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I taped that, looking forward to watching it. Kids is on CH4 tonight |
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The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou 4 or 5/5 Can't really decide on this one. It started verrry slowly but gradually, as with all of Wes Anderson's films, the characters grew on me in a big way. There were some elements I questioned too, suchly the violence.. and I still think the 'group of eccentrics' feel that was also present in Royal Tenebaums IS slightly contrived, they all seem a little too blissfully unaware how awesome their lives are, if you follow my drift. Other than that I loved it. Beautifully paced and touching. |
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It's on Friday. |
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K-Pax 5/10 An OK attempt to make a quirky alien film, supposedly based on "One Flew over The Cookoos nest" but the only real connection is the fact it's set in a mental hospital. The films darker tones don't set well with it's overly sentimental flavour. The Last Samuri 3/10 A totally ridiculous concept of grizzled American cavalry soldier goes to fight with the Samuri, quite why Tom Cruise got involved with this cack after the brilliance of "Vanilla Sky" and "Eyes Wide Shut" is a mystery. The semi-romantic tonel is totally at odds with the watered down brutality that prevails throughout the film and ultimately this is mass market sugary mainstream fodder that does as much for an accurate portrayal of Japans history as "Braveheart" did for Scotlands. |
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Confidence - 2/5 |
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small faces - 4/5 great film about glasgow turf wars. dark but funny. |
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KPAX - the books okay |
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I have the book but I've not read it yet (will do), K-PAX 2 is meant to suck though (I've heard) |
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yep, the Takashi Mike film...couldn't help but laugh out loud through the whole damn second half, and not in a good way |
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The Triplets of Belleville - 5/5 Great movie. |
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yeah, absolutely right! |
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Kung Fu Hustle 4/5 if you liked the Shaolin Soccer then will like this too |
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The Life Aquaitic - **** wow, what a great film! So much better than I thought it would be from the lukewarm reviews i'd seen, I'm wondering if they actually watched the same film. So many hilarious scenes, all of the cast were excellent and I love the way it was directed, especially the way they did the action scenes, I couldn't stop laughing! i'm tempted to give it 5/5 but i'll have to watch it again first. |
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I didn't think it compared favourably with The Royal Tenebaums and Rushmore. |
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I haven't seen either of those yet, I want to see Tenenbaums soon although its not high on my list of films to watch so it might be a while before I get around to seeing it. anyone seen Repulsion by Polanski? Looks like a pretty amazing film, i'm going to get a box set soon with 3 of his early films. |
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ok, scrap the soon bit in that sentence otherwise i'm contradicting myself :) its a shame there isn't a feature where we can't edit our posts after posting. I guess I should use the preview function more... |
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The Graduate - 4/5 |
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Sideways 4/5 Collateral 4/5 Million Dollar Baby 4/5 2046 4/5 The Machinist 3/5 House Of The Flying daggers 3/5 Ray 3/5 Bad Santa 3,5/5 but sideways was mine favourite of these i really recomend it |
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suicide club - 0/5 casshern - 1/5 house of the flying daggers - 5/5 constantine - 3/5 blade trinity - 2.5/5 saw - 3/5 audition - 5/5 white chicks - 4.5/5 van helsing - 0/5 king arthur - 0/5 polar express - 1/5 the village - 1/5 big fish - 5/5 |
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i watched LOTR 1 for the first time today..i watched for about an hour and was real bored, i thought there would be something more to it later on, but there was nothing but a lot of fighting..i fell asleep for about 2 hours, woke up seen few minutes of the last part and it was like i haven't missed anything at all..they were still runing and fighting...i have no idea what people see in this.. |
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the manchurian candidate (original) - 9/10 the manchurian candidate (remake) - 5/10 bad santa - 3/10 get shorty - 7.5/10 the bourne supremacy - 4/10 being there - 8/10 aguirre: wrath of god - 8/10 the man who wasn't there - 8/10 the sacrifice - 8/10 |
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the station agent - 3/5 - it was good. tolstoyed: personally, as someone who loved the books, I shat my pants with excitement when I heard they were putting it on the big screen. i think they did a damn fine job. |
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Nosferatu [Herzog,1979] 4/5 great version of the Dracula story, Herzog is amazing. [5/5 is for Coppola's version only] |
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Aguirre, The Wrath Of God - 3/5 Hotel Rwanda - 4/5 |
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"Aguirre, The Wrath Of God - 3/5" - why ? "Scream Of Stone" 2/5 |
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one point 0 - 3/5 |
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Aguirre, The Wrath Of God - thats a 5/5 film, for me at least. Herzog is a genius! Loved Nosferatu too, one of the best films based on Dracula i've seen. |
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I thought that the story behind the making of the film was more compelling than the actual film itself. |
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i heard Kinsky was kind of a mental and a hard person to work with |
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Some Kind of Monster 4/5 this is the metallica docu. i am not a fan of metallica but this was still very interesting. i especially liked the bits where they were in the studio jamming and writing new material. it was interesting watching a band with two huge egos trying to write music together. Branded to Kill 3/5 a style driven piece about a bunch of assasins competing for top ranking. extremely bizarre. very disjointed and difficult to follow. but visually very creative. also saw the sequal... Pistol Opera 3/5 again, very style driven but this time in vivid color. much in the same vein as Tarantino was trying to achieve with Kill Bill though kill bill had a much better story, dialogue, performances substance etc... But i wouldn't doubt that QT took some influence from 'Pistol Opera' for his use of color and lighting in Kill Bill. interesting note, there is some underage japanese girl toplessness in this picture. not sure how that flies with the MPAA (its NR) or child porn laws, but i got it from Netflix so... |
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i'll tell you what we see in it, all the stuff that you didn't see cuz you were sleepin! |
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scenes from a marriage - 8.5/10 priest - 6.5/10 |
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eXistenZ - 2/5 [the ending - 3/5] |
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stir of echoes 3/5 a decent thriller |
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existenz is a 7/10 film, quite a nice twist at the end. i saw a film about earth beign taken over by a dragon that had re-awakened after 1000 years, it had cristian bale in it or something. it wasn't very good. 2/5. |
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Any other day I would've been able to tell you what film that was but you've thrown me way off somehow. |
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i agree. i enjoyed the layer upon layering of realities and the amphibious meat sex analogies! |
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"the layer upon layering of realities" in "eXistenZ" was created in a very lame way. Jennifer Leigh played horribly [i wish she spoke more clearly, it was as if she spoke her lines to herself]. and Jude Law was, as usual, stiff. and that "nice twist at the end" is the only good memory of seeing that film. overhyped. i'd rather see Re-Matrix or Re-Re-MAtrix a biomechanical-pseudo-futuristic drama i'd say. it might have been an ace film though - the idea of "layers upon layers" is great |
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Chronicles of Riddick - 8/10! I was quite surprised at this one, fulling expecting to give up after about 20 minutes, but I really enjoyed it. |
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nice beard :) if there is a contest for The XLT Avatarer [Aviator] Of The Year, You have my vote. |
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saw - 2.5/5 day without a mexican - 0/5 (horrible) shaun of the dead 3/5 coffee and cigarettes - 5/5 |
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I find that watching a movie with low expectations can often provide pleasant surprises. |
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Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator 4/5 great little docu about the infamous Mark 'Gator' Ragowski aka Mark 'Gator' Anthony. He is a pro skateboarder from the 80's who achieved almost instant superstardom in the skateboarding world as the spokesperson for Vision Street Wear. He eventually lost his fame, lost his friends, lost his girlfriend and finally raped and murdered his ex-girlfriend's friend and is currently spending a long sentence in a California max. security prison. quite good. shows the evolution of skateboarding in the 80's as well as this shakespearian in magnitude tragedy of the life of a spoiled rotten pro skater! |
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Read My Lips - 3/5 |
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Shark Tale - 2/5 It's only occasionaly funny. The animation is nowhere near as good as "The Incredibles" or "Finding Nemo." And most of the characters are frustratingly obnoxious. And fish puns! So many stupid fish puns! |
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I (heart) Huckabees 4.5/5 |
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the only truly good thing about that movie was jon brion, and he didn't seem to be trying very hard. i did enjoy the movie on a mindless slapstick level, though, but it's something i'll soon forget. |
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Dog Soldiers - 3/5 |
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sean of the dead 7/10 |
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Dark City 2.5/5 Pretty cool but boring actors and plotholes bigger then texas. |
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