The Recommended Movies Thread

[Big Boy]

had a watch of Olympus has Fallen, great way to spend a couple of hours. Action packed , reminders of die hard all the way

Yes, we watched that last night. Very similar story line to the original Die Hard, and the mandatory tear (not) when they raised the stars & stripes on a demolished White House at the end.

[dtaai-maai]

Yes, good action, but very heavy on the corn. And Butler really can't lose that Scottish accent! (and he doesn't get away with it as well as Connery...)

[Homer]

Sharknado

A ridiculous bit of delightful absurdity. One reviewer summed it up: Really, it’s a deceptively tough feat that the makers of Sharknado pulled off: making a movie that’s shlockily and campily hilarious without seeming to try too hard to make something shlockily and campily hilarious.

Plot: A hurricane and tornadoes pick up sharks - lots of sharks - and hurls them around Southern California. The sharks arrive hungry. The day is saved after the plucky cast does things that don't seem absurd after you've seen it raining sharks and water not flowing downhill. Or 6 different beaches used for one surfing scene. Or people being soaking wet one minute and dry the next. Or intentional continuity errors in almost every scene.

But it works. Tongue in cheek but not ironic or smirking. They play it straight, even the ones who can't act very well. Needless to say it's low budget. You can see every dollar they didn't spend.

The film caused quite a social media sensation before all anyone had seen was the trailer. Oodles of publicity. Some organizations seemly took delight by responding in the same tone as the movie. For example, 2 days after the film debuted a staid, old school consumer watchdog organization that has never accepted a penny in advertising or sponsorship money ran a straight news article advising how different types of insurance policies would handle the various aspects of a Sharknado.
http://news.consumerreports.org/money/2 ... knado.html

Find it on this torrent search site: http://torrentz.eu/search?f=sharknado

[buksida]

Three I've seen this week ...

The Croods
Pixar animation about a family of cavemen (and women) making a journey to escape the continental shift. Absolutely fantastic entertainment for kids and parents alike.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0481499/

Despicable Me
Animation (yes, I do like these), an evil villain uses three orphaned girls, and a bunch of little yellow blobs, to execute his plot. Great fun, had the kids rolling about with laughter. Number 2 is showing in the cinema at the moment.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1323594/

Dead Man Down
Colin Farrell plays a man hellbent on revenge in gangland NYC - he didn't bet on a relationship with a woman in a neighbouring block also with revenge on her mind. A bit cliche at the end but a good way to kill two hours.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2101341/

All available in cripsy DVD rips.

[Ginjaninja]

Sharknado

A ridiculous bit of delightful absurdity. One reviewer summed it up: Really, it’s a deceptively tough feat that the makers of Sharknado pulled off: making a movie that’s shlockily and campily hilarious without seeming to try too hard to make something shlockily and campily hilarious.

Plot: A hurricane and tornadoes pick up sharks - lots of sharks - and hurls them around Southern California. The sharks arrive hungry. The day is saved after the plucky cast does things that don't seem absurd after you've seen it raining sharks and water not flowing downhill. Or 6 different beaches used for one surfing scene. Or people being soaking wet one minute and dry the next. Or intentional continuity errors in almost every scene.

But it works. Tongue in cheek but not ironic or smirking. They play it straight, even the ones who can't act very well. Needless to say it's low budget. You can see every dollar they didn't spend.

The film caused quite a social media sensation before all anyone had seen was the trailer. Oodles of publicity. Some organizations seemly took delight by responding in the same tone as the movie. For example, 2 days after the film debuted a staid, old school consumer watchdog organization that has never accepted a penny in advertising or sponsorship money ran a straight news article advising how different types of insurance policies would handle the various aspects of a Sharknado.
http://news.consumerreports.org/money/2 ... knado.html

Find it on this torrent search site: http://torrentz.eu/search?f=sharknado

Do not waste your bandwidth downloading this absolute crap film. I preserved for a whopping 15minutes and that I regret....
If you don't trust me then please check it out on Viooz before hand.

GN.

[Big Boy]

Too late

[Homer]

... making a movie that’s shlockily and campily hilarious ...

Do not waste your bandwidth downloading this absolute crap film. I preserved for a whopping 15minutes and that I regret....
If you don't trust me then please check it out on Viooz before hand.

GN.

15 minutes? Arrgh. It doesn't start to build momentum until the sharks attack inside the bar. That's about 20 minutes in.

Of course it's crap, don't you know what schlock means? What sets it apart is it's the best damn campy* version of the schlock film genre in many years.

* camp noun
2 a : something so outrageously artificial, affected, inappropriate, or out-of-date as to be considered amusing

[Ginjaninja]

Ok so I lasted 20 minutes Homer and when the shark flopped into the bar I had to turn it off.
Each to his own and all that but I just thought it was pure pish!
GN.

[richard]

Well I'm a Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarrantino fan. Think I've got most of their stuff and stuff they've been remotely involved in. I find them so entertaining

So a re-watch of 'FROM DUSK UNTIL DAWN' (1996) was on for the other night and it's got it all. Humour, violence, horror and in this film some religion

George Clooney, Quentin Tarrintino, Harvey Kietel and Danny Trejo play good parts. For once Tarrantinos acting is OK but there again he is playing a Psychopathic rapist and killer and looks the part anyway

Enjoy if you haven't already. My third time of watching

[sandman67]

Sandomatic 2000 Early Warning System is going wooooop woooop

The Tom Cruise after the downfall of Earth spectacular OBLIVION is out in DVDRIP formats all over the shop including in normal rez at Viooz.

Looks good - review to follow

Get at it

[Homer]

RED

The next evolutionary step in action films? In the Stallone / Schwarzeneger era, man-mountains who couldn't act played cartoon characters in a cartoon plot. Humor was one liners that either fell flat or got groans, unless one hadn't finished high school. Action films made so much money Hollywood branched out into actors who could and did act - playing cartoon characters in a cartoon plot, Humor , etc. Then superheros relegated action movies to low budgets and straight to DVD releases.

Then came RED. Actors who can act (Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren, John Malkovich) and some who usually play the same character (Bruce Willis, Mary-Louise Parker) play overly cartoon characters in an over the top cartoon plot - with unexpected wit and black humor. This film is so finely crafted it would surprise me if the usual action film audience knew or cared it was a loving send up of action films.

Plot: retired US black ops members are being murdered. A reporter found out what really happened in a Guatemala operation so everyone invovled has to be eliminated or a very powerful man will be pulled off his pedestal. Bruce Willis is chased as he recruits other black ops / CIA / Russian / MI-6 types he knows from the old days who join in because they need some fun. Ambushes, break-ins, high tech hacks and all the requisite set pieces of an action film ensue until good triumphs over evil.

Some critics said it was entertaining start to finish. Others said it wasn't funny enough or it should have been ridiculously over the top so the entire audience got it. I think the director and screenwriter hit their target. Some of the fun watching films like this in a theater is the out loud complaining from action film fans who think they're watching a straight action film.

Torrents: http://torrentz.eu/search?f=red+2010+movie

[sandman67]

Two new uns from the download chest

THE COLONY

Samuel Jackson and Bill Pullman star in this post eco-apocalypse survival thriller chiller....with the emphasis on chill.

Climate change on a catastrophic level results in a new ice age, and as civilization collapses what is left of the dwindling population retreats beneath the surface into military bunkers and seed bank research stations where they eke out an ever more desperate living. Colony 3 looses radio contact one by one with its sister colonies, and when Colony 5 goes off line 3 send out a party of explorers to find out what is going on. When they arrive it is to find the colony in ruins, and what is lurking in the ruins is much more deadly than any cold or food shortage.

Pretty much a by the numbers survivial horror thriller chiller with some excellent chase and fight scenes, and it does what it says on the tin very well - its just its nothing new or innovative with the genre, and sticks to the stock formula and plot arcs seen time and again. Shame as otherwise its a cool flick.

Two cheers - would be a three easily if they had just tried a bit harder to be different and come up with something new. A definite keeper though.



Which can not be said for

FRANKENSTEIN'S ARMY

A Russian recon team leading the advance into Germany stumbles across a hidden research station and its surprise contents - an army of man machine monstrosities care of a descendent of the good Dr Franky.

really this had a great start - cool concept, and pretty cool design - sort of steampunk meets Nazi meets mad scientist - and having it a Russian team is a nice twist, as well as a tasty little plot twist half way in.

But

Oh boy is the camera work annoying - sort of Blair Witch meets Doom-esque horror shoot em up game. And some of the budget should really have been spent on a bit better script.

Sad as yet again its a great opportunity missed.

Not a keeper, and only gets one lonely cheer



Both out in DVDRIPs at the usual suspects including Viooz.

Nitey nite chums

[Ginjaninja]

Samuel Jackson and Bill Pullman star in this post eco-apocalypse survival thriller chiller....with the emphasis on chill.

Testing us Sandman or you been smoking something you should be sharing?
GN.

[sandman67]

Yeah.... my bad. I always get Bill PAXTON's name mixed up with Pullman.

derpy derpy derp



anyways, while Im here chums and chumettes

If you haven't ever checked out Viooz (the streaming media site at www.viooz.co ) you are seriously missing out. There has been a stack of excellent stuff uploaded recently both new and old / classic so get your cine goggles on and take a wander over.

beats the crapfest on the goggle box

[Ginjaninja]

And S.L.J?

Anyway I think you mean Lawrence Fishburne...