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Film Thread.
I thought a trio of themed threads about other entertainment media might be good. If you're not interested, please just ignore the thread and pick some threads that interest you from here: http://celephais.net/board/view_all_threads.php

Anyway, discuss films...
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Splice 
Splice (2009)

Adrien Brody and whatsherface do a brilliant job of making me forget that I'm watching a very mediocre movie. It's a film about a secret human hybrid experiment gone terribly wrong, although a scene late in the film makes me think that the experiment actually went terribly right, judging by the amount of fun one of the protagonists seems to be having with it.

According to the internet, I'm supposed to find this film disturbing, but it seems that the very same internet has desensitised me to freakish monster sex, because I just found the whole thing merely a bit silly and dumb. 
 
I feel about the same way. I doubt I'll watch it again, but I found it a great, dumb, strange guilty pleasure that first time. 
 
Moon
Yeah that was a good slow paced sci fi. And creepy.


I was worried Sam Rockwell would be very kooky and the HAL with smilies thing wouldn't sit well with the atmosphere but I thought it enhanced the creepiness as the story unfolds. Great little film :) 
 
Haha the Splice sexscene where he roots the weird monster girl was hot. I'd do the same thing. I quite liked that movie, it was different. 
Total Recall. 
You dicks are going to hate this view point because OMGZOR NOT QUITE AS GOOD REMAKE OF A CLASSY ORIGINAL SO IT MUST TOTALLY SUCK ASS.

Wrong. It's actually a cool film. Somewhere between pretty cool and really cool - it does exactly what it promises, slick, stylish, sci-fi action film. As a remake of the original, it's not that bad - the new setting has a good hook to it, aspects of the original are translated fairly well but it has enough of it's own character going on. As a film in it's own right, it's great, despite getting a bit silly towards the end, the action (car chase), pace and many of the scenes (UFB vs Colony styles) are well done, as are a lot of the little future touches (blend of current architecture with fancy technology). BUT it suffers from the story being in the shadow of the original - if the original had never been made, this could be one of the best current sci-fi films, but since everyone is familiar with the concept, the plot and twists lose their impact. But that doesn't spoil the entertainment much. 
 
Yeah, it's pretty good. Geared more towards the action compared to the original one. Blade Runner-esque cyber-punk setting is really well done, though it could be used in a deeper context (I'm normally against CGI effects but I have to admit that the city scenes look fairly organic). The new plot elements are integrated cleverly too. What I missed though was the little comical touches of Arnold. Still, worth seeing.

However, this is the second time another new sci-fi completely abandons the plot woven through the first half for the sake of action (the first was Prometheus) - and I remember feeling slightly irritated (even though it was well though-out and eye-catching). I miss the deeper and subtler sci-fi of '70s. Here's hoping that more will come in this decade in the vein of Moon
Shambler 
hate!
hate
but you already know what is resented: the ambition to make money off of previous money, as opposed to, you know, make money by adopting a PKD story.
PKD was a genius and there's an endless ton of his shit around waiting to be adapted. Fuck you hollywood, and et cetera and so forth. 
Yee 
ok that was obviously extreme, I am just pissed off. There's so much out there, in terms of thought, including PKD. Yet what we get, is what we actually fucking get. 
Alright 
alright, alright now I'm calm
I just wish someone would adopt "A Little Something For Us Tempunauts" and fuck with all our heads FINALLY. lol. alright. damn. 
 
why don't you tell us how you really feel tronyn? lol

i don't mind remakes or reboots. gives us the chance to see a great movie in a different light. it's like a song remix. it's just that a lot of the time they fuck them up.

i watched rise of the planet of the apes a couple weeks ago, that was a worthy reboot. 
Arg 
sorry to keep being an ass, but like.. dude in the 70's everything wasn't a remake indeed corporations had less of a stranglehold on our lives than they have now and also indeed the output was correspondingly different. Name me a STAR WARS 51.2.formulaic. THE PREQUEL from the 70s. At least in the 80s they had to keep to straight sequels. I love the Nolan Batman trilogy, but he legitimized the attitude, "fuck however much we fuced this up in the past, we can now just ignore that!"

Hate.

Hate! 
Ehhhhh... 
Well I enjoyed watching a good sci-fi action film anyway. 
 
tronyn, calm down. star wars is totally build upon other works (not fucking with a franchise/name/work though). see the "everything is a remix" series.

shambler: is it like remakequake? 
Remakes Are Fine 
shit remakes are not.

Also, Star Wars argument is flawed, Tronyn is not saying there should not be remakes, more that every film released nowadays should not be a remake. 
Spirit 
As opposed to being like Quaddicted?

I'm on the side of everything is a remake to some extent and only quality matters. Well made things add to the mythology or concepts they're based on, badly made ones feed off them.

Even the most original stuff, like Portal is based on previously broken ground. 
Alternatively... 
HATE!

;) 
I Expressed Myself In A Rather Crappy Way, For Sure 
I actually have very little interest in Star Wars at its best, and think it's kids' stuff and fairytale bullshit.

What I was trying to say, and horribly failed at saying, was the original property of it, I can respect. If I strain myself enough maaaybe I could respect the original property of Twilight simply because it was an original (in the legal, can-withstand-lawsuits sense) property. I just feel like post-2000, something has gone wrong as hell which has made the mainstream movie business the devil's whore.

On the other hand while I did recently argue that the world is so fucked up that not reproducing is logical (lol and I still believe that), I can still say, TV has gotten so much better post-2000 that every movie could be complete garbage and it would still be a net gain from my point of view.

Anyway. I will try, again, to calm down. 
PS 
Thanks, Nitin. You're so reasonable, and you know so much about film (btw I have now watched enough Argentio films to know that the pattern does not change), but I do have cheesy views about the idealism of art. I wasn't even born in the 70's yet, and I don't want a cheesy 70's revival, I just want the spirit of creativity from the 70's to come back. Bah. Whatever that's enough. The atmosphere is still clear enough, to see. 
Alternatively... 
HATE!

;) 
Tronyn 
to help you calm down, out of my recent viewings I would recommend The Fall (2006).

Also Ides of March is a decent watch. And Julia's Eyes.

But if you really want to see something special, make some time for Once Upon a Time in Anatolia. 
Tronyn 
to help you calm down, out of my recent viewings I would recommend The Fall (2006).

Also Ides of March is a decent watch. And Julia's Eyes.

But if you really want to see something special, make some time for Once Upon a Time in Anatolia. 
That Last Post Was A Reboot. 
 
The First One Was Better 
 
Hater 
 
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