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Post by gt on Jul 21, 2008 11:41:19 GMT -1
Plus, any album that features a track called 'El Phantasmo and the Chicken-Run Blast-O-Rama' has to have something going for it ;D
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Post by Tony Yeboah's Lunchbox on Jul 21, 2008 20:26:07 GMT -1
I finished watching 'Knocked Up' tonight. Was kinda funny but not if that makes sense. 6.5/10
Moral of the story, wear a condom.
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Post by Peschi on Jul 21, 2008 20:34:17 GMT -1
I finished watching 'Knocked Up' tonight. Was kinda funny but not if that makes sense. 6.5/10 Moral of the story, wear a condom. I loved that film, thought it bloody hilarious tbh. Well compared to most comedy's that have been released lately, it is worth the watch.
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Post by Travis on Jul 22, 2008 11:25:19 GMT -1
WALL-EYou got to hand it to Pixar. Despite fierce competition from rivals like Fox and Dreamworks they've constantly maintained their position as the undisputed kings of CGI animation; their films are an executives dream, a licence to print money, as close to 'sure thing' as there ever has been in Hollywood. In such a position it would be easy for the studio to stick with a winning formula, each year producing films with different characters and increasingly astounding visuals but that are ultimately, thematically very similar. I personally thought that with Cars, and especially Ratatouille, things were getting a little stale, the stories little more than an imaginative retread of what had gone before, with WALL-E though, Pixar have re-found their sense of ambition. ![](http://img381.imageshack.us/img381/5156/walle17ca7.jpg) WALL-E is like nothing Pixar have ever made before, it's certainly the bravest, most mature and challenging film that the studio have made. Rather than go for cheap laughs and slapstick, WALL-E puts a lot more faith in it's audience, believing that children are able to take on board more adult themes, and it works fantastically. Such is the quality of the story, it's not inconceivable that with a few tweaks to the script, WALL-E could be re-made as a credible dystopian sci-fi movie, and for the first half hour or so - bar a few 'cute' flourishes - it's more for adults than it is for kids. It's only when the action moves from the desolation of Earth to the spacecraft where story gains a more familiar feel, and more tangible concessions are made for the younger viewers. At heart WALL-E remains a buddy movie, just like all Pixar's other works, this time the story of the final functioning Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class unit (WALL-E) on Earth who falls in love with a robot called Eve. It's the themes of environmental degradation, and probably more pointedly it's observations on the growing obesity problems and reliance on technology that sets it apart, while as a study of solitude it's succeeds far more than I Am Legend did. The influences on the film are many and are worn proudly, albeit not to the detriment of the story; WALL-E appears to be a hybrid of ET and Johnny-Five from Short Circuit, while elements of Star Wars, Blade Runner, Alien and repeatedly 2001 : A Space Odyssey to name but a few are all evident. As ever in Pixar films, the people are the least compelling characters - maybe one reason why I didn't rate Ratatouille - so it's fortunate that WALL-E and Eve are so endearing. Despite having little to work with other than eyes (of sorts) and a limited robotic vocabulary, the two robots manage to articulate so much emotionally. As a matter of fact, one passage in the film where Eve discovers just how much WALL-E doted upon her while she was in 'shut down' mode makes for one of the most romantic scenes of recent years. An ambitious, welcome and fantastic change in direction for Pixar. Their best since the days of Toy Story 2. 9/10
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Post by Travis on Jul 22, 2008 11:47:05 GMT -1
I should add that the rabbit in the short that preceded the film was ace! ;D
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Post by Mrs H on Jul 22, 2008 11:50:32 GMT -1
Awww I want to see it even more now ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png)
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Post by Travis on Jul 22, 2008 11:54:53 GMT -1
Awww I want to see it even more now ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) All the sci-fi stuff's great but the love story element is handled so well it's just fab. They do play on that fact for all it's worth to fine effect in the finale too. ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png)
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Post by ovechkin8 on Jul 23, 2008 10:54:20 GMT -1
Nice selection of French screen queens Trav. ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) Two 'horror' reviews from moi that I watched this weekend. One I returned & exchanged the day the after , the other remains in my library. 30 Days Of Night. Unlike 300 this one failed to catch my interest unlike recent excursions into the vampire genre ie Underworld. Yes there are some stunning visuals & special effects but the sum total of the film is disappoinitng & another dead end in the career of Hartnett who plays Barrows sheriff. The characters are thinly fleshed out & there is no explanation of how our evil friends come to be there in the first place. They the vampires are frightenining for once & the most violent screen portrayals yet, speaking in a guttural language & without a shread of pity but yet again borrowing the clothing of Underworld as a cliche. How they manage to isolate the town so effectively is not explained at all seeing as they cannot come into the daylight either. And how they fail to track the survivors after more than two weeks is another unexplained facet of the film . Its a sucession of gore filled moments, the few survivors being picked off one by one & mechanically going through their parts & hell who could have guessed it Eben (Hartnett) & Stella his wife getting back & being parted again at the end. This film lacks the intelligence behind the Underworld franchise. But enjoyable & brutal seeing as it is based on a graphic novel. 6.5/10 The MistBased on Kings novella & with a plot that could have been borrowed from Dean Koontz, this film is an intelligent horror film. There are moments of sheer terror & gore but the film is intensely psychological in that it focuses on the reaction of a small section of humanity & all their frailities & how different responses emerge. The scenario is unnerving in itself & is gradually explained as a military science experiment gone badly wrong with allusions to Event Horizon. The suspense is built up & the horror is kept revealed for a while to build up the tension. The monsters are horrifying themselves , almost Lovecraftian but some of the monsters are human. The military are castigated as the instigators & religious extremism gets a good bashing over the head whilst solid small town community spirit is upheld.The situation analyses how quickly humans will revert to barbarism paralleling the plot of Lord Of The Flies. The film is depressing throughout without hope as in The Day After . I wont say what happens at the end but it is a surprising twist & realistic. A film without a large budget requires a good screenplay and this has it ,abetted by a great ensemble cast. Thomas Jane (he could be Tom Hanks cousin) excels in the lead role & Marcia Harden is exceptional as the religious nutcase Mrs.Carmody (so much so that I wanted to personally shut her up). A top notch horror film the best I've seen since Wind Chill. 9/10 ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png)
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Post by Neko Bazu on Jul 23, 2008 10:59:29 GMT -1
You mean they actually did justice to one of Stephen King's works?! ![:o](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/shocked.png) Good freakin' god!
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Post by ovechkin8 on Jul 23, 2008 11:02:43 GMT -1
You mean they actually did justice to one of Stephen King's works?! ![:o](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/shocked.png) Good freakin' god! This is good Neko.Well worth watching. It does differ from his novella in what happens at the end but King gave his blessing to it & it adds another dimension on the human condition particularly the lead character.
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Post by Mrs H on Jul 23, 2008 11:03:28 GMT -1
You mean they actually did justice to one of Stephen King's works?! ![:o](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/shocked.png) Good freakin' god! Are you saying Tommyknockers wasn't a documentary ![:o](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/shocked.png)
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Post by Travis on Jul 23, 2008 11:07:21 GMT -1
Nice selection of French screen queens Trav. ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) Two 'horror' reviews from moi that I watched this weekend. The MistBased on Kings novella & with a plot that could have been borrowed from Dean Koontz, this film is an intelligent horror film. There are moments of sheer terror & gore but the film is intensely psychological in that it focuses on the reaction of a small section of humanity & all their frailities & how different responses emerge. The scenario is unnerving in itself & is gradually explained as a military science experiment gone badly wrong with allusions to Event Horizon. The suspense is built up & the horror is kept revealed for a while to build up the tension. The monsters are horrifying themselves , almost Lovecraftian but some of the monsters are human. The military are castigated as the instigators & religious extremism gets a good bashing over the head whilst solid small town community spirit is upheld.The situation analyses how quickly humans will revert to barbarism paralleling the plot of Lord Of The Flies. The film is depressing throughout without hope as in The Day After . I wont say what happens at the end but it is a surprising twist & realistic. A film without a large budget requires a good screenplay and this has it ,abetted by a great ensemble cast. Thomas Jane (he could be Tom Hanks cousin) excels in the lead role & Marcia Harden is exceptional as the religious nutcase Mrs.Carmody (so much so that I wanted to personally shut her up). A top notch horror film the best I've seen since Wind Chill. 9/10 ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) Cheers fella! ![8-)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/cool.png) I want to go see The Mist too. The reviews have been fairly good and the ending is supposed to be incredibly grim. Must confess that I wasn't keen on 30 Days Of Night Though, nothing new really. I'm wondering if I'm tiring of horror at the moment though, I watched Diary Of The Dead the other night and - I never thought I hear myself say this but - I was bored by it. I felt let down by George A. Romero......my foundation of my beliefs has been shaken! ![:-/](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/undecided.png)
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Post by Travis on Jul 23, 2008 11:17:57 GMT -1
You mean they actually did justice to one of Stephen King's works?! ![:o](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/shocked.png) Good freakin' god! Are you saying Tommyknockers wasn't a documentary ![:o](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/shocked.png) So that's why I haven't been able to revive deceased loved pets down the local cemetry! ![>:(](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/angry.png)
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Post by Neko Bazu on Jul 23, 2008 11:22:01 GMT -1
Near Dark
Quite an unusual cross of genres; this film is a vampire-western, made in 1987, and it kind of works...
The acting's not particularly memorable, the characters are all rather one-dimensional (though in fairness they compliment each other pretty well) and the story itself feels incredibly brief, as well as having quite a few gaping plot holes. Despite that, though, it's not a bad film, and is probably worth the cult following it's built up.
Essentially, it's fun. It's the kind of film you watch, aren't challenged by, don't take anything away from, but enjoy anyway. It's kind of stupid in places, but from a vamp-western, could you expect much else?
There are some memorable scenes in the film (such as the attack on an out-of-town bar, including a scene where Severen uses the spur on his boot to slash the bartender's throat... six times!), both for better and worse - I can't recall having seen any other major vampire sources where sunlight causes them not only to burn, but to literally explode too! There are also some nice bits of dialogue between the characters, including the constant sniping between Severen and Homer, a vampire who's been around for 200 years but is in a 12 year-old's body:
"What's the matter, Homer? You jealous? Little too little to be jealous." "You have any idea what it's like to be a big man on the inside and have a small body on the outside?" "You have any idea what it's like to hear about it every day?"
Some other lines include:
Bartender: What do you people want? Jesse: Just a few more minutes of your time. About the same duration as the rest of your life.
Severen: Howdy. I'm gonna separate your head from your shoulders. Hope you don't mind none.
Severen: I hate it when they ain't been shaved.
Severen: It ain't what's goin' on, son. It's what's comin' off. Your face. Clean off.
Those lines alone probably give you some idea of what to expect from the film.
As a film, it's only worth 5/10 - it ticks very few boxes, if I'm honest. However, I'd personally give it a 6/10, just because it really does have a certain 'cult' factor ;D
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Post by Travis on Jul 23, 2008 11:25:53 GMT -1
I can remember watching it on the back of a recommendation and being rather underwhelmed, Neko. It was a just a bit crap and understandably it's rather stayed in the shadow of The Lost Boys which was released the same year.
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Post by Neko Bazu on Jul 23, 2008 11:41:13 GMT -1
I can remember watching it on the back of a recommendation and being rather underwhelmed, Neko. It was a just a bit crap and understandably it's rather stayed in the shadow of The Lost Boys which was released the same year. I assume 'it' would be Near Dark? Admittedly, it was never gonna be a great film, and it is a bit tedious toward the beginning, but I found it enjoyable enough. It's certainly miles from the worst film I've ever watched!
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Post by ArgyleChick on Jul 24, 2008 14:23:01 GMT -1
Just watched Hot Fuzz on DVD - hilarious!
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Post by CHOPPER READ on Jul 24, 2008 14:25:41 GMT -1
Just watched Hot Fuzz on DVD - hilarious! Sounds like porn!
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Post by GresleyRam©®™ on Jul 24, 2008 14:57:11 GMT -1
WALL-EYou got to hand it to Pixar. Despite fierce competition from rivals like Fox and Dreamworks they've constantly maintained their position as the undisputed kings of CGI animation; their films are an executives dream, a licence to print money, as close to 'sure thing' as there ever has been in Hollywood. In such a position it would be easy for the studio to stick with a winning formula, each year producing films with different characters and increasingly astounding visuals but that are ultimately, thematically very similar. I personally thought that with Cars, and especially Ratatouille, things were getting a little stale, the stories little more than an imaginative retread of what had gone before, with WALL-E though, Pixar have re-found their sense of ambition. ![](http://img381.imageshack.us/img381/5156/walle17ca7.jpg) WALL-E is like nothing Pixar have ever made before, it's certainly the bravest, most mature and challenging film that the studio have made. Rather than go for cheap laughs and slapstick, WALL-E puts a lot more faith in it's audience, believing that children are able to take on board more adult themes, and it works fantastically. Such is the quality of the story, it's not inconceivable that with a few tweaks to the script, WALL-E could be re-made as a credible dystopian sci-fi movie, and for the first half hour or so - bar a few 'cute' flourishes - it's more for adults than it is for kids. It's only when the action moves from the desolation of Earth to the spacecraft where story gains a more familiar feel, and more tangible concessions are made for the younger viewers. At heart WALL-E remains a buddy movie, just like all Pixar's other works, this time the story of the final functioning Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class unit (WALL-E) on Earth who falls in love with a robot called Eve. It's the themes of environmental degradation, and probably more pointedly it's observations on the growing obesity problems and reliance on technology that sets it apart, while as a study of solitude it's succeeds far more than I Am Legend did. The influences on the film are many and are worn proudly, albeit not to the detriment of the story; WALL-E appears to be a hybrid of ET and Johnny-Five from Short Circuit, while elements of Star Wars, Blade Runner, Alien and repeatedly 2001 : A Space Odyssey to name but a few are all evident. As ever in Pixar films, the people are the least compelling characters - maybe one reason why I didn't rate Ratatouille - so it's fortunate that WALL-E and Eve are so endearing. Despite having little to work with other than eyes (of sorts) and a limited robotic vocabulary, the two robots manage to articulate so much emotionally. As a matter of fact, one passage in the film where Eve discovers just how much WALL-E doted upon her while she was in 'shut down' mode makes for one of the most romantic scenes of recent years. An ambitious, welcome and fantastic change in direction for Pixar. Their best since the days of Toy Story 2. 9/10 SEE, told you it was good! ![8-)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/cool.png)
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Post by Travis on Jul 25, 2008 11:03:53 GMT -1
WALL-EYou got to hand it to Pixar. Despite fierce competition from rivals like Fox and Dreamworks they've constantly maintained their position as the undisputed kings of CGI animation; their films are an executives dream, a licence to print money, as close to 'sure thing' as there ever has been in Hollywood. In such a position it would be easy for the studio to stick with a winning formula, each year producing films with different characters and increasingly astounding visuals but that are ultimately, thematically very similar. I personally thought that with Cars, and especially Ratatouille, things were getting a little stale, the stories little more than an imaginative retread of what had gone before, with WALL-E though, Pixar have re-found their sense of ambition. ![](http://img381.imageshack.us/img381/5156/walle17ca7.jpg) WALL-E is like nothing Pixar have ever made before, it's certainly the bravest, most mature and challenging film that the studio have made. Rather than go for cheap laughs and slapstick, WALL-E puts a lot more faith in it's audience, believing that children are able to take on board more adult themes, and it works fantastically. Such is the quality of the story, it's not inconceivable that with a few tweaks to the script, WALL-E could be re-made as a credible dystopian sci-fi movie, and for the first half hour or so - bar a few 'cute' flourishes - it's more for adults than it is for kids. It's only when the action moves from the desolation of Earth to the spacecraft where story gains a more familiar feel, and more tangible concessions are made for the younger viewers. At heart WALL-E remains a buddy movie, just like all Pixar's other works, this time the story of the final functioning Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class unit (WALL-E) on Earth who falls in love with a robot called Eve. It's the themes of environmental degradation, and probably more pointedly it's observations on the growing obesity problems and reliance on technology that sets it apart, while as a study of solitude it's succeeds far more than I Am Legend did. The influences on the film are many and are worn proudly, albeit not to the detriment of the story; WALL-E appears to be a hybrid of ET and Johnny-Five from Short Circuit, while elements of Star Wars, Blade Runner, Alien and repeatedly 2001 : A Space Odyssey to name but a few are all evident. As ever in Pixar films, the people are the least compelling characters - maybe one reason why I didn't rate Ratatouille - so it's fortunate that WALL-E and Eve are so endearing. Despite having little to work with other than eyes (of sorts) and a limited robotic vocabulary, the two robots manage to articulate so much emotionally. As a matter of fact, one passage in the film where Eve discovers just how much WALL-E doted upon her while she was in 'shut down' mode makes for one of the most romantic scenes of recent years. An ambitious, welcome and fantastic change in direction for Pixar. Their best since the days of Toy Story 2. 9/10 SEE, told you it was good! ![8-)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/cool.png) Congratulations Gres, you've received my official seal of approval for one of recently beloved films. ![;)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/wink.png)
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