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national acrobat said:
Although not strictly a film, last week I watched "Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii",
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If it's not a film, what is it then? Turkey roast? :P
 
I am still shaking after watching 300 last night, it was an AMAZING movie. I saw part (I ended up passing out) of the History Channels, Last Stand of the 300 on Thursday, so I knew what "liberties" they had taken with the event pretty well. But this is the first "historical" film in which that fact didn't bother me at all, it was just so fucking cool. The cinematography is similar to that of Sin City, very stylistic and QUICK. At first I thought it was going to be an 80 minute movie  because they literally take 10 minutes to set everything up and before you know it they are fighting the Persians... turns out they do that for the next hour and a half or so LOL. AAAAAAAH I get pumped just thinking about it. It is a pure action, testosterone driven, homoerotic, kick ass film with some of the best one-liners in recent years.
 
I saw The Prestige on DVD last night.  It is similar to The Illusionist but even better because it is the kind of movie that makes you think after it is done.  There are many twists that I will not reveal.  Some of the twists cheat somewhat, but the movie is still great because of the moral undertone throughout the film.  I recommend it.  :ok:
 
Finally saw The Number 23 with Jim Carey. Really good movie, psyche thriller. What I really enjoyed was watching Carey in a serious role and people not complain about it like they did with The Truman Show or The Majestic. This guy can act, unfortunately he got typed cast. This is the first thing I see him in in quite some time now, I guess disappearing from the public eye for a bit did him some good.

Carey gets a book from his wife for his birthday, The Number 23... and he gets really engrossed in it, specially since Carey is convinced it is about him. Later he thinks the events really happened, and is driven to solve the mystery. In the book the main character kills his girlfriend in a jealous rage and the book ends with him contemplating suicide. Carey is convinced the guy is still out there, the murder is still unsolved... nice twists. I recommend it.
 
I also just finished watching 300. Completely agree with Onhell about everything he said about this movie. While its not at all historically accurate (uh, giant with the razor blade hands?  :P) I didn't care because it was just so Epic. And yes, it deserves to be described as Epic with capital 'E'. I watched this, and I just felt like rushing around and yelling at the top of my lungs, thirsting for beating up someone. Thats how pumped you get. Recommend it, 100%.
 
Natalie said:
I watched this, and I just felt like rushing around and yelling at the top of my lungs, thirsting for beating up someone.
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That's the feeling I usually get after watching an incredibly bad film. :P
 
Perun said:
That's the feeling I usually get after watching an incredibly bad film. :P
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Then don't watch...Uhm... (you'd probably get in trouble thinking of how you feel when you watch a bad film if you'd watch this...) I don't remember the name of the film because it was so incredible lousy that I didn't even bother to finish watching it. It was f*cking horrible.  :P

Anyway, I'll tell you about that horrible movie. It's a movie from Asia ( I don't remember which country) which's about a group fighting and killing vampire's. But to do so, they have to drink vampire blood. But if they doesn't drink a certain potion, which contains andidote within a certain time, they will become vampires themselfs.

The language which is spoken in the film is either Japanese or Chinese. I really don't know. But something that might seem interesting enough to mention is that Jackie Chan is co-starring. And here comes the grade.

1/10. The reason for even getting a whole point is Chan and the o.k. special effects. This movie really stinks, and you really should stay away from it. It might be a bit harder though when I havn't bothered to remember the name, but what the heck...
 
IMDB said:
Goofs:
Continuity: When Gypsy and Helen are fighting over the teddy bear, Gypsy breaks a table. After the table has broken, the table is standing at a tilt. In the next shot, the table is perfectly straight.
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This is already enough to turn me off.  :blink:
 
That Jim Carrey movie sounds better after Onhell's preview.  I usually don't like his movies, but this one may work.  I still have not seen the Truman Show. 

300 looks so CGI.  Am I right?  I did not see Hulk just because I hate computer generated graphics in movies.

Jackie Chan has many gems, but also many craptasmic films, especially the movies where he shows his face for 45 seconds just so the movie can have his name above the credits.  ::)
 
Genghis Khan said:
300 looks so CGI.  Am I right?  I did not see Hulk just because I hate computer generated graphics in movies.
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Did you watch Sin City? It is CGI, but VERY well done... nothing like Resident evil or Hellboy... it really is just brilliant.
 
Sin City was kind of a mixed blessing.  There were many scenes and of course many were not connected closely if at all.  I did love that movie, but some of the cheesiness and bad acting (Elba?? -- though she was good to look at  :)) ruined some scenes.  I thought Willis scenes were good.  And Rourke's character as a tought bastard put a smile on my face.

Maybe I'll give 300 a chance.  I know my girlfriend won't go near it so I'll have to drag someone else.
 
Since I've only been spamming this thread with wise-guyish remarks lately, I thought I'd post something decent. I haven't watched many movies lately, but the last one I saw on DVD was Master And Commander. I had already seen it in the cinema, and grabbed the DVD when I saw it for a couple of Euros in a local shop.

I'm a huge fan of the whole sailor theme, and if you're going to put an old wooden sailing ship into a movie, it's already got a big bonus for me. Having grown up with films like The Crimson Pirate with Burt Lancaster (Best pirate film ever), The World In His Arms with Gregory Peck or Mutiny On The Bounty with Marlon Brando, this one promised to become a trip of nostalgia for me.

It deals with a British battleship pursuing a French one during the Napoleonic Wars. The hunt begins near South America, then continues around Cape Hoorn, passing the Galapagos Islands and into the horse lattitudes (something every decent Maiden fan should know about, see Rime...), and back to Galapagos. The French prove themselves to be very intelligent adversaries, and the captain of the British ship (Russel Crowe) needs to mobilise all his wit to defeat them. At the same time, he needs to pacify the ship doctor, a good friend of his, who has his very own ideas of the goal of this voyage, and if he had it his way, he would become a predecessor of Darwin.

Well, it's a good film. I enjoyed it greatly. It has more than mere popcorn action with sailor flair. It has a plot that is actually more than a mere excuse for having some great pictures (unlike most historical films these days), but actually keeps you interested all the way through. It takes a couple of interesting twists, too (not that plot twists are anything out of the ordinary these days).

This film is very recommendable for both those who love the old sailor flair, and those who like a good, suspenseful story in a rather unusual setting.
 
Quite a coincidence (old wooden sailing ships!) :)
Today I bought a book about the life of admiral Michiel de Ruyter (who's 400th birthday will be celebrated tomorrow!). The book is a modernized (the language!) version of the 17th centrury work of historian Gerard Brandt: "Het Leven en Bedryf van den heere Michiel de Ruiter."

I'd really love to see a good film about this man.
 
Last Sunday I have been to the Oscar winning "Das Leben der Anderen".

A German film about a Stasi agent who has to watch (and HEAR!) every move of a German artist. Slowly, this begins to hurt his own conscience. The viewer can witness an interesting and exciting development of the story.

Great film !
 
So, I watched 300 in the cinema last night. My feeling about this film is that it is basically a two hour long Manowar album on celluloid, without bass solos. At first, I pondered about the irony of me having handed in a term paper entitled Sparta In The Persian Wars just a week before that, but by the time the rhino with spikes growing out of its back charged, I was just enjoying a good fantasy film.
Although I have to say that sometimes, it was just a touch too much. The Persians were already perfectly portraied as evil and decadent without having their generals executed by a giant with scissor hands or an upright, black goat smoking stuff in the Great King's tent. The pictures were huge, but sometimes, they were just a little too huge.
And, leaving all the historical inaccuracies, distortions and whatnot aside, there were two tiny logic things that disturbed me. First of all, Leonidas should have known better than let Ephialtes go, especially because he knew he knew of the alternative path (terribly constructed sentence, I agree). If Ephialtes was so eager to fight for the Spartans, I'd just have put him somewhere in the middle, or right up on the front, where he wouldn't have disturbed the Spartan order and could have died in honour. Second, how is it possible that the king of Persia, of a far-off land, and all his enovys, ministers and so on can talk to the Spartans in the same language without the slightest accent? I know it's more dramatic that way, but it just doesn't make any sense.
 
Perun said:
So, I watched 300 in the cinema last night. My feeling about this film is that it is basically a two hour long Manowar album on celluloid, without bass solos. At first, I pondered about the irony of me having handed in a term paper entitled Sparta In The Persian Wars just a week before that, but by the time the rhino with spikes growing out of its back charged, I was just enjoying a good fantasy film.
Although I have to say that sometimes, it was just a touch too much. The Persians were already perfectly portraied as evil and decadent without having their generals executed by a giant with scissor hands or an upright, black goat smoking stuff in the Great King's tent. The pictures were huge, but sometimes, they were just a little too huge.
And, leaving all the historical inaccuracies, distortions and whatnot aside, there were two tiny logic things that disturbed me. First of all, Leonidas should have known better than let Ephialtes go, especially because he knew he knew of the alternative path (terribly constructed sentence, I agree). If Ephialtes was so eager to fight for the Spartans, I'd just have put him somewhere in the middle, or right up on the front, where he wouldn't have disturbed the Spartan order and could have died in honour. Second, how is it possible that the king of Persia, of a far-off land, and all his enovys, ministers and so on can talk to the Spartans in the same language without the slightest accent? I know it's more dramatic that way, but it just doesn't make any sense.
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There's also the slight problem of Ephialtes being Spartan born, yet knowing about this goat path approximately 1000 miles from his place of birth.  Unless, after leaving Sparta, he lived around Thermopylae, then journeyed back to Sparta only to follow them all the way back to Thermopylae again...no wonder the guy was pissed when he didn't get to fight. :P
 
Perun said:
So, I watched 300 in the cinema last night. My feeling about this film is that it is basically a two hour long Manowar album on celluloid, without bass solos. At first, I pondered about the irony of me having handed in a term paper entitled Sparta In The Persian Wars just a week before that, but by the time the rhino with spikes growing out of its back charged, I was just enjoying a good fantasy film.
Although I have to say that sometimes, it was just a touch too much. The Persians were already perfectly portraied as evil and decadent without having their generals executed by a giant with scissor hands or an upright, black goat smoking stuff in the Great King's tent. The pictures were huge, but sometimes, they were just a little too huge.
And, leaving all the historical inaccuracies, distortions and whatnot aside, there were two tiny logic things that disturbed me. First of all, Leonidas should have known better than let Ephialtes go, especially because he knew he knew of the alternative path (terribly constructed sentence, I agree). If Ephialtes was so eager to fight for the Spartans, I'd just have put him somewhere in the middle, or right up on the front, where he wouldn't have disturbed the Spartan order and could have died in honour.
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I don't know if you are serious or joking here Perun... good critic, but I mean, you have to keep in mind that it is a movie based on a comic book based on a movie based on the the historical event... talk about watered down. 98% of it was filmed in front of blue and green screens and the so called logical phallacies... comic book remember? lol.

But I have to disagree with your assesment of the Hunchback. He was useless to them, he asked him to raise his shield and he couldn't. Spartans, at least in the film but also historically, were very utilitarian, I mean they "discarded" useless babies. Thus I found it perfectly normal that he wouldn't enlist him in their formation. This wasn't a kiddie movie and as such didn't have to be peppered with the "we are all special" type of message, I actually liked that. He gave him a shot, wasn't good enough... too bad.

Second, how is it possible that the king of Persia, of a far-off land, and all his enovys, ministers and so on can talk to the Spartans in the same language without the slightest accent? I know it's more dramatic that way, but it just doesn't make any sense.
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They were all speaking English anyway, a language I'm sure none of those empires spoke at the time :smartarse:

Good movie, though, right? Hell even my mom liked it, which I found slightly disturbing....

P.S
Congrats on reaching 3,000 which is 300 with one more zero :p
 
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