i wanted to go to the pics ages ago to see that zack & miri make a porno. i wont bother buying/downloading it now, thanks :D

ive got defiance already havent watched, been told its pretty sad, daniels craigs in it, must be good :D

Hmh, I saw Zack & Miri and I thought it was a nice and funny film. In other words not groundbreaking, deep or excitingly intellingent, but on the whole funny and well worth the watch.

I just got a hold of Ong Bak 2 .. I liked the first which was the typical asian martial arts film only with muay thai instead of the more standard Kung Fu flicks most of us are used to. The second one actually seems more kung-fuish to me and from the trailer, it looks like it's a fight-fest almost from start to finish. Anyone know if it's good?

I ended up staying at school last night to watch a movie called Songs From The Southern Seas about a Russian man named Ivan who lives in Kazakhstan with his wife who bears him a dark skinned son, which immediately arouses suspicion that his wife was having an affair with the neighbor. The entire length of the movie is really more about the prejudices we have and a search for identity. For example there is another person in the movie who is of German descent and longs to see his family, yet he has grown up in Kazakhstan and can only speak Russian, something his employer reminds him about quite frequently, yet his desire to seek out his true heritage is so great that he goes back to his family. A very touching and well done foreign movie that I probably would have never seen on my own.

Ong Bak 2 is fairly terrible IMO compared to the first.

The Protector is where its at for more Ja work. Longest continuous fight scene ever (Ie in one shooting)

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I loved this animation. Everything about it from the plot to music to style of the animation itself. I highly recommend this one.





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After watching the devil's backbone, I decided to pick this one up...another beautiful ghost story told. It was listed as horror but it's definitely a touching drama.



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After watching this I'm still confused about what I spent my hour and 24 mins actually viewing. At first , it reminded me of number 23 but a bit more complex and artsy. I'm still contemplating if I'm going to watch it again maybe I missed something.

^^ Great batch...(: I think Pi is actually my favorite Aronofsky film. Not a masterpiece by any means but still a very engaging and atmospheric watch.

Haven't seen Zack and Miri.

I like Seth Rogan but I really hate Kevin Smith, so I'll pass.

I like my crime/film noir- Key Largo, Maltese Falcon, Asphalt jungle but I just couldn't get into this at all :(
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Maybe if I had read the graphic novel I could appreciate the film more. Astounding visuals but the acting was uniformly bad across the whole film and although the film was about neutrality or 'the lesser evil', I still have to root for characters whether good or bad and feel for them. I couldn't give a rat's ass in this film. Style over substance.
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Actually what I've found with Alan Moore adaptations is that it's better to see the movie first then read the comics. That way you get an appreciation for the direction that the movie takes rather than constantly comparing it to the comic. That's what I found with both The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and From Hell. Still have yet to see The Watchmen or read it, something I've been holding out on for over a year now.

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^I enjoyed it, but it's not that good. Expected more with a cast like this one.5/10

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^It's the classical Woody Allen RomCom. I loved it very much, laughed all the way through the movie. Allen and Keaton are always great together, feels like the introduction to Annie Hall
> Plus it's a great homage to Casablanca and Bogart specially. 7.5/10

just made my friends put 'fight club' on, as i had been reading about it in here, its on tape!
like VCR lmao! we had to rig up the oldest tape player ever, just so i could watch fight club. but yeah so far so good :D

^I hope you're not pausing it to post in here!

I thought the Watchmen brilliant. I consider it the best comic book to film adaption I've ever seen and most of the people I know who have seen it have similar thoughts about it. I had read Alan Moore's cartoon before I saw the movie and I think that made it better. I think some people, not knowing the story from before, were not prepared for what kind of movie it actually is.

Let's just say it's not a superhero movie. There's only one truly heroic act in it (people saved from burning building) and it has a some seconds time on the screen in a 2.5+ hours movie.

Eh, I haven't read the comic but I thought the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen movie was incredibly awful.

I can't blame Moore though, I'm sure the comic is great, and he refuses to be associated with any of the movies based on his work, including The Watchmen.

Thing is, some things work in one kind of media and they don't work so well in another, comics take place in their own crazy universe and trying to translate that to film is pretty challenging. There have been some great comic book movies lately but it took some super talented directors like Raimi, Del Toro, Nolan and Singer to pull it off.

Video game projects never attract talented directors so that's one reason they fail. Plus, while the storylines for Mortal Kombat and Resident Evil might have been deep and complex by video game standards, they weren't given enough substance to really work as movies.

Comics have a LOT of plot though, and sometimes the challenge is making a movie that's faithful to the comic without being too complicated for casual viewers.

^ the only adaptation of a comic that I liked is Sin City. but The watchmen got incredibly good reviews when it got released, but still haven't watched it.

You definitely have to! I personally loved it and it has to be one of my favorite films of 2009.

I don't think that's a big problem with Watchmen actually. I think it is faithful and a successfull adaptation of the comic. When people don't like it, I assume that in most of the cases, they wouldn't have liked the comic book either.

I saw Nine a few days ago and was not impressed. It had a great plot to begin with, but I suppose keeping a storyline like that simple enough for children to understand as well is quite a task. Oddly enough, last night I had dreams about a society run by machines.

hmm, I woke up into a society run by machines.

Can we please establish that the use of "the" is extraneous. Both the movie and comic are titled "Watchmen". For some reason incorrect addition of "the" to movies and bands really annoys me.

As for whether or not Watchmen was good or not, and a true adaption of the comic etc ... if it weren't for the soundtrack and Rorschach I probably would've turned it off. It took two attempts to read the comic because it's just so bland. "Reasonable", interesting characters included: The Comedian, Joker, Sally Jupiter and (sometimes) Silk Spectre. The rest were all too synthetic and shockingly lacking in depth to find their screen/page time enjoyable in the slightest. Dan/Silk/John triangle was about as enjoyable and believable as the latest Harry Potter movie (which watched like a nauseating romcom with appalling actors who aren't even used to being terrible romcom actors), John's monologues are a bombastic and tedious rants that go on ad verbatim until you have to put the book down otherwise you'll end up with drool smudging the next morning from where you've fallen asleep on it. The entire theme and message is just so damn ridiculous it loses relevance to modern times and events to the extent that you wonder why the hell you bothered spending so long reading to the end. P.S. where the FUCK was my Goliathic squid?! So, good port bad movie, bad comic. If it'd been set in the same universe but written about anything but the climatic demise, and probably focussed more on Rorschach and the other characters given a level of depth it could've been brilliant. Well done Moore, you verbose git.

Although in Moore's favour, V for Vendetta is a simply superb read. It gives the characters enough depth to believe their motivations, the events are fantastical enough to make the story interesting and keep the plot pacey and the events maintain enough grounding in reality and peoples subconscious fears ever since the rise of totalitarianism that it had (and quite possibly always will have) a deep moral for modern times. As a port from comic the movie was abysmal and messed too much with events and chronology to call it true-to-comic. However it's still a thoroughly enjoyable movie in it's own rights and with the comic has remained steadily amongst my favourites for some time.

On the general subject of comic/movie couplings, I'm not sure if Batman will count as the movies aren't based on specific single graphic novels but the majority of them will hold a place in my heart (sorry, George, but you've never been brooding, deranged and reckless). Wanted was well ... if you read the graphic novel after having watched the movie you'll cry for lost potential, and if you watch the movie after having read the novel you'll want to throw your TV out the window. Hollywood bollocks. Sin City was a movie I greatly enjoyed and was beautifully and thoughtfully directed with an incredible use of palette and colours. Haven't read the comic unfortunately.

Harry Potter Series

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I really enjoyed this movie, until the very ending. The beginning reminded me of World of the Worlds...well, what it would have been had the aliens/robots not gotten sick and died. 7/10

I watched the entire LOTR trilogy on TNT yesterday, so that was basically my whole day.

Great films, all of them. Now I'm really hyped for The Hobbit.

Well, a lot of critics complain that it's too faithful to the comic.

Basically, if you're not faithful enough to the source material you alienate it's fanbase, but if you're too faithful then the movie has no reason to exist.

Most great comic book movies took some liberty from the comics and implemented their own original ideas.

Spiderman 2 did it by changing some things about Dr. Octopus's origin story but these changes helped make the character more tragic and sympathetic, Iron Man did it to make the story more modern and resonant with it's more political themes, and the first two Superman movies avoided the more complex plot elements from the comics to keep things simple. So a lot of times making a few changes are for the better.

Burton pissed off some Batman purists for this reason but IMO I liked a lot of his ideas better than what originated from the comic. Batman Begins and Dark Knight made a lot of changes from the comics too, more than the Burton films in fact, so I find it hypocritical that people go apesh*t over these movies while refusing to give Burton credit for anything just because he had his own vision, especially when his films along with the Frank Miller comic played such a big role in redefining the Batman universe as how we see it today.

Funny, I don't remember Dr. Octopus being in Superman 2. :p:

Yeah I fixed that. :o:

I caught the last half of this hysterically bad Australian movie called The Time Guardian last night. Worth watching if you're stoned and want a laugh, this movie features sad cameo appearances by Dean Stockwell and Carrie Fisher. To give you an idea of the quality of the movie, here's the trailer:

I watched the greatest film of all time on Saturday, had a few mates over to celebrate my birthday over a few drinks.

Ninja: The Final Duel


Believe me, its all its cracked up to be PLUS more.

SPOILER


The Black Monk from Harlem is godly


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^Holy crap that's awesome! I gotta get my hands on it and then I'm gonna have to find a way to make the GF agree to watch it :p:

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Well, actually I'm buffering it now, gonna watch it soonish. Really looking forward to this one.

This was the last one I saw as well, was diffrent....This not being able to post with url is annoying. Couple more posts I guess.

Well, you're there now eh.

As for the film, 'twas good fun. Great stunts and action sequences, interesting plot to make them work, wonderful costumes for the aliens, didn't go over the top with the CG etc.

I watched this afterwards which was a bit more profound though...

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^ A documentary fronted by Herzog himself about his fairly temperamental relationship with his frequent collaborator Klaus Kinski. Fascinating stuff.

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^ Interesting film on a thematic level that made me chuckle occasionally. Johansson looked fine as always, along with Tokyo looking nicer than its usual portrayals. Never would have pegged Murray as someone who'd actually look fitting on a whiskey billboard ad though. :rofl:

I specifically bought the Japanese DVD release of Kill Bill Vol 1 a few years back (cost me £25) as the House of Blue Leaves sequence is in full colour and the anime sequence is longer and I watched it this afternoon for the first time in a few years and enjoyed it immensely. The only thing that (still) annoys me is the use of previous soundtrack songs. I know the guy loves movies but he should have stuck with conventional tracks that would strike more of a chord instead of me thinking about the movies and TV shows he stole from (Green Hornet/Twisted Nerve etc). Saying that 'Battle Without Honor Or Humanity' is still a great use of music.

I have only seen volume 2 once and felt let down so I don't own it anymore, however I wanted to see it straight away after watching this.

Oh I downloaded the Jap editions. Haven't watched them yet, but I do plan to make a night out of it soon. Love that man. (:

I watched a bunch of films since I last tabbed but I cannae be bovvered to list them all so I'll just list the last one which is State and Main by David Mamet. I got a lot of flack for saying I loved Redbelt but I still say it's one of his best films. Especially when you compare it with a lackluster (yay I finally used it in a sentence) film like State and Main. It's one of those films with a big cast that no one knows about because it (deservedly) tanked (or so I assume, I guess Mamet never really made blockbusters). Anyhoo, this one was yet another film about the making of a film and reminded me somewhat of an Altman film (and I'm not a fan, sorry). In short, uneventful and forgettable. 5/10

I want to catch Red Belt, looks really good. House Of Games is another Mamet classic.

House Of Games is a film I've been wanting to see for a while. It looks intriguing, and I usually enjoy movies which involve psychological dramas as long as they're done well. You liked it?

Yeah it's a good film considering it's low budget.

Watched "Role Models" tonight for some reason.
Is was just another one of those mediocre movies.

I thought I'd check out some non-demanding mainstream American films from '09 over the weekend. First up was The Hangover which was surprisingly entertaining, despite the fact that it was obviously made for American-hetero-assholes (sorry guys but there really is a distinct class of people which is bread in American colleges and I'm pretty sure it doesn't thrive in any other environment). It's like their perfect fantasy of a bachelor party, and it has all the ingredients for drunken retelling by these very same assholes: there's an uberbutch heteroasshole role model, a nerdy doormat which comes to his senses, the perfectly upstanding dude and the weirdo for the "ha-ha and then that weirdo did this!" moments. So, even though I wanted to shove my fist in every one of their assholes, it was a surprisingly entertaining 90 or so minutes. I can totally see why it became such a monster at the boxoffice.

If any of that came off as offensive, well...though shit.

Oh and then I watched 27 dresses with my niece (I know, I'm the greatest uncle ever for putting myself through that but it's really tough to pick a fun film for a 13 year old girl). Anyways, it was really bad and predictable and not the least bit entertaining, but I think she had fun so hey...

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Cute little movie with some truly amazing acting from the children and a heart warming ending.