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The abrupt ending for me is fairly easy to analyse. The game of cat and mouse is what makes the movie but we never fully see the resolution. This is because in life, we hear all the intermediate details but rarely the end. We are desensitised to the eventual outcome of so many things in life. We seem to concentrate on the grisly details themselves and that's why Tommy Lee Jones is both the first and last voice we hear in the film. How it ends (in death) is inevitable. It's the ambiguity inbetween that we are all interested in. That's my theory anyhow. :D

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I finally got around to watching this. Holy ****, it was good. Before this, the only Guillermo del Toro film I had seen was Hellboy, so it was blown away by how great this was. It's visually stunning, has a great score, a great plot/story, the flow of the film is perfect, etc. I love this movie. I can't wait to see del Toro's take on the Hobbit now.

I just watched Rushmore, which happens to be my favorite move of all times. I think all of you should check it out.

It's the second film by Wes Anderson. It was writen by himself and Owen Wilson and it was the breakout role for Jason Schwartzman. Winner, winner --chicken dinner.

If you love quirky, witty and dark comedy. This is a sure shot.

Saw "Tropic Thunder" this past weekend. I actually thought it was funny, mostly because of Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr.

I saw Tropic Thunder earlier today. It was alright, had some pretty funny moments. Stiller and Downey Jr. did a great job. I still hate Jack Black.

I have recently seen Tropic Thunder and Pineapple Express. Both good.

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I just started watching Deliverance via Netflix for the first time.

I'm nervous.

It's not the latest film I've seen but I saw Hooligans a few weeks ago, and it was the best movie I've seen lately

You mean Green Street? The film sucks. Charlie Hunmans accent is atrocious and the story arc is unrealistic. Get past the in your face violence and the story just falls apart.

Ive seen CAMP ROCK in Disney channel last day.
A little bit noice
Demi Lovato is very beautiful and has a very nice voice. :clap:

I watched the Dark Knight... It's pretty nice...:tramp:

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Dazed and Confused is so great.

I watched Ice Age today, it's been a while since I saw the first one. Makes me smile and hate mankind all at once.

Totally stoked for 3!
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Quite good, made me have a good long think about the human state of mind afterwards but i felt that the film didn't know what it was, i think the fight scenes felt very out of place.
I'll be interested in what JH thinks of this, apparantly it was slated on release but most people i know who've seen it like it.

Two films bolted together to make an unsatisfactory whole. The fight scenes are pretty cool and it could have made a good action film. However the view of a fascist future is intriguing but feels lost amid the fight scenes.

If you want to watch something that is intriguing and set in the future then check out 'Dark City'. A brilliant film and just released in the long awaited director cut too.

Dark City (1998)

Sounds intriguing, i'll add it to my enormous mental list of must-sees.

^^will be checking out 'Dark City'... as for Equilibrium I loved the 'gun kata'.. but like you said it just wasn't solid, like a patchwork of dystopian cliches (yes those bloody bleak dystopian futurescapes again!)

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Speaking of which I just bought and watched Jean Luc-Godard's sci-fi/noir 'Alphaville' on VHS as part of a personal campaign to embrace French cinema once and for all. 'Alpha 60' is the super-advanced computer that controls a giant city of French automatons where emotion is banned and logic is law. Going on the only other Godard film I've seen (Breathless) was good cause I loved this. Cheap and cheerful, everything you want from yer grainy arthouse fun-fest.

edit: the main protagonist is called Lemmy Caution. nuff sed

OOOOOOOOOO French cinema. I will return with some pointers after the footie 2nd half.

Finally watched Some Kind of Monster just now. Not sure if it was worth the massive wait but i got a few laughs out of it and i'm enjoying some good old riffage right now. Does anyone else find that they watch a doc about a band and end up listening to them for the next week obsessively?

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Watching it now... yikes.

Alphaville is awesome. Have you seen 8 1/2 yet Molecules?

possibly saw it in a film lecture many moons ago. that's Fellini right? and i'm an idiot for not knowing straight away?

i loved the mustaine/ulrich therapy session, hilarious. you just know he'd been spraying mouthfuls of whisky on their pictures for the last 20 years

smart people was suprisingly good. i think it's just because i like the dood from sideways, and he's in it too.

Saw both of these yesterday...


Heavenly Creatures
9/10

Long before Peter Jackson made the Lord of the Rings movies he made this fucked up, based on a true story drama about the obsessive relationship between two teenage girls from Christchurch New Zealand and the murder it lead to. This was the movie that first made people take notice that Jackson might be more than just a gore-comedy prankster and also Kate Winslet's big screen debut. I've been meaning to see it since I was first turned on to Peter Jackson by The Frighteners and this movie definitely did not disappoint.


Menace II Society
9/10

Another movie I've been meaning to see for years. Great movie, though holy crap was it depressing. It has a reputation for being a much more cynical Boyz n the Hood and I'd say that's a pretty accurate description. Also noteworthy for being both the Hughes brothers' first movie as well as Jada Pinkett's debut. Highly recommended but don't expect to be in a chipper mood afterward.

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This is one of 2 Die Hard movies i've seen (the other being Die Hard with a Vengance) and wow it was a very great action moive, Brue Willis shows that you can never be too old to kick ass.

You've never seen the first one? I'd really recommend checking it out. It's far superior to the others IMO.

I saw The Shawshank Redemption the other night:


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It was the 1st time I've seen it since it was in the theaters. I really felt for Andy: He had to deal with so much as an innocent man, but I was so happy that in the end he got his revenge not only on Warden Norton, but Hadley as well for giving him a really hard time when he first arrived in that Maine prison. I liked Red alot too: Him and Andy were the epitome of the word "friendship." The ending was so sweet when Andy left Red the funds to meet him in that seaside town in Mexico. I shed some tears.

^Saywhatjanayo ;)

Shawshank is one of my favorite movies of all time. Always makes me cry, despite the fact it is a rather happy ending... but ****, all the stuff those guys go through, y'know?... Red was my favorite character in the movie. Red is ****ing awesome. He's achieved redemption and he's still a wise-crackin' bad ass. Reminds me of my grandfather, a recovering-alcoholic (30some years now) with a razor-sharp tongue ha.

apparently shawshank flopped in theatres (allow the UK spelling) on release but found it's success on home video like so many 'classics'... erm only Blade Runner springs to mind at the mo. Shawshank was always a bit high on melodrama for me, chick flick?

I wouldn't really call Shawshank a chick flick...

yeah too far... i always laugh when the fat guy gets beaten up. plus William Sadler is in it (Tales of the Crypt) :D
I never understood these prison break/POW movies where the imprisoned escape by digging tunnels and disposing of the soil and concrete during daily exercises, presumably kept in little pouches in their trousers. You wonder how many of the real-life cases actually made it. I think the Birdman of Alcatraz died, but Clint Eastwood made it okay.

Didn't King say Shawshank was based on a real guy's story? In Maine?

I will check it out then. :D

I just saw the Planet Terrorz. Great movie. Now Death Proof.

Smart People. Better than I expected.

Dark Knight

Rocknrolla.

I'm surprised. I was ready to write this off. But the soundtrack was chock-a-block with 60s garage rock, the characters were interesting and actually made up for the somewhat imperfect story.

No Lockstock, but still good.

Yeah but Lock stock has not held up too well TBH. I will still champion 'Revolver'. I love it :D