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Mat Linnett
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PostPosted: 11-11-2008 09:26 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


I'd be interested in hearing how the US remake of [REC], Quarantine, compares.
Anyone seen it yet?
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Quarantine is definitely more polished in terms of production but [rec] had more edge to it.
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Mat Linnett wrote:
I'd be interested in hearing how the US remake of [REC], Quarantine, compares.
Anyone seen it yet?

christ, they've cranked that out fast enough. the original's barely on dvd.

demon 1 and demons 2, 9/10. great entertainment, shame the music seems to get even worse with age but i guess that's personal taste. if/when these get remade i hope someone with money and a shitload of extras does them justice.

max payne, 1/10. almost entirely missed the primary gimmick of the game and mark whatsisname is terrible.

postal, 2/10. uwe boll's masterpiece.
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Hellboy 2: 6/10. Generally enjoyable but like the first it hits a yawn patch at about the 1 hour mark where the momentum is lost...and then has to be rebuilt. Ending was a bit goof.



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GONNAFISTYA wrote:
Quarantine is definitely more polished in terms of production but [rec] had more edge to it.

the camera work was over the top, I really wanted to walk out b4 it was over,...I was this close to getting a headache
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GONNAFISTYA wrote:
Quarantine is definitely more polished in terms of production but [rec] had more edge to it.


I think you're wrong here. The presentation of the film is supposed to be raw and as such [Rec] was better. Quarantine was a good movie but considering how the film is meant to be delivered it felt way too over-produced. In [Rec] there were very few moments when you thought "why would he be filming this instead of running/defending himself?" whereas in Quarantine there were quite a few instances of that problem.

One thing I'll give Quarantine props for was some very quick but ballsy shots. The scene with the fireman limping out of the back room was quite creepy. Also (and I think this was the best part of Quarantine) when they're running upstairs at the end - when they run by the old lady who is just standing there - that was creepy as fuck.

All in all I found [rec] to have better acting and better atmosphere. Also the lead character in [rec] was far better than the girl in Quarantine. The American chick came off as whiney.
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I really enjoyed [rec].
I have seen a lot of zombie movies, but it still felt fresh and original to me.
But maybe a little bit of that freshness and originality can be ascribed to the fact that it was in Spanish, so it had a certain quirky 'euro' quality about it, plus I really dug the lead actress.

This is the first time I hear of an American remake, "Quarantine".
Guess I will watch that at some point, although I already feel averse toward it;
All this cowardly Hollywood regurgitation of proven concepts, whether it be movies or tv shows, is really off puting, and speaks volumes about the poverty of producers playing it safe, instead of being interested and investing in original ideas.
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I think it's hard to slight the makers of Quarantine in this case though. They wouldn't be wrong in assuming that movie-goers wouldn't go to see a foreign zombie movie. They were just trying to improve their odds by redoing things in a more "North American" way. At least they recognized that the original was a phenominal movie and wanted more people to see it (hence the fact that Quarantine is practically a shot for shot remake of [rec]).

What I do think is a shame however is that the remake precluded the original from being released over here.
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Well, I can understand how Quarantine being an exact remake of the orginal [rec] could work.
Because, for instance, the US version of Funny Games didn't lose much in translation; That was really well done. I felt the same bases were covered, and it had as much of an impact as the original.
However, why do American movie goers have such a problem with reading subtitles?
I realise this isn't preclusively an American thing; Ze Germans have built an entire industry around dubbing foreign movies, for instance, but that just doesn't make sense to me.
I'd much rather watch the original, and read subtitles, than lose details in an interpretation.
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I'm not sure it's the general audience, rather than Hollywood focus groups' idea of what audiences want to see.
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It's probably the same as in the music industry - as a publisher, why bother spending money on original songs when you might as well just record a cover or do a remix and let the sheeple buy the same thing twice? Or less cynically, just to open up a niche product to a mainstream target group?
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quantum of solace - 7/10

not a fan of bond movies, but i did enjoy the books and they're even closer to them with this than they were with casino royale.

only things that bugged me were the stupid title, the theme tune (which sounds like it was originally composed as a ringtone midi) and the idea that anyone would need to import an assassin to haiti.
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PostPosted: 11-13-2008 03:51 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Wanted

minus zero out of ten
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I never even finished watching it, what an awful movie :down:

The Mist - 8/10
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[Rec]
6/10

not very scary at all, only the last 5 minutes maybe, and the first 60% of the movie was boring to me.



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Your opinion is wrong.
[rec] is at least 8/10.

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Yeah I guess so, horror movies don't do it for me anymore, they're all so rehashed.



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You're just blasé, mofo.
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Feedback, it must suck to have bad opinions.
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Indiana Jones and the Something of the whatever.

Finally got round to watching it. What a piece of shit. The action scenes are dreadful CGI bollocks and the whole thing just felt like it was filmed in a studio.

I think Spielberg may have finally lost his marbles.
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did you not watch AI?
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Firewall - 4/10

Silly and about half an hour too long. Also, Harrison Ford is getting a bit too old for doing action scenes.
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i need a poo
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Jackal wrote:
Feedback, it must suck to have bad opinions.


It's hard to only enjoy the best things in life. :up: Though I did watch the movie naked spooning my gf so I might have been more impatient than otherwise.

p.s. big spoon, not little spoon



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Tropic Thunder 8/10

Some absolutely hilarious scenes and an amazing Tom Cruise performance. Very, very funny :up:



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new james bond 6/10

this is not bond... action wasn't bad, but the grandeur of bond is no longer...
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Taken

Liam Neison plays a retired spook whose dipshit daughter gets kidnapped into the sex slave trade on a vacation, then pwns faggots to get her back. 8/10

Glad I watched this instead of Quantum mechanics of solar halcyon solace



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Journey to the Centre of the Earth, 3d, BluRay...

Well, I enjoyed the film when I saw it in 3D at the cinema. Those glasses really are cool. But what were they thinking here...? I mean, fair enough, the BluRay WAS £11.99, when the DVD was £13.99 (WTF is that about?), and it DOES come with both 2D and 3D versions... But shite... They had to go and add those decade old red/blue glasses into it, NOT the cool ones you get in the cinema.

So, while the film wasn't half bad (despite what most people say, its half watchable), I was most of the time going cross eyed because the colour of the screen was always either BLUE... or RED... :| Or sometimes, an odd misture of the two. The 3d effects randomly worked, too...

Damn shame... Reason I bought it, was because it would of been a perfect night time laugh. Pop the BluRay on, big telly, decent 3D effects, lovely. But no... They had to go all cheap and SpyKids 3D on us...

Such a shame... Still, cant argue with a cheap as chips BluRay.
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But how were the shadows?
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Clone Wars (the new animated version) - 8/10

Watched it last night with my kids and really enjoyed it. It was good to see the Ventress storyline expanded and the animation was worlds better than the previous cartoons.

Wall-E - 7/10

Another good Pixar movie with quite a few laughs.
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quarantine - Blairwitch meets Night of the living dead. Loved both flicks but this was a nice waste of time. :/ I would love my bandwidth back please.

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Wall-E - 7/10

And this is one movie I'm waiting on the release for, one of pixars best imo.
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bork[e] wrote:
But how were the shadows?


Wow, hey thanks, did you know theres a BLACK pres now? Did you know that some aircraft flew into the twin towers? Did you know that we won the second world war?

I only ask, becaues you seem to be living in the past!
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Kee-rist o'dium what a horrible comeback. :down:
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*insert joke about GKY being fat here*
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those are defacto funny :olo:
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