The Recommended Movies Thread

[richard]

Whilst on the subject of comedy movies I have noted that Thai kids out in the sticks of Isaan rave about L&H, Charlie, Mr Bean and the Marks brothers. I guess it's because it's facial and slapstick as opposed to dialogue

[buksida]

Otherwise PRIEST is an excellent Bladerunnerish gothic steampunk meets sci fi western vampire killer romp.
[snip]
Look for excellent DvDRIP quality R5 LINE copies that are all over the net, including my fave site veehd.com.

Can you post links to the veehd vids? Their search function is woeful - all I'm getting is Judas Priest!

[dtaai-maai]

http://oneclickmoviez.com/?s=priest

Try this - I'm downloading Lost at the moment, seems very good set-up. You don't need to register.

[richard]

http://oneclickmoviez.com/?s=priest

Try this - I'm downloading Lost at the moment, seems very good set-up. You don't need to register.

I get the list after a search but how do initiate the download

[sandman67]

Morning class....now which one of you buggers has nicked my apple?

Notebooks out, phones off, and stop looking up Marys skirt Boggins!

OK..... first up oneclickmoviez.com

Under each of the film box cover you see a list of red download hosts like Megaupload, Gigasize, etc.

You click on one of those, that should open a black screen with a few adverts and a countdown clock at the top left....when the red DOWNLOAD word appears click on that and it takes you to the relevant page of the host you have selected.

Then that page will contain a countdown clock and again eventually a DOWNLOAD button or hyperlink will appear. Right click on that and save.

I recc you use MEGAUPLOAD or 2Shared.... they seem to provide the fastest downloads, especially during low use times based on western time (so early morning here). It all depends on where you are, what time it is in the west (where the hosters are) and what sort of connection you have. Its worth trying a few different hosts to see what the speeds are like.

some file hosts like Megaupload wont let free users - thats me and you - download files over 1gigabyte...so that almost all BluRay DVDRIPs .... 2shared, Gigasize and others do so shop around the potential links and you will find a hoster that does.

next

http://www.veehd.com

The search function is getting clogged up because of idiots posting the wrong stuff in tag categories...so some idiot will post WWE wrestling episodes into the FILM tag.

Links for PRIEST
http://veehd.com/video/4622116_PRIEST-2011-R5-avi
http://veehd.com/video/4622801_Priest-2011-R5-avi
http://veehd.com/video/4622083_Priest-2011-dvdrip
but I used
http://veehd.com/video/4622350_Priest-2 ... iTy-ns-avi

with veehd.com you have to register first. Its free, easy and spam free. Then you log in, find the film page, and select the DOWNLOAD tab. A download link will appear, which you right click and either save or better still use a manager like FLASHGET to do the download. I get speeds between 200kbs during busy times (based on GMT) or 600kbs + during the western night time when there are less users on the system.

A way of thinning out music vids and stuff is there is a tag swarm box on teh right hand side of the search screen about half way down just under your log in details and friends list. Click on the relevant tag (like FILM or TV) and it gets rid of the irrelevant crap - or at least most of it.

http://www.stagevu.com is also worth searching on, although they are having serious hosting issues with idiots posting short trailers clogging up their system. With stageVu you need to look at the TIME/LENGTH note under each listing - the film links will be clear to then separate from the spammy 2mins long crap. Also check the language listing as they do have a lot of stuff in non english soundtracks. With stageVu once you find the relevant copy of the film you go to the page, and on the film thumbnail there is a big black box with download on it. Right click and save that link - you will need to rename the file as StageVu stores files with numerical references rather than the file name like http://www.veehd.com do now. You dont need to register with stageVu to get the download link.

A quick copy quality guide

CAM - filmed by some clown in a cinema so will be crappy quality. Dont bother
TS - a bit better as its filmed from the projection box or with a feed to the audio. Usually these get further processed to try to make the video better. Still crap
SCREENER - someone gets a pre release DVD and then sets up a camera in front of their TV. Usually iffy but on rare occasions worth it. Sound is usually the issue. Also they clip the screen to take off watermarks.
DVDRIP - what it says....copied direct from a DVD. Excellent quality
PPVRIP - copied from a subscription digital TV source....mixed quality but usually very good.
R5 - ripped from a Russian region DVD (region 5 hence R5). Usually excellent.
BLURIP/BRDRIP/BR - ripped from a BluRay DVD so highest quality but big big files - usually well over 1.4gig at least. Usually at least 720p and most often 1280p copies so wont run well on older video cards (like mine). Occasionally a clever ripper will scale down the file to a lower resolution - look for the files that are around 700mb. These run on any system.

Copies are most often AVI files. You can stick those on an CD or DVD and pay them on your DVD player (usually).

That said you also get increasingly files called MKV files...Merkova compression files. These are much smaller (usually half the size) but the quality is just as good. You will need GOM or VLC player to play these, but they wont play on your home DVD player. MPEG and WMV files are still about....I avoid em like a dose of clap.

NB: Torrents are particularly prone to copies being labelled as better quality than they are. Its because torrent seeders are usually spotty faced warez gits who just want to get their name elevated. Stick to sites like oneclickmoviez.com, stagevu, veehd, oneddl, etc....they check the file quality before listing it and delete crap stuff.

Right....thats it. Class dismissed....Boggins....see me after school.

[dtaai-maai]

Right....thats it. Class dismissed....

Sandman, there may be more of us than you realise for whom this sort of "idiots' guide" is really useful. Preach on, brother...

[richard]

Seriously....someone needs to knock a few heads together in Hollywood, cos I for one am sick of kickass action films being very short. Otherwise PRIEST is an excellent Bladerunnerish gothic steampunk meets sci fi western vampire killer romp. But at 1hr 20mins you just have time to sink your teeth into its fully realised grungy world and then its over.....of course like all these shorts leaving it open ended as to potential for a sequel. They screwed JONAH HEX up by cutting it way too short, and now they just about did the same here.

Acting is never the main point but Paul Bettany smoulders his way through, and the others fill in with aplomb. The sets and special effects are all top notch, and the vamps are a wierd sort of eyeless CONSTANTINE demon lookalike breed with semi-human familiar helpers. It has a very comic book feel to it, but is works well and the world it is set in is fascinating...which is why it could well have stood at least another 20 mins of scene setting backstory being kept in there.

It tells the tale of a quasi wild sci fi west alternative world where humans and vampires have waged an eons long war that has turned their planet into a dustbowl and where most humans live in overpopulated hive cities safe from the biters who roam outside. The cities are run by the clergy, and the militant vampire stomping arm, called Priests, are now relegated to second class low level workers and surpressed so they dont scare the populace. When one of their number hears that his relatives have been attacked by vamps, he sets out on a quest to sort the vamps out against the orders of the clergy. They send a team of his colleagues to track him down, and so begins a three way chase....vampires, priest and his trackers all chasing each other.

Top class steampunk sci fi goth fun, and great entertainment, but way too damn short. I expect a directors or unrated longer cut will be about (hopefully), and could even say Id love a sequel.

well worth catching, and its a three flying shuriken crosses keeper in my book

Look for excellent DvDRIP quality R5 LINE copies that are all over the net, including my fave site veehd.com.

Absolutely *ucking marvellous movie

[dtaai-maai]

^^ You mean you've downloaded it and watched it since your last post???

[richard]

SM's write up was at 11'45pm on Sunday
I kicked off a download at midnight
Full download received at 1400 on Monday (14 hours)
I'm drip downloading 25 movies and music using Vuze 24/7 (200 gig at the moment)

Quality was good too

[dtaai-maai]

Sorry Richard, I thought your 6.18 post above was referring to Priest.

Edit: If you were talking about the list of Lost episodes, just click on episode 1, then on 'slow download' and follow the same procedure for each episode. For me, it takes about 53 mins per episode to download.

[richard]

Was the movie Priest

Anyway it's HH lightening show time so time for Marillion

[dtaai-maai]

Was the movie Priest

Well, you've 'Lost' me altogether!

http://oneclickmoviez.com/?s=priest

Try this - I'm downloading Lost at the moment, seems very good set-up. You don't need to register.

I get the list after a search but how do initiate the download

[richard]

Sorry

I meant to say the movie I was downloading was Priest as recommended by SM

Marillion by the way is a cult rock group

We either have crossed wires or one of us is drunk

[sandman67]

Marillion by the way is a cult rock group

see further the music thread a few posts back.....excellent group from the 80s - still going now but not as good.

[sandman67]

I dont relly like Michael Douglas a lot, (him, Richard Gere and Billy Joel just remind me of creepy dirty old men for some reason), but there are a couple of his films that are full on stand outs.... BLACK RAIN I love as it is set in Yakuza land Japan, and FALLING DOWN where Mikey plays a downtrodden corporate man shoved over the edge of sanity and on a one man mission to set things right just left me sitting in the cinema with the end credits rolling totally blown away. I tell you, at that time I was riding my bike into work down through the worst of traffic jams in London, and aftre seeing the film every time I pulled up Id look into the car on my left and wonder whether the driver was stewing in the heat and close to going Booooom! Like The Joker so rightly says: "Sanity is like gravity...all it takes is one little push and...."

Anyway, a small budget psychological thriller in the same mould that slipped under the radar last year was LUSTER, and I watched it last night. What a cracker!

Tom Luster is a quiet home loving small business owner who runs a landscape gardening firm in LA that thanks to the economic slump is well on the ropes. It doesnt help that his clients are all flighty artsy dints and bimbos who just wind him up, his wife works nights and so is home while he is working, and there is an out of work actor living across the road who seems to be a little over friendly with her. Lusters friend, a homeless veteran who lives in a car behind his business gives him some sleeping tablets, and thus begins Lusters slow creep into madness. The world seems to be playing tricks on him, his friend advises taking out the actor, and so the descent begins.

Its excellent stuff, mixing up FALLING DOWN with that other top class mind bender MEMENTO, and each twist leaves you wondering what is reality and what is Lusters madness and ever spiralling levels of paranoia. The actors carry it off with aplomb, and you actually do feel sorry for poor old Luster, despite the fact that under his friends influence he gradually becomes more wicked and violent as the paranoia increases.

Its excellent watching that will keep you guessing, and a solid gold keeper. Really...get at it!

Out on veehd.com and oneclickmoviez.com in lovely clean DVDRIP formats...the trailer below is a lot more boom bash than the film, which is a slow burner but excellent stuff.