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If it doesn't have action news camera jerking for non-action scenes and schizophrenic zoom adjust every other time an actor reacts to a line, I won't have a problem with the cinematography. If it doesn't have stupid shit like common-sense scientist characters who get lost even with a mapping device and then decide to french kiss an alien penis snake, I'd be fine with it. But if it deserves the poor ratings I've seen on RT on the crummy adaptation from the book, that would be distracting.

But you brought up Baz Luhrman like he was some sort of Uve Boll or Michael Bay of cheese cinema and for the life of me, what you said still makes no fucking sense. He's got like a half a dozen movies to his name plus a few shorts. What part of your brain ticked off the "oh this filmmaker...newbie sure won't like this movie because of it."

Jay wrote:

The Great Gatsby - 9/10

Have to remember its a Baz Luhrman movie so it's not for people like newbie, but I thought it was outstanding. Definitely needs to be seen in the theater.

Incorrect, according to hipsters you can see a film just as well on your iphone.

The movie's biggest annoying flaw seems to be the fact that a spymaster was trying to elude detection in the company of an old duffer waving a flashlight around. Next to that, I couldn't care less if Moneypenny was a fat Italian plumber from Brooklyn.

For all we know, the black Moneypenny is really Old Man Jenkins. And he would have gotten away with it too, if it hadn't been for that meddling audience.

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

The movie's biggest annoying flaw seems to be the fact that a spymaster was trying to elude detection in the company of an old duffer waving a flashlight around. Next to that, I couldn't care less if Moneypenny was a fat Italian plumber from Brooklyn.

AAAAAAnd how the hell did Bond survive the fall off the top of the train(that was over a canyon) after being Shot?! heh

Kimmmmmmmmmmmm wrote:

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

The movie's biggest annoying flaw seems to be the fact that a spymaster was trying to elude detection in the company of an old duffer waving a flashlight around. Next to that, I couldn't care less if Moneypenny was a fat Italian plumber from Brooklyn.

AAAAAAnd how the hell did Bond survive the fall off the top of the train(that was over a canyon) after being Shot?! heh

I know right?  He was shot twice in the chest, surely had some internal bleeding from the beating he took, fell 300 feet and landed on his back into water, sank at least 30 feet while unconscious, but the next scene he is sipping margaritas in Tahiti or some shit.

Also, I get that it is a reboot, but if it is WHY USE THE SAME ACTORS!?  Cameo's of course, but to used established actors in established roles is just fucking retarded. 


ALLLLLSSSOOOOO, anyone notice in all of the action sequences that Bond has multiple face lacerations but in the next scene which apparently takes place merely hours apart his face is completely healed and has no scars?  Are we sure Michael Bay didn't direct this series?

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

I would disregard it and go watch Moonraker instead.

Not even the same universe apparantly, remember this is a reboot.

moonraker looks out of control i would love to watch that haha!

Kimmmmmmmmmmmm wrote:

moonraker looks out of control i would love to watch that haha!

Wow, go watch some Bond.

Jurassic Park 3D

Jurassic Park has been my favourite film since I was five years old. My parents asked me what my favourite part of it was after the credits had rolled, I tearfully exclaimed "the end!" This was partly because I was completely traumatised and partly because I fell in love with John Williams' score - I eventually would learn to play the theme on the piano and for some reason it's the only thing I can still remember how to do from my eight years of piano-playing.

It took about a day for it to sink in how awesome it was and I was completely hooked. I got swept up in the dinosaur craze of the early 90s completely and utterly. When the film came out on VHS I immediately rented it. When it screened for the first time on TV I dutifully recorded it and watched it so many times that not only had I pretty much committed the script to memory I also memorised the ad breaks, (important when fast-forwarding to know when to stop.)

But it had been a while since I last saw it. I sort of felt that given I had murdered it through repetition I wouldn't get any enjoyment out of seeing it in 3D on a big screen. I'm happy to say I was wrong. Despite seeing the film probably over 100 times and knowing what happens I could feel the adrenalin and the excitement, it was fantastic. The 3D is well done but really the impact was seeing it high definition on the big screen. Everything else the film already has going for it.

Jurassic Park is one of those rare blockbusters that was stretching the notion of what was possible. The use of then brand new CGI may have aged a bit, the skin on the dinosaurs looks more plastic-like than modern CGI and the transition between animatronic and CG is more noticeable. Still, the CG is better than a lot of modern examples - and it's twenty years old now. Twenty! It doesn't really matter through. The animation of movement is still top notch and as the immaculate artistry of the Stan Winston animatronic models and the sound sells the effect of living dinosaurs fully. Moreso than any film using CG alone.

Great acting, great directing, great special effects, great sound design, great score. I know it sounds old man-ish but they don't really make blockbusters like that any more. The Lord of the Rings films sort of got there but Jurassic Park still beats them hands down I reckon.

There were some kids about five years old at the cinema. I wonder what they thought of it.

Shocking wrote:

The Gatekeepers - 10/10

Aired on national telly last week. All the six heads of the Israeli Shin Bet from 1967 to 2011 had agreed to be interviewed for this documentary (incidentally the first time any of them have been interviewed). They talk about their work in security and defense, the moral and ethical considerations and implications that come with it and the wider Israel/Palestine problem and politics they've had to deal with (while openly speculating about the future).

A must see for anyone interested in security work and the Israeli / Palestinian states. Definitely a must-see for the members of our local idiot club who like to periodically voice their opinions on politics and actions in Israel and Palestine. It's an eye opening and informative documentary.

DVDs will be available in july.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uc8U89IcSo

Its a shame we executed instead of interviewed on TV the Nazi leaders, we should have heard their side of the holocaust.

"We'd kill whoever tried to kill us, after we invaded their country, stole their land and killed many of them first"

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AussieReaper wrote:

Ty wrote:

great special effects

Great animatronics.

Amazing animatronics. Have you seen that video documenting the Stan Winston studio construction of the T-rex? That thing is a piece of art.

(Animatronics are special effects by the way if that's what you were implying.)

I also thing the animatronics in the new Star Wars films were dec--oh wait. That was just CGI nonsense.

Back to Jurassic Park.