[Laa-Yosh]

Originally Posted by Nebula

People recommend me movies like these becouse I like the 'payback no remorse' factor involved in these kind of movies.

His next movie is going to be almost the same:

[V3]

Originally Posted by Nebula

Just saw the movie "Taken" with Liam neeson. Good story, excellent execution, brutal ex spy showing of his skills to save his daughter, no restrictions. Excellent movie.

People recommend me movies like these becouse I like the 'payback no remorse' factor involved in these kind of movies.

I like Man on Fire. Taken is pretty good too just saw it several weeks ago. 7/10 Solid thriller movie. I don't think I've seen Payback. Got any other similar movies ?

[RobertR1]

Originally Posted by Nebula

Hmm might hire that movie to. Now going in to watch Chronicles of Riddick again. Gotta love onliners like "I dont bow to no man but I will take a piece of him".

Riddick and Pitch Black are awesome. Hoping they finish off the Trilogy to CoR.

[Sxotty]

There was an interesting article about how comedies dont translate from the US so the studios only want to make movies like taken from now on. Since they are cheaper compared to what they bring back,. Makes me feel bad for liking taken.

[Silent_Buddha]

Originally Posted by Nebula

People recommend me movies like these becouse I like the 'payback no remorse' factor involved in these kind of movies.

Edge of Darkness is a pretty good one somewhat along those lines also.

Regards,
SB

[Grall]

Originally Posted by Scott_Arm

Try not to take it too seriously, and you'll enjoy it.

Yeah, I ended up doing that. It's like you say, sci-fi type movies can't be taken too seriously, because if you do then they just end up falling apart and then there's no point to the movie anymore. It's like the screaming TIE fighters in the Star Wars movies.

If you just take the rules the movie sets up as the truth while in that movie's universe, it becomes an enjoyable tale. It's not the best ever, but there's some great scenes in there for sure, and a couple WTF!-type moments too. The scenes in the hotel corridor, the train, and the hotel bar for example, as well as the ocean "cliffs" at the end were great, from a visual standpoint and simply as new, unique ideas.

I love Tom Hardy's acting, I've only seen him in a few movies, but every time he's done a superb job. His voice has a fantastic ascerbic, sarcastic edge to it, and he has such control over it too, giving it a real bite, and he has a great moviestar-type face too, a mug that doesn't just disappear in a crowd, but one you remember. Or, that's the way it works for me anyway.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt (whose name I had to look up, lol) also struck me as a great performer, and one whom will hopefully grow and make a name for himself in the coming years and decades. Kind of reminds me of Orlando Bloom in a way, or maybe Orlando from nine, ten years ago when the century was still young.

[Laa-Yosh]

Levitt is actually more like Heath Ledger. Hopefully he'll live on to fulfill his potential.
And Tom Hardy's really cool too. Can't wait to see what role Nolan has for him in Batman 3.

In fact I kinda liked all the actors, from Watanabe to Caine - even Ellen Page. Never really understood why some people are so against her

[Arwin]

I just watched Oldboy again (bought it on Bluray with the intent to make sure more people I know see it), and I still really love it. Such a classic, brilliant acting, camera work and script. One of my all-time favorites, on the level of Pulp Fiction.

Also watched the recent Cage 'Bad Lieutenant' movie, which was ok.

[zed]

not one of werners better films but still a good watch 7/10 (I love the ending)
yep oldboy + pulp fiction are classics

I saw this last night
this way of life http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1480692/ 9/10
one of the best doco's Ive seen in my life

[london-boy]

If you like Joseph Gordon-Levitt and think he has potential, then you must watch Mysterious Skin

[Scott_Arm]

In Bruges - 6/10 - Kind of a cult favourite for a lot of people now, but I hadn't seen it. There were some funny bits, and good lines, but the movie really did nothing for me. I didn't find that the combination of quirkiness and melodrama worked for me.

[Arwin]

Saw these to recently on filmnet:

Yes Man with Jim Carrey. Very enjoyable feel good movie with a predictable end, but the movie knows it. You could see it as a thematic sequel to Liar Liar. 8/10

Whip It, with among others Ellen Page, Drew Barrymore (who also directs this) , Kristen Wiig, Juliette Lewis, Jimmy Fallon. About as enjoyable and light-hearted as Yes Man. 8/10.

Both of these got the same (7.0) rating on IMDB.

[V3]

Easy-A - I bought the blu based on the cover. One of those teen flick, predictable, wasn't particularly funny or believable, would give it 6/10 but the lead actress was quite adorable in it and I actually finished watching it so 7/10 it is.

[Grall]

Originally Posted by Arwin

Yes Man with Jim Carrey.

Does he do rubber faces or otherwise acting really strange or bizarre, like he did in so many of his early movies? I can't stand shit like that (except for in The Mask, where it fit the story of the movie... ); Carrey can be an excellent actor in his own way - he's no Morgan Freeman or Bob DeNiro for sure, but he can be good if given the chance. But when he starts with the rubber face shit, it all falls apart for me.

[Mariner]

Jim Carrey is another in a long line of US comics who think that they are a whole lot funnier than they actually are...

Mentioning no names here...

*cough*RobinWilliams*cough**cough*WillFerrell*coug h*

[WhiningKhan]

Well, you like slapstick or you don't like slapstick. Personally, I am more entertained by slapstick than the so called 'over-the-top' action (in vein of A-team) that some people seem to like.

[Arwin]

Originally Posted by Grall

Does he do rubber faces or otherwise acting really strange or bizarre, like he did in so many of his early movies? I can't stand shit like that (except for in The Mask, where it fit the story of the movie... ); Carrey can be an excellent actor in his own way - he's no Morgan Freeman or Bob DeNiro for sure, but he can be good if given the chance. But when he starts with the rubber face shit, it all falls apart for me.

This is not Pet Detective. Like you say, that Jim Carey is great for The Mask or The Riddler in Batman 3.

Yes Man is inbetween that and the excellent Truman Show.

I love that outtake scene where they are calling names and this older lady ends up
calling him 'you over-acter!'. He starts laughing and then does a characteristic wide eyed 'THEY'RE ON TO ME!'

[Grall]

Originally Posted by Mariner

*cough*RobinWilliams*cough**cough*WillFerrell*coug h*

Robin Williams is funny, most of the time anyway. He's a bit too hyper sometimes. And he's a genuinely good actor too, although some of his movies are absolute rubbish. Jumanji and that camping roadtrip piece of crap he did a couple years ago, dunno what it's called (don't want to know either). Dead Poets on the other hand is one of my absolute all-time favorites. I can watch this movie over and over and not get tired of it. It's just so great.

[Dr Evil]

Will Ferrel is a genius. One of the greatest.

[Mariner]

Will Ferrell was funny in Anchorman.

Since then he has reprised the same Ron Burgundy-style role in every single film and his cold, dead eyes give me the creeps.

Jim Carrey has been funny in a few films (The Mask and Dumber and Dumber, to name a couple) and his acting was pretty good in The Truman Show. However, he tends to overdo things in most of his comedies and seeing all his gurning on screen does nothing for me. The outtakes you invariably see at the end of his movies are some of the least funny things I've seen as the cast and crew guffaw sycophantically as his deeply unfunny antics.

Robin Williams was excellent in Good Will Hunting. I've hated practically every other film he's been in! Mork and Mindy was rubbish, too.

As you may have guessed, I'm less than impressed by many of the 'funnymen' to come out of the US in recent years!

[Simon F]

Originally Posted by Mariner

Robin Williams was excellent in Good Will Hunting. I've hated practically every other film he's been in!

Have you seen "Awakenings"?

[WhiningKhan]

Originally Posted by Mariner

Will Ferrell was funny in Anchorman.
Robin Williams was excellent in Good Will Hunting. I've hated practically every other film he's been in!

Fisher King? Good Morning Vietnam? Insomnia?

[Silent_Buddha]

Moscow on the Hudson is still one of my favorite Robin Williams movies.

And agreed that Jumanji and that camper movie were a couple of his worst. He was better when he was younger and less full of himself. He's gotten to a point where he's almost self righteous and insufferable to listen to.

Regards,
SB

[Mariner]

Originally Posted by WhiningKhan

Fisher King? Good Morning Vietnam? Insomnia?

Hmmm. A good few years since I saw the Fisher King but I don't remember being overly impressed with either the film or Williams' acting.

Good Morning Vietnam was OK, as was his role in Insomnia.

Perhaps my dislike of his many terrible films makes me unwilling to acknowledge he has acted in many good ones?

[Arwin]

Originally Posted by Dr Evil

Will Ferrel is a genius. One of the greatest.

I generally really don't like Will Ferrel, but there are a handful exceptions. Blades of Glory was perfect, as was his tiny role in the Wedding Crashers.

On the other hand I really like Robin Williams. There are definitely films I don't care about, but he's willing to take on a reasonable spread of different kinds of roles and many of them very well. Dead Poets Society, Hook, Good Will Hunting, Good Morning Vietnam, Ms Doubtfire, Aladdin (where he wrote most of the lines for the Genie which the animators then worked with, rather than the other way around) there is plenty of good stuff and it has a good range. I also love some of his older standup, like the one where he describes different types of drugs.

As for Jim Carey, same thing for me - not all his films are great, but he is stil absolutely genius and there is plenty of really good stuff. And even when he is overacting, he brings something unique to the table that very few can do. I love when he rewinds himself in Ace Ventura (among others) or the fight he has with his own hand in Liar Liar.

But Yes Man is really very good, with some good acting also by the rest of the cast, can really recommend it.

Oh, and while we're at it, I saw Inglorious Basterds a while ago, and then saw a bit of it again this weekend, and I only kept watching because it was near the end and I wanted my wife to see that, so I could spare her the full movie. I thought it was a bit more pulpy than it needed to be. Really didn't like it at all. I saw another Jewish resistance movie recently that I thought was much better, even though that was pretty mediocre too.

Looked it up, it's Defiance and I'll rate it 6.5/10, vs Inglorious Bastards 5/10. IMDB rates them 7.2 vs 8.4, so I guess I don't agree with popular opinion there.