[quote=“Yodlaf Peterson, post:9375, topic:1923”]Finished off Breaking Bad Season Four today. I can’t stress how good this fucking show is. Giancarlo Esposito has to be one of the coldest most ruthless bad guys I’ve ever seen ot a TV show.
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hah, i thought for a moment it is a cover for Half Life game
Deer Hunter is fantastic, love every minute of it. As for the wedding scene, I think it gives the material a specific zest which I love.
With the exception of a few scenes I found the film a total bore.
Demon Witch Child - Watched the DVD this afternoon, quite enjoyed it, especially fun hearing what derogatory lines the girl comes out with.
“OZ, The Great And Powerful” (2013)
Plot:
When shady circus magician Oscar Diggs (James Franco) is hurled away from Kansas into the wonderful Land of Oz, he thinks that fame and fortune are his for the taking. However, three witches – Theodora (Mila Kunis), Evanora (Rachel Weisz) and Glinda (Michelle Williams) – remain unconvinced that Oscar is the great wizard that the inhabitants of Oz need and expect. Reluctantly drawn into Oz’s epic problems, Oscar must find out who’s good and who’s evil before it’s too late.
Phantom’s Review: Highly entertaining fantasy film. Good performances from the cast, excellent direction by Sam Rami and amazing special FX.
The nice thing is, you can believe these characters will actually grow into the iconic characters from the 1939 film.
A fun movie for everyone.
[size=12pt]The Year of Living Dangerously [/size] 1982 Peter Weir
Very good film,been a long time since I first watched. Peer Weir does know how to tell a story, and always was a good actor’s director, taking the best out of them.
Mel Gibson and Sigourney weaver are great here and very young looking.
Its not easy to tell a story based in real events, but Weir managed that very well with the real events used as the perfecf background for the main story.
Special note for Linda Hunt playing a man (a real man, not faking she was a man), she even won a Oscar for it.
Pitty that there’s not many directors like Weiraround days
I watched it when I was about 13/14 or so because “Mad Max” was in it ;D I thought it was boring but I was a kid so maybe I should watch it again one day.
Tombs of The Blind Dead.
Spot of spanish horror with the first film in the series of Blind Dead films. Heard of the films in the past but never really bothered with until now.
Shame as the film is pretty good with loads of atmosphere with the great looking templars on horseback who just love to kill everyone on sight.
I find that bit with the train really creepy.
I’m a huge fan of the Blind Dead. I think the Seagulls one is the best.
Looking forward to the next installment in the “Blind Dead” series 
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MOON (2009, Duncan Jones)
Duncan Jones is David Bowie’s son, Moon was his debut movie. In the meantime he has become one of the most discussed names in sf-avant garde. If you have no idea what that might be, watch this movie or the even more intelligent Source Code (2011).
Sam Rockwell plays an astronaut-researcher, who nears the end of a three year working contract that brought him to the far side of the moon. He goes through a personal crisis, and has a near-fatal accident that makes him loose his conciousness for a while. When he opens his eyes, all seems normal, but then he’s confronted with a man who’s his spitting image …
Moon is a thinking man’s sf-movie, cleverly constructed and well-acted. It falls into slightly more predictable patterns during the final half hour, but you’ll certainly want to stay with it. The robot Gerty was voiced by Kevin Spacey. Ground control for major Jones.
I liked the Moon, it’s my kind of SF, although I had deja vu feeling while watching it.
Source Code on the other hand I wouldn’t call especially intelligent. To me it was more generic Hollywood, “let’s jump on the Inception bandwagon” type of movie. I didn’t even liked Inception, to me it was just mumbo-jumbo nonsense with flashy pictures and giant plot holes (I guess we are not supposed to look for them in these kind of movies). Now thinking, maybe I’ll even rate Source Code higher than Inception, although the “SF” part of it is still just mumbo-jumbo nonsense.
@ Moon/Inception
I didn’t like Inception, like you said ‘mumbo jumbo nonsense’. Both Moon and Source Code are science fiction, so fiction about scientific subjects or theories, what we see is music of the future, and will probably never bee fully realized (at least not in this form), but it’s not pure fantasy or nonsense.
My take on Source Code:
Sorry, still mumbo-jumbo to me
That idea of jumping through timelines and producing alternate realities/futures was already done in Terminator couple of decades ago, wasn’t it? So it’s nothing new (and Terminator’s “science” to me makes more sense than either of these movies). But at least Source Code just ask you to accept its premise and moves on to action-thriller stuff, there is no excessive amount of quasi-scientific talk like in Inception that tries so hard to explain the “science” behind movie to us. So I had fun watching Source Code but didn’t think it was anything special, while I was irritated by Inception, probably because it had such positive reception, great director and cast, so I’ve expected much more.
I’ve never thought much about Inception too much. This is this sort of movie: to watch, to be entertained and to forget. I wasn’t even concerned about scrutinising the plot, it’s just another fine (just fine), blatant CGI-packed actionier.
Exactly, but it is no.14 on imdb Top 250 and has 86%/93% on rottentomatoes with conclusion “Smart, innovative, and thrilling, Inception is that rare summer blockbuster that succeeds viscerally as well as intellectually.”
I like that series.Especially the first two movies.
And this is incomprehensible indeed. Inception is sophisticated and muddled for sake of being sophisticated and muddled. It desperately wants to make a viewer say: “Wow, man! This was awesome!” et cetera. Still, I found it entertaining enough to give this 7/10, maybe a bit too generous, but I cannot say it wasn’t a good pastime. It simply doesn’t implicate anything to ponder on.
THE BIG RED ONE - THE RECONSTRUCTION. This version is nearly 40 min longer than the original one of Samuel Fuller’s supposed classic war film. Don’t know if that was the real problem or not, because I couldn’t get into the movie at all. Found myself really bored most of the time and in the end I was surprised that I actually saw the whole thing and didn’t shut it off earlier.
