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  • #32
    ED E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,094 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    We got some of those Jamo speakers with out short throw projector(about 8 inches from the wall but 7" projection) and they're lovely once you set them up. They havent got the nice wood finish though:p


  • #33
    Scubadevils
    Subscribers Posts: 8,325 ✭✭✭Scubadevils


    Lethal_Bullet wrote: »
    We got some of those Jamo speakers with out short throw projector(about 8 inches from the wall but 7" projection) and they're lovely once you set them up. They havent got the nice wood finish though:p

    Meant to add actually, got them in black gloss finish - that wood is a bit 80s for me :pac:


  • #34
    ED E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,094 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    Actually, has Top Gun been remastered for 5.1?


  • #35
    Ddisco
    Closed Accounts Posts: 60 ✭✭Ddisco


    Bladerunner is visually stunning and the soundtrack is superb - should be good on your new system


  • #36
    Scubadevils
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    Ddisco wrote: »
    Bladerunner is visually stunning and the soundtrack is superb - should be good on your new system

    Good call, must see if thats on Blu Ray.


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  • #37
    Is mise le key
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,344 ✭✭✭Is mise le key


    How about a couple of war movies,

    Saving private Ryan Very good & great in full stereo

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    We were soldiers Very very good, a must see.

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    Platoon Very very very good one of the best ever made

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    Full metal jacket Priceless, one that will give you more & more each time you watch it

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    Apocalypse now Outstanding.

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    EDIT:

    I would say in particular, as with most of Kubricks films, Full metal jacket has an amazing score & sound effects in all the right places.


  • #38
    Zascar
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,615 Mod ✭✭✭✭Zascar


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_eTV4lRJYU


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7fUIWqRsC4


  • #39
    jtsuited
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,401 ✭✭✭jtsuited


    Aw yeah, Full Metal Jacket. Hilarious, hard-hitting, beautifully made, the score, jeepers the score!!!! Bit of a Kubrick fanboy.

    But Apocalypse Now is just, ah I can't even put it into words. It's so good it makes other really good films seem crap in comparison. It's one of those rare movies that looks stunning, yadda yadda, but there's a real philosophical insight there into the way humans react to situations. The deepest darkest recesses of human nature are so perfectly investigated.

    (Zascar cover your eyes for the next part of my post!)
    I actually lost the will to live during Avatar. Saw it in 3d. First 15 minutes were amazing with the 'woah look at that, that's so cool', but Jesus, talk about a braindead movie. There's more depth to an average episode of Xfactor than there is in that abomination of a motion picture.

    Then I tried just saying to myself 'it's just for kids, enjoy it', but I really couldn't, and I'm a huge fan of most kids' movies (Shrek, all the Pixar stuff, feck it Agent Cody Banks was entertaining), but Avatar was just plain dumb.


  • #40
    Is mise le key
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,344 ✭✭✭Is mise le key


    jtsuited wrote: »
    (Zascar cover your eyes for the next part of my post!)
    I actually lost the will to live during Avatar. Saw it in 3d. First 15 minutes were amazing with the 'woah look at that, that's so cool', but Jesus, talk about a braindead movie. There's more depth to an average episode of Xfactor than there is in that abomination of a motion picture.

    .

    This is where you get a lambasting for your post above:mad:

    Say what you like about any movie but do not dare bring X-Factor into the proceedings when doing it, X-Factor just dives to a level of utter retardedness that is uncomprehensible that it cannot be used as a tool for giving a movie a roasting. I am disgusted you even assocciated something that has merit on many levels of creativity, even if its not your bag, with that pile of sh.ite that is devoid of any imaginative creativity whatsoever.:mad:


  • #41
    jtsuited
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,401 ✭✭✭jtsuited


    Is mise le key wrote: »
    This is where you get a lambasting for your post above:mad:

    Say what you like about any movie but do not dare bring X-Factor into the proceedings when doing it, X-Factor just dives to a level of utter retardedness that is uncomprehensible that it cannot be used as a tool for giving a movie a roasting. I am disgusted you even assocciated something that has merit on many levels of creativity, even if its not your bag, with that pile of sh.ite that is devoid of any imaginative creativity whatsoever.:mad:

    well the funny thing is, that avatar is most popular amongst the people who watch xfactor (1 in 6 people 2 weeks ago watched XFactor). I actually think that Avatar brought stupidity in movies to a brave new level. 'Unobtainium'?
    I thought that it was a sort of ironic joke when I heard (before seeing the movie) that the mineral was called Unobtainium. Needless to say, it wasn't.


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  • #42
    jtsuited
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,401 ✭✭✭jtsuited


    Is mise le key wrote: »
    is devoid of any imaginative creativity whatsoever.:mad:

    what's the name of that movie that took the old Pocahontas narrative (which has been done to death in hundreds of movies,books,songs,poems) and did it up with blue cgi creatures?

    If that's creativity to you, fair enough. It's just colours and special effects to me. Nothing imaginative or creative about it.


  • #43
    jtsuited
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,401 ✭✭✭jtsuited


    avatar-pocahontas-500x486.jpg


  • #44
    Android 666
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,577 ✭✭✭Android 666


    Is mise le key wrote: »
    This is where you get a lambasting for your post above:mad:

    Say what you like about any movie but do not dare bring X-Factor into the proceedings when doing it, X-Factor just dives to a level of utter retardedness that is uncomprehensible that it cannot be used as a tool for giving a movie a roasting. I am disgusted you even assocciated something that has merit on many levels of creativity, even if its not your bag, with that pile of sh.ite that is devoid of any imaginative creativity whatsoever.:mad:

    Seriously Is mise, there's no need to be getting so pent up about it. Its true that X Factor has a better script and special effects (it nearly had me convinced that Cheryl Cole can sing) but that's not to say that Avatar is a really bad film, its just JT's take on it.


  • #45
    Is mise le key
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,344 ✭✭✭Is mise le key


    Is mise le key wrote: »
    I am disgusted you even assocciated something that has merit on many levels of creativity, even if its not your bag, with that pile of sh.ite that is devoid of any imaginative creativity whatsoever.:mad:
    jtsuited wrote: »
    It's just colours and special effects to me. Nothing imaginative or creative about it.

    Now i know it could have been easily missed as context is really hard to convey in text a lot of the time,

    My post you quoted did not reference when talking about Avatar in the first part of it that it was imaginative if you look back at it, the reason being was that even when i went to see it when it first came out & reported back to a big film fan here i work with what i thought i did say at that point that the story has been told a hundred times & that i could see him drawing on a lot of his own work from the past aswell & also on the never ending story of corruption & the the powerful V's the weak.

    The merit i referenced on the creative side is that i do think all of what was mentioned above was brought together in a fantasic way & was very very entertaining.

    I wasnt really annoyed at the X-factor analogie lads just didnt want to get roasted by Jeff if i inserted one of these :rolleyes:


  • #46
    Scubadevils
    Subscribers Posts: 8,325 ✭✭✭Scubadevils


    I'm really not a fan of big Hollywood productions anymore - Avatar was a good example of that - it was so hyped up that I had to see it in 3D before it finished in the cinema - left pretty disappointed. As I said, I liked the concept but typical Hollywood format though that appeals to the masses... which from a business perspective and generating profit you can understand.

    As mentioned in the cellotape thread :pac: I love foreign movies and watched some pretty decent examples over the last while... most recently 'La Haine' which was a good flick.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk77VrkxL88


  • #47
    Is mise le key
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,344 ✭✭✭Is mise le key


    Just posting a link to a post i made in the random, x-factor, nom nom nom, adhesive history thread that would be relevant here,

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=69191488&postcount=2656


  • #48
    Scubadevils
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    I really loved Pans Labyrinth - watched it about a year ago but its lined up to watch again. Interesting actually that my view of the ending differs to that of most others - I won't air that view in case anyone hasn't seen it!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqYiSlkvRuw


  • #49
    Scubadevils
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    That Battle Royal looks interesting, also a fan of Japanese movies - especially by Akira Kurosawa - plan to collect most of his work, especially after watching 'The Seven Samurai'

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_Kurosawa

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZl2M8BLERs


  • #50
    joker77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,111 ✭✭✭joker77


    Is mise le key wrote: »
    Just posting a link to a post i made in the random, x-factor, nom nom nom, adhesive history thread that would be relevant here,

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=69191488&postcount=2656
    Have seen all three of those, strange ones alright. Man Bites Dog is quite harsh in places


  • #51
    joker77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,111 ✭✭✭joker77


    Scubadevils wrote: »
    That Battle Royal looks interesting, also a fan of Japanese movies - especially by Akira Kurosawa - plan to collect most of his work, especially after watching 'The Seven Samurai'

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_Kurosawa
    Have it downloaded, along with a tonne of other 'classics' - haven't watched it yet. Have you watched Rashomon? Haven't gotten round to it yet either, supposed to be excellent.

    Edit: Just saw that's another Akira Kurosawa one so it's probably on your list


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  • #52
    Is mise le key
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,344 ✭✭✭Is mise le key


    joker77 wrote: »
    Man Bites Dog is quite harsh in places

    Thats an understatment, very dark & black film alright, equally i found that gangster number one in the long scene near the end of it very well put together in terms of how you are perceiving whats happening but also very harsh.


  • #53
    Android 666
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,577 ✭✭✭Android 666


    Scubadevils wrote: »
    I'm really not a fan of big Hollywood productions anymore - Avatar was a good example of that - it was so hyped up that I had to see it in 3D before it finished in the cinema - left pretty disappointed. As I said, I liked the concept but typical Hollywood format though that appeals to the masses... which from a business perspective and generating profit you can understand.

    As mentioned in the cellotape thread :pac: I love foreign movies and watched some pretty decent examples over the last while... most recently 'La Haine' which was a good flick.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk77VrkxL88

    Yeah that's one of the one's I'd put up. Great film - great ending to it.

    Other ones to watch:



    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YydulEgsTOE


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b44paD20O3M


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLGrXGEMOSo



    A strange doc about the club kids over in America. Might be hard to track down but worth watching



  • #54
    Is mise le key
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,344 ✭✭✭Is mise le key


    Heres one i havnt seen in ages but thought was great, and before jeff wades in again yes i know the story has been done before but this is a better version of this type of story:D

    187

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    Liked this one a lot also,

    The game

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  • #55
    jimi_t2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,002 ✭✭✭jimi_t2


    Ok, I'm just going to put up a scene from Gummo again as I can't stress it enough. WATCH IT, preferably under some intoxicant

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5pMaY3Fb9A


  • #56
    Is mise le key
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,344 ✭✭✭Is mise le key


    .


  • #57
    Scubadevils
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    Android 666 wrote: »
    Yeah that's one of the one's I'd put up. Great film - great ending to it.

    I was :confused: initially but looked back and so you did :pac: Yeah its a great film alright.

    Saw this one in HMV the other day, looks good - 'Carlos The Jackal'. Anyone seen it?

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Carlos-The-Jackal-Complete-DVD/dp/B003YXZIW0/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1290608606&sr=1-1


  • #58
    Scubadevils
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    joker77 wrote: »
    Have it downloaded, along with a tonne of other 'classics' - haven't watched it yet. Have you watched Rashomon? Haven't gotten round to it yet either, supposed to be excellent.

    Edit: Just saw that's another Akira Kurosawa one so it's probably on your list

    Not seen Rashomon yet but on the list alright - another great one is 'Ran'

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ran-DVD-Tatsuya-Nakadai/dp/B000I5XNJC/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1290608706&sr=1-1

    Also really want to see this one by him -

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ikiru-DVD-Takashi-Shimura/dp/B0000BZNJ7/ref=sr_1_12?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1290608743&sr=1-12
    IKIRU tells the tale of a lowly clerk who is diagnosed with a terminal illness and is spirited away from his dull, unfulfilled existence into a more rewarding way of life. He experiences deep self-pity when he first hears of the news, folowed by a bout of pure hedonism, but his real vocation lies in his construction of a children's playground.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AoKhCMSKNU


  • #59
    Android 666
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,577 ✭✭✭Android 666


    Brilliant, just brilliant



  • #60
    Is mise le key
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,344 ✭✭✭Is mise le key


    One not to forget i have watched repeatedly & never gets old,

    Snatch

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  • #61
    joker77
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    Is mise le key wrote: »
    One not to forget i have watched repeatedly & never gets old,

    Snatch
    Ah Snatch, the memories. I know that film line by line, off by heart. Reason being I was working in Australia in 2001, on a farm, pruning peach trees. The 'recreational room' in the hostel I was staying in had a VCR player, and about 4 videos - 3 shít ones and Snatch. Over the few weeks I was there I must have watched it at least 20 times. Still watch it every now and again, a classic in my book.


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