Watched the modern remake Echo yesterday. It's like E.T. with mobile phone adverts. Not a patch on the original, but good enough in isolation. Filmed Blair Witch stylee though, on smartphone cameras, so it wobbles around the whole time
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Originally posted by speedlolita View PostWatched Grave of the Fireflies yesterday.
From what people had told me about it I was expecting something that was genuinely distressing, this didn't prove to be the case.
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Originally posted by QualityChimp View PostI watched Under The Skin.
It's as if they've taken any section of the book with exposition and replaced it with shots of Scarlett Johannson driving around Scotland in a van. The viewer is left to deduce a lot of what the hell is going on and make their own mind up.
The book is quite clear that she's
an alien sent to Earth by a rich corporation to kidnap humans and send them back to her home planet to be eaten as a rare delicacy
, but none of this is revealed in the film.
It was definitely an interesting watch, but I'm not in any hurry to see it again.
Any romcom recommendations?
*Aladdin is not on either though.
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Originally posted by speedlolita View PostPerhaps the word I was looking for was upsetting.
The bit where the older brother wants to get close to his sister as they are sleeping and she rolls away from him is one of the few (if not the only) moments of cinema that I can honestly say has changed me.
I'm not sure it's a movie you can fully digest the first time, especially if you have been 'pre-spoiled' by hype.
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Originally posted by Darwock View PostI actually did find it quite distressing, just the sheer injustice of how two children from a loving home could end up in that situation through the actions of adults. The scene in the doctor's office was particularly hard to bear.
The bit where the older brother wants to get close to his sister as they are sleeping and she rolls away from him is one of the few (if not the only) moments of cinema that I can honestly say has changed me.
I'm not sure it's a movie you can fully digest the first time, especially if you have been 'pre-spoiled' by hype.
Every non anime person i have ever watched this film with has been a total mess by the end.
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Some plot similarities between Moon and Oblivion, I felt. Did you see this too, seeing the films so close together, Dogg?
I saw You're Next last night and loved it.
It takes the horror clich? of a family terrorised by unknown assailants in a remote house and turns it on its head by having one of the victims tougher than the bad guys. The hunters become the hunted!
I was proper laughing at some of the black humour and a couple of the excellently gory deaths.
A refreshing change to the usual horror stories.
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Got round to watching Lucy
I haven't seen a movie so lean in ages, in a positive way, there's no extraneous chit chat or exposition and at 89 minutes its zips along. Lots of the Matrix in here, some decent driving and gunplay sequences, cant say its amazing but i effeminately enjoyed it a lot. Scarjo is as good as she's recently been, excellent.
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Both very different films with different vibes and well worth seeing.
Oblivion had some of the best props and set design since The Fifth Element, for me. It all looked great.
Zowie Bowie's film appealed to the Thunderbirds fan in me with the use of practical models over CGI. I thought the score, courtesy of PWEI's Clint Mansell, was brilliant too and really set up the mysterious tone.
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