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bellabella

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Posted: Feb 19, 2006 - 06:38 PM

But I want to know where to look for Mrs GC in KFH!!!

Henry_Chinaski
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Posted: Feb 19, 2006 - 08:56 PM

I watched some documentaries that I downloaded from the net yesterday.

One is called "The Truth about Lies": big historical lies that, due to media manipulation, were believed to be true for ages, including a lot of stuff from Stalin, Hitler, Vietnam War and ermmm some people in the Far-East too Wink

. Amazing footage, from the Ukranian Hunger (including a speech by George Bernard Shaw stating that what the newspapers were saying in the US and England that the hunger was happening was all BS) to TAM Square. I recommend it.

The other is a presentation called "Is Piracy Good?" It raises up some questions about what will be the role of TV now that technologies such as Bit Torrent make any show on the planet readilly available to everybody on the globe. I think we can conclude TV as it is today will be very shortly gone and the advertisement industry will need to reshape itself to be meaningful to people they have no control who they are.

Now I am downloading this documentary from BBC4, called The Century of the Self. It's a pretty big file (1.7Gb) but it's comming along pretty fast. Hopefully I can watch it tonight Smile

(http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/century_of_the_se lf.shtml)

Nice thread idea by the way.

Cheers,
HC.

milf

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Posted: Feb 19, 2006 - 10:26 PM

Kiss Kiss bang bang - nothing great murder mystery... but had some funny moments.

fubar

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Posted: Feb 20, 2006 - 08:31 AM

SAW2 - more gory than the first. Prefer the first better.

exo_dude

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Posted: Feb 20, 2006 - 08:31 AM

Galactica (remake) season II. Watched the whole box in one day. Great series specially when you like the "old" galactica

krez

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Posted: Feb 20, 2006 - 09:03 AM

Mrs. Henderson - very funny movie, great story about making a theatre, showing a vaudeville show, during WWII. It was fresh and different from most movies out today. Worth watching

sarahs
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Posted: Feb 20, 2006 - 03:10 PM

Vanilla Sky. One of those movies I keep wanting to see but have never gotten around to seeing. I'd only heard negative or indifferent things about the movie, so didn't expect much. Wow, it completely blew me away. I had goosebumps and even some tears...

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Posted: Feb 20, 2006 - 04:25 PM

I'd like to watch "Perhaps Love" è?1?°?
but the copy I have has no subtitles and I don't know if I would be able to tough it out for the whole movie while understanding only 20% of what is said.
Does anybody have a copy with subtitles?

Michael

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Posted: Feb 20, 2006 - 05:07 PM

Got through most of Desparate Housewives over the weekend. Suitably quirky. We also managed to fit Chronicles of Riddick in there somewhere over the weekend.

Dazza
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Posted: Feb 20, 2006 - 05:39 PM

Hey,

Infernal Affairs 3

The direct sequel to number 1, once again saw the likes of Lau, Leung, Tsang, Wong and lai filling the screen.

You need to watch the first instalment due to the amount of flashbacks and references, Lai was pretty much his pokerfaced self, The relationship building exercise between Yan (Leung) and Dr Lee ( The wonderful Kelly Chen) was enchanting to watch. And of course Ming ( Lau) wrestling with his demons.

This film was at a much slower pace than the first, but had more heart and emotion thrown into it.

A fitting end to a very good trilogy.

4/5

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Dazza
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Posted: Feb 21, 2006 - 07:58 AM

Hey,

Switching back to Jap stuff.

Dead or Alive 2

Sees Japan's B movie favourite and Elvis/Steven Segal lookalike Riki Takeuchi and Sho Aikawa team up when both contract killers paths cross in a middle of a job.

They realise that they were once childhood friends and set off to an Island where they grew up together, they decide to string some more jobs together to do good this time, only succeeding in winding up the local gang members.

This is far from one of Directors Takashi Miikes best, but dont treat it as overly serious, its a lot of fun with some OTT bloody shootouts with the usual Miike bizarness thrown in, gangster magicians, drawf hitmen and the usual smut that you would come to expect from the man.

For a popcorn movie I give it 3/5

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milf

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Posted: Feb 21, 2006 - 08:12 AM

Constant Gardener - nausea-tic camerawork reminiscent of Blair Witch. Non-satisfying overall.... boring in the beginning, interesting somewhere in the middle but fall flat after.

Dazza
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Posted: Feb 21, 2006 - 05:43 PM

milf wrote:

Constant Gardener - nausea-tic camerawork reminiscent of Blair Witch. Non-satisfying overall.... boring in the beginning, interesting somewhere in the middle but fall flat after.

and only scooped one award out of 6 nominations at the BAFTA's...

I agree, I was actually expecting bigger things from this as I still rate "City of God as one of my all time favs.

Constant Gardner put me to sleep!!

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thegoodgirl

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Posted: Feb 21, 2006 - 10:23 PM

HOUSE

a pretty funny medical drama series featuring a nasty but brilliant doctor.
each episode is a cycle of prescribing wrong medicines and nearly killing the patient while the doctors try to figure out which illness it is and Dr House always saves the day by identifying a simple root cause. makes you think twice before eating the next piece of uncooked ham.

Dazza
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Posted: Feb 23, 2006 - 08:29 AM

Hey,

Bullets over summer

Good pairing of Francis NG and Louis together as a couple of cops, had a good all round feel to this film with happiness, sadness and some bloody good acting and failry decent soundtrack too. Especially Granny Smile

very well written but a sad but somewhat dignyfied ending. Smile

5/5

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exo_dude

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Posted: Feb 23, 2006 - 09:01 AM

Two for the Money.

Al Pachino was the only reason I did not swiched of the DVD player.

milf

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Posted: Feb 26, 2006 - 12:05 PM

Napolean dynamite - crap
Kungfu mahjong 2 - crap
Sleeper cell series - slow moving but seems interesting, hopefully the calm before the storm

bellabella

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Posted: Feb 26, 2006 - 12:46 PM

started watching Two Hands last night an early Heath Ledger Aussie film - I had to stop after half an hour, i could see the whole film unfold and it was going to be bad - I couldn't face watching it!

I did watch Nanny McPhee yesterday afternoon - really lovely film! Excellent for kids or adults who like kids films. Everone acts very well in it, there isn't one bad apple.

milf

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Posted: Feb 26, 2006 - 07:45 PM

Munich - uninteresting

Dazza
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Posted: Feb 26, 2006 - 07:51 PM

Hey,

Wolf Creek

Another road movie in the style of Texas Chainsaw massacre, Wrong turn etc. I found it very slow and its really only the last 20 mins when you witness some violent grissly killings played by a sadistic Mick, by that time I was getting impatient. Only other positive, was some very stunning shots of The Outback and it was based on true fact.

Was left slightly dissapointed.

2.5/5

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travelinjack3

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Posted: Feb 26, 2006 - 07:59 PM

Men with Brooms to keep in the spirit of the winter olympics.

and National Lampoon's Vacation. its a long a down holiday road, especially if you are in the vista cruiser

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CoffeeHawk_0
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Posted: Feb 26, 2006 - 09:25 PM

Bill Murray in 'Broken Flowers', pretty good if you like his recent movies, but I didn't like the ending.

bellabella

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Posted: Feb 26, 2006 - 11:44 PM

just watched Narnia - quite disappointed really, it had a real BBC sunday afternoon special quality about it and some of the effects were really bad. I'm not normally bothered about bad CGI but there were bad mistakes in this film that made it look about 30 years old! For a Disney movie I would have expected a more polished film, but it was just so-so, cutey Lucy was the best thing in it and the White Witch.

GC
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Posted: Feb 27, 2006 - 04:29 AM

Watched Twins last night, an old one but still very funny.

Bellabella, hopefully its just the beginning and the sequals will be better.

Has anyone seen Seven Swords and if so, is it any good?

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bellabella

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Posted: Feb 27, 2006 - 08:25 AM

Yeah maybe GC - was talking about it with TM last night and he seemed to think it was a rush job and they rushed the post production to get it out quickly - mabe in time for christmas or something. Because for a major film like that the quality should have been better.