Transporter 2 was on free to air yesterday with no ads so I had to.:)
Jason makes all the James Bonds look like a little French girls.
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Transporter 2 was on free to air yesterday with no ads so I had to.:)
Jason makes all the James Bonds look like a little French girls.
I forgot if if it was Transporter 2 or 3, but there was a scene that made me laugh pretty hard.. the chick tries to fuck Statham but when he refuses, she says to him in this heavy European accent..Quote:
Originally Posted by Andre
" are you the gay ?" lol
speaking of Statham and Bond, dont u think he would play a good, modernized version of James Bond??
On sfx:
my kids watched some of what i grew up watching and i preface everything with:
remember, when dad was a kid, this sfx was the best around, today it doesn't compare, but focus on the story
and one day, you will watch harry potter with your kids and they will think the sfx in that will suck compared to the sfx of their time.
Watched Terminator 3 with my kids, they kind of liked it, but thought ending was stupid. i was entertained, but not as greatly as i was entertained byt T1 and T2.
Actor David Andrews played Katherine Brewster's father, Robert Brewster. Haven't kept track of his career, but recall he played the dude who was looking for his robot fragdoll in Cherry 2000 starring Melanie Griffith as the 'muscle' who bodyguards him on this mission.
Piggy - a mans brother is murdered, he avenges death with brothers mate. Not only was it a poor mansbut they showed you it was a poor mansin the opening scene.
The Wolverine - Awesome film... Must see.
Watched Adjustment Bureau with my kids as a change of pace from the action movies we have been watching. Trying to get them acclimated to science fiction.
It was way too much love story for me, although chemistry between Matt Damon and Emily Blunt was great. i wanted it to have a little more sci-fi in it, given it was based on a Philip K. Dick story, Adjustment Team (some of his stories adapted for big screen include: Blade Runner, Minority Report, and at least 1-2 more which I don't recall now).
But if looking for a date movie, go watch this. If you are looking for a hard sci-fi movie, skip this.
The only reason why i watched this at all (not a big Matt Damon fan, will watch his movies if i have it) was that it came out about the same time I watched Inception. there was a part in the commercial/trailer which seemed to mess with reality making me think Inception.
Im dieing to watch ' Elysium '.. IT's the same guy who directed District 9 so I know it's going to be great..
Pacific Rim - Fuck yeah! That's how you make a big, dumb sci fi blockbuster!...
Pacific Rim was alot better than Transformers..Quote:
Originally Posted by AdamGB
Pacific Rim- Now that's how you make a robot action movie.. Not this gay transformer shit for kids..
Endeavour -- A pbs series.
Oblivion. 7/10. Would be much higher if the story were not quite so thin. I found the twist-type ending pretty obvious from the beginning. Visually stunning film though, if you like that type of thing you might rate it higher.
21 and over - good movie, wild and over the top like American Pie, or the Hangover.
Behind my back, my wife signed my son up for karate lessons. He doesn't like it, I think it's the years of pampering by my wife. I am a little upset at my wife as I would've wanted either wrestling, boxing, judo, bjj, fma, or wing chun instead.
He's 10 yrs old, and I've started watching movies with him that when he was younger, my wife would always tell me, don't let our kids watch that (I watch mostly action movies). Although I was able to sneak in:
- Ip Man 1-2,
- Legend of the Fist: Return of Chen Zhen,
- Return of the Dragon,
- Game of Death (Bruce Lee not Wesley Snipes),
- Tom Yum Goong aka The Protector,
- Police Story 1,
- Police Story 3 aka Supercop,
- Armor of God
- Drunken Fist aka Drunken Master aka Drunken Tiger in Monkey's Eye.
Since it's summer vacation and no school for him, I've been able to watch movies with him.
We watched so far:
- Expendables 1-2 (OMG! Nan Yu! ROTTY!)
- Terminator 2-4 (OMG! Moon Bloodgood! ROTTY!)
- Taken 1-2
- Batman Begins; The Dark Knight; The Dark Knight Rises
- Jack Reacher
- Jack the Giant Slayer
- Warm Bodies
- Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (OMG! Gemma Arterton! ROTTY!)
- Adjustment Bureau
- Oz the Great and Powerful
- Prometheus
- Chinese Zodiac 12 (aka CZ12 aka Armor of God 3 aka Operation Condor 2 (and Operation of Condor is really Armor of God 2)
- 36th Chamber of Shaolin AKA Master Killer
- Enter the Dragon
- Fearless
- Fist of Legend
- Mad Monkey Kung Fu (didn't finish)
Generally we liked the movies we watched. He is more critical and thinking throughout the movie as he watches it unlike me who just sits there and gets wrapped up into the movie and turn my geek/critical mind (my mind is pretty weak to begin with) off. So glad to know he's smarter than me!
Some of the movies, my wife joined in, some of the movies, his 2 older sisters joined in. But for the most part, it has been father and son bonding over generally testosterone/adrenaline movies (warm bodies & adjustment bureau were 2 that were not).
I'm going to watch soon with him:
- Flash Point (Donnie Yen),
- Five Venoms aka Five Deadly Venoms,
- Invincible Shaolin (5 Venoms gang),
- Martial Club (Gordon Liu),
- Shaolin vs Ninja aka Heroes of the East (Gordon Liu),
- Once Upon a Time in China 1-3,
- Rocky 1 and maybe 2-4
- First Blood and maybe Rambo 2-3
- Conan the Barbarian (with Arnold)
- and sadly Terminator 1 (yeah watched out of sequence).
I may try to expand his SciFi more with:
- Mad Max 1,
- Road Warrior aka Mad Max 2,
- Robocop
He's slowly Man-ing Up!! WOOHOO!
p.s. Yesterday was Terminator Salvation aka T4 - we both liked it but felt with some of the different models of Terminators and Hunter-Killers were ridiculous.
I have no idea whether or not your movie watching will end up beneficial to your son but I like the bonding you have.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stickgrappler
(he'll probably despise action/fighting movies when he's older ;D)
LOL i hope not!
Thats a pretty violent list of films to watch with a 10 yr old. Doesn't leave a lot for him to look forward to when he is older.
Watched the first film Kick Ass and it is very funny and good.
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Originally Posted by Greenbeanz
Mrs. SG pampered him too much, being the youngest of our 3 kids. Need him to man-up and hope these movies will do it.
Watched Despicable me 2 kids liked it.
Watched Red on TV and it is absurd.
So I watched the new Superman and iron man movies and I'm beyond disppointed. Is this what hollywood cinemas has come down to? Smh
Foreign movies are a lot better these days.
Bring me back the old school supermans
Watched 'The Dead' earlier. As far as zombie flicks it honestly was one of the more original I've seen. Based in Africa and a slow pace and totally sparse casts but not bad at all. Ending was real!
I saw "This is the End" with my girlfriend yesterday, and I can honestly say it was the funniest movie I've seen in a long time. It had the whole theater laughing and was a good time.
'The Master'....lord that was odd
To explain...I thought it was supposed to be this big old send up of Scientology but it turned out to be less that, (although have no doubts there were parts of that) and a story more focused on the PTSD and psychosis of Joaquin Phoenix's character who is an full blown alcoholic and completely focused on anything and everything sexual...so much so that he humps a mound of sand that has been shaped into the form of a woman.....he humps it to completion and everyone is sitting around like "Well.......yeah did he just? I guess he did....in front of everyone....special". As for his alcoholism, he mixes up "moonshine" out of paint thinner....his character drinks actual paint thinner!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by El Kabong
That said the movie was quite well acted, the body language of Joaquin Phoenix was incredible, part Forrest Gump part Travis Bickel. Phillip Seymour Hoffman was as always phenomenal.
Im going to go watch Elysium tonight and im so excited !!
Elysium mothafuckas!!
Elysium got some mixed reviews but I watched it last night and it blew me away!! People are complaining about the lack of character development and while I do agree, this was supposed to be a sc-fi action movie and it definitely did the job. The action was mind boggling, probably the best ive seen since District 9.. What really intrigued me was the fact that everything in that movie is happening in this world today. We are getting there..
Elysium is the best movie ive seen this year..
Also, if you guys are into those buddy cop movies, watch HARSH TIMES with Christian Bale.. It's one of Bales overlooked films but it's a very fuckin good movie that ive watched over 40 times..
I watched 'Friday The 13th: Part 3'...which being released in the 1980's was of course released in 3D. The 3D effects without the glasses and on a regular tv were very funny. You can tell the director was playing with the 3D a lot just from the angles of the shots and the special effects. It is the first movie where Jason dons his trademark goalie mask and it's one of the more ridiculous movies when it comes to the "is the villain really dead?" bullshit, you hang him, you smack him in the forehead with an axe, you stab him, and each time he keeps coming back :shakehead:
But yeah it's getting to be that time of year for the bad horror movies :D
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Originally Posted by El Kabong
I love the Friday series.
Upcoming horror " You are next " looks pretty good. It has that old school slasher feel to it..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KTXyWi_AJc
The Conjouring. meh Amityville
Really enjoyed Alan Partridge: Alpha Pappa ;D
I watched 'Sleepaway Camp' .....and just when I thought 'The Master' was odd as hell, this movie blew me away. Every little plot twist I was all "No way, they can't do that, no way.....NO WAY!!!!" if you're looking for a campy horror flick then look no further than this! The Camp owner is a poor man's Bert Sugar, cigar and all. The head counselor wears super tight shorts....oh and yeah he's a dude. And all the kids in the movie are Yankees (meaning they are from the Northeastern part of the US) and they are all of Italian decent so it's like a whole horde of John Travolta's.....and the ending....my God the ending....:cwm31:
Ben Hur: The Tale of the Christ. Very good movie.
'Cabin In The Woods' again...."TEQUILA IS MY LADY!!!!"
Watched Smurfs 2 kids loved it. Anyone tell it is August and I have had to take the kids to the cinema. Glad to be back to work tomorrow. :)
I saw The New World with Bale and Collin Ferrell and i wasted two hrs of my life.
Rock n Rolla got some good reviews but I stopped watching it like 30 minutes into the movie.
Watched Tom Cruise in Oblivion last night. It also had Morgan Freeman, didn't recognize the other actors, so thinking Cruise and Freeman were the biggest 'names' in it. Basic plot = Aliens attacked Earth in the near future. Earth won but devastated the world during the war. Humans built a space station to help in transporting humans to Titan, Saturn's biggest moon. Tom Cruise and a woman are tasked with maintaining some machinery which converts/transports water to Titan (i think).
It started off REALLY slow. I was a bit confused and I'm an action movies and science fiction movies fan. So I was giving this a way longer window than other types of slow starting movies. Others may have already left the movie.
Missed 30 mins during what was probably the start of the exposition - a buddy called. This may have been good for me, as it renewed my curiosity when I got back.
There was one hand-to-hand fight around the middle of the movie. I was looking forward to the fight as I've heard prior to my viewing of the movie that Tom Cruise was teamed up with the same choreographer as his past few movies which featured Keysi Fighting Method (first seen onscreen in Batman Begins). I'm not a Keysi practitioner, but some of the fights in Cruise's prior movie, Jack Reacher, looked cool onscreen.
There may be 2 or 3 plot twists depending on how astute/critical/sharp the viewer is.
I liked the 2-3 plot twists and the latter part of the movie. The beginning was THAT slow! Can imagine others not liking those parts.
You can probably pass on this movie but if you watched this, hope the payoff in the last half of the movie will be satisfying for you. Don't know how critics rated this movie, but i can see if they panned it. I think for the smart viewers, they can predict the ending and see the plot twists coming.
Anyone else watched this? Yea or nay?
The Conjuring.
What a good horror film.
Has to be on par or if not, a close second to The Exorsit. Not your Saw, Hostel type horror films.
This is a proper, in-your-head, root-fear type of horror. Though it was brilliant!
The Counterfeiters.
Oblivion was slow but then got kind of interesting even though it was obvious what was happening when it got interesting.
Searching for Sugar Man - documentary film about an American/Latino guy that made a record in the 70s that was a hit in South Africa without him ever knowing. Amazing story.
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Originally Posted by Fenster
Agreed on Oblivion Fenster
Normally not my type of move, but if I don't feel in the mood for action movies (my regular preference when and if i have time to watch) - i will check out SFSM - premise sounds like it should be good plus your comment piques my curiosity.