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Gargamel
04-17-17, 07:18 AM
The girlfriend picked up SpaceBalls on DVD the other day. Movie is still good.
One of my quirks is I like to listen to the commentary tracks on a lot of movies after watching it normally. Mel Brooks has the WORST commentary track I have ever heard. All he does is name the actors, and then explain the jokes. We get the jokes Mel! Give us better stories!.
I also like to listen to the commentary tracks on DVDs. About the quality of the commentaries, it should be kept in mind that on older, pre-DVD era films, the persons doing the commentaries many times have only fairly dim recollections of specifics regarding the film they are speaking about; many times, also, there are considerations of possible old conflicts, or "bad blood", that may be bubbling under the surface of the commentaries; A lot of factors can color or influence what a person says in commentaries. In Mel's case, he probably did the commentary some 20 years after the original release of the film and was most likely weary of talking about it and may have forgotten some of the details about which viewers may have been most curious...
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Catfish
04-17-17, 12:23 PM
^ Comb the desert! :haha:
Rumours say Mel Brooks is working on a sequel to the original Spaceballs.
Jimbuna
04-17-17, 05:10 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCLlK_Ovc0I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=001VYmrrHL8
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoJMTYvqMuU
Jimbuna
04-18-17, 03:17 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGh_IOuBKKc
Jimbuna
04-28-17, 08:13 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNo2Alcs7vc
Jimbuna
04-29-17, 06:48 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFAJBzWXXfI
Had a Michael Cain double bill afternoon watching The Ipcress File and Funeral In Berlin.
Sailor Steve
05-01-17, 12:27 AM
Had a Michael Cain double bill afternoon watching The Ipcress File and Funeral In Berlin.
I've always liked the Harry Palmer films, Ipcress File especially. Caine made versions of the other books much later. I haven't seen them but I hear they're not nearly as good.
One to watch for, though, is Blue Ice. Caine plays a retired spy who now owns a jazz club. His name is Harry, but whether it's supposed to be the same character I don't know. Anyway, he is happily retired when an old colleague walks into his place. Then people start trying to kill him. The movie is good, the ending is fantastic. If you get a chance to see it, do so.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_to_Beijing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_in_Saint_Petersburg
Billion Dollar Brain was good up to about half way then it fell apart, as for the two later films Bullet to Beijing i found the plot some what over the place and plots within plots apart from that entertaining. I think I saw Midnight in Saint Pertersburg but just can not recall any details. I would say Ipcress File is without question the best of all of them followed by Funeral in Berlin.
While we are on Michale Cain he gave a good performance in The Fourth Protocol as another difficult spy upsetting his masters.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fourth_Protocol_(film)
Couple of John le Carré books turn into films
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtoTIHGY520
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrIz40n2s4g
Jimbuna
05-01-17, 12:54 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fiy4A3sbd4
^Is that the werewolf one jim?
Catfish
05-01-17, 01:05 PM
^ The opening 'Kismet' logo is priceless, for the film :D
Peacekeepers, or "Warriors"; about UN presence in the Kosovo. Watched this long ago and was hard to swallow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9thf92vfio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB2uEDIBuSI
Jimbuna
05-01-17, 01:22 PM
^Is that the werewolf one jim?
Rgr that...low budget but a good movie nonetheless.
Jimbuna
05-03-17, 09:19 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8GmzzlCp38
ValoWay
05-03-17, 11:11 AM
Leviathan (1989)
Hired by Martin (Meg Foster), the head of a major corporation, a crew including geologist Steven Beck (Peter Weller) descends to the ocean's depths for a mining project. When the undersea explorers find a sunken ship and investigate, they inadvertently find out that their knowledge of copyright protection laws is from a nine year old cnet.com article and even after being lectured about current EU law they still stubbornly insist that their claims are true without ever bothering to validate their claims which they made in the first place.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZgeIReY04c
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leviathan_(1989_film)
These two are not movies, the first one from the early 1970's was a ghost drama and the second was a series but thanks to the person who up loaded it has join all the parts up, a bizarre series from kids TV and is still heads above the rubbish kids get today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtvJWKaDI9s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwT0wLnT7Rc
Catfish
05-03-17, 02:17 PM
Some great films up there, will need time to watch all that :up:
Don't know whether this has been posted before:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bZoFzDkH4g
Commander Wallace
05-04-17, 05:20 AM
Some great films up there, will need time to watch all that :up:
Don't know whether this has been posted before:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bZoFzDkH4g
Great movie. Thanks for the " steer in " :up:
Jimbuna
05-04-17, 06:31 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQERoqlxA7g
Nippelspanner
05-04-17, 06:38 AM
Once this was a movie review thread.
Now it deteriorated to a copyright-infringement marathon.
You guys are aware that sharing these links as well as watching them is illegal, aren't you?
Hitchcock for me this Saturday..
Strangers on a Train and North by North West. Nothing on TV so its going to be classic film night. :)
@Nippelspanner:
OMG these are very old movies. But there is always someone playing the sheriff right? :wah: In germany we also say "Spießer" or "Spielverderber"!
Nippelspanner
05-04-17, 03:06 PM
@Nippelspanner:
OMG these are very old movies. But there is always someone playing the sheriff right? :wah: In germany we also say "Spießer" or "Spielverderber"!
@MCM
OMG there are still companies holding the COPYRIGHTS(!) to these movies. But there's always someone playing the "I'm above the law" card, right?
Sure you don't care - after all this page, and ultimately what happens here - falls into Neal's responsibility.
I don't think most people here are aware of the possible severity of this infringement. If you want to see movies illegally, there are platforms for it, go enjoy. But on Subsim?
Let's ask Neal when the first letters from lawyers chime in.
Kinda sad that I gotta remind a moderator about the rules he is meant to uphold, but no one did so far:
What is Subsim.com's stance in relation to torrents, warez, and piracy? SUBSIM Review has a longstanding policy against software piracy. We do NOT allow discussion or even mention of game piracy, warez, peer-to-peer game swapping, game cracks, illegal download sites, or illegal file-sharing. Nothing will get you banned faster than pointing people to illegal software distribution sites. Don't ask for serial numbers, manuals, or cracks. Any admission that you have in your possession illegal software can and usually will result in revocation of your Radio Room forum account and permanent ban. We do not care what you do on your computer in your home, but do not discuss it here.Support computer game programmers buy legally purchasing their work. They have to eat too, you know.
Discussion of torrents is also not allowed on this site. Please don't post links to torrents in our forum
So before some really not-smart person comes along and smarts-off about "muh tis no download, no torrent, iz fine!" I would like to hear how it is - legally - different from browsing/using/linking to file sharing pages, streaming portals or torrent sites?
The data lands on your system one way or another, and in the end you share, by providing links.
No one will care about you, or Jane Doe streaming some link - but the holder of this site is in for a huge amount of dung if the wrong person finds this thread. What's your stance on that, MCM?
Und ich weiß was man in Deutschland sagt.
ValoWay
05-04-17, 03:26 PM
but all those videos are youtube links, are you calling google a criminal organisation? :up:
Nippelspanner
05-04-17, 03:59 PM
but all those videos are youtube links
If I upload a movie, no matter which one, is that suddenly legal because I uploaded it on YT instead of [insertwhateverstreamingsitehere]?
So, since common sense obviously is not present at the moment, maybe this rings a bell:
YouTube's spokesperson ignored my actual questions, and instead told me that:
We prohibit users from uploading infringing material, and we cooperate with all copyright holders to identify and promptly remove infringing content as soon as we are officially notified.
As a company that respects the rights of copyright holders, we expect to continue to take the lead in providing state of the art DMCA tools and processes for all copyright holders.
https://www.cnet.com/news/legal-liability-for-youtube-viewers/
ValoWay
05-05-17, 12:18 AM
You're brining up a nine your old article full of speculation.. You also seem to think that we are personally uploading those videos to youtube.. It is like you said indeed UT's job to get rid off such videos if a copyright holder files a complaint.. However, merely watching it or embedding it here doesn't make anyone here liable as long as we're not financially benefiting from it:
In large part, linking and framing are not held to be copyright infringement under US and German copyright law, even though the underlying Web pages (youtube) are protected under copyright law..
The European Court of Justice's binding ruling in 2014 was that embedding (posting a link on subsim) a work could not be a violation of copyright:
The embedding in a website of a protected work which is publicly accessible on another website (youtube) by means of a link using the framing technology … does not by itself constitute communication to the public within the meaning of [the EU Copyright directive] to the extent that the relevant work is neither communicated to a new public nor by using a specific technical means different from that used for the original communication
In September 2016, the European Court of Justice ruled that knowingly linking to an unauthorized posting of a copyrighted work for commercial gain constituted infringement of the exclusive right to communicate the work to the public
sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_aspects_of_hyperlinking_and_framing#Hist ory_of_copyright_litigation_in_field
In Europe, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled that it is legal to create temporary or cached copies of works (copyrighted or otherwise) online.[1][2] The ruling relates to the British Meltwater case settled on 5 June 2014.
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_aspects_of_downloading_and_streaming#Lit igation_.28alphabetically_by_nation.29
The cnet article keeps playing the '750$ boogeyman fee card' but never actually mentions any official sources which would support such a allegedly 'well-established' form of punishment which routinely condemns average citizens for being 'noobs' on the internet.. Instead, it keeps going on and on about what could or might happen 'when' which makes me wonder who Mr. Soghoian's 'bread givers' actually are..
more links:
http://www.huffingtonpost.in/2016/09/05/you-wont-be-punished-for-watching-pirated-content-online-bomba/ (2016)
http://uproxx.com/technology/good-news-youtube-videos-are-not-copyright-infringement/ (2012)
Nippelspanner
05-05-17, 12:31 AM
:k_confused:
> links to a torrent page where you can download a movie = banned.
> links to the movie directly on some video streaming portal = it's fine... because it is different while it isn't.
(Of course, the true reason is the admin-team not understanding the issue, but hey - I'm not the one happily posting links to copyrighted material, why do I care? Boo me!)
ValoWay
05-05-17, 01:18 AM
Nip, there is a difference in actually downloading a video onto your own hard drive and watching it within seconds on the internet.
The difference is there to protect you or your grandma' from going to jail, cause stumbling over a video on the internet happens all the time without the users' agreement..
If this (https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/05/ba/d2/05bad28ec40b5e8c1f07f3e123e4cd84.jpg) would send you to a video whch immediately starts to play, well, according to your logic you're guilty now..
Nippelspanner
05-05-17, 02:16 AM
Nip, there is a difference in actually downloading a video onto your own hard drive and watching it within seconds on the internet.
Except there absolutely is not.
Streaming = downloading.
While the risk to Neal is extremely small, knowingly sharing infringing material and allowing it to stay on the site *might* fall under contributory infringement (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_liability#Contributory_liability), but again the risk to Neal is extremely small. It simply is bad practice, imho.
What I find most peculiar is why is this allowed now? The rules on piracy have always been strict here, so why make an exception on this extremely murky matter? That the movie is on YouTube isn't a defense, as it shouldn't be there in the first place.
Boggles the mind.
ValoWay
05-05-17, 08:17 AM
LOAD “*”,8,1. lol, always pay for music, never illegally download :03:
lol, always pay for music, never illegally download :03:What you do in the privacy of your home is irrelevant.
Jimbuna
05-05-17, 08:40 AM
What you do in the privacy of your home is irrelevant.
Boggles the mind.
INDEED...
INDEED...What's that supposed to mean? :roll:
PS. You left your CAPS LOCK on.
Jimbuna
05-06-17, 05:37 AM
What's that supposed to mean? :roll:
Thinking in *Adult mode* family friendly forum and all that....does more than simply boggling the mind.
Onkel Neal
05-06-17, 08:29 AM
:k_confused:
> links to a torrent page where you can download a movie = banned.
> links to the movie directly on some video streaming portal = it's fine... because it is different while it isn't.
(Of course, the true reason is the admin-team not understanding the issue, but hey - I'm not the one happily posting links to copyrighted material, why do I care? Boo me!)
The true reason? You have no idea what you're talking about.
I consulted with Google's YouTube legal department some time back and they vet all videos that get posted. They have permission from the copyright holders for every film that is posted, and they assure me that any full length films posted are removed if there is copy right infringement, they check them all. So if there is a link here and it works, it's ok.
Jimbuna
05-06-17, 08:49 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZADVm183srY
Nippelspanner
05-06-17, 08:57 AM
"Troll drum"?
I was actually concerned that you as the person responsible for Subsim could face rather severe problems in case of actual copyright infringement being condoned/allowed/supported on this site - so troll drum my ass, really.
And you spoke with YT/Google "some time back" about movies that were posted just recently? You are aware that YT is FULL of movies where rights are being violated, are you?they check them allNo. They have software algorithms that check for infringement, but that's not 100% fail-safe, as countless videos proof.
Or do you really think some guy(s) are personally checking uploaded videos on YouTube? Do you know how many thousands of videos are posted every hour on YT?
They have permission from the copyright holders for every film that is postedOh really?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU401EcKR9U
This video contains content from FOX, who has blocked it on copyright grounds.
Meaning: it wasn't legal in the first place - they (YT/Google) just didn't find it before it was posted here.
The point is, by condoning this, Subsim is now officially supporting movie piracy. Let's ignore possible legal issues for you, or anyone here just "consuming". But Is that what you want for Subsim?
And what if I post a link to one of the (in)famous streaming portals where you can watch all kinds of movies and TV series, new and old?
Is that different somehow!?
No it's not. In both cases, you link to a movie that was uploaded/made available to the public illegally.
Leaning back and saying "meh, if the link works, it's fine." is simply a lazy excuse, or not understanding the issue.
It's like saying stealing is OK as long as you won't get caught.
Edit: For those who still have doubts: https://www.reddit.com/r/fullmoviesonyoutube/
I'm sure these are all fine, YT checked them all. :03:
Unbelievable Nippelspanner :k_confused: You are one of these guys watching your neighbors if they are parking right, seperating the dustbin right, notify the police for every little *******! Because you have no own life then at least try to make other lifes as hard as you can. What a poor guy you are... Typical german bevavior! People like you are the reason that everyone in the word see us germans as inpolite, taking everything serious with no humor!!! (I am german too) Disgusting, get of this thread :haha:
Nippelspanner
05-06-17, 09:26 AM
Unbelievable Nippelspanner :k_confused: You are one of these guys watching your neighbors if they are parking right, seperating the dustbin right, notify the police for every little *******! Because you have no own life then at least try to make other lifes as hard as you can. What a poor guy you are... Typical german bevavior! People like you are the reason that everyone in the word see us germans as inpolite, taking everything serious with no humor!!! (I am german too) Disgusting, get of this thread :haha:
Come back when you have an actual argument.
Jimbuna
05-06-17, 09:33 AM
Okay, can we all move on now rather than prolong the issue please.
Well, subim is not responsible for another site having "stuff" that can be under copyright, at least in my opinion.
Youtube has copyright laws and surveillance, since some content that is uploaded (even small scenes of movies or just a few moments, like I am your father and so on) are, almost, removed.
Of course many things goes under the radar or the algorithm that a the site uses to searches or detect such things. So, or (in this case) youtube just do not have yet detected such infraction, do not have any kind of complain or simple, do not give any attention.
I, or one, at least for me, do not have to be guilty of something been upload to a site if that thing is illegal. I choose to look and if find such thing, I could click and see or not. And of course this can be use for many things over the net form the normal ones to the most sordid, but this is not the case.
The rest, can be discussed in a a thread just for the subject....that could derail to food, politics sci-fi and the normal stuff here!:salute::D:up:
Sorry for 2 posts, but this one is in the matter of the thread.
So updates in the films I saw lately:
Ghost in the Shell: Well, a fine mess of a film that could not capture what the manga and anime subject is. If you are a fan of the source material, you will not like this. If not, you can enjoy it. The film uses the most adaptable and simpler matters of the anime, oversimplifies and over explain what is the core matter. For me, the best are some scenes that are strait from the first anime film. The rest... not even a naked Major...
Split: I like it, from all of the last M. Night Shyamalan films, this one can be a return to the basis and to the gender that make him, even with some M. Night Shyamalanest scenes,small cameo and stuff. Will not spoiler, but it has a funny twist.
James Macvoy is very good in the roles. I also saw Filth, so I now he his great in such roles.
Now, a few classical ones. I went to collect all the sub movies that TCM broadcast, at least the more aired ones. After more of a decade of ad nauseum of a few films, TCM ended their transmissions here.
So, I decided and saw Ice Station Zebra, Torpedo Run, Destination: Tokyo and have Operation Petticoat to see. :D
The first one have memorable scenes and dialogues, like more the first part since it has the more sub scenes. So, if the submarine should be more historical authentic, it would have to be a Skipjack class one?
Torpedo Run, I understand that when the movie was done, they had to use a Balao or Tench class for the scenes, but, besides the normal that in real life can or was not done, to be historical correct, the sub should be a Porpoise/Sargo/Salmo class? Or the action been set in 1944/1945?
Destination: Tokyo - Good sub propaganda film, Cary Grant does a good role, besides some cliché scenes and acting. But been a submarine filme in the end of 1943, I understand such things and like then. I think that have the certain sub class for such mission, during the time of the action. Only thing I didn't like was the depart from San Francisco. But it was done during war time, so... Other thing that amazed me, the hydrophone/sonar was done with oscilloscope :ping:. It felled that the listing apparatus was more advanced from reality, even if the movie had the danger of be seen by Japanese spies, etc.
BLADE RUNNER 2049 Trailer will be released Monday
http://static.highsnobiety.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/04205849/blade-runner-2049-posters-01-480x320.jpg
Let's all hope it will be good.
Skybird
05-07-17, 06:06 AM
I finally saw Rogue One yesterday. To my surprise it was not the desaster I expected to see, but a rather good Star Wars movie, though an untypical one. Characters remained to be a bit shallow, but I like the Shapekearean solution of all them heroes and heroines being dead in the end, no prisoners taken. Also the surprisingly adult setting, the doom and darkness, the seriousness of the somtimes dirty action - and the absence of childish jester-characters. This was a pretty solid SciFi warmovie if taken for itself, great visuals, and a very nice connecting to the Episode IV movie, with many small details closing the links. I felt well-entertained. To me one of the best Star Wars movies out there. Certainly better than its reputation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joNqtFGiYZw
Looks good.
Jimbuna
05-09-17, 05:32 AM
Just so long as his character isn't expected to fly a plane he should be fine.
^ Cheeky, you... :haha:
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Jimbuna
05-09-17, 10:56 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH-xJxBNuVM
Jimbuna
05-13-17, 07:48 AM
Sooooo looking forward to seeing this :cool:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oABJ7nNQhrs
Jimbuna
05-15-17, 06:24 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5ug-byBe_o
A nonlinear storytelling type of movie.One of the best example of the "circular narrative." I love it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-Q3ADnJKpY
Double helping of Alec Guinness as George Smiley, first up there is a mole very near the top of British intelligence and Smiley must flush him out in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Next up Smiley is bought out of retirement and is on the hunt for his old nemesis karla in Smiley's People.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUnxodNndH8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vYAyq5l2Bs&list=PLAPGcD5LGrp79pjd-ZvR43JC_rwwZPABl
Double helping of Alec Guinness as George Smiley, first up there is a mole very near the top of British intelligence and Smiley must flush him out in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Next up Smiley is bought out of retirement and is on the hunt for his old nemesis karla in Smiley's People.
Thanks, only knew the recent film with Gary Oldman, John Hurt and Colin Firth.
Oh wow... Netflix is producing a series based on the 'The Witcher' saga.
Netflix are developing a series based on The Witcher. The press release (http://www.platige.com/en/page/839-The_Witcher_Saga_On_Netflix) says it’ll be based on “the globally popular fantasy saga from Polish writer Andrzej Sapkowski”, with only passing mention of the games. As for what it’ll be about, the producers Sean Daniel and Jason Brown (of The Expanse) have this to say:
“The Witcher stories follow an unconventional family that comes together to fight for truth in a dangerous world. The characters are original, funny and constantly surprising and we can’t wait to bring them to life at Netflix, the perfect home for innovative storytelling.”
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/05/17/the-witcher-netflix-series/
Very much enjoyed The Expanse, so maybe they'll do the great books and the games justice with the series.
Re-saw this tonight, one of my father favourites.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7z691yC9pc
Eisenwurst
05-29-17, 07:09 PM
A polarising film. A lot of people hate it and a lot of people love it. I love it.
It's about power, betrayals, and broken hearts.
3 hours long and intense throughout, and quite grim in parts, but, great casting, gorgeous scenery, beautiful music, and a cast of thousands in the battle scenes.
This is as close to a trailer as I could find for it. It's from a movie soundtrack website but gives a good idea of the film. ( There's a bit of "skin" but nothing bad )
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4wzly0
Jimbuna
05-31-17, 03:23 AM
Could well be worth a viewing for the Sci-Fi fans out there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXC8xThdRAo
Cybermat47
05-31-17, 07:35 AM
Something interesting I've found is how different cultures make films.
In the 2014 American Godzilla film, the only people seen to die are adult Males, and, although a large amount of buildings are knocked down, the film is hardly a commentary on 9/11.
However, last year's Japanese reboot, Shin Godzilla, is almost entirely a commentary on the 3/11 triple disaster that killed 15,000 people, with clear visual similarities, and heavy political commentary on the government's failure. Despite the highly sensitive nature of the film, Shin Godzilla was the most successful Japanese film of 2016, both financially and critically.
If the American Godzilla had been made in 2006, and had Godzilla destroying airliners and skyscrapers, I doubt it would have been nearly as well received.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH59EZgI56k
However, last year's Japanese reboot, Shin Godzilla, is almost entirely a
Did you saw the full length version or the 1h40m version?
I went to see Alien: Covenant today...bahhhh more of the same and the plot has many bad writing. Go forward, explore something after the events of second film, or 3rd or even the 4th.
The comic version that come out before the third film has so much potential for good films.
Cybermat47
05-31-17, 06:24 PM
Did you saw the full length version or the 1h40m version?
The full version, I was lucky enough to see it in cinemas. Bloody amazing film!
The full version, I was lucky enough to see it in cinemas. Bloody amazing film!
Yes, I prefer the full length, it has more character development and interactions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu9Q2ZHfROM
First trailer for a upcoming Finnish war movie 'Tuntematon Sotilas', the second remake of a 1958 movie which itself is a filmatization of a 1954 novel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unknown_Soldier_(novel)).
It doesn't look bad, but there are countless of other stories that could be told from the wars instead of remaking this, again.
Red October1984
06-04-17, 11:05 PM
Not a movie, but I found Fawlty Towers on Netflix.
:Kaleun_Applaud:
It's pretty enjoyable.
Dusted off this DVD and sat back last night watching this French WW2 film, dam brutal in places but good.
Female Agents 2008
Here's the trailer..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uofMvIh2AUk
Eisenwurst
06-19-17, 02:13 PM
"In a time of ancient gods,warlords, and kings, a land in trouble cried out for a hero..... They were the Seven Samurai.... eisenwurst, Eichhornchen (bloody umlaut), Aktungby, Catfish, ... and the other 3."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mJwYgHV_Og
The movie is about group of men who took the law in their own hands.
Some clips from the film in the soundtrack video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wDyXAf2I7k
Jimbuna
06-20-17, 10:13 AM
Quite looking forward to this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcpv3l6csBw
Catfish
06-24-17, 02:59 PM
Did not see it complete yet, but looks good (actors alone..):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01TS83dzap4
Platapus
06-25-17, 06:30 AM
Just finished watching a terrible movie "King Dinosaur" (1955)
I am a big 50s-60s scifi/monster movie fan. I have seen some good ones and some bad ones, but this one takes the cake.
It is Bert I Gordon's first movie. For movie lovers, that name speaks volumes.
Like the other B.I.G. movies, there is plenty of cheezy special effects, tons of stock film, acting so bad it really can't be considered acting. What is there not to love?
But what made this movie at the bottom of the BIG barrel is the plot. Four of the world's stupidest scientists are sent to a new planet to survey it for earthling colonization. Planet looks good, but there is an ominous island in the middle of a large lake. Naturally, they explore this island and discover dinosaurs. Well actually lizards and iguanas, but to BIG they are dinosaurs. Of little surprise there is this big iguana.. uh I mean dinosaur (one Iguana to rule them all) on this island.
Predictably, some of our idiots are attacked and almost killed. They somehow escape... by simply sneaking away to safety. So far, typical cheap 50s enjoyable movie.
At the very end of the movie, these scientists decide that the only logical solution is to set off an atomic device... that they just happen to have with them (Nukes, evidently were lighter back then) and destroy all the life on this island.
Dr. Ralph Martin (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0117252/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): [after detonating an atomic bomb and watching it annihilate much of Planet Nova] Well, we've done it.
Dr. Richard Gordon (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0376415/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): Yeah, we sure have done it: Brought civilization to Planet Nova.
Dr. Ralph Martin (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0117252/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): Come on, let's go home.
That's it? Travel to a new planet and just because you know of a "king dinosaur" trapped on an easily avoidable island, the top scientists decide that nuking it is the right decision??
Well, the new planet was named Nova after all. :hmmm:
I am a big B.I.G. fan and I have copies of most of his movies. But this "when in doubt, drop the big one" was just too cheezy even for B.I.G.
The movie is 63 minutes long and I think about 30 minutes of the movie consist of stock footage.
At least B.I.G. got better... kinda. :D
Jimbuna
06-26-17, 01:58 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA0k-kQaORs
Catfish
06-27-17, 02:32 AM
"In a time of ancient gods,warlords, and kings, a land in trouble cried out for a hero..... They were the Seven Samurai.... eisenwurst, Eichhornchen (bloody umlaut), Aktungby, Catfish, ... and the other 3."
:o
Well i never ..
:haha::up:
Does Judo count? Or, wrestling with arguments :oops:
Just finished watching a terrible movie "King Dinosaur" (1955)
I am a big 50s-60s scifi/monster movie fan. I have seen some good ones and some bad ones, but this one takes the cake.
What the whole cake, candles and trimmings as well?
Jimbuna
06-27-17, 11:52 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf3lQ2DAxpQ
Watch Yojimbo and Sanjuro. Great movies and love the direction style.
And went last night to the cinema and saw Spider-Man Homecoming - great film, the best spider-man. Very entertaining, with good moments and great ties to the comics and the marvel film universe.
Jimbuna
07-12-17, 08:26 AM
I'm not really sure what to make of this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaxk5pv1yU0
BLADE RUNNER 2049 – Trailer 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZOaI_Fn5o4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atwfWEKz00U
A good sci-fi film from 1936! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Things_to_Come#References
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yop23YDHiPI
Gargamel
07-31-17, 03:47 PM
The more trailers I see for the Dark Tower, the more I'll wait for it to come out on Netflix.
I was so looking forward to this one, but they butchered the casting, IMO, and it looks like the butchered the story overall. So disappointed.
Jimbuna
08-01-17, 09:50 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue80QwXMRHg
The trailer is amazing, already seen it with the trailers from comic-con. Lets hope that is not one of those cases that the trailer is better then the movie, but since it is a marvel studios film, I think not.
The movie appears to have a 80s vibe, but it may be do to the synt music in the trailer.
I'm watching a German drama from 2016.
Terror aka The Verdict.(that is the title on Danish TV)
Story Line
A German fighter pilot is accused of having killed 164 civilians when he fired an air to air missile against an airliner, Airbus 320. The Airbus 320 had been hijacked by terrorist and this terrorist had planned to crash the plane on a filled football stadium.
It's a you-decide-the-verdict-type of drama.
Markus
Skybird
08-04-17, 05:30 PM
I'm watching a German drama from 2016.
Terror aka The Verdict.(that is the title on Danish TV)
Story Line
A German fighter pilot is accused of having killed 164 civilians when he fired an air to air missile against an airliner, Airbus 320. The Airbus 320 had been hijacked by terrorist and this terrorist had planned to crash the plane on a filled football stadium.
It's a you-decide-the-verdict-type of drama.
Markus
Saw it last year on German TV. Not too bad an effort it was. Left many idealists and ideologists as well fuming. :D
Gargamel
08-05-17, 03:41 PM
Yet again, another rant. The reviews for the Dark Tower are even worse than I expected. Not only did they make a horrible adaption of Stephen King's magnum opus, but they made a crappy movie as well. ARRG.
If anybody sees this, and is a fan of the books, please post a review.
In todays world of extended universes and multi movie projects, how could they produce this 90 minute travesty? 2 of the main characters aren't even listed as being cast!
If they had stuck to his works, this would have been at least 3 movies. And perhaps a mini series in between to cover the whole book that was a flashback. Or I could understand skipping that one altogether.
Ugggghhhh.... so disappointed.
Yet again, another rant. The reviews for the Dark Tower are even worse than I expected. Not only did they make a horrible adaption of Stephen King's magnum opus, but they made a crappy movie as well. ARRG.
If anybody sees this, and is a fan of the books, please post a review.
In todays world of extended universes and multi movie projects, how could they produce this 90 minute travesty? 2 of the main characters aren't even listed as being cast!
If they had stuck to his works, this would have been at least 3 movies. And perhaps a mini series in between to cover the whole book that was a flashback. Or I could understand skipping that one altogether.
Ugggghhhh.... so disappointed.
I think I have read some where that they are going for a tv series adaptation also. It could bring a good adaptation to the book.
Gargamel
08-07-17, 04:36 PM
I think I have read some where that they are going for a tv series adaptation also. It could bring a good adaptation to the book.
That was back when either JJ or Ron Howard was running it. It was supposed to be 3 movies with a mini series in bewteen. Just looking at the trailers I know they skipped over so much material , that there is little possibility of expanding it beyond a second movie. And nothing against Idris or Matthew, but Hugh Laurie (House) would have been the perfect Roland. Matthew would have made a great Eddie, and Idris could have been the man in Black, he suits that role so well, especially from watching him in the Wire and Luther. Of course though, it'd be racially cliche to cast him in that role, or at least some would say.
Catfish
08-12-17, 01:59 PM
A bit unrealistic :haha:, but a nice plane.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4M9UNgiyLk
Jimbuna
08-14-17, 11:59 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giozR7nb51c
^Looks like one I will gladly miss and never regret missing. :yep:
MOVIE NEWS -
Daniel Craig will make one more Bond film.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/40945305/daniel-craig-confirms-hell-play-james-bond-again
Catfish
08-16-17, 07:24 AM
about "Bright".
So it is about racism, but so that no one can protest, so that no one is racist or that racism is alive and kicking, instead of portraying the real thing they use orcs and elves. Great.
^Looks like one I will gladly miss and never regret missing. :yep:
Dito here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cdMH9q1JP0&index=39&list=PLKJizvXXTkp5jTRZXjh9V8ik66SNHW9iP
Jimbuna
08-18-17, 07:16 AM
^Classic :up:
One of the advantages of living in Hollywood is the movie studios making grand publicity stunts in order to hype their latest films. In the forty plus years I've lived here, I have seen a wide range of stunts, some actually inspired, some cringe worthy, and some begging for a WTH. Last year, there was a full size X-Wing fighter on exhibit in the middle of Hollywood Blvd. as a tie in to the latest Star Wars episode. Earlier this month, a crew from New Line Cinema began erecting a structure on a parking lot at the corner of Hollywood and Vine, with no indication of the nature of the project. At first it appeared to be a film set, a not too uncommon sight in Los Angeles, but it evolved into something more elaborate:
http://mxcdn02.mundotkm.com/2017/08/casa-terror-it-2.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35_xF2rDuRo
Inside the terrifying 'It' house that's popped up in Hollywood --
https://www.timeout.com/los-angeles/blog/inside-the-terrifying-it-house-thats-popped-up-in-hollywood-081417
The 'It' house just sort of opened. with no noticeable fanfare, so most people are just stumbling across it unawares, adding to the creepiness of the house; at night, the house is even creepier looking. The studio has hired actors to assume the role of the little boy in the yellow raincoat and they roam around the house, red balloons in hand, staying in the character of "George". While waiting to go into the house, the "George"s interact with the visitors, in character, explaining what the house is and posing with the seven person visitor groups for pictures. It is very interesting to watch the reactions of the visitors as they wait to go in and see the build up of tension as they try to anticipate what may be behind and inside the front door...
I have been by the site several times and have yet to see "IT" outside the building...
<O>
And I thought I knew my mom's taste when it came to movie. last weekend she surprised me.
It was during her visit this happened. After we had eaten, cleaning the dishes and played some cards. My Mom asked me if I had got some new dvd movies, since her last visit.
No, mom, I only got this two package Blue-ray pack, but I don't think its something for you.
What kind of movie is it ?
Both of them is with Superhero-Avengers.
I let my mom take a look at the box-
Isn't this Captain America ? Yes I said
Isn't this...what is his name....Irony Man(Danish = ironi mand)...No mom It's Iron Man.
Let us watch them.
I didn't knew my mom was a fan of superhero movies.
Markus
Von Due
08-24-17, 03:36 PM
And I thought I knew my mom's taste when it came to movie. last weekend she surprised me.
It was during her visit this happened. After we had eaten, cleaning the dishes and played some cards. My Mom asked me if I had got some new dvd movies, since her last visit.
No, mom, I only got this two package Blue-ray pack, but I don't think its something for you.
What kind of movie is it ?
Both of them is with Superhero-Avengers.
I let my mom take a look at the box-
Isn't this Captain America ? Yes I said
Isn't this...what is his name....Irony Man(Danish = ironi mand)...No mom It's Iron Man.
Let us watch them.
I didn't knew my mom was a fan of superhero movies.
Markus
:haha: Reminds me when I was visiting my folks and I turned on the telly after they had gone to bed. The flick was Starship Trooper and mom came downstairs and watched the whole thing through, and she thinks Miss Marple is bordering ultra violent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2t6X3SwEsvM
I have mixed feelings about going to see this one.
I have mixed feelings about going to see this one.
Also, but before I saw, I can not tell.
From I have read around the web, this film show (or will show) more of the world (waste lands, etc) of Blade Runner world. I do not have read the book(s), so I can not tell if this sequel will portrait the world of novels in a right way.
I recall reading that Blade Runner is a masterpiece film (for a teacher of one my courses it is one or the best sci-fi film ever and one of my best friends considers it one of the best films ever made,in several terms like shoots, cinematography,etc), but a poor adaptation of the book.
I love the film and all of the matters of it, so I can accepted that the sequel would have more action/fast time do to the times, but only if it has the same philosophical issues.
And Decker is not a replicant... :O: Skybird!:03::D
Moonlight
08-29-17, 08:57 AM
My quick review of these 2 films I've just watched with 2 blondies as the leading ladies, or should I say I watched 1 and gave the other 20 minutes and that includes the credits, although I just wonder why anyone would want to be associated with that load of junk beats the hell out of me..... so from bad to good let the blondes fight it out.
Rogue Warrior: Robot Fighter.
Atomic Blonde.
What would a character from TV's Baywatch have something in common with a world inhabited by exterminator like robots in a dystopian future?, the answer is simple, read on.
If you like sci-fi and a blonde bimbo lead character who's spent upwards of $50 grand on plastic surgery and botox you might like this film, I gave it 20 minutes before turning it off, I know I'm a sucker for punishment but even I had the common sense to turn it off before I'd got my brain frazzled beyond repair.
Anyway the film starts on a world where everything is protected from the sun and sand, well I should say not everything is protected as her bright blue eyes and 5 inch of cleavage attested to that fact, (I was already thinking she'll end up as blind as a bat and have seriously sun burned breasts if she stays on that planet too long).
Anyway Back to the film, this blonde bint has to go into battle against an AI that's bent on galactic domination (I'm sorry to say that this is not the Borg she's going up against as that would have been a great start to a film).
What else can I say, oh yes its all cgi crash bang wallop with a plot line that's got no substance to it apart from all the botox stuff injected into the lead character of course and I found out in the credits that the female lead was also a producer of the film as well, enuff said me thinks.
Stay Away from it rating, 9 out a 10.
Now this other film is a Harry Palmer cold war spy thriller type film, just think of a hot blonde who's a cold hearted killer and with a penchant for physical violence and you've got the makings of a decent film.
Now I don't usually watch these types of films as I find them all a bit slow and ponderous but this one came recommended and it didn't let me down, it is slow in a lot of places but when the action starts it was fascinating to watch a female trained killer giving as good as what she gets.
The fight scenes were cool and brutal with no quarter given by any side, it was also nice to see the blonde getting a thick lip for once as usually they portray them as unbeatable killing machines and end up after a fight looking better than they when it bloody started (I was thinking at the time whoever choreographed some of those fight scenes knew what they were doing and needless to say I was pretty impressed).
Such impressive action credentials were let down by too many plot lines I thought but it wasn't enough to have me reaching for the off button as our heroinne gets up and at em, funnily enough I was thinking I wouldn't mind getting up and at her myself if I could just shoot her in the arms and legs first. :haha:
Worth watching rating, 7 out a 10.
Jimbuna
08-29-17, 11:10 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY078G4-tm8&ytbChannel=DC%20AlertTVshows
Jimbuna
08-31-17, 07:11 AM
Probably been done to death in previous releases but my curiosity will probably mean I will be unable to resist the temptation to check this one out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdg193GvnBA
^Nah, Tim Curry was the best.
^Nah, Tim Curry was the best.
Over the top Tim Curry!:D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3ZbnfXEuyc
Eisenwurst
09-04-17, 12:24 AM
Until about a dozen years ago I didn't know this scene existed. Apparently it was omitted from releases in certain countries because it was felt that the audience wouldn't understand it.
Seen in the context of the whole film, it explains a lot. Kowalski accepts his fate, and literally embraces it.
Charlotte Rampling is brilliant as the Grim Reaper.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvdrXJUGNzo
Had some problem in my apartment so my landlord was by to fix it. He saw my shelf where I have all my DVD's and Blue-Rays.
I see you like movies, he said to me
Oh yea I like to see a good movie and sometimes I watch them more than two times
I know someone who's selling some movies if you are interested he said
How many does he have ?
I guess he has about 5000 He replied
Well I can perhaps buy a few of them, depending what they cost, have to think on my economy.
No He are selling them all in on package.
Sorry but no thanks-that much money I don't have, If we presume he wants at least 1 kr.(0.16 $) for each movie-1x5000 = 5000 D.kr.(= 805 $)
My landlord told me it was due to someone had died and the relatives was trying to sell this persons belongings
Markus
Jimbuna
09-08-17, 06:36 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT1qx-5K0y8
Watched my all time ghost film over the weekend..The Haunting, the original 1963 film.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeAzGxWlEcg
Great cast, well acted and a good story line which is almost 90% from the book.
Here is the book read by David Warner in eight parts.
The Haunting of Hill House Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkM_fz6AxFc
Eisenwurst
09-13-17, 11:42 PM
Somewhat topical forumwise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE68rRevL2g
Jimbuna
09-14-17, 05:28 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9zIIAY20gE
Moonlight
09-14-17, 11:48 AM
Lucy:
Another blonde bimbo review and this time its Scarlett Johansson in Lucy, I liked this film because there are only two plot lines to it and that is to kill or survive, and our heroinne at the start of the film is just trying to survive.
Its an action-thriller that tracks a woman who is innocently involved in a drug deal which turns sour, after getting a slap and a kicking from a thug she absorbs a lot of this powerful drug into her body which transforms her into a merciless killer who starts to evolve beyond all human logic.
Lucy:
The Dumbest Movie Ever Made About Brain Capacity, these are just a few of the negative words about this film I've read, I have no doubt that some of you will agree with them after watching it as well.
Well I don't give a monkeys hoot about what the reviewer states as "it simply defies conventional analysis" you're missing the bleeding point Mr reviewer, I don't want to bloody analyse a film I want to be entertained by it you daft pillock and that's why I decided to watch it.
Worth watching rating, 7 out a 10.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVt32qoyhi0
Jimbuna
09-15-17, 07:48 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAWTZVpvPrQ
At last I have watched Alien Covenant and what a stinker it was. I just could not give a dam about the crew who were bunch of wet washouts. I was hoping they were all killed in the first five minutes what a shame that did not happen.
THIS SECTION HAS SOME STORY LINE INFORMATION YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED IF YOU HAVE NOT WATCH IT.
I sat though this stinking mess of a film to find out David created the ALIEN! Bollocks, sorry had to be said. Did you see the size of those eggs! Hang on the Alien eggs are laid by a Queen Alien which clearly just got kicked up its butt..if they got one, roll over bitch dave is here! No I am not buying it at all, as for the new Alien's come off it, something that big bursting its way out would have killed its host before making its grand bloody entrance.
Back to David having a chin wag with one of the new Aliens oh come off it, clearly like the classic Alien it's a killing machine. And later on he's at it again with the classic Alien with some different looks. David thinks hes so dam special and top of the pecking order why play at Frankenstein, whats his goal? Wipe out the human race with a army of rampaging Aliens that will suck up to him?
The story line in places was a right dam mess and you had to be out shopping not to see those poor sods David wiped out were not engineers.
There are a number of other things but I just have to stop I am getting heated under the collar and I hear Mr Barking Mad Scott wants to make four more! Please no no no no....
I say forget it, but if you like a silly blood fest with a dreadful story line and a bunch of farts knock your self out and go for it.
UPDATE
From a one star reviewer on amazon uk
Ship carrying crew in stasis in deep-space - check
Awoken unexpectedly - check
Unexplained signal from uncharted planet - check
Go and take a look? - check
Drop ship to the surface (through bad weather) - check
All hell breaks loose on the surface - check
Drop ship destroyed - check
Second drop ship - check
Difficult landing and extraction - check
Alien sneaks aboard - check
Rogue synthetic human - check.
Cat/child makes it to the end - aaaah, OK, you got me.Oh look ALIEN & ALIENS mashed together in a badly written story line with a even more silly David story line as Dr Frankenstein.
At last I have watched Alien Covenant and what a stinker it was. I just could not give a dam about the crew who were bunch of wet washouts. I was hoping they were all killed in the first five minutes what a shame that did not happen.
Ehehehe, you and many of us.
Since Prometeus, I always thought about the thing: hey, its a prequel and they do not in the future such creatures existed. Even in Aliens the company didn't quite know what they were or could be and that is just light addressed.
After the film I ask a friend that is my film going companion and his answer was: in this days a director says that they want this and that and the writer of the script do it; my question was about if the director made this like this, should the fault be on the script and it writer?
And the movie had such plot holes and bad coherence, I thing I mad a post about it when a went see it.
From the way they go there, the medical bay scene, the Dr. Davidstein (well review by you) and the end of the film, that was soooo not expected...:03:
Did you see the Honest Trailers of it, go see it, it will make you laugh about it and that's good. :salute:
Ehehehe, you and many of us.
Since Prometeus, I always thought about the thing: hey, its a prequel and they do not in the future such creatures existed. Even in Aliens the company didn't quite know what they were or could be and that is just light addressed.
After the film I ask a friend that is my film going companion and his answer was: in this days a director says that they want this and that and the writer of the script do it; my question was about if the director made this like this, should the fault be on the script and it writer?
And the movie had such plot holes and bad coherence, I thing I mad a post about it when a went see it.
From the way they go there, the medical bay scene, the Dr. Davidstein (well review by you) and the end of the film, that was soooo not expected...:03:
Did you see the Honest Trailers of it, go see it, it will make you laugh about it and that's good. :salute:
Just seen it...:har: :har: :up:
That ending was plain silly, as David plans to use what's her name as a host. Don't tell me the queen alien is back why? David has been laying his own eggs..big ones. The queen Alien is dead long live King David the Alien maker with his magic black goo oh wait its a airborne pathogen out of a engineer thermos flask soon to be on sale on amazon or maybe those golf balls with there naughty spores that infect dumb ass crew members.
Did you see that shower scene! Most of the crew slaughtered by David's xenomorph's and these two decide to have a spot of nookie! Wow one way to get over your crew mates death's.
The shower scene was hinted in the trailers. I thought: hey, they are trying to do same terror/horror scene. I didn't expected so late in the film.
So, they wanted to relax after knowing the fact they were 2 of 4 people still remaining and :gulp::dead::D!
Here is my review in full of Alien Covenant with my other comments pasted in and a few changes all in one place now..
v2
At last I have watched Alien Covenant and what a stinker it was. I just could not give a dam about the crew who were bunch of wet behind the ears washouts whom clearly were expelled from Earth on the grounds they were a wast of space. I was hoping they were all killed in the first five minutes what a shame that did not happen.
THIS SECTION HAS SOME STORY LINE INFORMATION YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED IF YOU HAVE NOT WATCHED IT.
I sat though this stinking mess of a film to find out David created the ALIEN! Bollocks, sorry had to be said. Did you see the size of those eggs! Hang on the Alien eggs are laid by a Queen Alien which clearly just got kicked up its butt..if they got one. Roll over Queen bitch Dave is in the house and you are out of a job! No I am not buying this guff, as for the new xenomorph's come off it, something that big bursting its way out would have killed its host before making its grand bloody entrance.
Oh look ALIEN & ALIENS mashed together in a badly written story line with a silly plot about David doing a Dr Frankenstein.
Back to David having a chin wag with one of the new xenomorph's are you kidding me. Clearly like the classic Alien it's a killing machine. And later on he's at it again with the classic Alien with some different looks. David thinks he is so dam special and top of the pecking order why play at Dr Frankenstein, what is his goal? Wipe out the human race with a army of rampaging Aliens that will suck up to him?
The story line in places was a right dam mess and you had to be out shopping not to see those poor sods David wiped out were not engineers. Who ever wrote this dribble clearly wrote it in under one hour or should I say five minutes.
Did you see that shower scene! Most of the crew slaughtered by David's xenomorph's and these two decide to have a spot of nookie! Wow one way to get over your crew mates death's. It was nothing more than a cheap slapstick schlock horror scene.
That ending was plain silly, as David plans to use what's her name as a host. Don't tell me the Queen Alien is back why? David has been laying his own eggs..big ones. The Queen Alien is dead long live King David the Alien maker with his magic black goo oh wait its a airborne pathogen out of a engineer Thermos flask soon to be on sale on amazon or maybe those golf balls with there naughty spores that infect dumb ass crew members.
I hear Mr Barking Mad Scott wants to make four more! Please no no no no....
So what was good? Well the cinema photography was good but you would expect that. The new xenomorph's were ok and were far more ruthless than our classic Alien ever was but part from that nothing else was.
If you were feeling let down after Prometeus just watch this dribble and you will soon be thinking hey Prometeus was not bad in fact it was good.
I say forget it and don't even go near it but if you like a silly blood feast with a dreadful story line and a bunch of farts knock your self out and go for it.
I am not taking any chances with the up coming BLADE RUNNER 2049 that will have to wait until next year when it comes out on DVD.
I am not taking any chances with the up coming BLADE RUNNER 2049 that will have to wait until next year when it comes out on DVD.
That one is one of my want to see, I'm curious about it. But its not directed by ridley scott, so...I can or not be a good thing!
Jimbuna
09-20-17, 09:07 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byoaM4PBQeQ
^Oh look another remake..how original of Hollywood. :O:
Jimbuna
09-21-17, 10:09 AM
Ya miserable sod!! :smug:
Ya miserable sod!! :smug:
ME? :roll:
I should have become a sarcastic film critic my review of Alien Covenant made my mate laugh saying I was spot on.
Watched last night on the box Cowboys Vs Aliens or too put it another way Aliens go fishing then get their butts kicked by Jame Bond and Han Solo.
Watched last night on the box Cowboys and Aliens or too put it another way Aliens go fishing then get their butts kicked by Jame Bond and Han Solo.
And a naked Olivia Wilde, so it's a good film! :D
And a naked Olivia Wilde, so it's a good film! :D
No naughty bits in the version I saw.
No naughty bits in the version I saw.
When she "comes" back to life in the fire, she is naked (suppose to be), but no full frontal nudity.
But that existi in another movie of her, so...:03:
Catfish
10-01-17, 02:42 PM
A post-war war film.. hard to watch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hntghz3xy30
No titles or end credits, no idea if this is a low budget movie or a TV movie. That all a side I liked it, its a Sci-Fi movie where a bunch of soldiers are on a live fire 2 day exercise against military machines and yes you got it...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BknZ_hNiUBI
Jimbuna
10-02-17, 12:35 PM
A post-war war film.. hard to watch
Actually I thought that was a very good and moving film.
Thanks for sharing :up:
Eisenwurst
10-02-17, 10:48 PM
Here's a couple of clips from "Ben Hur" 1925. Amazing stuff:)
First. "The Naval Battle".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT4YBEkDoQ4
Secondly. "The Chariot Race".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_bxHsHVj20
Jimbuna
10-03-17, 06:57 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H21zi9hj9-A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWaJCOyORvI
:D
^:haha:
I see the critics who have seen the advance screening of bladerunners 2049 have in most part given it the.. :up:
What worries me they did the same with Alien Covenant. :hmmm:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oowi3GRtPRc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63fRNEYPsZM
Jimbuna
10-04-17, 07:22 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnqgCQ7Uk8g&list=PLKr_GTaIhMPNZza2LIQKbUdjqKWcr0yE9
Skybird
10-06-17, 08:03 AM
I saw Alien Covenant on DVd recently, as expected it was just so-la-la, and too predictable and just beating a dead horse for the x-th time. The end has this nasty twist, although it also was forseeable, but taken for itself, it really was a nasty little bedtime candy.
But: Blade Runner 2 is starting in german cinemas now, and I have learned about the director. His name, Denis Villeneuve, was of no big meaning to me, since I did not become aware of it, until just in recent months i linked the name to two, three very good movies i saw in the past couple of years, but somehow I did not become aware that they were by him.
The movie gets very good critics' reviews over here. And I could now imagine that maybe Villeneuve indeed delivers. At least I have more hopes now that it is at least no bad movie, as I feared for so long time. The double-failure that Scott allowed to materialise with Alien, seems to have been avoided.
And today I read in one article about the movie, what I did not know so far, it got mentioned just in one brief line. Villeneuve is doing "Dune"...? Is that confirmed, is that real? If so, wowh. Two failed projects on that in the past, it takes courage to dare it a third time. And if lade Runner 2 really is linking up well to the first one, with this director who also made "Arrival" (which I liked very much) thy might have found the callibre needed to go where Lynch and that three-part TV adaptation later tried - and failed. failed.
Is it true? Villeneuve doing Dune?
Anmyhow, after the Alien movies recently, and the - with good will - avergage films he did before them, I wonder whether Scott should not really stop it, as maker and director anyway, but maybe also as producer. It seems to me he really is beyond the climax of his ideas, and now has missed the right time to retire from film making. All his very good movies, of which there are quite some, are so long time ago.
Is it true? Villeneuve doing Dune?
Apparently yes.
http://www.ign.com/articles/2017/02/01/arrival-blade-runner-2049-director-denis-villeneuve-will-helm-dune-reboot
But I do no think that David Lynch film was a failure. The studio did impose and the the cut of film was ruined and became a bad adaptation of the novel.
But as a sci-fi film, I think it stands out very well.
I found a fan version that joined all the scenes that were not used in the film and latter come up as a TV mini-serie. The film becomes much more in tone to the book and a better adaptation.
I think Dune would work better as a television series, since there are material for it and they could adapt all the books.
Skybird
10-06-17, 10:22 AM
Apparently yes.
http://www.ign.com/articles/2017/02/01/arrival-blade-runner-2049-director-denis-villeneuve-will-helm-dune-reboot
But I do no think that David Lynch film was a failure. The studio did impose and the the cut of film was ruined and became a bad adaptation of the novel.
But as a sci-fi film, I think it stands out very well.
I found a fan version that joined all the scenes that were not used in the film and latter come up as a TV mini-serie. The film becomes much more in tone to the book and a better adaptation.
I think Dune would work better as a television series, since there are material for it and they could adapt all the books.
You mean there was a "directors cut" of the Lynch movie? I did not know that. I only know that three-part TV series that later was done from scratch, looking totally different /(and cheap), and imo being even worse. Lynch had nothing to do with that one, I think.
The Lynch movie I found to start well (Jürgen Prochnow as the old duke was an ideal cast), but then becoming shallow and very hollywoodish very quickly.
TBH, I think turning the Dune books into a good movie series, is extremely difficult, if not impossible, due to Herbert's narration style by which he worked around his limited skill as a literaric artist, while wanting to reveal complex inner world of his protagonists and their philosophical reflections. Frank herbert had stories to tell, and interesting concepts (Hellstroms Hive, The Santaroga Barrier, ...), but he was no master of wording, no artist of literature. I could imagine to turn some difficult novels into movies, but this one I would not touch if I were a film maker and had a 300 million budget. I would not do it. Villeneuve has guts, if he takes on it. If he makes it right, he will enter the Olymp of filmmaking. If he fails, his name will be burnt for long time to come. Arrival was a very good movie, and its excellence hit me totally unexpected. Maybe he has what it takes to make Dune.
Amongst all movies by Lynch that I know, I like Mullholland Drive and the original Twin Peaks series best. But Mullholland Drive really stands out, becaseu it can be completely psychoanalytically explained and logically interpreted - something that is much more difficult to achieve with the other movies of Lynch, which blurr the line between possible interpretation by reason and dreamlike irrationality more drastically. Interpreting Lost Highway is far less convincing to do, imo. Or maybe I am lacking what it needs to do so. :)
Jimbuna
10-06-17, 10:27 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdr0_kJRETY
You mean there was a "directors cut" of the Lynch movie? I did not know that. I only know that three-part TV series that later was done from scratch, looking totally different /(and cheap), and imo being even worse. Lynch had nothing to do with that one, I think.
Yes and no. During the early 2000s, with the DVDs and several movies coming out with directors cut, there was a rumour that D. Lynch's Dune had 5 or 8 hours of film and that people want him to do a directors cut or a uncut version. The problem was that it was just a rumour, Dune has near 3 hours, I think. Then in 2006 it come up a extended version and since it was not made by Lynch, the director as the script features different names.
the Alan Smithee version has been released in a two disk set containing both the Lynch version and the extended version. However, many scenes have been edited out once again. The heart plug scene when the baron is introduced is not in the extended version anymore (it is still in the original). The scene where Thufir discovers the burning wierding modules is also missing as well as Thufir's death scene. (Thufir's death scene is included as a deleted scene in the special features).
The sci-fy channel version of Dune I didn't see. I thought it was bad. But I read that this film was more in line with the book.
Still speaking of Dune, did you see the documentary about Jodorowsky Dune project?
Eisenwurst
10-07-17, 12:05 AM
"The Fall of Babylon", a 1950s documentary on the Babylon sequences from DW Griffiths Epic Silent Movie of 1916 "Intolerance".
A Cast of Thousands, great costumes and makeup, impressive sets, and great characters - particularly "Mountain Girl" and "The Kings Bodyguard".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3P6LFjZOh4
It helps if you're an old bastard like me who remembers the events depicted as they really happened:03:
Jimbuna
10-07-17, 06:29 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyJwtC8kwJM&list=PLUuBohEZf_y3Q1M64IrPBj5QBBsoN7ZLe
Skybird
10-09-17, 05:57 AM
The sci-fy channel version of Dune I didn't see. I thought it was bad. But I read that this film was more in line with the book.
It indeed is. However, the sets are cheap, the actors are lousy, and the story unfolds like dried, frozen grease. Terribly boring. It also is all too childish, too colourful, imo. Looks like an underfunded TV production, and it probbaly was right that.
But as I said, I think the Dune novels are extremely difficult to turn into good films, Herbert's narration style just does not lend itself easily to that.
Still speaking of Dune, did you see the documentary about Jodorowsky Dune project?
No. I am completely out of touch with SciFi. Unfortunately. I was big fan in the 80s and 90s, with the classics of books easily avialable. They are now harder to get, and I am unable to diferentiate between the good and the bad authors that came from the mid-90s on. I have the complete novel collection of Philip K. Dick and Frnak herbert, however, plus most of Clarke and much of Asimov, and then many single works by the good ol' classical authors.
Yes, indeed. I did saw the sequel Children of Dune, but...meh.
I know what you mean, but Dune Lynch did have the inner monologues/thinks of the characters, and after reading the book, it kind connects well, for me.
I am reading since May of last year The Dune books, I am in the 4th one. Possible after will ready Philip K. Dick book that give Blade Runner, since never read anything of him.
Here is the trailer of documentary about Dune adaptation project by Jodorowsky. It make me wonder if he had done it, what could had represented for scifi films, etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0cJNR8HEw0
Skybird
10-09-17, 09:46 AM
Blade Runner is one of those rare cases where the movie surpasses the literature it bases on in quality. The novel is not bad, but defintely not one of Dick's best ones. If you want to get started with Dick, I recommend the famous Big Threes: "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch", "UBIK", and "The Man in the High Castle". There are other good ones from his second writing phase, which was the most fruitful in quality of his three "eras", but these three books stand out, and usually get mentioned the most often by critics and fans alike.
The Three Stigmata is really mind-twisting, its Dick at his best and most typical. The deconstruction of "reality" - or what the reader holds for it - is total and complete, mercilessly finished to the last consequence.
UBIK is beside High Castle and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep Dick's most famous novel, Time magazine lists it as one of the 100 greatest books of the last century. Like Stigmata, it deconstructs realiuty and reflects on the nature of God, but the question of the relation between drug experiences and religion that gets a lot of time in Stigamta, is bypassed here. The end is again mindtwisting,but I found it to be less exhausting to my state of mind than Stigmata.
The Man in the High Castle is one of the most famous alternative reality/history stories ever, and it is exceptionally well written, too, features very good characterizations of the main actors, without needing much words for it. The psychic shock and horror the first two books can trigger, is left out, what you get is an intimate look into a United States that has lost the scond world war and is occupied by Nazi Germans in the East and Imperial Japanese in the West, who both have their different cultural ways to get along with the American natives. I found it pleasant to read, and this is right the reason why I like this book so much. He won the Hugo Gernsback Award for it, which is one of the two highest literature prizes for Science Fiction. Dick wrote this novel under counseling advise by the I Ging, so goes the story.
Do Androids dream is a good book taken for itself, but it looses to these three, and worse: it looses to the movie. I found it after I saw the movie, and compared, and that affected my vierw of the book,l of course. People who find the book first and then see the movie, may wonder about how both link up. Do not expect it to be "Blade Runner". This is not a "book to the movie" (novelization they call it, I think) written by Alan Dean Foster, both things relate to each other, but are not the same.
Skybird
10-09-17, 09:51 AM
Jodorowski, now that I watched your clip, I remember. Stills and draws from his project and sketches by Giger appeared in the german first edition of the Dune 4 novel, that was 1984 I think. I never liked, however, the combination of Giger's art with the world of Dune, to me the novels form very different images and visualizations in my imagination. Parts of that early work found their way into Lynch's movie, you can see the influence of Giger in some of the sets' interior deco.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyJwtC8kwJM&list=PLUuBohEZf_y3Q1M64IrPBj5QBBsoN7ZLe
Yo man this ish was good!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1Gqjjq1nic
Jodorowski, now that I watched your clip, I remember. Stills and draws from his project and sketches by Giger appeared in the german first edition of the Dune 4 novel, that was 1984 I think. I never liked, however, the combination of Giger's art with the world of Dune, to me the novels form very different images and visualizations in my imagination. Parts of that early work found their way into Lynch's movie, you can see the influence of Giger in some of the sets' interior deco.
Giger, for Dune, could be good if Ix planet if was to be represented or to the Guild Machines (besides the ones portrait in the film).
But I agree, Dune has a different fell/look of Giger's main work.
And Just come up from seeing Blade Runner 2049. :Kaleun_Applaud: But will wait a few days to post my thoughts about it.
Skybird
10-09-17, 01:48 PM
Ix made it into Star Trek instead. There, Ix is called Borg. :D
Just come up from seeing Blade Runner 2049. :Kaleun_Applaud: But will wait a few days to post my thoughts about it.
Not gone down well in America..
Blade Runner 2049 disappoints at US box office
Blade Runner 2049 has made far less than expected on its opening weekend at the US box office.
The $31.5m (£24.1m) total will be a major disappointment for distributor Warner Bros, which had projected ticket sales of between $45m and $50m.http://www.bbc.com/news/business-41546692
I will as normal will wait for three months for it to come out on DVD on the grounds of cost. Bus plus cinema comes to near on £20, nuts to that. My days going to the cinema are over any how I shall wait for your comments.
Ix made it into Star Trek instead. There, Ix is called Borg. :D
Eheheh :up:
Not gone down well in America..
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-41546692
I will as normal will wait for three months for it to come out on DVD on the grounds of cost. Bus plus cinema comes to near on £20, nuts to that. My days going to the cinema are over any how I shall wait for your comments.
So, like the first one, also a box office flop and we know what the film valour.
Here, Mondays and Wednesdays are the days with a promotion price at the cinemas (cheaper), one ticket is 6,05€.
I hear the running time is 2 hours 43 minutes that's a bit too long for my taste but I will judge it in three months time on DVD.
Yes, the movie is long, 163 minutes. They are attributing to that, plus the R rated (I even didn't know that, here it's 16+. Didn't see anything that can be attribute R to that film) and the demographic - that only people over 25 are going to the cinema to the see the film.
Well, it is not a movie that would appeal to younger viewers (with expections, of course).
Last week I went to see Kingsman: The Golden Circle. A group of kids, possible between 12-15 (+/-) was also there.
Before the film, one of the trailers was Geostorm, a upcoming disaster movie. The cgi of the trailer (and so, of the film) was so terrible and the story may be, but after it ended, their reaction was: "oh, it looks so cool". :huh:
The trailer for Blade Runner 2049 was the last one, but after it, they didn't express the same thing, or "it can be fun or interesting", etc.
It would be normal to expect that the going demographics is quite distinct.
Well, here are my thoughts of the film!
I liked, liked a lot. I enjoy it, but it is not a mind blowing experience, if someone is expecting that. Of course, that is, for me. Also, the film is quite slow, with some action in the beginning and then takes pace in starting to unravel the action, but I did'nt find it boring.
The film is very well made and filmed/shot, I enjoyed several film planes/angles. As in last film of the director, Arrival, the colour tone is very light gray, that is quite right for the continuous rainy weather of LA, as in Blade Runner, but I preferred the orange tone when the main character goes to another city.
The soundtrack is good, but I would have loved if they went more "Vangelian" in some musics.
I do not want to expose the plot, when more of you seen it, we can discuss it.
The film tries and hits to stand on its own. It is a sequel but they do present a new story with new elements.
There is, of course, a few references to first movie, but they are quite good placed. One for me was a surprise, because I was not expecting; another was foreseeable with the unavailing of the story. Also the brand products displacements are a bit in your face, but since that kind of future as does, they do blend in perfectly.
What I missed was the claustrophobic ambient of the streets, that exists in Blade Runner. They do show that in a new way,but it lacks, for me, the crowed streets environments.
The questions about life/death, are one/we alive, biological/artificial and so on, mainly focus in the replicants and the philosophical discussions about it in the first movie do have a bit of an update here, but that would be reveal a bit of the plot.
R. Gosling does a good job, with several emotional and non emotional scenes and Harrison Ford is also quite good again as an older Deckard; the support cast is also fine and Jared Leto for me was quite good in that role (not a big one, pitty).
^I don't know how the movie is rated in your country but over here it has been given a Cert 15 meaning you must be 15 years and above this would suggest nude scenes, mild sex scenes and mild violence. I know its more of a plodding film than a action film, we all know movie trailers use the eye grabbing scenes.
Thanks for your review.
I believe the US R is Cert 17, but in most other countries that translates to Cert 15.
They are attributing to that, plus the R rated (I even didn't know that, here it's 16+.
It's for above sixteen years old. But yes, the movie has nude scenes and some violence.
I thought the R was like +18 (above eighteen years old) here that corresponds to adults. But normally this last category was always reverse for erotic/porn/extreme violent movies - war,gore,horror/terror, etc.
Skybird
10-11-17, 06:02 PM
I liked this old adventure by Westwood, Blade Runner. I always considered it to be a brilliant idea to have its plot running parallel and simultaneously to that of the movie, but another Blade Runner and another case, that way one could touch on and even cross the path of Rick deckard'S story and benefit from its settings, without needing to play a game where the story is known from all beginning on (when you would have been needed to simply replay the movie). They also caught the mood and atmosphere of the movie perfectly, right down to the musical score. Superb game.
Trailer for the "The Disaster Artist" about the making of "The Room".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Qa6Flvv11w
Brilliant! :har:
Watched PATTON yesterday on Film4, love the bit hes in a meeting moaning about air cover and then a couple of ME-110's shoot up the place and old Patton takes them on with his pistol. :)
George C Scott at his finesse.
Thor: Ragnarok - great action super-hero fun film with a 80's vibe and a great soundtrack! Very well made and that Led Zeppelin song...:Kaleun_Applaud:
Spartacus, Gods of the Arena, juuuuust a little nudity and sex scenes,lol Pretty gory in between the rest of the stuff!:D
Jimbuna
10-31-17, 02:08 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH2BZgbbKjI
Eisenwurst
11-01-17, 06:27 PM
A fun film from the mid 60s. Great scenery!!!!!, Memorable characters especially the Strongman and the Magician.
Heaps of action, and doesn't take itself too seriously.:):):)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZJl2y5ilDk
Skybird
11-08-17, 07:01 PM
I saw Blade Runner 2049 today.
Good news first: the movie does not damage, cripple, violate the heritage of the first Blade Runner. Great relief! After the very disappointing Prometheus and the mediocre Covenant Alien movies, another blow delivered to a classical great movie was my biggest fear.
The movie is a slow movie, and it is long, and I liked the weight of that. The timeline gets developed logically, the future adapts to the fundaments set by the first movie naturally, you see a believable change in visual styles and looks of the city, indeed there are 34 years that have passed, the place looks differently, but not too differently, and it easily reveals were it was coming from. Back then the world was broke. Now it is even more so, hopelessly. The visual style has changed like from computer toys of the late 80s to sterile Apple design of today. Elegant, but cold. Back then it as dirty, but more playful, colourful.
Pale colours, not so colourful like the first movie. Goslin does a solid, but not more, performance, the old Harrison Ford however - boy, that is old rocks and granite turning to life, an overwhelming screen presence of this collection of years, bitter eyes and grim wrinkles! Only rarely Ford has delivered such a convincing, intense performance. Does little with gesture - he must not, he let his grim, bitter eyes do the job, and what a job that is! Excellent acting. Very economic, minimalistic, not one move too much. Damn, that is an old angry dog, you see it!
The story also is logically unfolding, and picks things up in the first movie, carrying them further into the future in a convincing, believable way. The philosophical implications of the changes to the world, and its sociology, are bitter: hell has taken over and calls itself heaven, that all-powerful it now is, and a later victory of those assumed to be if not the good so at least hopefully the better - or shall I say: more human - ones, is not at all a certainty in the future beyond the the movie's end. This grim ending is one that does justice to the general scepticsm in Philip Dick'S works, and it is consistent with the general tone and mood set by both Blade Runner movies.
The new Tyrell is a bad boy like you see them rarely. Its as if Satan himself has climbed up to Earth to claim the throne of light, calling his demons angels and unleashing the legions to consume themselves. He reminded me of de Niro as Louis Cypher in Angel Heart, and I liked the evil wickedness around him, last time I enjoyed such a bad boy was Donald Sutherland in the now famous - and great! - Hunger Games-movies.
The music and accoustic background is a mix of Vangelis-style, original samples from the first movie, and new somewhat cacophonic noise like in Koyanisquatsi.
However:
Taken for itself, this is a very impressive and rocksolid, a really good movie. I unconditionally admit that.
But it does not connect to me the way and as intensely, as the first one did. The first has something emotional in it that deeply touched me inside, and still does until today. It impacted in my life and influenced me for many, many years. I must have seen it 30, 40 times, I know it inside out, every scene, every shot, every line of text, every detail. It has a certain, in a way playful, charme. The characters, Deckard and Rachel, but also Batty and the other replicants, had something that lets the new characters pale in emotional colours. The old movie was touching. The new one is impressive, but not touching, the characters leave you somewhat cold. You never forget that you are a watcher, a visitor, the movie does not suck you into its story and world. There is a special, a very fragile, a very delicate ingredient missing in the new movie, that the old one had. Ford steals the show from Goslin. Goslin is solid in how he acts, but he is quite limited in his capabilities. Nothing to really attack him for, but then: also nothing to really applaude him for. He acts minimalistically, like Ford. But Ford has something that Goslin has not: a brute forced overload of intense presence. Goslin only has his unmoving face.
Thats why I think while this is a very good movie for sure, it cannot keep up with the first one. It also will not reach its highly influential classical, legendary status and reputation, I think.
And you know what? I think that is good so.
Very good movie. I absolutely recommend it. Well done, Villeneuve.
P.S.
The character that connected most to me - was this extraordinarily ugly dog. :) And by that I mean the real dog there was, not Ford.
The holo-lover and K's relation to it, is a clever, though biting, bitter twist. Very good idea to have this included.
So you like it, hei?:D
The character that connected most to me - was this extraordinarily ugly dog. :) And by that I mean the real dog there was, not Ford.
Yes and we never know what happened to him. :(
Skybird
11-09-17, 10:38 AM
So you like it, hei?:D
Yes and we never know what happened to him. :(
Öh... äh... hell, yes! ;) That were two hours fourty well spent. Some say the movie is too long for its story. I disagree, it perfectly matches.
^Indeed. But I do not mind if a film is long if I am liking it. And I have seen Manoel de Oliveira movies...
Now, he is doing Dune, so... I want 201.../202... already!
I was watching ALIEN 2003 Directors cut on my wide screen TV over the weekend and it was great. Must watch ALIENS Special Edition this weekend.
Walt Disney has announced a deal to make three new Star Wars movies.
The company said it had struck a deal with Rian Johnson, director of the upcoming "Star Wars: The Last Jedi", to create a new trilogy of the science fiction blockbuster.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-41932861
In a galaxy where you live...
Disney screws you with another dreadful trilogy so badly written with so many flaws and plot holes you will not believe it. Staring a bunch of actors no one knows about and who can not act for toffee. Who cares the CGI will blow you away into next week where you will say wow I want more.
https://i.makeagif.com/media/9-23-2015/Ok9k97.gif
The thing is, the expanded universe had many great stories to be put on film or go to the KOTOR years and do something new.
Now it may be just "Hei, it's Star Wars, it would do great or be good and give a lot of money"!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNPHMd0WgzU
ARRHEEEE...My jaw aches from so much...:har: :har: :har: :har:
Jimbuna
11-15-17, 07:22 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymM040c7594
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayE6IKs25J8
:haha:
Jimbuna
11-24-17, 07:08 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeSxg1HRmPY
Link to the full 1989 Finnish war movie Talvisota (The Winter War). Worth a watch, if you haven't seen it before. :up: (Eng subs)
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3qol47
LA Times review from 1989:
http://articles.latimes.com/1989-12-08/entertainment/ca-50_1_russian-invaders
It is a grueling, superb and altogether rewarding achievement, with glorious cinematography and exceptional sound. It has a tremendous, agonizing immediacy yet preserves a detached perspective throughout. It has a whopping 196-minute running time, yet is so absorbing that it does not seem overly long.
Jimbuna
12-11-17, 06:06 AM
This was aired on UK tv last night and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_sRy4XCr1g&list=PLbRP5CRn57zAHaYJjEQRnrSoSPDFGzzkE&ytbChannel=Unbroken%20fULL%20MOVie
Star Wars Episode VIII - The Last Jedi
Just come up of seeing it, I liked. It didn't surprised me as Rogue One, but it is far better then the previous film (why they are bringing abrams back for the next episode, arrrghhhhhhh)!
It is not a rip-off of The Empire Strikes Back, but some scenes are nostalgic of it. On the other hand, it has great new scenes and things that one not expecting. A few questions are answered in a good way, hope that are staying like that.
A few things still bug me, but they are bit normal in SW universe and of course a few plot holes, again, normal ones in SW.
Overall, a good film and a good Star Wars film.
Skybird
12-16-17, 07:42 AM
Reviews of Star Wars are coming in.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-42378638
Disney so far ha snot ruined the frnahcise in excessive digging for coins, while not breaking new ground like the first movies did back in the 80s, I thought the past two movies of the past 2 years were not bad. I mean of cours eit remains to be and never will be anything else but Star Wars - but while not being more, also not being less.
kilerkg
12-16-17, 09:19 AM
Definitely going to give it a miss watching the last jedi in the cinema after see force awakens and the reviews don't seem to be any better this time around. It's a shame really, there's a lot of good lore to explore in star wars.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axBiR8ZipPM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4R53qvwbag
Watched the final part of "The Hobbit" last night, on the whole all three parts well made but far far to long.
Jimbuna
12-24-17, 06:39 AM
My lad was visiting the very spot where that was filmed in New Zealand a few weeks ago.
https://i.imgur.com/zbi8sYM.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/7I2yzuG.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/jfgjOTr.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/KOT8swH.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/ELggUf4.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/JhhA7Tz.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/pP4GpZ3.jpg
Fubar2Niner
12-24-17, 08:49 AM
^ Fantastic pics mate, young Buna looks a chip off the old block :salute:
Jimbuna
12-24-17, 09:50 AM
^ Fantastic pics mate, young Buna looks a chip off the old block :salute:
Cheers bud and yes, I am a bit proud of him.
He's spending christmas and new year in the Phillipines the jammy bugga.
Today I saw Transformers The Last Knight.
Only thing I can say about the movie - I'm not going to buy it.
Markus
Today I saw Transformers The Last Knight.
Only thing I can say about the movie - I'm not going to buy it.
Markus
I bet you regret watching it. :03:
Eichhörnchen
12-25-17, 08:09 AM
I just got the "Fast And Furious" 8-movie boxed set for Christmas
I just got the "Fast And Furious" 8-movie boxed set for Christmas
Yea......right.....moving on.
I bet you regret watching it. :03:
Already after about 10 minutes more or less I thought-What a crap, but I have paid 49 Danish kroner for 48 hours rent so I'm going to watch it to the end.
Wonder if they could have made it better ?
Markus
Watched Jurassic World on the box and what can i say...A super man made dinosaur goes on a killing spree while this nut case trains raptors which some one else wants for the military use. Now where have we seen that one before....? :hmmm: Yes..ALIENS..oh dear short on ideas were they, well over all it was alright but the story has already been done.
Eisenwurst
12-27-17, 01:02 AM
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4yo3rf
I saw this at the flicks when it came out. Not a bad film, Mick Jagger's quite a good actor.
Jimbuna
12-27-17, 08:59 AM
Paddington 2 for the win.
Watched Operation Daybreak on the TV today.
Jimbuna
12-28-17, 09:36 AM
Watched American Sniper for the second time on Boxing Day night then realised it was directed by Clint Eastwood :doh:
Eichhörnchen
12-28-17, 03:58 PM
Binge-watching the Fast & Furious movies... no.4 tonight
Jimbuna
12-29-17, 07:08 AM
Looking forward to this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW7ImhXMrl8&ytbChannel=ONE%20Media
I may go and see this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKW4KdOZeN8
Red October1984
01-02-18, 01:33 AM
Binge-watching the Fast & Furious movies... no.4 tonight
Tokyo Drift is my favorite. Garbage acting, garbage writing, just the correct amount of ridiculous. :Kaleun_Applaud:
I hate them, but damn I do love those films at the same time. As a car guy, its mandatory that i've at least seen them once. :haha:
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Have just seen Star Wars The Last Jedi after going all year avoiding every single trailer, poster and article.
I.....uh.....still don't know what I think of that entry in the series. :doh:
Jimbuna
01-02-18, 06:31 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjDjIWPwcPU
Recently watched ''Yamato" about the titular Japanese battleship. Solid movie, one of the few I've been able to find on the war from an IJN perspective.
Jimbuna
01-04-18, 09:48 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtHTpf_dE_k&ytbChannel=ONE%20Media
Yesterday I saw an old classic. Have seen this movie several times by now.
Dr Strangelov.
I think it's one of the best Anti-war movies there is.
Markus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1a-HhylQj48
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCT4xTywUEA
Jimbuna
01-08-18, 12:14 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDshY43Ol2U&ytbChannel=Lionsgate%20Movies
Gargamel
01-08-18, 11:22 PM
Star Wars, the Last Jedi: (light spoilers)
2/5 stars. Considered asking for my money back.
Some of the prequels were better. They definitely had a better story line. This one was no more than a rehash of the most popular elements of Jedi and Empire.
When will the Empire (et al) figure out how to make space ships without giant weak points in them? Rogue One explained that with the death star, cool. But int his one, one little fighter clears off all the AA guns on the deck of the ship, and then one slow as heck bomber is able to drop a few bombs onto a single point and shatter the ship.
Too many light gags that really took me out of the story. The demonic flying penguins were cute, but I started calling the one JarJar.
Way to many plot holes. Things that wouldn't happen, or couldn't happen, were happening too often.
If you haven't seen it yet, wait. Wait for netflix or a dvd rental at worst.
Eichhörnchen
01-09-18, 06:35 AM
Tokyo Drift is my favorite. Garbage acting, garbage writing, just the correct amount of ridiculous. :Kaleun_Applaud:
I hate them, but damn I do love those films at the same time. As a car guy, its mandatory that i've at least seen them once. :haha:
Just seen number eight and you're right: ridiculous and fantastic at the same time; old fashioned tough-guy bonding with the most ludicrous stunts ever... and all these bald guys kicking ass big time :) No.8 must be one of the best action movies I've ever watched...
it's a pity they couldn't get Arnie and Sly in there too
Jimbuna
01-09-18, 10:23 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz2FKVX8S7o&ytbChannel=ONE%20Media
Star Wars, the Last Jedi: (light spoilers)
2/5 stars. Considered asking for my money back.
Some of the prequels were better. They definitely had a better story line. This one was no more than a rehash of the most popular elements of Jedi and Empire.
When will the Empire (et al) figure out how to make space ships without giant weak points in them? Rogue One explained that with the death star, cool. But int his one, one little fighter clears off all the AA guns on the deck of the ship, and then one slow as heck bomber is able to drop a few bombs onto a single point and shatter the ship.
Too many light gags that really took me out of the story. The demonic flying penguins were cute, but I started calling the one JarJar.
Way to many plot holes. Things that wouldn't happen, or couldn't happen, were happening too often.
If you haven't seen it yet, wait. Wait for netflix or a dvd rental at worst.
Oh come off it will you, I knew all that was possible. :haha:
Now give me the nuts and bolts and sod the spoilers. :) :03:
ALIENS...B-Movie set under the sea...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=120_wdPVVNo
Red October1984
01-09-18, 05:05 PM
Star Wars, the Last Jedi: (light spoilers)
2/5 stars. Considered asking for my money back.
I won't be asking for money back, but I am not sure I liked it as a Star Wars film. The split plot in the movie is what killed it.
Just seen number eight and you're right: ridiculous and fantastic at the same time; old fashioned tough-guy bonding with the most ludicrous stunts ever... and all these bald guys kicking ass big time :) No.8 must be one of the best action movies I've ever watched...
it's a pity they couldn't get Arnie and Sly in there too
Driving fast causes hair loss. :haha:
8 bugged me because an Akula suddenly grew vertical launch tubes.
Jimbuna
01-10-18, 07:02 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdnMTM5_6Cg
^Fantasy trailer, fan made. :haha:
^Fantasy trailer, fan made. :haha:
And it is and will better than other official Terminator movie that will be made in the future! :D
Jimbuna
01-11-18, 06:52 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTfe2Manwmo
Jimbuna
01-16-18, 10:44 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSolF3QBVBY
Jimbuna
01-17-18, 08:03 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HrHC1yHkYM
Jimbuna
01-18-18, 07:25 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOwRVObPI08
Eichhörnchen
01-18-18, 08:01 AM
^ Moira got me "The Exception" for Christmas
Jimbuna
01-18-18, 08:31 AM
Nice one, I'm looking forward to seeing that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb49-oV0F78
Jimbuna
02-13-18, 01:48 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaK_yysG6z0
Eisenwurst
02-13-18, 11:01 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUuEWI6F3dQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk8jIrVJw34
A great "Period" film from the mid '70s. Lots of action, laughs, contemporary music soundtrack.
However it does push the envelope languagewise, but it's all in context.
Well worth watching.:up:
Jimbuna
02-14-18, 06:09 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acQyrwQyCOk
Catfish
02-17-18, 08:09 AM
The man from earth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BbZ4n2C4Os
Jimbuna
02-17-18, 08:58 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9GO3pPbudA
Here in Hollywood, there is what is called the "Awards Season"; starting with the Golden Globes and ending pretty much with the Oscars, all manner of awards presentations happen with regularity. A by-product of this award frenzy is a whopping amount of active campaigning by the various movie studios, producers, stars and anyone else who could conceivably have a possibility to be nominated for an award. Massive billboards are erected, the sides of buses are splashed with adverts and all the periodicals carry full page adverts with the same message: "For Your Consideration...". Abbreviated to "FYC", the season is in full swing; I have seen a lot of really intensive campaigning, but rarely have I seen the all-out push being done for the movie Dunkirk; everywhere you go and every media outlet in town is deluged with adverts and promos touting Dunkirk as being near the second coming; if the film fails to get the big awards at the Oscars, it is going to be a rather big embarrassment for whoever is behind the campaign...
Sometimes an overly aggressive campaign can backfire, even when it actually succeeds: When the film Amadeus was up for awards, Tom Hulce (Mozart) and F. Murray Abraham (Salieri) were both nominated for Best Actor; Abraham launched an all-out, no prisoners campaign while Hulce took a more traditional low-key and dignified stance; Abraham won the Oscar, but, in the process offended a lot of people in the film industry with his tactics, including those who felt, in a way, Abraham had 'stolen' the Oscar from Hulce; normally, winning an Oscar gives an actor a higher profile and vastly more opportunities in casting, but the was a sort of tacit backlash towards Abraham and his career, instead of rising, stalled and faded...
<O>
Eichhörnchen
02-17-18, 05:59 PM
Maybe it's a Freudian thing... a need to mount a titanic (oops) campaign to match the effort of 1940
Jimbuna
02-18-18, 10:23 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZXnYVPDlbQ
Mr Quatro
02-20-18, 12:10 PM
anyone seen this one? Watching it right now ... really go so far with Gary Cooper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01TS83dzap4
Jimbuna
02-20-18, 01:10 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4quvCgiuBxs
Eichhörnchen
02-22-18, 04:00 PM
Won't be missing this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgmMIisbufo
Jimbuna
02-23-18, 06:57 AM
^Post moved to more appropriate thread.
Jimbuna
02-27-18, 03:14 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg-wlEgGVFM
^That's not a movie, that's a TV series, the end bit was the massive give away. :O::O:
Jimbuna
02-28-18, 10:47 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SMfPFFtcjQ
Rockstar
02-28-18, 11:31 AM
Bet ya didn't know it was the women behind the man who made it happen. Its all here, Its all true and it passed the British Board of Film Censors too!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5O2dg2NG1I
Yeah, and none of the actresses are mentioned on the lobby card... :haha:
<O>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SggkMHx4GhQ&t=0s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SggkMHx4GhQ&t=0s:D)
Jimbuna
03-01-18, 07:17 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9PkToULL1c
^Looks awful, looks like a carry on film.
Eichhörnchen
03-02-18, 04:40 AM
"Carry On Up Uranus"
Jimbuna
03-02-18, 08:04 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0hCmsLCPB8
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