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  1. I just wished cinemas near me would show films like Rambo and Moon. Odeon are a fucking disgrace.

     

    EDIT: Sun, did you really enjoy Tale Of Two Sisters? I thought it was confused, pretentious wank. Having seen Ringu, the missus and I went on a rampage through similar Japanese horror. It went:

     

    Ringu - wow! Scary pale girl with black hair!

    Dark Water - amazing film, reminded me a bit of Ringu with the scary girl with black hair

    The Grudge - erm, another scary black haired girl, idea getting a bit boring now

    Tale Of Two Sisters - more scary little girls and this one makes as much sense as a Shymalan movie.

     

    I just felt the same trope was carted out in a whole run of Jap horror films that gradually diluted the formula.

  2. I stand by my statement. Besides, Oldboy is the film-nerd pick of choice, which is why it's more perplexing. LOTR is totally mainstream.

     

    It's doubly ridiculous when people get all uppity about Hollywood doing a remake and "ruining" it. It's not horrible, it's a *** movie, but it's way too flawed to be anything more. Take out the hallway hammer fight and you'd immediately lose half of the geek love.

     

    Agreed. Once you get past geeking out at a guy killing people WID A HAMMER, there wasn't that much else to distinguish it from the masses of similar violent Korean films. It was alright, and I enjoyed it, but I was very surprised at the love shown to it online. It's certainly not in the league of Takeshi Kitano.

  3. I've seen Con-Air and disagree it's the best action film ever. There's loads better and to name one, Die Hard.

     

    Please, Die Hard is nowhere near bombastic enough. The high point of that movie is the Vigo the Carpathian cameo.

     

    He's right. Die Hard is better than Con Air. Technically speaking Predator is better than both of them, but in the sub-genre of action-with-comedy blockbuster movie, Die Hard is king.

  4. Good list that!

     

    Inland Empire I want to see.

    Deadwood is of course the fucking business.

    13th Warrior I really like, though apparently it's been severely cut from a longer, much more epic version, which I hope they oneday release.

    Fist Of The North Star I've never seen, but it sounds like a top Jap porno.

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