The Recommended Movies Thread

[MrPlum]

MrS. I'm pig sick of Hollyfilth output and wondering where to find decent foreign films. The youngster is enjoying some Russian cartoons and despite not having a clue what they are saying, informs me they are much better than the standard spongebob fare.

If anyone knows, it's you. So fess up.

[richard]

Mr,P.

I've now got a great collection of Asian and European movies thanks to Mr.P.

Not sure about kids stuff though

From my own experiences in Isaan and Zimbabwe I find kids love slapstick and facial humour rather than dialogue

[GLCQuantum]

From my own experiences in Isaan and Zimbabwe I find kids love slapstick and facial humour rather than dialogue

Very true Richard but it's not just Isaan... it's the whole of Thailand. This is why Mr Bean is extremely popular here (even used this character in my last school play - always gonna be a winner that one ). My Canadian and American friends think it's bloody stupid.

[zeitgeist]

watch online hi def streaming flash format at http://viooz.eu/

Thanks for the link Sandman, I was running out of movies/documentaries worth watching on Youtube (not a fan of downloading).
Lots of good movies on there, along with some not-so-good.

Last night watched The Warrior - really good fight movie (MMA not boxing) and I'm a fan of the Aussie actor in it.
Also watched Ip Man with the kids, they loved it, lots of slap stick moments in the fight scenes to keep them laughing.

Tonight I'm going to watch Millers Crossing, a great film I haven't seen for some time.

[richard]

WOOP WOOP WOOP

HANGOVER 2 is out and about in DVDRIP formats

Just watched it and it's even better than Hangover

Waiting for 3 now

[sandman67]

MrP (and all)

As True in HH shut down the hooky feed boys, and I resisted reverting back to their service as paying a stack for a mere handful of channels showing heavily edited SE Asian content versions of western shows is not my style, I shifted to watching most of my entertainment and education programs via streaming media. After the idiot MPAA shut down MegaUpload and the rest of the file hosters ran for cover streaming media use proliferated massively, so now it is my main source of all things televisual.

My three current fave sources are

http://viooz.eu/ - mainly movies (both old and new, western and foreign) with some documentaries

http://www.tubeplus.me/ - massive database of streaming media both films and TV

http://www.1channel.ch/ - even bigger database of movies and TV including historic series from way back, foreign films, foreign TV etc.

YouTube is also a great source - stick the name of what you are looking for in quotation marks - so "NAME" then use the search filter bar below to filter out stuff less than 20 mins long, and rank results by date/relevance etc. Use the minus (-) wildcard to remove unrelevant cack like game play walkthrough vids if you need to. So an example search would be "Mr Bean" -game -play -walkthrough.

Thai series and films are all over YouTube but you need to do the searches in Thai.

[richard]

The road to perdition

Excellent viewing and Hanks and Newman excel IMO. Daniel Craig makes an appearance too and he smiles!!

[sandman67]

Mr P (and everyone else as well)

In a post up there you asked about a good online source for Thai films, especially family type ones

http://viooz.eu/country/Thailand

and especially http://viooz.eu/movies/17227-phra-apai-mani-2003.html as I remember you really liked The Legend of Sudsakorn.

enjoy - some are adult biff bang and horror flicks but there are a good number of family flicks as well

[sandman67]

first of all let me say on behalf of beleaguered and buggered fellow Brits in the LOS

43 frickin baht to the pound???? WTFF???? Screw you little miss Poxin. Im staying in exile till your bankers (spelt with a w) screw their heads back on.

Anyway....normal service resumption. Reeeveiw time

AT THE GATE OF THE GHOST

a little Thai meets Japanese mashup as our little brown chums do a rework on the Kurosawa classic samurai whodunnit courtroom drama RASHOMON. Being Thai this has more of the shamanistic magicians and supernatural about it, and is very loosely "based on" rather than a scene for scene remake, but it is still great watching and in places lovely eye candy.

It is out and about on all sorts of usual suspect places to watch, as well as in lovely streaming format at my current fave entertainment source http://viooz.eu/

There are a scad of Thai flicks just been put up on Viooz so pay a visit and take a looksee...seems some Thai members have started to post stuff there. Here y go.... http://viooz.eu/country/Thailand

Fans of Chinese Wu Xia martial arts flicks are also headed for a snout down in the swill trough at the same site as there has been a spate of classic Chinese martial arts flicks a go go being posted - for example check out the "Actor" listing for my hero and king of the spear and staff stylee slicey dicey biff bop Mr Donnie "Iron Monkey/Ip Man" Yen... http://viooz.eu/cast/Donnie_Yen/. If you cant find something in that list you like then you are a much more picky eater than I old chum.

Anyway - enjoy the sun and warmth over there my chums....Im freezing my cobblers off here in Lancashire although Mums cooking has the pounds piling on and Im in toasted cheese and pickle butty heaven Also the £7 a pack fags have seen me successfully pack in smoking - hurrah!

I miss Hua Hin, the warmth, my cat, Amy, the bars, my mates......

Like Arnie though....I will be back!

[Khundon1975]

SM

Just tried Viooz, great site thanks.

"I miss Hua Hin, the warmth, my cat, Amy, the bars, my mates".


Don't worry, the cream always rises to the top and you will be back in HH very soon and your cat will have a field day with the cream.

[sandman67]

awww thanks mate good to know Im missed.

Nothing new to review despite dropping a couple of new flicks off the net - not got round to watching the new Arnie bangorama yet or the latest sci fi horror flick....later

Anyway, being back in Blighty does come with a few advantages, like the decent selection of clable channels care of Freeview, including Film 4 where I saw this gem last night

QUILLS

The mad, bad and dangerous to know Marquis De Sade is given a spot of THE MADNESS OF KING GEORGE semi-historical mostly fictionalized drama work over to tell a take of the corruption of power, religion, faith and character that comes with one man having power over another, be it access to and of the printed or written word, or physically over another mans wellbeing and mind.

It is the end of the 1700s, and in the aftermath of The Terror the Marquis De Sade is locked away in a madhouse, there to pen his perversions alone in his cell, smuggled out to his printer by a compliant maid. The latest novella causes outrage, and Napoleon dispatches his favorite quack to crack down on the Marquis and stop the flow of filth once and for all. But the quack is as sadistic, if not more, than the Marquis himself, and caught between them is the maid and her boss the idealistic Priest who runs the madhouse. When the Marquis resists the only way he can, by writing even more cuttingly, the situation spirals rapidly out of control.

Geoffrey Rush is outstanding as the Marquis, with excellent support from amongst others Michael Caine and Joaquin Phoenix. Although its non historical tosh in terms of hard facts, as an allegorical tale its outstanding, and a wonderful bit of eye and brain candy for any evening in, especially if like me you are a fan of period dramas.

Out and about in lovely DVDRIP all over the shop and at Viooz.



NB - Viooz has moved address - http://viooz.co/

[BaaBaa.]

From my own experiences in Isaan and Zimbabwe I find kids love slapstick and facial humour rather than dialogue

Very true Richard but it's not just Isaan... it's the whole of Thailand. This is why Mr Bean is extremely popular here (even used this character in my last school play - always gonna be a winner that one ). My Canadian and American friends think it's bloody stupid.

It surprises me that nobody has has ever bought "You've been framed" over to Thailand , really easy to dub + dogs falling off cliffs = winner.

Thais would sit and watch that for hours.

[sandman67]

something relatively new....out a few weeks and doing the rounds.

DARK SKIES

Unfortunately this dark flipside Close Encounters-esque sci fi flick offers nothing new in the way of story, but what it does offer is a bunch of creepy thrills by the bucket full. Its pretty much by the plot book stuff, but its done well and builds up the tension slowly, delivering a mild surprise punch at the end as well for good measure.

An all American family is having a rough time of the recession with mom and dad struggling to make ends meet in their suburban idyll. Just when it seems things are on the turn their home is subject to a weird break in, and their kitchen left a mess by the intruders. This they could shrug off, but as the nights go on things get slowly worse with initially innocent prankish stuff soon turning into more sinister attacks apparently focussed the toddler kid. He says he is being visited by The Sandman, but then one night mom runs into the visitor...and it is more Grey than Sandy. As the family struggle to protect themselves all hell breaks loose....

Not a bad watch at all, with a few good old jump out of your seat shocker shots and some nice slow burn creepyness. As I said, nothing new, but well put together all the same. Well worth a drop and watch.

Two cheers and a smiley for a good effort.....with ground this well trodden its hard to get three cheers. Not a keeper but definitely a watcher.

Out and about in DVDRIps at all the usual suspects.

[sandman67]

aaaaaaaaannnd another B movie filler

DEAD MINE

HBO Asia dip their toes into the survival horror genre with a particular Asian twist in this bug hunt slasher horror.

A group of treasure hunters working for a rich kid brat and his poobum girlfriend go walkabout in Indonesia bandit country looking for the fabled Yamashita's Gold - a stack of shiny stashed away by a rogue Japanese general at the end of WW2. When a run in with banditos forces them to seek shelter in an old mine that has been turned into a bunker by the Japanese, they get trapped in there and so have to go deeper to find their way out. This is bad for them, as it soon turns out that the bunker was used by an offshoot of Unit S731, and some of their experimental subjects are still on the loose.

Pretty standard by the numbers stuff all the way from the makeup of the party to the hidden reveal half way through, although using the mad and bad S731 lads as the backplot is a nice twist. Does what all these flicks does, albeit with a lot less splatter and gore than usual, but this is a HBO production.

Worth a watch but its nothing special. Two cheers - would have got just the one but Im impressed with the use of S731 and the radical zombie baddies are worth a cheer for extra effort. Otherwise its a stock drop watch and dump jobbie.

Out and about at all the usual suspects in DVDRIP

[richard]

Dead Mine. It reminded me of Outpost and I thoroughly enjoyed the suspence

Into Redford, Newman and McQueen oldies at the moment. so after a revisit of Cincinnati Kid enjoying the battle between Edward G R and S Mc I watched Spy Game. Stars Redford and Pitt in an intriguing plot involving the CIA (of course the bad guys) and operations in China with a few flash backs to Vietnam, Beirut and the Berlin wall. Good action stuff with superb performances from Redford and Pitt.

Next up was a newbie. Side Effects Wonderful plot involving insider trading and Pharmaceuticals and well played by Jude.

SM will be able to give you a more eloquent critique