It's official, biatches! In other news, Star Wars ROTS and has been rotting ever since 1983. 

new scenes :

http://www.theonering.net/perl/newsview/8/1090681214 

Quite a bit has happened this weekend in Movie Geekdom. At Comic-Con, we got the EpIII title, and the first real look at RotK:EE, although I'm not sure I dig what I'm hearing about the cinematography in the Mouth of Sauron scene; I think we got our fill of Rotting Mouth Closeups in Smeagol's Gollumisation sequence, thank you very much.

Now I hear the Star Wars:OT DVDs have been leaked (ROTJ at least), confirming some truly horrific Lucasian Revisionism - Hayden Christensen's head pasted onto Sebastian Shaw's body? I think I'm gonna barf. 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372183/
Has anyone seen it yet? How is it? 

I saw it last night.
The 5 of us got to the theater halfway into the previews, with nowhere to sit, so we ended up lying down on the floor right in front of the screen -- it was like real life fov 120! The movie was good, it continues fairly well from the original, but I found some of the character addition/deletions lacking much purpose and substance. However, Matt Damon is superb as ever in his role, and the action sequences are, as expected, really fucking cool.

Verdict: spend the money for the theater showing version 

I hope the fight scenes in this one are better than the first. The choppy, strobe-like editing style really didn't do anything for me. 

http://www.gamespot.com/news/2004/08/03/news_6104071.html 

I hope the fight scenes in this one are better than the first. The choppy, strobe-like editing style really didn't do anything for me.

I really dug the fight scenes in the first one. Yes, they were really choppy, annoying, like from a music video, but they really drew me in. I was as stunned as the protagonist when he fought those two policemen. 

I went to see it hoping for an movie in the Alien style. It's really more of a Preditor movie though. If you saw it you would know exactly what I meant. So it's ok, but it's not going to redefine genres for you. 

just caught this last Friday, much preferred the original cut. The 20 mins of extra footage explains the time travel aspect more but hinders the pace and mood otherwise IMO.

Also saw hellboy and thought it was ok but the potential was there to be much much better. 

Donnie Darko Director's Cut
just caught this last Friday

I want to see it, too. :( 

is AvP as shite as I've heard/read? Anyone seen it? 

What am I? Chopped liver? 

I was vaguely considering seeing this, but then I heard they had a facehugger-pause-bullet-time-pan-round-360-unpause shot. Which just about made me want to ram a rusty glave up P.W.S. Anderson's talentless, derivative arse. 

that should be: facehugger-pause-bullet-time -pan-round-360-unpause shot 

You are kiding? o_0
Please god, say it ain't so...




/Kell weeps 

The film takes anything remotely cool from the two franchises, and flushes them down the crapper. But then again I wouldn't expect anything less from Paul "Wretched Shit" Anderson. 

if you go in expecting shit stacked high, you'll come out disappointed.

If you go in expecting anything else, you'll pull all your hair out and then proceed to pull the hair off anyone else in the vicinity.

Yes, it's that bad. And even in the hands of Paul W Anderson, it couldnt have been worse. 

*very* short anime title.

Visually its bloody fantastic, I've never seen animation this good. But its all style, all of it. Luckily it runs for only about 45 mins but its worth a look for the eye candy anyway.

Also finally finished 24 season 2. Silly, preposterous stuff but after about a dozen episodes, it's really fun and interesting.

Season 1 was far more compelling though. 

I've watched the movie yesterday and after reading up on it a bit, I can say this: If you live in the US, wait for the Director's Cut unrated version. The word on the street is that if you live in Europe, you will get to see the extended Director's Cut version in the theaters as well. The difference between the versions is about 20 minutes and is supposed to add a lot of good material.

Paul Anderson himself was furious when the studio informed him 3 weeks before the movie release date that they will be cutting the movie in the US to fit PG-13 guidelines, thus cutting out several important scenes altogether and ripping out a lot of gore.

That being said, I saw the "cut" version that is being shown in the US theaters and thought the movie was OK. I wasn't good, it wasn't bad, just... average. It had some really good moments (like the final battle) and some truly horrible ones (360 degree camera rotation around a flying facehugger a la Matrix). I will definately be getting the DVD version. 

Good to know. It'll at least be worth a rent/dl then. 

...yes Blood was very classy. Have you caught a look at Voices of a Distant Star yet?

And, I should've pimped this earlier but anyways... today at 14:00 AEST myself and two collegues will be running a 2 hour radio show on Philosophy and Film on SubFM Melbourne. It's streaming on http://subfm.org so why not tune in and shoot through some insults. 

saw the original because I was sort of interested in seeing the remake when it's released here in Oz.

Liked what I saw, some very clever scenes and memorable set pieces but I didnt really get into it all that much. 

I'll try and get a copy of voices of a distant star. 

Interesting at first but then cheese. Always thought it was about guy-in-wheel-chair, and then when I started to watch it, Elijah getting some kind of strength breakthrough for his illness. But no.