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Favorite Movie Quotes...
by bullittblitz- 1 follower
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A man only has 2 things in this world...his word and his balls...or is that 3 things?
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The only French movie I ever watched
by JustHatched- 2 replies
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Rose and I watched a French movie tonight called Le Rafle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Round_Up_(2010_film) I was all sub titled which I usually will turn the channel rather than read the tv, but I was to lazy to get the remote and after a little bit we were both interested in it, it is quite the story about French Jews getting rounded up by the Nazi's. I am into WW2 history, though generally I don't research the Holocaust stuff but this is a good movie if this is your interest.
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Old song/video of the day - Marillion
by newyork-nightmare- 2 replies
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Don't worry I wont post one everyday. Promise!!! How many of you remember or even ever heard of this? 1985 - (Didn't listen for the first time until 1993) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dphpDdfZUGw&feature=kp
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What Do You Listen While Playing GTA?
by Matusware- 11 replies
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we all have our favorite tunes but what we listen while we play? i like to listen Metal or Rock while i play so i get into right mood ;D
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Favourite car movie(s)
by Pb76- 2 followers
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(I stole this idea from Dodgeservice) So what are you favourite car movies? What about car chases from action movies? Or even an iconic car you love from a movie? Discuss.....
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And on the same subject... What is your favorite Video Game that was made in to a movie(s)? In my case, my favorite movie or movies has to be Resident Evil (not the last one). I liked most of them -- spent more times watching the films over and over again then actually playing the games!... My favorite Video Game franchise that was made in to a couple of movies was Tomb Raider. I finished most of the TR games starting with the first one in 1996!...
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Fav Music
by JustHatched- 1 follower
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Who is your top 3 fav bands/singers and of those what is your fav songs from them Metallica - Sad But True In This Moment - Whore Avenged Sevenfold - Shepards Of Fire
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232Rate the Last Film you Watched 2: Electric Boogaloo
@LimeGreenLegend I remember watching some of Threads when at school, maybe a year or so after it was released, as part of an English project on nuclear weapons. I didn't live in Sheffield then, which I seem to recall making it seem more distant and as teenagers we kind of dismissed it with a "this can't happen to us" type of attitude. I do intend watching it at some point, I noticed it on iplayer, probably not this weekend.- 1
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232Rate the Last Film you Watched 2: Electric Boogaloo
What I Watched This Week #171 (Apr 7-13) Captain America: Brave New World dir. Julius Onah/2025/1h59m The latest entry in the MCU sees Anthony Mackie take up the shield as Captain America for the first time (on the big screen at least, I've not seen the TV show, which made a lot of this quite confusing), getting caught up in an international incident that I honestly can't remember anything about. The entire time I was just waiting for Harrison Ford, playing newly elected president Thaddeus Ross, turn into a big red Hulk, which is all I knew of this going in. It's actually quite amazing that I can't remember any of the actual plot because most of the film is made up of people spouting exposition at each other in bland locations. The villain, played by Tim Blake Nelson, looks so stupid that I thought his reveal was a joke after being kept hidden in the shadows for a lot of the run time, but no, that's the look they actually went with. I don't care if it's accurate to the comic books, it looks f*cking stupid on film. Mackie and Ford both give decent performances, and and I liked Danny Ramirez as Cap's new sidekick Joaquin Torres, but this just feels like content churned out to meet a schedule drawn up by committee. 3/10 Mickey 17 dir. b*ng Joon Ho/2025/2h17m Robert Pattinson stars as Mickey Barnes, a man who, to get away from some dangerous people he owes money to, signs up as an expendable on a colonisation voyage to a distant planet. His job is to perform all of the most dangerous tasks and occasionally act as a lab rat, and each time he dies they just print out a new one, an act made illegal on Earth. This is director b*ng's follow up to his Oscar winning masterpiece Parasite, and while this film shares similar themes with its attack on the elite it comes at it with a very different tone. This leans heavily into comedy, with Pattinson giving an almost slapstick performance at times. His whiny, weedy accent also took me by surprise, but it really does fit the character. Mark Ruffalo as failed politician Kenneth Marshall, the leader of the colony, also gives a very broad comedic performance, similar to the one he gave in Poor Things, and he steals every scene he's in. I had a lot of fun watching this but it all feels kind of inconsequential and throwaway, like all of the clones of Mickey, and a little short of b*ng's best films like Parasite, Memories of Murder or Mother. But this is still an excellently crafted film with great supporting performances from Toni Collette, Steven Yeun, Naomi Ackie, and British comedian Tim Key as a man dressed as a pigeon. 8/10 The Foreigner dir. Martin Campbell/2017/1h53m The Foreigner is an action thriller starring Jackie Chan as Quan Ngoc Minh, a London restaurant owner whose daughter is killed in an IRA bombing. He suspects that politician and former IRA member Liam Hennessey (Pierce Brosnan) knows something about it, and seeing that he's former Chinese special forces he'll stop at nothing to find out what. A conventional yet well made film from the director of two of the best Bond films: Goldeneye and Casino Royale, what really kept me hooked here was the totally serious performance from Chan, something I've never seen before. That extends to the fight scenes where there's none of his usual fun and games with random props. Here he just wants to hurt people. There's a haunted look in his eyes that he has for most of the film that feels so real and full of pain. Brosnan is also very good as a politician with a murky past, and he does a good job at keeping us guessing as to how much he actually knows. 7/10 Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw dir. David Leitch/2019/2h17m The Fast and Furious franchise takes a little detour with this spinoff film starring The Rock and Jason Statham as the titular Hobbs and Shaw who must team up to defeat Idris Elba's evil cyborg Brixton who is searching for a virus that could wipe out humanity. The virus is in the hands of Shaw's sister Hattie (Vanessa Kirby) because what would these films be without family? Just as mindlessly fun as the recent films in the series, what let this one down for me is the constant trash talk between The Rock and Statham. It's cute for a while but over two hours of this pissing contest is just tiresome. There's also an extended cameo from Kevin Hart who I can't stand. The action scenes are totally ridiculous - Elba's transformer like motorbike is a personal fav - but they're all fun and unique. The final act showdown set in Samoa is also a nice change of location. This does feel like a script where they changed the names of the two main characters to make it fit into the Fast and Furious universe just for the name recognition, but this film delivered exactly what I expected from it, which I guess is both a positive and a negative. 6.5/10 Threads dir. Mick Jackson/1984/1h57m Made for BBC TV on a tiny budget, Threads is a docu-drama set in the Northern English city of Sheffield during the lead up to and fallout of a nuclear war. With its use of actual BBC documentary narrator Paul Vaughn, stock footage and text on screen detailing the time line of events this could be mistaken as real. The drama part of the docu-drama comes from following young woman Ruth (Karen Meagher) who has just become pregnant with her boyfriend and is just about to start her life. In the background on news reports and newspapers tensions are rising between the US and Russia. This lead up to the bombs dropping is incredibly well executed, the tension slowly being cranked up as these reports come to the foreground slowly but surely. It begins to invade the normal everyday lives of the people of Sheffield. The second half of the film details the bombings and the breakdown of society in the aftermath and it is the most grim, brutal, depressing, hopeless, scary, and sadly realistic (judging by the extensive list of doctors and professors in the special thanks section of the credits) depiction of the apocalypse I've ever seen. I nearly stopped watching at a couple of points because it's all just too much. That says nothing of the ending, a horrific series of events set over a decade after the end of the world which snaps into a freezeframe just as a character is about to scream and then the end credits roll in total silence. This is one of the best films I've ever seen and I urge you all to watch it, it's on the BBC iPlayer if you're in the UK or have a VPN. 10/10 Lime's Film of the Week! The Devil in a Convent dir. Georges Méliès/1899/3m Another short from Georges Méliès sees him continue his fascination with demons and religion. Here he plays a tricksy devil who appears in a convent, disguises himself as a priest and torments the nuns there before being banished back to hell. As well as his continued perfection of his special effects techniques what really stands out in his films are the gorgeously detailed sets that look like they're taken straight off of the stage. His films are also becoming longer and more intricate, three minutes was considered long for a film at the time, and his 12 minute Trip to the Moon a few years later was initially mocked for being too long to keep people's attention. A wonderful slice of magic from the dawn of the artform. 8/10 Monsters University dir. Dan Scanlon/2013/1h44m This totally unnecessary prequel tells the story of how Mike (Billy Crystal) and Sully (John Goodman) met at college, starting out as adversaries before having to work together to help their fraternity win the annual scare games and keep their place in school. Mostly a collection of tropes, cliches and stereotypes from every college film since Animal House this still does have some good jokes scattered throughout and, as usual, the animation is excellent. Crystal can get grating at times but Goodman is always a pleasure to listen to, and there's a good supporting turn from Helen Mirren as the dean of the college. In my opinion Monsters Inc is one of Pixar's best films with a perfect ending, so I'm glad they didn't try to do a sequel (and I hope they don't in the future), but that stuck them with doing a prequel, and the characters aren't really that different at the start of the film than at the end, so there's not even any growth or development. It's just more time to spend with them, which isn't a bad thing, but it's time spent doing nothing. 5.5/10- 2
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Team America: World Police (2004) dir Trey Parker A film from the makers of South Park, so you should know what to expect; totally irreverent, doesn't care who it offends, anything and anyone can and will be made fun of, with some great comedy songs and few Star Wars references thrown in. It's made with puppets in in the style of Thunderbirds and the other Gerry Anderson shows from the 60s/70s/80s. The title refers to an international crime fighting force with a very gung-ho attitude. So long as they get the bad guys, it doesn't matter who or what else gets hurt or destroyed in the process, even if they end up leaving an even bigger trail of destruction than the one they were trying to prevent. They recruit a new member, a Broadway actor, because they need someone to “act like a terrorist”. They are up against a wave of attacks, organised, behind the scenes, by North Korea's then dictator Kim Jong Il (the father of the current one). He is hosting a “peace conference” for all world leaders to hide his true intents. He has enlisted the assistance of F.A.G. (the Film Actors Guild), a group of Hollywood actors lead by Alec Baldwin and including Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, Samuel L Jackson, Helen Hunt and many more, who hate Team America. Just to be clear for anyone who has no idea what this film is; none of those people are in the film, it's puppet versions of them. A puppet Michael More also makes an appearance protesting against Team America. And all the voices are done by the same sort of people who voice South Park It doesn't take sides. I don't think it's trying to make any political points. I'm not really sure you can even call it satire because, just like South Park, Parker and Stone are simply having a laugh in their own way and doing what they think is funny for no other reason than comedy. Some good aspects to point out. They chose to make this with puppets and I'm sure with modern technology they could have made them a lot more realistic than Thunderbirds, especially when it comes to how they walk. But other than the mouths moving better in sync with the dialogue, they don't look that different, and you can clearly see the strings. The puppets are obviously small, so the film is mainly made on model sets. But they have a couple of scenes using real-world backgrounds, so the puppets look really tiny – for comic effect. There's one hilarious scene in which a couple of characters are attacked by what are supposed to be black panthers, but they use domestic cats instead. Then what I think is the best scene, the s*x scene. This would have been extremely graphic if it used human actors. It would have been fairly graphic if the puppets had g*nitals. But they don't. So it's just two puppets, minus their clothes, playing out various s*x positions. I have not seen this in full since I saw it at the cinema back when it first came out. It was not as funny as I remembered, but still a very novel idea. 7/10- 1
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