 06:46 AM, said:

Oh My God, man, the film has VERY FUCKING LITTLE to do with the books. Lynch did what he pleased with the characters, the PLOT and THE HOOD DAMNED SETTING and he really, really fucked up. Don't, just don't make it a benchmark of the books.

If you want a visualization, watch the HBO series "Dune", which is actually pretty much almost canon (they made Irulan into a frontline character)

It was the SCI-FI Channel not HBO...But ages better for sure.

yeah, my mistake, sorry. Just the style reminds me so much of Rome :> it's embarrasing to mistake them as I have Dune on dvd :>


and dkt, yeah, he made it into a sonic weapon... which then got carried over into Atreides in Dune 2 with the sonic tank... jeeebus. Horrible, horrible mutilation. Though I have to say, Lynch did better casting than SFC. Ah well. The Baron is still brilliantly done in the miniseries, better, in fact.
One of the other major problems of the film is that it rushes... a lot. There's plenty of reasons why Dune is such a door stopper.

just... just... Jessica. And Paul. What were they thinking?

[Ulrik]

Mini-series were shot in Czech republic and see so many local actors as heroes from Dune...it hurts...(except Kodetova and her boobs as Chani of course;))
btw - extended cut of Lynch´s Dune is a little bit better than thetrical version (not much, Lynch still didnt grasp many things)...and Guerney leading attack with dog is awesome:D

[Tiste Simeon]

Haven't seen it for ages but hasn't the Lynch film got Sting in it?

[Illuyankas]

Not just Sting, but Sting just in futuristic pants.

Apparently the three hours they cut from the five hours they filmed made it a lot more tolerable. Even if they thought black rubber suits in the desert was a good idea.

[caladanbrood]

knight of shadows, on 30 March 2010 - 06:05 AM, said:

So I watched Dune for the first time and honestly it was one of the absolute weirdest movies I have ever seen the only thing it succeeded in was making glad that I hadn't read the novel. I never was a huge sci fi fan I usually just stick to fantasy so maybe that's my problem.

All the adaptations of Dune are shockingly bad. You ought to give the book a try though, it is very good indeed





I bought the Naked Gun trilogy yesterday for cheaps, watched the first two last night. Ah, OJ Simpson...

[Aristai]

Illuyankas, on 30 March 2010 - 05:21 PM, said:

Not just Sting, but Sting just in futuristic pants.

Apparently the three hours they cut from the five hours they filmed made it a lot more tolerable. Even if they thought black rubber suits in the desert was a good idea.

"Sting in futuristic pants" alone is probably worth a director's cut..Or not.

[Gothos]

You mean the director getting an overzealous circumcision?

[Aristai]

Gothos, on 31 March 2010 - 12:58 PM, said:

You mean the director getting an overzealous circumcision?

One gets the feeling Lynch might actually enjoy this.

Watched Repomen last night. Not as bad as I thought it would be. Silly and somewhat fun.

[Tiste Simeon]

caladanbrood, on 30 March 2010 - 06:38 PM, said:

I bought the Naked Gun trilogy yesterday for cheaps, watched the first two last night. Ah, OJ Simpson...

Aye, I watched them all again recently, followed by "Spy Hard" and "Wrongfully Accused" all of them hilarious!

[stone monkey]

I actually like the Lynch version of Dune. It does have quite a few things wrong with it, the Weirding Modules for starters, and there are some plot changes that don't work (Raining at the end... Come on!) But it has a truly otherworldy atmosphere and some of the production design is outstanding - that whole Baroque Future thing it's got going on is fantastic.

Anyway, I saw Clash of the Titans on Friday and it was enjoyable enough, I suppose. The Kraken was quite effective, they really sold its scale very well. The whole thing does put me in mind of that Macbeth quote "...a lot of sound and fury. Signifying nothing."

The best part of the whole experience was that, before the film, they showed the trailer for Chris Nolan's new film, Inception, which looks absolutely mindblowing...

[Aptorian]

Saw a bunch of films during Easter:

2012: Okay disaster movie, sort of lost its interest towards the end where it became less Armageddon and more human philosophy on the USS failboat. Really cool footage of the worlds end though, Woody Harrelson was fun.

Law Abiding Citizen: This was actually a very cool film. The beginning and development of the story was very intresting and it had me rooting for the bad guy all the way through. Unfortunately they ruined the ending completely. The premise of the story was an attack on grossly inefficient justice system and I think they should have kept going with that instead of just slapping a action hero type ending on it. The movie could have been a lot of more intelligent and I don't think Jamie Fox was a great choice for the lawyer character.

Inkheart: Pretty good fantasy/adventure film. Perhaps it could have done with a little more action, but the idea and the story really was quite good. Brendan Fraiser was even tolerable. Loved the Dustfinger character, he completely stole the scene.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: What an overrated movie this was. Maybe it's just that the advertisements on TV revealed too much, but except for his birth and death, the story really wasn't very surprising or exceptional. The love interest while sweet, was not very gripping, though I thought the way their relationship "ended" was a very tragic story. I have to agree with people who call it a second rate Forest Gump. The similarities are there but it doesn't have the same flair, quirky characters and amusing historical tie ins. I certainly do not see why Brad Pitt deserved a Oscar nomination, he hardly did any acting in the film.

Fanboys: Finally got around to watching this. It was what you'd expect of a "teenage roadmovie" I guess. Not really as fun as I hoped, but the characters where likeable and the story was okay. It could have been better, more crazy events, faster story telling, etc. but it had the delicious Kristen Bell in it and a cameo by William Shatner, which makes the movie awesome.

[MTS]

'I'm William Shatner. I can get anything.' HA. What a god.

I saw Bad Lieutenant yesterday. FUCKING. A. Great flick. Finally, Cage does something decen.t

[Garak]

Saw Tora!Tora!Tora! followed by Midway. Great movies. Really felt how hard command must have been back then. A friend said they were boring but I think he was expecting more instant action instead of the tension we got (especially in Midway - ok it was ruined if you knew anything about WW2 but still).

Anyone if Pacific (HBO series) is worth seeing?