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PostPosted: 02-21-2009 03:39 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Academy spokeswoman Leslie Unger said it was a forgery and the event's auditors were still counting votes.

"The document is a complete fraud," she said.

"There are only two people there who will know the complete list of winners in advance of the envelopes being opened during the ceremony."

Reports say the document appears to carry the signature of Sid Ganis, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which presents the Oscars.

Ms Unger added: "The Academy's president is not advised of the winners in advance and no such list is created."
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Taken: 7/10
- By the book thriller without any real shortcomings.

The Reader: 8.5 / 10
- I didn't know much about this movie beforehand so the emotion of it really hit me like a shit ton of bricks. Not particularly "enjoyable" to watch but it carries a lot of weight. (I expect Revolutionary Road will be similar.)

The Wrestler: 9/10
Amazing performances by Rourke and Tomei. Great storytelling. It's really too bad Springsteen's title track was snubbed by the oscars, especially with only three out of a potential five "best song" nominees.

The Visitor: yawn/10
Sob story about immigrants who become fast friends with the guy whose apartment it turns out they've been illegally renting. Underwhelming in just about every respect.
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PostPosted: 02-22-2009 06:52 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Gonzo 9/10

Giving it a very high score, but for reasons that are probably entirely personal. Loved it.



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PostPosted: 02-25-2009 04:27 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford - 8.5/10

An underrated gem. It was longer than necessary but extremely well shot with great performances by Pitt and Affleck. Its definitely not an action movie but is quite a fascinating and historically accurate character study.
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PostPosted: 02-26-2009 01:33 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


internal affairs, 8/10
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ek, did you like that more or less than The Departed?

a lot of people have told me that infernal affairs is better, but i couldn't stand watching more than 15 minutes of it. i watched the departed first and liked it very much.
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i watched departed first too. both were good. couldn't turn it off i was on a flight from hong kong.. so i stuck with it. awesome movie, and enjoyable.
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Outlander - 6.5/10

A spaceman and vikings...it seemed doomed to fail but possibly worth chuckling at when bored. I was pleasantly surprised as this turned out to be an excellent sci-fi/adventure movie. The ironic thing about this movie is that, after being disappointed in the cultural inaccuracies with vikings in film for years, this sci-fi flick pulled off a decent representation without a horned helmet in sight.

X-files 2 - 5/10

It was nowhere near as interesting as the first movie or most of the TV episodes for that matter. It was good to see more X-files and the cast together again but they could have done much, much better for a full-length movie.
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the signal - 8/10
low-budget horror film with plenty of laughs and a few genuine scares. the most impressive thing about it is that it succeeds in believably portraying a widespread event, something a lot of films with more money behind them have failed to do.

jcvd - 7/10
really enjoyed it - as did the missus, despite having absolutely no idea who jcvd was.
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PostPosted: 02-27-2009 03:21 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Gomorra 6/10

For some reason i couldn't get into this at all. I thought all of the little stories (i guess meant to illustrate how the Camorra has a finger in everything, legal or no, and that noone who lives there escapes having to deal with them in some way) were predictable and underwhelming.

Maybe i was expecting something else... Meh.

also:

Chupacabra wrote:
a lot of people have told me that infernal affairs is better, but i couldn't stand watching more than 15 minutes of it. i watched the departed first and liked it very much.


Shit yeah. I watched Infernal Affairs years before i saw Departed (and also oddly enough recently on a flight from Hong Kong like ek) and consequently i thought the latter was a bad rip off. Story aside, they're very different films though. IA is all slowness and shots of city landscapes through a blue filter (which was totally the shit back then remember) and closeups of grim looking asian thugs who speak in riddles and sometimes shoot each other - whereas Departed...well, that didn't really stand out in any way whatsoever when you disregard the stolen story, did it.



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Punisher Warzone - 6 exploding heads/10

Absurdly violent and gory.
They succeeded in creating the darkness and grittiness required in a revenge flick, regardless of some failed attempts at humor.
A lot of familiar tv-faces (Rome's "Titus", The Wire's "McNulty", Dexter's "Rita", Seinfeld's "Newman"(!)).
Usually that puts me off, but in this grotesque setting it didn't really matter.

Totally brainrotting garbage, but sometimes you need some of that.
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Totally brainrotting garbage, but sometimes you need some of that.


Try explaining that to Julios. :smirk:
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PostPosted: 02-28-2009 12:58 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Don't come knocking - 9/10

Wim Wenders here created not that much of an masterpiece to compete with his 11/10 "Paris Texas" but it still has this Wenders-special melancholic atmosphere in it.



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PostPosted: 02-28-2009 02:11 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


A Scanner Darkly - 8/10

Very good and impressive story (based on a story by Philip K. Dick) and very well presented. While the live-action-turned-into-anime looks gimmicky at first, it really helps to create a sense of disconnect from reality, which is also one of the main themes of the movie.
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PostPosted: 03-01-2009 12:31 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Gran Torino

Clint Eastwood near at his best in these years :up:

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At 78, perhaps the only actor in the history of American cinema to convincingly kick the butt of a guy 60 years his junior............


Loved it 8/10

EDIT: Don't post spoilers in this thread old man. -DM



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Lost Highway - 3/10

that movie can get fucked.
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Coraline - 9/10

A creepy, original storyline and outstanding animation make this a really enjoyable flick, especially in 3D. Its the best of its type since Nightmare before Christmas.

Get Smart's Bruce and Lloyd Out of Control - 6/10

Better than Get Smart in my opinion. Great nerd humour and some good laughs.

In the Valley of Elah - 7/10

Well acted but slow developing story.
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Dr_Watson wrote:
Lost Highway - 3/10

that movie can get fucked.



It was probably just over your head :)

Seriously, Lynch tries very hard to mystify shit just for the sake of it, but I still like his movies, because they force you to respond to them in a different way than to the usual hollywood schlock.
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Dr_Watson wrote:
Lost Highway - 3/10

that movie can get fucked.



It was probably just over your head :)

Seriously, Lynch tries very hard to mystify shit just for the sake of it, but I still like his movies, because they force you to respond to them in a different way than to the usual hollywood schlock.


Nothing went over my head. I generally like lynch movies and the first half of it was very good. But then it just goes off the rails into a 60 min dream sequence where the main character "remembers the past the way he wants to". Was a pretty weak version of mullholland drive and not helped by the generally flat acting of Bill Pullman and Patricia Arquette. Also I never noticed it in his previous movies, but Lynch is fucking obsessed with golden sections in his framing.
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to be fair, Mulholland was made *after* Lost Highway.

but I thought Mulholland was better, too.
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mulholland was lame.

i dont like when people say "oh, you didnt get it." no, i got it and it was weak sauce.
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Zack and Miri make a porno

What a fucking roasted turd of a movie.
Those lazy cunts Kevin Smith and Seth Rogen seem to think they can pull anything out of their ass, moronic audiences will lap it up anyway.
They took some 'hilarious' premise, and then thought that would do, no more work for teh funneh is required,
The movie contains no jokes, no laughs and no funny situations. That's quite a feat for something that pretends to be a comedy.

3/10
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The Signal 7/10

Fucked up people deal with a fucked up situation by fucking things up. Solid funny little horror comedy :up:
Clearly low budget, but they made it work.



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Ryoki wrote:
The Signal 7/10

Fucked up people deal with a fucked up situation by fucking things up. Solid funny little horror comedy :up:
Clearly low budget, but they made it work.


It's not really meant to be a comedy, moreso an experiment. It was directed by 3 different directors. One that does horror, one that does comedy, one that does suspense.
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Hehe, I also watched The Signal this weekend (on a recommendation I read here by 4days).
I didn't realise the 3 chapters were each directed by three different directors.
Must say the second 'comedy' one felt a bit out of place and awkward to me, disruptive even.
But all in all not bad at all for a low budget flick, and I'm a sucker for movies that have their plot unfold in a non linear way and from different perspectives :up:
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Aha, didn't know that :)



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WATCHMEN
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WATCHMEN II
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Watchmen - 8/10

Rorschach was played to perfection...
Silk Spectre was just...wow...
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Watchmen - 6.5/10
Above average but not as good as the graphic novel. The part focusing on Dr. Manhatten was amazing and completely made up for the shittastic first 30 minutes.

The soundtrack for the movie was terrible as well.
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Requiem For A Dream
8/10

Good movie, depressing as shit, but good.
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Jackal wrote:
Watchmen - 6.5/10
Above average but not as good as the graphic novel. The part focusing on Dr. Manhatten was amazing and completely made up for the shittastic first 30 minutes.

The soundtrack for the movie was terrible as well.


The new ending was better than the comic by far...
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Best opening credits ever.

I liked the film but it really was style over substance, which is the complete opposite of the graphic novel. It's more of an art project than a complete movie in my opinion. I would really have liked to have seen Paul Greengrass's version and seen more of a narrative and not just stylish scenes spliced together.

Overall though, it's still a good movie in it's own right, just not really a great Watchmen movie.
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Good night sweet prince.



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Don Carlos wrote:
Jackal wrote:
Watchmen - 6.5/10
Above average but not as good as the graphic novel. The part focusing on Dr. Manhatten was amazing and completely made up for the shittastic first 30 minutes.

The soundtrack for the movie was terrible as well.


The new ending was better than the comic by far...


I don't agree. By placing the blame solely on Dr. Manhatten's shoulders they missed the point a bit.

It was too tidy and far less morally grey.
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