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That one picture of the new Judge Dredd movie wasn't enough for me to dismiss it as being a bad movie. It might be good.

Also I've heard about the new Ace Ventura for almost a year now, but didn't think it was worth even posting about, though I'm happy to hear it's a straight to DVD release.
 
Deci said:
That one picture of the new Judge Dredd movie wasn't enough for me to dismiss it as being a bad movie. It might be good.

I heard about that as well that DNA films & 2000AD were planning a Dredd remake, I'm definetly geared for that. Now some people might judge me for saying this but I did think that the Stallone Dredd was okay, but it just lacked most of what the comic stood for. Hopefully in the remake Dredd wont ever remove his helmet.

Also the Japanese trailer for Watchmen is pretty sweet. Although I hope it wont bomb at the box office.
 

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Skullgrin140 said:
Now some people might judge me for saying this but I did think that the Stallone Dredd was okay, but it just lacked most of what the comic stood for. Hopefully in the remake Dredd wont ever remove his helmet.

I more or less agree: the Stallone movie has its moments, though I don't find it very good overall. Its biggest failure is that it really isn't faithful to the comic book.
 
This is about Watchmen so I felt it would be appropriate here.
http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/2008-12-6-motion-captured/posts/2009-1-8-an-open-letter-from-watchmen-producers
 
Any Gaspar Noé fans here? He's the genius behind such extremities as I Stand Alone and the most intense film I've personally ever seen, Irréversible. This guy is one of the best "newer" writer/directors out there, his work is extremely powerful and although relentlessly gruesome, it's also very emotional. His new film, Enter the Void, is the film I'm most anticipating this year. After Irréversible, I expect another mind-blowing experience, perhaps one to even surpass his previous work.

Here's the synopsis:

ENTER THE VOID is a film that adopts the subjective point of view of the main character, Oscar, through a series of events preceding and following his death.

This film is inspired in part by the accounts of people who have had near death experiences and part by the Tibetan Book of the Dead.

The setting is Tokyo Japan therefore adding emphasise on the fragility of orphaned brother and sister's relationship by propelling them in a different part of the word. A world filled with fluorescent colours, neons, technology, distortion and chaos.

This is a melodrama: The universal one of a young man who, after the brutal death of his parents, promises that he will protect his sister no matter what, and sensing that he himself is dying, fights desperately to keep his promise. A film where the life of one person's is linked to the love which he has for another human being.

During a drug deal, our hero Oscar is set-up and betrayed by his envious friend Victor to the Police. Oscar tries to escape by running and hiding in the men's washroom of a bar where he is shot by the Japanese Police. Through the last moments of his life we see him leave his body and oversee all of the action happening simultaneously in the lives of his beloved sister Linda and his friends.
We see Oscar's life in his normal state of awareness and in his altered states: The state of alertness, the uninterrupted through procedure, memories, dreams, flashbacks, visions, hallucinations and mindsets.
A film where love, family, tragedy, drama, drugs, sex, death and reincarnation, all co-exist.

http://www.letempsdetruittout.net/gasparnoe/index.asp?v=366
 

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Any Gaspar Noé fans here? He's the genius behind such extremities as I Stand Alone and the most intense film I've personally ever seen, Irréversible. This guy is one of the best "newer" writer/directors out there, his work is extremely powerful and although relentlessly gruesome, it's also very emotional. His new film, Enter the Void, is the film I'm most anticipating this year. After Irréversible, I expect another mind-blowing experience, perhaps one to even surpass his previous work.

huge fan here. I have both films on dvd. Irreversible is by far the most disturbing movie I have ever seen. Very brilliant filmmaking. Check out the intro on youtube. Best opening credits ever. Thank you for the update Aufond. I had forgotton about Enter the Void. Cant wait.
 

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Oburi said:
huge fan here. I have both films on dvd. Irreversible is by far the most disturbing movie I have ever seen. Very brilliant filmmaking. Check out the intro on youtube. Best opening credits ever. Thank you for the update Aufond. I had forgotton about Enter the Void. Cant wait.

I am quite fond of his work too.
I don't think Irreversible is disturbing at all, nor the violence exploitive, it's just a different kind of love story, a very beautiful one i must say.
As for Seul Contre Tout (I Stand Alone), now that's a sickening movie. It's so nihilistic and suffocating, the whole narration was really making me feel nauseous. I loved the film, but i probably don't want to see it again any time soon. It's so relentless in it's social brutality and themes. It made me feel empty and depressed. It accomplished it's purpose on me, the viewer.
I heard years ago that he was developing new and difficult camera angles (like the opening of Irreversible) for his new movie, and that it would take 2 years to shoot. So i can't wait to sit in the theatre and contemplate another piece of art made by this brilliant director.
 
Oburi said:
Check out the intro on youtube. Best opening credits ever.

NO! Don't check the intro if you haven't seen the film, the intro is the ending. the film unfolds through reverse chronology, just like that backwards episode of Seinfeld.

NightCrawler said:
I don't think Irreversible is disturbing at all, nor the violence exploitive, it's just a different kind of love story, a very beautiful one i must say.
As for Seul Contre Tout (I Stand Alone), now that's a sickening movie. It's so nihilistic and suffocating, the whole narration was really making me feel nauseous. I loved the film, but i probably don't want to see it again any time soon. It's so relentless in it's social brutality and themes. It made me feel empty and depressed. It accomplished it's purpose on me, the viewer.
I heard years ago that he was developing new and difficult camera angles (like the opening of Irreversible) for his new movie, and that it would take 2 years to shoot. So i can't wait to sit in the theatre and contemplate another piece of art made by this brilliant director.

I Stand Alone has some of the worst scenarios imaginable, and definitely one of cruelest anti-hero's. But it is also a different kind of love story, between a man and his daughter. Irréversible on the other hand just plunges you right into hell. It makes your head feel like it's spinning with it's shaky-camera direction, and you feel so freaked out to be thrown into this fucked up situation you know nothing about, in such a terrible place, surrounded by freaks. Then you have those low frequency sounds, that have been proved to induce feelings of nausea and fear. It freaked me out to the core the first time I saw it. But then as the movie unfolds, the preceding events become so much more heartbreaking when you know their inevitable future. It's an amazing experience, and one that shouldn't be missed by those who can handle very graphic and disturbing things. (BERSERK fans should be fine)

But I digress, Enter the Void will be out of this world if it supposedly goes beyond Irréversible.
 
Irreversible fucked me up. I haven't even attempted I Stand Alone, though I may soon.

I recently saw Synecdoche, New York. I'm not really sure what to say about it. As expected, it's incredibly bizarre, and the humor is so dark that one really doesn't know when to laugh or when to cry. The characters do, however; they cry A LOT. Almost too much. There's such a focus on death in this film, that it almost gets to be too much. I didn't find it incredibly depressing, by any means, just that it - not quite sure how to put this - it's almost overbearing? Annoying? Maybe?
Overall, I enjoyed the movie, and at points I was the only person laughing in the theater. There are some incredibly beautiful moments in the film and I feel it's definitely worth checking out.
It can be confusing if you try to keep up a chronology of events or any sort of analysis of what's going on, so I suggest you should just let it wash over you. Let things unfold as they unfold and if they don't quite make sense (which they probably won't), just let it go.

I'm going to see this again sometime this week, so I may have more to say, or a better way of putting it later.
 

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Aazealh said:
It's "Seul Contre Tous". Literally "alone against everyone".

Tout means everything right?

aufond said:
NO! Don't check the intro if you haven't seen the film, the intro is the ending. the film unfolds through reverse chronology, just like that backwards episode of Seinfeld.

I Stand Alone has some of the worst scenarios imaginable, and definitely one of cruelest anti-hero's. But it is also a different kind of love story, between a man and his daughter. Irréversible on the other hand just plunges you right into hell. It makes your head feel like it's spinning with it's shaky-camera direction, and you feel so freaked out to be thrown into this fucked up situation you know nothing about, in such a terrible place, surrounded by freaks. Then you have those low frequency sounds, that have been proved to induce feelings of nausea and fear. It freaked me out to the core the first time I saw it. But then as the movie unfolds, the preceding events become so much more heartbreaking when you know their inevitable future. It's an amazing experience, and one that shouldn't be missed by those who can handle very graphic and disturbing things. (BERSERK fans should be fine)

But I digress, Enter the Void will be out of this world if it supposedly goes beyond Irréversible.

You can watch the opening, it's not gonna ruin the movie at all!
As for Seul Contre Tous being about love between a man and his daughter,
well i think you might be a little fucked up if you think that's love. It's far more disturbing than Irreversible, specially when that big WARNING countdown comes on screen. I remember seeing that on a big theatre and being absolutely stunned and on the edge of my seat. Really ingenious stuff.

The Perineum Falcon said:
Irreversible fucked me up. I haven't even attempted I Stand Alone, though I may soon.

Watch it. I'm curious to know how you'll feel about it.

Can't wait to see Synecdoche, New York too.
 
I just searched and I didn't find anything about it here. I was pretty certain I had posted this before (or someone else) but I guess not.
Karate kid remake, starring Jaden Smith ( Will Smith's son) apparently Jackie Chan is interested in playing Mr.Miyagi.
http://omg.yahoo.com/news/jackie-chan-in-talks-for-karate-kid-remake/17650

I love some of Jackie's films but I don't know what to make of this. I was never a karate kid fan in the first place. And a remake ?

Now for something that might actually interest one or two people,
Fast and the Furious Trailer is out:
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809989992/video/11537903

My first thoughts were "Wtf is this, Fast and the Furious: now on foot?" The rest of the trailer was okay. I saw it without sound so I can't really judge it overall. The flaming semi at the end killed it for me.

Of interest to me was this bit of news:
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=51930
Will Smith?
 
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Ramen4ever said:
I just searched and I didn't find anything about it here. I was pretty certain I had posted this before (or someone else) but I guess not.
Karate kid remake, starring Jaden Smith ( Will Smith's son) apparently Jackie Chan is interested in playing Mr.Miyagi.
http://omg.yahoo.com/news/jackie-chan-in-talks-for-karate-kid-remake/17650

Jackie Chan reaches a new low. You can't replace Mr. Miyagi.
 

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Ramen4ever said:
Fast and the Furious Trailer is out:
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809989992/video/11537903

Oh god, it's even worse than I thought. I remember seeing either a preview or some leaked footage of a bunch of guys trying to steal a fuel tanker earlier back that was hilariously awful- but this new trailer is just awful. As far as I'm concerned, the only one worth seeing is Tokyo Drift, and thats only if you have a bunch of friends to laugh at it with you.
 
Prequel? to The Thing.
http://www.darkhorizons.com/news09/090116c.php
http://www.moviesonline.ca/movienews_9871.html

FUCK!!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0488982/

EDIT***
It's finally here. The site for Watchmen. I know a lot of people think it's utter crap but for the members that do intend on wathing this movie, the site is pretty interesting.
http://watchmenmovie.warnerbros.com/

Umm it's pretty loud. just a heads up
 

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Ramen4ever said:
Prequel? to The Thing.
http://www.darkhorizons.com/news09/090116c.php
http://www.moviesonline.ca/movienews_9871.html

Pathetic. Might as well just play Dead Space and call it The Thing's sequel.

Ramen4ever said:
FUCK!!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0488982/

Old news, still depressing.

Ramen4ever said:
It's finally here. The site for Watchmen. I know a lot of people think it's utter crap but for the members that do intend on wathing this movie, the site is pretty interesting.
http://watchmenmovie.warnerbros.com/

Still can't believe how sinister Ozy looks. Really ruins the character.
 

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NightCrawler said:
I can't stand Rorschach's voice.
Ditto, I don't even think it matches the way his voice is described in the graphic novel. It's not monotone enough. He's still emphasizing words and delivering the lines dramatically.
 

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Walter said:
Ditto, I don't even think it matches the way his voice is described in the graphic novel. It's not monotone enough. He's still emphasizing words and delivering the lines dramatically.

Exactly, i was expecting something more "robotic".

I must say, i'm loving the music though.
 

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Walter said:
Ditto, I don't even think it matches the way his voice is described in the graphic novel. It's not monotone enough. He's still emphasizing words and delivering the lines dramatically.

Yeah, it's like he's trying to sound tough, which is really not what the character is about.
 
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