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Khanivor 43,671 posts
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itsoldsquarejaw 280 posts
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Registered 5 years agoMadder-Max wrote:
You're 'avin' a bath mate. Stallone will never be THE Dredd; simple reason, takes the helmet off innit. It's essential to the character that he never does. Not only that, but Stallone's Dredd was too soft. Waaay too soft.
LElNino9 wrote:
Stallone will always be THE Dredd. The world and setting is far better realised, there is actual fleshing out of the characters and the whole female rookie thing completely unnescessary. Its like watching Stallone Dredds nephew at work in a characterless predictable 2d world.
The Stallone version was better?
Are you pissed?
"Iam the law". Yeah okay whatever. You nicked that off your uncle you spaz.
Now. The only thing that The Raid and Dredd have in common is the tower concept with the baddies running it. Dredd came after The Raid so that tells u something.
The Raid is original and a quite magnificent martial arts action piece and is by far one the best films ever made.
Case closed.
Lol
And as has already been pointed out, The Raid was written afterwards during Dredd's pre-production, which having a bigger budget and more effects took longer to make - and was heavily "influenced" by it through Dredd's leaked script.
Case closed?
You have been judged and found wanting. The punishment is death.
... well, maybe not death, but a stern wagging of finger.
Edited by itsoldsquarejaw at 16:40:31 05-12-2013 -
Daniel_Spencer 85 posts
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Registered 6 years ago@itsoldsquarejaw Yup, the Judges are much cooler with their helmets on rather than off. -
itsoldsquarejaw 280 posts
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Registered 5 years agoIt's also that it impersonalises him. He's a figurehead and you only ever see glimpses of the human/clone underneath. It's why they stop Anderson from probing him too much at the beginning, but just enough to get a glimmer of something beyond. Take off his helmet and you lose a lot of what makes Dredd, Dredd. -
CosmicFuzz 32,214 posts
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Registered 11 years agoWatched Only God Forgives last night on US netflix. Really, really liked it. Can totally see why it's so polarising (gruesome as hell in places, not much really happens in it) but I was totally caught up in it. Beautifully shot and the lighting is really well done in places. It's definitely weak on story/characters, and no one is really fleshed out, but something about it just grabbed me. The Bangkok police officer is terrifying. -
Berberian Sound Studio (2012) 8/10
95% of the film takes place inside a sound studio. The budget must have been tight. This doesn’t matter, as the cast do a good job.
‘A sound engineer's work for an Italian horror studio becomes a terrifying case of life imitating art.’ - IMDb
As slow as the film is, it is strangely watchable. It’s also an interesting insight into the recording process back in 1976, with it’s tape technology. While I got most of the film, there was also a sense maybe I didn’t get the film. I didn’t get the ending, which was annoying. -
Dougs 85,183 posts
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Registered 15 years agoTOOTR wrote:
This is another the passed me by, will make more of an effort to put that right. Good sales pitch!
Insomnia (2002)
Watched this randomly as I knew I saw it in the cinema on release (and enjoyed it enough) but couldn't really remember much of it.
It had completely slipped my mind that
1) It's a Chris Nolan film
2) It's packed with great actors : Al Pacino, Robin Williams, Hilary Swank
3) the cinematography is stunning.
Loved the main stars facing off and the story, while functional, takes a backseat to the atmosphere and stunning production values and I was immersed really.
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thelzdking 7,441 posts
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Registered 9 years agoOnly a hardened mouthwash fiend would claim that Stallone's Dredd was anything other than an hilarious travesty. By my reckoning he spends around 80% of the film without his helmet! -
oldschoolsoviet 6,452 posts
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Registered 12 years agoFilth - 8/10
A beautiful, truthful, hard hitting documentary following a 'Burra detective. Oh yes.
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b0rk 7,645 posts
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Registered 12 years agoThe Family - 4/10
Tonally all over the place and just bizarre all round really. Bobby can still act and really why is he in crud like this. Dianna Agron didn't do any acting at all, which started to wind me up. I mean she wasn't just acting badly, she literally wasn't acting. -
Rajin 757 posts
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Registered 9 years agoConstantine: 9/10
The scrypt is not great and the story has a huge hole in it(to much spent whether the twin sister commited sucide for no reason)But the whole vibe, special effects and constantine as a character got me hooked. I still don't know why i really like this movie but for some reason i just do. -
Gambit1977 10,396 posts
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Registered 10 years ago@Rajin I agree, the same guy directed I am Legend, and the new hunger games, they're flashy movies but I like his choices so far. -
oceanmotion 17,313 posts
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Registered 15 years agoitsoldsquarejaw wrote:
The talk of keeping the helmet on makes me question why Stallone had blue eye contacts in Judge Dredd. Back then I imagined the comic character had ice blue eyes but if he never took his helmet off, seems a weird thing to do for the film as his eye colour is unknown.
Madder-Max wrote:
You're 'avin' a bath mate. Stallone will never be THE Dredd; simple reason, takes the helmet off innit. It's essential to the character that he never does. Not only that, but Stallone's Dredd was too soft. Waaay too soft.
LElNino9 wrote:
Stallone will always be THE Dredd. The world and setting is far better realised, there is actual fleshing out of the characters and the whole female rookie thing completely unnescessary. Its like watching Stallone Dredds nephew at work in a characterless predictable 2d world.
The Stallone version was better?
Are you pissed?
"Iam the law". Yeah okay whatever. You nicked that off your uncle you spaz.
Now. The only thing that The Raid and Dredd have in common is the tower concept with the baddies running it. Dredd came after The Raid so that tells u something.
The Raid is original and a quite magnificent martial arts action piece and is by far one the best films ever made.
Case closed.
Lol
And as has already been pointed out, The Raid was written afterwards during Dredd's pre-production, which having a bigger budget and more effects took longer to make - and was heavily "influenced" by it through Dredd's leaked script.
Case closed?
You have been judged and found wanting. The punishment is death.
... well, maybe not death, but a stern wagging of finger. -
Judge Dredd is a Stallone film, with Stallone playing a good-guy Stallone in a costume that shows off his absolute Stallonenity. Other people act in it, whereas Stallone does good-guy Stallone, as he usually does in Stallone films. Having a Stallone film based on some British comic probably spoiled it if anything. They should have ignored all that and called it 'Super Cop' or 'Future Cop' or something like that. It also has Diane Lane in it, who is rather nice. -
Spanky 14,945 posts
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Registered 15 years agoAnd The Angel Gang in it are awesome, Spud and Herschel kill it! -
beastmaster 18,065 posts
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Registered 13 years agoStallone's film had Deuce Bigalow as a fucking comic sidekick ffs! -
FWB 54,406 posts
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Registered 16 years agoNice idea. That'd work. Well, except I am now too used to main characters dying and Dredd wouldn't be allowed to. -
disusedgenius 9,068 posts
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Registered 11 years agoSpanky wrote:
To be fair, so much of the old Dredd film kills it... it's just a shame about the main actors, storyline etc. You know, the stuff that really matters.
And The Angel Gang in it are awesome, Spud and Herschel kill it! -
FartPipe 5,307 posts
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Registered 6 years agoAlpha Papa
Belly laughingly funny, and perfect partridge cringiness.
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Tonka 27,651 posts
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Registered 14 years agoBrick second viewing
A film noir set in a californian suburb sometime in the early 00's. Most of the main characters are at highschool age but there is really only one scene where this ties in with the story and I wish that scene was cut.
See. Everyone who's ever said or written anything about brick (that I know of (massive caveat)) says it's "A film noir set in highschool". But that makes it sounds as if it's some sort of novelty episode in Buffy.
It isn't.
Forget the High-School shit. It's a film noir through and through. (Well, except for that one scene, or maybe two) where they ham it up for no good reason.
Still. Fucking brilliant in sooo many ways. The silent fuck being one of them.
A must see
next up The Brothers Bloom
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Load_2.0 26,385 posts
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Registered 15 years agoCosmicFuzz wrote:
It is very pretty, it was a film that kept suprising me with the way events unfolded. Couldn't see myself watching it again as I don't think their would be any benefit from a second viewing.
Watched Only God Forgives last night on US netflix. Really, really liked it. Can totally see why it's so polarising (gruesome as hell in places, not much really happens in it) but I was totally caught up in it. Beautifully shot and the lighting is really well done in places. It's definitely weak on story/characters, and no one is really fleshed out, but something about it just grabbed me. The Bangkok police officer is terrifying. -
Stranded87 1,776 posts
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Registered 11 years agoBrick is actually one of my favourite film noir's. It's a shame that it often gets overlooked as a bit of a gimmick.
Wasn't thrilled by The Brothers Bloom though, or Looper. -
Mola_Ram 17,564 posts
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Registered 6 years agoInvictus - 6/10
Ok, I'm thinking maybe I just don't like Clint Eastwood movies, or at least most of the ones he's made for the past 20 years.
So this is a film about Nelson Mandela, and with all of the uplifting true story-ness of it, there's not much chance it's going to be terrible.
But Eastwood is so bloody on the nose with everything that it almost ruins it. At almost every moment the movie is bludgeoning you over the head with how you should be feeling. At one point, where Mandela goes and meets the white rugby team, there's a song called "Colourblind" on the soundtrack, and it's like... could you possibly be any less subtle than this? Do you not think that your audience is smart enough to realise the significance of this moment without you spelling it out for them?
Ugh. Maybe this shouldn't piss me off, but it really does. -
Load_2.0 26,385 posts
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Registered 15 years agoPlus they left out the part where he poisons the All Blacks. -
The_Goon 783 posts
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Registered 5 years agoTonka wrote:
Sounded ace so I googled it. Joseph Gordon-Levitt is in it - def want to see it now.
Brick second viewing
A film noir set in a californian suburb sometime in the early 00's. Most of the main characters are at highschool age but there is really only one scene where this ties in with the story and I wish that scene was cut.
See. Everyone who's ever said or written anything about brick (that I know of (massive caveat)) says it's "A film noir set in highschool". But that makes it sounds as if it's some sort of novelty episode in Buffy.
It isn't.
Forget the High-School shit. It's a film noir through and through. (Well, except for that one scene, or maybe two) where they ham it up for no good reason.
Still. Fucking brilliant in sooo many ways. The silent fuck being one of them.
A must see
next up The Brothers Bloom -
Tonka 27,651 posts
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Registered 14 years agoStranded87 wrote:
My sentiment exactly. We must be soulbrothers.
Brick is actually one of my favourite film noir's. It's a shame that it often gets overlooked as a bit of a gimmick.
/Starts baking chocolate cake to celebrate this day in history.
Stranded87 wrote:
WHAT. THE. FUCK!
Wasn't thrilled by The Brothers Bloom though, or Looper.
You must be Hitler. I can see no other explanation.
/flushes hafbaked cake down the toilet
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MrE26 2,035 posts
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Registered 13 years agoElysium - 8/10
Blomkamp REALLY loves Halo doesn't he? Anyway, i'm not sure if it was just lowered expectations because i'd heard bad things about this, but i thoroughly enjoyed it. Predictable as fuck, & i have no idea what was going on with Jodie Foster's accent, but i thought it was great. -
Gambit1977 10,396 posts
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Registered 10 years agoContracted. Well that was different, that Najarra whatshername is quite tasty though. If you can cope with indie horror acting its quite interesting.
started watching Open Grave with sharlto Copley in but a dog appeared and my dog started being tough with the tv. Enjoyed what I saw though, like a horror version of persons unknown (tv series that lasted one season a few years back). -
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) 9/10
Sure I’d seen clips, but never the whole film, until yesterday that was. It was good fun, very funny at times. I watched the Blu-ray, which to be honest, was good, but also exposed the film’s age somewhat. There’s many moments when areas of the screen that should maybe be black, look more like dark blue.
When Roger interacts with the live actors, there’s a sense the artists where attempting to make Roger look 3D. While it looks impressive, there are times they bother with reflections, and other times they don’t. For example, when Rodger walks past a rather curvy looking car, there is no reflection of Roger, sure it would have proved to be a real challenge, to attempt such a reflection, nearly impossible infact.
Bob Hoskins is his usual great self.
This is one film that would benefit from a make over. Imagine taking the original elements, and replacing all the moments when cartoon meets live action/characters, and re doing the cartoon elements using CGI. I would look great. The moments where there’s no live action/characters, the 100% cartoon moments, when the Toon’s are doing their job, I’d keep as hand drawn, just like it is.
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