The last movie you saw...

[dinky]

I would file NORTH AND SOUTH under "Soap Opera" before "War Series." Although I guess one cannot argue with it also being the latter.

[maxpayne2409]

watched Russell Howard Live last night, was funny

Watching Michael McIntyre - Live & Laughing now, it's also funny

[dinky]

BOLT! (2D). I enjoyed it. It had a very PIXAR feel to it, and I guess that makes sense since Disney made John Lasseter the head of their animation house. Anyway, the animation looked good. John Travolta was a great voice for the part. And the story was solid. Unfortunately, it's a somewhat sophisticated conceit for kiddies, and it's not a particularly complex one for adults to enjoy either. So I'm interested to see how it will play in the next few weeks. Bottom line: it's a solid effort and is worthy to stand in the same case with the Pixar movies, but the best Pixar movies are still a few shelves above.

[Jynks]

Planetes

JUst been watching this anime recently... been a long time not watching anime as I kinda grew out of it.. i find most of it very dull and kiddy nowdays.. Apart form the few more adult ones. This is pretty darn good. One of my fav types of scifi... withci term LifeSci

Basicaly people like P.K.Dick wrote in LifeSci.. as in the science fiction is not the point. This is a story about people and human relations.. just set in a scifi setting. IMO some of the best scifi works are done like this.

Anyway check it out I added it ot teh site Planetes @ scidonkey if your interested.

[pure]

[maxpayne2409]

i wouldn't exactly class it as a roger corman early film.....

[dinky]

Planetes

JUst been watching this anime recently... been a long time not watching anime as I kinda grew out of it.. i find most of it very dull and kiddy nowdays.. Apart form the few more adult ones.

What are the more adult ones? recently, I've seen DARKER THAN BLACK, which was a carbon copy of WITCHBLADE (or vice versa), and I seem to remember most anime being like this (the same plots, same basic characters, same shitty action sequences, same tantalizing art, and same kickass stills). Actually, DTB reminded me of an actual comic such as RISING STARS, WATCHMEN, or something more generic like HEROES or the sentinal story arcs in X-MEN mythologies.

Anyway, I'm obviously drawn to those kinds of stories, but it's really very hit or miss miss miss. What are the good ones?

Also watching FULL METAL ALCHEMIST, which I think is amazingly complex and ridiculously cliché every other frame. I love that it's basically a sad story of continually frustrated hope and haunting consequences (with a ton of very obvious post-atomic bomb imagery that all anime seems to have except this is on a more localized, character level). anyway, that's cool, but then it plays so frackin' "kiddie" with the Edward character freaking out about being short and changing the animation styles to prepubescent pokemon shite whenever someone gets upset/embarrassed. I find that stuff incredibly annoying - it's why I don't watch anime. or try not to. obviously giving it another go now.

Right then. Sorry. Back to the question: what are the worthwhile anime series, bearing in mind that I despise most anime attempts at humor?

I actually do go in for the fantasy stuff (elves, orcs, vampires, werewolves, and such, but they're usually so shite that I avoid it altogether in the anime package)

P.S. - I've sold a lot of DVDs of TSUBASA, FULL METAL PANIC, FATE: STAY NIGHT, ROZEN MAIDEN, DEATH NOTE. So I've queued them out of curiosity. And I'll watch just about anything with vampires, so BLOOD+ and BLACK BLOOD BROTHERS are also in the queue. If you know anything about them, maybe you could save me some trouble too. I'd hit up an anime board, but everyone loves everything and hates everything, so it's completely useless. I kind of have a feel for your tastes though, so it could help me out.


PPS - do you know anything about FREEDOM, GURREN LAGANN, or CODE GEASS? With american stuff, I tell what a series is like just by looking at the packaging. Anime, though, most of it looks awesome. Then I watch it.

[maxpayne2409]

watched first 2 eps of the it crowd (uk) series 3, not the american remake, i do enjoy that show, it speaks to me on geek levels

Also watched Doctor Who - The Ark In Space, last night and it reminded me of how good even the simplest of stories could be in classic who, moreso then in modern who

[Jynks]

What are the more adult ones?

dosn't seam to be many.. and my knoladge is not to crash hot... but I liked the Studio Ghibli ones... namly - Princess Mononoke / Spirited Away / Howl's Moving Castle.

For scifi... i Liked teh Ghost in the shell stuff.. there is 2 films and 2 tv shows... all are pretty good.

Akira.. of course...


Um... dunno really i have forgotten most of them... If i remeber I'll let you know.

[maxpayne2409]

Warner Bros's upcoming superhero movie Green Lantern may feature a cameo appearance from Superman, reports MTV.

According to the film's screenwriter Marc Guggenheim, DC Comics's flagship hero makes a brief appearance in the script and the filmmakers are considering offering the part to Superman Returns star Brandon Routh or Smallville's Tom Welling.

Guggenheim said: "I love that stuff in general, and I think the fans would enjoy it. Brandon Routh or even Tom Welling [in Green Lantern] would be awesome. And anything is possible. The beauty part of being the writer, though, is that I don't actually have to make that judgment call."

He added: "You have to be careful when you do things like that, because it sounds great in concept, but when you sit down to watch it, it poses the danger of pulling you out of the film."

Green Lantern focuses on fighter pilot Hal Jordan, who is handed a ring that wields huge power. Studio Warner Bros is targeting a 2010 release for the blockbuster.

[Jynks]

Egal Eye

This is prob the most retarded movie i have seen in a long time. Terrible, really really bad. The only good momnet was during the car chase were some interesting andoften not used camera angles were employed. The plot is rediculas, and dirivitive. On fact this is teh exaact same plot as wargames 2, the strait to dvd movie sequal to the imortal AI film Wargames.

[spudthedestroyer]

watched first 2 eps of the it crowd (uk) series 3, not the american remake, i do enjoy that show, it speaks to me on geek levels

It fails on geek terms; thankfully they realised this in the iffy first series and avoided references to anything technical in any deep way.


If you want real geek humour:
http://xkcd.com/87/
http://xkcd.com/292/
http://xkcd.com/155/
http://xkcd.com/135/
http://xkcd.com/489/
http://xkcd.com/501/
http://xkcd.com/492/
http://xkcd.com/511/
http://xkcd.com/507/
http://xkcd.com/504/
http://xkcd.com/512/




Still a nice show, just not if you want technical humour.

[maxpayne2409]

i've read xkcd for years it is good

[dinky]

watched a lot of stuff. not worth mentioning. but I felt compelled to come on here and declare that I finally get it: Uwe Boll is the antichrist of film making. I just watched IN THE NAME OF THE KING, and I was shocked. I wasn't grossed out. I wasn't appalled. I wasn't angry. I was closer to being awed, actually. I'm not sure I've ever seen such complete and utter ineptitude. hmm. I'm not quite sure I can convey the level of futility here. And the cast is...well...it's not an Oscar-made cast, but WTF? It's good. I mean, you stick Jason Statham and Ron Pearlman, alone, into a B-movie, and it's going to be decent. That's what they do, man. But look at this cast:

Statham
Pearlman
Leelee Sobieski
John Rhys-Davies
Claire Forlani
Ray Liotta
Burt Reynolds

Reynolds as the king is ridiculously bad, but that's like pooping on poop. This is the ultimate fucking train wreck. It's THE masterpiece of train wrecks. It's actually worth watching just for this. Every single cut, you can see them trying to do one thing and failing utterly and completely. Even the music is horid - imagine this being a sitcom where the main character gets shot in the head with a .45 and then the laugh track comes on and you have some idea of what I'm talking about. Wow. Uwe Boll, you humble me.

[spudthedestroyer]

I disagree, Uwe Boll's films aren't worth watching at all... there's no entertainment value in them, they are just really shit... this doesn't mean they are fun to watch because they are bad. They are just shit, end of story. I've only ever made it through one of them, and it was in the middle of several other films at a film festival.

[dinky]

honestly, I couldn't look away. I just sat there last night in a Boll-induced stupor.

[maxpayne2409]

watched Home Alone, and scrooged today

[spudthedestroyer]

watched Home Alone, and scrooged today

So... was that your coming out or do you have more to say? :p


I watched Zombie Diaries the other night and its not bad. Its another REC/Diary of the Dead, made at the same time as Diary of the Dead without any knowledge or communication (apparantly) it tells a story from this side of 'the pond'. Compared to Diary of the Dead its depraved and more shocking, and that's putting it mildly... the acting is very raw to start off with, but once it gets going its very manageable and gets more engrossing.

It was very heavily sold as the "best uk horror of the year" and "dark, uncompromising and frigheningly real", and if you are in the mood its probably a contender for both.

For such a low budget film its not bad, not bad at all.

Probably worth scouting out; its better than the shitty cloverfield. Its kind of been ruined by REC and Diary of the Dead, and if its true its about it being made before both then its a shame. Weird how all these films turn up at once, huh?

/me has this original post stolen and remade into six films starring keanu reaves

[dinky]

there's no "klatu verata nothin'!" in the remake!

[Jynks]

honestly, I couldn't look away. I just sat there last night in a Boll-induced stupor.

I agree with both of you on this. Personaly I can not watch Boll's films. They are just that bad. Still, like Dinky said they are almost to bad to be belived.

Boll is the last of the true explotation directors. Just like the guys from the 60-70's. He has found a formular that is cheap to produce, dosn't return a billion bucks but makes a profit. His movies will live on in the "crazy" movie collector's archive for years to come.

His movies will be included in bad film nights and get places on B-Grade movie boards all over the net. "Hey lets have a bad movie night. Barbarian Queen + Postal + Rollababies!!!"

Love o Hate Boll, you gotta respect the guy himself. He is all show and rep and explotation.. I mean having a boxing match with his critics. Darnig the net to get 1,000,00 sigs on a petiton.

Get used to him Supud he aint goign anywhere.. and ods are, based on how many movies he makes, eventualy he will make a really good one.. and cement himself forever in movie history as one of the last explotation directors.