1953 War of the Worlds. What a groundbreaking film. Still exciting and manages a good feeling of dread. Established the fluoro-green, curved angular look for alien ships, the laser blaster sound effects and shows that special effects don't look much more convincing these days. Spielberg, you wasted your time.
What DVD / Video did you watch last night ?
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maya said:yeah...i had a massive "arty" film-period in my mid-teens, so got a bit of an "overkill-effect" of all things b&w after that...perhaps time again to explore a bit more & deeper...(i'm on the case!)
Did you like "Pi"?
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I saw Pi when it came out and must have been too young as i hated it.
I saw 'Alexander' last night. Ok not the greatest, and my knowledge of the period is nought so couldn't verify it's historical accuracy, but i was entertained and that's what counts innit. all the critics panned it which was OTT and reaffirms my stance that critics are completely useless and never get it right. i never read them but you hear what they've been saying through the grapevine and it just has to be ignored.
add - i used to like empire magazine and they would be spot on normally, but now they're all over the place and it's clear they're not objective. my bro got me a years subscription for xmas and i thought, great haven't read this for a while, but the way it's changed from about 5 years ago is awful.
I saw 'Alexander' last night. Ok not the greatest, and my knowledge of the period is nought so couldn't verify it's historical accuracy, but i was entertained and that's what counts innit. all the critics panned it which was OTT and reaffirms my stance that critics are completely useless and never get it right. i never read them but you hear what they've been saying through the grapevine and it just has to be ignored.
add - i used to like empire magazine and they would be spot on normally, but now they're all over the place and it's clear they're not objective. my bro got me a years subscription for xmas and i thought, great haven't read this for a while, but the way it's changed from about 5 years ago is awful.
Wide Eyed Angel
Forgeddaboudit!
carnivale episodes 9 & 10, you'd think with only 2 episodes left i could hazard a guess at where it's going to end up but no. gutted that i've not got those 2 episodes yet, come on screenselect!
jeff_leigh
What happened to Dubversion ?
Rumble in the Bronx
maya
timewasting fool (in every universe)
...sort of the Triffids meets Little Shop Of Horrors, non?jayeola said:"attack of the killer leeches" - DO NOT WATCH IF SOBER AND ALONE!!
the latter is a brilliant thrashy b-film and coincidentally the one i watched last night...
if you're interested in such things.
i had nightmares afterwards btw, but only because i ate cheese before bedtime.(on a pizza)
Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Me and Random One watched Crash last night and my god was it a load of bollox...
Kid_Eternity
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maya said:
I don't think I could bear it after watching the pretentious and tedious bullshit that was the film; me and Random One kept hopeing everyong would die just to make the film more interesting!
Kid_Eternity
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Ryazan said:
Well, I think i'll leave it a bit; any association it has with the film would have be shredding and binning the fucker within minutes..
Wide Eyed Angel
Forgeddaboudit!
maybe sounding a bit special but are people on about the film crash of the book which likes car crashes too much or that film at the cinema whose trailer manages to make it look like it's about nothing at all? a bit like closer in that respect
maya said:
I think he's talking about a different 'Crash', the new film about racial prejudice in the US.
Wide Eyed Angel said:
This is it; I think he's talking about the new film, whereas Maya is talking about the one based on the Ballard book.
jeff_leigh
What happened to Dubversion ?
Sin City - first time i've seen it, fucking loved it 
Wide Eyed Angel
Forgeddaboudit!
holy smoke, got bored with it really, even if it did have harvey keital in a dress in it
Bubba Hotep. A touching and original film. Could've done with some tighter editing, though.
Zombie Creeping Flesh. Early 1980s rip-off of Dawn of the Dead, right down to Goblin licensing their Dawn soundtrack. Lots of wildlife footage spliced in. Not very good, funnily enough!
Zombie Creeping Flesh. Early 1980s rip-off of Dawn of the Dead, right down to Goblin licensing their Dawn soundtrack. Lots of wildlife footage spliced in. Not very good, funnily enough!
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i Watched'Criminal' with John C. Reilly and Maggie Gyllenhallwhatsherface. didn't realise it was a remake of the argentinian film 'nine queens' which was a bore as it was exactly the same but not as good.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
24.3 last 4 hours. Stupid toss. Highly entertaining tho.
Garden State - *shrugs*. It was alright, some nice touches, but overall ,nothing special at all.
Hannibal - other than the first half hour (tedious and very badly written) and the last half hour (just fucking stupid), it was okay. Nothing more tho. did get where threy got the end of 24.3 from tho!
The Spanish Prisoner - poorly acted, reasonably obvious too, if you've seen The Sting, but it passed the time nicely.
Wouldn't rush back to any of them tho.
Garden State - *shrugs*. It was alright, some nice touches, but overall ,nothing special at all.
Hannibal - other than the first half hour (tedious and very badly written) and the last half hour (just fucking stupid), it was okay. Nothing more tho. did get where threy got the end of 24.3 from tho!
The Spanish Prisoner - poorly acted, reasonably obvious too, if you've seen The Sting, but it passed the time nicely.
Wouldn't rush back to any of them tho.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Vera Drake - I liked it. Those good old plucky plebs
PieEye said:
drugs are bad, m'kay?
i also snuck in Criminal, with that Reilly fella, Maggie Gyllenhaal (sp?) and Diego Luna. a reasonable remake of a Latin American original, basically just a crime/fraud caper with a 'sting' twist. quite well done.
top_biller
a big bowl of wrong
Intolerable Cruelty, a second attempt to try and like it but alas, its still nowhere near the Coens best.
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