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 

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. 

Beverly Hills 90210 in space. 

that looked terrible. 

...Was awful

They fucking michael bay'd BSG, arseholes. 

http://sea.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/874483/christopher-doyle-interview-part-2-life-of-pi-oscar-is-an 

http://sea.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/874483/christopher-doyle-interview-part-2-life-of-pi-oscar-is-an 

but you kind of lose the argument at this point:

"I may be wrong, because I haven�t seen the film". 

please review Springbreakers. 

I should have watched that instead of Mad Max which I found to be a generic b-movie with annoying music and a cheap plot. Delighted to see nitin feel similar, http://celephais.net/board/view_thread.php?id=3545&start=2462&end=2462

I was quite sad at the lack of dubstep in the Springbreakers trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVvn9T6bqls but then it finally came and it is Skrillex. I think? Shambler surely knows. Looks like a great movie. 

Mad Max 2 on the other hand is really good IMHO. 

Can't say I agree. I should have excepted it to be a trashy sci-fi "b-movie" like eg Waterworld, then I would liked it better. Ain't got no muscly half-nude leather costume man fetish either. I thought it would be a proper serious movie. :(

The intro was so promising, sounded like some really great scheme of events that changed the world.

Nothing I'd watch again. Some great scenes, some great setups, but overall just so silly and dumb. Actually I think I preferred the serious story of the first one.

At least now I know where all the silly things in Rage (the game) came from. Makes me wish they'd never seen this movie so it wouldn't have been ruined by their feeble attempts of integrating bits into their game. Like that idiotic "everyone, play time is over, clear the wasteland for some racing, afterwards you can go back at playing mutants and bandits again". 

Ain't got no muscly half-nude leather costume man fetish either.

Your loss 

I remember watching the mad max films years ago. I recently watched the first one again and it has not aged well. I remember the second one being funny for introducing the Biker Bum Flap, nothing like a quality leather fashion accessory for the apocalypse! 

mad max 2 is one of my favourites, but you definitely have to watch it like it's 30 years old. :) 

and quite liked it. 

I watched the third one, thunderdome I think (or was it the 4th?), not that long ago, a few years. Fuck it was childish crap. Mad Max 2 is really the only good one. 

 

Django unchained

I mostly really like it but it felt weird. Like it was half-comedy, half-thriller, half-drama, half-action. Yeah, that adds up to 2 and makes as much sense as the mixture. Sometimes the "other" music felt completely out of place, at other times it fit. Samuel L. Jackson's character felt unreal. DiCaprio was ace, imo a much stronger character than Waltz' (which was not coherent imo).

The ending was meh, it could have ended a lot earlier and more logical but I guess that is Tarantino. I hope some day he will stop insisting to play in his movies because it always kills immersion for me.

The colors/brightness often felt super weird.

It was quite brutal at times but it felt in place and justified (unlike that shit in Drive). It also had some music with lyrics that directly referenced the film but it felt alright (unlike that shit in Drive).

I'd recommend watching it. I did not like Inglorious Bastards at all but this one was a lot of fun with great tension. 

if the script wasn't much longer originally, and then had parts in the middle cut out. That would explain waltz' character change, some very weird montage / "oh here's character A so you've seen him/her before" scenes.

Jackson I really ,really liked as in, he played hilariously good, but probably overshot the target. But it was great fun just watching his performance.

Actually, I think most of the actors were great. Must be a Tarantino thing? A lot of the interaction just felt like the tension etc was all due to his directing. 

Meh, I'dd give it a 6. Probably the highest I've ever given anything Tartinero. Tarnotero. Tarinento... whatever.
Mostly postmodern formalist drivel as far as I'm concerned :P
Could have been a 7 if the second half wasn't so anticlimactic.
Better than the nazi thing, that was one big 2 hour long slowmotion planecrash following the first 15 minutes with the german guy, which was actually good haha. 

But I'm generally very skeptical about Tarantino's movies. With the exception of Jackie Brown, which I like for the music and the chemistry between the two main characters, I find all of his other moves to be meh at best. 

I like Pulp Fiction, Four Rooms and Jackie Brown (I think, been a long time). Kill Bill I loved but I bet if I re-watched them today I would nitpick them to death like a hipster prick.


Taken/96 Hours (2008)
Shallow action movie. A lot of scenes could have been replaced with a simple text "Imagine lots of blur, orchestral umpta umpta music, grunting and glass shattering/cars honking". Some of the resolution made me want to vomit: Fperj gubfr znal bgure tveyf, nyy vf svar vs whfg Xvz vf erfphrq?! Jung unccrarq gb gur bgure tvey ur tbg bhg? V gubhtug vg jnf ure ng gur raq ohg vg jnf whfg gung shpxvat fvatre. Naq jgs nobhg gur sng evpu nenovna zbafgre fgrerbglcr.

Oh wait, top 500 with a 7.9/10 at imdb. I guess I'm wrong. I was gonna say Ricky would like it and with that I was right at least ("excellent"). 

yeah, i stopped watching that after half an hour or so :-)