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Universal Solider Regeneration - surprisingly very good, gritty, self-conscious action movie with almost Pinter-esque dialogue sometimes - i.e the charactors witter on about random stuff, or have their speeches clipped and go quite a lot. Moody and atmospheric tone, but with enough mental shit going on to get you going "cool" every once in a while. Van Damme is in 50% of it, Lundgren pops up as a clone for 10 minutes, the rest of the charactors are very simplified doctor/army/Chechnyan terrorist types, who occasionally veer into self-parody for the sake of creating tension or stirring up the very simple plot.

Set in Chernobyl, so looks very gloomy. Quite bloody, lots of guns and hand-to hand combat. Like watching "COD-Black Ops" as a movie! I love the original and this one takes it's cues and goes in a different direction. Not a date movie.

All modern actioners should take heed of this film. Fuck you Sly.
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I quite enjoyed The Social Network.
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I saw American Desire again the other day. What a film.
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The Kings Speech is very good, wittier than you think it will be, but still English as hell.

Very plummy, very well acted, well written. Not too many grandiose shots of London though, little by way of reaction from the British public of the time.

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General Tso s Chicken wrote:Watched Megamind , wasn't bad , wasn't great it did have some really cool scenes , jonah hills character was too much though . it had a 7 on imdb . . .
I was disappointed. If you're going to make a villain cgi cartoon movie, it should have been a little more evil than that.

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Truly dire. Portman also has become one ugly anorexic. I guess that's one option when your acting career peaks at 12.

I enjoyed Another Year: good old British miserabilsm, very dependable and heart-warming.
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erutlucorgga wrote:Portman also has become one ugly anorexic. I guess that's one option when your acting career peaks at 12.
Well, she was raped by Jean Reno.

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Finally watched "The Road".
Bleak, miserable, how I imagine apocalypse. Not so much a like/dislike, more an intellectual exercise in appreciating a well made movie/piece of art.

Can we get our Fallout movie now please? Or new Mad Max?
Actually I've yet to see "Book of Eli" but it sounds garbage. We shall see.
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Eh, its probably not so recent but fuckit, I just love posting in Mr John's wake.

The Believer http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0247199/

What's not to love in this laugh-a-minute romp starring Ryan Gosling, who most excellently portrays a lovable jewish-born white supremacist who struggles with his whacky neighbours. (ed: sorry, I meant, Inner Demons).

Great film, quite uneventful in parts but mostly came across as an example of how if one were to convert a book that was mostly internal dialogue into a film, you can still portray it without zany interviews to camera, ala every US sitcom out at the moment. Exposition just needs good acting, not the characters telling the audience directly how they feel.

Thats a rant for another thread, but while I'm all over the shop, let me just post the most poignent thing a white supremacist movie review has ever stated. RE: Edward Norton in American History X ---
Vanguard News Network - No Jews. Just Right wrote:We are supposed to believe that the principles he stated and defended at the risk of his life have been changed because he encountered a funny Black man and some corrupt White racists in prison.
Much more organic in the Believer.

PS - It's not a laugh a minute romp.
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Mobiesque wrote:PS - It's not a laugh a minute romp.
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Mobiesque wrote:let me just post the most poignent thing a white supremacist movie review has ever stated. RE: Edward Norton in American History X ---
Vanguard News Network - No Jews. Just Right wrote:We are supposed to believe that the principles he stated and defended at the risk of his life have been changed because he encountered a funny Black man and some corrupt White racists in prison.
Much more organic in the Believer.

PS - It's not a laugh a minute romp.
Where the funk did you find that?!?
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Swear I got the link to VNN off someone on here years and years ago.

Old version of the site still has some of the most awesome movie reviews ever

http://vanguardnewsnetwork.com/v1/movie.htm

A Few apt quotes...
However much "Love Actually" goes on about its stated subject, there is a second not-so-subliminal theme, and that is miscegenation.
"The Lion King" also contains something else, namely the lesson of responsibility, and loyalty toward your own kind. A while ago I asked myself, how is it that this message can come through in a movie made by today's J ew-controlled Disney?
(he loved this movie)
Mulholland Drive provides the strongest evidence of Lynch's racial awareness
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havn't watched it yet . not sure if its all there but or the quality , figured maybe someone here might want to check this out as well :

FUZZ: The sound that changed the world

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x79gto_fuzz-01_music
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Maybe now is a good time to ask, what are keks?
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the are exactly like cookies... but if you dip them
in milk, your eyeballs turn into smoked ham and
also... your bed explodes.

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Mr John wrote:Maybe now is a good time to ask, what are keks?
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i actually googled this the other day , which turned up this :

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=keks

we have an emoticon that says keks , taste the rainbow , so i googled that as well .

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been learning a lot here lately , thanks everyone !
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I was just thinking :keks:

But "Trousers to that!" actually has a nice ring to it.
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Finally saw saw "Book of Eli".

Where do I start with what is wrong with this one?

Firstly, it's a Christian propaganda movie, which tries to water itself down by having Malcolm McDowall turn up and align The Bible to the works of Mozart and Shakespeare (a paradox in itself, with the whole film building up The Bible as a society-changing tool of power, then McDowall's unnamed charactor compares it to a piece of art/fiction). After an apocalypse, I'd rather have the "how to survive after an apocalypse" book frankly, given that The Bible kind of grinds to a halt after that wacky revelations ending...

Secondly, what is that cast doing in there? Is this a case of dismal post-production? Did they edit out all the good bits? Denzel phones it in, the big names try and retain some sense of nobility, the minor charactors think they just fell out of Fallout 3.

Thirdly, what the f**k kind of film is this? I wasn't getting any kind of message, just a barrage of mixed signals and suggestions that it was trying hard to be cool. In a sort of, Ed Milliband turns up to make a speech dressed as a charactor from Street Fighter II, trying to be cool kind of way. Isn't working! Denzel's a Ninja, no a prophet, no he's a NAVY Seal, now he's an Indian tracker dude, wait, he's actually Sherlock Holmes, f**k! Is he Jesus? No.

2 and a fail / 10
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Double post - pressed quote not edit fail.
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Fuck it, I'll come back later and pretend to review something. Consider this space "reserved", bitches.
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Ooh, do some Don Hertzfeldt from a white supremacist point of view!
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Dress Barn wrote:By far my favorite movie of the year.

You need to Netflix stream "I Think We're Alone Now"

this was great.


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Mr John wrote:Finally saw saw "Book of Eli".


2 and a fail / 10
this was one that came highly recommended . i was like what the ?
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what about antichrist, petey?
I think it's time for you to give 'er a whirl.

in fact, I am interested in your afterthoughts.
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Meh.
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