Movies

[irishjayhawk]

Yeah, so I saw a lot of movies this weekend.

Elizabeth: The Golden Age - Mediocre, at best. Slow and dragged on. Shorten it to 2 hours and it's golden. It's not, so it fails.

Michael Clayton - Amazing. Everything about it is awesome. However, it's VERY complex and mind bending. You have to think, so be prepared. I still feel like I'm missing key details of exactly what happened. Gotta see it again.

Across the Universe - Perfect is one word that comes to mind. It just works. And, contrary to many people I bet, the movie is best viewed sober. Trust me.

[KCUnited]

Originally Posted by QuikSsurfer

Battle Royal was just added to Netflix instant. For those of you who bought into the Hunger Games craze -- this movie predates that (2000). I've mentioned it a few times in this thread but I really recommend that you watch this movie. Definitely not kid friendly.

I watched this last weekend, strange movie and quite possibly the loudest machine gun I've ever heard.

[Bambi]

Originally Posted by QuikSsurfer

Battle Royal was just added to Netflix instant. For those of you who bought into the Hunger Games craze -- this movie predates that (2000). I've mentioned it a few times in this thread but I really recommend that you watch this movie. Definitely not kid friendly.

This is on my "Essential not quite horror but more brutal" movies list from a couple years ago. It's amazing more people don't do this... rip off foreign cinema or book, write an American version, get rich... ala Hunger Games

[QuikSsurfer]

Originally Posted by Wickedson

This is on my "Essential not quite horror but more brutal" movies list from a couple years ago. It's amazing more people don't do this... rip off foreign cinema or book, write an American version, get rich... ala Hunger Games

Where is this list of yours? If Oldboy (trilogy) isn't on it - I don't care about it anymore.
And Battle Royal was indeed a book before movie -- I own it but never finished it.

[blaise]

Originally Posted by QuikSsurfer

Where is this list of yours? If Oldboy (trilogy) isn't on it - I don't care about it anymore.
And Battle Royal was indeed a book before movie -- I own it but never finished it.

I read an interview a month ago that said Spike Lee intends to keep the octopus scene in his Oldboy remake. We'll see how that goes.

[Deberg_1990]

Watched Haywire, We Bought a Zoo and Girl with the Dragon Tat (Fincher version) over the weekend.


Haywire was kinda meh......kind of slow and boring.

Zoo was solid. Lesser Crowe, but a nice family, crowd pleasing, put a smile on your face flick.

Dragon Tat was flat out awesome. I was riveted from start to finish. I want to go watch the Swedish sequels on Netflix now because im not sure they will do American made remakes of those.

[Deberg_1990]

Originally Posted by QuikSsurfer

I'm very late to the party on this but I started up the 90s (1990 to be exact) series "Twin Peaks" yesterday on netflix after having watched a few David Lynch films over the weekend... I watched 5 straight episodes yesterday and am totally hooked on this 30 episode series. Some great stuff here.
Anyone remember this series?

I havent seen any of those in 20 years probably. I remember it started off great the first season, then the 2nd season went downhill.

[Bambi]

Originally Posted by QuikSsurfer

Where is this list of yours? If Oldboy (trilogy) isn't on it - I don't care about it anymore.
And Battle Royal was indeed a book before movie -- I own it but never finished it.

http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showp...&postcount=131

[patteeu]

Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

Dragon Tat was flat out awesome. I was riveted from start to finish. I want to go watch the Swedish sequels on Netflix now because im not sure they will do American made remakes of those.

There is an extended version of the Swedish trilogy available on Netflix streaming that might interest you:

The Dragon Tattoo Trilogy contains more than two hours of additional footage not seen in the theatrical versions of the original Swedish films. Amassing a total of 9 hours of story content and presented in 6 parts, this complete version of the international hit series restores notable characters and subplots from Stieg Larsson's best-selling novels.

I haven't watched it yet so I can't say whether it's any good or not.

[QuikSsurfer]

Originally Posted by blaise

I read an interview a month ago that said Spike Lee intends to keep the octopus scene in his Oldboy remake. We'll see how that goes.

Ughh...
Well as long as they keep the hallway fight scene totally intact - and one full shot - I'm good.

[blaise]

Originally Posted by QuikSsurfer

Ughh...
Well as long as they keep the hallway fight scene totally intact - and one full shot - I'm good.

Yeah, they mentioned two things. I think it was Josh Brolin who said it, actually. They're doing the octopus scene and the hammer scene.

[mikeyis4dcats.]

Originally Posted by Wickedson

This is on my "Essential not quite horror but more brutal" movies list from a couple years ago. It's amazing more people don't do this... rip off foreign cinema or book, write an American version, get rich... ala Hunger Games

Hunger Games isn't a ripoff of Battly Royale any more than both are a rip off of Running Man, or any other post-apocalyptic "game show" plot.

[Micjones]

"Batman Begins" was TITS!
HOOOOOOLYYYYYY SHIT!

[Micjones]

"Batman Begins" was TITS!
HOOOOOOLYYYYYY SHIT!

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by Micjones

"Batman Begins" was TITS!
HOOOOOOLYYYYYY SHIT!

You haven't seen it?

What do you think all the hubbub about Nolan's Batman is?

[Micjones]

Originally Posted by Buehler445

You haven't seen it?

What do you think all the hubbub about Nolan's Batman is?

I'm getting familiar. I just started TDK.