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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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I would add Django Unchained and There Will Be Blood to that list. 
 
(of good modern westerns) 
Westerns... 
Does Tremors count?? ;)

Also

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

I agree. And the whole Mines Of Moria section was one of the great film moments of all time.

Not that interested in the Hobbit so far. 
TREMORS 
Fucking awesome movie!

Haven't seen Django Unchained, but seeing as it's by Tarantino, I have very low expectations. In my book, he is the most overrated director ever. All facade and no content.

There Will Be Blood, on the other hand, was also great. 
There WIll Be Blood 
yes I guess thats as much a western as No Country and Three Burials.

Sleepy, definitely check Open Range out, Robert Duvall is awesome in it too.

Sock, High Plains Drifter is so underrated IMHo, one of Clint's best.

I think if I had to pick favorite westerns it would probably be Wild Bunch, McCabe and Mrs Miller and Good, Bad and Ugly. 
Also Totally Forgot 
The Proposition is also another good modern western. 
R'ha 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQuGpW0NuW8

Sci-fi CGI short movie solo project. 
Quite Cool 
Reminds me of Matrix and BSG a lot, though. 
Upstream Color 
New movie from the guys who made Primer, trailer looks promising...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U9KmAlrEXU 
 
Looks a bit dull in the trailer, apart from a couple that makes out a lot. But the synopsis makes it sound pretty good:
"A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the life cycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives." Cool.

Actually, sounds a bit like the last movie I watched - Mr Nobody. That was a really good movie! 
 
Actually, I think the first movie since 2008, apart from Inception, to make it into my top 100. I must be watching too much crap lately. 
 
Actually, I think the first movie since 2008, apart from Inception, to make it into my top 100. I must be watching too much crap lately. 
 
Actually, I think the first movie since 2008, apart from Inception, to make it into my top 100. I must be watching too much crap lately. 
"bloblote" 
triple-click !! wow, Parkinson is back :) 
Modern Horror 
Cabin in the Woods, Sinister, and Mama were all very good. Nice to see some good horror movies come along after all the torture porn. 
Julia's Eyes Is Another Good One 
 
Also Didnt Mind 
House of the dEvil, despite a weak ending. 
 
Argo (2012)
Nice! Missed some character development like nitin though. 
Film Analysis 
Dredd 
Main characters were good (suitable Dredd style), city block and cityscape were good. That's all. They could have filled the rest with more exploration of the psychotic baddie, the degeneracy of the city, and the contrast between Dredd's robotic sterness and the freaks he has to deal with, but no, instead it was endless displays of boring death/shooting scenes made worse by pointless slow-motion and cheesy rock soundtrack - the classic MTV-style way to fuck up a potentially decent film. 
 
wait, didn't you insult me in creative ways when I watched and live-commented it in #tf? I took it too serious to enjoy how trashy it was. might be more fun for fans of the comics I guess. 
Dredd 
Meh Shamb you asking for too much. The slow mo was lovely. And its Dredd ffs, theres nearly too little action as it is lol :D 
Jesus. 
I was asking for a dark-ish, gritty, tongue-in-cheek, semi-brutal action flick. Instead I got a pop video.

The slow-mo was utter cheesy drivel, designed solely for angsty teenagers. 
 
You must be kidding Shamb.
Grumpy old git :P

I dont see how it was cheesy or drivel. Tell me the slow-mo massacre was drivel, it was a beautiful celebration of gore and OTT violence, that is all and it cannot be denied.

Its not cos a bunch of idiots abused slow mo and made shite out of it that no one can use it right. 
(New) BSG Season 1 
Beverly Hills 90210 in space. 
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