Not your average kung fu movie imo. Effects were really good compared to other movies and the story kept surprising me until the very end. Of course, I might be slighly biased towards Donnie Yen movies.
OMG, i hope that this exists in german, will watch it anyways if it's just available in english tho . xD
Just watched reservoir dogs, I liked it a lot. Would go as far as to put it in the top ten movies I've seen. I'm a real big fan of the tarantino/coen brother style films. I love realistic, profanity filled dialogue.
On February 19 2012 22:08 murd3r3r wrote: not that bad scifi (4/5)
Heard it sucked. Why?
Well the movie is not bad but there is a lot of plots hole...
""Bit spoiler"" Like the way time on arm work is weird and there is no explanation given what so ever... so when you see people "steal" from other while they sleep and stuff like that it make no sense...
but the movie is okay
Plot holes aren't too bad. I might not have noticed them if you hadn't pointed them out. The bigger problem is the execution and hurrydness of the film. The film had much more potential, though it was good enough. Enjoyable.
I found the movie useless. It was good at the beginning and had lots of potential. But after encouraging beginning it just went downhill. It seems like the screenwriter wasn't sure what to do with the idea and just thought, "hey, let's just throw in some action here and there and it will make it". I found the plot really really weak.
Kimjongilia - Taken from the name of a flower named after Kim Jong-il. It tells the story of people in North Korea from different walks of life who are prison camp survivors and escaped from North Korea, usually through China, only for alot of them to be picked up again by human traffickers. Was pretty good, but chances are you will learn nothing new about North Korea from it. It is more about the personal stories from the people who escaped.
Tank Girl - Meh, disappointing. I was expecting something akin to Fallout. Taken from wikipedia: "The film takes place in a dystopian 2033, after a comet has hit the Earth, altering the climate and turning it into a wasteland. There has been no rain for over 11 years. Water is extremely scarce, and what little is available is controlled by the Water & Power (W&P)." It does nothing new for the post apocalyptic genre except have Ice-T dressed as a mutant dog. This movie was ass.
House on Haunted Hill - No, this isn't the shitty ass remake. Anyways, I actually enjoyed this alot. B-Movie horror at its best. The effects are pretty dated but the atmosphere is fantastic and the story was much darker then I expected.
The Invisible Man - I remember seeing it in the thread awhile ago and saw it on Netflix. Anyways, great movie. Good special effects for the time and I thought Claude Rains was fantastic in it.
The Artist - I really didn't like it at first. The upbeat tunes playing all the time, and words being spoken but very few were actually translated onto the next screen like in a silent film. So alot of the conversation gets lost unless you happen to be really good at reading lips. Anyways, I thought it was ok. I liked the story at least. I did think that the lead actor and actress did a good job managing to convey the story pretty clearly with barely any spoken dialogue throughout the movie.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - Based on the book. Set in London in the early 1970s, the story follows the hunt for a Soviet double agent at the top of the British secret service. Really good. Dark, British espionage film with Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, and Tom Hardy? Yes please.
28 Weeks later I felt that the plot was fine though a bit boring. The movie was good though; it did what a horror movie should do which is scare you. I kept trying to argue things like "well that would never happen... people would beat zombies npnp" and when I went to bed I kept thinking about the zombies. Going to the basement to brush my teeth, and to the kitchen to get a snack, I got a little scared, a little more than usual anyways.
Watch it late at night if you have nothing better to do. I can't say anything about the original. I can't remember it too well any more.
Btw, I kept thinking the black guy would die and that the helicopter he was flying would explode.. because that's what movies do ya know? But neither happened. There was one scene where he was killing zombies with a helicopter that just looked stupid... bad graphics.
Insanely intense movie. Story is kind of weak imo but it gets the job done. the acting is made of pure gold, no one would be able to see his face and not scared shitless. The filming was also really well done, some of the filming techniques are quite rarely seen in an Asian movie and they fit very well onto this movie Quite a few disturbing scenes but hell, I saw the devil!
I don't know why but I loved this movie. I usually enjoy movies that are to do with topic of dream vs reality because it is quite interesting to see how we perceive reality and fictional inside a movie. The music is pretty good, the whole movie felt like a few music video all mashed up together. Very stylish movie along with a pretty special story line. I can see why most people probably won't like it but it worked on me really well
^ I've seen both those movies. Storywise they're somewhere between cringeworthy (Sucker Punch) and simply lacking (I Saw The Devil). I think there was a good idea behind those two movies but the directors (or the people with money at the production studios) decided to focus on other things.
I agree though, both movies work. Sucker Punch because it synthesizes women in underwear shooting and fighting and killing with quite nice CGI and a total lack of "realisticness", and I Saw The Devil because of the immense suspense and the brilliant creep embodied by Choi Min Shik. They're movies that aren't too deep from an intellectual perspective but still managed to stay with me (haunt me?) until today.
edit: especially that taxi scene in ISTD. That was quite the piece of art.
I watched Amores Perros last night, I thought it was a great movie, I personally don't like that much these kind of films with different story lines that connect somehow because I'm having a trouble with connecting to characters, but I loved this movie. The story lines were great and I think the movie diffidently mange to deliver how hard is the daily life of the characters.
Seriously, an amazing movie. It's about a man who jumps the border from North Korea to China in order to find medicine for his dying wife, and doing anything to help his family in North Korea. His son, tries to find him when he doesn't come back. I cried a few times during this movie.
On March 07 2012 15:39 CaucasianAsian wrote: 크로싱 (Crossing)
Seriously, an amazing movie. It's about a man who jumps the border from North Korea to China in order to find medicine for his dying wife, and doing anything to help his family in North Korea. His son, tries to find him when he doesn't come back. I cried a few times during this movie.
The entire movie's on youtube. Not just the trailer. I'm watching it now with the expectation that it's South Korean Propoganda. I hate propaganda movies; Western or Eastern -_- So dishonest. So full of bribery deceit and untruth. hidden motives if you will.
. Pretty crap. Just a competition to see how much propaganda can be put into one movie. Yeah they're poor and suffer. Outside of here who doesn't?
In time was above average but not a special movie. It raises some points again about the rich having everything and also makes a sociological claim that the rich have too much and that there is in fact enough wealth to support our population.
On February 15 2009 16:49 Clasic wrote: I have seen taken, and it ends to fast imo.
I really liked Taken. Yeah it wasn't that long, but the action was great and semi-realistic, and the plot was believable.
I also recently saw Quantum of Solace, really didn't like it. The movie was over 2 hours but it felt simple and too straightforward.
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Taken having the simplest plot ever. I really liked the fact that the entire movie was based on the premise that Liam Neeson's daughter was going to Europe to follow U2 around. What? Also, at the end after Neeson finally rescues her, they're at the airport and he tells her he loves her, and of course she says, "I love U2".
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