The Movie/Film/DVD thread...

Kaiproject · Post by **Kaiproject** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 4:12 pm

might wait for dvd/bluray for that option dont know if id be up for it in imax lol

seeing it tonight.

Post by **system** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 6:46 pm

"alice in wonderland" was awesome, but i highly recommend leaving the cinema ~15mins before the end of the film if you can time it right.

3.5 off with their heads.

Hardy · Post by **Hardy** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 7:39 pm

Saw Alice In Wonderland on Saturday. Fucking WOEFUL. It's sad when the best part of a movie is Helena Bonham Carter.

Post by **system** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 8:10 pm

hardy, the internet disagrees

Lizkins · Post by **Lizkins** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 9:42 pm

so many conflicting reviews. i think its all what you expected of it. i wanted visual spectacular, story that didn't annoy me and good acting, and i got all three...others i know that have had issue with it have gone into great detail in comparison to the first one. i wasn't expecting a repeat. i thought it was fricken radness...

Kaiproject · Post by **Kaiproject** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 10:49 pm

^ yeah i quite liked it, at least it was different not just doing the same thing.

pretty typical burton goings on tho and im not his biggest fan...

Cheshire cat ftw, i knew when i saw the CG for him and heard the voice would be stephen fry that he'd be awesome

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 12:28 am

Alice was AWESOME

Mad Hatter FTW

apophenian · Post by **apophenian** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 10:40 am

Apparently the book was a satire of the state of late 19th century mathematics: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/opinion/07bayley.html

Lil MiSbreaks · Post by **Lil MiSbreaks** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 12:36 pm

deviant wrote:Alice was AWESOME

Mad Hatter FTW

I really liked it too. I do enjoy Burton's films though, pretty much all of them. Depp was brilliant and i had quite a few giggles.

youthful_implants · Post by **youthful_implants** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 12:41 pm

I never got to see it in the end! gonna go this week for sure. looks wicked.

sat through 4 hours of the fuckin Oscars though which was boring and lame.

even George Clooney, who is arguably the smarmiest man on the planet, looked really uncomfortable throughout as the tacky production and poor editing really let it all down. He's also looking really old now.

I gave the Oscars this year 3/10

Lil MiSbreaks · Post by **Lil MiSbreaks** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 12:43 pm

Didnt he! I thought that too... saw little bits of it, but couldnt miss that look on his face.

nic · Post by **nic** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 12:45 pm

he is such a cunt

mrj · Post by **mrj** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 12:51 pm

steve martin tbf. and when nph is a feature you really have started to hit rock bottom.

they deserve it tho. they had the option of pushing the envelope by using sasha baron cohen, and instead decided to embrace mediocrity and go with steve martin and alec baldwin. result was obvious for all.

Amick · Post by **Amick** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 1:46 pm

steve martin's jew hunting joke in the intro was pretty lol though...

youthful_implants · Post by **youthful_implants** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 10:05 am

Saw the Hurt Locker last night.

WTF. It's not even a film, It's a mockumentary with actors. Like they do on crimestoppers.

Thinly veiled propaganda tbh. 2/10

How it beat Avatar is anyone's guess...

Lil MiSbreaks · Post by **Lil MiSbreaks** » Mon Mar 15, 2010 12:48 pm

^^^ I saw it on the weekend too. Now, within 5 minutes I thought Avatar was better, BUT, I love that fantasy type stuff more than I do war stories, so that would make sense.

I thought it was an excellent film, really quite interesting but for me, these movies are only interesting cos Ive never been to war, nor will I, nor would I ever request to be in the army, so anyone signing up for that makes for an interesting story for me.

Am interesting in Green Zone, seems to have more of an actual story other than the expected war difficulties.

witty_pseudonym · Post by **witty_pseudonym** » Mon Mar 15, 2010 1:39 pm

Started watching Hurt Locker and couldn't sit through it. Got an hour in and it was doing our heads in. Soooooooooooooooooooooooo slooooooooooooooooow. Such a bullshit one sided big ups to the American troops it was nauseating. So glad I wasn't stuck in a cinema.

Also started Whip It and turned it off about half an hour in. BOOOOOOOOOOOORING! Over did the butch/alternative/super uber cool derby chick thing way too much imo and tedious formulaic story line. Yawn.

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Tue Mar 16, 2010 12:43 am

It's rare when I like a movie that's come out of Hollywood these days...I find them all formulaic and trite, but I keep hoping something will inspire me. SBS ftw atm tbh.

andy_hoffman · Post by **andy_hoffman** » Tue Mar 16, 2010 6:38 am

Dunno if it's been mentioned here yet but has anyone seen "9"? It's a pretty cool short CG flick directed I think by Tim Burton. It's a weird post apocalyptic story bout robots. It's very cool. Worth a watch.

apophenian · Post by **apophenian** » Tue Mar 16, 2010 10:34 am

Yeah madman brought '9' out, so I might have to get it for my next lot of entitlements.

Going to see Alice in Wonderland tonight at IMAX.

w00t!

Post by **system** » Tue Mar 16, 2010 11:28 am

andy_hoffman wrote:Dunno if it's been mentioned here yet but has anyone seen "9"? It's a pretty cool short CG flick directed I think by Tim Burton. It's a weird post apocalyptic story bout robots. It's very cool. Worth a watch.

'9' was produced by tim burton and is a remake of the short by the same director, shane acker, which was nominated for an oscar back in 2005.

cool film.

Brain · Post by **Brain** » Tue Mar 16, 2010 12:18 pm

Lil MiSbreaks wrote:Am interested in Green Zone, seems to have more of an actual story other than the expected war difficulties.

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Tue Mar 16, 2010 10:39 pm

Watched Tootsie with my Mums tonight. Fucking awesome to revisit, lots of fun. The jokes are dumb but the acting was amazing, really spot on. What ever happened to Jessica Lange?

Lil MiSbreaks · Post by **Lil MiSbreaks** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 1:01 pm

witty_pseudonym wrote: Also started Whip It and turned it off about half an hour in. BOOOOOOOOOOOORING! Over did the butch/alternative/super uber cool derby chick thing way too much imo and tedious formulaic story line. Yawn.

Oh Witty, NOOOOOO!!! I LOVED that movie, loved loved loved.

Seen a few these last few days.

The Soloist - What a RAD film! I really REALLY enjoyed that one. Jaime Fox is brilliant.
The Wackness. Liked this one too. A bit full on in some parts, along the mental illness tip, but brilliant i thought.
Speed Racer. Shit man, what? Lost interest after 15 minutes and made a new playlist instead of watching it. Fucking boring as bad shit.
And nemo was on sat night, had to go there again, just had too.

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 1:48 pm

How To Rob a Bank....

do not watch

worst

Direkt · Post by **Direkt** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 2:05 pm

mixtress wrote:It's rare when I like a movie that's come out of Hollywood these days...I find them all formulaic and trite, but I keep hoping something will inspire me. SBS ftw atm tbh.

Seen 'The Wire'?

I love it because it's so anti-Hollywood.

It's not against Hollywood, but it's polar opposite with how Hollywood shoots the vast majority of movies and TV shows.

No background music, not particularly attractive actors, real dialogue, based on real events and written by people who saw it all. It even stars people who were actually part of the initial stories.

--
Saw District 9 on the weekend... meh, it was okay - but nothing flash IMO. 6.5/10.

apophenian · Post by **apophenian** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 2:11 pm

I thought this was interesting - http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10465202-37.html

ADD_Boy · Post by **ADD_Boy** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 4:41 pm

gonna check inglorious bastards this weekend on DVD..

Amick · Post by **Amick** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 4:51 pm

Got a copy of 'Men Who Stare At Goats'.

Meh.

Don't bother.

witty_pseudonym · Post by **witty_pseudonym** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 4:52 pm

agreed.
i fell asleep.

nic · Post by **nic** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 4:58 pm

saw Twilight 2 last night, pretty heavy emotional film full of fuckign complex dialouge. Wish it was a bit longer, will prob rewatch later on.

Bit gutted for Jacob, he got treated like shit imo. Bella is really selfish and is basically a sociopath.
Looking foward to number 3.

C.I.A. · Post by **C.I.A.** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 4:58 pm

ADD_Boy wrote:gonna check inglorious bastards this weekend on DVD..

I'm pretty sure I am the only person on the planet who thought that this was nothing but an hour and a bit of Tarantino masturbating to a film of Tarantino masturbating. Self-referential wank with one or two highlights/amusing moments padded out with enough film-school lecture material to cover an entire semester of 'Tarantino... God, or douchebag foot-fetishist who rips off John Woo more often than he changes his high-waisted tighty-whiteys?'.

I gave it 1 1/2 Jack Rabbit Slims.

Amick · Post by **Amick** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 5:07 pm

nic wrote:saw Twilight 2 last night, pretty heavy emotional film full of fuckign complex dialouge. Wish it was a bit longer, will prob rewatch later on.

Bit gutted for Jacob, he got treated like shit imo. Bella is really selfish and is basically a sociopath.
Looking foward to number 3.

I'm assuming you didn't read the books, they are much better imo.

Lizkins · Post by **Lizkins** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 5:29 pm

Amick wrote:Got a copy of 'Men Who Stare At Goats'.

Meh.

Don't bother.

i had high hopes and was pretty disappointed by it. all the good bits are in the preview, i hate that!

Amick · Post by **Amick** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 5:38 pm

Pretty much Liz, I hate that too.

Post by **breaksRbest** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 6:40 pm

nic wrote:saw Twilight 2 last night, pretty heavy emotional film full of fuckign complex dialouge. Wish it was a bit longer, will prob rewatch later on.

Bit gutted for Jacob, he got treated like shit imo. Bella is really selfish and is basically a sociopath.
Looking foward to number 3.

Post by **system** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 6:58 pm

Lizkins wrote:
Amick wrote:Got a copy of 'Men Who Stare At Goats'.

Meh.

Don't bother.

i had high hopes and was pretty disappointed by it. all the good bits are in the preview, i hate that!

i still found it fun. certainly better than that overly grainy global apology masquerading as 'green zone'.

Amick · Post by **Amick** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 7:47 pm

Amick wrote:
nic wrote:saw Twilight 2 last night, pretty heavy emotional film full of fuckign complex dialouge. Wish it was a bit longer, will prob rewatch later on.

Bit gutted for Jacob, he got treated like shit imo. Bella is really selfish and is basically a sociopath.
Looking foward to number 3.
I'm assuming you didn't read the books, they are much better imo.

idiot. everything you say is with crooked teeth.

:facepalm:

nic · Post by **nic** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 8:19 pm

err no lol
i really did watch it.

iv seen both.

also watched 'forgetting sarah marshall' yesterday.
a GOOD rom com tbh. really bad at all.

(hadnt had a billy for about 4 yrs prior to this event however)

apophenian · Post by **apophenian** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 9:16 pm

C.I.A. wrote:
ADD_Boy wrote:gonna check inglorious bastards this weekend on DVD..
I'm pretty sure I am the only person on the planet who thought that this was nothing but an hour and a bit of Tarantino masturbating to a film of Tarantino masturbating. Self-referential wank with one or two highlights/amusing moments padded out with enough film-school lecture material to cover

Nope, I agree completely...

Lizkins · Post by **Lizkins** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 10:10 pm

system wrote:
Lizkins wrote:
Amick wrote:Got a copy of 'Men Who Stare At Goats'.

Meh.

Don't bother.

i had high hopes and was pretty disappointed by it. all the good bits are in the preview, i hate that!
i still found it fun. certainly better than that overly grainy global apology masquerading as 'green zone'.

oh man really? i had hopes for that one too

kevin spacey towards end was well gold in goat movie

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 11:04 pm

watch it anyway Liz, you might have a different point of view.

ghetto kitty · Post by **ghetto kitty** » Tue Mar 23, 2010 2:01 pm

3 movies i reccomend i saw pon the weekend.

The Box - AWESOME! loved it, all round. by the guy who wrote donnie darko and has the same vibe to it, surreal and suspenseful.

Up in the air - not a george clooney fan but i liked this one. cute, good story, and well acted.

Daybreakers - what can i say? I just love vampire flicks. pretty gruesome, good story. liked it!

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Tue Mar 23, 2010 9:47 pm

About to watch Dick Tracy with Madonna. Can only blame this oncoming flu for that decision.

Brain · Post by **Brain** » Thu Mar 25, 2010 10:43 am

quiet roar · Post by **quiet roar** » Thu Mar 25, 2010 11:20 am

mixtress wrote:About to watch Dick Tracy with Madonna. Can only blame this oncoming flu for that decision.

Not even flu can cloud a person's judgement that much....

gnat · Post by **gnat** » Thu Mar 25, 2010 12:22 pm

lol nic

recommend. <3 spacey

nic · Post by **nic** » Thu Mar 25, 2010 12:32 pm

watched garden party last night
didnt finish it, 5/10. average stuff.
only gets 5 points because of Willa Holland (used to be mischas little bad slut sister in teh OC)

Lizkins · Post by **Lizkins** » Thu Mar 25, 2010 1:26 pm

lol yeah she totally was a little strumpet in teh OC

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Thu Mar 25, 2010 2:08 pm

Brain wrote: