Paid Members Au Posted July 23, 2009 Paid Members Posted July 23, 2009 Glad I'm not the only one who never got the Jamie Lee Curtis love. Bought The Fall at lunchtime on SickWoy's recommendation. Hopefully it'll live up to expectations.
Paid Members CuckedByMenry Posted July 23, 2009 Paid Members Posted July 23, 2009 Elite Squad - "Two childhood friends decide to enlist in Rio de Janeiro's Military Police Department. After juggling college and their jobs with a corrupt police force, both make up their minds to try out for a Special Operations Squad whose mission is to take down the drug-lords that plague the city." Loved it, probably the best film I've seen this year (despite it being two years old). Definitely worth a watch if you're a fan of City Of God. Oh, as far as brutal film scenes go, it's got one of the most unforgiving.
Moderators Astro Hollywood Posted July 23, 2009 Moderators Posted July 23, 2009 I'm with patdfb, Oldboy is the most overrated film of the decade.
Mr. Seven Posted July 23, 2009 Posted July 23, 2009 I'm with patdfb, Oldboy is the most overrated film of the decade.
Joe_the_Lion Posted July 23, 2009 Posted July 23, 2009 But that isn't a case of a film being overrated. The film itself is a perfectly excellent adaptation of the novel. It just so happens that the novel is a pile of shit. And Jamie Lee Curtis topless in Trading Places is the single greatest thing ever.
Moderators Astro Hollywood Posted July 23, 2009 Moderators Posted July 23, 2009 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.
insert_name_here Posted July 23, 2009 Posted July 23, 2009 See now i've never seen Oldboy, at the risk of sounding like an idiot should i give it a go?
NEWM Posted July 23, 2009 Posted July 23, 2009 See now i've never seen Oldboy, at the risk of sounding like an idiot should i give it a go? I Sky+ed it last night as it was on Film 4, but haven't watched it yet. I imagine it will be on again in their rotation though, so for free you might as well. People do go mad for it on here, can't all be bluster, can it?
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted July 23, 2009 Paid Members Posted July 23, 2009 Oldboy's great fun. It's got too many flaws to be a truly great film but I thoroughly enjoyed it. And Lord Of The Rings, for that matter, although I could never be arsed seeing the third one.
Paid Members ColinBollocks Posted July 23, 2009 Paid Members Posted July 23, 2009 I watched abotu half of it round a mates house. Good fun. They are selling it in HMV for
Loki Posted July 23, 2009 Posted July 23, 2009 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.
Mr. Seven Posted July 23, 2009 Posted July 23, 2009 I personally found the hammer scene to be a fun visual but nothing much more and it certainly wasn't a key reason why I love the film so much. Overall, the look and feel of the film coupled with the fantastic antagonist in Woo Jin are the reasons why it had such an impact on me. Yeah it's flawed and totally ostentatious, but I think it's truly an excellent film, worshipped by geeks or not. If you want an Asian film that's insanely overrated by a cluster of geeks, look for any of Takeshi Miike's films, especially the brainless Ichi The Killer.
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted July 23, 2009 Paid Members Posted July 23, 2009 Agreed on Miike, he is generally overrated. Gozu was fucking hilarious though.
Paid Members CuckedByMenry Posted July 23, 2009 Paid Members Posted July 23, 2009 Agreed on Miike, he is generally overrated. Gozu was fucking hilarious though. I remember buying this as a result of someone reviewing it on here. Maybe I need to watch it again, but I didn't think much of it.
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