Author Topic: The General Movie Thread (news, reviews, random thoughts etc.) (Read 274284 times)

Tuffty · « **Reply #500 on:** June 10, 2007, 12:08:53 PM »

Fearless - 5/10

Not the best Jet Li movie ever, but nowhere as bad as The One.

dknight22 · « **Reply #501 on:** June 10, 2007, 03:55:31 PM »

spiderman 3... yea i havent been updated in my movies lately

ill watch pirates 3 and oceans 13 soon

Saburo · « **Reply #502 on:** June 10, 2007, 11:15:32 PM »

Infernal Affairs (2002)
Tony Leung, Andy Mau, Anthony Wong, Eric Tsang
Dir. Andrew Lau and Alan Mak

Finally got around to watching this last night, after leeching it months ago. I'm not an aficionado of HK cinema but it was good to see faces I actually recognized (from old John Woo movies). There's a lucid nature to movies from Hong Kong that I always forget about and always grateful for. There's a bunch of characters here and I'm always afraid that I'll need a scorecard to keep track of all the machinations.

No real breakthroughs or revelations for me here, just solid entertainment. I have no real desire to experience the entire trilogy which, like most movies, doesn't require one. Oh, and the psychologist is a BABE! [insert male babbling here]

Everyone else has seen the movie and I'm only now catching up.

*** (out of ****).

StreakInTheSky · « **Reply #503 on:** June 11, 2007, 03:06:31 PM »

Knocked Up

Hilarious shit.

THUNDERDUCK · « **Reply #504 on:** June 12, 2007, 06:23:41 AM »

Ocean's 13

uverkuu · « **Reply #505 on:** June 12, 2007, 07:36:38 AM »

The Messenger

JFC · « **Reply #506 on:** June 12, 2007, 07:32:37 PM »

Just finished watching Life is Beautiful ("La Vita e Bella").

Absolutely brilliant.

solar2504 · « **Reply #507 on:** June 13, 2007, 05:39:05 AM »

Last movie I watched was Breach, it sucked.

Aioros · « **Reply #508 on:** June 16, 2007, 03:08:16 PM »

Fantastic Four 2: Rise of the Silver Surfer

Rina the Robot · « **Reply #509 on:** June 19, 2007, 09:45:37 AM »

Rambo III

RatBastich · « **Reply #510 on:** June 20, 2007, 01:02:35 AM »

Ghost Rider

vergil83 · « **Reply #511 on:** June 20, 2007, 09:38:18 AM »

Fantastic Four: Rise of The Silver Surfer

RatBastich · « **Reply #512 on:** June 20, 2007, 01:01:39 PM »

FF2: Rise Of The Silver Surfer

Loser87 · « **Reply #513 on:** June 21, 2007, 03:58:37 AM »

200 pounds of beauty Made me laugh and cry >;P

chera · « **Reply #514 on:** June 22, 2007, 06:21:55 AM »

4 movies in one day at the local cineplex:
- Surfs Up. Mediocre, good fx
- Knocked up. Funny, but a lot of the jokes had nothing to do with the movie
- 28 Weeks Later. Excellent, just as good as the beginning
- Bug. Interesting, but the finish was anti-climatic. Everyone else in the theater hated it.

Tanier · « **Reply #515 on:** June 22, 2007, 06:49:58 AM »

Spiderman 3 the day after it came out

i need to get out more right? think I'll watch 28 Days later tomorrow if i remember.

Tuffty · « **Reply #516 on:** June 23, 2007, 10:35:23 PM »

Lucky Number Slevin - 8/10

The best Tarintino movie that Tarintino never made

Saburo · « **Reply #517 on:** June 25, 2007, 09:47:55 AM »

武士の一分

Bushi no Ichibun (Love and Honor, 2006)
Kimura Takuya, Dan Rei, Sasano Takashi
Dir. Yamada Yoji

No spoilers here; everything here should be consumed as fresh as possible. It's enough that the star, King Kimutaku of SMAP, is so well-known the potential of distraction is already high. Imagine that: Kimutaku in a samurai role. It's not even his first one (he did a TV version of "Ryoma ga Yuku," a jidaigeki title that's probably been done since the fifties).

I saw the first of director Yamada's so-called trilogy ("Tasogare Seibei") a few years ago at a small art-house museum and was impressed with how he was able to render with great might a story about simple people caught in not-so-simple circumstances. There's a vital realism to how he portrays feudal life in Japan. The castles, kimono and topknots are there, just like TV, but the fantasy gloss is greatly reduced and a greater emphasis on how people live.

Well worth your time (and download, if applicable).

***1/2 (out of ****).

arun.yothin · « **Reply #518 on:** June 25, 2007, 11:29:17 AM »

Reno 911: Miami

Funny ass shit!

RatBastich · « **Reply #519 on:** June 26, 2007, 02:04:37 PM »

2 Fast 2 Furious

Author Topic: The General Movie Thread (news, reviews, random thoughts etc.) (Read 274284 times)

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