Nicker on 28/1/2009 at 06:42
What Morte didn't tell you is that the butler did it in the pantry with the ice-pick.
Morte on 28/1/2009 at 07:39
It's a character study, and that's the crisis that forces him to re-evaluate things, not a third act suckerpunch in a sports movie. I've seen it mentioned in most reviews so I assumed that part was common knowledge, but I'll edit it out for the sake of the people who think they're about to see Rocky IV.
Scots Taffer on 28/1/2009 at 09:48
Rocky IV was a whole lot of movie.
henke on 2/2/2009 at 17:53
I saw it a few days ago. It was good. :cool:
Also, I gotta give thumbs ups to In Bruges and King of Kong.
suliman on 3/2/2009 at 21:39
Slumdog Millionaire- the most formulaic movie I've ever seen. Well, except for that dancing bit:p
King of Kong is indeed awesome.
henke on 6/2/2009 at 22:13
Just saw Taken.
The first half hour or so of character building is pretty cringeworthy. The girls are couch-jumping girlie-girlys, the ex-wife is bitchy and the men and high-fiving, keg-tapping, BBQ-ing macho-men. But then Liam Neeson's daughter gets kidnapped and all of that don't matter any more. The actionscenes are almost on the same level as John Woo's earlier days. The scene where Neeson finally catches up with the kidnapper in a Paris house of sins is right up there with that scene in A Better Tomorrow where Chow Yun-Fat's Mark Gor walks into the restaurant to get revenge.
Yeah, good movie. Defenitely recomended for action-buffs.
Morte on 12/2/2009 at 20:26
Quote Posted by "henke"
Just saw Taken.
The first half hour or so of character building is pretty cringeworthy. The girls are couch-jumping girlie-girlys, the ex-wife is bitchy and the men and high-fiving, keg-tapping, BBQ-ing macho-men. But then Liam Neeson's daughter gets kidnapped and all of that don't matter any more. The actionscenes are almost on the same level as John Woo's earlier days. The scene where Neeson finally catches up with the kidnapper in a Paris house of sins is right up there with that scene in A Better Tomorrow where Chow Yun-Fat's Mark Gor walks into the restaurant to get revenge.
Yeah, good movie. Defenitely recomended for action-buffs.
Whoa, whoa, let's not get too carried away. It's a perfectly ok old-fashioned b-movie with the prerequisite racist undertones, but it's nothing special, and Morel isn't on the level of Woo when he was at the top of his game.
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Gomorra on that list. Very strong film about the Camorra, the Sicilian version of the mafia.
I just came back from seeing this, and it is indeed very good. It did a good job adapting Saviano's oftentimes rambling and sprawling book into something manageable, though I did sometimes miss not seeing the bigger picture. They just throw you into the lives of these mostly-ordinary people tied into the Camorra and expect you to keep up.
Also, the Cammorra is the Neapolitan mafia, not the Sicilian. ;)
Thirith on 13/2/2009 at 09:06
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Also, the Cammorra is the Neapolitan mafia, not the Sicilian. ;)
Neapolitan, Sicilian... They're all Goombahs, aren't they?
<knock on the door>
What's that? There's two burly guys in training suits at the door wanting to talk to me?
Morte on 24/2/2009 at 19:56
Quote Posted by pdenton
For the love of the movie Gods, please, do yourself a favor, and find a theater playing Let the Right One In. If it's 30 miles away, it's worth the drive. It is probably THE definitive vampire story of our time. It's both beautiful but haunting, heartfelt then destructive.
You must see this movie. Easily one of the best of the year in my book.
Yes.
Someone finally decided to bring a reel to town, and this is simply fantastic. Joins Wall-E and The Wrestler for fighting about top slot of the year.
And man, that pool scene at the end was just something else.
D'Juhn Keep on 31/5/2009 at 09:44
Quote Posted by Scots Taffer
A Clockwork-Orange-like Audiovisual TortureForgetting Sarah MarshallOne of the most painfully unfunny films I've ever seen and dicks aren't funny, guys, seriously.
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I find the above borderline offensive in how staggeringly wrong it is.
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Forgetting Sarah Marshall - I resisted this movie for the longest time due to the declining quality of the Apatow factory's output (Superbad, anyone?), in the end it proved to be a borderline perfect comedy in that it created an inviting stage of likable characters that linger with warmth well beyond the closing credits. It also has dongs, get over it.
I saw this yesterday and have to chime in to agree with Stitch. This was absolutely fantastic throughout the whole film and has left me really wanting to see Dracula: The Muppet Musical. Jason Segel was awesome, as were the whole supporting cast, really. Especially the newly wed christians. 4 pineapples out of 4.
