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For me it's Moon, I've already wanked in about it in another thread. I haven't seen many films this year though so I can't really judge.
I saw Die Hard 4 yesterday which got slagged off by Charlie Brooker. It had been sitting on my sky+ for a while and I was bored so I put it on. Thought it was alright, didn't seem too CGI heavy which was one of the main criticisms that Charlie had about it. Bruce Willis, seemed to have lost a lot of his charisma that I thought he had brought to the previous Die Hard movies, but then he was playing an older guy who's more jaded with life I guess.
Liked the touch of the I'm a mac guy playing the main hacker, I was thinking why have they given him a cinema display to hack on? then realised why I recognised his face, ho ho ho.
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I've had a complete amnesiacal memory FAIL about movies I've seen this year. Which I suppose means that they can't have been all that impressive.
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Inglourious Basterds - pre-wanked as well. If I send a envelope stuffed with euros or possibly pouns anyone able to send me the Blu Ray when it comes out on the 15th? Nobody buys me presents at christmas, so may as well buy myself one.
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yeah, probably UP. although three miles north of molkom was immensely entertaining, it didnt make me weep into my 3-D glasses. im just imagining watching three miles north of molkom in 3-D. or smellovision! oh my me! all that hippy sweat and nag champa. that would probably have made me weep too.
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Looks interesting, always find time travel and paradoxes that it creates a fascinating idea. Although if you guess who the figure in the bandages is before you watched it does it spoil the film?
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quote:Originally posted by Tilde: Looks interesting, always find time travel and paradoxes that it creates a fascinating idea. Although if you guess who the figure in the bandages is before you watched it does it spoil the film?
Absolutely not. You find out who it is about a third of the way into the film. Then your brane hertz. It's all about the paradoxes.
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I don't see many films but this year I really, really enjoyed District 9.
I thought Bruno was excellent as well. I saw it before I saw Borat and thought Bruno was a massive improvement, but maybe it's just a matter of which one you see first.
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I can't stand cringe TV or films. I therefore have never watched The Office, Borat, Bruno, or the audition stages of the X-factor. I also dislike prank calls perpetrated by radio DJs and have to turn the radio off.
I don't know what it is about things like that which makes them quite so unbearable to me.
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quote:Originally posted by Tilde: Looks interesting, always find time travel and paradoxes that it creates a fascinating idea. Although if you guess who the figure in the bandages is before you watched it does it spoil the film?
Absolutely not. You find out who it is about a third of the way into the film. Then your brane hertz. It's all about the paradoxes.
Watched this yesterday. The version I got is dubbed, but dubbed pretty well, albeit with the voices slightly disconnected from the actors, Hector isn't bad but his wife isn't so great, although she's a minor character anyway.
It's a good film, it does my head hurt a bit and I'm watching the last bit again. Nice recommend, thanks.
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I quite liked Star Trek, but there was something about it I didn't totally enjoy. It sort of felt like it was trying far too hard to be self-referential, and not in a fan-pleasing kind of way. More like they sat down and thought "right this is Star Trek, we need to make sure we tick each of the following points off the checklist.." and then filled the whole film up with Star Trek clichees. It sort of worked in some ways, and completely failed in others. The whole time I was watching it, I was really aware of the fact I was watching a film - it never really drew me in to the point where I found it really engrossing. Maybe this was because I'm a big time Star Trek fan so I spent most of the film picking out the references, looking at what was new, wondering if the characterisation was consistent, etc etc. I never really had a chance to just sit back and enjoy the story or the spectacle of the thing.
Despite that though, I did really enjoy it and there were some really great elements to it. I just think at the core of what made the original series of Star Trek so popular was the collection of really compelling characters. They weren't especially deep or well fleshed out, but they all felt very natural to watch and I think that came from the actors rather than the scripting. When you have a whole new bunch of actors trying to play these characters, something feels very weird and out of place. I'm not sure I can quite describe it.
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I loved Star Trek when I saw it at the cinema, I came out with a BOSEG spread all over my face.
I bought the DVD a couple of weeks ago and watched it at last weekend and it sort of fell a bit flat.
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but she doesn't hate sci-fi. She enjoys TNG as much as I do. Didn't watch BSG though.
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Unfortunately I saw District 9 sitting in economy class on my way to NYC last week, and my viewing pleasure was significantly impaired by the glare coming from the porthole (kept open by the gawping resident of the adjacent seat), which rendered all the darker tones of the cinematography into a muddy nothingness.
Quite a lot of the movie was quite dark so this made the experience a bit rubbish - straining to deliminate the edges of things.
Having said that I loved the tone of the movie and the South African swearing was excellent. I also had to surreptitiously wipe a tear away at the end, so my friend wouldn't be able to jeer at and mock me for being a snivelling wimp.
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I think you are fine to discuss film formats on the film of the year thread Ringo. I know Benway started the thread but I don't think that means he can be a dictator about what can be posted on it. I might post pictures of my plates and nick some stuff from other forums to post here.
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Bad news - District 9 isn't out on blu ray (is there a generally accepted abbreviation for this?) until December the 28th.
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It's ok, I googled it and the answer is that the proper abbreviation for Blu-ray Disks is BD. So don't worry, nobody needs to interract with anyone on this subject. Phew!
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