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Well, lets say I was extremely lucky. No further information needed.


Honestly, no. And what you say makes perfect sense now. Though without that context its hard to notice, but if you know it, it really becomes a totally different and acceptable aspect of the movie. But then I don´t understand why you mentioned it in the beginning. I thought you wanted to say something about farfetched directorial submeanings. The way this turns out it supports more what I said, that one should always consider the director´s personal approach, don´t you think?


On you. I couldn´t think straight for six days after watching Village.


Liked? I adore most of it, though it feels like five hours, I must admit.


So NOT!


Ups.

The concept of Kevin Costner sucking in that way is faintly...faintmaking.

Reminds me of the 80's-90's arguments between "true metalheads" and "posers".

Absolutely loved it, its atmosphere is killer and the plot really tight. Excellent movie indeed and i am desperately trying to find John Murphy's own mystique and delightful (although particularly Cliff Martinez-influenced) score.

Really? I rarely care for movie reviews as it's not my area and i usually focus on opinions from this board but i'd be deeply interested to hear some arguments from people who actually didn't like SUNSHINE; 'cause honestly, i cannot think of a single logical argument against such an incredibly fresh and coherent movie like this. Why would any non-biased and open-minded viewer not like it?

Bull. The third act is the perfectly logical result of every single bit through the first 2 parts of the movie, every single element, dialog, clue, hint, build-up led to that and it's wholly gripping, tight, not overdone and totally effective overall. To dismiss it as disjoint and irrelevant to the first 2/3's of the film it can only mean you were sleeping or ******* throughout them and you only woke up for the final act.

Nah, that third act ruined a lot of the cold atmosphere the first two acts had. Just like I Am Legend. It doesn't ruin the whole movie, but it defenitely doesn't do anything god by changing it so drastically. In Sunshine, that extra storyline was out of place, but I guess necassary... Lucky that Sunshine takes up the right line again 10minutes before the end with that spectacular scene and the music/ambient/sfx cue from John Murphy and Underworld.

As Good As It Gets: My mom got this for Christmas from someone at work and made me watch it with her last night when I should have been revising . However I really enjoyed it and thought the performances, Nicholson and Kinear in particular, were fantastic. A nice surprise.

Sunshine was a very worthwhile movie. But it did seem that someone in the movie theatre had mixed up the final couple of reels of film.

I've been sick lately, so I've rewatched all three extended LOTR films - one pr. day for three days and finished the last one just now. My God, this is the umpteenth time I've seen through them all, and the magnificence just keeps on cementing itself!

Last night I saw AVP:R.

Most of you know that I´m quite easy to satisfy. I loved Sunshine, The Postman, and yes, even Lady in the Water. If there´s something good in a movie that I can hold on to, I can easily forget what´s wrong with it and have a good time.

So you might know what it means when i say that AVP:R is one of the worst movies I´ve seen in a very long time.

Technically, it´s all done rather nicely, but since there is nothing interesting going on visually, I don´t care. The nothingness is brilliantly done, so to say.

The action is boring. There is not one single good build-up, and dozens of great opportunities to do spectacular things were wasted, only to join the pile of dead bodies this movie leaves behind.

The story is practically non-existent and makes part 1 a contender for the screenplay Oscar. The Aliens haunt a small american town, and what happens is exactly what is to be expected: Poeple die. They are unprepared, they are naive, they are dumb, they are frightened, they have no chance. So all that happens on screen is massacre after massacre of people who are totally unable to fight back. A slaughter of men and women, young and old, and even the brutal killing of children makes a good scene in the eyes of the Brothers Strauss. And you know what the biggest problem is? I didn´t care. There was not a single character in that whole fucking movie I cared about. Because they are only introduced to die seconds later. Not a single character gets a proper characterization, and all you know about the few people who survive this fits on the point of a needle.

There are so many pointless things going on I had a hard time even for the short 93 minutes this thing lasts. I could ramble on about thousands of problems this movie has, including the slaughter of the mythology while pretending to fit into, the missing of true emotional in- and output, the list goes on and on.

I have to admit that I might have had a better experience if I had just closed my eyes when the movie rolled: Some sound effects were great, and Brian Tyler´s score was the only thing that came even close to the greatness we were blessed with more than 20 years ago.

What a mess and waste.

Yeah, who knows what they did to them on that ship...? I guess Randy Quaid knows...

Or maybe he liked it too much....

Euh... I've read it somewhere... No, I would have to look that one up again Wasn't it something from Vangelis' earlier works? I haven't watched the workprint version yet myself.

heh. Thank God for the CD then!