andy_hoffman wrote:Could hardly see what was going on most of the movie anyway.
That's exactly how it is supposed to be, it is scarier when things are just out of shot in certain situations.
I thought it was done really well.
You just have to disagree with all my movie choices don't you!
andy_hoffman wrote:Could hardly see what was going on most of the movie anyway.
That's exactly how it is supposed to be, it is scarier when things are just out of shot in certain situations.
I thought it was done really well.
You just have to disagree with all my movie choices don't you!
Well some of them are pretty terrible
I know it was meant to be like that. Just makes for terrible viewing if you ask me. And not much seemed to happen in the movie. Was boring. It ended and I'm like "thank fuck it's over"
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no more epilepsy raptor jesus
gnat wrote:Socially we have a responsibility to watch these films but sometimes it's hard innit?
Disagree gnat. I don't need to watch a film to find human trafficking extremely disturbing.
my awareness of human trafficking was raised because of that mini series. i mean more that awareness comes via diff modes including tv and movies- as well as books, docos, news etc.
i hate the attitude i hear a lot where people go 'i'm not watching that- it's upsetting- ' don't want to know about it'
WTF? the fact that people get upset is a catalyst for the first stages of resistance and change
word.
thats how i felt about visiting the killing fields in kampuchea.
i was on 'holiday' and stuff, but did not feel like i could truly experience the country i was in without knowing all about its history.
it disturbed me to the extreme, i actually had to run out of the school prison the ghosts/souls were so thick.
other friends did not go to those places when in cambodia.
but the world seemed different after that, i had more awareness and compassion for the entire population.
im glad i did.
Watched Sanjuro the other night, directed by Akira Kurosawa. Really enjoyed it, although it had a lot less fighting than you'd expect from a ninja movie but it was swift as lightening when it came. Very impressive. Nevertheless, the storyline was quite interesting and there was heaps of cute comedy, old school larfs.
yep watched slumdog last night after just finishing the book. bad move, should of just left it with the book. movies so different, they left massive chunks out and changed the storyline, character names, everything. then they sensationolized it just like eddy mcguire would. lost half the magic imo.
Saw Ninja Wars the other night, with Sonny Chiba. Expected SOOOO much more. It was shithouse. Women being raped, beheaded, head swapping, all sorts of shit that just didn't blend well. At one point, at the same moment after one scene finished and another started, Adro and I looked at each others and said "what the fuck just happened then". I thought I'd missed something but apparently that something wasn't even there.
Shit.
Watched the Special Edition of The Abyss the other night. The extra scenes totally change the storyline, it's quite weird. In the added bits, after Bud completes his mission to kill the nuke at the bottom of the abyss, it shows the alien life things threatening the world with massive tsunamis that pause just before impacting on the cities, as if to say "we don't like what you're doing to the world, we've got the power to crush you, now sort yourselves out" before the tides abated and no one was hurt. It was Bud's tender message of love to his ex wife that stopped them from wiping out the planet.
mixtress wrote:
Watched the Special Edition of The Abyss the other night. The extra scenes totally change the storyline, it's quite weird. In the added bits, after Bud completes his mission to kill the nuke at the bottom of the abyss, it shows the alien life things threatening the world with massive tsunamis that pause just before impacting on the cities, as if to say "we don't like what you're doing to the world, we've got the power to crush you, now sort yourselves out" before the tides abated and no one was hurt. It was Bud's tender message of love to his ex wife that stopped them from wiping out the planet.
Ahem.
I'm pretty sure that was all in the original version.
EDIT: My bad, it wasn't. Can't believe they cut all that out of the original!
If you have the Special Edition DVD, I strongly suggest you watch the 'making of' doco. It's fucking INCREDIBLE.
what can ya say really. Sean Penn is as usual fantastic, and i thought the whole thing was really well cast. It's a long one, but I actually didn't feel like it was.
i thought it was a great movie, the story telling, acting etc was all really good, although its still not the kind of movie i can rave about, insofar as its just not a movie where I'm going to rush out and say "oh my god, you HAVE to see this movie". I don't know I just didn't find it that kind of flick. dont get me wrong, it was a great film and I was thoroughly entertained, but once I left the cinema I don't think I gave it another thought.
still, its great and i'm betting that many here will absoloutley love it.
also for the fella's that might struggle with homosexual imagery a bit then fear not, you definitley get the feeling that they have tried to keep this to a minimum to ensure its commercial appeal. yes there is the occasional guy kissing thing or something, but nothing over the top and nothing that will make you uncomfortable unless you're a complete flat out homo-phobe.
He's climbing in your windows, he's snatching your people up.
For serious Hardy, changes the entire movie imo. Watched it with Adro and he'd never seen it before, he had to put up with my "this is new" "seen that" "ooh, never seen this bit". Poor bastard.
The relationship between Lindsay and Bud is tre different as well...weird editing. I suspect the test audiences didn't take too kindly to be threatened by an alien life-form AND having their Defence force ridiculed.
this weekend i have discovered 'Mad Men' a series about advertising men in NY in the late fifties, early sixties...
i love it!
they are so debonair and kitsch but there is loads of fucking behind the wives backs, and witty ad copy (right up my alley)
not to mention the insight into a world where EVERYONE smokes all the time, drinks like its water, and basically proceeds through life as if health and environment are merely catch phrases to sell tobbacco or steel.
and there is quite a few hotties in slick suits too...
yah i love it! im up to season two now...donald draper....hes such a wierd guy...full of contradictions.
he'd be pretty good looking if he wasnt always so moody, and such a dawg.
i have also read four seasons ahead in True Blood, even though the books are actually CRAP compared to the series...
so im gonna know the plotline for, like, four years in the future...
and re life on mars, i THOUGHT somethin was funny!
the main guy was different last time it was on TV right?
uk/usa versions...
i liked the other guy, so is the one on TV now the US version? UK way better if so...
Super Amigos
Unclassified 18+
Arturo Perez Torres, 82 mins, Mexico, 2007, Digibeta, Spanish with English subtitles
Social justice in Mexico City has a new face, or rather, a new mask.
Super Barrio, Super Gay, Super Ecologista, Super Animal and Fray Tormenta are a group of 'lucha libre' wrestlers who have taken their battle out of the ring, fearlessly fighting against corruption, homophobia, animal rights, pollution and poverty.
Just because I rock, doesn't mean I'm made of stone.
For what? Milk? No way. Don't get me wrong, Penn was very good in Milk, but I dunno I found Ledger much more compelling as the Joker. Plus he uglied up and wore makeup, and everyone knows thats guaranteed Oscar shizzle.
He's climbing in your windows, he's snatching your people up.
well my friend, we have two very different opinions of acting. I think anyone can put on some make up and act a bit scattered, especially if you popping a lot of pills yaself. Penn's performance is real character acting. I have seen a doco on the real Milk and i think you will find his portrayal is terrifyingly real.
DBoy wrote:Penn did get the Oscar by the way, for lead actor, Ledgers was for support role.
lol, yeh he did. i actually hadn't read the stuff yet but yeh he did.
i dunno i just get over the whole formulaic awarding of stuff, if a pretty girl uglies up then BANG oscar, if a guy plays a homo BANG oscar >> and if need precedent I'm talking Ledger for Brokeback, Seymour Hoffman for Capote, Hanks for Philadelphia yadda yadda yadda.
Altho having said that i thort Seymour Hoffman was fucking brilliant in Capote, and pretty much just brilliant all the time.
admittiedly i haven't seen footage of the real mr milk so you have do have it over me there.
He's climbing in your windows, he's snatching your people up.
DBoy wrote:Penn did get the Oscar by the way, for lead actor, Ledgers was for support role.
lol, yeh he did. i actually hadn't read the stuff yet but yeh he did.
i dunno i just get over the whole formulaic awarding of stuff, if a pretty girl uglies up then BANG oscar, if a guy plays a homo BANG oscar >> and if need precedent I'm talking Ledger for Brokeback, Seymour Hoffman for Capote, Hanks for Philadelphia yadda yadda yadda.
Altho having said that i thort Seymour Hoffman was fucking brilliant in Capote, and pretty much just brilliant all the time.
admittiedly i haven't seen footage of the real mr milk so you have do have it over me there.
deviant wrote:watched stranger than fiction for the second time last night..... great film. Will Ferrell actually acting seriously for a change.
yeh i didn't mind that
plus its got maggie gyllenhal. mmmm.......maggie.
yeh ok i know she always looks like she hasn't slept for 6 months, gets worse when she is crying, like at the end of Donnie Darko, I was like ...YEUCH... but i dunno, theres just something about her (at all the other normal times).
He's climbing in your windows, he's snatching your people up.
deviant wrote:watched stranger than fiction for the second time last night..... great film. Will Ferrell actually acting seriously for a change.
yeh i didn't mind that
plus its got maggie gyllenhal. mmmm.......maggie.
yeh ok i know she always looks like she hasn't slept for 6 months, gets worse when she is crying, like at the end of Donnie Darko, I was like ...YEUCH... but i dunno, theres just something about her (at all the other normal times).
People who would like to try out a bit of dominant role playing seem to have a thing for her cause of that movie. Those that do it already seem to prefer actual german submissive flat faces who are will to get loose. huh. whatever.