MyADSL Movie Thread

original version is just this quietly creepy film, nothing major, no big budget.. but if you're a film geek its worth looking at.. it has a nice mood, and very little explanation for much of what happens.. early John Carpenter, the awesome director of The Thing, Halloween, The Fog (original) Escape From New York and a few other goodies..
 
They showed it on SABC 1 about a year ago, one of the very few movies on that channel that I've watched all the way to the end.. everything is very 70's so don't expect to get blown away. The soundtrack is eerie as well, it recently got covered by 65 Days of Static, which was why I watched the movie.
 
the prestige- gonna go watch it tomorrow. Anyone seen it yet? I see it's out on the net already...
 
Watched Blood diamond instead. :eek: Wow, I thought it was excellent. Despite Leo's accent coming and going.

Nice to see so many SA actors in it( like The Mummy :)) and some nice shot of Cape Town as well.
 
Just saw:
IKINAI (Suicide Bus Tour) - weird but very cool story about a bunch of guys who sign up for a mass suicide using a bus..
JAPAN SINKS - big budget disaster movie, reasonably fun, some nice tidal waves :)
THE STREET FIGHTER - my first Sonny Chiba flick. Obviously tacky but damn, very mean kung fu..
THE SAMURAI TRILOGY (Criterion release) awesome three film collection about the making of a samurai, pretty good.
THE FOX FAMILY - weird and somewhat gory cool Korean musical, about a family of foxes who become humans..
SCARED STRAIGHT - documentary about program to shove stupid juvenile delinquent kids in with hardcore convicts who scare the crap out of them and show the kids what prison life is really like..(thus 'scaring them straight')
 
Looks like I'll finally be able to see The Departed :D
 
Watched "Stranger than Fiction" last night.

Very weird movie, and the ending is all to wishy washy....
 
Syndyre said:
Its not exactly one of those deep, "change your life" movies but its a good, entertaining movie, wouldn't mind watching it again actually.
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This is true. But there are certainly enough twists and turns to keep you involved.
 
Well i am back. :p Rocky was not bad. Better than I had thought it would be. Don;t go into it expecting a lot of boxing like in the others, because there really isn't much, but it was a decent flick.

Please, no more after this one though!
 
Watched Dreamgirls last night. As we went in there was a sign saying "Warining - this movie is extremely loud" which we found a bit puzzling, but man was it right!

This movie is basically a 2 hour long music video and my goodness, is it ever loud! It was almost like being at a concert rather than a movie.

It certainly wont be everyone's cup of tea. Four older-looking people walked out after about 15 or 20 minutes.

There is a LOT of singing. Most of it is the girls performing on stage at some or other venue during their career, but at some points the characters just breakout into song, a la The Lion King, which really spoilt it for me. There really is very little spoken dialog in this piece to speak of.

I thought the acting was not bad, but most of it was singing so I don't know if that is the same thing....

Interested to see what other people thought of it.

For now, be warned- it is loud and long and full of song! :p :)
 
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