The Movie/Film/DVD thread...

dust · Post by **dust** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 2:21 pm

Hardy wrote:
Will wrote:Really looking forward to Grindhouse.

Sounds spectacular.
Fuck oath it does.

Yes. Maybe it is the answer to all my problems.

Thanks for the suggestions too System. Half-Nelson does look good and getting good reviews too.

mrj · Post by **mrj** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 2:27 pm

Scripticles on 300 being ordinary.

In fact the more I think about it the more I think that it wasn't a very good movie. It was entertaining enough, but it was very over done, and thus difficult to handle. Basically it was just gratuitous nudity and violence, usually a good formula to keep me watching but this time it fell flat.

Kinda crap. And Dust agreed on the goat playing flute. Made NO sense.

quick · Post by **quick** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 2:36 pm

the dancing chick in 300 was used in the new Khalua ad...

Stray · Post by **Stray** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 2:58 pm

The goat was a dude wearing a Goat head as a.. "hat/mask".

The movie follows the comic almost perfectly. The dialogue is almost word for word. What did people expect??

quick · Post by **quick** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 3:22 pm

Stray wrote:The goat was a dude wearing a Goat head as a.. "hat/mask".

The movie follows the comic almost perfectly. The dialogue is almost word for word. What did people expect??

I didn't expect anything, I didn't even know of the comic (sorry, graphic novel), I just thought the movie was meh

Post by **breaksRbest** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 3:25 pm

I saw Children of Men & Munich over the weekend

Children of Men was awesome, very well executed.

Munich was about an hour too long, but the first hour & a half was interesting

ghetto kitty · Post by **ghetto kitty** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 3:45 pm

dust wrote: Someone point me in the direction of a really good film before I give up on them all together.

chumscrubber > new top ten for kitty, if you liked happiness, american beauty or any movies about suburbia gone wrong, this is GREAT.

kenny > saw it on the weekend, best aussie film for ages, so real.

my tips for the week.

flippo · Post by **flippo** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 4:38 pm

dust wrote: I was also a little put off by the blatent religious/political undertones of the good white man driven by loyalty and determination fighting to the death to protect his morals from the corruption of the nasty asian/black man. .

I don't think it's that sinister, the story was roughly base in historical events. I mean the bad guys have to be from somewhere with some kind of skin tone right?

flippo · Post by **flippo** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 4:41 pm

flute playing goats is standard practice really.

C.I.A. · Post by **C.I.A.** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 4:48 pm

flippo wrote:flute playing goats is standard practice really.

Needs more leather jockstrap.

Lizkins · Post by **Lizkins** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 5:19 pm

watched Children of Men and 300

Children of Men - me liked but also felt some unanswered questions. Dunno, just made up my own answers really based on current situation (like women become more infertile due to environment/times changing and IVF gets cancelled or something...blahg blah blah). Still, not bad idea at all...though done in other movies...but still good. End scenes were def impressive!

300 - WOOOOHOOOO loved it! stab stab stab. Go slow-motion action scenes to the MAX! Yeah! Woooo! No really i like them. I thought it was a pretty sweet as film to watch, especially at IMAX!!! *two thumbs up*

Will · Post by **Will** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 5:29 pm

ghetto kitty wrote: chumscrubber > new top ten for kitty, if you liked happiness, american beauty or any movies about suburbia gone wrong, this is GREAT.

Seriously? I HATED that film.

Completely pointless.

ghetto kitty · Post by **ghetto kitty** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 5:32 pm

really??

nope i loved it.

all pastel and candy coloured, the veneer of suburbia thinly veiling the fact that everynoe is in therapy and on drugs.

and then, when the balance is upset, some who lose it for the worse, and others who sit in the afternoon sunlight and get realisations they never would have otherwise.

i love movies about suburbia, and how underneath, its more fucked up than any delfin ad would ever admit.

my two cents!

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 5:37 pm

Kitty, have you seen Garden State? By the sounds of it, I think you'd get into it

ghetto kitty · Post by **ghetto kitty** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 5:38 pm

yes i have, but didnt like it as much as the others i mentioned.

happieness for fucked up suburbia win.

Will · Post by **Will** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 5:42 pm

ghetto kitty wrote:really??

nope i loved it.

all pastel and candy coloured, the veneer of suburbia thinly veiling the fact that everynoe is in therapy and on drugs.

and then, when the balance is upset, some who lose it for the worse, and others who sit in the afternoon sunlight and get realisations they never would have otherwise.

i love movies about suburbia, and how underneath, its more fucked up than any delfin ad would ever admit.

my two cents!

Seemed to me the message of the film was: Taking copious amounts of mood altering pharmaceuticals all the time is a bad thing.

Um. Der. Thanks for that.

After about a hundred films pointing out the corruption beneath the veneer in suburban society, if you want to do it again you've got to do it in a witty or novel manner, and I feel they comprehensively failed to do either in this case.

And what the fuck was with that guy with the dolphins? Was he supposed to be a sympathetic character? He needed a punch in the face.

Will · Post by **Will** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 5:45 pm

The Mixtress wrote:Kitty, have you seen Garden State? By the sounds of it, I think you'd get into it

I hated that too. Self-indulgent shite.

Will · Post by **Will** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 5:45 pm

Sorry, I'm at work and feel the need to dump shit right now.

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 5:48 pm

No worries

quick · Post by **quick** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 9:43 pm

Will wrote:Sorry, I'm at work and feel the need to dump shit right now.

u seen Happiness yet? that movie is fucked up, and highly amusing...

Kitty, you need to see Bad Boy Bubby if you haven't, great movie, so wrong, but such a great film, so well done.

abstar · Post by **abstar** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 10:12 pm

300 is the shizzle!

nhd · Post by **nhd** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 10:58 pm

finally got around to seeing the following

Casino Royale - great, loved it, tho the last part seemed a lil out of place, like a second movie had started.

The Departed - awesome, never looked away.

The Prestige - wooooo, awesome again, great acting except for some of the accents haha.

The Illusionist - a strange film, but very good, had a fairy tale feel to it. recommend

The Fountain - wow, like a dream sequence, i wwas thinking about it for days after. see it!

flippo · Post by **flippo** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 11:42 pm

nhd wrote: The Departed - awesome, never looked away.

that was pretty good

Hardy · Post by **Hardy** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 11:48 pm

quick wrote:
Will wrote:Sorry, I'm at work and feel the need to dump shit right now.
u seen Happiness yet? that movie is fucked up, and highly amusing...

"Now, you were saying something about Ronald Farber?"

quick · Post by **quick** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 12:13 am

Hardy wrote:
quick wrote:
Will wrote:Sorry, I'm at work and feel the need to dump shit right now.
u seen Happiness yet? that movie is fucked up, and highly amusing...

"Now, you were saying something about Ronald Farber?"

Farver, lol... and Johnny Grasso

mecka · Post by **mecka** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 2:42 am

Finally went and saw Hot Fuzz tonite.

fucking funny but i thought could've gone a bit more crazy.

Hatsudai · Post by **Hatsudai** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 3:03 am

watched:

Smoking Aces: Over stylised piece of poo that's only reason for being made was for the oncoming sequel.

We Can be heroes: Special edition DVD. Too many laughs and the cut scenes are well LOLZed up aswell.

You Me and Dupree: Rubbish, rubbish rubbish

re watched:

Goodfellas: Prolly will never get sick of this movie. Only thing now when I watch it when Henry Hill says "one day, one day the kids from the neighbourhood carried my mothers groceries all the way home, you know why, it was outta respect"
I am waiting for UK Apache to start up!!

Meet the Parents: So Many funny quotes

The life Aquatic: Damn I like Wes andersons films

Getting a bit sick of Owen Wilson Actually

gnat · Post by **gnat** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 9:42 am

i might hit some movies this weekend- NFI what's on at the mo so suggestions are appreciated

that 300 looks waay too braveheart meets lord of the rings meets gladiator to me. violent violent violent

could not

C.I.A. · Post by **C.I.A.** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 9:46 am

Stray wrote:The goat was a dude wearing a Goat head as a.. "hat/mask".

The movie follows the comic almost perfectly. The dialogue is almost word for word. What did people expect??

Sorry stray... hadn't read the comic. He did a great job on Sin City... and I enjoyed the angles and comic-book likeness of the shots, but I actually went to the cinema to see The Host and it had finished, so I saw 300 as a ring-in.

Hence the not-so-much.

flippo · Post by **flippo** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 9:49 am

mecka wrote:Finally went and saw Hot Fuzz tonite.

fucking funny but i thought could've gone a bit more crazy.

thats exactly what I thought! Durin the cliche cop fight scenes, I was thinking how they could have takin it further. Just seemed a bit half assed to me. So muhc unusued cinama potential in grannies weilding automatic weapons, they could have milked that.

mrj · Post by **mrj** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 11:16 am

Will wrote:
The Mixtress wrote:Kitty, have you seen Garden State? By the sounds of it, I think you'd get into it
I hated that too. Self-indulgent shite.

Couldn't have put it better myself. He ALMOST got me across the line too, but the whole speech to his dad thing and the bits afterward made me resent the film and Zach for some reason.

dust · Post by **dust** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 11:27 am

mrj wrote:
Will wrote:
The Mixtress wrote:Kitty, have you seen Garden State? By the sounds of it, I think you'd get into it
I hated that too. Self-indulgent shite.
Couldn't have put it better myself. He ALMOST got me across the line too, but the whole speech to his dad thing and the bits afterward made me resent the film and Zach for some reason.

Me too too.

gnat · Post by **gnat** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 12:31 pm

dust wrote:
mrj wrote:
Will wrote: I hated that too. Self-indulgent shite.
Couldn't have put it better myself. He ALMOST got me across the line too, but the whole speech to his dad thing and the bits afterward made me resent the film and Zach for some reason.
Me too too.

o i loved garden state

ghetto kitty · Post by **ghetto kitty** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 12:41 pm

quick wrote:
Will wrote:Sorry, I'm at work and feel the need to dump shit right now.
u seen Happiness yet? that movie is fucked up, and highly amusing...

Kitty, you need to see Bad Boy Bubby if you haven't, great movie, so wrong, but such a great film, so well done.

happiness is in my top ten, bad boy buby was all filmed in adelaide and friedns of mine worked on it.
it a good aussie film, but im a kitty lover, could not handle the glad wrap scene at ALL.

garden state was NOWHERE near as good as chumscrubber.

im not interested in 300 really, and casino royale felt like id just wasted two hours of my life...

shortbus anyone? or little miss sunshine? want to see those two

and, i wanna go see sunshine!!! sci fi / spirituality crossover...looks good!

stovequeen · Post by **stovequeen** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 12:47 pm

ghetto kitty wrote:
quick wrote:
Will wrote:Sorry, I'm at work and feel the need to dump shit right now.
u seen Happiness yet? that movie is fucked up, and highly amusing...

Kitty, you need to see Bad Boy Bubby if you haven't, great movie, so wrong, but such a great film, so well done.
happiness is in my top ten, bad boy buby was all filmed in adelaide and friedns of mine worked on it.
it a good aussie film, but im a kitty lover, could not handle the glad wrap scene at ALL.

garden state was NOWHERE near as good as chumscrubber.

im not interested in 300 really, and casino royale felt like id just wasted two hours of my life...

shortbus anyone? or little miss sunshine? want to see those two

and, i wanna go see sunshine!!! sci fi / spirituality crossover...looks good!

Shortbus is... interesting if you like a lot of the ole in-and-out

Little Miss Sunshine rules

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 12:47 pm

Little Miss Sunshine was grand, thought it was a lovely way to spend an afternoon. Loved the grandpa.

Sunshine looks like every other "are you saying we're not alone out here?" type movie (a'la Sphere, Event Horizon etc). It looks pretty, but I reckon I'd spend half the movie doing this:

Let me know if it's worth seeing

Will · Post by **Will** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 12:53 pm

The Mixtress wrote:Little Miss Sunshine was grand, thought it was a lovely way to spend an afternoon. Loved the grandpa.

Sunshine looks like every other "are you saying we're not alone out here?" type movie (a'la Sphere, Event Horizon etc). It looks pretty, but I reckon I'd spend half the movie doing this:

Let me know if it's worth seeing

I've liked pretty much every film Danny Boyle's made, so I'm kinda keen to see Sunshine. Cillian Murphy (sp?) is awesome too. The next Ewan McGregor?

ghetto kitty · Post by **ghetto kitty** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 12:54 pm

stovequeen wrote: Shortbus is... interesting if you like a lot of the ole in-and-out

hehehe not nesscarily!

but i am interested in the movie, for the fact that the director put the possible cast in a room and asked them who else they would sleep with, and the people who said they would sleep with the most people got the roles!

i have friends in the make-sexy-time film industry and do have a bit of an interest in porn movies that might actually have a plot and some meaning, it is possible!!!

and mixxy > the boy loves sci fi, and i love conspiricies, so yuppers, its on the list! will report back!!

Post by **system** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 1:07 pm

Will wrote:
The Mixtress wrote:Sunshine looks like every other "are you saying we're not alone out here?" type movie (a'la Sphere, Event Horizon etc). It looks pretty, but I reckon I'd spend half the movie doing this:

Let me know if it's worth seeing
I've liked pretty much every film Danny Boyle's made, so I'm kinda keen to see Sunshine. Cillian Murphy (sp?) is awesome too. The next Ewan McGregor?

not to mention Alex Garland writing the screenplay for Boyle (again). "Sunshine" gets my vote just for the presence of that trio, then the addition of Rose Byrne for the OOOOOH!!!

Rob M · Post by **Rob M** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 1:32 pm

Saw The Prestige over easter break finally... damn, very impressive

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 1:56 pm

Whoever sees Sunshine, can you report back stat? If it's worth seeing I'd rather catch it on the big screen. I'll trust your judgement...

Post by **breaksRbest** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 2:06 pm

ghetto kitty wrote:shortbus anyone?

I was told last night that we HAVE to see this movie.

No idea why or what it's about though

stovequeen · Post by **stovequeen** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 2:14 pm

breaksRbest wrote:
ghetto kitty wrote:shortbus anyone?

I was told last night that we HAVE to see this movie.

No idea why or what it's about though

Who told you?

Post by **breaksRbest** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 2:16 pm

one of Sam's friends

stovequeen · Post by **stovequeen** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 2:17 pm

breaksRbest wrote:one of Sam's friends

Right.. well.. enjoy!

C.I.A. · Post by **C.I.A.** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 2:23 pm

stovequeen wrote:
breaksRbest wrote:one of Sam's friends
Right.. well.. enjoy!

Doesn't it open up with a guy, well, smoking his own pole?

Lizkins · Post by **Lizkins** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 2:33 pm

lucky him

flippo · Post by **flippo** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 2:36 pm

are you saying you want to be able to lick your own smoo? is that what you are saying? then just come out and say it, ffs. enough with the inscinuendoes

Lizkins · Post by **Lizkins** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 2:38 pm

hehehe smoo

stovequeen · Post by **stovequeen** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 3:54 pm

C.I.A. wrote:
stovequeen wrote:
breaksRbest wrote:one of Sam's friends
Right.. well.. enjoy!

Doesn't it open up with a guy, well, smoking his own pole?

yup

Very clever he is!