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PREDESTINATION is a really good low-budget sci-fi movie about time-travel and stuff (and with Ethan Hawke as a main character).

First half is mostly a conversation between two people in a bar (with lots of well-done flashback scenes), then the 2nd half is really interesting twisty-turny stuff you have to concentrate on !

Can't say I understood everything completely after one viewing, but I got the gist of it and really enjoyed it.

8/10.

I thought the premise sounded familiar. It's based on Heinlein's short story, "All You Zombies", one of the best short stories of all time.

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X-Men: Days Of Future Past is a load of half-baked drivel. Struggled to even stay awake.


I saw this last night and really enjoyed it. Plot made zero sense but it was pretty entertaining.

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Watched 'SNOWPIERCER' on Netflix USA last night.

It's been massively well-received at Rotten Tomatoes so I was expecting good things, what I wasn't prepared for was just how bonkers and off-the-wall it is in places, and it was probably a good hour into the running time before it clicked for me.

Plot-wise it's simple and absurd, the entire world was frozen to death in an internationally co-ordinated but botched attempt to halt global warming, and the remains of humanity now circle the globe in a self-sustaining high speed train (and have been doing for 18 years), with the abused and underfed proles at the back and the the rich folks at the front.

The proles want in on what the rich folks have, we join the action as a revolt is about to start, and soon learn that there have been many others over the years that have failed.

It's directed by a Korean dude, based on a French graphic novel, which should give you some idea of the craziness levels of it all.

TBH the less you know about it going in, the better. (Certainly don't watch the trailer! I watched the trailer after I saw the film and was like 'DA SPOILERS!') It's a piece of piss to get to Netfix USA, so all I'd say is set a couple of hours aside for this film - it's quite a piece of work!

Oh yes and Tilda Swinton's performance, complete with seriously comical Janet Street Porter teeth, is worth the price of entry alone.

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I have added this to netflix queueing thing!

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Also, I only skim-read your post as the line about knowing as little as possible caught my eye, so if your post contains important warnings such as: 'very graphic depiction of unicorn decapitation by seemingly gentle bunny rabbit turned death-machine' then I have skipped over this, so someone PM me and tell me not to watch it.

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Also, I only skim-read your post as the line about knowing as little as possible caught my eye, so if your post contains important warnings such as: 'very graphic depiction of unicorn decapitation by seemingly gentle bunny rabbit turned death-machine' then I have skipped over this, so someone PM me and tell me not to watch it.


It got an 'R' in the States for 'for violence, language and drug content' but it hasn't been classified by the BBFC as it hasn't had a release in the UK, however I'd say it'd probably be a strong 15, but not an 18.

It is violent but it's all quite stylised, there's nothing too horrible in there, certainly nothing sadistic and torturey like Saw/Hostel/French horror style stuff.

I'd say the best way I can put it is to say Mrs Hearthly has a very low (non-existent) threshold for really nasty/torture violent scenes, she can't do Reservoir Dogs, for example. I'd have no problem recommending Snowpiercer to her and sitting down to watch it together.


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BertyBasset wrote:
PREDESTINATION is a really good low-budget sci-fi movie about time-travel and stuff (and with Ethan Hawke as a main character).

First half is mostly a conversation between two people in a bar (with lots of well-done flashback scenes), then the 2nd half is really interesting twisty-turny stuff you have to concentrate on !

Can't say I understood everything completely after one viewing, but I got the gist of it and really enjoyed it.

8/10.

I thought the premise sounded familiar. It's based on Heinlein's short story, "All You Zombies", one of the best short stories of all time.


I really enjoyed this although I called the ending at 1hr 23 mins. I am the great. I am the great. Yup, mere moments before the reveal cause I'm dead ace at viewing stuff with my eyeballs. I'm interesting in reading the short story now too...


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Yeah I thought it was pretty good.

Although:

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I also don't think they should have revealed that he'd had a face/off operation at the start, it made aspects of the ending way more obvious.


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The Hunger Games:Mockingjay Part 1

Really rather excellent. Didn't get bored once for its two hour running time and could have sat through another hour easy. The ending came as a surprise partly because of it being a halfway through a story thing, which is something decidedly not in its favour. But apart from that really good.

The Imitation Game

Pretty good stuff but knowing it was so full of made up stuff was a little bit of a problem. Great performance from Benedict Cumberbatch as ever and Keira is always lovely to watch. Didn't fully grab me so to speak though, felt longer than its running time.

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I gave up about twenty minutes into the Hunger Games:Mockingjay Part 1 this morning.

I watched Edge of Tomorrow the other day - that was really good. Also, I watched the new Godzilla film, and it was okay. I'm a fan of Godzilla movies anyway, and while this one was still too human-focussed, it was no-where near as bad as the last one. At least it was monster vs monster.

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Ok, I can't say anything from the last nine years has made me excited about Star Wars, but that has.

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Ok, I can't say anything from the last nine years has made me excited about Star Wars, but that has.


I don't understand why, it's just a load of random imagery. I realise that's pretty much the point of a 'teaser' but how can you get excited about stuff that has no really meaning or content? And that's leaving aside the teeth-gratingly stupid 'gruff' voice over and the fan-wanky light sabre.


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No sure about the hilt on the lightsaber, you'd have someone's eye out with that if you're not careful!


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Xwing! Falcon! Tie Fighters!


:this:

Though yeah, the sabre crosspiece is a properly dumb idea :)

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Also... Non-jango troopers?


Not clones, innit?

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Also... Non-jango troopers?


Most weren't clones after the clone wars anyway.

Also, could be a goodie in a trooper outfit, a la Han and Luke.

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American Nervoso wrote:
Ok, I can't say anything from the last nine years has made me excited about Star Wars, but that has.


I don't understand why, it's just a load of random imagery. I realise that's pretty much the point of a 'teaser' but how can you get excited about stuff that has no really meaning or content? And that's leaving aside the teeth-gratingly stupid 'gruff' voice over and the fan-wanky light sabre.

You wouldn't understand.

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Anyone who isn't getting a massive SQUEEEE on over this is irretrievably broken.

First Born - "Han fixed the bit Lando broke, then?" Very nice touch.

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Have you not seen it? I tried watching one once but it seemed a bit rubbish.

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Have you not seen it? I tried watching one once but it seemed a bit rubbish.


Mimi is broken. Russ what did you do with her to break her so bad? :(

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Have you not seen it? I tried watching one once but it seemed a bit rubbish.


Mimi is broken. Russ what did you do with her to break her so bad? :(

Self answering question. Just had to be around!

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I think Russ put Mimi off Star Wars with all of his obsessive Youtube review videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xscqrVq_88s


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Have you not seen it? I tried watching one once but it seemed a bit rubbish.

I've met many like you. It makes me sad. I think it's necessary to be exposed in early life when the awful dialogue and flimsy plot (and cheesy screen wipes) are invisible to tiny minds. All the youthful eyes see are XWINGS AND TIE FIGHTERS AND MILLENIUM FALCON AND LIGHTSABERS AND STORMTROOPERS AND many many cool things.

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Have you not seen it? I tried watching one once but it seemed a bit rubbish.


Mimi is broken. Russ what did you do with her to break her so bad? :(


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Have you not seen it? I tried watching one once but it seemed a bit rubbish.

I've met many like you. It makes me sad. I think it's necessary to be exposed in early life when the awful dialogue and flimsy plot (and cheesy screen wipes) are invisible to tiny minds. All the youthful eyes see are XWINGS AND TIE FIGHTERS AND MILLENIUM FALCON AND LIGHTSABERS AND STORMTROOPERS AND many many cool things.

Grown up cynical eyes are cruel to Star Wars


I thought this was probably it. I watched it a year or so ago for the first time and it was just bad. The acting seemed really stunted from everyone but one guys who dies early on (Guinness). Everything looked like plastic and the script was poor at best.

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If you are watching the original Star Wars for the first time, I highly recommend going for the Despecialized Edition, which you can find somewhere on the internet.


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Mimi wrote:
Have you not seen it? I tried watching one once but it seemed a bit rubbish.

I agree with Mimi.

It's quite pap, really.


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X-wings. Awesome.

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Also... Non-jango troopers?


They look to be storm troopers not clone troopers.

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Pretty sure I'd want a cross guard on my lightsabre really.


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Mimi wrote:
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Mimi wrote:
Have you not seen it? I tried watching one once but it seemed a bit rubbish.

I've met many like you. It makes me sad. I think it's necessary to be exposed in early life when the awful dialogue and flimsy plot (and cheesy screen wipes) are invisible to tiny minds. All the youthful eyes see are XWINGS AND TIE FIGHTERS AND MILLENIUM FALCON AND LIGHTSABERS AND STORMTROOPERS AND many many cool things.

Grown up cynical eyes are cruel to Star Wars



I thought this was probably it. I watched it a year or so ago for the first time and it was just bad. The acting seemed really stunted from everyone but one guys who dies early on (Guinness). Everything looked like plastic and the script was poor at best.


It's sad that we can't be friends any more.

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Mimi wrote:
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Mimi wrote:
Have you not seen it? I tried watching one once but it seemed a bit rubbish.

I've met many like you. It makes me sad. I think it's necessary to be exposed in early life when the awful dialogue and flimsy plot (and cheesy screen wipes) are invisible to tiny minds. All the youthful eyes see are XWINGS AND TIE FIGHTERS AND MILLENIUM FALCON AND LIGHTSABERS AND STORMTROOPERS AND many many cool things.

Grown up cynical eyes are cruel to Star Wars


I thought this was probably it. I watched it a year or so ago for the first time and it was just bad. The acting seemed really stunted from everyone but one guys who dies early on (Guinness). Everything looked like plastic and the script was poor at best.

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Young Ones is pretty good. Micheal Shannon x Post-Apocalypse.

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krazywookie wrote:
Pretty sure I'd want a cross guard on my lightsabre really.


Yes me too


The little light saber things are stupid, though. Also pointless, because the point where the light saber meets the hilt would be where the cross guard is most useful, and thats just normal light saber hilt material.

Now if it had a big cortosis crossguard then...

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Pretty sure I'd want a cross guard on my lightsabre really.


Yes me too


The little light saber things are stupid, though. Also pointless, because the point where the light saber meets the hilt would be where the cross guard is most useful, and thats just normal light saber hilt material.

Now if it had a big cortosis crossguard then...

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So a modified fictional sword is silly :)

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Nah its fine, the radius of the opponents light saber means that it won't be able to touch the hilt. Not reeeeeealy an edged weapon is it?
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Transformers 4 is almost a good as the first one.

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Transformers 4 is almost a good as the first one.

Wow that bad?

Open Windows was pretty disappointing. I loved the director's previous movies, which were both an interesting premise with fantastic execution. Open Windows was an interesting premise but the film just didn't work. For the most part the entire film just a view of the protagonist's desktop, with windows showing views from various cameras. I didn't really feel much of a connection to any of the characters, it seems to spend the entire film explaining what's happening, but you never really get a sense of a coherent story. The way it is shot feels far more like an unsuccessful attempt at mitigating a small budget whilst still having a Hollywood actor in the lead role, rather than a stylistic choice. Not recommended.

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Transformers 4 is almost a good as the first one.

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If you are watching the original Star Wars for the first time, I highly recommend going for the Despecialized Edition, which you can find somewhere on the internet.


Topher Grace (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topher_Grace) made a version of the prequels with all the shit taken out, all 3 films done in 85 minutes and apparently it was excellent, but he never released it.
http://cerealprize.com/trailers/redux-of-the-jedi

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If you're watching Star Wars for the first time I highly recommend watching which ever version is easiest to get your hands on because Jesus Christ who cares. Fucking fanboys.

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I'm not really a Star Wars fanboy or anything. I just think they are pretty good movies.

But the original releases are definitely better, and I don't see why anyone would want to watch the worse versions of a film, other than curiosity to see the differences, which would also require having seen the originals anyway.

Edit: There is also The Phantom Edit of Episode One which seemed like an improvement but not by much to me.


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Trooper wrote:
LewieP wrote:
If you are watching the original Star Wars for the first time, I highly recommend going for the Despecialized Edition, which you can find somewhere on the internet.


Topher Grace (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topher_Grace) made a version of the prequels with all the shit taken out, all 3 films done in 85 minutes and apparently it was excellent, but he never released it.
http://cerealprize.com/trailers/redux-of-the-jedi

Then it turns out he did 2 edits, and both of them are out there, and then someone found them and has recut the best part of both of them, and made a single movie from them...

and here it is:

http://np.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/co ... text=10000?

I've downloaded that and am quite keen to see how it all works as one movie. Apparently Jake Lloyd has no remaining dialogue :)


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You are using the 'Ted' forum. Bill doesn't really exist any more. Bogus!
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RIP, Owen. RIP, MrC.

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