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Me and my bro watched Rocky IV last night. This film sees the Itallion Stallion going to Russia to fight roided' up Ivan Drago (the spine chilling Lundgren)

Possibly the greatest butchering of a film I have ever seem was when I watched this on ITV about 10 years ago, when they showed the training montage they cut out the drugs scenes in Dragos training which basically made it look like he was just better at training than Rocky, think I still have it on video somewhere On a side note the 2nd best piece of editing for tv was Romancing the Stone. It started at 8 at night and they dubbed and cut all the swearing and violence then as soon as 9 hit they showed everything, as if any child that had been watching it from the start would scurry off to bed at the stroke of 9.....anywayI watched The Black Dahlia last nite, a total mess of a movie, Dont get me wrong its a well made mess but Josh Harnett and Scarlett Johanssen are totally miscast and the narrative is all over the place, plus De Pama has a nasty habit of using green screen effects instead of using a wide angle lens for deep shots, no idea why he did it but it was obvious (and very off putting) in at least two scenes, very unusual for a film that has been made to resemble a 50's Noir movieAlso I saw Reeker........ Shit, just Shit

SuperBad

 

Purile and really, really funny, thought both stars were really good in it and had some geniuine laugh out loud moments in it.

 

The Marine

 

Saw it in Asda for the grand old price of

Le diner de cons.Was flicking through the channels a few months back and came across this. It's a French comedy about a group of friends who every few weeks have a dinner party where they have to invite the biggest idiot they can find to generally take the piss out of. Anyway, before one of the parties one of the group splits up with his wife and then does his back in, she runs off and he is unable to follow. Then the idiot arrives to go to the party and gets embroiled in the guys efforts to win back his wife. Then the comedy begins with a mix of misunderstandings and very good phone oriented jokes. If you like Frasier or to a lesser extent Curb your Enthusiasm, it could be for you.

I thought this film would be a lot better after everyone had raved about it, now their remaking it, I should imagine it'll be repeated again, I might catch it again

I thought he was great in the Departed, especially when he just snaps during the stakeout

The Thing is brilliant. One of the best horror movies ever made. The special effects are still incredible to this day.

I second that, It is easily one of the best horror films of the last 40 years and you need to buy the dvd for the awesome commentary track from Carpenter and Kurt Russell where they just get drunk, it truely rocks.As far as his other films go as much as I love his work its quite a mixed bag, The Fog is an awesome film and you should definatly try and see it.Assault on Precient 13 shows just how good a director he was, cranking the suspense up, some people complain its just a remake of Rio Bravo but who cares when its this good.Prince of Darkness is ok, but I always found it kind of a muddled film, worth checking out though.Oh and check out Elvis the Movie, the original tv edit of it, I wasn't expecting much but thought it was really good, plus it has the mighty Kurt in it!!!!

Escape From New York is still a fantastic film and Kurt Russell will always be one of my Fav Actors, a man who has been great is so many good films. the only problem I have with the film is the synth score which really dates it

Fuck that. The synth score is awesome.

Ha didn't say it wasn't awesome, in fact I own the soundtrack to it but you have to admit synth = 80's thats musical maths!!I just wish that when they show John Williams on the classical channel with his gigantic orchestra doing the score to Phantom Menance they would follow it up with John Carpenter in a room, on his own with his Casio keyboard on his lap playing the theme from Escape from New York....... A man can dream can't he

Oh While I remember Had a John Carpenter nite last night and watched Escape from New York and They Live, both great films with aspects that obviously haven't aged well but still hold up. While watching They live I am always genuienly stunned at how natural an actor Roddy Piper was, Ok hes never gonna win an oscar but he was charismatic and played the part to a tee, and if interviews with John Carpenter are anything to go by ad-libbed a lot of the dialogue himself. Keith David rules and his constant kneeing of Hot Rods balls to break up the fight has me laughing everytime.Escape From New York is still a fantastic film and Kurt Russell will always be one of my Fav Actors, a man who has been great is so many good films. the only problem I have with the film is the synth score which really dates it but that seems to come part and parcel with Carpenter. I got the special edition dvd which has the original opening with the robbery which does set the Snake character up a little better but I can understand why it was omitted for pacing/ changing Snake from a loner into a team player

After a recommendation from Mr. Seven (i think?) and seeing it pop up in a couple of 'favourite film ever' threads here and elswhere i decided to watch Glengarry Glenn Ross. Pretty amazing adaptation i have to say, every single one of the characters involved from top to bottom were so convincing it was scary but Jack Lemmon in particular was top drawer. It did seem to end very quickly though, seemed rather abrupt. I know the dialog and screenplay was that good and sequential that it tied everything up and you knew what the end outcome was with the double swerve on the robbery but it was almost teasing you to want to see a broken man get caught and how he'd handle the prospect of jail or whatever followed.I'll probably watch this again during the week on my days off as there is usually a lot of subtle touches on these films which don't sink in upon first viewing. Very impressed though.

This movie is just awesome and you'll be hard pressed to find a better cast, top to bottom, than this. Alec Baldwin should have gone onto greater things based on his performance in this film but it just never seemed to happen. In a career full of fantastic performances I still rate this as one of Jack Lemons best, alongside The China Syndrome although his character has been tainted slightly by the awesomness that is Gill in the Simpsons

Just watched the Aqua Teen Hunger Force Movie with my flatmate who also loves the series and my other flatmate who has never seen the show, We laughed all the way thru it, He hated every second of it, It truely is one of those love it or hate it films. It has zero plot and makes no sense but is genuinely laugh out loud hilarious.

I watched Disturbia on Sat, For a Teen thriller i was actually surprised at how enjoyable it was, Its not amazing by any stretch of the imagination but its a good 'popcorn' movie, Plus how anyone can get a writing credit for what is a blatent rip off of Rear Window is beyond me!

 

I watched The Sting again on DVD last nite, Still just a fantastic film, I'd say i like Newman and Redfords performances in this better than in Butch and Sundance and Robert Shaw had just an awesome screen presence and is one of those actors that is just great no matter what hes in. The ending has been done to death so many times since this film but I still remember how great I thought this was the first time I saw it

The Protector: Tony Jaa's follow up to Ong Bak. After thieves wound his father and steal his beloved pet elephants Kham (Jaa) must travel to Austrailia to get them back. The fight scenes are, not surprisingly, excellent, but everything else is rubbish. Even though most martial arts movies have poor scripts, this one is particularly bad. Jaa's dialogue is limited to "I want my elephants!" or "give me back my elephants!" and the rest of the plot doesn't make much sense either: the gang leader is revealed to be a transexual and there's a confusing subplot involving corrupt policeman and hookers. Also, for some reason never explained, Australia appears to be full of Asian people. Ong Bak had a bad script but at least it was easy enough to follow and it wasn't laugh out loud stupid at times. Shoddy production values don't help. Jaa needs to hook up with a decent director if he wants to best utilise his skills. And maybe next time he could play something other than a spirtual village boy heading out to the big city to retrieve something valuble to him.

Ummmm Australia is full of Asian communities, especially Thai and Vietnamese

Woke up late (Hey its Sunday!) and turned on the telly and Ferris Bueller's Day off was on. What a classic. I can watch that film over and over again and it still makes me laugh, It reminds how good Matthew Broderick and John Hughes were!Also Watched Orgazmo last nite, still fun in a cheap and shitty Troma films style although it rips off jokes from lots of other movies, but all is forgiven because it contains the immortal line "I don't wanna sound gay or 'nuthin but I really dig Unicorns"

i know i'm rumour mongering BUT stole this from dvdr board which stole it from TMZ.com, could be completely false, so i dont think anybody should take this as fact, though it will give the people in denial something to cling to...

From TMZ.com464. My second cousin is an officer with GBI (Georgia Bureau of Investigations) and what he's heard in his circle is that Chirs Benoit's wife killed their son Daniel, called Chris and told him to rush home because of an emergency which is why he missed last Sunday's Vengeance PPV. Upon arriving home Benoit killed his wife in a rage for the death of his son and then killed himself Monday morning. His wife's body was found in the master bedroom, strangled with the cord from an alarm clock. The son's body was found in his room appearantly suffocated with a garbage bag. Chris then wrote a suicide note explaining what had happened, apologized to his family, his other children (from a seperate relationship), and his fans. He then fasioned a slip-knot noose from from rope taken from the garage and hung himself from the ballaster in the foyer of his suburban Atlanta home.also, http://www.11alive.com/video/player.aspx?aid=74565&bw=

Doesn't add up. Why would nancy want to kill Daniel?

I don't know. Why would Chris want to kill Daniel?For the record, I'm not pointing the blame at either.

I want to believe that theres an outside party involved, but theres no evidence, or even reports of evidence, of a struggle or anything like that.

Just a quick note on this, I know there is goin to be lots of thing reported as fact, I haven't gone throught the whole thread cause im at work at the min but Benoit missed the Sat nite house show as well so the above story is pretty flawed to begin with, think its just someone trying to sell something as fact, also the TMZ website is notorious for reporting everything as 'Fact'

Finally gettin round to workin through my unwatched DVD pile this weekend. So far I've seen:

 

Pans Labryinth

 

A truely beautiful film that was just awesome to watch. I was a bit sceptical to begin with because of all the hype surrounding it and I'm a huge fan of Del Torro's since watching Cronos, The whole design of the film was perfect and its cast were fantastic.

 

Clerks 2

 

Didn't get to see it in the cinema because I was on holiday when all my mates went to watch it. After months of them telling me it sucked I bought it cheap (

Went to see The longest Yard the other day, Surprisingly good, a few nods to the original and even though i hate to say it, Kevin Nash MADE the film, he was awesome in it. pure popcorn cinema.Also saw Ong Bak the other day, nice to see a martial arts film that isn't all kung fu or generic kicking. It truely is a Tai boxing film and its great. Tony Jaa is unbelivable in it and hais to be seen to be believed.I just re-watched Raging Bull as well - nuff said!