Oh dear, he turned it off! Noooooooooo!



I felt that by not killing Deckard, the replicant showed mercy and compassion - something that a droid supposedly wasn't meant to be capable of... which plays into the complexity of the storyline.



Meh, oh well. It's kind of a moot point carrying on the discussion seeing as how the entire film wasn't watched to begin with.

Great soundtrack or greatest soundtrack? 8)

mX. Escribi�:

Great soundtrack or greatest soundtrack? 8)

That's a tough one - there's great soundtracks out there but I might have to say the Vangelis score to Blade Runner couldn't have been a more perfect compliment to the film.

Darkstarexodus Escribi�:

Agreeing with Slipvin feels stranger than I imagine having a broom handle put up my bum would.



This is not pleasant. Agreeing with Slip, that is.

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We saw Pan's Labyrinth finally. It was a good film and beautifully done cinematic piece of eye candy. The way it was filmed was nice and lush and the sound engineering is top notch.



There were some genuinely disturbing and creepy moments. The Captain was a despicable character, rotten to the core. I hated him. And if a film invokes those kinds of feelings then something's being done right. It was devastating how grim an existance that child lived, and how she was able to escape in the fantasy world which was her only hope. Definitely an allegory for heaven, I thought.

Your awesome critique sparks an interest in me to see this flick.

The ultimate Blade Runner edition will be released on DVD, HD-DVD and Blu-ray before the end of the year including "all the different iterations of the film" as well as Ridley Scott's new Final Cut.

http://www.thedigita...sa133.html#volv



Awesome news. Sure took their sweet time with this release! Goodbye stereo sound version. I wonder what this Final Cut will be like? 8)

k, now I got an excuse to buy a PS3.

Check out "Invasion Of The Body Snatchers." the 1978 one with Donald Sutherland and Leonard Nimoy.

Last movie I happened to watch was "The Usual Suspects", I have to say it truly lived up to the hype. This has whetted my appetite for many more obscure and potentially great movies. My next port of call is, "Lost in Translation" then perhaps "Clockwork Orange" again

Going to see '300' tmrw, on the IMAX...



read this awesome review of it today:





Man on Man Action

It's Spartan hotties versus Persian trannies in Zack Snyder's far-too-faithful Frank Miller adaptationby Nathan Lee



Long ago there reigned a clan of Speedo-wearing militaristic psychopaths called the Spartans. They lived beneath a copper-colored sky, on a copper-colored land, amidst copper-colored fields, in copper-colored homes made from copper-colored stone. Legend has it they would outline their copper-colored pecs and abs with ash to enhance their manly buffness, and yet these were men of action and honor, not "philosophers and boy lovers" like their namby-pamby rivals the Athenians.



Lunatic machismo was cultivated early. From the age of seven, Spartan boys were trained in the art of humorlessness, and made to beat each other into submission. Little is known of the Spartan women, but scholars assume they were fierce.



Spartans were men of few words. They spoke in a language composed almost entirely of monosyllabic stupidities. In that strange time, among those strange people, a voice rang out perpetually from the heavens. No one knows who spoke it, but historians agree that this holy text was silly and repetitive and devoted by and large to what they now term "the totally butch awesomeness" of Spartan deed. History remembers their ethos: "Only the hard and strong may call himself Spartan. Only the hard. The strong." It remembers their war cry: "For honor's sake, for duty's sake, for glory's sake, we march. We march." And the immortal words of their fateful end: "We are undone! Undone, I tell you!"



Such magnificent verbiage was memorialized by Frank Miller, and incorporated into the text of 300, his graphic novel retelling of the Battle of Thermopylae, in which the titular quantity of Spartan studs fended off a billion gazillion Persian invaders. Marshalling the full resources of high-end computer imaging and the full capacities of hardcore fanboy nerditude, writer-director Zack Snyder (he of the unexpectedly decent Dawn of the Dead remake) has now brought Miller's book to "life."



Slathering pancake make-up on its actors then pasting them into digital backgrounds, 300 takes the synthetic blockbuster one step closer to total animation; its bland, weightless monochromatics make Sin City look like the grungiest neo-realism. It's a ponderous, plodding, visually dull picture, but the blame shouldn't be put on Snyder's skills per se, and has nothing to do with his ambition to blur the distinction between CGI and photography. Frankly, it's the slavish, frame-by-frame devotion to Miller's source material that's the problem. That explains both the risible screenplay and why the movie, for all its liberation from the real world, never takes full-winged flight into its own peculiar universe. Bogged down by respect for Miller's medium?he's almost as faithful to 300 as Gus Van Sant was to Psycho?Snyder seems to have forgotten that where comic-book panels indicate movement, movies can actually move.



The exception to the rule of inertia comes fitfully in certain action scenes, of which there are enough to satisfy the action-buff bloodlust the film seeks to aggravate and sate. Here and there, Snyder makes good use of the lesson of The Matrix, slowing the slices, dices, and decapitations to a digitally-calibrated crawl the better to relish all 360 degrees of their stupendous ass kickery. Tolerate the lobotomized dialogue and some half-assed political intrigues and you'll find a good 10 minutes of 300 worth posting on YouTube. You can never go wrong with rampaging battle elephants. Throw in a war-rhino, some silver-masked ninja magicians, and an 8-foot-tall godking who looks like RuPaul beyond the Thunderdome (Rodrigo Santoro as Xerxes) and 300 is not without its treats.



Delicacies of dismemberment aside, 300 is notable for its outrageous sexual confusion. Here stands the Spartan king Leonidas (Gerard Butler) and his 299 buddies in nothing but leather man-panties and oiled torsos, clutching a variety of phalluses they seek to thrust in the bodies of their foes by trapping them in a small, rectum-like mountain passage called the "gates of hell(o!)" Yonder rises the Persian menace, led by the slinky, mascara'd Xerxes. When he's not flaring his nostrils at Leonidas and demanding he kneel down before his, uh, majesty, this flamboyantly pierced crypto-transsexual lounges on chinchilla throw pillows amidst a rump-shaking orgy of disfigured lesbians.



On first glance, the terms couldn't be clearer: macho white guys vs. effeminate Orientals. Yet aside from the fact that Spartans come across as pinched, pinheaded gym bunnies, it's their flesh the movie worships. Not since Beau Travail has a phalanx of meatheads received such insistent ogling. As for the threat to peace, freedom, and democracy, that filthy Persian orgy looks way more fun than sitting around watching Spartans mope while their angry children slap each other around. At once homophobic and homoerotic, 300 is finally, and hilariously, just hysterical.

Saw 300 the other night. Decent, for a homoerotic bloodfest. If you're into that sort of thing.



Finally saw Goodfellas for the first time this afternoon, albeit on TV, laughing at the editing of all the cursing. Really good movie.

Ive watched "The last king of Scotland" twice now because its such a fucking good movie. Forest Whitaker as Idi Amin is one of the best roles ive ever seen ANYBODY perform.



In the beginning of the film u laugh about Idi Amin because he is really funny. But bit by bit u start to discover what a crazy man it was and as funny and care-less as the movie starts , as horrible and sad is the ending. Def one of the best movies ive seen.



Yesterday i saw Music & Lyrics X-D It was cute! Not an oscar film but a good sunday evening easy watching film.

Pan's Labyrinth



Much better than that hyped up 'Children of Men' movie. Definitely worth the 95% score on Rottentomatoes.com.

Slipvin Escribi�:

Pan's Labyrinth



Much better than that hyped up 'Children of Men' movie. Definitely worth the 95% score on Rottentomatoes.com.

I liked both movies, but Pan's Labyrinth captured me more. I almost cried at the end. :-//

Pan's was great, don't get me wrong. I thoroughly enjoyed it and it was well done, captivating and moving.



But what happened with me and Pan's Labyrinth was the same as what happened with you and Children of Men. Too much hype - my fault. It was the hype and I expected cinematic greatness that would surpass every movie I ever viewed before it. I bought the hype and was a little let down.

Darkstarexodus Escribi�:

Saw 300 the other night. Decent, for a homoerotic bloodfest. If you're into that sort of thing.

haha, it had some surreal sexual moments that one! overall I found the photography to be pretty sweet in it, that's what I liked

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Darkstarexodus Escribi�:

Saw 300 the other night. Decent, for a homoerotic bloodfest. If you're into that sort of thing.

haha, it had some surreal sexual moments that one! overall I found the photography to be pretty sweet in it, that's what I liked

It was an entertaining movie and I enjoyed it, though it's definetly not the type of flick I normally go see.

Darkstarexodus Escribi�:

Saw 300 the other night. Decent, for a homoerotic bloodfest. If you're into that sort of thing.



Finally saw Goodfellas for the first time this afternoon, albeit on TV, laughing at the editing of all the cursing. Really good movie.

i thought 300 was so awful. if i was persian, not much would have stopped me from hurling my drink at the screen. what a thinly-veiled mess of propaganda and frank miller crying out for not being hugged enough as a child.



on another note, i watch "Heat" with pacino and kilmer an awful lot. not the smartest movie, but a guilty pleasure for sure.

300... I didn't think it was that great - but as far as eye candy goes it was fantastic to look at. Plus I'm not a big fan of gratuitous slow-mo scenes, and 300 was mostly slow motion. The slow mo sex scene, as immature as it sounds, made me giggle because it tried so hard to be sexy and to me it just seemed so silly.



I see what you're saying ghosty about the Persian element. How they were demonized, these barely-human monstrosities. The Daily Show had a fantastic hilarious segment on how ridiculous and monstrous the Persians were made out to be.



I do like Frank Miller however and the 300 graphic novel is excellent. It just didn't translate on to film as well as I had hoped.

Never mind the fact that THERE ISN'T a persia anymore, so anyone alive getting offended over a fantasized portrayal of events that happened 2500 years ago is completely retarded, that flick was totally about how the middle east today is holding off the corrupt, decadent West.



Bush is Xerxes, Osama is Leonidas. It's pretty obvious.



But 2,500 years ago, 300 europeans DID kick a whole lotta middle eastern ass, and that's a historical fact.