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Don't know how many people have actually seen this film. It was okay for a religious flick (and I'm not a highly religious man). The acting is pretty bad but from what I know it was made by a church group from Texas and they have made a few other films like this. IMHO, I don't have much of a desire to see the others.
Well, most people seem to be in that boat. :) I know, it's surprising that my ranking is what it is. Like I said, I just can't explain. ;-)
I'm glad you liked it. I enjoyed it, as well, and you'll be happy to know, then, that more talk is springing up on the web that they are getting into gear to do the second one, with most of the cast returning.
I thought it was fresh and highly original. Hopefully the sequel will be just as good...
This film made me love Chloe Moretz. What . A . Performance!
Great action, Arny at his best, and the creature is really impressive. One of things I love about this film is you actually feel sad when the characters die (sort of rare for action films). I also played some of the AvsP game as the Predator. It was fun hunting humans and Aliens, they did a great job using the creatures abilities.
I know for sure what will be the best film I see on the big screen in 2012, sorry TDKR & Skyfall but you could never be this good!
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I know this film back to front and inside out, and don't know about you but I always thought having Carl Weathers as one of the team was just inappropriate, it's like...''what's Apollo Creed doing in this', he just seems totally unsuitable to be part of Schwarzenegger's team, of course we have the obligatory muscle types in tow, i.e Jesse Ventura, Sonny Landham etc and Mr Schwarz himself for good measure. Did you know at the very end when the chopper arrives to pick Dutch up, the pilot was actually Kevin Peter Hall (The Predator) himself
Is @Baltimore_007 the resident spoiler king now? And all recently too.
Underrated Marx Bros. comedy with a great final 1/2 hour where a circus is set up on Margaret Dumont's front lawn during a high society party resulting in plenty of fun mayhem and mischief. Also, Groucho sings his famous "Lydia The Tatooed Lady" in it. Eve Arden is quite good as the bad girl who walks on the ceiling.
@Baltimore_007 Yeah that bit always annoyed me too. I mean sure, it may be a big alien creature from another planet that's just killed two guys with ease, but hey, I'm sure a little hunting knife will do the trick.
Anyway, another intresting fact about the Predator is that Jean Claude Van Damme was originally meant to play the creature, if he had done then it would be like a ninja rely on martial arts skills to fight Arny rather than brute strength, but compared toArny and the others Van Damme wasn't that physically threatening (and he complained about the suit alot), so they hired the 7 foot Hall.
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<center><font color = darkblue size = 6>PANIC ROOM (2002)</font></center>
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Panic Room is a great little thriller. Yes, I'm going to show my hand early. This is yet another fan favourite of mine. From the creative opening titles to one of the greatest shots ever made, presented near the end of the movie, Panic Room is absolutely amazing. It's a dark film with a fairly simple plot, but overall well scipted and well acted.
Jodie Foster isn't my favourite actress. In fact, I rather like Stewart's acting in this film. That said, along with Silence Of The Lambs and Contact, this film presents the 'type' of Jodie I enjoy best. Forrest Whitaker and Jared Leto give a more than decent performance as well. Then there's our AVTAK's Patrick Bauchau with a small but not insignificant part.
What appeals to me about this film is the concept of the back-and-forth interplay between the subjects with a panic room as the focal point, and then also the setting of the big dark house. Fincher has the ability to light the place ever so slightly so that one sees all there is to be seen whilst maintaining a sense of obscurity. Howard Shore's haunting score amps the vibes.
Panic Room isn't the greatest film ever made but it's a solid, surprisingly powerful thriller. Once again Fincher understands what it is that I seek in a film of this kind.
<font color = red>Final score:</font> 8/10
DD's David Fincher retrospective score card:
Seven: 9,5/10
The Game: 8/10
Panic Room: 8/10
Alien³: 7,5/10
Fight Club: 7/10
This could have been quite different if the wrong person had gotten control of it, adding suspense when it was not needed and quickening the pace which was certainly not needed. As for the cast, it was one of the best in recent memory, as for Oldman he is a revelation, a beautifully understated turn, the finest of his career and dare I say one closer to the book than AG's excellent reading in the TV series. Tinker is a cinematic masterpiece and any film this year is going to have to be exceptional to get near it's brilliance.
I guess it comes down to how much you need it to be faithful to the book, very rarely is a film completely faithful if at all, it was clear things would need condensing and characters would not be included.
I've given up expecting utterly faithful adaptations but then I was one of those that enjoyed the book and the TV series but was more drawn to this because of Alfredson and Oldman and the cast which were all exceptional. In that respect they played it a great compliment, it retained it's cold war setting and the pace was just right, that is why I thought it was perfect but as I said I'm not as in love with the book as some.
I've been meaning to see that film. :)
One of my guvnors at my old school was a director of ATV (ITV now) who showed the original show in the UK. We were taken backstage to one of the shows when scenes were shot in the UK.
It brought back good time memories for me.
Wow, your experience was like we me and Toy Story 3. My fondest childhood moments rushed back.
What could I possibly say about this film, one of the very few British films to make the infamous Video Nasties List. Starring Udo Kier, Linda Hayden & Fiona Richmond (yes, THAT Fiona Richmond), has an air of Straw Dogs about about it, but the fact that this made it onto the VNL speaks for itself. Originaly marketed to capitalise on the erm... presence of Richmond, but it's actually better than such marketing would have you believe.
Paul Martin (Kier), a novelist suffering with writers block, rents out a cottage in the british contryside to try to work on his next book (a highbrow sex romp). In order to help him with the book, Paul hires typist Linda (Hayden). Right from the off, events take a downward spiral when Paul is set on by two locals (one played by Karl Howman, whom would because a british tv household name through Brush Strokes), only for Paul kicks the snot of of both. However, things really get skittish when Paul's estranged girlfriend, Suzanne (Richmond), shows up at the cottage.
This was semi-remade back in 2009, and after seeing the trailer for it, I won't even bother. Not that I think it should've happened, but if I were in charge of casting the remake, i'd cast Jennifer Love Hewitt in the Linda role. Talk about shock value, people would watch it expecting typical JLH, what they would get is something very... very different. X_X Not that different from Hayden in the original.