BHD got come out in DTS oledi?

The Disappearance of Alice Creed [2009]

very good British movie. simple stuff, 2 kidnappers, a girl, betrayal, ransom money, and nudity..

7.5/10

Let The Bullets Fly (2010)

Jiang Wen, Chow Yun Fatt, Ge You. No doubt Jiang Wen wanted this to be a brawl of wits and it seems to be a truly fantastic one too. Highly entertaining, funny at the right moments (i have never cringed in laughter when someone uses a curse word as emphasis to a subject ), and completely possible in all fronts.

One of the best Chinese Movies I've seen in a VERY LONG TIME.

I think it may be the best chinese movie I have seen, ever. Which probably speaks more about the amount of chinese movies I've seen than the actual quality of the movie really. But it's a superb movie.

Anyway watched a few movies over the last two weeks.

Paul - The jokes are a lot more low-brow than the usual Pegg/Frost comedies, but it's still highly entertaining and funny, with loads of nods to old sci-fi movies. The alien itself was annoying though, especially in the beginning. Pairing it with the voice of Seth Rogen just makes it worse.

Pi - Finally got around to watching Aronofsky's debut feature. You can definitely see where his latter claustrophobic, downwards-spiral-to-hell movies derived their inspirations from. They all share the same main theme, but are remarkably different enough to stand alone alongside each other. Love Libatique's high contrast B&W photography here. Good to see how a no-budget film can have smart ideas and look so stylish at the same time.

The Adjustment Bureau - Oh I liked it. OK, the movie does find it a hard time balancing romance and sci-fi. It isn't meshed together as well as say, Eternal Sunshine which has romance and sci-fi ideas going on simultaneously in each frame, coexisting perfectly. Here, the romance and sci-fi bits exist mostly in different frames. You have the romance when Matt Damon is with Blunt. And you have sci-fi when Matt Damon is with the adjustment guys. The tone swings. And when both elements merge in the final act, it feels rushed and not very captivating. But at least the it tried to do something differently. It had ideas, and executed them decently enough. I also loved the chemistry between Damon and Blunt, they actually reminded me of Joel and Clementine from Eternal Sunshine... and that's definitely a good thing.

Zodiac - Must have watched this 4 or 5 times now. Fincher's masterpiece.

Mean Streets - Watched for the first time. It was kinda loose storywise but Harvey Keitel's and De Niro's characters and the friendship between them made the movie. De Niro here actually reminds me of a friend If my friend were to be a gangster I have no doubt he would be something like Johnny Boy. I thought the ending was too abrupt. But really it's a very good film about a bunch of marginal thugs , their way of life, and how they interact with each other, sans a real driving story behind it (some subplots even go nowhere). And the movie is more personal and intimate than his later movies. Less calculated.

"It's easier to just say we are correct and you are wrong laa... " (Please refer to the top of the previous page)



This post has been edited by Mov_freak: Jun 14 2011, 11:04 AM

Wow, and you have exams this week!!! Do you ... sleep??

Have just got, Paul, The Adjustment Bureau and will be watching soon....

I watched those over the last two weeks... Plus let the bullets fly and xmen and pirates 4 in the cinema. Surely that's not too much! Still much less than the two movies you watch each day.

My exam is actually on next Monday. And I'm on study leave this whole week.

The only other Chinese movie I felt had a great feeling towards was... God of Gamblers. The charisma Chow Yun Fatt puts in is just astounding.

I even like it better than Hard Boiled.

I wouldn't say exactly 2 movies each day

Could be a combination of documentary (Nat Geo, Discovery, History Channel stuff), tv series (White Collar, Teen Wolf, Supernatural and The Voice stuff) and a movie or, movie, tv series then documentary etc. Sometime JUST TV series (if too many episodes accumulate!!

I'm sick, I know!!

All the best with you study

This post has been edited by Mov_freak: Jun 14 2011, 01:20 PM

3 or 4 years ago, i've used to jotted down every movie title i watched. just keep track /record. i've an average around 2 or 3 movies a day. are that too much?

right now, maybe less than 1 movie a day... but im mixing up with much more TV series.

what an anti social i am

Maybe there is a T.A.A (TV Addict Anonymous) we can join!!

Super 8 (2011)

Does anyone here remember watching E.T. Extra Terestial when it first came out at the cinema?

Of course not, everyone here is 18 yo and below... *sigh*

Anyway, go watch Super 8 and u get an experience very close to that

Think Close Encounter of the Third Kind + ET + Cloverfield

I categories it as a drama suspense movie, emphasis on drama

Be warned when u are fully immerse in the movie!!!! It is over

Highly recommended

Please stay for the end credit. It is HIGHLY entertaining

My Two Sen

Who want to watch X Men (offer) PM me please...detail..

Green Lantern (2011)

In a nutshell... a little disappointing.

The main culprit, storyline and character development.

Why the heck hire powerhouses like Peter Sarsgaard, Angela Bassett and Tim Robbins and DO absolutely NOTHING with them....

What they got right are

1) The costume (I know I know, many do NOT like and I have to add, it kinda work)
2) Green Lantern flight. They have made Superman and countless oter superheroes fly before. What is different. Green Lantern has a "Style" of flight (almost ballet, the best way I can describe) and they managed that
3) Making Green Lantern during flight, look really. In the last Superman movie, almost everytime Superman flew, he look CGI....
4) Planet Oa
5) The Green Lantern Corp
6) Sinestro

What they got wrong

1) There is ABSOLUTELY NOT chemistry between Blake Lively and Ryan Reynold. Who would have THUNK!!!! They are both attractive people... Blake Lively reminds me of a much younger Lara Flynn Boyle, with a dash more weight!! She just never got into the role...
2) After a great 1st act, the 2nd and 3rd act went steadily downhill...

There is also an anomaly in the movie....



If you decide to only one superhero movie this year, I actually recommend X-Men First Class rather then this... Shame, I LOVE DC Heroes... I really do...

My Two Sen

This post has been edited by Mov_freak: Dec 12 2017, 09:16 PM

MF, i saw blake camwhorin pix..nice did she manage to steam up the flick ala scarlett johansson in ironman2?

camp value wise, is this better than superman3?

entertainment wise, is this better than green hornet? (plus point: gondry, jay chou, sweet ass made in taiwan hornetmobile)

from your opinion of what the flick got right, looks like a certified green turd.

Never Let Me Go.

Wow. I don't think the relationships completely work, but the movie sure does linger in the mind. Probably for a long, long time. Imagine Michael Bay's The Island, take away all the action, center it on a love story, and make it depreeeeeessssing.

The Lincoln Lawyer.

Entertaining while it lasts, but forgettable after. In fact, entertaining up until the finale, which is far-fetched, uninspired, dull.

matthew mcconaughey is so entertaining playin a slezebag lawyer, i feel like watching his typical shitty romantic comedies. recommend me some? i was lured into this after listening to the soundtrack. what does ghetto have to do with the mcconaughey?!!!

Er... be careful with you abbreviation.... it took me awhile to figure out that MF is Mov_Freak!!!!!

Please do not get me wrong, IT IS WAY BETTER THEN Green Hornet which is a NOTHING!!!!!

It is definitely NOT Green Turd

It is NOT camp

Blake Lively wasn't meant to be "steamy" here. Just Hal Jordan's love interest

Another Anomaly



Go watch it, who knows, you might like it!

X-Beast did

lol do I sound like someone who watched McConaughey rom-coms? He was good in Lincoln Lawyer although at times he was being a bit too much of himself.

Paths of Glory. Surely this is Kubrick's warmest and most human film? It's excellent.

Legend (1985)

In 1985, Ridley Scott made this ditzy movie.

It was VERY Expensive (for it's time) and before Ridley could finish it, the sound stage where most of the movie was film, burnt down!!?!

Before Willow, BEFORE Lord Of The Rings, this movie defined quality in term of Fantasy Movie.

I'm watching the HD Remastered Director cut and have to tell you IT NEVER LOOKED SO Gorgeous!!!!

Please do not compare the Picture and Sound quality with new movies, having own this when it is first launch on DVD compared to now, the difference is night and day!

If you want a trip down nostalgia street, and you love fantasy movie with doe-y eyed actress (Mia Sara) and a VERY young Tom Cruise (I've forgotten how blue his eyes are until I rewatched this), give this a go.

My Two Sen

This post has been edited by Mov_freak: Dec 12 2017, 09:16 PM