The Movie Topic (films recently watched, general discussion, etc)

[bright lights, big city]

I'll probably still end up paying for it. The Kato character's badassery alone makes me want to see it, aside from me loving almost everything Rogen and Michel Gondry do.

[blixa]

Fight Club, 12 Monkeys, The Assassination of Jesse James, Sleepers, True Romance...to mention a few. He's fantastic in those.

he was good in 12 monkeys. he just doesn't appeal to me for some reason. i never really notice him when he's onscreen.

[blixa]

good scary film, but sort of disappointed by the ending. there was also a lot of david lynch inspired things going on in it too.

[bright lights, big city]

i hate to ruin your day, but i believe that's being remade for the real english-speaking countries.

[theis]

Just got back from Black Swan.

Amazing.

[chick de la lynch]

I'll probably still end up paying for it. The Kato character's badassery alone makes me want to see it, aside from me loving almost everything Rogen and Michel Gondry do.

I'd just watch it for Kato. He was fast, charming and the ultimate bad ass. Rogen usually does a great job with whatever he does, but this film is his worst to date. His acting was fine, it was the writing that was awful. Then again, the film was rated PG-13, which meant the comedy that he's known for and does best would be left out of the film. It seemed as if they had a lot of restrictions with this film, which meant a lot of Rogen's material would be censored.

[one weak]

Just got back from Black Swan.

Amazing.

i think it's my "best" film of the year. It's not perfect, but compared to the rest, I think it has something others don't.

[bright lights, big city]

I'll probably still end up paying for it. The Kato character's badassery alone makes me want to see it, aside from me loving almost everything Rogen and Michel Gondry do.

I'd just watch it for Kato. He was fast, charming and the ultimate bad ass. Rogen usually does a great job with whatever he does, but this film is his worst to date. His acting was fine, it was the writing that was awful. Then again, the film was rated PG-13, which meant the comedy that he's known for and does best would be left out of the film. It seemed as if they had a lot of restrictions with this film, which meant a lot of Rogen's material would be censored.

I hate to be one of the "those" guys, but yeah I find myself disliking a lot of PG-13 movies just because they should be trying to get away with more things. An upcoming example is The Rite with Anthony Hopkins. It looks creepy, but then at the end of the trailer it says PG-13, and I just know that it'll probably suck.

[blixa]

i hate to ruin your day, but i believe that's being remade for the real english-speaking countries.

fo'realz?

[bright lights, big city]

i hate to ruin your day, but i believe that's being remade for the real english-speaking countries.

fo'realz?

yeah supposedly coming out in 2011

[theis]

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford - 10/10 (easily of the greatest movies ever)

The Machinist - 9/10

[bright lights, big city]

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford - 10/10 (easily of the greatest movies ever)

The Machinist - 9/10

fuck. yes. both great movies, but especially Jesse James. everything about that (acting, music, cinematography, narrating, directing, writing) is absolutely amazing.

[theis]

It boggles my mind how this went so unnoticed at the Oscars. When a movie like There Will Be Blood (similar in both look and feel) can get so much recognition. Don't get me wrong, I love TWBB, but, for me, Jesse James is on another level.

As you said, everything is amazing. A masterpiece.

[davetonez]

i hate to ruin your day, but i believe that's being remade for the real english-speaking countries.

fo'realz?

yeah supposedly coming out in 2011

Not exactly an uncommon thing anymore, right?

[one weak]

yep, hollywood are schmucks. they'd try to polish shit and film it if they could.

....and yes, i've seen the myth busters ep.

edit: sorry, i don't mean that this movie sucks or anything, i have never even heard of it. just trying to make a point that the spirit of actually writing new material is lost on hollywood.

[davetonez]

I understood.

It's true though. I grew up on watching horror movies and I know it happens with all genres of movies, but it sucks seeing one of your favourite movies from when you grew up being remade into a piece of Hollywood garbage. Hollywood just throw in a few big name actors, hire Michael Bay or something, and loosely follow the original plot, then call it a remake... Or they hound foreign films and do a similar thing (eg- The Grudge).

[blixa]

i hate to ruin your day, but i believe that's being remade for the real english-speaking countries.

fo'realz?

yeah supposedly coming out in 2011

Not exactly an uncommon thing anymore, right?

it's not uncommon when we're speaking about 'foreign' movies being remade aka americanised. lake mungo was filmed on a ridiculously small budget yet it creeped me the hell out. it will be intriguing to see the remake because obviously they will have an extremely larger budget to work with than what joel anderson had back here in australia.

[one weak]

I understood.

It's true though. I grew up on watching horror movies and I know it happens with all genres of movies, but it sucks seeing one of your favourite movies from when you grew up being remade into a piece of Hollywood garbage. Hollywood just throw in a few big name actors, hire Michael Bay or something, and loosely follow the original plot, then call it a remake... Or they hound foreign films and do a similar thing (eg- The Grudge).

yeah, my thought's exactly.

[lukas989]

The Vanishing - arguably the biggest fuck up of a remake.  It almost made me cry, they fucked it up so bad.  The start....jesus fuck.  That ending....fuck sake.

[blixa]

watched bran nue dae. i haven't had this much fun with a film in so long.

and dan sultan, GET IN MAH BED!