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Old 30th April 2011, 11:16 PM   #8266 (permalink)
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I've seen the first Death Wish movie recently, but not the sequels, and it is hardly a "rampage" movie
Heston had a machinegun in Death Wish 2. And we're talking heavy, two-handed macinegun, not a silly uzi or something. But yeah, the first two thirds are pretty dull even in that. I haven't seen the rest, though.

Anyway, the last movies I saw was Alien and Aliens. Both are excellent, but two very different movies. Which isn't surprising, seeing Alien is a horror movie and Aliens a warmovie. With aliens. So... what's for dinner?
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Old 30th April 2011, 11:59 PM   #8267 (permalink)
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Inception & Alice in Wonderland - I plopped wee little reviews in the appropriate threads. Both enjoyed, but then again I'm easily pleased.

I tend to be 2-3 years behind movie releases. I think the last film I went to see at the cinema was Avatar. Depressing really, but in the area of Germany I live there's painfully few movies shown that haven't been dubbed senseless.
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Old 1st May 2011, 01:30 AM   #8268 (permalink)
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Astro Zombies (1969) - Cult movie legend John Carradine needs fresh body parts to create cyborgs.

I heard this film was one of the worst ever made, and I ignored the movie for many years. However when I finally watched Astro Zombies I found it entertaining, it was fiendishly weird, but a cool B-movie.
The Astro Zombies is one of my favourite films. It's got everything! including solar powered robot zombies, erotic performance dancing, a girl looking down a microscope the wrong way round, John Carradine strapping a lampshade to a corpse's head and some of the most sublimely meaningless techno-babble outside a Star Trek film:
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"Now Franchot, the time has come to test our new brain. We must feed this memory circuit through the emotional quotient rectifier to determine if there is any residual impurity....

(Seventeen or so switches switched, buttons pushed, and rheostats twiddled later...)

"I've introduced into the console the electrolitic limiters which should disallow interference with the programmed patterns function within the body mechanism. Actuate the heart circuit. Excellent! Before we can recall our first creation, we must attempt to override his emotional index by stepping up the voltage and transmission frequency...

(More buttons, switches and rheostats are expertly fondled and suddenly screen is full of red flashing lights! The buttons, switches and rheostats are expertly, but rapidly, fondled in reverse order till they stop.)

"It's obvious the frequency and voltage boost will not effect an override... Franchot, remove number nine from the thermal freeze casket and prepare him for brain transfer and total astro-mobilisation....
I would encourage everyone to see it. I said once, I don't think Ted Mikels directed this movie, I think he just found it in trash cans around Hollywood and glued it together with industrial strength wallpaper paste.
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Old 1st May 2011, 01:55 AM   #8269 (permalink)
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Heston had a machinegun in Death Wish 2. And we're talking heavy, two-handed macinegun, not a silly uzi or something.
Heston was not in Death Wish II. Perhaps you're thinking of The Omega Man? Heston handled several automatic weapons in that film. Pretty much any automatic weapon requires two hands—especially lightweight weapons like the MAC-10. And pistols with burst, like the Beretta 93R, are merely a showy way to waste a lot of ammo. You'll score more hits with a semi-auto or a revolver.

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...and Aliens a warmovie. With aliens.
That was only the action sugar coating, much of which seemed to be straight out of Starship Troopers. The main theme of Aliens was motherhood—Ripley finding a new daughter to replace the one she lost in hypersleep, Newt finding a new mother to replace the one she lost to the bugs, and both mothers knocking heads to insure the survival of their children.
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Old 1st May 2011, 05:02 AM   #8270 (permalink)
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Silkevejen (2004) by Jytte Rex. Sort of Bergman-lite, leisure pace but engaging enough and the combination of fantastic imagery and music is flat out wonderful.
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Old 2nd May 2011, 03:29 AM   #8271 (permalink)
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Saw Thor at the cinema. Fast-paced nonsense, passable entertainment. 3D sucks immensely, at least at the cinema where we saw it.
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Old 2nd May 2011, 04:57 PM   #8272 (permalink)
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Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull. Nonsense, but enjoyable enough. Perhaps all the negativity i heard made me think it was worse than it actually was.
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Old 2nd May 2011, 06:28 PM   #8273 (permalink)
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Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull. Nonsense, but enjoyable enough. Perhaps all the negativity i heard made me think it was worse than it actually was.
I also thought it was good, lived up to the other 3 very easily with better SFX.
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Old 2nd May 2011, 06:57 PM   #8274 (permalink)
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Insidious



Brilliant. Almost pissed my pants and smiled all the way through.
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Old 2nd May 2011, 09:05 PM   #8275 (permalink)
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Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull was terrible. All of it. I'm not sure which was worse: Indy surviving the nuked fridge, or the gun powder floating through the warehouse.
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Old 2nd May 2011, 10:43 PM   #8276 (permalink)
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MUST see Insidious. MUST. No one wants to see it with me, though. Wimps.

I'm loving the Films For Life thing going on on Film 4 at the moment. Today I watched Breakfast at Tiffany's. Never seen it before. Very enjoyable film! Puts to shame everything so called a 'romantic comedy' these days. Loved the party scene and the stealing in the shop.
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Old 2nd May 2011, 10:47 PM   #8277 (permalink)
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I used to argue with my at-the-time gf that my romantic comedies were better than her romantic comedies. I mean, come on, His Girl Friday or Love Actually?
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Old 2nd May 2011, 10:47 PM   #8278 (permalink)
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Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull was terrible. All of it. I'm not sure which was worse: Indy surviving the nuked fridge, or the gun powder floating through the warehouse.
What he said. I saw all four again at Christmas, and it really brings home the differences.
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Old 2nd May 2011, 10:49 PM   #8279 (permalink)
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An animation; "Megamind". Watched it with family and my little cousin and it was so funny! XD
Movie... hum... Black Swan I think. Yep. Black Swan.
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Thor - phwoar
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