The Recommended Movies Thread

[pharvey]

Thanks guys - downloading fine now

[pharvey]

Ip Man III........

[pharvey]

For fans of Ip Man's Donnie Yen, there's Dragon Tiger Gate (Long Hu Men) - 2006 movie, so it's certainly out doing the rounds! I only got to watch it recently, but absolutely loved it! Superb fight choreography - good copies available in Chinese with English subs and also dubbed versions at veehd.com if you're that way inclined.

[sandman67]

Ok, a couple of weekend treats in the goody bag

First up the prequel that is THE THING

Surprisngly for Hollydud they have actually managed to do this prequel well, and despite the fact that things have moved on since the days of Rob Bottins landmark setting special effects, and now use CGI instead, t retains all the snowbound paranoia and glooshy alien nastyness of the original md 80s splatterfest.

The prequel sets up the story from the start of the 80s one where two mad Norwegians n a helecopter are chasing the dog that isnt a dog across the icy waste. A team of Norwegian and Englsh Antarctc scientists come across a flying saucer that crashed into a glacier thousands of years ago, and also come across its pilot frozen into a bloack of ice. When the scientists take the body back to base they forget to keep it frozen, and so the shape changing alien that isnt actually dead comes back to life, and one by one infects and clones the scientists, with the rest of the crew trying desparately to find the clones before it gets out.

As I said its done well and covers all the hooks into the earlier 80s film nicely. ts strongly recommended if you liked that one, and well worth a drop and watch.

Its a three cheers keeper, which for a Hollydud revist is a rarity indeed.

Out and about at all the usual places in R5 DVDRIP format.





Then there is the comedy thriller SALVATION BOULEVARD to look out for.

Pierce Brosnan plays a permatanned piano smiled US evangelcal preacher and mega church pastor who has big plans to build an evangelical community on a hill, so guaranteeing his income and secretly perverted lifestyle. When a member of his flock sees hm accidentally shoot an atheist proffessor after a debate, he shoves the blame onto the poor shmo.....and off starts a chase from hell. Poor Carl is on the run from the pastors insane god botherer flock, the police, and just about everyone else with only a fellow ex-Deadhead for a friend.

Rips heavly and cleverly on the rock n roll heresy madness of evangelicalism and TV Pastors, and is full of wry laughs and spills.

A defnite three cheers keeper.

Again out and about in all the usual places in DVDRIP format

[sandman67]

One of the things the BBC and Channel 4 in the UK do so well is make drama films about the rise of German facism and the terrible machinery behnd it. GOD ON TRIAL and CONSPIRACY are two standout dramas, both based on historical fact and transcripts. Now there is a third to add to the list - THE MAN WHO CROSSED HITLER.

Set in 1931 and based on factual documents it covers the trial of the two SA Brownshirts who broke into a German socialist cinema and murdered 5 of the audience members. Berlin is in the throes of political turmoil, the Reichstag has been suspended and gangs of Nazi thugs stalk the streets. The young idealistic Jewish publc prosecutor Hans Litten sees an opportunity to use the trial to convict the Nazi party as a whole, and hopefull put a stop to their rise to power. To do this he has to do the unthnkable....do a deal with the devil and use the testmony of a disaffected SA commander to issue a summons that puts Hitler himself in the dock. One he has him there he then has to swing the trial to focus not on the two offenders but the leader of the party and the evil that he promotes....knowng all the time that this is a life and death struggle, and that if he fails it will be his neck on the chopping block.

Despite having a very obvious outcome it is compelling courtroom drama, all the more poigniant as it is based on the tue life transcripts of the court and memiors of those involved. Superbly acted, wonderfully scripted and framed it is pure BBC quality from start to end. It stands as a testament, as do the other two films I named above, that education and entertanment can happily and sucessfully go hand in hand. Highly recommended.

Out in DVDRIP online and at veehd.com

A three cheers keeper all the way....well done Aunty Beeb!



heres a little taster

[sateeb]

Thanks for the heads up on The Man Who Crossed Hitler.....looks good.

If you looking for side splitting unintentional comedy check out Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura,a definite keeper for the Nidster and Plumster.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1572498/

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5957553 ... son_1__EoD

[sandman67]

Remakes usually suck, so when they remake a classic 80s cheezfest vampre flick like FRIGHT NIGHT it surely must be a recipie for disaster right? Nope....tis a weekend of surprises, and the only bits of FRIGHT NIGHT that do any sucking are the nightstalkers.

They have updated it a lot, and t has in the process lost all that lovely processed cheezyness, but it still works. It has a lot less sly humor, but what it does have is a corking good vampire thrller flick feel and compared to the last dose of 30 DAYS is a breath of fresh air.

Charlie and his mom live in the Vegas suburbs where the populaton is mostly transient night workers for the casinos, so his evasive nocturnal next door neighbour fits right in, despite actually being a 400 year old master vampire. Trouble is families and night workers from the estate are going missing, and nobody seems to know why. When Ed, Charlies mate, works out that his neighbour is a bloodsucker old red eyes gets hm, and so its down to Charlie, with the help of a drunken Vegas show magician come vampire killer, to get the bad guy and save the lasses.

Colin McFarrell is excellently menacing as the bloodsucker, and David Tennant plays the drunken magician to a tee, for a change managing to get through the whole film wthout gurning and hamming it up like he does on whatever TV show features him. The cast works well, and its all done with a whiff of fun thrown in. I did miss that 80s cheeze, but you cant have everything eh?

Its still a pleasant lightweight bit of sanguine splattered eye bubblegum, and well worth checking out.

A three cheers and nip on the neck keeper.

Out at all the usual suspects in lovely crisp DVDRIP format.

[sandman67]

Sateeb

cant watch stuff like Zetgeist and other CT quackery....they just make me want to spit blood they are so f ing stupiid. Jesse Ventura is an ex wrestler...anyone who takes anything he says seriously is surely mental ALL religions and ALL conspracy theories are to me "Swords In A Field". Here is what I mean....to the religious and the CT nuts Im that bloke in black



Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence....else they are but swords in fields.

Mate if you like the Hitler film check out these two:

CONSPIRACY

Thats the full film in 380p rez - or you can download a HD copy from http://stagevu.com/video/foflnzgqlcqf (right click the black download button and save as)

and GOD ON TRIAL

The whole film is compelling watchng and highly recc it - again a hi rez copy ca be downloaded at http://stagevu.com/video/mzexredlfqwp ...its not easy watching though....proper grim but the acting and scriptng is incredibly good.

[sateeb]

SM...Saw Conspiracy a few years ago and thoroughly enjoyed it..might even watch it again,I'm going through a bit of a retro period at the moment,watching stuff like Sledge Hammer,Barney miller,Soap and WKRP in Cincinatti..a bit dated but still funny.

Jesse Ventura..what sort of a name is that?...sounds like some 70's pornstar..Manna from heaven for the gullible s......

[Homer]

The prequel sets up the story from the start of the 80s one where two mad Norwegians n a helecopter are chasing the dog that isnt a dog across the icy waste. A team of Norwegian and Englsh Antarctc scientists come across a flying saucer that crashed into a glacier thousands of years ago, and also come across its pilot frozen into a bloack of ice. When the scientists take the body back to base they forget to keep it frozen, and so the shape changing alien that isnt actually dead comes back to life, and one by one infects and clones the scientists, with the rest of the crew trying desparately to find the clones before it gets out.

It's been a while, but that sounds exactly like the plot of the 1951 'The Thing From Another World'. Which means the 1982 'The Thing' was a sequel. Which means the 2011 film covers the same store line as the 1951 film. Does that make the 2011 film a prequel, remake or both? Yes, that's a rhetorical question.

[hhfarang]

I don't know if you can find this on DVD, but you should be able to download it as StarMovies is playing it currently.

If you're a fan of Mel Brooks movies i.e., Blazing Saddles, Monty Python movies i.e., In Search of the Holy Grail, or the Zucker brothers movies, i.e., Airplane (in other words you've got a really sick sense of humor), or if you've got an extra doob laying around, you will enjoy this movie:

Vampires Suck

It's a spoof on all the vampire and werewolf crap that is on TV and in the movies lately (like True Blood). It's hilarious if you are in the correct frame of mind.

[sandman67]

Quick n dirty on a flick that has been doing the online rounds for a week or so now

IMMORTALS

Basically this a Hollywood fantasy epic based very loosely (and I cant emphasise that enough...they just use the names and make a whole new mythology up) on the Theseus character from Greek mythology and do a 300 on it.

Theseus grows up in a humble little village the son of a low caste fisherman who just happens to be Zeus in disguse. When the evil tyrant Hyperion trys to gain control of the ultimate weapon - a prison box full of the big bad Titans hidden under a mountain - its down to Theseus (with help from the gods and a whacking great bow and arrow kit) to put a stop to his madness.

Its done in the hyper-real lush CGI visuals comic book "manimation" style of 300 and is a corker, even if its bears as much resemblance to the real Greek mythology as a McDonalds Big Mac. Fans of 300 and CLASH OF THE TITANS will love it....swords n sandals epic stuff.

Now here is the bad stuff:

The copies that are doing the rounds are either really bad CAM copies, or a shabby DVDSCR copies that have been taken from a Chinese source disk. The DVDSCR is just about watchable, but really messes up the visuals, which are a major part of the film. Oh...and parts of it are spoken in classical Greek so the subtitles in Chinese are sod all use and you cant understand what the hell is going on.

My advice.....wait till a proper DVDRIP comes out n a few weeks or you will loose out on the fun and feel. Downloadng it now is a bit pointless and I binned my copy after watching it.

Otherwse its a salmon leap swordthrust n trident in your visor solid gold keeper.

[richard]

HELP

I've lost some movies after I cocked up a backup

One in particular I wanted as a keeper. Can't remember the title or the stars but the plot essentially is about a guy going to a conference in Berlin and having a crash and losing his wife and a very interesting intrigue unfolds

SM you will know for sure

[Pagey]

Richard : I cannot remember movie titles also but the guy leaves his briefcase at the airport and crashes when he goes to retrieve it as he is the speaker at a conference...........I think ! If that helps

[richard]

Thats the one

It's identity or unknown