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    #7022
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    i have it on dvd and it does have that song cut out of it, but i was pretty happy about it.. always thought that was the weakest part of the movie :D


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    #7023
    Mickeroo
    Administrators, Computer Games Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 32,181 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Mickeroo


    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »
    i have it on dvd and it does have that song cut out of it, but i was pretty happy about it.. always thought that was the weakest part of the movie :D

    Your heart is a cold and desolate place Sir Digby Chicken Caesar :pac:


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    #7024
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    and every day it's getting worse!


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    #7025
    Hank Scorpio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,631 ✭✭✭✭Hank Scorpio


    Tremors last night, Tremors 2 tonight :)


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    #7026
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    Mickeroo wrote: »
    Your heart is a cold and desolate place Sir Digby Chicken Caesar :pac:

    they still have it in the end credits :) and I listened to it all
    it's still ****e :)


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    #7027
    Judgement Day
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,549 ✭✭✭✭Judgement Day


    Despite having bought in a selection of excellent movies specifically for Christmas, I found myself watching those offered by RTE, TG4 etc....Quantum of Solace 4/10 - predictable and the action scenes were tame; The Great Escape - if ever a film was misnamed - but it has stood the test of time and what a star studded cast (!) 9/10; True Grit - the John Wayne one - still hits the spot after all these years 9/10; Independence Day - still awful and I have it on DVD so why did I inflict it on myself again - 4/10; and an odd piece of unseasonal scheduling The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008) which I found strangely compelling but did not change my belief that 'the only good terrorist is a dead one'. Polish actress Johanna Wokalek (below) played the stereotypical 1970s radical/terrorist to perfection.

    images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSVCFhVP0f16RekK2HynoqPMMFNij7Gh38FKcvXiox0RhER42Iz

    Kids here today so I expect to be watching 'The Yellow Submarine' and Doctor Who amongst many others. Happy Christmas. :D


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    #7028
    psychward
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭psychward


    Tipsy McSwagger wrote: »
    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - really didn't like it and couldn't wait for it to finally end.

    After watching that movie I still couldn't tell you what it was about. Instant amnesia. I was expecting a comedy... was it ????


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    #7029
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 29,195 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    psychward wrote: »
    After watching that movie I still couldn't tell you what it was about. Instant amnesia. I was expecting a comedy... was it ????

    It's a romance. A genre deconstruction. A poignant examination of the fragile nature of memory. An affectionate but satirical take on science fiction ideas. A cinematic commentary on traditional screenplay structures. A technical marvel. A character study. An acting, writing and directing masterclass.

    And yes, it is often quite funny.


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    #7030
    psychward
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭psychward


    johnny_ultimate wrote: »
    It's a romance. A genre deconstruction. A poignant examination of the fragile nature of memory. An affectionate but satirical take on science fiction ideas. A cinematic commentary on traditional screenplay structures. A technical marvel. A character study. An acting, writing and directing masterclass.

    And yes, it is often quite funny.

    hmm maybe I should try watching it again when I'm not fatigued and want to switch my brain off. I didn't really enjoy Kill Bill either but then again I watched both movies while half asleep.


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    #7031
    e_e
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭e_e


    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »
    watched zatoichi, hana bi and the life and death of colonel blimp so far this xmas
    tonight ill watch battle royale and memories of a murder
    tomorrow the secrets of their eyes, a matter of life and death and a muppets xmas carol

    good times


    Hana-bi's amazing! One of those films who's beauty catches up with you hours after you've just seen it.


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    #7032
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 29,195 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    psychward wrote: »
    hmm maybe I should try watching it again when I'm not fatigued and want to switch my brain off. I didn't really enjoy Kill Bill either but then again I watched both movies while half asleep.

    Give it another go with your full, undivided attention (how all films need to be watched, really). I watched it when it first came out as a teenager and without a word of exaggeration it really changed the way I watch and engage with cinema. While everyone is more than entitled to their opinion, seeing it dismissed as merely 'boring' is a disappointing one.
    e_e wrote: »
    Hana-bi's amazing! One of those films who's beauty catches up with you hours after you've just seen it.

    A fine film indeed. Got a Kitano boxset (happily devoid of the six or seven films of his I've already seen :)) yesterday so looking to catching up with some more of his filmography!


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    #7033
    Mickeroo
    Administrators, Computer Games Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 32,181 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Mickeroo


    psychward wrote: »
    After watching that movie I still couldn't tell you what it was about. Instant amnesia. I was expecting a comedy... was it ????

    Best film I've ever seen.


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    #7034
    Nolanger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,556 ✭✭✭Nolanger


    1900 - all 5 hours. Donald Sutherland stole the movie.


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    #7035
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    johnny_ultimate wrote: »



    A fine film indeed. Got a Kitano boxset (happily devoid of the six or seven films of his I've already seen :)) yesterday so looking to catching up with some more of his filmography!

    that the sonatine/zatoichi/dolls/hana bi box set?

    I stupidly left sonatine and dolls at my apartment for the xmas break at my parents, been wanting to watch sonatine for the last 2 days.


    slight change in movie plans for tonight, shall be watching rainbow song and all about lily chou chou.
    <3 me some shunji iwai

    oh, and i watched a bittersweet life last night
    forgot how awesome that movie is. kinda tempted to watcfh it again today


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    #7036
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 29,195 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    It's a six film boxset of some of the lesser known ones - Scene at the Sea, Violent Cop, Kids Return etc... Sonatine is in it too, but I've only seen the first half hour before!

    Check out Kikujiro if you haven't seen it - still my favourite from the man. And Outage is finally out on DVD and it's terrific fun.


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    #7037
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    yeah ive seen them, loved kikujiro and scene at the sea but for some reason I just couldn't get into violent cop. maybe it deserves a rewatch. I was the same with outrage. decent movie, but it just didn't grab me in the same way most of kitanos do, it was just a standard fare.. decent movie


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    #7038
    tayto lover
    Registered Users Posts: 51,652 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    True Grit -- watched it again yesterday. Love the cowboy films.


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    #7039
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 29,195 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »
    yeah ive seen them, loved kikujiro and scene at the sea but for some reason I just couldn't get into violent cop. maybe it deserves a rewatch. I was the same with outrage. decent movie, but it just didn't grab me in the same way most of kitanos do, it was just a standard fare.. decent movie

    Will get back when I've given them a watch :) Saw Takeshis recently and wasn't best impressed so need some vintage Beat.


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    #7040
    AnnyHallsal
    Registered Users Posts: 4,117 ✭✭✭AnnyHallsal


    My Neighbour Totoro and Ponyo.

    Cannot stop google image searching Totoro - I love that guy!


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    #7041
    JohnK
    Registered Users Posts: 4,780 ✭✭✭JohnK


    Saw Arthur Christmas in the cinema today and it was one of the funniest christmas movies I've seen in a good while. Started off very well and while it got a bit weak in the middle it picked up again towards the end.


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    #7042
    Nolanger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,556 ✭✭✭Nolanger


    Carry on abroad - funny enough effort.


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    #7043
    Dr Bill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 635 ✭✭✭Dr Bill


    The entire series of Star Trek episodes featuring The Borg,not a film I know but great stuff all the same:rolleyes:. Going to see Sherlock Holmes later.


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    #7044
    Technocentral
    Registered Users Posts: 6,101 ✭✭✭Technocentral


    Dr Bill wrote: »
    The entire series of Star Trek episodes featuring The Borg,not a film I know but great stuff all the same:rolleyes:. Going to see Sherlock Holmes later.


    Is this the boxset your talking about, would love to get the Borg episodes?

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Star-Trek-Fan-Collective-Borg/dp/B000FII16W/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1324999977&sr=8-4


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    #7045
    Tech3
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    The tournament - Bunch of hitmen take part in a survival tournament for money. Some good stunts but the story has been done before. Worth a watch though.

    The Adjustment Bureau - Matt Damon stars. Unknown forces want him to make the correct choices in his path to a high profile job. One of the best films of 2011.


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    #7046
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 29,195 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    Sonatine - a surreal but inventive yakuza movie. Plot is a minor concern here, the emphasis instead on absurdist setpieces and a dreamlike tone punctuated by the odd burst of ultraviolence. Quite unlike anything else, it lacks the insight of the best Kitano movies but is still an endearing, charismatic and inventive work.


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    #7047
    mike65
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    Waterloo (1970) Okay I'm cheating here. I decided to just watch the epic battle of Sergei Bondarchuks Waterloo, 15,000 Soviet foot soldiers and 2,000 cavalrymen charging across the Ukraine countryside in a $30,000,000 production that makes any modern historical epic look like a kitchen sink drama.


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    #7048
    Dr Bill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 635 ✭✭✭Dr Bill


    Is this the boxset your talking about, would love to get the Borg episodes?

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Star-Trek-Fan-Collective-Borg/dp/B000FII16W/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1324999977&sr=8-4[/Quote]

    Yes all Borg episodes from Enterprise,Next Generation and Voyager. Purchased from your Amazon link.


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    #7049
    Technocentral
    Registered Users Posts: 6,101 ✭✭✭Technocentral


    Dr Bill wrote: »
    Is this the boxset your talking about, would love to get the Borg episodes?

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Star-Trek-Fan-Collective-Borg/dp/B000FII16W/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1324999977&sr=8-4

    Yes all Borg episodes from Enterprise,Next Generation and Voyager. Purchased from your Amazon link.[/Quote]

    Not available but seen it on Play for €17, cheers.


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    #7050
    crazygeryy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,065 ✭✭✭crazygeryy


    Don't be afraid of the dark.
    I thought it was good.not very scary but good story and the creatures in it were very good to.but katie holmes was god awful there may as well have been a card board cut out of her there instead.

    Snowtown
    Its based on the australian serial killer john bunting.its harrowing viewing but very well acted and an excellent movie.


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    #7051
    rednik
    Registered Users Posts: 5,154 ✭✭✭rednik


    Apollo 18. Made on a small budget this is not a bad film but it could have been so much better. Worth a rent at best.

    Cowboys and Aliens. Not as bad as I had imagined after all I had heard. Well made with great action and a good cast. Again worth a rent.


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