benoit101 Posted October 20, 2007 Share Posted October 20, 2007 Korean martial arts film The City of Violence starring my faverate Korean actor whos name i can never remember but i know his work from many movies and is a very good martial arts star from Korea.It tells a story of a policeman from another city coming back to his old hometown to visit his friends and to the funeral of one of his long time friends who was murdered by a gang of thugs.A lot of wild scenes in this with great fight sequances, some good acting and some really odd moments involving a bunch of break dancers surrounding the main character after attacking him then as he battles them, a bunch of school girls swinging chains, school boys, a baseball squad and some other thugs swarm the joint chasing him through the streets which was REALLY cool. Great film but a tad short. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ukedge87 Posted October 21, 2007 Share Posted October 21, 2007 A Guide To Recoqnising Your Saints  A really excellent film that covers a young New Yorker from the worst part of the city growing up and leaving it, then returning in his adult years to the past haunts and friends/ family he has erased from his life.  This is the first film by Dito Montiel, the film is autobiographical to his life and uses him as a teen as the lead (with Shi LaBeouf taking the role, heb is fucking excellent, so watchable and def one of the best new actors I have seen), with a great Robert Downey jnr acting as the adult Dito.  The film captures the mood of the time so well, a lot like This Is England, by painting the back-drop full of pop soundtrack numbers and fads (see the brutal attack whilst the gang member is playing Asteriods). Unlike This Is England, the film is very emotionally well observed and although both films are full of well-observed feelings and emotions, this flick deals with them really inteligently.  A stand-out film. I can't recomend it enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Seven Posted October 21, 2007 Share Posted October 21, 2007 So how does This Is England not deal with feelings and emotions intelligently then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ukedge87 Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 I really enjoyed This Is England, but I felt A Guide To Recoqnising Your Saints was more sophisticated. This Is England uses very obvious feelings of anger at his dads death to drive him to racism and with the film's ultimate blame being on the british society of the 1980s. However, A Guide... uses the contextual back-drop to fuel Ditto's unhappiness, but it is a more complex mixture of his relationship with his dad, Antonio, and his future. AND, it uses the older Ditto to further comment on these feelings as he returns to NY to face what he has run away from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Murtz Posted October 22, 2007 Paid Members Share Posted October 22, 2007 War  Watched this earlier today.. it was OK. Jet Li is always a badass.. Statham has had better films. I actually enjoyed it a bit less than I thought I would though (being a huge Jet Li fan)  One thing that was surprising... (spoilers just incase it ruins it for anyone)   The twist at the end.. it was one of those films that you really didnt expect a twist to be put it. Normally its just a 'bad guy gets personal with good guy.. good guy kills bad guy'... but this one took a totally different turn.. and I think it was pretty well done.  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted October 22, 2007 Moderators Share Posted October 22, 2007 You wanta film with twists, watch Exit Wounds. I just rewatched that tonight and it blew my mind. Wow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metallica Posted October 23, 2007 Share Posted October 23, 2007 Ratatouille...I normally really like Pixar films (Nemo & Monsters Inc being my 2 favourites) but this one didn't really grab me, it had some really good chase sequences but I'm not really understanding how it's ranked as the 85th best film ever made according to IMDB rankings.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Seven Posted October 23, 2007 Share Posted October 23, 2007 I have no interest in Ratatouille. Not only does it seem like the latest cash-cow from Disney/Pixar, rather than a film, I just don't get the appeal of the rat. Ooh he's blue! How cute! No. He's a rat. Show him covered in vermin, chewing through cables setting your family on fire in the middle of the night before eating your eyes open, then maybe I'd be interested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Cum Doctor Posted October 23, 2007 Share Posted October 23, 2007 Series 7 : The Contenders  Anyone else watch this ? Basically a movie about a reality TV show where the winner is the last one alive. Lots of fun mainly for the crazy old woman. She's hilarious. Gob's in it too, and it's hard not to love Gob. I enjoyed the hell out of it, even if it was ridiculous at points. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Josh Jenkins Posted October 24, 2007 Share Posted October 24, 2007 I have no interest in Ratatouille. Not only does it seem like the latest cash-cow from Disney/Pixar, rather than a film, I just don't get the appeal of the rat. Ooh he's blue! How cute! No. He's a rat. Show him covered in vermin, chewing through cables setting your family on fire in the middle of the night before eating your eyes open, then maybe I'd be interested.What makes it "the latest cash-cow from Disney/Pixar" rather than a film? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Seven Posted October 24, 2007 Share Posted October 24, 2007 It's hollow and lifeless and might as well have dollar signs on the poster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ant Posted October 24, 2007 Share Posted October 24, 2007 The other night I got round to watching Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room.It continues to amaze me the stuff that corporations and individuals get away with, especially in the United States. Very good documentary for those with an interest in economics and or politics I'd say (and perhaps even the Michael Moore mob). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainCharisma Posted October 24, 2007 Share Posted October 24, 2007 It's hollow and lifeless and might as well have dollar signs on the poster.Have you actually seen it? Or is this another one of your broad assumptions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Seven Posted October 24, 2007 Share Posted October 24, 2007 I've seen enough of it to know I'm right about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainCharisma Posted October 24, 2007 Share Posted October 24, 2007 I've seen enough of it to know I'm right about it.That's a no, then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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