Author Topic: The General Movie Thread (news, reviews, random thoughts etc.) (Read 275970 times)

ripchak · « **Reply #1120 on:** February 25, 2009, 01:03:24 AM »

i thought arnold wasn't going to be in movies while he is governor... in fact, ever again.

JFC · « **Reply #1121 on:** February 25, 2009, 03:39:41 AM »

^
As Bond once said, "Never say never again".

SomethingWild · « **Reply #1122 on:** February 27, 2009, 10:30:10 PM »

Watching King Kong atm.. it started out pretty good, but it's getting stupid. Dinosaurs, massive cgi scenes etc.. and it's waaay too long.

ripchak · « **Reply #1123 on:** February 28, 2009, 09:17:45 AM »

the last dragon is mildly entertaining

Tuffty · « **Reply #1124 on:** March 01, 2009, 08:19:09 PM »

Watched a few movies recently and forgot to update:

Afro Samurai - 6/10

All style, little substance.

There Will Be Blood - 9/10

Daniel Day Lewis rightly deserving an Oscar for his performance here.

Kiss The Girls - 6/10

Decent serial killer flick with good performances, but the horribly cliched ending lets it down

Death Note - 9/10

Can't really go wrong with DN's story in my eyes.

Cloverfield - 7/10

Well filmed monster movie that thankfully doesn't overstay it's welcome.

coachie · « **Reply #1125 on:** March 03, 2009, 07:19:59 PM »

I don't know if it has been mentioned but there's a new Red Sonja movie in the making starring Rose McGowan as the blade wielding red head.
I love (think what you want of that

) the 80's movie, Arnie & Brigitte Nielsen (I had the biggest crush on her back then

) ftw
I'm looking forward to this new version. Seems it's not a direct remake but something new along the story of the comics.

Sunday evening I watched X-Cross and wow fun movie, I was expecting something different and was pleasantly surprised, had a good few laughs and that evil scissors girl totally reminded me of Rika in Sukeban Deka

Saburo · « **Reply #1126 on:** March 06, 2009, 09:02:34 AM »

Finally saw RELIGULOUS, Bill Maher's take on religion all over the planet. NOT a film for the easily offended.

Of COURSE I loved it. Classic Maher and laugh-out-loud funny.

LaJon · « **Reply #1127 on:** March 06, 2009, 09:20:25 AM »

Been going through and watching a bunch of old classics that I've never seen before. Better late than never, I guess. Glad I am though, cause they've all been great.

Recently:
A Dog Days Afternoon
The Dead Poets Society
All the President's Men
The Sting
Citizen Kane
The Grapes of Wrath

Any suggestions on where to go next? There's so many to chose from that I don't even know where to begin.

coachie · « **Reply #1128 on:** March 06, 2009, 11:50:46 PM »

Went to see Watchmen today and wow that movie was amazing.
I don't know the comic books and I basically expected "just another of those Superhero movies"

Masa · « **Reply #1129 on:** March 11, 2009, 06:40:04 PM »

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Arnold Talks About His Terminator and Expendables Cameos

I've said before that this may finally be the year that we see Arnold Schwarzenegger return to the big screen, if only just briefly, but it looks like it will happen. Arnold appeared at the 2009 Arnold Classic and TheArnoldFans.com was there to ask him about appearing in both McG's Terminator Salvation and Sylvester Stallone's The Expendables. He gave a lengthy political answer to the question, but in brief, he said that he will shoot a very small cameo in Expendables and he might show up in Terminator, but he doesn't want McG to sell the movie based entirely on his appearance. I don't think that'll be a problem!

You can read the full transcript on their site, but I've pulled the most important parts to read below.

"As I said to the director when they began that I wish them the best of luck, that I'm happy that they move forward with the franchise, I am very happy with where I am with my profession as the governor and they should try to find a way of doing a story that does not include me at all, not even one single shot in it. I don't believe in that. To kind of have them go out and promote the movie and say you know Arnold is in the movie and everyone thinks that I'm the Terminator and in fact you only see one second of me in there and so I don't think that's the right thing to do. And you know that's the danger of that, and that's why I feel reluctant to be part of the movie in the first place. So it doesn't get promoted that way."

"Naturally when [Sly] asked me if I would do a cameo, which will just be something quick, like I walk out of a hotel or out of a office building and he will walk up and we will bump into each other and there will be some mumbling and then we will walk off. So it will be something very simple, that will be again, just a cameo, so that's what we're going to do. I promised him I'd do that and I'm looking forward to that."

It obviously sounds like he'll show up in The Expendables more than Terminator Salvation, though I don't think McG will give up until he sneaks Arnold in there somehow. As McG has hinted at previously, we may see a younger, 1984-like Arnold in his movie, which could be a completely CGI creation, without his approval, although we'll have to wait until May to see that. Whatever happens, I'm excited to see Arnold appearing in some movies again. I miss the guy, he's been away from Hollywood for too long, and although I know he's the Governator int the state I now live in, he needs some screen time, too!

http://www.firstshowing.net/2009/03/11/arnold-talks-about-his-terminator-and-expendables-cameos/

Saburo · « **Reply #1130 on:** March 14, 2009, 02:13:00 AM »

Very interesting bit on the story/character development in the first stages of "Raiders of the Lost Ark":

http://mysterymanonfilm.blogspot.com/2009/03/raiders-story-conference.html

Too bad they couldn't save "Indy 4."

DJ Maimai · « **Reply #1131 on:** March 14, 2009, 03:56:21 AM »

Anyone know if the live action movie of Blood The Last Vampire is coming out in theaters in America/Canada? If it is I'm tooooooootally going.
It looks KICK ASS.

SomethingWild · « **Reply #1132 on:** March 14, 2009, 02:01:35 PM »

Quote from: Saburo on March 06, 2009, 09:02:34 AM

Finally saw RELIGULOUS, Bill Maher's take on religion all over the planet. NOT a film for the easily offended.

Of COURSE I loved it. Classic Maher and laugh-out-loud funny.

+1, great documentary. Very funny.

"It's not a whale, it's a big fish... yeah, that makes sense"

Chika-chan · « **Reply #1133 on:** March 14, 2009, 07:32:55 PM »

Watched the Beatles' HELP! yesterday. Such a good movie, they had me in stitches.

Tuffty · « **Reply #1134 on:** March 15, 2009, 04:02:51 PM »

Death Note : The Last Name - 8/10

Again, can't go wrong with the story. Though having the Red Hot Chili Peppers as the title track definately does not fit it

I'm A Cyborg, But That's OK - 8/10

Utterly surreal comedy from Park Chan Wook. Made me laugh. The yodelling/choir girl was a real cutie! That song she sung has been stuck in my head all day!

Masa · « **Reply #1135 on:** March 16, 2009, 07:50:19 AM »

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Now They've Crossed The Line - A MacGyver Movie?!

It's a sad day for Hollywood. They've finally crossed that line that no one wanted them to ever cross. New Line has greenlit a MacGyver
feature film. Legendary producer Dino De Laurentiis and his daughter Raffaella are producing, along with series creator Lee Zlotoff. No word on whether the original MacGyver, Richard Dean Anderson, will be involved, but our guess is that he's not going to have anything to do with this. New Line hasn't hired a writer yet either, but they hope to find a script "that can acknowledge how the concept has staked a place into pop culture yet still makes for a serious and fun adventure movie."

As a quick refresher, MacGyver was an adventure TV series that first debuted in 1985 on ABC and eventually got two spin-off made-for-TV movies both in 1994. Richard Dean Anderson starred as an incredibly resourceful secret agent for the Phoenix Foundation who frequently would escape from dangerous situations with ingenious and lightning-quick engineering trickery (refer to this MythBusters episode). If this news itself wasn't painful enough, just listen to this pitiful pun from New Line's Richard Brener. "We think we're a stick of chewing gum, a paper clip and an A-list writer away from a global franchise."

http://www.firstshowing.net/2009/03/15/now-theyve-crossed-the-line-a-macgyver-movie/

FUCK YEAH!

SomethingWild · « **Reply #1136 on:** March 16, 2009, 09:37:42 AM »

Slumdog Millionaire

Good movie, interesting story. They said the movie has a high feel good factor, but it really hasn't imo..

Role Models

Cool to see Sean William Scott again, but movie was kinda mediocre. Not bad at all, but not really funny either.

Amarghetta · « **Reply #1137 on:** March 19, 2009, 04:35:08 AM »

Zeitgeist Addendum
Very informational. Kinda complex, but not much.

The ending sequence might offend a few, though.

Tuffty · « **Reply #1138 on:** March 21, 2009, 01:56:09 AM »

Avatar - Most Expensive Movie Ever?

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James Cameron's Avatar is the most expensive movie ever made, according to Time.

The science-fiction blockbuster, filmed in 3-D with motion capture technology, reportedly carries a production budget of more than $300 million.

Cameron, whose last film Titanic broke budget records in Hollywood, revealed that "every film I'm planning to do will be in 3-D".

Making a movie in 3-D reportedly adds 15% to a film's production cost, but Cameron has insisted that the extra investment is worthwhile. "It is so close to a real experience that it actually triggers memory creation in a way that 2-D viewing doesn't," he said.

Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End ($300 million) and Spider-Man 3 ($258 million) were previously the most expensive movies ever made.

Avatar stars Sam Worthington as a paraplegic war veteran who is taken to the distant planet Pandora. It is released in cinemas on December 18.

MochaNutz · « **Reply #1139 on:** March 21, 2009, 07:38:12 AM »

Quote from: Amarghetta on March 19, 2009, 04:35:08 AM

Zeitgeist Addendum
Very informational. Kinda complex, but not much.
The ending sequence might offend a few, though.

that the money one? I didn't watch all of it yet, but i found it very similar to "money is debt" which could be seen here.
1. Corrupt Banking System - Cartels Robbing the Public

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I watched Knowing.
it was about to end, maybe like 20 mins left, and then THE VIDEO PROJECTOR BUSTS!!!! They couldn't fix it, so they gave us movie passes... SUCKS, Knowing is a movie thats all about the ending!!! It was a very entertaining movie, btw.