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Shit, you commented me before I could correct my grammar. You should see it. I enjoyed it and so did my little brother, but we may be the only ones. Maybe we just like laughing at stupid Americans :P

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By great visual, you mean the lighting and the colors, right ? Because the directing part with all the slow mo -fast mo, the rest of the aesthetic felt just like complete shit to me.

The colors were over-processed shit as well. The style didn't serve any purpose like it did in Sin City. Was film from Roman times blown-out and super grainy?

Army of Shadows is indeed awesome. I had a good time at Hot Fuzz, although his fake trailer for Grindhouse was even better. The Hoast is worth seeing for the opening scene alone.

Let's try to be broad-minded

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What about that later scientist with the crazy eye? Every time he came onscreen I couldn't stop giggling. I hope that isn't how Koreans honestly see us, because every white person in that movie was either very evil or very dumb.

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I hope that isn't how Koreans honestly see us, because every white person in that movie was either very evil or very dumb.

What's your point? :P

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every white person in that movie was either very evil or very dumb.

Seems about right from the majority of my experience. But then again, I am American.

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I hope that isn't how Koreans honestly see us, because every white person in that movie was either very evil or very dumb.

The opening scene is based on an actual incident in which an American mortician at a military base dumped a bunch of formaldehyde down the drain. It did go through several filtration plants before going into the river, though.

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To an old, seemingly dead thread, I give thee life!

So yeah, anyway. Just saw a press screening of Severance starring Tim McInnery and Laura Harris. If you're a fan of the really damn funny horror genre, it's fucking fantastic. Essentially a company team-building outing gets stranded in the woods and hunted by ex-soviet war criminals. There are escort girls with machine guns, a severed leg in a mini-fridge, and rocket launcher mishaps. Also, a hand to hand scene culminates with a guy actually having a knife planted in his ass, leading to one of the most undignified death scenes I've ever seen put to film. Very funny, not overly gory, some decent "BOO!" moments, and just a good time all 'round. Check it out.

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Just saw a press screening of Severance.

I'm so waiting for this DVD. Saw it at the Midnight Madness last fall as part of TIFF, which is basically what it sounds like ... midnight screenings of "fringe" movies to a raucous, mostly university aged crowd. It wasn't the best movie I saw last year, but definitely -- with that crowd, especially -- the most fun. :tup:

Thinking about that foot scene still makes me laugh and cringe.

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Damn, the last midnight show at the CIFF was some revival thing of Life of Brian. Good fun and all, but the CUFF (Underground Film Fest) has a far superior lineup of similar things. This year's highlight was The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai about a Japanese prostitute who has a bullet in her brain that lets her see the future after she stumbles upon the cloned finger of George W Bush and must safeguard it. Yeah, it's about as fucked up as it sounds and really really fun.

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How come The Fountain did so badly both commercially and critically? I feel pretty safe to say it's one of the best movies I've seen and possibly had the strongest effect on me emotionally.

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Dog knows why, but I stayed up last night to watch The Bunker, which is about a bunch of Cockney Nazis (seriously) going mental whilst guarding a strategic bunker - built above some catacombs [eyes roll, jaw slackens] - during WW2.

I can see what they were trying to do with it, but it drags on and on--with very little variation in the plot; one soldier goes wandering off into the catacombs, another soldier - who's progressively gone nuts - follows him in there and one comes out. Repeat until there's only Crazy Old Man and Fresh-Faced Kid left, sprinkle with nauseatingly-predictable hallucination sequences and there's your ~90mins of celluloid.

Dire.

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Hah, yeah I've seen that. German WW2 era soldiers going around with NATO assault rifles.

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Hah, yeah I've seen that. German WW2 era soldiers going around with NATO assault rifles.

Don't remember any assault rifles. Lots of shitty, throw-away slow mo's of bolt action rifles and Lugers being reloaded though.

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The Bunker[/url], which is about a bunch of Cockney Nazis (seriously) going mental whilst guarding a strategic bunker - built above some catacombs [eyes roll, jaw slackens] - during WW2.

That probably makes sense in hollywood, since both nazis and english people are evil.

Is it a horror flic? The setup sounds like Return to Castle Wolfenstein :eek: What was that other WWII supernatural horror? Oh yeah, Deathwatch. One of those films that has a good trailer but you can tell that's the best thing about it.

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It's a horror flic, but I don't think it's a Hollywood production.

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It's a horror flic, but I don't think it's a Hollywood production.

Correct; it was made by a British film company and I recall very faint wiffs of hype in the UK around the time it came out.

However, it's painfully obvious that whoever put down the money for it wanted something to compete alongside your thoroughly generic, annual US teen horror turd.

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Heroes finale was almost disappointing, but somehow worked for me.

LOST finale was brilliant.

Little Miss Sunshine was an awesome, heartwarming, hilarious film. 300 was better than Sin City, IMO. That said though, I thought Sin City was boring. Pan's Labyrinth was fantastic.

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People are still watching Lost? (I'm not trying to be sarcastic/caustic, I'm seriously curious. I gave up after the first group of third season episodes.)

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I'm watching it. Mostly out of habit tho. And I hate it when I get an unfinished story. They nearly lost me with the end of the 2nd season but I'm rather liking season 3. But still very frustrating that there isn't given any real answers to the big questions.:hmph:

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yeah, don't hold your breath. Not unless you can hold it for 3 years.

The season finale of Heroes was strangely dissapointing, #ia gree with you BigJKO. It came so close and then just kind of wimped out. It needed another dose of epic, as seen in the future episode. I still enjoyed the series and am still looking forward to season 2 though.

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I love Heroes but the finale was very anticlimactic. I realize they wanted to focus on the characters (which is admirable) but the plot really demanded a colossal special-effects-laded multiple-powers death-match between Sylar and Peter. (Niki beating on Sylar was great, though.)

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I tuned out of Lost near the end of season 2. I might wait until the series is over and watch all the episodes though.

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Likewise, but about midway through Season 2. Mrs V. and I watched all of it up to that point, but lost (ah ha ha ha!) interest when the Abominable Black Swamp Gas started eating people. I struggled on a bit futher on my own, but really couldn't be fagged to keep up. Then we cancelled our satellite TV subscription and I certainly wasn't interested in sourcing it via "other means".

We both watched all of BSG up to the end of Season 1, too, come to think of it--including the mini-series beforehand. Now there isn't anything we're both mad-keen on anymore... :\

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