What's The Latest Film You Have Seen?

Michael Scott Miller · 09-03-2011, 02:37 PM

Saw Crazy Stupid Love last night. Very entertaining. Great characters, lots of good lines.

Paedantic Basterd · 09-03-2011, 02:49 PM

Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Not for the first time, but it's been quite a while and I'd forgotten most of it. It was a bit amazing to me to see how much my favourite humour has been influenced by their work.

Mykonos · 09-03-2011, 03:53 PM

The first time I got that film on DVD (it was actually in a boxset with Life of Brian, which I'd already watched with my parents [word to the wise: never watch Life of Brian with your parents]) I ended up watching it about six times in a fortnight. The Bridge of Death scene is still one of my favourite comedy moments now.

crash_override · 09-04-2011, 01:56 PM

Loose Change 9/11: An American Coup

Pretty darned interesting stuff.

hoof123 · 09-05-2011, 06:12 AM

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Loose Change 9/11: An American Coup

Pretty darned interesting stuff.

Quote from the producer: "We don't ever come out and say that everything we say is 100 percent. We know there are errors in the documentary, and we've actually left them in there so that people discredit us and do the research for themselves"

Kinda sounds like its trying to be a wooden spoon stirring the pot.

crash_override · 09-05-2011, 10:33 PM

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Quote from the producer: "We don't ever come out and say that everything we say is 100 percent. We know there are errors in the documentary, and we've actually left them in there so that people discredit us and do the research for themselves"

Kinda sounds like its trying to be a wooden spoon stirring the pot.

I'm not the type of person who believes everything they hear, which explains why I decided to watch the film to begin with. I question their version of events just as much as I do the original story. I don't care which way you shake it, there are still enough holes in the original story and unanswered questions to warrant an official re-investigation. One with a calm, collected, and open-eyed America behind it, not one that is used to push a pre-made agenda on an emotionally vulnerable public. Of course that would involve an American government that still has at least a small connection to the original event admitting it was wrong, I don't think we'll ever see that happen on that large of a scale in our lifetime.

hoof123 · 09-06-2011, 03:39 AM

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I'm not the type of person who believes everything they hear, which explains why I decided to watch the film to begin with. I question their version of events just as much as I do the original story. I don't care which way you shake it, there are still enough holes in the original story and unanswered questions to warrant an official re-investigation. One with a calm, collected, and open-eyed America behind it, not one that is used to push a pre-made agenda on an emotionally vulnerable public. Of course that would involve an American government that still has at least a small connection to the original event admitting it was wrong, I don't think we'll ever see that happen on that large of a scale in our lifetime.

I didn't mean to offend, I merley meant it sounds interesting, to hear different views and differnet opinions and speculation. And yeah I agree, their are allot of inconsistencies either way you look at it.

jackhammer · 09-05-2011, 04:19 PM

This is going to be one of those films that will get better with each viewing and utterly quotable in years to come. The subtle direction and heavy dialogue means that you don't catch everything on first viewing but as soon as I finished watching it I was finding myself chortling to myself regarding certain scenes and itching to watch it again. If you know nothing about it then it doesnt exactly sound tasteful or worthy of a watch: Four Lions is a 2010 British film. It is the debut feature from director Chris Morris, written by Morris, Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong. The film is a Jihad satire following a group of Jihadi homegrown Islamist terrorists from Sheffield, United Kingdom.

Oh Keanu Reeves is in it. It must be a crock. Well he is far better than Ethan Hawke was in the similarly themed Training Day. Decent crime movie although it fell into cliche in the last act. Shame Hugh Laurie is in it. Despite being a Brit myself, I find his acting and accent almost an embarrassment when he portrays a North American.

djchameleon · 09-05-2011, 04:30 PM

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This is going to be one of those films that will get better with each viewing and utterly quotable in years to come. The subtle direction and heavy dialogue means that you don't catch everything on first viewing but as soon as I finished watching it I was finding myself chortling to myself regarding certain scenes and itching to watch it again. If you know nothing about it then it doesnt exactly sound tasteful or worthy of a watch: Four Lions is a 2010 British film. It is the debut feature from director Chris Morris, written by Morris, Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong. The film is a Jihad satire following a group of Jihadi homegrown Islamist terrorists from Sheffield, United Kingdom.

I started watching that on Instant play the other day but I got interrupted and haven't returned to it yet. I loved the first five minutes of it that I saw.

Red Dragon

Before finishing Red Dragon, I was under the impression that the events of this movie took place after Silence of the Lambs but before Hannibal. I found out that it occurs right before Silence of the Lambs.

In this entire series of films, I think that I much prefer Manhunter to any of the others.

jackhammer · 09-05-2011, 04:37 PM

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I started watching that on Instant play the other day but I got interrupted and haven't returned to it yet. I loved the first five minutes of it that I saw.

Red Dragon

Before finishing Red Dragon, I was under the impression that the events of this movie took place after Silence of the Lambs but before Hannibal. I found out that it occurs right before Silence of the Lambs.

In this entire series of films, I think that I much prefer Manhunter to any of the others.

Red Dragon is a remake of Manhunter but it takes its name from the original Lecter book of the same name that WAS a prequel but you are correct, Manhunter is by far the best and IMO Red Dragon is a piece of crap.

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Mykonos AWhatup Ganache? Join Date: May 2011 Posts: 381	The first time I got that film on DVD (it was actually in a boxset with Life of Brian, which I'd already watched with my parents [word to the wise: never watch Life of Brian with your parents]) I ended up watching it about six times in a fortnight. The Bridge of Death scene is still one of my favourite comedy moments now. __________________ 'Not that Becktionary, the Rhyming Becktionary!'- Bender Bending Rodriguez

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jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	This is going to be one of those films that will get better with each viewing and utterly quotable in years to come. The subtle direction and heavy dialogue means that you don't catch everything on first viewing but as soon as I finished watching it I was finding myself chortling to myself regarding certain scenes and itching to watch it again. If you know nothing about it then it doesnt exactly sound tasteful or worthy of a watch: Four Lions is a 2010 British film. It is the debut feature from director Chris Morris, written by Morris, Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong. The film is a Jihad satire following a group of Jihadi homegrown Islamist terrorists from Sheffield, United Kingdom. Oh Keanu Reeves is in it. It must be a crock. Well he is far better than Ethan Hawke was in the similarly themed Training Day. Decent crime movie although it fell into cliche in the last act. Shame Hugh Laurie is in it. Despite being a Brit myself, I find his acting and accent almost an embarrassment when he portrays a North American. __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”

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Paedantic Basterd Music Addict Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 5,184	Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Not for the first time, but it's been quite a while and I'd forgotten most of it. It was a bit amazing to me to see how much my favourite humour has been influenced by their work.