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PostPosted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 1:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 4:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

armageddon is a gr8 film.... Fact!

It's up there with Starship Troopers only not quite so good.
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 4:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

bollocks

it could be about anything, it's just by numbers shit, about an asteroid

except watching asteroids blow up cities there's nowt to recomend it
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 5:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

oooooh, ive been mistaking armaggedon for independance day. is armaggedon the one with bruce "tickle me pink" willis and paris getting blown up?
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 5:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Deep Impact is waaaaaaaaay better. I have attempted to watch Armageddon three times, and fallen asleep every single time.

Starship Troopers is ace
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 5:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

starship troopers is ace, it inspired me to join the army
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 7:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

misskitty wrote:
Deep Impact is waaaaaaaaay better.


i think i've been transported to a parallel universe where sensible-minded people have taken to lunacy
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 8:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

bristle-krs wrote:
misskitty wrote:
Deep Impact is waaaaaaaaay better.


i think i've been transported to a parallel universe where sensible-minded people have taken to lunacy


Right back atcha
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 8:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

watched the new dawn of the dead today, bluddy fantastic, really nice camera work and special effects, acting was occasionally so-so and the plot was a bit hit and miss but still one of the best movies ive seen this year.

and mekhi pheiffer (sp) was :-o
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 8:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

we just watched butch cassidy

fucking ace

we didn't finish it. but the bit we missed was ace as well
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 9:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm watching the original Wickerman later.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 9:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote



you're not allowed to, it's got naked lady stuff and everything

what next? letting j watch the director's cut of 'debbie does dallas'?

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PostPosted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 9:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

kin hell

I saw a prog on that the other day
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 10:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

bristle-krs wrote:


you're not allowed to, it's got naked lady stuff and everything

what next? letting j watch the director's cut of 'debbie does dallas'?



smt:076 smt:076 smt:076
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 10:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

j does johanesburg
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 12:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wickerman was cool

Britt Ekland had a body on her in her time eh
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 1:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

someone else's bum though
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 11:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

saw snaes on a plane today, excellent film, ill review it for the radio show if yas like? and smuggled in some cheesy popcorn from budapest yum
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 11:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I want to see the review and mebbe go to the pics for the first time in months
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 11:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

J wrote:
saw snaes on a plane today, excellent film, ill review it for the radio show if yas like? and smuggled in some cheesy popcorn from budapest yum


perfick \/
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 12:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

will try and record it tomorrow, but never trust anthing i say, if i finish the emprie strikes back can include that aswell
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 12:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

i watched fucking rollerball

i am so jonothan E

they tried to kill me, but i am more than the game
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 3:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

just watched eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. bit wet, but i like films that all slot together at the last minute. 6.5/10
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 3:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

actually i'll give it a 7 cos it had kirsten dunst in it and kate winslet was looking pretty hot too
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 9:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

i actually bought that film even though it made me cry a bit, its the only romantic film i really like
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 12:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i love eternal sunshine. michel gondry is a fucking don. don't think there is a single shot that isn't beautifully done

i watched usual suspects last night, it's still surprisingly good, hasn't aged at all. supervillains are teh cool
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 7:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

eternal sunsine is and kate winslet is very very sextastic in it
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 7:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

eternalsunshine is our fav film baby

watch dead man shoes the best revenge flick ever.. and its british woop
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 7:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

finally saw matrix revolutions last night

what a fucking piece of shit

i love the other two as well
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 9:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I just watched TMNT.

Very good effects and a welcome change to the 'men in suits' of the previous three movies. The animation is some of the best i've seen. The effective use of lighting and shadows really added to the atmosphere of the film.

The plot, although original, is very predictable and too fast, and the charcters are'nt the strongest except of course the relationship between Leonardo and Raphael.

The fight scenes were cool, but not as violent as most would like (they're supposed to be ninjas!), but that's just a TMNT trend. I would have also liked to see more of Splinter fighting, he didn't do much at all and I was expecting him to pull off some really cool moves ala Yoda in ATOC.

Overall... not bad, but could have been better. Worth watching if you're a die-hard Turtles fan.
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PostPosted: Tue May 01, 2007 1:19 am    Post subject: The Lives Of Others (Das Leben der Anderen) 2006 Reply with quote

This is what I went to see this evening at the Gate Cinema in Notting Hill. The cinema is ace - armchairs and tables to put yer glass of wine on Much busier than I expected. The Gate Cinema has loads going on e.g. Sunday breakfast showings Tis proper cinema and I wish it was nearer me. Anyway, well worth making the trip there. It's not too dear either. Here's the IMDB review which I can't improve on really (only to add, that it's all in subtitles, which means a certain amount of concentration needed ):

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Because this movie deals with recent German history, some German comments about it get sidetracked into minute historical discussions. Forget them; Das Leben der Anderen is an outstanding movie that should be seen everywhere.

The former East Germany, a relatively small country of 16 million people, was controlled by the most sophisticated, cunning, and thorough secret police the world has ever seen, the East German Ministerium für Staatsicherheit, or "Stasi." The Stasi had about 90,000 employees -- a staggering number for such a small population -- but even more importantly, recruited a network of hundreds of thousands of "unofficial employees," who submitted secret reports on their co-workers, bosses, friends, neighbors, and even family members. Some did so voluntarily, but many were bribed or blackmailed into collaboration.

Das Leben der Anderen, ("The Life of Others") German director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's debut, builds this painful legacy into a fascinating, moving film. In its moral seriousness, artistic refinement, and depth, Das Leben der Anderen simply towers over other recent German movies, and urgently deserves a wide international release. The fulcrum of the movie (but probably not its most important character) is Georg Dreyman, an up-and-coming East German playwright in his late 30s. Played by the square-jawed Sebastian Koch, Dreyman is an (apparently) convinced socialist who's made his peace with the regime. His plays are either ideologically neutral or acceptable, and he's even received State honors.

Although he is a collaborator, he is also a Mensch. He uses his ideological "cleanliness" to intervene on behalf of dissidents such as his journalist friend Paul Hauser (Hans-Uwe Bauer). These unfortunates must contend with every humiliation a totalitarian state can invent: their apartments are bugged, friends and family are recruited to inform on them, and chances to publish or perform can be extinguished by one stray comment from a Central Committee member. The most recalcitrant can be kicked out of the country and stripped of their citizenship, like the singer songwriter Wolf Biermann.

Dreyman lives in a shabby-genteel, book-filled apartment with his girlfriend Christa-Maria Sieland (Martina Gedeck), a renowned actress who often appears in his plays. At the beginning of the movie, Dreyman himself comes under the regime's suspicion, for reasons that become clear only later. The fearful machinery of the Stasi rumbles to life: his movements are recorded, and his apartment bugged. The Stasi had bugging down to a science: a team of meticulously-trained agents swoop into your apartment when you're not there, install miniscule, undetectable listening devices in every single room -- including the bathroom -- and vanish in less than an hour, leaving no trace. Agents set up an secret electronic command post nearby, keeping a written record of every joke, argument, or lovemaking session.

The "operative process" against Dreyman is overseen by Stasi captain Gerd Wiesler, played by Ulrich Mühe, an actor from the former East who was himself once in the Stasi's cross-hairs. Captain Wiesler starts the film as a colorless, icy, tight-lipped professional who shows no mercy in fighting the "enemies of socialism": if he needs to interrogate a suspect for 10 hours without sleep to get a confession, he will do so -- and then place the seat-cover the suspect sat on in a vacuum jar in case the miscreant should later need to be tracked by bloodhounds. At night, Captain Wiesler returns to his tiny apartment in an grubby, anonymous high-rise. He settles himself among his inexpressibly drab furniture, eats a meal squeezed out of a plastic tube while watching reports about agricultural production, and then goes to bed alone.

As Captain Wiesler listens to Dreyman and his girlfriend he begins to like them, or perhaps envy the richness and depth of their lives in comparison with his own. Perhaps he also begins to wonder why a stranger should have the right to become privy to Dreyman's most intimate secrets: his occasional impotence, his girlfriend's infidelities, his artistic crises. At the same time, though, Wiesler is under pressure: a Central Committee official has made it clear to Wiesler and his toadying supervisor Lieutenant Colonel Grubitz (Ulrich Tukur), that Dreyman has to go down.

I won't discuss more plot details, as there are unexpected twists. Each of the main characters is drawn deeper into the conflict between Dreyman and the State, and each is torqued by loyalty conflicts that intensify as the pressure increases. The cast is outstanding. Sebastian Koch finds the right combination of poetic detachment and watchful sophistication for Dreyman. Martina Gedeck, as his girlfriend, has the most challenging role, since she's buffeted from all sides: by her suspicious partner, by Stasi agents trying to turn her, and by a lecherous Culture Minister. Ulrich Mühe plays the Stasi agent's transformation with reserve, only hinting at the stages in his character's secret, but decisive, change of heart.

Director von Donnersmarck, a blue-blooded West German, has re-created the gray, drained look of the former East, and the nature of Stasi intimidation, with a fidelity that has earned the praise of East Germans. His pacing is relaxed, but doesn't drag; although there are a few longueurs, most scenes unfold at just the right pace, and there are several great set-pieces. One is a bone-rattling episode in the Stasi canteen in which a young recruit is caught telling a joke about East German premier Erich Honecker. Another is the penultimate scene, a masterstroke in which Dreyman gains access to his massive Stasi file, while reading it, suddenly understands episodes of his own life which had never made sense to him before. The ending is perfectly judged; bittersweet and moving without swelling strings or teary confessions.

Das Leben der Anderen is an outstanding movie, probably a great one. If it's not picked up for international distribution, it will be a bitter loss for thousands of potential moviegoers in other countries.


If you get the chance - go and see it
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PostPosted: Mon May 07, 2007 9:19 am    Post subject: Häxan: Witchcraft through the Ages Reply with quote

Yesterday me, the button and Seyton went to see this film at the Barbican.

When this Swedish film was first released in 1922 it was banned in every country in Europe

It's a silent film combining fact and fiction and divided into seven chapters. Described as a 'brew of the horrific, gross and darkly comedic, Häxan chronicles grave robbing, repressed eroticism, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath'. The Director - Benjamin Christensen - takes you on a journey from early mediaeval times to (then) modern day inviting you to draw the conclusion that the witches of the Middle Ages suffered the same mass hysteria as did the mentally ill centuries later. Persecution and oppression of the mentally ill, elderly, poor, infirm and women.

Some parts of the film were extremely funny in a dark, grotesque, disturbing way. Some of the shots were beautiful, I particularly liked the dream of an old woman falling asleep in poverty and wretchedness and waking up in a fourposter bed hung with red tapestries and covered in copper coins

But what made it for me was the live score that ccompanied the film. Geoff Smith is an amazing artist on the hammered dulcimer. He played three of them (microtonal, chromatic and diatonic) and also some word-free vocals. Most atmospheric He did a Q&A at the end - and of course there was a witch in the audience who pointed out that witches don't believe in the devil

I want his CD & the other scores that he has done; Faust, The Cabinet of Dr Caligari and Nosferatu

Excellent

Screenplay - Benjamin Christensen
Cinematography - Johan Ankerstjerne
Editing - Edia Hansen
Set Decoration - Richard Louw

The Witch - Maria Pedersen (she was AMAZING)
Nun - Clara Pontoppidan
Witch Judge (The Young Monk) - Elith Pio
Doctor (The Fat Monk) - Oscar Stribolt
Modern Hysteric - Tora Tje
Chief Inquisitor - John Andersen

More about Geoff Smith here: http://www.dulcimer.co.uk/

The film's being released again in July. There was some guy there filming ... Seyton was convinced he was doing a bootleg but I wasn't convinced.


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