The Movie/Film/DVD thread...

[Lizkins]

i watched My Year without Sex. A little Australian film. I liked it quite a lot. I was in the mood for a quirky little movie though, and it suited nicely

[huge]

i am going to see inception by myself cos all you bastards have already gone without inviting me

:nofriendsteef:

[Lizkins]

i'll go with ya Hughbert, i didn't get an invite cos i was germy; that's what Hardy says anyways...but i dunno

anyways, want to see it!!!

[Kaiproject]

saw it yesterday. it was amazing. will definitely go see again.
nolan - great director. great photography and VFX too. so fast paced. just wow.

also got my MIFF minipass yesterday and booked a bunch of movies. excited! love this time of year

[Charlie73]

i am going to see inception by myself cos all you bastards have already gone without inviting me

:nofriendsteef:

oooh yeah i want to see that! looks the goods...

this weekend??? can i tag along as a scot-no-friends?

[Hardy]

Liz and Hugh, you're both wrong. It's because you're faggots.

[Lizkins]

you suck monkey boy


me and the boy will prob go and will be awesome, like way more awesome then when you saw it. so there....monkey boy

[system]

Inception... what an amazing film. I went back in my mind and tried to pick another film that I would watch over and over again for pure style and depth and could only come up with Blade Runner.

'momento' comes to mind.

[Hardy]

Inception... what an amazing film. I went back in my mind and tried to pick another film that I would watch over and over again for pure style and depth and could only come up with Blade Runner.

'momento' comes to mind.

I preferred "Memento" to "Momento" personally.

[Kaiproject]

do not read this if you haven't seen inception.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/ ... inception/

interesting stuff, gets you thinking and debating with people much like the movie

[Lil MiSbreaks]

saw brothers on the weekend- that newish one with jake gyllenhall, natalie portman and tobey maguire. really really good although some quite harrowing scenes and subject matter

recommend seeing this one

and also has to be said jake gyllenhall is pretty raowww

Cool, got that one to watch soon Natty. I agree, Jake is lovely to look at!

Saw Up in the Air on the weekend, George Clooney. I really really liked it. Speaking of raooww, George is pretty fine in this film.

Was pretty much sold on seeing inception, and after reading the above, definetly going now.

[gnat]

george is masterclass imo. total hotness.

finally watched precious on weekers. zomg on par for depressive content with dancer in the dark

this poor girl- she's morbidly obese, her mum's a violent abusive asshole, her dad rapes her, she's basically illiterate and then she gets AIDS. are you joking?

9/10 slit wrists

[FoundationStepper]

i agreed with this quote in that article...

I think Inception is mind-tickling but not mind-blowing. Good but not great. Some interesting ideas are suggested by Mr. Nolan, who seems unable to fully explore the psychological and (especially) emotional depth of these issues: for example, memes (which is obviously the origin of “inception”), false and planted ideas/memory (history has proven that it is quite easy and requires no high-tech gadgets), the interchangeability between reality and dream (as originally proposed 2000+ years ago by Chuang Tzu and repeatedly explored by other artists).

A major criticism from a number of film critics is that the dream in this movie is not like a dream at all. It is too real, too logical, too reliably summer-action-movie-ish. I have to agree. There are many other movies that do dreams better. Inception is less like a dream than a video game — but a pretty interesting one.

[Lizkins]

yeah i heard what it was about and went hell no! who needs that much negative? really? read the newspaper

[Kaiproject]

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/07/ ... son-super/

[Hardy]

george is masterclass imo. total hotness.

finally watched precious on weekers. zomg on par for depressive content with dancer in the dark

this poor girl- she's morbidly obese, her mum's a violent abusive asshole, her dad rapes her, she's basically illiterate and then she gets AIDS. are you joking?

9/10 slit wrists

Thanks you for the spoiler.

[Amick]

Inception... what an amazing film. I went back in my mind and tried to pick another film that I would watch over and over again for pure style and depth and could only come up with Blade Runner.

The best film I have seen in years. It demands a second viewing. The critics who pan it for being overly complex need to watch it again.

Original concept, great acting, stunning visuals and setpieces, masterful weaving of narrative.

I could go on nd on about why I love this movie, but i'd be here all night. Just simply the best movie i've seen in years.

fuck oath

[mecka]

Threeway, lets get it on.

[nic]

going to see inception tonight.
:woo:

[Brain]

Saw Predators last night. Was hoping for some stupid fun. All I got was the stupid and no fun.

[JAMESSSS]

A major criticism from a number of film critics is that the dream in this movie is not like a dream at all. It is too real, too logical, too reliably summer-action-movie-ish. I have to agree. There are many other movies that do dreams better. Inception is less like a dream than a video game — but a pretty interesting one.

I don't agree.

Dreams can be realistic. They can be fantastic too, but either way you don't perceive them as anything other than normal at the time. You can have a fair idea of what is a realistic dream might look like for another person, good luck getting fantastic right though!

[youthful_implants]

life is a dream

A monologue from the play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca


KING: Rise, both of you,
Rise to my arms, Astolfo and Estrella;
As my two sisters' children always mine,
Now more than ever, since myself and Poland
Solely to you for our succession look'd.
And now give ear, you and your several factions,
And you, the Peers and Princes of this realm,
While I reveal the purport of this meeting
In words whose necessary length I trust
No unsuccessful issue shall excuse.
You and the world who have surnamed me "Sage"
Know that I owe that title, if my due,
To my long meditation on the book
Which ever lying open overhead--
The book of heaven, I mean--so few have read;
Whose golden letters on whose sapphire leaf,
Distinguishing the page of day and night,
And all the revolution of the year;
So with the turning volume where they lie
Still changing their prophetic syllables,
They register the destinies of men:
Until with eyes that, dim with years indeed,
Are quicker to pursue the stars than rule them,
I get the start of Time, and from his hand
The wand of tardy revelation draw.
Oh, had the self-same heaven upon his page
Inscribed my death ere I should read my life
And, by fore-casting of my own mischance,
Play not the victim but the suicide
In my own tragedy!--But you shall hear.
You know how once, as kings must for their people,
And only once, as wise men for themselves,
I woo'd and wedded: know too that my Queen
In childbirth died; but not, as you believe,
With her, the son she died in giving life to.
For, as the hour of birth was on the stroke,
Her brain conceiving with her womb, she dream'd
A serpent tore her entrail. And too surely
(For evil omen seldom speaks in vain)
The man-child breaking from that living tomb
That makes our birth the antitype of death,
Man-grateful, for the life she gave him paid
By killing her: and with such circumstance
As suited such unnatural tragedy;
He coming into light, if light it were
That darken'd at his very horoscope,
When heaven's two champions--sun and moon I mean--
Suffused in blood upon each other fell
In such a raging duel of eclipse
As hath not terrified the universe
Since that which wept in blood the death of Christ:
When the dead walk'd, the waters turn'd to blood,
Earth and her cities totter'd, and the world
Seem'd shaken to its last paralysis.
In such a paroxysm of dissolution
That son of mine was born; by that first act
Heading the monstrous catalogue of crime,
I found fore-written in his horoscope;
As great a monster in man's history
As was in nature his nativity;
So savage, bloody, terrible, and impious,
Who, should he live, would tear his country's entrails,
As by his birth his mother's; with which crime
Beginning, he should clench the dreadful tale
By trampling on his father's silver head.
All which fore-reading, and his act of birth
Fate's warrant that I read his life aright;
To save his country from his mother's fate,
I gave abroad that he had died with her
His being slew; with midnight secrecy
I had him carried to a lonely tower
Hewn from the mountain-barriers of the realm,
And under strict anathema of death
Guarded from men's inquisitive approach,
Save from the trusty few one needs must trust;
Who while his fasten'd body they provide
With salutary garb and nourishment,
Instruct his soul in what no soul may miss
Of holy faith, and in such other lore
As may solace his life-imprisonment,
And tame perhaps the Savage prophesied
Toward such a trial as I aim at now,
And now demand your special hearing to.
What in this fearful business I have done,
Judge whether lightly or maliciously,--
I, with my own and only flesh and blood,
And proper lineal inheritor!
I swear, had his foretold atrocities
Touch'd me alone, I had not saved myself
At such a cost to him; but as a king,--
A Christian king,--I say, advisedly,
Who would devote his people to a tyrant
Worse than Caligula fore-chronicled?
But even this not without mis-giving,
Lest by some chance mis-reading of the stars,
Or mis-direction of what rightly read,
I wrong my son of his prerogative,
And Poland of her rightful sovereign.
For, sure and certain prophets as the stars,
Although they err not, he who reads them may;
Or rightly reading--seeing there is One
Who governs them, as, under Him, they us,
We are not sure if the rough diagram
They draw in heaven and we interpret here,
Be sure of operation, if the Will
Supreme, that sometimes for some special end
The course of providential nature breaks
By miracle, may not of these same stars
Cancel his own first draft, or overrule
What else fore-written all else overrules.
As, for example, should the Will Almighty
Permit the Free-will of particular man
To break the meshes of else strangling fate--
Which Free-will, fearful of foretold abuse,
I have myself from my own son for-closed
From ever possible self-extrication;
A terrible responsibility,
Not to the conscience to be reconciled
Unless opposing almost certain evil
Against so slight contingency of good.
Well--thus perplex'd, I have resolved at last
To bring the thing nto trial: whereunto
Here have I summon'd you, my Peers, and you
Whom I more dearly look to, failing him,
As witnesses to that which I propose;
And thus propose the doing it. Clotaldo,
Who guards my son with old fidelity,
Shall bring him hither from his tower by night
Locked in a sleep so fast as by my art
I rivet to within a link of death,
But yet from death so far, that next day's dawn
Shall wake him up upon the royal bed,
Complete in consciousness and faculty,
When with all princely pomp and retinue
My loyal Peers with due obeisance
Shall hail him Segismund, the Prince of Poland.
Then if with any show of human kindness
He fling discredit, not upon the stars,
But upon me, their misinterpreter,
With all apology mistaken age
Can make to youth it never meant to harm,
To my son's forehead will I shift the crown
I long have wish'd upon a younger brow;
And in religious humiliation,
For what of worn-out age remains to me,
Entreat my pardon both of Heaven and him
For tempting destinies beyond my reach.
But if, as I misdoubt, at his first step
The hoof of the predicted savage shows;
Before predicted mischief can be done,
The self-same sleep that loosed him from the chain
Shall re-consign him, not to loose again.
Then shall I, having lost that heir direct,
Look solely to my sisters' children twain
Each of a claim so equal as divides
The voice of Poland to their several sides,
But, as I trust, to be entwined ere long
Into one single wreath so fair and strong
As shall at once all difference atone,
And cease the realm's division with their own.
Cousins and Princes, Peers and Councillors,
Such is the purport of this invitation,
And such is my design. Whose furtherance
If not as Sovereign, if not as Seer,
Yet one whom these white locks, if nothing else,
To patient acquiescence consecrate,
I now demand and even supplicate.

[apophenian]

Loved inception - also loved this review of it

(may contain minor spoilers)

http://www.7mpictures.com/inside/review ... review.htm

[system]

Inception... what an amazing film. I went back in my mind and tried to pick another film that I would watch over and over again for pure style and depth and could only come up with Blade Runner.

'momento' comes to mind.

I preferred "Memento" to "Momento" personally.

memo gets my vote.

[J0rdz]

Watched 'Book of Eli' last night. A heap more violent then what I was expecting. But overall didn't really enjoy it that much.
The twist at the end was good and I liked the take on the whole 'end of days' thing they had going, but other then that it was really bland.
Think mad max meets the road.

I agree was a bit of a let down. The sepia tones throughout didn't help dispel the feeling it was shot on a very low budget.

Pitch Black was shot in a similar way and that is an awesome movie!!

Yeh, all the CGI was really badly done. Really detracted from the feel they were aiming for.

[FoundationStepper]

Loved inception - also loved this review of it

(may contain minor spoilers)

http://www.7mpictures.com/inside/review ... review.htm

yeah well put review, i concur

it was an awesome soundtrack too, great use of the subs

gald they mentioned existenz - its a bit rough but a great play on the nature of dreams, e.g. the scene changes (even though not literatally about dreams, its got all the characteristics)

[Direkt]

King of New York
omgx

Frank White yo!

[JAMESSSS]

I dunno, I don't think it was the best movie ever but I don't agree with that review (apart for the obvious other movies which influenced it). I think it was pretty smart to be honest.

[FoundationStepper]

hmmm yeah i think the reviewer is a little rough when I think about it - i think the movie definitely is smart, but i think the word deft is appropriate. its definitely clever, and you need to be switched on to get it - but i do get the sentiment that its not that deep or mindbending

[JAMESSSS]

See I think that's the thing. A mindbending movie usually leaves people wondering what happened and has multiple interpretations. Inception leaves everyone thinking they knew what happened but I think perhaps only has one correct interpretation.

Which is smart writing and directing if you ask me.

[apophenian]

Absolutely

[nic]

i give inception 6/10

tedious, restrained in the wrong way, reminded me of the A-Team of sleeping - oh its time to go to sleep again zomg lol, boring art direction, stupid girl on xanax whole time, too much skiiing

leonardo is goog though.

dunno it didnt grab me, maybe i had too high expectations.

[JAMESSSS]

I think it is good because it made me think about it.

But I suppose it also runs the risk of turning into people the "HAI GUYS LET'S TALK ABOUT INCEPTION LOLO LOLO, BARE DEEP MAN ,KEKE GOT ANY RUGS?" guy.

I thought it was shot well. Agree about the skiing though. Reeked of "Terry the office total action man" winning the ballot to select the next scene location. Thanks Terry, you've shat in the audience's hat.

[apophenian]

Yeah Christopher Nolan isn't that great at action scenes, and it was a bit weird having the goodies and baddies in nearly identical outfits during the skiing parts...

[FoundationStepper]

batman begins also had quite confusing action scenes (perhaps deliberately)

[nic]

I think it is good because it made me think about it.

But I suppose it also runs the risk of turning into people the "HAI GUYS LET'S TALK ABOUT INCEPTION LOLO LOLO, BARE DEEP MAN ,KEKE GOT ANY RUGS?" guy.

I thought it was shot well. Agree about the skiing though. Reeked of "Terry the office total action man" winning the ballot to select the next scene location. Thanks Terry, you've shat in the audience's hat.

i wasnt even interested in teh confusion tbh, just wanted it to be over. zomg its a dream within a dream - cant go moar than 3 levels deep
mayeb i shouldnt have been bifted

[huge]

Thor trailer leaked.

[youthful_implants]

batman begins also had quite confusing action scenes (perhaps deliberately)

I thought so too about dark knight. It was like the camera was on the shoulder of someone in the fight and you never get a decent look at what's happening.

wasn't impressed with the fight scenes in dark knight but thought they were better in begins if anything. needs more kung fu.

[JAMESSSS]

I think it is good because it made me think about it.

But I suppose it also runs the risk of turning into people the "HAI GUYS LET'S TALK ABOUT INCEPTION LOLO LOLO, BARE DEEP MAN ,KEKE GOT ANY RUGS?" guy.

I thought it was shot well. Agree about the skiing though. Reeked of "Terry the office total action man" winning the ballot to select the next scene location. Thanks Terry, you've shat in the audience's hat.

i wasnt even interested in teh confusion tbh, just wanted it to be over. zomg its a dream within a dream - cant go moar than 3 levels deep
mayeb i shouldnt have been bifted

MAN GO MORE THAN THREE LEVEL DEEP HE BE PON LIMBO DAWG

[Rob M]

I saw Inception and A Prophet over the weekend. Both impressive movies.

SPOILER: it wasn't Cobbs' totem/spindle

Stew on that for a while...

[JAMESSSS]

I don't think that makes any difference Rob.

[nic]

it was all a dream
and then i woek up

[tee193]

Just watched Sin Nombre, subtitles, but amazing watch, one of the best things i have seen in a while although maybe gives a little less brutal depiction of what the ms 13 gang are involved in.

[eN]

http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/ ... 12rqj.html

[Hardy]

Anyone thinking of watching "Serbian Film"... don't.

[Lil MiSbreaks]

I finally saw inception, fucking loved it!!

Probably one of the first movies ive seen straight in a long time... not sure i would have liked it as much if i was bent, probably wouldnt have gotten it at all.

The biggest issue I had with it was I couldnt understand Leo when he said his wife's name. Then id get distracted trying to work it out. Maud, Mole, Mol, fucked if i know.

Also excited to see Avatar playing again at the movies. Yes, I liked it so much I will go back.

[Lizkins]

i also saw it! finally! i thought the start was a bit meh, and then.....OMG. i think i stopped breathing for a while i was so engrossed lol

[C.I.A.]

i give inception 6/10

tedious, restrained in the wrong way, reminded me of the A-Team of sleeping - oh its time to go to sleep again zomg lol, boring art direction, stupid girl on xanax whole time, too much skiiing

leonardo is goog though.

dunno it didnt grab me, maybe i had too high expectations.

Yr review. Merit it haz.

Thought it was less like an onion, more like a mandarin in terms of 'layyerrzzzzz'.

Probably had it hyped up too much by friends too. Was kind of like Sid for Dummies... O Noes, teh realitiez... they iz slippin, don't let go don't let go don't... oh, hey, let's go skiing.

[Hatsudai]

Anyone thinking of watching "Serbian Film"... don't.

How come?

Full on? Gross? Boring?

[C.I.A.]

Anyone thinking of watching "Serbian Film"... don't.

How come?

Full on? Gross? Boring?

Read the Wikiedia plot synopsis and then hunt on the interwebz for a potion to scrub your imagination blank (let me know if you have any luck). Wrongtown x several million.