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BinaryBob101 16 Jul 2010 15:19:57 27,755 posts
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GuiltySpark wrote:

Blaketown wrote:
It's a great B-Movie of the kind they just don't make anymore.

I'm not sure The Walking Dead is (or will be) any more than that either to be fair.

Ah, that's where I'm going wrong. I don't think being a B-Movie is a good thing : )

Do you like Jaws? Best B movie ever.

GuiltySpark 16 Jul 2010 15:28:51 6,790 posts
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Blaketown wrote:
http://www.empireonline.com/reviews/ReviewComplete.asp?FID=135642

That review compared The Mist to the The Thing, it should be shot.

BinaryBob101 16 Jul 2010 15:33:00 27,755 posts
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Rubbish, they sit well together on my DVD shelf! You're obviously wrong.

BinaryBob101 16 Jul 2010 15:33:00 27,755 posts
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Tonka 16 Jul 2010 15:43:04 31,979 posts
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spudsbuckley wrote:
It's a western in space.

Nonono, that's Firefly.

BinaryBob101 16 Jul 2010 15:50:37 27,755 posts
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Yeah, everybody knows Star Wars is Kurosawa in space.

BanjoMan 16 Jul 2010 15:55:38 13,692 posts
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BinaryBob101 wrote:
Kurosawa in space

Oh yeah? I want my laser warrior Toshiro Mifune.

Boring film student bit: It's based loosely on aspects of The Hidden Fortress (the droids are based on the two bickering peasants), but with Lucas' own '50s teen coming-of-age stuff, as per American Graffiti.

GuiltySpark 16 Jul 2010 16:00:02 6,790 posts
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You did Star Wars in film studies?

BinaryBob101 16 Jul 2010 16:00:53 27,755 posts
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I'm pretty sure many people do nowadays.

speedofthepuma 16 Jul 2010 16:00:57 13,428 posts
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Tonka wrote:
And Star Wars isn't sci fi.

It's history.

BanjoMan 16 Jul 2010 16:01:44 13,692 posts
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@GS

It was mentioned in the same breath as Kurosawa. My favourite film studies essay was an analysis of a ten-minute segment of Evil Dead 2. I ended up lending my tutor the video and he loved it.

Blaketown 16 Jul 2010 16:21:17 5,658 posts
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GuiltySpark wrote:

Blaketown wrote:
http://www.empireonline.com/reviews/ReviewComplete.asp?FID=135642

That review compared The Mist to the The Thing, it should be shot.

Oh I see it's only old B-movies you like.

Deleted user 17 July 2010 23:20:06

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/45801

looking good

Deleted user 17 July 2010 23:53:40

May i just say, for a fairly popular website AICN looks like a shitty Geocities page circa 1999.

sam_spade 18 Jul 2010 01:59:42 15,745 posts
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Keeping it realz, and eating the profits.

Venkman90 18 Jul 2010 17:26:21 4,430 posts
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spudsbuckley wrote:
May i just say, for a fairly popular website AICN looks like a shitty Geocities page circa 1999.

Glad it's not just me, it's slow, badly optimized and fucking awful to search for content.

Jackface 19 Jul 2010 09:16:11 3,736 posts
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Venkman90 wrote:
It's Andrew Lincoln, Egg from This Life. I was surprised to hear the writer talking about how perfect he was for the role, but then I cannot imagine him doing an American accent at all, he must have been good to get the role as he is un-known in the US.

How will us UK folks watch this btw?

I'll probably be using my eyes.

Slint1000 19 Jul 2010 09:21:03 3,596 posts
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I was relying on good old Ninjavideo the site I have watched most US Tv with in the past, such as the last four seasons of Lost.

Sadly their government seems to have decided that it (and lots of other sites like it) streaming all the films and TV ever for free on the internet was a little bit illegal and has shut them down.

Bugger.

Jackface 19 Jul 2010 09:22:45 3,736 posts
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Other means, like all the rest of us, then!

Venkman90 19 Jul 2010 09:32:54 4,430 posts
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Damn you tech savvy people and your illicit nefarious black voodoo gypsy magic!

Slint1000 19 Jul 2010 10:21:12 3,596 posts
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If any of you lot know some more good streaming sites then I'm all ears.

I prefer them to actually torrenting since that new law makes me a bit suspicious of using Pirate Bay too much anymore.

BinaryBob101 19 Jul 2010 15:37:39 27,755 posts
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You could get iPredator Slint. Go vpn for �12 per quarter.

HoriZon 19 Jul 2010 18:57:30 14,351 posts
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BinaryBob101 wrote:
You could get iPredator Slint. Go vpn for �12 per quarter.

Paying to get illegal files?? whatever next!

Edit: not having a dig at you, i just dont see the point in paying to download it.

Ged42 20 Jul 2010 00:05:34 7,985 posts
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Some behind the scenes footage and interviews with the crew.

Trying...not...to... get too excited about this, but Darabont's enthusiasm is as infectious as the zombie virus.

Jackface 20 Jul 2010 09:47:14 3,736 posts
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Slint1000 wrote:
If any of you lot know some more good streaming sites then I'm all ears.

I prefer them to actually torrenting since that new law makes me a bit suspicious of using Pirate Bay too much anymore.

I don't stream and I don't torrent. Bwa ha ha ha etc.

Tonka 20 Jul 2010 09:54:04 31,979 posts
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Ged42 wrote:
Some behind the scenes footage and interviews with the crew.

Trying...not...to... get too excited about this, but Darabont's enthusiasm is as infectious as the zombie virus.

Looks great. My only concern now is how long I should wait before I start watching it. Wait for the first season to end? Do it american pace? I just love being able to whack another episode on straight after I watched one.

Being limited to one each week is so 1980.

Tonka 22 Jul 2010 08:03:14 31,979 posts
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Finished book 11 yesterday. Really good. I wonder how they will handle the nastier stuff on the TV show. It certainly ain't some family show.

Jackface 22 Jul 2010 08:28:45 3,736 posts
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I don't think they'll pull many punches. AMC do Mad Men and that's a fairly mature show thematically, and recently featured a foot being fairly graphically sliced up by a lawnmower. Lots of blood everywhere. So... yeah.

I don't expect them to follow the storylines in the books too religiously, though. Darabont alluded to that in the clip.

Tonka 22 Jul 2010 08:56:40 31,979 posts
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I'm more worried about the harshness of the comics. They are really grim. Will epople really want to watch that?

BinaryBob101 22 Jul 2010 13:40:58 27,755 posts
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Yes. Geek power will overcome all here.

AMC also do Breaking Bad which is pretty gritty stuff.

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