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Movie Reviews Part 2 - The good, the bad and the ... rentals

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Japanese Story

For me, the movie just tended to fumble along hoping that if there were enough meaningful looks and silences it would make the movie more profound. It had all the right elements and I honestly don't know why I didn't like it that much. It was kind of aiming for Lost in Translation but I think it misses its mark.
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There are a lot of Australian movies I love. This wasn't one of them. The longer it went on, the more I wished it was over. Sometimes too much silence makes me want to reach out and shake the actors and say 'just do something already'.

The cinematography was beautiful, but I just didn't feel much at all for the characters.
 
Saw V For Vendetta week or so ago. Absolutely loved it. Found it really interesting and thought provoking, not just an average action film.

Wont go into detail about it so that I don't spoil it for anyone but I think Hugo Weaving is fantastic in it.
4.5/5 stars
 
So very dissapointed with the ending for SAW2. It is a shame that the movie makers these days leave their movies open to sequels
 
The hills have eyes!

Now here's a horror movie for you! :D

Definately scarier and more revolting than Hostel [which was quite good], this is definately not something a horror fan should miss.

This movie had me gasping and making all sorts of 'gahing' [weird] type noises in my seat. I've never understood what people meant when they say "my gut was churning," as a result of a movie... but now I do. I found this movie so revolting. I found it so good.

There was a part where I considered covering my eyes... and even leaving the cinema [this has never happened to me before], but fortunately, my stomach fixed itself and this wasn't necissary ;).

On the other hand - the friend who I saw it with, despite thinking it was excellent, seemed to think it wasn't much of a horror movie at all... 8o.

For me, it was definately up there with one of the BEST horror [or utterly disgusting] movies I've seen.
 
Amores Perros [Love's a bitch]

This has quickly become one of my favourite movies of all time. It has the sexiest man in the world, car chases, robberies, dog fights, murders, car accidents, adultery, teen pregnancy, alcoholic mothers, death, revenge, regret, hatred, unrequited love. That makes it sound really loud and crass, but the movie tackles the truth behind human relationships with great sensitivity. The structure was clever, the script even better and the acting was great.

There are essentially three seperate stories that are slightly linked due to a car crash. You can't help but feel for every single character in this story, despite what they may do. Their desperation is insidious and heartbreaking. Loved it.
 
Went to the video shop, asked for The punisher (original), blow and studio 54...
They didn't have it. They've gotten rid of 90% of videos and just have dvd's now. Bastards

So i went for Boogeyman - Ba-Baom. Sucked hardcore
The exorcism of Emily Rose - Better than the other exorcism movies they brought out recently but still lacked.
And i got Gattaca. Going to watch it from start to finish, only seen bits and pieces of it
 
I saw V for Vendetta. I liked it, but then I read the book.
The book is so much more hardcore, and the movie would have been better if it wasn't such a big Hollywood thing. It needs that raw edge to it that the book has.
 
Just finished watching The Proposition, the Australian film written and scored by Nick Cave. Fantastic film, it's set in colonial times and the premise is that an outlaw is sent to kill his older brother in order to prevent his younger being hung. As you'd expect from Cave it doesn't gloss over the extreme violence of our country's past. I really enjoyed it.
 
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^I loved that film too, Duckboy couldn't stand it though. :\ Very strange.
I especially enjoyed the music and spoken word pieces throughout. Really gave the dialogue some weight.
 
October Sky. Watched it again recently, it's an amazing film, after Donnie Darko, i believe it's one of Jake Gyllenhaal's best. It's based on the autobiography of the same name (also called Rocket Boys which is, incidentally, an anagram of October Sky), by Homer Hickam, who grew up in a coal mining town, and, like all boys in Coalwood, was destined for the coal mines. Homer became interested in rockets and, with 3 friends, started building them. Against the odds, he and his 3 friends entered the National Science Awards competition. Homer went on to become an engineer with NASA.

A truly inspiring film! I especially loved the scenes involving Gyllenhaal and his father John Hickam (played by Chris Cooper - another favourite actor).
 
*shudders*
there's no way I'd see that movie. I'm told Saw 2 was horrible, I don't even want to imagine Hills have Eyes.

The extent of my blood-and-gore tolerance is Wolf Creek (which I found surprisingly un-affecting), Saw 1 and Hannibal etc.
 
^^ I thought Saw 1 was much worse then Saw 2!!

I really wanna see The Hills Have Eyes but I'm not ready yet to sacrifice my perfect sleeping for it in exchange for nightmares.
 
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get a copy of haute tension, alexandre aja's 2003 film. it has a touch of dario argento's tenebre about it, both aesthetically and plot wise, and it features one of the most intense horror scenes i've seen in years. a real slasher flick that returns to the good old days of horror before casts were comprised of teen idols and years of going through the motions combined with buckets of blood desensitized us. make sure it's the subtitled original though and not the dubbed.
 
iamtha1 said:
^^ I thought Saw 1 was much worse then Saw 2!!

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Really? Dale believes I wouldn't be able to hack it, and he's usually pretty accurate on my gore-tolerance-factor. I think with Saw1 though, I hyped myself up so much to be utterly grossed out, when I finally sat through it I was able to cope. Come to think of it... the same with Wolf Creek, and most other horror movies I've seen...

maybe I'm less sensitive than I give myself credit for.

The worst one I've ever seen is - believe it or not - that Wax Museum one, with Paris Hilton in it. Urgh. That turned my stomach.
 
Candy
Starring Geoffery Rush, Heath Ledger and Abby Cornish

i thought this was an absolutely amazing film.
it is an aussie made film, with a fairly low budget but the storyline had me glued to the screen for the whole film. About two junkies who love each other, love their heroin and love life, no matter what it is as long as they are with each other.
it ios so beautifully made, with all the dodgy surroundings and abby cornish is just absolutely wonderful in it. she really feels so realistic as candy and her character really spoke to me. heath ledger is also very good, his pompus attitude does shine through a little but he does really give off the junkie gritty feel. geoffery rush can never do wrong by me, i love him in all movies. he is fantastic as the wise older addict, who they go to for everything.
the final scenes of the films are just chilling, but all in all the best australian film ive seen in ages. It is just a real shame that stupid aussie films can only be released in cinema "europas" instead of mainstream because thjere isnt enough support for them. well the aussie dramas anyway.

Turtles Can Fly
This film is extremely sad but moved me like no other has before.
IT is about the kurdish people living between the border of iran and turkey and the children who form a community of their own. they survive by picking land mines out of fields, and the imagery is just horrific. kids without arms, legs and these are all real actors, no fakes. the real story is about satelitte, a boy (the leader of the children) who is love with a strange girl with a hidden past.
the eerie chill you feel when watching this film is like nothing ive ever experienced, it feels like you are really there getting a glimpse into the iranian reality of a time when saddam ruled. it doesnt feel like a film.

both of these movies were fantastic.
 
^ I dont think i have that much culture, as evidenced by my latest movie watching :(

MI III - Not as bad as the second one, almost as good as the first just not really delivering on the cool plot twists or suspense action. Entertaining all round action flick ... not sure its worth the cinema run.

XMen III - Rivalling and possibly surpassing the first. Bit too much exposition, but they really did deliver on some quite emotive moments without watering down the cool FX and ballz to the wall action you come to expect from comic derived flicks. Work paid on work time - so well worth it :)
 
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^ I dont think i have that much culture, as evidenced by my latest movie watching :(

XMen III - Rivalling and possibly surpassing the first. Bit too much exposition, but they really did deliver on some quite emotive moments without watering down the cool FX and ballz to the wall action you come to expect from comic derived flicks. Work paid on work time - so well worth it :)
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No No no. Can anyone say awful script and worse directing. There were setups that evolved into nothing and characters didn't have arcs so much as broken bridges that made no sense whatsoever, I guess it's to be expected when the director leaves to work on Superman and the guy that got the arse from said movie gets to direct X-men 3, BLEAH, worst one of the 3.
 
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