Guybrush

Not to be bitchy, but people should add something more than just a picture of the cover of the movie they last saw. As the OP says :

If you're not gonna mention anything about that movie, then your post is near pointless. It doesn't indicate wether or not it's a film one should see or not, it offers the reader basically nothing. What could be even worse is, if that picture link goes dead one day - and it will, sometimes it doesn't take long at all - your post will no longer make any kind of sense. It'll just be a dead link.

So please try to at least mention the title of the movie in text and perhaps what you thought about it.

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Took my time! Was a bit slow starting and for a brief moment i was thinking this didn't deserve all the praise it gets but i was awesomely wrong when everything unfolded. Fully deserves a place in my collection, a great gang story with a more unique flavour. The fact it's based on a true story makes it all the more remarkable.

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When the young kids had to decide what child to shoot in the foot was an amazingly visceral piece of cinema.

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My choice is the dancefloor scene with the strobe lights, amazing filming. Don't think i'm spoiling anything there!

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I have had a region free DVD player ever since I bought a player which reduces the coding. I have DVD'S imported from Russia, Finland, U.S.A, Canada, Australia, Japan etc

Try this:

EzyDVD - Australia's largest DVD store

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Zarko

Yeah EzyDVD isn't bad (A mate stocks them, so he gets movies at wholesale price - 28 Days Later/Don't Look Now for 6 bucks a pop, about 2 pounds 50? Clint Eastwood collection for 40 Australian dollars, compared to the 61 dollars EzyDVD or JBhifi sell it for, but doesn't get some of the obscure stuff I would prefer)

Really trying to find Session 9 atm. You have pumped me up about it

I just have a bit of a grumble when I hear that other posters have gotten decent quality movies for like 2-5 pounds. And I'm stuck playing 20 Aussie dollars

Oh well, seeing Inglourious Basterds a day after tomorrow. Not really a Tarantino fan but looks interesting.

boo boo

Not as bad as people say it is, I thought it was a good film.

But yeah, the message isn't very subtle.

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I usually do post some kind of reflection. Sorry I didn't this time.

I haven't heard anyone's opinions on this but when it came out I thought people were generally eating this film up. After I started watching I remember my mom watching the cast talking about it on Oprah a few years ago. I did enjoy it, though it did kind of feel kind of, I don't know, 'pieced together' perhaps. Like "Okay, time for racism scene 18 everyone!". It could have flowed a little better.

djchameleon

I enjoy the Crash series much more than the film. A tv series is just the thing that is needed to make the plot flow together over time so it doesn't feel as rushed.

The last movie I watched was Seven Pounds.
I spent the first hour confused as hell and not knowing what was going on. After the big reveal I felt better about being confused for so long. I was patient enough to wait it out.

sweet_nothing

Oh god this movie was awful. And not even the fun kinda awful were you and some buddies and pass around a joint and laugh at it's bad acting or storyline, this is just another shit video game based movie. Most of my fondest memories of the PS2 was the Max Payne series. Sure the story may have not been completely original, cop's family gets killed, cop seeks out revenge, roll credits. But the games weren't really told through cut scenes but images that the looked like pages ripped out of a graphic novel. The games had a noir setting, which added to the disparity that Max felt. Also the voice acting was pretty good. I thought the sound of Max's voice sounds something right out a detective movie from the 1950's. Something else the game did very well was it was the first to realize (probably after watching the Matrix) was that slow motion and shooting gun's go together like nip slips and celebs. All these things the games utilized made them memorable. The movie however missed the point so much you'd wonder if the person aiming was blind and armless. Mark Walberg plays Max Payne, and I think Mark is a pretty good actor in some movies but here he was pretty awful. He had one facial expression during the entire movie, see that movie poster up there? That's the one. But maybe they were trying to just be like the game. But then I realize, IT'S A VIDEO GAME! The characters didn't even open their mouths when they talked and Max was always giving a creepy smile when you'd pause the game and it'd give you a 360 around him. The story here is changed somewhat from the game, but the important moments are there. The drug depicted in the movie makes it's users see horrible demons, which makes me ask the question WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU TAKE IT? Don't people use drugs to make them feel good? Not be chased to by flying hell beasts? Mila Kunis, plays Mona Sax, who is the maybe love interest of Max and equal, and also set out to avenge the death of a loved one. But here she just looks silly. Mila in her dark clothing and lipstick doesn't look threatning at all, and her height doesn't help. I also didn't like how they made the satanic drug lord from the game some tripped out guy with lame neck tattoos. In the game he was some baling manic, here he dones't even talk. But enough of the acting, the action is what helped made the game so fun. So what about the bullet time? Well what bullet time? There really is none in the film, there are a few but most of them are just unnecessary. Why must we see Max cock a shotgun in slow motion when we'd rather see see him floating mid-air, spread out like a cheetah pouncing for attack, firing two berrettas one in each hand with bullet casings flying left and right. I'd love to rant more about how much this movie made a favorite game of mine it's whore to exploit but I don't really have the time. The only thing I will give the film credit for it some of the scenes closely matched the atmosphere and looks of the game, but with bad acting and story, does it really help? No.

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