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Mud Cake
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I'm getting the kids (hmm yeah, "the kids") a big TV and a Bluray player for Christmas.
I think Star Trek deserves to be an early Bluray purchase.
The blu ray version has a thing called digital copy which lets you keep a copy on your hard disk on your pc..
I wish all movies could do that.
kxk
SAPIOSEXUAL
Requiem for a Dream - hated it, unrelenting misery, and predictable, if you know anybody with drug problems, an deven if you don't probably, it's just horrible sitting through this. My movie viewing freind thinks it's a masterpiece - I think it's total crap with no story.
Saw Whip It last night, loved it a really good fun movie with a great cast, Juliet Lewis is a favourite and she's good/nasty, Zoe Bell - the kick arse stunt woman in Tarantino movies, and Ellen Page.
Plus her family are all great.
And I got to see the Twilight saga New Moon preview on the big screen - looks impressive, way better than the first movie.
Saw Whip It last night, loved it a really good fun movie with a great cast, Juliet Lewis is a favourite and she's good/nasty, Zoe Bell - the kick arse stunt woman in Tarantino movies, and Ellen Page.
Plus her family are all great.
And I got to see the Twilight saga New Moon preview on the big screen - looks impressive, way better than the first movie.
I'm getting the kids (hmm yeah, "the kids"
I think Star Trek deserves to be an early Bluray purchase.
It will.
I upgraded to blu-ray earlier this year. The one thing I didn't really think a head was the price of blu-ray disks. I have a lot of dvds and simple am not willing to keep up the purchase rate at the higher cost. So the thing i'll pay the 40 odd bucks, will do for trek, did for watchman ect, but really I am picking up most things i'm getting on blu-ray when they're marked down to the mid 20s. Which thankfully is happening a lot more now than even just a few months back. I still buy things I'm not worried for quality on dvd though.
If you get a good set up Blu-Ray is awesome. Also, blu-ray players upscaling does improve exisiting dvds look on high-def displays. I thought that was just a bit of a BS claim but it's true.
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Goldenberry
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I'm not keen on the old Jean Luc Picard Star Trek, but the late 60s series with Bill Shatner is fantastic.
And this new movie took a very good humorous take on the 60s series / characters.
Also, it was a good launchpad for Chris Hemsworth in Hollywood, he's now been cast as Thor in a new film.
I found the film technically impressive, and psychically cathartic. It showed me the terrible trap of drug addiction, and made me feel disgust for hardcore porn and pity for the sad, degraded, exploited souls it chews up and spits out.
A very educational and paradoxically life affirming experience for some of us.
One of my favourite ever movies, Mulholland Drive, is also about a soul's spiral into self-destruction. It allows one to observe such horror from the safety of one's TV, and to learn. And when the harrowing experience is finished, and one realises it was just a dream, there is a strange sense of peace and beauty. Silencio.
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Mud Cake
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I'm not keen on the old Jean Luc Picard Star Trek, but the late 60s series with Bill Shatner is fantastic.
And this new movie took a very good humorous take on the 60s series / characters.
Also, it was a good launchpad for Chris Hemsworth in Hollywood, he's now been cast as Thor in a new film.
Not to mention also that this version of the Enterprise is 3 times the size of Picards ship
mikidiki
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An Education : It was ok, just found it tedious and the storyline was pretty standard and not that exciting. It was missing something. Don't think it deserved 4.5 stars or whatever it got. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't as great as people made it out to be.
The second last movie I saw was fantastic - Julie & Julia - loved every minute of it. Meryl Streep is a genuis!
The second last movie I saw was fantastic - Julie & Julia - loved every minute of it. Meryl Streep is a genuis!
Rewatched "The Fall"
Wanted to see it again so had to order it from the UK. With the dollar being so good it was cheaper than a cheap blu-ray here and we're in the same zone with blu-ray. Me thinks I shall be doing more blu-ray shopping from the UK.
Still a great film!
Wanted to see it again so had to order it from the UK. With the dollar being so good it was cheaper than a cheap blu-ray here and we're in the same zone with blu-ray. Me thinks I shall be doing more blu-ray shopping from the UK.
Still a great film!
kxk
SAPIOSEXUAL
Julie/Julia was lovely and a hoot wasn't it Mik? I absolutely loved that movie.
Bkeela - I don't get how you could find R/Dream, 'life affirming' - they all needed to freakin kill themselves in that dreary movie with no story.
I just found it utterly boring because about 15mins in I had it pegged where they would all end up and enduring the endless scenes of Mum going off her rocker really annoyed me, an oh for lords sakes get the sore on your arm taken care of your not that stupid.
Plenty of people have done drug/addiction movies, some better some worse - this was nothing new or extraordinary,it was tiresome; I preferred Sid and Nancy, Trainspotting etc.
Bkeela - I don't get how you could find R/Dream, 'life affirming' - they all needed to freakin kill themselves in that dreary movie with no story.
I just found it utterly boring because about 15mins in I had it pegged where they would all end up and enduring the endless scenes of Mum going off her rocker really annoyed me, an oh for lords sakes get the sore on your arm taken care of your not that stupid.
Plenty of people have done drug/addiction movies, some better some worse - this was nothing new or extraordinary,it was tiresome; I preferred Sid and Nancy, Trainspotting etc.
Mud Cake
God
THe Librarian 1 - Quest For The Spear
The Librarian 2 - Return To King Solomon's Mines
The Librarian 3 - The Judas Chalice
OMG I had fun watching these. They're not serious movies but the first one was a homage to tons of other movies, notably things like Indiana Jones. The movie was heaps fun when you don't think too much about it.
The second one was also fun.
The third one was also fun as well.
What I find interesting like the Indy movies is that all the artifacts they were going after were supposed biblical artifacts. The spear that stabbed Jesus when he was allegedly on the cross, callled the Spear Of Destiny... The second movie they were looking for King Solomon's Mines and the legendary book of Solomon which he ruled his kingdom with.
The third movie dealt with the cup that Judas drank out of when he betrayed Jesus to those nasty butchers called the Romans. The cup supposedly granted life to the dead and could heal, though I've never read about that anywyere except seeing it in a ton of movies. I suspect it might be a product of Hollywood.
Anyway I had fun watching these. 6/10 for each of them.
I had a lot of interesting throughts in my head after the movies. Maybe topic for another thread. Legend stuff is so fascinating.
The Librarian 2 - Return To King Solomon's Mines
The Librarian 3 - The Judas Chalice
OMG I had fun watching these. They're not serious movies but the first one was a homage to tons of other movies, notably things like Indiana Jones. The movie was heaps fun when you don't think too much about it.
The second one was also fun.
The third one was also fun as well.
What I find interesting like the Indy movies is that all the artifacts they were going after were supposed biblical artifacts. The spear that stabbed Jesus when he was allegedly on the cross, callled the Spear Of Destiny... The second movie they were looking for King Solomon's Mines and the legendary book of Solomon which he ruled his kingdom with.
The third movie dealt with the cup that Judas drank out of when he betrayed Jesus to those nasty butchers called the Romans. The cup supposedly granted life to the dead and could heal, though I've never read about that anywyere except seeing it in a ton of movies. I suspect it might be a product of Hollywood.
Anyway I had fun watching these. 6/10 for each of them.
I had a lot of interesting throughts in my head after the movies. Maybe topic for another thread. Legend stuff is so fascinating.
Good to see the $9 buck purchase worked out well!
I was all excited to watch a blu-ray bong, either thunderball or moonraker tonight but spent too long messing with my Halloween costume
Thunderball is a good film, and it's probably one of the, if the not best bond books to read because it reads like a movie, because it was written as a movie first. Also as a film, I always thought it stood up really well to the rest of time of a great action movie. Moonraker, the book's good, but way different from the film, but it's one of my favourite bond films. It's bond at it's full excess but done so brilliantly. Huge budget, shot all over the place, great action, sets, special effects. It's got a ridiculous plot, somewhat recycled from the spy who loved me. It's Bond at it's excess. The connery bonds had the excess at the excellent You only live twice. This was Moore's bond at excess but it's such an entertaining film. It leaces reality in a sci-fi/bond spin off sort of way. As a kid, the things you love about bond, this film has it all in spades and as an adult it still holds up excellently.
Wish i had got a chance to watch either of these tonight.
I was all excited to watch a blu-ray bong, either thunderball or moonraker tonight but spent too long messing with my Halloween costume
Thunderball is a good film, and it's probably one of the, if the not best bond books to read because it reads like a movie, because it was written as a movie first. Also as a film, I always thought it stood up really well to the rest of time of a great action movie. Moonraker, the book's good, but way different from the film, but it's one of my favourite bond films. It's bond at it's full excess but done so brilliantly. Huge budget, shot all over the place, great action, sets, special effects. It's got a ridiculous plot, somewhat recycled from the spy who loved me. It's Bond at it's excess. The connery bonds had the excess at the excellent You only live twice. This was Moore's bond at excess but it's such an entertaining film. It leaces reality in a sci-fi/bond spin off sort of way. As a kid, the things you love about bond, this film has it all in spades and as an adult it still holds up excellently.
Wish i had got a chance to watch either of these tonight.
Mud Cake
God
Good to see the $9 buck purchase worked out well!
I was all excited to watch a blu-ray bong, either thunderball or moonraker tonight but spent too long messing with my Halloween costume
Thunderball is a good film, and it's probably one of the, if the not best bond books to read because it reads like a movie, because it was written as a movie first. Also as a film, I always thought it stood up really well to the rest of time of a great action movie. Moonraker, the book's good, but way different from the film, but it's one of my favourite bond films. It's bond at it's full excess but done so brilliantly. Huge budget, shot all over the place, great action, sets, special effects. It's got a ridiculous plot, somewhat recycled from the spy who loved me. It's Bond at it's excess. The connery bonds had the excess at the excellent You only live twice. This was Moore's bond at excess but it's such an entertaining film. It leaces reality in a sci-fi/bond spin off sort of way. As a kid, the things you love about bond, this film has it all in spades and as an adult it still holds up excellently.
Wish i had got a chance to watch either of these tonight.
The boat in Thunderball, the M. V. Disco Volante was a real boat. they actually built it to seperate into a rear coccon and a hydrofoil.
Sonia
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Watched a movie on SBS Two called Shi Gan or Time it was amazing.
It's about a Korean woman with low self esteem and to keep her loving boyfriend interested in her she resorts to plastic surgery, it takes her five months to heal and in that time she has left without a trace leaving her boyfriend in tatters and devastated. He meets and falls inlove with a new girl working at the coffee shop unaware it's his ex girlfriend after her plastic surgery but she realises she has what she wanted physically but she is unhappy because he still loves his 'old girlfriend'. Finally she decides to confront him and tell him the truth but it leads to pretty devastating consequences. I loved it, really made me think i can't wait to watch other films by the director 9/10
It's about a Korean woman with low self esteem and to keep her loving boyfriend interested in her she resorts to plastic surgery, it takes her five months to heal and in that time she has left without a trace leaving her boyfriend in tatters and devastated. He meets and falls inlove with a new girl working at the coffee shop unaware it's his ex girlfriend after her plastic surgery but she realises she has what she wanted physically but she is unhappy because he still loves his 'old girlfriend'. Finally she decides to confront him and tell him the truth but it leads to pretty devastating consequences. I loved it, really made me think i can't wait to watch other films by the director 9/10
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jase
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I saw that film about 6 months ago and I agree, it's really great and unique.
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Goldenberry
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So has Danny Boyle found any other child actors from impoverished regions to rip off in 2010? (* just kidding *)
Last movie watched: "Bonny and Clyde". Great film, 1967
Last movie watched: "Bonny and Clyde". Great film, 1967
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ghetto.x
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I watched The Uninvited last night. It was actually pretty good, the ending made up for a crappy beginning.