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Pandorum - two astronauts awake after years of hypersleep on their spacecraft, which went in search of life-sustaining planets after the earth's resources ran out. Disorientated and confused, the men try and discover what happened to the rest of the crew. This is a claustrophobic and creepy movie that could be compared to Alien, and has many a scene to make you jump. Dennis Quaid and the ever impressive Ben Foster star and are directed by Christian Alvart. Recommended.

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The Invention Of Lying - set in a world where nobody lies, it's the story of a man (Gervais) that tells the first one. I had high hopes for this film as I'm a big fan of The Office and Extras, but it was just terrible! Dreadful so-called jokes that failed to raise a single laugh from the entire audience made this a cringeworthy effort, it turns into a vehicle for Gervais's personal opinions on religion in general. One of the year's turkeys and a complete waste of time and money - I advise you not to waste yours. Woeful.


dammit :mad:
 
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i've just watched a film called "the air i breathe"
it got a ton of bad reviews on rotten tomatoes but i thought it was very good.

:D
 
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Pandorum - two astronauts awake after years of hypersleep on their spacecraft, which went in search of life-sustaining planets after the earth's resources ran out. Disorientated and confused, the men try and discover what happened to the rest of the crew. This is a claustrophobic and creepy movie that could be compared to Alien, and has many a scene to make you jump. Dennis Quaid and the ever impressive Ben Foster star and are directed by Christian Alvart. Recommended.

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The Invention Of Lying - set in a world where nobody lies, it's the story of a man (Gervais) that tells the first one. I had high hopes for this film as I'm a big fan of The Office and Extras, but it was just terrible! Dreadful so-called jokes that failed to raise a single laugh from the entire audience made this a cringeworthy effort, it turns into a vehicle for Gervais's personal opinions on religion in general. One of the year's turkeys and a complete waste of time and money - I advise you not to waste yours. Woeful.


I also watched both these films on friday. Invention Of Lying was indeed awful- you know you're watching a crap comedy when even the cameo scenes with other actors you like in them aren't remotely funny (Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ed Norton and Jason Bateman all crop up and make no difference.)
Pandorum was ok, 0 points on originality but a pretty tense sci-fi horror-thriller that mixes up good stuff from alien, the descent and others. Too much shaky-cam-rapid-editing on the action scenes though. That style of filming is really irritating me at the moment.
 
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And a question to you all: Has anyone seen Lars Von Trier's Antichrist? What are your views on it?

I saw it a couple of weeks ago. Here was my review at the time:

I want the money I spent to see this in the cinema back from Von Trier. A ponderous, pretentious mess of a film. Not recommended.

My opinion hasn't changed since, except I now have it down as the second worst film I've seen this year. ;)
 
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I don't dare to. A colleague of mine saw it and recommended it, but also warned me that it was pretty gloomy and upsetting. And he also used the word "brutal". So I don't know. Should I? Should I not?

If you're easily upset,I would say avoid it.
If you're easily bored,I would say avoid it.

If you like a challenge,go see it
 
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Bright Star; The story of the love affair between John Keats and Fanny Brawne.

Wow. Loved it. Total lit. porn.

The leads were very, very good, and Jane Campion did a fantastic job directing. She can get a little twee at times, but she has a wonderful, natural style.

Ben Wishaw played Keats. I remember him from Brideshead Revisited; he had mentioned that he based the character of Sebastien Flyte on Morrissey.

Well, he certainly seemed to be channeling Morrissey for Keats in this film, too. In fact, he's remarkably Moz-like.

I can't recommend this enough. It made me very happy, even though I was a bit teary-eyed throughout (particularly at the end).
 
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Halloween II, 2009.

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Woman frantically running down deserted hallway.

Cut

Boots of unseen killer moving slowly

cut

Women reaches locked door (It's always locked). Screams. Turns around.

cut

Michael Myers hits her with an axe.

End.

All-in-all exactly what you'd expect from a Halloween remake, slow moving but remarkably prescient killer and dumbass screaming women. In other words, excellent.
 
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I've watched the Bucket List and I cried buckets.:tears: No not really, but did cry a bit.

And then I watched Seven Pounds and I lost seven pounds of tears.:tears: No, not really, but did cry a bit.

It's really annoying how easy it is to make me cry when watching a movie. If I have a bad cold, if it has Morgan Freeman or a Great Dane with heart problems ,I can go through a whole box of tissues in an hour.:tears:

Rosario Dawson isn't bad at all either since you even notice her in the Dog scenes.:thumb:
 
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i saw tpb: countdown to liquor day. it was horrible. no cory and trevor...it was terrible:mad:
 
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Whatever Works by Woody Allen. It's very sweet, I enjoyed it a lot, and if you like his style, you'll enjoy it too.

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Where the Wild Things Are

Taking my son to see this...great review in NYT.

The world is cruel, children too, lessons that Max absorbs through a smear of tears and hurt. The wound doesn’t heal. Max clomps and then stomps and then erupts: he roars at his mother. She roars back. And, then, like his storybook counterpart — like everyone else — he sails into the world, adrift and alone.


http://movies.nytimes.com/2009/10/16/movies/16where.html?8dpc

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La Dolce Vita by Federico Fellini. I watched this one a few weeks ago and really enjoyed it. The movie follows the life of the journalist, Marcello, for a week and shows the struggles he has with life, love, and being a well known journalist. Very beautiful.

I watched another movie the other day called El orfanato (The Orphanage) by Juan Antonio Bayona. It's about a mother who buys this old orphanage she used to live at. Soon enough, strange things begin happening with her son and his new "imaginary friend".

I found the movie to be decent. There was nothing very exciting about. It just reminded me of a typical 2007 ghost movie, except in Spanish.

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I watched another movie the other day called El orfanato (The Orphanage) by Juan Antonio Bayona. It's about a mother who buys this old orphanage she used to live at. Soon enough, strange things begin happening with her son and his new "imaginary friend".

I found the movie to be decent. There was nothing very exciting about. It just reminded me of a typical 2007 ghost movie, except in Spanish.
:blushing: I enjoyed that one actually. The Latino Factor? Probably. Plus, great running-over scene, you must admit.:yum:
 
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:blushing: I enjoyed that one actually. The Latino Factor? Probably. Plus, great running-over scene, you must admit.:yum:

It's not that I hated it. I just found it to be what I expected. I don't regret watching it. I think it being a Spanish film made me like it more to be honest.

Hahahaha, that scene was definitely great! Right when she was standing in the road, I said to myself, "She's going to get run over" then BOOM. Hahaha. She had a pretty mangled face...
 
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It's not that I hated it. I just found it to be what I expected. I don't regret watching it. I think it being a Spanish film made me like it more to be honest.

Hahahaha, that scene was definitely great! Right when she was standing in the road, I said to myself, "She's going to get run over" then BOOM. Hahaha. She had a pretty mangled face...

You didn't say it to yourself...
 
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Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr

1999 documentary film by Errol Morris about execution technician Fred A. Leuchter, it talks about his travels to sites of former concentration camps as well as his career in making death machines for prisons.He caused a lot of controversy when he would sneak into concentration camps and chipped off bricks and other stones to have them tested for the remains of any signs of the chemicals used to gas victims during the war.
He sent the stone pieces and fragments to a lab and they came back as showing no signs of the chemicals, he announced this at a Holocaust denier's trial and since then has been not able to find work,lost his home,and lost his wife.
His results and ways he came to them are quite suspect, though despite all the protesting, he comes off as just someone trying to find things out, unlike the usual and typical deniers.I think he was a simple man, asked to do research, went about it in a flawed manner and then got caught up in the propaganda used by the Holocaust deniers.
Basically an idiot, an absurd man who says some stupid things without any real sense of what he is saying.Still dangerous.

Interesting film.
 
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