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watched fist of the north star live action again

real serious contender for worst movie ever made

ever

it's like the worst bits of mad max meet the worst bits of 80's american kung fu film

it manages to take the basic premise of the anime then strip out the few things that make the anime good fun (ridiculous techniques, explosive dismemberment and the kind of dialog that comes from such things)

omae wa mou shindeiru... you will wish you were dead if your forced to watch this
 
Dubversion said:
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster.

absolutely hysterical. I mean, you end up warming to Hetfield in the end, and the new bassist was a genius. but jesus - there's nothing funnier than watching really fucking dumb people playing at psychobabble or talking in tortuous analogies.

"you put it on the table, but you're.. you're gonna have to leave it on the table. Because that table is fucking Metallica, man".

"there shouldn't be a rule for no solos. But there also shouldn't be a rule, y'know, FOR solos".

fucking idiots :D
That's priceless!

I've just put the movie on my Netflix list.
 
I watched 'In My Fathers Den' the other night. I loved it. Beautifully filmed and the story was really interesting and quite twisted. I would highly recommend it. :) One of those films that after you have watched it cant stop thinking and talking about it.
 
PieEye said:
I really liked the premise of that film - the acting sucked but I thought it was a good idea.

I seem to be on my own with this one.

Don't worry PieEye you are not alone, I am with you 100% on that one. I like the fact that they had the smallest set ever and that they could just keep using it over and over again.

I thought cypher was a good idea too. The best idea was to put Lucy Lui in it.
 
Hostel - not nearly as disturbing and horrific as it's made out to be, mainly due to the fact that you want the vile little shits to die anyway. Crap make-up effects and extremely flimsy plot with gaping holes

Oh, and I liked Cube AND Cypher
 
Eighteen Fatal Strikes, an old school Kung Fu film from the 70's and well funny! I forgot how much I love these Hong Kong films, the shaking eagle thing at the end is pure comedy.

To my surpise my mrs likes these old kung fu films as well, which is good as tommorw is Fist of Legend II Iron Bodyguards! lol, Wu Tang Clan kung fu series DVD, 3 others on it.
 
PieEye said:
I really liked the premise of that film - the acting sucked but I thought it was a good idea.

I seem to be on my own with this one.

By sticking to just that tiny space, and without the use of flashbacks you're reliant upon the acting ability of the characters alone. They should have known that wasn't going to work well when they budgeted it all up and noticed they couldn't get anyone who could act.

The "clue" system was pretty shite too, i'd have done it with a more lethal version of the crystal maze rather than a "safe" "not safe" riddle to solve. Apart from the single fact the architect was useless as was the Cop.

What they ended up with was a poor quality knock off of Saw without even the trace of an overlying plot.
 
Bob_the_lost said:
By sticking to just that tiny space, and without the use of flashbacks you're reliant upon the acting ability of the characters alone. They should have known that wasn't going to work well when they budgeted it all up and noticed they couldn't get anyone who could act.

The "clue" system was pretty shite too, i'd have done it with a more lethal version of the crystal maze rather than a "safe" "not safe" riddle to solve. Apart from the single fact the architect was useless as was the Cop.

What they ended up with was a poor quality knock off of Saw without even the trace of an overlying plot.

You do know that Cube was made a good seven years before Saw, right ?

I thought it was a great little film and while the acting was variable, the cast of unknowns in Cube were certainly better than the fools well known actors like Cary Elwes and Danny Glover made of themselves in Saw.
 
Anyone seen Cube 2 and Cube Zero?

Personally i like all three, the acting is equally variable/questionable in the other two though. Higher budget and fancier effects, and some eerrrr 'interesting' plot ideas/twists even though they're not thought out and presented well.

Neither are as good as the first one though.
 
Moggy said:
Anyone seen Cube 2 and Cube Zero?

Personally i like all three, the acting is equally variable/questionable in the other two though. Higher budget and fancier effects, and some eerrrr 'interesting' plot ideas/twists even though they're not thought out and presented well.

Neither are as good as the first one though.

I thought they where typically unneccessary cash ins which boringly ended up explaining things that are much more powerful when left unexplained.
 
Orang Utan said:
Hostel - not nearly as disturbing and horrific as it's made out to be, mainly due to the fact that you want the vile little shits to die anyway. Crap make-up effects and extremely flimsy plot with gaping holes

Oh, and I liked Cube AND Cypher

Yeah that's true. The worst bit was worrying about the Japanese girl.

But then she turns out so be a stupid vain bitch anyway.




Cube and Cypher are nice.
 
Oh yeah, and i watched the whole Pusher trilogy the other day - brilliant danish crime/gangster trilogy. The first one is best (as in most cases), but the other two are still really good.

The set was cheap as chips from Play too, think it was £9.99.
 
Yossarian said:
Brick - film noir set among the stoners in a California high school, thought it was ace.
Yeah, good fillum that, excellent Clockwork Orange-lite script. Not sure I completely 100% understood it though :confused:

Last night I watched Nicholas Cage in The Weather Man. Top stuff :cool:
 
****Cube Spoiler*****

Reno said:
I thought they where typically unneccessary cash ins which boringly ended up explaining things that are much more powerful when left unexplained.

oh they don't give you back story and explain who's in control do they? :mad: I thought they managed to make it really ominous by giving nothing away. It feels like a machine is playing with them - the key is maths and logic - while human emotion brings about their downfall; envy, paranoia, hate etc. The autistic lad gets out because he doesn't react emotionally -he works in numbers and patterns, he's the closest to a computer out of all the humans inside.

I think it was damn clever - the clue system didn't need to be more complex because it would have shifted the focus onto the "game". The surroundings repeated themselves like some kind of hell. If the clues became more varied it would just have been another race against time thriller - the threat of being trapped in there forever, in those neverending boxes freaked me right out.
 
Low-key Deadwood Spoiler

Deadwood 2 - episode 4.

Ellsworth's analogy to Alma Garret regarding Wollcott and Tolliver's rumours re: the future of land claims is so brilliant, such consummate fucking writing, it justifies the whole series in itself.

i've never come across language like this on TV before.
 
Dubversion said:
it was odd enough and silly enough to entertain, i thought..
It had some good moments but it annoyed the hell out of me for the most part. It reminds me of Manga which I also hate. :)
 
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