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That is a funny movie, a bit of trivia: The original Airplane is a remake of a 1950's ( I think 50's quite old anyway) drama called The Zero Hour. It is the same story, however Airplane of course is full of jokes. I tried watching the serious original and simply couldn't, I kept cracking up remembering all the jokes from Airplane, not to mention the acting back then was, well... exagerated which was funny in itself.
 
ok...last night... SNAKES ON A PLANE!!!! I know, I know, and yes, it's pretty bad, BUT not AS bad as I thought it would be. Maybe it's because I went with a group of like 10 people, took over the entire middle row and had glow sticks and rubber snakes to throw around lol. You people HAVE TO see this movie if only to see Samuel L. Jackson say that WONDERFUL line towards the end of the film hahahaha. Man, I'm still cracking up! I haven't made this much rucuss or had this much fun at the movies since I was 15-16 hahaha.

It all happens after this guy witnesses a mobster murder some prosecuter or whatever (doesn't really matter) and he is being chased by his gang. Sam jackson is an FBI agent who protects him and they are flying him from Hawaii to L.A to testify against this guy. The mobster, being pretty creative apparently, decides to let loose hundreds of snakes on the plane to either kill the guy with an attack or bringing the plane down (if the movie is accurate snakes like munching on electronics LOL). Seriously, WATCH THIS FILM!!!
 
I liked the movie before it hit the cinemas (sounds crazy, I know).  Now it has lost it's "cult" status, I won't bother going to see it.  Popular culture sucks, especially when the BBC talks about this movie as a "cult" film :rolleyes:
 
How can it be "cult" before it comes out and how can it loose such status on premiere night? You don't make a whole lot of sense some times, Conor... and not watching for that reason is like not liking a band because it has become popular thus "sold out".
 
Not when you have to communicate with other people.... unless you are a politician, you should join the debate club.
 
Onhell, I can sort of see what Conor is saying - the film did have some sort of cult status a while back (he even posted a link about a parody of it) - but like you say, the cult status does not go upon its general release. From what I've heard about this movie, cult is its middle name. But do we really need to re-define the word cult just because more than a select few have heard of it?
 
Great White. As the title suggests, it is about a shark. A great white shark. For some reason, it swam forty miles into a river on the American east coast* and, for absolutely no reason at all, starts to eat people. Seriously, it just attacked any person in the river, no matter if they were on jetski, big rubber rings (dubbed 'rafts', for some reason) or just fishing.
The protagonist is a man who is afraid of water. He is afraid of water because his father drowned when he was a kid. He grew up to become a marine biologist. He has a a son whom he desperately tries to keep away from the water. Of course, the son doesn't care and goes 'rafting' with his friends.
Meanwhile, all these shark attacks go on and the marine biologist figures it was a shark, but nobody believes him. Well, you can guess the rest, I suppose.

The underwater footage of the shark was provided by some marine biology institute. Other than that, you always saw a rubber fin that was driven by a red motor, as was clearly visible in at least one scene.

It was the second worst film I've ever seen.

*This particular east coast village had palm trees, road signs saying "Nevada" and cars with Californian license plates.
 
There are at least three big cases of Shark attacks in the eastern coast of the U.S, in one particualr one, I believe in the '60s, a shark did in fact swim up a river in New Jersey I think and did attack three people or so...
 
Yes, the film was inspired by an event that happened in 1916. However, that does not change the fact that it was so incredibly bad.
 
I 'll tell about one of the first films ever.  King Solomon's Mines,  starring Richard Chamberlain and Sharon Stone. The acting in this film is terrible!  Both stars have played well in other films,  and it's a surprise what they do in this one. 
 
Tonight I watched what has to be one of the most harrowing films I've ever seen. It was "Flight 93". Not to be confused with "United 93", this was instead the made for TV film.

I need not go into the story as we all now what happened, but this movie dedicated a fair bit on the people on the receiving ends of each of those calls made from the passengers mobile phones etc. It brings home the tragedy felt by those left without a son, daughter, husband and so on. An example of one of the calls was from passenger Elizabeth Wainio calling her mother - "I'm just calling to say goodbye", she said. There were times you really could feel the people's weakness - not been able to do anything to help, but knowing that the person on the other end of the phone is not coming home - ever.

Upon the storming of the cockpit by the passengers, you know what will happen - but for some reason you almost pray for that little miracle. Very sad. My wife and I just watched and for a few minutes afterwards we just fell silent.
 
This week, I viewed The Hitcher, a superbly paced thriller directed by Robert Harmon. While delivering a vehicle from Chicago to California, young Jim Halsey (C Thomas Howell) picks up hitch-hiker John Ryder (Rutger Hauer). A sadistic psychopath on a motiveless murder spree, Ryder challenges Jim to stop him, thereby kick-starting an increasingly violent game of cat and mouse down dusty Texan highways. Jim finds an ally in waitress Nash (Jennifer Jason Leigh), but the police are convinced that Jim is the maniac and set off in hot pursuit. As Ryder continues to kill, maim and torture at will, the wholesome teen must leave his innocence burnt and bloodied by the roadside as he tries to clear his name and defeat his seemingly indestructible nemesis. This movie has a terrific feel. The mood is unbeatable. Desolate, lonely highways, rustic old towns, isolated gas stations, the hot countryside (somewhat like Stephen King's Desperation). It's all great. And the score is fantastic. This movie has many hair-raising moments which makes me wonder if other movies that followed it are ripping it off. There are questions as to John's motivation that arise through out the movie. At one point Jim asks, "Why are you doing this to me?" and John replies, "You're a smart kid. You'll figure it out." I suppose the simple answer is that he just likes to kill people, and Jim Halsey becomes a playmate for him. He wanted to be stopped, and Jim stopped him. From that point on Jim becomes a challenge, or perhaps merely a human toy that John has decided to play with. An interesting diversion in a boring string of hiway murders. Or perhaps John really does want to be stopped and he feels that Jim is the only one who can stop him, but he must be compelled to do it. Oh well, that's just my opinion after all. But, do give this film a try, I hear it's being remade as well. :closedeyes:

Also, I watched American Ninja this evening. A cheesy martial arts B-movie. The plot is pretty basic but I'm not complaining. Stationed in the Philippines, 18-year-old U.S. Army private Joe Armstrong (Michael Dudikoff) is escorting a supply convoy when it is ambushed by rebels - one of whom he recognizes as a Black Ninja warrior. Instinctively, Joe defends himself with the martial art of Ninjitsu - an ability that puts him under the suspicion of his commander and fellow soldiers. Alone in his fight against corruption, he finally discovers the secret of his mysterious past - a secret that pits him against the tr00ly evil Black Star Ninja in the ultimate blasphemously naakro battle ov daath! >:{ Yes, it's ridiculous but that's why I enjoyed it so much. Then again, I love Showdown in Little Tokyo and Chopping Mall so I don't know whether you should trust my opinion. :innocent:

If you bothered to read through all this, you get this video as a reward. Don't forget to JUMPDAFUCKUP to all the utterly br00tal breakdowns.
 
I have recently bought the limited edition of the original Star Wars Trilogy that contains the original theatrical versions released in '77, '80 and '83. I have to say it was a pleasure to view the unaltered versions and upon watching them and later watching the enhanced versions I must say most of the changes were stupid and unnecessary. I'm also not pleased by the fact that the dvds were made from transfers of 1993 LASER DISC copies, because the original masters were "lost" (we all know by now Lucas purposefully destroyed them). They have a grainy quality (which actually isn't THAT bad since it gives it that "old movie" feel), and is only 2.0 surround sound. Another thing that was painfully lacking was that it is not an amorphic (sp?) dvd. I watched all of them on my Laptop at work (hehe) so I didn't notice this, but yesterday I took them to my buddy's house and he has a kick ass flat screen tv the size of a house and surround sound and what not. Any way, he was the one to mention this as when we put in the unaltered version of A New Hope he immidiately began to complain that the picture wasn't right. after fidgiting with the remote for a couple of minutes he cursed the heavens and George Lucas.

In short Lucas purposefully screwed fans over by not making a decent dvd of the unaltered versions. The reason I got them is because my VHS copy of the special edition trilogy stayed in Mexico and this was a chance to get BOTH versions on DVD. So good buy for me, not so great for those who already have the SE trilogy or even the Original VHS one.

One thing is obvious by watching these great movies again... Lucas went INSANE at some point and loss all ability to direct people and have a story make sense... *sigh*
 
I have recently seen the film Lucky Number Slevin.  I loved it.  If you liked Pulp Fiction or Snatch or Fight Club you'll probably like this one.  There is a great progression of plot and a twist that I, at least, did not see coming.  There are many big names in this one including Bruce Willis, Sir Ben Kingsley, Morgan Freeman, Lucy Liu and Josh Hartnett.

I'm also looking forward to seeing The Departed.
 
Genghis Khan said:
I have recently seen the film Lucky Number Slevin.  I loved it.  If you liked Pulp Fiction or Snatch or Fight Club you'll probably like this one.  There is a great progression of plot and a twist that I, at least, did not see coming.  There are many big names in this one including Bruce Willis, Sir Ben Kingsley, Morgan Freeman, Lucy Liu and Josh Hartnett.

I'm also looking forward to seeing The Departed.
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Man,  just when I thought I'd give the film a chance you talk about Pulp Fiction.  Now I'm definetly not going to see it.  Thanks Genghis,  for I shall save 2 hours of my life :bigsmile:.  Obviously I hate Pulp Fiction  :innocent:
 
SneakySneaky said:
Man,  just when I thought I'd give the film a chance you talk about Pulp Fiction.  Now I'm definetly not going to see it.  Thanks Genghis,  for I shall save 2 hours of my life :bigsmile:.  Obviously I hate Pulp Fiction  :innocent:
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Suit yourself.  :bigsmile:

I just finished watching The Longest Day -- the oldie.  It was good, not great.  As far as consistency and completeness goes it is better than Saving Private Ryan.  There are many accurate parts, like John Wayne's (yes it is that old  :bigsmile:) character.  I don't want to go into more examples, just in case someone wants to see it.  But :whogivesafuck: right?  :lol:  There are two parts that I'm unsure of:
1)  The Paratroopers dropped rubber dummies into fields before descending down themselves
2)  The soldiers used certain clicking instruments as gimmicks to tell apart friend and foe

I'm unsure if these are historically accurate.  I googled, but came up short of answers.
 
Genghis Khan said:
Suit yourself.  :bigsmile:

I just finished watching The Longest Day -- the oldie.  It was good, not great.  As far as consistency and completeness goes it is better than Saving Private Ryan.  There are many accurate parts, like John Wayne's (yes it is that old  :bigsmile:) character.  I don't want to go into more examples, just in case someone wants to see it.  But :whogivesafuck: right?  :lol:  There are two parts that I'm unsure of:
1)  The Paratroopers dropped rubber dummies into fields before descending down themselves
2)  The soldiers used certain clicking instruments as gimmicks to tell apart friend and foe

I'm unsure if these are historically accurate.  I googled, but came up short of answers.
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Man,  just when I thought I'd give the film a chance you talk about John Wayne.  Now I'm definetly not going to see it.  Thanks Genghis,  for I shall save 2 hours of my life .  Obviously I hate John Wayne :D 
 
You jokers!  :bigsmile:
I can tell I'm making progress at this BB.  When I was a newbie, I was ignored.  Come my Jr. Membership and people commented on my 'good post' or something similar.  Now my every second post is answered by cracking jokes.    :yey:  :wub:
 
I recently saw 'Perfume - The Story of a Murderer' (I must say right here that I prefer the German title 'Das Perfum - Die Geschichte eines Mörders'). I really recommend this movie (despite the ridiculous casting of Dustin Hoffmann) because its a great adaptation of the novel (it succeeds in taking it a step beyond, if you know what I mean by that), the cinematography is excellent, the music is sensual and complements the subject-matter perfectly, and the character of Grenouille is brought to life magnificently by some hitherto unknown British actor who is just awesome (I wonder if he's related to H? :innocent:). I'm not sure if it helps to have read the novel beforehand, but in any case I liked the movie better than the novel. I was really pleasantly surprised by the movie, I wouldn't have dreamed that cinema could bring smell to life, which was why I was rather sceptical about the whole thing.
 
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