What Have You Just Seen... Marks Out of 5

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 31 Jan 2008, 22:54

bradavon wrote:What Halloween (2007) is considered the best cut? -

Theatrical
Work print
Unrated - Presumably labelled the Director's Cut

i haven't seen the theatrical-only the workprint and the unrated director's cut. haven't watched disc 2 yet which has an alternate ending (maybe the workprint one) and deleted scenes that may be interesting. i preferred the unrated to the workprint.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 31 Jan 2008, 23:00

Does disc 2 has an alternate ending or an alternate cut?

Thanks for the info. Why did you prefer the Unrated cut?

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 31 Jan 2008, 23:02

bradavon wrote:Does disc 2 has an alternate ending or an alternate cut?

Thanks for the info. Why did you prefer the Unrated cut?

alternate ending. i preferred the unrated because it had a better ending,also the workprint while good quality was obviously unfinished,music missing etc. it's not a great movie in any version i suspect.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 01 Feb 2008, 09:57

Tell No One: 4/5

A solid, intriguing French thriller. Good stuff

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 01 Feb 2008, 14:27

Thanks Salty.

Is that a remake of Tell No One Grim?

Did you find it confusing when the revelations started happening? I got a bit lost then but still very good.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 01 Feb 2008, 16:44

Tell No One, yeah

A bit, but as you say it was still very good.

gasteropod · Post by **gasteropod** » 01 Feb 2008, 18:40

Cloverfield - 4/5

It's quite an experience, but it's also a tad short at 85 minutes. I will be purchasing this one when it comes out. Go and see it at the cinema, though, it won't be the same in your bedroom.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 01 Feb 2008, 18:46

The Teletext review didnt like it.

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 01 Feb 2008, 19:45

High Anxiety 1/5

Mostly crap Mel Brooks comedy. I gave up after an hour.

gasteropod · Post by **gasteropod** » 01 Feb 2008, 19:53

grim_tales wrote:The Teletext review didnt like it.

I recommend you go and see for yourself

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 01 Feb 2008, 20:36

I intend to

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 01 Feb 2008, 20:49

Apparently it's made a lot of people in the front rows nauseous, so sit well back.

gasteropod · Post by **gasteropod** » 01 Feb 2008, 21:29

Markgway wrote:Apparently it's made a lot of people in the front rows nauseous, so sit well back.

I'd read that too. My mate and I sat quite near the front, because I didn't want the screen looking small. He kept getting dizzy and had a headache by the end of it, but I had no problem whatsoever. Maybe because I have a large HDTV in my bedroom so I'm used to it?

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 01 Feb 2008, 22:04

grim_tales wrote:The Teletext review didnt like it.

Teletext??? You must be the only person nationwide who still uses it

Knetan · Post by **Knetan** » 02 Feb 2008, 10:20

hey,

Girl-Gang 1.5/5
Age old story of girls without guidance getting into prostitution and yes, it doesn't bring anything new to the table. Low budget as hell although a minute or two manages to be effectively bleak thanks to the crap looking surroundings. Watch Spacked Out instead...again.

The Setting Sun 1/5
Apparently a bug budget attempt for Japan's Nikkatsu studio to enter the market again. With an international cast (Diane Lane, Donald Sutherland and Hong Kong's Yuen Biao) and Rou Tomono directing his own book, it all sinks like a stone in an unbearable 2 hours of hell (Japanese cut apparently runs an additional 30 minutes). Completely lacking of interest when dealing with the opium war during the 30s and 40s and characters struggling with their alliance, coherence and viewer engagement is early on gone. To boot, Yuen Biao is horribly miscast as a Shanghai gangster boss.

Wai's Romance 1.5/5
This sex-comedy gets an additional half point for the casting of Charlie Cho. Reason being he's cast against type for once, playing very timid and being a virgin too! Otherwise a flick with a full plate but the inability to translate that into fun.

Madam The Great (aka The Way Of The Lady Boxers) 1.5/5
Sharon yeung and Sibelle Hu teamed up but it all works only in sporadic bursts. During those moments playing out favourably in the stunts department (Sharon gets in on some), at others being rather stiff and featuring wire-fu in this setting actually is a bad fit. Joseph Lai's IFD released the film as Angel Kickboxers.

Little Hero 4/5
Best for last, here's Taiwan madness at its best. Let the clip speak for itself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LhMK7Fa5IQ

HungFist · Post by **HungFist** » 02 Feb 2008, 12:01

Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World (Japan, 2004) – 1,5/5
I recall Isao Yukisada’s earlier film, A Day on the Planet, being quite good, which unfortunately isn’t the case with Sekai no chushin de, ai wo sakebu. It features a couple of nice landscape shots and a cool Sano Motoharu song, but that’s pretty much it. The film tries very hard to be emotional but that only makes it harder to emphatize with. The screenplay has an okay start, if you ignore the first 10 minutes, but the second half makes you constantly wonder what were they thinking? Still, Sekai no chushin de wouldn’t be an especially bad film - in fact it would be just like all the others – if it wasn’t so exhaustingly overlong.

Ardor (South Korea, 2002) – 1/5
If you’d like to see the beautiful Lost star Yunjin Kim in a Korean movie, I recommend you give up on the idea. She’s in the terrible Korean Bruckheimer equivalent Shiri, downright worthless sci-fi pic Yesterday, and in the “daring” drama Ardor (aka Milae). At first I was confused about her acting in this movie, but then I realized she’s just trying a world record on overdoing the “depressed woman” act. The rest of the cast give more subdued bad performances. The screenplay is what it is, and the director’s decision to colour some images ugly red serves no purpose.

Lourdes · Post by **Lourdes** » 02 Feb 2008, 12:34

HungFist wrote:Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World (Japan, 2004) – 1,5/5
I recall Isao Yukisada’s earlier film, A Day on the Planet, being quite good, which unfortunately isn’t the case with Sekai no chushin de, ai wo sakebu. It features a couple of nice landscape shots and a cool Sano Motoharu song, but that’s pretty much it. The film tries very hard to be emotional but that only makes it harder to emphatize with. The screenplay has an okay start, if you ignore the first 10 minutes, but the second half makes you constantly wonder what were they thinking? Still, Sekai no chushin de wouldn’t be an especially bad film - in fact it would be just like all the others – if it wasn’t so exhaustingly overlong.

You've redeemed yourself after bashing Kairo.

HungFist · Post by **HungFist** » 02 Feb 2008, 12:38

Lourdes wrote:
You've redeemed yourself after bashing Kairo.

haha, thanks. As far as Kurosawa goes I'm still gonna give him one more chance with Barren Illusions as that looks like something I might enjoy.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 02 Feb 2008, 15:39

You bashed Kairo? Hung you really do have a weird taste in films. Where's the link please?

HungFist · Post by **HungFist** » 02 Feb 2008, 15:46

bradavon wrote:You bashed Kairo? Hung you really do have a weird taste in films. Where's the link please?

link to my comments? Here

(you can also look for it yourself by writing "Kairo" to the search field. You get even more exact results by using the 'Search for Author' function)

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 02 Feb 2008, 16:49

Thanks.

Ordinarily I would but the "Marks out of 5" thread is so huge and the Search function so shit it would take forever.

p.s - Naturally I completely disagree 8) . Kairo is one of the best of the films in it's genre, it's not up there with Ringu but still very good.

HungFist · Post by **HungFist** » 02 Feb 2008, 17:07

bradavon wrote:Thanks.

Ordinarily I would but the "Marks out of 5" thread is so huge and the Search function so shit it would take forever.

I have a feeling our mod doesn't know how to use the search engine (:D). If you just write "Kairo" in the search field, then it's hopeless. But, if you do it like this:

Search for Keywords: Kairo
Search for Author: HungFist
Forum: Reviews & Comparisons
Display results as: Posts

...you get the exact results.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 02 Feb 2008, 17:53

Touché

Lourdes · Post by **Lourdes** » 02 Feb 2008, 18:35

HungFist wrote:haha, thanks. As far as Kurosawa goes I'm still gonna give him one more chance with Barren Illusions as that looks like something I might enjoy.

I've not seen it since my first viewing but I thought Charisma was really good and the best KK by far.

the68monkey · Post by **the68monkey** » 02 Feb 2008, 20:03

HungFist wrote: the terrible Korean Bruckheimer equivalent Shiri

Blasphemy! :shock: