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post Aug 24 2013, 12:41 PM

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The Jungle Book (1967)

This is suppose to be Walt Disney second last project before his passing...

And have to add, my favorite hand drawn animation...

I believe most people would be familiar with the movie, what I would like to highlight here are

1) The animation supposedly had a second ending story boarded... And they showed it here... A VERY different movie indeed. Each ending has it's own merit, and I believe the ending that made it, is the better.

2) If you are a Disney animation fan, you would have probably heard of the term The Nine Old Man, there is a special documentary here where Olie's son, goes around to most of the children of The Nine Old Man to find out from them first hand, how it was like grown up with one of the Nine Old Man as dad... Very informative...

If they are pulling all these stuff out for Bluray releases... I'm really at lost as to what additional information can they present in the 4K (which I don't think will take off)/8K releases!!!

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post Aug 25 2013, 01:26 AM

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Elysium (2013)

Hahahahahahaha!

Do you know why I'm laughing?

I almost gave Elysium a miss at the cinema.

Now that I had watched it, in the cinema, boy am I glad I did not!!!!

Neill Blomkamp wowed me with his District 9. And now, Elysium!!

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Many a directors have impressed me, M. Night Shyamalan with his The Sixth Sense (1999) , Oxide Pang Chun, Danny Pang with their The Eye (2002) (Hong Kong) and Simon West with his Con Air (1997) .

The difference is that their subsequent movies got progressively worst!!

It took Neill Blomkamp 5 years from District 9 to write and make this and by taking his time to get the story right, I Am WOWED, AGAIN!!!!

Jodie Foster is juicily bad!! Sharlto Copley from super geek to super villain!!?! Diego Luna, I believe would be the next breakout star!! Matt Damon, whom I thought was a miscast, turned out to be NOT (and boy am I glad I was wrong)!!!

Good script people, GOOD SCRIPT!!

Very original (well the concept is NOT original, but by Jove the presentation IS!!!)

And to add to THAT, because it is R rated (for violence), the censorship board, did nothing to THIS!! (Good/Bad depending on your point of view)

So, in short, do I recommend this to anyone who would not be disturbed by the violence!??

And the verdict is YES!!!!

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post Aug 25 2013, 04:29 PM

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Now You See Me.

Wow. What a complete load of shit.
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QUOTE(QuickFire @ Aug 25 2013, 04:29 PM)
Now You See Me.

Wow. What a complete load of shit.
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QUOTE(QuickFire @ Aug 25 2013, 04:29 PM)
Now You See Me.

Wow. What a complete load of shit.
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Wow... You hate it. You REALLY hate it!! laugh.gif

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Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)

Okay, lets address the elephant in the room here...

This is by no means a material to use as HD reference material.

PQ and SQ is just okay.

Even the color of this movie is... dull!!

In 1994, this movie was... the bomb!!! From a comedy movie perspective.

This movie made Jim Carrey into a household name. With his "in your face" brand of humor.

With comedies that we are exposed to nowadays, this movie is almost... tame!! laugh.gif

Try this out on a lazy Sunday afternoon if you have nothing better to do/have not watch it before.

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Hansel and Gretel (Korean, 2007)

I'm the first to admit, I do not watch that many Korean movies.

I don't think this is the first horror movie I had seen from Korea.

Not used to their pacing...

And am lost with the use of Hansel and Gretel...

Start out promising..

There are some spookiness in the middle and then the last bit kinda lost me...

I think the script writer and director, was a little unsure about what movie they are trying to accomplish...

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QUOTE(shootkk @ Aug 19 2013, 10:20 AM)
Thanks for the review on Teen Beach Movie. I was thinking to catch it on Astro too but it managed to elude me. As to why movies like this sometimes have stronger scripts than big budget blockbusters is because movies like this holds no interest for those studio executives and thus they leave the movie making to those who actually knows how to make a movie. Executive meddling has ruined a lot of movies...

Ok... here's my review:
Wu Xia (2011)

Directed by Peter Chan and starring Donnie Yen and Takeshi Kaneshiro, this is a martial arts action flick that is not quite mainstream. This is not your typical martial arts hero movie where the protagonist kicks all of the bad guys' butts. This movie presents you with a dilemma and asks a hard question.

The story opens in a rural village in China. The Liu village a sleepy little hamlet where everyone knows everyone else and nothing much ever happens. Living in this little village is Jin Xi (Donnie Yen), his wife Yu (Tang Wei looking very common here) and his two sons. The older boy is from Yu's previous marriage while the younger boy is Jin Xi and Yu's. Jin Xi works in the local paper making mill and leads a very ordinary life.

The peace and quiet of the village is shattered one day when 2 bandits came along. The 2 bandits attempts to rob a sundry shop where Jin Xi is repairing a window. A tussle breaks out and Jin Xi clumsily wrestles with the bandits. In the end, the 2 bandits were dead seemingly from accidents during the tussle.

In steps Xu (Takeshi Kaneshiro) a local constable to investigate the case. He finds that one of the 2 bandits was actually a highly wanted fugitive and highly skilled martial artist known for his cruelty and brutality. Learning this, the local court official wants to quickly wrap up the case and hails Jin Xi as the hero in the case for bringing down a fugitive of the law.

Xu however is not convinced that the case is so simple and starts to dig deeper. His investigation reveals that the 2 bandits actually died from precision strikes to specific meridian points in the body. Only a very highly skilled martial artist could have pulled off such a strike but Jin Xi appears to be a very average person with no martial arts knowledge.

Xu begins to dig into Jin Xi's past. He finds that Jin Xi is not a local and had come to the Liu village a few years ago. He then married Yu and settled down in the Liu village adopting the Liu surname. Xu's investigation unveils that Jin Xi is actually Tang Long, a member of the 72 Demons gang from the vicious and bloodthirsty Tangut clan. He plans to arrest Jin Xi but Jin Xi tells him that he has renounced his association with the 72 Demon and is a changed man and no longer wants to kill indiscriminately. Xu seeks a warrant for Tang Long's arrest nonetheless and his action alerts the 72 Demons to Tang Long's whereabouts.

The 72 Demons descends upon the Liu village in an attempt to bring Tang Long back to the gang. This results more deaths of the innocent Liu villagers and the Demons indiscriminately burns down houses and confronts Tang Long. Tang Long is forced to reveal his identity but he still fights to protect his family and the villagers. Seeing this, Xu is torn between wanting to carry out his duty as a constable and arrest Tang Long or to go with what his heart feels is right but that means letting Tang Long go free.

Good story and good acting from the leads.

Rating : 3 stars out of 5
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This is one of the best martial art movie that I have seen for the past decade. I truly want to applaud the amount of homework the producer/director does to match the era of that time. For instance, the lament of Jin Xi's brothers upon discovering his "death" made me wonder if this is the norm for those folks back then ? Also, Liu's village where everyone is a Liu and how closely knitted they all were made me realised how much I have forgotten about this aspect of Chinese"ness".

Peter Chan's other work, 'The Warlords' is also worth mentioning as I find this movie really gritty, realistic, poignant and quite accurate in matching the settings of that era (for instance, the Tai Ping rebels' color, their hair, etc).

In short, it's very rare we get HK movies that made with such accuracy, well researched and reflect the social norms of that time.
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The Debt (2011) - Very good.

Blood The Last Vampire (2000) - Not bad

The Marine 3 - Not very good

Friends With Benefits - So so.. Not bad
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post Sep 1 2013, 09:43 AM

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Mov_freak why dont you watch gosa and cinderella? Good horror and its better anyway
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QUOTE(kawaii87 @ Sep 1 2013, 09:43 AM)
Mov_freak why dont you watch gosa and cinderella? Good horror and its better anyway
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Thank you kawaii87 for you recommendations. Will check them out. I'm assuming that they are Korean horror.
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Yep it is, but gosa isnt the type of ghostly just horror-crime

i dont recommend gosa 2 because it got gore scene....
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QUOTE(kawaii87 @ Sep 1 2013, 10:19 AM)
Yep it is, but gosa isnt the type of ghostly just horror-crime

i dont recommend gosa 2 because it got gore scene....
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Okay. Thank you very much. As stated above, will Check them out.
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Iron Man 3 (2013)

Missed it when it was in the cinemas so I bought the DVD. If it had been the other way around, I doubt I would have bought the DVD. My first thoughts about the movie after the credits rolled was that it was a little too long and feels a little empty. The story did not grab like the first movie but overall it was better than the second movie.

Robert Downey Jr is back as Tony Stark aka Iron Man. With him is his girlfriend Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow) and Rhodey (Don Cheadle) aka War Machine aka Iron Patriot. We see that Tony is having some trouble after the battle in Avengers. He can't sleep and to some degree, he is paranoid and prone to anxiety attacks whenever someone mentions New York. To cope he builds dozens of Iron Man suits.

The USA is under attack by a terrorist known as the Mandarin. The Mandarin has set off several high powered bombs around the country but the authorities could not find any forensic evidence of the explosives. When one of the attacks land Happy Hogan (Jon Favreau), head of security of Stark Industries and long time friend to Tony into the hospital fighting for his life, Tony threatens to kill the Mandarin on TV. This brings the Mandarin to launch an attack that destroys Tony's house. Tony is presumed dead when he cannot be found.

Tony lands in rural Tennessee and holes himself up in a boy's garage while he investigates the Mandarin while fighting off his anxiety attacks. He finds that the Mandarin has been using humans that have undergone the Extremis procedure (which can help regenerate limbs from crippling injuries) as bombs as the procedure is flawed. This discovery leads him to Aldrich Killian (Guy Pearce), a scientist and owner of Advanced Idea Mechanics whom Tony has snubbed more than a decade ago when Killian proposes Tony to join him.

The climax sees dozens of Iron Man suits in battle with Killian's Extremis infused army of guards. The special effects are great to watch and all but the story just feels a little on the thin side. Entertaining enough to keep you distracted while watching but not strong enough to leave a lasting impression after the credits have rolled.

Rating : 2.5 out of 5 stars.

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Iron Man 3 (2013)

Rating : 2.5 out of 5 stars.
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Rating : 0.5 out of 5 stars. mad.gif terrible movie..they really dont know how to create a shift in movie..the best shift will be Fast Furious 4..to Fast Furious 5..you fell completely different mood on them..and Mandarin character in the movie is bs.
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Elysium (2013) - 8/10

The story is interesting and show the difference of living style of rich and poor citizen. Everything goes good except the camera shaking(zoomed in somemore) too much,due to this stupid camera shaking, you cant really see whats going in their most fighting scenes.

This movie rocks if camera shaking never exist in this movie.
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The Impossible (2012) Very good.
Battle For Terra (2007) Very very good, awesome, must watch..
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Jobs (2013): Entertaining, moderate pace, engaging dialogue, you can't help but to root for Steve Jobs. Ashton Kutcher as Steve? not the best choice. Other characters are quite 1 sided 7/10
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X-Men (2000)

Ah...

I'm sure Disney is still kicking themselves that Marvel had licensed out the movie rights to the X-Men to 20th Century Fox before they had purchased Marvel. laugh.gif I believe they are working very hard to change that, which explains why 20th Century Fox is churning out movie like Wolverine, so they can keep licensing the movie rights to the X-Men (eg. if they stop making X-Men movie, after a few years, the right revert back to Marvel/Disney, like with the Daredevil movie rights. 20th Century Fox had obtain the movie license for Daredevil and because they had not done anything with the material, Disney had gotten back the material. Which explains the reboot of Fantastic Four and on and on...)

Even more so, since the Wolverine's debacle....

This is probably Bryan Singer's most recognized work, okay, maybe 2nd, after X-Men 2.

In 2000 (where I watched this at the USJ Summit's THX cinema), there was not any movie like this, NOW?... We are saturated by movies like this.

The only mystery to me, is that he had chosen to place the lead on Logan / Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) and Rogue / Marie (Anna Paquin [my what a career she is having... From the little girl in the movie, The Piano (1993) to the NOT SO little girl in True Blood (2008)... laugh.gif) when there are so MANY other characters to choose from...

Another bit of trivia I'm sure most of you already know was, Wolverine was supposed to be played by Dougray Scott, but because of conflict of schedule with Mission Impossible II (2000), he decided to let go of the Wolverine role... A decision in which I am very sure he is still KICKING HIMSELF for!!...

Having said the above, Magneto and Professor X, I admit at their age, I cannot imagine another people in these roles.... laugh.gif

I really do not have to go into the movie script and such, but what I'm want to express his is, from a bluray point of view, I'm a little disappointed with the Picture Quality... which is a dash soft... But the Audio quality on the other is, is pretty good!!

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Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924)

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Die Nibelungen (The Nibelungs) is a series of two silent fantasy films created by Austrian director Fritz Lang in 1924: Die Nibelungen: Siegfried and Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge.

The screenplays for both films were co-written by Lang's then-wife Thea von Harbou, based upon the epic poem Nibelungenlied written around 1200 AD.[1] Siegfried was released in the U.S. on 23 August 1925, premiering at the Century Theatre in New York City in the short-lived Phonofilm sound-on-film process. Kriemhild's Revenge was released in the U.S. in 1928.

(excerpt from Wikipedia)

Now for something completely different.

This is probably one of Fritz Lang best known work (the other being Metropolis (1927))

They are silent movies... (for you young'un, the first movies were silent. They have not really figured out how to record sound, or more specifically, how to synchronize sound with moving picture.)

This is a fantasy movie, with Dragons (the highlight of the movie. A 60 feet mechanical dragon was made for this movie), people with special powers (Siegfried is super strong, invincible and can turn invisible and shape shift).

This is a full restoration.

Note that this movie is 89 years old.

There is no way the picture quality of this would compare to what we have now...

Having said that, as a 89 year old movie, It actually looks... good. Not as impressive as Metropolis (1927), but good.

What impress me most is the soundtrack. Let me explain, Silent movie we almost always accompanied by an orchestra. They would play music and product "sound effects" in synch with the movie.

What the restores did (and this is impressive) as to go back into the archive and look for the original score, and did a modern recording of the said score for the restored movie. Now THAT is dedication!!

Many works from the silent era is fast disappearing.

They are either bio degrading in storage somewhere or is lost completely (even Willis H. O'Brien stuff. He is Ray Harryheusen teacher/mentor).

There isn't much funding to restore them and I suppose, there really is not much demand for said movies (with some exception, like Charlie Chaplin)

This movie is NOT for everyone, but if you are into black & white and silent movie, you cannot go wrong with this!

Bring on Nosferatu (1922)!!!

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