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Postby spudthedestroyer on Thu Dec 15, 2005 5:23 pm

or was that just shane black's script?


No it was really shit directing too... sloppy camera setups and the like, figures someone that lame would have been behind the camera. I still think its decent enough entertainment and way better than all the other movie's he did.

Watched Die hard with A Vengance. I stand by what i said, Die Hard With A V is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better than Die Hard 2. I think by 'die hard-ish' you mean claustrophobic? Yeah i get that, but i thought number 3 works way better than number 2 did which tried to clone. I wouldn't say its much more comedy/action than any of the others, its just as violent and the comedy is much more like the first one than the second one (ie. its funny one liners, not unfunny one liners).

Warning about the uk dvd collection, die hard 3 is the american cut version. With the knife cut to the throat and lots of "mother fuckers" cut out. Yanks and their swearing :roll:

Anyhow, 3 > 2 if you ask me :)

Watched loads of episode of robot chicken, some funny shit.. Highly recommended if you haven't seen it before. Warped enough for me to enjoy and its got the usual suspects doing voices (seth green and co.).

Watched Sar Wars, love asian comedies, they have just the right mix of stupidity, slapstick and snappy editing to make them really excellent. These days i would take an asian comedy over a shitty american one any day of the week. Once again, just shows how shit hollywood is at making movies these days.
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Watched the Tobe Hooper episode of Masters of Horror. It was really stupid, i flicked through the next one but wasn't in the mood... looked a bit slow serial killer flick.

Got New Statesman on DVD max, i wouldn't say its just conservatives these days. Rik Mayall should do another series to take the piss out of labour, its just the right time for him to pick it up again.
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Postby maxpayne2409 on Thu Dec 15, 2005 5:29 pm

Watched loads of episode of robot chicken, some funny shit.. Highly recommended if you haven't seen it before. Warped enough for me to enjoy and its got the usual suspects doing voices (seth green and co.).


which i recommended months ago :lol: but yeah it is a cool show, especially the part where optimus prime gets cancer, funny shit

Got New Statesman on DVD max, i wouldn't say its just conservatives these days. Rik Mayall should do another series to take the piss out of labour, its just the right time for him to pick it up again.


what i meant was when it was made it was dead anti conservative, but yeah he should do another one, the time is right
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Postby jakobx on Thu Dec 15, 2005 6:58 pm

I saw king kong yesterday. I got the ticket for free so i thought why not. Oh boy was i wrong. The movie is 3 hours long although it felt more like 7 (and im sure they are going to release a directors cut version that is even longer than that). The story is basically the same as the 1933 version with a lot of silly CGI fights (boxing with 3 t-rexes? i mean seriously ). If you thought that agent smith sequence from matrix was long you are in for a surprise. A loooong one. The effects are great from a technical point of view though. Its a pity all that talent got wasted on such a sucky movie.

It has a score of 8.3 on IMDB. Oh my god..are those Peter Jackson fans for real? They are even worse than tarantino fanboys. And some of the reviews are even mentioning Oscars. They are called razzies dammit.

Anyway...watch the original or even charlies angels. Its shorter and better.

Funny thing though..it was a premiere and there were probably only 20 of us in the cinema :)
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Postby spudthedestroyer on Thu Dec 15, 2005 7:08 pm

or even charlies angels.


If you want people to take you seriously, you can't say this shit out loud! :wacky:

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Postby maxpayne2409 on Thu Dec 15, 2005 8:07 pm

spudthedestroyer wrote:
or even charlies angels.


If you want people to take you seriously, you can't say this shit out loud! :wacky:

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id take charlies angels over stars wars episode 1 the pants menace anyday of the week :lol:
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Postby spudthedestroyer on Thu Dec 15, 2005 8:13 pm

yeah but you have no taste. as lame as episode one was, charlies angels is worse, and charlies angels 2 is even more pathetic.

At least you have the fighting at the end of phantom weakass, and there's a couple of action sequences.

Whereas charlies angels was just shit, i think i turned that crap off. I know i turned number 2 off.
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Postby maxpayne2409 on Thu Dec 15, 2005 8:15 pm

no matter what you think to my taste at least it isnt a taste that conforms to the "oh its got flashy effects so its good lets all rush out to watch it" school of thinking that makes complete tosh like fast and the furious, king kong, matrix, etc popular
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Postby spudthedestroyer on Thu Dec 15, 2005 11:15 pm

oh i forgot i watched the warriors too :lol:

That's one of your kind of films, 70s cult cheese on toast. As far as 70s cult movies go The Warriors is cool

Infact, since its techically a scifi...
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They are remaking it too :wacky: That's really surprising these days. Actually the main greif i have with The Warriors is its no where near violent enough. It should be really violent but instead its a tad tame.
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Postby maxpayne2409 on Thu Dec 15, 2005 11:59 pm

ta ill get on with downloading it, i dont recall having actually seen it, the problem with a lot of 70s stuff tho is its too heavy on dialogue and too light on action

spud i know how much you love sam neill, have you been watching "the triangle" miniseries?
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Postby maxpayne2409 on Fri Dec 16, 2005 1:04 am

god damn this is getting beyond belief, theyre making a sequel to the net, called The Net 2.0, and its directed by the son of the guy who directed the first, what a sad wanker

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0449077/
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Postby dinky on Fri Dec 16, 2005 1:31 am

superman 2 is on. and it's official: the whole series is cheesefest. this was the best of the four. :lol:

it's almost like watching batman & robin</i>. all that's lacking is the neon. in fact, I thought jim carey was just improving his riddler in forever</i>. but, alas, no...he was paying homage to gene hackman. :? I guess that bodes well for the new movie though. tough to be cheesier than this...although I did watch catwoman</i> last year so I really ought to hold my tongue.

I wonder if the 'good' crop of recent comic movies will be so crap in 10 years? iunno. I don't feel that way about episode 4, and that has at least as many cornball lines in it.
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Postby spudthedestroyer on Fri Dec 16, 2005 1:47 am

spud i know how much you love sam neill, have you been watching "the triangle" miniseries?


No, any good?
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Postby maxpayne2409 on Fri Dec 16, 2005 2:18 am

yeah it's not so bad, i dont know if its available on the mule because i got it off torrent

The Triangle - 1x01 - Episode 1 Torrent

The Triangle - 1x02 - Episode 2 Torrent

The Triangle - 1x03 - Episode 3 Torrent

the quality of the episodes isn't that great for a modern tvcap but then i don't think the scifi channel is a HDTV is it?

about it - http://www.epguides.com/Triangle_2005/

With his crews and cargo ships disappearing at an alarming rate around the Bermuda Triangle, a billionaire hires a crew full of specialists to understand why. Hand picked by the man himself, the crew consists of a skeptical journalist, an ocean engineer, a scientist, and a psychic. With an attractive financial offer made to each of them, the crew will investigate the legendary, and very mysterious Bermuda Triangle to find answers. But as their findings deepen, the crew finds themselves surrounded by bizarre occurrences that only become all the more nightmarish. The offers made to them may have seem ideal at the time, but now they may have gotten in over their heads against something they may not understand.

Sam Neill .... Eric Benirall
Michael E. Rodgers .... Bruce Gellar
Eric Stoltz .... Howard Thomas
John Sloan .... Aron Ackerman
Charles Martin Smith .... Jay
Lou Diamond Phillips .... Meeno
Bruce Davison .... Stan Latham
Catherine Bell .... Emily Patterson
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Postby spudthedestroyer on Fri Dec 16, 2005 2:24 am

scifi channel is a HDTV is it?


Scifi does stateside, BSG is a scifi show and i'm pretty sure they were HDTV :)
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Postby maxpayne2409 on Fri Dec 16, 2005 2:26 am

ah right i see, guess whoever capped these doesnt have hdtv then, or maybe the production crew spent all the money on the big name stars, still watchable though
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Postby spudthedestroyer on Fri Dec 16, 2005 2:29 am

yeah, those hdtv capture things cost a packet.
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Postby dinky on Fri Dec 16, 2005 2:53 am

is it 16:9? anything that's 16:9 over here and is originally aired on a network that does do (some) HD will have been in HDTV. if not, then not. well...I should say I haven't seen a program in 4:9 air on an HD channel that wasn't just upconverted.

showtime and hbo both do 4:9 stuff at times. it's clearly not hd. looks about the same on digital & hd channels. same with others.
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Postby maxpayne2409 on Fri Dec 16, 2005 11:23 am

ill take a screenshot later and post it
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Postby dinky on Fri Dec 16, 2005 12:00 pm

by upconverted, I mean matted onto 16:9. only an improvment if the analog/digital cable signals are weak/fuct.

police academy</i>. hey, it was better than superman</i>
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Postby Jynks on Fri Dec 16, 2005 4:18 pm

id take charlies angels over stars wars episode 1 the pants menace anyday of the week


Come one!!! Max you gotta be over compensating.. Eveyone loved the origs (well most) and the new ones were such a disapointment compared to the glory of the orig eps that the backlash is so fearce!! Sure the new eps suxed but they still RULLED!!! Not that I am starved for swar content after 30 odd years but hey... You just gotta "imagin" around all the crap and soak in the true essence of Starwars!!! lol
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