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I saw The Omen 3.  It's probably my favourite out of the trilogy.  I don't know why people don't like this as much as the first and second.
 
'cus it sucks, that's why :) But that is too simple. I think people don't like it as much because by then the Omen-like deaths are getting old, Child Damien is far more scary and creepier than Adult Damien and aside from the monologue he has with the Crucifix (used in I.E's "Damien") It's not that great of a film.

That reminds me, I saw The Omen remake and I liked it, sure the original is better (the way the story unfolds and the pacing of the movie), but I like what they did with it even with it's blunders (The Vatican Observatory IS NOT in Rome, but in Tucson, Arizona). I heard Iced Earth's Damien on the way to the theater to get in the mood :D. 
 
The storyline of the third Omen movie is better than the second.  The settings were more varied, more things were happening.  The deaths were always the worst parts about the movies anyway... predictable.  I haven't seen the remake yet but I hope to get round to it soon ;)
 
Personally I like all three, but it is a normal trend in horror movies. Who remember's The Omen IV: the awakening? or Halloween V? Good horror Movies (The omen, Friday the 13th and Halloween to name a few) sucumb to studios cashing in on the fame of the first film, cheesiness and becoming parodies of themselves in subsequent, considerably crappy sequals (Jason X anybody?) Few of them are lucky to survive as a trilogy (Friday the 13th first three were actually pretty decent, But Halloween didn't make it past the second). Thus the Omen suffered a similar fate with a strong first, an interesting, but considerably weaker second installment and by the time the Third came out people had moved on. :(
 
I just saw "Pirates of the Carbian 2 - Dead man's Chest" in the cinema...The plot is that Will Turner ( Orlando Bloom)and Elisabeth Swann (Kiera Knightley) get arrested for saving Jack Sparrow in the end of the previous movie. But Will gets an offer which is to get Jack Sparrows compass and bring it to a man named Becket (The man who arrested them) in order to save Elisabeth.

Jack gets a visit from Will's father who is in service of "Davy Jones" who offers dying sailors etc. a chance to live for another 100 years in trade for joining his crew. Jack Sparrow had made a deal with him 13 years before the film takes place. Now it's time to collect the payment. His soul. And then he of course has to avoid that...

It's an extremely well-made movie with interesting camera angles. The director always put you right where the action is. For example, if someone falls into a hole, you won't see it from the edge of the hole, but you'll follow the person who falls.

The humour continues in the same direction as the first film. It's not the most mature humour, but very entertaining indeed, especially Johnny Depp's character Jack Sparrow. He plays his role very well so noone can really play it even near as good as himself. Of course, that's obvious but that's the best way I can put it.

Summary. Very good actors, effects, it's humerous, and very well worth seeing. 4/5  stars



Edit: for full credits:  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0383574/fullcredits
 
Ok, it wasn't exactly recently, but I finally re-watched 2001: Space Odyssey and I just have to say what a freakin' waste of time that was. I should of just stayed with my happy memories of it instead of tainting them by torturing myself with it's horrible execution of what could've been an interesting story. After the apes go crazy it is all downhill hehe.

However, the soundtrack, editing, directing etc... the technical aspects in other words, were nothing short of brilliant.
 
Last night I finally saw Pirates of the Caribean: Dead Man's Chest and what a disappointment. I found it over ambisious and ultimatly confusing trying to play out like 5 different storylines at once. Also, the special effects that complemented the first movie so well were over-used and ruined this one. I hate the "more means better" mentality of hollywood sequals. Also, a lot of things seemed pointless, (sorry if I'm spoiling it for anybody) for example why was Davy Jones and all his crew anthropomorphic sea creatures? Just cause they died at sea didn't mean they became sea life or if that is why the film doesn't explain it. Even the action sequences were dull and I found myself spacing out/dosing off at times... Oh well It won't stop me from see the third and hopefully final installment.
 
I  saw Lady in the Water on Saturday, the new M. Night Shamalan movie and I liked it a lot. I really like his stuff and this was pretty good, he gave himself a larger role this time around, but still good movie, my only concern was how the character so readily buy into the story, aside from that it's all good.
 
Just thought I'd wade in with a little comment on a film I watched last night - Vertigo Limit.

Now, it's not exactly the most "story telling" driven movie of all time, but nonetheless enjoyable. Why? Well I'm a bit of a sucker for the high adrenaline, all action, edge of the seat suspense type movie and this one has it in bucket-loads. Right from the off, in fact, where we see two young climbers out with their dad on a rock face, merrily enjoying their climb when down comes a rucksack swiftly followed by two amateur climber who in tangling up with them almost bring the three down. Well, down go the amateurs after been prised away by the dad, but it has put the three in a precarious position. And as only one clamp holds them and none of them are able to wedge in another, the dad (who is now at the bottom) tells them to cut him loose. Much more of the same continues through the movie and if this thrills you, then watch it.

The crux of the plot is that of the two remaining climbers (from above) the sister has become a now internationally renowned climber and has been asked to join a team to climb K2 - financed by Bill Paxton's character (also a climber), a billionaire, who wants to wave to his inaugural flight of his new passenger airline from K2's summit as it flies by. Now as he is on a tight schedule, he ignores weather warnings and demands they continue. So they get in trouble and the brother leads the rescue party. Not a great deal more to it than that - but we do have a man in the rescue party that has issues with the stranded billionaire.

One great line from the film: "One hundred thousand sperm and you were the fastest?"
 
I hate that movie Albie, probably because I've been forced to watch it at the end of every school term for the past four years :rolleyes:

Last night I watched "We Were Soldiers".  I'm not normally a fan of war films but I enjoyed this one a lot.  It had the right blend of realism and cheesyness that makes any film great.  Mel Gibson had some pretty ironic lines given his recent handlings in the media, I have never liked his acting anyway but he played the role of the war hero quite well.

The story is basically that of the first major conflict of the Vietnam war... only a handful of soldiers survive after the end of an epically portrayed battle.  This film doesn't glorify war, as others do, but shows the harsh reality of the casualties on both sides.  The depiction of the torment that the wives "back home" went through as they waited for the news was also an interesting slant.

I'm not an expert on films but I know what I like... this is an 8/10 for me ;)
The only poor aspect was the extended battle (one and a half hours???)
 
Recently watched "The Time Machine" (the remade version with Guy Pearce). Now, I remember watching the original as a kid (and been absolutely petrified of the Morlocks) and quite recently again, within the last couple of years. The original, in my mind, was a really good film - highly enjoyable - and it was shown on TV quite recently while I was at work. My wife watched it and thought highly of it enough to want to read the book and maybe see the remake. So we got the remake out (book reading will come later).

To those who don't know the story, it's all about a scientist who builds a machine capable of travelling through time. This he does and travels to the year 802,701 (after popping in to two dates in the 21 century, one to see the Moon colonised and another - to see it start to break up). In the year 802,701, he finds two "species" of human that have evolved - one that lives under ground (the Morlocks) and one over ground (the Eloi). In the 2001 film, the Morlocks fled the surface of the planet to settle underground because of the collapse of the Moon. In the original, the Morlocks went underground due to a Nuclear War in 1966 (if memory serves me right).

Personally, I thought the overall film was rather enjoyable, but it did seem to me that the Eloi's did not give off the impression they were from a different time - just a different part of the planet now - I think a bit more effort was needed here. In the original, the Eloi's were characterised as been almost devoid of all emotion and feeling for their fellow men and rather vacant - something that sets the portrayal of these Eloi's apart. As for the machine itself, well, I did like the way it was almost cocooned when operational, in the remake (the original - there seemed no barrier between were the traveller sat and the passing of time). The Morlocks in the remake were brilliantly portrayed and the way they went underground by simply jumping into the sand, loved it.

Two bits of trivia:
The director of the remake was HG Wells's great grandson.
And HG Wells was educated at the same school I spent my 6th form years at.
 
I've been watching:

[glow=red,2,300]Dune[/glow]

[glow=red,2,300]Smallville [/glow] (the most faithful transition of our comicbook hero).

[glow=red,2,300]Star Trek The Next Generation[/glow]
 
Nice review Albei!

  Last night I saw The Descent and let me tell you guys it was AMAZING. I saw it because I wanted to see a scary movie and frankly aside from one or two not-so-indepth previews I knew nothing of this movie. I like that, I like going into a movie having little to no preconceived notions about it.

  ANYWAY, it did it's job, it was perfect in nearly every way. A good set up, good character development and great surprise/gore/terror mix. If you like horror/terror movies this is one for you.

It is about a group of 7 women who like adventure, they rock climb, whitewater raft, etc. They are fit, strong and independent (the ultimate "chick flick" lol empowering...). They decide to go down a cave, but after one of their exits collapses it is revealed to them by their "leader" that it wasn't the original cave they were going to go in, but rather an uncharted and unamed cave system. As they go down they find equipment at least 100 years old meaning people had been there before. To their horror they find the cave is infested with devoled humans, who are blind, mostly hairless and are of course incredible climbers. That is all I will say since this is a movie you guys just have to watch. I was just informed too, that the ending I saw is not the original ending, however it was still good. Aparently the original British release was more depressing... can't imagine how lol.
 
I recently saw an Australian movie called "Wolf Creek" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0416315/ which I found reallly good and a bit of a nail biter, if you know what I mean. It's about 3 backpackers that go to visit Wofl Creek National park and their car breaks down. A "nice" stranger offers to help and they say yes. The rest is less nice, so to say :wacko:Apparently, it's based on a true story, but that didn't ruin it for me. I recommend it for a dark, rainy October evening alone in the house :p

7/10
 
Onhell said:
  Last night I saw The Descent and let me tell you guys it was AMAZING.
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I saw that about a year or two ago and it still remains to this day one of the scariest movies I have ever seen, but this is not due to the "monsters". The most terrifying parts are the things you can see happening to yourself, being trapped in a tiny tunnel, miles underground, and there is nothing you can do about it. Excellent movie.
 
Onhell said:
Last night I saw The Descent and let me tell you guys it was AMAZING.
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I've seen a few trailers for that - it does look good. I guess with the thumbs up from yourself and Hunlord, I'll give it a go some day.

Back to "The Time Machine", one of my favourites parts of the movie was at the beginning. The Time Traveller goes to meet his fiance at present time and during their rendezvous, she is shot and killed in a robbery on themselves. The time traveller then builds the time machine that he uses to go back in time to try and save her. This he does and during their second meeting, he distracts her from going through the park on their walk (where she was shot) and instead goes into town. When in town, he goes to buy her flowers as promised and tells her to wait there.

I immediately suggested the story goes along the lines of fate. When your numbers up, its up. She will be killed. Lo and behold she was, by a runaway horse and cart.

Further into the movie, we are told a different scenario than what I suggested. He built the machine because she died. And this is the reason he could never go back and change the course of time.

Without her demise, he would never had built the machine. Without the machine he could never go back.
 
I recently watched Airplane II: The Sequel.  This is a sequel (duh) to the 1980 movie Airplane!, which set out to parody the disaster movie genre.  The plot is completely ridiculous, but I will outline it anyway.

Ted Striker, the ex-army pilot who overcame his shell shock to safely land a crewless 767 at Chigago airport, is in a psychiatric unit after a crash during the testing phase of the new XR-3 moon rocket.  When he finds out that the rocket is set to launch, despite numerous safety faults (which have been covered up), he escapes to try and save his love, Elaine, a lieutenant on the shuttle.  When a circuit fault causes the computer to go insane and lock their course towards the Sun, Ted Striker is the only one that can save the crew...

Basically, the film is a brilliant follow-up to the original, and features many hilarious gags;

In the background of one scene with a security scanner, many armed militia are seen walking through unchecked with heavy machineguns and bullet belts, but when an old lady beeps, the guards throw her against the wall and frisk her, while more militia walk through.

A stewardess tells the passengers that the ship is crewless, the computer has gone insane, and that the ship is locked towards the sun.  The passengers remain calm, but one person asks, 'Stewardess, are you telling us everything?', to which the reply is, 'No...we're also out of coffee'.  Chaos ensues.

The film makes several references to 2001: A Space Odyssey, witht he computer killing two crew by blowing them out of the airlock.  Striker (a passenger at this stage) has put his headphones on, and looks out the window to see the two crew waltzing as they drift off into space.  He's listening to the waltz played during the exterior repair section of 2001. :D

William Shatner plays the commander of the moon base.  One of his subordinates calls him up on screen to inform him of the situation.  Shatner then opens a door, and we can see that what looked like a screen was simply a window.  Also, all doors in the moon base are voice activated with a 'Phsssh!' command...

Those are only some of them...the others are brilliant too, and I would suggest you watch both of them, as they are first class comedy!
 
Silky said:
In the background of one scene with a security scanner, many armed militia are seen walking through unchecked with heavy machineguns and bullet belts, but when an old lady beeps, the guards throw her against the wall and frisk her, while more militia walk through.
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Quite topical at present. An older lady getting arrested for having a panic attack on a transatlantic flight and a full scale terrorists alert ensues.
 
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