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[jellydonut25]

Are you guys watching it in 3D? If not, just watch the scenes where they get locked in the hallway right before the rail-gun attack. The PQ is so bad, the detail is so lost, it makes my head spin.


here's an image of what this horrid transfer looks like at times:
http://www.doblu.com/wp-content/uploads ... dd1946.jpg

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Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril

Awesome, awesome, awesome. The previous installments alternated between more dramatic (samurai melodrama about honor and such, long buildups to the fights, ect.) and constant action, but this film manages to indulge both approaches making for a satisfyingly 'stuffed-to-the-gills' Lone Wolf and Cub. It's the movie that' got everything you want from the franchise.

The Interpol agent from Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla plays a right "OH GODZILLA! WHAT TERRIBLE LANGUAGE!" in this. He was also an assassin in the 2nd installment. He was also the Toho Dracula (never seen those) and acted and wrote for some Ultraman projects.

Nice continuity detail: when Ogami Itto has his shirt off we see the scar from when his back was slashed in the last movie.

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Sons of the Desert

Laurel and Hardy lie to their wives, are presumed dead, and end up on the roof - all because of the fraternal lodge they belong to. Anyone belong to one of those? Maybe your Dad or Grandad?

This is known as the boy's best feature length film, but I think Way Out West is a little bit better.

[sentaison]

Welcome to the Punch

Great Brit crime drama with Mark Strong and James MacAvoy. Starts with cop McAvoy being crippled by criminal Strong during a robbery getaway. It looks like it will be the standard obsessed cop chasing "the one that got away" story, but then takes some nice twists. A really good drama with two great lead actors and story.

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^I've only seen one Fields film. They just released a really cheap set of his movies, so I have no excuse.

I still need to see more Chaplin and Lloyd.

... also: need to see some Hope and Crosby films, Red Skelton, and (god help me) Jerry Lewis.

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[Dr Kain]

Riddick - This movie was pretty good, but it is far from perfect. If you are a fan of Pitch Black, you will probably enjoy this, as it leans towards being Pitch Black 2.0. Fortunately, it is not all like that, as the first half of the movie is really enjoyable, does a nice job of developing Riddick, redefining his savage side, while keeping Chronicles in continuity. IF you are a Chronicles fan over Pitch Black, you will be very disappointed with it as it goes back to its horror-esque roots over being an action movie. Out of the three movies, I do feel this is the weakest of them from a story point of view, but that does not make it bad. Overall, I give it a 7/10.

[jellydonut25]

Previews for Riddick actually look surprisingly good. But, fool me once, and all that...

[XvGojira]

[Dr Kain]

I decided to pick up Big Trouble in Little China today and we just watched it. While I wouldn't say it is anywhere near as good as The Thing or Escape from NY, it was quite good. The music was fantastic, the fights had some nice choreography, it had some hilarious dialog, and the costumes and sets (like the wedding chapel) were gorgeous. It was a little campy for my taste, but enjoyable nonetheless. I give it a 7.5/10, and I can definitely see why others absolutely love this movie.

[lhb412]

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons

Wow, this one was pretty dark. You know, many (most? At least that I've seen) samurai films present a worldview that's a bit more modern and humanistic, whether by having heroes we can get behind morally (like Zatoichi, Yojimbo, or The Seven Samurai) or by explicitly critiquing feudal values (like in Samurai Rebellion and Three Outlaw Samurai), but Lone Wolf and Cub, despite the over-the-top action, really commits to the 'Way of the Warrior,' codes of honor and loyalty - even when it means having the hero do something we'd find abhorrent.

Again, Daigoro gets some of the best stuff. If a modern audience is looking for a moral center in the movie it's this awesome little kid.

Really like this one.

[klen7]

[XvGojira]

Watched Harry Potter and the Order of Pheonix with my girl last night. Both the books and the movies went down hill at this point for me. It really seems like she was being pushed to finished the series before the actors got too old. Plotwise, nothing is relly moved forward and no big mystery that matters in unmasked. The whole mcguffin of the prophecy is pretty dumb to me. How would knowing some one saying "One must live and one must die" help either side? They both want to kill one another already. And then the movies from here on out lost all thier color and charm. I know the books get all serious, but the world in Pheonix onwards is a starkly different world than the one we were introduced in the first book. It's like they stopped the wonderous world building to be extrodinarily dark. The only thing I really like about the this movie is Umbridge, becasue she's a worse villain than Voldermort and nothing's better than to love hating a character. Still Louise Fletcher as Kai Winn in DS9 tops the love to hate list.

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^You certainly get the most bang for your buck with the shorts collection, but I have to say that Keaton was a rare guy who's shorts and features were generally of the same quality (at least during the silent era).

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