Film/Video Discussion Thread - The Bear and Badger

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watched mi:ghost protocol with the gf.
quite enjoyable switch off and watch type affair...i enjoyed it.

also watched 21 jump street.
it were ok but very predictable and not as funny as i imagined it could be.

@ds. my animeÂ recomendationsÂ for you are ....perfect blue, my neighbour totoro, ponpokoyo.
also try these older mangasÂ too.... Â ninja scroll, ghost in the shell 1 and 2.

also i thought redline were shit and turned it off after 10 minutes.

Funkstain

Persuaded girlfriend to watch Avengers with me next week, thought that to avoid a complete waste of money she should catch up on the seed movies...

Captain AmericaÂ - strong enough start, liked the 40s look, strong characters. Second half is just bizarre. The bit where the senator is like "hey come get your medal" back in the US, but in fact Cap is back in Germany fighting what a hero! was especially jarring. I quite liked the silly techno-bikes and missile-copters because source material. Ending was quite affecting, pre-wake up.

The Incredible HulkÂ - Funk no like. Didn't like Norton's Banner, Tim Roth's plastic body suit was off-putting, Ross' motivation wasn't sound, CGI patchy, way too long. Heard that Avengers' Hulk is much better. Hope so.

Thor - Portman made this movie work for me. Lots of silliness and faux-science but she sold me on the idea of a strong-but-brittle woman falling for a crazy naked man from the sky who thinks he's a god. The comedy moments mostly hit the mark, but anything that happened off-planet was just garbage and should have been cut down.

Anyway to balance things out we also watched Drive which was very enjoyable. Had managed to avoid all spoilers since the excessive spooging from DS et al convinced me to watch it. Did NOT recognise Hal from MitM. Dude's got range. Several passages had my heart pumping. Thought the romance / older brother motivation was slightly suspect but very sweet and believable. Couldn't really understand why he was so good at murderising but rationalised by him being so cool, calm and collected in all situations like a proper driver.

Also Pan's Labyrinth which you know bottle killing fuck.

rickjoyce

Mod74 wrote:

Watched Mission Unpossible: Ghost Protocol last night. Bit of a mess really, expected better from Mr Bird. They could have done with a better plot because it really was MI: By The Numbers. The dangling off a building bit was quite good but the iDevice and BMW product placement stuck out like a sore dick. On the plus side the 1080p streaming from Zune worked great on my modest 5mb connection. Probably because half the image was two huge black bars but hey. On a side note I re-watched MI:3 the other night on Netflix, Abrams really shot the shit out of that bastard didn't he.

First, I'll say, I really liked the movie but, you're the second person I've heard complaining about the smartphone style devices they use, why wouldn't they be using something just like that though, technology gets smaller and that applies to spy tech as well, it's inconspicuous, it made perfect sense to me. What I loved about the movie was that all the tech they used while insane was just about plausible and made more so by the fact that everything breaks.
Shot beautifully as well, such a great use of colour in the sandstorm scene, and the segment with the cameras in the hallway and the double meeting are such brilliant, Mission:Impossible scenarios, it felt like a modern episode of the show. I watched it a second time recently and yeah there may be some fat to be trimmed(India sequence is quite lame) but it's a quality picture and I can't help but admire Cruise going to Buster Keaton levels with bringing the spectacle into reality. If it had a villain like 3, it would probably be the perfect action movie.

Tempy

You aren't wrong there Rick. Hallway sequence was a highlight for me. Utterly ridiculous but probably doable in some sterile lab somewhere.

dynamiteReady

google wrote:

I've still to watch Akira.

It's 25 years old - I'm not quite sure how it would hold up to a first time viewing today. There are some fucking great moments throughout, but the film really is a complete mess as one would expect from a mid-80's Japanese anime film about a 4000 page manga.

It holds up very well because the animation is superb. Odd story though. Apparently (lest it's already been mentioned), Leo Di Caprio's attached to a project to produce and star (as Kineda, or an equivalent) in a live action Hollywood feature based on the anime.

You could always wait for that...

Tempy

Is he? Last I heard he wasn't, then was, then wasn't then was, then wasn't. Shit changes every day and should never happen.

Mod74

@rickjoyce

I just thought it was messy really. Still, true disaster was narrowly avoided when they killed captain chin from Lost in the first 3 minutes.

Spoilers.

google

He isn't. Plus never believe anything from anyone who can't spell Kaneda correctly.

dynamiteReady

google wrote:

He isn't. Plus never believe anything from anyone who can't spell Kaneda correctly.

There's a dude on another forum who posts as Kineda... Anime fan... Figures...

Spock

Yeah.There's something weird about Tom cruise's body (and mind obvioulsy). It's like a tall muscley midgit's.

EDIT: oops @unlikely

Bollockoff

Watching Haywire and this funkadelic crap soundtrack is so out of place.

Unlikely

Haywire was a bit disappointing.Â I think I wrote that before but my feeling have not changed.

Unlikely

Also, I'm still not convinced Carano was dubbed.Â There might have been some ADR, in fact that's a near certainty, but dubbed by someone else?Â Hmm.

Bollockoff

Reading up on it, apparently her voice was just digitally altered to make it much deeper.

Watch some interviews with her on youtube and it's pretty obvious.

humantarget

I wish Carano would come out of retirement. I miss seeing her punching people.

Raiziel

Another Earth. Â Captivating stuff!

Spock

What's the deal with that? Proper Sci-fi? Or, pretentious existential musing borlocks? or both?

Dark Soldier

Both, from what I've read.

Heavy on the pretentious.

Raiziel

Not proper sci-fi at all, merely the backdrop to a story about a couple of damaged individuals. Â Well worth checking out.

Raiziel

No, DS.

Dark Soldier

I've heard the good and bad re: reviews for that and I'm fairly sure I'll end up siding with the bad. Not really my cup of tea.

And anyway, I don't drink tea.

cockbeard

Watched Tyrannosaur last night, wow horrible, challenging not bad, really good film, a study of bleak. My mate has watched plenty of horrible with me, and he even turned around after a part where someone was pretending to be asleep, he said Jesus Ben, we're only 20 minutes in, where else can it go? Cracking film, hard, but worth seeing

Dark Soldier

It's an amazing film.

Was it you who recommended Sauna, cocko?

cockbeard

Yes, please tell me someone other than me has seen it now. You enjoy it?

Dark Soldier

I haven't seen it yet, but I got it the other day so its on the to watch very soon list. I remembered you really liking it.

Mainly got it because someone mentioned it when I was looking up Iron Sky:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1034314/

Tempy

Another Earth wasn't amazing but I enjoyed it. Certainly a nice 'what if' film. Some bits didn't sit right though, ho hum. Liked the music too.

Tyrannosaur is brilliant. Coleman was fantastic in it, who knew she had it in her.

Cocko, get an avatar.

mistercrayon

I liked the Avengers A LOT. A little bit more than the Cabin in the Woods (the previous film I saw) and also the Muppets.

google

mistercrayon wrote:

I liked the Avengers A LOT. A little bit more than the Cabin in the Woods (the previous film I saw) and also the Muppets.

Nice to see you're getting some variety from your cinema trips.

Bollockoff

I've been recommending Tyrannosaur for ages at work. Plebs hardly ever pick it up.

rickjoyce

Tyrannosaur has some of the best performances I've ever seen for sure. Yeah, ditto on Colman too, brilliantly funny elsewhere and very intense here. I watched that and Take Shelter in the same night and was ready for a good cry.

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