I'd love to watch that one too. Been on my list for a while. It's the first part of two in an adaptation of Die Nibelungen, apparently. The second one is called Kriemhild's Revenge.

I've been thinking of exploring Lang closer this year. I've only seen his most famous ones (along with the Dr Mabuse trilogy), but they're all great. Apparently he himself considered M to be his best work so you're in good company. You really need to see the extended version of Metropolis though. It's a masterpiece in its own right.

I will probably seek it out on that recommendation, yeah. As for Siegfried, I get a lot of my old films from a local university, and they don't have a copy. There's probably an easier way, like Googling, but in the meantime there's a hell of a lot of other amazing filmage to get through.

I watched Infernal Affairs 2 last night, as well. Quality film, worthy sequel to the original with the only major weakness, somewhat unsurprisingly, being that Andy Lau and Tony Leung aren't playing the leads.

Loved the orchestrated earth-air-fire-water assassinations that occur at one stage, followed by the ultimate cheesy nod to American gangster/cop films with Danny Boy played on harmonica!

Burnwinter wrote:

Re-watched Intacto last night. Great, stylish and engrossing thriller with an awesome premise, 8.5/10

Is that the movie about luck stealing?

Forgot about it completely until now. I thought the concept was brilliant but the execution could have been better; the last 15-20mins especially dragged a bit.

Yeah, that's the one Captain. I've seen it twice now and enjoyed it both times.

Yeah, the ending's the weakest part, but the setup's very good. The establishment of the premise is quite understated, so that you're not entirely sure what's going on until twenty minutes or so into it. Definitely a film I like - possibly one that could benefit from a decent Hollywood remake.

Recorded Gomorrah the other night. Having read the book, I'm looking forward to watching it.

RtC - i have that on my Netflix queue.. looks interesting enough, and given that my wife's family is originally from that area (Naples), should be an interesting watch..

saw Insidious last night.. was a proper scary movie.. no real effects, no real CGI, just creepy and disturbing.. sort of like The Orphanage in its atmospheric creepiness with quite a few "hair on my arm stands up" scenes.. solid 7.5/10 for me..

James Wan is a filmmaker from the old school. Still have some hope that he'll turn out a modern Carpenter rather than joining the likes of Eli Roth. Insidious was a very good film indeed. Death Sentence and Dead Silence were quality too.

I swore I never would but being a little idle and lazy yesterday I ended up watching Marley and Me.
It really is a smiley weepy by numbers film isn't it? Cynical enough.
I wandered off for the part in the middle where after loads of cute doggy bits they decided to get dramatic and deal with post natal depression for ten minutes or so.
The worse part was that at the end it actually forced some real tears out of me when poor ol' Marley was wrapped in a bag and put in the ground.

saw Marley & Me once.. will never watch it again..

we had to do the same thing with all 3 of our dogs in less than 1 year (2007)... all 3 of them died within 8 months of each other (14 years old, 11 years old and 17 years old).. that was one of our worst years ever.. we are HUGE animal people (although we only actually have dogs as pets), and that movie brought back so many memories of having to go through putting down all 3 of our dogs in quick succession, its one of those things that you just have to watch once, but never want to actually see again.. the final scene literally brought my wife and i to complete breakdowns.. i didnt even really care much for the rest of the movie (although the time when Marley put her head on Aniston's lap was pretty sad too)

same went for Hachi.. depressing as fuck.. glad we saw it, love the story, could never watch it again

Has anyone seen The Guard yet? Looks really funny

USArsenal wrote:

saw Marley & Me once.. will never watch it again..

we had to do the same thing with all 3 of our dogs in less than 1 year (2007)... all 3 of them died within 8 months of each other (14 years old, 11 years old and 17 years old).. that was one of our worst years ever.. we are HUGE animal people (although we only actually have dogs as pets), and that movie brought back so many memories of having to go through putting down all 3 of our dogs in quick succession, its one of those things that you just have to watch once, but never want to actually see again.. the final scene literally brought my wife and i to complete breakdowns.. i didnt even really care much for the rest of the movie (although the time when Marley put her head on Aniston's lap was pretty sad too)

same went for Hachi.. depressing as fuck.. glad we saw it, love the story, could never watch it again

I refuse to knowingly subject myself to that much cheap manipulation by a movie. Put my dog down a couple of months ago and I know that'd just make me cry but fuck them, they wouldn't have earned it just by reminding me of that.

well, my wife read the book, so she wanted to see the movie.. (she knew what was coming, but neither of us thought we'd react the way we did).. i wasnt really all that interested in seeing the movie

USArsenal wrote:

saw Marley & Me once.. will never watch it again..

we had to do the same thing with all 3 of our dogs in less than 1 year (2007)... all 3 of them died within 8 months of each other (14 years old, 11 years old and 17 years old).. that was one of our worst years ever.. we are HUGE animal people (although we only actually have dogs as pets), and that movie brought back so many memories of having to go through putting down all 3 of our dogs in quick succession, its one of those things that you just have to watch once, but never want to actually see again.. the final scene literally brought my wife and i to complete breakdowns.. i didnt even really care much for the rest of the movie (although the time when Marley put her head on Aniston's lap was pretty sad too)

same went for Hachi.. depressing as fuck.. glad we saw it, love the story, could never watch it again

Jeez that's rough. People who don't love animals could never understand just how hard that must have been. Almost enough to put you off wanting another dog. Still, they each lived long, and I'm sure happy, lives.

dave_rwr wrote:

Totally nerding out. I don't think I have ever been more excited for a movie than I am for this.

/signed!

They better not feck it up. They have a chance to make a truly special trilogy here.

Can't wait for it.

Just watched Stake Land. It was pretty great. Real vampires are decomposing corpses that eat babies. They don't twinkle in the sunlight and they don't use cellphones. I'd love to see what Jim Mickle would do with a decent budget. I was a big fan of Mulberry Street too.

Watched two films today- Sunshine and The Disappearance of Alice Creed.

Seen Sunshine before, saw it in the cinema in fact, still love it. Reminds me a bit of The Thing. Alice Creed is really good IMO- just three actors and a kidnapping. Jo didn't enjoy it so much, but she can be fussy..

Watched two films today- Sunshine and The Disappearance of Alice Creed.

Seen Sunshine before, saw it in the cinema in fact, still love it. Reminds me a bit of The Thing. Alice Creed is really good IMO- just three actors and a kidnapping. Jo didn't enjoy it so much, but she can be fussy..