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Agreed. Excellent thriller of a film. Really enjoyed it.
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Agreed. Excellent thriller of a film. Really enjoyed it.
consumer
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I totally agreed. The movie was great. John Goodman was awesome so was the chick who's name escaped me. I agree on the ending too...but it didnt spoil the movie as a whole..but yeah a bit too predictable in an unpredictable way if that makes sense. I still highly recommend it though.
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Just watched American Gangster. Not a bad flick. Frank Lucas and his Blue Magic heroin certainly made a good tale. Should have quit while he was ahead...but what gangster ever does that?
BigG
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Good film that mate....
He exported the gear from Vietnam didnt he...
I read IRL they would test the gear by getting a black junkie from Harlem and shoot him up...they would time how long it took him to die as a measure of the gears potency....15 minutes was "good stuff"
"I want the blue magic" lol!!
He exported the gear from Vietnam didnt he...
I read IRL they would test the gear by getting a black junkie from Harlem and shoot him up...they would time how long it took him to die as a measure of the gears potency....15 minutes was "good stuff"
"I want the blue magic" lol!!
Kajaki. True story about a British platoon that gets stranded in a minefield while trying to disable a Taliban roadblock near Kajaki Dam, Afghanistan.
Grizzly, and pretty harrowing. But super stuff all round with this low budget cinema.
Grizzly, and pretty harrowing. But super stuff all round with this low budget cinema.
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From Thailand. He went up into the Golden Triangle and organised the supply of 100% Double UO Globe brand #4 heroin. The best in the world. Shipped it back through the US military that was based in Thailand. He cut out the middle man and offered stuff 50% pure at half the price of the 10% competition. Blue magic took over the market. The whole business was run by close family. He got away with it for years. Should have read the warning signs and got out while he was ahead. But thats a familiar tale with gangsters.
Er ist Wieder Da
Can't remember if I posted this yet or not but it's quite cleverly done just watch it!
Can't remember if I posted this yet or not but it's quite cleverly done just watch it!
mydrugbuddy
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As I was pretty much couch locked all the time i was awake yesterday I treated myself to 2 films. They both turned out to be masterpieces imo (ignore the rotten reviews on rotten tomatoes, half of those morons seemed to have watched Rendition with their eyes and ears closed!
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First off was the screen adaptation of Irvine Welsh's Filth (2014).
Starring lead character James McAvoy and a load of other very familiar British actors. I've enjoyed every film Ive ever seen that featured James McAvoy, and this was no exception. AFAIK this is the first film in which he plays the leading role, it is certainly one is his biggest "performances" as he successfully plays the part of an ambitious copper who will stop at nothing to get what he wants, he seems to have a very bright future ahead of him. Then we learn of his drink and Cocaine use, Which doesn't seem to be a problem.
There is no soundtrack as such like in Trainspotting but in many ways the film is just as good, given the imo career best "towering" "power-house" of a performance performance by McAvoy. I can see him becoming a huge star if he continues picking and / or getting offered good roles, (i see absolutely no reason why he shouldn't) like The Last King Of Scotland for example. Forrest Whittaker stole the show in that as the tyranical and fearsome Idi Amin, but McAvoy was brilliant as Amin's 'special advisor'.
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I'll post about the other film later......
)First off was the screen adaptation of Irvine Welsh's Filth (2014).
Starring lead character James McAvoy and a load of other very familiar British actors. I've enjoyed every film Ive ever seen that featured James McAvoy, and this was no exception. AFAIK this is the first film in which he plays the leading role, it is certainly one is his biggest "performances" as he successfully plays the part of an ambitious copper who will stop at nothing to get what he wants, he seems to have a very bright future ahead of him. Then we learn of his drink and Cocaine use, Which doesn't seem to be a problem.
There is no soundtrack as such like in Trainspotting but in many ways the film is just as good, given the imo career best "towering" "power-house" of a performance performance by McAvoy. I can see him becoming a huge star if he continues picking and / or getting offered good roles, (i see absolutely no reason why he shouldn't) like The Last King Of Scotland for example. Forrest Whittaker stole the show in that as the tyranical and fearsome Idi Amin, but McAvoy was brilliant as Amin's 'special advisor'.
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I'll post about the other film later......
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Fair nuff MDB, I thought it was rubbish! I watched it years ago and thought it was shite, I might rewatch it n see if my opinion changes
mydrugbuddy
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Each to their own I guess, maybe i was in the right mood for it at the time and you weren't?
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That's what I was thinking, I will give it a rewatch cuz you've posted some good recommendations in this thread so far so I will give it another blast
mydrugbuddy
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Cheers BCF, i do hope you enjoy it now you've said that. 
I guess no 2 people are ever gonna like exactly all the same films.
I guess no 2 people are ever gonna like exactly all the same films.
mydrugbuddy
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One I've posted twice already but has been ignored each time is the Chinese film Aftershock (2010)
Its an extremely moving (pun not intended!) account of a devastating earthquake that destroys Tangshan, China in 1976. It manages to powerfully portray the greater effects on the region, and the people within it, by focusing on one family, and the story of those who are killed in the quake and those who go on to survive. The family are separated by the chaotic aftermath of the quake and each family member has no idea whether their siblings or parents might have survived.
I think the film is all the better for not being another 'made in Hollywood' film, and a Chinese subtitled film is relatively rare over here. Maybe that puts some people off i dunno, subtitled films very rarely if ever do very well at the box office.
The film follows the survivors for several generations, who struggle on with a deep sadness for so many years, right up to the present day iirc (or 2010 to be pedantic), and I'm not embarrassed to admit that this film had an emotional impact on me, second only to that of Requiem For A Dream.
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Its an extremely moving (pun not intended!) account of a devastating earthquake that destroys Tangshan, China in 1976. It manages to powerfully portray the greater effects on the region, and the people within it, by focusing on one family, and the story of those who are killed in the quake and those who go on to survive. The family are separated by the chaotic aftermath of the quake and each family member has no idea whether their siblings or parents might have survived.
I think the film is all the better for not being another 'made in Hollywood' film, and a Chinese subtitled film is relatively rare over here. Maybe that puts some people off i dunno, subtitled films very rarely if ever do very well at the box office.
The film follows the survivors for several generations, who struggle on with a deep sadness for so many years, right up to the present day iirc (or 2010 to be pedantic), and I'm not embarrassed to admit that this film had an emotional impact on me, second only to that of Requiem For A Dream.
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mydrugbuddy
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Rendition (2007).
Based on "Extraordinary rendition, also called irregular rendition, is the government-sponsored abduction and extrajudicial transfer of a person from one country to another.[1] Although many other countries have in the past participated in the program, it is almost exclusively carried out by the Central Intelligence Agency and United States government,[2] with at least 50 such CIA detainees having been identified by human rights groups in the past.[3]" Wikipedia. It is said that this practice has increased out of all proportion since 9/11.
There are 3 or 4 main strands to this film which strongly opposes the above. In one strand we have an apparently innocent specialist engineer of Egyptian descent who now lives in the US but has been on a business trip. He gets on the plane to fly home but never meets his wife at 'Arrivals' as he has been abducted by the CIA on extremely flimsy circumstantial 'evidence'. Meryl Streep is the arch villain in charge of authorising these renditions and she authorises for this guy to be flown to an unspecified country for interrogation, best guess is Morocco.
In one strand we have the detainees wife (Reese Witherspoon) in the US desperately doing all she can to get any information on what has happened to her husband, but even with her connections to persons with access to the right people in the right places she finds any information hard to come by.
Another strand is the action in the interregation unit. Jake Gyllenhall is assigned there as an analyst, and his colleague who was meant to be the 'knuckle dragger' gets killed inadvertedently by a suicide bomber on his first day in the country. So Gyllenhall has to take over as the interregation observer. He soon forms the belief that the detainee is completely innocent of all charges. No one listens to him however. The boss of the daily running of the interregation dept has a very beautiful daughter, whose story forms another strand.
She has ran away from home as her father has arranged a marrage for her, but she is in love with another young man. We get to learn about the young lovers. The guy is an artist as a hobby, but is myseriously guarded about his treasured sketch book, and cleverly but casually he dismisses the sketch book that his g/f was about to browse at one moment, and she puts the book back.
Next we learn about a Jihadi movement gathering momentum in that city.
All the threads begin to interweave and to say anymore would be spolier territory. Some of the best things about this film, are that it is more than 'probably' still topical and relevant to this day, the understated but credible performances by all actors, and personally i also found the soundtrack or score amazing; sparingly but always with great timing there is a lush orchestral piece that reoccurs, along with some interesting middle eastern instrumental stuff, and at exactly the right moments to maximise the emotional impact of a scene a middle eastern sounding female vocalist sings/moans/wails in the most spine tingling and plaintive way imaginable.
I watched the film twice, cos first time i fell asleep before the ending, and after watching the ending the next chance i got i found it so good that i had to re-watch the whole film again. And it was well wort it cos i picked up on so many more details that i had missed the first time, including the spine tingling plaintive wails. Ive scoured youtube for that piece of music because it is amazing, unfortunately it is not on there.
"Reviews for Rendition were mixed. Roger Ebert awarded the film four stars out of four, saying, "Rendition is valuable and rare. 'It is a movie about the theory and practice of two things: torture and personal responsibility. And it is wise about what is right, and what is wrong.'" Wikipedia
IMO it is the best film of this type, yet made. I can now see both sides of the story much more clearly.
EDIT: Finally managed to find some of that middle eastern music that featured in the film: Journal - Paul hepker & Mark kilian - from the movie Rendition
Based on "Extraordinary rendition, also called irregular rendition, is the government-sponsored abduction and extrajudicial transfer of a person from one country to another.[1] Although many other countries have in the past participated in the program, it is almost exclusively carried out by the Central Intelligence Agency and United States government,[2] with at least 50 such CIA detainees having been identified by human rights groups in the past.[3]" Wikipedia. It is said that this practice has increased out of all proportion since 9/11.
There are 3 or 4 main strands to this film which strongly opposes the above. In one strand we have an apparently innocent specialist engineer of Egyptian descent who now lives in the US but has been on a business trip. He gets on the plane to fly home but never meets his wife at 'Arrivals' as he has been abducted by the CIA on extremely flimsy circumstantial 'evidence'. Meryl Streep is the arch villain in charge of authorising these renditions and she authorises for this guy to be flown to an unspecified country for interrogation, best guess is Morocco.
In one strand we have the detainees wife (Reese Witherspoon) in the US desperately doing all she can to get any information on what has happened to her husband, but even with her connections to persons with access to the right people in the right places she finds any information hard to come by.
Another strand is the action in the interregation unit. Jake Gyllenhall is assigned there as an analyst, and his colleague who was meant to be the 'knuckle dragger' gets killed inadvertedently by a suicide bomber on his first day in the country. So Gyllenhall has to take over as the interregation observer. He soon forms the belief that the detainee is completely innocent of all charges. No one listens to him however. The boss of the daily running of the interregation dept has a very beautiful daughter, whose story forms another strand.
She has ran away from home as her father has arranged a marrage for her, but she is in love with another young man. We get to learn about the young lovers. The guy is an artist as a hobby, but is myseriously guarded about his treasured sketch book, and cleverly but casually he dismisses the sketch book that his g/f was about to browse at one moment, and she puts the book back.
Next we learn about a Jihadi movement gathering momentum in that city.
All the threads begin to interweave and to say anymore would be spolier territory. Some of the best things about this film, are that it is more than 'probably' still topical and relevant to this day, the understated but credible performances by all actors, and personally i also found the soundtrack or score amazing; sparingly but always with great timing there is a lush orchestral piece that reoccurs, along with some interesting middle eastern instrumental stuff, and at exactly the right moments to maximise the emotional impact of a scene a middle eastern sounding female vocalist sings/moans/wails in the most spine tingling and plaintive way imaginable.
I watched the film twice, cos first time i fell asleep before the ending, and after watching the ending the next chance i got i found it so good that i had to re-watch the whole film again. And it was well wort it cos i picked up on so many more details that i had missed the first time, including the spine tingling plaintive wails. Ive scoured youtube for that piece of music because it is amazing, unfortunately it is not on there.
"Reviews for Rendition were mixed. Roger Ebert awarded the film four stars out of four, saying, "Rendition is valuable and rare. 'It is a movie about the theory and practice of two things: torture and personal responsibility. And it is wise about what is right, and what is wrong.'" Wikipedia
IMO it is the best film of this type, yet made. I can now see both sides of the story much more clearly.
EDIT: Finally managed to find some of that middle eastern music that featured in the film: Journal - Paul hepker & Mark kilian - from the movie Rendition
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Not sure if anyone has said it yet but...
Hardcore Henry
'Henry is resurrected from death with no memory, and he must save his wife from a telekinetic warlord with a plan to bio-engineer soldiers.'
Really fucking good movie! I suggest you all watch it
Hardcore Henry
'Henry is resurrected from death with no memory, and he must save his wife from a telekinetic warlord with a plan to bio-engineer soldiers.'
Really fucking good movie! I suggest you all watch it
Don Luigi
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There was me hoping that it was hoover porn.
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Don Luigi
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Aye I've put in on my wee list. I've been watching a few films recently and have run out of ideas.
I re-watched 'Being John Malkovich' recently and it's still as brilliant as ever. I then watched '2001: A Space Odyssey' and thought it was shite.
I re-watched 'Being John Malkovich' recently and it's still as brilliant as ever. I then watched '2001: A Space Odyssey' and thought it was shite.
ScotchMist
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Being John Malkovich is brilliant. Hes one of those actors with a voice and charisma akin to Christopher Walken, Morgan Freeman etc.. Need to find that out.
Im watching The Experimenter, i remember reading about these social experiments. Social psychologist Stanley Milgram turned up some fascinating results.. Its not for everyome im sure, if psychology interests you, then it mighy float your boat...
Im watching The Experimenter, i remember reading about these social experiments. Social psychologist Stanley Milgram turned up some fascinating results.. Its not for everyome im sure, if psychology interests you, then it mighy float your boat...
Shambles
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Not sure if anyone has said it yet but...
Hardcore Henry
'Henry is resurrected from death with no memory, and he must save his wife from a telekinetic warlord with a plan to bio-engineer soldiers.'
Really fucking good movie! I suggest you all watch it
Just finished watching it myself. Good fun film. The technical skill in actually making it was especially impressive. How the fuck they achieved some of those sequences is beyond me. Tis ultimately just a live action FPS so does suffer somewhat when it comes to anything beyond the style, action and nerd points for spotting references, but for what it sets out to do it does very well indeed.
You thought wrong then
Not something I'd watch over and over but is an incredible film all the same imo. Very psychedelic in theme so a a little surprised it didn't do it for you. Although I must say that it probably is something of its time. Can see how maybe the films it inspired would appeal more to folk these days.