saw this last night myself. Non-stop action only really spoilt by the last fight between the 3 guys. I mean, c'mon a florescent light tube stuck right into the neck and he is still fighting like it isn't there at all.
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saw this last night myself. Non-stop action only really spoilt by the last fight between the 3 guys. I mean, c'mon a florescent light tube stuck right into the neck and he is still fighting like it isn't there at all.
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
That would be a spoiler.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Not really! Does that mean good or bad?
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
ACAB - Italian film by the director of Romanzo criminale (the series not the original film). Follows a group of riot cops from the attack on the Diaz school at the Genoa G8 ('a massacre' they call it) as they bludgeon their way through striking workers, immigrants, football supporters, roma, people being evicted and so on. Demonstrates their self-image as warriors, as modern day samurai bound together by an unspoken code - fascism. And it does this in a sympathetic light, a confused light but a sympathetic light. For example, it shows these fascists - these open fascists, as being non-racist, the only racists in the film are a group of Roma who they attack and force to leave the country - because they racially abused of the fascists black mates. Their fascism is shown as simply being produced from their individual personal frustrations (losing access to kids, being made homeless by thieving Africans taking social housing and so on) and love of the motherland - the people using them in all the above acts are never mentioned, never shown, never questioned - invisible. This is the fascist film that Tropa Elite was wrongly accused of being.
Di Canio's fav film this year i expect.
Di Canio's fav film this year i expect.
Good, he's my man crush.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Oh dear, now he ain't bad as an actor but he's well overpraised. And The Da Vinci Code? C'mon! I had the misfortune of reading the book 
Oh dear, now he ain't bad as an actor but he's well overpraised. And The Da Vinci Code? C'mon! I had the misfortune of reading the book
(((OU))) the book is a step to far mate
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Krabat (sold over here as "Krabat: Legend of the Satanic Mill").
Not as good as Ottfried Preusser's book, but well done all the same - understated effects and actors you could relate to.
Not as good as Ottfried Preusser's book, but well done all the same - understated effects and actors you could relate to.
purenarcotic
Conveniently Pocket Sized
Oh dear, now he ain't bad as an actor but he's well overpraised. And The Da Vinci Code? C'mon! I had the misfortune of reading the book
I attempted to read the book and gave up I found it so awful, so didn't see the film for years until kidda made me because I assumed it would be shit. I actually was surprised at how much I enjoyed it. It's not exactly deep thinking or owt, but if you want to pass a couple of hours pleasantly, I think it does quite adequately.
Reno
The In Kraut
This used to be a favourite book of mine as a kid, but I thought the film just didn't work. Somehow when the Germans try to make a big Hollywood style effects film they never find the right tone and the pacing of the film was so sluggish, I had problems staying awake.
There is a lovely animated version from the 70s by the great Czech animator Karel Zeman.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Grandad crush, more like!
And keep him away from donkeys
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Adequate. Easily pleased aren't you?
purenarcotic
Conveniently Pocket Sized
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Beautiful!
I think that the problem with the film is that (almost certainly for time considerations) they massively compressed the timeline and storyline, and elided some of the bits that established the supporting characters. If they'd made the film half an hour longer, removed the ridiculous fight scene and included stuff like Juro's stint as a horse, I think it's would've "played" a lot better.
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
I thought it was very clever.
Watched 2001 ASO last night. Still stunning. What a creative mind Kubrick had.
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
Indeed. Film that flows like nothing before or since - makes you ask questions (and not in the same way that Prometheus does, either)
Garek
Living n ADDled chaos
The Spanish Apartment - S'allright. Funny in places. Didn't particularly grab me.
It gets a black mark for a scene where the lead boy continues kissing a woman he is a attracted to and despite several firm "No"s he keeps kissing her and becoming more forceful until she gives in and kisses him back. Because of course we all know that when a woman says 'No' she is just playing hard to get.
EDIT: I'll add another black mark for amount of French male arrogance that is in it.
It gets a black mark for a scene where the lead boy continues kissing a woman he is a attracted to and despite several firm "No"s he keeps kissing her and becoming more forceful until she gives in and kisses him back. Because of course we all know that when a woman says 'No' she is just playing hard to get.
EDIT: I'll add another black mark for amount of French male arrogance that is in it.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
I guess you wouldn't be a fan of Les Valseuses then.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Look forward to your review with bated breath.
purenarcotic
Conveniently Pocket Sized
Submarine - very funny. Like a much more awkward Adrian Mole. Well worth checking out.
bluejeanjunky
New Member
The Bourne Series 1-3
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
Over the past week, I watched the complete series of the Hour, which was touted as the BBC's answer to Mad Men, but is actually much better. And it's nothing like Mad Men, in fact if anything it's like the Michael Gambon sequences in the Singing Detective. A very good evocation of UK at the time of the Suez crisis. Badly let down by an anti-climatic final episode, though. I still hope they make another series.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
They already have
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