[amphibian]

QuickTidal, on 19 September 2011 - 04:46 PM, said:

I saw this on Saturday at the Toronto Film Fest.

It's REALLY good. Everyone in it is spectacular. Just a fantastic movie across the board. It got a standing ovation after the credits rolled.

WELL worth your time!

I know it's probably good - much like The Blind Side was. However, I already know the story and even how it turns out subsequent to the conceptual framework spreading beyond Oakland.

I'll skip it for now and maybe catch it when it comes to TV in a few years. I'm going to see Warrior some time this week and perhaps Drive as well.

This post has been edited by amphibian: 19 September 2011 - 07:11 PM

[Dolmen 2.0]

so, i watched the eagle today. It was fantastic! Macdonald did a good job telling a story of two sides here. Channing played the soldier boy perfectly. I also loved the fact he played himself down adequately enough to give jamie bell a chance to shine and boy did the man shine! I liked the fact it ends with a sour taste. No one wins. Inner Demons are put to rest and the characters move on happy just to have pulled of the ridiculousness of their journey.

Im somewhat impressed by drive in both the actors and the directors. I didnt lose interest at any point in the movie. Scenes were picked well and kept simple. The absolute depth of the casting surprised me. I have no clue about the history behind the movie but as a relatively objective viewer i thoroughly enjoyed this movie.

Perhaps my only gripe would be channings suddenly fresh moment at the end , he felt too sharp for a guy on his last legs... Still im not a detail oriented guy. In my mind If it feels right it just is.

[polishgenius]

I was meant to watch Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy yesterday, but my mate missed his train so we went for Warrior instead. Speaking as someone who isn't at all a fan of MMA, it's hugely enjoyable- I'd put it on par with the Fighter. It's not in any way original, apart from the fact that two protagonists means you're not just rooting for one guy to win, but I guarantee you'll be grinning by the end. Or shedding a single manly tear (even if you're not a man).

[QuickTidal]

polishgenius, on 22 September 2011 - 02:22 PM, said:

I was meant to watch Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy yesterday

^^ I REALLY want to see this, but of course Focus Features (who are releasing it in North America) aren't releasing it till fucking December! Arg.


...


Saturday I plan on seeing the latest Tsui Hark flick DETECTIVE DEE & THE MYSTERY OF THE PHANTOM FLAME, which looks like a good period piece/action comedy with crazy Hark-style fight scenes and stuff like Andy Lau kicking a stag in mid-air. Yeah. Can't wait!

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 22 September 2011 - 03:46 PM

[Beezulbubba]

Deadilly Facesnarker, on 27 August 2011 - 09:39 PM, said:

saw Hesher the other day...fucking awesome! LOVED IT!

^^^^ This! Hesher. Fucking watch that shit... brilliant!

[Bent]

Watched Conan a few weeks ago and agree with the previous low scores, except....

The first 15 minutes of the movie were everything that is awesome about barbarians. And I thought those first 15 minutes were the greatest rendition of barbarians and all that is barbaric about them!

Then we meet the lead actress and conan becomes a giant vagina and the story dies an agonizing death of a sad lonely old woman whos cats eat her face of before she dies. But man, that first 15 minutes was visually stimulating and intense. In my not so humble opinion.

[polishgenius]

So Tinker Tailor is really good. Perhaps could have done with a tiny bit of trimming- the huge cast of characters means you (1)have to get hold of the names, which are not introduced in the usual manufactured cinema convention so you do have to pay attention, straight away to have any chance of following the plot, and (2) means that apart from Smiley, the focus skips from character to character, making it hard to get too involved with any of them and leaving it a tiny bit emotionally cold.

However, it looks brilliant, is very tense, and the acting (as you would expect from the cast) is amazing. So thumbs up.

[Obdigore]

Saw Killer Elite yesterday.

As an action movie it wasn't too bad. The plot was big enough to drive a remote controlled gas tanker through, but the fight scenes were good-ish and I thought the 3 hitmen who worked together played well off each other.

I give it 6.5 Clips out of 10.

[A Demon Llama!]

[QuickTidal]

Oh my god, last night I saw THE MOST fascinating, mesmerizing documentary I have ever seen. It's called RESURRECT DEAD: THE MYSTERY OF THE TOYNBEE TILES, and while I don't want to give too much away it is about these tiles that are embedded in the pavement all around the USA (and in four major South American Cities as well) and have been showing up since the early 1980's that say "TOYNBEE IDEA IN MOVIE '2001'RESURRECT DEAD ON PLANET JUPITER"...That's all I want to tell you, but my god....this is one of the BEST films I've seen all year. Mysterious, captivating and just well made. I believe it won an award at Sundance this past year, and was the most buzzed about film that this years Toronto Hot Doc Film Fest.

If you can find it playing anywhere, go see it now! If you can't hopefully it will show up on DVD at some point. It would be a travesty if it didn't.

Oh and here is a link to the official website for the film to show where screenings are being held in case anyone wants to listen to my ranting and see it.

http://www.resurrect...com/screenings/

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 30 September 2011 - 12:42 PM

[QuickTidal]

Went to see Tsui Hark's latest, which is a period piece/comedy/action movie that takes place in 689 in China called DETECTIVE DEE & THE MYSTERY OF THE PHANTOM FLAME starring Andy Lau, Li Bingbing and Carina Lau....

It had a few decent story points and moments, but overall the entirety of it was marred by things like whole sequences weren't cleaned up enough so it ended up being blatantly obvious that the film was shot on HD Video (normally big production companies clean Digital Video up and make it look as good as film) and portions of it even looked like cheesy TV re-enactments of action. The special effects ACROSS THE BOARD were mid-90's looking at BEST. The mystery itself is fairly by the numbers and though we are meant to view Detective Dee as a Sherlockian type character he doesn't have that charm, no matter how hard Andy Lau tries. This is being lauded as a "return to form" for Tsui Hark...but for me it just wasn't...and I'd much rather watch TIME & TIDE any day of the week. TIME & TIDE was totally convoluted and a narrative mess, but it was damn awesome too.

So yeah, not great from one of the masters of Chinese cinema.

Note: Sammo Hung was the action choreographer and sadly even the kung fu was stilted and pretty lame.

[Abyss]

Finally saw TERMINATOR: SALVATION. It wasn't nearly as bad as I was led to believe. Most of the action sequences were pretty awesome, the story was workable, and it didn't mess with the established canon so utterly as to offend, as many people suggest.

[QuickTidal]

Abyss, on 05 October 2011 - 02:19 PM, said:

Finally saw TERMINATOR: SALVATION. It wasn't nearly as bad as I was led to believe. Most of the action sequences were pretty awesome, the story was workable, and it didn't mess with the established canon so utterly as to offend, as many people suggest.

I give you this article, to put a few things into perspective Abyss. It certainly changed my mind after I had watched it and didn't find it to be too bad either...

http://www.chud.com/...ator-salvation/

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 05 October 2011 - 02:26 PM

[Abyss]

QuickTidal, on 05 October 2011 - 02:25 PM, said:

Abyss, on 05 October 2011 - 02:19 PM, said:

Finally saw TERMINATOR: SALVATION. It wasn't nearly as bad as I was led to believe. Most of the action sequences were pretty awesome, the story was workable, and it didn't mess with the established canon so utterly as to offend, as many people suggest.

I give you this article, to put a few things into perspective Abyss. It certainly changed my mind after I had watched it and didn't find it to be too bad either...

http://www.chud.com/...ator-salvation/

heh... good article... i particularly like

Quote

It's important to note that the original script by extraordinary
hacks Brancato and Ferris – the guys who wrote The Net, Catwoman and
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines – is not some discarded gem. It's
got plenty of problems of its own).

...


Just then there’s an explosion. Serena is distracted and, just like in
the finished film (where it actually makes less sense), Marcus rips out
his Transport chip. He then jumps into the time machine, which burns
his clothes off, and he goes back in time just far enough to rescue
Kyle and Star, grab a laser weapon and set off the explosion that
distracted Serena (whether or not Brancato and Ferris were watching
Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey while writing this scene is
unconfirmed). And then the action begins.

I agree that the heart transplant ending is slapped in, but i also tend to think the 'Marcus becomes John' end would have been stupid. Other than that the flic works well enough. The rewrite did give Connor more of a story, and while the last bit with him running around screaming 'KYLE!' was silly, the fight itself worked well enough if we overlook the massive gaping silly holes in Skynet's evil plan (like hey, maybe send more than one Terminator to do the job).

It would have been way more interesting to convert Marcus into the Terminator that gets sent back for T2 or something.

[QuickTidal]

Abyss, on 05 October 2011 - 03:11 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 05 October 2011 - 02:25 PM, said:

Abyss, on 05 October 2011 - 02:19 PM, said:

Finally saw TERMINATOR: SALVATION. It wasn't nearly as bad as I was led to believe. Most of the action sequences were pretty awesome, the story was workable, and it didn't mess with the established canon so utterly as to offend, as many people suggest.

I give you this article, to put a few things into perspective Abyss. It certainly changed my mind after I had watched it and didn't find it to be too bad either...

http://www.chud.com/...ator-salvation/

heh... good article... i particularly like

Quote

It’s important to note that the original script by extraordinary
hacks Brancato and Ferris – the guys who wrote The Net, Catwoman and
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines – is not some discarded gem. It’s
got plenty of problems of its own).

I agree that the heart transplant ending is slapped in, but i also tend to think the 'Marcus becomes John' end would have been stupid. Other than that the flic works well enough. The rewrite did give Connor more of a story, and while the last bit with him running around screaming 'KYLE!' was silly, the fight itself worked well enough if we overlook the massive gaping silly holes in Skynet's evil plan (like hey, maybe send more than one Terminator to do the job).

It would have been way more interesting to convert Marcus into the Terminator that gets sent back for T2 or something.

What I always found hilarious was the fact that Skynet is in the middle of a barren field, lit up like a damned Christmas tree...the resistance could easily have planned some sort of attack on something so "not hidden". It made me chuckle.

[polishgenius]

Drive is wicked. Slick, stylish and brilliant. Ryan Gosling is great.

[A Demon Llama!]

Spoiler

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[HoosierDaddy]

As soon as I looked at that I thought: "Primer timeline."

[A Demon Llama!]

If anyone is into time travel movies, and are desperately searching for something new, I recently watched movie called Timecrimes (Los Cronocrimenes). Its a foreign, but a pretty good time travel flick. Nothing beats Primer though.

[Coco with marshmallows]

saw the new version of Tinker Tailor.

Very good. Well acted, maintaining a nice level of underlying cold war thriller tension throughout.