Movie review thread...

Kirwan

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Tim" data-cid="522227" data-time="1443769037">Blade is pretty much the only comic book movie franchise I like. I generally loathe marvel movies though.</blockquote>
 
You just need to let go of the hate in your heart, and put on your best mix tape.

Tim

Watched the [i]Angel Heart[/i] blu-ray tonight. Damn that was a good movie. Been a long time since I've seen it. Lisa Bonet was absolutely smoking. 
NZ cinematographer, also shot [i]Midnight Express[/i] and [i]Sleeping Dogs[/i].

Rancid Schnitzel

Saw the final Hobbit film. Liked this one best by far even if the dude playing Thoran made Eric Roberts proud with his overacting. 
Entourage. Quite liked the show, but the film was pretty crap. Apart from one rather impressive sex scene that is. Fark Hayley Joel Osmend is a fat fooker these days. Still a good actor though.

NTA

For the Aussie-based Ferners, we took the kids to see Oddball today, based (loosely) on a true story about the Maremma dogs trained to protect Fairy Penguins from the local foxes in coastal Victoria.
 
Bit of license taken of course, and typical "family" film with a few loose moments and timeline continuity that had me scratching my head. But heaps of laughs for the kids, some for the adults when one of the minor players gets shot with a tranquiliser gun, and generally not a bad use of 90 minutes. Unless, on the last day of school holidays, you'd like to just watch your kids murder each other.
 
The factual account of the Maremma dogs in Middle Island (Warrnambool, Victoria) is here:
 
<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/bushtelegraph/one-maremma-dog-saves-penguin-colony-and-inspires-movie-oddball/5630762'>http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/bushtelegraph/one-maremma-dog-saves-penguin-colony-and-inspires-movie-oddball/5630762</a>

jegga

Nick thats been getting quite a bit of coverage over here too, not sure its going to come out at the movies but the docos and making of have already been on tv.
 
 
Talking of saving penguins ,theres a good comedy to made about the idiocy of saving the Emperor penguin that was stupidly named happy feet . I vote the ending involves a great white breaching as he smashes the highly unendangered waste of resources out of the southern ocean.

red terror

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No, it was more convoluted than that, no Dracula. Marvel seems to be leaning more on the comic origins these days, so the reboot might revisit that.
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In that original Tomb of Dracula comicbook, the title role was "played" by Jack Palance.
 
<img src="https://comiclists.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/likeness-dracula.jpg" alt="likeness-dracula.jpg">
 
Gene Colan would go into cinemas to watch movies with Jack Palance starring and take snapshots right off the movie screen for photo reference.
 
A year-or-so after that comic began, Palance was actually cast in the same role playing Dracula...

In Tomb of Dracula, Draucula would travel through time, back to the age of, say, pirates, then to the present. The Blade series ran for quite a few issues. He was a sort of cliche jive-yalkin' funky early-1970s black street hipster wearing big shades, and did kinda resemble Wesley Snipes. I have no idea how the character was developed when he got his own line of comic books.

Nepia

The Martian: I thought this was great. Of space movies starring Matt Damon and Jessica Chastain I thought this one was better than Interstellar. Kind of like Castaway on Mars with Damon playing Hanks and a webcam playing Wilson.

taniwharugby

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The Martian: I thought this was great. Of space movies starring Matt Damon and Jessica Chastain I thought this one was better than Interstellar. Kind of like Castaway on Mars with Damon playing Hanks and a webcam playing Wilson.
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Have they been in other space movies together?

jegga

Interstellar, never in the same scene though I think.

taniwharugby

oh ok, I dont even recall her being in it, assume she is the grown up daughter?...and only just remembered Damon was in it!!

jegga

Yeah she was the grown up daughter, I thought she was good in Zero dark thirty.

taniwharugby

yeah she was, and I thought she looked good in Jurassic World

jegga

That chick looked good but that wasn't her it was Ron Howards [Richie Cunningham] daughter, <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryce_Dallas_Howard'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryce_Dallas_Howard</a>

taniwharugby

ha, ok, fair enough...
 
Was A Most Violent Year that Jennifer Chastain was in, knew she was in something else I had watched recently.

jegga

Any good? I havent heard much about it. I see there was talk of Cliff Curtis maybe getting an oscar nomination for Dark Horse, he's been good in FTWD too. Good to see him go Jake the muss on someone else for a change in the last episode.

Tim

On the 30th anniversary of [i]Commando[/i], an interview with director Mark L. Lester: 
[url=http://filmmakermagazine.com/95868-if-you-read-the-script-youre-not-gonna-want-to-do-the-movie-mark-l-lester-on-commando/#.Vg4TuX2ZS70]If You Read the Script Youâ€re Not Gonna Want to Do the Movie[/url]

MN5

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Tim" data-cid="524600" data-time="1444199211">On the 30th anniversary of Commando, an interview with director Mark L. Lester:<a class="bbc_url" href="http://filmmakermagazine.com/95868-if-you-read-the-script-youre-not-gonna-want-to-do-the-movie-mark-l-lester-on-commando/#.Vg4TuX2ZS70">If You Read the Script Youâ€re Not Gonna Want to Do the Movie</a></blockquote>
 
I will gladly kick the shit out of any ferner who thinks ' Commando' is anything less than moviemaking genius.....

Nepia

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ha, ok, fair enough...
 
Was A Most Violent Year that Jennifer Chastain was in, knew she was in something else I had watched recently.
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She's been in everything in the past few years (along with Oscar Issac from A Most Violent Year), she doesn't do much for me but I thought she was good in Interstellar and Zero Dark Thirty.

Virgil

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Nepia" data-cid="524610" data-time="1444203171">She's been in everything in the past few years (along with Oscar Issac from A Most Violent Year), she doesn't do much for me but I thought she was good in Interstellar and Zero Dark Thirty.</blockquote>
 
Try Mama if your a fan of miss Chastain

taniwharugby

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="jegga" data-cid="524595" data-time="1444196427">Any good? I havent heard much about it. I see there was talk of Cliff Curtis maybe getting an oscar nomination for Dark Horse, he's been good in FTWD too. Good to see him go Jake the muss on someone else for a change in the last episode.</blockquote>
 
mOst Violent Year was alright...Dark Horse was very good.

The Silver Fern

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