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The Film Thread

y va marquer

Captain wrote:
Y Va, City of God is easily in my top five favourite movies. I have the original cinema poster (minus the blurring of the guns) signed by most of the cast and crew, framed and hanging on my wall.

I think I'd place it in my top 5 as well.

RocktheCasbah

For some reason, I was dubious about City of God. Jo made me watch it and I loved it, superb film.

Clrnc

Interesting recomendation about City of God. Never knew about it but did a search and its reviews were impressive. Is the film in English or?

Recently stumbled upon this movie. Great film to be honest. Most of the people who watched it cried though. Based on true story.

Captain

I think that there is a dubbed version but I have never seen it so can't say if they did a good job.

Will check out that Hachiko a bit later, cheers.

RonBurgundy

Rockthecasbah wrote:
I guessed I wouldn't like Death Proof, so I didn't watch it. But how anyone could argue with the quality of Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown and (just throwing it out there) Kill Bill 2, I'm not sure.

And I loved Inglourious Basterds. Particularly the opening scene.

If Inglourious Basterds had ended after Chapter One (the first scene), it would have been the perfect short story. Brilliantly done.

Fantastic movie overall - my favourite of the past year or two - but the opening scene was something special.

Burnwinter

Yes, that and the scene in the basement.

RocktheCasbah

QT described that basement scene as Reservoir Dogs in 20 minutes. Or something like that. Brilliant.

USArsenal

Basterds was a fantastic movie.. dont really like Tarantino films (other than Reservoir Dogs), and the wife hadnt like ANY of his movies, but we both thought it was great.. and have to agree, the opening scene was utterly brilliant.

Captain

Just been to see the new Harry Potter, it was definitely better than the last one but like most of them not particularly great.

invisibleman18

Saw The Social Network on Friday. You don't know how true it is, and it's told from the perspective of those who say he screrwed them, and probably most of the actual facts and events in the film, aside from the outcomes of the law suits, are fictitious. But it was really excellent.

goon

USArsenal wrote:
Basterds was a fantastic movie.. dont really like Tarantino films (other than Reservoir Dogs), and the wife hadnt like ANY of his movies, but we both thought it was great.. and have to agree, the opening scene was utterly brilliant.

Not like Pulp Fiction?

Ricky1985

Captain wrote:
Just been to see the new Harry Potter, it was definitely better than the last one but like most of them not particularly great.

Dragged a little I thought. Start was good, end weren't bad, and some of the acting and cinematography was great - just long-ish parts of the film where it was a bit of a chore to watch.

Second part will probably be a really good film though.

Qwiss

invisibleman18 wrote:
Saw The Social Network on Friday. You don't know how true it is, and it's told from the perspective of those who say he screrwed them, and probably most of the actual facts and events in the film, aside from the outcomes of the law suits, are fictitious. But it was really excellent.

I really enjoyed it. And if it was told from the views of his opponents it did paint him quite sympathetically, though maybe slightly pathetically.

Klaus

Ricky1985 wrote:
Captain wrote:
Just been to see the new Harry Potter, it was definitely better than the last one but like most of them not particularly great.

Dragged a little I thought. Start was good, end weren't bad, and some of the acting and cinematography was great - just long-ish parts of the film where it was a bit of a chore to watch.

I saw it the other day and pretty much agree with this. Walked away feeling a bit disappointed even though I've never been a big fan of any of them. The film looked great but the story really dragged for the most part. It felt as if they could have told it in the span of thirty minutes rather than over the course of two and a half hour. Makes you wonder whether the decision to split the book into two movies was made for creative reasons or just because they wanted to squeeze a bit more money out of the box-office.

Got a lot more entertainment out of Legend of the Fist. Donnie Yen was quality as Zhen Chen. I've got Bad Blood lying around too but I'm saving that one for tomorrow. Not a big fan of Dennis Law's films, but it's supposed to be pretty decent.

Captain

Opening scene of Legend of the Fist is probably the most frenetic thing that I have ever seen.

asajoseph

Watched Daybreakers last night. There's a great film wrapped up in there somewhere, but it just went so, so wrong.

Gurgen

USArsenal wrote:
Basterds was a fantastic movie.. dont really like Tarantino films (other than Reservoir Dogs), and the wife hadnt like ANY of his movies, but we both thought it was great.. and have to agree, the opening scene was utterly brilliant.

What I loved about that film was that everyone spoke the language they were supposed to be speaking. You cannot fully appreciate the creepiness of the characters unless you know how awful a German accent sounds in French. When the German colonel replied to Pitt in fluent Italian I burst out laughing.

Definitely his best work since Pulp Fiction.

USArsenal

watched "Extraordinary Measures" this weekend (yeah, the wife made me watch it).. was OK.. 6 of 10.. ive seen better from both Fraser and Ford..

oh, and i watched Grown Ups last week.. that was actually much funnier than i thought it would be.. good 7.5 out of 10 on that one...

Tony Montana

Captain wrote:
Haven't seen part 2 actually, was considering it just a few days ago funnily enough but watched an odd HK B-movie called City Under Siege instead.

Y Va, City of God is easily in my top five favourite movies. I have the original cinema poster (minus the blurring of the guns) signed by most of the cast and crew, framed and hanging on my wall.

How did you get that? Wicked man.

Have you been to Brazil?

Captain

Would you believe me if I told you that I won it in a bet?

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