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

[CentralIllNoise]

going to see war of the worlds tomorrow

[feeling like more]

going to see war of the worlds tomorrow

gonna watch it at work tonight... midnight screening

the poll on IMDb today is "who is your favourite three named actress" :roll:

i voted for zsa zsa gabor!!!

[hydroponic82]

i wanted to go see land of the dead , my freind said that shit was lame though......and i think i would like the new batman but nothing can top the original with Jack and keaton.............

[defskull]

I saw Land of the Dead and Batman Begins. I'm a fan of both zombie movies and Batman.  Batman Begins was better.

[hydroponic82]

I saw Land of the Dead and Batman Begins. I'm a fan of both zombie movies and Batman.  Batman Begins was better.

haha what about land of the dead

[Paint Your Lips]

Has anyone heard of the film called November?

Check it, looks pretty cool. Very psycological.

http://www.sonyclassics.com/november/site.html

[4th Eye]

For Pi, it made me love Darren Aronofsky. Wow, what a great film. The acting was really strong and the plot was great. I could see some elements that rubbed off onto Requiem For A Dream. Good movie.

Yes, Pi is great, even better for a Tool-fan becuase of all the fibonacci-things and spirals. No doubt Tool was influenced by that movie.

I recently watched The Ring Two. Not bad but not that good either...the first one was good and this just was a bit repetitive. However, Naomi Watts is quite a good actress and speaking of her...she'll be in the upcoming King Kong movie. Looks cool.

[Teddy]

I just saw the kong is King trailer and damn it looks cool! the special effects look really good and it should be a good entertaining movie

[Mazzy]

I'm watching Lantana tonight. I have watched it before but my dad hasn't so I just have to pretend I haven't watched it so he doesn't feel bad about hiring it. Awww aren't I sweet  :oops: Plus I can never get enough of Geoffry Rush.

This is a top review of it:

This is an absorbing, wry, on occasion witty, and slightly stagey drama about four couples whose lives become entangled more or less by chance. The very occasional director, Ray Lawrence (his last film was `Bliss' in 1985) has taken Andrew Bovell's play `Speaking in Tongues' and made a very effective film of it. Despite the occasional histrionics it cannot be described as a filmed play. The camera is used to great advantage and some memorable visual images obtained eg the opening sequence where the camera slowly tracks over a profuse growth of that pretty but prickly introduced pest, Lantana, until it comes to rest on a woman's body caught within.

The plot revolves around the circumstances in which the woman met her end. Three of the couples have probematical relationships. A policeman (Anthony La Paglia) is having an affair (or at least a two-night stand) while his wife (Kerry Armstrong), aware something is wrong, is seeing a psychiatrist for therapy. The psychiatrist (Barbara Hershey) is in a mess herself. Her young daughter was murdered a couple of years previously and she and her pill of a legal academic husband (Geoffrey Rush) are held together mainly by grief. She also has a rather sinister gay client (Peter Phelps) who she comes to believe may be involved with her husband. The cop's lover (Rachel Blake) is estranged from her husband (Glen Robbins) and presents a threat to the happiness of the battlers next door (Vince Colsimo and Daniella Farinacci), though they are the least screwed up of the four. When the cop comes to investigate the death the plot thickens, but all is resolved in the end.

It's a good story cleverly told and the acting is first rate – no-one misses a beat. I loved the moment when the cop bursts into his 15 year old son's room to catch him smoking pot and says to him `for God's sake, I'm a cop.' The kid replies: `You should be able to get me some really good stuff then.' Drug exhibits have a habit of disappearing from Sydney police stations. But the real strength of the movie is the honesty with which it portrays emotional deceit and its consequences – what we do to ourselves and to others when we are too tired or cowardly to deal with how we really feel about those close to us. To fall in and out of love at 20 is painful but easy. To find yourself out of love with you partner after 20 years of marriage is painful and hard. No wonder we put off the day of reckoning and no wonder it sometimes takes a tragedy to bring us to that day.

[manic_bastard]

I'm watching Lantana tonight

thats a really good movie. to be honest, i didnt know Anthony originally HAD an accent. but its not like the movie was about that..

its a great movie

[feeling like more]

i still havnt seen lantana. i'm not very supportive of our film industry. i was going to hire sommersault the other night. but didnt.

[feeling like more]

i just got back from seeing war of the worlds. it starts out shit, then gets good, then shit again. and the little blonde girl in beyond irritating. i give it one star margaret.

[Mascara Snake]

yeah that kid was annoying in 'Man On Fire'!

[manic_bastard]

really? im planning to see it this weekend

[feeling like more]

i think i was expecting too much. but there is no build up, which is why i didnt like the start and the end really really really drags on. but the middle is pretty good. tom cruise gave me the shits a bit too... but i'm australian, we have to support nicole.

[The Captain]

Dakota Fanning > almost every big name she's worked with

[vadimo]

I was watching on this week:

The Machinist (which was amazing!) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0361862/
Zvezda (probably the bst russian second word war film i have seen, recomend to a war film fans) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0326450/
From Hell (which was a bit crap) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120681/
and how i'm gonna watch "The Lazarus Child".

[Malpractice]

But before that, I watched The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, which was very entertaining, smart, witty, I loved it and I want some Team Zissou adidases sooo bad!!

great movie one of my favs of last year

[Mazzy]

I'm watching Lantana tonight

thats a really good movie. to be honest, i didnt know Anthony originally HAD an accent. but its not like the movie was about that..

its a great movie

I love Anthony La Paglia. Originally when he left Adelaide for New York he did have an Australian accent (he still does when he says some words) but he couldn't get jobs because the casting directors would ask him where he was from and he'd say 'Australia' and they'd start with the whole 'G'day' and 'crocodile dundee' crap and that used to wreck his focus and then they would tell him that his Aussie accent was a problem blah blah blah. So then he started going to auditions and he'd say he was from Brooklyn in a total American accent. He's brilliant, his wife Gia is an Aussie too and the accent on that woman is awesome, I think that's where he keeps his sense of Australian identity intact.

But awesome movie, I'm surprised you've watched it actually. American's don't really get into Aussie movies sorta speak, which is a shame cause we got some awesome movies. SOMERSAULT IS ONE OF THEM BEDE!!

[ben]

War of the Worlds made me physically sick.



i loved it.