Some Movies I've Watched....

[Father Ted]

Saying this as somebody who remembers Charlton in "Omega Man", how was "I Am Legend"? It looks like one of the few movies that seems interesting these days.

BTW: Hexx, is that the title of the book? And do you know the author? Sounds like an interesting read.

[Hexx]

Author is Richard Matheson . The name of the book (here in Canada anyway) is I Am Legend, although more correctly that's the name of the short story it's based on.
( So if you happen to stumble on a cheap collection of Richard Matheson short stories it might be in there) Couple of other short stories are included, some of them weren't bad- but to be honest I can't remember any of them other than the main one.

Written very much in the style of the 50's Sci Fi (if that makes any sense to you).

The new movie's not bad, although I have no idea why it's called I am legend, it's not really even close to the book (well other than the "last guy alive " bit)
Honestly really liked it, but hated the ending so..

[Sirgod]

Got two for you today.

War with Jet Li and jason Stathom (sp) . Not bad, kinda hvy action flick that has abit of Drama in it. Reminds me abit of the Punisher.

The other is Balls OF Fury. Reminds me of Enter the Dragon, except, it's funny.

Stephen

[Grand Master of Shadows NCC 37385]

A couple of other movies based on Matheson's work are The Incredible Shrinking Man (The Shrinking Man) and Duel (story has the same title). Dennis Hopper was in Duel. Its about a guy being chased by a bigrig. Stephen King read the book and it inspired him to create the movie Maximum Overdrive. King said that "without Matheson I wouldnt be here".

Oh, and Hexx. Ive never seen a movie based on a book that was as good as the book.

I think we need to start a book thread.

[Father Ted]

Oh, and Hexx. Ive never seen a movie based on a book that was as good as the book.

I think we need to start a book thread.

Great idea on a book thread. I would disagree slightly on one point, though. As much as I love Tom Clancy's books, I think the film version of "Patriot Games" was better than the book. I refused to see "The Sum of All Fears" when it came out because there was no way I could ever take Ben Affleck seriously as Jack Ryan, so I can't comment, but I don't think anything was more riveting than the last 100 pages or so of the novel.

[Brush Wolf]

A couple of other movies based on Matheson's work are The Incredible Shrinking Man (The Shrinking Man) and Duel (story has the same title). Dennis Hopper was in Duel. Its about a guy being chased by a bigrig. Stephen King read the book and it inspired him to create the movie Maximum Overdrive. King said that "without Matheson I wouldnt be here".

Oh, and Hexx. Ive never seen a movie based on a book that was as good as the book.

I think we need to start a book thread.

It was Dennis Weaver not Hopper in Duel.

I have to disagree on book based movies never being as good as the book. Both Alistair MacLean's Where Eagles Dare and Ice Station Zebra translated extremely well to the big screen. It does help quite a bit to have a director that appreciates the writers work and also having the very best acting talent to work with.

[Sirgod]

Oh, and Hexx. Ive never seen a movie based on a book that was as good as the book.

I think we need to start a book thread.

Great idea on a book thread. I would disagree slightly on one point, though. As much as I love Tom Clancy's books, I think the film version of "Patriot Games" was better than the book. I refused to see "The Sum of All Fears" when it came out because there was no way I could ever take Ben Affleck seriously as Jack Ryan, so I can't comment, but I don't think anything was more riveting than the last 100 pages or so of the novel.

I agree with you 100%. I did eventually see it, but I think it was just on regular TV one lazy Saturday morning. That reminds me, I need to get the Bear and the Dragon back from my son.

Stephen

[Grand Master of Shadows NCC 37385]

A couple of other movies based on Matheson's work are The Incredible Shrinking Man (The Shrinking Man) and Duel (story has the same title). Dennis Hopper was in Duel. Its about a guy being chased by a bigrig. Stephen King read the book and it inspired him to create the movie Maximum Overdrive. King said that "without Matheson I wouldnt be here".

Oh, and Hexx. Ive never seen a movie based on a book that was as good as the book.

I think we need to start a book thread.

It was Dennis Weaver not Hopper in Duel.

I have to disagree on book based movies never being as good as the book. Both Alistair MacLean's Where Eagles Dare and Ice Station Zebra translated extremely well to the big screen. It does help quite a bit to have a director that appreciates the writers work and also having the very best acting talent to work with.

I dont know why I said Hopper instead of Weaver. Anyway, my bad.

I havent read "Where Eagles Dare", but I didnt think the movie "Ice Station Zebra" was as good as the book. Call me picky, but I have yet to see a movie that was as good as my imagination when I read. I become part of the story.

[Sirgod]

A must see Movie for those with Children, and Old farts alike...

Underdog!

I'll paraphrase my wife here, when I say, We need more films like this. No cursing, just a good Movie that Kids can enjoy, and even with a PG rating, It delivers for the adult fans also.

It even goes Retro, as underdog at the beginning of the movie, keeps liking shoes, hence his Family calls him Shoe Shine. It features also, Walburton, from the TICK fame, as a second bit Criminal. Give him a burnt Thesaurus with only the "P" pages left intact, and It's a riot.

Must see guys.

Stephen

[Don Karnage]

hmmm my post was lost 

so i nead to say it again 

well the movies i have view are: the simpsons, nothing to say since its a know movie 

2nd is god war (i think its the right name), 500 years ago a child was born with a tattoo of a dragon on her left shoulder, she's kinda the chosen one who when she reach her 20th birth day she will join the god, the boy who was suppose to protect her until it was the right time was in love with her and instead of giving her to one of the giant serpent who's there to get her to the god, the village where she was living was attack by by another group who want her for a sacrifice, both run away from the village and jump in the ocean, 500 years later she's reincarnated and she was giving a new chance to get with the god.

the story is its suppose to be a Korean legend BUT the character are Chinese and the alphabet is also Chinese, when the demon or what ever they are arrive in los angeles to get the girl are attacked by the military, the use thanks and chopper, the where able to kill some of the flying dragon and the giant serpent.

the movies is not excellent but is wort viewing.

the 3th movie is resident of evil, that was mostly stupid, the underground laboratory is so uge that you wonder how it was built?, its a good 20 floors bellow ground, you don't know what power source it has, the world is dead and there a lot of zombies that seem to hide in the city's, there kinda smart for zombies.

a few humans are always on a convoy to nowhere they are armed but some of them don't seem to using there weapons when they are attacked by the zombies, the finally get a chopper and there around 20 peoples and will go to Alaska in a chopper, where will they get the fuel ?, there in Nevada and they're lucky they know how to pilot a chopper.

so that movie is mostly stupid

[AcePylut]

My last post was lost too!  It was like a 5 paragraph deal on the movie "Yamato".

In short:  It's a great flick.  Doesn't make a political statement.  Doesn't vilify the Americans - they are just the nameless faceless enemy. 

[Don Karnage]

is it a recent movie?

[AcePylut]

It was made in 2005, but was made in Japan and not distributed in the US.

[Don Karnage]

is it a movie or is it computer animation?

where did you get it and heard of it?

[AcePylut]

It's a movie, not a computer animation...

here's the trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nHB_1ua3z8

I heard about it on matrixgames forums, bought a subtitled version off of Amazon with a Christmas gift certificate.  It was worth it imho, if for anything else just to see a different take on a battle.

There wasn't any political commentary (nearly every US war movie has to turn a 18 year old dumbass into a wisened political genius that knows everything about the geo-political situation, this movie didn't do that... it was more like "you are young japanese men and are expected to serve your Emperor when your Emperor calls, and the Emperor calls."  Now, a US movie would be all like "emperor bad - this 18 year old jap that is anti-emperor is the hero", which imho would be pretty unrealistic of a portrayal of the Japanese person). The movie didn't take any pro or anti stand on Hiroshima (just hinted at it... as when the main characters love takes a job in a munitions factory in Hiroshima a couple days before the main char left), no "evil bad american" antagonist.

The movie was more of a "this is what happened", rather than "this is what happened and I'm going to present the view that it was all wrong or right"

It was about a daughter that wanted to find out about what her dad did in the war, she finds this old guy who just happened to be his close friend, and the movie is a "titanic" style flashback, where the main char (the old guy) recounts episodes of the war, from teh day he got on the Yamato as a recruit to it's final mission.

It's actually kind of sad, and not that "all his buddies die", but just sad.  I don't know how to explain it.

The main thinking aspect of the movie was basically how each main char dealth with the inevitable defeat of Japan, and what they would do/how they would approach the end of the war that they all knew was coming, but was unthinkable because it would be a loss and "surrender" is the greatest crime they could commit.

[Don Karnage]

the old man remind me of obiwan kenobi

[_Rondo_GE The OutLaw]

It's a movie, not a computer animation...

here's the trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nHB_1ua3z8

I heard about it on matrixgames forums, bought a subtitled version off of Amazon with a Christmas gift certificate.  It was worth it imho, if for anything else just to see a different take on a battle.

There wasn't any political commentary (nearly every US war movie has to turn a 18 year old dumbass into a wisened political genius that knows everything about the geo-political situation, this movie didn't do that... it was more like "you are young japanese men and are expected to serve your Emperor when your Emperor calls, and the Emperor calls."  Now, a US movie would be all like "emperor bad - this 18 year old jap that is anti-emperor is the hero", which imho would be pretty unrealistic of a portrayal of the Japanese person). The movie didn't take any pro or anti stand on Hiroshima (just hinted at it... as when the main characters love takes a job in a munitions factory in Hiroshima a couple days before the main char left), no "evil bad american" antagonist.

The movie was more of a "this is what happened", rather than "this is what happened and I'm going to present the view that it was all wrong or right"

It was about a daughter that wanted to find out about what her dad did in the war, she finds this old guy who just happened to be his close friend, and the movie is a "titanic" style flashback, where the main char (the old guy) recounts episodes of the war, from teh day he got on the Yamato as a recruit to it's final mission.

It's actually kind of sad, and not that "all his buddies die", but just sad.  I don't know how to explain it.

The main thinking aspect of the movie was basically how each main char dealth with the inevitable defeat of Japan, and what they would do/how they would approach the end of the war that they all knew was coming, but was unthinkable because it would be a loss and "surrender" is the greatest crime they could commit.

I want tro see this movie.

Here's a cut scene really good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUl1mAjTTb0&NR=1

From what I get out of it the Director knew his business and had a sense of something extraordinary, the end of an Age of warfare.  The Yamato was obsolete.  It marked the end of the conventional Battleship.  You can see it in the one scene where she shoots those massive 18" guns in the air at the approaching fighters.  A futile, beautiful, terrible, and ineffective shot.  Amazing to see.  The pacing is phenomenal.  The Alamo comes to mind.

Each and every time she pulled in to drydock they upgraded only one thing, anti aircraft guns.

[_Rondo_GE The OutLaw]

Just one more thing.  That music sound track, you see how well it meshes into the picture.  Wow, first rate.  Right up there with Lord of the Rings.

[Don Karnage]

you can download the movie with emule, its in 2 part and only in Japanese.

well maybe there a few one with sub title but i don't remember see one.

a great movie that show what happen, good fx, you can see sometime that its gci but well made.

so also here a few good movies

undercover blues:

the stories of a couples of spies who spend they're vacation in new orlean and the he get attacker by a small local thief by the name of muerty (death) in Spanish, he bet him with the baby carriage but later the thief call him and want his revenge and keep losing and keep trying to kill him and his boss at the fbi or cia want him to do a mission, if you want to laugh go buy it or rent it cause on emule i only find it in fench.

[_Rondo_GE The OutLaw]

"There Will Be Blood"

Interesting.  I saw this movies Saturday, before Lewis won his Oscar for it.  I was bored, my wife was working, (matinee), and my kid wasn't interested in watching a kiddy movie.  CHARGE!!!!!  The perfect getaway from em!  (Her older brother was home minding her but she scrammed to her fiend's house).

Lewis plays a turn of the century (1898) silver prospector turned oil man beating out Tommy Lee Jones and whoever.  Now I can see that.  Jones is a very emotive actor but his base personality is so strong he often appears to play himself  (or perhaps another version of the same character he plays).  While I'm sure he did batter than that inNo Country for Old Men he was up against a favorite of mine who is truly a pure craftsmen.   Lewis has fine protean qualities and is one of the best pure voice actors in the business...he transforms his voice for many pictures and this is usually done seamlessly.  Without looking, if you were to hear an audio of him playing Hawkeye (Last of the Mohican's), Bill the Butcher (Gangs of New York), and Daniel Plainview you would probably not know they were the same guy.

About the movie.  I don't know if its based on a novel or not but the story reminds me a little of the naturalistic Frank Norris Novel called "McTeague", about a brute who becomes a dentist because he can pull peoples teeth out with his bare hands.  His wife wins a lottery which turns out to be his downfall as his wife becomes obsessed with the winnings, even sleeping on them.  He beats the hell out of his best friend during a playfull wrestling match during a picnic who turns into his worst enemy etc etc etc ...  and ends up in the desert someplace dying of thirst.  Whew! 

O I read the novel while in college for an Amercing lit class and if your going to ask well "did they make a movies out of it" they sure as hell did, a silent one in the 1920's and one of the all time WHOPPERS ever made, by Eric von Stroheim, that lasted...no kidding... 24 hours.  hehe, well Hollywood cut the crap out of it to 2 hours and after a brief showing, was shelved.

But this picture has some of the twists and turns of stories written during that era, thats why I brought it up.  No sense in doing a plot summary but I'll say this, if you like Lewis like I do see it, otherwise, wait for the DVD or spend your coin elswhere.  It's a good flick that ends badly ...  there are no good guys here.   Just about everyone noteworthy is a scammer.  And in a few parts its gets pretty overdramatic, uncharacteristically so (considering the reserved manner the film is acted in), especially in the ending scene.  Also I wasn't impressed with the makeup job on one of the actors, Paul Dano, who looks like a kid even 15 or 20 years supposedly later in the story. 

And who is Paul Dano?  Whoever cast him as a preacher should lose their license.   Talk about miscast.  The dude tried but...thats just not what he can do.  He's supposed to have amassed a little money reaching on the radio but with that stringy voice he would have been lucky to get a job singing commercials.  He looks terribly out of place spiritually "leading" the typecast American Gothics...


(if ya don't know what I mean)

who they surrounded him with in this film.  I didn't buy it.

Anyway thats my take.
 

 

[AcePylut]

I like Daniel Day Lewis a lot.  He's a great actor.  I haven't seen him in a movie where he didn't "become" the character.  Very few actors can do that.  He's one of them.  I plan on watching it soon.


Looks like WW2 is becoming quite the Japanese film industry "go to" era.  A new movie about kamakazi's is coming out (if not already).  First I heard of it.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=imtQEMU9BEg&feature=related

http://youtube.com/watch?v=uJ8xbP2wzso&feature=related

[Don Karnage]

i was looking at old Godzilla movie, erk that so bad and boring, if you get one in English the voice are just doll.

a bad translation and the story is always the same the monster destroyed all and leave, they keep using the same think but keep loosing.

a lot of building are destroyed and the economy don't seem to be affected by that 

one is not bad and its from 1993, the created a mechanical Godzilla to battle him, they lose since it got destroyed but Godzilla leave with the baby and in 2003 its happen after they created a new one and beat Godzilla, with the help of a giant moth, not too bad but its worse that the power ranger, and power ranger can be boring 

so a good movie wold be alvin and the chipmunks, good animation and good music, but old song re sing with beat to make it more 2007, they should have sing new song.

[_Rondo_GE The OutLaw]

No Country For Old Men

Somebody may have reviewed this already but here's mine.

I see it as another assault of the America’s small town archetypes and maybe some "dregs of the west" type thematic material thrown in for good measure.  The two clowns that made this movies made Fargo.  But they did better twith Fargo because it was a true story.  Here they made up a list of stereo typical goodies and baddies (well one baddie) with twists built in.  But the result is not entertaining and no way is this movie "deep".

The movie starts off with a run down cowboy (actually a welder) out hunting.  He misses.  Then he sees a wounded dog (haha maybe he thinks he hit the dog with such a bad shot).  Comes on a busted drug seen with dead bodies everywhere.  Finds some money.  Decides to keep it...and the plot and drama begins.

The villain, well played by Javier Bardem who puts in the best performance in the film, is real psycho-candy who wins because he is pretty much self reliant, more so than anybody else he is pitted against.  He even performs surgery on himself predator style (indeed I see some similarities here).  He’s also pretty smart and has a unique weapon (some kind of air gun).  Just how he gets on the radar and how such a loner is somehow involved in this big drug deal is another strange and large gaping hole in the plot.

The sheriff, a man nearing retirement played by Tommy Lee Jones, is essentially a non combatant and there is never the old west style confrontation between good and evil.    The movie is almost halfway done when we actually see him.  And when we do it isnt much; he’s content to sit back with the newspaper in a diner and spin folksy wisdom.  How Tommy Lee Jones got a nomination for academy award for this is beyond me.  We find out later in the film that he feels “overmatched” by his nemesis.    Ok I get it.  He’s old.

Woody Harrelson also makes a cameo appearance as a bounty hunter and true to form Woody ends up losing in the sweepstakes to catch the bad guy.  The fact that he goes meekly to his death in a very public place is something one wouldn’t think a typical bounty hunter would do…haha I remember being told by a TV Bounty Hunter on one of those police shows that you NEVER let someone take you to a secondary crime scene because your chances of survival are much less than the first crime scene.  That stuck with me.  Maybe Woody shoulda watched that show because it sure as “Sugar” he gets it.  We find out he’s an accountant (or something) in his day job (bawhahahahaha).

The bad guy finaly gets justice.  But not really.  More like the justice the average motorist gets on the LA Freeway from time to time.  He mustn’t have been wearing his seat belt.  Lol!

The movie ends abruptly after another folksy passage from the good sheriff  as if the people who made it were saying…”ok, that’s enough, you can go home now.”  Either that or they ran out of money or characters to throw at the bad guy.

Game over Bad Guy XX (lots of bodies in the double digits) Good Guys 0. 

Save your money.  Nothing to see here.

[AcePylut]

Dang Rondo, that's exactly how I felt.

After the movie I was like "dude, this movie sucked.  I can't believe it was up for all these awards"

[Dracho]

If you're watching Japanese sub-titled movies, don't skip Akira Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai".

It was the basis for the "Magnificant Seven".


Actually, a lot of Kurosawa's movies have been remade in the West (not Western Genre).

[GDA-S'Cipio]

I believe that you two are the only two people IN THE KNOWN UNIVERSE that actually LIKED Timothy Dalton's Bond.

Make me three.

I really liked Dalton as Bond.  Living Daylights is still a movie I enjoy re-watching.  Unfortunately, License to Kill sucked, and Dalton's Bond career went down with that film.

-S'Cipio

[FCM-Corbomite-XC]

I believe that you two are the only two people IN THE KNOWN UNIVERSE that actually LIKED Timothy Dalton's Bond.

Make me three.

I really liked Dalton as Bond.  Living Daylights is still a movie I enjoy re-watching.  Unfortunately, License to Kill sucked, and Dalton's Bond career went down with that film.

-S'Cipio

Ditto!

[GDA-S'Cipio]

The Good Shepard.  Spy thriller supposedly based on the "actual" account of the formation of the CIA told from the point of view of a "fictional" character.  Right.

Robert Deniro (Director and supporting role in movie) seems to have control (somewhat) of his medium but this movie suffers from "plot muddle" and credibility. 

What the movie tries to do is make you feel uncomfortable  ..  the CIA is made to look like the brainchild of the "ruling elite" of Anglo Saxon protestants who attend Yale and Harvard and are pretty ,much a bunch "bigots"... "the rest of you are just visiting" says Wilson when asked what he thinks of blacks, Jews, Catholics, etc…

Here's a funny fact for you to consider:

Damon's character was based upon the real CIA agent, James Jesus Angleton.

As you might guess from his name, he was Mexican-American.

-S'Cipio