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September 8, 2018
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The Official Films Thread

Well bollocks, we've got a telly thread so I thought I'd create one for films too.

I'm currently working my way through Movies With A Twist Collection 3 which I downloaded years ago from TPB. All of those torrents are now dead which is a shame because I didn't get around to downloading Collection 4. I'm downloading all of those separately which is a hassle but will be worth it in the end going by 1-3 so far.

Am in the middle of watching Law Abiding Citizen, I think I've seen it before but i was so long ago I've forgotten what happens.

The problem with watching these films knowing that there's a twist makes it easy to work out what the twist in question is so probably better if you watch them without that knowledge lol

Here's a list of some of my all-time favourite films of all-time in no particular order:

Brazil
The Life Of Brian
The Holy Grail
The Meaning Of Life
Star Wars
The Empire Strikes Back
Lifeforce (a terrible film but the female lead vampire spends most of it naked lol)
All Lethal Weapons
All Die Hards
Every Dirty Harry Film
The Jungle Book (the Disney original)
Pi
Falling Down (just for the McDonalds scene lmfao)
Silent Running
Logan's Run
All 60s-70s Planet Of The Apes
Soylent Green

Am going to stop there otherwise this post is going to be HUGE lol



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      RuneSR2
      RuneSR2
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      August 19, 2019

      RuneSR2 said:


      RedRizla said:

      Saw the film Us and what a pile of crap that was. I was really looking forward to seeing this it has got some good reviews. I won't be choosing Rotten Tomato's anymore for reviews if this is what they consider a good film. 

      @RuneSR2 - I will be watching Pet Cematary at some point so let us know what you think if you decide to buy it.



      "Us" has some nice reviews, thanks for the heads up, I always though the trailer didn't look that interesting. Pet Sematary isn't out on 4K blu-ray before August (19th I think), so I still have some time to read reviews. 

      Just pre-ordered this, but it's mostly for the kids:

      Shazam


      Did see Shazam this weekend. Quite annoying but it seems that the Sony X800 4K player has some freezing problems that only can be resolved by cutting the power and restarting (frequently described in online forums that I should have checked earlier) - and of course that happened in Shazam and I had to listen to the wife mentioning that 4K is worthless, doesn't work and blu-ray looks just as good. Super-Sigh... But I beg to differ - HDR was really nice in this movie, and 4K did boost image clarity significantly - even if this movie isn't real 4K, but up-scaled to 4K. Sound (Dolby Atmos or just uncompressed surround sound) was really good too. It's a funny movie, not to be taken too seriously - it's a family movie, I wouldn't have bought it just for myself, the sons (ages 11 and 15) really liked the movie.

      Next up Alita Battle Angel - hope it doesn't freeze... ;) Also just found Underworld Blood Wars in the bargain bin, and I have a weakness for vampires, and that movie actually is true 4K. 
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      kojack
      kojack
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      August 19, 2019

      RuneSR2 said:


      it's a family movie, I wouldn't have bought it just for myself, the sons (ages 11 and 15) really liked the movie.



      Hehe, I bought it for myself. :)

      I haven't had time yet to watch Bad Black. I got the dvd recently (after a long wait, I think a lot of people wanted it, and it's burned onto writable dvds manually in Uganda, so takes a while to ship).



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      RuneSR2
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      August 25, 2019

      kojack said:



      RuneSR2 said:

      Just pre-ordered this one - trailer looks awesome, IMDB 7.5, $170 mill budget, written by James Cameron:




      It was pretty cool. I was a fan of the anime movie and the manga, the live action one got things pretty close.

      For people who have seen it, one difference is:
      In the movie, Ido named Alita after his dead daughter and the first body he used was intended for his daughter. In the manga, Ido named Alita after his dead cat and the first body was just a spare he had lying around.

      Also, the manga and anime are WAY more violent than the movie.



      I greatly enjoyed the movie, although it did feel like some kind of Spielberg-ish take on Blade Runner. Also most will probably not experience any kind of cognitive overload watching the movie, like Avatar is very black vs. white, but maybe the sequel will have some more surprises, like Infinity War this is only 50% (or less?) of the story. 
      Even though this isn't true 4K (ok, can't find that confirmed, but the detail did look like Revenant or other true 4K movies), it's probably the best looking 4K hdr movie I've seen on the Sony 85" - colors, hdr and animation really make the movie come to life. Sound was really awesome (Dolby Atmos), all in all I was positively surprised, I'll probably rate it 8/10 (for those downloading the movie in hd to watch it on for example a tablet or phone, I'd probably be down to 6/10, sound + res + colors etc. mean a lot for this experience). I have not seen the manga or anime. 

      BTW, seems like some dude at Forbes like the hdr and colors too:

      The use of 4K Blu-ray’s HDR and wide color technologies is some of the best I’ve ever seen. Not so much in terms of how aggressive it is; in fact, I’ve seen both color and, especially, baseline and highlight brightness cranked up much more on other 4K Blu-ray titles. However, precious few other 4K Blu-ray pictures have used HDR and wide color to create so much extra atmosphere and raw beauty compared with the HD Blu-ray’s SDR version.

      The contrast range is gorgeously expanded, for instance. Deeper blacks and richer, more solid shadowing gives night-time scenes and dark interiors a much more dramatic and three-dimensional feel. Everything just looks more real. And in this film more than most, that matters.

      At the other end of the spectrum, the extra brightness range in the 4K Blu-ray makes daytime scenes look more natural, while the enhanced light peaks make the robots and metallic body parts look more realistic and tangible. 

      The impact of this, together with the extra color subtlety made possible by the 4K Blu-ray’s higher resolution and extended color palette, is particularly effective with the exquisitely designed, alabaster-like finish of Alita’s first artificial body.

      https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnarcher/2019/07/20/alita-battle-angel-4k-blu-ray-review-manganificent/#5db11aa07a03

      The anime is on YouTube, been there for a year, so I guess it's ok to insert it here:

      https://youtu.be/CN91P6MW3B0
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      kojack
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      August 26, 2019

      RuneSR2 said:

      but maybe the sequel will have some more surprises, like Infinity War this is only 50% (or less?) of the story.

      Alita has three arcs:
      - Original (9 volumes)
      - Last Order (14 volumes)
      - Mars Chronicle (6 volumes)

      The movie is roughly volumes 1-2.5 of the original series.
      (But order is different to the movie. Volume 2 ends with the Hugo stuff. Then Volume 3 brings in Motorball)

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      Zenbane
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      August 28, 2019
      So is anyone else disappointed with the Storyline they are going with in the new Joker film?


      I really dislike that they gave him a backstory of a Clown and Comedian. Very low-hanging fruit, imo. Just me?
      Anonymous
      August 30, 2019
      Why on earth have they completely changed the origin story of The Joker?!!? Wtf!!!

      This film is going to fail. Hard.

      They should have just called it The Clown or something.
      kojack
      kojack
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      September 2, 2019
      I received a key to watch Iron Sky 2 The Coming Race on Vimeo (I was an Indiegogo backer). Still waiting for the Bluray to ship.

      Very cool!


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      Digikid1
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      September 2, 2019
      Just watched Hobbs and Shaw at my local theater.  It's hilarious!!!!  May not be a true Fast and Furious movie but still a excellent movie all the same.


      RuneSR2
      RuneSR2
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      September 20, 2019
      Kids wanted this, at least I hope there'll be some dirty language with the 11-12 year old rating...


      Of course there's no way I'm going to watch this with fully functional frontal lobes, so I've started on the sedatives  o:) 



      When the frontal lobes have limited capacity, something being appreciated as funny is so much easier        :D 

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      Zenbane
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      September 20, 2019

      snowdog said:

      Why on earth have they completely changed the origin story of The Joker?!!? Wtf!!!

      This film is going to fail. Hard.

      They should have just called it The Clown or something.



      Completely agree! Apparently this is one of the origin stories of the Joker that popped up some time ago. But I just don't like it.

      Speaking of clowns,

      I recently saw IT Chapter 1 & 2 for the first time. I had been holding out. I found them enjoyable to an extent, but I don't see all the hype behind them. I was expecting a bit more. Basically, the first movie reminded me of the first Nightmare on Elm Street, and the second IT movie reminded me of the 3rd Nightmare on Elm Street (Dream Warriors).
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