...was another good one. One of my faves.

But yeah, Cage can be bad sometimes. 

been trying to get the uncut version for ages :) 

There's a couple of different versions. The entirely uncut version (original Australian theatrical release) is almost impossible to find (opens with a scene of Sailor getting it on with Lula's mother in a toilet cubical). I have a Korean DVD that retains the bits of blood and violence that were cut to avoid a U.S. "X" rating. 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089869/

Interesting watch for sure. 

that's a good one. Aren't they redoing that too? 

Inglorious Bastards

It's okay. Some classy bits, some crass bits, quite patchily put together. The orphanned girl's sections stole the show, some of the violence porn was tedious, the more subtle humour was good. It was a bit dumb and felt like it could have been put together a lot tighter, particularly bringing the two strands together towards the climax.

Rating: 867.54 - 880.9 / 1582.01 (+/- 13.2 accuracy) 

nice review... nice ranking :P 

Nicolas Cage and great acting in the same post?!

i thought those two things were not compatible with each other 

looking forward to it.

Shambler, see District 9, good fun, should suit your taste too. 

Yeah, it looks good, looks very heavy-handed with the apartheid metaphor but cool and different otherwise. 

Anyone seen Paranormal Activity?? Was reading about it the other day, apparently it's actually quite scary. Not something that suits my taste but am curious... 

the (heavy handed) apartheid metaphor is pretty much ditched, or at least relegated to the background, after about 15-20 min.

From then on its pretty much your normal chase film, but a good one and with a south african accent :) 

one of the better trailers I've seen in a while :

http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/themenwhostareatgoats/ 

Sleep Dealer is really good... 

Inglourious Basterds (2009) - Somewhere in the middle with this one. The best scene is right at the start and it never quite lives up to it. Landa and Shoshana were the best characters (and actors) for me and they didn’t get enough focus. Lack of focus in general was my problem and when you have a 150 min film, either focus it or cut it by 30 min IMHO.

And it has a horribly executed climax in my opinion, the sudden change in one of the characters for no apparent reason is a travesty (echoes of Death Proof here) and extremely stupid.

But it gets 5 points for that opening scene alone and the rest of the score is for various good little bits throughout (I quite liked the false tension in the ordering of the milk scene at the restaurant and didn’t mind the first 10-15 min of the otherwise far too long basement scene).

6-6.5/10 

Gone in 60 Seconds (the 70s one)

Watched this earlier. Ace chase at the end. The rest is pretty bad though. Just grab it and skip like 45 minutes ahead. 

Pretty good! 

District 9

Brilliant, one of the best films I've seen in quite a while. Distinctive, gritty, moving in places, very well put together, good action, great deaths (I see what Fric means about the gore now - although I thought some of the "trauma" pushed the 15 certificate more), and actually kept me intruiged the whole way not knowing how it would work out.

Okay there was the odd cliche as it progressed, it could have benefitted from a bigger budget to make some areas more convincing, and there was some faith needed with the plot - but the latter I only realised thinking about it the next day, the general gripping style glosses over that.

Exactly what sci-fi/action film-making needs. 

It was okay. The action scenes were cool, not because they had me on the edge of my seat (they didn't) but because of all the cool FPS throwbacks. It seriously had me itching to play some FEAR2, albeit not a lot.

Story/progression were okay I suppose, I didn't feel the story was anything special, the main character was an asshole but you knew he wouldn't die because hey, he's the main character.

My dad thinks they're opening it to one or two sequels, which would make sense based on the ending, but I figured they would just leave it as is.

So yeah, for all the hype surrounding it, I feel comfortable in the fact that it was pretty much what I thought it was - a decent but not really innovative or genre-defining scifi movie. I would probably rate it like a 7/10. 

Zwiffle, the main character might have been an anti-hero but he certainly wasn't an asshole. 

Yeah, he was. 

He redeemed himself in the end. That's the point. 

although I'm with zwiffle that it was really just a well made chase film in a sci fi setting rather than anything groundbreaking. But I'll tkae that these days, hard enoguh to find something thats decent in sci fi.

oh, and I thought he was an asshole too. But you could still root for him because the others were even bigger assholes :) 

I agree, he was an asshole. I never liked his self serving "just following orders" company man attitude the entire film. He should be first against the wall when the aliens come back. 

I disagree, he wasn't an asshole. He was a bigotted (well he's white saffer WTF do you expect) incompetent way out of his depth and trying to look out for number one, but an asshole, no. He also clearly had some conscience and had to go through a lot of traumatic shit...

It might have been a "fairly" standard chase/action film beneath the style and grit....but hey, form and function, too often such films have too little of either...