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[quote]Steel Nation wrote:

[quote]pushharder wrote:

[quote]Steel Nation wrote:
I’m surprised nobody has posted a review of Zero Dark Thirty yet. I’m going to see it as soon as I get a chance. Hopefully that is before it’s out of theaters.[/quote]

I liked it. Rather slow in many places in the first half of the movie but the raid itself was impossibly realistic. [/quote]

Cool. I was going to see it either way but I was really hoping they got the raid part right.[/quote]

I have one of the books on the raid and I can’t decide which I should do first, read the book or watch the movie.

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[quote]bond james bond wrote:

[quote]Steel Nation wrote:

[quote]pushharder wrote:

[quote]Steel Nation wrote:
I’m surprised nobody has posted a review of Zero Dark Thirty yet. I’m going to see it as soon as I get a chance. Hopefully that is before it’s out of theaters.[/quote]

I liked it. Rather slow in many places in the first half of the movie but the raid itself was impossibly realistic. [/quote]

Cool. I was going to see it either way but I was really hoping they got the raid part right.[/quote]

I have one of the books on the raid and I can’t decide which I should do first, read the book or watch the movie. [/quote]
The way they do the raid is just crazy dude, you would be fine with both. The actual raid took like 45 minutes, and in the movie they give the raid a whole 30 minutes, so it’s a good chunk of the movie and they definitely give it justice. I don’t even know how they do this in movies.

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I had a weekend off from work so I got to watch Brave, Star Trek (2009) and Max Payne.

Brave was really well done, light and slapstick enough for children to enjoy, while keeping enough adult humor and emotional scenes to keep the attention of the more grown up audience members, the visuals are classic Pixar and the soundtrack accompanied the film well.

Star Trek, I know I’m late to the game on this one but I was impressed I like the fact that its a different origin than the tv show as it enabled me to not feel left out as a non-trekkie. Story wise it held up really with the cast all doing an amazing job, apart from eric bana as the main villain. A role I think would have been great in the hands of Tom Hardy. The production values were great with great special effects and a set design that created a “lived in” feel to the world.

Max Payne was complete shit.

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I watched Black Swan with Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis last week. The lesbian scene between the two was disappointing since nary a nipple was exposed. As far as the plot goes, I was disappointed. Predictable, anti-climactic and really only scratched the surface as far as the potential that the subject matter carried.

I watched Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy recently as well. Unadulterated bullshit. Again, the subject matter carried so much more potential than what was displayed throughout. A film about spies infiltrating the upper reaches of an intelligence service, especially one based on a book as critically-acclaimed as Le Carre’s, should carry much more weight to it than this film did. The ending was as anti-climactic as any ending I’ve ever seen in a film. It was like watching some hardcore porn that barely showed any penetration at all and then when the big money shit at the end comes up, the guy just blows the most meager load ever that basically ends up dripping out of his tip and all over his own fucking hand with not one single drop getting into the chick’s mouth or on her tits or face.

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Just decided to re-watch Pleasantville after it being brought up randomly in conversation. I forgot how charming that film was, hadn’t seen it since I was very young, but looking back on it, I loved the direction they took in inviting sudden change to a rigid premise. Sort of like what they decided to pull out with The Truman Show. The character change and civil disassociation between the conservative patriarchal types and the newer, inviting populace is very well done and the evolution of the characters from unfulfilled and drone-like to wild and free is well scripted and acted.

The contrast between the different values of the time-period and the subtle transition between them is deeply resonant compared to the simplicity the film presents them to each other.

It’s not something quite as classic as The Truman Show was, but it’s still a very brilliant and creative piece of art, something I would recommend to anyone interested in such a kind of film.

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Spent the day watching the last three episodes of Star Wars in honour of May the 4th. Will spend the next two days intermittently watching the first three episodes in honour of Revenge Of The 6th.

Empire Strikes Back is still firmly my favourite.

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[quote]Spock81 wrote:

Josh Brolin is a well planted man, very well planted indeed.

KTHANKSBYE[/quote]

Note to self:

Must improve self- planting.

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[quote]orion wrote:

[quote]Spock81 wrote:

Josh Brolin is a well planted man, very well planted indeed.

KTHANKSBYE[/quote]

Note to self:

Must improve self- planting. [/quote]

Harder than it looks.

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[quote]Big Kahuna wrote:

[quote]orion wrote:

[quote]Spock81 wrote:

Josh Brolin is a well planted man, very well planted indeed.

KTHANKSBYE[/quote]

Note to self:

Must improve self- planting. [/quote]

Harder than it looks.[/quote]

Apparently, it is worth the effort.

Also, that man looks well planted.

Healthy green color.

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Also just finished watching Play It Again, Sam, the Woody Allen homage to Casablanca that I have a strange affinity towards. As much as Annie Hall and Manhattan are the lead roles in Allen’s filmography for me, Play It Again, Sam holds a special place in my heart.

Slow and steady, but charming and humble at the same time. It’s full of laughs and witty Bogart references, and as much as it plays on Casablanca as an influence, it remains uniquely it’s own with Woody Allen’s signature shine.

I recommend this, especially to people that love Woody Allen films, and Casablanca. It’s something that you might find yourself coming back to for a long, long time. If you don’t see this film now you’ll regret it. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.

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A Place Beyond the Pines

Overall a good movie. There is a twist in the movie that isn’t your usual twist but you’ll see it once it comes. Can’t go much review about the movie without giving anything away. Walking to the car from the movie you are left scratching your head “Really? I kinda lost where the story was going with everything and the twist”. Thinking back on it now I think it is worth seeing. I enjoyed it and EVERYONE’s acting was awesome. You never seen the actors as actors but as their characters.

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Saw:

“Oblivion”: worth the money. A little long. Has a good story with a twist, keeps you guessing.

“Olympus Has Fallen”: Quite good. Very much like Die Hard. Butler needs to stick to action-only films for now on. The bad guy is quite good. It’s nice they didn’t use a former-soviet-bloc-type like they always in these type of films.

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Being John Malkovich

Somehow I had never seen this film before, but the intrigue started to grow on me once I saw it brought up in an article, and had a sudden urge to see what it was like to see things from the perspective of the obscure but familiar bald guy that played Cyrus “The Virus” and Al Rockoff.

The absurdity of it both mesmerises and amuses me, the whole film is like an adult’s fantasy movie with a unique blend of both outrageousness and character familiarity. It’s clever, the writing is witty, and having John Malkovich play John Malkovich in the mind of John Malkovich is so metaphysically inspiring once it comes to fruition that I can’t believe any other “fantasy” film I ever see will have the same sense of uniqueness found here.

It’s a philosophical, despair-filled comedy that does not follow any set guidelines and brings me down a path no formulaic, mass audience-centric movie ever would. It realises it will have a niche, and it doesn’t mind that in the slightest. If you’re a fan of dark comedies, the hilarity of the mid-life crisis, and have a natural draw to the bizarre, I fully recommend Being John Malkovich

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Watched the film/documentary ‘Man On Wire’ on Friday night.

Wow!

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[quote]FarmerBrett wrote:
Watched the film/documentary ‘Man On Wire’ on Friday night.

Wow![/quote]

Agreed, Man On Wire is in amongst my favourite documentaries of all time! I also enjoy Werner Herzog’s Grizzly Man and Kevin Macdonald’s Touching The Void, I fully recommend those in case you haven’t seen them.

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[quote]Big Kahuna wrote:
Being John Malkovich

Somehow I had never seen this film before, but the intrigue started to grow on me once I saw it brought up in an article, and had a sudden urge to see what it was like to see things from the perspective of the obscure but familiar bald guy that played Cyrus “The Virus” and Al Rockoff.

The absurdity of it both mesmerises and amuses me, the whole film is like an adult’s fantasy movie with a unique blend of both outrageousness and character familiarity. It’s clever, the writing is witty, and having John Malkovich play John Malkovich in the mind of John Malkovich is so metaphysically inspiring once it comes to fruition that I can’t believe any other “fantasy” film I ever see will have the same sense of uniqueness found here.

It’s a philosophical, despair-filled comedy that does not follow any set guidelines and brings me down a path no formulaic, mass audience-centric movie ever would. It realises it will have a niche, and it doesn’t mind that in the slightest. If you’re a fan of dark comedies, the hilarity of the mid-life crisis, and have a natural draw to the bizarre, I fully recommend Being John Malkovich[/quote]

I liked Beeing “John Malkovich” as well. Have you seen “Adaptation” with Nicholas Cage? It’s by the same writer and also very fantasy/multi-dimensional and even ties in to BJM.

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[quote]MytchBucanan wrote:

[quote]Big Kahuna wrote:
Being John Malkovich

Somehow I had never seen this film before, but the intrigue started to grow on me once I saw it brought up in an article, and had a sudden urge to see what it was like to see things from the perspective of the obscure but familiar bald guy that played Cyrus “The Virus” and Al Rockoff.

The absurdity of it both mesmerises and amuses me, the whole film is like an adult’s fantasy movie with a unique blend of both outrageousness and character familiarity. It’s clever, the writing is witty, and having John Malkovich play John Malkovich in the mind of John Malkovich is so metaphysically inspiring once it comes to fruition that I can’t believe any other “fantasy” film I ever see will have the same sense of uniqueness found here.

It’s a philosophical, despair-filled comedy that does not follow any set guidelines and brings me down a path no formulaic, mass audience-centric movie ever would. It realises it will have a niche, and it doesn’t mind that in the slightest. If you’re a fan of dark comedies, the hilarity of the mid-life crisis, and have a natural draw to the bizarre, I fully recommend Being John Malkovich[/quote]

I liked Beeing “John Malkovich” as well. Have you seen “Adaptation” with Nicholas Cage? It’s by the same writer and also very fantasy/multi-dimensional and even ties in to BJM.[/quote]

I’ve heard incredibly good things about it, but much like Malkovich, I never decided to actually get around to seeing it, maybe too many other films in rotation at the time. Since Malkovich I’ll waste no time in finding it, I imagine that Cage would revel in such a kind of film. I’m starting to really appreciate Kaufman also, now that I’ve looked more into his work. For the longest time I’ve regarded Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind as one of my favourite romantic films, following through from that and Malkovich, I can’t help but expect good things from Adaptation.

Thank you for your recommendation Mytch!, I’ll likely put up another short review of that here once I’ve finished it.

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[quote]pushharder wrote:
“Mud” was a great movie. You cinephiles oughta eat up.

Great acting. Great cinematography. Real southern accents by real southerners.

The two kid actors really do steal the show.[/quote]

Since I heard about it from Sundance I’ve been anxiously awaiting it’s release globally so I can finally get my hands on it. I’m thoroughly pleased that it’s supposedly turned out so well, I love the Mark Twain novels and I can’t wait to see an inspired take on that in a serious, polished film whilst still retaining it’s own unique directorial flair and premise.

I hear McConaughey is incredibly good in his role as well, once it crosses the border I’m sure I’ll be able to explore that appreciation for myself, and I too would love to see how the children express their roots.

How is Witherspoon in her role? I’ve heard that the performances are great all around, but I never hear how well she did when people talk specific actors.

Getting excited just thinking about it, I’ve been looking forward to this one for months.