MIKA27 Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 If anyone is interested to share their thoughts or opinions on a movie, perhaps a review here and there, please post it here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FireDigger Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 Has anyone seen Gomorrah? I heard the book makes The Godfather look like kids playing in a sandlot. I hope the movie is good as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIKA27 Posted April 29, 2009 Author Share Posted April 29, 2009 STAR TREK: Anyone here looking forward to seeing this movie? I have always loved the Star Trek movies and various series related to ST and am really looking forward to this one which looks to be awesome! It's also going to be great for people who have never been into Start Trek as this is a prequel flick which is obviously set before the earlier movies released. Synopsis: Mission: Impossible III director and Alias creator J.J. Abrams resurrects the classic science fiction franchise created by Gene Roddenberry with this feature film that embraces the rich history of the influential television and film series while also exploring some uncharted territory. Heroes star Zachary Quinto assumes the role of the Federation Starfleet lieutenant and Vulcan made famous in the original series by Leonard Nimoy (who also appears in an older incarnation of his original role), Spock, with Anton Yelchin stepping into the role of USS Enterprise navigator Pavel Chekov, Zoe Saldana assuming the role of communications officer Uhura, Simon Pegg keeping the ship in top shape as chief engineer Montgomery Scott (aka "Scotty"), and Eric Bana tormenting the benevolent space explorers as the villainous Nero. Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle co-star John Cho also boards the Enterprise as Hikaru Sulu, with Chris Pine and Karl Urban assuming the legendary roles of Captain Kirk and Leonard "Bones" McCoy, respectively. Pictures: Movie Trailer/s: http://www.fandango.com/hdmovietrailers/st...spot-1075409809 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIKA27 Posted April 29, 2009 Author Share Posted April 29, 2009 Has anyone seen Gomorrah? I heard the book makes The Godfather look like kids playing in a sandlot. I hope the movie is good as well. Never seen or heard of this but looking at the plot, it sounds interesting and worth watching. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkz Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 Has anyone seen Gomorrah? I heard the book makes The Godfather look like kids playing in a sandlot. I hope the movie is good as well. Havent seen the movie but the book was one of the best I´ve read last year. Sometimes truth is scarier than fiction... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
First Lady Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 You have me interested in this... will have to go and get the book Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tucomapache Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 The Wild Bunch Greatest western ever!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkz Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 You have me interested in this... will have to go and get the book You will not regret reading it Lisa. The writer, Roberto Saviano has a price on his head, that was issued by the camorra after the release of his book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KB24 Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 Taken starring Liam Neeson, Famke Janssen, Leland Orser. Been out for a couple months now but I loved it. Great action and classic one liners that make you want to kick someone's ass. Put it up there in my top 4. -Gladiator -Patriot -Braveheart -Taken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIKA27 Posted April 29, 2009 Author Share Posted April 29, 2009 Taken starring Liam Neeson, Famke Janssen, Leland Orser.Been out for a couple months now but I loved it. Great action and classic one liners that make you want to kick someone's ass. Put it up there in my top 4. -Gladiator -Patriot -Braveheart -Taken Boy was TAKEN great!!!! Liam Neeson, awesome actor! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Peales Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 I have seen Gomorrah. It is not anything like a Hollywood movie. It's a very raw fiction that portrays the harsh realities of organized crime in contemporary Naples. No high-rollers in casinos, no fancy suits with big cigars, no posing in leather chairs, no glamour or stylized personalities. It is full of substance, it might actually be the most realistic 'gangster' movie ever made. Gomorrah Appaloosa / A very nice western directed by Ed Harris, a great cast. Appaloosa Let The Right One In / The best damned vampire movie to ever come out of Sweden. Not really scary, but for adults... and really cold. Let the Right One In Hunger / A super brutal film about Bobby Sands. Hunger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIKA27 Posted April 29, 2009 Author Share Posted April 29, 2009 I'll have to check out Appaloosa as I've never seen it and I love Westerns. One of my favourite westerns and there are a few would be; - 'The Good The Bad and The Ugly' classic Clint Eastwood. - "Rio Bravo" with John Wayne. - "Tombstone" with Val Kilmer. As far as Vampire flicks, I love any horror movie but one that stands out and perhaps more so for gore and visual effects would have to be; - "30 days of night" - "From Dusk Till Dawn" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIKA27 Posted April 29, 2009 Author Share Posted April 29, 2009 Jackie Chan announces 100th movie Jackie Chan has celebrated a milestone with the announcement of his 100th movie project _ a collaboration with "Rumble in the Bronx" director Stanley Tong. The 55-year-old "Rush Hour" star said on his Web site he will co-direct the film tentatively called "Chinese Zodiac" with Tong, with shooting to take place in China, Austria and France. The brief statement seen Wednesday did not give further details. Tong, whose credits include the TV series "Martial Law" and the comedy movie "Mr. Magoo," directed Chan in the 1995 action film "Rumble in the Bronx" and the 2005 fantasy "The Myth." Chan's main spokesman, Solon So, said he wasn't immediately available for comment. Chan's most recent release was the Chinese-language gangster thriller "Shinjuku Incident," in which he plays a Chinese immigrant who becomes a hit man for the Japanese mafia. His upcoming films are the Hollywood action comedy "The Spy Next Door," about an undercover Chinese spy whose cover is blown, and another Chinese production, "Big Soldier," reportedly about the friendship between two soldiers set in China's ancient Qin dynasty. The veteran action star has also been in talks to star as the Mr. Miyagi character in a remake of "The Karate Kid," the 1984 film about a mentor who teaches a youngster how to stand up to bullies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIKA27 Posted April 29, 2009 Author Share Posted April 29, 2009 Speaking of Jackie Chan, I just watched 'The Shinjuku Incident' and it's a fantastic movie to watch, unlike alot of the jackie Chan movies which are comical, this one is on the serious side of acting and is a must if you like the gangster type movie. THE SHINJUKU INCIDENT Synopsis; A simple Chinese immigrant wages a perilous war against one of the most powerful criminal organizations on the planet in this sprawling action drama directed by Derek Yee (One Night in Mongkok) and starring Jackie Chan, Daniel Wu, and Masaya Kato. In Japan, foreign migrants are shunned by mainstream society. Taunted by the yakuza, they live in constant fear of being discovered and repatriated. Into this perilous world ventures Steelhead (Chan), a humble tractor repairman who has traveled to Tokyo in search of his missing girlfriend, Xiu Xiu (Xu Jinglei), who vanished into thin air shortly after arriving in the city. It doesn't take Steelhead long to learn just what kind of hardships Chinese immigrants in Japan endure at the hands of underworld gangsters and foreign crime syndicates, and upon discovering that Xiu Xiu has adapted a Japanese identity and married up-and-coming yakuza chief Eguichi (Masaya Kato), the two men form an uneasy alliance. Over time, Steelhead earns the respect of his fellow Chinese immigrants by establishing a place for them to gather. But the dark side still beckons to Steelhead, because after helping Eguichi dispense with a powerful rival, he is granted full control of Shinjuku's most popular nightspots. Resistant to the allure of the criminal lifestyle, Steelhead discovers a new love and opens a tractor repair business just outside the city. When Equichi begins using Steelhead's former compatriots as pawns to front the yakuza's drug trade, the vengeful immigrant returns to the city determined to exact justice, even if it means destroying the future of the woman he once loved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jquest63 Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 Agreed! Runnerups: The Searchers, Magnificent Seven and Dead Man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jquest63 Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 Comedies: Duck Soup, The Big Lebowsky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIKA27 Posted April 29, 2009 Author Share Posted April 29, 2009 Comedies: Duck Soup, The Big Lebowsky For me...'40 year old virgin' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIKA27 Posted April 29, 2009 Author Share Posted April 29, 2009 Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins I'm really hanging for this movie!! I have been a huge fan since T1 and this new installment will be fantastic. THEY SAY Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins will reinvent the cyborg saga with a storyline to be told over a three-movie span. The film is set in the future, in a full-scale war between Skynet and humankind. On January 6th 2008, producer John Middleton had the following to say about the movie: "It's post-apocalyptic. It's set after the events of [Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines], where we see the nuclear exchange at the end of the movie, and we show what the world is like after this event, and we show how people try to deal in a post-apocalyptic world. And we introduce a new character, who becomes very important to the resistance and to John Connor, a new hero. It's really about the birth of a new hero." About John Conner, he said: "I would look at him as a character that is introduced and that will grow in the second and third movies of the trilogy." On Arnold Schwarzenegger's involvement in the film: "He has been approached, and in the early days of our development of T4, one of our producers, Andy Vajna, who's a good friend of his, spoke to him about doing a cameo. This was even before he was governor. But we know now that he is governor, he's got priorities that are above doing movies." PLOT In this new installment of The Terminator film franchise, set in post-apocalyptic 2018, Christian Bale stars as John Connor, the man fated to lead the human resistance against Skynet and its army of Terminators. But the future Connor was raised to believe in is altered in part by the appearance of Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington), a stranger whose last memory is of being on death row. Connor must decide whether Marcus has been sent from the future, or rescued from the past. As Skynet prepares its final onslaught, Connor and Marcus both embark on an odyssey that takes them into the heart of Skynet's operations, where they uncover the terrible secret behind the possible annihilation of mankind. Trailers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRwby_vjg88 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eoQjn1v9lY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OZCUBAN Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 Hi All Star Trek (J.J. Abrams ) for sure The Hobbit 2 Films (Guillermo Del Toro) a must. Loved the Davinci code (book) film was OK Book better. Angels and Demons looks Ok not read it yet Cheers Oz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamuraiJack Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 x2 on Let The Right One In. Very cool take what Vampires might be up to these days, but even more so a great little story about two children really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkz Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 X3 on Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in). Both the book and movie is superb. Take this advice from a guy that normally HATES vampire-movies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PigFish Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 The Wild Bunch Greatest western ever!! That's a fact!!! I saw an odd western last night. The Burrowers, cowboys and inidans with a twist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Habanos2000 Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 Hi All Star Trek (J.J. Abrams ) for sure The Hobbit 2 Films (Guillermo Del Toro) a must. Loved the Davinci code (book) film was OK Book better. Angels and Demons looks Ok not read it yet Cheers Oz Oz, you're right-on about The DaVinci Code book being better than the movie. I've read A&D, it's good but not as good as DaVinci. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Habanos2000 Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 I have to admit that "The Departed" is a damn good movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jquest63 Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 Favorite Aussie movies: Road Warrior and Gallipoli Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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