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Ravenau1 said:
Wiki has a pretty good plot summary, CLE
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I'll go there and look Rave



I want to see a movie of the MEG books about a giant Megaladon which surfaces and causes havoc on the oceans. The book series is a best seller yet the film has been in limbo for years and years.... Which is disappointing.


But until then I suppose we can have the straight to DVD Mega Shark vs Giant octopus

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa7ck5mcd1o"]YouTube - Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus trailer[/ame]
 
Well, I saw the Abyss 3 nights ago. CLE, you got my interest up and I borrowed it. The Extended Ending is rather heavy handed and preachy. I'm not surprised it was cut from the theatrical release, where the motivations and actions of the aliens is left a bit more obscure.

I've got to rummage through the stuff stored up in the roof where I store old comics, including one of the Abyss...

Then I saw Star Trek again, in Imax. Still lots of fun.

Then last night I watched on DVD another Cronenberg movie called eXistenZ.
This is sort of an update of Videodrome, but couple of decades later for the online game world.
We have a video game which is similar to the Matrix, in that you jack into it's reality by using this icky organic console that attaches to your backbone via an umbilical cord and a little sphincter-like hole in your back. All done with icky uncomfortable anal erotic imagery. It's Cronenberg doin' his bio-mechanical thing. Anyway, once our heroes enter the game, they proceed to enter another game within the game and the whole deal of what is Real and what is the Game gets very blurred.

By the end of it all, you don't know if anything is real at all (and of course nothing is, cos you're just watching a movie), and the heroes themselves don't know if they killed real people or just game characters.

A good movie if you're a World of Warcraft addict.
 
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Karaoke said:
Well, I saw the Abyss 3 nights ago. CLE, you got my interest up and I borrowed it. The Extended Ending is rather heavy handed and preachy. I'm not surprised it was cut from the theatrical release, where the motivations and actions of the aliens is left a bit more obscure.

I've got to rummage through the stuff stored up in the roof where I store old comics, including one of the Abyss...

Then I saw Star Trek again, in Imax. Still lots of fun.

Then last night I watched on DVD another Cronenberg movie called eXistenZ.
This is sort of an update of Videodrome, but couple of decades later for the online game world.
We have a video game which is similar to the Matrix, in that you jack into it's reality by using this icky organic console that attaches to your backbone via an umbilical cord and a little sphincter-like hole in your back. All done with icky uncomfortable anal erotic imagery. It's Cronenberg doin' his bio-mechanical thing. Anyway, once our heroes enter the game, they proceed to enter another game within the game and the whole deal of what is Real and what is the Game gets very blurred.

By the end of it all, you don't know if anything is real at all (and of course nothing is, cos you're just watching a movie), and the heroes themselves don't know if they killed real people or just game characters.

A good movie if you're a World of Warcraft addict.
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Ooh I love Existenz......They even have organic cellphones. And that gun made of bone.

Did you know the co star Jennifer Jason Leigh was 38 when she did this? Plus I had no idea she was so short.
 
Doin a DVD marathon.

"Yes man". Even as a chick flick, tis boring.

"The Color of Magic". A twin episode thing on same DVD. If you like puns and irony and Terry Pratchett, you'll enjoy this one. Tim Curry is as lovably hateable as per usual. "Cowen the Barbarian" is a LOL, and Twoflowers the tourist has one hoopy frood piece of luggage !

"Avatar". Tres Weird. Kinda captivating. Has professor falcon from wargames in it, and Sebastian from bladerunner, and who knows who else in it. A lovely Oz semi red-head plays the main character of Dash Mckenzie, and there are lots of asian characters and a definite asian feel about the whole thing. A most welcome change from typical yank crap and the viewing prolly made even better when aided by a few red wines.

Back ground music seems to be a cross between the average new age relaxation CD and the sound track to the PS2 game "Rayman 2". Lots of CGI used to explore the Matrix like aspects of the plot. :)

"Star Trek - Nemesis". Experienced Data meets Tabula Rasa Data, and finally learns how to be human by doing the "greater love hath no man than to lay down his life for another" thang.

"Star Trek - Search for Spock". He was hiding in Dr McCoy. Dammit, he's a doctor, not a vulcan holder. :)

regarDS
 
derspatz said:
"Avatar". Tres Weird. Kinda captivating. Has professor falcon from wargames in it, and Sebastian from bladerunner, and who knows who else in it. A lovely Oz semi red-head plays the main character of Dash Mckenzie, and there are lots of asian characters and a definite asian feel about the whole thing. A most welcome change from typical yank crap and the viewing prolly made even better when aided by a few red wines.

Back ground music seems to be a cross between the average new age relaxation CD and the sound track to the PS2 game "Rayman 2". Lots of CGI used to explore the Matrix like aspects of the plot. :)
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Avatar annoyed me.... I just couldn't get into the silly story... I gave up after 20 minutes

The woman in the lead role is Genevieve O'Reilly
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0642444/

She looked good but didn't suit the part of tough chick.... Too glamourous looking.

Anyway I haven't seen the whole of that movie... I put the DVD out with the rest when we had a garage sale.
 
ChocolateLovingEntity said:
Avatar annoyed me.... I just couldn't get into the silly story... I gave up after 20 minutes
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lol. Perhaps you should have tried combining it with illcohol like I did.

Ok, next cab off the rank was "Paycheck" starring Ben Affleck and Uma Thurman.

A movie so bad that it wasn't until near the end of the movie that I realised that I had already seen it before, prolly at the theatres, when it was released back in late 2003 early 2004.

Plot involves Ben running around with an envelope full of innocuous items he sent himself to get out of jams after back engineering (WTF ?) a prophecy machine. Ya would think I would remember such a plot but clearly either the old-timers disease is looming ever closer thanks to my mis-spent youth and middle age crisis years (and I've discovered the cut off/marker year for the beginning of short-term memory loss probs) ... or this was too forgettable for even me.

Somebody else please watch it and tell me which is more likely to be true. :)

regarDS
 
what have i watched recently...



"The Wrong Man"
Or "Lucky Number Slevin as it was called in the staes. Josh Harnet, Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, Ben Kingsley, Lucy Lui.
I always meant to see this when it came out a few years ago, but it took seeing it for 8 bucks in kmart to actually take a look. Quite an enjoyable, smart film.

"A case of mistaken identity lands Slevin into the middle of a war being plotted by two of the city's most rival crime bosses: The Rabbi and The Boss. Slevin is under constant surveillance by relentless Detective Brikowski as well as the infamous assassin Goodkat and finds himself having to hatch his own ingenious plot to get them before they get him."

It was good, it's odd how some films like this seem to just slip under the radar.

Firewall
Harrison Ford stars as a computer security expert for a bank, who's family is taken hostage to force him to help rob the place electronically. It was a decent good film. At the time when it came out it was passed off as being lackluster, but it's a decent entertaining film. Better than i expected from the reviews i read when it was released theatrically.

The Sum Of All Fears
If you can't tell i'm catching up on films i never saw when i see them cheap on dvd at the moment.
Ben Affleck stars as Jack Ryan in a somewhat prequel reboot of that franchise. This time he has to track down a missing nuclear weapon and a plot by Nazi's to get the russians and US into a war.. not as dumb as it sounds. It was also a decent enjoyable movie. It was made pre 9/11 which is an interesting aspect to it. Yeah a decent film, not great but reliable entertaining film. A better Ben Affleck film that paycheck as reviewed a few posts up.


Patriot Games & Clear and present Danger
I don't think i mentioned them. These are the Harrison Ford Jack Ryan films. Both were quite decent entertainment. If you hadn't get i picked up the Double dvd sets for all 4 films. I wrote about the Hunt for Red October a couple weeks back. These ones were also good. Clear and Present Danger was probably the better of the films. There is an interesting aspect to the nature of these films stories and bad guys, that is a bit out of touch with reality, but inline with ignorant uninformed american's opinions based on little.
I'd say all the Jack Ryan films are worth picking up in the bargin bins for solid entertainment.


Rome: Season Two
not a movie, well kind of a 10hour movie. Finished this a few weeks back, it's worth a mention. Really good HBO series, season two was better than one. It's sad to see it gone. I hope the rumoured movie gets made, unless Bruno Heller is too busy with the mentalist. Season 2's plot was a bit was rushed, due to HBO as they've admitted wrongfully cancelling half way through production. It had story lines, planed for the third, even fouth seasons in it. Although it did lead to lots of story, although having some knowledge of the history, Anthony, Cleopatra ect helped. Two had less sex and nudity which did get a bit over the top in season one. It's more on track here. No pointless lesbianism or incest ect.
Sad to see such a quality series go, although it's been a few years now, the delayed dvd release was a pain.




Rewatched the last Indiana Jones film, better than when i saw it in the cinema as I was just stunned and didn't relax or enjoy. It didn't have as many of the problems i thought the first time around, but more stuffered from being a bit too dull, playing it safe, no darkness and the action was generally kind of uninspired, and slow. It felt like going through the motions. Which it shouldn't have. I still maintain the first Mummy film was a much better Indy sequel. I could have delt with mummies in Indiana jones more than aliens... although would have been a little bit of the same problem with Crystal Skull of, you don't need to and shouldn't explain the mystery, what's behind the power of objects.
 
The avatar you are talklng about is obviously a different movie to the Avatar that James Cameron is directing with the same name and to be released later in the year (starring the hottie Sam Worthington). Is this a remake of the movie you are talking about??

I am hanging out to see the new terminator movie (Sam Worthington again *sigh*) it sounds really good.
 
Reviews for the new Terminator are starting to leak out... it's getting "Meh, it's okay, but...".
Good action and special effects, not so interesting in the character development side of things.
 
derspatz said:
lol. Perhaps you should have tried combining it with illcohol like I did.

Ok, next cab off the rank was "Paycheck" starring Ben Affleck and Uma Thurman.

A movie so bad that it wasn't until near the end of the movie that I realised that I had already seen it before, prolly at the theatres, when it was released back in late 2003 early 2004.

Plot involves Ben running around with an envelope full of innocuous items he sent himself to get out of jams after back engineering (WTF ?) a prophecy machine. Ya would think I would remember such a plot but clearly either the old-timers disease is looming ever closer thanks to my mis-spent youth and middle age crisis years (and I've discovered the cut off/marker year for the beginning of short-term memory loss probs) ... or this was too forgettable for even me.

Somebody else please watch it and tell me which is more likely to be true. :)

regarDS
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I liked Paycheck a lot
 
derspatz said:
Hokay ... somebody ELSE please watch it and tell me which is likely to be true. :p

You just liked it coz Uma was init, but some of us watch movies for, you know, story, rather than the shapes of the bodies playing the characters. :)

regarDS
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Actually I didn't think much of Uma in this movie, or any other. I find her a bit of a woofer.

Actually I liked the story. I understood the story..... I liked the idea of a prophecy machine. Makes a lot more sense then a time machine. I did like the 3D computer monitor. Now that would be kind of cool if someone could invent that.
 
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Karaoke said:
Reviews for the new Terminator are starting to leak out... it's getting "Meh, it's okay, but...".
Good action and special effects, not so interesting in the character development side of things.
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Impression i've gotten is, it's got a lot of good ideas and action but the focus is on the action so nothing really get developed, and is more interested in being a part one of a trilogy than a self contained film.

I'm still looking forward to it, the reviews tend to be more what it's not, than it's a bad film, and the actions meant to be really good and 90% of the movie.
 
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