Movie Discussion

[T4E]

  On 02/10/2009 at 20:40, Grabbi Graeme said:

I think Die Hard 2 was better, but Alan Rickman really made the character of Gruber.

Gruber "This time John Wayne does not walk into the sunset with Grace Kelly"

Mclane "That's Gary Cooper a$$hole"

You liked Die Hard 2 better? I'm amazed at that - great film but the weakest of the 4 in my opinion.

  On 02/10/2009 at 20:58, Bryan said:

Die Hard's got to be in my top ten, god knows how many times I've watched it.

Ditto, I went out and found the "Quadrilogy" box set a while back, great purchase.

  On 02/10/2009 at 21:25, RibbleValleyRover said:

Big fan of the Die Hard series. The first is definitely in my top 10 films.

Personally i'd rank them:

Die Hard

Die Hard 2

Die Hard 4

Die Hard 3

Wasn't really a fan of three, i liked certain elements of it but overall it just didn't have that appeal that the others had.

I'm very surprised at this, Die Hard 3 is my favourite. Its just an excellent twist and Irons is good as Gruber's brother. Not as good as Hans, but Samuel L Jackson makes up for that. The opening "game" he has McClane play is real jaw-dropping stuff when the camera pans out and you see what he's wearing.

  On 03/10/2009 at 14:06, Exiled_Rover said:

Definitely. Apparently that reaction was real - the director instructed the stuntman to drop Rickman early (on the count of two rather than three).

Good trivia!

  On 04/10/2009 at 02:17, Anti-Dingle-Brigade said:

I really like Die Hard but I can't help but be sceptical of anything Bruce Willis is in these days. Tough guy, he is not.

Get out. Anything with Bruce Willis in is awesome. Including Hudson Hawk.

  On 04/10/2009 at 18:22, Flopsy said:

I hated Die HArd 2, because it got so many things wrong that I couldnt get past those to enjoy the film.

Get a life cadet boy, its Die Hard!!

  On 07/10/2009 at 14:39, Grabbi Graeme said:

Looks like the movie of The A Team is finally being filmed, Liam Neeson as Hannibal Smith and they have kept van the same as the original.

Jessica Biel stars as the General who is persuing The A Team

For the MMA/UFC fans amongst us, Quinton "Rampage" Jackson has been cast to play B.A. Very charismatic guy who could just pull it off.

[broadsword]

Number 3 I didn't like so much, number 2 was solid.

It's got the T-1000 geezer in it, it's gotta be cool.

"Hey arsehole, what do I look like to you?"

"A sitting duck."

Hey, Gunnery Sergeant Floppy-Knobby, tell us about fuse delays on grenades again, it's enthralling!

[American]

  On 07/10/2009 at 14:59, Tugay4England said:

You liked Die Hard 2 better? I'm amazed at that - great film but the weakest of the 4 in my opinion.

Ditto, I went out and found the "Quadrilogy" box set a while back, great purchase.

I'm very surprised at this, Die Hard 3 is my favourite. Its just an excellent twist and Irons is good as Gruber's brother. Not as good as Hans, but Samuel L Jackson makes up for that. The opening "game" he has McClane play is real jaw-dropping stuff when the camera pans out and you see what he's wearing.

Good trivia!

Get out. Anything with Bruce Willis in is awesome. Including Hudson Hawk.

Get a life cadet boy, its Die Hard!!

For the MMA/UFC fans amongst us, Quinton "Rampage" Jackson has been cast to play B.A. Very charismatic guy who could just pull it off.

I waited until the 4th movie came out to get the box set. I do like 2 better than all but the first - thought 3 and 4 both dragged on about 15-20 minutes too long.

Do agree about Hudson Hawk - thought it was a good movie with weird humor that I like. Plus, any movie with David Caruso!

[Tom]

I gotta say Die Hard with a Vengeance has always been my fave, I saw it before I saw the other 2 though and I've always had a liking of anything New York

Edit: Rampage Jackson is to play BA is he? Wonder if he'll dry hump anything in it?

Edited October 7, 2009 by TCO

[T4E]

Rampage is a very very funny guy. Got in a bit of trouble for the first video there.

[FourLaneBlue]

I am surprised people do not think the original Die Hard is the best. It has everything including one of the best villains in any action move. Great one-liners. The third is good as well and I liked the most recent one but it did not really feel like a Die Hard movie for some reason. Probably as Willis is so much older now. The second was the weakest I thought.

[Presty On Tour]

  On 05/10/2009 at 00:06, neekoy said:

10.Francisco Scaramanga

9.Norman Bates

8.Freddy Krueger

7.Anton Chigurh

6.T-800

5.Agent Smith

4.Darth Vader

3.Roy Batty

2.Joker(Ledger)

1.Hannibal Lecter

Your number 8 Freddy, is back! They have remade Nightmare On Elm Street and it's out April next year.

Trailer

[T4E]

  On 08/10/2009 at 13:58, FourLaneBlue said:

I am surprised people do not think the original Die Hard is the best. It has everything including one of the best villains in any action move. Great one-liners. The third is good as well and I liked the most recent one but it did not really feel like a Die Hard movie for some reason. Probably as Willis is so much older now. The second was the weakest I thought.

To be honest thats why I liked 4 - I didnt expect it to feel like a Die Hard movie, and at the start it didn't, but it doesnt take long for Willis to give you that feel. Probably the "you just killed a helicopter with a car" moment that seals it.

[broadsword]

Die Hard 4 is a top movie. There's no earthly way they could top that. It's stupid, but it's good stuupid.

I really do like that ruck in the car park with the martial arts bitch. Classic stuff.

John McLane, one of the all-time great movie characters. Welcome to the party pal!

Number 1 was the best.

[neekoy]

  On 08/10/2009 at 14:13, Presty On Tour said:

Your number 8 Freddy, is back! They have remade Nightmare On Elm Street and it's out April next year.

Trailer

Hooolllyyy (Please don't use that word again). That looks awesome.

[Tom]

Saw Up today, simply awesome, some bits almost made me get something in my eye.

[adopted scouser]

  On 11/10/2009 at 23:40, TCO said:

Saw Up today, simply awesome, some bits almost made me get something in my eye.

'UP' is the best Pixar since the first Toy Story, absolutely brilliant.

[T4E]

I watched Juno over the weekend, anyone seen it? I went out and bought the DVD on the strength of the title character featuring in the 100 Greatest Movie Characters list a few pages back. Ellen Page is absolutely superb, cutting, witty and absolutely hilarious. A rarity in thats its a film full of young persons vernacular that isn't solely aimed at young people.

Highly recommended.

EDIT: Just searched the thread and there's already a bit of dicussion about the film. Apologies, didn't check first.

Edited October 12, 2009 by Tugay4England

[rebelmswar]

http://www.paranormalactivity-movie.com/trailer.html

This is supposedly the best indie-horror since Blair Witch.

I wanna see it.

[neekoy]

  On 12/10/2009 at 17:09, rebelmswar said:

http://www.paranormalactivity-movie.com/trailer.html

This is supposedly the best indie-horror since Blair Witch.

I wanna see it.

Kinda of getting sick of jumpy hand held cam movies now though, Cloverfield, [rec] and recently District 9 now we get another one.

Too much reliance on the medium to create fear and the story generally suffers

[broadsword]

  On 13/10/2009 at 01:28, neekoy said:

Kinda of getting sick of jumpy hand held cam movies now though, Cloverfield, [rec] and recently District 9 now we get another one.

Too much reliance on the medium to create fear and the story generally suffers

Never watched one - it would annoy me no end and would probably make me feel queasy.

[neekoy]

  On 13/10/2009 at 05:04, Bryan said:

Never watched one - it would annoy me no end and would probably make me feel queasy.

Did you get queasy in the city fight scene in Transformers? imagine that for 90 minutes.

[RibbleValleyRover]

Watched 'Taken' for the second time as it was on Sky Anytime/Sky Movies this week. Not a bad film, a french action thriller starring Liam Neeson. Some of the acting is questionable but its decent paced with plenty of action.

Anyone else seen it?

Edited October 26, 2009 by RibbleValleyRover

[ABBEY]

We watched lakeview terrace the other day ...what a good tense un.

[Exiled_Rover]

  On 26/10/2009 at 21:13, RibbleValleyRover said:

Watched 'Taken' for the second time as it was on Sky Anytime/Sky Movies this week. Not a bad film, a french action thriller starring Liam Neeson. Some of the acting is questionable but its decent paced with plenty of action.

Anyone else seen it?

Yeah saw it on Sky Movies last night. I really liked it, bar the annoying daughter he was trying to save.

[RoyRover]

  On 26/10/2009 at 21:13, RibbleValleyRover said:

Watched 'Taken' for the second time as it was on Sky Anytime/Sky Movies this week. Not a bad film, a french action thriller starring Liam Neeson. Some of the acting is questionable but its decent paced with plenty of action.

Anyone else seen it?

I watched it a while ago and was pleasantly surprised. I remembered Empire giving it 1 star and saying that it was the worst movie of the year. But it wasn't nearly as bad as I thought and actually thought parts of it were pretty good.

I watched Unforgiven for the first time the other night. What a great movie that is. It really captures the sense of a good old Western movie from the past, with the pace, tone and script.

[Glenn]

  On 27/10/2009 at 13:31, RoyRover said:

I watched Unforgiven for the first time the other night. What a great movie that is. It really captures the sense of a good old Western movie from the past, with the pace, tone and script.

Unforgiven is a truly excellent film.

[Cocker]

Watched a couple of films this week:-

Pride and Glory - Ed Norton and Colin Farrell in what I can only describe as a bore fest. The Mrs fell asleep an hour from the end and the weird thing was that I don't think she mist anything.

Ghost Town - Lets get one thing straight from the off - I don't like Gervais however for some reason I didn't mind him so much in this. Not a bad film to watch on a Sunday with the other half.

I am just waiting for a decent super hero film to turn up. Would love a dark superman to come out.

[Jimbo]

Went to see The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus at the weekend - didn't really enjoy it as it lost me half way though and I started to get bored, it did get a bit better towards the end but frankly if I'd been on the sofa at home watching this, I'd have been off out for a beer as it was the mussus enjoyed it more so leaving the cinema was not an option.

Re: Taken - Who's driving the Boat !!!!!!

[Exiled_Rover]

A decent super hero movie like Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, Iron Man, Spider-man 1/2? You've been pretty spoiled the last few years.