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bb-06 said:
DS you surprise me a lot sometimes. I'll give you this, you've certainly got some diverse interests sometimes.
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Cheers BB ... now I'll go back to watching "Dead Like Me" which coincidentally has the same actor as the main character at the "Happy Time Temporary services" as played the jaded DMV clerk in the "Reaper" series.

Hmmmm, one series about undead Grim Reapers (with the main character rendered that way due to being killed by a dunny seat from the MIR space station when it fell to earth), and the other series being about someone whose soul was sold to the devil and the devil has him doing bounty-hunting work to send escaped souls back to hell.

Then add some time travelling cyborgs from a future armageddon/apocalypse to the mix ala TSCC, and a bit of a pattern begins to emerge. :)

How's that for some diversity ?

Anyhoo, here is the actor I just mentioned.

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Yeah, I also watch Stargate/Stargate Atlantis, Babylon5, Voyager, Enterprise, and any Trek stuff with Q or timetravel in it, Dr Who, Torchwood, Red Dwarf, House, NCIS, Blackbooks, Dibley, Time Team & Grand Designs, Parliarment Question Time, and one of my more favorite movies of recent times would be "Stardust".

regarDS
 
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This is a nice little film that sort of came out of nowhere back in 2006. It stars The Frames lead man Glen Hansard as an out of luck busker who is trying to make a living from being a musician whilst working in his father’s vacuum cleaner repair store which is a job he clearly doesn’t enjoy. Things start to change for him when he meets the unnamed lead female in the film played by Marketa Irglova who he quickly becomes besotted by.

The two leads have a whole bundle of chemistry and it’s easy to see why, as they became a couple in real life during the filming of this movie. The non-romance between Guy and Girl is sweet and subtle, I found it difficult to tell whether she was in to him as he was to her but it was a nice dynamic. It is very easy to see why Guy was infatuated with Girl, she is beautiful, and not in the most obvious way.

There is a lot of music in this film, all of which are written by Glen Hansard and they are really very good. Falling Slowly is the centerpiece of the film and it’s beautiful, and incredibly performed by the leads. I feel like their relationship was sort of ..delved into more in the songs rather than in the dialogue.

The movie was filmed on a handicam, which is becoming an overused pseudo-arty gimmick these days but it suits the style (and budget) of the film. The movie ends on a slightly ambiguous note IMO. While it seemingly portrays the choices the characters made, I feel like there was more than meets the eye but I don’t know, maybe that’s just me.

In short, this is an enjoyable and refreshing take on a genre that has been dealt with in cinema countless amounts of times. The strength of this is in the music, and I suggest everyone buy the soundtrack as it’s just marvelous.
 
derspatz said:
Cheers BB ... now I'll go back to watching "Dead Like Me" which coincidentally has the same actor as the main character at the "Happy Time Temporary services" as played the jaded DMV clerk in the "Reaper" series.
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I love that series!!! apparently it ended because Mandy Pantinkin left to do 'Criminal Minds'
...actually just found this...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Like_Me#Direct-to-DVD_film
o.O

derspatz said:
and one of my more favorite movies of recent times would be "Stardust".
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I was really anticipating that movie...i reallly wanted to like it but found myself getting bored halfway through :/ its been awhile since i saw it though guess i'll have to give it another try
 
Aeon Flux


This is a weird movie. I actually like it. Basically it's the story of Aeon Flux who is an assassin for higher in the distant future. She lives and works in Bregna, the last surviving city on Earth.

It starts off with the world succuming to a virus in the early 21st century. Some scientists try to find a cure but can't seem to pin one down. As a last resort they clone themselves and other selected people. Eventually filling the cit of Bregna. But this has been going on for 400 years or so each successive generation of leaders led by a clone of the original scientist dude that started all of that. He teaches each clone of himself about himself so he can take his place.

Anyway Charlize Theron plays Aeon Flux and she feels unsettled and has dreams of memories of another life, and that's where I will leave you because to say more would spoil the moofie...

it's a good, but weird moofie.


6/10
 
HarleyQQ said:
I love that series!!! apparently it ended because Mandy Pantinkin left to do 'Criminal Minds'
...actually just found this...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Like_Me#Direct-to-DVD_film
o.O
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Cheers HQ, I've watched nearly all of season 1 now and it has been bugging me what else "Ruby" had been in. I thought it might be some crime show, but that wasn't what was giving me the "he reminds me of someone" vibe.

Thanks to your link it has finally clicked who else he has played and one of the most memorable and repeated lines from a movie.

"Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die"

lol ... obviously he's aged a bit since the days of The Princess Bride - I really didn't recognise anything about him other than his voice, and even then it is hard to believe it is the same person.

That Ellen Muth has a real DQ mouth on her. Such language from such a nice young girl ! :eek: which just wants to make me watch it all the more. :)

I'd never heard of the series until I hired the DVD "Life after Death" recently and quickly realised I was watching an after the fact spin off. It got me interested enough to track down what it was related to and hope that it gets a spin on free2air over here.

Hmmmm, the bad language might limit its public showing though.

regarDS
 
Paths of Glory
I forgot how much I loved this movie. It's such compelling viewing, from the opening scene to the climax. I've always kind of underrated this one in favour of A Clockwork Orange and 2001 but this may be my favourite Kubrick movie. I don't know, my opinions change a lot :X
 
jase said:
Paths of Glory
I forgot how much I loved this movie. It's such compelling viewing, from the opening scene to the climax. I've always kind of underrated this one in favour of A Clockwork Orange and 2001 but this may be my favourite Kubrick movie. I don't know, my opinions change a lot :X
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I'm with you Jase. Kubrick was a genius.
 
Drag Me To Hell

Oh my... what an awesome awesome movie. I have not been that scared in a film for a LONG LONG time. I'd never seen previews, heard of it or anything but I was dragged along by my friends and im so glad, it was so frightening. I see scary movies a lot as I LOVE them and I'm often dissapointed but I must say i felt as though I needed a new pair of undies afterwards haha i really enjoyed it. I felt like i'd been on a rollercoaster afterwards as my heart was pounding throughout it and i had goosebumps constantly
 
just watched WaterWorld.
It is one of my favourite movies. its tops..
I want a trimaran like Kevin's .. and gills...
 
I saw 'My Life in Ruins' tonight.

It's had poor reviews, but I thought it was great.
Very corny...almost Love Boat goes to Greece...but fun.
 
Watched Soul Men with Bernie Mac & Samuel L Jackson. I laughed from beginning to end. Pretty predictable and it didn't make you think.. but the laughs kept coming.
 
Punisher: Warzone

I don't know if this even got a cinema release here in Aus, but it just came out on Blu-ray and I have been keen to check it out. While it's more a re-imagining than a sequel to the 2004 Thomas Jane film, the film was about one thing, action and violence. The punisher punishes and in this film he does.
It's definitely a film purely for those who want action and violence with a quirky dark sense of humour. The story is pretty thin, but it doesn't need to be more as the film is quite entertaining. It's in no way realistic, everything shot with coloured lights, over saturated which actually works, and while the action doesn't re-invent the wheel or show anything really new, it's quite entertaining. I believe the Punisher kills 81 people in the film.
The film know's it's a comic book film, not trying to be dark and series, just to be entertainment and on that level it totally succeeds. I put this in the category of, you know if the films for you or not before you see it, so don't complain if you don't like it.
Ray Stevenson plays the punisher this time and he does it quite well. I hope he gets to be in more action films, he was great as Titus Pullo in Rome and Outpost is a cool little film thats worth checking out that he's in. That's about some mercenaries who come across an old nazi bunker haunted by nazi ghosts.. it's good though!
So yeah if you want a violent, action film, that's pure entertainment and doesn't strive or try to be anything deep or other, but to entertain as pure popcorn, comic book fun, this is a film for you. I have to admit the film didn't grab me instantly, but the humor definitely won be over. By humour it's the violent masochistic time. Shotting a guy with a grenade launched while he's jumping through the air, punching someones face in, a cop trying to arrests someone and the punisher just shoots the guys face off.. that sort of humor... it works though, as the punishes attitude is just amusing and the film is fun!

Really sucks it didn't do well and so a sequel is incredibly unlikely. Although it is the sort of film that really only has an audience on dvd.. so all go out and buy it twice!
 
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