chairdriver Posted December 4, 2008 Posted December 4, 2008 And what's your obsession with this really mediorce film?
Eenuh Posted December 4, 2008 Posted December 4, 2008 The Emperor's New GrooveI love this film. David Spade as Kuzco works so perfectly. I've never seen him in a 'proper' acting role [i've not paid attention], I think he's in How I Met Your Mother, no? If not it's something similar, name escapes me. Either way whenever I'd see him I'd instantly think of this film. Some of the expressions are priceless. Nine Shabba's Heh, watched that tonight with two friends. Sadly we had to watch it on Youtube ('cause the film I brought, Atonement, didn't work, so we decided to look for something on Youtube), so the quality wasn't great and I think my friends missed out on some of the jokes because of lack of subtitles. Still, such a funny film, had us laughing so much. Love it! Wish Disney would make more films like this one.
killthenet Posted December 4, 2008 Posted December 4, 2008 *blushes*. or sarcasm? I don't know these things. What's that?...oh the kettle's boiled, gotta go. Just a harmless declaration of N-Europe love.
Dog-amoto Posted December 4, 2008 Posted December 4, 2008 Planet of the Apes (1968 one with Charlton Heston) Absolutely fantastic. To be honest, I've never seen it all the way through, and I obviously knew what happened at the end, but I still loved it anyway. 9/10
Jimbob Posted December 4, 2008 Posted December 4, 2008 Who am I? Jackie Chan stars as umm, well Jackie Chan except no memory so he goes by Whoami. Anywho brilliant movie, some great martial art fights and a fairly solid story to it. Only bad side is the obvious showings of stunt doubles who look nothing like the actor they are pretending to be. 8.5/10
Oxigen_Waste Posted December 5, 2008 Posted December 5, 2008 really i dont know what you excpet from that.. but its far from dull... i see worst movies out of this... though i might be bias alitte. Intesting chacracters? are you kidding me... i hope that not serious.... Oh, you not worry. That serious, alright. That very serious.
Jav_NE Posted December 5, 2008 Posted December 5, 2008 Heh, watched that tonight with two friends. Sadly we had to watch it on Youtube ('cause the film I brought, Atonement, didn't work, so we decided to look for something on Youtube), so the quality wasn't great and I think my friends missed out on some of the jokes because of lack of subtitles. Still, such a funny film, had us laughing so much. Love it! Wish Disney would make more films like this one. "Boohoo, llamaaa faaaaceee!!!" "No touchy!" "Boom Baby!" "Yay, i'm a Llama again!" "Thanks for that, i'll log that away" "Okay, why does she even have that lever?!" "Was this woman scary beyond all reason?" Love it. I hope they bring it out on Blu-Ray some day. In fact, they should bring all Disney films to Blu-Ray.
Oxigen_Waste Posted December 5, 2008 Posted December 5, 2008 Love it. I hope they bring it out on Blu-Ray some day. In fact, they should bring all Disney films to Blu-Ray. Blu-Ray seems completely useless to me. The increment in quality is insignificant when compared to the price difference.
Dan_Dare Posted December 5, 2008 Posted December 5, 2008 unless you have a maaaasssive TV, I'm pretty sure that's true for anyone.
ReZourceman Posted December 5, 2008 Posted December 5, 2008 I dunno mines a 32" and the difference is crystal clear. You are however correct they are ridiculously overpriced. Such was the case with DVDs when they first came out. My first was The Matrix in a cardboard case lol, and it was like £20. Crazy.
Chris the great Posted December 5, 2008 Posted December 5, 2008 the price of blu ray will drop, hell, i got me mam mamma mia! for less then £15, and its a new release. only £2 dearer then on dvd
Oxigen_Waste Posted December 5, 2008 Posted December 5, 2008 I'll adhere to blu ray when they become accesible at around 6.5£. Until then, I'll stick with regular DVD. And I don't intend on replacing anything I own on DVD for blu ray, since blu ray readers read DVD too, so I'll probably have a fairly small blu ray collection.
Paj! Posted December 5, 2008 Posted December 5, 2008 Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street Always meant to watch this, I have a massive poster of it on my wall! Plus I love Tim Burton/Helena Bonham Carte,r and Johnny Depp is usually fun. Really enjoyed this, liked how it's a musical in the traditional sense, there the songs are a storytelling device, and flow with the story, rather than just huge dance numbers everyone knows the moves to. Nice visual style too...some of cgi'd stuff worked, some didn't. 7.9/10
Daft Posted December 5, 2008 Posted December 5, 2008 I watch Blu-rays all the time but only because I rent them. I've only bought a couple up until now. Blade Runner, Casino Royale, There Will Be Blood and Terminator: SCC. They all look amazing. Going to watch Mongol tomorrow. Should be fun.
EEVILMURRAY Posted December 6, 2008 Posted December 6, 2008 Ugh. Nah way. I'd give it a generous 5 Shabba's.
Chris the great Posted December 6, 2008 Posted December 6, 2008 the children pretty awful horror movie, kids get sick, start murdering. i may have upset the audience laughing at the kids deaths. in my defence they were fucking hilarious. 4/10
Beast Posted December 6, 2008 Posted December 6, 2008 Zombie diaries Not a bad movie but it's not good either. Some parts were boring and some parts were okay but could've been better. 4/10 Daddy Day Camp Dreadful...that is all 1/10
nightwolf Posted December 6, 2008 Posted December 6, 2008 Wall.e I love this film, so cool and yet aww at the same time. Definately my favourite pixar film and pushing favourite disney movie too! 10/10 p.s now where did ashley say he found that wall.e again...hmm
ReZourceman Posted December 6, 2008 Posted December 6, 2008 In re to the Blu Ray talk I just read this extremely cool article on AICN about TDK Blu Ray. Sounds...sick. I was not familiar with "BD Live" stuff, but its basically (as she says) XBOX Live for Blu Rays, long story short, people can record commentarys, and you can watch, or watch films as other people watch it at the same time, and chat about it in text and such. Its a good read. Interesting tid-bits about TDK too. Went to the Dark Knight Blu Ray release event with Chris Nolan last night. It was a great time and thought I'd send you guys my write-up. If you use it, call me LoquaciousMuse and link to my blog, All Things Fangirl (http://www.allthingsfangirl.blogspot.com). Before tonight I had never even HEARD of BD Live. Apparently it's Xbox Live for Blu-Ray? If you have a BD Live enabled Blu Ray player or a PS3, then you can connect to the internet and partake in the potential awesomeness. The Dark Knight is Warner Brothers' first foray into this format and it's shaping up to be reason alone to invest in a Blu-Ray Player. First of all, it comes with tons of content, waiting to be streamed for free- the newest Warner's trailers, episodes of Warner Premiere Motion Comics (Mad Love! Shadow of Ra's al Ghul!) and more. And because everything is streaming, you can get to the content faster and it doesn't take up any hard drive space. One of my favorite features of TDK BD Live is the commentary option. With a computer & webcam, you can record YOURSELF giving commentary for the whole movie or just a scene here, a scene there. Then, when people go on BD Live, they can select your commentary to watch with the film. Now, it's doubtful that I would ever watch a stranger's commentary, but a friend's? Certainly. Maybe even someone famous? A blogger, a writer, a director, an actor, a critic, a technician - people not involved with the film who would have no business doing commentary for the dvd, but would have an interesting perspective, making their thoughts available to the general public? Yes, I'm into that. Also available is partaking in live text commentary - a bunch of people watching the movie at the same time, texting or typing their thoughts as the film goes on. So a whole group of friends, all in different parts of the world, could watch The Dark Knight together and read each other's commentary. And you heard it here first - on December 18th, Chris Nolan is doing a live commentary with 100,000 Dark Knight Blu Ray owners. He will host the screening and answer questions as it goes on. With 100,000 people, it will most likely get a little crazy and who knows if Chris Nolan will tell me how exactly the Jim Gordan thing works (trying to keep this post spoiler free...), but it still sounds pretty damn cool to me. In Nolan's words, "It'll be interesting to see what it's like...the potential of it is very exciting." (Note: It had previously been announced that at some point Nolan would do a commentary, but only tonight was the date of this chat confirmed) After learning all about BD Live and again wishing I had lots and lots money to spend on Blu Ray players and Blu Ray discs and giant HD televisions, we got to spend a half hour with Chris Nolan. Here are some highlights from the discussion. -It was "a shock" to Nolan & his team that TDK was so successful i.e. is the 2nd highest grossing film of all time -He really studied how to approach a sequel - what works versus what doesn't. His goal was to "provide a new experience, stretch in all directions" He wanted to delve deeper into the characters, both old & new and stage the action and story on a "grander scale", using an "operatic sensibility" -He wanted the film to connect to what we as an audience are concerned about. What would impact us, what would excite us. In the end he realized he was tapping into his own "fear of anarchy" and that the Joker was a "distillation of that force" -In his approach to the entire franchise, Nolan wanted to use a great ensemble a la Richard Donner in Superman. Get a cast that is wholly talented, all of whom bring a lot to the table. This was the mindset in casting Batman Begins & was carried through to Dark Knight -In reference to Heath Ledger, he had "Something to express that was very much in line with the character in the script. It just meshed" -Compared the home Blu-Ray version of Dark Knight to the big screen IMAX version and said that the advent of Blu-Ray is a vast improvement technically and important for the translation of IMAX to home video. Now people at home can see the difference between shooting in IMAX and shooting in 35mm in a way that even audiences who saw TDK with a 35mm projection didn't get to experience. Blu Ray points out the "grain structure" and "focus anomalies" and will actually expand in size the same way the IMAX print did, all of which are important for optimal TDK viewing. -Drew inspiration from Frank Miller's work in the 80s - more serious, more contemporary -If he made a third film, it would be for no reason but the continuation of story. He is currently looking into where the story would go and if it needs to go there. He maintained that it's very hard to make a movie of this scale (and specified he wasn't asking for our sympathy, drawing a laugh from the crowd) - it's two hard years and you gotta love it. One of his biggest fears is getting halfway through making a film and realizing it's unnecessary and he doesn't want to make it anymore. If there is a third story that needs to be told, there will be a third film, but nothing is set in stone or a given. -There is no 3 hour cut anywhere - no deleted scenes. He, John Nolan & David Goyer would cut scenes before they ever made it to the screen in what Nolan calls an "aggressive editorial approach." Their criteria was that every scene needs three reasons to be in the film or it's out. This made for a difficult time in the editing suite as every single scene was essential and could not be removed. -The music ended up playing a huge role in pacing and storytelling -Shooting in IMAX is about "clarity" and "sharpness" not being big. It's about providing a "sense of the screen disappearing." -He was shocked that no one ever tried to work with action films in IMAX before & would love to shoot a film entirely in IMAX. The problem with this? An IMAX camera is very noisy, SO noisy in fact that all the dialogue in every IMAX scene had to be looped in post - a feat more difficult for the younger generation of actors, who have less ADR experience. Would ideally like to shoot a hybrid film where all MOS scenes are IMAX are all scenes with dialogue are 65mm. -When translating a story to a screenplay, the first question he asks himself is "What is the point of view?" For Memento, the protagonist couldn't remember what had happened right before, therefore telling the story backwards seemed a natural device. In TDK, there are many characters and a gradual rise in tension, so linear works best. -The videos shot by the Joker were in fact shot and mostly directed by Heath Ledger. For the first video, Wally Pfister came in and checked the lights, the sound guys set up a few extra mics, everyone hid around the corner and they let Heath play. Ledger had been planning to direct and was an incredible collaborator with a great mind. Nolan trusted him implicitly. Ledger's work on the first video was so fantastic that Nolan wasn't even there for the second video shoot with Anthony Michael Hall. He gave Ledger the camera and said "do whatever you want." Apparently every take Ledger did was different, but always in line with the story and always fantastic. Where are those on the dvd, Mr. Nolan?!! -Something was mentioned about scanning 8k...I couldn't follow the technical speak. Which is sad for me. -He studied English Lit in school and is a self taught director. Started playing around with a camera at age 7 or 8. Believes in the Kubrick school of thought that the best way to learn how to make a movie is to make one. He then bid us goodbye and a screening of Dark Knight began. Have I mentioned I really love that movie? Also an important bit of information - Missed TDK in IMAX the first time around? The Dark Knight is being re-released on January 23rd in IMAX theaters across the country. If you haven't seen it yet, I encourage you to take advantage of this opportunity and buy your IMAX tickets the moment they go on sale.
Ashley Posted December 6, 2008 Posted December 6, 2008 Wall.e I love this film, so cool and yet aww at the same time. Definately my favourite pixar film and pushing favourite disney movie too! 10/10 p.s now where did ashley say he found that wall.e again...hmm iDance Wall-E? Tescos. They have 25% off all Wall-E stuff at present because of the DVD release. (unless you meant the dvd which was argos)
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