Yeah. As a shit director. The only difference is that his current reputation is that he's a shit director who's mates with Tarantino. We agree?
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Yeah I don't think he has much of a reputation.
Maybe in Sweden he's seen as the new Ingmar Bergman? Would explain Nilsson's shit taste in films.
Well, for exploitation film fans "shit" usually means "good".
I really liked it but you can probably enjoy it as much at home as in the cinema.
Tony Jaa's a great fighter, but his opponents are too dross to even make it interesting. This is my qualms with his movies, he's another Rambo.
Most memorables fights on cinema are mostly 1 v 1, a one vs. 100 is simply a kick and punch showcase.
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I thought this horror film started off really well, some funny dialogue, slow burn kind of pacing, nice camera angles etc but as the movie went on, it just didnt go anywhere and in the end you feel like all it did is set the scene with no real payoff 5/10
I thought this horror film started off really well, some funny dialogue, slow burn kind of pacing, nice camera angles etc but as the movie went on, it just didnt go anywhere and in the end you feel like all it did is set the scene with no real payoff 5/10
Unbreakable - One of, if not the very best comic book film of all time in my humble opinion... as well as just a fantastic film in general. A supremely patient, well told and acted story, that is shot superbly and makes me a bit sad for why Shyamalan became.
Cheers, think I will end up going to see it tonight
Cheers, think I will end up going to see it tonight
Tom Hardy in a Car (Locke) - I quite enjoyed Tom Hardy in a car for what it was... (largely, Tom Hardy in a car) though the whole thing wouldn't work half as well if he didn't have this Welsh Accent.
Robocop (2014)
As the original is one of my favourite films, I was really hesitant to watch this and yes, if you compare it to the original, it fails on every account bar the effects. However, as it's own film, its a decent enough action flick. The story is ok, the effects are good, the acting for the most part is decent (Michael Keaton is brilliant) and overall, its more enjoyable than many other action films I have seen over the last couple of years.
Having said that, there are some downsides. The guy that plays Robocop was absolute dross. His acting was awful and his movement was inconsistent. One minute he moves rigid as a robot would do, the next minute he is moving in freeflow. The pacing was off, it took too long to setup and then once some depth was added to the story, it just rushed through to the end. Robocop trying to get his emotions and humanity back was also rushed and not explained very well.
Still, it was much better than I ever hoped for 6.5/10
As the original is one of my favourite films, I was really hesitant to watch this and yes, if you compare it to the original, it fails on every account bar the effects. However, as it's own film, its a decent enough action flick. The story is ok, the effects are good, the acting for the most part is decent (Michael Keaton is brilliant) and overall, its more enjoyable than many other action films I have seen over the last couple of years.
Having said that, there are some downsides. The guy that plays Robocop was absolute dross. His acting was awful and his movement was inconsistent. One minute he moves rigid as a robot would do, the next minute he is moving in freeflow. The pacing was off, it took too long to setup and then once some depth was added to the story, it just rushed through to the end. Robocop trying to get his emotions and humanity back was also rushed and not explained very well.
Still, it was much better than I ever hoped for 6.5/10
Isn't that a blessing?
Nope. I loved that whole theme in the original, it put it beyond a silly action flick. If they wanted to focus on this, they should committed to it fully or just not focus on it at all. They just used it as a ploy to get the wife involved.
Maybe. It was touched upon in the first one with the flashbacks. Not sure most people would want it to be a major focus of the film though, interesting as it may or not be.
The first one was a satire. It wasn't really an in depth character pic.
Peter Weller took it seriously though. I remember seeing him going into one about character on Night Network when the interviewer just wanted to know about cool robot shit and explosions.
Apparently refused to respond to his name but only to Murphy or 'Robo'. Method acting at its best.
The best bit in Robocop is the transition from Murphy dying to Robocop being born done entirely from his perspective. That and Kurtwood Smith. Robocop's a great film. It's amazing some people took Starship Troopers seriously, and not as the spiritual successor to Robocop that it patently is.
Both of the sequels are on Netflix, but I've a feeling they aren't worth watching.
Both of the sequels are on Netflix, but I've a feeling they aren't worth watching.
I've never seen Robocop. I'll give it a go tonight, see what all the fuss is about.
They really aren't, especially the last one is beyond terrible.
He's stretching a bit. For example he completely omits the birth and introduction of Robocop and goes straight to the gun range scene because it helps the symmetry. So, hmmm. Still, there's enough for it to be interesting.
You should, it's a very unique film. Not so much for the 80s action stuff, but the tone of it is really fun and irreverent.
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I forced myself through Robocop 2 on Netflix after I watched the first for the first time in years, first ones great. But the second one. It's can't even get away with being brilliantly bad. With the exception of the kid bad guy. And the broken Robocop image, because it works for such comic relief.
Such as
"This is how Arsene Wenger is going to send Jack Wilshere to England in the Summer
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Such as
"This is how Arsene Wenger is going to send Jack Wilshere to England in the Summer
I haven't watched RoboCop 3 since I was about 12, I've only just realised its not even Peter Weller in it.
It's there in the text-based section. He links it with the baby-food/rebirth scene. You're right, it's not as explicit in the pictures-included section.
I think the only stretch is the J. item (property damage).
Mockney and most of the film buffs probably know the following so it's more for any interested lurkers: one of the things that the digital age has made really easy is finding the midpoint of a screenplay, where the theme is stated (usually in an indirect way) and more importantly the remaining action is set up/made unavoidable, sort of like putting a marble at the top of a ramp.
It's a fun-ish game. Open up a movie file and click on the exact midpoint of the seeker bar (minus the end credits). I picked pretty well-known/popcorn movies so spoilers are probably not too big, but still spoilered just in case:
Jurassic Park is the T-Rex attack (nature breaking loose). Star Wars, the destruction of Alderaan/Luke's first lightsaber lesson. (Empire is just totally evil and must be defeated). Enchanted, Pat Dempsey and Amy Adams go on an unintended date (true love/fate). Sideways, Victoria Madsen takes Paul Giamatti's dead-in-the-water novel (heart) to read. Aladdin, Aladdin makes his wishes. Blade Runner, Ford has to kill the first of the replicants (sanctity of life). Rust and Bone, depressed Marion Cotillard watches the male lead literally fight for a living (affirmation of life). Alien, pretty much anyone can guess. So on and so forth.
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Breaking Dawn
Watched this as it had Kelly Overton (who was super hot in the Tekken film) but was dissapointed. She doesn't look as hot in this generic psycho-analytic thriller that goes nowhere and relies on a twist you see coming in the opening shot 3/10
Watched this as it had Kelly Overton (who was super hot in the Tekken film) but was dissapointed. She doesn't look as hot in this generic psycho-analytic thriller that goes nowhere and relies on a twist you see coming in the opening shot 3/10
Still the best super-hero film I've seen.
Stop it, Hectic.
Each to their own.
Since when have you become an admin again, H?
Probably about a week now I think.
That other forum has been invisible to me for a couple of months. I suspected they wanted rid of the riff raff...
I think they removed access to some due to the increase in scouts/modmins. To be fair the things we were generally using it for has stopped anyway, it's all business now.
I've got used to without it, to be fair. I was crying internally though.
Pompeii: Some movies you just have to decide whether to laugh and go along with even when the laughs are mostly at the movies expense, this is one of those movies. Completely lacking in any originality this could be seen as a destitute man’s Gladiator. Where Gladiator had a complex antagonist in Commodus this has a camp cardboard villain in the shape of Sutherland, where Gladiator had Maximus this has a less believable and infinitely less charismatic presence in Kit Harrington (Orlando Bloom mark 2), where Gladiator had an actor of African-decent as its main supporting actor this has the same. It is crammed full of hammy dialogue and filled to the brim with clichés yet some how you suspect it knows all of that and simply is not that bothered which means you end up with a movie that if you can turn off your higher faculties you might actually slightly enjoy, if only for the camp romp that it is. By no means a good film this is more a B movie (in the modern misused sense of the word) that might be worth seeing if you can watch it cheaply, you have the time to kill and you fancy a bit of a laugh; mostly at its expense. Good use of CGI but ultimately and perhaps thankfully doesn't seem to be taking its self too seriously and you should follow suit.
5.5/10
5.5/10
Blue Ruin
Low budget (but doesn't look it) revenge tale. It's gritty, it feels real (brutal at times), there's some genuinely tense scenes in it and it's superbly acted. Highly recommended.
Don't bother watching a shitty pg13 Robocop reboot. Watch this.
Low budget (but doesn't look it) revenge tale. It's gritty, it feels real (brutal at times), there's some genuinely tense scenes in it and it's superbly acted. Highly recommended.
Don't bother watching a shitty pg13 Robocop reboot. Watch this.
Was just about to review Blue Ruin as well. Excellent film.
Edit: I'll put it up just to give it a score out of 10.
Blue Ruin: Sometimes you can tell from the opening 10 mins or so of a movie that you are in the company of something very good and this movie has all those hall marks with its mostly silent opening 10 mins. A brilliant and unorthodox take on the revenge movie this a very compact stripped down movie that tells its own story at the right pace. Instead of going with a clichéd revenge story this presents its audience with an entirely believable, weak and somewhat pathetic character as its protagonist, these are character flaws that blend perfectly into the film making it an engrossing and thought provoking watch. If Unforgiven is an anti-western and Killing Them Softly was an anti-gangster movie then this plays out as an anti-revenge movie; dispensing with most of the clichés of that genre and instead telling a completely believable story of one man's uncomfortable journey into violence. Very well acted, well though out and well paced, highly recommended.
8/10
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Bad Neighbours - has some inspired visual gags and is short and economical. I'm tired of the Apatow-style two actors have a loud conversation at each other. Zac Efron is very good, Rose Byrne is no comic actress.
Dom Hemingway - strong start, completely loses its way. Jude Law struggles to pull it off, Richard E Grant is great as usual.
Dead Snow - very funny Nazi zombie film. Enjoyed it for what it was.
Dom Hemingway - strong start, completely loses its way. Jude Law struggles to pull it off, Richard E Grant is great as usual.
Dead Snow - very funny Nazi zombie film. Enjoyed it for what it was.
SORCERER
If you've never seen William Friedkin's 1977 remake of WAGES OF FEAR, the new Blu Ray is stunning. Excellent movie.
If you've never seen William Friedkin's 1977 remake of WAGES OF FEAR, the new Blu Ray is stunning. Excellent movie.
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Good review Bam. Spot on really.
Thanks mate. Really enjoyed it after watching Pompeii which was mostly unintentionally hilarious.
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