The Movie/Film/DVD thread...

Stray · Post by **Stray** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 10:36 am

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 · Post by **andy_hoffman** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 11:01 am

Stray wrote:
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"

ghetto kitty · Post by **ghetto kitty** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 12:07 pm

gnat wrote:
quiet roar wrote:
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.

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 1:16 pm

Same when I went to Hiroshima....

heavy, but rewarding

gnat · Post by **gnat** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 9:20 am

off to see slumdog tonite finally. haven't been to the moviez in aaaages.

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 11:25 am

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.

Watching ninja Wars tonight, hai-yaa!!

Hardy · Post by **Hardy** » Sun Feb 15, 2009 1:48 pm

Saw the new (and final) Futurama movie last night. Absolute fucking garbage.

Fents · Post by **Fents** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 8:16 am

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.

gnat · Post by **gnat** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 8:56 am

liked it a lot. glad i saw it on bog screen- cinematography was awesome- so colourful. loved the intro over the slum area

coulda done without the cheesy ending tho imo- left it at when he won the cash

frozen river looks gruelling but good. that'll be my next i reckon

Post by **huge** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 9:42 am

watched the wackness last night. excellent movie. ben kingsly is great. rad sountrack

i give it 4 out of five dime bags.

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 11:43 am

Is that the one where MK Olsen pashes him??

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.

Ahem.

Post by **huge** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 11:55 am

mixtress wrote:Is that the one where MK Olsen pashes him??

they get it on in a dunny at a bar. she is on mushies. huhuh

Hardy · Post by **Hardy** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 11:57 am

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.

Direkt · Post by **Direkt** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 12:20 pm

Taken: not bad. Didn't quite live up to the hype I'd heard about it.

mrj · Post by **mrj** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 1:09 pm

saw Milk last week

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.

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 2:37 pm

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.

Direkt · Post by **Direkt** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 9:08 am

Finally saw In Bruges last night.

I really liked it. Nice lil' black comedy with added extras.

What a beautiful city to shoot a movie in! I so want to go there.

7.5/10

Fents · Post by **Fents** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 3:27 pm

you direktor you seen the trailer for this?

Notorius

Watch the posted video on YouTube.

apparently done by him mum and puff.

Direkt · Post by **Direkt** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 3:34 pm

I most certainly have Fents, thank you kindly.

Been eagerly awaiting the films premier for some months now.

March 12th - bring that shit on!

Direkt · Post by **Direkt** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 10:11 am

Checked 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall' last night.

Not bad. Quite enjoyed it. Russel Brand was awesome.

As was the love interest, no - not Sarah Marshall.

7/10.

ghetto kitty · Post by **ghetto kitty** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 12:37 pm

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...

highly reccommend.

gnat · Post by **gnat** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 9:29 am

really direkt?? that sarah marshall was imo one of the worst movies ever made. total shit

horses of course..

mrj · Post by **mrj** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 9:30 am

gnat wrote:really direkt?? that sarah marshall was imo one of the worst movies ever made. total shit

horses of course..

i thort it was good too.

that brunette chick from the thing = hot. ya get to see her boobs too.

plus its got muppets. = win.

Post by **system** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 9:32 am

@ghettokitty: "mad men" is brilliant. hanging for season 3. check "life on mars", both the original uk and subsequent us remake for more of the same.

tropfest last night was mad. weather coming correct, yelling "carl, carl" at gyton grantley every time walked past, top shorts, smashing vino. best.

ghetto kitty · Post by **ghetto kitty** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 9:56 am

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...

Lizkins · Post by **Lizkins** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 12:15 pm

mrj wrote:
gnat wrote:really direkt?? that sarah marshall was imo one of the worst movies ever made. total shit

horses of course..
i thort it was good too.

that brunette chick from the thing = hot. ya get to see her boobs too.

plus its got muppets. = win.

"you sound like your from London"

you seen the Scrubs and sesame street episode yet J? fricken awesome to the MAX!

Polecat · Post by **Polecat** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 5:48 pm

I think I need to see this at ACMI next week....

http://www.acmi.net.au/mlaff2009_super_amigos.aspx

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.

NakedAge · Post by **NakedAge** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 6:24 pm

I got Rectuma the other day. ... Tis a fascinating tale of an anus that sets out to wreak havock on an innocent society. .. I'm gonna watch it later

Hardy · Post by **Hardy** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 6:35 pm

Lizkins wrote:
mrj wrote:
gnat wrote:really direkt?? that sarah marshall was imo one of the worst movies ever made. total shit

horses of course..
i thort it was good too.

that brunette chick from the thing = hot. ya get to see her boobs too.

plus its got muppets. = win.

"you sound like your from London"

I only got halfway through that movie. Fucking painful

Lizkins · Post by **Lizkins** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 10:48 pm

you sound like your from london

anyways, just watched No Country for Old Men. Bit slow, but damn was i hooked line and sinker glued watching it. good stuff i say

DBoy · Post by **DBoy** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 9:23 am

Penn deserved that Oscar in my opinion.

mrj · Post by **mrj** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 9:28 am

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.

DBoy · Post by **DBoy** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 9:33 am

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 · Post by **DBoy** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 9:36 am

Penn did get the Oscar by the way, for lead actor, Ledgers was for support role.

youthful_implants · Post by **youthful_implants** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 10:13 am

Gran Torino is excellent.

Direkt · Post by **Direkt** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 10:25 am

Clint got stiffed at the Oscar's

mrj · Post by **mrj** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 11:08 am

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 · Post by **deviant** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 11:24 am

watched stranger than fiction for the second time last night..... great film. Will Ferrell actually acting seriously for a change.

witty_pseudonym · Post by **witty_pseudonym** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 12:05 pm

mrj wrote:
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.

The Times of Harvey Milk is on SBS tonight at 10.

mrj · Post by **mrj** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 12:09 pm

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).

DBoy · Post by **DBoy** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 2:13 pm

yep, loved Stranger than Fiction too.
++ Ups ++ to the design elements they used in that film too.

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 3:00 pm

mrj wrote:
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).

maggie = win

the secretary

Post by **huge** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 3:23 pm

finally got around to watching In the Valley of Elah on the weekend. thought it was pretty good.

should watch imo

Direkt · Post by **Direkt** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 3:46 pm

Maggie Gyllenhal.... WTF?

I guess if you're into the plain-as-Jane next door neighbour type, then yeah, I can see it.

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 3:52 pm

faaaar from plain... it's her slightly unusual look that makes her so hot.

witty_pseudonym · Post by **witty_pseudonym** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 3:53 pm

same as her brother.
:drooooooooooooooooool:

Direkt · Post by **Direkt** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 3:55 pm

horses for intercourses I guess....

DBoy · Post by **DBoy** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 3:55 pm

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.

NSFW

http://www.filmweb.no/bilder/multimedia ... 98612o.jpg

http://auntiefashion.files.wordpress.co ... enhaal.jpg

Direkt · Post by **Direkt** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 4:03 pm

:shudder:

No thanks.

mrj · Post by **mrj** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 4:06 pm

Direkt wrote:Maggie Gyllenhal.... WTF?

I guess if you're into the plain-as-Jane next door neighbour type, then yeah, I can see it.

hahahahah, thing is I actually totally am.