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The Raid 2 : Berandal (i.e. Thugs or Gangster, but more into low level thugs)

Superb in every way, the production still feels abit cheaply done during the car chase (understanbly given it's not hollywood budget), but the acting, the color, is top notch. Everyone have a good character development.

And to top it off, the martial arts fight scene were the best, there's alot of memorable scenes, all in one movie. The hammer girl, the baseball dude, Koso's fight, and off course, the final battle is a very long and good it deserves a hall of fame in the standouts of martial arts Genre

I'd give it 9/10 cocks, if it got more budget and polished abit it'd give it a 10
 
Network(1976)-9/10

feck it, I can't bring myself to describe this film. Let's just say it deals with changing of trends in the television broadcasting industry and brilliantly captures the lives of people working in the industry. Anyone else who has seen this film can help describing this movie?
 
The Raid 2: Berandal
Absolutely brilliant and if you are a fan of martial arts flicks then you are in for 2.5 hours of pure heaven. It feels like it's the first film but on much bigger scale, everything is bigger, the budget, the cast, the action set-pieces, the storyline... they really went to town with this and it was shot on a RED Scarlet (or Epic) and you can see the quality difference between this and the first one. However, for me, it wasn't as good as the first as a film (looking beyond production values). They have added a lot of story to set up the final part of the trilogy, which is fine but the story is very generic and quite lazily told, which is slightly disappointing. There were also some forced scenes that didn't add anything to the film except run the length of the film, they could have been cut out. However, the action scenes were so big, so violent and so brutal, that once they are on screen, you really forget any of the films flaws. Can't wait for the third part 8.5/10

Airborne
Why the hell did I ruin my night watching this? It starts off well, a film about passengers on a plane who start to go missing one by one. The acting was too wooden, the dialogue was laughable and as the film went on, the story just kept becoming more and more stupid. There were some funny bits in it and it had Mark Hamil, which is nice to see 4.5/10
 
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Airborne
Why the hell did I ruin my night watching this? It starts off well, a film about passengers on a plane who start to go missing one by one. The acting was too wooden, the dialogue was laughable and as the film went on, the story just kept becoming more and more stupid. There were some funny bits in it and it had Mark Hamil, which is nice to see 4.5/10
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I have seen this and it is dreadful, could of been so much better.
 
Grudge Match

Not that bad actually. Extremely predictable but De Niro looked to be having fun and I like watching him when he's in 'Midnight Run' form. The 'boxing' wasn't up to much though. And there was some really spooky cgi used at the start to superimpose their younger faces on to another body.
 
Dirty Schwein said:
You're in for a treat mate. Did you write about a film you saw about some army people in an elevator? I think it was you, I was looking for the film on Netflix but can't remember the name...
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Hunky Janitor Fixes Naughty Girls' College Dorm Elevator 2, it's excellent, check it out. Best of the trilogy.

Seriously though, you may be referring to Devil?

EDIT: wait no, Devil is just people in an elevator, not army people.
 
Rooney in Paris said:
Hunky Janitor Fixes Naughty Girls' College Dorm Elevator 2, it's excellent, check it out. Best of the trilogy.

Seriously though, you may be referring to Devil?

EDIT: wait no, Devil is just people in an elevator, not army people.
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Oh sorry it was Pauldyson, the film was called Event 15
 
Cast Away

Just watched this for the first time in ages. Great movie from start to finish. I really liked how they introduced us to the actual person before the plane crash. It made the remaining part that much more...shall we say, emotional, knowing what he had and what he's lost. Some say the Wilson bit was too cheesy, I disagree though. First and foremost, you need dialog. Second, if you listen to the things he says, he's clearly talking to himself and merely imagining the replies coming from Wilson rather than being his own thoughts. The movie, furthermore, establishes the feeling that he's so remarkably lonely and thus we feel for the character. I also loved how the ending was sad even though Chuck got off the island. Movies should NOT end on a happy note. After four years on an island you'd struggle to cope with normal life, and that's what they gave us.

Overall a terrific movie. 9/10.
 
entropy said:
Network(1976)-9/10

feck it, I can't bring myself to describe this film. Let's just say it deals with changing of trends in the television broadcasting industry and brilliantly captures the lives of people working in the industry. Anyone else who has seen this film can help describing this movie?
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Prophetic.
 
Nymphomaniac Volume I & II - It's a very overwhelming film to take in, it's very well-crated, Von Trier has lot of room to muse on sexuality, humanity and on himself, most of it was smoothly cerebral though nothing really profound and some of the digressions I wasn't sure what to think of. Tarkovsky references a-plenty as usual, as was his crass English dialogues. I was glued to the film for the entire length and despite feeling indefferent to von Trier in the past I thought it was quite an enjoyable if flawed essay.
 
I tried sitting through The Wolf of Wall Street twice in the past two weeks and just couldn't do it. I really liked some of it but most of it was just unbearably nauseating. Huge disappointment.
 
Best Man Down (2012) Insomnia and lack of options drove me watch this last night and as you'd expect from the title, I was expecting it to be gay as feck. It's actually quite an enjoyable flick and not the cliched drivel you might expect. Solid. 6.5/10
 
Rooney in Paris said:
I heard it was actually quite a funny film, did you feel that too?
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I wouldn't say I found it funny myself but there were perhaps a few comic elements, ones you'd only probably snigger at infectiously with a crowd. Or if you just find the apparition and beingness of Shia Labeouf in itself comical.
 
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R.N7 said:
I wouldn't say I found it funny myself but there were perhaps a few comic elements, ones you'd only probably snigger at infectiously with a crowd. Or if you just find the apparition and beingness of Shia Labeouf in itself comical.
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Wait what he's in that?!
 
Watched Winter Soldier, thought it was the 3rd best out of the 9 "Avengers" films done so far after Iron Man 1 and the Avengers itself. I find that nowadays, the best way to gain maximum pleasure from these superhero films is not to take the plot too seriously, and it can make for much more enjoyable viewing. The action scenes were incredible, and the CGI was breathtaking. The one-liners were well above average too from the likes of SLJ and even Chris Evans, and there were some real moments of suspense. Bucky Barnes should be either in the Avengers 2 or Captain America 3 judging on the post credits, and I thought he looked a real villain in this.

Highlight of the film is, and always will be, Scarlett. I don't think I could ever act with this woman because I would spend the whole time mouth wide open, and that spandex suit will go down in the memory bank for a while.
 
R.N7 said:
Yes and his accent was all over the place. Von Trier has never really paid much attention to them.
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I've always thought his work with accents and foreign actors speaking English was more of a piss take on typical Hollywood films that are made in foreign countries with everybody speaking English in crap accents. Most clearly in Dancer in the Dark where it was supposedly a film in America about Americans but all the actors were foreign, except Joel Grey I believe, who ironically plays the only non American. It was filmed outside the US as well.
 
Nobby style said:
I've always thought his work with accents and foreign actors speaking English was more of a piss take on typical Hollywood films that are made in foreign countries with everybody speaking English in crap accents. Most clearly in Dancer in the Dark where it was supposedly a film in America about Americans but all the actors were foreign, except Joel Grey I believe, who ironically plays the only non American. It was filmed outside the US as well.
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Yeah, it was weird that he bothered giving Labeouf an English accent since the film doesn't really have much of a sense of period or place and all that anyway. Maybe consciously wanting strange accents like you said, you never know with him. I remember Christian Slater sounding a bit strange too.
 
The Haunting (1999)
Wow, what a pile of shit. I thought it may be ok as it had Lili Taylor and Liam Neeson so decided to give it a watch. It builds up quite well but once it gets going, it's absolutely awful. I feel sorry for the actors who had to put up with all the horror cliches and awful script which was a shame, and Lili Taylor was especially awful, mainly due to having one of the most annoying characters I have seen in a film. The effects were done well but overused and the film was as scary as Scooby Doo 4.5/10
 
Brwned said:
I tried sitting through The Wolf of Wall Street twice in the past two weeks and just couldn't do it. I really liked some of it but most of it was just unbearably nauseating. Huge disappointment.
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peterstorey said:
It's pretty much rubbish from start to protracted finish
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entropy said:
Throughout the film I felt as if I was on a strong dose of cough syrup
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Glad I'm not the only one who thought it was bad, all I've seen is praise but I just thought it was weird for the most part.
 
R.N7 said:
Nymphomaniac Volume I & II - It's a very overwhelming film to take in, it's very well-crated, Von Trier has lot of room to muse on sexuality, humanity and on himself, most of it was smoothly cerebral though nothing really profound and some of the digressions I wasn't sure what to think of. Tarkovsky references a-plenty as usual, as was his crass English dialogues. I was glued to the film for the entire length and despite feeling indefferent to von Trier in the past I thought it was quite an enjoyable if flawed essay.
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Have you seen 'Blue is the Warmest Colour'?
 
Shame I didn't like the film nearly as much as her.

R.N7 said:
Blue is the Warmest Colour - Good, but not great. I liked the first part the most, the awakening and the awkwardness. It sort of meandered after that and felt quite heavy-handed occasionally. The director didn't half sexualize the actresses though, the sex scenes felt more pornographic than anything. I could watch Adele Exarchopoulos play with her hair all day long though. :drool:
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Prophetic.
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Network is a brilliant black comedy written by Paddy Chayefsky. Movie follows the career of a ruthless young TV executive (Faye Dunaway) who exploits the mental breakdown of a network anchorman (Howard Beal played by Peter Finch in his last role) who starts ranting on-air about society's ills. As old-time newsmen at the network look on with horror, the Howard Beale's news program increases its ratings as Beale's rantings become more strident and chaotic. Beale famously implores his viewers to open their windows and scream, "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore."

Over time Beale's ratings start to drop-and the network must come up with a solution that gets them out of Beale's contract without creating an opportunity for him to go to another network.

Among many things, Chayefsky's script shows how everyone who comes into contact with TV, and its attendant riches becomes co-opted and corrupted. He also presciently predicts the advent of infotainment and the public's disinterest in watching hard news programs.

Although very much of its time (1976), many of its themes are highly relevant today.
 
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Rooney in Paris said:
Have a nice wank!

(Let's be honest, it's intellectualized porn)
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I found it very gratuitous tbh. Especially with the knowledge the actresses felt exploited. Which is a shame as it's one of those rare films that actually does genuinely need a sex scene, and a fairly gratuitous one at that, and yet they STILL overdo it.

It was one of those "yeah, this directors a creepy pervert" ones for me.
 
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Mockney said:
I found it very gratuitous tbh. Especially with the knowledge the actresses felt exploited. Which is a shame as it's one of those rare films that actually does genuinely need a sex scene, and a fairly gratuitous one at that, and yet they STILL overdo it.

It was one of those "yeah, this directors a creepy pervert" ones for me.
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It wasn't just the sex scenes either, like all the shots of their asses. It was all just very untasteful.
 
KeninDC said:
Network is a brilliant black comedy written by Paddy Chayefsky. Movie follows the career of a ruthless young TV executive (Faye Dunaway) who exploits the mental breakdown of a network anchorman (Howard Beal played by Peter Finch in his last role) who starts ranting on-air about society's ills. As old-time newsmen at the network look on with horror, the Howard Beale's news program increases its ratings as Beale's rantings become more strident and chaotic. Beale famously implores his viewers to open their windows and scream, "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore."

Over time Beale's ratings start to drop-and the network must come up with a solution that gets them out of Beale's contract without creating an opportunity for him to go to another network.

Among many things, Chayefsky's script shows how everyone who comes into contact with TV, and its attendant riches becomes co-opted and corrupted. He also presciently predicts the advent of infotainment and the public's disinterest in watching hard news programs.

Although very much of its time (1976), many of its themes are highly relevant today.
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"Howard Beale,the first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings."
 
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entropy said:
"Howard Beale,the first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings."
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You have away the ending :). That is a great quote, among many. My favorite part is the SLA-like group haggling over distribution rights for their show.
 
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