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PostPosted: 07-18-2009 02:05 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Harry Potter and the Half Blood Price - 7/10

Not the best Potter film, lots missed out. I am glad they are splitting the last film into 2 though...makes sense as there is lots they can't miss out of the final one.




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PostPosted: 07-18-2009 04:57 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Beowulf. 8/10.

Not my genre but I enjoyed it.




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PostPosted: 07-19-2009 11:28 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Hannibal wrote:
R00k wrote:
I've got Predator on DVD. It's still awesome today, one of my favorite flicks. The DVD extras are worth checking out too.


Unfortunately the transfer on the blu-ray version is craptastic. I think I got the last DVD "collector's edition" of Predator that they released 2 yrs or so ago...and the blu-ray is not appreciably better (picture wise). This is a movie that deserved a good treatment on BR and didn't get it. :down:


A shame it didn't.

I can't add much since I don't have a BR player (since I don't have a decent tv yet), but this was one of the films I was eventually looking forward to watching on my as-yet-unrealized home theater.




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PostPosted: 07-19-2009 11:35 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Mutant Chronicles - 4/10

Heh, seems like someone made a low budget indie movie out of the old Swedish pen & paper RPG Mutant Chronicles. And managed to get John Malkovich, Ron Perlman and Thomas Jane to star in it. Although Malkovich more or less just phones in his tiny role, Perlman does the professional thing and at least tries to be convincing, while Jane puts in a rather wooden performance.

Sure, the bad script (think of it as Gears of War meets The Dirty Dozen) and the unconvincing CGI (blood splatter is Photoshopped into it afterwards) don't really help, but hey, it's not a big Hollywood production (rather a very low budget Isle of Man one), so I do have to give it one extra point for effort.




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PostPosted: 07-19-2009 12:02 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Harry Potter 6: if you liked the books (and the other films, I guess) then you'll love this, if not don't go.
of the HP films I think this captured the balance between school/humor and adventure best. sure they changed some things and left some parts out, and they removed a relatively important fight and added a completely trivial one. it still gets the main points across and successfully avoids getting bogged down in a couple dozen minor characters who aren't *really* important to the central conflict(s). gg.




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PostPosted: 07-19-2009 02:49 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


harry potter and the one where almost nothing happens. 3/10
the missus is a big fan of the books, she wasn't very impressed with it and complained about a bit where the ginner family's house is attacked - i've never read any of them and thought it was shit. gary oldman and the prison of assbang-something-or-other was alright, all the others (including this one) are boring as hell.

would totally agree that if you haven't read the books, this isn't worth seeing. if you have read the books then presumably you can gloss over the glacial pacing and characters and plot threads that come and go with no explanation.




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it is, after all, part 6. i'm not sure you can fault the film for not knowing the characters.
that attack on the house is the one really baffling part of the film. i had the impression that they finished it, realized it was too short and didn't have enough action, then did that because the set was easy compared to the battle in the school that they'd inexplicably cut out.




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PostPosted: 07-20-2009 06:22 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


has anyone seen 'che' with benicio del toro? on a whim i just picked up the DVD for a shufty, and because del toro is always good value

half-blood prince will wait until it comes out on DVD and the local library has it so i can rent it. no way i'm paying good money to sit thru 2 1/2 hours of that shit




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PostPosted: 07-20-2009 12:10 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


seremtan wrote:
has anyone seen 'che' with benicio del toro? on a whim i just picked up the DVD for a shufty, and because del toro is always good value


Yes, fantastic movie. You'd have to be a moron not to have seen it yet.




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Etile
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PostPosted: 07-20-2009 01:00 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


well, it just so happens i've just watched part one, prior to reading your post, ergo i fall outside your definition of moron. thank god for that. i don't think my e-dignity could have withstood the shame




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PostPosted: 07-20-2009 01:11 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Resident Evil: Extinction 6/10

I heard the movie was absolute shit and just never got around to seeing it until last night. I actually enjoyed the movie although it could have used A LOT more gore.

Also, I only saw like, three resident evil creatures in the entire movie. What's up with that?




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PostPosted: 07-20-2009 04:04 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Che was a murdering cunt. :!:



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PostPosted: 07-20-2009 04:08 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


also, anyone heard of this?

http://www.metro.co.uk/metrolife/film/a ... _page_id=9

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A prequel to the trilogy has been filmed in Britain and will be available free on the internet from next year.

The Hunt For Gollum cost just £3,000 to put together, compared with the £190million spent on making the three The Lord Of The Rings films.


trailer looks pretty polished




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PostPosted: 07-20-2009 04:11 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


feedback wrote:
Che was a murdering cunt. :!:


he gladly killed defectors and the like...thats more like dedication...




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PostPosted: 07-20-2009 04:52 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


feedback wrote:
Che was a murdering cunt. :!:


Che executed the corrupt politicians, murderers, and puppets who served Batista's US-backed dictatorship. Batista was the murdering cunt who killed civilians at random, not Che.

PS. fuck u...




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PostPosted: 07-20-2009 05:26 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


"Hatred as an element of struggle; unbending hatred for the enemy, which pushes a human being beyond his natural limitations, making him into an effective, violent, selective, and cold-blooded killing machine. This is what our soldiers must become…"

Che liked killing and he personally was responsible for thousands of executions, some he conducted personally, even against children. All communists say the same bullshit when they execute innocent people. "Informant", "Traitor", "CIA", just like the Khmer Rouge.



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PostPosted: 07-20-2009 05:45 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


menkent wrote:
Harry Potter 6: if you liked the books (and the other films, I guess) then you'll love this, if not don't go.
of the HP films I think this captured the balance between school/humor and adventure best. sure they changed some things and left some parts out, and they removed a relatively important fight and added a completely trivial one. it still gets the main points across and successfully avoids getting bogged down in a couple dozen minor characters who aren't *really* important to the central conflict(s). gg.


Harry Potter 6

I thought this was the best movie yet. I generally dislike Harry Potter action scenes (I think they are poorly written in the books). The best part of the books/movies I think are the times they have in the castle, the adventure, and the discovery. The action scenes are boring. Thankfully this movie didn't have too much of that and had more of the other stuff. I don't have a score, but I liked it.

edit: also, im not sure why people keep complaining about having stuff in the movie thats not in the book or vice versa. movies that try to copy a book completely generally fail i think.




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feedback wrote:
"Hatred as an element of struggle; unbending hatred for the enemy, which pushes a human being beyond his natural limitations, making him into an effective, violent, selective, and cold-blooded killing machine. This is what our soldiers must become…"

Che liked killing and he personally was responsible for thousands of executions, some he conducted personally, even against children. All communists say the same bullshit when they execute innocent people. "Informant", "Traitor", "CIA", just like the Khmer Rouge.


really? he killed children?




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By survivor witness accounts. Is it really surprising?
"To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary...These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution! And a revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. We must create the pedagogy of the The Wall!"



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PostPosted: 07-20-2009 10:00 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


88 Minutes - 6/10

Fun to watch but was pretty predictable. I called the ending within the first 20 minutes.




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PostPosted: 07-20-2009 10:44 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Captain Mazda wrote:
feedback wrote:
Che was a murdering cunt. :!:


Che executed the corrupt politicians, murderers, and puppets who served Batista's US-backed dictatorship. Batista was the murdering cunt who killed civilians at random, not Che.

PS. fuck u...



che became a murderous piece of shit. Read and learn:

http://vcrisis.com/index.php?content=le ... 0507081316




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PostPosted: 07-20-2009 11:24 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Pro-neocon propaganda much? The articles on that site may as well have been written by Batista himself.

If that's the kind of bullshit you feed into your head, no wonder you splash your ass with filthy shitwater :olo:




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Captain Mazda wrote:
Pro-neocon propaganda much? The articles on that site may as well have been written by Batista himself.

If that's the kind of bullshit you feed into your head, no wonder you splash your ass with filthy shitwater :olo:



the thing about that article is that it's backed up by quite a few facts, in particular excerpts of che's very own diary. Do you contest any particular claims that the article makes?

Or are you just gonna assume that the message is false because of the agenda of the authors?




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PostPosted: 07-21-2009 08:25 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


this just goes to show you - get your face on some t-shirts and people quickly forget that you were a brutal maoist revolutionary.




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PostPosted: 07-21-2009 09:50 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Captain Mazda wrote:
Pro-neocon propaganda much? The articles on that site may as well have been written by Batista himself.


btw you just proved that you didn't even read the article:

(look at italicized section)

Quote:
Guevara was certainly bold and courageous, and quick at organizing life on a military basis in the territories under his control, but he was no General Giap. His book Guerrilla Warfare teaches that popular forces can beat an army, that it is not necessary to wait for the right conditions because an insurrectional foco (or small group of revolutionaries) can bring them about, and that the fight must primarily take place in the countryside. (In his prescription for guerrilla warfare, he also reserves for women the roles of cooks and nurses.) However, Batista's army was not an army, but a corrupt bunch of thugs with no motivation and not much organization; and guerrilla focos, with the exception of Nicaragua, all ended up in ashes for the foquistas; and Latin America has turned 70 percent urban in these last four decades. In this regard, too, Che Guevara was a callous fool.




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PostPosted: 07-21-2009 10:46 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


A corrupt bunch of thugs with full US support and enough organization to make Batista a favorite of the mafia :smirk:




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PostPosted: 07-21-2009 11:02 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


i don't get your point. The article isn't denying the corruption of batista, or the US' involvement.

it's talking about che.

The article even implicates the US as a backer of nasty regimes:

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Particularly disastrous was the Congo expedition in 1965. Guevara sided with two rebels--Pierre Mulele in the west and Laurent Kabila in the east--against the ugly Congolese government, which was sustained by the United States as well as by South African and exiled Cuban mercenaries.


as far as i'm concerned, ppl who idolize che because he stands for revolution and justice are the same ppl who wave the US flag because it stands for freedom and justice.




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PostPosted: 07-21-2009 11:11 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


maybe, for onece, instead of always atempting to make others work and work thier "point" for you or thinking ur entitled to having people do this work for you, you urself should work to "see their point clearer"

you could work to reason how

oh wai...

:olo:

or is its frequentsy an indication of just another cheap tactic?

wouldnt be the first u see?



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PostPosted: 07-21-2009 02:39 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


as much as i enjoy soderbergh's movies (just finished part 2) i came away with no flesh and blood sense of what made guevara tick (by flesh and blood i mean: as opposed to revolutionary slogans and catchphrases), and the distinct impression that what i've just watched is an airbrush job (it was based entirely on guevara's books, which might explain the bias). the whole story of the cuban revolution seems to ram home once more the point that hayek made about socialism, namely that however many internationalist trappings it acquires, it is inevitably nationalistic. cuba replaced a foreign-backed dictatorship with a homegrown one. significantly, the cuban national anthem is Patria o Muerte

not exactly Workers of the World, Unite! :smirk:




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PostPosted: 07-21-2009 03:47 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Harry Potter: Half-Blood Prince :arrow: 4/10
very dull, and god could radcliff please learn how to display some kind of emotion or acting talent what so ever? after 6 movies you'd think he would have a clue by now.

Blindness :arrow: 3/10
And I thought nothing happened in harry potter. 2 hours of predictable scenarios with piss poor characters and a plot that never develops.

Terminator Salvation :arrow: 7/10
Nicely done; this and star trek are easily the best action movies of the year. Which is amazing considering they were both resurrecting dead franchises. Only two major gripes... wtf was up with "star"?? kid needed a point for all the goofy screen time she got. Also the "jump start" + transplant at the end of the movie is fucking lame.

Balls of Fury :arrow: 7/10
Shockingly funny. I thought it was going to be some "kung pow!" slapstick crap; but it was actually a pretty well executed farse.




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PostPosted: 07-21-2009 06:04 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


i liked blindness - was a very intense movie experience.




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PostPosted: 07-21-2009 07:52 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


agreed, harry Potter 4/10/ Boring!




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The Watchmen: 8/10 Aside from some clunky narrative jump cuts, this was excellent.

edit: watched it again. Definitely an 8. BTW, this is one of the best blu-rays I've seen so far this year (great transfer, 24 min of added footage, nice supplements).




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Taken - 6½/10 - pretty brutal, and the family bits weren't well done, and the holly valance thing was dumb, and liam neeson is too old for this shit, but otherwise entertaining




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in the loop - 7/10
really entertaining and kept me laughing all the way through.




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