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kxk said:
Has anyone seen Let the Right One In? It's on in 3 weeks at my Astor, was screened at the Melb film fest, swedish film about a 12 year old vampire kid, supposed to be a good haunting film.
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Seen It? Seen It? Seen It? It is brilliant, I've been singing it's praises for a looooong time!!!!

I got the American dubbed version which was terrible, it would be better subtitled.

Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma) a Sweedish Film – OMG what a superb movie!!!!!!!!

I have not seen this great a movie since American Beauty or Shawshank Redemption.
It is a vampire movie involving two 12 year old kids Oscar and Elly (she is the vampire). It is a wonderful movie, I believed every bit of it, it was subtle, sensitive, poignant and moving. Wow, I sit here in awe – it makes Twilight look like the worst movie made in history. I urge anyone who loves watching movies to get your hands on a copy.

Be warned the copy I have is badly dubbed (I prefer subtitles) and written letters and flashes of newspapers were not translated so I lost a bit along the way but this did not affect the movie. It was a long one at 115 minutes but I didn’t notice. I defy anyone to tell me it was shite, lol and I look forward to everyone raving about this
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Oooooooo thanks for the review, was planning on seeing it anyway it sounds great and the stills look utterly beautiful.
My goth vamp loving friend said I have to see it, she usually has good taste in movies.
 
I just got home from JB HIFI.....They had to evacualte the whole building for some stupid reason so I had to get a coffee.. Came back later to find they were open. Picked up my copy of Teeth and also Monty Python's Meaning Of Life So I shall watch both tonight.
 
molloch! said:
Well since i work at a drive in i get to see a few movies. Nothing like opening up the back of the panel van and watching under the stars :)


Anyhoo the last movie I saw was Eragon and Night at the Museum.

I've seen Night at the Museum twice before and it was just as good third time round. I don't know what it is but that movie appealed to me. I saw most of the kids movies over the holidays (having a 7 year old) and that had to be my favourite.
Eragon was pretty good too and i'd heard some pretty bad reviews for it. But it was rather good. I love fantasy movies so it was right up my alley.

In the next week i'm going to go see Music and Lyrics, and then Ghost Rider, which i'm hanging out for.
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Night at the Museum is fun. I love it. Not so much the sequel though avoid that if you can.

I actually love National Treasure 1 & 2.... I love the idea of objects having hidden codes and secrets and stuff. And seeing older actors like the one that plays Ben's father and mother. Just fun.

I'm still recovering from watching Teeth That was fun too but also funny.

This week I had the good fortune to watch "Monty Python's The Meaning Of Life"

I just bought this on DVD and have to say that despite the years I've seen it it was still very funny. But it did have it's flat moments. I didn't like the Crimson Perpetual bit... I knew what they were trying to say, and could understand the gag but it didn't make me laugh.

Oh and on the DVD there is the plain version and a director's cut with 5 deleted scenes put back in.

But the rest of the movie was fun...... The galaxy song.... Now I can't get that out of my head.

Every Sperm Is Sacred.....


Cool movie

8/10



Beats most of the crap out today.
 
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Okay, Life Style Choices Partner (who coincidentally wore her tightest blackest jeans and knee-high boots) and I are just back from seeing "Inglourious Basterds" (whilst quaffing champagne and stuffing our faces with seafood of the more unclean kind only to chase it down with the nearest thing to strudel mit cream that the Gold Lounge @ Midland Ace cinema had on offer, which was Apple Crumble with Icecream), and much enjoyed it did we !

So much so that I'm now thinking of taking my 77yo dad to see it for his birthday. :)

Always good to see a film that doesn't totally rely upon the banality of English and English speakers. Christoph Walz (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0910607/) *owned* this film, AFAIC.

Tis all I'll say for now until more of ya have the chance to treat yourself to this fine offering from QT, other than that it is the Film of the Year I reckon and it had an excellent music arrangement from start to finish.

I must admit though, thanks to all my recent playing of "Halo" (I'm now a Lieutenant with a skill level of 10 on 360 Live) at various times during the movie I expected to hear the voice-over guy from the game to say things like "double kill", and "killing spree", and "kill joy".

regarDS
 
derspatz said:
it is the Film of the Year I reckon and it had an excellent music arrangement from start to finish.
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More on that to be found here

Don't go there or read any of the following if you don't want any aspect of the movie spoiled for you.

Tarantino digs into record collection for "Basterds"
Fri Aug 21, 2009 3:53pm By Ann Donahue

LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - It's the critical night for the heroine of your comedic-noir-World War II film, the evening when she unspools her plan to set a lethal blaze. As the director, the question is, "What song do you play as she glams herself up for the night?" For Quentin Tarantino, the answer was obvious, and it elicited gasps and laughter from filmgoers at a recent screening: the era-inappropriate but lyrically astute "Cat People (Putting Out the Fire)" by David Bowie.

Tarantino's latest film, "Inglourious Basterds," opened Friday, three days after its accompanying soundtrack arrived on Warner Bros. Records. Following the pattern established with his previous movies, including "Pulp Fiction" and "Kill Bill: Vol. 1," Tarantino uses an off-kilter mix of Ennio Morricone, Ray Charles and Elmer Bernstein, among others, as musical genres to underscore the mayhem onscreen.

Billboard: You have some wild music in "Inglourious Basterds." How did you put it all together?

Quentin Tarantino: Part of my process when I'm making a movie is to just dive into my record collection. What I'm looking for is the rhythm of the movie or the beat of the movie. In the case of, say, "Jackie Brown," that's '70s soul. I'm finding pieces, and that keeps inspiring me to make the movie, actually.

Billboard: Do you write scenes specifically for particular pieces of music?

Tarantino: I am always looking for some cool song that I could use as a big set piece. I'll finish work and I'll go into my record room and I'll put on some song, and literally, I can see it on the screen. I can project myself into a movie theater and I'm watching the scene onscreen and I'm hearing the music and I'm imagining an audience: either an audience of people I know who are digging it or an audience of people I don't know who are digging it -- they're always digging it. (laughs) And it keeps reminding me that I'm making a movie.

Billboard: Talk a little more about your record room.

Tarantino: My record room is set aside pretty much for vinyl. I have CDs, but they're lying around. Any CD I like, I have to buy it three times because I have no one place to put it. It's like a sock, it just gets eaten up by the laundry. In the house that I bought, connected to the bedroom was a little nursery room -- like if you had a newborn and you had them there close to you. I don't have that, so I literally turned it into what looks like a record store. I created bins that are in there, and there are a couple artists I have there by themselves -- but everybody else is broken down by decades, and then all the subgenres that would happen inside those decades.

Billboard: That's really anal-retentive.

Tarantino: It's like a record store! (laughs) In the '60s, there's like a psychedelic section, and then British Invasion, and stuff like that. The '70s would have soul as well, and this or that or the other. But the biggest section, since I've been collecting them since I was a kid, is my soundtrack section. And in the soundtrack section, I go from normal films from A to Z, but then I have certain subgenres that are particularly unique in their music: spaghetti Westerns, a blaxploitation section, a spy movie section and then a motorcycle movie section.

Billboard: Is it easy for you to get the rights for these songs?

Tarantino: It's actually quite easy to get the rights now, because I'll use music that some people haven't heard that much before. Then after my movie comes out, it seems like every commercial in the world buys it. They can double or triple and quadruple their income just by the exposure the movie gets it. That 5.6.7.8's song, "Woo Hoo" (from "Kill Bill: Vol. 1"), seemed like it was on every commercial for a long time.

Billboard: Talk about some of the specifics from "Inglourious Basterds." What was behind the Bowie song?

Tarantino: I've always loved that song and I was always disappointed at how (director) Paul Schrader used it in "Cat People," because he didn't use it -- he just threw it in the closing credits. And I remember back then, when "Cat People" came out, going, "Man, if I had that song, I'd build a 20-minute scene around it. I wouldn't throw it away in the closing credits." So I did. (laughs)

It would be easy enough for me to hire somebody to write "The Ballad of Shosanna" (the heroine of "Inglourious Basterds") if I wanted to, but I don't want my choices to hit the nail on the head. I want them to be glancing blows. The second-generation quality about it makes it more resonant. You're watching that scene and you're hearing the lyrics and you're actually surprised at how appropriate they are to her story. In its own way, I think that makes it play even more like interior monologue. I (played) it on set when we (filmed) it. That's always really cool to do -- you can't do it all the time, because you're probably recording sound at least half the time -- but what's really fun when you do it is, not only do the actors respond to it, the whole crew responds to it. It's like they're watching the movie as we're making it. When you actually play the soundtrack and you can sync something up, the crew gets a glimpse of what the movie is going to be like, and it just thrills them

Billboard: And you used actual music from some German propaganda films of the era.

Tarantino: In particular, there's a song in there -- the English title of the German song is "I Wish I Were a Chicken" (Ich Wollt Ich Waer Ein Huhn). That's the third one on the soundtrack, with Lilian Harvey and Willy Fritsch, that's from a German propaganda film -- it's actually a screwball comedy, but it was made under (German propaganda minister Joseph) Goebbels -- that was called "Lucky Kids." And then the German song before that ("Davon Geht Die Welt Nicht Unter") was performed by Zarah Leander, who was a huge, huge star in Nazi Germany. The thing that's very interesting about her is the way Bridget von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger's character) is in the movie -- where she's this big German movie star, but she's actually working for England -- there's rumors that Zarah Leander was doing the same thing, except for the Soviet Union.

Billboard: What do Ennio Morricone and Lalo Schifrin, who are both on the soundtrack, mean to you?

Tarantino: When you talk about the maestro (Morricone), you're talking about the greatest film composer that ever lived. Lalo Schifrin -- the first time I knew who he was (when I heard) his soundtrack for "Enter the Dragon," which was so dynamic, and I always thought of him as the action guy. Now this is an adventure story, and I realized if I'm really going to do this genre justice, I have to blow up the guns of the Navarone. (laughs) And being able to use "Tiger Tank" from "Kelley's Heroes" -- that really turned it into an adventure movie. No art-film meditation, but literally an adventure film at that point.

Billboard: How did you decide which of all the songs in the film go on the soundtrack album?

Tarantino: Making the soundtrack album itself is like another version of the movie, and it's not about using everything that you used -- it's about using everything the way that you saw it in the movie. My ultimate thing is, "Can you play it without hitting skip?" If you put it on in your car, which is where most people listen to stuff nowadays, can you just let it play? And I still think of it in terms of albums. I still think of it in terms of side A and side B. (laughs) I'm happy to say that vinyl's making a comeback. I always made a big, big deal that the record companies that come out with my (soundtracks) have to print vinyl ... Warner Bros. has always accepted that commitment to me, that they will always make records for my movies.

Billboard: Are you going to return as a judge on "American Idol" anytime soon?

Tarantino: They have to ask me. (laughs) We'll see what happens. I really had a great time when I was the judge on it, because I was watching the show and I was judging them at home. (laughs) And I wasn't the nice-guy judge, all right? All the celebrity judges were always really kiss-assy, and I was like, "That ain't going to be me. I'm going to be like, 'You suck.'"

(Editing by SheriLinden at Reuters)
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regarDS
 
I've been looking forward to Inglorious Basterds since Death Proof, but have become strangely ambivalent about seeing it. Hopefully I can fit it in some time tomorrow.
 
Last night on SBS 2 they showed a German movie called Dreamship Surprise: Period 1
I bumped into it accidentally, and then was hooked.

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This was the German equivalent of Spaceballs.
A big budget parody of Star Wars Episode 1 and Star Trek, and mixing in Back To the Future timetravel.

It had really impressive special effects. It starts in a vast space battle as you'd see in Star Wars, then switches to a Princess Amidala copy calling on an EXTREMELY gay Star Trek crew to save the Earth by going back in Time.

Just browsing now, it was a huge hit in Germany. Either the Germans have a terrible terrible sense of humour (though admittedly I did get a few laughs out if it), or it loses alot in the subtitles.

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Karaoke said:
Last night on SBS 2 they showed a German movie called Dreamship Surprise: Period 1
I bumped into it accidentally, and then was hooked.

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This was the German equivalent of Spaceballs.
A big budget parody of Star Wars Episode 1 and Star Trek, and mixing in Back To the Future timetravel.

It had really impressive special effects. It starts in a vast space battle as you'd see in Star Wars, then switches to a Princess Amidala copy calling on an EXTREMELY gay Star Trek crew to save the Earth by going back in Time.

Just browsing now, it was a huge hit in Germany. Either the Germans have a terrible terrible sense of humour (though admittedly I did get a few laughs out if it), or it loses alot in the subtitles.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUjylbh2XLY
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Is it all in German with subtitles....... I'm getting used to that when watching Inspector Rex but funny the theme song is in English for that show. I wonder if they do that in English.
 
UP - a new kids movie coming out soon. It's about an old man who, from when he was a kid, was inspired to travel around the world in a ballon and live on top of Niagra Falls (or similar). He had watched a movie of an adverturer who floated about the sky and it looked exciting. He meets his childhood sweet heart who shares his own sense of adventure and throughout their long life together they always dreamed of doing it one day but they never got around to it.

She dies and he thought "bugger it I'm going to do it. So he goes off on this advernture. Critics are saying this is the best all time kids/family movie, better than Wall E...but my kids say no....definitely not better, enjoyable and funny but not the best. It is quite an emotional movie with the typical Disney moral to the story etc. I enjoyed it, it has some great amusing moments, not silly like Ice Age but a feel good story with plenty of laughs. The kids will enjoy it and so will you.

Coraline - a really good movie, quirky and an original story. It has some great moments too, some laughs as well as a message behind it. etc.

*note to parents*
We watched it at about 5pm and then watched Up straight after and the 9 old was still scared hours later from the spooky and scary women in Coraline and woke up in the night *sigh* saying the bad women frightened her, lol. Prepare yourself for that happening, :) I suggest you watch it in the morning so you have all day to psyche them out of this ;)

Oh and I watched the Avatar preview....ooooh it looks good :D
 
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I'm looking forward to this. I think I prefer looking forward to things more than actually seeing them.
 
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