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Zhang Yimous remake of Blood Simple, what the what?

BopNiblets — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:19:08 GMT

Did he watch the same film I did? :P
And what's with the different tiles?
Amazing Tales: Three Guns / The First Gun / San qiang pai an jing qi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX0csg6SFUA (no subtitled trailer yet that I could find)

Ah no, it will be interesting to see what he makes of it even if it looks completely different.

one flew over the cuckoo's nest ratched

wolfric — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:53:14 GMT

Nurse Ratched has been said to be one of the most evil characters in film (or at least way up there). Watching this movie though she just seems like a lot of the primary school and a few secondary school teachers I've had (and one of my parents when i was youngish). Does anyone else get these similarities?

The devils backbone and cronos

Vampireskiss — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:33:57 GMT

How good are these movies?

New Moon beats Dark Knight

Richard Dower — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:51:51 GMT

What the hell?.....24m in the 12 midnight shows?, projected 150m three day...willit make a billion?

http://www.hitfix.com/articles/2009-...idnight-record

26.3 million!

Escape to victory ! What a movie !

super_metroid — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:18:39 GMT

who else saw it on rte 2 on wednesday night

Mis-Casting Major Roles

jpfahy — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:07:48 GMT

I'm starting a thread here for your opinions on big roles in cinema history that were miscast.

My own vote goes to Dustin Hoffman in 'The Graduate'. This film was a huge success and is well regarded but I believe Hoffman was a terrible choice for the lead. He was however nominated for an Oscar.
Plot Synopsis: A disillusioned college graduate is seduced by a friend of his parents (Ann Bancroft - superb casting). He subsequently falls in love with this woman's daughter (Katharine Ross - great casting again). True love triumphs - iconic final scene as the bride runs from the altar into Hoffman's arms and they run off together
Apparently Robert Redford tested for the role and in my opinion would have done a better job as I believe the role called for a good looking All-American type. Hoffman just isn't believable as a guy who a married woman would try to seduce and a beautiful girl would give up all for.
Opinions please

Harry Brown

peter_sligo — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:52:23 GMT

has anyone gone to see this film yet. if not its amazing and defo worth it.

Cinema and the recession

meglome — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:36:20 GMT

I was at one of the opening shows of Star Trek in the Savoy a little while back and I'm not exaggerating when I say the 800 seater Savoy 1 was half empty. For the opening of a new blockbuster on a Sunday (i think), I was surprised. I was talking to some of the staff and they were surprised as in the previous recession in the 1980's they did quite well. But it starting me thinking about it, I live in Dublin City Centre so why wasn't I in the cinema more often.

Was talking to a friend of mine earlier today about the cinema. We both love going to the cinema, like a lot of other Irish people, but we both haven't gone that much recently. I'd see the Virgin/UGC/Cineworld cinema and the queues would be out the door but I haven't see that in a few years.

I have to put this mainly down to cost. It's twenty quid (plus in some places) for two tickets and with snacks you're looking at 30 quid and that's without the travel cost to and from the cinema. The Cineworld unlimited card is 20quid when it started off it was 10 (as far as I remember anyway). With pirate DVD's available for 5 Euro or less (I know the quality is often ****e) and the movies out on official DVD so quickly after the cinema release, plus downloads. A lot of people have big wide screen tv's to watch the movies on at home so it ends up being not worth the trip.

I suppose what I'm saying is the pricing structure in our cinemas right now is nuts and will only lead to further deceases in the numbers of those attending the movies. This is a recession, people want distractions but they need to be distractions they can afford. I won't hold my breath on it though.

What do you think the cinemas should do? Or maybe I'm blowing the problem out of proportion.

Catherine Hardwicke's directing....?

Richard Dower — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:11:58 GMT

OK, so i watched Twilight months ago, couldn't understand for the life of me the appeal/hype. Sky movies showing it now....watched it three times.

Leaving aside the story/acting...what about Hardwicke as a director?, the cinematography for the film?

Thing is, i found some of the dolly shots and cinematography very amatuerish, she tried to add style on occasion, like the shots in the forrest where Bella confronts Edward, then the love scene lying on the forest floor.

I mean, i kinda see what she was going for, but the shots look very jerky and badly thought out, her editing in such scenes as well, she'll have a tracking shot and cut to a closeup. It just just very choppy.

Like she trying to add style but dosen't have a clue how to pull it off right, who was the cinematographer?

What do you think of Hardwice and points above?

Star Wars live at the O2

krudler — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:25:47 GMT

This will probably get more interest here rather than in the gig forum, but theres a Star Wars Live in concert show in the O2 on March 7 2010, should be awesome, always wanted to hear the music played live by an orchestra, details here:

http://blueroom.o2online.ie/Gig-and-...n-Concert.aspx

"Leap Year", the "Darby O'Gill and The Little People" of our time?

hacx — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:56:49 GMT

"I need someone to drive me from Cardiff to Dublin"
She should've just gotten the ferry from Hollyhead.

People who walk out of a movie...

Skinfull — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:47:20 GMT

People are walking out of the cinema...is this new or did I just not notice it before?

Even if a movie is realy bad I tend to stay till the end because well, A) I paid money, B) I usually have popcorn to eat and C) I gotta see how much worse its gonna get.

Went to see Descent 2 in the IFI for the horrorfest and 2 sets of 2 people walked out, one after just 30 mins the other after about an hour.
During the Thing screening in the Screen a week ago one guy walked out after 40 or so minutes. This isnt a new movie! He knew what he was gonna get surely!

Gamer, Halloween 2, Inglorious Basterds, Funny People, Julie and Julia, Sunshine Cleaning...all these movies I caught during the summer and people walked out...whats goin on?:confused:

Ticket for Seraphine

Catenaccio! — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:59:49 GMT

Have a spare ticket for Seraphine (Friday at 6:15) if anybody is interested.

Link to film - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1048171/

Thanks.

Harry brown, gread movie but loads of people walked out!

tuxy — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:56:55 GMT

Hey,
Went to see Harry brown a few hours ago. Too tired to give a review but it was excellent. However the violence in it was very graphic. The all 3 girls and one guy left with over half an our left. Some of them felt physical ill because of what they saw on screen. I saw other women that were in the cinema leave before the half way point.
This is the first time I have seen so many pople leave before the end.I was surprised as it is one of the best movies I have seen this year.
So has anyone else on here seen it and did this happen where you were watching it?

online dvd rental?

doctor evil — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:46:10 GMT

Any decent ones for more obscure or foreign cinema. Is Laser still good.