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[Evad]

old boy has one of the best fight scenes in cinema ever like

 

[tribal girl]

might watch old boy again tonight

Think I've only seen it once. That was enough. Excellent film, just not one I'd watch again and again.

 

[TheSpade]

old boy has one of the best fight scenes in cinema ever like

I've heard nothing but good things. %)

TheSpade is about to become a film addict again.

 

[Evad]

good good, aside from a few dodgy ones you gave some stunning recommendations in here

 

[TheSpade]

Anyone seen the film EXAM?

British screenwriter Hazeldine (THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL) directs for the first time, bringing us this industrious, low-budget sci-fi thriller.

Pitting eight assiduous candidates against each other in a dog-eat-dog fight for the perfect job, Hazeldine has collated characters from all points on the cultural spectrum, with Luke Malby (STAR CROSSED) and Jimi Mistry (ROCKNROLLA) deserving special mention.

Faced with a single, seemingly indecipherable, question and with time ticking away, the prospective employees are forced to cooperate in the claustrophobic confines of a small, nondescript room, which quickly becomes a catacomb.

As the group are whittled down one by one, the remaining applicants edge ever closer to earning the ultimate reward.

I remember it being on at the Edi film festival but I didnt get a chance to see it. Looks good.

SEX, DRUGS & ROCK N ROLL looks pretty damn good too, anyone seen it?

London in the late 1970s: amidst the sprawling tenement blocks and dingy back-street pubs, an anarchic music scene stirs.

Its high priest is provocateur and punk-poet Ian Dury, the polio-stricken lead singer of The Blockheads and the most inspired lyricist of his generation.

More than a standard biopic, SEX & DRUGS & ROCK & ROLL is an involving and emotionally charged family drama, documenting Dury's struggle to hold onto the things that mattered in the increasingly frenzied storm of fame.

With a career-best performance from Andy Serkis, inspired staging from director Mat Whitecross and Peter Blake's pop-art stylings, this is the unique and powerful film that Dury deserved

I need to see 'A Prophet' it's showing tomorrow in Edinburgh but seems to be the last showing. Damn!

 

[brokenbrain]

Mr Whore - The Piano Teacher is fucking grade A. It would appear that every film that Isabbelle Huppert choses, since the 70's has the potential to be very upsetting. I know she may be in a few normal English language things, but if it has an 18 and her name is in it and its made anytime between 1970 and 2010 it will have some headfuckery and grimness, possibly black comedy and psychodrama. The best sort. Which reminds me that I haven't seen this film for ages. It was yet another of my finds at the library, where I just look for any European/Asian films with 18 certificates knowing they will at some point have some fucked up shit or 50 in.
Talking of fucked up.....A certain Mr Takashii Miike has brought his fair share, although he has made totally different thoughtful films as well. Even some of his 18 certs aren't necessarily Ichi or Gozu.
I am recommending this one as its his breakthrough film and I knew nothing about it when first seen and its got some outstanding moments in including supreme lols.

Oustanding item number one, it features a female assassin who shoots poison darts out of her cunt, FTW!

 

[tambourine-man]

Hence the name "Fud-oh"?

 

[tambourine-man]

Getting back to Walken and Cronenberg...

One of the few Stephen King films that was any good. Plus... sci-fi kudos and Walken being badass. :D PEEAOW PEEAOW!!!

 

[brokenbrain]

A Cronenberg film I have not seen.That fucking book was permanently next to my bed end the year of my turning (weed/hash being forced on me daily as well as constant pills, compared to part time drinking and the odd joint of the 90's)
Got so far into it but kept taking hits from the bong or cracking open the vodka or dropping another Euro..........as far as I can remember it was really good and I may have skim read it about 10 times when bonged up....fucks sake why did my drug book have to be the Dead Zone?Purely because I decided only to have 2 books in my room 1. The Shining (read 4 times) as proof that King could hit the ball out the park on a good day and 2. The Dead Zone which I have read yet not read.


Favourite Cronenberg film = The Fly.
Most disturbing Cronenberg film = Dead Ringers

I have yet to see Spider, but I read the book some years ago and its grade A, Really need to see that fucker.....and then all the rest......even M.Butterfly!

 

[tambourine-man]

Cronenberg is disturbed.

 

[tribal girl]

One of the few Stephen King films that was any good.

There's loads of great Stephen King films.

 

[The Liberal Media]

Pimping it for the 3rd time now, seems nobody else has seen it, when it wins best foreign language flick at the Oscars in a few hrs time ( unless Prophet, a far inferiour movie wins) people will be saying " oh yeah , that ones wicked "


Well it is wicked, best flick of 2009.

 

[parttime crackhead]

There's loads of great Stephen King films.

Stand By Me.

Pimping it for the 3rd time now, seems nobody else has seen it, when it wins best foreign language flick at the Oscars in a few hrs time ( unless Prophet, a far inferiour movie wins) people will be saying " oh yeah , that ones wicked "


Well it is wicked, best flick of 2009.

I've had that bookmarked to try n download for ages but never got round to it. I'll need to do it soon, by all accounts it's tremendous.

 

[tribal girl]

Stand By Me.

Innit.

Also (cuz I'm a sad loser who likes making pointless lists):

Carrie
Creepshow
The Running Man
Misery
The Shawshank Redemption
The Green Mile
Dolores Claiborne

I still wanna see Apt Pupil too. Looks pretty disturbing. :D

trailer

 

[brokenbrain]

I stopped reading his books when he went into rehab, so from The Dark Half on I know nothing.I'm glossing over any I can't be arsed with or haven't seen.

Regards films......Carrie - Pisses me off, loved that book in school and the film is in my personal most overrated ever category....not shit but oh how I hate a good book spoiled.
Salems Lot - Long version, not as good as book, but surprisingly good for an adaptation that was shown on TV too, although they got the Vampire all wrong.
The Shining - I could argue back and forth about the benefits and problems of film vs source (never seen series, nor won't). I have problems with both that could fill this page, but I'll stick to this:
1.The book is about a man who is struggling with terrible guilt about past actions when he was a full on alcoholic. These parts I really get into. Then it chucks in some supernatural bollocks to spoil what should have been a story about one mans decent into insanity and cabin fever.
2.The film looks amazing. But Jack is mad from the get go and FAR too much of the guilt plot is missing eg virtually all of it. And it kept the supernatural bollocks.
I still like them both though
Christine - Dubious, possibly better than I remember it from about 18 years ago.
Pet Semetary - YO this is GOOD and doesn't totally fuck the book in the ass, its on the good list no doubt.
Misery- Pretty good, and worth a watch can't fault it too much

Then the 3 Frank Darabonts:
1.Shawshank - Fuck me. Yes its amazing. Double fuck me, anyone not liking this is not of this earth.
2.Green Mile - Massive surprise I liked it at the cinema in 2000, not seen since and never read.....I think it was because of the screen size and sound overwhelming me, because on reflection it is a much lesser work than Shawshank.
3.The Mist - YES FUCK YOU ALL ITS THE BEST ONE CUNTS! I loved the story about 18 years ago, then eventually it comes out to no fanfair and goes almost straight to dvd, meanwhile every horror site on the web trumpetted its delights. I rented. My life was changed. I think it is the best (horror) adaptation of a King book.

The ending is 10/10 alone, never mind what leads up to it.




Stand by me is 10/10 too.
Dolores Claibourne may be worth 9/10.

 

[Evad]

Pimping it for the 3rd time now, seems nobody else has seen it, when it wins best foreign language flick at the Oscars in a few hrs time ( unless Prophet, a far inferiour movie wins) people will be saying " oh yeah , that ones wicked "


Well it is wicked, best flick of 2009.

I'll give it a watch tonight, saw the main actor, Ricardo Darín in a film called

Nueve reinas

the other night, very good fun, i'd recommend it

Two grifters - boyish, likable Juan and hard-edged, scheming Marcos - meet by chance. Marcos, who seems to have cheated everyone he knows including his siblings, is missing his partner, so he offers to teach Juan tricks for a day. Juan accepts because he has some savings, but needs more to bribe a judge to release his father from prison. Marcos gets a call from an aging, ill ex-associate needing help to sell a forged set of rare stamps, the Nine Queens, to a businessman about to be deported (he can't take cash out of Argentina, but could take the stamps). When the con men have to improvise, Marcos asks Juan to use his savings to set up the deal. Is Juan about to be conned? Written by

I've only seen a few argentinian films but the ones I have have been good

 

[tambourine-man]

There's loads of great Stephen King films.

In comparison to the number of his stories that have been adapted for film, the number that actually turned out to be good is pretty few.

Shawshank
Green Mile
Misery
Shining
Dead Zone
Stand by me

Carrie (maybe)
Delores Claiborne (maybe)

The rest were badly treated. Even if I do have a soft spot for the utter dross that is The Running Man. :D

 

[tambourine-man]

hey! i like making lists too!

 

[watsons torment]

what you chaps saying about motorcycle diaries? i've recently read the book and was wondering what the film adaption was like. also i believe another che guevara based film has been done recently does anybody know its name?

 

[Delsyd]

Into the Wild

Based on a true story. After graduating from Emory University, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandoned his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters who shape his life.

one of my favorite movies, by far.