The movie thread

[GePap]

Yesterday I saw two films, 4months, 3 weeks, and 2 days and In Bruges

Both were good. The first one is very emotionally heavy, the pacing is slow, but that it because the director went for authenticity, and it definitely worked. The title is not very descriptive. Its a Romanian film about a woman who helps her roomate set up an illegal abortion in the last years of Nicolae Ceauºescu's regime.

The second one was much funnier and had a lot of action, but it still had some very emotional moments. Its about two hitmen who have to go out and hide in Bruges after a botched assasination. I have to say this was the first film I have seen in which the consequences of a body falling from a very high place have been depicted graphically.

[Adagio]

For those who has seen I am Legend, this might interest you:

http://www.worstpreviews.com/trailer.php?id=568&item=7

They had created two different endings to this movie, unfortunately they IMHO took the wrong ending for the end product. The ending in the above link is much better (not the ending I had hoped for, but still better)

[CrONoS]

... The heroes need to die to be a legend.

[Darius871]

Damn man, that's WAY better. WTF were they thinking?

[CrONoS]

bah, I don't like the alternative ending. the hero must DIE!

[Darius871]

I liked it just because it was a tad of a bit unpredictable, which is a word I never thought could be used in the same sentence as "zombie flick."

The suggestion that the eeeevil zombies actually have feelings and he was in the wrong also made for a nice message to close with. Maybe some jagoffs would ruin it by construing some sort of trite political allegory, but it wouldn't have been the creators' fault...

[Alinestra Covelia]

Originally posted by LordShiva
Watched No Country for Old Men last night. Big mistake

Anton Chigurh is awesome. I'd only ever seen Javier Bardem act in Love in the Time of Cholera and he was a romantic lothario in that. It was very shocking to see him play Chigurh, such a cold hearted killer.

Also, the character was interesting because you see him suffer setbacks during the movie, but still recover from them and prevail.

The only thing I'm not so sure about is the shotgun silencer. He's clearly firing pellets through that shotgun, not slugs... so wouldn't that a) damage the silencer's internal surfaces, and b) result in very inefficient sound damping

[Darius871]

Originally posted by Alinestra Covelia


Anton Chigurh is awesome. I'd only ever seen Javier Bardem act in Love in the Time of Cholera and he was a romantic lothario in that. It was very shocking to see him play Chigurh, such a cold hearted killer.

Also, the character was interesting because you see him suffer setbacks during the movie, but still recover from them and prevail.

The only thing I'm not so sure about is the shotgun silencer. He's clearly firing pellets through that shotgun, not slugs... so wouldn't that a) damage the silencer's internal surfaces, and b) result in very inefficient sound damping

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...68#post5183468

[Barnabas]

Is that movie about a cave man named something like 10.000 before christ worth watching?

I was told the animals int he movie behave like the jurassic park velociraptors, rather cringe worthy

[Nostromo]

Maybe you're on her ignore list

[Nostromo]

Originally posted by Barnabas
Is that movie about a cave man named something like 10.000 before christ worth watching?

I was told the animals int he movie behave like the jurassic park velociraptors, rather cringe worthy

no

[Darius871]

Originally posted by Nostromo
Maybe you're on her ignore list

Not yet, but I'm gunning for it!



(Yeah, that was terrible.)

[Alinestra Covelia]

No, Darius, you're not on my ignore list. You'd have to try a lot harder than that, you sweetie!


(Now Wiglaf, on the other hand...)

[Darius871]

But wiggy's comedy gold!

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Discussing No Country For Old Men with friends recently, someone said that it got all that love from Oscar because it was the Coen's first completely straight film. No, I said, everyone always forgets about Miller's Crossing (this was met with dumbfounded silence, underscoring my point). So I just re-watched Miller's Crossing last night for the first time since it came out -- and, jeez, it's fantastic. It's a shame it's so little-known.