Recent Movie/DVD experiences

Did you answer him when he said that to you?

Pretty sure LeKnight has the extended extended box set, that they then extended.

The Two Towers is like four hours long! (Or is it ROTK?)

Anyhow.. they are long

Longer than the journey to Mordor.

Well, only 10 minutes longer

They're out.
Standard ROTK: 201 mins
DVD EE: 251 mins
Super Duper EE BluRay: 263 mins :>

Edit: damn you!

Sounds weid but I have the box set and all the extended editions...I used to work for that dvd co. that distributes it so got all that kinda stuff...and Ive got star wars boxsets never opened too...my dvd collection is out of control open a cupboard bam dvd sample discs and dvds...Totes out of control

I prefer the American version. Rooney Mara is brilliant.


Only thing I didn't like was the casting of Daniel Craig which I feel removes a bit of the tension as it's hard to believe that he isn't perfectly capable of defending himself. Otherwise I felt this was one of those rare times that a bigger budget and the hands of a more experienced director actually helped the story and improved the film.

Saw Safe House tonight with Denzel and Ryan Reynolds.. passable thriller enjoyable at the time but not one you will be thinking about weeks, days or even minutes afterwards. Best thing about it was the Kanye song in the credits lol.

I want to argue with you but in matters of film I will bow to your superior judgement

*shrugs*

All a matter of opinion innit.

sure its an opinion, I do think you have a (much) better critical eye for films than me, judging on your posts (thats a compliment btw)

and in this instance I really like both versions so theres no great need for a debate

ffs..common sense prevailing on biggie....whats next dubstep agreements?

shuttup man... I'm angling for a group hug

0900 hug a daktari

Oh, well in that case thanks! :>

Why haven't you watched them??? They're awesome!

Fucking gutted I bought the Blu-Ray box set of LOTR when it came out/when I was buying my Blu-Ray player...should have waited, didn't know the extended versions were getting released.

Watched all 3 films in one super lazy hung over junk food bloated day...fuck it was awesome!

^^ Ive done this too.

^^ so have i.

^^so have you.

^^ i know, i just said that.

^^ I know.

hang on, what did you say?

I think what he said was.. "When were you ever hungover buddy?"

Who me?

Who you?

Yes you!

the baby with the power!

the power of.....

laser beams obviously!

doesnt rhyme though.

You fucking randoms

Not true, that was all planned.

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19940814/COMMENTARY/88010311

Roger Ebert is quite a fan of Ozu. Tokyo Story is a pretty damn awesome film.

This Is War - 5/10 fucking McG, should have known better going in that it would be bad.
Man on a Ledge - 7/10
Safe House - 7/10

Martha Marcy May Marlene - 8.5/10.

Such a good film... not really a fan of non-endings like this, but it was done well.

Elizabeth Olsen is MUCH hotter than her older sisters mary-kate & ashley.. and a awesome actress.

Very interesting. Yes Tokoy Story is so simple and powerful. However I currently have no taste for Japanese movies until my pissy manipulative Japanese flatmate and her tantrum prone door bashing kiwi boyfriend exist this flat! Then I have lined up some more Ozu, Kobayashi's Harakiri and Imamura's Ballad of Narayama which looks to be one very distrubing film.

Get some Kurosawa in ya!

Shichinin no Samurai is the birth of the action epic. Without it there'd be no LOTR or Heat or any movie where a bunch of guys get together for a mission, plan for it and then execute the fuck out of it. Even now the action sequences kick some serious ass. In my top 10 for reals.

Or if that's too obvious for ya, get into Rashomon. The historical trivia for this film is that this is the first film to cast doubt over the narrator. It's a film in which 4 people tell their version of what happened in a robbery/rape in a forest and they're all different, each telling is slightly biased to that narrator. Normally you'd find out that one person is telling the truth but what if they're all lying! It has become such an influential narrative device that the word Rashomon is used to describe similar situations/stories. Also from a technical perspective, it's also the first movie where the camera is pointed directly at the sun. :>

I don't know much about Seven Samurai, but how could you possibly know this?

It influenced all those films is what I'm saying. But here, don't take my word for it, I was only paraphrasing from people who know a lot more about film than I anyway....

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20010819/REVIEWS08/401010356/1023

If you're asking how I know something like that, well I read a fuckton of literature about film... and I don't have a girlfirend...


I'm not sure but I may have just selfowned myself....

thanks for the link.. will have a read.

Oh, and PS. dude, you should add to your watchlist Martha Marcy May Marlene.

Totally will. :>

Oooh thanks for the reminder davil! Had been meaning to see Martha Marcy... but never got round to it.

Three time-travel related movies *SPOILERS AHEAD*

I have recently re-watched Primer www.imdb.com/title/tt0390384/ (for about the 10th time) and it still captivates me. I love how the storyline(s) get increasingly more complicated, as would happen when one starts messing around with time travel. The actors do a brilliant job for total amateurs, though they are playing baffled tech-heads, which is what they really are, so I guess it may not have been that huge of a leap.

In the vein of Primer I also sought out Los Cronocrímenes (Timecrimes) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480669/. I really enjoyed it but was left wanting. I thought the narrative was far too linear for a time travel movie where *SPOILER* the protagonist crosses paths with himself several times. Also despite some rather emotionally trying events taking place, there wasn't a huge connection to be made with the main characters, especially the protagonist. Much like Primer it starts slow and becomes increasingly dense but the characters are not fleshed out. This is one film where I really am looking forward to the American remake which should be coming out some time this year.

The third is Triangle http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1187064/. It is very much a B-horror/thriller, straight to dvd, style movie. It stars Melissa George who provides a really good performance I thought. She is seriously put through the wringer and for most of the movie she looks god-awful (in that she is crying all over the place and what not). It struck me as kind of odd at first, but then I realised I'm just used to actresses in movies coming out of pretty much any situation looking rather pristine save from a tactical smear of makeup and ripped clothing. This again is a movie where *SPOILERS* the protagonist crosses path with themselves a few times, and the intersections are far more complex and convincing, I thought, than Timecrimes. There are some ultimately gaping plotholes but I was thoroughly impressed (for a b-grade horror/thriller) at the narrative. It very much reminded me of Ghost Ship in terms of production and... they're both set on ships ^_^

Definitley keen for some more Kurosawa, just waiting for the bloody fuckers to appear on bluray
Have only seen Ran so far, and man that is intense. Seems with these Japs you either get this very suble Ozu stuff or you get a giant whack in the face from the likes of a Kurosawa or an Imamura
I guess Burmese Harp by Ichikawa is more inbetween

Kurosawa definitely goes both ways (lol), his Ikiru is a very personal story. Another amazing film.

Really? I was going to watch this on sunday but decided against. Will give it a go this weekend instead.

Weird. I always thought LOTR was loosely based on some book pubished in the 1950s. Guess you learn something new every day. If you really want to trace things back, you can't go past the Odyssey for the 'birth' of 'quest' stories, although I am sure other cultures had other quest stories prior to then.

Lol film nerds always ignore literature.

Literature is short for screenplay isn't it?

Your face is short!

that's not the only body part of mine which is short

ooooh sorry to hear that dude, having a short pancreas is totally stink.

that's what she said

Who's she? Is that a female Who tribute band?

do you want it to be a female who tribute band?

.... are you hitting on me?

no i just have something caught in my right eye

yeah your face! oooooooooooooh

WELL IT WOULDN'T BE YOUR FACE.

Ahhh ha ha haa, no it wouldnt.

Seriously though, you should go to the doc's about that.

i have, there's nothing that can be done about a short pancreas.

I'd so not go to this movie you've both attempting to script

not for all the popcorn and frozen coke in the bloody world

Mcg or that Bay dude will be in touch no doubt

Oh, stink bro.

don't worry - he wasn't our target audience anyway.

He was set to play Jello Biafra as a time lord.
See what your retardedness has done now!!

Not at all, obviously LOTR is based on a book which is also based on older traditions, but Peter Jacksons cinematic adaptation on it as an action epic is influenced by earlier films, of which The Seven Samurai is a major one. Every film genre or sub genre has certain conventions that define them, they all had to originate somewhere.

The Kurosawa influence doesn't end there too, the fortress siege scene in Ran is the visual precursor to the battle of Helms Deep. Lots of visual references there.

So you can take your dead tree and smoke it.

Awesome, thanks, been meaning to watch Primer for ages, but the name kept escaping me as I never wrote it down..after being up all night partying this was perhaps not a wise choice...what a head fuck...super complex and pretty sure even stone cold sober they'd be bits I just will plum never understand, but still a highly enthralling film, so well done for what is obviously such a low budget, no-name actors piece of passion kinda film. Amazing, even though you won't understand it, I highly recommend it. Feels like one of those films you need to watch many many times, and then still need to read up about to truely understand...these loads of stuff on the net dissecting and analysing this film, I was not in the head space to read pages and pages and pages of sciencey nerd speak when I watch it though.

Triangle I also thoroughly enjoyed, Melissa George's performance was great, more or less a strung out sweaty filthy mess for the whole film, no glamour shots up in this bitch, another reasonably good head fucker, but nothing in the league of Primer...so super chilling bits at times though as it all spiralled together.

watched goon last night - pretty generic theme and movie I guess but really good and enjoyable watch

especially if you like ice hockey (seems to be a bunch of ice hockey movies about - there's an indian on which is also good watching - think kick it like beckham)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1456635/

Anyone here seen Win Win?

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/win_win_2011/

94% on rotten tomatoes. Awesome film. One thing is bothering me though, what happens to the grandfather at the end?

Does he die?

Movie related:



It's actually kinda pretty well edited I think!

It's ok, cool idea. Quite easy for the editing to look good when you've already got the good in and out points set by the original editor though

hah, yes, but looking closely but there's a lot of clever details - like one point where a Chev SUV flips and you'd swear it's the same car until you llok closer and it's actually the same type of car in a slightly different colour from two different movies.

Yeah that's quite cool, would be fun to make something like this

Saw The Green Hornet last night.. aaaaaaverage. I usually like Seth Rogen's schtick but he was badly miscast in this. Gondry well below par, a shame really.

Might watch Undefeated today, won the Oscar for Best Doc.

I thought The Interrupters won best doco for some reason

Definitely gonna check out Undefeated now -- thanks for the heads up. <3 sports movies/docos... and for some reason football ones are the bestest

There's some great 30 for 30 docos on football that have similar themes to that but that does look pretty decent.

Gondry's proving to be extremely hit or miss with his ability to direct a good movie.

^^ yeah, it's pretty weird really

Watching A.I again last night as it was on movie channel. Remembered just how fucking good that movie is.

When I was younger I was obsessed with "Rise & Walk: The Dennis Byrd Story" but that was more like a tele-movie than a doco.

That's the one with the kid robot trying to find his Mom right? Thought it was great but the crap at the end when those future robots found him was stupid and unnecessary, left a bad taste after what was a very good film.

Yeah, although i didn't hate that part per se... it did feel a little out of synch with the rest of the movie. Still though.. that movie is another example that Spielberg is a master of his trade.

Yeah I have a soft spot for that film too. Stupid future alien robot whatever the fuck shit was silly, but hey.

I think the most Kubrick part of the film was the way lighting was treated throughout. Perfect homage.

wouldn't be a Spielberg movie without that ending... he just can't help himself or his focus groups can't... but it doesn't really detract that much I reckon as its a feel good heart string puller the whole way through

I watched Battle For Terra on Saturday whilst feeling sorry for my head and stomach due to someone making me drink too much *shakes fist*... its well cool... then I re-watched Boy and really enjoyed that too

I haven't seen Boy yet, but the director just finished raising enough money, through donations, to be able to release it in the states.

yeah thats the reason I watched it Taika's fund raising via kickstarter and online interviews have been awesome to watch and funny as fuck

amusing and cool to see various relatives of Michael Jackon's and his fanclub getting behind it too

I read that too. I wasn't in NZ when this was released so didn't really know much about it. He seems to be doing ok in the states now, and funny he was in Green Lantern.

Some of his website feels very braggy though, and name dropping.

I'd put that more down to his humour than bragging - if you're bored/got the time

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/qd7nk/i_am_a_writer_director_and_other_things_too_boy/

Read it. Yeah you could be right.

also kinda reinforces his part in the film - the bragging bullshitting dad... Paul Holmes would call him a cheeky darkie... I think he's a funny cunt

Didn't know he acted in the film too. Will have to watch it some time this week!

yep he's in it, plays every role but that of the car - a cost cutting measure no doubt

So he's like the eddie murphy of NZ?

I just can't help but feel annoyed that I can't BUY the movie anywhere but on DVD. I don't OWN a DVD player. I guess my laptop and computers have a DVD driver...but feh. I just can't help but wonder how much he could have raised, you know, SELLING THE MOVIE on iTunes or whatever.

not his call re the selling nor initial distro options in the US I believe.... seen how retarded the movie industry is?

I had (well not had but I did) to buy a movie DVD last week and am still beside myself with anger (When A City Falls- the chch doco as I don't watch TV nor own a DVD player and wanted to see it)

I don't know what to do with a DVD, except lean my puter on it - was hoping that formatshifter whose been dropping all the good advice would post about converting a DVD to avi file but alas I think they've stopped due to the bullying