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I liked the first Silent Hill. It was a faithful translation and one of the few video games to make it properly into a movie. And, come on, Sean Bean is in there. There's no way it'll be bad.

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Actually, it occurs to me now that I've been watching Gravity Falls on the Disney channel. I meant I haven't seen anything live action in months. It's very good. Well-written, beautifully animated, consistent, full of easter eggs, and very much worth all the love it gets. Watch it.

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A while back, someone mentioned JCVD, which I had never heard of at the time. It stuck in the back of my head for a while and I finally went ahead and saw it. Words I never thought I'd utter, but Jean Claude Van Damme showed off some pretty strong acting. I really enjoyed it! Recommended!

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I really, really liked the asshole Spiderman in the Spiderman reboot, but I liked almost nothing else about it.

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Excision

Holly fucking *********! This movie is really distrubing. I had no issues with gore movies like Saw, Human Centipede, any of the "video nasties". But this movie,... damn...

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What an absolutely fantastic pair of episodes Silence In The Library and Forest Of The Dead Are.

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ROOM 237 is UTTER SHITE.

I'm not usually someone who hates films, and to be honest, I don't really hate this one, but do think the entire film was a complete waste of time.

If you fancy listening to lunatics for 90 minutes, then by all means, go see it. Otherwise this film has nothing to offer.

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This new, and slightly awesome, cinema opened-up locally, and it's been playing classic double bill films. Last week, for example, they playedGoodfellas and Raging Bull, and followed that up with Taxi Driver and Casino.

Yesterday, they played The Exorcist and Psycho. Today, an event which I somehow missed, was a double billing of the original Halloween and thenThe Shining.

Well.

Tomorrow they're playing [Rec] and the Japanese version of The Ring, and I am so going.

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Jesus, where is this movie theater and is that place HERE IN COPENHAGEN, DENMARK?

I want to see all the Back to the Future films back-to-back in the theatre.. :sad:

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Just saw the remake of Total Recall

Ignoring the original, the movie is quite ok. But I really dislike those camera lens effects they started using since the Star Trek remake. Its really terrible in this movie, in dim light rooms there's suddenly a huge flare, doesn't make sense. The new Blade Runner/iRobot/Minority Report -esque world is great though. But the new Rekall building is shit, it's more like a drug den than a high tech company. Houser/Quids's wife is dumb. Why would they put a lieutenant in the role of a babysitter. Quaid is also flawed, in the beginning he takes out 10+ heavily armed soldiers, but near the end he's more or less beaten to shit by Heisenberg. The new plot doesn't make sense either. Walter White what's to clean one half the the earth to build new apartments? They are able to built an elevator that goes through the center of the earth, but they lack the technology to clean up the scorched earth? The plot for the original was much better, with mars colonization and the control of oxygen. Despite there not being a Mars in the new movie, and mutants, and etc, the new script follows the a lot of the original.

Never read the book, does anyone which movie is more true to the book?

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I thought Total Recall was really fun, but that's all I really went there to see. I never expected more than "fun". I don't really understand why the plot in what is obviously a dumb action movie really matters. U: U: U:

I've never seen the original, and to be honest, have almost zero interest in anything starring Arnold.

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Never read the book, does anyone which movie is more true to the book?

The "book" is a short story where practically nothing happens. I know the first film has next to nothing linking it. I presume it's the same with the second.

I thought Total Recall was really fun, but that's all I really went there to see. I never expected more than "fun". I don't really understand why the plot in what is obviously a dumb action movie really matters. U: U: U:

I've never seen the original, and to be honest, have almost zero interest in anything starring Arnold.

Whaaaaaaa???

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The "book" is a short story where practically nothing happens. I know the first film has next to nothing linking it. I presume it's the same with the second.

They didn't even go to Mars in the short story?

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They didn't even go to Mars in the short story?

Can't remember whether he went to Mars within the bounds of the story, but the whole "we tried to put memories of you being a cool guy on Mars in but you already had memories of being a cool guy on Mars!" thing was in the original. So Mars was involved at some point before the narrative began, at least.

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No, iirc Mars wasn't anywhere in the original short story. It's a pretty hilarious story about

a guy who goes to Rekall and something fucks up because he has this massively egotistical delusion that he's been contacted by aliens and had info stored in his head that if destroyed will mean the destruction of the planet, and that he is therefore pretty much the most important man on the planet. Then the aliens show up and it's all true and everyone is all like "Whaaaaa?"

So the first film has pretty much nothing in common with it after the initial "tried to get a fake memory implant, couldn't because some shit was already there" set-up. Anything the 2012 film has in common with the first apart from that is all from the Arnie flick, basically.

Twig, you're missing out on a few great Arnie films: Terminator, Predator, Total Recall, True Lies. Perhaps a few other good ones, too. They're not great because of Arnie, but they happen to have him in them and use him in an effective way. He's a little wonky in True Lies, but the film constantly surrounds him with lots of good stuff so it gets away with it. Also, Temple Of Doom is the third best Indy film.

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Twig, you're missing out on a few great Arnie films: Terminator, Predator, Total Recall, True Lies.

You forgot Kindergarten Cop and Jingle All the Way.

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I started watching Terminator and found it boring, but, to be fair, that's probably the best role for him, since he always acts like a robot!

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I love the original Conan the Barbarian film. It is nothing short of amazing, Arnold is great in it, everything rocks.

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I started watching Terminator and found it boring, but, to be fair, that's probably the best role for him, since he always acts like a robot!

Slog through terminator, to get to terminator 2. Or just watch terminator 2, probably doesn't matter that much

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Watch Terminator 2 to get to Terminator 3. That's where the real magic happens. There's a Terminatrix.

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T2 > T1 > T3

We don't talk about T4. (Which is, amusingly, on TV right now.)

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