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[Brock Manson 0]

Michael Bay is doing a TMNT remake...and making them aliens.

 

Someone has to stop him.

its a possibility that hes just wrong tbh, he owns the production studio but hes not writing it or directing it

 

there is still hope

 

It's Michael Bay. It'll be a steaming turd he'll squeeze out at the end of it all.

[Park Life 71]

The whole point of women is that they're aliens.

[Park Life 71]

Watched Fatal Attraction last night. don't know how many times I said, 'fucking hell, the mental bitch' but it was a canny few.

 

Alright film. 6.5/10

 

It was the first million dollar script.

[Andrew 4882]

Michael Bay is doing a TMNT remake...and making them aliens.

 

Someone has to stop him.

its a possibility that hes just wrong tbh, he owns the production studio but hes not writing it or directing it

 

there is still hope

 

It's Michael Bay. It'll be a steaming turd he'll squeeze out at the end of it all.

 

he may not be involved beyond a face for publicitys sake

 

lets fucking pray thats the case anyway

[Andrew 4882]

Watched Fatal Attraction last night. don't know how many times I said, 'fucking hell, the mental bitch' but it was a canny few.

 

Alright film. 6.5/10

 

watched that for the first time fairly recently myself and youve basically summed up my reaction to most of it.

[Besty 4]

Watched the Two Escobar's last night, really good. Didn't know too much about it beforehand so was really interesting, didn't know Tino was involved that much either!

[ADP 0]

Watched the Two Escobar's last night, really good. Didn't know too much about it beforehand so was really interesting, didn't know Tino was involved that much either!

 

I thought that was fucking awesome like. I was the same on both counts... it says a lot about any documentary that the entry point for a viewer is so broad that they don't need to know much about the subject beforehand. Highly recommended.

[Holden McGroin 6801]

Hunger Games.

 

Don't be put off by the Twilight comparisons J69. There's much less mopey "should I kiss this lad or that lad?" high school bollocks. Rather than a teen soap with action it's action first (albeit rapidly cut inferred gore than actual carnage) and the only 'will she won't she?' shite is based on self preservation within the game rather than 'feelings'. The lead being a girl is as relevant as it is in Alien. Stick a fella in there and it wouldn't make that much difference.

 

It was pretty dissapointing bearing in mind the hype. The plot is as weak as fuck and ALL the characters are thinly drawn caricatures. Some of the stuff in the forest is alright. The thousands of cuts and wipes per scene left me feeling that it was a very lame attempt at emotion/sensation overcoming any kind of critical thought. [/farenheit451].

 

I sense the books might be pretty good mind as there was glimpses of deeper machinations that were just glossed over.

 

6.2/10

 

The book is excellent. Half the stuff in the movie is skimmed over. For example, the MockingJays are actually a breed of mocking bird and mutant bird that the Capitol had created. This mutant bird was send to the districts to spy on the inhabitants. Loads of detail like that which I wouldnt have had a clue about.

 

I am about to start the sequel.

[Kid Dynamite 7192]

I saw the film last night. Was exactly as I imagined, a 2nd rate rip off of Battle Royale aimed at teenage girls, with added Woody Harrleson and Lenny Kravitz.

[Park Life 71]

Hunger Games.

 

Don't be put off by the Twilight comparisons J69. There's much less mopey "should I kiss this lad or that lad?" high school bollocks. Rather than a teen soap with action it's action first (albeit rapidly cut inferred gore than actual carnage) and the only 'will she won't she?' shite is based on self preservation within the game rather than 'feelings'. The lead being a girl is as relevant as it is in Alien. Stick a fella in there and it wouldn't make that much difference.

 

It was pretty dissapointing bearing in mind the hype. The plot is as weak as fuck and ALL the characters are thinly drawn caricatures. Some of the stuff in the forest is alright. The thousands of cuts and wipes per scene left me feeling that it was a very lame attempt at emotion/sensation overcoming any kind of critical thought. [/farenheit451].

 

I sense the books might be pretty good mind as there was glimpses of deeper machinations that were just glossed over.

 

6.2/10

 

The book is excellent. Half the stuff in the movie is skimmed over. For example, the MockingJays are actually a breed of mocking bird and mutant bird that the Capitol had created. This mutant bird was send to the districts to spy on the inhabitants. Loads of detail like that which I wouldnt have had a clue about.

 

I am about to start the sequel.

 

Might order the book. As in a proper book, not a kindle or iwank or some other shite that irradiates ones pupils and cooks the coffee in the cup on the table while you're reading.

[Holden McGroin 6801]

Yeah, ive got all 3 books. The missus forced me to read the 1st one and has bought me the 2nd/3rd.

 

They are an easy read. Not mind blowing brilliant. A good holiday book.

[ADP 0]

trollhunter. 6/10

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As a mad fan of Suzanne Collins’s book The Hunger Games , I was totally pysched for the film. Secretly, though, I was prepared to be disappointed, because how often does Hollywood do justice to a book you love? The movie does oversimplify a bit, but then, for a book that reads like crack on paper, The Hunger Games is a complicated story, with many layers and lots of sharply drawn characters. While it has lost the first-person voice of its scrappy heroine, Katniss Everdeen, it’s amazing how much of the book the movie gets right.

 

There are many ways to analyze The Hunger Games . You can see it as a savage satire of late capitalism: in a dystopian future version of North America called Panem, the 1 percent rule through brute force, starvation, technological wizardry and constant surveillance. The Games exemplify these methods: as punishment for a past rebellion, each of the twelve districts of Panem must sacrifice two teenagers, a boy and a girl, to come to the Capitol (sic ) and compete in a televised ritual of murder and survivalism until only one is left. Tea Partiers can imagine an allegory of oppressive Washington, and traditionalists can revel in the ancient trope of the moral superiority of the countryside: the district people are poor and downtrodden and wear Depression-style clothes but they live in families, sing folk songs and have a strong sense of community. In the Capitol, which has the dated-futuristic look of a fascist Oz, the lifestyle is somewhere between the late Roman Empire, the court of Louis XVI and the Cirque du Soleil. You can also read the book as an indictment of reality television, in which a bored and cynical audience amuses itself watching desperate people destroy themselves, and the movie plays this angle for all it’s worth. When the unctuous Games host Caesar Flickerman (Stanley Tucci, in a startling blue wig) interviews the teens about to be murdered as if they were trying out for American Idol , you start to wonder when we’ll see Perez Hilton chatting up death row prisoners on Entertainment Tonight (“Any last words for your family?”).

 

The element that is the most striking to me, though, is Katniss, portrayed in the film by the splendid Jennifer Lawrence. Katniss has qualities usually given to boys: a hunter who’s kept her mother and sister from starving since she was 11, she’s intrepid and tough, better at killing rabbits than expressing her feelings, a skilled bargainer in the black market for meat. No teenage vegetarian she! At the same time, she’s feminine: never aggressive or swaggering, tenderhearted and protective of the defenseless—when her little sister Prim’s name is chosen for the Games, Katniss volunteers to take her place; during the games she risks death to protect the lovable girlchild Rue (Amandla Stenberg). Not to get too literary about this most popular of popular fiction, you can see Katniss as a version of the goddess Artemis, protectress of the young and huntress with a silver bow and arrows like the ones Katniss carries in the Games. Like the famously virginal goddess, Katniss is an independent spirit: she is not about her looks, her clothes, her weight, her popularity, gossip, drama or boys. The great Stuart Klawans made a rare slip writing in these pages that Katniss is a typical young-adult heroine, “greatly worried” about whether “guy number one” likes her and what “guy number two might think about that.” The whole plot turns on Katniss being so romantically uninterested in Peeta, her fellow District 12 Games contestant, she doesn’t realize he’s in love with her. When she’s not convinced he’s trying to kill her, she believes he’s pretending to be smitten with her to gain sympathy (and help) from the invisible TV audience. She rescues him several times anyway. As for “guy number two” back home, the devastatingly handsome Gale (Liam Hemsworth), Katniss only fleetingly thinks there might be more than friendship there. Mostly she is just trying to survive without becoming a horrible person.

 

Katniss is a rare thing in pop fiction: a complex female character with courage, brains and a quest of her own. She’s Jo March as coal miner’s daughter in hunting boots, the opposite of Bella, the famously drippy, love-obsessed heroine of the Twilight books—and unlike clever and self-possessed Hermione of the Harry Potter series, she’s the lead, not a sidekick. We’re worlds away from the vicious-little-rich-girls of Gossip Girl and its many knockoffs, where everything revolves around looks, clothes, consumerism, social status and sexual competition.

 

She is a rare thing in real-life girl culture, too, where the latest news is of Dara-Lynn Weiss’s Vogue article—and book deal—recounting the rigid diet regimen she forced on her 7-year-old daughter. (At least Amy Chua browbeat her daughters to read books and play musical instruments!) What does it say about us that so many mocked the slender Lawrence’s Katniss as too “big”? It’s true that in the book, Katniss is underfed, like almost everyone in the districts, but in the movie none of the other Games contestants are skinny either, and they all look fit and healthy, even tiny Rue, who in the book has never even had a whole bird leg to herself. Besides, the anorectic cookie-cutter young actresses favored by Hollywood don’t have the acting chops for this role. Lawrence, who played another hardscrabble heroine in Winter’s Bone , brings to life the hidden tenderness that is one key to Katniss’s character.

 

The other key is Katniss’s moral centeredness. Unlike most of the contestants, she kills only in self-defense. Life as a celebrity—winners are feted and made rich for life—repels her. When she thinks about fairness and justice, she’s thinking about social class and political power, not about who gets to be prom queen. What would she make of the racist response of some fans to the casting of black actors as Rue and another beloved character, Thresh? I suspect she’d be as contemptuous of them as she is of the hyperprivileged darlings of the Capitol.

 

http://www.thenation.com/article/167182/hunger-games-feral-feminism?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews

[Bonamental 0]

21 Jump Street. Massively juvenile, but also very funny.

[Kid Dynamite 7192]

 

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As a mad fan of Suzanne Collins’s book The Hunger Games , I was totally pysched for the film. Secretly, though, I was prepared to be disappointed, because how often does Hollywood do justice to a book you love? The movie does oversimplify a bit, but then, for a book that reads like crack on paper, The Hunger Games is a complicated story, with many layers and lots of sharply drawn characters. While it has lost the first-person voice of its scrappy heroine, Katniss Everdeen, it’s amazing how much of the book the movie gets right.

 

There are many ways to analyze The Hunger Games . You can see it as a savage satire of late capitalism: in a dystopian future version of North America called Panem, the 1 percent rule through brute force, starvation, technological wizardry and constant surveillance. The Games exemplify these methods: as punishment for a past rebellion, each of the twelve districts of Panem must sacrifice two teenagers, a boy and a girl, to come to the Capitol (sic ) and compete in a televised ritual of murder and survivalism until only one is left. Tea Partiers can imagine an allegory of oppressive Washington, and traditionalists can revel in the ancient trope of the moral superiority of the countryside: the district people are poor and downtrodden and wear Depression-style clothes but they live in families, sing folk songs and have a strong sense of community. In the Capitol, which has the dated-futuristic look of a fascist Oz, the lifestyle is somewhere between the late Roman Empire, the court of Louis XVI and the Cirque du Soleil. You can also read the book as an indictment of reality television, in which a bored and cynical audience amuses itself watching desperate people destroy themselves, and the movie plays this angle for all it’s worth. When the unctuous Games host Caesar Flickerman (Stanley Tucci, in a startling blue wig) interviews the teens about to be murdered as if they were trying out for American Idol , you start to wonder when we’ll see Perez Hilton chatting up death row prisoners on Entertainment Tonight (“Any last words for your family?”).

 

The element that is the most striking to me, though, is Katniss, portrayed in the film by the splendid Jennifer Lawrence. Katniss has qualities usually given to boys: a hunter who’s kept her mother and sister from starving since she was 11, she’s intrepid and tough, better at killing rabbits than expressing her feelings, a skilled bargainer in the black market for meat. No teenage vegetarian she! At the same time, she’s feminine: never aggressive or swaggering, tenderhearted and protective of the defenseless—when her little sister Prim’s name is chosen for the Games, Katniss volunteers to take her place; during the games she risks death to protect the lovable girlchild Rue (Amandla Stenberg). Not to get too literary about this most popular of popular fiction, you can see Katniss as a version of the goddess Artemis, protectress of the young and huntress with a silver bow and arrows like the ones Katniss carries in the Games. Like the famously virginal goddess, Katniss is an independent spirit: she is not about her looks, her clothes, her weight, her popularity, gossip, drama or boys. The great Stuart Klawans made a rare slip writing in these pages that Katniss is a typical young-adult heroine, “greatly worried” about whether “guy number one” likes her and what “guy number two might think about that.” The whole plot turns on Katniss being so romantically uninterested in Peeta, her fellow District 12 Games contestant, she doesn’t realize he’s in love with her. When she’s not convinced he’s trying to kill her, she believes he’s pretending to be smitten with her to gain sympathy (and help) from the invisible TV audience. She rescues him several times anyway. As for “guy number two” back home, the devastatingly handsome Gale (Liam Hemsworth), Katniss only fleetingly thinks there might be more than friendship there. Mostly she is just trying to survive without becoming a horrible person.

 

Katniss is a rare thing in pop fiction: a complex female character with courage, brains and a quest of her own. She’s Jo March as coal miner’s daughter in hunting boots, the opposite of Bella, the famously drippy, love-obsessed heroine of the Twilight books—and unlike clever and self-possessed Hermione of the Harry Potter series, she’s the lead, not a sidekick. We’re worlds away from the vicious-little-rich-girls of Gossip Girl and its many knockoffs, where everything revolves around looks, clothes, consumerism, social status and sexual competition.

 

She is a rare thing in real-life girl culture, too, where the latest news is of Dara-Lynn Weiss’s Vogue article—and book deal—recounting the rigid diet regimen she forced on her 7-year-old daughter. (At least Amy Chua browbeat her daughters to read books and play musical instruments!) What does it say about us that so many mocked the slender Lawrence’s Katniss as too “big”? It’s true that in the book, Katniss is underfed, like almost everyone in the districts, but in the movie none of the other Games contestants are skinny either, and they all look fit and healthy, even tiny Rue, who in the book has never even had a whole bird leg to herself. Besides, the anorectic cookie-cutter young actresses favored by Hollywood don’t have the acting chops for this role. Lawrence, who played another hardscrabble heroine in Winter’s Bone , brings to life the hidden tenderness that is one key to Katniss’s character.

 

The other key is Katniss’s moral centeredness. Unlike most of the contestants, she kills only in self-defense. Life as a celebrity—winners are feted and made rich for life—repels her. When she thinks about fairness and justice, she’s thinking about social class and political power, not about who gets to be prom queen. What would she make of the racist response of some fans to the casting of black actors as Rue and another beloved character, Thresh? I suspect she’d be as contemptuous of them as she is of the hyperprivileged darlings of the Capitol.

 

http://www.thenation.com/article/167182/hunger-games-feral-feminism?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews

 

Or more likely, she saw Battle Royale, totally ripped it, added in 2 'star crossed lovers', and sold a million copies to girls around the world.

[Dr Gloom 22196]

thinking of watching either warrior or tin tin the movie tonight. anyone seen either of them? which should i watch?

[Gemmill 46195]

Warrior is alright and not much better. It's basically just Karate Kid for adults and is only marginally more believable.

 

Tin Tin though - have a word with yourself man.

Edited April 6, 2012 by Gemmill

[Kid Dynamite 7192]

Warrior was my favourite film of last year

[Gemmill 46195]

Well then shut the fuck up with the rest of your film reviews then cos it was decidedly average.

[ewerk 31237]

Deliverance - One of those films that everyone is supposed to see before they die. Thoroughly enjoyable imo.

[Idioteque 0]

Jumanji

 

10/10

[Dr Gloom 22196]

Went with warriror. Meh. 5/10

 

And watch it gemmill. Tin tin has got about 80% on rotten tomatoes. Supposed to be like raiders of the list arc

[Gemmill 46195]

The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia.

 

Fucking terrifying documentary about a white trash family.

[brummiemag1 0]

Death Line (1973). Great little uncommercial gem of a british horror film that only the British could make 7/10

[LoveTheBobby 1]

The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia.

 

Fucking terrifying documentary about a white trash family.

 

 

Check out "Dancing Outlaw" and "Jesco Tapes" too man

 

" I took the butcher knife and put it up to her neck .

 

I said 'if you wanna live to see tomorrow you'd better start fryin' 'em eggs a little bit better than what you've been fryin' 'em .

 

I'm tired of eatin' sloppy, slimy eggs "

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYmbI-XcOSY