Paulscoconutass
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Bad Lieutenant: Cage is back! Pretty sweet corrupt cop drama with a couple of drug-enduced trips.
Speed Racer: Matrix 'brothers' knock out a manga adaptation. Standard story, amazing visuals.
The Isle: freaky-weird Asian flick about a strange romance. 'Out there' but watchable.
Blazing Saddles: one of the best comedies ever, gag-a-minute, all hitting the mark. Classic
Traitor: Bomb expert Don Cheadle gets involved with terrorists, looks sorrow for the rest of film. OK
Napoleon Dynamite: didn't get it until 2nd viewing, low-fi coming of age comedy. Ace!
He's just not that in to you: Utter drivel, a teen movie played out by adults. Tripe.
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I'm actually looking forward to seeing this. The cast looks quite promising, and I like Clark Duke for some reason, even though he obviously sucks and can't act.
Yea, like I say, it's exactly what you'd expect the film to be. Pretty much a mix of American Pie, High Fidelity, Back to the Future, The Hangover... Not bad.
See also:Mongol.
Have you seen Red Cliff? Apparently it's the best of that bunch. Assembly's the best Chinese battle film I've seen in yonks.
He must have got better since "The Marine" then, he was murder in that shit-pie.Not seen the Marine but it's apparently an astronomical leap up for him. I'd put Cena in the same league as JCVD / Seagal now after this... some really bad one-liners though.
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Is Switchblade Romance the film with the staircase and chest thing? If so, it's pretty gash!
Recent films have been...
Beast Cops: Carbon copy of about 100 better Asian cop flicks, nothing new or good - 3.5/10
Redbelt: Film about martial arts instructor with no real fighting. Solid drama though - 5/10
The Ghost (Writer): Polanski's back on form. Top notch political thriller, awesome final scene - 7/10
Nathalie: Just been re-made as Chloe with Liam Neeson, better improve on boring original! - 2/10
The Good, The Bad, The Weird: Action-packed Asian adventure. Great fun - 8.5/10
Hot Tub Time Machine: Exactly how you expect a film with that name to be. Met expectations, quite funny - 6/10
Four Lions: Wasn't mad crazy about this. Absolutely shafted by seeing best bits in advert - 4/10
Three Kingdoms: Boring Chinese history lesson. Too epic and sentimental. Bit botched - 2/10
Hamlet 2: Funny in parts but a bit of a let down overall. Coogan keeps getting his ass out, lame - 4/10
12 Rounds: Unashamed mindless action romp, John Cena's actually alright to watch. No Die Hard though - 6/10
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Three Kingdoms: Epic Chinese historic tale. Both the sound and picture quality fluctuate loads throughout. M
Redbelt: Martial Arts film without the fighting... Picture's good but nothing really worth seeing. Sound's stunning - all dialogue and noises are so life-like it's uncanny. Y (Disc's great, film's not as good)
Speed Racer: Wachowski's do Car-Fu. Up there with Watchmen as the best picture I've seen so far, sound's a bit tinny but picture makes up for shortfall. Y
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Totally, you need to be in the mood for it. It's certainly not an enjoyable film as such, but that's what buddy cop films were invented for.
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Caught this tonight and was a totally underwhelmed. The last 30 minutes salvaged the film but thought everything before was pretty piss-weak. Unfortunately the trailers / TV spots absolutely killed most of the best bits. The "idiot bombers" idea got boring pretty quick. Was expecting much more. 4/10
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My advice would be this...
1) Read up as much as you can. There are tonnes of good DIY filmmaking books out there with great advice. Building a dolly/steadicam, info on the bureaucratic side of things, tips on techniques, etc
2) Get celtx... It's awesome, everything you need for organising a project from start to finish. Storyboarding, budgetting, location scouting... it has everything.
3) Invest in or make your own clapper board and use it for every scene... Something so trivial is vital for editing in post prod when you've got a mountain of footage to get through.
4) Networking - Like in music, the more people you know the better. You'd be surprised how many aspiring actors there are out there looking for a CV credit, however small the part, or how many people have a disused barn ideal for shooting beside their house. Give someone a hand on their film and they'll return the favour. That kind of thing. A lot of people have ideas for films but keep them to themselves... you gotta talk about it and get folk interested.
... Good luck. I'd be up for giving you a hand if i was in abdn!!
Sound advice.
I've been working on my own project (20-30 min short, fiction) for a couple of months now and am currently aiming to get the filming done over a couple of weekends at the end of summer - abusing the late light nights. This depends on how fast the script comes along though: it's about 40% done, lying somewhere between The Toxic Avenger, Idle Hands and 500 Days of Summer...
My current bible is this: Teach Yourself Film Making. Couldn't recommend it enough. The chapters are crammed full of great info, but they're not too long so pretty easy to digest.
I'm using the Celtx software, it's free, pretty good but I've only really been using it for the script so far.
Current problems I envisaged were:
- Finding a decent Camera / Boom - last I heard the central library rented them out?
- Cast / Support Team - was planning on using a mix of friends and college actors, again, no idea how to get in touch with college ones.
- Editing Software - have iMovie, not sure if this will cut it
- Inexperience - was going to try and get in touch with people that have already made local films (one day removals team / CompTroller etc) and try to learn from their mistakes.
If anyone has any advice on any of the above, or has experience in film-making I'd love to grab a beer with you!
- Finding a decent Camera / Boom - last I heard the central library rented them out?
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I really like BASEketball. Haven't seen Orgazmo though.
My personal Matt & Trey film hierarchy looks like:
BASEketball
South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut
Team America
Cannibal: The Musical
Orgazmo
None of them are crap and I'd never turn down the chance to see any of them.
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Paranormal Activity
A bit repetitive overall but quite effectively done. As with 'Blair Witch Project' it showed that sometimes less can be more to get under your skin. 7/10.
Did you see the film about the haunted yogurt? Paranormal Activia (sorry)
My latest ventures have been:
Kick Ass: It's alright but the mood and message are all over the place. Fun to watch, but isn't as good as 'real' superhero movies.
Love Me If You Dare: Fantastic French romance, one of my favs. Really surprised nobody's tried to re-make it yet.
Candy Strippers: Not what I thought it would be, really boring and generic 'horror' set in a hospital. Lame, lame, lame.
Orgazmo: A Mormon in the porno business, brilliant. Don't want to sound like a queer or nothing, but I think unicorns kick ass!
Hot Rod: Danny McBride + The Lonely Island = where the fuck has this been hiding? Amazing offbeat comedy. Samberg is great.
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Syfy/Syfy HD are both pretty good for apocalyptic / disaster / alien flicks if you keep your eye on the listings
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Been eagerly waiting for info on a UK premier to be announced but to no avail yet. There was one screening of the 80-minute pilot in London scheduled for later this month but that was it. Looks like it's not airing in the UK 'til "Late 2010". I am disappoint.
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3D Tellys
I'm totally sick of hearing about 3D TV (and films). For the past two years every magazine, tech show and major manufacturer has been progressively ramming it down our throats. It will never be a financial success because even a divvy like me can see so many hurdles that no amount of hype could overcome: no official standard yet, compatibility issues with current home equipment, a ridiculous high price tag, stupid glasses (unless you watch it on your own on some TVs), negative effects on people's eyes/brain, and most importantly - being nothing more than a faddy gimmick.
It's failed so often in the past: 1950s, 1970s, it chipped away all through the 1990s to no great effect. This is the fourth coming of 3D and as mentioned earlier everyone's trying to cash in by doing it on the cheap and botching it - which isn't doing the effect any favours.
I simply can't fathom why so many companies are ploughing millions into a doomed technology, that's a niche of a niche. What's even worse is that in the UK HDTV hasn't really matured much in the past few years.
The whole idea is supposed to be a novelty, everyone seems to be forgetting that!
Interesting graphic below of the % of people with HDTV/Blu Rays in West Europe at the moment.
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If you import your current blog to wordpress you can pay about 10 a year to host it on an independent .com address. My ol' wordpress url
http://paragraphfilms.wordpress.com
now automatically redirects to this now
http://paragraphfilmreviews.com
They do all the switching and you can still update using the decent wordpress system! Piece of piss.
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The foot Fist Way: Danny McBride plays a watered down Kenny powers. Stick to Eastbound & Down.
5ive Girls: Even Hellboy (Ron Perlman) can't save this zone horror flick. Rubbish.
Titanic: funny seeing how sketchy an actress Winslett was, DiCaprio looks about 15. Too epic at the end.
Conversations with other women: Decent! Looked like a crap girlie film but really enjoyed it. Great acting.
Blades of Glory: never really matches the first 15 minutes, but it's worth a watch, if only to see Jenna Fischer.
The Dark Knight: shits all over Batman Begins from a great height. Cracking film. Ledger's best?
The Fall: can't bash on about this film enough. Best looking film in history, easily.
Zinda: Oldboy re-make pretty much scene for scene but with the best ripped out. I am dissapoint!
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you could always advertise them on here, im always on the look out for a good few dvds
Tried this a few times in the past but you end up getting haggled down to nothing and standing outside 1up in the pishing rain for 20 minutes waiting for someone to turn up. Not really worth the hassle for a couple of quid.
On the Amazon commission side, it's not as bad as I'd initially thought as they seem to take most of their costs out of the added P&P. What I've sold so far has been
PS2 Game: Listed 10, getting 9.11
DVD: Listed as 2, getting 1.97
DVD: Listed as 3.70, getting 3.28
Obscure & foreign DVDs seem to fetch a better price than the wide releases. Got a Videodrome DVD going for 9 (cheapest by a mile) whereas I'll be lucky to get 1.50 for Crank...
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Cheers for the heads up, going to give this a bash and just ordered a ton of jiffy bags. Guessing you can post them shits 2nd class to save a bit more the cash? My Mrs doesn't work for DHL!...
Still can't get my head round the pricing: they're taking 1.02 (selling & closing fees) + 15% of the sale for every DVD from the seller and 1.24 (under the pretense of shipping costs) from the buyer?
Seems a bit of a piss-take for what could be a 4 DVD.
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Just wondering what everyone's experiences are with selling stuff on Amazon and if there are any smart ways that you can cut down on P&P costs?
I'm looking to shift an epic bunch of DVDs but from what I can gather they charge a flat rate of 86p per sale, then a 15% referral fee on every item PLUS another 16p per DVD sale. Add P&P on top of that (how much does it even cost to post a boxed dvd?) and it seems there's not much point inputting anything up unless it's going for at least a fiver...
Help!
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Looks like it's going to be decent.
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The Fall: Picture is outstanding (costumes, textures & mind-blowing scenery) what BD was made for! Soundtrack's also pretty damn good.
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Gyle gets charged
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I've heard so many people talking about Oldboy but I've still never seen it. I'm going to have to have to check that out at some point.
It's an absolute must, if it doesn't blow you away and make your guts wrench by the end you will officially have no soul, no soul at all. Don't read anything about it first though.
On another ace note about it: the Hollywood re-make was finally axed at the end of last year. Which is ace, because it's 110% un-remakable as a big-budget blockbuster.
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I don't think I had that many to begin with.
Seriously though, I think Di Caprio has come a long long way since his teen heart-throb days, I think he's a very very good actor and he has a lot of screen presence. I find him great to watch.
Good shout. Body of Lies was when I first thought "geez, he's come a long way since drawing wimin in the buff". Can't wait to see Inception later this year.
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Loving the Gael Garcia Bernal appreciation. great actor - still thing Amores Perros / Bad Education are his best so far.
Hurt Locker: Didn't rate it that much. Generally flat, boring and repetitive. Too pro-army / pro-american to enjoy. Sniper Battle WINS though.
The Fox Family: Bizarro Asian musical. Some good bits and ideas but overall disappointing.
Stranger than fiction. Remember it being better, good cast but something missing from the story.
True Romance: Never gets old, great film, outstanding ensemble cast and one of the best scenes in cinema history (Sicilian heritage)
Sukiyaki Western Django: One of Takashi Miike's more watchable films, great action and stylish.
Charlie Bartlett: pretty poor coming-of-age film. Downy Jr / Hope Davis are good in it. Pants story though.
Valkyrie: wasn't feeling it - especially since all Nazis (AND HITLER!) all spoke 'jolly good' English.
Bangkok Dangerous: Cage re-make, not his best acting / hair cut. Very true to the original other than deaf aspects, great ending. Surprisingly enjoyable.
Oldboy: umpteenth time, still absolutely fantastic. Definitely an all-time top 5 for me.
We Don't Need Another Heroes
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I've watched the first two and been loving it; absolutely nothing new on the table as far as crime / cop dramas go but it's very well shot and has unfolded well so far. Quite a few big dramatic moments but it has had 1 very stupid scene.
Unsure if they'll manage to keep the quality up for the duration though.