What general film/series have you just seen.. marks out of 5

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 26 Apr 2008, 18:45

Yeah, I liked Noon and also like ATWI80D.

Another 48 Hrs.: 3/5

I enjoyed it Decent follow up to 48 Hours. Good fun

Did it come before BHC?

"If shit was worth something, poor people would be born with no assholes"

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 26 Apr 2008, 18:54

48Hrs came before BHC/BHC2 but Another 48 Hrs came after.

I liked both of them but they're nowhere near funny enough (Eddie is wasted).

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 26 Apr 2008, 18:56

grim_tales wrote: Did it come before BHC?

WWW.IMDB.COM

Takes less time using that than typing the question and geting an answer on here

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 26 Apr 2008, 19:24

1. Glad to see someone else enjoying OUT FOR JUSTICE.

2. THE MEDALLION is a Hong Kong film.

3. Threats of physical violence are OK, but wishing someone's death is unacceptable. And I don't even like Brad!

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 26 Apr 2008, 19:28

Why? I like you. I've forgotten what I argued about with most members, as soon as I've said it

. Life's too short to hold a grudge.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 26 Apr 2008, 20:40

Jeez I was only asking Romero, otherwise whats the point of a discussion forum

PS, thanks Brad

gasteropod · Post by **gasteropod** » 26 Apr 2008, 20:44

Markgway wrote:2. THE MEDALLION is a Hong Kong film.

Nah, 'Highbinders' is a Hong Kong film.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 26 Apr 2008, 22:00

grim_tales wrote:otherwise whats the point of a discussion forum

I reckon people forget that sometimes.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 27 Apr 2008, 14:21

Can Highbinders/Medallion be seen its Asian form?

gasteropod · Post by **gasteropod** » 27 Apr 2008, 19:05

grim_tales wrote:Can Highbinders/Medallion be seen its Asian form?

No, so is not woth bothering with. If they ever release its original cut, I'll check it out, the current one is awful.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 27 Apr 2008, 19:14

It's called The Medallion in HK too, well the HK DVD is called that.

gasteropod · Post by **gasteropod** » 27 Apr 2008, 20:00

Yes, I was referring to Highbinders as a separate entity.

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 28 Apr 2008, 21:50

Highbinders' original cut was never released anywhere so no point teasing Brad...

The Medallion is THE theatrical cut and the only one currently available.

The co-producers (Columbia Asia) interfered and imposed re-edits on Gordon Chan (as well as that retitle).

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 28 Apr 2008, 21:54

Could they even release Highbinders if they wanted to? The footage doesn't exist, right?

gasteropod · Post by **gasteropod** » 28 Apr 2008, 21:54

Haha, we all know this, I was merely saying that really it was Highbinders which was the proper HK film, and The Medallion is the bastardised US version which is unfortunately the only one the whole world has got

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 28 Apr 2008, 21:56

Is it likely the original cut would've been much better though?

gasteropod · Post by **gasteropod** » 28 Apr 2008, 22:03

My feeling is that it would be 'watchable', whereas the current one is 'unwatchable'.

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 28 Apr 2008, 23:01

The footage is available on the R1, isn't it? (deleted scenes section).
I guess you could put them back in the film, but you'd have to find and delete all the scenes that have been re-shot.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 28 Apr 2008, 23:48

Yep:

http://www.dvdcompare.net/comparisons/film.php?fid=4733

UK DVD too.

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 29 Apr 2008, 22:57

The footage will still exist in a vault - they don't destroy outtakes/deleted scenes like they used to. Can't see any likelihood of a DC any time this century. Columbia insisted upon Anthony Wong being redubbed too!

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 01 May 2008, 20:34

Mother Of Tears 1.5/5

Hugely disappointing latest effort from Dario Argento ,the third in the 3 mothers trilogy. cheap looking and poorly acted, it's very gory and just shows how lenient the bbfc have become these days.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 01 May 2008, 23:23

Serenity

6.5 out of 10

I watched it last night on DVD, good film. My hopes were relatively low. I've not seen Firefly but anyone involved with Buffy or Angel doesn't exactly fill me with glee.

I didn't know Arnie's "I'll be back" niece was in it. That came as a pleasant surprise, for most of the film she plays a similar role "clueless psycho". I usually find a lot of CGI annoying but here it worked perfectly. I could even say it looked beautiful. The CGI ships looked gorgeous, it really reminded me of Babylon 5.

The dogfight near the end was excellent, as was the following fight too.

The poor English/slang annoyed me at times, even though I can see why they filmed it that way (lower class, space pirates) and the male lead while overall fine was also a poor actor. It could've probably done with a bit more action too. I liked the fact they spent time on the drama more but for my liking it had a bit too much drama, when the drama that was given wasn't always particularly interesting.

I was surprised to see it's really a Space Drama more than your usual Scifi action. It would've almost worked not being Scifi at all. You can really see it's origins are in TV. It felt like an extended TV episode at times. The actors aren't the best the world has ever seen either. Summer Glau was the best actor in it.

But overall I definitely enjoyed it.

Live Flesh (Carne trémula)

8 out of 10

Another stunning film from Pedro Almodóvar.

Volver (2006), Bad Education (2004) and now this, all excellent. I don't think Almodóvar is capable of making a bad film.

His characters always feel so utterly believable, while sure at times their actions a little unrealistic they they feel like real people, with real emotions. The way Almodóvar often gives us strong female characters is also so refreshing.

Javier Bardem is as usual excellent, as are the other 4 lead parts. An extended cameo at the start from Penélope Cruz came as a pleasant surprise.

Like his previous work I was kept right on the edge of my seating, not once did I look at my watch, also like his previous work the camera work was impeccable. The infusion of Latin and African music was excellently placed too.

I really must watch my Talk to her (I hear his magnum opus) and All about my Mother DVDs.

Shingster · Post by **Shingster** » 01 May 2008, 23:35

That poor english/slang was actually mandarin, and you call yourself an asian film fan!

Nathan Fillion is a very charismatic actor, as is Stanley Tudyck, in fact Summer Glau is one of the lesser actors in the cast, having not really played varied roles at this stage in her career.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 01 May 2008, 23:43

Shingster wrote:That poor english/slang was actually mandarin, and you call yourself an asian film fan!

I didn't mean that

. The way they kept saying don't instead of doesn't got on my nerves.

I spotted the Asian characters (they weren't on screen long enough for me to spot what language) and noticed the dialogue from the teacher at the start wasn't in English but I didn't pay much attention to the relevance.

Did the crew speak any Mandarin?

Watching one of the extras Weedon said that due to China and America being the two empires English and Chinese were spoken. It's a pity he didn't make that more obvious, as it's an excellent idea. It was lost on me and I suspect most viewers. If that's so it's odd there was no Asian/Chinese actor of any notable size at all.

The crew should've spoke (more) Mandarin.

Shingster wrote: Nathan Fillion is a very charismatic actor, as is Stanley Tudyck, in fact Summer Glau is one of the lesser actors in the cast, having not really played varied roles at this stage in her career.

We'll have to agree to disagree. Summer Glau and Chiwetel Ejiofor were the only ones who stood out for me.

I found Nathan Fillion "slightly" annoying for a good portion of the film.

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 02 May 2008, 00:23

saltysam wrote:Mother Of Tears 1.5/5

Hugely disappointing latest effort from Dario Argento ,the third in the 3 mothers trilogy. cheap looking and poorly acted, it's very gory and just shows how lenient the bbfc have become these days.

I feared as much.

I actually though that 'The Card Player' was a step in the right direction after a series of post-Trauma duds but I guess it's two steps back again.

(The dire) Sleepless would've been heavily cut if it had been released five years before.