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02 Oct 2011, 6:49 pm

Freddy got fingered hehe.

And grosse point blank a few days ago.

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02 Oct 2011, 7:24 pm

Grosse Point Blank is my all time favourite film.

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02 Oct 2011, 8:16 pm

Get Him to The Greek

It made me laugh out loud in parts, which is rare. and seemed kinda less polished(?) than most hollywood stuff, which was refreshing

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02 Oct 2011, 8:22 pm

Blade Runner. An old cult classic.

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02 Oct 2011, 9:27 pm

OneStepBeyond wrote:

Get Him to The Greek

It made me laugh out loud in parts, which is rare. and seemed kinda less polished(?) than most hollywood stuff, which was refreshing

Judd Apatow films always have indulgent editing. They care less ahout telling a story than showing some sympathetic characters and stuff happening. Knocked Up is my favourite, Forgetting Sarah Marshall and The 40 Year Old Virgin are also both very good. I haven't seen Bridesmaids, it's apparently good too.

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03 Oct 2011, 12:26 pm

KyushuFez wrote:

Hanna - pretty good flick, kudos to Chemical Brothers for soundtrack too.

I saw Hanna during its theatrical run and absolutely agree with you.

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06 Oct 2011, 4:12 pm

Solaris (2002)

Despite being hailed as a brilliant classic, I found Stanislaw Lem's novel Solaris to be practically unreadable, and I gave up on it about halfway through. Here's an actual paragraph from the novel. See if you can get through this quicksand:

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As soon as the question of comparisons with Earth arises, it must be understood that the 'extensors' are formations that dwarf the Grand Canyon, that they are produced in a substance which externally resembles a yeasty colloid (during this fantastic 'fermentation,' the yeast sets into festoons of starched open-work lace; some experts refer to 'ossified tumors'), and that deeper down the substance becomes increasingly resistant, like a tensed muscle which fifty feet below the surface is as hard as rock but retains its flexibility. The 'extensor' appears to be an independent creation, stretching for miles between membranous walls swollen with 'ossified growths,' like some colossal python which after swallowing a mountain is sluggishly digesting the meal, while a slow shudder occasionally ripples along its creeping body. The 'extensor' only looks like a lethargic reptile from overhead. At close quarters, when the two 'canyon walls' loom hundreds of yards above the exploring aircraft, it can be seen that this inflated cylinder, reaching from one side of the horizon to the other, is bewilderingly alive with movement. First you notice the continual rotating motion of a greyish-green, oily sludge which reflects blinding sunlight, but skimming just above the 'back of the python' (the 'ravine' sheltering the 'extensor' now resembles the sides of a geological fault), you realize that the motion is in fact far more complex, and consists of concentric fluctuations traversed by darker currents. Occasionally this mantle turns into a shining crust that reflects sky and clouds and then is riddled by explosive eruptions of the internal gases and fluids. The observer slowly realizes that he is looking at the guiding forces that are thrusting outward and upward the two gradually crystallizing gelatinous walls. Science does not accept the obvious without further proof, however, and virulent controversies have reverberated down the years on the key question of the exact sequence of events in the interior of the 'extensors that furrow the vast living ocean in their millions.

Imagine reading 224 pages of that. It's a shame, because the plot is brilliant. A psychologist is sent to a facility on a distant planet to investigate a disturbance. When he arrives, he finds his dead girlfriend, quite alive. How did she get here, and how is she alive? Turns out the planet is a living, sentient creature which is manifesting human avatars based on the thoughts and memories of the facility's inhabitants.

Luckily, some filmmakers have taken this colostomy bag of a novel and digested it into something you don't want to throw across the room in disgust. There's a 165-minute Russian film version from 1972, but that sounds almost as bad as reading the novel, so I watched the 99-minute American film from 2002, despite my general disdain for Steven Soderbergh's movies. To my pleasant surprise, it's great, by far the best Soderbergh movie I've seen. I'd recommend it to anyone who likes their science fiction to be less George Lucas, Michael Bay, and Roland Emmerich and more Stanley Kubrick, Ridley Scott, and (more recently) Duncan Jones and Neill Blomkamp.

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06 Oct 2011, 4:59 pm

Ah yes, Solaris. I saw the Russian version. It was butt numbingly long. But it had it's moments. When the psychologist first lands and goes into the facility, a door opens and the man behind it is struggling with a dwarf. The psychologist looks bewildered, and the man says "there are things going on here you wouldn't understand" and then slams the door. It also contains a sequence of a character waking up in real time that runs for something like 15 minutes as he sits on the side of his bed, groggy.

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06 Oct 2011, 5:19 pm

Jory wrote:

Solaris (2002)

so I watched the 99-minute American film from 2002, despite my general disdain for Steven Soderbergh's movies. To my pleasant surprise, it's great, by far the best Soderbergh movie I've seen. I'd recommend it to anyone who likes their science fiction to be less George Lucas, Michael Bay, and Roland Emmerich and more Stanley Kubrick, Ridley Scott, and (more recently) Duncan Jones and Neill Blomkamp.

Remember that movie being horrible. George Clooney laying bare naked showing his hairy butt for a good 10 minutes and remember the movie being incredibly slow.

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06 Oct 2011, 7:50 pm

I just walked into a friend's room and he said "Let's watch Tron: Legacy!" so me and him and one girl watched it. It wasn't the first time I had seen it but it was still okay.

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06 Oct 2011, 7:58 pm

fraac wrote:

OneStepBeyond wrote:

Get Him to The Greek

It made me laugh out loud in parts, which is rare. and seemed kinda less polished(?) than most hollywood stuff, which was refreshing

bridesmaids was good in parts but dragged on waaay too much. needed snipping

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06 Oct 2011, 8:51 pm

I watched it last night! Very typically Apatow-ish. Good, genuine, funny moments and no editing whatsoever.

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07 Oct 2011, 12:33 pm

fraac wrote:

It's shocking bloody rather than gory bloody. Only a few moments but very affecting.

I saw Drive yesterday. This movie rocked!

Although I haven't seen that much
bloodiness since District 9, sheesh.

Gosling was very good as The Driver
and he was more stoic rather than childlike & autistic.

I wonder if Gosling has a nephew/niece/sibling with
any form of autism and played on that?

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07 Oct 2011, 7:36 pm

catch & release

was alright

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08 Oct 2011, 3:51 am

Scream 4.

The beginning of it looked like a parody like I was watching Scary Movie . I thought it was going to suck but it was okay.

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08 Oct 2011, 6:55 pm

I watch the most confusing movie ever its called.

Acolytes.

Starring.

Joel Edgerton, Michael Dorman and Sebastian Gregory.

Its about.

Three teenagers blackmail a serial killer.

Storyline for the movie is.

James Tresswick and Mark Vincent are victims of a brutal bully Gary Parker who has maltreated both boys, marking their bodies and spoiling their young lives. In their last year of high school, James and Mark find a way to stop being victims. They're going to kill Gary; Wandering alone around an isolated forest - the suspected site of the disappearance of a local girl - 17 year old Mark strays upon an adult male filling in a trench. It's suspicious and tantalizing. Mark returns with his friend James and Chasley Keys and they bring shovels to exhume what will probably be rotting garbage or someone's dead pet - or so they tell themselves. They find the ghostly white body of a woman. She's a tourist - a Canadian backpacker. The "trench" is a grave. The "adult male" is her killer. And they've got him by the balls. Responding to Mark's intimations James floats an idea to seek out "the sicko"... Written by Armstrong & Krause.

It was so bizzare I cant explain it.

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