V For Vendetta. I didn't really have any expectations going in to this one.  I want to call it a great film, but I think really good is a better choice.  I loved the Count Of Monte Cristo references.  Revenge for teh win!

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I just bought the special edition DVD. It comes with a neat metal case. "

 

Watched Life of Brian earlier though.

Speed.

 

Pretty good; Keanu sucked largely in many moments, but there was lots of action.

Isn't Hypercube, Cube 2?

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I couldn't remember the name, but I meant the 3rd one. Turns out its called Cube Zero.

 

Shogun Assassin

 

Long ago there was a great samurai warrior who served his Shogun honorably. The Shogun however grew paranoid as he became more and more senile. The Shogun sought to destroy all those who might stand to oppose his rule, and so he sent his ninja spies to the samurai's home. The ninjas failed to kill the samurai, but did kill his beloved wife. From then on, the samurai swore on his honor to seek out the Shogun and avenge the death of his love. The samurai roams the countryside with his toddler son taking on mercenary work for money until the final battle with the Shogun's three Masters of Death.

 

Rad.

 

Buy Liquid Swords.

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That sounds exactly (even down to the three Masters of Death) like the story of the manga Lone Wolf and Cub. Is there a scene where the samurai has his son choose between a toy and a sword to determine if he should kill the boy or take him with him? If so, I think its probably a rendition of the same story.

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Yeah, it's a movie adaptation of the manga, funnily enough.

Just tried to get through Ju On:Grudge. Although the actresses in the movie were fairly cute and so held my interest for longer than the movie otherwise would have, I ended up fast-forwarding through about 60 minutes of the 92 minute movie. Afterwards, I looked it up at imdb.com and read an interesting review about how Japanese horror movies tend to establish an overall scary mood rather than resorting to more conventional western scare tactics. Chalk it up to cultural differences I guess, but I still didn't find it a good enough movie to watch all the way through.

 

Also tried to watch Ultraviolet, but didn't make it through the first 30 minutes in that movie either. Needless to say it was a disappointing movie night

V For Vendetta. I didn't really have any expectations going in to this one.  I want to call it a great film, but I think really good is a better choice.  I loved the Count Of Monte Cristo references.  Revenge for teh win!

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I just bought the special edition DVD. It comes with a neat metal case. "

 

Watched Life of Brian earlier though.

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Dangit, my special edition didn't come with a metal case. My special edition of Boondock Saints did, but not V for Vendetta.

 

Anyway, I loved the movie. Enough to spend full price on the DVD instead of waiting for it to come down to something more reasonable.

V For Vendetta was a weird movie for me because while I was watching it, I wasn't taking it seriously at all, (i.e.; ending every of V's sentences with 'Mr. Anderson') yet I was still completely on the edge of my seat because of the great story.

 

Just tried to get through Ju On:Grudge. Although the actresses in the movie were fairly cute and so held my interest for longer than the movie otherwise would have, I ended up fast-forwarding through about 60 minutes of the 92 minute movie. Afterwards, I looked it up at imdb.com and read an interesting review about how Japanese horror movies tend to establish an overall scary mood rather than resorting to more conventional western scare tactics. Chalk it up to cultural differences I guess, but I still didn't find it a good enough movie to watch all the way through.

 

Also tried to watch Ultraviolet, but didn't make it through the first 30 minutes in that movie either. Needless to say it was a disappointing movie night 

 

It works on some people, and it doesn't on others. Personally, movies like Ju-On and Ringu make me a person who can be described with your screenname. Ju-On more so than Ringu because Ju-On made me feel very unsafe. The evil in Ju-On had no 'cure', no sacred ground to go to and no holy water to throw. If you came into contact with the grudge, you were dead.

Yeah, well I wasn't scared of it until you just said that.

 

I liked the flick though.

Yeah, it's a movie adaptation of the manga, funnily enough.

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It's the American version, they basically took the first 2 Lone Wolf and Cub movies, merged them together, deleted a bunch of scenes and re-wrote some of the dialogue + dubbing. The outcome's pretty awesome in a rad and unexpected way, I mean it's funny and fun and it inspired just about everyone from Carpenter to Tarantino to the Wu-Tang Clan.

 

"Your technique is magnificent, when cut across the neck the sound of wailing winter wind is heard they say, I have always wanted to cut a man this way to hear that sound, but to have it happen to my own neck, is ridiculous"

Lost in Translation

 

When the movie starts with scene of beautiful female buttocs, you just know they can

Ha, TBS had Cool Runnings and The Mighty Ducks on tonight, so I watched those.

Cool Runnings is the best sports movie ever.

 

"Sanka? You dead?"

"...ya man."

not a movie, but Prison Break episode 1-8

 

very neat

Dog Soldiers - Best described as Evil Dead with Werewolves instead of zombies and soldiers with guns instead of stupid teenagers. (w00t)

 

But no boobies, practically no humour and no Bruce Campbell

 

Lots of gore though...

 

 

I enjoyed it.

Dog Soldiers is so funny.

 

Also, it has the most elaborate set-up for a joke ever. Spoon!

Dog Soldiers is so funny.

 

Also, it has the most elaborate set-up for a joke ever. Spoon!

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I didn't find it funny at all, except for that spoon joke and the other one where the Sarge is running and gunning with his guts hanging from his belly.

 

Hilarious!

 

 

I can't wait to see the "sequel"

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The Descent is so not comparable to Dog Soldiers.

 

And I was in stitches throughout almost all Dog Soldiers.

 

Spiders... and women... spider-women.

I was watching Highlander 3 on TV today, and I started thinking about the fact that there was supposed to be a 4th movie released many years back. I always thought Adrian Paul and the TV series were superior to the movies, although the first was decent, but I don't remember ever seeing the 4th (Endgame) out in theatres.

 

Anyways, I did an IMDB search and it turns out it was released way back in 2000.

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144964/#comment

 

I'm guessing it went straight to video, but now I'm curious to rent it.

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0299981/ interesting...

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I'm pretty sure it made it to theaters. IIRC, Edge from the WWE has a cameo appearance in it.

I'm in a 'I want to watch movies that I vaguely remember watching as a kid before my parents forbid me to watch anymore and sent me away' phase.

 

So far I've watched Earth Girls are Easy with Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, Jim Carrey and Damon Wayans, Death Race 2000, David Carradine and Sly Stallone, American Werewolf in London, The Wraith, a movie where Charlie Sheen comes back in this Phantom Car to get revenge on people who killed him, Spacehunter with Michael Ironside who is a evil robot dictator who sucks the lifeforce from young nubile women, Krull which I think is a coolest movie ever and Conan the Destroyer.

 

What old movies should I watch next...

Conan the Barbarian and Bulleteer!

Fast and the Furious

2 Fast 2 Furious

I just watched part of Robin Hood (Kevin Costner version) before a huge thunderstorm came up and forced me to watch that instead. :cool:

The one and only Red Dawn. To be honest, the plot itself is actually rather silly, or at least unrealistic. But hey, it's an 80's action flick. And I believe I remember hearing that at the time of its release it held the record for the most number of acts of violence in a movie, or something similar to that.

Red Dawn! An 80's classic! I have that on videotape.

 

I got around to watching The Edge again finally. Just as riddiculous so it's fun as I remembered. Is Bart the Bear still doing movies? What a great actor.

I'm in a 'I want to watch movies that I vaguely remember watching as a kid before my parents forbid me to watch anymore and sent me away' phase.

 

So far I've watched Earth Girls are Easy with Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, Jim Carrey and Damon Wayans, Death Race 2000, David Carradine and Sly Stallone, American Werewolf in London, The Wraith, a movie where Charlie Sheen comes back in this Phantom Car to get revenge on people who killed him, Spacehunter with Michael Ironside who is a evil robot dictator who sucks the lifeforce from young nubile women, Krull which I think is a coolest movie ever and Conan the Destroyer.

 

What old movies should I watch next...

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Don't you dare forget about The Goonies.