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Anyone know where I can get Khan Kluay in Hua Hin?
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Thanks Sandman, I'm in a bit of a download, er, I mean aquisition, doldrum at the moment - will search for that later.sandman67 wrote:Anyway, a small budget psychological thriller in the same mould that slipped under the radar last year was LUSTER
So, today is 'yellow day' in the office, everyone has to wear an item of yellow clothing - WTF am I back in primary school??? So I duly turn up to work wearing black everything! Nevertheless, I'm dragged off for a photo with all the yellow dressed people and last minute I grab a yellow post-it note and stick it to my black t-shirt. Where am I going with this? Well it reminded me of the movie poster of one of my favourite movies - can you guess it?
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dee de dee dee diddly dit..... yes its the SandoMatic 6000 Early Warning System again chaps....
over at oneclickmoviez.com you can now get lovey crispy clean DVDRIP copies of the Simon Pegg alien encounter comedy PAUL and also the mind bending scifi romance thriller THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU starring Matt Damon.
The BDRIP copies are big whopper files so you will need to used 2shared rather than Megaupload. The DVDRIP copies are 700mb smaller ones so any file host will do.
PAUL is also available via veehd.com at much faster speeds.
enjoy chums
copies of X-MEN FIRST CLASS doing the rounds are truly hideous so avoid like a dose of clap.
over at oneclickmoviez.com you can now get lovey crispy clean DVDRIP copies of the Simon Pegg alien encounter comedy PAUL and also the mind bending scifi romance thriller THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU starring Matt Damon.
The BDRIP copies are big whopper files so you will need to used 2shared rather than Megaupload. The DVDRIP copies are 700mb smaller ones so any file host will do.
PAUL is also available via veehd.com at much faster speeds.
enjoy chums
copies of X-MEN FIRST CLASS doing the rounds are truly hideous so avoid like a dose of clap.
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THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU
Matt Damon plays David Norris, an up and coming rising star politician who unfortunately lets his youth get in the way of an election and falls foul of that favorite tactic the smear campaign. On the night he looses he meets a woman whilst trying to form up a speech to bow out of the race....and she seems to be the perfect partner. She inspires him to make a speech thats sets the way for his next run at Congress, but fate seems to keep getting in the way of them ever being together. Fate that seems to strangely sit in the hands of sinister 1950s style G Men who have books that tell them what is going to happen, and an ability to use doors to move rapidly from one location to another.
Its a great film, mixing and splicing a romantic fateful love story with a wierd scifi sinister thriller....will David ever escape the clutches of the Adjusters, or will his life be preordaned by their tinkering? The acting from the two leads is great, but things really get moving when the very sinister and threatening Terrence Stamp gets involved as the chief fixer...an Adjuster with no conscience or heart.
Top stuff, and well worth am evening with a bowl of popcorn and a beer. Look....its mainly a romance and even I like it....the man who watches extreme japanese splatter manga for fun. Along the way it plays with clever allegories around choice and free will, and also refers to fate and divinity in offhand ways. And yes, beng a romance there was a hint of sniffle at the end...it even got my old cynical heart a thrummng. I bet as well after seeing it should you ever spot a besuited and behatted man with a notebook across the street you will do a double take.
Its a bit like a romantic version of INCEPTION, and equally as mind bending in bits. Excellent stuff.....a definite three cheers keeper.
Out in lovely DVDRIP format all over the place so get at it, oneclickmoviez.com for example.
Matt Damon plays David Norris, an up and coming rising star politician who unfortunately lets his youth get in the way of an election and falls foul of that favorite tactic the smear campaign. On the night he looses he meets a woman whilst trying to form up a speech to bow out of the race....and she seems to be the perfect partner. She inspires him to make a speech thats sets the way for his next run at Congress, but fate seems to keep getting in the way of them ever being together. Fate that seems to strangely sit in the hands of sinister 1950s style G Men who have books that tell them what is going to happen, and an ability to use doors to move rapidly from one location to another.
Its a great film, mixing and splicing a romantic fateful love story with a wierd scifi sinister thriller....will David ever escape the clutches of the Adjusters, or will his life be preordaned by their tinkering? The acting from the two leads is great, but things really get moving when the very sinister and threatening Terrence Stamp gets involved as the chief fixer...an Adjuster with no conscience or heart.
Top stuff, and well worth am evening with a bowl of popcorn and a beer. Look....its mainly a romance and even I like it....the man who watches extreme japanese splatter manga for fun. Along the way it plays with clever allegories around choice and free will, and also refers to fate and divinity in offhand ways. And yes, beng a romance there was a hint of sniffle at the end...it even got my old cynical heart a thrummng. I bet as well after seeing it should you ever spot a besuited and behatted man with a notebook across the street you will do a double take.
Its a bit like a romantic version of INCEPTION, and equally as mind bending in bits. Excellent stuff.....a definite three cheers keeper.
Out in lovely DVDRIP format all over the place so get at it, oneclickmoviez.com for example.
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Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, the writer actor comedy duo from HOT FUZZ and SEAN OF THE DEAD, are back with another comedy and its a good old Brit laugh a mile road movie this time...with added aliens.
PAUL
Simon and NIck play two comic convention geeks who decide to combine a visit to an American comic convention with a road trip RV holiday touring all the famous UFO sites in the west USA. One night out on the road near Area 51 they stop to help out when a car goes off the road in front of them. Only problem is the driver turns out to be a little grey man called Paul (voiced by Seth Rogen), and there are nasty MIB government agents on his trail. So the chase begins.....
Its full of laughs and spills, ripping on comic geeks, sci fi, born again evangelical christians, and X Files style government agents as it goes. Pegg and Frost are funny as always as two very British geeks in a strange land, and Rogen is excellent as the foul mouthed dope smoking alien. Its also made for a much more international audience than the duos previous films so more accessable to non Brits who may have found HOT FUZZ a bit hit and miss.
Its great feel good comedy, and well worth a watch. Solid gold keeper material all the way IMHO.
Available now in lovely DVDRIP and BDRIP hi rez formats....try and find a copy of the extended version that has an extra 10 minutes of laughs and rude bits put back in that were cut from the cinema version. As usual veehd and oneclickmoviez.com have plenty of both versions.
And keep watching the end credits as there are bits of end story scenes during the credits.
PAUL
Simon and NIck play two comic convention geeks who decide to combine a visit to an American comic convention with a road trip RV holiday touring all the famous UFO sites in the west USA. One night out on the road near Area 51 they stop to help out when a car goes off the road in front of them. Only problem is the driver turns out to be a little grey man called Paul (voiced by Seth Rogen), and there are nasty MIB government agents on his trail. So the chase begins.....
Its full of laughs and spills, ripping on comic geeks, sci fi, born again evangelical christians, and X Files style government agents as it goes. Pegg and Frost are funny as always as two very British geeks in a strange land, and Rogen is excellent as the foul mouthed dope smoking alien. Its also made for a much more international audience than the duos previous films so more accessable to non Brits who may have found HOT FUZZ a bit hit and miss.
Its great feel good comedy, and well worth a watch. Solid gold keeper material all the way IMHO.
Available now in lovely DVDRIP and BDRIP hi rez formats....try and find a copy of the extended version that has an extra 10 minutes of laughs and rude bits put back in that were cut from the cinema version. As usual veehd and oneclickmoviez.com have plenty of both versions.
And keep watching the end credits as there are bits of end story scenes during the credits.
"Science flew men to the moon. Religion flew men into buildings."
"To sin by silence makes cowards of men."
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SOURCE CODE
Ok...this scifi thrillers plot is so twisty and mind bending I have reverted to the official plot synopsis to give you a taste of what it is about. I dont want to give too much away, as part of the fun with this film is actually working out what the hell is going on for the first half...
Well scripted, well acted, and a definite keeper.
Out on the net in DVDRIP format (with Korean subtitles hard coded along the bottom)...so if the subs put you off wait a week or so till a no subs version does the rounds.
Ok...this scifi thrillers plot is so twisty and mind bending I have reverted to the official plot synopsis to give you a taste of what it is about. I dont want to give too much away, as part of the fun with this film is actually working out what the hell is going on for the first half...
That sets the scene....literally its the first ten minutes.....there are many more twists in this corkscrew whodunnit and even a kick in the ass at the end. Its a bit like MEMENTO Lite. Its also compelling watching and continually throws new curve balls into play to keep you guessing all the way to the end.A man (Jake Gyllenhaal) wakes up on a train sitting across from a woman named Christina Warren (Michelle Monaghan). The woman seems to know him by the name Sean Fentress, but he doesn't seem to know her and appears uncertain of his own identity. After eight minutes, a bomb goes off on the train, and the man awakens to find himself strapped inside a small geodesic dome. There, Air Force Capt. Colleen Goodwin (Vera Farmiga) explains to him through a computer screen that he is actually Colter Stevens, a decorated army helicopter pilot, now on a mission to locate the maker of a bomb which destroyed a train headed into Chicago. This is to be accomplished using the Source Code, a time loop program that allows him to take over someone's body in a reenactment of their last eight minutes of life.
Well scripted, well acted, and a definite keeper.
Out on the net in DVDRIP format (with Korean subtitles hard coded along the bottom)...so if the subs put you off wait a week or so till a no subs version does the rounds.
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"To sin by silence makes cowards of men."
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Did you ever review this one SM? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0416449/
I just saw it for the first time and it's only 5 years old.
Very good flick IMO. Pete
I just saw it for the first time and it's only 5 years old.
Very good flick IMO. Pete Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. Source
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yeah mate...lost count of the times Ive watched it. A lot of people had a pop at its historical factualness but missed the point that its the survivor telling a story in the classic Greek way...full of larger than life heroes and monsters. In reality Ephialtes wasnt a hunchback (he was a local farmer) but if a Spartan was telling a tale he would have been made into a monster...as he was in the film.
They have been working on a prequel about how Xerxes gets to the point of invading Greece and his first run in with the Spartans and the sea battle of Salamis but its in production limbo by the look of it. Its a damn shame....the again the battle at the end of 300 - Platea or the much earlier Athenian battle against the Persians at Marathon could equally do well with a 300 treatment. At Marathon the Athenians faced down a much larger Persian force while the Spartans were playing sports at the Carnea, and ended the battle by mass charging fully armoured Hoplon troops at full charge agross nearly a mile of empty ground. Militades the Athenian battle Archon, (head general) initiated the charge by pointing his spear at the Persian lines and shouting the Greek for "Get At Em!". The race gets its name from the poor bloke who ran back to Athens twice, the second time dropping dead just after shouting "Nike!" (Victory). At Platea Xerxes had sodded off home in shame after Salamis, leaving his brother in command. He was killed by a Greek, whose spear and sword were broken, lobbing a rock at his head.
300 - Utter solid gold classic.
Anyways, more stirring Boys Own stuff....
AGE OF HEROES
This classic British WW2 Boys Own style story tells of Ian Fleming (the Bond creator) and his WW2 work with SOE, specifically his setting up 30 Commando (the forerunner to the SAS) and their first mission into Norway to blow up an early RDF radar research station. Its a high adrenaline ride all the way, and very similar to WHERE EAGLES DARE.
Sean Bean plays the doughty Major Jones who takes bad boy Corp Raines (Danny Dyer) under his wing and turns him into a proper spit n polish Commando killer. As with all military missions soon as they get into the plane things start going badly wrong, and its down to the Major and his crew of lads to adapt, survive, and generally cause chaos well behind enemy lines. On their trail is the obligitory badass brigade of SS ethnic cleansing mountain troops who kill anything they come across. Will the lads give Jerry a kick in the nads or just go down fighting?
Top stuff and the action sequences are frenetic and well played out. I dont know how historically accurate it is with the facts, but its top class WW2 booms n bangs all the way. Even Danny manages to come across well, and thats saying something as hes not in a chirpy London gangland caper with Tamar Hassan ..... for a change.
Out in lovely hi quality DVDRIP formats at oneclickmoviez.com and elsewhere on the net. Get at it you orrible shower!
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copies of XMEN continue to be terrible - caveat emptor chums
SUCKER PUNCH is out in DVDRIP hi quality format at last - steampunk chicks with swords and guns in a game like dark fantasy world beat em up....copies on oneclick and veehd. Top stuff and review to follow
http://oneclickmoviez.com/?s=Sucker.Punch
They have been working on a prequel about how Xerxes gets to the point of invading Greece and his first run in with the Spartans and the sea battle of Salamis but its in production limbo by the look of it. Its a damn shame....the again the battle at the end of 300 - Platea or the much earlier Athenian battle against the Persians at Marathon could equally do well with a 300 treatment. At Marathon the Athenians faced down a much larger Persian force while the Spartans were playing sports at the Carnea, and ended the battle by mass charging fully armoured Hoplon troops at full charge agross nearly a mile of empty ground. Militades the Athenian battle Archon, (head general) initiated the charge by pointing his spear at the Persian lines and shouting the Greek for "Get At Em!". The race gets its name from the poor bloke who ran back to Athens twice, the second time dropping dead just after shouting "Nike!" (Victory). At Platea Xerxes had sodded off home in shame after Salamis, leaving his brother in command. He was killed by a Greek, whose spear and sword were broken, lobbing a rock at his head.
300 - Utter solid gold classic.
Anyways, more stirring Boys Own stuff....
AGE OF HEROES
This classic British WW2 Boys Own style story tells of Ian Fleming (the Bond creator) and his WW2 work with SOE, specifically his setting up 30 Commando (the forerunner to the SAS) and their first mission into Norway to blow up an early RDF radar research station. Its a high adrenaline ride all the way, and very similar to WHERE EAGLES DARE.
Sean Bean plays the doughty Major Jones who takes bad boy Corp Raines (Danny Dyer) under his wing and turns him into a proper spit n polish Commando killer. As with all military missions soon as they get into the plane things start going badly wrong, and its down to the Major and his crew of lads to adapt, survive, and generally cause chaos well behind enemy lines. On their trail is the obligitory badass brigade of SS ethnic cleansing mountain troops who kill anything they come across. Will the lads give Jerry a kick in the nads or just go down fighting?
Top stuff and the action sequences are frenetic and well played out. I dont know how historically accurate it is with the facts, but its top class WW2 booms n bangs all the way. Even Danny manages to come across well, and thats saying something as hes not in a chirpy London gangland caper with Tamar Hassan ..... for a change.
Out in lovely hi quality DVDRIP formats at oneclickmoviez.com and elsewhere on the net. Get at it you orrible shower!
Early Warning System Alert:
copies of XMEN continue to be terrible - caveat emptor chums
SUCKER PUNCH is out in DVDRIP hi quality format at last - steampunk chicks with swords and guns in a game like dark fantasy world beat em up....copies on oneclick and veehd. Top stuff and review to follow
http://oneclickmoviez.com/?s=Sucker.Punch
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well, here we go with a couple of films that are doing teh rounds in DVDRIP format and landed on the hard drive of late
First up one I had to drop for work, and I had to sit through it so Im getting the steely knife out, as it in one assanine lump proves Sandmans Synchronous Theory of Sinematic Sad Remakes: - ARTHUR.
Now Im sure all here remember the original funny Dudley Moore original, the crusty and loveable John Gielgud as his long suffering butler, and the disasterously micast pug ugly Liza Minelli as the love interest. It was funny in a gentle heartwarming way, and even when Dud fell for the pickaxe faced frog eyed Minelli it retained charm.
Remove all that warmth and charm, add childish poo poo humor, and the walking bag of comedy excrement that is Russel Brand and you get the remake = utter cack from start to end. The loveable crusty butler is replaced by an obviously uncomfortable Helen Mirren as Arthurs nanny...his nanny for Fs sake. You can see the pain and "what the hell am I doing" looks in her eyes on occasion. Brand as usual plays Russel Brand...a tosser so annoying you want to kick him to death, and as much fun as a root canal. Oh, and we will throw in the token ethnic driver so it ticks off all the Hollywood check boxes.......Its 110 minutes of being repeatedly kicked in the balls by a donkey, and if you do decide to watch it you deserve every minute of misery it will bring.
The only good movie with Russel Brand in it would be a snuff movie of him being slowly fed into a wood chipper....which loops me nicley to our next film....
Now on to one that definitely breaks the Theory.... TRUE GRIT
I have to admit, when I found out that they intended remaking the Big John utter solid gold classic that is True Grit I neary cried. Then I learned it was in the hands of the Coen Brothers, who intended retelling the story from the angle of the little girl and after all they do make excellent films like FARGO.
So the result is a neo-western in the mould of UNFORGIVEN, and one that pays definite homage to the original with some odd Coen touches thrown in...and it damn well works. Jeff Bridges as Rooster and Matt Damon as a Texas Ranger add the grit, and the cast works well. Bridges is particularly good as Rooster....he has that grizzled look that fits the part perfectly. He looks like hes ridden the range, and is creaky and cranky and deadly as hell on two legs. You can almost smell the whisky, horse sweat and cordite. Its lovely eye candy to boot...the Coens always had a good eye for shooting lovely background scenery. Its a bit more visceral and gritty than the original, but it all hangs together beautifully and the angle of telling it more from the young girls perspective works a treat. Gothic neo-western at ts best....now fill your hands you sons of....
Definitely a three cheers keeper, and I strongly recc you download this one.
Both available in DVDRIP format at the usual sites - veehd.com and oneclickmoviez.com - but god damn your rotten soul if you drop Arthur.
First up one I had to drop for work, and I had to sit through it so Im getting the steely knife out, as it in one assanine lump proves Sandmans Synchronous Theory of Sinematic Sad Remakes: - ARTHUR.
Now Im sure all here remember the original funny Dudley Moore original, the crusty and loveable John Gielgud as his long suffering butler, and the disasterously micast pug ugly Liza Minelli as the love interest. It was funny in a gentle heartwarming way, and even when Dud fell for the pickaxe faced frog eyed Minelli it retained charm.
Remove all that warmth and charm, add childish poo poo humor, and the walking bag of comedy excrement that is Russel Brand and you get the remake = utter cack from start to end. The loveable crusty butler is replaced by an obviously uncomfortable Helen Mirren as Arthurs nanny...his nanny for Fs sake. You can see the pain and "what the hell am I doing" looks in her eyes on occasion. Brand as usual plays Russel Brand...a tosser so annoying you want to kick him to death, and as much fun as a root canal. Oh, and we will throw in the token ethnic driver so it ticks off all the Hollywood check boxes.......Its 110 minutes of being repeatedly kicked in the balls by a donkey, and if you do decide to watch it you deserve every minute of misery it will bring.
The only good movie with Russel Brand in it would be a snuff movie of him being slowly fed into a wood chipper....which loops me nicley to our next film....
Now on to one that definitely breaks the Theory.... TRUE GRIT
I have to admit, when I found out that they intended remaking the Big John utter solid gold classic that is True Grit I neary cried. Then I learned it was in the hands of the Coen Brothers, who intended retelling the story from the angle of the little girl and after all they do make excellent films like FARGO.
So the result is a neo-western in the mould of UNFORGIVEN, and one that pays definite homage to the original with some odd Coen touches thrown in...and it damn well works. Jeff Bridges as Rooster and Matt Damon as a Texas Ranger add the grit, and the cast works well. Bridges is particularly good as Rooster....he has that grizzled look that fits the part perfectly. He looks like hes ridden the range, and is creaky and cranky and deadly as hell on two legs. You can almost smell the whisky, horse sweat and cordite. Its lovely eye candy to boot...the Coens always had a good eye for shooting lovely background scenery. Its a bit more visceral and gritty than the original, but it all hangs together beautifully and the angle of telling it more from the young girls perspective works a treat. Gothic neo-western at ts best....now fill your hands you sons of....
Definitely a three cheers keeper, and I strongly recc you download this one.
Both available in DVDRIP format at the usual sites - veehd.com and oneclickmoviez.com - but god damn your rotten soul if you drop Arthur.
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THE LEDGE
This flick has been pre hyped quite a lot as, unusually for American films, the hero is an atheist and the bad guy is an evangelical christian whose faith drives him to extremes. I have been waiting for its release on piratical seas for some time as there has been a bit of a hullaballoo about it in the US press, and I have to say it was worth the wait.
Hollis, a hard working copper, is having the mother of all crappy days. Not only has he just found out that he is sterile and always has been, so now knows his wife cheated on him and his two kids arent his, but he also gets called out on his least favorite work....a jumper on a ledge. Hollis arrives at the scene to find Gavin apparently waiting till dead noon before jumping, and as he trues to talk him down the tale unfolds of how he got there and why he has to jump...its either him or the woman he loves who dies. Gavins problem is that his plan for petty revenge against his mad evangelical christian neighbour, whose wife he fancies as she is tasty and vulnerable, has gone badly wrong. He has fallen in love, got caught, and now the madass husband has given him a choice...jump at noon or she dies.
Its told in flashback form as Hollis tries to talk Gavin out of jumping, and at the same time tries to deal with his own conflicts and problems in his own marriage. On the way the film kicks about the usual faith vs atheism arguments and contradictions, the ultimate being will a man with no belief in an afterlife sacrifice himself for someone he loves. It is simplified a lot, but it is aimed at a target audience in a country where the majority of the population think atheists are baby eating satanists who are less electable than muslims.
Its acted well, even Liv Tyler managing a fair performance for once, and Hollis the copper is particularly good...you can see the conflicts writ large across his face as he struggles with talking Gavin down. I found it easy to despise the mad christian, but do wonder how Americans saw him....from the press it seems some audiences thought he was in the right. It is also not as preachy as you would think, and manages to present the arguments for and against well and sensitively.
Well worth watching, and will keep you guessing all the way to the end. Out in lovely clean DVDRIP format online.
This flick has been pre hyped quite a lot as, unusually for American films, the hero is an atheist and the bad guy is an evangelical christian whose faith drives him to extremes. I have been waiting for its release on piratical seas for some time as there has been a bit of a hullaballoo about it in the US press, and I have to say it was worth the wait.
Hollis, a hard working copper, is having the mother of all crappy days. Not only has he just found out that he is sterile and always has been, so now knows his wife cheated on him and his two kids arent his, but he also gets called out on his least favorite work....a jumper on a ledge. Hollis arrives at the scene to find Gavin apparently waiting till dead noon before jumping, and as he trues to talk him down the tale unfolds of how he got there and why he has to jump...its either him or the woman he loves who dies. Gavins problem is that his plan for petty revenge against his mad evangelical christian neighbour, whose wife he fancies as she is tasty and vulnerable, has gone badly wrong. He has fallen in love, got caught, and now the madass husband has given him a choice...jump at noon or she dies.
Its told in flashback form as Hollis tries to talk Gavin out of jumping, and at the same time tries to deal with his own conflicts and problems in his own marriage. On the way the film kicks about the usual faith vs atheism arguments and contradictions, the ultimate being will a man with no belief in an afterlife sacrifice himself for someone he loves. It is simplified a lot, but it is aimed at a target audience in a country where the majority of the population think atheists are baby eating satanists who are less electable than muslims.
Its acted well, even Liv Tyler managing a fair performance for once, and Hollis the copper is particularly good...you can see the conflicts writ large across his face as he struggles with talking Gavin down. I found it easy to despise the mad christian, but do wonder how Americans saw him....from the press it seems some audiences thought he was in the right. It is also not as preachy as you would think, and manages to present the arguments for and against well and sensitively.
Well worth watching, and will keep you guessing all the way to the end. Out in lovely clean DVDRIP format online.
"Science flew men to the moon. Religion flew men into buildings."
"To sin by silence makes cowards of men."
"To sin by silence makes cowards of men."
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I don't usually add to this topic but I have found Sandmans reviews useful letting me know of movies I had not heard of and I thought I would share an old (2007) but goody I have just watched.
" Across the Universe" is a weird love story musical woven around the Beatles songs. Never mind the story the soundtrack is great.
Don't know if this one has been done as it is a 2001 - 'The Believer', could have been based on mrplum or is it Sandman
Might as well do three ( I have had a quiet week) "Dog Pound" For those who remember and enjoyed Scum this is a poor Yank copy but watchable IMO.
All easily downloaded.
" Across the Universe" is a weird love story musical woven around the Beatles songs. Never mind the story the soundtrack is great.
Don't know if this one has been done as it is a 2001 - 'The Believer', could have been based on mrplum or is it Sandman
Might as well do three ( I have had a quiet week) "Dog Pound" For those who remember and enjoyed Scum this is a poor Yank copy but watchable IMO.
All easily downloaded.
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Thanks for the tip off Poos....I had forgotten to take a look at The Believer...looks interesting. Seems to mirror a real life incident where an American Jewish kid ended up being a member of some German far right Nazi group, then turned up dead in suspicious circumstances a couple of years ago.
Anyways...on with the reviews. Now for a film that is probably a bit niche market,
SUCKER PUNCH
This is a real difficult one to recc as it is one that you will either love or hate. I personally love it, as it is set in a steampunk fantasy world of zepplins, grimy machinery and hot hot lasses in skimpy costumes with big guns and swords...sort of live action manga.
BabyDoll is a sweet young thing whose sister is killed by a cruel stepfather, who then kippers her up and frames her for the crime. BabyDoll is then shipped off to one of those orrible 1960s loony bins where a guard who is in on the frameup forges a signature and schedules BabyDoll for a lobotomy. With the threat of lobotomisation hanging over her BabyDoll retreats into a steampunk fantasy world where her and her friends must find five "keys" to escape the asylum. Let battle commence.
And thus begins their quest through various worlds in search of the keys....sounds like a computer game and plays out like one as well. The thing is the film is then one set after another of wonderful computer generated "Sky Captain" like CGI eye candy, made all the more attractive by the addition of lasses in hot costumes blowing the hell out of anything that moves. The pounding music just adds to the game like feel of it, but spectacular it is and I just love this sort of thing. It is Tim Burton meets The Warriors Way and Sky Captain on speed.
A lot of the critics who slated it just dont get this genre of film at all. The story line is woven in there and is in its own way quite clever, as you find out at the end when it returns to the real world of the asylum. They just slagged it off because it chucks PC to the wind and doesnt have the crappy sachrine wet wipe JUNO appeal or the panty wetter six pack throb of TWILIGHT which I thought was infinitely more vacuous and pointless. Fatty Ebert can GFH....I like cheerleader chicks with swords vs giant samurai robots and screw anyone who gave JUNO thumbs ups....I have a suggestion where Ebert can stick those two thumbs and it aint in his mouth.
It aint big and clever, but it rocks, it rolls, and it keeps the eyes amused. A definite solid gold keeper.
There are many a hi quality DVDRIP and BDRIPs out and about. Give it a spin....Mrs S loved it and I lost count of the number of "Som Nam Na!" shouts it got whenevr a bad guy hit the dust.
Anyways...on with the reviews. Now for a film that is probably a bit niche market,
SUCKER PUNCH
This is a real difficult one to recc as it is one that you will either love or hate. I personally love it, as it is set in a steampunk fantasy world of zepplins, grimy machinery and hot hot lasses in skimpy costumes with big guns and swords...sort of live action manga.
BabyDoll is a sweet young thing whose sister is killed by a cruel stepfather, who then kippers her up and frames her for the crime. BabyDoll is then shipped off to one of those orrible 1960s loony bins where a guard who is in on the frameup forges a signature and schedules BabyDoll for a lobotomy. With the threat of lobotomisation hanging over her BabyDoll retreats into a steampunk fantasy world where her and her friends must find five "keys" to escape the asylum. Let battle commence.
And thus begins their quest through various worlds in search of the keys....sounds like a computer game and plays out like one as well. The thing is the film is then one set after another of wonderful computer generated "Sky Captain" like CGI eye candy, made all the more attractive by the addition of lasses in hot costumes blowing the hell out of anything that moves. The pounding music just adds to the game like feel of it, but spectacular it is and I just love this sort of thing. It is Tim Burton meets The Warriors Way and Sky Captain on speed.
A lot of the critics who slated it just dont get this genre of film at all. The story line is woven in there and is in its own way quite clever, as you find out at the end when it returns to the real world of the asylum. They just slagged it off because it chucks PC to the wind and doesnt have the crappy sachrine wet wipe JUNO appeal or the panty wetter six pack throb of TWILIGHT which I thought was infinitely more vacuous and pointless. Fatty Ebert can GFH....I like cheerleader chicks with swords vs giant samurai robots and screw anyone who gave JUNO thumbs ups....I have a suggestion where Ebert can stick those two thumbs and it aint in his mouth.
It aint big and clever, but it rocks, it rolls, and it keeps the eyes amused. A definite solid gold keeper.
There are many a hi quality DVDRIP and BDRIPs out and about. Give it a spin....Mrs S loved it and I lost count of the number of "Som Nam Na!" shouts it got whenevr a bad guy hit the dust.
"Science flew men to the moon. Religion flew men into buildings."
"To sin by silence makes cowards of men."
"To sin by silence makes cowards of men."
Re: Movies on DVD
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Downloaded the BR Rip last night.
Looking forward to it (although I didn't mind Juno
)
Downloaded the BR Rip last night.
Looking forward to it (although I didn't mind Juno
)
Re: Movies on DVD
Now I'm convinced I'm a weirdosandman67 wrote:Thanks for the tip off Poos....I had forgotten to take a look at The Believer...looks interesting. Seems to mirror a real life incident where an American Jewish kid ended up being a member of some German far right Nazi group, then turned up dead in suspicious circumstances a couple of years ago.
Anyways...on with the reviews. Now for a film that is probably a bit niche market,
SUCKER PUNCH
This is a real difficult one to recc as it is one that you will either love or hate. I personally love it, as it is set in a steampunk fantasy world of zepplins, grimy machinery and hot hot lasses in skimpy costumes with big guns and swords...sort of live action manga.
BabyDoll is a sweet young thing whose sister is killed by a cruel stepfather, who then kippers her up and frames her for the crime. BabyDoll is then shipped off to one of those orrible 1960s loony bins where a guard who is in on the frameup forges a signature and schedules BabyDoll for a lobotomy. With the threat of lobotomisation hanging over her BabyDoll retreats into a steampunk fantasy world where her and her friends must find five "keys" to escape the asylum. Let battle commence.
And thus begins their quest through various worlds in search of the keys....sounds like a computer game and plays out like one as well. The thing is the film is then one set after another of wonderful computer generated "Sky Captain" like CGI eye candy, made all the more attractive by the addition of lasses in hot costumes blowing the hell out of anything that moves. The pounding music just adds to the game like feel of it, but spectacular it is and I just love this sort of thing. It is Tim Burton meets The Warriors Way and Sky Captain on speed.
A lot of the critics who slated it just dont get this genre of film at all. The story line is woven in there and is in its own way quite clever, as you find out at the end when it returns to the real world of the asylum. They just slagged it off because it chucks PC to the wind and doesnt have the crappy sachrine wet wipe JUNO appeal or the panty wetter six pack throb of TWILIGHT which I thought was infinitely more vacuous and pointless. Fatty Ebert can GFH....I like cheerleader chicks with swords vs giant samurai robots and screw anyone who gave JUNO thumbs ups....I have a suggestion where Ebert can stick those two thumbs and it aint in his mouth.
It aint big and clever, but it rocks, it rolls, and it keeps the eyes amused. A definite solid gold keeper.
There are many a hi quality DVDRIP and BDRIPs out and about. Give it a spin....Mrs S loved it and I lost count of the number of "Som Nam Na!" shouts it got whenevr a bad guy hit the dust.
Loved it. Bit long and drawn out but great and good for the brain cells.
Well back to something simple now. The Tin Drum. Great book but never seen the movie so here goes
RICHARD OF LOXLEY
It’s none of my business what people say and think of me. I am what I am and do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. It makes life so much easier.
It’s none of my business what people say and think of me. I am what I am and do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. It makes life so much easier.
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Ok....good to see you throught it rocked Richard. Told you...never trust film critic journos.
Anyway, one thats been sitting on my hard drive for a good while now
THE WAY BACK
This is like The Great Escape on foot really. A bunch of misfits, POWs, political prisoners and crims decide to break out of a Siberian Gulag and hoof it to freedom..the problem of course being Mother Russia is massive, their route out is through Mongolia and its Takla Makan desert and then the Himalayas to India, and every village and villager they come across is terrified of helping them. There are also natural enemies like wolves and snakes, packs of bounty hunting cossaks, comissars and soldiers to worry about.
It stars an ensemble cast of big name actors including Colin Farrel, Ed Harris and Jim Sturgess, and its therefore acted to perfection. There are bits where even in the heat of Thailand you will find yourself shivering or running to the fridge for a cool beer, and obviously the scenery is spectacular. Like the journey its an epic yomp, and can get a bit slow in places, but its worth every minute of watching.
A solid gold keeper. Been out for ages so all the usual sites have lovely quality DVDRIPs and BDRIPs.
Anyway, one thats been sitting on my hard drive for a good while now
THE WAY BACK
This is like The Great Escape on foot really. A bunch of misfits, POWs, political prisoners and crims decide to break out of a Siberian Gulag and hoof it to freedom..the problem of course being Mother Russia is massive, their route out is through Mongolia and its Takla Makan desert and then the Himalayas to India, and every village and villager they come across is terrified of helping them. There are also natural enemies like wolves and snakes, packs of bounty hunting cossaks, comissars and soldiers to worry about.
It stars an ensemble cast of big name actors including Colin Farrel, Ed Harris and Jim Sturgess, and its therefore acted to perfection. There are bits where even in the heat of Thailand you will find yourself shivering or running to the fridge for a cool beer, and obviously the scenery is spectacular. Like the journey its an epic yomp, and can get a bit slow in places, but its worth every minute of watching.
A solid gold keeper. Been out for ages so all the usual sites have lovely quality DVDRIPs and BDRIPs.
"Science flew men to the moon. Religion flew men into buildings."
"To sin by silence makes cowards of men."
"To sin by silence makes cowards of men."