Also awesome! My friend wrote a great paper on that book. 

but still in the unwatched pile :( 

Yeah, so it was fun (also fun to see the movie in the cinema the world premiere was in!). I think I would have had more fun if I tried to forget about the book more... the thing about the hobbit is that it's very much a kiddy book but the movie is filmed in the same kind of tone as the LOTR movies were, which is understandable but also something of a shame IMHO.

The prologue should have not been there. In many ways it felt like watching the extended edition of the LOTR movies, I think the decision to do three movies was probably a mistake. The battles were all too long. I thought the effects were on the whole pretty good (as in, I didn't really think about how they were being done!) but some of the cuts between cgi/minatures/sets were pretty obvious. Not sure if this was down to the HFR or whatever or just me being less credulous than when I watched the LOTR movies! 

Oh yeah, and the other thing that hadn't really occurred to me is that obviously you can't film the goblin cave/gollum scenes as they are in the book, because the characters are basically in the pitch dark the whole time! I wish they'd put a bit more of that in though, like maybe having the riddle scene be illuminated by a candle or something. 

http://www.mojvideo.com/video-blade-runner-1982-1-4-full-movie-eng-subs/13475e954acc6903fd07


haven't seen it in years... and years.

Does Deckard rape Rachel? 

the scene always seemed that way for me, but i also assumed that the director didn't intend that. 

never really got blade runner, found it a bit boring. never got the star wars obsession either. maybe i need to rewatch it too.

Last movie I watched was Agguire Wrath of God... strange German film based in the 1500s Amazonia in the search for the mythical city of El Dorado. Could do with a remake with the story not just suddenly ending. Nice visuals though. 

they wont actually shoot it in the Amazon and wont have the actors actually having to do the same things the Amazonians did :) 

Well, that wasn't very good. 

Mariangela Melato has been the dream of a nation for a long time, a beatiful woman and a fantastic actress...

Among all her fine movies, I'd suggest Swept Away (1974) as a a nice way to pay respects and discover a truly great flick... 

in other films

GI Jane
Thelma and Louise

Probably elsewhere...

I think maybe it's supposed to be somewhat ambiguous - and the dialogue mirrors the dialogue between the two in the final scene, thus kind of enhancing the ambiguity of that scene as well...

I don't know... Kona you should definitely rewatch it - make sure it's the long, more rewarding/ potentially boring director's cut as in the above link 

its maybe only a few min longer? 

Ooooooh boy did I love that!

It is really really worth a watch.
Bloody good direct hard hitting gore no bullshit straight action. Dredd is here to dispense the LAW and he does.
No romance sideplots, stupid twists, arcs or other stupid hollywood typical fluff.

Brilliant colorful characters, as per the brilliant Comic. Excellent use of slow motion. Awesome decayed semi futuristic american urban setting, loved it all.

And whos playing Dredd ? The Queen ? Justin Bieber with fake stubble ? I couldnt care he has his helmet on all the way through and he is just Dredd. I really liked that somehow.
Ok I IMDBd it and give it to Karl Urban he mastered the hardass mouth frown pretty good...

This is a new favorite. The kinda film you crave as a fan of late 80s, 90s gritty gore action movies without being un-modern.
Nice not to be dissapointed for once...don't even mention Total Recall.... 

For pretty much the same reasons as killes, the only part I felt was lacking was the final encounter with the main antagonist. Felt like a pretty dull way to finish.

The setting is spot on, very cyberpunk'ish and I like how they don't shy away from how fucked up society is in this film. You almost start disliking Dredd because he's such a cold hearted bastard for the entire film and really doesn't give a shit about anything except upholding the law. I really appreciated that.

While I'm posting, can you guys recommend any more Cyberpunk films that I should watch, I think I've got all the big ones checked, Blade Runner, Matrix etc. I'm looking for some more obscure titles perhaps, don't really care what genre they are in! 

Dark City is said to be good. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118929/ seems 

 

one of my favourite films; just really creative and dark scifi. but yeah it's more like "metaphysical noir" or something, it has its own genre. 

was under the effect of my very own slo-mo at the time though so no review is forthcoming 

not sure why I never saw this before... great ensemble cast... wow Russell Crowe is actually good in something, Guy Pearce and Kim Basinger were also good... really interesting script with lots of twists and turns including when a big surprise when a particular character gets shot. Ending was a bit conventional, but whatever. 

Russell Crowe is good in many things :)

And yeah that is one of the best films of all time IMHO. 

saw it last night in standard 2D, wasn't overly impressed. Really like the opening prologue and Gollum's scenes, did not like the rest much.

Every battle was made to be too epic so that there was no real sense of danger, not to mention that it now makes some of the stuff in LoTR less threatening scale wise, giving English voices to the monsters just Lucasised it, too many glaring inconsistencies as to the extent of people's abilities, particularly Gandalf, and just too many groan worthy moments generally.

5.5/10 

-prologue and gollum scene were the best

-the trolls were retarded/ridiculous/childish (Lucasised is the perfect word! though some of the LOTR orcs went in that direction too, also bad)

-goblin scenes were all ridiculous (the king with the jowls was retarded/childish, and there's no way they would be able to survive that situation / do the stuff they did)

-orcs/wargs scene at the end also ridiculous: they should be dead so many times, from that scene definitely, and from the stone giants scene! (that said the stone giants scene was cool).

-the non-prologue opening/"cute" dwarf moments went on way too long

-all of that said, I actually did think the Radagast the brown character, was awesome - clearly meant to be a crazy stoner/recluse who's taken a few too many magic mushrooms.

oh, and right, Russell Crowe was definitely good in The Insider. Lots of his roles are just macho roles though - maybe it's the same in LA Confidential but there's definitely some acting involved in his role there. 

too many glaring inconsistencies as to the extent of people's abilities, particularly Gandalf

-goblin scenes were all ridiculous (the king with the jowls was retarded/childish, and there's no way they would be able to survive that situation / do the stuff they did)


nitin, Tronyn - It's simple, I think maybe your missing the point a little here:- It's all about Gandalf. He's the one controlling everything. You're always left guessing with these things as to how much control Gandalf really has in any given situation, but he always intervines either directly or indirectly, allowing things to go as far as he's prepared to do so before stepping in.

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IDK, I would say The Hobbit is probably at least an 8 or 9/10, just for production value really, and subversiveness. I actually much preferred it to the first LOTR films, it was MUCH less nauseating. That and the fact that Elija Wood and the other horrific fat dude who played his mate just irritated the hell out of me thoughout the trilogy.

I found the role of Bilbo Baggins was performed very well. The dude had a decent air of charisma and secrecy around him. 

what??

I think FOTR is also one the great films of all time (in either cut) so cant agree with the nauseating comment there.

I guess my main gripe with The Hobbit was that it tried to converge what is essentially a light kids book tone with the darker LOTR tone and for me it just didnt gel.

Bilbo, well if you have ever seen Martin Freeman in anything, especially in the excellent Sherlock or even all the way back to The Office, he is just dong his usual thing. Not that its bad, but I was always aware I was watching Martin Freeman not Bilbo.

ps Tronyn, apart from The Insider and LAC, he is also very good in Cinderella Man, 3:10 to Yuma, Proof, two of which are at least not what you might call macho roles. 

3:10 to Yuma is one of my favorite films and one of the very few (two, actually) decent modern westerns.