The Movie/Film/DVD thread...

Hardy · Post by **Hardy** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 10:56 am

I watched The Mist again last night. Godammit that movie is DARK.

Direkt · Post by **Direkt** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 10:58 am

youthful_implants wrote:Cloverfield is a technically brilliant film, if not a joy to watch.

I do hope by technical, you're referring to special effects, CGI etc...

Coz I'd hardly call it a movie masterpiece.

youthful_implants · Post by **youthful_implants** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 11:09 am

Direktor wrote:
youthful_implants wrote:Cloverfield is a technically brilliant film, if not a joy to watch.
I do hope by technical, you're referring to special effects, CGI etc...

Coz I'd hardly call it a movie masterpiece.

In the context of other disaster or sci fi movies - I think it is!

Direkt · Post by **Direkt** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 11:11 am

Interesting comment...

It's all subjective I guess.

I thought it was pretty ordinary, unbelievable and the trailers were better than the movie.

Then again, I'm not a big sci-fi type person.

youthful_implants · Post by **youthful_implants** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 11:13 am

Direktor wrote:Interesting comment...

It's all subjective I guess.

I thought it was pretty shit, unbelievable and the trailers were better than the movie.

Sometimes you just dont like a movie, its no big deal.

I found it a lot better than I expected and it goes straight into my sci fi hall of fame alongside 2001, Sunshine, Alien, ET, Close Encounters, Cocoon, Event Horizon, Solaris et al.

Direkt · Post by **Direkt** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 11:18 am

Isn't it funny how much preconceptions can influence a movie?

I had high hopes for Cloverfield, and was dissapointed.

I find it's always better to expect not much to enjoy a film - and it's always best to know nothing about the movie (other than historical facts if they apply) to be as objective as possible.

youthful_implants · Post by **youthful_implants** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 11:38 am

I totally agree - the film never lives up to the hype.

Stray · Post by **Stray** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 11:55 am

Especially with Cloverfield.. if you have any previous knowledge at all it really ruins the experience.

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 12:15 pm

youthful_implants wrote:
mixtress wrote:Been sick so seen a few:

Adventures in Babysitting (also known in Australia as A Night On The Town) - fucking sick to watch this again, Elisabeth Shue rocks out. Guest starring a very young and super spunky Vince D'Onofrio. 10/10 for sheer memory laneness, absolutely nothing wrong with this movie at all.
apart from the kids who are totally sinister.

rewatched this quite recently and it is shockingly bad, considering its one I used to love.

Did you watch it with your 2008 eyes and not your old 1987 eyes?? Tsk tsk

80's heaven:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuQuXQ3jzmo (forgotten how to URL, soz)

youthful_implants · Post by **youthful_implants** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 12:51 pm

mixtress wrote:
youthful_implants wrote:
mixtress wrote:Been sick so seen a few:

Adventures in Babysitting (also known in Australia as A Night On The Town) - fucking sick to watch this again, Elisabeth Shue rocks out. Guest starring a very young and super spunky Vince D'Onofrio. 10/10 for sheer memory laneness, absolutely nothing wrong with this movie at all.
apart from the kids who are totally sinister.

rewatched this quite recently and it is shockingly bad, considering its one I used to love.

Did you watch it with your 2008 eyes and not your old 1987 eyes?? Tsk tsk

80's heaven:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuQuXQ3jzmo (forgotten how to URL, soz)

Well I still found Elizabeth Shue pretty attractive even with a terrible perm so I must have been doing something right.

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 12:54 pm

That's the spirit

Watched Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle for the first time last night. Actually quite enjoyed it, wasn't truly expecting to. Dunno why I was avoiding it...maybe it's the big titted chick on the back of the DVD covering her nipples with White Castle Burgers

Hatsudai · Post by **Hatsudai** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 12:09 pm

Hey Direktor you seen the preview for this?

http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox_searc ... notorious/

Direkt · Post by **Direkt** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 12:49 pm

Hatsudai wrote:Hey Direktor you seen the preview for this?

http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox_searc ... notorious/

FUCK YEAH!!!!

I love you Hatsudai! I love you Biggie!!!!

OMFG!!!!

Stray · Post by **Stray** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 12:58 pm

I saw wall-e yesterday. Another awesome pixar movie

Hardy · Post by **Hardy** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 1:15 pm

Direktor wrote:
Hatsudai wrote:Hey Direktor you seen the preview for this?

http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox_searc ... notorious/

FUCK YEAH!!!!

I love you Hatsudai! I love you Biggie!!!!

OMFG!!!!

Can't see that at work, but I really hope they don't fuck this up. How does it look?

B.I.G BABY BAYBEEEE!

Direkt · Post by **Direkt** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 1:17 pm

Looks awesome mate!

But then again, previews are designed to look good hey?

Stoked. Have calendered it up... just hope it gets a decent screening here, will be there opening night, no doubt.

youthful_implants · Post by **youthful_implants** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 6:33 pm

Stray wrote:I saw wall-e yesterday. Another awesome pixar movie

Its just awesome isn't it? So cute and at the same time, so bleak.

mecka · Post by **mecka** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 8:57 pm

Star Wars: The Clone Wars has debuted in the US... the series seems a hell of a lot better than the awful movie that was released a few months ago.

cha_chaos · Post by **cha_chaos** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 2:50 pm

Anyone seen an aussie independant called Noise? I highly recommend! (In my top 10)

Noise:
The community reels after an incident on a suburban train. A young cop, beset with doubt and afflicted with tinnitus, is pitched into the chaos that follows this tragic event. He struggles to clear the noises in his head while all around him deal with the after burn of the crime

It's pretty heavy but very funny, made last year.

Blaxter · Post by **Blaxter** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 3:48 pm

I watched part of Noise accidently. Been meaning to watch it, and it come on tele the other night. Took me a few minutes to work out why the sound was weird then remembered that I was intrigued by the idea of a film with a soundtrack featuring the noises that Tinitus causes. Will watch the whole thing some day though.

HAd the jmisfirtune of wasting part of my life watching captive, started off wel but descended into crap with 40 minutes, that's abotu when I fell asleep and by all accoutns I didn't miss anythign except the titles at the end.

Blaxter · Post by **Blaxter** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 3:48 pm

I watched part of Noise accidently. Been meaning to watch it, and it come on tele the other night. Took me a few minutes to work out why the sound was weird then remembered that I was intrigued by the idea of a film with a soundtrack featuring the noises that Tinitus causes. Will watch the whole thing some day though.

HAd the jmisfirtune of wasting part of my life watching captive, started off wel but descended into crap with 40 minutes, that's abotu when I fell asleep and by all accoutns I didn't miss anythign except the titles at the end.

Blaxter · Post by **Blaxter** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 3:48 pm

I watched part of Noise accidently. Been meaning to watch it, and it come on tele the other night. Took me a few minutes to work out why the sound was weird then remembered that I was intrigued by the idea of a film with a soundtrack featuring the noises that Tinitus causes. Will watch the whole thing some day though.

HAd the jmisfirtune of wasting part of my life watching captive, started off wel but descended into crap with 40 minutes, that's abotu when I fell asleep and by all accoutns I didn't miss anythign except the titles at the end.

cha_chaos · Post by **cha_chaos** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 4:00 pm

mmm... I did the same 'wasted-part-of-my-life' thing when I watched 'The Fountain'... how could such a crap movie be made?

Stray · Post by **Stray** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 4:40 pm

I thought the fountain was excellent

apophenian · Post by **apophenian** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 6:40 pm

I thought the fountain was great as well!

cha_chaos · Post by **cha_chaos** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 8:30 pm

oh.... well i thought it was boring and incoherent... I got the impression from the previews it would be some cool time film like orlando where they are immortal and he has to save her but it's just some guys story paralleling a book and it seemed over dramatised. Don't get me wrong I loooove emotional tragic romances but I got this through a link on IMDB from the Solaris page, and that being one of my favs I expected it to be a little bit better but it had nothing against it. Anyway... if you like it that's cool. peace.

Saw Love Guru the other day... "In to me I see"? I lolled, but kinda trash, or I'm just not impressed as easily as I should be... I liked the Morgan Freeman voice over machine though, that was cool.

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 12:41 pm

saw Jumper last night.... not as bad as I was expecting... not overly memorable though...

I thought it was going to be about a hoodie, but I was wrong.

Stray · Post by **Stray** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 1:10 pm

A movie about a hoodie would have been better

youthful_implants · Post by **youthful_implants** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 1:32 pm

deviant wrote:saw Jumper last night.... not as bad as I was expecting... not overly memorable though...

I thought it was going to be about a hoodie, but I was wrong.

I thought it was rad. Dumb but fun to watch.

same o · Post by **same o** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 5:10 pm

mrj wrote:saw In Bruges on the weekend. Thought it really good, great performances from all especailly Raplh Fiennes who was a pisser. Thoroughly recommend.

really, i have been hesitant to watch it as i really really really hate collin farrell

youthful_implants · Post by **youthful_implants** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 9:51 pm

sAme'0 wrote:
mrj wrote:saw In Bruges on the weekend. Thought it really good, great performances from all especailly Raplh Fiennes who was a pisser. Thoroughly recommend.
really, i have been hesitant to watch it as i really really really hate collin farrell

Its one of my favourite films of 2008, if not the best.

Colin Farrell is great in it.

andy_hoffman · Post by **andy_hoffman** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 1:56 pm

Really looking forward to seeing Choke. It's written by Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club). I've read the book of choke and it was awesome! I actually bought it which is a rare thing for me.

Anyone seen this yet?

Direkt · Post by **Direkt** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 4:19 pm

No, but sounds interesting.

LOVED Fight Club.

Blaxter · Post by **Blaxter** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 12:59 pm

Sporadically tuned in and out of "Across The Universe:.
Featured tunes by The Beatles but sung in character by the cast as part of the movie dialogue. Well made film, interesting interpretations of the classics and some tripped out scenes.

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 1:13 pm

FoundationStepper wrote:Hey saw noise last week

an excellent film

a really excellent aussie film. really recommend seeing it

So, I watched this last night after being intrigued by comments on here..... was a great watch, the main character is a fair bit annoying... but I gather he was meant to be a doofus.

Post by **lynt** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 1:15 pm

Recently saw "Once upon a time in America". Mad.

FoundationStepper · Post by **FoundationStepper** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 5:17 pm

deviant wrote: So, I watched this last night after being intrigued by comments on here..... was a great watch, the main character is a fair bit annoying... but I gather he was meant to be a doofus.

didnt find him annoying so much as, i dont know - a sort of average not particularly interesting guy. which set things up nicely - not a hero nor anti-hero

PahMaLa · Post by **PahMaLa** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 6:40 pm

Finally got to watch Tarsem Singh's The Fall. Amazing.

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 12:15 pm

Flight of the Navigator

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 12:16 pm

Oh, and Hell Boy 2, that was quite good. Although I've yet to see Selma Blair acting well.

mrj · Post by **mrj** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 1:38 pm

Flight of the Navigator was sick. I saw it at Chadstone Cinemas when I was 6.

Stray · Post by **Stray** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 1:47 pm

I have it on dvd

J0rdz · Post by **J0rdz** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 7:39 pm

Picked up Death Proof on DVD the other week. It's just as good the second time as it was the first. Freakin awesome movie!! Bit disappointed with the DVD release and a few of the out takes tho - anyone notice that you didnt get to see Zoe do the massive dive into the bushes after they crash? Aside from that, was pretty happy to see the lap dance was included on it after it being cut out on the cinema release (anyone manage to catch Grindhouse at the Astor?). Anyone who's a fan of Tarantino MUST see this movie. Easily up there with his finest work!

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 11:25 pm

mrj wrote:Flight of the Navigator was sick. I saw it at Chadstone Cinemas when I was 6.

Booyeah. I never noticed before how fucking camp Max the spaceship is. lol'd

Watching The Bush Tucker Man atm. Good eatin' that

Post by **system** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 6:52 pm

cannae wait for guy ritchie's new fillum, "rocknrolla".

Watch the posted video on YouTube.

mecka · Post by **mecka** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 5:20 pm

dunno if this is old news but Spaced has finally had an Australian dvd release.

mrj · Post by **mrj** » Mon Oct 20, 2008 9:14 am

Fents · Post by **Fents** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 2:14 pm

sick trailer

http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/news/p ... -stuff.php

mrj · Post by **mrj** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 1:28 pm

So anyway last night I'm in the city and there are no video hire places in the city, so instead I walk into "dirt cheap DVD's" at the bottom of the Sofitel and end up buying a double DVD - Dare Devil - The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - for $10. I figured that $10 is about what you pay to hire two new releases so it was a good deal as I ended up owning them. Never once did I ever cast a thought that I had not seen these movies up until this point because I had no desire to, and furthermore had never purchased them outright because I never really wanted to own them.

I semi watched Dare Devil last night. I say semi watched because I turned it off halfway through. This has to be, without a doubt, one of the most useless pieces of junk garbage bullshit to ever be produced. The fact that it stars two of my most hated hollywood stars, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner, helped push it from extremley crap well into the realms of total universal fail.

The acting of Affleck and Garner is woeful. disgraceful. unbelievably terrible. the fight scenes are just horrible, who ever trained Affleck and Garner (assuming that someone did) did a shit shit job, because it looks like two kids play fighting. Hopeless.

The story is ghey, the camera work stupid, the dialogue nasueating, and everything about this movie not only made me regret purchasing it, but also getting out of bed in the morning, and even being born. This movie deserves to be destroyed. It must be destroyed. Every copy of it should be tracked down and burnt.

Don't hire this movie. Don't buy this movie. Don't watch this movie. Don't allow others to watch this movie. If you become aware of someone who has watched this movie, counsel them, reason with them, threaten them - whatever - but ensure they never watch it again.

ghetto kitty · Post by **ghetto kitty** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 1:32 pm

mrj wrote: The fact that it stars two of my most hated hollywood stars, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner.

DUDE.

why did you even go there?

meg ryan and tom hanks win over them, and thats sayin a LOT.