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Posted September 03, 2009
The Gene Generation. Awesome post-apocalyptic/cyberpunk movie featuring music by Combichrist and Ronan Harris.
Posted September 03, 2009
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Miaghstir: Look up the sequel, Hypercube, I haven't seen it so I couldn't tell you anything about it though.
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Wishbone: I've heard it's better than the first one, anyway. Apparently there's also a prequel, Cube Zero, which should be better still.

Hi, new to the forum.
I wouldn't bother with either one. Both are incredibly dumbed-down from the original.
Posted September 04, 2009
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Wishbone: I've heard it's better than the first one, anyway. Apparently there's also a prequel, Cube Zero, which should be better still.
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MKim56: I wouldn't bother with either one. Both are incredibly dumbed-down from the original.

The jury seems to be divided on that. From the reviews I've read of Hypercube, the acting at least is supposedly somewhat better than the original, which admittedly wouldn't take much.
Posted September 04, 2009
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honorbuddy: I saw [REC] last night and now I have a new favorite movie. I wasn't even able to properly sleep because of how scared I was.

Thanks for the tip man. Just finished watching it. That last part was just awesome.
Posted September 04, 2009
I can't say much about the acting (although I personally didn't think the acting was terrible in the first Cube) but Hypercube is Cube without any of the psychological drama. It's more of a standard survival flick, with some added gimmicks, and very little of the character interaction and the almost Kafkaeque sense of mystery that drove the original.
Hypercube may be a better film technically (I'm no expert) but it just felt rather stale. But you should check out the film for yourself and don't mind me.
On a related note, I saw eXistenZ for the first time a few days ago. Awesome flick. Ought to be on every sci-fi fan's watchlist.
Post edited September 04, 2009 by MKim56
Posted September 05, 2009
Casino Royale
Posted September 05, 2009
They Live...Ah, a classic.
Posted September 06, 2009
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Rohan15: They Live...Ah, a classic.

Those aliens still scare me:
http://img197.imageshack.us/i/johncarpenterstheylive1.jpg/
Posted September 08, 2009
Watched "Blindness" today.
I thought it was quite good, kind of thought-provoking stuff.
I spend most of the film wondering how I'd cope being blind, and I imagine I wouldn't cope very well!
I had heard it had got bad reviews, but I can't imagine why really (without going and reading some of those reviews, which I obviously can't be bothered to do). Apparently the book might be better, but then I guess you could say that about most things really.
Posted September 08, 2009
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MKim56: On a related note, I saw eXistenZ for the first time a few days ago. Awesome flick. Ought to be on every sci-fi fan's watchlist.

eXistenZ is... weird. Interesting, but weird.
One of these days, I'll revisit an old favourite of mine, Enemy Mine. Haven't seen it in 10 years or so, and I just got it from Amazon.
Posted September 08, 2009
I saw Gamer yesterday. That has to be one of the most watchable bad movies I've ever seen. At one point in the beginning, some dude gets shot and the gunman runs over, begins to teabag the corpse (yes, a real corpse) and you hear someone yell, "Look, he's teabagging!" Aside from that, there's only a few other things no one who doesn't play games would get, like people acting the same way an NPC merchant would in, say, Killing Floor. Also, they have a Second Life thing going on with "Society", only, like their take on shooters, it's with real people. And a fat guy is "playing" as a chick.
Other than that, it's a typical evil-guy-who-controls-almost-everyone sort of story. Also, Michael C. Hall has an awful southern accent, and generally feels out of place. Then there's that guy whose name you can't remember but hear him in games from Saint's Row to Mass Effect (If you've played both you know who I'm talking about) making a cameo as a hard-as-nails FBI agent who is curious about pistachio butter. Don't forget that guy who played Luigi in the Mario Bros. Movie. Seriously, after that catastrophe, I would avoid being in any movie with the word "Game" in the title.
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Wishbone: I just saw The Cube. The concept was interesting, but they could have done so much more with it than they did. Also, the entire cast apparently all graduated from the Academy Of Overacting, which was a pity.

You think that's bad acting? I dare you to watch Cube Zero. You don't know what bad acting in a movie about cubes that kill people is until you see this movie.
Post edited September 08, 2009 by TheCheese33
Posted September 08, 2009
Last one I saw was Drag Me to Hell and I didn't like it at all. I just don't think that horror and comedy mix that well together, not in this movie at least.
My favorite movie is Terminator 2: Judgement Day, if you haven't seen it then you definitely should. :)
Posted September 09, 2009
District 9 was the last film I saw, and it's incredible. I loved the camcorder-style, it really is a revolution in scifi films, building off the work of my favorite film, Children of Men.
Posted September 09, 2009
I went to watch District 9 too. It is very good but not "teh bestest evah!" like some say. I'm still waiting for the Moon to be released on dvd. (It wasn't shown around where I live)
But the last movie I saw was the Man from Earth and I have to say that it is one of my all time favorites. It's a great movie if you get sucked into it. Otherwise its just 2 hours of talking. Kind of reminds me of Waiting for Godot even though they are completely different. Just like someone in IMDB said, its pseudo intellectual and I LIKE IT!
Posted September 09, 2009
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lowyhong: The Dark Knight is one of the best action movies ever made, and the best superhero movie made. But you guys probably already know (but maybe not acknowledge) that
And then, there's Indiana Jones. The first three are perfect. Harrison Ford is the man, period.
The last film I saw was Ip Man. I don't know if it's out in US and Europe cinemas yet, but it's a film by Donny Yen. Very good action scenes, not too over-the-top like Jet Li's stunt choreographies, and the storyline is decent too. On top of that, it's based on the true story of one of Bruce Lee's masters. Can't get better than that

*pfffft*
The Dark Knight is the most over-rated warmed up sack of shit ever put on celluloid. The *only* reason, and I mean the *only* reason why people liked it is because Ledger died before it came out. They had a good marketing team too, convincing everyone that the "Why so serious?" shirt was the hottest thing since Vaginas.
Heath Ledger did *not* play the joker in that film, he played Osama Bin Laden. The *only* decent thing about the film, and it was actually incredible up until the CGI kicked in, was Aaron Eckhart as Twoface. Too bad they didn't just edit the film so that Joker died, and Twoface lived...I would love to see him in a movie devoted to him, with NO cgi...let Savini do the makeup.
Batman Begins was one hell of a movie though. I cannot for the life of me understand:
a) why Nolan completely wasted the momemtum he had coming out of "Begins", and
b) how people can be duped by such a ho-hum movie.
Best comic movies for me, in order, are:
1) History of Violence
2) Iron Man
3) X-Men III
4) V for Vendetta
5) Fantastic Fou: Rise of the Silver Surfer
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ElPixelIlustre: I've seen both Quarantine and [REC] and they are almost the same movie, though I probably prefer the spanish one because I watched it first (spanish actress is also hotter).
Now, some really good recommendations: Oldboy, Seven Samurai, High and Low, 3-iron, Survive Style 5+, The taste of tea, My sassy girl, In the mood for love. (Yeah, they are all asian, that's because I think most of you haven't seen too much asian cinema)

Oldboy fucking RULES! The other two in the "vengeance trilogy" did virtually nothing for me though.
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whodares2: Pulp Fiction and the Shawshank Redemption are a couple of my more favoured movies.
Wait, you actually liked The Last Samurai? What a snore. Catch Me If You Can wasn't a bad film, though.
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michaelleung: Last Samurai is an incredible piece of filmmaking, I actually preferred it to the elitists favorite, "Seven Samurai". Excellently acted, wonderfully directed, with amazing pacing, and some of the best cinematography I have ever seen in a period piece. Then again, Es Zwick ALWAYS makes beautiful looking movies with great pacing. Blood Diamond, Defiance, etc.
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Robbeasy: Standard book adaptaton rules apply, particularly where SK is concerned...
The Book is ALWAYS better than the film....;o)
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RSHabroptilus: And King...erm...King isn't even a very good writer. >_>

incorrect. Stephen King most definitely *is* a great writer, YOU just don't like him. This liberal Gen X concept of "opinion" really upsets me. Things can have an objective "goodness" about them, that can be quantifiably and qualitatively demonstrated. For example, Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorcese *ARE* good directors. Anyone who disagrees with that statement misunderstands the definition of "opinion". One can DISLIKE a good director, but that person is still a good director. One can like a bad movie, but it's still a bad movie.
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