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[razz1e]

Ah Mulholland Drive - there's a film to add to my list.

I've got Derek Jarman's 'Caravaggio' coming tomorrow

[ralph250]

in bruges is ace  

[Purple Monkey]

Watched Dark City again in tasty hi-def. Still excellent.

[wullie 72]

Purple Monkey, on Sep 11 2008, 10:14 PM, said:

Watched Dark City again in tasty hi-def. Still excellent.

I don't have tasty Hi-Def but have an old bog standard DVD of Dark City, thanks for the reminder of it so I can take it to watch on my nightshifts.

[bunique]

ralph250, on Sep 11 2008, 05:03 AM, said:

in bruges is ace  

Told ya! (or maybe you told me...I can't remember   )

I think metallimuse has it right - he had to do it to warn him.

Edited by bunique, 13 September 2008 - 09:39 AM.

[minute5072]

ralph250, on Sep 11 2008, 05:03 AM, said:

in bruges is ace  

yeah it is!

although i regretted watching it when we ran into a massive group of belgians last week and they ended up wanting to lynch me

[wullie 72]

ralph250, on Sep 11 2008, 05:03 AM, said:

in bruges is ace  

It sure as shit is     I watched it last night on nightshift last night, had planned on Dark City but wasn't quite in the mood for it. So its going to be one of tonights time killers along with John Carpenter's The Thing

[Stuart1000]

I saw Pineapple Express last night and it was wicked!

[wullie 72]

Tonight BBC2 @ 11-10pm A guide to recognising your saints. If you are a lover beautiful stories told with passion & feeling then this is a fil you cannot miss.

[worm]

There Will be Blood - Outstanding.

[-MaDMAn-]

worm, on Sep 13 2008, 01:45 PM, said:

There Will be Blood - Outstanding.

gonna watch that tonight.   have you seen "no country for old men"? in the words of wee jimmy krankie (voted most scottish person 2003)

fandabeedozee

can also highly recommend chopper - eric bana

"Chopper tells the intense story of Mark "Chopper" Read, a legendary criminal who wrote his autobiography while serving a jail sentence in prison."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0221073/

heavy stuff sometimes, but great film.

[Greeny_Musicchild]

bunique, on Sep 13 2008, 10:37 AM, said:

Told ya! (or maybe you told me...I can't remember   )

I think metallimuse has it right - he had to do it to warn him.

gun shot? i don't know...seemed a little silly. Wicked film tho.

[worm]

-MaDMAn-, on Sep 13 2008, 02:03 PM, said:

gonna watch that tonight.   have you seen "no country for old men"? in the words of wee jimmy krankie (voted most scottish person 2003)

Yes. I thought it was very poor.

Nice scenery. Some nice dialogue. But as an American take on fate and circumstance, I thought it was dishonest, contrived and obvious. The symbolism and reference seemed to be a pretentious after thought.

However, Chopper is nothing short of class.

Edited by worm, 13 September 2008 - 01:17 PM.

[Splinter]

Bought Chopper after wanting to see it for years, well worth the buy.

[lamstonite]

worm, on Sep 13 2008, 02:16 PM, said:

Yes. I thought it was very poor.

Nice scenery. Some nice dialogue. But as an American take on fate and circumstance, I thought it was dishonest, contrived and obvious. The symbolism and reference seemed to be a pretentious after thought.

i thought it was a bit shite too. But the guy playing the psycho was really good. Very menacing.

[Purple Monkey]

Chopper is excellent. Although the one scene that I always think of is the scene featurring

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Eric Bana getting his cock out in the bar mid-conversation.

Watched Apocolypto today, I wanted a few new Blu-Ray films so I got this, along with Pan's Labyrinth, Dark City and Superman, and I thought Apocolyptica was brilliant. The colours, especially on blu-ray, are stunning. Although me and my gf were eating cheese during the

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first act where the big guy eats the raw boar testicles.

Put us right off for some reason.

Watched Dark City and Superman so far. Loved watching Superman in a restored state, particularly the colours - yeah it's effects are really old but there are certain shots that are rather definitive and still hold up extremely well - you're meant to apply some childlike imagination to this film anyway so only people who have had it killed dead or never had it in the first place couldn't enjoy it, but f*ck those defeated failled people. There is one scene where Christopher Reeve is stood, arms folded, on a boat in front of fleeing criminals, and I think it's the most definitive shot of Superman ever, perfectly lit. He was Superman, just as Brando is Jor-El. Completely irreplacable. There's one rather stunning shot of Superman in the sky just before he reverses time (don't start - I know it's dumb, let it go) and it has a vision of Brando painted in the clouds as he warns Superman about interfering with history, it's nice to still be surprised as an adult by a film you grew up with.

Also, upon watching Star Wars recently and talking about the games in the next gen thread, I realised why what Lucas has done to the Star Wars franchise between the new movies and the re-re-re-re-releases is a f*cking sin.

(taken from my next gen post) It's like someone taking a photograph of you playing in the garden as a child, a very happy memory, one or your favourite, most happiest of memories, and then photoshopping the blurry edges out, raising the contrast, adding in a wacky clown in to make it seem more "fun", painting out your toy swords with balloons, and burning the original. It's bastardised and fake. Or it's like when an art teacher does that annoying art-teacher-thing and corrects a students piece by drawing on it "properly". It may technically be better, but it's still wrong on many levels, but more importantly it's just ruined and nothing else.

Edited by Purple Monkey, 13 September 2008 - 11:46 PM.

[Atlanteanlost]

Watched Perfume: The Story of a Murder last night, very splendid movie indeed

[Purple Monkey]

Reading Empire there's some good films I wanna watch soon.

Eden Lake (couple go on holiday and get terrorised by hoodie yoofs - think This Is England type stuff)

Rocknrolla (new Guy Ritchie film)

Pineapple Express (stoner comedy that actually looks funny)

The Wave (German school that experiments with the idea of a Nazi-like dictatorship that takes over the place, causes all sorts of trouble)

The Foot Fist Way (low budget comedy)

The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas (German kid befriends concentration camp Jewish kid)

Ghost Town (new Ricky Gervais film)

And there's Quantum Of Solace too.

There are some films that look a bit shit too - Tropic Thunder: can't be arsed. Ben Stiller doing Ben Stiller stuff and Jack Black yelling a bit. Taken - some shitty Liam Neeson action movie. Death Race - goes full circle of macho and lands in 'actually very gay'.

[Kowalski]

Tropic Thunder got 5 stars out of 5 in Uncut, they're claiming its brilliant!

[Purple Monkey]

Kowalski, on Sep 14 2008, 02:58 PM, said:

Tropic Thunder got 5 stars out of 5 in Uncut, they're claiming its brilliant!

Got 3 out of 5 in Empire, and they've been pretty good so far.

I'm just a bit tired of Ben Stiller. I got Zoolander, that's about it.