Movies

[Sanctums]

I was just blown away by 13 Tzameti. But G'damn was it intense.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0475169/

 

[lurch70]

I was just blown away by 13 Tzameti. But G'damn was it intense.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0475169/

oh yeah, really want to see this flick ... the trailer looks brutal.
http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/13tzameti/trailer/

had no idea it was out already

 

[Reign in Acai]

everyone must rent The Death of Mr. Lazarescu this week ... killer Romanian flick, Cannes winner ... balls out black comedy about the medical system in Eastern Europe.

support Transilvania

I heared about that film several months ago, sign me up!

 

[Russell]

Finally got round to watching 3 Extremes - films by Miike Takashi, Park Chan Wook and Fruit Chan. Not quite up to the standards I was expecting from those three, but still pretty cool.

 

[dill_the_devil]

watched Knock Off last night - semi-legendary Hong Kong director/producer Tsui Hark making a Jean-Claude Van Damme movie that sees him playing an expert fashion counterfeiter caught up in a plot involving the Russian Mafia, the CIA, and thousands of tiny Soviet micro-bombs sewed into counterfeit jeans and shipped to America. It's as completely hatstand as it sounds. There's a scene where Van Damme is pulling Rob Schneider around in a rickshaw, while Rob whips Van Damme's ass with an eel. And that's a sentence I never thought I'd type.

 

[cthulufhtagn]

saw broken flowers the other night, pretty funny...not great but understated and fairly engaging

There's a scene where Van Damme is pulling Rob Schneider around in a rickshaw, while Rob whips Van Damme's ass with an eel. And that's a sentence I never thought I'd type.

haha stop, i laughed and snorted the vomit out my nose

 

[lurch70]

SYRIANA ... started off being WTF ... but it sucked me in ... and then it just ruled at the end.

 

[Russell]

Just saw Clerks II, really enjoyed it!

 

[circus_brimstone]

Religious fanatics like that alarm me

The funniest - and scariest - part is when that one kid says he got saved at age five because he wanted more out of life. No one knows shit about life at that age.

 

[jimbobhickville]

watched Knock Off last night - semi-legendary Hong Kong director/producer Tsui Hark making a Jean-Claude Van Damme movie that sees him playing an expert fashion counterfeiter caught up in a plot involving the Russian Mafia, the CIA, and thousands of tiny Soviet micro-bombs sewed into counterfeit jeans and shipped to America. It's as completely hatstand as it sounds. There's a scene where Van Damme is pulling Rob Schneider around in a rickshaw, while Rob whips Van Damme's ass with an eel. And that's a sentence I never thought I'd type.

Man that movie was terrible, even for a Van Damme movie it was bad. I love the part where he's supposed to be sliding around and you can see the rope pulling him.

 

[cthulufhtagn]

watched "illuminados por el fuego" tonight, about the falklands war from the perspective of an argentine vet whose war buddy is in a coma after attempting suicide 20 yrs later...pretty intense shit, a good flick. apparently more argentine vets have committed suicide since the war than actually died in the war

 

[dill_the_devil]

Man that movie was terrible, even for a Van Damme movie it was bad. I love the part where he's supposed to be sliding around and you can see the rope pulling him.

In all honesty, if you forgive the absolutely atrocious plot and just pretend it's a mad-as-a-sackful-of-badgers Hong Kong action movie (which, in effect, is what it is - check out the production credits, Tsui Hark brought pretty much all his usual team with him), it's not bad at all - the editing is pacy without being confusing, the stunts are impressive, the fights are well-choreographed and the gun battles are quite exhilerating.

 

[Thanatopsis123]

I saw The Protector. Good action scenes and all but this guy just isn't as likable as Jackie Chan so the non-action oriented parts were much harder to get through. And wow, were they going for a record with most bones ever broken in a movie or what? That scene were he just keeps breaking arms and legs just keeps going and going like a Family Guy skit or something. It just wouldn't end.

 

[dill_the_devil]

Is that the Tony Jaa film about the elephants getting kidnapped? It was called The Warrior King over here. That film ruled really hard, the one-take six-minute four-floor thirty-people-taken-out-by-one-guy scene made my jaw drop.

 

[Thanatopsis123]

I was wondering if that was really all one take. There was a moment or two I think they could have cut it but I wasn't sure if they actually did or not.

 

[dill_the_devil]

Nope, was definitely all done in one go.

 

[EVERLOSTINDEADETERNITY]

Just watched Stay Alive ( comes out next week) anyway its actually got some interesting Elizabeth Bathory stuff in it. Besides the fact that they set it in Louisiana theres some good story telling. Some typical horror movie stuff but some interesting plot none the less.

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

Silverado is such a good movie

 

[dill_the_devil]

I know it's been discussed in this thread before, but I just watched Switchblade Romance yesterday. WTF is up with that twist? The film is basically a rip-off of Dean Koontz's 'Intensity' until the last twenty minutes or so, then suddenly, gay twist!

 

[dorian gray]

Switchblade Romance? Wtf is that?
A few months ago I talked about a French film that was a total rip-off on Intensity until the end when it got almost too bad to watch. How many movies have ripped-off this book?!