Movie review thread...
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There's a really nice collection of photos here:<br />
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[quote name='Tim']There's a really nice collection of photos here:<br />
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Those are cool. About five years ago I bought two huge banana boxes of newspapers at a garage sale, one a box with fifteen different newspapers about the first Apollo landing, and the other a dozen newspapers about the JFK assassination. I asked the seller how much he wanted. He told me "five bucks." I asked, "each?" "No, both." I was stupified that somebody would take up so much storage space preserving the newspapers, then basically giving them away for peanuts. "Sold!!" Love looking back at that historic stuff. I still remember watching the Apollo landing when I was a small kid and being pretty damn mesmerized. -
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Skite: I went to grad school with one of the guys 21 based on.<br />
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Mike Aponte? Jeffrey Ma? -
Not actually a movie I've seen, but from memory a lot of posters on here will be stoked about this - <br />
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[url="http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118006050.html?categoryid=13&cs=1&nid=2562"]http://www.variety.com/article/VR111800 ... 1&nid=2562[/url]<br />
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1st of Bernard Cornwells books to hit the big screen soon... (well, 2011). If that works theres a fuckload of a back catalogue to mine!<br />
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[b]Independent takes aim[/b]<br />
Hirst to adapt Cornwell's bestseller 'Agincourt'<br />
By SHARON SWART<br />
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Luc Roeg's London-based Independent Film Co. has tapped "The Tudors" creator Michael Hirst to adapt Bernard Cornwell's bestseller "Agincourt." Pic will focus on Nicholas Hook, the humble archer who fought the French alongside Henry V in 1415 in one of the bloodiest battles in European history.<br />
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Independent optioned the feature rights to "Agincourt" earlier this year and plans to mount a E25 million ($35 million) European co-production. Pre-production is slated for late 2010, followed by a spring 2011 shoot.<br />
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Cornwell's 2008 novel sold nearly 200,000 hardback copies in the U.K. in the first three months and sat on the New York Times bestseller list for four weeks.Outside of Showtime hit "The Tudors," Hirst is primarily a feature screenwriter. He penned 1998's "Elizabeth."<br />
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A former William Morris London agent, Roeg co-founded management-production company Artists Independent Network in 2000. Four years ago, he spun off a separate production-finance-sales shingle, Independent, backed by VC fund Living Capital Group.<br />
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Independent most recently developed and financed "Mr. Nice," a biopic of a London drug dealer who got out of jail time by posing as a MI5 agent, starring Rhys Ifans, David Thewlis and Chloe Sevigny. Company also is repping foreign on Duncan Jones' "Moon," which it boarded at the script stage. -
Finally saw Gran Torino last night. While it has probably been done on here, i thought it was fucking awesome. Clint is THE man. Can't rate it highly enough<br />
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[quote name='mariner4life']Finally saw Gran Torino last night. While it has probably been done on here, i thought it was fucking awesome. Clint is THE man. Can't rate it highly enough<br />
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Gran Torino is certainly beloved at TSF, and deservedly so. <br />
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Has anybody else seen "Man On Wire" yet? Well...? What did you think? Maybe it draws yawns from others.<br />
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I think I may have given it something like 11/10 a few months back, or if I didn't, I should have. Second time around, I know all the spoilers, I'm still in complete and utter awe. It's probably the most spectacular and fantastical and unbelievable thing I have ever seen, in art and athletics. -
watched The Hangover last night. Top film, 8.5/10<br />
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I am sure most males have had that 'strip club' talk with thier wives, while all the while inwardly rolling eyes xzxcool -
[quote name='mariner4life']Finally saw Gran Torino last night. While it has probably been done on here, i thought it was fucking awesome. Clint is THE man. Can't rate it highly enough<br />
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No doubt. A living legend. Makes me want to grow old as well although having never fought in any wars it'll be difficult to tell any ethnic minorities to stay off my lawn and use cool lines about stacking them five feet high and using them as sandbags ! -
I really want to see The Hurt Locker. [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hurt_Locker"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hurt_Locker[/url]<br />
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Still in very limited release schedule here, but I am contemplating going to the artsy fartsy theater near my work to catch it, as it is the only place in Maryland showing it. -
[quote name='Tim']Yeah, Hurt Locker is the movie I am most excited about this year. Can't wait to see it on a big screen. Those 720p torrents sure are tempting though ...[/quote]<br />
It looks like one of those movies that I would regret not seeing in a theater on the big screen. Like Saving Private Ryan, or Blackhawk Down. -
Saw Harry Potter the other day . Heaps different from the book , as was the last one , but unlike the last one I thought they did a really good job . The only thing I would change would be to have it a little more like the book in the ending when the book had the battle with the Death Eaters . 7.5/10 .
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[quote name='Hooroo']Went and watch Harry Potter last night.<br />
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Different from the book but done really well.<br />
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[b]A bit embarrassing being the only punter turning up in costume[/b].............[/quote]<br />
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[quote name='Tim'][i]For All Mankind [/i]- HD reissue from Criterion of a great documentary about the Apollo missions to the moon. Amazing use of the archive footage to create a beautiful experience. Brian Eno music used for the score. 9/10. Great way to celebrate the 40th anniversary of man setting foot on the moon.[/quote]<br />
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I watched it tonight. I was familiar with the Eno soundtrack, but had never seen the film before. I thought it was completely mesmerizing, agree it's 9/10 (at least). I'll buy it, many repeat viewings in there. -
[quote name='Razbra']Is there a best "sports movie of all time" thread any where..being lazy haven't bothered to search...if not should be....[/quote]<br />
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There was a thread about the "worst sports films of all time" (or something) a few months back, and some posters mentioned their faves. I couldn't submit too much to that discussion because while I can generally remember my faves, I try to keep my memory spared from the worst ones. -
Finally got around to seeing the Watchmen the other day, a bit mixed for me, I loved the comics (or Graphic Novels if you prefer), they felt very dark, the characters all very flawed and broken with a very desperate streak running through them all, in some respects the film captured this and I thought the Rorschach character was quite well defnied but the pace of the movie was off slightly and the back stories were thinned out too much.<br />
It's not easy to transform Graphic novels into films, V for Vendetta was a less than perfect reflection of the comics and Watchmen is unfortunately the same
