Ye Big Movie thread

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Posted 19 April 2005 - 10:16 AM

I've seen Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive, but not Eraserhead. I don't know if I like Lynch movies so I'm in no hurry to rent it. I'm not sure if his films are supposed to make any narrative sense or if he intended any real message behind the madness which bothers me. Twin Peaks is probably my favorite Lynch project (can't remember if I liked the show or movies better.)

I'm not that interested in seeing Gozu. I'm not a big fan of Miike. (I think of him as a shock director with some talent who has yet to make a truly inspired film.) I just watch a lot of Asian movies. I get most of them from an underground video store in Los Angeles called Cinefile. I'll see if they have Edukators, but it's a coin toss. Their region coded sections are: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, French, Italian, Spanish, British, and general.

Another strange/cool movie but that is more readily available is David Cronenberg's Videodrome. It's probably a must see for anyone in this forum who hasn't seen it.

I saw two new films worth mentioning.

Tears of the Black Tiger (Thai)
WaydownTown (Canadian)

Tears of the Black Tiger is a Thai movie that combines the sappy melodrama with the sphaghetti western. The color is unusual with black and white scenes with details shown in green and pink. It's both campy and ultra violent. It's so unusal and campy that it's more of a midnight movie like The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Waydowntown is an office comedy that is more entertaining than Haiku Tunnel, but no where near as funny as Office Space or the British show The Office. It has a Clerks type feel to it, but not quite as slacker and not quite as cheap. Unfortunately, it's also not as funny. It's kind of cool. Worth a rental.

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Posted 28 June 2005 - 09:56 AM

Saw Batman Begins.
Best.
Batmobile.
Ever.

- Abyss, wants one. In red.

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#763 Tenaka Khan

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Posted 07 April 2005 - 05:08 AM

Anyone around here seen Dark City? Now that's an underrated little masterpiece imo. Gloomy setting, unknown actors, interesting story, nice final twist... loved it!

I've also just seen Signs yesterday.... urks! That movie just sucks! Shyamalan is really a great director (i.e. he certainly knows how to create extreme tension and suspense), but in terms of story-writing... no comment! After The Sixth Sense (brilliant) and The Unbreakable (special) he really should have stopped writing screenplays and focus on directing, but perhaps that's just me...

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Posted 10 May 2005 - 04:47 AM

It's just dumb. Not all movies need to be deadly serious or politically correct.

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Posted 12 June 2005 - 08:48 AM

Yeah got to agree with you there Gamet. Great. Big. Pile. Of. Wank.

My gf really loved it though, which was surprising...

Jessica Alba = Fine.

Don't fuck with the Culture.

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Posted 18 June 2005 - 05:39 PM

Might have to watch the Machinist now...

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Posted 19 May 2005 - 05:59 AM

I was wondering, has anyone here seen Before Sunset or Before Sunrise? I heard they were really good...

Anyone?

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Posted 16 April 2005 - 09:46 AM

Paul Verhoeven's movies gory?

I'm not a fan of Takashi Miiki, but his movies are the goriest I have seen.

Try Ichi the Killer or Audition.

Trainspotting disturbing?

Besides Audition, Shinya Tskuamoto's cyberpunk movie Tetsuo is the weirdist and most disturbing movie I have ever seen. A guy's body metamorphicizes into a machine shown in stop motion animation set to industrial music. The movie is an underground classic that influenced the weird style of the Darren Aronofsky (Pi and Requiem for a Dream.)

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Posted 10 May 2005 - 04:33 AM

Even the second time he did his dick, pussy, ******* speech? Posted Image

That just made me cringe.

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Posted 25 June 2005 - 04:16 PM

Saw Land of the Dead last night. Woohooo! It was a good chuckler. Dont want to give the few laughs away but I definately enjoyed it!

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Posted 09 May 2005 - 08:45 AM

(why is this smiley called erikson)

Dunno. Gotta admit i'm not to keen on the fella.

But that might just be because its fashionable to wear che t-shirts.

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Posted 30 June 2005 - 01:16 AM

its very confusing even with subtitles. i saw it a while ago on a russian dvd and honestly the whole movie is bonkers. did you figure out what was happening though?

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Posted 26 May 2005 - 12:37 AM

when asked what was good about star wars the first thiong i said was the trailer for narnia Posted Image

that looks awesome that movie, and unlike ROTS which also looked good in trailer format, this one we know has a story behind it Posted Image

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Posted 23 May 2005 - 04:04 AM

BTW, has anyone seen Ong Bak? Any good?

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Posted 13 June 2005 - 08:24 AM

Saw Madagascar. Pretty good, not hilarious as, say Shrek, but pretty good.

Best line in the movie: "Well...this sucks!"

OK, I think I got it, but just in case, can you say the whole thing over again? I wasn't really listening.

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Posted 16 April 2005 - 04:02 AM

Verhoeven + Rutger Hauer + Jennifer Jason Leigh = Terrible!

Let us know how you get on with tht Kal Posted Image

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Posted 07 April 2005 - 02:52 AM

I saw Constantine last night. I was quite pleasently suprised. Keanu annoys me in everything but Matrix 1, but I found myself neutral which is an improvement. I also despise Weisz and didn't want to see it because she was in it but I forgot I hated her so that was definitely an improvement! Posted Image

Burn rubber =/= warp speed

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Posted 25 May 2005 - 01:08 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Dark Daze:
I walked out of Revenge of the Sith to see Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Then I walked out of Hitchhikers to see Unleashed. Unleashed was pretty good. The best thing about those other movies were the trailers e.g. Chronicles of Narnia.

You should have hit up kingdom of heaven after hitchhikers, for the trve triple play.