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The Sand Pebbles
Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Candice Bergen, Richard Crenna

Pretty good, if overlong, drama set in China during the 1920s. Based around the travels and travails of the U.S. gunboat San Pablo (its crew being Sand Pebbles - get it?) upriver from Shanghai.
 
Finally I found Top Secret on DVD and watched that last night.Still a pisser 20 years later

Nick Rivers: Listen to me Hillary. I'm not the first guy who fell in love with a woman that he met at a restaurant who turned out to be the daughter of a kidnapped scientist only to lose her to her childhood lover who she last saw on a deserted island who then turned out fifteen years later to be the leader of the French underground.
Hillary Flammond: I know. It all sounds like some bad movie.

:D

Another movie I watched the other day was Blades of Glory.Very funny.If you're a Will Ferrell fan you should see it or get it on DVD when it's released in mid-October.
 

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À la folie... pas du tout (He loves me... he loves me not), 7/10.
Ripper French 'romance' shot in two halves, starring Audrey Tautou and Samuel Le Bihan. DON'T read the reviews, just sit back and let the action unfold. I'm loathe to say more.

Great Valentine's day flick, for any hapless romantics out there.

L is for the way you look at me
O is for the only one I see
V is very very extraordinary
E is even more than anyone that you adore can...
 
Catdog said:
Quentin Tarantino's the Hostel wild movie loved it

Sick Twisted Disgusting and absolutey Brilliant
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Kill Bill 1&2 is better..

But I agree, Hostel was sick, twisted disgusting.. and kinda okay. Not brilliant.

Btw... I dont think it was a Tarantino movie. He just "presented it".. whatever the hell that means. One thing i know he DIDN'T do what counts and that is direct it.
 
Shell said:
Kill Bill 1&2 is better..

But I agree, Hostel was sick, twisted disgusting.. and kinda okay. Not brilliant.

Btw... I dont think it was a Tarantino movie. He just "presented it".. whatever the hell that means. One thing i know he DIDN'T do what counts and that is direct it.
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Spot on Shell totally agree with your thoughts :thumbsu:
 
Apocalypto: 7.5/10

I have to admit, I was pleasently surprised by this movie. Neither as gruesomley violent or (far more importantly) as mind-numbingly boring as The Passion, Apocalypto is the story of a Mayan hunter who must fight to save his family against all the odds. In the process, Gibson attempts to make a grand comment on the way in which civilizations tear themselves apart before being done by the outsiders.

And - ignoring for the moment the vast historical/anthropological controversy that the film stirred - he does it pretty well. Mayan civilization (as opposed to, say, the Japanese of the same period) is hardly well known in the West and it's pretty bloody interesting. Having said that, there is a certain disconnect between the idea of the civilization tearing itself apart as the Mayan civilization Gibson presents isn't that impressive to begin with. But, no matter. This movie really should be enjoyed for chase scenes and visual treats.

And you get plenty of them, the best being the jumps into a waterfall and a panther eating a blokes face. However, it's all kind of from a detatched perspective as I never really felt myself being sucked in by the film - largely because (and I shit you not on this) at one of the climatic moments of the film, the Little Fat Kid from Hey Dad makes an appearance. I instantly expected Martin/Molloy to emerge from the throngs of extras and beginning mercilessley taking the piss (I got human sacrifice instead, which wasn't too bad). Being the dirty Arts student I am, I also felt that Gibson handled the whole idea of 'this is my jungle!' with the subtelty of a brick to the face, when Kokoda showed how the jungle can become such a powerful element of a 'survival' film.

So all in all not a bad movie, certainly worth some of the visual effects and chase scenes - however, never really bought the premise and was switched off by Little Fat Kid and some continuity errors (sucking stomach wounds are bad, mmmkay?). Not something I'd actively seek out but if you're bored on a Friday night and the torrent is ticking over, go for it.
 
The LFK. Someone else is showing their age...

I'm holding you responsible for the splattered weet-bix on my keyboard.

scottyD said:
what a great thread ....
Too bad it isnt as big as others
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Too bad it was started by a Collingwood supporter. But nice going!

Haven't watched many movies for a while now, though I purchased a few yesterday. I'm hoping to snare the Prestige, to add to my growing Chris Nolan collection.
 
Yeah so this totally needs to be resurrected from the dead:

Tsotsi: 9.5/10

Seriously, one of the ****ing greatest films I have ever seen. Insanely intense from the start, it's a pretty brutal and revealing look at life inside the slums of South Africa, and the almost absurd divide between rich and poor that exists there. There aren't too many laughs and a hell of a lot of bloodshed, but you'll come away from our 80 minutes a lot richer for the experience.

Tsotsi, (Tsotsitaal for 'thug') is a teenager who makes his living in the Soweto slum of Johannesburg by, well, being a thug. In the first ten minutes of the movie we get to see him and his mates stick up and knife an old man on the train, and it's all downhill from there. He ends up crippling a wealthy woman and stealing her car, only to discover there's a baby in the back. Rather than simply abandon the baby, he kidnapps it and takes it back into the slum.

Although the film only covers a period of about 4 days, it seems like an eternity. Tsotsi's whole identity as the 'little gangster', mister tough, disolves with the emergence of the baby. He grows up real fast, the violence and maturity in him constantly fighting for control, and it's electric stuff. The flashback scenes are almost absurdly poweful, if only because they're so believable. In the hands of most directors it would turn to corny shit, but Gavin Wood does it beautifully and the oscar Tsotsi won for Best Foreign Language Film was entirely deserved.

It's a bloody deep film that will keep you going for a long time, and definitely worth it if you've got the emotional fortitude for it. Seriously, it's ****ing awesome. That's about all I can say about it.

PS: Don't be put off by the shitty movie poster. That has absolutely nothing to do with the film.
 

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Catdog said:
Quentin Tarantino's the Hostel wild movie loved it

Sick Twisted Disgusting and absolutey Brilliant
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Watched that last night. Most gruesome movie I've ever seen, especially that scene with the Asian girl's eye. Still feel sick just thinking about it.

Loved Saw and Saw II though. Awesome movies. Have to get Saw III out on DVD now, and head off to the cinemas for number IV. :)
 
Watched Scarface again. As brilliant as always 10/10
Also Road Trip, one of favourite teen movies! 9/10

Last one, Transamerica. My girlfriend made me watch this, (on the promise that she comes to a one dayer) it wasn't bad, 5/10.
 
Budda 230 said:
I was dragged along to see Hairspray, expecting 2 very boring hours. But I came out almost in tears!!! Good movie!
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Ghey.

eliiiiza said:
! I LOVE Hairspray!

Last movie I saw was Superbad... If you haven't seen it, see it NOW.
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Dude you liked superbad :thumbsdown::thumbsdown::thumbsdown: i thought it was shit, mabey im just getting to old for that kinda stuff.
 
Shell said:
The review I read bagged the hell out of it.

I long for the days when movies like "Silence of the Lambs" and "Seven" were around..

When was the last GOOD serial killer flick. And if you say SAW I'll ****ing rip ya head off. That was pathetic. :thumbsdown::thumbsdown:
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Oh **** off shell Saw movies are awesome im going to see the new one relly soon, your just pissed off no one knocks you out and puts you in a room with some tests and games anrt you.
 
bigdroppunt said:
Dude you liked superbad :thumbsdown::thumbsdown::thumbsdown: i thought it was shit, mabey im just getting to old for that kinda stuff.
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Meh it gave me some laughs... I was dragged to see it though.

Just like how I dragged my boyfriend to see The Nanny Diaries. After the move, he said to me "Is it gay if I said I enjoyed that?"

But Scarlett Johanssen's in it, so you might enjoy it too, BDP!
 

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