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^ still need to see it
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Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

I saw Gran Torino twice this week- a downright excellent film.
I enjoyed it a lot, but it didn't hold up after I thought about it afterwards. Some of it was excellent, but some of the dialogue and acting was really bad and cliche.
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Everybody's Fine   7.5/10
 
Another transformation by Robert DeNiro into a widowed Everyman with some control issues, who decides on a whim to visit his grown children unannounced across the country and finds not all is as it's been advertised. He of course is the class of the not-bad cast: Kate Beckinsale, Sam Rockwell, and Drew Barrymore.
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The Parallax View

One of the best of the 1970s paranoia films with Warren Beatty as a nosy reporter on the trail of a string of odd deaths. Alan Pakula [All the President's Men] directs a quick-moving plot with Michael Small's eerie score.


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I watched Legend of 1900 last night on DVD - marvellous film, wonderful acting from Tim Roth, great music by Ennio Morricone and Jelly Roll Morton (and Roger Waters over the end credits) - a definite recommendation from me.
 
 
.. off to see Sherlock Holmes in a minute - no expectations, just a couple of hours escapist entertainment.
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Hey, what say I mix it up a little in here?
 
Just got back from the Princess and the Frog. Nothing special. I think Disney's lost whatever special touch they had with animated musicals....I think it went away with The Lion King. There was nothing special about this movie...more annoying parts than entertaining parts, more cliche than fun, hell, the damn thing wasn't even all that cute.
 
I would be lying if I said there were no parts of it I really enjoyed, but man...were they ever few and far between.
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Watched the new Star Trek movie....am i the only one who felt let down and disappointed by it..apart from McCoy all of the parts never struck a chord.
Also watched District 9, how many people got it? Irony affot....especially the white man stealing a mobile from a black man in downtown JoBurg..shear class.
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Saw the new Sherlock Holmes today. Pretty entertaining, but it was nearly as incoherent as a Dream Theater album. *Rimshot*
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Confused incoherent? ... what was there to be incoherent about?
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^the fact that the name of the movie is Sherlock Holmes....
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I watched X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

Not good, really.  Thumbs Down
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Has there ever been a good prequel? 
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Revolutionary Road

Thoroughly depressive and troubling character study of a typical couple in the 1950s and their sordid reality. Unpleasant, self-conscious, and to be ignored save Kate Winslet's strong performance.

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District 9 was pretty good, but it kind of dragged as it devolved into an action movie as the movie went on, and I don't think he thought everything completely through. Still, the aliens looked good.
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Originally posted by Henry Plainview Henry Plainview wrote:

District 9 was pretty good, but it kind of dragged as it devolved into an action movie as the movie went on, and I don't think he thought everything completely through. Still, the aliens looked good.



You watched District 9, whoa!

I'm in a bad mood to discuss Globe/Oscar nominated movies, because it's an incredibly awful year. District 9 had its fun, I didn't particular like the aliens, nor the whole plot behind them being so tamed or plain dum. The fast-paced first 20 minutes made me uncomfortably wondering what the heck's going on, the rest was already fitting in the niche, and the instant-blow zapper was used too much.

I'm in an even worse mood with Peter Jackson, after seeing The Lovely Bones. That was simply inept.


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Revolutionary Road

Thoroughly depressive and troubling character study of a typical couple in the 1950s and their sordid reality. Unpleasant, self-conscious, and to be ignored save Kate Winslet's strong performance.


I was just about to make a post about this. One of the worst movies I've ever seen, to be completely honest.
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Originally posted by progkidjoel progkidjoel wrote:

Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

Revolutionary Road

Thoroughly depressive and troubling character study of a typical couple in the 1950s and their sordid reality. Unpleasant, self-conscious, and to be ignored save Kate Winslet's strong performance.


I was just about to make a post about this. One of the worst movies I've ever seen, to be completely honest.


Not really.
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Aw, I liked the lightning gun! That's what saved that endless mech sequence. Where did they even find the materials to build a mech? I don't understand how there's so much alien weaponry lying around if the military was the one who brought everyone to earth. The whole movie I was wondering how the one guy got the parts to build a ship, but my sister suggested that it was the command module that fell out, which makes more sense in one way since that would be the reason they couldn't fly away 20 years ago, but it also makes less since the ship got blown to hell. That's not touching on the issue of how a MNU suit has access codes to the secret labs...
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Watchmen

Compelling if much-too-long adaption of the superior comic; fails on certain levels, succeeds on others. A very good try at a very difficult story but ends up being more romance than adventure.

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Originally posted by Vibrationbaby Vibrationbaby wrote:

Originally posted by James James wrote:

Originally posted by Vibrationbaby Vibrationbaby wrote:

I just bought an old Peter O`Toole movie called Murphy`s War because it`s got some pretty amazing flying sequences in it. The late Frank Tallman doing aerobatics in an old Grumman Duck amphibian.
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A German U-Boat sinks a merchantman in the Pacific and guns down all the survivors in the water. Murphy survives and is nursed back to life by a missionary. In the meantime the war ends. But it is not over for Murphy who discovers that the U-Boat is hiding out down the river. He discovers a Grumman Duck amphibian which had been left behind by retreating British forces. He teaches himself how to fly the thing and goes on a revenge trip. At first he lobs crude molotov cocktails at the U-Boat but that doesn`t work. He then discovers a barge with a crane on it and decides to ram the U- Boat.

I won`t spoil the ending but it`s definitely one of the most overlooked war movies of the seventies.


Frank Tallman died during the making of the original Flight of the Phoenix, of course.  An excellent film.  I haven't seen the remake but I don't believe it's as good, from what I have read.
Didn`t know they did a remake but have to correct you a bit here on Frank Tallman`s death. He was making a rather routine VFR flight from Santa Monica California to Phoenix Arizona in April `78 when he ran into some bad weather and slammed the Piper Aztec he was flying into a mountain. I remember this well because I was working on my Private Pilot`s licence at the time. As far as I know he wasn`t involved in the making of the original  1965 Flight Of The Phoenix. There was a pilot killed during the filming but his name was Paul Manz. He got kicked out of the Army Air Corps during WWII for buzzing some high level officers Big smile and subsequently took up stunt flying.
Tallman was in charge of aerial stunts in the movie The Great Waldo Pepper and also performed some of them himself. He was also the guy who flew the Beech 18 through the Coca Cola billboard in the 60s movie it`s a Mad, Mad World. He was also in charge of aerial sequences for the STV series Baa Baa Blacksheep amonst numerous other movie projects.



D'oh!

I actually knew that.  I got my pilots mixed up.  Yep, Paul Mantz died during the making of Flight of the Phoenix.  I am also aware of Frank Tallman as well, of course.  It was just a matter in my case, of confusing the two pilots.

Many apologies.
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