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pawlini said:
The Midnight Meat Train on DVD. No it's not a porno!

Bradley Cooper (Hangover) plays struggling photograper Leon Kauffman who's obsessive pursuit of dark subject matter leads him into the path of a serial killer, Mahogany (Vinnie Jones) the subway murderer, who stalks late-night commuters - ultimately butchering them in the most gruesome ways imaginable.

Um this was fucking disgusting! I loved it! lol

I'm quite desensitized to horror movies but this one had me cringing in a few scenes, and Leslie Bibb is hot!!
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Oooh horror on a train......This sounds like a fun movie
 
there was a film on the news about a chinese person at some interstate film festival, I think in Victoria or something. Anyway the chinese Consul has all but threatened the film's presenter by asking him not to show this film.... How arrogant of those pricks
 
ChocolateLovingEntity said:
there was a film on the news about a chinese person at some interstate film festival, I think in Victoria or something. Anyway the chinese Consul has all but threatened the film's presenter by asking him not to show this film.... How arrogant of those pricks
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what was the subject matter?
 
On the Uighers (spelling?). I can understand the Chinese being upset. A movie praising people they consider terrorists. But demanding the film be taken off shows a bureaucrat who still thinks he's in China. Very dumb.
 
Watched the new "Bruno" film last night.

Yes, a group of us saw the movie last night, and it seems most of us quite liked the movie. My taste in humour is more Monty Pythonesque than that, but I have to admit I did get some laughs out of some of the black humour.

It's hard to generalise, because some scenes worked and others didn't work so well, at least for me. Very subjective type of humour. One scene made me feel quite icky and depressed - it would be dishonest to pretend otherwise. But I got a few laughs out of the Jerry Springer style TV show, the "swingers party" woman, and I like the sheer subversiveness of the cage fight ending, which saved the film a little.

So people like that cage-fight audience actually exist? A bit of a worry. http://www.newsweek.com/id/205872

T thought it was a 7/10 and I'd give it 6.5.
 
Potter - loved it.

Very different to the book, lots of cuts made and things added but an excellent movie which perfectly captured the tone of the books.
 
I didn't think the love story line with Harry was convincing tho.

Harry's acting seemed a bit wooden to me.
Loved Hermoine.
 
I didn't think the love story line with Harry was convincing tho.

Harry's acting seemed a bit wooden to me.
Loved Hermoine.
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It hadn't been built up properly in the previous movies. In this movie it was likw Yates had just decided to start fresh and put the storyline where it should be, as opposed to where it actually was in the movies.

I was most dissapointed with the Voldemort memories that were cut. They were, afterall, the point of the story and you come out of the movie not knowing all that much about Voldemort.
 
Yeah I wouldn't mind seeing the latest "Harry Potter" film, haven't seen one for years and years.
 
"Harry Potter", last night at the 9:20pm session in the Gold Lounge at ACE Cinemas in Midland. ($42 for the two of us including a lemon lime and bitters and popcorn each).

Hmmm, what can I say. Uh, the bottle of champagne, pizza, fish and chips, and apple crumble were good, but the movie ?

I dunno. Looking forward to the end of the story now and putting it all behind me. If I wanted to watch teenagers dealing with teenage issues then I'd watch "Home and Away".

Also, Hogwarts and its teachers need to be investigated by the Education Department. All the incidents of kids being on their own in the private offices and chambers of their educators and mentors with the doors closed ! Talk about the adults putting themselves in dangerous and compromising situations :eek:

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At the beginning of the film it was nice to see by air the handbridge LSCP and I wandered over to visit Shakespear's Globe Theatre (bottom right of the screen) last December, and then under by boat on New Years Eve on the way to the pozzie we had to watch the fireworks, and there were also cool new views from Hogwarts later on in the film, but overall, it just seemed to be more of an uncomfortable fill-in film to me.

It is like they are trying to keep an adult audience happy without alienating the young kids but as it is now more about Teens, all the audiences get alienated. The adult characters still seem to be more about communicating at and for the young child level, and the teens are acting for the young adult level. It just didn't seem to work.

They should have just made the whole thing more adult and risked a higher rating, but even then, while most adults wouldn't mind the stories and innocence of the young years of schooling, the whole teen stuff is kinda cringe worthy and maybe even a little bit voyeristic and/or perverse.

After all, we've watched these kids growing up and to now have to watch them sucking face with each other, etc, seems like a bit too much information. Brings out the "concerned parent" in me. :)

Sympathy for the young Malfoy character. For what little there was of him, it was good acting. I feel sorry for the Snape character - tis such a supression and waste of talent. Gini is a believably strong character though. Hey, I would want her working for me rather than against me !

Hmmmm, not so much of the ghosts, talking pictures, or moving staircases this time around, and I'm glad that the quiddich was kept to a minimum.

As LSCP and I did a HP movie marathon earlier in the week and watched the previous 5 movies, we were looking for certain repetitions of themes.

ie, in the first movie, Hermione fixes Harry's glasses early on, and same in the next movie, and in the next they are handed to him, etc. This movie doesn't have his glasses broken early on, but something close them is broken instead and fixed by a female. In most of the movies there is also a "happy birthday" kind of theme, but not in this one.

Yeah, exciting stuff. See how this latest installation has thrilled me ?

Perhaps I'll see it again with numba1son and see what his impression of it all is - though hard core readers of the book are already "meh"ing a bit about it all anyway.

regarDS
 
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We went and saw Harry Potter at the Imax theatre. The 3D portion of the film was weird but interesting. All in all I really enjoyed it. Of course I would have liked things to be explored more as they were in the book but really, it's like trying to fit an elephant into a change purse, it's just not going to happen.

Though Mr Raven who hasn't read the books found it a bit disjointed and thought that parts didn't make sense, for I had to fill him in as to WHY 'The Half Blood Prince' (won't spoiler who it is incase someone hasn't seen it or read the book) uses that name, and elaborate on another couple of points. But overall he liked it too.
 
Lately a lot of films have been trying to cash in on the Imax format, and 3D. it's almost like a mini rennaissance with the 3D stuff coming out.
 
ChocolateLovingEntity said:
Lately a lot of films have been trying to cash in on the Imax format, and 3D. it's almost like a mini rennaissance with the 3D stuff coming out.
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Part of it is to do with, having things you can't see out of a cinema. Also it has to do with new technology meaning better and smaller imax camera's and the digital projectors offer really good new 3d technology.
Personally I can't wait for Avatar at the end of the year, a lot of this new technology was developed for this film.
 
up_all_night said:
Part of it is to do with, having things you can't see out of a cinema. Also it has to do with new technology meaning better and smaller imax camera's and the digital projectors offer really good new 3d technology.
Personally I can't wait for Avatar at the end of the year, a lot of this new technology was developed for this film.
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Is that the movie version of "Avatar last of the airbenders" love the TV show
 
Okay, I hearby take back some of the stuff I said earlier about the latest HP film.

I've since done a bit of research on wiki on the book series (I've not actually read the books) and clued up on the plot and realised that probably somewhere between swilling champagne and chomping on pizza and apple crumble during the screening, I missed why a certain person's hand looked like it did, what the deal was with a certain ring, why a certain person invoked a certain nasty spell, and why a certain person said "please" in a particular way at a certain time.

In short, it all makes sense now ... sense that actual readers of the books would already come to the movie armed with.

It also confirmed my ignorant suspicions that a certain person isn't the kinda person that the movie seems to make that person out to be, but rather that something far deeper is going on. ;)

As for an "after the fact" bit of crap from the plagarist who is reaping perhaps unjust rewards, re: the :rolleyes: "Dumbledore partakes in homosexual past times" :rolleyes: publicity stunt, I've just got to wonder what sort of drugs she is on or what her sudden beef was to suddenly trot out something that I've read elsewhere to be unsubstantiated (by the very books) nonsense.

Much money hath made that old maid mad ?

regarDS
 
I like Malfoy junior, my favourite character in the movies so far. :D

He's not really a villain, he just needs to have an epiphany.

Jo Rowling was just on TV. Classy lady. Hear that accent. She sounds like Kate Bush.
 
Goldenberry said:
I like Malfoy junior, my favourite character in the movies so far. :D

He's not really a villain, he just needs to have an epiphany.

Jo Rowling was just on TV. Classy lady. Hear that accent. She sounds like Kate Bush.
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Very rich woman now too. Lucky bugger whoever lands her.
 
Harry Potter / Home and Away

LOL at reading the following after what I said the other day ...

From: http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25801430-5000117,00.html

(All emphasis, mine)

Harry Potter's hormones spell trouble in Half-Blood Prince

Wendy Hargreaves
July 19, 2009 12:00am

HARRY Potter and his mates should be ashamed of themselves.

Barely a spell is cast in the latest latest kid-wizard blockbuster Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince because the spunky young actors are too busy getting off with each other.

I'm not a Potter aficionado, but I thought this flourishing book-to-movie franchise was written for kids.

My six-year-old won't be seeing it, and she's been nagging me for weeks.

Unfortunately for primary school-aged Potter fans everywhere, this show earns every bit of its M rating.

When I saw it this week, the adolescent hormones were fairly dripping off the Melbourne Museum's gargantuan IMAX screen.

From three-way crushes to sensual pashes, the innocent days of Potter fighting evil are long gone.

In the new Potter world, the bespectacled superstar and his cast are tackling the much bigger issues of lust and sexual obsession.

It's 153 minutes of teen rom-com, with the occasional, you-beaut special effect thrown in.

The stately halls of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft are reduced to a series of bolt holes in which students make out between classes; it's like Beverley Hills 90210 on broomsticks.

Lord Voldemort (the bad guy with no nose, in case you've been living under a rock) is suddenly not so scary when Harry and best mate Ron are facing the perils of dangerously curvy classmates.

For those not up with the J.K. Rowling novels (myself included), it can get complicated.

All those budding teen relationships are so intertwined, it's almost incestuous.

One of them lusts after his best mate's sister, while the best mate has the raging hots for his best mate's other best mate, who is insanely jealous of the other best mate's love-struck squeeze.

Confused? Let me explain: Harry (played by Daniel Radcliffe) wants Ginny (Bonnie Wright), also the sister of Harry's blood-nutted best mate Ron (Rupert Grint), while Lavender (Jessie Cave) has a massive crush on Ron, who is secretly adored by Hermione (the impossibly pretty Emma Watson), leading to much stamping of dainty girl-wizard feet.

Viewers are so busy following the stars' hormonal urges that the core business of magic takes a back seat.

What happened to the spectacular wizardry and fantasy that made the early Potter movies so successful?

Why couldn't the grown-up versions of the Potter crew continue on their original, whimsical path, fighting bad dudes with old-fashioned magic and restricting any sexual tension to an occasional sideways glance?

No, the film's much-lauded director, David Yates, had to go and introduce some primal urges. He just couldn't help himself.

So now a heap of grown-up critics are raving about the darker, moodier, more sophisticated Potter movie.

Some even applaud the film for being more true to life. They say it's only natural for their innocent magic to evaporate as relationships take centre stage and the young stars come of age.

What a load of rubbish.

Who wants real life at the movies? I want pure escapism.

But Harry's looming role as the "chosen one" to save the world from evil Death Eaters is merely a sideshow for the main action hooking up with the opposite sex.

Look out for the high-action game of Quidditch, so over-the-top with sexual innuendo that it could be Benny Hill skit.

Ron's broomstick is obviously a phallic symbol, thrust in all directions as he banishes lingering self-doubt and transforms into the school sports jock.

Swooning girls cheer breathlessly from the sidelines as studly Ron defends his goal posts.

What schmaltzy US college garbage.

But there would be more over-acting opportunities for Ron in this movie.

Harry's lanky sidekick (who has grown an uncanny resemblance to Geelong AFL star Cameron Ling) was also slipped a powerful love potion, turning him into a doe-eyed mushy mess hugging everyone in his path.

Then, like a government ad warning against ecstasy overdoses, Ron crashes and burns.

The poor sod ends up in the school hospital, with two gorgeous girls at his bedside competing for his unconscious affection.

It's a party drug metaphor, if ever I've seen one.

I'm sure there are many who want to see Harry et al grow up, but not me.

I miss the guileless charm of the young trio.

The early Potter movies were like a new-age Enid Blyton story, full of good-natured adventure and wholesome friendships.

What a pity we can't have some more of that.
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Always nice to know that I'm not completely alone. :)

regarDS
 
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