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duckysauce wrote: »just watched it once you cut through the cheese its very good
, Tom Hardy is excellent as usual
he's built like a brick sh1thouse in it isnt it, bodes well for him playing Bane.0 -
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hungoverbunny wrote: »i read somewhere he's gonna be bigger again in batman...
if this is anything to go by:
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Fishooks12 wrote: »Fast Five
I realise action films take some liberty when it comes to reality but the this really takes the piss. The first ten minutes alone break nearly every law of physics and common sense.
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Knowing (2009) - RTE last night - on in the background last night as it starred Nicholas Cage. Daft plot, utterly depressing and two hours of my life that I won't see again although, as I said, I only had it on in the background.
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I watched it too. Fascinating and cringe-inducing at the same time, mostly thanks to The Cage and his over-acting. I didn't bother with this back in 2009, due to the reviews, but there are some fascinating ideas in there struggling to get out, and it managed to keep my attention despite the CGI. Spoilers ahead:Judgement Day wrote: »Knowing (2009) - RTE last night - on in the background last night as it starred Nicholas Cage. Daft plot, utterly depressing and two hours of my life that I won't see again although, as I said, I only had it on in the background.
There were some heavy nods to Arthur C. Clarke in the story line, such as the idea of the Rescue Party of aliens, and their focus on the children is straight out of Childhood's End.
The whole business with the numbers is confusing, possibly full of holes - since only children are receptive to them, but only adults are sufficiently knowledgeable about real-world events to interpret them properly. I thought it might mean that the aliens knew that children would need the support of adults to get to the pick-up points, but that's not true: the two kids we followed were picked up by the Whisperers and transported there when the adults were distracted. The aliens didn't even need an adult to interpret the numbers at all - they knew what they were doing. So Koestler (Cage), racing around in his truck, made no difference whatsoever: the Earth was doomed, and the aliens were going to take the "receptive" kids regardless of anything the adults knew or did. Neither was there any need for the kids to start writing numbers, either - I'd call that accidental, like a leak of information.
That's how it looks to me, anyway: a good central idea involving the kids, surrounded by lots of adults running around and screaming. One possible flaw in this idea: when Koestler got involved in the Subway crash, he apparently helped to save dozens of lives - and had he not done that, the numbers would have been wrong. Hmmmm ...
Ye Hypocrites, are these your pranks
To murder men and gie God thanks?
Desist for shame, proceed no further
God won't accept your thanks for murder.―Robert Burns
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I watched it too. Fascinating and cringe-inducing at the same time, mostly thanks to The Cage and his over-acting. I didn't bother with this back in 2009, due to the reviews, but there are some fascinating ideas in there struggling to get out, and it managed to keep my attention despite the CGI. Spoilers ahead:
There were some heavy nods to Arthur C. Clarke in the story line, such as the idea of the Rescue Party of aliens, and their focus on the children is straight out of Childhood's End.
The whole business with the numbers is confusing, possibly full of holes - since only children are receptive to them, but only adults are sufficiently knowledgeable about real-world events to interpret them properly. I thought it might mean that the aliens knew that children would need the support of adults to get to the pick-up points, but that's not true: the two kids we followed were picked up by the Whisperers and transported there when the adults were distracted. The aliens didn't even need an adult to interpret the numbers at all - they knew what they were doing. So Koestler (Cage), racing around in his truck, made no difference whatsoever: the Earth was doomed, and the aliens were going to take the "receptive" kids regardless of anything the adults knew or did. Neither was there any need for the kids to start writing numbers, either - I'd call that accidental, like a leak of information.
That's how it looks to me, anyway: a good central idea involving the kids, surrounded by lots of adults running around and screaming. One possible flaw in this idea: when Koestler got involved in the Subway crash, he apparently helped to save dozens of lives - and had he not done that, the numbers would have been wrong. Hmmmm ...
I thought it was fascinating idea wrapped up in a terrible film. Both Nicolas Cage and suprisingly Rose Byrne were terrible and the two disasters were so over the top in their depiction they looked out of place. Enjoyable only in that it had a lot of unintentionally funny moments- the rabbits being saved but not the dad, cage telling his parents and sister to stay underground "in the sewers", and the whole nonsensical scrawlings on the door.Someone else said it was related to the Rapture idea but I didn't see that in it.0 -
Some of the IMDB reviews think it's propaganda for Scientology. Not sure why, but I think it has to do with the notion of aliens coming to take away the "righteous". I don't think they realise that Scientology itself has roots in "Golden Age" science fiction, so it's not surprising that similar themes come up. That was what L Ron Hubbard did for a living before he invented Scientology: he wrote (bad) science fiction, and was influenced by the pulp magazines of the day.Sudden Valley wrote: »Someone else said it was related to the Rapture idea but I didn't see that in it.
I'm still waiting for the long-planned film adaptation of Clarke's Childhood's End. The latest to take it on is Stop-Loss director Kimberly Pierce, but that was back in early 2008. If done right, it would not star Nicholas Cage, or John Cusack, or any of those "shouty" actors.
Ye Hypocrites, are these your pranks
To murder men and gie God thanks?
Desist for shame, proceed no further
God won't accept your thanks for murder.―Robert Burns
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Is a director being self-indulgent such a bad thing?
Hitchcock made a brief cameo in so many of his films so no, I don't think self indulgence makes any difference really, unless of course your film is absolute pants or you're someone like Tarantino who has to actually speak too. Thank God he grew out of that one.0 -
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The Thing (2011)
I loved the original. In fact I class it as one of my favorite movies of all time.
But I really enjoyed this. I wasnt expecting much and figured it to be yet another remake/prequel movie torn to shreds by hollywood. But they took care with it. You definitively notice the writers indeed watched the 1982 thing movie.
Of course its not as good as the original. But for Hollywood standards this is pretty good
Best way to describe it is that it stays true.
Dont look at the following until you see it as it will spoil all:::Sure it may "borrow" things from the original but it sets out pretty much every thing that you see and learn about the Norge camp from the original movie. From the two faced remains MaCready and Doc find, to the Norge shooting the dog at the start of the original (a very nice piece of writing there as to why he was never speaking english) ... only thing that was not forfilled was the explosion of the spacecraft0 -
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LighterGuy wrote: »The Thing (2011)
I loved the original. In fact I class it as one of my favorite movies of all time.
But I really enjoyed this. I wasnt expecting much and figured it to be yet another remake/prequel movie torn to shreds by hollywood. But they took care with it. You definitively notice the writers indeed watched the 1982 thing movie.
Of course its not as good as the original. But for Hollywood standards this is pretty good Best way to describe it is that it stays true.
Dont look at the following until you see it as it will spoil all:::Sure it may "borrow" things from the original but it sets out pretty much every thing that you see and learn about the Norge camp from the original movie. From the two faced remains MaCready and Doc find, to the Norge shooting the dog at the start of the original (a very nice piece of writing there as to why he was never speaking english) ... only thing that was not forfilled was the explosion of the spacecraft
I really can't believe that someone enjoyed this mess. If you liked the original it just doesn't make sense that this remake doesn't make you very angry.0 -
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