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The Film Thread

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Rainmaster    7

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Spanish (well, actually there're no dialogues) film Aftermath. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0159241/ Gave it 10/10.

The synopsis is the entire story.

:lol: I'd like to watch that as a date movie.

I've just got Netflix here in the UK, and I'm going to try and make my way through this list: http://nathanditum.c...ays-of-netflix/ Started with There Will Be Blood (2007). Liked it!

As an aside, Netflix with its TV and movies, just like Spotify with music, is a great example of a reasonable alternative to piracy. Still some way to go of course..

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Quiet One    15

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:lol: I'd like to watch that as a date movie.

I've just got Netflix here in the UK, and I'm going to try and make my way through this list: http://nathanditum.c...ays-of-netflix/ Started with There Will Be Blood (2007). Liked it!

As an aside, Netflix with its TV and movies, just like Spotify with music, is a great example of a reasonable alternative to piracy. Still some way to go of course..

:lol: Here Netflix is the perfect example on why piracy exists :P

Their catalog here seems as if made 25 years ago (why, oh why would I hire a service that offers me "Back to the future II"?????)

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Rainmaster    7

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:lol: Here Netflix is the perfect example on why piracy exists :P

Their catalog here seems as if made 25 years ago (why, oh why would I hire a service that offers me "Back to the future II"?????)

:lol: Actually, the same criticism has been made here too, and it has some validity. There's a lot of crap on there, stuff I remember watching on VHS! That's what I meant by the 'still has some way to go' comment. It has a lot of hidden gems, though, like all of the films on that link I posted, and some other stuff too. So I think it's a good start at least and it's possible to get good value out of it.

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mikathegreat2    2

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Saw Project X last week. :o So jealous of middle class US teens with their massive houses with pools in the back garden and a CLS550 (CLS55 AMG in Europe) in the garage!!!

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Massa    0

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Saw Senna for the first time.

I'll start with a complaint: make the subtitles bigger. Not very easy to read. :P

The film itself, I think, must have been really moving for someone who had seen Senna race. I thought the part at the end, contrasting his relations at the funeral to scenes of them with him in life, was just so well done, and I think it captured just the impact he had on his country so well.

I also think the film must have been really great if you knew nothing about Senna and little about F1. Certainly even I was enlightened on the political side of it, and those cars, ****, how did people ever drive those cars?! Talk about on the edge.

I think me being in the middle, having no connection to Senna but knowing his story before seeing the movie, made it less of an experience than it would have been for someone who either had a connection to Senna, or to someone who didn't know about him.

It was still good.

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Massa    0

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Saw Project X last week. :o So jealous of middle class US teens with their massive houses with pools in the back garden and a CLS550 (CLS55 AMG in Europe) in the garage!!!

Upper middle class teen here...it ain't quite like that. ;)

Very, very nice. Very comfortable. So grateful. But it ain't like that.

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JHS18    0

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Thought this should go in here.

Jackie Stewart involved in two new films.

Seems like motorsport films are like buses. After years of not having many, if any, and now there's loads.

Senna, Rush (story about James Hunt/Niki Lauda championship battle out next year) and these two. Then there's that weird snail dreaming of winning the Indy 500 thing Dreamworks is doing.

I guess after all the success Senna has received, now seems to be the right time to make a motorsport related film.

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Rainmaster    7

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Well, since so many "new" films are just remakes nowadays, I guess Hollywood/the movie industry is finally waking up to the fact motor-racing has so many great stories to offer.

The idea for Rush looks like it could be very interesting, especially since the same people from Senna are behind it. The Cervert film looks cool too. The other one? I wish Roman Polanski wasn't involved.

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JHS18    0

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Well, since so many "new" films are just remakes nowadays, I guess Hollywood/the movie industry is finally waking up to the fact motor-racing has so many great stories to offer.

The idea for Rush looks like it could be very interesting, especially since the same people from Senna are behind it. The Cervert film looks cool too. The other one? I wish Roman Polanski wasn't involved.

My only fear is that they'll over do it.

F1 doesn't need some convoluted, cliched script. I liked Senna so much because it was none of that bullsh*t, it was just old archive footage telling a true story. Any motorsport has enough drama in it already that it doesn't need Hollywood going totally over the top with it. That's why the saying "you couldn't script it if you tried" is used so much in racing. :P

When they get actors involved to play the parts of drivers...I worry.

Saying that, Le Mans is still one of my favourite films ever.

Oh - and I forgot - Audi are doing a sequel to their docu-drama Truth in 24.

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Massa    0

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I watched Paradise Now in class.

I don't really get into movies, but bizarrely, this one did...in a weird way. I don't want the character of Said to do it...I don't know if the character of Said really wants to do it. My heart rate was elevated during a lot of the movie, but it's no "action thriller." Far too understated for the American audiences (which is why I liked it).

And on the subject of the character of Said, I loved how someone who said so little conveyed so much.

I think it's a worthwhile film. The fact I feel like I'm some kind of morally ambiguous freedom-hating traitor just by admitting I liked the film really highlights why it's good to see it; in the U.S., you get so boxed into things and while I will never think it's right or justifiable, seeing something that makes you think and humanizes what we try so hard to portray as anything but, there's merit in that.

There's merit in not using run-on sentences, too, but I don't feel like revising that mess. :P

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AleHop    0

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Saw a Spanish movie, El día de la bestia (Day of the Beast) a few weeks back. Outstanding comedy; it attacks religion without overtly saying a word against it. Gave it 9/10.

Was it too bad on religión? I don't remember it being extremely harsh. I watched it a few years ago, maybe it's worth watching on a friday night when all your other plans has been cancelled. If you liked that one you might enjoy the Torrente saga. I liked the first one.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120868/

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rclark    0

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Lord of War (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0399295/ )is a fantastic movie about an arms dealer who doesn't have the words 'morals' and 'ethics' in his dictionary. Er, no, it's not a movie about Adnan Khashoggi. The opening sequence is amazing, and the rest of the movie too is superbly shot. Do see it, it's a hyperkinetic, entertaining ride!

Probably Nicolas Cage's best performance, imho. Jared Leto was good too.

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Rainmaster    7

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Moon (2009) is a great sci-fi film. Takes a lot of old ideas and does something different with them, and it didn't need a load of dumb action sequences either.

Was also looking for a decent law based film the other day and decided on 12 Angry Men (the film, before somebody makes makes a joke), the original with Henry Fonda of course not the '97 remake. It really is excellent and you can find it in all its glory on YouTube.

Oh, and I watched We Need to Talk About Kevin, which has put me off ever having kids.

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Quiet One    15

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Was also looking for a decent law based film the other day and decided on 12 Angry Men (the film, before somebody makes makes a joke), the original with Henry Fonda of course not the '97 remake. It really is excellent and you can find it in all its glory on YouTube.

Excellent, excellent film. but the remake is as good, for a change, the secret being that it has an impressive cast and its even a little more claustrophobic.

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BradSpeedMan    6

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hhhmmmm 12 Angry Men, there's alot of angry people around in this country, but let me check it out. If Andres says it's good, it must be...

Just let me find it's NOT good, then there's trouble between George, Andres and me...

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