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I like Australian films 'cos they are a little bit different in a way that I can't describe and this was no exception. If it was made in the US it would have been rubbish but I really enjoyed it.

Another great Australian film is Kenny, absolutely hilarious, but also very humane and touching

There's a smell in here that will outlast religion

Funny part is parents look at me and say 'that's not much of a job, is it?'. And I say 'well you had kids'. 'You spent the first two years handling their shit, and you weren't getting paid for that'. They shit green, the only things that should be green are pears, apples and Martians.

Oh and I also enjoyed Rabbit Proof Fence when I watched it.  Shows a dark side of Australian history I was completely unaware of and that the country as a whole is sadly yet to overcome I discovered whilst living out there (racism towards aborginials is still rife among some natives immigrants   )

[Ena]

I've watched a massive pile of films in the last month, stuck at home recovering from an operation. The pick of the bunch was Eagle vs Shark. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0494222 Very funny NZ film from last year that passed me by at the time, but well worth looking out.

[SA Chris]

On the Aussie films front, my first recommendation on this thread is still a good one http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0382806/
How something like Crash would be if it was made In Australia, with no budget, and no big names.

On the Rabbit Proof Fence front, they tried to do exactly the same thing with American Indian children, with equally unsuccessful results.

[robertostallioni]

Now then. Watched Quantum of Solice last night and thought it was half the film it could have been. Whoever edited this needs bitchslapping. Every action scene was intentionally made more frenetic by cutting shots every half second - I needed a bucket. Acting - generally good but the Agent 'Strawberry' Fields was clearly of the Roger Moore school of Mahogany Acting. The pace of the film was a little too fast??? and all of the transitions between locations were blurry and ill-explained. Virtually all the faults were in post-production though and this could have been a very good Bond Film, but its not. Ah Well.

[Adam Lincoln]

Don't bother with Max Payne or Quantum Of Solice. Both sub par.

[chummer]

Tropic Thunder, fookin brilliant, funny as fuck, great characters, blah de blah.

[robertostallioni]

Yeah! Tom cruises dancing at the end and the permanently 'in character' Robert Downey Jnr.

[lagerstarfish]

Les Triplettes de Belleville is a fine french animation film. Fantastic, weird, Tim Burtony atmosphere to the whole thing with an equally strange plot. Basically, there's this kid who gets obsessed with cycling and is supported and encouraged by his Granny (who brought him up). The young man gets kidnapped and Granny saves the day. Strange shit, but very enjoyable.

[nik at work]

AKA Belleville Rendezvous

[moose]

Now then. Watched Quantum of Solice last night and thought it was half the film it could have been. Whoever edited this needs bitchslapping. Every action scene was intentionally made more frenetic by cutting shots every half second - I needed a bucket. ... The pace of the film was a little too fast???

I wholeheartedly agree.  Now, maybe I'm a traditionalist, but when I watch a Bond film I want some actual espionage: dastardly plots thwarted by cunning spy-craft.   For light relief perhaps a few sardonic encounters, preferably in casinos, between tuxedo-clad men and glamourous ladies with Benny Hill-esque names.  If I wanted scene after scene of running about and bleeding I'd rent Ong-bak or Mad Detective.  With Quantum of Solace it got to the stage where I dreaded the opening of every door just in case it triggered another breathless bout of furniture-smashing where I wouldn't have a hope in hell of telling who's doing what to whom until someone was dead.  I was reminded of a po-faced version of a Pink Panther film and left disappointed that Cato hadn't leapt out and been dealt a swift cock-punch by Dame Judi.

Not that it was all bad though.... I thought Daniel Craig was very good; probably the only Bond who has convinced me that he is a living, breathing man reacting and making his bloody best of extraordinary circumstances; rather than merely a device for the plot to unwind around.

Anyway back to my rant: I blame Tom Hanks.  My own suspicion is that, whilst making Saving Private Ryan, Spielberg realised the plot was cheesier than Cheedar Gorge.  So, in order to distract from the ridiculousness of Tom's quest to save the eponymous Private, he decided to set new standards in visceral carnage with the opening D-Day scene and the climax.  And verily... war was shown to be hell: a confusing melange of grainily-shot flying limbs and bullets.  Unfortunately, ever since then, directors of action scenes have felt it similarly necessary to confuse the hell out of their audiences with choppy editing, bewildering angles, and deafening bone-crunching.  Often this seems to be a pretension of seriousness, an attempt by a self-avowedly "important" film maker to bend a distastefully action-packed project to their art-house standards.  In any "prestige" film it now seems a given that any violence, from all-out war to a dust up outside a kebab-house, must be shown to be as horribly disorientating and unpleasant as possible in order to anticipate accusations of base titillation.

[robertostallioni]

Mmmm. But wasn't Olga fit eh?

[(woz)]

She is no Kate Perry

[robertostallioni]

 

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News of a Tron sequel 

[Houdini]

This is incredible



IMDB


Worst film of some years was The Something* Chronicles (*sorry, forgot it's name it was so dull) w/ Ron Perlman amongst other.  It lasted 25 minutes in the player before I took it back in disgust.  It's fucking shit.

[Houdini]

Almost the best film of the year, AKA Surveillance (though I've not seen so many flicks this year):



Betty Blue-esque

I M D B

H8+/10

[Houdini]

...

[lagerstarfish]

Watched a few oldies recently with my old mate Dragon Pete. Best of which are

Dark Star (1974) - I can't believe it took me this long to get round to watching it (in a state where I can remember anything) . Lo-tech, high-value sci fi. Ace

Delicatessen - classic French black comedy - again, I can't believe it took me so long to watch it when neither pissed nor otherwise fucked up. I loved the scenes with the Troglodytes - the obvious inspiration for the scenes with Le Frog and his men in Flushed Away.

[Jaspersharpe]

Anyone looking forward to Notorious? Could have been a bit shit and laughable but by the sound of it and the look of the trailer I reckon it might be rather good.

[Will Hunt]

Saw The Third Man the other night but am going to have to watch it again because the bloody family kept talking over the dialogue
 

[Will Hunt]

Delicatessen - classic French black comedy

[Iesu]

Eastern Promises - David Cronenberg

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2007/oct/28/thriller.drama

Tim, I want my Encyclopedia of Russian Criminal Tattoos back!

[Stubbs]

My tattoo artist on has a few more deigns to copy for my full vor v zakone set, then you can have it back!

[Iesu]

you going for the full "shirt" then?

[Houdini]

Just saw this, really good. 



Dir.  Werner Herzog.  Some classy Herzog moments.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rescue_Dawn