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by **jkop** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 8:39 am

grayghost wrote:Have you seen the trailer for Transformers the film it looks amazing.

Does look alright, what about Hills Have Eyes 2. :suspect:

by **daxy1** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 10:34 am

i watched oi this is england last night!
its got that feller off blues clues and a dingle off emmerdale in it bit much but some funny scenes

by **woof woof !** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 3:08 pm

Watched "Turistas" the other night . Along the lines of "Hostel" it deals with what can happen to all you young f'uckers when you leave the safety of the good ole USA, England etc etc (insert your own safe haven) , and venture into the dodgy world where people don't actually speak your language

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Entertaining enough , not as graphic as Hostel , and the location (Brasil) is used to good effect . Perhaps not worth the price of a ticket but worth downloading if you come across it .

Here

Review from Cinema Blend
Turistas is thoroughly predictable. Every move is telegraphed long before it happens, there’s not a scene in the movie that you can’t see coming. It does however differentiate itself from the torture movie wave it’s riding by delaying its gore fetish feeding until later in the film. Before then it focuses on showing of the beautiful scenery of Brazil and the tanned bodies of its cast frolicking in it. At least it’s pretty.

by **JBG** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 12:41 pm

I went to see 300 on Wednesday night (nothing but sh.ite i.e. Man UTD, on the box) and was hugely DISAPPOINTED!

I am a big fan of Frank Miller and absolutely loved Sin City. As I am a hardcore gamer I believe we are on the cusp of a crossover between conventional film making and the unique graphical style modern computer games carry. Some of the art direction in the later Playstation 2 games and current Xbox 360/PC/PS3 games is mindlowing, and Sin City and to (a far lesser extent) A Scanner Darkly were exciting examples of what modern film making technology can allow. To my mind at least it almost removes the last shackles on film makers, allowing them to virtually commit to celluloid anything they can conjure up in their imagination.

So, as you can see, I had high hopes for 300.

To begin with, I had expected the script and the acting to be bad, but I hadn't expected it to be as bad as 300s. It was truly awful. However, I was prepared to overlook this if it told the story well and contained memorable and imaginative battle scenes.

The battle scenes were decent enough but I couldn't help feeling that they were a bit underwhelming: I had been expecting the gloves to completely come off and have mad Dantesque type mania but the battle scenes didn't live up to what they could of.

Secondly, all of the characters, with the exception of King Leonidas and King Xerxes (who were brilliantly protrayed) were fairly weak. There wasn't one memorable side kick among Leonidas men, and frankly I didn't give two hoots about the Captain and his son dying. This was a missed chance, the film certainly could have succeeded in pulling the heart strings of the audience more (as it clearly sets out to do) by making the Captain and his son likeable characters, but they were bland as be f.ucked.

That brings me on to how the film dealt with the Spartans themselves: the truth is, it appears that the Spartans were actually far tougher, meaner and more ruthless than what they were protrayed in 300. I mean they were a mean, tough society where there was little or no place for softness or compassion. The 300 didn't look nor act hard enough: for much of the time the film was more interested in perving at the ripples of their torso muscles (settle Judge

) than showing that what mean mother. :censored:

they really were. I know that a film, in order to be commercial, has to take some dramatic licence and has to leave out some historical detail (such as in the case of the Spartans, infantacide, peadophelia and homosexuality) in order to make the characters sympathetic, however, some of the best characters in films which audiences often root for are anti-heroes, and 300 fails in that regard.

In the final analysis 300 fails because it does a shoddy job in telling its epic story. It plods about with b.ullshit subplots about the Queen and the Council, which frankly nobody really gives a :censored:

about. The 300 were remembered not because of the King Leonidas boning his wife and then she showing herself to be a powerful type, an early feminist by helping her husband by taking on the Council. I'm sorry if this sounds sexist, but if I want to see a movie about women empowering themselves, I'll rent Erin Brochovich or Thelma and Louise. The story of the Battle of Thermopylae is about the remarkable actions of 300 Spartans (and er, about 7000 Greeks, which the film conveniently doesn't tell us about) taking on the might of the exotic and all powerful army of King Xerxes. We don't want to get bogged down in sub plots involving women, which are not really relevant to the story and are only put in because Hollywood conventions dictates that you have to have a love interest in a film, end of story (for example, there is no love interest story in the Lord of the Rings books yet New Line Cinema insisted that Liv Tyler's character be bolted on).

Twenty minutes less about the Queen and the Council, twenty minutes more about the battle, some decent side characters and 300 would have been an absolute belter. If only the makers had shown the same balls as the Spartans and dumped the shabby sub plots and then we would have had a real film.

A missed opportunity.

by **woof woof !** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 12:53 pm

I downloaded and burnt it to disc , watched on my home cinema system from the comfort of my lazyboy , the £14 I saved on tickets was spent on a bottle of vodka , drunk (while watching the film) from a pint glass filled with ice and coke .
I thought the film was great

I might roll a spliff and watch it again later today

by **66-1112520797** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 1:13 pm

Watched Preminition last night with Sandra Bullock, a tad hard to follow but I do like thought provoking films and it had me going " What the f.uck" all the way through to the very end in which I said " What the f.uck " it was okay considering I didnt really keep up or understand it.

Also watched ' Shooters' I think it was called Starring Mark Walleburg (SP) and Danny Glover, more of action commando film where the main man has to prove his innocence to the American authorities. A typical hollywood hero type film, worth watching.

by **account deleted by request** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 1:18 pm

I have finally got a good copy of Deja vu, better late than never. So I am really looking forward to watching it tonight.

by **66-1112520797** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 1:19 pm

s@int wrote:I have finally got a good copy of Deja vu, better late than never. So I am really looking forward to watching it tonight.

I didnt actually mind that film I thought it was pretty good.

Its definately better than your old jokes anyway

by **account deleted by request** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 1:34 pm

THATS IT!!! I'm off :down:

Copy and pasting jokes is not as easy as you might think!

by **dawson99** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 2:10 pm

s@int wrote:THATS IT!!! I'm off Copy and pasting jokes is not as easy as you might think!

now THATS day shar voo

by **66-1112520797** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 10:44 pm

dawson99 wrote:
s@int wrote:THATS IT!!! I'm off Copy and pasting jokes is not as easy as you might think!

now THATS day shar voo

More like Deja poo :laugh:

by **jkop** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 10:01 am

Went and bought 2 dvds the other day, first the Lost Boys a brilliant cult classic with a bit of comedy involving the Frog brothers, and Chopper a funny but in some ways a bit brutal film, but both enjoyable. :nod

by **daxy1** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 1:08 pm

jkop wrote:Went and bought 2 dvds the other day, first the Lost Boys a brilliant cult classic with a bit of comedy involving the Frog brothers, and Chopper a funny but in some ways a bit brutal film, but both enjoyable.

chopper now thats a good film
"hell hath no fury like a mate shot in the ar$e" mark brandon reid yer gotta love him

by **jkop** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 10:40 am

daxy1 wrote:
jkop wrote:Went and bought 2 dvds the other day, first the Lost Boys a brilliant cult classic with a bit of comedy involving the Frog brothers, and Chopper a funny but in some ways a bit brutal film, but both enjoyable.

chopper now thats a good film
"hell hath no fury like a mate shot in the ar$e" mark brandon reid yer gotta love him

Chopper Reid...... :buttrock

by **dawson99** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 11:12 am

Lost Boys is one of the greatest films ever made!!!

Edgar Frog: You did the right thing by calling us. Does your brother sleep a lot?
Sam Emerson: Yeah, all day.
Alan Frog: Does the sunlight freak him out?
Sam Emerson: Uh, he wears sunglasses in the house.
Edgar Frog: Bad breath, long fingernails?
Sam Emerson: Yeah, his fingernails are a little bit longer, um, he always had bad breath, though.
Alan Frog: He's a vampire all right.
Edgar Frog: All right, here's what you do: get yourself a good sharp stake and drive it right through his heart.
Sam Emerson: I can't do that; he's my brother.
Alan Frog: OK, we'll come over and do it for you.
Sam Emerson: No!
Edgar Frog: You'd better get yourself a garlic T-shirt, buddy, or it's your funeral.

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