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Atlas

07-29-2009, 07:00 PM

We need this thread. A couple I have seen recently :

Terminator 4 - 6/10 Disappointing. Christian Bale was good in American Psycho, he doesn't ruin this film either, it's rather the film that ruins him.

The Hangover - 9/10 Thumbs up. Those four characters who wake up after a night of drunken stupor have obviously a hard time remembering what did they do. And then a movie is out of this. You HAVE to watch it, especially for the Mike Tyson part when he drums "in the air tonight", from Phil Collins and punch one man. Best US comedy in a while.

The taking of Pelham 123 - 7/10 Good, nothing extraordinary though. It reminded me a lot of Die Hard 3. I guess they were inspired by this film. Decent playing from John Travolta and Denzel Washington.

Äike

07-29-2009, 09:12 PM

Fight Club

Barreldriver

07-29-2009, 09:25 PM

Transformers II, not bad, but nothing like the G1 series from the 80's.

Absinthe

07-29-2009, 09:28 PM

The Hangover - 9/10 Thumbs up. Those four characters who wake up after a night of drunken stupor have obviously a hard time remembering what did they do. And then a movie is out of this. You HAVE to watch it, especially for the Mike Tyson part when he drums "in the air tonight", from Phil Collins and punch one man. Best US comedy in a while.

I caught that in Finland, and it was kind of hilarious watching a typical Hollywood comedy with both Finnish and Swedish subtitles :D

It was hilarious, very silly, as usual, but totally worth it :thumb001:

Birka

07-29-2009, 09:28 PM

The Watchman, just bought the dvd with the director's cut version. A few extra scenes. I really like this movie. Gotta love Rorschach.

Crose

07-29-2009, 09:47 PM

Snatch

Fight Club

Public Enemies

Mrs Ulf

07-30-2009, 01:32 AM

Watched Snatch again the other night. <3

Before that I went with my family to see the new Harry Potter.

Aemma

07-30-2009, 01:56 AM

Watched Snatch again the other night. <3

Before that I went with my family to see the new Harry Potter.

yes we just saw this one too on Sunday! It was alright. I haven't read the books (just can't get into them) but I've seen all of the movies. Not that they are brilliant stories anymore (well the novelty has worn off for me I suppose) but it's like anything, I want to see it to the end and on the big screen! :D

Mrs Ulf

07-30-2009, 02:12 AM

yes we just saw this one too on Sunday! It was alright. I haven't read the books (just can't get into them) but I've seen all of the movies. Not that they are brilliant stories anymore (well the novelty has worn off for me I suppose) but it's like anything, I want to see it to the end and on the big screen! :D

It was pretty good, probably one of the better movies. I started reading the books but I stopped at the beginning of the 5th one. They aren't really anything special, but I suppose we all just really want to SEE how it ends. I dragged Ulf to this movie, he was somewhat pleasantly surprised, mostly because it was darker and scarier than the others. At least we both really enjoyed Dumbledore kicking zombie ass. :thumb001:

Rainraven

07-30-2009, 03:02 AM

I Love You, Man.
Was hilarious! About a guy who has no male friends then over hears his fiancee talking with her girlfriends about how he's going to make a clingy husband. So he decides to put himself out there to find a man friend. Exceeded my expectations and definitely made me laugh :thumb001:

Sally

07-30-2009, 07:53 AM

Paris, Texas (1984).

I always find Wim Wenders' films to be overly long.

Luern

07-30-2009, 07:05 PM

It must have been Кукушка/Сuckoo.

Äike

07-31-2009, 11:50 AM

Dragonheart

Octothorpe

08-01-2009, 03:33 PM

Ice Age 3. I still have a little one in the house, so I don't go to many movies at the theatre (two or three a year). And most of those are 'child-friendly' films. Moreover, I've never really enjoyed being pent-up with strangers, watching something that I can't control (volume, clarity, lighting, et cetera). I'd rather watch a good DVD at home.

Sally

08-01-2009, 03:41 PM

Pope John Paul II (2007)

:rolleyes:

Piparskeggr

08-01-2009, 05:52 PM

As Octothorpe writes, I rarely go to the cinema, preferring to watch movies of interest at home.

Last several: "Taking Chance" with Kevin Bacon, "Ratatouille," "Madagascar," "Wall-E," "Over the Hedge," (my family loves animated movies, my mom has over 300 in her collection) and season 2 of "The Tudors."

Äike

08-01-2009, 09:24 PM

The Departed

The Lawspeaker

08-01-2009, 09:26 PM

Addio Africa (posted it somewhere). About the (let's just put it bluntly) the incredible level of barbarism of the African. Shot in 1964 at the height of decolonization and not polluted by left-wing political correctness. A very good film 8/10 (I am still feeling nauseated)

Loki

08-01-2009, 09:29 PM

I saw The Hangover last weekend. I previously mentioned somewhere on the forum how it failed to make me laugh. :( By contrast Bruno made me a laugh a lot, simply because it was so silly. I hate comedies that don't make me laugh. :rolleyes2:

I wanted to go to the cinema today, but there was nothing showing that triggered my interest.

Æmeric

08-01-2009, 09:46 PM

I saw G-Force (http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/gforce/) last night with the family. Even though the main characters were guinea pics (and a mole) it still managed to be multicultural as one of the guinea pigs was voiced by a Negro (and sounded like it) & another guinea pig was Latina.:rolleyes:

I also saw the promo for "The Princess & the Frog" (http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/princessandthefrog/)movie where the princess is a little colored girl, And the prince is named Naveen. It comes out in November.

Walt Disney will have a cow when they unfreeze him & he sees what has become of his company.

Lulletje Rozewater

08-02-2009, 08:02 AM

I was forced to look at "The River Queen" while visiting a friend of mine.
Lucky I had one eye covered.

Cato

08-02-2009, 01:32 PM

The Hunt for Red October.

The Lawspeaker

08-03-2009, 09:59 AM

1984

Manifest Destiny

08-03-2009, 10:07 AM

The Condemned - Cool movie and I can actually see this happening one day.

Watchmen - Love this movie and bought it on DVD the day it came out.

Harry Potter & The Sorcerer's Stone - I'd never seen any Harry Potter movies, so my wife talked me into watching it. Not bad, but no replacement for LOTR or even The Golden Compass.

Beorn

08-03-2009, 01:04 PM

The Cell (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209958/)

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00005LWKY.03.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

I hadn't seen the film since it first came out when Ceallach and me first started going out together.
I enjoyed watching it again. Jennifer Lopez is a good actress...not great, but good. And the films visuals are superb.

Ariets

08-03-2009, 02:18 PM

El Maquinista, I like it.

Groenewolf

08-03-2009, 04:47 PM

Shaun of the Dead.

Manifest Destiny

08-03-2009, 04:48 PM

Shaun of the Death.

Is that a sequel to Shaun Of The Dead? :confused:

Groenewolf

08-03-2009, 04:55 PM

Is that a sequel to Shaun Of The Dead? :confused:

Had the spelling wrong. :embarrassed

Frigga

08-03-2009, 05:00 PM

They Live

The Watchmen

:D

Luern

08-03-2009, 07:52 PM

The Reader, bad SF
Passchendaele, too sentimental
Valkyrie, simply... bad

WinterMoon

08-03-2009, 10:40 PM

101 Dalmations :thumb001:

Treffie

08-04-2009, 09:32 AM

The Other Boleyn Girl. It was well acted and enjoyable, but still can't get over the fact that they cast Eric Bana as Henry VIII:confused:

Compare

http://www.portcities.org.uk/london/upload/img_400/BHC2763.jpg

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2007/10/11/eric_bana_narrowweb__300x527,0.jpg

Freomæg

08-04-2009, 09:38 AM

Revenge Of The Sith - I've grown to love this film. The parallels with real-world politics are uncanny.

My Name Is Bruce - Extremely low-budget, but with all the Bruce Campbell charm you could want.

Public Enemies - Slightly disappointing. Depp's good, as always, but the film's not that memorable.

Bruno - Sue me. I found it hilarious.

Barreldriver

08-06-2009, 01:05 AM

Watchmen and the new Harry Potter. Watchmen was 1000000000% better in my opinion. Watchmen was a great film.

Frigga

08-06-2009, 11:30 PM

Roman Polsanki's 1971 direction of Macbeth. Probably one of the greatest Shakespeare tradegys, and one of the best versions of that play.

Plus, it's a Hugh Hefner production!! How can you go wrong with that, one of the only Playboy films appropiate for general audiences? :rolleyes: :D

Nodens

08-06-2009, 11:39 PM

Manifest Destiny

08-07-2009, 08:16 PM

Slumdog Millionaire - Surprisingly good and one of the few movies I've seen about non-whites that didn't try to promote "white guilt".

Manifest Destiny

08-07-2009, 08:19 PM

Cato

08-07-2009, 08:21 PM

The Great Conqueror's Concubine:

http://www.answers.com/topic/the-great-conqueror-s-concubine

I gave this 8/10 in the Imdb.

From Beyond:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Beyond_(film)

I gave this 7/10 on the Imdb.

Groenewolf

08-09-2009, 09:50 AM

Piparskeggr

08-09-2009, 12:12 PM

Watched "Season 2" of the Tudors, episodes 7 - 10 last evening.

As we don't get the cable channel upon which it is broadcast; the missus and I are looking forward to the "Season 3" DVDs.

Pip

The Lawspeaker

08-09-2009, 12:17 PM

The Day After (a film shot in 1983)- you can find it on Google Videos.

Frigga

08-15-2009, 02:00 PM

I "watched" Last of The Mohicans last night. I love the soundtrack, but since I'm housesitting for my mother, I didn't have a stereo, so putting the movie on was the next best thing. :) I needed a sound distraction while studying

Freomæg

08-15-2009, 02:22 PM

Bronson - Highly recommended!
Twilight - Better than expected.

Tabiti

08-15-2009, 08:18 PM

Twilight - Better than expected.
Really? I stopped it on the 20th minute or so...

Äike

08-16-2009, 07:57 AM

Remember the Titans

Atlas

08-23-2009, 10:47 PM

Twelve Monkeys - Yet, again, I just love that movie, Brad Pitt and Bruce Willis probably in one of their better role. Madeleine Stowe is good too. I love sci-fi film most of the time so when it's so good with such actors. :thumb001:

Cato

08-24-2009, 04:28 AM

The 1998 Godzilla remake with Matthew Broderick.

Skandi

08-24-2009, 05:27 AM

Stargate. Well half of it anyway.

Murphy

08-24-2009, 05:29 AM

Underworld and Underworld: Evolution and I suppose i'm going to watch Underworld: Rise of the Lycans on On Demand later today.

Regards,
Eóin.

Groenewolf

08-24-2009, 08:00 AM

Liffrea

08-24-2009, 01:49 PM

Gods and Generals, I'll probably watch Gettysburg sometime tonight, I quite like that they analyse all points of view surrounding the civil war.

Manifest Destiny

08-24-2009, 04:09 PM

Beorn

08-24-2009, 04:19 PM

I watched Heat (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113277/) last night and turned it off at the hour mark. What a terribly slow and boring film.

Manifest Destiny

08-24-2009, 04:23 PM

I watched Heat (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113277/) last night and turned it off at the hour mark. What a terribly slow and boring film.

The big bank robbery near the end was good. Other than that, kinda boring.

Michael Mann also directed Public Enemies, which was basically just Heat in the 1930s.

Óttar

08-24-2009, 05:38 PM

The Union: The Business of Marijuana.

Talks about how powerful interests are keeping pot illegal even though making it legal could be a huge source of government income and put dealers out of business. It also shows how hemp can be used to make all sorts of goods, and can also be a huge cash crop. Drug testing is basically used to target users of marijuana as harder drugs leave no trace in the system soon after ingestion. More than 50 million people in the US smoke marijuana. The film shows how pot is distributed accross borders, and how many people (all the players) that are needed in distribution operations.

Aemma

08-25-2009, 03:23 PM

Schindler's List.

Just for fun, I started at the very end of the DVD and watched the movie backwards using the rewind button. As far as I can tell, the movie is about German soldiers who find a whole bunch of dead Jews at a prison camp, bring them back to life, give them jobs at Oskar Schindler's factories and then send them to live in various European countries.

:pound: Absolutely brilliant!

I watched Knowing last night, a flick with Nicholas Cage. It was a cross between The Sixth Sense, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and some bad Japanese apocalyptic disaster movie. Funny I've always enjoyed the first 2 of these movies and well a good Godzilla movie is always fun for kicks dontcha know, but this particular cinematic potpourri was pretty pourri!

Sally

08-25-2009, 03:52 PM

The Brown Bunny (2003). Not a whole lot of dialogue in that one...:rolleyes:

Frigga

08-26-2009, 05:56 PM

I went and watched Julie and Julia last night with my brother in law's girlfriend. I found it to be a sweet movie. It made me want to go get Mastering The Art Of French Cooking, and start cooking! :D

I'm still chuckling about the line "Lobster Killer"! :pound: :D

Óttar

08-26-2009, 06:46 PM

Ben X. A Flemish film about a kid with Asperger's Syndrome who basically plays World of Warcraft and finds a g/f that is almost as batty as he is.

The film was awful. It was an insult to people with Asperger's. People with AS are not basket-cases lacking common sense. The film was preposterous and melodramatic. Bullies merely exist to beat this kid up all the time. He apparently can't talk for some strange reason. I can't blame him, if I had a mother like the one in that movie (Oh wait...:D) I'd be a basketcase too. At least my mother never spied on my emails.

The movie's description says "He takes revenge on his tormentors." Yeah, pretending to kill yourself...Some vengeance! :rolleyes:

Äike

08-26-2009, 07:08 PM

Charlie's Angels

Frigga

08-27-2009, 04:22 PM

Reflections In A Golden Eye

It has Marlon Brando and Elizabeth Taylor. It was directed by John Huston. Not to offend anyone who likes it, but I hated it. The film wash was golden, which was nauseating to look at, but it was horribly depressing and weird. An unfortunate waste of an evening to tell you the truth. But the Boyfriend had wanted to watch the Marlon Brando version of Mutiny On The Bounty, as we've watched the other two. There were no copies of the Marlon Brando version to be rented in any of our local video stores, and it wasn't for sale by itself, so we had (:rolleyes: ) to buy this boxed set of 5 Brando movies, and this was in there with it. *sigh* Tis crap. And, the 1935 version of Mutiny On The Bounty is still the best version in my mind.

Ariets

08-27-2009, 04:26 PM

Gran Torino by Clint Eastwood. A very good movie.

Liffrea

08-27-2009, 09:48 PM

Goodfellas, it's not a comedy but I still laugh my ass off at Joe Pesci.

Psychonaut

08-27-2009, 11:59 PM

I watched a wonderful film called The Last Winter. I expected it to be a snowy horror movie similar to John Carpenter's The Thing (which I also watched last night), but was pleasantly surprised to find that it was also and 'end of the world' movie that combined modern environmental ideas about climate change and the Old Norse imagery of Ragnarok. Although none of the Norse ideas were specifically mentioned, the imagery of ravens (often pairs) appearing just before or after horrific events, the idea of a "last winter" (finbulvinter), and the imagery of the wild hunt that was prevalent during all of the horrific sequences definitely stuck out to me. I give it two Heathen thumbs up.

http://www.thelastwinter.net/tlwpage.gif (http://www.thelastwinter.net/)

Jägerstaffel

08-28-2009, 12:24 AM

http://www.cinemacom.com/posters/blackrain.jpg

Tabiti

08-28-2009, 08:02 AM

http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2009/03/31/drag-me-to-hell-poster.jpg
Waste of time and money, but it had some moral behind the "horror" scenario.

Treffie

08-28-2009, 08:42 AM

Watched Outlander last night - I thought it was brilliant :thumb001:

http://www.shockya.com/news/wp-content/uploads/outlander_poster3.jpg

Cato

08-28-2009, 01:03 PM

Outlander was a bloody awesome movie.

Treffie

08-28-2009, 01:06 PM

I'm currently watching this on my portable DVD player on my lunch break

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51J5T5RPMGL._SL500.jpg

It's one of those films that I could watch over and over again :thumb001:

Äike

08-28-2009, 01:11 PM

Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam

The Lawspeaker

09-05-2009, 01:18 PM

I watched Oorlogswinter (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6n9Gl4Rvbk&feature=related) on Youtube. (A Dutch film after a children's novel by Jan Terlouw).

http://deoorlog.nps.nl/upload/1973_oorlogswinter.jpg
(book- published in 1973. One of my childhood favorites)

http://www.cinema.nl/images/rendered/4184925_articleimagewide-round.jpg
The film was a bit disappointing IMHO.

Beorn

09-05-2009, 01:32 PM

http://cinefantastiqueonline.com/wp-content/uploads/final-destination-4.jpg

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I watched it the other night and actually enjoyed it.

Atlas

09-05-2009, 01:35 PM

I have chosen Inglorious Basterds instead of that, Wat, I'll watch it soon anyway.

Frigga

09-05-2009, 02:05 PM

I watched Lonesome Dove, one of the best television miniseries ever made. It's based off the Larry McMurtry book of the same name, and it has Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Duvall, Angelica Huston, Diane Lane, along with other well known television actors. It is really a very good movie. :thumb001:

Cato

09-05-2009, 02:06 PM

Quarantine, which is apparently a Hollywood remake of a recent Spanish horror film called Rec.

WinterMoon

09-05-2009, 02:56 PM

The Gathering

Groenewolf

09-05-2009, 06:54 PM

[QUOTE=Lawspeaker;92899* (A Dutch film after a children's novel by Jan Terlouw).[/QUOTE]

Besides the period noting was in common with novel.

The Lawspeaker

09-05-2009, 06:57 PM

Besides the period noting was in common with novel.
Indeed. I was actually aghast. The only positive thing about the film was the actress playing Erica van Beusekom (Michiel's sister): Melody Klaver.

http://www.castingnieuws.nl/files/u_redactie2_21/Afbeelding_12_16.png

She is a really gifted actress and I am quite sure that we will hear more about her in the coming years after she matured a bit.
For the rest it was just a desperate attempt to portray a novel. Almost as bad as the "renowned" Dutch children's films that were shown in primary school during the 80's and 90's.

Jägerstaffel

09-05-2009, 11:28 PM

http://www.geocities.com/stimpysvideotrading/kkfos.jpg

Let me go ahead and NOT recommend this movie to someone unless you're a fan of crappy movies (like I am) and full of booze or some other intoxicating agent (like I was).

Treffie

09-06-2009, 05:32 AM

http://cinefantastiqueonline.com/wp-content/uploads/final-destination-4.jpg

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I watched it the other night and actually enjoyed it.

I sort of enjoyed it, some of the death scenes were original, like when one of the characters got stuck in the swimming pool pump :D

Liffrea

09-06-2009, 09:50 PM

Football Factory, laugh a minute this, which probably says more about me than the film.:eek:

RoyBatty

09-06-2009, 09:55 PM

Football Factory, laugh a minute this, which probably says more about me than the film.:eek:

Yeah, it's quite a clown show. Possibly not as bad as Green Street Hooligans though. :p :D

Fink my vote for fav hool film has to go to The Firm.

RoyBatty

09-06-2009, 09:57 PM

Last film seen: Im Juli

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0177858/

RoyBatty

09-06-2009, 10:06 PM

Let me go ahead and NOT recommend this movie to someone unless you're a fan of crappy movies (like I am) and full of booze or some other intoxicating agent (like I was).

If you haven't seen it before, I heartily recommend "Hell comes to Frogtown". B at it's best. :D

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5a/Hell_Comes_to_Frogtown.jpg

http://www.badmovies.org/movies/hellfrog/

Jägerstaffel

09-06-2009, 10:15 PM

If you haven't seen it before, I heartily recommend "Hell comes to Frogtown". B at it's best. :D

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5a/Hell_Comes_to_Frogtown.jpg

http://www.badmovies.org/movies/hellfrog/

I'll have to check it out.
I love awful movies - they're great for a laugh.

RoyBatty

09-06-2009, 10:32 PM

Rowdy Roddy Piper is usually good value for money and he doesn't disappoint in this one. Another must see film is "They Live".

http://thisdistractedglobe.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/They%20Live%20poster%201.jpg

http://thisdistractedglobe.com/2007/05/02/they-live-1988/

Jägerstaffel

09-06-2009, 10:34 PM

Treffie

09-06-2009, 10:46 PM

Watched Uncle Buck for about the 40th time today :thumb001:

http://www.theactorstv.com/core/medias/dynamicLibrary/MyOffice/mod_filmography/picture/filmography_120.jpg

RoyBatty

09-06-2009, 11:00 PM

Oh yeah!

That's the one where the glasses allow them to see the aliens, right? :)

What a classic.

Aliens to some, "god's (self-styled) chosen people" to me, lol!!! :D

Germanicus

09-06-2009, 11:05 PM

I have been a Trekkie since i was a boy when it first came on tv in black and white...i had to drag Mrs Germanicus to the cinema...... with bribes as well..:):)

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Jägerstaffel

09-06-2009, 11:06 PM

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e1/L%C3%A9on_poster.JPG

Cato

09-07-2009, 02:44 AM

I watched a Jean Reno movie recently, the action/comedy Wasabi, wherein the burly Frenchman plays a French cop who finds out that he's got a daughter in Japan.

Aemma

09-07-2009, 04:23 AM

I have chosen Inglorious Basterds instead of that, Wat, I'll watch it soon anyway.

Hubby and I just came back from watching Inglorious Basterds! Not only brilliant Tarantino but brilliantly acted as well! :thumb001:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e1/L%C3%A9on_poster.JPG

This was a great movie. Had caught it on tv, late night, a couple of years ago. I love Jean Reno. And the young Natalie Portman was incredible!

:thumb001:

Sally

09-07-2009, 09:01 AM

The Watchmen. It wasn't my choice, but I'm thrilled to have a functional DVD player. Wheee! :victory0:

Liffrea

09-07-2009, 04:29 PM

Originally Posted by Germanicus
I have been a Trekkie since i was a boy when it first came on tv in black and white

I’m a fan of the original series, Bones and Spock should have had a stand up show, Kirk was a hands on heroic type who would rather punch the Klingons in the mouth than talk to them, after that it all went a bit wishy washy for my tastes to much moralising, I didn’t want a sermon from Trek I wanted fights and space battles and green women with three breasts. Enterprise looked good, seemed to be a return to the old mould ST before the do gooders got in on the act and turned Picard into a social worker.

Is this new movie any good? Please tell me that this is ST as it used to be, pleassssseeeeee!!!!!!

Manifest Destiny

09-07-2009, 04:59 PM

Last House On The Left - 8/10 for revengey goodness.

Cato

09-07-2009, 10:58 PM

I watched the Friday the 13th remake. I gave it 6/10 on the IMDB for shitty acting, drug use, mandatory T&A, retarded young adult behavior, and Jason killing people in funny ways.

Tabiti

09-08-2009, 08:22 AM

LOL
http://www.everythingtarantino.com/pics/2009-02-ib1.jpg

Aemma

09-08-2009, 01:41 PM

I’m a fan of the original series, Bones and Spock should have had a stand up show, Kirk was a hands on heroic type who would rather punch the Klingons in the mouth than talk to them, after that it all went a bit wishy washy for my tastes to much moralising, I didn’t want a sermon from Trek I wanted fights and space battles and green women with three breasts. Enterprise looked good, seemed to be a return to the old mould ST before the do gooders got in on the act and turned Picard into a social worker.

Is this new movie any good? Please tell me that this is ST as it used to be, pleassssseeeeee!!!!!!

Blasphemer!! How dare you call our beloved Picard such a vile name! :p :D

Frigga

09-08-2009, 02:08 PM

Dresden, was it the original Last House on the Left, or the remake? I am a huge fan of original versions of movies like this, but the remakes invariably almost always piss me off! :rant:

Pino

09-08-2009, 02:20 PM

boy in the striped pyjamas.

Just about the only person in the room not screaming at the end.

Liffrea

09-08-2009, 04:42 PM

Originally Posted by Aemma
How dare you call our beloved Picard such a vile name!

I had entirely forgotten that Picard had the misfortune to be amphibian in nature.:D:p

RoyBatty

09-08-2009, 07:30 PM

The One That Got Away

http://images.buch.de/images-adb/3e/46/3e46f692-22e3-4390-85d2-6b155fccc511.jpg

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050803/

Manifest Destiny

09-08-2009, 08:02 PM

Dresden, was it the original Last House on the Left, or the remake? I am a huge fan of original versions of movies like this, but the remakes invariably almost always piss me off! :rant:

I guess it was the remake, since I didn't know there was more than one version of the movie.

RoyBatty

09-12-2009, 11:26 PM

La Residencia aka The house that screamed

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064888/

http://www.cultreviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/laresidencia.jpg

Damião de Góis

09-12-2009, 11:32 PM

Inglorious Bastards.

It was ok but i didn't get the end. Why did the german officer surrender? It made no sense.

Frigga

09-13-2009, 02:46 AM

I guess it was the remake, since I didn't know there was more than one version of the movie.

Yep! I'm thinking that it was Wes Craven that directed it. It was the director's first movie whoever he was, and it was done in the 70's. It was the same director for the original The Hills Have Eyes. Watch the original, it's really good! :thumb001:

The last movie I watched was Last Action Hero. I know that it's silly movie, but I just love Arnie! :D

Piparskeggr

09-13-2009, 02:52 AM

300

Jägerstaffel

09-13-2009, 06:18 AM

I started watching Warlock today.

And now I'm watching Sleepy Hollow.

Liffrea

09-13-2009, 12:34 PM

I downloaded and watched Star Trek, I don't know what to make of it, more like a comedy than anything else but it doesn't work, Shatner, Nimoy and Kelly will always be Kirk, Spock and McCoy it can never be any other way, it's like having Del Boy and Rodney without Jason and Lindhurst, it doesn't work.

Atlas

09-13-2009, 05:25 PM

I've watched Fido this weekend, you know the movie about "nice zombies"... It was okay, not dumb and sometimes pretty funny. 7/10.

Óttar

09-13-2009, 05:52 PM

Revolutionary Road. Turns out they weren't so revolutionary.

Äike

09-13-2009, 06:22 PM

Gladiator

Amarantine

09-14-2009, 07:14 AM

I am recommending:

Last night:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/dc/Gforceposter1.jpg

a months ago:

http://jeremyvos.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/iceage3_lg.jpg

And I am looking forward ro see Mr UP :P

Freomæg

09-14-2009, 08:10 AM

The Fall - Great film!

http://www.wildaboutmovies.com/images_6/TheFallPoster_000.jpg

RoyBatty

09-15-2009, 08:38 PM

Beorn

09-16-2009, 08:40 PM

http://i00.rnhh.de/eu/shared-images/blog/2009/04/faq-about-time-travel.jpg

Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel (http://fairyshare.com/watch-f99b3a1f56a37d0ae#)

9vZcMHhmolU

Beorn

09-16-2009, 10:30 PM

The Killing Room. (http://www.zshare.net/video/63401025cba0149b/) & Pt. 2 (http://www.zshare.net/video/6340101434dc48f7/)

http://images.blockbuster.com/is/bb/title/431841.jpeg

Fifty Dead men Walking (http://www.zshare.net/video/619295542db0c797/) & Pt. 2 (http://www.zshare.net/video/61929610bf965426/)

http://mamchenkov.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/fifty_dead_men_walking.jpg

EDIT: Brilliant film. If you have connections with the troubles and a weak spot for duty, honour and family then this film is for you. Makes you really wonder if ultimately the cause you fought for was worth it all.

Grey

09-16-2009, 10:45 PM

Went to see whiteout a few nights ago. Accidentally went into the wrong theater at first and I found myself in a packed room of nothing but blacks. Apparently, I was in the theater for Madea. Needless to say, I was out of there quickly.

Whiteout was interesting at first when she was getting chased around the abandoned Antarctic camp by the murderer, but the ending was severely disappointing.

Jägerstaffel

09-16-2009, 11:48 PM

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d4/Nothing_but_trouble_poster.jpg

Classic.

Frigga

09-17-2009, 12:05 AM

I went and saw Gamer last night with my brother in law's girlfriend and her sister. I really enjoyed it. Gerard Butler was gorgeous as usual (:naughty:) and it had an interesting plot that was obviously inspired by the Matrix, but I liked it a lot more than the Matrix. It was a little bit more plausible if you know what I mean. I recommend it! :thumb001:

Poltergeist

09-17-2009, 11:20 AM

Conan the librarian

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZHoHaAYHq8

Aemma

09-17-2009, 11:45 AM

Inglorious Bastards.

It was ok but i didn't get the end. Why did the german officer surrender? It made no sense.

Which one? The main one that got that special "tattoo" at the very end?

Aemma

09-17-2009, 11:50 AM

Crank 2: High Voltage

Parts of it are hysterically funny (ok, and pretty low-brow too). Basically a film version of Grand Theft Auto. :D

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1121931/

http://movieopinionist.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/crank2_2.jpg

Jason Statham! :amour101: :pinklove:

I loved that first Crank movie. Need to rent this one I guess since I missed it in the theatres.

Cato

09-17-2009, 01:24 PM

Conan the librarian

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZHoHaAYHq8

Don't yooo know da Doooy decimal system?

Aemma

09-17-2009, 02:11 PM

I just finished watching "50 Dead Men Walking"...Thank you so much Beornie. What an amazing movie. My niece's boyfriend is a Belfast boy, RC. This past summer, they travelled his home lands for a bit and he took my niece and my sister-in-law to that famous street in Belfast that looks like no man's land now (I forget the name now) with the towering 20 foot walls. The pictures are stark. My sister-in-law said that he had felt uneasy being there. I can't imagine the depth of feeling of people from either side when visiting this place.....

Rachel

09-17-2009, 02:23 PM

300

THIS IS APRICITY !!!! ( my new version of .. This IS Sparta !!!)

Liffrea

09-17-2009, 04:32 PM

300, how the hell that movie ever got past the PC censors still amazes me.:D

Jägerstaffel

09-20-2009, 04:20 AM

http://www.impawards.com/2006/posters/beerfest.jpg

Treffie

09-20-2009, 05:51 AM

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/56/The-island.jpg

Sally

09-20-2009, 06:00 AM

Rewatched an old favourite...

http://i36.tinypic.com/i5ui5c.jpg

Dubbed in Italian, with Finnish subtitles. :thumb001:

Treffie

09-24-2009, 09:54 AM

http://www.fiint.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/district9-poster.jpg

Tabiti

09-24-2009, 10:52 AM

"Death and The Maiden"
http://discsworldwide.com/death_and_the_maiden_1994.jpg

Cato

09-24-2009, 01:56 PM

The House on Haunted Hill, the 1959 version with Vincent Price.

Mrs. G

09-24-2009, 03:44 PM

Transformers II: Revenge of the Fallen and Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. I saw it on the night that it came out. Bad decision. Won't do that again.:D

Gooding

09-24-2009, 03:57 PM

Transformers II: Revenge of the Fallen and Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. I saw it on the night that it came out. Bad decision. Won't do that again.:D

THANK YOU!!!! The theatre was like a combo freak show/nursery..:eek:

Mrs. G

09-24-2009, 04:02 PM

you are most certainly welcome. Remind me next time not to do that.:D

Gooding

09-24-2009, 04:28 PM

you are most certainly welcome. Remind me next time not to do that.:D

Count on it, Fräulein.:P

Liffrea

09-24-2009, 04:53 PM

The Lion in Winter (the Patrick Stewart version):

It's Christmas of 1183, and Henry II (Patrick Stewart) must find a successor to his throne. He favours his youngest son John, while his wife, Eleanor, believes that their eldest son, Richard the Lionhearted, would make a better king. While their disagreement plunges the family into a deceitful war of wills, it becomes apparent that neither of their three conniving boys are qualified for the job. Director Andrei Konchalovsky remakes the 1968 classic in this sumptuous 2003 television production.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lion-Winter-DVD-John-Light/dp/B001THPPCG/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1253811144&sr=8-3

Turkophagos

09-24-2009, 04:54 PM

http://www.superiorpics.com/news/pic/loverboy_l200606131625.jpg

A very dark love story...

Atlas

09-24-2009, 04:56 PM

http://www.fiint.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/district9-poster.jpg

Without spoilers, was it good ? I want to watch it next week.

Sally

09-24-2009, 06:52 PM

I'm really liking Michael Haneke these days...

The Seventh Continent

http://i35.tinypic.com/732bn9.jpg

ikki

09-24-2009, 07:10 PM

Katyn... and the soviet insitance it had been carried out by the nazis... and was listed as such in the nuremberg trials, and is thus the basis for todays holocaust denial trials.
Claim it was done by the soviets... and you go to jail. Strictly by the book that is.

Hrafn

09-24-2009, 09:28 PM

I am waiting for The Road.
http://the-road--trailer.blogspot.com/

Beorn

09-26-2009, 11:26 PM

http://www.trespassmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/tn_bronson.jpg

Absolutely brilliant. I think Tom Hardy did a fine job in portraying Charles Bronson. He did make me laugh. I think he did the English legend a real service by providing such a good performance.

Pt. 1 (http://www.zshare.net/video/606878082aac8257/) Pt. 2 (http://www.zshare.net/video/60688010f419c3ae/)

Grumpy Cat

09-27-2009, 12:11 AM

I just got back from watching the new Trailer Park Boys movie... was funny as hell.

Amapola

09-27-2009, 01:03 AM

Casablanca for the first time :O

Artorius

09-27-2009, 02:07 AM

District 9.

Interesting story but not as good as it could have been IMO.

Treffie

09-27-2009, 09:38 AM

Without spoilers, was it good ? I want to watch it next week.

If you like documentary style films, you may like it. The film didn't have a huge budget so there are no big actors in it, but it was very well acted in my opinion. ;)

Laudanum

09-27-2009, 09:40 AM

The last movie I saw was The Texas Chainsaw Massacre II (the old one), I didn't like it as much as the first one, which was a masterpiece in my eyes.

Sally

09-27-2009, 05:14 PM

Better Off Dead; it's one of my favourites. Yay for John Cusack! :D

Nym6NUEz_0U

Liffrea

09-27-2009, 09:24 PM

Gladiator (extended edition) I rather like this despite it’s inaccuracies, and despite it’s borrowing from the 1964 The Fall of the Roman Empire.

Freomæg

09-28-2009, 10:42 AM

District 9. I thought it was great. Pretty original, funny, action-packed. The 'allegory' is interesting to examine. I don't think it had quite as much of an 'anti-racist' message as the makers would have liked.

Atlas

09-30-2009, 07:57 PM

The Informant, I almost fell asleep in the teather, boring and uninteresting, for such a subject, it's pretty ironic. 5/10 because Clancy Brown was in it.

Frigga

09-30-2009, 08:00 PM

Little Miss Sunshine. I love that movie :D

Brynhild

09-30-2009, 08:57 PM

The Crow. I bought it for $10 last week at a Hi-Fi store. Funny how, when I was watching it this time around, I saw a likeness between Brandon Lee and Heath Ledger with their make up. Even more ironic is how they're both dead.

http://www.crankycritic.com/archive/posters/crow.jpg

SuuT

09-30-2009, 09:31 PM

Hard Candy

Pretty decent mind fuck:

a-C2H4ipxz0

Cato

10-01-2009, 12:59 AM

28 Weeks Later, which was one of the uncommon sequels that was better than the original. :thumb001:

Murphy

10-01-2009, 01:26 AM

28 Weeks Later, which was one of the uncommon sequels that was better than the original. :thumb001:

You're crazy :p! 28 Days was so much better than Weeks!

http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/7743/3805098std.jpg

Regards,
Eóin.

Cato

10-01-2009, 04:35 AM

You're crazy :p! 28 Days was so much better than Weeks!

http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/7743/3805098std.jpg

Regards,
Eóin.

:grumpy:

Murphy

10-01-2009, 05:09 AM

:grumpy:

No many movies are willing to capture to inner nature of the negroe race, as 28 Days did :p.

Regards,
Eóin.

Cato

10-01-2009, 05:11 AM

Negro zombies don't count because the white ones acted just as bad in that movie. :eek:

Murphy

10-01-2009, 05:19 AM

Negro zombies don't count because the white ones acted just as bad in that movie. :eek:

I disagree. I believe the virus only effected Caucasoids. The negroes were just playing along so that they could feel included :)!

Regards,
Eóin.

Cato

10-01-2009, 05:21 AM

I disagree. I believe the virus only effected Caucasoids. The negroes were just playing along so that they could feel included :)!

Regards,
Eóin.

:eek::D:thumb001:

Black Turlogh

10-01-2009, 06:21 AM

Death at a Funeral

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xA5P0gRG2Ig/Ruk6rYxbJzI/AAAAAAAAKDQ/nswSgXHX9Pk/s400/death_at_a_funeral.jpg

Hilarious film.

Beorn

10-01-2009, 11:27 PM

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fd/Surrogates2009MP.jpg

http://www.miloyski.com/video/74e72e6eeac86d78b6bb2ca1f7e23ea8/Surrogates#

Sally

10-02-2009, 09:54 AM

A Man for All Seasons (I've seen it before), with Swedish subtitles.

http://i34.tinypic.com/4idmya.jpg

Svarog

10-02-2009, 10:00 AM

Ice Age 3 - I love that stuff!! :D

actually, I watched Ice Age, Ice Age 2 and the Ice Age 3 in the small marathon i threw, priceless :P

Cato

10-07-2009, 03:22 PM

Return of the Living Dead. Tarman rules all other zombies!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV1FKU9Oihw

Absinthe

10-07-2009, 03:25 PM

Baron Samedi

10-07-2009, 03:30 PM

The film is called "Kenny" (I think). It's about this Australian portable bathroom maintenance dude. Hilarious and touching. One of the better movies I've seen this year.

Edit: It's from 2006.... lol

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_%28film%29

Sally

10-07-2009, 08:08 PM

Mongol (2007).

http://i35.tinypic.com/99m987.jpg

Aemma

10-11-2009, 04:11 PM

Zombieland! LOL A "check-you-brain-at-the-door" movie of the first order! Hilarious and fun! This is the type of movie where the audience really makes it or breaks it. Luckily my friend and I were sitting in a theatre full of tweens and teens: it made for a fun movie atmosphere. Precisely what this movie was intended to be. :thumb001:

ikki

10-11-2009, 07:33 PM

Sally, didnt know that one actually found its way to finland :p
Well, now ive watched it too

Saikhan amraarai!

Frigga

10-11-2009, 07:54 PM

Clue, with Tim Curry, Michael MacKean, Christopher Lloyd, Madeline Kahn, and others. This is such a fun movie! I love it! :thumb001:

Sally

10-11-2009, 08:08 PM

Ben Hur (1959)

Back to your oar, 41! :D

http://i37.tinypic.com/256y1bs.jpg

Frigga

10-11-2009, 08:10 PM

I love the movie Ben Hur! :thumb001:

Sally

10-11-2009, 08:13 PM

I love the movie Ben Hur! :thumb001:

Yeah, it's a great film. I watched it with a bunch of nuns, and they were really into it! :thumb001:

Frigga

10-11-2009, 08:15 PM

I have the special edition version, four discs. In it, there is also the silent version. Wow, what a powerful piece of cinema! It's just as good as the 1959 one. :)

Germanicus

10-11-2009, 08:15 PM

Last night we watched in bluray. "Gran Torino" with Clint Eastwod.

Treffie

10-12-2009, 12:06 AM

Pandorum :thumb001:

http://www.redfenceproject.com/blog2/textpattern/images/173.jpg

Groenewolf

10-13-2009, 04:25 PM

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTQ2MTQwMTM4N15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNzA4ODUxMQ@@._ V1._SX226_SY400_.jpg

I have not read the book :( . However I think this movie was nicely done. But one thing strongly came in to my mind while watching it. It was in essence a society filled with Nietzsche's last men.

Frigga

10-13-2009, 04:56 PM

We watched Snatch last night. That's a fun movie! :D Although, I have to put on the captioning as the Irish gypsies are indechiperable to my ears! :o

Grey

10-13-2009, 05:11 PM

Cato

10-13-2009, 05:21 PM

While I liked it, I wasn't all that impressed by Zombieland. I prefer the old Romero-styled movies.

Sally

10-13-2009, 05:31 PM

Return of the Living Dead Part II (1988). I preferred part one; it was much funnier and had an amazing soundtrack.

I have a special affinity for zombies. ;)

Cato

10-13-2009, 05:34 PM

Return of the Living Dead Part II (1988). I preferred part one; it was much funnier and had an amazing soundtrack.

I have a special affinity for zombies. ;)

Tarman owned Return of the Living Dead.

Sally

10-13-2009, 05:39 PM

Tarman owned Return of the Living Dead.

Tarman is kind of cute, but scares me nevertheless. :eek:

Cato

10-13-2009, 05:40 PM

Tarman is hilarious.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV1FKU9Oihw

Beorn

10-13-2009, 11:10 PM

http://www.impawards.com/2009/posters/zombieland.jpg

Part One (http://fairyshare.com/watch-5aed1e50fbecf006e#) and Part Two (http://fairyshare.com/watch-62c5a449a45c7cee9#)

Not very good. Billy Murray moments saved the film. Only saving grace was the beauty of Wichita.

4/10

RoyBatty

10-13-2009, 11:29 PM

Antichrist (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0870984/) by Lars von Trier.

http://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/images/anticrist.jpg

Interesting movie. Verifies that von Trier is sick as ****. It was probably one of his best, I mean, if you like that sort of raw, in-your-face, sickness.

I've kind of given him a wide berth ever since I watched "Element of Crime".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Element_of_Crime

Usually I'm not too phased by films but something about this one made me uneasy. This sounds gay but I actually found it disturbing and don't see the point of going through this again.

Much better to kick back and relax to a comparatively normal Takashi Miike offering like Audition or Ichi the Killer! :D :thumb001:

Frigga

10-14-2009, 12:12 AM

How about Gozu, or Tetsuo? :D

RoyBatty

10-14-2009, 05:19 AM

How about Gozu, or Tetsuo? :D

I may have seen Gozu but am not 100% sure atm. Couple of months ago I started watching Tetsuo but didn't finish it. It just didn't appeal to me, same as with David Lynch's Eraser.

Takashi Miike and Beat Takeshi do the kind of movies I like though :)

Cato

10-14-2009, 02:24 PM

I plan on watching Ringu today.

Beorn

10-14-2009, 10:14 PM

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3041/3606969335_43f036e0a2.jpg

http://vidreel.com/video/NTc3MDEx/

Listen up Yanks. This is how you make a comedy Zombie film. 10 out of fucking 10!

Cato

10-15-2009, 01:06 AM

Listen up Yanks. This is how you make a comedy Zombie film. 10 out of fucking 10!
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IMO, zombie movies aren't intended to be comedy-themed. :(

Beorn

10-15-2009, 01:09 AM

Serious(?) Zombie movies have been done to death. I prefer watching scary comedy Zombie films now.

Cato

10-15-2009, 01:49 AM

Serious(?) Zombie movies have been done to death. I prefer watching scary comedy Zombie films now.

I've been spoiled on a diet of Romero and Savini I guess. :)

Amapola

10-18-2009, 04:19 PM

Orphan!

Piparskeggr

10-18-2009, 04:22 PM

A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum

Bard

10-18-2009, 04:24 PM

Last movie I watched was "diary of the dead" it's not that good but I love zombies so much that I couldn't avoid watching it.

RoyBatty

10-18-2009, 10:11 PM

Brat (Brother)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brother_(1997_film)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00006LPEK.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Tabiti

10-18-2009, 10:12 PM

http://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/images/anticrist.jpg

Frigga

10-18-2009, 10:48 PM

Foul Play with Goldie Hawn and Chevy Chase, along with Dudley Moore. The opening sequence with Goldie Hawn driving along Highway One is the California coast at it's most beautiful! :) There is also the funniest scene with Dudley Moore and Goldie Hawn that I have laughed my ass off over ever since I was a kid! :D Unfortunately there's not the original audio from the movie in this clip, but you'll get the idea! ;)

WJbXJC-GX5E

The Lawspeaker

10-18-2009, 10:48 PM

Christiane F- Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo

Lysander

10-18-2009, 10:55 PM

I was bored yesterday so I decided to re-watch an old classic which I have probably seen 20+ times by now.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/55/Braveheart_imp.jpg
There's a Scotsman in everyone of us :D.

Psychonaut

10-19-2009, 02:05 AM

I watched the Grindhouse double feature last night. Death Proof was awesome!

http://ferdyonfilms.com/Grindhouse%20poster.jpg

Frigga

10-19-2009, 02:23 AM

Hell yeah Death Proof is awesome! :D And Zoe Bell kicks serious ass as well! :thumb001:

Óttar

10-19-2009, 07:39 AM

http://martiniquemusic.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/slumdog_millionaire.jpg

Groenewolf

10-19-2009, 05:45 PM

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTM4NzQ0OTYyOF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMDkyNjQyMg@@._ V1._SX270_SY400_.jpg

RoyBatty

10-19-2009, 07:20 PM

Christiane F- Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo

Possibly Uli Edel's best work. Excellent German early 80's film.

http://www.drugs-plaza.com/movies/pictures/christiane_f.jpg

Atlas

10-19-2009, 07:57 PM

http://www.cinemotions.net/data/films/0142/58/1/affiche_Twister_1996_1.jpg

lei.talk

10-21-2009, 01:38 PM

https://i.imgur.com/q6ArrJ6.jpg (https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7ckzf)

Cato

10-21-2009, 01:54 PM

http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s117/gfanikf/36th_CHAMBER_OF_SHAOLIN-12.jpg

SwordoftheVistula

10-22-2009, 06:31 AM

http://alntv.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/zombieland-poster.jpg

Turkophagos

10-22-2009, 10:06 AM

Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis

http://aproposblog.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/bienvenue_chez_les_ch_tis.jpg

Med French VS Germanic ones, with all the negative stereotypes meds have for northeners. Loyalist should watch this. :D

SuuT

10-22-2009, 11:15 AM

Where the Wild Things Are. (http://wherethewildthingsare.warnerbros.com/#/Splash):thumb001::thumb001::thumb001:

This was every one of my children's favourite book.

Just awesome. :)

Laudanum

10-22-2009, 10:32 PM

http://1416andcounting.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/good-bye-lenin-plakat.jpg

Had to watch this one for school.

lei.talk

10-25-2009, 01:46 PM

when i was barely two years old,
my maternal grand-father took me to the local theatorium
to watch his favorite movie-star
(forty-eight year-old gary cooper (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Cooper))
romancing a twenty-three year-old patricia neal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Neal)
(just as he had been doing, in real life, for the past two years).

my grand-father walked the many miles along the creek
and down the dirt-road (which the county oiled every few years)
that led in to town
with me perched on his shoulders -
setting me on my feet
at the first human voice in the distance
with "Remember who you are. Set a good example."

it was only three blocks to the center of town
and a large glass (!) door
that opened in to a room larger than our barn!

this room was unnaturally cool
and was filled with the wonder-full aroma
of buttery popped-corn and calliopean music
and flashing colour-full lights.

my grand-father care-fully wrapped my two hands
around an ice-cold bottle of "cocola"
and opened the doors to a room
that was larger than a corn-field,
as tall as the sky and filled with more chairs
than there were people in the world.

like a magician,
my grand-father produced a mess of goobers
(a paper-bag of peanuts boiled in the shell) from home
which he proceeded to shell
and pop in to our bottle of "cocola".

we nibbled the hot-buttered popped-corn
and sipped the "cocola" and chewed peanuts
in the twilight as the chairs filled with more people
than i ever thought existed.

just as the caffeine and sugar penetrated the buffering dietary-fiber,
the huge room contracted in to absolute darkness
and exploded with sound and light:

Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead

http://youtu.be/swOxKu80JpU
https://i.imgur.com/lhzyRld.jpg (http://www.youtube.com/user/ksin2007#grid/user/2A71E708224E9B1C)
click-on images (above) to watch the film
intentional or not,
by exposing me to these giants
moving through fantastic spaces (http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3068/2315644397_b42a24b42a.jpg)
while making grand gestures and speechifying (http://www.theapricity.com/forum/showthread.php?p=65435#post65435) -

http://media.wiley.com/lit_note_images/111/1.jpg (http://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/f/the-fountainhead/character-map)

my grand-father was shaping my life
(just as he had by his choice of reading material (http://forums.skadi.net/showthread.php?p=849035#post849035))
and giving it direction.

those archetypes became role-models
and standards by which others were to be measured.

discovering that ayn rand (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand)'s the fountainhead (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fountainhead) was a book
in a tiny military-base library over-seas,
brought back all of the dazzling excitement
of that film-experience with my grand-father.

when i was gifted a dvd copy of the film (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&rlz=1T4GZAZ_enUS281US281&q=the+fountainhead+dvd&aq=f&oq=&aqi=)
during my birth-day celebration, yesterday,
suddenly - i was back in that theatre
with my grand-father. http://www.theapricity.com/forum/images/icons/icon14.gifhttp://www.theapricity.com/forum/images/icons/icon14.gifhttp://www.theapricity.com/forum/images/icons/icon14.gifhttp://www.theapricity.com/forum/images/icons/icon14.gifhttp://www.theapricity.com/forum/images/icons/icon14.gif
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Cato

10-25-2009, 02:06 PM

http://blackpirate.ucoz.com/movies/Adventure/bloodthelastvampireposter.jpg

Lars

10-25-2009, 02:42 PM

http://hopeliesat24framespersecond.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/moon-poster.jpg
Splendid movie which does a great portrayal of loneliness and longing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twuScTcDP_Q

Germanicus

10-25-2009, 07:12 PM

We watched this film last night.

http://i339.photobucket.com/albums/n449/ruffusruffcut/the-uninvited_970x390.jpg
http://i339.photobucket.com/albums/n449/ruffusruffcut/uninvited1.jpg

Tabiti

10-25-2009, 10:50 PM

http://i40.tinypic.com/4lk46g.jpg
City of Life and Death (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1124052/)

jerney

10-26-2009, 01:08 AM

this

http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2009/05/08/district-9-poster.jpg

then this

http://www.reutil.com.ar/z/images/El-orfanato-b.jpg

ikki

10-26-2009, 01:21 AM

that district 9, not stretching ones credibility a bit too far..? As in aliens show up in a craft capable of breaking the einteinian barrier.... and their skills are though to be of neglible use, so they are tossed in a ghetto...

i mean, just selling a nonworking theoretical model that is kindalike in the right direction should allow for wealth enough to purchase a continent. Toss in some nano-bioreworkers that burn fat and enlarge penises and they are set for life :D

Beorn

10-26-2009, 01:35 AM

that district 9, not stretching ones credibility a bit too far..? As in aliens show up in a craft capable of breaking the einteinian barrier.... and their skills are though to be of neglible use, so they are tossed in a ghetto...

If a plane load of Europeans were to crash land into a remote part of the Amazon and encounter the natives, would we be of much use to them? Even the pilot would be odds on for not faring any better.

Anyway, I watched this tonight.

http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2009/07/14/invention-of-lying-quad.jpg

http://www.zshare.net/video/67489718191267a8/

Very good film. Not as hilarious as it has been advertised, but still worth the watch.

Atlas

10-28-2009, 06:25 PM

The Surrogates - 6/10 Potential was there, but it seemed rushed. Went to see it only because Bruce Willis was in it.

SuuT

10-28-2009, 06:39 PM

Not really a movie, but I recently got a subscription to Netflix (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflix) and started watching the Dexter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dexter_(TV_series)) show. The writer, James Manos, is my neighbor. He's a jackass, but he writes good television.

Good stuff:

http://mackenziekeller.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/dexter.jpg

Beorn

10-29-2009, 01:20 AM

http://www.shockya.com/news/wp-content/uploads/paranormal_activity_movie_poster.jpg

This film is shit. Avoid watching it as if this very film could give you AIDS, Syphilis and the German Measles in one sitting.

Kadu

10-29-2009, 01:50 AM

The last film i saw was back in summer...

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o21/Kadu_album/fiveminutesofh3.jpg
The story of former UVF member Alistair Little. Twenty-five years after Little killed Joe Griffen's brother, the media arrange an auspicious meeting between the two.

Source:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1238291/

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Atlas

10-29-2009, 10:35 PM

I am watching Final Destination again, which is on telly tonight. The first one with the plane accident.

Amapola

10-30-2009, 05:13 PM

AMADEUS

Absinthe

10-30-2009, 06:13 PM

Tonight we are going to watch Valkyrie :) I hope so! I'll let you know afterwards... :)

Manifest Destiny

10-30-2009, 07:52 PM

Zombieland - I've seen it twice in the theaters. This movie is full of all sorts of win and is my new favorite.

Absinthe

10-31-2009, 01:34 AM

Tonight we are going to watch Valkyrie :) I hope so! I'll let you know afterwards... :)
Okay.. after Suut's suggestion I decided not to watch Valkyrie afterall... so since my boyfriend fell asleep I thought I'd watch something of quality (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1093908/) instead :D

It was horrible, actually. Why did I watch it? It was this scene (http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-sg&vid=a9f7d05e-5feb-413a-b519-6b860a39f74b) that lured me into it. :D

Cato

10-31-2009, 02:39 PM

The original, Romero-directed Dawn of the Dead.

Smaland

10-31-2009, 04:51 PM

Have had a few thoughts of going to see Amelia, but Wikipedia says that most of the reviews have been negative.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6a/Ameliaposter09.jpg/200px-Ameliaposter09.jpg

There is a 1943 movie named Flight for Freedom, which tells a fictionalized story of Earhart's career as an aviator and her disappearance. I haven't seen it in a long time, but I think this film suggests that Earhart was on a mission to spy on the Japanese for the US Government.

Jägerstaffel

11-07-2009, 01:19 AM

http://www.traileraddict.com/content/ifc-films/i_sell_the_dead.jpg

Lulletje Rozewater

11-08-2009, 05:41 AM

Last night I looked at Apt Pupil , only the last 3 minutes.
What is this flick all about.?????

Liffrea

11-09-2009, 02:27 PM

Dark Knight

Very impressed by this, a bit dubious at first because Michael Keaton will always be Bat Man for me (or rather Bruce Wayne) and Jack Nicholson is just excellent as the Joker but I thought this was something else. Heath Ledger played the Joker well, better for being dark rather than comic as Nicholson was.

Personally the winner for me was the psychological take on Bat Man, by any estimation not quite…normal, and only one step away from being the people he loathes. In Harvey Two Face you see what Bat Man very nearly is……

Of course the best thing is that the Joker wins, I love films where the bad guys win, so much more true to life…..