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  • Movies you watched and would recommend
     OP - January 02, 2013, 09:11 AM
    So we don't have a thread for newish movies we already watched and would recommend?!

    Ok here we go then...

    I watched Cloud Atlas and totally loved it. Haven't liked the all the Wachowski films in the past, but this one was good, and it made me want to read the novel it's based on, which I'm now doing.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWnAqFyaQ5s

    What have you watched recently that you'd recommend?
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  • Movie just seen and would recommend
     Reply #1 - January 02, 2013, 11:15 AM

    I definitely want to watch this.

    I saw Looper recently and really liked it.

    Also saw the recent adaptation of Jane Eyre with Michael Fassbender as Mr Rochester - very good indeed - excellent acting and direction.

    "we can smell traitors and country haters"


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  • Movie just seen and would recommend
     Reply #2 - January 02, 2013, 12:41 PM
    Just watched The Hobbit and MIB III. Would recommend both, very entertaining. Now read more for spoilers:

    Why did trolls in the Hobbit speak English? Did you think they had a British accent too? This and some other details made the movie a bit unrealistic, I thought.
    "That it is indeed the speech of an illustrious messenger" (The Koran 69:40)
  • Movie just seen and would recommend
     Reply #3 - January 02, 2013, 01:13 PM
    Watched the Life of Pi the other day, easily recommend it, was such an amazing movie.  Even my youngest 2 enjoyed it.

    I'm planning to watch cloud atlas next and the hobbit. 
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  • Movie just seen and would recommend
     Reply #4 - January 02, 2013, 02:27 PM
    ohhh i like this thread!  yes

    i will be taking notes  popcorn
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV9vdUjuWxc
  • Movie just seen and would recommend
     Reply #5 - January 02, 2013, 03:44 PM
    Good thread!

    I recommend this movie:
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1675434/
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  • Movie just seen and would recommend
     Reply #6 - January 02, 2013, 08:33 PM
    Quote from: Alex Lam Meem on January 02, 2013, 12:41 PM
    Why did trolls in the Hobbit speak English? Did you think they had a British accent too? This and some other details made the movie a bit unrealistic, I thought.


    So the most unbelievable thing about 10 foot giants roaming around eating dwarves was that they could speak English?
  • Movie just seen and would recommend
     Reply #7 - January 02, 2013, 08:51 PM
    Argo

    Well made and covers events that many dont know about regarding the hostage crisis. Plus it makes Canada look good Smiley
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  • Movie just seen and would recommend
     Reply #8 - January 02, 2013, 09:07 PM
    Quote from: Tonyt on January 02, 2013, 08:33 PM
    So the most unbelievable thing about 10 foot giants roaming around eating dwarves was that they could speak English?


    Not at all. I was not bothered by their ability to speak English. I was bothered by the fact that they chose to speak English and seemed to speak it so well as if English was their native tongue!!! I just can't believe it.
    "That it is indeed the speech of an illustrious messenger" (The Koran 69:40)
  • Movie just seen and would recommend
     Reply #9 - January 02, 2013, 09:40 PM
     whistling2
    "we can smell traitors and country haters"


    Quote from: arX on May 01, 2011, 03:33 AM
    God is Love.
    Love is Blind. Stevie Wonder is blind. Therefore, Stevie Wonder is God.

  • Movie just seen and would recommend
     Reply #10 - January 02, 2013, 09:44 PM
    What? There was something hard to believe in a movie about magical elves??
     
    Don't anybody hijack the thread!
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  • Movie just seen and would recommend
     Reply #11 - January 02, 2013, 09:44 PM
    What about the fire breathing dragons, giant spiders, giant eagles, etc. That stuff is more believable?

    But yeah, I see what you are saying I guess, the Trolls should have developed their own language.

    From what I remember about reading the books when I was a kid, what the Hobbits speak is the "common tongue" which is basically English, and what most of the humans speak too. Maybe each of the Trolls came from different Troll tribes with their own dialects so to speak to each other they used the "common tongue". In the same way I heard that in Al-Qaida training camps Pakistanis, Turks, and Arabs sometimes communicate with each other in English.
  • Movie just seen and would recommend
     Reply #12 - January 02, 2013, 09:46 PM
    Devious, treacherous, murderous, neanderthal, sub-human of the West. bunny
  • Movie just seen and would recommend
     Reply #13 - January 04, 2013, 08:46 AM
    Grin

    Ok recently watched this movie by Deepa   Mehta "Heaven on Earth". Very interesting film about an Indian woman brought to Canada after marriage and how she's treated by her in-laws. Lots of stuff there that I know many South Asian families do in Canada. The film is Mehta's statement against multi cultural tolerance of oppression. Definitely recommended.
    "Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused."
  • Movie just seen and would recommend
     Reply #14 - January 05, 2013, 08:05 PM
    The New Spider man movie.


    Didn't like it....

    The Green Goblin was a much better villian than the lizard thingy. 

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  • Movie just seen and would recommend
     Reply #15 - January 05, 2013, 08:09 PM
    I agree, the new spider man sucked. Am I still the only person on this forum to have seen django? That movie was freakin awesome people, possibly the best film out right now.
  • Movie just seen and would recommend
     Reply #16 - January 05, 2013, 08:32 PM
    Quote from: billy on January 02, 2013, 11:15 AM
    I definitely want to watch this.

    I saw Looper recently and really liked it.

    Also saw the recent adaptation of Jane Eyre with Michael Fassbender as Mr Rochester - very good indeed - excellent acting and direction.




    Looper was good actually
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  • Re: Movie just seen and would recommend
     Reply #17 - January 05, 2013, 10:26 PM
    Quote from: happymurtad on January 05, 2013, 08:09 PM
    I agree, the new spider man sucked. Am I still the only person on this forum to have seen django? That movie was freakin awesome people, possibly the best film out right now.


    Its not out in the UK till the week after next and I cannot fucking wait to see it

    I'm avoiding all spoilers until then, when I see it we can shoot the breeze about it here
    "we can smell traitors and country haters"


    Quote from: arX on May 01, 2011, 03:33 AM
    God is Love.
    Love is Blind. Stevie Wonder is blind. Therefore, Stevie Wonder is God.

  • Movie just seen and would recommend
     Reply #18 - January 05, 2013, 10:30 PM
    Sweet, you won't be disappointed. I saw it twice in the theater..haven't done that in years.
  • Movie just seen and would recommend
     Reply #19 - January 05, 2013, 10:43 PM
    Is it as sick, disturbing and disgusting as other Tarantino's movies?
    "That it is indeed the speech of an illustrious messenger" (The Koran 69:40)
  • Movie just seen and would recommend
     Reply #20 - January 05, 2013, 10:49 PM
    It is very raw, but I'm not easily offended. The story line was very fresh and unpredictable, which is important for me. I'll write more of a review when I'm on my lap top and not my phone.
  • Movie just seen and would recommend
     Reply #21 - January 06, 2013, 06:57 AM
    Just watched it. It is sick, disturbing and disgusting as were reactions of many people in the audience. If you love to watch brains splattered, body parts ripped off, human suffering and death and a lot of it and up close  then the movie is for you. Enjoy,
    "That it is indeed the speech of an illustrious messenger" (The Koran 69:40)
  • Movie just seen and would recommend
     Reply #22 - January 21, 2013, 03:37 PM
    Saw Django Unchained at the weekend. Normally when I watch a 3 hour movie, I know I've watched a 3 hour movie. It's exhausting. Like a marathon. Not this time. Close to 3 hours long, felt more like an hour. I was hungry for more. Thinking about going to see it again next weekend just so I can double check how awesome it is.
    Too fucking busy, and vice versa.
  • Movie just seen and would recommend
     Reply #23 - January 21, 2013, 03:57 PM
    I agree. Django Unchained gets my nomination for best movie of the year. I know that it has come under a lot of fire for the controversial subject matter, but I watch a movie first and for most for its ability to tell a compelling, fictional story. With that in mind, Django does a great job. I know that in reality, Jamie Fox is not a freed slave, he's one of the richest black men on the planet. Leonardo DiCaprio was not a racist plantation owner and no Negroes were eaten alive by dogs during the filming of the movie. I would say that to tell a fictional story based in the grim and horrid settings of the slave era American south and not to depict that time as cruel, inhumane, and disgusting would have been truly offensive. Django could play every second of every day for the next 400 years and it would not amount to even a fraction of the injustice that went on back then. To shed light on that era and to tell an entertaining, epic, badass story while doing so was in my mind a masterpiece.      
  • Movie just seen and would recommend
     Reply #24 - January 21, 2013, 04:07 PM
    Lincoln was pretty cool. It is kind of slow and nothing much happens. It is just the story of Abe Lincoln trying to get the Emancipation bill through the Senate. If you are interested in history and politics then it is pretty interesting, but if you aren't interested in that then you might find it boring.  I watched it with my sister, who took a nap through the middle part of the film and then woke up right before the end where the bill finally gets passed and she did not really miss any of the plot.
  • Movie just seen and would recommend
     Reply #25 - January 21, 2013, 04:32 PM
    Quote from: happymurtad on January 21, 2013, 03:57 PM
    I agree. Django Unchained gets my nomination for best movie of the year. I know that it has come under a lot of fire for the controversial subject matter, but I watch a movie first and for most for its ability to tell a compelling, fictional story.

    Yeah, I'm struggling to care about the criticisms. I pay my money to be entertained, not lectured or moralised at. What did they honestly expect from a Tarantino movie? They are living in a fucking dreamworld if they expected a maudlin and sensitive meditation on slavery. Gimmie a shit-wrecking ex-slave bounty hunter carving a path of bloody vengeance.

    Quote from: happymurtad on January 21, 2013, 03:57 PM
    Leonardo DiCaprio was not a racist plantation owner and no Negroes were eaten alive by dogs during the filming of the movie.

    Oh my, Leonardo DiCaprio.

    Y'know, I was sold already with just Waltz and Foxx, within minutes. I'd have been happy if the rest of the movie was just the relationship between their two characters and the interplay between two fantastic actors. I was so wrapped up in it that I'd forgotten DiCaprio was supposed to be in it. He stole the show. He's catapulted himself from one of my most loved living actors into my out and out fave living actor. Absolutely mesmerising performance.
    Too fucking busy, and vice versa.
  • Movie just seen and would recommend
     Reply #26 - January 21, 2013, 04:41 PM
    Quote from: Ishina on January 21, 2013, 04:32 PM

    Oh my, Leonardo DiCaprio.

    Y'know, I was sold already with just Waltz and Foxx, within minutes. I'd have been happy if the rest of the movie was just the relationship between their two characters and the interplay between two fantastic actors. I was so wrapped up in it that I'd forgotten DiCaprio was supposed to be in it. He stole the show. He's catapulted himself from one of my most loved living actors into my out and out fave living actor. Absolutely mesmerising performance.


    I totally agree. DiCaprio did a phenomenal job with his character. I have gained a lot of respect for his acting over the years.  Candie was such a different character for him to have to play, and he nailed it! The close up shots when you could see his facial expressions and the fury in his eyes, that southern twang...it was all dead on.
  • Movie just seen and would recommend
     Reply #27 - January 21, 2013, 05:06 PM
    Quote from: happymurtad on January 21, 2013, 04:41 PM
    I totally agree. DiCaprio did a phenomenal job with his character. I have gained a lot of respect for his acting over the years.  Candie was such a different character for him to have to play, and he nailed it! The close up shots when you could see his facial expressions and the fury in his eyes, that southern twang...it was all dead on.

    The part where he cuts his hand and wipes blood on the face of Broomhilda is unscripted.
    Leo accidentally cut his hand on broken glass mid-scene but just ran with it, never breaking character.
    That's dedication to the art.
    Too fucking busy, and vice versa.
  • Movie just seen and would recommend
     Reply #28 - January 21, 2013, 05:28 PM
    Just saw this on TV, brilliant!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EZZbGhfbes
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  • Movie just seen and would recommend
     Reply #29 - January 21, 2013, 06:12 PM
    Confessions - Awesome, new favourite movie, has to be seen. 

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vnws8ZymxME


    Les Miserables - Another great movie which I highly recommend.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuEFm84s4oI


    Obviously Django unchained, kept me up beyond a time that I should have been up.  Great film. 

    Intouchables - French film, loved it.  Made me do the happy cry thing. 

    The hobbit - Great film just annoyed it wasn't all of it.  Grin

    Cloud Atlas - Great, recommending again.


    ^^ I'd make a great film critic.  Grin
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