Zombieland 9/10

It isn't supposed to be a historically accurate movie, nor did he ever claim it was. In fact, he has specifically said the movie was not supposed to be accurate, and is supposed to be just a 'cinematically compelling' film.

Which is what it is. You've got no eye for quality entertainment, and I will stand by those words all the way to my grave. :mad: Braveheart is quite possibly the only film whose honor I would ever defend to my death.

It is a story of epic proportions, which had incredible cinematography for when it was made. You expected a historically accurate film from a movie that you should have known would have very little. It's been out since fucking 1995.. and it's taken you this long to see it? Surely you knew something about it going into it.. It's fucking Braveheart. I realize you're not from the States.. but it's Braveheart.

Pretty baffled by this right now. What other movies do you like? This makes me think you have horrible taste in everything now, because it makes me think you watch movies for completely wrong reasons.

You do watch Comedies to laugh, right? You sound like someone who might watch them just to point out all the jokes that weren't funny.

Honestly got no idea how I managed to last this long without seeing it tbh

Also seriously stfu. It is a film about William Wallace, Robert the Bruce, Edward I and Edward II. Those were real people, very famous and important people in English and Scottish history. I feel perfectly entitled to expect some accuracy from it if it isn't a film based around a fictional character and events which are expressly stated as being fictional like say Gladiator. Jesus.

I tried to watch Braveheart when it first came to VHS. Fell asleep because I was 11 and started watching it at like 3:00 a.m. I have since discovered that Mel Gibson is beheaded so there is no need to watch the film.

Horrible comparison to strengthen your 'point'. Gladiator had real people and real 'surrounding events' as well. No difference at all, except that the main character of Braveheart was a real person. In Gladiator, he killed fucking Caesar. A Caesar whose character was very much based on the real person he was portraying. Following a Caesar who was also a real person, at the end of a war that really happened. How is that not a historical inaccuracy in a movie with real people and real events?

The fact of the matter is... you expected historical accuracy out of a movie which you SHOULD have known had none, because it is from 19-freaking-95 and is a well known movie. It won countless awards, regardless of the inaccuracies, BECAUSE it wasn't touting itself as a history film. If you went into the movie thinking that it would be a historically accurate depiction of what happened, and not 'an epic tale of revenge and romance', then you deserve to be disappointed by it.

Gladiator was a film about a guy who never existed, spliced into a period of 'real' history. Braveheart is a film about a guy who did exist, only the historical events and characters have been doctored, it really isn't the same thing at all.

Anyway why the hell are we even arguing about this. I like the damn film, I just wasn't inspired to go and kill Englishmen because of it.

We are arguing because anything less than a 9/10 is insulting to the quality of this film. It should only lose 1 point at most for the imperfections such as historical inaccuracies, because besides that, the movie is a shining example of what a film should be.

And what.. because it alters history with a fake character as opposed to altering history with a real character, it is somehow different?

The comparisons are the exact same premise, simply one MAIN character is real, and the other is not. The surrounding cast of each were all real people as well, as were the events/world surrounding the things that happened in each.

Alice In Wonderland - 8/10

Johnny Depp is awesome as Mad hatter and all but its not as amazing as some people are saying it is. Still a movie that is worth seeing especially in 3D.

Its based on a Twilight Zone Episode (Button, Button) which was based on a short story. Never read the short story but the Twilight Zone ep is awesome.

The Crazies - 4/10

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Alice in Wonderland - 6/10 Really underwhelmed by this movie. If it weren't for 3D or IMAX this would be a huge bust.

Zombieland - 8/10 I liked the format of the movie, but the ending didn't do much for me.

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Aurelius, Commodus and Lucilla were all real. As far as I am aware everyone and everything else in Gladiator is a composite of a huge array of people, places, events and entirely made up facts which have been put together in order to create a fictional story which only vaguely pertains to any real chain of events, if any, and is in no way a representation of history 'as it happened'. That is why I see a distinction.

Now seriously, can you get over me not wanting to stick my tongue in Mel Gibson's anus?

The Boondock Saints 2: All Saints Day - 3.5/5

For a sequel to a cult classic, it wasn't that bad. But I think Duffy had some shitty microphones on hand. I was adjusting my volume every few minutes. That or my TV is on the fritz.

The Hurt Locker - I don't think I hated this as much as Triple A did, but it was pretty bad. Felt completely unrealistic and I did not care about the main character at all. Would rather have watched Lethal Weapon again. 4/10.

With Alice and Wonderland, you should know if you're going to like it or not. I'm assuming it's the same exact story as the original, correct? It's my fav Disney movie next to Aladin

It's not the same story. Alice returns to Wonderland in this. I'm guessing Burton did this to make it more Johnny Depp-centric. Haven't seen it though so I don't know if that is correct.

ah, nevermind then.

50 Dead Men Walking

8/10

The Hurt Locker

8/10

Best picture - I dunno, but it was a hell of a lot more deserving than Avatar.

I liked it, good atmosphere.

Ninja - 1/5

Yeah, don't ask.

I saw a screening of Hot Tub Time Machine last night.

I'll give it 7/10.

Glory - 10/10. I finished watching this the other day. It was good....great maybe?
Wake of Death - 3/10
Until Death - 7/10. Two Van Damme movies. Jean Claude Van DAMNIT!

You are correct.

Green Zone - 7.5/10



Gonna re-watch Braveheart over the weekend btw Requim, watch this space;)

Wouldn't a perfect score indicate that it is the perfect movie and therefore great, possibly the greatest of all time?

Where the Wild Things are: 9/10 :love:

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I was expecting something so much better. So boring.

I truly thought the new Indiana Jones was shite. Sad really.

On it's worst day it couldn't be nearly as sad as 99% of modern action movies. Honestly thought it was just about what it should be. Indiana Jones movies are supposed to be pulp fun. I wouldn't put it on par with Raiders or Last Crusade, but it was as good as Temple Of Doom.

IMHO, personally anyways, in my view, that's just my 2 cents

Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire

9/10

The Box - 2.5/5

Revolutionary Road: 9/10
Really <3d this. Way better than I expected it to be.

Ajami: 8/10
Palestinian movie. Kinda like a Palestinian Pulp Fiction. Got nominated for Best Foreign Film this year at the Oscars. This was pretty great. Like intertwining stories and kinda "action packed."

Wholphin #9: 8/10
DVD of short films... some quick "shorts" by Spike Jonze that kinda sucked, and some other amazing stuff like some documentary about a beauty pageant in a Columbian women's prison, some animation where this guy is hit by a meteor then his body is moved 91 centimeters away from everything he comes in contact with, and a bunch of other "sweet shit"

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Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans: 7/10
Pretty great. Love Nic Cage in "crazy weirdo" roles.

I Love You, Man: 6/10
Pretty good. Started off "hilarious" then kinda started to not like it at all towards the end.

Heathers: 6/10
Pretty entertaining I guess. Saw it on TV and kept watching it.

Up in the Air: 5/10
There was so much I liked about this movie but then so much I fucking hated. So it evens out to a 5/10 I guess.

Revolutionary Road: 9/10
Really <3d this. Way better than I expected it to be.

Ajami: 8/10
Palestinian movie. Kinda like a Palestinian Pulp Fiction (not at all though). Got nominated for Best Foreign Film this year at the Oscars. This was pretty great.

Wholphin #9: 8/10
DVD of short films... some quick "shorts" by Spike Jonze that kinda sucked, and some other amazing stuff like some documentary about a beauty pageant in a Columbian women's prison, some animation where this guy is hit by a meteor then his body is moved 91 centimeters away from everything on earth, and a bunch of other "sweet shit"

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Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans: 7/10
Pretty great. Love Nic Cage in "crazy weirdo" roles.

I Love You, Man: 6/10
Pretty good. Started off "hilarious" then kinda started to not like it at all towards the end.

Heathers: 6/10
Pretty entertaining I guess. Saw it on TV and kept watching it.

Up in the Air: 5/10
There was so much I liked about this movie but then so much I fucking hated. So it evens out to a 5/10 I guess.

if you look past the fridge bit, shia, and the swinging monkeys I actually enjoyed it. There are still alot of decent parts in it.

Unforgiven - 10/10.
Double Impact - 7/10. Van Damme is awesome. I also can do splits thanks to karate....I can do them reaaaaaly well.
Karate Kid Part III - 9/10.
Freeway - Uhh.....Reese Witherspoon did a good performance....and I did like it....it was just fucked up. I'll give it a Fucked Up/10.

Where The Wild Things Are - 10/10

Alice in Wonderland - 4.5/5

No. I really liked Part 3. Liked it better than part 2, but not better than the first. First one is classic.

Part 3 is a good movie. Soooo much better then 2. But it's one of those nostalgic movies where you either love it or hate it. I love it. I need to get all the Karate Kids on DVD. dunno how I don't have them yet. Cobra Kai 4 Life

Part III was awesome, except the ending, fucking god awful ending/move to finish it.

Did like the character of Mr. Silver though.

Much better than part II.

I saw the Precious that wasn't based on the novel by Sapphire, so I think I may be missing out.

Oh, let me guess, it's a bible (bullshit) or religious (ridiculous) film? For fucks sake watch something normal like Die Hard or some shit, jesus fucking christ.
(I am aware of the high possibility that it is a film about neither. However I reserved the right to make that remark at this point in time knowing I may need to refer to it in the future)

Zombieland 9/10

BILL FUCKING MURRAY

lol what are you talking about Kano?

Whatever film BDC is.

Kano, seriously, for a film student you missed the boat on that one.

I tend to get that from people who like think about what a film student should know or have heard about.

Just seems like someone who is moderately interested in film would have heard something about a movie that was nominated for umpteen Academy Awards and a huge hit at film festivals all year

I bet Goldust has heard of Precious

I study film, I work in film, I love film. What I take in lately and keep my eye on is not what is always what people at the Academy are.

And yeah I heard of it, like the title, but know nothing about it.

The recurring theme of this years nominees was Mech Battles

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So am I right to assume the latter picture of from Precious? and she is the big black woman from Beer Festival who won the oscar?

District 9 was awesome I though.

maybe just google Precious: Based On The Novel Push By Sapphire

Law Abiding Citizen 3/10 - terrible concept for a movie AND it was probably the most predictable movie Ive ever seen in my life.

Kano, you work in film, what do you do?

As far as actually being paid for what I do...I make DVD covers, posters, website graphics, logos and anything they want me to. 'They' are a production company I have worked with in the past for free as a runner on set of various productions they operate themselves or for or with other companies. I have been doing the graphic stuff freelance for 2 years. The stuff on set and helping them with their 'film' products I have been doing since 2004.

They have allowed me to kinda be basically part of their staff, I get to do as much as I want, I get a lot of contacts and meet new people in the business every now and then. And I have a contact at the UK Film council who sends me good tips, places and people to try and get myself out there more. When I first worked for them, I met Alan Moore which was awesome. At the time I didn't even know he lived in my town.

I'm all for people's own opinion and shit, but stfu.

I was kinda hoping Kano was a scriptwriter.

I'm going to New York Film Academy hopefully next year to pursue a career in script writing and directing FYI.

Anyway...

Blade II - 10/10. First one sucked, this one was awesome.

I'm halfway through Enter The Dragon....its decent so far.

I have been writing my own scripts since late 2002, and while I was at uni and working for all these companies. I do my best to 'get my stuff' seen and meet the right people whenever I network with the companies I with with and for.

It's pretty hard not being in London or somewhere we I can get to a decent position, but I couldn't live there anyway.

The woman I know at the UK Film council, I first met her when she saw my stuff and asked me to write scenes for a film they were making with Nick Frost (Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead). I gave it a go, but they chose someone elses work and every now and then she gives me other ops like that.

But yinno, I'm happy doing my own stuff, just writing, working for those guys and doing what I'm doing. Sounds bit ghey, but I am just happy to be part of whatever I can get my hands on.


Also....

The Science of Sleep - 7/10

Inglorious Basterds 9/10

I could have done without the Mexican dude, and Julie Benz's character irritated me to no end, but it was still pretty decent.

8/10

Please keep us updated

Julie Benz is hot, mang.

Shutter Island - 8.5/10

A few of my friends weren't impressed by this but I really enjoyed it. The only gripe I had was that the soundtrack was way too entrusive in the opening scenes.

The Crow - 10/10. Fuckin A!

Kickboxer - 7/10.

One of my favorite movie quotes is from Tommy Boy, its when David Spade walks into Chris Farley doing Star Wars to a fan, then says "I've interuppted happy time"

Little Otik - 9.5/10

Amazing. Watched this after not sleeping for like two days and felt like I dreamt the entire thing or something.

A couple is unable to have a child so they dig up a tree root and fashion it into a surrogate baby and then it starts to murder people. From Jan Svankmajer, love him.

http://media.sbs.com.au/films/upload...otik_maxed.jpg

What other Svankmajer films would you reccomend, I've seen "Alice" thought it was kinda ehhhh, but I liked the animation and i'm not really an animation fan.

This was honestly the first feature film I've seen of his that I actually really liked. All of the others I've seen are not that great, yeah.

His best stuff is his short films.

http://isohunt.com/torrent_details/1...er?tab=summary

These are probably my favorite of his:

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But her voice in the movie was like nails on a chalkboard constantly to no end. And then they stick her in the cowboy getup shooting people even though she wasn't really there..ugh

Anyway..

So I just watched Michael Moore's Capitalism movie. Its one of those things where half of it I was wanting to punch the tv and the other half I wanted to punch the tv repeatedly and throw it out the window, but I at least showed some restraint for 2 hours. Dont wanna drag politics into here but anyway the only interesting part that I took away from it was companies who take out "Peasant Insurance" on their workers in case they die, since that is something I've never heard mentioned before anywhere.

1/10

I think Blockbuster messed up and sent my Michael Moore's movie instead of Dead Snow which is what I was supposed to get, so at least I have an excuse to bitch and complain to Blockbuster and get a freebie of some sort for being an online customer of theirs for almost 6 years.

I just saw Pineapple Express for the first time. People had been bugging me to see it for upwards of a year, and the other night I was drunkenly cornered by friends and forced to watch it.

Well I was definitely pleased with it. Great movie, great cast. A little bit different than what I was expecting I will say. For some reason that big fat black cop lady that was in the film for all of 45 seconds made the whole thing for me.

A complaint would be a lack of scenes with his mega hot eighteen year old girlfriend. While it seemed this would end up being a centerpiece for the film, she ended up being in all of three scenes.

I'll give this an 8/10. It cannot achieve the maximum rating I believe due to a complete lack of titties of any sort.

The Descent 2 - 3/5

Oh my God.

that movie was awesome.

The 4th Kind: 2/10

wow, horrible. fell asleep like 3 times during it

Gran Torino - 10/10

The Big Lebowski - 4/5

I had a mix of :?: and :rofl: at the end.

Street Fighter: Legend of Chun Li - 2/5

Loved Kristen and the [mostly] well directed action, but I probably need to blog about what went wrong with this movie. Here's a hint: shoot the fucking writer. I've never known to personally dislike a writer because of his content, but there's a first time for everything - and this guy offended both SF franchise and cinema conventions. Jesus Christ.

Ninja Assassin - 5/5

Yeah, you definitely should blog about it.

A TPWW thread simply wouldn't cut it. Gotta think big.

Of course

If only you were cool enough to understand. :nono:

You think I don't understand? Of course you do. See ya in a bit.

No. I will not see you in a bit.

Hot Fuzz - 6.5/10

It was ok, not exceptional, but not boring either.

Kick-Ass - 10/10

I don't really give full marks to anything, but I don't know why, so I thought I'd break this stupid tradition and go there for this.

The Ghost Writer: 5/10

The Collector: can't even rate this really, supposed to be a Saw-esque torture porn flick but is actually one of the funniest movies you will ever see.

that movie disturbed me. and I don't get disturbed easily

Amost Heroes - 10/10. Chris Farley RIP.
Man On Fire - 7/10.