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Kill Bill Volume 1. Entertaining. 8/10.

Kill Bill Volume 2. Although the general consensus favors the first one, I found vol. 2 to be vastly superior. 9/10.

Shutter Island. One of the decade's best thrillers. I really liked the ending. 10/10.
 
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Daring, in the sense that it did not compromise its content in order to appeal to an audience broader than its limited target audience. 10/10.

RockNRolla. I'm fond of Guy Ritchie's gangster flicks. 8/10.
 
At home this weekend, Death at a FuneralEnglish version. Haven't seen the American one yet but the Brit version was hilarious. Lots of recognizable faces in it, and somehow the stuff that happens is way funnier with the accent. 7 out of 10, only because they under-used Ewen Bremner who was off the charts in Trainspotting.

At the movies, 127 Hours the movie version of the Aron Ralston Story. Quick version for those who don't know this kid. True story, a few years ago he went solo day-hiking in Utah's Canyonlands, which are pretty desolate. Got his arm wedged between a boulder and the canyon wall, and after hanging there for a week waiting to die he cut himself loose with a cheap pocket knife. Then hiked the rest of the miles out of the canyon to reach help. The catch is, neither the wall nor the rock was cuttable, so guess what he hacked off? James Franco plays Ralston and the movie is flat out amazing. If you don't feel better about your own problems when you're done watching this you may already be dead. 10 out of 10 for reralistic protrayal of the stages of his self-rescue. I can't recommend this highly enough. PS the boy saw it with me and loved it, so it gets tweener seal of approval as well.
 
2 is more satisfying. Probably due to Carradine.
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Kill Bill 2 was the pinnacle of Carradine's career. I was positively surprised to see that the man could actually act. Such a shame that the movies he acted were mostly terribad straight-to-video releases.

Even for a cult movie star, he did not get the recognition that, say Ron Perlman or Danny Trejo had.
 
Marquis De Sade said:
Kill Bill 2 was the pinnacle of Carradine's career. I was positively surprised to see that the man could actually act. Such a shame that the movies he acted were mostly terribad straight-to-video releases.

Even for a cult movie star, he did not get the recognition that, say Ron Perlman or Danny Trejo had.
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Ditto on the acting --and don't feel too sorry for him. He'll be forever remembered for "Kung Fu".

Also: GREATEST IRL CELEBRITY DEATH EVAR (one of the few who literally came and went at the same time. :rimshot:)
 
Archibald Nixon said:
Ditto on the acting --and don't feel too sorry for him. He'll be forever remembered for "Kung Fu".

Also: GREATEST IRL CELEBRITY DEATH EVAR (one of the few who literally came and went at the same time. :rimshot:)
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Yeah, he pulled the ol' Frantisek Kotzwara.
 
Just Saw Avatar on DVD.

Overall, up until the climax battle, ok. Great visuals, the "learning to be a native" thing was well done if predictable. Lazy writing.

DOUBLE lazy writing at the end. The climax battle. Ok, they are being lead by a Marine.
1. Frontal charge into automatic weapons. Marines know better.
2. Waste their only armed helo on a routine spoiling attack.
3. Let the transport with the "Daisy Cutter" type bombs close to the target.

First: if you know the terrain and the forest: lay an ambush.
Second: have the armed helo on the deck, let the attacking force fly over, distract with the blue dudes on dragons, get the helo up and shoot missiles up the asses of the two largest units, then have the helo withdraw.

Third: Since dropping a "dragon" into the rotor blades takes the aircraft down, have 20 Kamakazi's do this in the first wave to take out the smaller helos. A second set of them (probably 10 each) to do the same on the big transports IF the armed helo doesn't take one or both of them out due to surprise.
total native casualties: 20-40.

Poor writing. Very poor. 3/10 for visuals.
 
^In Addition:

If I was the bad-guy:

Send in the small helos in three waves, low/medium and High. Low/medium to slaughter as many blue-dudes as possible on the GROUND. The high group waits for the blue-guys on "dragons" to drop on the lower force, and then hits them from above.

The shuttle is FAST, remember it's fast enough to get to orbit. Send it in higher than the dragons can fly, drop the daisy-cutter from high altitude. They have computers, and they have the lower-groups for air-density and wind measurements to make the drop accurate enough to hit the tree-area. Pull back the smaller helos at drop, pulling the dragons back from the target area with them so there's no chance to get the "package" (I assume it's a parachute bomb like the "real life" equivalent).

For the ground-pounders, drop them and have them hold up in a "box", if the natives are stupid enough to charge, let them. Once the daisy-cutter drops and detonates, then advance over the shattered forest while the natives are stunned and kill as many as necessary. Since I looked like they were concentrating around the tree, most will be dead or injured. Pull back after 1/2 hour (remember, the objective was to "Blast a hole in their racial memories so big they won't come within a 1000 clicks of our operation", not genocide) before the natives can regroup, and fly home.

Marine casualties: close to 0.

One of the first rules of strategy: fight YOUR fight, not your enemies.
 
I just hate lazy writing.

I hate it even more when lazy writing is rewarded with multi-million dollar budgets to Realize this writing on the big screen.

especially because my writing's a hell of a lot better and I'm not getting a cent
 
SuN said:
Yes, for a reason. They are awesome.

You shuld watch the originals. Not the american remakes that are in the pipeline :vomits:
If you are opposed to subs, there are dub'd torrents around that are not to badly done.

Millennium trilogy is a must
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I'm sure I can find them around, my local library is very foreign friendly.
 
The Millennium Trilogy is fantastic.

Saw "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" not too long ago, I'd give it a 8.5 out of 10 for character development, intriguing story, and good (but not fantastic) acting.

They loose about 1 point for being TOO creepy, and rape-scenes bother me a lot (I had to close my eyes). Probably means they are effective writing so I shouldn't take points away, but gratuitous scenes like this can and do ruin movies for me.
 
Consumer said:
The Millennium Trilogy is fantastic.

Saw "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" not too long ago, I'd give it a 8.5 out of 10 for character development, intriguing story, and good (but not fantastic) acting.

They loose about 1 point for being TOO creepy, and rape-scenes bother me a lot (I had to close my eyes). Probably means they are effective writing so I shouldn't take points away, but gratuitous scenes like this can and do ruin movies for me.
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I thought the fact that she used the rape she knew was going to happen to get the job done pretty goddamn badass on her part.
 
She thought it was going to be another forced blow job, not the brutal rape that left her limping home.

That she survived it and was able to make the sick fuck pay was badass.
 
Cinch said:
She thought it was going to be another forced blow job, not the brutal rape that left her limping home.

That she survived it and was able to make the sick fuck pay was badass.
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Survived it?!? LOL She knew exactly what he was going to do and planned for it in advance. Remember the camera? Coincidence? Nope.

I understand why you're uncomfortable though. Suggesting she knew it was coming puts us in the unpleasant position of potentially having to explain rape, being raped and surviving rape in entirely different terms. The filmmaker was totally clear.

So we should maintain the idea that she was a poor victim lucky enough to somehow suffer through it. It's much more pleasant then the suggestion that she...gasp...(dare I say it?) went there to be raped so she could use it as leverage NO!!

Bold unflinching examination of taboo issues is more likely to result in true empowerment then maintaining the stereotypical definitions of victims who may turn out to be something else.

In other words there's a whole lot more feminine power intrinsic to the character as the perpetrator then as the victim who 'somehow survived'. Puts bigger teeth in the whole 'made the sick fuck pay' part too.
 
Perhaps I was thrown off by the character actually SAYING, while taking to the rapist on her return, that she wasn't expecting anything more than a blow job. The video tape was there to catch that which would have been enough to accomplish her goal.

This isn't an issue of me being uncomfortable. It's an issue of me listening to the dialogue more closely than you. But I can see why some might tune out a bit given such tough content. :p
 
That she DID put herself in a dangerous situation was "badass". So was the revenge (I liked the tattoos in particular).

In this case, yes, the events shown served the story.

It still bothers me to see a man punch a woman in the stomach, and there's a tremendous difference between the sounds a woman makes when she's willingly placed herself in a position to be spanked or otherwise "hit"...and the sounds Lisabeth made when she was being raped in that move.

My personal preference: I just don't like watching scenes like that.
 
Burlesque I give it 10 thumbs up.
I am sure it wasn't that great, and anyone will find a reason to tell me so, but I thoroughly enjoy dancing movies, and so what if it is just like Coyote Ugly or Save the Last Dance or any of those other great movies where the girl doesn't have a father or a mother and she goes to some big city to make it big. It had Cher and we love Cher.
 
Consumer said:
That she DID put herself in a dangerous situation was "badass". So was the revenge (I liked the tattoos in particular).

In this case, yes, the events shown served the story.

It still bothers me to see a man punch a woman in the stomach, and there's a tremendous difference between the sounds a woman makes when she's willingly placed herself in a position to be spanked or otherwise "hit"...and the sounds Lisabeth made when she was being raped in that move.

My personal preference: I just don't like watching scenes like that.
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fuck u,. put herself in a dangerous position...heh HE put HIMSELF in a dangerous position..... ;)
@ least its clear u've never raeped.......
 
'Gear said:
Survived it?!? LOL She knew exactly what he was going to do and planned for it in advance. Remember the camera? Coincidence? Nope.

I understand why you're uncomfortable though. Suggesting she knew it was coming puts us in the unpleasant position of potentially having to explain rape, being raped and surviving rape in entirely different terms. The filmmaker was totally clear.

So we should maintain the idea that she was a poor victim lucky enough to somehow suffer through it. It's much more pleasant then the suggestion that she...gasp...(dare I say it?) went there to be raped so she could use it as leverage NO!!
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Did she go there to set him up, or did she know wat was coming and was just a few steps ahead?
 
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