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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...

So a modified fictional sword is silly

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?
/adenoids

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.

Los Cronocrímenes and Extraterrestrial (2011) are both highly recommended though.

I gave up about 5 hours in. Utter tosh

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?

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.

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.

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

Meesa hope Jar-Jar is still in it!

He has one scene I think.

I quite liked The Hunger Games, though it is a bit thin, action-wise. Going in with low expectations worked for me.

After, Kajaki. A true story of the British Army in Afghanistan; not sure it has to be seen on the big screen, and the warning 'graphic description of wounds' is spot on, but it is brilliantly done and stayed with me for some time afterwards.

Just watched the latest Kevin Smith film "TUSK".

Crikey, it's strange, and nothing like his earlier films (Clerks etc.).

Seems to nick ideas from horror film "The Human Centipede" and mix it up with a mixture of slapstick and black comedy.

Johnny Depp is in it (though I only realised it was him after he'd been on-screen for about 10 minutes - he has a ludicrous French accent and lots of facial hair).

Is it good ? Probably not. Is it interesting and worth watching once out of curiousity? Um..yes, I think....

Watching the Star Wars edit. Episode 1 is completely excised apart from the Darth Maul fight!

Deleted scenes! Portman midriff!

Still too much whiny Anakin. Awful acting. Just awful

He killed them all! Like animals!

The alien colluseum from episode 2 is still awesome.

More Portman midriff!

Watched The Inbetweeners 2 last night, so rude and parts of it make you cringe as those guys as such clowns.

Made me laugh at lot though.

I watched The Inbetweeners 2 too.

It has poo and wee gags. Yes, in 2014.

I thought they could do better than that trash. Still there's a few laughs to be had, mind.

I just watched this and I was less impressed. It started off superbly, and if it was a film about a single mother with a difficult child, it would have been great.

Then the horror bits kicked in and it went downhill.

The book (the one in the film) was excellent, however.

Babadook spoiler:

"The Imitation Game" what a beautiful film. Turing was a genius. Cumberbatch did him proud. 10/10 and highly recommended

It was bollocks. Insinuated he was a traitor when it wasn't true at all. So inaccurate.

He was a traitor, though. And a rapist.

And, by all accounts, rather smelly.

Hang on, I thought you meant the film about Julian Assange

I didnt really feel it perpetuated the idea he was a traitor, moreso someone in the group was a russian spy and at one point they thought it might have been him which all might have been BS but it was a nice side story.

If thats the extent of the inaccuracy im willing to overlook it in the name of drama and at least opening the eyes of people to a great person and a tragic tale of the treatment of homosexuals which is more important to me at least than 100% factual accuracy

then again, I like Braveheart, so there is your barometer

ps it was far from "betty"

The greatest horror movie of all time, no, hang on... the greatest horror movie of recent times, no, hang on... a horror movie that was released relatively recently and I actually thought it was really really good was V/H/S.

You may disagree but you are wrong so you don't need to post about how you disagree because I've already countered your argument by pre-emptively telling you you're wrong.

So with that out the way, I watched V/H/S 3 or to give it its actual - terrible - title (which has joined in with the recent annoying trend of having a subtitle instead of a number) V/H/S: Viral. Least the Saw films had numbers, aye, and they were gash (Cept the first).

Here's the review, from me, right now:

A laughable loads of low budget bollocks.

I liked one of the silly stories which wouldn't have been out of place on The Twilight Zone. In fact, they all would, but the others would just be the crap stories. There was always more trash than good stuff, right? But none are scary. At all. Although the one I alluded to had the potential. And the camera stuff is terrible. They haven't even bothered to come up with good reasons for why each story is being filmed. Just terrible. There's some terrible awful screen effects that are just annoying this time round. It just ain't clever and original like the first one was. I suppose that's the problem with sequels in this genre; you've done it once/you can't do it again. Or you can, and it won't be as good. Oh, Cept the zombie one on VHS2. That was good.

So VHS3, you might as well watch it for the one story where the guy accidentally builds a machine to a parallel dimension. He meets himself who has done exactly the same as him (obv) and he agrees with himself to swop lives for 15 minutes and meet back at the machine. Turns out, the parallel dimension is where the men and women have alien penises and vaginas with teeth. Alien penis guy has sex with normal guy's missus almost killing her; she thinks it's the normal guy and kills him.

Oh, you don't need to see it now. Probably for the best.

Shame, I really enjoyed the first two VHS films.

I've watched some films. Here's my three word review of each:

The Equaliser: This film was

Lucy: What was that

The Mazerunner: I really didn't

The Happening: So the trees

What I want to know about The Maze Runner: Why didn't they just make a ladder?

Also yeah I quite enjoyed The Equalizer although it was trash.

Watched Guardians of the Galaxy again last night. Just as enjoyable as the first time.

Huh, me too.

"Nothing would go over my head, my reflexes are to fast. I would catch it."

I watched this last night.

Remove Denzel and the awesome bad guy from the equation and there wouldn't be much left, but as it stands it's a watchable piece of nonsense.

A very underused Chloe Grace Moretz as well, who appears to have gone straight from Hit Girl to Trashy Hooker In Push-Up Bra.

Too long as well, could have easily been pruned back to about 1h45m, and also it was a bit 'Man On Fire' except nowhere near as good as Man On Fire which was fucking awesome.

I watched Lucy, Snowpiercer and The November Man over the weekend.

Lucy: Awful. Even if you suspend disbelief and accept the premise it is built on is reasonable, it still makes no sense and is totally illogical. As much as I love ScarJo, she was a terrible choice as the lead.

Snowpiercer: This was better than I expected. Equally as illogical as Lucy, but actually has some charm to it, so you can forgive that. Too long spent in the back of the train, and then a whistlestop tour through the front, until you are left with a thousand questions on how this world actually works, and then it ends. It's trash, but enjoyable and amusing in places.

The November Man: Standard spy stuff, generic as hell, didn't hold my attention.

Guardians of the Galaxy was awful. It's was basically a kid's movie, and not a particularly good one like Lego. The directing was awful, completely over-edited (each shot lasted probably an average of 2 seconds, i felt that i was about to have an epilepsy attack) and the movie is a never ending sequence of boring set pieces without any juice whatsoever.

I also felt that there was no aesthetic consistency to it, as if there was the need to use every single colour that ever existed in it. Also, it's was also an overuse of green screen, one of the bane of contemporary blockbusters. It completely breaks any kind of immersion. It's basically actors against a CGI backdrop.

I agree with trooper about Snowpiercer. It was a movie that had no right of being this fun. It was quite dumb, and after ten minutes i thought i wasn't going to be able to endure it. But aesthetically it felt like a Terry Gilliam classic, like Brazil. The movie had a big heart.

You're awful.

I watched Captain Harlock : Space Pirate on Netflix on Saturday night.

It looks good but makes no fucking sense at all and has a fat man being comical in it. Because fat people are hilarious according to Japanese film makers.

I think I gave up 10 minutes before the end because it was all just too silly.

Angel (1984) - A tale about a young girl involved in prostitution (seemingly of her own will) whilst a serial killer is um killing prostitutes. Generally a suspense thriller and surprisingly well acted for what is basically a bit of sexploitation rubbish. Not a great film but not a bad one either.

Angel 2 - Avenging Angel (1985) - The young girl is about 4 or 5 years older and now a college student. She hears of the murder of the cop who helped her leave the world of prostitution behind then teams up with some of her old friends to track down the killer. Unlike the first film this is completely absurd rubbish. Not particularly well acted and makes far less sense. But it's so much the better for it. It's really stupid 80s fun and comes highly recommended for that. It's more a madcap caper than a serious action thriller. So obviously this recommendation means you should avoid it like the plague. Coming soon to my couch... Angel 3: The Final Chapter (AKA The Search on UK DVD)

So I'm watching Harry Potter on the telly and I'm bemused by the giant that looks like Lee Evans who is in it for two scenes and never mentioned again or seen in any of the other films. Turns out that he's in the books and in the final fight in the books. Makes the film a bit stupid and even more bloated though init (although this Potter has a more sensible run time).

They cut out loads of stuff that could have helped the overall plot make sense but left in a lot of pointless shit. Such as Grawp

Bit weird that Sony are now not releasing 'The Interview' and have shelved another North Korean movie following threats of terrorism. Also interesting that this comes after the same people making the threats hacked Sony and published a ton of emails and personal details, salaries and whatnot in a very embarrassing episode for the company.

Anyone else think that the hackers have some blackmail material from their hack that they are using as leverage to stop the movie(s)?

Isn't the blackmail material "don't show the movie or we will blow op the theatres"? Seems pretty blackmail like to me!

I thought it was pulled due to the theatres pulling out and refusing to show it because of the threats, which isn't exactly the same as Sony saying no. I expect it'll come out via on-demand.

Yeah, but that may just be a story. If Sony genuinely don't have anything secret held over them it'll be imminently released for download, as now it has all the publicity in the world and they can make a mint. If it strangely goes away forever...

Pretty sure there's a whole load of bullshit floating around out there. Find it highly doubtful North Korea had much to do with the Sony hack, definitely don't think it's anything to do with The Interview.

Well, by all accounts it was the same group that did the hack as demanded that the film not be released.

*hands tin hat* You'll need this now.

No, that's how they control you now...

SHITTTTTTTTTT

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