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Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: white knight on October 20, 2007, 08:56:57 PM
Seems there's no reason not to have a thread for this as well:

Picked up these:
Perfect scenario for a WWII/Weird War II game. 8)
(http://www.dvdbooty.com/images/the-eagle-has-landed-B00004WI54_220x312.jpg)

(http://www.thefilmasylum.com/news/data/upimages/curseflower_us_dvd.jpg)
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Ironworker on October 20, 2007, 09:19:05 PM
Robert Duvall as a Nazi?  Now that's funny.....  German cowboys.  :lol:
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Post by: Prof.Witchheimer on October 20, 2007, 09:24:47 PM
good idea!

my latest one:

Ava Gardner  :love:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/517S7EWY0YL._SS500_.jpg)
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Post by: xeoran on October 20, 2007, 09:36:19 PM
Aaargh! Curse of the Golden Flower!  :x  I've got to warn you- its schockingly bad. A great example of a lush, money coloured film with no soul. Also some fairly disturbing ethics on display.
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Post by: Lowtardog on October 20, 2007, 09:49:57 PM
I picked this up on e-bay for 99p a great swashbuckler of a movie and some excellent soundtrack music.

(http://www.lovefilm.com/lovefilm/images/products/7/6767-large.jpg)
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: white knight on October 21, 2007, 08:03:55 AM
Quote from: "Ironworker"
Robert Duvall as a Nazi?  Now that's funny.....  German cowboys.  :lol:


Actually Michael Caine plays a German soldier too (FJ officer if I'm not mistaken, though I haven't had a chance to watch it yet and it's been a while since I last saw it). :lol:
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Post by: white knight on October 21, 2007, 08:08:43 AM
As for Curse of the Golde FLower being bad, that's a pity, but I guess I'll just watch it for the pretty pictures then. :)

I knew I was forgetting one:

(http://www.dvd-home.nl/review/images/inlays/ghoststory3.jpg)
Thus completing the trilogy.
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Post by: Hammers on October 21, 2007, 10:12:27 AM
Got me this a few days back:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61xSTb9EGHL._AA240_.jpg)

Lovely stuff!
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Post by: Plynkes on October 21, 2007, 11:27:37 AM
The Eagle has Landed is a great film, and the final battle would make a fun game. I reckon Matakishi should do it with his WWII stuff. As a bonus you get to see J.R. shot. There wasn't such a "Who Shot J.R.?" hoo-hah that time, though. Probably because you see who shoots him.

Anyway, I'm going to join in, with more of my birthday presents:

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/RAN_MoviePoster.jpg)

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/Hiddenfort.jpg)

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/wind_that_shakes_three.jpg)

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/flags-of-our-fathers-dvd.jpg)

Plus one that I bought myself, that is nothing to do with gaming, but I love it nonetheless:

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/bitoffry.jpg)
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Post by: matakishi on October 21, 2007, 12:27:26 PM
Quote from: "Plynkes"


(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/Hiddenfort.jpg)



Yay, it's me on film  :lol:
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Post by: white knight on October 21, 2007, 02:15:26 PM
The Hidden Fortress is, with the Seven Samurai, one of my two favorite Kurosawa movies. I've also got Kagemusha, but never quite enjoyed his later colour movies.
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Post by: fastolfrus on October 21, 2007, 04:26:14 PM
Yay, it's me on film
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Post by: matakishi on October 21, 2007, 10:40:20 PM
Matakishi  :)
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Post by: Malamute on October 22, 2007, 07:45:56 AM
I have just picked up  "Bride of Dracula" 1960 with the late great Peter Cushing. Its just been released for the first time on DVD, Hammer Horror at its best :)
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Post by: xeoran on October 22, 2007, 09:28:41 AM
Just picked up Chronicles of Riddick...I know I shouldn't but I love this film. :D
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Post by: Prof.Witchheimer on October 22, 2007, 09:37:42 AM
Quote from: "xeoran"
but I love this film. :D


me too, it's a great story, Riddick is actually the Sci-Fi Conan  8)
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Post by: Prof.Witchheimer on October 23, 2007, 07:33:43 AM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51EMMCP97WL._SS500_.jpg)
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Post by: Malamute on October 23, 2007, 07:41:35 AM
55 Days at Peking. One of my favourites, now you have inspired me to get out my Boxer rebellion collection again :)  I've always had a soft spot for David Niven :)
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Post by: xeoran on October 23, 2007, 07:52:47 AM
David Niven is god. We should have cloned him and made an army of invinsibly charming Englishmen. Or we should have swapped him for Prince Charles.
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Post by: Helen on October 23, 2007, 09:29:53 AM
Great Movie! My favourite moment is where Chuck picks up the Chinese Girl at the end of the movie :cry:

From all his macho it was lovely to see a loving side to his character :)
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Post by: Conquest on October 23, 2007, 10:10:18 AM
I just picked up the Mummy trilogy (Scorpion King counting as the 3rd) for $10.00. and Stargate for $5.00.

I also picked up Starsky and Hutch, Zoolander, Men in Tights and Super Troopers for $5.00 each. Not really gaming related, but if we end up 'forgetting' our miniatures we have these to laugh at. Good stuff :D

Oh yeah, Plunkett & Mclane is great. Good music, good adventure, hot chick.
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Post by: Chairface on October 24, 2007, 11:26:27 AM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51QiHFqfXuL._SS500_.jpg)

This movie gets panned a lot by Flashman fans, but I think that any treatment is better than none. Malcom McDowel is the perfect Flashman and the story is fairly accurate to the book of the same name, with a humourous overview of the first book thrown in. Its only been out on DVD for 7-8 months. If you love the Victorian age, its well worth a shot.
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Post by: Hammers on October 24, 2007, 11:59:55 AM
Quote from: "Chairface"

This movie gets panned a lot by Flashman fans, but I think that any treatment is better than none. Malcom McDowel is the perfect Flashman and the story is fairly accurate to the book of the same name, with a humourous overview of the first book thrown in. Its only been out on DVD for 7-8 months. If you love the Victorian age, its well worth a shot.


Yes, I have always heard this one is unadulterated rubbish, but I've always been curious about it. Besides, it is can be an education to see what people ofno taste are watching these days... ;-)
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Post by: Chairface on October 24, 2007, 02:19:24 PM
I never said that it was a masterpiece  :wink:

But it is fun.
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Post by: Plynkes on October 24, 2007, 02:44:22 PM
I like it. My brother's been wanting it on DVD for years. Good to know you can get it at last.
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Post by: Malamute on October 24, 2007, 03:25:59 PM
I remmber seeing Royal Flash on TV years ago. I am pleased to hear its available on DVD. Great cast, you can't beat Oliver Reed :)
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Post by: Gluteus Maximus on October 24, 2007, 08:31:56 PM
The Firefly series DVD set is full of great scenario ideas [as well as being a tremendous series], as is Serenity. I missed the series when it was on TV, but the DVD set is now so cheap you can't afford not to have it. Needless to say I bought it when it wasn't such a low price :(

Ah, cowboys in space! Can it get any better..... well, if you've seen Muse's video for "Knights of Cydonia", you have to say  YES!

If you haven't, it's here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YygyHCRrKho

Cowboy martial arts in space!

 Priceless  :lol:
Title: Khartoum
Post by: Prof.Witchheimer on October 25, 2007, 07:24:29 AM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51HXYB4HCZL._SS500_.jpg)
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Post by: Malamute on October 25, 2007, 07:41:18 AM
Kahrtoum, Another winner. You can't beat Larry Olivier hamming it up as the mad Madhi.... :)
So its a DVD night round at the Professors one night next week to watch these, I'll bring the Doritoes :lol:
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Post by: Torradas on October 25, 2007, 02:57:41 PM
Picked up the whole trilogy in Germany a short time ago and just re-re-re-(re)-viewed the movie. Quintessential pulp to me:

(http://www.theindyexperience.com/news_archives/img/temple_doom_20th_poster.jpg)

The Shangai cabaret, the temple in the jungle, Indy, the sidekick - all too easy to use as a script for a Pulp campaign :)
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Post by: Gluteus Maximus on October 26, 2007, 11:48:13 AM
Oh yes! Indy is my hero :love:  :lol:

I have the 4 dvd set & have watched it even more times than Lord of the Rings!

Essential viewing.

Cheers,
Ian
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Post by: Prof.Witchheimer on October 30, 2007, 08:15:15 PM
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Post by: Gluteus Maximus on October 31, 2007, 09:16:50 AM
Wow! I'd completely forgotten that one. Great find, Prof!
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Post by: Plynkes on October 31, 2007, 09:44:28 AM
My run-in with Lowtardog yesterday reminded me how much I wanted to see this film again, so I ordered it on DVD and it just arrived a few minutes ago:

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/blimp.jpg)

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/blimpscene1.jpg)

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/blimpscene2.jpg)

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/blimpduel.jpg)

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/candysmall.jpg)

Not your average war film, hard to categorize it at all really, but still worth watching.
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Post by: Prof.Witchheimer on October 31, 2007, 09:51:19 AM
oh, Colonel Blimp!!!! Want see it, too
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Post by: Hammers on October 31, 2007, 09:53:36 AM
I am not familar with this one. Do tell what its about.
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Post by: Vanvlak on October 31, 2007, 11:12:26 AM
Quote from: "hammershield"
I am not familar with this one. Do tell what its about.

Not seen it, but as far as I know he's a veteran from the Boer war and WWI who cannot quite comprehend the nastiness of WWII.

My turn - and you get the movie in full as well - it's public domain:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7038656109656489183

Plan 9 from Outer Space!  :o
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Prof.Witchheimer on October 31, 2007, 11:45:01 AM
Quote from: "hammershield"
I am not familar with this one. Do tell what its about.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_and_Death_of_Colonel_Blimp
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Post by: Plynkes on October 31, 2007, 12:25:57 PM
It's the life story of a stereotypical British officer type, portrayed as somewhat foolish yet likeable. We follow him from the Boer War, through the Great War to World War Two (though there is little in the way of action sequences). It was made during WWII. The main thrust of the film is that old-fashioned notions of British fair play must be set aside, and if the Nazis are to be defeated then Britain must "fight dirty."

It is about the passing of an age, a little nostalgic, but  forward-looking, too. Also it is a love story of sorts, and a tale of friendship between men whose countries are enemies.

Oh, and it's a comedy.

Didn't go down too well at the time, possibly because it was a wartime film and it had such a sympathetic portrayal of a German, but more likely because it is just a little too offbeat and bizarre to succeed as a propaganda piece. Powell and Pressburger films are often a bit like that, that's actually what I like about them. More recently views about it have changed, and it's regarded as something of a classic.

Not to everyone's taste, though. Not by any means.
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Post by: majorsmith on October 31, 2007, 05:38:18 PM
i love the colonel blimp film! just watched the dream catcher, great film from a stephen king novel
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Post by: Lowtardog on October 31, 2007, 05:52:08 PM
Quote from: "Plynkes"
My run-in with Lowtardog yesterday reminded me how much I wanted to see this film again, so I ordered it on DVD and it just arrived a few minutes ago:

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/blimp.jpg)

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/blimpscene1.jpg)

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/blimpscene2.jpg)

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/blimpduel.jpg)

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/candysmall.jpg)

Not your average war film, hard to categorize it at all really, but still worth watching.


A fantastic film I absolutely love it. There is another film which I love in a similar vein, with David Niven where he is a Pilot and is tried by the historical enemies of Britian (a bit like the Minden war on TMP and Frothers :D ) cant remember its name though
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Post by: Lowtardog on October 31, 2007, 05:54:16 PM
Picked up Pathfinder at the Weekend with high hopes, they were dashed like a Viking longship on the rocks :(

A very poor film, It doesnt have the Swash of The Vikings nor the Fantasy of 13th Warrior, I dont recommend it at all
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Post by: Plynkes on October 31, 2007, 06:51:43 PM
Lowtardog, that's another Powell/Pressburger film. In the UK it is called "A Matter of Life and Death" and "Stairway to Heaven" was the US title.

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/matter-of-life-and-death.jpg)

I've got that one on order, too! I'm having a Powell/Pressburger binge. "A Canterbury Tale" is coming too. But more on that one when it arrives...
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Post by: Rugland on October 31, 2007, 07:10:44 PM
Very nice movie here... And you can download it for free

"Last man on earth" Vincent Price starring in a movie set in a post apocalyptic nightmare world where he is under attack of bloodthirsty vampires.  :love:

http://www.archive.org/details/the-last-man-on-earth

You can find a lot of nice movies on archive.org. How about this

http://www.archive.org/details/bride_of_a_gorilla
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Post by: Lowtardog on October 31, 2007, 07:54:23 PM
Quote from: "Plynkes"
Lowtardog, that's another Powell/Pressburger film. In the UK it is called "A Matter of Life and Death" and "Stairway to Heaven" was the US title.

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/matter-of-life-and-death.jpg)

I've got that one on order, too! I'm having a Powell/Pressburger binge. "A Canterbury Tale" is coming too. But more on that one when it arrives...


Thats the one Polynikes and Canterbury tale is a great propaganda film, it s the one with the Glue in the hair?

This is a good one

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Went_the_Day_Well%3F
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Post by: Plynkes on October 31, 2007, 08:12:02 PM
Yeah, the dreaded GLUE MAN!!!![/size] My sidekick Sickly is a fan of the Glue Man, I think he wants to be him when he grows up.

I agree, "Went the Day Well" is another excellent film made during the war.
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Post by: Lowtardog on October 31, 2007, 09:26:23 PM
Quote from: "Plynkes"
Yeah, the dreaded GLUE MAN!!!![/size] My sidekick Sickly is a fan of the Glue Man, I think he wants to be him when he grows up.

I agree, "Went the Day Well" is another excellent film made during the war.


These are guilty pleasures for me now as my little girls cry Urghh Daddy why no colour on the TV or yuck old peoples films :mrgreen:
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Post by: xeoran on October 31, 2007, 10:54:11 PM
Quote from: "Plynkes"
Lowtardog, that's another Powell/Pressburger film. In the UK it is called "A Matter of Life and Death" and "Stairway to Heaven" was the US title.


That and "Went the Day Well" are absolute classics. Love 'em to bits. Its a pity the US War films of the era are so naff: Everyone stay well away from "Guadacanal Diary", its poorly acted, has no story, bad action and is unbelievably racist to boot! The only decent scene is the one at the end where they line up about 10 Stuarts and just charge them across the set.
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Post by: matakishi on October 31, 2007, 10:56:33 PM
Objective Burma! is a good American war film, shot during the war with some excellent glider footage at the end.
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Post by: matakishi on November 01, 2007, 11:19:03 PM
Got this today and made the family watch it  :lol:

(http://images.play.com/covers/3250284x.jpg)
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Post by: Plynkes on November 01, 2007, 11:21:40 PM
Ah, an old favourite from my childhood. Terry Thomas, Benny Hill, and Gert Fröbe in a Pickelhaube.

What more could you possibly want?
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: white knight on November 01, 2007, 11:28:18 PM
Quote from: "xeoran"
Aaargh! Curse of the Golden Flower!  :x  I've got to warn you- its schockingly bad. A great example of a lush, money coloured film with no soul. Also some fairly disturbing ethics on display.


I have watched it and must agree. Visually superb, but that doesn't make up for how bad it is, and neither does the big battle at the end. None of the characters is remotely likeable either, except maybe for the middle son whose motives at least seem less selfish.
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Post by: Prof.Witchheimer on November 01, 2007, 11:28:57 PM
a very good movie, matakishi, need that DVD too  :love:

and here comes something for the long painting winter afternoons  8)

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51-dzoGtWJL._SS500_.jpg)
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Post by: Hammers on November 02, 2007, 01:31:04 AM
Quote from: "Plynkes"
Ah, an old favourite from my childhood. Terry Thomas, Benny Hill, and Gert Fröbe in a Pickelhaube.

What more could you possibly want?


Well, you could opt for Benny Hill, Benny Hill and Benny Hill. That would, at least, be my choice.
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Post by: xeoran on November 02, 2007, 11:46:11 AM
Quote from: "white knight"
I have watched it and must agree. Visually superb, but that doesn't make up for how bad it is, and neither does the big battle at the end. None of the characters is remotely likeable either, except maybe for the middle son whose motives at least seem less selfish.


Absolutely. Did you spot the camer muck up in the battle (beardy talk)? They show 5 camera angles of archers when considering its a square it should only be four. Naughty editor! (Yes, I have a job where that sort of thing is exciting...)

Those Magnificent Men is fantastic. Have to look out for Operation Burma.[/i]
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Post by: Plynkes on November 03, 2007, 02:12:12 PM
My Powell and Pressburger binge continues:

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/matter-of-life-and-death.jpg)

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/niven.jpg)

Another slightly bonkers film in which an RAF pilot is forced to jump from his burning plane without a parachute, but due to some kind of error "upstairs" falls to earth totally unharmed. When the fault is discovered he is forced to try and convince the powers that be to let him stay on earth, because he has fallen in love with an American girl, and doesn't want to go yet. He is undergoing brain surgery to save his life, so you are never really sure whether the fantasy elements are merely hallucinations caused by his brain injury or not.

And another:

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/canterburyt.jpg)

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/canterbury2.jpg)

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/canterbury3.jpg)

Another bizarre offering from P&P. In wartime Britain a British Tommy, a Land Girl and a GI team up Scooby Doo-fashion to solve the mystery of the "Glue Man", a mysterious figure attacking girls at night and putting glue in their hair. The chap playing the GI was an actual GI rather than a proper actor, and I think he does a bang-up job, that being considered. I don't think he was ever in anything else afterwards. Shame, really.

All it needs is the Glue Man to say at the end "..And I would have gotten away with it too, if it hadn't been for these pesky, meddling kids!"

Both these films were propaganda pieces made to try and foster good UK-US relations, at a time when the huge influx of American military personnel was causing quite a bit of tension and resentment in Britain. How well they could have succeeded in this is debatable, as they are pretty mental (the second one especially).


Right, for a refreshing change of pace, a good friend of mine gave me this last night as a late birthday present. Just finished watching it:

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/death-proof-car.jpg)

I absolutely loved it. Some slightly annoying Tarantino-isms, but otherwise a return to form in my book.

Mind you, it has Rosario Dawson in it, and I just love her. I will watch any old tripe and enjoy it if she's in it (up to and including "Pluto Nash.")

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/dprosario.jpg)

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/rosario_dawson10.jpg)

This settles it, Dark Future is on the agenda again. I want to play something with fast cars!



Edited for spelling mistakes.
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Post by: Hammers on November 03, 2007, 02:37:33 PM
Quote from: "Plynkes"

Mind you, it has Rosario Dawson in it, and I just love her. I will watch any old tripe and enjoy it if she's in it (up to and including "Pluto Nash.")

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/dprosario.jpg)


Couldn't agree with you more. She not a classical beauty, even a bit "unusual" looking, which makes her even more attractive, or in fact SMOKIN' hot! *sizzle sound*
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Post by: matakishi on November 03, 2007, 03:03:21 PM
There were many, many Tarantino-isms in Death proof  :lol:
I still enjoyed most of it, and thanks to Death Proof I have just watched Gone in 60 Seconds (the original 1973 film, not the Angelina Jolie bollox) which is a mental film with one of the best endings ever.

The basic plot is about a group of car thieves trying to complete a huge 'steal to order' commission. The film was written by, directed by and starred H.B. Halicki, a stunt man who just wanted to make a car film. Everyone else in the film is played by friends of his (pretty well too). There are many funny bits and it offers a wonderful view of the fashions and attitudes of early 70s America.
I love the bikers :lol:

(http://www.dvdi.co.uk/sites/1/images/prod2/primary/medium/CCD30144.jpg)

The film is fairly normal until 40 minutes from the end when the final car chase begins where it seems the idea was to wreck as many cars as possible  :)

The chase lasts until the final credits. Fantastic film! If you plan to see it, don't look at any spoilers first though, knowing the nding will ruin it.

as an aside, aficionados are complaining that the original music score is gone which contained many songs of the time. Whilst I would have liked to hear it I didn't find my enjoyment spoiled by the new music. I imagine copyrights had a lot to do with the removal of the original.
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Post by: Rugland on November 03, 2007, 04:46:23 PM
I saw this one last evening at a friend. Where nice. Clint Eastwood firing MP40 submaschine guns in each hand simultaneously   :love:

(http://www.super-8-hobby.de/ufa457a.jpg)
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Plynkes on November 03, 2007, 05:00:05 PM
It is pretty much compulsory to like "Where Eagles Dare" if you want to fit in at Lead Adventure!  :)

The two-gun scene is my favourite part.
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Post by: Vanvlak on November 03, 2007, 05:46:37 PM
The music and the daring do is good too; as is the cable car fight (ouch!).
And the bus ride at the end is grand - now THAT's a subject for a Dark Future chase......
By the way, are the rules for that still available (and that uses up newbie question no. 2 for me)?
A bus with a huge snowplough would be a nice project for this.
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: knoxville on November 03, 2007, 06:16:49 PM
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Post by: Plynkes on November 03, 2007, 07:02:37 PM
Vanvlak, I think there was a time when you could download them from the net, but I reckon GW have hunted down and shot all sites doing that.

I still have my original box from when it came out, but I haven't had the rules for years. Someone I lost contact with borrowed the rulebook and I never got it back. Luckily a couple of weeks ago I found someone selling a set on eBay. His set had the rulebook but the plastic cars had been destroyed by the ill-advised application of some paint-stripper. This meant that I was pretty much on my own as far as the bidding went (I didn't care about the cars, I just wanted the rulebook), so I picked it up for what I thought was a pretty good price.

Just have to keep your eyes peeled, I guess.
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Post by: Vanvlak on November 03, 2007, 07:10:18 PM
Thanks, Plynkes.
So - eyes peeled for (i) Dark Future and (ii) one bus (iii) one snow plough  :mrgreen:

Back on topic: will be seeing, rather than have see: Stardust. Swashbuckling, by the looks of it.
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Post by: Plynkes on November 03, 2007, 07:11:57 PM
Britannia used to make (may well still do for all I know) a WWII 20mm bus like the one in the film. All you'd need to do would be to make the snow plough.

20mm isn't everyone's cup of tea, but it's the right scale for Dark Future.
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Vanvlak on November 03, 2007, 07:25:44 PM
Quote from: "Plynkes"
Britannia used to make (may well still do for all I know) a WWII 20mm bus like the one in the film. All you'd need to do would be to make the snow plough.

20mm isn't everyone's cup of tea, but it's the right scale for Dark Future.

Ah, splendid - a snowplouch shouldn;t be much trouble.
Thanks again, Plynkes.  :)
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Lowtardog on November 03, 2007, 08:48:26 PM
Zombies for me this weekend, picked up Flight of the Dead and the Zombie Diaries
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Plynkes on November 03, 2007, 09:56:27 PM
As an aside, going back to "Death Proof" for a second, I forgot to say: I played "Ship's Mast" once, and it was a helluva lot of fun.

Luckily we weren't attacked by a homicidal stuntman the day I did it.
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Prof.Witchheimer on November 10, 2007, 09:30:31 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5110VRVH3AL._SS500_.jpg)
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Grimm on November 10, 2007, 09:53:41 PM
:lol: looks like a Porn  :lol:
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Plynkes on November 10, 2007, 11:22:50 PM
It's a terrible film, I have it on DVD, too. One of those sunday paper giveaways.

On the upside, you do briefly see the black chick without her kit on.
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Prof.Witchheimer on November 10, 2007, 11:35:29 PM
not yet watched it, thought Michael Caine and Omar Sharif should be a good movie
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Plynkes on November 10, 2007, 11:46:58 PM
Yeah, you'd think so, wouldn't you? I did, too. Peter Ustinov and all. He's almost always worth watching.

This is one of those pictures that sadly adds up to less than the sum of its parts.

 :(
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: xeoran on November 10, 2007, 11:48:15 PM
Quote from: "Plynkes"
On the upside, you do briefly see the black chick without her kit on.


Good to see you've still got your priorities right!  :lol:
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Lowtardog on November 10, 2007, 11:49:34 PM
I once watched an Interview with Michael Caine and he said he wasn`t too choosy about what films he appeared in as it paid the bills, this could only be beaten by Jaws IV for naff :freak:
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: xeoran on November 11, 2007, 01:14:46 PM
Quote from: "Lowtardog"
I once watched an Interview with Michael Caine and he said he wasn`t too choosy about what films he appeared in as it paid the bills, this could only be beaten by Jaws IV for naff :freak:


Not Jaws 4, where he swims from the plane to the boat and emerges into the boat...bone dry! :lol:
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Lowtardog on November 11, 2007, 01:27:46 PM
Not Jaws 4, where he swims from the plane to the boat and emerges into the boat...bone dry! :lol:[/quote]

Thats cos the safari suit was pure Nylon :D
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: xeoran on November 11, 2007, 04:10:26 PM
Quote from: "Lowtardog"
Thats cos the safari suit was pure Nylon :D


 :lol:
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Hammers on November 11, 2007, 05:40:05 PM
Ah, this reminds me of the days back when mother had Nils... The one more sordid (which is was not reallly naughty at all) of the four cinemas in my little town had two showings a day of which the first was always a war movie (including the type of which Ashanti sorts under) and the second always a light porn flick. I remember how I was embarrassed about stopping to check out the screen shot displays, in case anyone would think I was looking at the naughty ones. Which I of course was duing in a furtive way.

Love Peter Ustinov, by the way. I am currently reading the autobiography of Christopher Lee. It is going to be interesting to see what he writes of the fellow.
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Malamute on November 13, 2007, 11:15:49 AM
Quote from: "Plynkes"
It's a terrible film, I have it on DVD, too. One of those sunday paper giveaways.

On the upside, you do briefly see the black chick without her kit on.


I believe she is married to David Bowie  :?:
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Prof.Witchheimer on November 13, 2007, 11:28:23 AM
the pic isnt't from the DVD cover, that's just the poster but I like it a lot

(http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/images/movie/large/Too_Late_The_Hero_(1970).jpg)
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Plynkes on November 13, 2007, 12:20:35 PM
David Bowie is married to the Somali model Iman (who was in one of the Star Trek films as the shape-changing alien).

The woman in "Ashanti" is an American model and actress called Beverly Johnson.

Edit: Easy misake to make, though. They do look a little similar, and both were fashion models:

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/bevjohn.jpg)

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/iman.jpg)
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Malamute on November 13, 2007, 12:51:36 PM
Plynkes - I stand corrected  :)  Actually am I right to think Iman was in "No way out" alongside old Kev Costner and that girl (whose name escapes me) he got it on with in the back of the limo :?:  I will always remember that scene :wink:
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Lowtardog on November 13, 2007, 01:19:40 PM
Quote from: "Prof.Witchheimer"
the pic isnt't from the DVD cover, that's just the poster but I like it a lot

(http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/images/movie/large/Too_Late_The_Hero_(1970).jpg)


I have this, picked it up for £3 at woolies a good film
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Hammers on November 13, 2007, 02:37:16 PM
Quote from: "Malamute"
Plynkes - I stand corrected  :)  Actually am I right to think Iman was in "No way out" alongside old Kev Costner and that girl (whose name escapes me) he got it on with in the back of the limo :?:  I will always remember that scene :wink:



Nonono, that is Sean Young, hottie and Holywood enfent terrible of the 80's. That scene caused an outbreak of limo backseat fornication among high school prom goers.
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Plynkes on November 13, 2007, 03:45:39 PM
He's right, actually. Both Iman and Sean Young are in "No Way Out."
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Hammers on November 13, 2007, 03:54:17 PM
Quote from: "Plynkes"
He's right, actually. Both Iman and Sean Young are in "No Way Out."


He makes out with both of them in the limo? I thought I'd remember THAT. :-)
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Malamute on November 13, 2007, 05:01:22 PM
Quote from: "hammershield"
Quote from: "Plynkes"
He's right, actually. Both Iman and Sean Young are in "No Way Out."


He makes out with both of them in the limo? I thought I'd remember THAT. :-)


No - now your mind is working overtime.  :o Iman plays Sean Youngs friend. :)
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Prof.Witchheimer on November 30, 2007, 04:28:52 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51pijAIapBL._SS500_.jpg)
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: matakishi on November 30, 2007, 04:44:54 PM
Filmed at Brookwood just down the road from me, the hangars are still there but there's a supermarket on the rest of it  :lol:

Great film!
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: PeteMurray on November 30, 2007, 06:50:16 PM
Quote from: "Prof.Witchheimer"
Tollkuehnen Maenner


In a most peculiar twist of fate, my son was singing this song to himself the other day. He is four. I have no idea where he heard it, but he had an excellent grasp of the lyrics.
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Plynkes on November 30, 2007, 09:34:14 PM
Was he singing it in German, then?

That is impressive.
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: vikotnik on November 30, 2007, 11:10:59 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51fO-AMNp3L._SS500_.jpg)

and

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41SD47DQJGL._SS500_.jpg)

Man, these are spooky...
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Hammers on December 01, 2007, 01:29:48 AM
I have always been curious about Der Golem. Tell me what you thought.

I just got this:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ve0czwDJL._AA240_.jpg)
I always thought Paul Veerhofen was quite tacky (Showgirls) but this one was pretty good. Still, it would be Veerhofen it there wasn't a fair bit of violence and nekkid skin but an alright story about the dutch resistance.
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Driscoles on December 01, 2007, 08:23:02 AM
I saw Black Book. Excellent movie !

I received this one. Its not really inspiring but it is a great touching movie !

(http://www.itv.com/img/470x113/My-Boy-Jack-83607cf9-a97e-45a1-a019-da216c8cff3b.jpg)

Thanks again mate !
Björn
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: vikotnik on December 01, 2007, 11:48:41 AM
Quote
I have always been curious about Der Golem. Tell me what you thought.


I will get back to You as soon as I have seen it. Right now, I am Stuck in a few commissions,so it will have to wait a little; there is absolutely NO use in watching a SILENT film while painting... :lol:  :lol:
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Vanvlak on December 01, 2007, 11:58:34 AM
These films can be found in full here on Google video. They're public domain, so they are open to public viewing.

Der Golem:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3815557303881346464&q=the+golem&total=928&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0

Nosferatu:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6185283610506001721
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Plynkes on December 01, 2007, 01:49:25 PM
Quote from: "Driscoles"

I received this one. Its not really inspiring but it is a great touching movie !

(http://www.itv.com/img/470x113/My-Boy-Jack-83607cf9-a97e-45a1-a019-da216c8cff3b.jpg)

Thanks again mate !
Björn



No, thank you[/b] for the free signed copy of T&T, Björn, old thing.
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Vanvlak on December 11, 2007, 07:22:43 PM
Not quite received (cheap so and so!) but seen on Google movies:
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.
Weird use of artsy scenery, and an interesting plot. Good source for the sanatorium scenario fans.
Here's the link:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5592055712639137896
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Dwaine on December 11, 2007, 07:28:00 PM
(http://www.screenshot-online.com/typo3temp/pics/84ddc8e27d.jpg)

(http://www.kinowelt.de/material/news/DerLetzteKaiser_DVD-D-1.jpg)
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Plynkes on December 18, 2007, 09:33:11 PM
Went Christmas shopping today instead of working. Spotted this on the shelf so treated myself to it (I deserve it! Shopping is very tiring and stressful to me!  I'm not someone like Paris Hilton or Serena Williams, so I do not have a natural enthusiasm and talent for shopping hard-wired into me, I find it tough going):

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/9thCompany.jpg)

Also have to report: Let the side down. Bought Sickers some 40K stuff for his Christmas gift. Sorry, lads...
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Col.Stone on December 19, 2007, 01:42:55 PM
I thought 9th Co was one of the best movies this year, but the subtitling made my head hurt :roll:
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Chairface on December 30, 2007, 05:36:06 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/517G4GJJMEL._AA240_.jpg)

Got this one for Christmas. My favourite Who episode of all time, a fantastic VSF adventure. I am furiously painting all of the characters so I can play a scenario!
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: white knight on December 30, 2007, 05:54:21 PM
Pan's Labyrinth. Great inspiration for SCW and Spanish Weird War II.
(http://thedarkerside.to/rants/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/407px-Pan's_Labyrinth.jpg)

POTC 3: At world's end. Need I say more?
(http://www.unfoolish-miracles.net/potc/newpic29.jpg)

Alatriste. Bit slow/dull/lackluster at times but not a bad inspiration. Bonus points for the Dutch/Flemish speaking Dutch.
(http://www.muchocine.net/img/alatriste.jpg)
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Lowtardog on December 30, 2007, 08:18:59 PM
Quote from: "Plynkes"
Went Christmas shopping today instead of working. Spotted this on the shelf so treated myself to it (I deserve it! Shopping is very tiring and stressful to me!  I'm not someone like Paris Hilton or Serena Williams, so I do not have a natural enthusiasm and talent for shopping hard-wired into me, I find it tough going):

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/9thCompany.jpg)

Also have to report: Let the side down. Bought Sickers some 40K stuff for his Christmas gift. Sorry, lads...


A great film and dont worry we wont tell anyone about 40k :mrgreen:
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Prof.Witchheimer on December 31, 2007, 12:14:13 AM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51RLW8UAgUL._SS500_.jpg)

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5127PR5E69L._SS500_.jpg)
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Heldrak on December 31, 2007, 01:42:34 AM
You folks wanna talk about an inspiring film:

The Assassination Bureau!

(http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u219/Heldrak/images.jpg)

(http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u219/Heldrak/images-2.jpg)

(http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u219/Heldrak/images-1.jpg)


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Assassination_Bureau

The young and delicious Diana Rigg and the Young and not-too-drunk-yet Oliver Reed in a great VSF film (somwhat marred by Telly Savalas' poor performance as the villain of the piece and an over-the-top airship attack on the crowned heads of Europe at the end, but well worth a look).
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Westfalia Chris on December 31, 2007, 10:32:36 AM
Quote from: "Heldrak"
You folks wanna talk about an inspiring film:

The Assassination Bureau!


God, how I wish THAT ONE made its way to stores here! Still got a tape copy taken from a TV screening years ago, but I´d love to have it on DVD...
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: matakishi on December 31, 2007, 10:58:42 AM
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/B000228EIQ/?condition=new

I'm happy to get one for you and pass it on  :)
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Plynkes on December 31, 2007, 11:02:39 AM
Just to point out that is Region 1, in case Chris hasn't got a player that can handle that.

I'm still on my first DVD player (it's quite old) and it isn't multi-region.
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: matakishi on December 31, 2007, 12:03:17 PM
Quote from: "Plynkes"
I'm still on my first DVD player (it's quite old) and it isn't multi-region.


No excuse these days with multi region players available for £25.00 (or less)  :)
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Plynkes on December 31, 2007, 12:23:05 PM
My excuse is that the old one still works. That's £25 I could spend on sweets, fizzy wine or a single Games Workshop figure.

I'll get a multi-region player when smoke starts coming out of the top the old one and it refuses to play my Father Ted DVDs.
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Westfalia Chris on December 31, 2007, 02:10:06 PM
Hm, matakishi, thanks for the offer! I might get back to you, but I´ll look out for it first... I guess the region is less of a problem than is the NTSC coding - I´m unsure if my DVD drive inside my NoteBook will read that one, although it eats all region codes without any problems.

There´s a comic and movie convention coming up in early March. One more movie to add to the "look for"-list.

:)
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Chairface on December 31, 2007, 04:20:03 PM
Quote from: "Plynkes"
My excuse is that the old one still works. That's £25 I could spend on sweets, fizzy wine or a single Games Workshop figure.


 :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

Funny. But true!
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Overlord on December 31, 2007, 05:15:43 PM
Quote from: "Plynkes"
I'm still on my first DVD player (it's quite old) and it isn't multi-region.

Quote from: "matakishi"
No excuse these days with multi region players available for £25.00 (or less)  :)

Quote from: "Plynkes"
My excuse is that the old one still works. That's £25 I could spend on sweets, fizzy wine or a single Games Workshop figure.
I'll get a multi-region player when smoke starts coming out of the top the old one and it refuses to play my Father Ted DVDs

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v480/overlord_awc/MrsDoyle.jpg) Ahh, go on! - Go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on....
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Plynkes on January 01, 2008, 01:27:53 AM
Quote from: "Westfalia Chris"
I guess the region is less of a problem than is the NTSC coding .


That's the bit I'm never sure of. I once sent Patrick Wilson of TVAG a DVD of "Shout at the Devil" because you couldn't get it in the States. It was Region Zero, which is supposed mean it will work on any player, but due to the whole PAL/NTSC thing it wouldn't work on his.

I don't pretend to know what that is all about, but it's bloody annoying, and makes me wary of buying Region 1, even if I did have a multi-region player.



Someone really ought to have Mrs. Doyle as their avatar. I vote that Overlord should do it.  Ah, go on, go on, go on, go on (etc.).
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: matakishi on January 01, 2008, 01:37:37 AM
Your player won't have a problem with NTSC, it's not bothered about such things, but your TV might if it's over 8-9 years old.
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Westfalia Chris on January 01, 2008, 10:48:00 AM
Quote from: "matakishi"
Your player won't have a problem with NTSC, it's not bothered about such things, but your TV might if it's over 8-9 years old.


Depends - when I bought my first TV (which I still use) in 1997, there were no NTSC-capable TV sets available. Period. However, there was a host of "multinorm" VCRs, and those were surprisingly affordable, so I got one which plays all three, PAL, NTSC and SECAM/MESECAM and transforms the signals for use on a PAL TV set. Didn´t let me down in all those years, but since the remote´s broken by now, I have a hard time reprogramming it every time those cable bastards decide to switch the channels.

Will change to a hard drive recorder once I can cobble up the cash.
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Aaron on January 07, 2008, 04:08:19 PM
I was at the local Half Price Books (a US discount book/music/movie chain) on Saturday and picked up a DVD compilation of 50 "classic" horror movies. There was one from 1936 called something like "Revolt of the Zombies". The synopsis sounded like the inspiration for the greatest pulp game ever played. The synopsis says the sinister Russian Count Mazovie discovers the ancient Cambodian secret of making zombies and sets up shop making an undead army in the ruins of Angkor Wat post WW1. An expeditionary force is sent to stop him, but one of its members has his own agenda.

Unfortunately, the movie is mostly about a love triangle that incidentally involves some mind control. No undead in it whatsoever! There is a cool sequence at the beginning where a regiment of French Cambodians under mind control are wiping out a trench full of Austrians.

Luckily the set includes Nosferatu, Metropolis, and the Hunchback, so I know I got my $20's worth out of it anyway.
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Prof.Witchheimer on January 07, 2008, 05:31:58 PM
"The Good German", highly recommend, a true film noir

(http://www.libertyfilmfestival.com/libertas/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/the-good-german.jpg)
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Hammers on January 09, 2008, 01:16:32 PM
Received this little pearl in the mail just after New Years and it made the holidays feel a little bit longer than usual:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51GgUEUSfSL._AA240_.jpg)

A truly quirky take on VSF!
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Lowtardog on January 09, 2008, 01:27:11 PM
Quote from: "hammershield"
Received this little pearl in the mail just after New Years and it made the holidays feel a little bit longer than usual:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51GgUEUSfSL._AA240_.jpg)

A truly quirky take on VSF!


I saw a trailer or episode of this a while back, looks quite good
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Hammers on January 09, 2008, 01:29:00 PM
Quote from: "Lowtardog"
I saw a trailer or episode of this a while back, looks quite good


There is only one off 20 min episode. Mignola is not planning to do any more of him. Which is a pity.

Edit: ...so having seen the Making off documentary included in the DVD I think this old Swedish proverb seems appropriate for the end product:

"A lot of noise for so little wool" said the crone, shearing the pig.
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: The_Wisecrack on January 12, 2008, 11:17:18 PM
this film is awesome. absolutely unrealistic but cool. brilliant for a zombie apoci lipse game or something. (http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u125/lovinggiants/505554I-Am-Legend-Posters.jpg)
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: matakishi on January 15, 2008, 07:27:38 PM
Got my copy of this today:

(http://www.cthulhulives.org/store/images/cocdvdfront.gif)

£7.24 including postage from the USA.
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Prof.Witchheimer on January 15, 2008, 07:39:23 PM
very touching movie

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51NP49ECPNL._SS500_.jpg)
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: assi on January 16, 2008, 08:17:29 PM
(http://www.club-schocken.de/bin/he1164928337.jpg)

I saw it 10 Years ago and i gotta say, i memorized it cooler as it is. But i think its still a nice addition to the DVD Rack
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Prof.Witchheimer on January 16, 2008, 08:48:42 PM
here I'd like to quote Plynkes "that is nothing to do with gaming, but I love it nonetheless". One of the most beautiful movies I ever seen.


(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51F8R45RGBL._SS500_.jpg)
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Hammers on January 16, 2008, 10:04:21 PM
Quote from: "Prof.Witchheimer -reg. The Station Agent"
here I'd like to quote Plynkes "that is nothing to do with gaming, but I love it nonetheless". One of the most beautiful movies I ever seen.


Yes, I agree. The short fellow is also doing a splendid little role, no pun intended, in "Death at a Funeral", which is a riot.

Anyhoo, this BBC series, which I just bought on DVD, is bloody great! I don't know how you Brits manage to crank out so many excellent, excellent TV shows:
(http://www.foyleswar.com/media/images/region1fw1.jpg)

Also, I bought the 2002 version of Doctor Zhjivago, sporting Kiera Knightley, without knowing anything about if it holds its ground against the original. I am saving it for the weekend but I'd like to hear coments on it if you have seen it:

(http://www.imdb.com/media/imdb/01/I/81/09/60/10m.jpg)
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Prof.Witchheimer on January 16, 2008, 10:17:41 PM
Quote from: "hammershield"
I don't know how you Brits manage to crank out so many excellent, excellent TV shows


of course, they do! And I heard that Zhivago one should be not bad at all, need it too, my daughter is a fan of Keira after her splendid performance in the "Pride and Prejudice".
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Hammers on January 16, 2008, 10:51:24 PM
Quote from: "Prof.Witchheimer"
And I heard that Zhivago one should be not bad at all, need it too, my daughter is a fan of Keira after her splendid performance in the "Pride and Prejudice".


She was very good in Atonement to, which is a movie I could recommend the forum since it had very evocative scenes from the Dunkerque evacuation.

I hope your doughter likes her (K K) for her skills as an actress. I gal should not have to grow up thinking it is enough to drape your skin on a skelleton; you need some decent layers of fat and muscle on there to.
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: warrenpeace on January 17, 2008, 01:41:56 AM
Quote from: "hammershield"


Anyhoo, this BBC series, which I just bought on DVD, is bloody great! I don't know how you Brits manage to crank out so many excellent, excellent TV shows:
(http://www.foyleswar.com/media/images/region1fw1.jpg)



Fantastic series.  I've seen the first 16 episodes.  I was really disappointed that the 17th episode did not air in the USA on January 6.  The last season is coming out this year.
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Prof.Witchheimer on January 17, 2008, 07:09:04 AM
Quote from: "hammershield"

She was very good in Atonement to, which is a movie I could recommend the forum since it had very evocative scenes from the Dunkerque evacuation.


Atonement was great, we watched it in cinema.

Quote from: "hammershield"

I hope your doughter likes her (K K) for her skills as an actress.


yes, she does :)


Quote from: "hammershield"
I gal should not have to grow up thinking it is enough to drape your skin on a skelleton; you need some decent layers of fat and muscle on there to.


actually I dont think that Keira needs more fat and muscles but that's of course is a matter of taste :mrgreen:
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: revford on January 17, 2008, 10:11:34 AM
Quote from: "hammershield"
Anyhoo, this BBC series, which I just bought on DVD, is bloody great! I don't know how you Brits manage to crank out so many excellent, excellent TV shows:


The BBC turns out so much good stuff because it doesn't have to worry about ratings, advertising money or corporate partners, just quality.

It's funded by our tax money, so watching the BBC is advertising free and things we miss are freely available on their website for the next week.  :)

The BBC is great.
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Paul Hicks on January 17, 2008, 10:55:09 AM
On Tuesday I took the wife to see this film

http://imdb.com/title/tt0813547/

It's based on a group of Jewish counterfeiters in a camp during the war. They are made to make the perfect Pound and dollar notes to undermine the British and American economies. The thing is you start hoping they get it right, thus helping the Nazis win the war.

Very good indeed,

Paul
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Post by: Hammers on January 17, 2008, 11:43:36 AM
Quote from: "Paul Hicks"
On Tuesday I took the wife to see this film

http://imdb.com/title/tt0813547/

It's based on a group of Jewish counterfeiters in a camp during the war. They are made to make the perfect Pound and dollar notes to undermine the British and American economies. The thing is you start hoping they get it right, thus helping the Nazis win the war.

Very good indeed,

Paul


Looking forward to that one.
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Hammers on January 17, 2008, 11:47:24 AM
Just got this one:

(http://www.discshop.se/shop/img/omslag/front_large/9/59369.jpg)

A 4 hour documentary on the Spanish Civil War. A lot of new material apparently.
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: dusser on January 21, 2008, 07:07:03 AM
Rented this from my local library.  Hutton does a fantastic job as Archie Goodwin.


(http://ia.imdb.com/media/imdb/01/I/37/53/28m.jpg)
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Plynkes on January 21, 2008, 08:23:28 AM
Yeah, those Nero Wolfe things are always worth watching. They are often shown on Saturday afternoons here.
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Post by: Hammers on January 23, 2008, 07:39:55 PM
This was a pleasant surprise today:

2.5hrs of Sharpe goodness whitout me knowing it excisted" And at 5 EUR!

I also should metion, esp. to you WWII SE Asia buffs, this flick, which did not suck:

(http://ia.imdb.com/media/imdb/01/I/15/99/83m.jpg)

/h
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Post by: Hammers on January 24, 2008, 11:24:12 AM
I've been home from work several days now, bed bound with something which feels like the plague. The one good thing about it is that you are allowed to sooth your fever ridden body with lots and lots of DVDs. Todays screening, the 1984 tv production of Kim:

(http://ia.imdb.com/media/imdb/01/I/75/38/70/10m.jpg)

"If it's got Wolseley helmets in it it must be good."
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Post by: Westfalia Chris on January 24, 2008, 08:27:08 PM
For once, I can post in this thread.

Got this one today, for 5.99€:

http://www.cineol.net/mostrarimagen.php?tipo=1&id=11473

Original Italian title is "Apocalisse sul Fiume Giallo", German DVD release title (an almost literal, AFAIK) "Hölle am Gelben Fluss", US and UK release titles where "Dam on the Yellow River" and "Last Train to Shanghai".

Basically, in 1949, Chinese Communist Guerillas plot to blow up a dam on the Yellow River, thus "causing the death of millions of people" (seriously, that´s the ONLY reason given... alright, the Communist ringleader wants his name to get known all over the world, but still, sounds pretty stupid). Now, while the premise is... you know, the rest of the flick is actually rather decent. Starring Georges Marchal and Anita Ekberg and some passable side characters, the story revolves about a down-trodden American reporter who gets caught between the "story of his life" and a blonde, philantropic love interest.

Good equipment (possibly American leftovers rented out by the Italian army, there´s a lot of Jeeps, 105mm howitzers, some trucks and all that stuff), good photography, average dubbing (no original language track on the DVD), and some passable action scenes.

None too bad. 6 Euros is a bit much, but if you find it for less than 5 Euros/Dollars, give it a try. Great BoB potential with some twisting of the setting.

Also bought "Johnny Mnemonic" for 5€. And since we know it´s a decent movie, no need to dwell on it.
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Post by: JollyBob on January 24, 2008, 08:33:50 PM
Quote from: "Westfalia Chris"
Also bought "Johnny Mnemonic" for 5€. And since we know it´s a decent movie, no need to dwell on it.


Did you see a special Germans-only version or something then?

The yellow river one sounds like fun though. Nice find.

I recently got my hands on 9th Company, Days of Glory, Saints and Soldiers, and True Grit. All in the Woolworths sale for less than a fiver each (sometimes a lot less). All British LAF members should check it out now while stocks last.

Go on, quick! I'll time you!

Also bought SuperFly for two quid. I feel bad for mocking Chris now.  :oops:
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Post by: Westfalia Chris on January 24, 2008, 08:40:38 PM
Quote from: "JollyBob"
Quote from: "Westfalia Chris"
Also bought "Johnny Mnemonic" for 5€. And since we know it´s a decent movie, no need to dwell on it.


Did you see a special Germans-only version or something then?

(...)

Also bought SuperFly for two quid. I feel bad for mocking Chris now.  :oops:


:lol:

Really? Why the bad rap? Alright, I *might* just be a little biased because of my Shadowrun past, and I admit that the acting is quite... ah... subdued. Yes, I think that sounds fitting. But the design and SFX are pretty nifty, and it´s good inspiration for Street Violence.

And hey, it´s got Takeshi Kitano as a Yak´za kingpin! Frickin´a! Must be an age thing, I´m sure. ;) :lol:
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Post by: Hammers on January 24, 2008, 08:42:59 PM
Quote from: "Westfalia Chris"
...Starring Georges Marchal and Anita Ekberg


Wooo! The myth of the ample chested Swedish blonds will never die!
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Post by: Plynkes on January 24, 2008, 08:45:10 PM
I remember really enjoying the original story of 'Johnny Mnemonic' when I was dead mad on Cyberpunk and all that rot.

But I've never seen the film, or at least I don't remember ever seeing it. Everybody told me it was really bad, so I avoided it to stop it messing with my pleasant memories of the short story (I think it was a short story. Was it a novel? I can't even remember that).
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Hammers on January 24, 2008, 08:49:48 PM
Trust me, it sucks.
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Post by: JollyBob on January 24, 2008, 08:52:18 PM
Granted, if you took the walking plank that is Keanu Reeves out of the picture, Johnny Mnemonic isn't actually that bad. And it has possibly the best role of Dolph Lundgren's "career". And a talking dolphin.

So yeah, I guess I shouldn't take the mick. I just can't stand Reeves in anything other than Bill & Ted movies.

Again, that's more of a confession than a condemnation, really isn't it?

Bugger.
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Post by: Plynkes on January 26, 2008, 02:11:46 PM
Gone all Frenchified this week. Not exactly wargamer pictures really, but I hope nobody minds.

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/a_bout_de_souffle.jpg)

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/bandeapart.jpg)

Actually, I suppose they are wargamery, in a Rattrap kind of way.  :)
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Post by: JollyBob on January 26, 2008, 02:20:36 PM
I can hear the cool jazz and smell the gauloise from here...

Nice choices. I've had them recommended to me several times, but never actually got round to watching them.
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Post by: Plynkes on January 26, 2008, 02:25:42 PM
Oops. Forgot these two the other day:

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/Yojimbo.jpg)
Already got this one on VHS, but my video player is showing signs of giving up the ghost, and I prefer DVD anyway (just as it is about to be replaced by something else itself).

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/rash2.jpg)

Reminds me, I've still got my brother's copy of 'Throne of Blood.' Better get it back to him. Oh dear, and the young 'un's copy of 'All Quiet on the Western Front' (the one with John Boy Walton in it). I'm being a bit naughty hoarding other folks' DVDs...
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Post by: vikotnik on January 26, 2008, 03:14:51 PM
Quote from: "Plynkes"
Gone all Frenchified this week. Not exactly wargamer pictures really, but I hope nobody minds.

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/a_bout_de_souffle.jpg)



:o

At first glance, I thought: "Whew! That Plynkes fellow, he really is open-minded! He even watches french films about dancing!"



What I read was: 'About a Shuffle...'!
  :lol:
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Post by: Plynkes on January 26, 2008, 03:20:58 PM
Actually, the other film 'Bande à part', is quite famous for its dancing sequence.

Tarantino bangs on about it sometimes, and it was his inspiration for the dancing scene in 'Pulp Fiction', which is an homage to it of sorts.


To an English eye it looks like it's called About a soufflé. Some kind of Nigella Lawson or Jamie Oliver cookery programme, then?  :)
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Post by: twrchtrwyth on January 26, 2008, 06:42:38 PM
Quote from: "Plynkes"
Gone all Frenchified this week. Not exactly wargamer pictures really, but I hope nobody minds.
Actually, I suppose they are wargamery, in a Rattrap kind of way.  :)

Is this a new period? :lol:
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Hammers on January 26, 2008, 06:46:05 PM
Quote from: "Plynkes"
Actually, the other film 'Bande à part', is quite famous for its dancing sequence.

Tarantino bangs on about it sometimes, and it was his inspiration for the dancing scene in 'Pulp Fiction', which is an homage to it of sorts.


To an English eye it looks like it's called About a soufflé. Some kind of Nigella Lawson or Jamie Oliver cookery programme, then?  :)


To quote a fellow LA, "There's tonights nightmare, then..."

I do wish someone would make some French film noir and apache mniatures. Brigade and to some extent Artizan are up to a good start with FFF, French Police and convicts but I need Jean Gabin, Simone Signore (spelling?) and that apache tango couple someone mentioned elsehere.
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Post by: assi on January 26, 2008, 09:24:10 PM
(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B0002HODU4.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg)
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: twrchtrwyth on January 27, 2008, 12:34:31 AM
Quote from: "assi"
(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B0002HODU4.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg)

Excellent film. :)
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Post by: supervike on January 29, 2008, 07:35:48 PM
I saw it about a year ago, but finally found it in the 'bargain bin' to add it to my library.

(http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h99/prisonspyder/slither_ver2.jpg)

But it is one of those movies where I had NO expectations (other than it would be awful) and was pleasantly surprised on how fun it really was.

It would make a great gaming scenario, and I plan on having a go at that eventually.
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Post by: Captain Blood on January 29, 2008, 08:21:31 PM
Oh yes, I remember going to see Slither when it came out... Didn't get in the bath for a month after that!  :wink:


On another film completely, I got the extended Director's cut DVD of Troy this weekend - I think it came out fairly recently...

I was really disappointed by the original release, but this extended version is a whole different proposition.

MUCH better in so many ways. Much more developed characters. Makes much more sense all round. Really quite a good film. I'd recommend it.
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Post by: JollyBob on January 30, 2008, 09:23:52 AM
I remember reading an interview with Peter O'Toole, who said he actually snuck out of the premier of Troy after 20 minutes because he thought it was so awful, his own perfomance included.

Nuff respec'.

Slither was funny though. A perfect Drunk Movie.  8)
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: assi on January 30, 2008, 10:38:33 AM
Quote from: "twrchtrwyth"
Quote from: "assi"
(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B0002HODU4.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg)

Excellent film. :)


Jepp, but the Trailers on the DVD were even better  :lol: "Giant Lizard of Death"  :lol:

And way better than

(http://artfiles.art.com/images/-/The-Omega-Man-Poster-C10126240.jpeg)

I way really dissappointed in Charlton "Gunslinger" Heston.. I thought there would be more shooting.
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Post by: Westfalia Chris on January 30, 2008, 01:01:23 PM
Major movie moola today:

(http://lolligagging.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/beast_from_20000_fathoms_dvd.jpg)(http://www.bocadoinferno.com/romepeige/filmes/V/proibido.jpg)

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/87/Clashtitans.jpg)(http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/PE/676002~The-Day-The-Earth-Stood-Still-Posters.jpg)

Watching "The Beast" as I type. Who did those "Ice Station Zebra" miniatures again? ;)
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Post by: Prof.Witchheimer on January 30, 2008, 01:10:39 PM
Quote from: "Westfalia Chris"

(http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/PE/676002~The-Day-The-Earth-Stood-Still-Posters.jpg)


very good one!
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Post by: PeteMurray on January 30, 2008, 01:51:35 PM
Chris, have you come down with Harryhausen's Syndrome? In addition to stop-motion miniatures, you may also notice such symptoms as matte backdrops and bad acting.  :wink:

"Clash of the Titans" is one of my favorite Saturday Afternoon movies ever. I think I saw it first when I was 9 or so, and was convinced it was High Art.

I also missed Poly's francocinemaphilia. I'd love to write a High Moderne spy/caper/heist game. No minis for it, but it'd be a great excuse to watch the movies.
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Post by: Vanvlak on January 30, 2008, 01:53:20 PM
"Clash of the Titans" is one of my favorite Saturday Afternoon movies ever. I think I saw it first when I was 9 or so, and was convinced it was High Art.

And part of it was filmed here.  :)
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Post by: PeteMurray on January 30, 2008, 01:58:42 PM
Is there anything Malta can't do?  :lol:
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Vanvlak on January 30, 2008, 04:46:46 PM
Quote from: "PeteMurray"
Is there anything Malta can't do?  :lol:


Lots, unfortunately - for example, provide me with someone interested in Aeronef, or pulp, or the Russian Civil War....
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Post by: Westfalia Chris on January 30, 2008, 06:48:05 PM
Quote from: "PeteMurray"
Chris, have you come down with Harryhausen's Syndrome? In addition to stop-motion miniatures, you may also notice such symptoms as matte backdrops and bad acting.  :wink:


Heretic! ;) :lol:

Well, back in the days, it was solid workmanship and it showed! None of those CGI whippersnapper shenanigans nowadays! Harrumph!  :twisted:  :wink:

Will choose "The Beast" over the 1997 Godzilla anytime.
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Post by: twrchtrwyth on January 30, 2008, 06:59:41 PM
Quote from: "assi"


Jepp, but the Trailers on the DVD were even better  :lol: "Giant Lizard of Death"  :lol: I way really dissappointed in Charlton "Gunslinger" Heston.. I thought there would be more shooting.[/quote]

Yes, my order, The Omega Man, The Last Man On Earth and then I Am Legend.

Chris, I remember that movie as The Lost Valley Of The Gwangi.
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Post by: knoxville on February 03, 2008, 10:25:57 AM
Alien quadrilogy
X-Men trilogy
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Plynkes on February 05, 2008, 11:40:21 AM
Got that Alatriste thing that everybody is always banging on about here. Wanted to see what all the fuss was over.
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Vanvlak on February 05, 2008, 11:50:23 AM
Quote from: "Plynkes"
Got that Alatriste thing that everybody is always banging on about here. Wanted to see what all the fuss was over.


And...  :?:
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Post by: Plynkes on February 05, 2008, 12:35:20 PM
I haven't had a chance to watch it yet. Some of us have work to do, you know.  :)

But I can tell you this much about it:

It has a moody picture of Viggo Mortensen on the front, and some scenes from the film on the back. No little book inside, though. Appears to be a Spanish retail copy, though for some reason it came via New Jersey and the envelope was also marked 'Deustche Post.' (I thought it had taken a while to come, it's been right round the houses). The writing on the back appears to be in Castellano, and unfortunately it is many years since I studied Spanish, and as I never had a chance to use it in anger (I was too old to join the International Brigades or the POUM) my Español has withered on the vine. Consequently I don't know what it says. Luckily it has Inglés as one of the options under subtítulos.

There, that's about all I have for you at the moment. Will report later.
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Post by: Vanvlak on February 05, 2008, 03:10:41 PM
Quote from: "Plynkes"
I haven't had a chance to watch it yet. Some of us have work to do, you know.  :)


Good grief, judging by the quality of work I see here I thought painting
models was all that everyone but me did...  ah, but of course you cannot paint models AND watch films at the same time... :wink:

Thank you Mr. Plynkes sir, sorry, I'm a curious git and this sounds interesting.  :)
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Post by: Plynkes on February 05, 2008, 04:11:32 PM
Oh, I wasn't painting, old thing. I mean boring old 'work' work. Earlier today I was making a White Scout Car tarp for a bloke in Crete (while watching your boy Tony Drago in the Malta Cup snooker on Eurosport), and for the past hour I have been over helping my brother put the dashboard back in a Peugeot 306  (I'm an advocate of the 'just shoving it all back in' school of maintenance and all for not bothering as long as the myriad of wires don't show. But professional that he is, my bro insisted that the airbag being connected up to the radio is not a good thing. Good job I'm not a mechanic.)

So no painting or video-watching done yet today, I'm afraid.

I'll tell you what I think of it once I've given it a look. Unlike many LAFers I'm coming to it totally fresh, having not read the books. This could mean that I won't be plagued by 'not as good as the novel' syndrome, or alternatively that I won't understand anything that's going on.

We'll see.
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Post by: Vanvlak on February 05, 2008, 06:01:05 PM
Ah you're a right gent, sir :)
I've not read the books either, which further fans my curiosity.
Watching the Malta cup? Well, nice to see the one or two Maltese internationals who make the grade are watched :) Although I should say the Valletta side beat Juventus in a friendly a couple of weeks ago.... but that's off topic of course  :)
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Post by: Plynkes on February 06, 2008, 01:28:57 PM
Didn't get a chance to watch 'Alatriste' last night because there was a power cut.  :x

This came today, I had forgotten that I'd even ordered it:

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/Whenwewerekings2.jpg)

Wonderful film, one of my favourites. Inspiring in a miniatures way? Maybe. It might inspire me to finally paint these guys:

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/pgj10.jpg)

Then we'll run a 'Rumble in the Jungle' game. I'll be Norman Mailer, Pete can be George Plimpton. Who wants to be Mobutu (one of our Belgian LAFers, I suppose) or Don King? :)
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Post by: PeteMurray on February 06, 2008, 01:45:09 PM
Quote from: "Plynkes"
Then we'll run a 'Rumble in the Jungle' game. I'll be Norman Mailer, Pete can be George Plimpton. Who wants to be Mobutu (one of our Belgian LAFers, I suppose) or Don King? :)


I agree! Run the game, provide pictures, and then we have to write up reports as our respective literary characters. Points will be given for stylistic adherence and covert jabs.  :D
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Post by: Plynkes on February 06, 2008, 02:07:37 PM
I've got some Gladiator rules that could probably be adapted to boxing. I was only joking, but it really is a good idea. Reg is boxing mad, he wouldn't take any coaxing to play it.
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Post by: Heldrak on February 10, 2008, 02:10:08 AM
Undersea Kingdom!

(http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u219/Heldrak/51N5BKDECSL_AA240_.jpg)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undersea_Kingdom


I have rather fond childhood memories of this one (No, old as he is, Heldrak isn't old enough to have seen this serial from 1936 when he was young, but there was an ill-fated attempt to revive the Mickey Mouse Club television program in the 1970s, and they ran chapters of Undersea Kingdom as part of it).

It's really got everything you could possibly want it a Serial- A rocket submarine, wicked pseudo-oriental potentates, absurd fake robots, dopey comic relief, an annoying kid- The scenario possibilities for pulp gaming are endless!

I'm a sucker for anything with cheesy fake Atlanteans in it and viewing it again, I'm quite surprised at the credible acting performance by Ray "Crash" Corrigan in the lead role.

After having forgotten what a truly horrible actor Buster Crabbe was and being rudely reminded of that fact when viewing the Flash Gordon serial chapter included as an extra on the recent re-release of the campy Flash Gordon film from 1980, Corrigan's mature understated performance was a welcome relief!
Title: Undersea Kingdom
Post by: dusser on February 10, 2008, 02:58:40 AM
And the Atlanteans ride horses too!  Definately a fun serial.   8)
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Post by: supervike on February 13, 2008, 07:47:56 PM
Just picked up this one:


(http://www.best-horror-movies.com/image-files/dog-soldiers-movie-poster.jpg)

great Werewolvie fun!!
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Post by: archangel1 on February 13, 2008, 08:38:39 PM
Quote from: "supervike"
Just picked up this one:


(http://www.best-horror-movies.com/image-files/dog-soldiers-movie-poster.jpg)

great Werewolvie fun!!


I enjoyed this one, too.  Nice to see the modern British Army in action for a change.  However, I would have thought that the Brits would have more sense than to go 'whistling in the woods' while supposedly on an infiltration exercise.  Much more Hollywood Yankee, don't you think?
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Post by: Driscoles on February 13, 2008, 09:46:43 PM
Dog Soldiers is great ! Especially the talk about football and the final newspaper headline  :lol:

Cheers
Björn
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Col.Stone on February 13, 2008, 11:42:18 PM
I have D.S too, great movie, but i always get disappointed with movie werewolves.. too much werewolf the reckoning rpg in me i suppose :(
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Post by: Weird WWII on February 14, 2008, 01:25:27 AM
DS has the best soldier to soldier dialog since Aliens or Full Metal Jacket.  Great movie and very well done.  

Brian
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Post by: twrchtrwyth on February 14, 2008, 08:16:15 PM
I'm another fan of Dog Soldiers. Can't wait for the sequel. Sean Pertwee is a very good actor.
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: JollyBob on February 15, 2008, 08:26:26 PM
Chalk me up as well, Dog Soldiers is awesome. Just the right mix of action, horror and comedy.
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Uncle Mike on February 16, 2008, 03:35:00 PM
Just finished Venture Bros. Season one. Quite possibly the finest cartoon ever made! Laugh until pee comes out! Gonna start on season two this evening...and talk about a cliff hanger! If you have never seen it, go get it! Your life can still have meaning!!!
Title: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Lowtardog on February 16, 2008, 03:49:36 PM
Quote from: "JollyBob"
Chalk me up as well, Dog Soldiers is awesome. Just the right mix of action, horror and comedy.


A great film, I went to school with the lad that played the Geordie psycho one missing all the football, I can tell you when I knew him he would have been missing Ballet and twofers at the Blue Oyster club :o  that made it even funnier for me :D
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Post by: dusser on February 22, 2008, 02:52:53 AM
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0479537/

I watched Seraphim Falls the other night, really enjoyed it.  The acting, scenery and story were all compelling.  A different type of Western for sure.
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Post by: Helen on February 23, 2008, 02:25:59 AM
At long last I managed to purchase through Amazon one of my all time favourites. That is "The Land that Time Forgot".
(http://[img]http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s266/HelenBachaus/Helens%20Books/HelensNavyCollection008.jpg)[/img]
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Post by: Westfalia Chris on February 23, 2008, 09:59:03 AM
Ohhhhh, a Caprona double feature! Don´t care what the mainstream says, it´s so cheesy it´s amusing! And it´s got cliché Germans, a submarine and dinosaurs (only possibly toppable if there were cliché Germans, submarines, TANKS and dinosaurs, but you cannot have everything), so woo-hoo!

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51rEaxlm61L._AA240_.jpg)

I´ve got "84 Charlie MoPic" yesterday to make my reconvalescence (nasty but short bout of Norovirus) less boring. Will watch it this afternoon, presumably, or tonight.
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Post by: matakishi on February 23, 2008, 10:27:38 AM
84 Charlie Mopic, one of the greats  :love:
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Post by: Weird WWII on February 23, 2008, 11:13:54 AM
Classic 80s zombie flick with a twist.  Would make for some great games.
Brian

(http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc178/kampfgruppecottrell/creepsfront.jpg)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x362fgvTYc
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Post by: Will Bailie on February 27, 2008, 06:14:18 AM
It's been a good couple of weeks for movies in my household.

For back of beyond fans:  The White Warrior, starring Steve Reeves as Hadji Murad, a Caucasian resisting the infiltration of Tsarist colonisers into his homeland:
(http://www.horroria.com/i/nposters_orig/02/34/23494-51.jpg)

Tough to beat this one for VSF goodness.  The Vulgarian army is great inspiration for Zenda or Ruritania style of soldiers, there's a great looking Zeppelin, and of course Chitty Chitty Bang Bang herself.  There's even wargaming! (the two old guys even play with toy soldiers at the end of the movie)

(http://www.horroria.com/i/nposters_orig/00/42/4257-TF.jpg)

And now I am working my way through the Adventure of Young Indiana Jones (Vol 2).  I started with Vol2 because they are set in the war years.  I was pleased to see that Indy served in the Belgian army, allowing the war to be presented from a point of view seldom seen by English-speaking audiences.  The presentation is fantastic.  The set includes 9 disks.  Each disk has a movie of approximately 90 minutes length, followed by a series of documentaries covering subjects from the movie.  The adventures are great fun, and in the great tradition of pulp adventure, they don't allow the facts to stand in the way of a good story.  

I've seen the first four disks so far, and have seen Indy at Verdun and in Africa.  He's met some famous people (including Pétain, Nivelle, de Gaulle, Selous, Meinertzhagen and Albert Schweizer, among others), and even kidnapped von Lettow-Vorbeck (only briefly, though - von Lettow was far to wily for even Indiana Jones to hold captive).  

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/88/Tvyoungindcro.jpg)

Regards

Will
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Post by: Plynkes on February 27, 2008, 08:43:37 AM
Oh Chitty, You Chitty,
Pretty Chitty Bang Bang,
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,
We love you.


I love that film. Apart from "Lollipops! Lollipops!" That bit still terrifies me. More so than any horror film I ever saw. They really shouldn't class it as a kid's picture!  :)


Picked this up real cheap the other day:

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/Heat.jpg)
Was inspired to get it after playing "Kane and Lynch" in two-player co-op mode with my nephew.

I enjoyed it much more this time than first time around, no idea why. I found it a bit boring back then, but really like it now.
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Post by: Hammers on February 27, 2008, 11:23:02 AM
Quote from: "Plynkes"


(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/Heat.jpg)
Was inspired to get it after playing "Kane and Lynch" in two-player co-op mode with my nephew.

I enjoyed it much more this time than first time around, no idea why. I found it a bit boring back then, but really like it now.


Great film! I like the heist scene and the shootout a lot. Very realisitc.
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Post by: Malamute on February 27, 2008, 11:38:16 AM
Quote from: "hammershield"
Quote from: "Plynkes"


(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/Heat.jpg)
Was inspired to get it after playing "Kane and Lynch" in two-player co-op mode with my nephew.

I enjoyed it much more this time than first time around, no idea why. I found it a bit boring back then, but really like it now.


Great film! I like the heist scene and the shootout a lot. Very realisitc.


I think its my favourite shoot out in any movie, the sound of the gunfire is terrific, especially when its played loud through surrondsound :)
Am I the only person that wants Robert De Niro to escape at the end? I always feel a bit sad when he dies (sorry for the plot spoiler if anyone hasn't seen it!) :cry:
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Post by: Poliorketes on February 27, 2008, 12:06:52 PM
With Heat, Michael Mann made one mistake - he should have shot it two times, a second version with De Niro and Pacino swapping characters. Of course no producer would have paid for that, but imagine...

I got Porco Rosso last weekend, watched it tuesday evening. I must admit I'm a little bit... disappointed would be to hard a word, as it's a nice little movie, but you can't compare it to Castle in the Sky or even Kikis delivery service.
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Post by: PeteMurray on February 27, 2008, 12:23:35 PM
Quote from: "Poliorketes"
I got Porco Rosso last weekend, watched it tuesday evening. I must admit I'm a little bit... disappointed would be to hard a word, as it's a nice little movie, but you can't compare it to Castle in the Sky or even Kikis delivery service.


Miyazaki is one of those directors where it's entirely possible to like some of his movies and be left indifferent by others. I like Princess Monononoke and Porco Rosso, but was fairly indifferent to Nausicaa and Howl's Moving Castle. Though in those last two cases there were some cool toys on the screen.

I think the idea of having De Niro and Pacino switching characters would have made an excellent second Heat.
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Post by: Rhoderic on February 27, 2008, 12:37:08 PM
Everyone has their own idea of what the best Ghibli film is. I used to think Laputa was the best of the lot, but now I'm starting to feel it's one of Miyazaki's weaker movies (perhaps I've just gone long enough without watching it to remember the magic). Nausicaa only seems good if you haven't read the manga (the movie only covers the beginning of the story). I think Kiki's Delivery Service and Porco Rosso are two of the very best.
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Post by: Plynkes on February 27, 2008, 01:06:28 PM
Yes, at the time I felt quite angry, and thought De Niro not making it was a cop-out, having to have a 'traditional' ending that punishes the bad guys.

But thinking about it, it makes total sense dramatically. He failed to follow his own rules, and the luxury of going back to take revenge on the beardy guy was the one real slip-up he made, which had to be paid for.

Actually, I think De Niro and Pacino should have walked off into the sunset hand-in-hand at the end. They were the two characters that had most in common with each other.


I just love the bit when Ashley Judd, despite everything he has put her through, saves her man, after you assume she will betray him. That is definitely my favourite scene.
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Post by: Malamute on February 27, 2008, 02:37:45 PM
Quote from: "Plynkes"
Yes, at the time I felt quite angry, and thought De Niro not making it was a cop-out, having to have a 'traditional' ending that punishes the bad guys.

But thinking about it, it makes total sense dramatically. He failed to follow his own rules, and the luxury of going back to take revenge on the beardy guy was the one real slip-up he made, which had to be paid for.

Actually, I think De Niro and Pacino should have walked off into the sunset hand-in-hand at the end. They were the two characters that had most in common with each other.


I just love the bit when Ashley Judd, despite everything he has put her through, saves her man, after you assume she will betray him. That is definitely my favourite scene.


Yep he should have boarded the plane to New Zealand with the pretty dark curly haired girl instead of going back.  :cry:
I agree about Ashley Judd saving Val Klmer, but she should have shopped him for wearing that ridiculous pony tail :lol:
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Post by: Hammers on March 05, 2008, 11:15:21 PM
Just got this by recommendation by people in this forum:


(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51mN3Gt5YOL._AA240_.jpg)


A bloody good watch, one thinks.
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Post by: Cory on March 05, 2008, 11:48:53 PM
My wife and I watched the Reilly series based on the recomendations of this forum. When it was over she commented that it was strange to see a spy movie where someone was actually spying.
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Post by: Hammers on March 10, 2008, 02:37:30 PM
If you liked "Pan's Labyrinth" I can very much recommend this flick:

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/de/Espinazo_del_diablo.jpg)

It takes less place in the world of the fantastic (like Hellboy and Pan's) but is thoroughly within that Spanish SCW horror Del Toro seems to have coined.
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Post by: Paul Hicks on March 10, 2008, 03:18:30 PM
The shoot out scene in Heat was directed by non other than Andy McNab. Have to say Micheal Mann is my favorite director of al time.

Paul
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Post by: Black Cat Bases on March 10, 2008, 03:24:20 PM
The devils backbone is so cool! i thought it was better than pans labyrinth which i thought was really cool.
Ben
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Post by: Hammers on March 10, 2008, 08:41:02 PM
I've been at home due to the utterly misserable effects of a tummy bug. The wife and I really should have invested in that vomatorium we were perusing at Bauhaus.

Anyway, if anything good can be said about my situation it is that I can do little but watch a lot of movies, for instance this one:

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/db/River_queen.jpg)

A good watch and an excellent introduction to the Maori wars. A beautiful setting to, ofcourse, it being filmed in Eden on earth.
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Post by: Chairface on March 11, 2008, 02:40:28 AM
Never even heard of it. SHame on me. I'm putting it on my list.
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Post by: Prof.Witchheimer on March 11, 2008, 06:34:25 AM
had watched it too. Gloomy one. Rather good.
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Post by: Plynkes on April 04, 2008, 12:31:46 PM
Saw this for just five pounds, which seemed too good an offer to miss:

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/Sophieedit.jpg)
(Slightly edited pic due to Nazi symbol on the UK edition. Though interestingly Amazon.de. sell the UK import, and don't seem bothered by the images: http://www.amazon.de/Sophie-Scholl-Die-letzten-Tage/dp/B000EHPOPU/ref=pd_sbs_d_img_1. I guess they have good lawyers! Still, better safe than sorry, eh?).

The story of the Weiße Rose, like that of the female SOE agents, is one I find both uplifting and depressing. Uplifting due to such hopeless courage in the face of a seemingly unbeatable colossal machine of horror; and depressing because all these stories seem to have the same ending, one that usually involves a dark room and a syringe, a bullet, a hangman's noose, or a gas chamber and an oven.

Still, I'm keen to see what they did with the story in this new-ish German version. It is inspiring that such people lived, and dared to do such things, even if they ultimately didn't achieve much.
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Post by: JollyBob on April 13, 2008, 09:32:41 AM
Just picked up The Vikings with Kirk Douglas and Tony Curtis for £4 in the HMV sale. Cool!  :mrgreen:
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Post by: Westfalia Chris on April 13, 2008, 10:04:39 AM
Last week (too busy to think about posting it earlier), I picked up this one:

(http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg236/Christian_S_1979/dicktracy.jpg)

Saw it some time in the early 1990s and had some fond memories of it. After re-watching, I have to say... well, its... strange. However, I´m feeling the itch to get some more Mobsters and Coppers. :mrgreen:
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Post by: postal on April 13, 2008, 11:21:53 AM
I just pick up the untouchables and wacth it again last week.Man did it give me some gaming ideas.
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Post by: twrchtrwyth on April 13, 2008, 12:32:35 PM
Quote from: "JollyBob"
Just picked up The Vikings with Kirk Douglas and Tony Curtis for £4 in the HMV sale. Cool!  :mrgreen:

That's the one were Kirk Douglas calls Wales a slag heap and the Welsh Queen speaks with an American accent. :lol:  :D Good film though.
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Post by: JollyBob on April 13, 2008, 04:05:50 PM
Yup. Still got a long way to go to beat that other Tony Curtis classic, The Black Shield of Falworth, where our Saxon hero announces in his best Brooklyn twang: "Yonda lies da castle a my fadda".

Utter pantwetting genius.
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Post by: marrony on April 13, 2008, 04:16:31 PM
Just ordered Michael Palin's 'Ripping Yarns' box set from play.com for a steal.Can't wait to watch mountain frogs episode.Genius!!!
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Post by: twrchtrwyth on April 13, 2008, 10:03:21 PM
Quote from: "marrony"
Just ordered Michael Palin's 'Ripping Yarns' box set from play.com for a steal.Can't wait to watch mountain frogs episode.Genius!!!

What? Must go to play now. :D
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Post by: Aaron on April 14, 2008, 04:51:46 PM
Ah Ripping Yarns. Great series and I think "Across the Andes by Frog" is my favorite. Hmm...LAF needs an Eccentric Adventurers Club!
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Post by: Plynkes on April 14, 2008, 05:04:03 PM
(http://www.tubearoo.com/m1/14573/Image1.jpg)

"Eight bloody one!"
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Post by: twrchtrwyth on April 14, 2008, 05:29:59 PM
Just ordered Michael Palin's Ripping Yarns from Play.com. Cheers for the heads up marrony. :wink:
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Post by: marrony on April 15, 2008, 05:39:44 PM
No problem Twrchtrwyth.I hope you enjoy it as much as I :mrgreen:  will!
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Post by: Plynkes on April 16, 2008, 12:18:25 PM
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/Ripping.jpg)

Came today. We'll be starting a LAF 'Ripping Yarns' club, next, the way this is bandwagoning!  :)
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Post by: Hammers on April 16, 2008, 12:34:59 PM
I was perusing that  one just yesterday as I was looking for "Michael Palin's Arround the <whatever>. I did not get a good grasp what it is. Is it a movie or a collection of skits?
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Post by: Aaron on April 16, 2008, 12:40:47 PM
It is a series of roughly 30-40 minute (IIRC) stories. The ones I can remember are a murder mystery, Across the Andes by Frog, the School Days of Eric Olthwaite (the world's most boring boy) and another cracker, Escape from Stalag Luft 12 1/2 B. I might be off a bit on the titles, it has been years since I watched them.

Plynkes, I hope one of the FFFFF members will be the only pilot never to have escaped from a luft stalag!
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Post by: Plynkes on April 16, 2008, 12:47:18 PM
It was a TV Series. Each half-hour episode was a complete story. The unifying theme is that they were all done in the style of the old 'Boys' Own' kind of tales.

They are all pre-World War Two in setting, and feature familiar topics from that  genre, such as the Great War, Colonialism, Public School life and Sport. They stick to the tone of the original genre, but get very silly, as you would expect from two of the Pythons.


One involves uncovering a dastardly plot by the Germans to start the Great War a year early in 1913, when no one else is ready. That should give you an idea of what to expect.
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Post by: JollyBob on April 16, 2008, 01:09:40 PM
One of my favourite bits was in Tomkinson's Schooldays, the scene with the model boat club in the woodwork room:

Master: What's that Tomkinson?

Tomkinson: Icebreaker, sir.

Master: Bit big isn't it?

Tomkinson: It's one to one scale, sir.

(Cut back to see prow of massive ship in the corner of the room)

Master: If it's one to one, it's not a model is it? Dismantle it at once.

Tomkinson: (dejected) No sir. Yes sir.

Master: (Walking off) Stupid boy...


 :lol:
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Post by: Hammers on April 16, 2008, 02:15:30 PM
Well, then! Off to the store I am.
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Post by: twrchtrwyth on April 16, 2008, 02:48:26 PM
Quote from: "hammershield"
Well, then! Off to the store I am.

I don't think you'll be disappointed. :mrgreen:
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Post by: marrony on April 16, 2008, 05:10:18 PM
Hahaha! I remember Andes by frog.Wasn't there an episode when Palin's father would pretend to be French and only speak French so he wouldn't have to speak to his son? :?: Can't wait to get the series....hope it arrives in time for the weekend :mrgreen:
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Post by: The_Wisecrack on April 24, 2008, 07:28:59 PM
saving private ryan and the matrix in card box vcr cases (limit ed cases i do belive.) wil be adding to my vcr collection.
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Post by: Uncle Mike on May 02, 2008, 10:20:30 PM
Lone Wolf And Cub live action t.v. series volume 1. First five episodes! I remember watching these on pesant-vision when I was 10 or 12...now I shall force the wife to watch them with me to re-live my twisted childhood. Yay!
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Post by: Poliorketes on May 03, 2008, 12:12:39 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51722BBR8YL._SS500_.jpg)
Westfront 18, a german war movie from around 1930 about 4 infantry soldiers in WW1. Sad theme, one falls in love with a french girl, but is killed soon after, one finds his wife in bed with another on his holiday and seeks death in a suicide command, accompanied by a third. The last one gets mad. The battle scenes are no match for Milestones All quiet on the Western Front, but the end sequence in a field hospital is amongst the saddest I've ever seen in a movie. Recommended.

For gamers, there is a lot of WW1 equipment to see (french and german), and a couple of french tanks. I guess these are customized bulldozers, they don't look like real FT17.
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Post by: archangel1 on May 03, 2008, 09:29:51 PM
Don't remember anyone mentioning any of these movies.  They're not Shakespeare but I enjoyed them all immensely.

The Wind and the Lion (one of my very favourite adventure movies)
Nate and Hayes
Big Trouble in Little China
Northwest Frontier
The Three/Four Musketeers
Sahara (1943)
The Undefeated
The Crimson Pirate
Hatari!
Major Dundee

There are plenty of others but only so much viewing time!
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Post by: marrony on May 06, 2008, 04:10:39 PM
Just seen an advert for 'Assembly'.Set in 1948 China quoted as the best war film since Private Ryan.I assume it's not a DIY dvd but has anybody seen or heard any reports? :?:  :?:  :?:
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Post by: Westfalia Chris on May 06, 2008, 06:33:44 PM
On Saturday, I came across the "Raumpatrouille Orion" box set - the original seven-episode series plus the abysmal 2003 "producers´ cut" titled "Rücksturz ins Kino" . Alright, the latter one is negligible, but the series alone was well worth the... wait for it... 9,99 Euros, not to mention a nice production stills and artwork screensaver plus a cute "Space Invaders" clone.

"Wandler bereit! Lichtwerfer... Feuer frei!"
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Post by: PeteMurray on May 06, 2008, 06:50:46 PM
Quote from: "Westfalia Chris"
"Wandler bereit! Lichtwerfer... Feuer frei!"


I get "light thrower" and "free fire!" which I can vaguely translate into "laser gun" and "fire at will".

What's "Wandler bereit" and did I screw up the other two?
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Post by: Westfalia Chris on May 06, 2008, 08:03:23 PM
Quote from: "PeteMurray"
Quote from: "Westfalia Chris"
"Wandler bereit! Lichtwerfer... Feuer frei!"


I get "light thrower" and "free fire!" which I can vaguely translate into "laser gun" and "fire at will".

What's "Wandler bereit" and did I screw up the other two?


It´s a poor representation of the hilarious 1960s German take on how to create futuristic-sounding terms for the equipment.

A slightly closer translation would be: "Converters ready! Photon Launchers... (or light throwers, basically it´s a spiffy laser cannon with invisible rays) FIRE!"

"Orion" is a total classic, if even more... well, "cheesy" is too harsh a word. Maybe "lovably, hilariously awkward" comes close. I saw it first some 20 years ago as a re-run and was hooked.

The ship, the "Fast Space Cruiser Orion" (either VII or VIII, the commanding officer went through six ships in his previous career and crashes the VII halfway through the series while saving the Earth). Please note that the jolly protrusion is an extendable landing foot/elevator shaft.

(http://www.wdr.de/themen/kultur/rundfunk/40_jahre_raumpatrouille_orion/infobox/data/raumpatrouille_orion/raumschiff_004_400q.jpg)

And the crew minus the scandinavian Chief Engineer (the comms lady on the right is French, the guy to her right "Asian", the one on the extreme left the Italian armaments officer, the blonde in the middle a Russian(!) security service "watchdog", and the American Commander of Scottish descent. Talk about diversity. Remarkably, none of the actors display any German accent, but having them represent such a variety of origins is another of the charming aspects of the piece). Please note the hair. Absolutely how the future would look. In the 1960s.

(http://images.zeit.de/bilder/2007/39/bildergalerien/galerien/bg-science-fiction/03.jpg)

:lol:
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Post by: Doomhippie on May 19, 2008, 02:09:51 PM
Orion! Oh my! If you have seen it you can make everything into a spaceship. The old flat iron as a... was it a steering device? Anyway, this is as trashy as German TV has ever got.
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Post by: majorsmith on May 20, 2008, 12:09:36 PM
Nausicaa of the valley of the wind, a fantastic manga film! great soundtrack as well, which i also have just purchased..
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Post by: Lowtardog on May 26, 2008, 04:44:56 PM
Bit of a shopping spree with the wife and kiddies today, they picked up a couple of Wii games, Jacque got 3 Elvis films ( :'( the pain of it)

I managed to get I am Legend, 30 days of night and the best buy from HMV the City of Vice TV series for £5...bonus :D
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Post by: Weird WWII on May 26, 2008, 07:59:06 PM
Valley of the Wind was a great flick and I'm not to big on anime.  Great look to it and the air battle with the huge cargo ships was awesome.  The insects would make for some great miniatures on a Skull Island like game.

Great addition to any collection,
Brian
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Post by: Prof.Witchheimer on May 30, 2008, 09:55:33 PM
a neat little movie...

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51A0ZeXEJrL._SS500_.jpg)
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Post by: Braxandur on May 31, 2008, 09:06:07 AM
hey, I also just rented that one late week. Thught it was okay, but in now way inspired me to do anything gaming related...  not enough real action in there and the humor was just off key for me...  had a few good laughs though, just not enough...
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Post by: Argonor on June 04, 2008, 09:23:22 AM
Bought BUBBA-HO-TEP yesterday... haven't watched it, yet, though.
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Post by: JollyBob on June 04, 2008, 09:31:31 AM
Bought BUBBA-HO-TEP yesterday... haven't watched it, yet, though.

I love that film. Not everyon'e cup of tea, I know, mainly because of it's very deadpan, dry sense of humour.

Some brilliant Pulpy ideas though, and I love the evil mummy in cowboy boots and ten gallon hat.
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Post by: Hammers on June 04, 2008, 09:50:55 AM
I like the Elvis back story but as a whole it was a snore.
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Post by: JollyBob on June 04, 2008, 10:44:42 AM
I can see why you'd say that. It is quite slow moving, I admit. I think that's just the way Don Coscarelli like his movies though, quite languid and halucinatory, I mean, have you seen any of the Phantasm movies?

Then again, it's set in a retirement home, so I would expect it to be a bit on the slow side.
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Post by: Poliorketes on June 04, 2008, 10:49:27 AM
I'v seen Pan's Labyrinth on Monday. Great Inspiration for SCW.
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Post by: BarmyBob on June 08, 2008, 01:52:43 AM
Finally got my copies of "The Big Lebowski","Zulu",and "The Wild Geese" dvd's back from my mate Jeff who has had them for almost a year!
PS....Bubba Ho-Tep is hilarious!
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Post by: JollyBob on June 12, 2008, 05:11:50 PM
My full set of the Daily Mail Classic War Movie collection turned up today! Hurrah!

Set comprises:

The Heroes of Telemark
A Matter of Life and Death
Return From the River Kwai
Reach for the Sky
In Which We Serve
Aces High
Above us the Waves
Went the Day Well?
Battle of the River Plate
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Escape to Athena
All Quiet on the Western Front
Ill Met by Moonlight
I Was Monty's Double
The Long and the Short and the Tall
Tunes of Glory

In a rather nice presentation box. Very happy with all those, just need to convince Her Imperial Majesty to let me watch the damn things now!

(You know, I could have sworn John Mills was in more of them than he actually is. It's like he's become the default face of Plucky Little Brittain whenever anyone mentions a WW2 film. You just assume he's in it. Him or Dickie Attenborough. Sometimes both.)
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Post by: Vanvlak on June 12, 2008, 06:03:37 PM
Well, a TV series actually still - my Life on Mars series 1 and 2 DVD sets arrived.  :D
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Post by: Captain Blood on June 12, 2008, 10:40:22 PM

Tunes of Glory


Uhhhh... Fabulous film.
Alec Guinness - stunning.
He believed this was amongst his best performances too, so it must have been good.

(Not as good as Obi-Wan Kenobi, obviously, but possibly on a par with his Charles I  ;))
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Post by: lethallee61 on June 12, 2008, 11:37:21 PM
"30 Days of Night" - more vampire goodness to add to my growing collection.

"The Dirty Dozen" - 'nuff said really....
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Post by: Gallowglass on June 13, 2008, 07:19:21 PM
"River Queen".

A little bit like "Last of the Mohicans", set in 1860's New Zealand.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Queen

Link to trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdJpnyyomRU
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Post by: knoxville on June 17, 2008, 10:59:01 AM
OLOL! The white haired Maori (?) looks like Bilbo Baggins  lol

OT: Nice find, I have to get it myself  :D
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Post by: Helen on June 20, 2008, 04:56:05 AM
I just wish to say thanks to Alex for showing us folks a glimpse of "Chapaev." A beautiful movie and very much recommended.  I watched it today after I picked it up from my mail box.
(http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s266/HelenBachaus/RCW/Chapaev.jpg)
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Post by: Helen on June 20, 2008, 05:07:39 AM
Oh, I forgot to mention. I picked this up DVD many weeks ago. Great movie about a Serbian artillery unit fighting the Austrians at the River Drina September 1914. It wasn't a long movie, but for folks who have an interest, its very good.
(http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s266/HelenBachaus/RCW/Serbian/BattleonRiverDrinaSeptember1914.jpg)
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Post by: Doomhippie on June 25, 2008, 09:34:06 AM
Caplin's Great Dictator...

How much more cliché can you possibly get?
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Post by: Helen on June 27, 2008, 11:19:58 PM
Commissar is a very moving story of a female commissar in the RCW who is pregnant and now faces the decision to be a mother or seek ever glory with her unit!

This is a very poignant movie of many layers and may not be everyone's cup of tea so to speak!

For me it was very moving story and one that brought a few tears to the eye. There are some excellent military scenes contained within the story, however its not all about that, but the female commissar and the Jewish family she is staying with.  8)

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Ukrainian actor whose best-known work was suppressed by the Soviets for 20 years

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Thursday July 10, 2008
The Guardian


Nonna Mordyukova, who has died aged 82, embodied the ideal of strong Soviet womanhood on screen. The statuesque actor, who seemed to have stepped down from a patriotic frieze, was one of the most popular of female film stars in Russia for more than 50 years, through the best and worst of times for the national cinema.
It is ironic that her greatest performance, for which she is best known in the west, was the title role in Alexsandr Askoldov's The Commissar, made in 1967 but shelved and not shown until 20 years later, when Mordyukova's career was all but over.


The Lion of the Desert is well known and doesn't require any comments.

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Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: archangel1 on July 12, 2008, 06:41:36 AM
Spending too much money again! Bought a couple of DVD's to add to the unwatched pile!

Count of Monte Cristo (7 hour version, with Gérard Depardieu.  Saw the ending on TV a while back and thought it was excellent.)

Scarlet Pimpernel (TV movie, with Anthony Andrews and Jane Seymour.  Can't remember if I've seen it or not)

Drums Along the Mohawk (John Ford classic, with Henry Fonda and Claudette Colbert.  Haven't seen it in 20 years!)

Princess and the Pirate (Bob Hope and Viginia Mayo.  Recommended in GURPS Swashbucklers.  Never seen it.)

Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Helen on July 20, 2008, 10:53:53 PM
An Epic story and one that truly rivals some of the Epics out there!

Set prior to WW1 on the Don which then follows through WW1 culminating after the RCW period.

Most folks I'm sure have seen this movie as it has been out for sometime. There are some great cavalry actions and other military actions. You get a good grasp of the ebb and flow of the civil war too!

I bought the 4 disk set which has 4 hours of movie on 3 disks plus the last disk containing interviews etc. There is an English version by use of a number of translators.

(http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s266/HelenBachaus/QuietFlowstheDon.jpg)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: warrenpeace on July 30, 2008, 01:37:00 AM
Watched "The Golden Mistress."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047037/

It was pretty weak as a movie, but I got a kick out of watching it.  A good looking man and good looking woman spend a lot of time modelling 1950's casual wear as they attempt to track down and retrieve a voodoo treasure in Haiti at a time when Haiti still had trees.  The scenes with the quasi African tribe were a lot of fun.  Some good adventure game ideas in this movie.  Don't expect much in terms of writing or acting quality, but I still recommend this one.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: warrenpeace on July 30, 2008, 01:46:08 AM
Watched "Liane, Jungle Goddess."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049437/

Another weak movie.  I was really hoping that Liane would turn out to be a savage jungle killer like Tarzan.  Not quite...

Was looking for some Darkest Africa inspiration, and this movie helped a little, but not as much as I was hoping for.  Mostly got a couple of good looking women and a good looking guy posing in 1950's casual wear, and initially not much of it on Liane.  It was worth the time to watch the movie though.  I do recommend watching it, once.

We got one really good idea out of it regarding the drums.  I think my friends and I might include drums in a giant Darkest Africa game at a convention.  Each of the various gamemasters around the table will be issued with drums which they will ostensibly use to communicate with each other.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: warrenpeace on July 30, 2008, 01:57:04 AM
Watched "Shout at the Devil."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075214/

This was the movie I was really looking for when I ran accross "The Golden Mistress" and "Liane, Jungle Goddess."  One of the guys that I game with does Rufiji River scenarios with 1:2400 scale wooden ships, so I wanted to check out this movie.  The movie did not disappoint, although I wish that the initial humor of the movie had been maintained.  The switch to a more serious tone didn't work well.  There were excellent ideas for wargames.  Highly recommend this one!
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: warrenpeace on July 30, 2008, 02:12:39 AM
Watched "Biggles, Adventures in Time."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090729/

This was a really silly movie based on time travel.  A very 1980's guy keeps falling out of his time back to 1917 to get Biggles and his mates out of tight spots.  Since I haven't been able to find any Biggles books at my local library or at the biggest bookstore in the whole USA, I picked up this movie just to learn something about Biggles.  I wasn't too disappointed at the depiction of Biggles and his mates, but the 1980's people I could have done without.  The airplanes weren't authentic looking either.  There is definately a potential adventure game in the plot, but gamers could make up something better.  It's definately a pulp war story plot.

I actually don't recommend this one.  However, it did inspire my roommate and I to learn more about the Biggles series of books.  I just wish that I could check them out of a library.  Hopefully somebody will do better movies about Biggles in the future, particularly as computer animation is getting so good now.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: warrenpeace on July 30, 2008, 02:21:16 AM
Watched "Black and White in Color."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074972/

This is an excellent film about conflict breaking out on the border of the Cameroons in 1914/1915.  When the people at a French outpost finally discover there is a war on they ineptly set out to attack their German neighbors.  The movie almost is a wargame, and a silly wargame at that.  I rate this as an absolute "must see" for anybody who games Darkest Africa and/or WWI.  It's a very intelligent and entertaining film.  It's thought provoking while still being fun.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Doomhippie on July 30, 2008, 11:25:49 AM
Somebody has been watching a lot lately, huh? lol

I just recieved a documentary about Emperor William II. of Germany called "Majestät brauchen Sonne". It's basically about how he built up his image in public by the use and subtle manipulation of films and photos of him. Well, not so much the films themselves but when and how he was filmed. Haven't seen it yet but I hope to gain some insight into the time around the turn of the 19th to 20th century.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Westfalia Chris on July 30, 2008, 12:32:32 PM
Somebody has been watching a lot lately, huh? lol

I just recieved a documentary about Emperor William II. of Germany called "Majestät brauchen Sonne". It's basically about how he built up his image in public by the use and subtle manipulation of films and photos of him. Well, not so much the films themselves but when and how he was filmed. Haven't seen it yet but I hope to gain some insight into the time around the turn of the 19th to 20th century.

Is that the Peter Schamoni one? Excellent piece, with a lot of fascinating imagery (look out for the Imperial Wedding of 1913).
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Rhoderic on July 30, 2008, 07:36:48 PM
We got one really good idea out of it regarding the drums.  I think my friends and I might include drums in a giant Darkest Africa game at a convention.  Each of the various gamemasters around the table will be issued with drums which they will ostensibly use to communicate with each other.

That sounds like an awesome idea! You will let us know if you manage to implement it successfully, won't you?

I like to think that I'm for the most part in tune with English culture (which isn't very hard here in Scandinavia, where we've largely supplanted Germany with Great Britain as our cultural older brother these days), but I must admit I don't really know the first thing about this Biggles character I keep hearing about. I saw that time travelling movie long ago (I actually found it quite enjoyable) but apparently I never registered that was meant to be Biggles in it.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Invicta on July 31, 2008, 07:10:00 AM
Picked these up for the wife, she loved the series.

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Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: JollyBob on July 31, 2008, 08:28:43 AM
I got the boxed set of those for Christmas, Invicta. Well worth a watch if you haven't already.

And after reading Alan Moore's LOXG: Black Dossier story about Jeeves and Wooster vs Cthulhu, it opens up all sorts of possibilities when you rewatch the series...

Edit: Thinking about it, the series is a good source of inspiration for painting too, lots of lovely period costumes and art deco architecture, especially in the ones set in New York. Bertie's apartment is absolutely gorgeous.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Aaron on July 31, 2008, 12:08:49 PM
Good lord, I desperately need to own that!
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: lethallee61 on July 31, 2008, 11:33:13 PM
I love it when they have DVD sales. Just picked up:

The Magnificent Seven
Von Ryan's Express
28 Days Later
28 Weeks Later
Gods & Generals (prequel to Gettysburg)

So little time, so many books and movies....
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Doomhippie on August 10, 2008, 11:35:23 AM
Now don't start lauging but it's John Rambo...

Actually better than I feared, not as good as I hoped for but at least plenty of djungel and river shots. Got to make some more terrain after watching it...
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Argonor on August 10, 2008, 11:52:00 AM
Not received but watched on telly last night: Sahara.

Very modern pulpiness... and Penelope Cruz in a bikini adds a little spice  ;)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: JollyBob on August 10, 2008, 02:51:13 PM
Sahara is an almost perfect beer movie. It's loud, stupid and makes no sense when you actually think about it, but Matthew McConnaghy and Steve Zahn exude blokey charm and Penelope Cruz has never looked better. Great stuff.

In other news, I just picked up a movie I have been looking for for ages:

(http://hollywoodjokes.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/destry-rides-again.jpg)

Not much into western gaming, but some films just make you want to start.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Will Bailie on August 10, 2008, 09:10:06 PM
Ya know, when I think of Sahara, I think of this one:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahara_%281943_American_film%29
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/85/Saharafilm.jpg)

Even the Jim Belushi remake isn't too bad (unnecessary, since they pretty much copied the original scene for scene, but still watchable).  And it makes for a great little wargames scenario, and a great chance to see a M3 Lee in a movie!
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Doomhippie on August 10, 2008, 11:49:22 PM
Not received but watched on telly last night: Sahara.

Very modern pulpiness... and Penelope Cruz in a bikini adds a little spice  ;)


I just love that movie. "Are we really looking for a civil war ship in the middle of the dessert because of an old painting on the walls of a cave? We should rethink our decision-making process..." (or something along the line). If that isn't pulp I don't know anything...
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Lowtardog on August 11, 2008, 12:05:11 AM
Ghengis Khan (the japanese one) dire, absolutely dire
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Hammers on August 19, 2008, 03:25:48 PM
I spent the other night tending to fiver, son of hammershield, who is in a sort of home made therapy to get of his ...hrm... nightly mammary dependency. So how does an hour of quality father/son time pass over at the hammershield residence? Well, spent watching Finnish war movies, of course! I recently aquired a copy of the afformentioned 'Tali-Ihantala 1944' and I must say, we both liked it! It is certainly lacking in drama but not in the dramatic and there is something to say about action being played out between a quite impressive array of real T34s and Stug IIIs. Lovely! Authentic gear galore! It even had a Fw190 and Stukas.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Helen on August 20, 2008, 12:04:06 AM
I spent the other night tending to fiver, son of hammershield, who is in a sort of home made therapy to get of his ...hrm... nightly mammary dependency. So how does an hour of quality father/son time pass over at the hammershield residence? Well, spent watching Finnish war movies, of course! I recently aquired a copy of the afformentioned 'Tali-Ihantala 1944' and I must say, we both liked it! It is certainly lacking in drama but not in the dramatic and there is something to say about action being played out between a quite impressive array of real T34s and Stug IIIs. Lovely! Authentic gear galore! It even had a Fw190 and Stukas.

Hi Peder,

Is this movie worth purchasing and if so do you know of an outlet I can get to online to acquire?

Thanks so much.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Hammers on August 20, 2008, 08:16:21 AM
Helen! You're back! We've missed you and your grey towel!

I shall have a look arround. I know a sordid little Finlander who runs a whole-in-the-wall radio store in Old Town, Stockholm. He has a unmatched assortment of Suomi blue and war movies.

Edit: the official release in Sweden (which cannot be far behind Finlands since Swedish is still an official language there) is August 27. I must have a Finnish market copy. You can get it from www.discshop.se. Or I can buy it for you and send it your way. I believe it has English subtitles.

You're in for a treat!
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Helen on August 21, 2008, 07:58:52 AM
Helen! You're back! We've missed you and your grey towel!

I shall have a look arround. I know a sordid little Finlander who runs a whole-in-the-wall radio store in Old Town, Stockholm. He has a unmatched assortment of Suomi blue and war movies.

Edit: the official release in Sweden (which cannot be far behind Finlands since Swedish is still an official language there) is August 27. I must have a Finnish market copy. You can get it from www.discshop.se. Or I can buy it for you and send it your way. I believe it has English subtitles.

You're in for a treat!

Hi Peder,

Thankyou for your reply. I'm in hibernation at the moment and if you could do me a favour an arrange to pickup a copy that would be very nice. Just let me know the overall damage.

I'm awaiting AGN to release the Stug III which would be good for the battle.

By the way, I was over Michael Broadbent's and Ailsa's place the other week for dinner and I saw the U-Boat deck armaments an it's a real winner. Now they are a real treat!  8)

Thanks again for your offer.



Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Hammers on August 21, 2008, 08:14:22 AM
I most certainly will take care of that for you.

By the way, did you see that Anglian makes a Bofors AT gun to? It's a very nice cast.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Helen on August 21, 2008, 11:38:51 AM
I most certainly will take care of that for you.

By the way, did you see that Anglian makes a Bofors AT gun to? It's a very nice cast.

Thankyou Peder,

Yes I did see that Anglian made the Bofors and you are very correct, it's lovely! I've a couple of the BAM bofors which I found very nicely done. The crew just needed a little extra attention.  8)

Thankyou once again.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Mancha on August 22, 2008, 06:40:28 AM
A Very Long Engagement

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/76/A_Very_Long_Engagement_movie.jpg/200px-)

Wow, what a great movie.  I found it at the local Blockbuster in the new releases section, but it’s a French movie from 2004, I believe.  I’ve searched for it among the LAF threads, but found no mention, so, in the hopes I’m not performing “a colonel” (see FUUK), I’m citing it now.

In the movie a woman searches for her fiancée, a French soldier, presumably killed in a notorious forward trench in WWI.  The trench warfare scenes, sprinkled throughout the movie, are pretty amazing, and the woman’s attempts to solve the mystery of her lover’s death keep the story interesting.  Throughout the movie I was struck by the sort of pulpy derring-do, impossible events, unlikely heroes (and heroines), follow-the-trail quality; it was as if a pulp game had been squashed into the current WWI fad.

I was also reminded of how French films are so different from American films (although this one had an unexpected American actress among the cast), in that French films allow of seemingly inconsequential, irrelevant events.  The woman is sleeping with her lover, his hand on her breast, when a spider descends onto his cheek.  In an American movie something absolutely consequential, if not terrifying, would have happened at this moment.  In the French movie, the man brushes away the spider and places his hand back on his lover’s breast.  Entertaining, but hardly momentous.  Ya gotta love it.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Hammers on August 22, 2008, 07:10:11 AM
Yes, a very good film. I like that French Art House style
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: white knight on August 22, 2008, 07:33:11 AM
I have it on DVD. Lovely movie. The original title is "un long dimanche de fillançailles". It's by the makers of "Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain" (also starring Audrey Tautou) and "La cité des enfants perdus" ("city of the lost children", a dark, retro, pulp twisted fairytale starring Ron Perlman, also recommended).
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Plynkes on August 22, 2008, 07:54:13 AM
Bit of a silly film I thought, but very enjoyable nonetheless. I liked the Edith Piaf woman, murdering her way seemingly through the entire French officer corps. She should have had her own film.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Hammers on August 22, 2008, 07:59:25 AM
Besides her, I always thought her paramour, the Corsican souteneur, was one of the more interesting characters in the film. The way he made her spit on the blade before he jabbed that man in the ass...I don't know, it had such style!
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Mancha on August 22, 2008, 02:36:13 PM
The only problem I had with the movie was a certain difficulty keeping the male characters straight.  This was due, largely, to their French names (many of which, it seems to me in retrospect, began with the letter B), which I found difficult to sort out.  Additionally, it seems like about half of the male characters had the same bushy mustache (and, of course, were wearing the same uniform and helmet).  Often, seemingly irrelevant characters from early in the film became central characters later, and I often found myself wondering if I should backtrack to identify the mustache.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Calimero on August 24, 2008, 01:49:15 PM
I’ve seen this film when it when out in theatre and I also own it on DVD. I really like it. I must admit that I was first interested in the battle scenes but the whole movie is great, if somehow twisted (in a good way). I don’t know if all the version have it but did you saw the “making-off”… I was amaze to see how much time it take to dig up stuntman for a staged trench explosion and how nerve breaking it was for the film crew… Now I can imagine how soldiers felt when it happened in real life. :o
 
...it seems like about half of the male characters had the same bushy mustache (and, of course, were wearing the same uniform and helmet).  Often, seemingly irrelevant characters from early in the film became central characters later, and I often found myself wondering if I should backtrack to identify the mustache.

Well the French soldier of the Great War were not called "poilu" for nothing.  lol
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Hammers on August 31, 2008, 08:37:16 AM
I most certainly will take care of that for you.

By the way, did you see that Anglian makes a Bofors AT gun to? It's a very nice cast.

Thankyou Peder,

...
Thankyou once again.

I have aquired this film for you, Helen. I will send it to you promptly. If anyone else is interested but can't find it I can help out. It's circa 20 Euro.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Helen on August 31, 2008, 12:23:53 PM
I most certainly will take care of that for you.

By the way, did you see that Anglian makes a Bofors AT gun to? It's a very nice cast.

Thankyou Peder,

...
Thankyou once again.

I have aquired this film for you, Helen. I will send it to you promptly. If anyone else is interested but can't find it I can help out. It's circa 20 Euro.

You are a star Peder! Many thanks my friend.  8)

Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Plynkes on August 31, 2008, 10:45:06 PM
Out of Africa was on TV this afternoon. I had never seen this before. Now this must surely qualify as an 'inspiring movie' as it caused me to abandon all the Great War stuff I was doing and spend the rest of the day painting Masai, Ngoni, Dorobo and an elephant.


I do wish I could keep my mind on one project at a time.

They did miss a trick though, setting the film in British East during the Great War, even mentioning the war quite a bit, and yet totally failing to have any action scenes regarding it. Oh well.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Helen on August 31, 2008, 11:16:18 PM
Out of Africa was on TV this afternoon. I had never seen this before. Now this must surely qualify as an 'inspiring movie' as it caused me to abandon all the Great War stuff I was doing and spend the rest of the day painting Masai, Ngoni, Dorobo and an elephant.


I do wish I could keep my mind on one project at a time.

They did miss a trick though, setting the film in British East during the Great War, even mentioning the war quite a bit, and yet totally failing to have any action scenes regarding it. Oh well.

Great movie Dylan. I enjoy anything on Africa an I recently saw your compilation of fine art on TMP too.

I must get back into my Africa project once I finish off our project for Palestine for December. Oh too many projects plus research and reading 8)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: warrenpeace on September 04, 2008, 01:53:44 AM
Out of Africa was on TV this afternoon. I had never seen this before. Now this must surely qualify as an 'inspiring movie' as it caused me to abandon all the Great War stuff I was doing and spend the rest of the day painting Masai, Ngoni, Dorobo and an elephant.


I saw this movie for the first time a couple of months ago.  It was great!  I was already primed for the East Africa topic by reading Bartle Bull's book "White Rhino Hotel" and by watching the six hours of the Mystery! series "Heat of the Sun."  That was a great series!  Too bad there was only six hours of it.  IMDB link:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138966/
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Plynkes on September 05, 2008, 01:09:20 PM
I really liked "Heat of the Sun." Shame it didn't really catch on.

I might look into getting it on DVD.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: JollyBob on September 08, 2008, 03:12:30 PM
After spending a month on the BPRD, I needed a kickstart to get back into doing my Lost World project.

So I wandered into Woolworths at lunchtime and lo and behold I find:

(http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BNDYyMTk0NDQ2OF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwMzM0NzM5._V1._SX274_SY400_.jpg)

For £3.97!

Bought! Caveman-mojo thoroughly restored! Well, it will be when I watch it later, anyway.

Also couldn't resist this:

(http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMjAxMzcwMTEzNl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMTA2MzM3MQ@@._V1._SX285_SY400_.jpg)

Since it was only two quid.

TV's Greg Evigan! In a Film!

I'm shouting a lot today! Must mean I'm happy!  lol

EDIT: For those who can't see the pictures, they're of At the Earth's Core with Doug McClure and Peter Cushing, and a dodgy low budget nonsense called 100 Million B.C.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: twrchtrwyth on September 08, 2008, 03:22:36 PM
After spending a month on the BPRD, I needed a kickstart to get back into doing my Lost World project.

So I wandered into Woolworths at lunchtime and lo and behold I find:

(http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BNDYyMTk0NDQ2OF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwMzM0NzM5._V1._SX274_SY400_.jpg)

For £3.97!

Bought! Caveman-mojo thoroughly restored! Well, it will be when I watch it later, anyway.

Also couldn't resist this:

(http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMjAxMzcwMTEzNl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMTA2MzM3MQ@@._V1._SX285_SY400_.jpg)

Since it was only two quid.

TV's Greg Evigan! In a Film!

I'm shouting a lot today! Must mean I'm happy!  lol
Can't access your alt.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: JollyBob on September 08, 2008, 03:32:10 PM
Can't access your alt.

Sorry, I'm not sure what you mean...  :(
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Danny the Chimp on September 08, 2008, 03:43:05 PM
Can't access your alt.

Sorry, I'm not sure what you mean...  :(

Your Pics aint working my Mammoth Loving Friend....
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: JollyBob on September 08, 2008, 03:45:33 PM
Oh, right. Funny, cos they're showing up for me. I'll go back and see if I can edit them.

Edit 1: Hmmm, nowt wrong there that I can see, have you tried right clicking and choosing Show Picture, and/or refreshing the page?

Edit 2: Gah! Now it keeps going off for me too! "Show Picture" brings it back though...

Ah, I give up.  >:(
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Plynkes on September 08, 2008, 04:02:25 PM
I'm seeing them okay. Dinosaur Doug and 100 Million BC (never heard of that one).

Greg Evigan, eh? Haven't heard from him since When Things Get Knocked Over, Spill, or Fall Out Of Cupboards.

I made this!
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: JollyBob on September 08, 2008, 04:26:16 PM
I'm seeing them okay. Dinosaur Doug and 100 Million BC (never heard of that one).

Greg Evigan, eh? Haven't heard from him since When Things Get Knocked Over, Spill, or Fall Out Of Cupboards.

I made this!

Yeah, that came back to me as well. Lee & Herring, was it? Good stuff.

I'm not holding out great hopes for the movie though, looks really ropey. But fun enough when you've been drinking I should imagine.  ;)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Col.Stone on September 12, 2008, 05:13:44 PM
Kelly's heroes, got it for less than a pound, came with a newspaper  :-*

Swedes, It's expressen, hurry out and buy it :)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: JollyBob on September 12, 2008, 08:59:02 PM
Its a mother-beautiful film, Colonel!

(http://www.amachron.com/Kellys_Heroes.jpg)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Argonor on September 12, 2008, 11:02:45 PM
Ran into a sale today  ;D

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Also some fantasy stuff for the kids...
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: twrchtrwyth on September 13, 2008, 12:39:07 AM
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/1/38_13_09_08_12_54_03_3.jpg)
Whats this? Never heard of it.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: archangel1 on September 13, 2008, 04:15:38 AM
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/1/38_13_09_08_12_54_03_3.jpg)
Whats this? Never heard of it.

Cop movie.  :?

http://www.fandango.com/thecrimsonriversii:theangelsoftheapocalypse_v303256/summary
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: JollyBob on September 13, 2008, 09:32:13 AM
I've seen the first Crimson Rivers (with Vincent Cassel as well as Jean Reno - double your fun!), which was quite good in an obvious sort of way.

Didn't know there was a sequel though, I may have to track that down. 
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Argonor on September 13, 2008, 10:34:39 AM
I've seen the first Crimson Rivers (with Vincent Cassel as well as Jean Reno - double your fun!), which was quite good in an obvious sort of way.

I have to find THAT one - I think I watched some of the second on Danish TV a while ago (the laste 30-45 mins)...
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Doomhippie on September 26, 2008, 08:13:55 PM
Once upon a time in the west.

Actually I was always more on the "the Good, the Bad and the Ugly" side (still my favourite western) but watching "Once upon a time in the west" today made me realize that it is actually a fantastic movie. And of course there's Claudia Cardenale in there... shwiiiing!
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: argsilverson on September 26, 2008, 08:46:50 PM
Taras Bulba. First release on DVD (with Greek subtitles).

Once upon a time in the west.

Actually I was always more on the "the Good, the Bad and the Ugly" side (still my favourite western) but watching "Once upon a time in the west" today made me realize that it is actually a fantastic movie. And of course there's Claudia Cardenale in there... shwiiiing!

I remember when I was in Cologne mid 70's it was running on the same cinema for 10 years continuously, always crowd waiting to see it!
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Bako on September 27, 2008, 05:40:07 AM
Wow, argsilverson, I missed something there. Never even heard of that movie.

Well, I live under a rock when it comes to anything wild-westish, anyhow so it's not much of a surprise there.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: archangel1 on September 27, 2008, 06:52:02 AM
Always liked 'Once Upon a Time...'  Great music, amazing cast (love the opening bit with Woody Strode and Jack Elam), nice cinematography.  Seems to be an under-appreciated film.  Interesting to see Henry Fonda as a really rotten creep, though.  As for Claudia... :-*
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: The Somnambulist on September 28, 2008, 04:46:30 PM
About to watch Alatriste.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: JollyBob on October 08, 2008, 11:14:30 AM
Finally got round to watching The Way Ahead at the weekend:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037449/

Came as part of the War Movies box set from the Daily Mail a few months ago as previously discussed on here.

What a brilliant film.  :o

David Niven and William Hartnell were excellent, as usual, and the supporting cast was superb. The class differences being slowly burned away during basic training is utterly believable, and the action scenes when they eventually come are very realistic and genuinely perilous for all involved.

Even The Woman enjoyed it, much to my surprise.

Given the way the film is structured, I kind of look on it as a sort of "Full Tweed Jacket".

The battle at the end is brilliant too. Who couldn't be moved by the resolution of the plucky Tommies? Heavily outnumbered and outgunned, next to no ammunition, down to half strength after a lengthy bombardment, what can they possibly do?

Simple: Fix bayonets, and advance.


Worth checking out if you haven't already. A hugely enjoyable 9/10.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Plynkes on October 08, 2008, 11:26:01 AM
One of my favourite war films. It is perhaps one of the original 'boot camp' pictures which has been copied endlessly since, such as in "Full Metal Jacket" as you say.


I always thought the brief action segment at the end was very well done. Almost a documentary style (you don't even really see much of the Germans, as I recall, they are mostly tiny figures in the distance), not at all like in most films of the period (or indeed any period since).
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Helen on October 30, 2008, 05:38:49 AM
Lates DVDs are 'Shout at the Devil' and from Peder:
http://www.tali-ihantala.fi/

Both super cool movies  8)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Paul Hicks on October 30, 2008, 07:10:12 AM
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0481390/

Kokoda fantastic film. Helen you must have of been very proud of this production.

Paul
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: argsilverson on October 30, 2008, 10:25:27 AM
For the German speaking folks; the film "once upon a time in the west" in Germany had the title, [if I remember well] of: "spiel mir das Lied vom Tod"
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Helen on October 30, 2008, 10:44:26 AM
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0481390/

Kokoda fantastic film. Helen you must of being very proud of this production.

Paul

Hi Paul,

Thankyou for your comment. The film is excellent from my point of view.

Helen
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: matakishi on November 06, 2008, 08:08:41 PM
(http://images.play.com/covers/3325964x.jpg)

Currently only £7.99 from HMV
http://hmv.com/hmvweb/displayProductDetails.do?ctx=280;-1;-1;-1;-1&sku=638409

Also got recently:
(http://www3.hmv.co.uk/hmv/Large_Images/HMVVIDEO/3711529383.JPG) (http://www3.hmv.co.uk/hmv/Large_Images/HMVVIDEO/8258238.JPG) (http://www3.hmv.co.uk/hmv/Large_Images/HMVVIDEO/BBCDVD1359.JPG)

Charles II is only £4.99 from Amazon.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: joroas on November 06, 2008, 08:32:11 PM
I had a tape of Reilly and watched 2 episodes cracking pulp adventures from a James Bond over a century ago........
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: answer_is_42 on November 10, 2008, 01:53:47 PM
I recently watched 'Missing in Action' starring none other than Chuck Norris. I have no idea what it was about, but nevertheless it is quite simply the best film I have ever seen.*

I also saw 'The Eagle has Landed' for the first time a couple of weeks ago. Pretty darn nifty...





*Not really. Lots of explosions though.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: JollyBob on November 10, 2008, 01:56:48 PM
Did you know that underneath Chuck Norris' beard, there is no chin...

... there's just another fist.

True story.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: white knight on November 10, 2008, 03:20:44 PM
There are 2 or 3 more in the "missing in actions series". It's probably over 15 years since I saw them but I seem to recall the first two are relatively good brainless entertainment in the genre. After that it gets a bit tired.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Argonor on November 11, 2008, 06:22:30 PM
Watched a flick called 'The Initiation of Sarah' on TV the other night.

Not a great movie, but has gaming potential... (two leading sororities at a College somewhere in New England(I think?) are really the front of two compeediing witch cults - one is an evil blood and fire cult, while the other is a not-so-evil wicca-thingy trying to thwart the ambitions of the former...)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Doomhippie on November 12, 2008, 04:38:03 PM
Watched a flick called 'The Initiation of Sarah' on TV the other night.

Not a great movie, but has gaming potential... (two leading sororities at a College somewhere in New England(I think?) are really the front of two compeediing witch cults - one is an evil blood and fire cult, while the other is a not-so-evil wicca-thingy trying to thwart the ambitions of the former...)


Yeah, sure! I bet it was Sorrority Sex Kittens or something like that...  lol

I've just seen 10.000BC (though I'm not sure it qualifies as "inspiring" movie).
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: argsilverson on November 13, 2008, 01:48:25 PM
Watched a flick called 'The Initiation of Sarah' on TV the other night.

Not a great movie, but has gaming potential... (two leading sororities at a College somewhere in New England(I think?) are really the front of two compeediing witch cults - one is an evil blood and fire cult, while the other is a not-so-evil wicca-thingy trying to thwart the ambitions of the former...)


Yeah, sure! I bet it was Sorrority Sex Kittens or something like that...  lol



???????????





I've just seen 10.000BC (though I'm not sure it qualifies as "inspiring" movie).

My son [he is receiving his BA in palaeontology but he is a keen wargamer/painter] put it as:
NO [he used some more bad word in fact, I dare not write]
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: JollyBob on November 13, 2008, 01:53:56 PM
10,000 B.C. is one of those films it is only possible to watch while drunk, for fear of smashing the TV in anger otherwise.

I found it works better if you don't look on it as remotely historical, and pretend it is Stargate: The Beginning instead. Seriously, that makes it a much better film.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Landsknecht on November 14, 2008, 12:45:09 AM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51fO-AMNp3L._SS500_.jpg)
Man, these are spooky...

Shadow of the Vampire is a film based on that movie.  It's really worth watching.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyBt5DDFcQY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyBt5DDFcQY)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Argonor on November 14, 2008, 09:34:44 AM
Oh, yes, I have 'Shadow...' (sadly, only on VHS) - I think I'm going to base a game on that  ;)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Malamute on November 14, 2008, 10:30:06 AM
Oh, yes, I have 'Shadow...' (sadly, only on VHS) - I think I'm going to base a game on that  ;)

So is somebody else we know here, I have seen some of his painted figures already and I am looking forward to seeing photos of the game. ;)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Lowtardog on November 14, 2008, 11:14:46 AM
Watched a flick called 'The Initiation of Sarah' on TV the other night.

Not a great movie, but has gaming potential... (two leading sororities at a College somewhere in New England(I think?) are really the front of two compeediing witch cults - one is an evil blood and fire cult, while the other is a not-so-evil wicca-thingy trying to thwart the ambitions of the former...)


Yeah, sure! I bet it was Sorrority Sex Kittens or something like that...  lol

I've just seen 10.000BC (though I'm not sure it qualifies as "inspiring" movie).



Definately not it was a bit naff
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Helen on November 17, 2008, 04:53:34 AM
It has been a liitle while since I've used the camera.

My thanks to Hammers for the DVD on the Invasion of Finland in 1944 by Russia. Great movie with excellent AFV action.
(http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s266/HelenBachaus/HelensLatestBatch004.jpg)

Play Dirty has always been a favourite of mine with Michael Caine
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Lowtardog on November 27, 2008, 05:16:02 PM
Drums along the Mohawk arrived today, now to get the kids in bed early so I can watch it ;D
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: BigMecha on December 01, 2008, 06:21:38 AM
I would suggest the move - The Assembly.

Finally saw that, because I ordered two and another guy bought the other one.  I give it a 9.9
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: WillieB on December 07, 2008, 07:22:48 PM
Play Dirty is indeed one of the grittiest and best war movies ever made.
Years ago I had a VHS version put on on DVD just in case the tape would wear out.

Tali Ihantala is another really good one, but did you know there's an earlier version of it?

Just bought the first series (1 of 3) of Secret Army. Great stuff!

Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Helen on December 07, 2008, 08:36:22 PM
Play Dirty is indeed one of the grittiest and best war movies ever made.
Years ago I had a VHS version put on on DVD just in case the tape would wear out.

Tali Ihantala is another really good one, but did you know there's an earlier version of it?

Just bought the first series (1 of 3) of Secret Army. Great stuff!



Hi Willie,

I wasn't aware that Tali Ihantala had an earlier version.

Yes I love Play Dirty and of course Michael Caine, my favourite actor. Nigel Greene always pops up in the oldies too!

I just received "Reilly Ace of Spies" the series which was excellent to view and full credits must go to the home office.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Poiter50 on December 08, 2008, 10:12:42 AM
Sky Captain & the World of Tomorrow - as mentioned here on LAF a while ago.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Argonor on December 08, 2008, 08:01:50 PM
Ran into another DVD sale....

(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/1/38_08_12_08_8_53_38_1.jpg)

Not a great movie, but has a lot of inspiration for Victorian/Gothic monster-hunting:
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/1/38_08_12_08_8_53_38_2.jpg)

(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/1/38_08_12_08_8_53_38_4.jpg)

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Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Hammers on December 11, 2008, 11:29:02 AM
Steve Coogan being a hero of mine, I just got two seasons of 'Saxondale'. Having seen half of them now I have to ask our British friends: What model of Englishwoman is Vicky the job booker modelled on? She makes me wanting to strangle her and roar with laughter at the same time.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Chairface on January 02, 2009, 04:08:04 AM
I got the complete Jeeves and Wooster for Christmas! Yay! Hellboy 2 and Doctor Who the Infinite Quest as well, but really excited about the Jeeves and Wooster!
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Col.Stone on January 04, 2009, 01:11:06 PM
Blade runner Final cut, Stardust and Apocalypse now Redux  :D
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Cory on January 11, 2009, 12:51:57 AM

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y16/adwyn/inpursuitofhonor.jpg)

A cavalry movie with no war and inspiration for Americanizing A Very British Civil War.

Also got PBS's March of the Bonus Army.

Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: argsilverson on January 11, 2009, 10:15:16 PM

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y16/adwyn/inpursuitofhonor.jpg)

A cavalry movie with no war and inspiration for Americanizing A Very British Civil War.

Also got PBS's March of the Bonus Army.



However a very interesting film!
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: JollyBob on January 12, 2009, 09:25:12 PM
Near Dark is an underrated modern classic. And stars many of the cast of Aliens, strangely.

I love the scene where they decide to trash the redneck bar. Pure nasty.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Malamute on January 13, 2009, 10:23:58 AM
Near Dark is an underrated modern classic. And stars many of the cast of Aliens, strangely.

I love the scene where they decide to trash the redneck bar. Pure nasty.

I took a former girlfriend to the cinema to see this film, she walked out halfway through the redneck bar scene, I unfortunately had to follow her. :? I only managed to subsequently watch the rest of the film years later on TV. (Needless to say shortly after that episode we parted company...) ;)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: JollyBob on January 13, 2009, 10:28:31 AM
Tch, chicks, man...  lol
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Lowtardog on January 13, 2009, 10:34:35 AM
I took a girlfriend to see Reservoir dogs, needless to say it had the smae effect ;D
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Hammers on January 13, 2009, 02:38:46 PM
Near Dark is an underrated modern classic. And stars many of the cast of Aliens, strangely.

I love the scene where they decide to trash the redneck bar. Pure nasty.

I took a former girlfriend to the cinema to see this film, she walked out halfway through the redneck bar scene, I unfortunately had to follow her. :? I only managed to subsequently watch the rest of the film years later on TV. (Needless to say shortly after that episode we parted company...) ;)

The art of wenching is hard to master.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: JollyBob on January 19, 2009, 11:02:09 AM
Not a movie, but this arrived this morning:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/419fbfRYAtL._SL500_AA240_.jpg)


Supernatural, complete series 1 - 3 boxed set, only £25 off Amazon.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Supernatural-Complete-Season-Jared-Padalecki/dp/B0019FLTG4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1231844540&sr=1-1

Not to everyone's taste, I'm sure, but I love this series. The humour is just the right side of geeky and the story arc never gets in the way of the brilliant "monster of the week" episodes.

Well worth checking out if you haven't already seen it.  :)

Now, if only I can get near the TV for more than ten minutes....  ::)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Helen on January 25, 2009, 10:42:19 AM
(http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s266/HelenBachaus/Helens%20Books/PansLabyrinth.jpg)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Helen on January 28, 2009, 06:54:31 AM
"Black Sunday" and "Utu."
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Mancha on January 29, 2009, 02:54:52 AM
A couple months ago I watched La lengua de las mariposas (Butterfly, in English).  This was a cute coming-of-age story about a little boy at the start of the Spanish Civil War, showing some of the building tension.  Reminded me somewhat of Cinema Paradiso, although perhaps a little more grim.  The only really martial aspect I remember are some shots of Guardia Civil rounding up bad elements.

I now want to watch El Espinazo Del Diablo (The Devil’s Backbone), by Guillermo del Toro, of Pan's Labyrinth fame.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Helen on January 29, 2009, 07:15:43 PM
Utu is a great movie. Was that DVD or VCR?

Hi Scurv, it was DVD!

I'd to purchase this movie from the states even though it was a region 4 (Australia) DVD.

I actually watched the movie yesterday. I first saw this movie when I borrowed Michael Broadbent's VCR copy. Fell in love with the whole fiction, non fiction story.

Helen

Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Remington on January 30, 2009, 01:32:34 PM
A while ago I received "The 11th hour" about the Cretan resistance movement. Finally, thanks to being poorly, I had a chance to watch it and it was really good. Great documentary.
I can really recommend it, even with the small factual mistake at the beginning of the film, stating that Metaxas answered with OXI or NO to the Italian order to surrender. He actually answered in French, the language of diplomacy in Greece at the time, with: "Alors, c'est la guerre."
A pity no miniature company is producing 28mm Cretan resistance, the most successful military insurgency... ever, according to a CIA officer in the film.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Mancha on February 02, 2009, 01:55:23 AM
Watched El Espinazo Del Diablo (The Devil’s Backbone), by Guillermo del Toro, who directed Pan's Labyrinth.  This was marketed as something of a horror movie here in the USA, and I'd passed it by any number of times at the video rental place due to the creepy ghost on the cover.  (I'm not a fan of wriggling-in-my-seat horror movies.)  When I found it on a list of movies related to the Spanish Civil War (SCW), however, and informed that it's not really a horror movie, I thought I'd give it a try.

It's a pretty good movie.  With the creepy little boy ghost, it has some of the same child-dealing-with-the-supernatural-to-overcome-personal-adversity elements that Pan's Labyrinth had.  Unfortunately, while set in the SCW, the war has very little bearing on the plot, which could just as easily have been set in contemporary times with very little dialogue change.  Still, decent movie on its own, and especially fun for anyone who, like me, is halfway through Beevor's The Battle For Spain.  It might be interesting, come to think of it, to insert a little "weird" into a SCW-themed wargame.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Lowtardog on February 02, 2009, 09:35:40 AM
Not a movie, but this arrived this morning:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/419fbfRYAtL._SL500_AA240_.jpg)


Supernatural, complete series 1 - 3 boxed set, only £25 off Amazon.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Supernatural-Complete-Season-Jared-Padalecki/dp/B0019FLTG4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1231844540&sr=1-1

Not to everyone's taste, I'm sure, but I love this series. The humour is just the right side of geeky and the story arc never gets in the way of the brilliant "monster of the week" episodes.

Well worth checking out if you haven't already seen it.  :)

Now, if only I can get near the TV for more than ten minutes....  ::)

I like Supernatural it is almost what Demons should have been if they hadnt pandered to the teen idle audience
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Landsknecht on February 04, 2009, 08:42:05 PM
Just picked up "The Lost Battalion" last month.  I have to say, it's my favorite World War One movie.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: revford on February 05, 2009, 10:55:26 AM
Last week the Babylon 5 Ultimate Collection arrived, all five seasons, plus the spin off Crusade and all the made of TV movies.  About 96 1/3 hours not including the extra features on 42 discs.

Should keep me entertained for a while.  :D  :D

I may have to trawl eBay for some of the Vorlon minis Mongoose made years ago.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Commander Vyper on February 05, 2009, 11:19:57 AM
Watched American Gangster yesterday.

Very good film indeed both Washington and Crowe are amazing, shame they're aren't enough 70's new york gangsters, pimps and cop figures out there.

The Commander
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: warrenpeace on February 06, 2009, 05:52:35 PM
 lol Just watched "OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies" (OSS 117: Le Caire, nid d'espions) yesterday and I'm still laughing!  lol

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0464913/

This 2006 French spoof/parody of the "spy in a tuxedo" genre hits the more serious mid 20th Century OSS 117 French books and films and the early James Bond hard.  This one is set in 1955, and there has to be a pulp spy game or campaign in there somewhere.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Unforgiven on February 08, 2009, 04:04:31 PM
Just watched the recent X-files movie.
Its pretty freaky, it also gave me a lot of ideas... >:D >:D >:D
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: joroas on February 08, 2009, 04:14:04 PM
Just watched Kung Fu Panda............ 'Nuff said.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Mancha on February 08, 2009, 07:10:48 PM
I watched The Professional the other night.  Thirteen-year-old Natalie Portman is totally...and disturbingly hot.  The scenes of her cleaning the apartment in her wife-beater are soft-core porn.  I didn't realize I had so much of the letch in me.  My eight-year-old son was also intrigued by her, although not in the same way.  "Hey!" he said, "That's princess Amidala!"
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: white knight on February 08, 2009, 09:13:46 PM
Thirteen-year-old Natalie Portman is totally...and disturbingly hot.  The scenes of her cleaning the apartment in her wife-beater are soft-core porn.  I didn't realize I had so much of the letch in me. 

I wonder how long it's going to take you to regret posting that publicly... lol
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Mancha on February 08, 2009, 09:19:46 PM
I wonder how long it's going to take you to regret posting that publicly... lol


Yeah, hope the Feds aren't reading this.  For the record, let it be known that I hove no child-pornography on my computer; nor have I otherwise shown an interest in such fare.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Plynkes on February 08, 2009, 09:24:39 PM
Great picture that. In my country it's called Leon, though for some reason.

Oh, and way too much information there, dude.  Ewwww...
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: white knight on February 09, 2009, 09:56:39 AM
Love Gary Oldman in it too.

As an actor !!!  :`
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Plynkes on February 09, 2009, 11:26:24 AM
I love Gary Oldman in anything. I'm a big fan of his.

Any films where he cleans the apartment in a wife-beater?

 lol lol lol lol lol
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Mancha on February 09, 2009, 03:59:16 PM
Any films where he cleans the apartment in a wife-beater?

 lol lol lol lol lol

So many laughing faces I'm half convinced you're not joking.  ;)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Col.Stone on February 10, 2009, 05:18:53 PM
Der Rote Baron :-*
bit of a cobbled together film, well worth watching tho, i soooo want to get some germans for wings of war now  lol
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365675/
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Landsknecht on February 11, 2009, 10:05:08 PM
Der Rote Baron :-*
bit of a cobbled together film, well worth watching tho, i soooo want to get some germans for wings of war now  lol
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365675/
Der Rote Baron is so much better then Fly Boys though.

Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Athelwulf on February 17, 2009, 06:42:31 AM
Just got a copy of 3:10 to Yuma.very cool for some western gaming.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Remington on February 22, 2009, 11:23:30 AM
Yesterday I bought a film I never knew existed for 3 euro.  :D "Attack Force Z" from 1982 with a very young Mel Gibson and a similarly young Sam Niell. It was definitely fun to watch even though it is a bit bleak and the DVD quality isn't the best.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: twrchtrwyth on February 22, 2009, 04:25:37 PM
Yesterday I bought a film I never knew existed for 3 euro.  :D "Attack Force Z" from 1982 with a very young Mel Gibson and a similarly young Sam Niell. It was definitely fun to watch even though it is a bit bleak and the DVD quality isn't the best.
Z for Zombies? 8)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Remington on February 22, 2009, 07:34:40 PM
Unfortunately no...  :D Z for Z Special Unit. Basically Australian and New Zealander Commandos.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: meninobesta on February 22, 2009, 09:49:43 PM
(http://www.sineport.com/poster/eski/kagemusha.jpg)

bought this one last week for 9.99€  :D

and earlier for about 7.00€ this one:
(http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/images/reviews/194/1209981372_1.jpg)
I'm still resisting the idea of making a turkish army with elephants with canons on top! but this film didn't help a bit!
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Landsknecht on February 28, 2009, 06:34:40 AM
I love the Adventures of Baron Munchauson!  That movie encouraged me to collect and paint two Ottoman Empire Armies.  The first was an Age of Reason/Napoleonic period army in 15mm scale.  The second was a Renaissance period army in 28mm scale.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Regulator on March 14, 2009, 09:10:03 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51YJKH8FFCL._SS500_.jpg)

what a great movie ...  ::)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Hammers on March 16, 2009, 12:37:27 PM
Look out for this one...

(http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTk3MjQxMjA0OF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMzk2NDIyMQ@@._V1._SX97_SY140_.jpg)

It is about a gang of German 16 year olds set to defend a bridge in Germany during the last months of the war.
I am watching the German 2008 TV remake which I think's got unfairly poor criticism on IDBM but I am certainly interested in seeing the original.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Poiter50 on March 16, 2009, 11:35:58 PM
The Phantom - Billy Zane & Catherine Zeta Jones version.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Aaron on March 17, 2009, 02:19:51 PM
"No smoking in the skull cave!" :D
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Poiter50 on March 17, 2009, 06:55:05 PM
 ;) ;D 8) :P
"No smoking in the skull cave!" :D
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Regulator on March 21, 2009, 09:12:22 PM
Look out for this one...

(http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTk3MjQxMjA0OF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMzk2NDIyMQ@@._V1._SX97_SY140_.jpg)

It is about a gang of German 16 year olds set to defend a bridge in Germany during the last months of the war.
I am watching the German 2008 TV remake which I think's got unfairly poor criticism on IDBM but I am certainly interested in seeing the original.

Do you talk about "Die Brücke" "The bridge?" if yes, please, please throw it away, the re-make was the greatest bulls*** I have ever seen. So many mistakes, so unreal ... kinda crap >:(
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Doomhippie on March 24, 2009, 06:00:44 PM
I actually recieved Secret of the Incas' Empire thanks to some help from this forum.

Dudes, this movie is really, really bad. In an entertaining way. And it really makes me want to get drunk again!
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Regulator on March 29, 2009, 07:19:17 PM
(http://images.blockbuster.com/is/amg/dvd/cov150/drt100/t180/t18043b778a.jpg)(http://www.gothtronic.com/Goth/img_/Movies1/sub/allquiet.jpg)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: BigMecha on March 31, 2009, 02:46:17 AM
(http://images.blockbuster.com/is/amg/dvd/cov150/drt100/t180/t18043b778a.jpg)(http://www.gothtronic.com/Goth/img_/Movies1/sub/allquiet.jpg)

YES!!! the Lost Battalion and All QUIET on the Western Front

A Bridge to Far is a great one!

PATTON is too!

The Assembly! great one!

MIDWAY!

DAS BOOT!

BOYS IN COMPANY C!

RAMBO (newest one out)

Sands of IWO JIMA!

Fixed Bayonets!

Torpedo Run!

Stalingrad!

Dunkirk!

Cross Of Iron!

Under Heavy Fire!

GreyLady Down!

Twelve O' Clock High!

Tora Tora Tora!

84 Charlie Mopic..

that is some I think are great movies to see

Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Pil on April 02, 2009, 11:49:00 AM
(http://nd.blog.cz/l/lordx.blog.cz/obrazky/34364360.jpg)
English title: The City of Lost Children

This one really took bme by surprise! It's a fairytale very much in the style of Terry Gilliam, Dark City and El Laberinto del Fauno (Pan's Labyrinth). Beautifully made and a nice story too. I can heartily recommend it to anyone who enjoys these kind of movies.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: white knight on April 02, 2009, 12:57:52 PM
Yes, I have the DVD as well. It's by the makers of "Amélie Poulain" and "Un long dimanche de fiançailles" (a very long engagement) (the latter also has some nice WW1 scenes).
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: meninobesta on April 02, 2009, 03:36:42 PM
Yes, I have the DVD as well. It's by the makers of "Amélie Poulain" and "Un long dimanche de fiançailles" (a very long engagement) (the latter also has some nice WW1 scenes).

if you like those! add Delicatessen to the lot, a very unique post-apocalipse movie!  :)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: bulldogger2000 on April 03, 2009, 02:23:26 AM
I just finished watching Nate and Hayes from Netflix.  Kinda goofy....but fun.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Plynkes on April 09, 2009, 09:59:23 AM
Caught a rather enjoyable film at the weekend. I'm sure you can guess what it was from this picture...

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/NoCountry.jpg)
Must admit I was already something of a Coen Brothers fan, but I especially enjoyed this one. Very... interesting. Almost makes one want to take up Legends of the Old West gaming in a 1980s setting.  :)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Hammers on April 09, 2009, 10:19:34 AM
One of their best. Only beaten by Fargo and right next to The Big Lebowski.

Javier Bardem's Anton Chigurh made it up there to the most uncanny psychos in film history and here I'm thinking Anthony Hopkin's Hannibal Lecter, Jack Nicholson's Jack Torrace, Anthony Perkin\s Norman Bates and Ted Levine's Jame Gumb.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Mancha on April 09, 2009, 02:19:02 PM
Such a great movie.  After watching it I got onto my motorcycle forum and expressed how, in some twisted way, it made me proud to be a Texan.  At least five people responded to say they felt the same.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: white knight on April 18, 2009, 10:06:16 AM
3 classic War movies in one slip case:
(https://www.mediaboetiek.nl/afbeeldingen/film2/1328007.jpg)

Oriental fantasy/mystery:
(http://www.moviepulp.be/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/restless.jpg)

(http://www.new-video.de/pic06/bloodrain05.jpg)

Spaghetti western:
(http://spaghettiwesterns.1g.fi/dvd/Death_Rides_A_Horse_MGM_DVD.jpg)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Malamute on April 18, 2009, 11:29:22 AM
Ahhh, Death Rides a Horse. I remember seeing that many years ago in a Spaghetti Western season on the Beeb. You have got to love any western starring Lee Van Cleef.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Onebigriver on April 21, 2009, 04:29:03 PM
Picked up Pathfinder last week in a sale. Absolutely awful, but I'm thinking of buying some Vikings and native Americans to make up a couple of warbands for SBH.

Also picked up Return of the Living Dead 2. Not as good as I remembered, but still fun. At some point I'm going to stick some zombies in a US Jeep.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Aaron on April 21, 2009, 05:40:40 PM
The wife has a thing for Egypt and had me pick up Bob Brier's lecture series on DVD from the local library. It has been great to listen to while painting in the evenings. I did some checking and found out the company that makes it has a whole host of other lectures available on all topics and my library carries a lot of them in either DVD or CD format. Well worth looking in to! http://www.teach12.com/ttcx/CourseDescLong2.aspx?cid=350 (http://www.teach12.com/ttcx/CourseDescLong2.aspx?cid=350)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: white knight on May 08, 2009, 12:24:46 PM
Some more Spaghetti westerns:

Trinity is still my name
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Dw0ivUcyL._SL500_AA240_.jpg)

A genious, two partners and a dupe
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/6140Vh3HpwL._SL500.jpg)

Sabata
(http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/280/18493593pu7.jpg)

And also Bulletproof monk, which althoug not great is essentially a pulp movie (especially the opening bit and the final confrontation with the nazi)
(http://www.tqs.ca/showbiz/cinema/films/images/1166-bulletproof_monk_verdvd.jpg)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: JollyBob on May 08, 2009, 12:30:50 PM
Bulletproof Monk's best line:

"its a recipe for noodle soup..."

Maybe you have to see it drunk to appreciate it.  ;)

I got quite the haul recently (HMV sale!)

Hammer movies:

Dracula AD1972
Taste the Blood of Dracula
Dracula has Risen from the Grave
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed!
Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires

Monster Movies:

The Land that Time Forgot
Them!
Valley of Gwangi


Pulpy Thrillers:

Ice Station Zebra
The Yakuza


Now to find time to watch them all!  ;D
 
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: matakishi on May 08, 2009, 11:49:38 PM
Bit of a theme:

(http://i106.piczo.com/view/1/w/m/q/1/9/3/s/g/y/4/p/img/i316442613_79644_5.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51KY77lJNkL._SL500.jpg)

(http://www.britfilms.tv/images/news/Come%20to%20Dada%20DVD.jpg) (http://www.israel-shops.com/images/thunderboltDVD1.jpg)

My favourite bit from Raid on Entebbe:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysKBI3_B6U4
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Prof.Witchheimer on May 16, 2009, 10:01:51 AM
lots of great russian movies and series

Admiral (the fate of White russian leader Admiral Kolchak)

(http://i069.radikal.ru/0810/d6/359c0fa9f4f1.jpg)

Gospoda officery (a bunch of White Russian officers is going to attempt to free the Tzar)

(http://ruskino.ru/film/10197/md_poster.jpg)

Diversant (a great story of a WW2 russian speznaz troop)

(http://www.russiandvd.com/store/assets/product_images/imgs/front/35546.jpg)

Diversant (End of the War)

(http://www.russiandvd.com/store/assets/product_images/imgs/front/17653.jpg)

Bayazet (1877, the russian-turkish war, the siege of russian fort Bayazet)

(http://ruskino.ru/film/27/md_poster.jpg)



Liquidation (the fight of the russian police 1946 against the criminals and german spies in the Odessa)

(http://emule.at.ua/_nw/0/05516.jpg)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: white knight on May 16, 2009, 08:35:26 PM
(http://www.proxis.be/Assets/Media/Product/L7321/93/27/36/7321932736601.jpg)

And (after much delay), the original three Indiana Jones movies (I deliberately ignored the latest one, which, like the third Mummy movie and the Star Wars xmas special just 'never happened').
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: warrenpeace on May 17, 2009, 04:03:11 AM
Capitaes de Abril (2000) -- Portuguese movie about overthrow of the dictatorship 1975.  Thought this one was really good.

Dresden -- German movie set in that city early 1945.  Thought the romance between the German nurse and the wounded British bomber pilot was implausible, at least the way the script developed it, but the rest of the movie was pretty impressive.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Mindenbrush on May 20, 2009, 10:12:45 AM
The Hurt Locker - its about a US A>rmy bomb disposal team in Iraq. Not bad.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0887912/
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: dijit on May 20, 2009, 10:29:27 AM
Just watched 'Serenity' - absolutely fantastic sci fi movie. Well worth a watch, I've now tracked down the original series (Firefly) - very much looking forwards to seeing them.
Dijit
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Keith on May 20, 2009, 11:52:29 AM
I'd give a lot to be able to see the Proff's selection with English subtitles.  ;D
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Bako on May 20, 2009, 06:51:58 PM
Finally found me a copy of the Animatrix. The Second Renaissance is a good un'.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: elysium64 on May 20, 2009, 09:44:36 PM
Is Bayazet available with English sub-titles? I have always had a bit of a thing for the 1877 Russo-Turkish War since reading the Osprey book, always imagined the illustrations as Copplestone figures, still looking for suitable 28mm miniatures....
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Helen on May 20, 2009, 10:14:55 PM
Letters from Iwo Jima, plus the following:

(http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s266/HelenBachaus/DVDs/TheTigerandtheFlame.jpg)

(http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s266/HelenBachaus/DVDs/MangalPandey.jpg)

(http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s266/HelenBachaus/DVDs/TheBeast.jpg)

This copy is for Michael Broadbent:

(http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s266/HelenBachaus/DVDs/ZeroPopulationGrowth.jpg)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: dijit on May 21, 2009, 06:08:04 AM
'The Beast' is that also known as 'The Beast of War'? About a Russian tank crew in the afghan war that lose their way and sort of fight a running battle with afghan rebels? If it is  I saw that film so long ago now that I can't remember when and loved every minute of it. I might have to track it down.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Helen on May 21, 2009, 06:20:38 AM
'The Beast' is that also known as 'The Beast of War'? About a Russian tank crew in the afghan war that lose their way and sort of fight a running battle with afghan rebels? If it is  I saw that film so long ago now that I can't remember when and loved every minute of it. I might have to track it down.

Yes that's correct, a great movie an one I very much enjoyed all the way through.

Helen
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: dijit on May 21, 2009, 04:20:33 PM
Fantastic, it looks like a new cover to what I've seen before. I'll have a look on amazon. Thanks for the heads up.

EDIT: just finished watching all the firefly/serenity stuff for the first time. WOW! amazing stuff, now I really don't know why Fox cancelled it, that is a series I would've watched and watched and watched. Dumb corporate idiots. The imagination in it is fantastic, with great story lines and humour. I never got Buffy or Angel, they just seemed too cheesy for me, but Firefly is something else.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: matakishi on May 26, 2009, 02:58:16 PM
(http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/images/movie/large/Son_of_the_morning_star.jpg)

Well, actually I've had this for 17 years on video but I've just transferred it to dvd so I can actually watch it again :)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: twrchtrwyth on May 26, 2009, 06:04:57 PM
(http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/images/movie/large/Son_of_the_morning_star.jpg)

Well, actually I've had this for 17 years on video but I've just transferred it to dvd so I can actually watch it again :)
Had what?
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: DFlynSqrl on May 27, 2009, 02:11:38 AM
Got "Zulu" and "Zulu Dawn" in the mail today.   :D
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: archangel1 on May 27, 2009, 03:32:01 AM
Had what?

This, apparently!
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Malamute on May 28, 2009, 07:37:06 AM
Had what?

This, apparently!

I've got that on Video too. :)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: JollyBob on May 28, 2009, 10:53:23 AM
I just completed my unholy triumvirate of "Dinosaur" Doug McClure movies by getting my mitts on a DVD of Warlords of Atlantis!

Yay me!  :D
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Malamute on May 28, 2009, 11:00:19 AM
I just completed my unholy triumvirate of "Dinosaur" Doug McClure movies by getting my mitts on a DVD of Warlords of Atlantis!

Yay me!  :D

Cool beans, you can't beat a bit of the much missed Doug McClure :)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Plynkes on May 28, 2009, 11:08:37 AM
You have completed nothing, my friend! You are a movie short, though I don't know which one. Doug made at least four in that genre.

The Land that Time Forgot is my favourite, as it has a U-Boat in it. "Warlords" comes a close second, as it features Cliff from Cheers.  :)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: JollyBob on May 28, 2009, 11:16:54 AM
I believe there is a Return to the Land that Time Forgot, or somesuch nonsense. I seem to remember a plane crashing on a plateau and finding a beardy Doug waiting for them. 

Bosh! there we go:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076535/

People that... Not Return to...

I'll have to look out for that one now.

Damn you Plynkes!  lol


Edited because I forgot to put the flippin' linky in! Eejit!
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Malamute on May 28, 2009, 11:21:21 AM
I believe there is a Return to the Land that Time Forgot, or somesuch nonsense. I seem to remember a plane crashing on a plateau and finding a beardy Doug waiting for them. 

Bosh! there we go:

People that... Not Return to...

I'll have to look out for that one now.

Damn you Plynkes!  lol

Yes, I had forgotten that one, he is certainly beardy in it, although I can't remember the plot.
I agree with Plynkes "Land that" is the best.  :)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Plynkes on May 28, 2009, 11:49:54 AM
Yes, I suspected that was the fellow that you didn't have. It tends to slip one's mind, probably as it is the least memorable of the bunch. Haven't seen it in ages myself.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: JollyBob on May 28, 2009, 12:19:01 PM
I've just ordered it off Amazon.

I hate myself...  :'(
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Svennn on May 28, 2009, 12:36:56 PM
I presume the other is "At The Earths Core"?

Didn't he do a for tv remake of Journey to the centre....?
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Malamute on May 28, 2009, 12:45:28 PM
I presume the other is "At The Earths Core"?

Didn't he do a for tv remake of Journey to the centre....?

With Peter Cushing :D and.........Caroline Munroe ;D :-*
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: dbsubashi on June 01, 2009, 08:23:45 AM
Finaly got a copy of Prince of Foxes on DVD. I love how the extras look in their armor, and the way they carry themselves. They have a wonderful weight to them, and great bearing for at that kit. Very appropriate with the new GW Empire releases. The costumes are wonderful! One of the few B&W films I wish was in color, just to see to armor and costumes!
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: JollyBob on June 01, 2009, 11:50:29 AM
I believe there is a Return to the Land that Time Forgot, or somesuch nonsense. I seem to remember a plane crashing on a plateau and finding a beardy Doug waiting for them. 

Bosh! there we go:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076535/

People that... Not Return to...

I'll have to look out for that one now.

Damn you Plynkes!  lol


Edited because I forgot to put the flippin' linky in! Eejit!

And it arrived today.  :)

My my, but the cave lady on the back cover really needs more suppport if she's going to bend over like that.  :o
Title: Colorized 1935 "SHE" is awesome
Post by: Mogimbu on June 04, 2009, 10:51:24 PM
Greetings,

I just Netflixed the '35 version of "SHE" from the Haggard story.

Wow!  Starring Randolph Scott and Nigel (Dr Watson) Bruce.  The story is relocated from Africa to the Artic, but it's a pretty nice adaption.

The heroes are captured by some thuggish cave dwellers who try to kill them off, before a phalanx of "She's" greek-ish looking troops rescue them.

Great cult looking costumes, impressive sets and special effects.

Hair-raising score by Max Steiner.

Created by the same team that brought us the original "Kong"

IMDB page:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026983/

Black and White Cultish Fire Ceremony:
http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi1753678105/

Check it out!
Regards,
Mogimbu
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: traveller on June 07, 2009, 11:51:05 AM
Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. Lots of interesting WW1 action
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: JollyBob on June 11, 2009, 10:48:47 AM
God bless the ongoing HMV sale, I just picked up a double bill of Fu Manchu movies for a fiver, starring of course, the world's least Chinese looking man, Christopher Lee!  :D
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Mad Carew Snr on June 11, 2009, 10:56:11 AM
Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. Lots of interesting WW1 action

Oh I liked those - there was a scene in one of them where theres a gas attack followed by a charge by German lancers in gas-masks - very cool
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: traveller on June 11, 2009, 04:37:37 PM
Sounds interesting. I haven´t seen that yet. 10 DVDs with 2 episodes each. That is truckloads of inspiration!
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Helen on June 12, 2009, 02:54:14 AM
Also known as 'A Destiny of her Own':

(http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s266/HelenBachaus/DangerousBeauty.jpg)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Helen on June 17, 2009, 11:58:20 PM
Great movie!

(http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s266/HelenBachaus/9throta.jpg)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: traveller on June 21, 2009, 05:46:44 PM
Anyone seen Tarantino´s latest film "Inglourious Basterds" ?
(yes, it is spelled that way... lol)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: traveller on June 21, 2009, 05:55:26 PM
Oops, seems not due until Aug 21

http://inglouriousbasterds-movie.com/
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Malamute on June 22, 2009, 04:49:58 PM
God bless the ongoing HMV sale, I just picked up a double bill of Fu Manchu movies for a fiver, starring of course, the world's least Chinese looking man, Christopher Lee!  :D

I have the boxed set too :D
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Helen on June 24, 2009, 06:44:15 AM
(http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s266/HelenBachaus/ivanhoe.jpg)

(http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s266/HelenBachaus/vladdvd.jpg)

(http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s266/HelenBachaus/averylongengagement.jpg)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: white knight on June 24, 2009, 07:01:28 AM
Don't know the first two, but the last one is great!
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Hammers on June 29, 2009, 10:33:14 PM
I have just seen 'L'Ennemi Intime' (The Intimate Enemy), a French film about the war in Algeria. In my book it's the best bloody war flick sine 'Saving Private Ryan' and 'Band of Brothers', so I am guessing I sticking my neck out here...
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Helen on July 03, 2009, 01:29:29 AM
A great movie an especially the naval actions.

(http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s266/HelenBachaus/admiral.jpg)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Doomhippie on July 07, 2009, 07:19:42 PM
Jaws!!!! Yipeee! Hm, is it really an inspiring movie for the tabletop hobby? More for the "never go swimming" league. Anyway, it's a cool movie.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: white knight on July 12, 2009, 07:13:05 PM
(http://files.list.co.uk/images/2009/06/11/empress-and-warriors-lst062584.jpg)

(http://img312.imageshack.us/img312/7947/myth8zm.jpg)

(http://www.trailersforall.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/the-warlords-poster.jpg)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Mancha on July 12, 2009, 09:23:05 PM
Last night I watched The Children of Huang Shi:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51sQdH9FF0L._SL500_AA240_.jpg)

This is a movie about how an Englishman managed to educate and ultimately save from the Japanese, and Chinese Nationalists fighting the Japanese, a number of Chinese orphans.  It's full of cool costume ideas and shows some scenes of the Japanese in Nanking and other parts of China, in the lead-up to WWII.

It's a pretty good movie, with lots of character development and a good story.  I was often reminded of Tintin books, most notably Tintin in Tibet.  One wishes that the main character were a little more martial, which might have resulted in more battle scenes, but pacifism is his thing.  All in all, a good rental.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: JollyBob on July 17, 2009, 11:03:10 AM
Birthday vouchers ahoy, so spent them on:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51FhiI80uRL._SL500_AA240_.jpg)

and

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51vMRX5kdhL._SS500_.jpg)

Now I've got to try and find a couple of hours to watch them in!
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: white knight on July 17, 2009, 11:39:26 AM
Both of those are on the 'to buy' list.  8)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Calimero on July 19, 2009, 03:16:43 PM

I discovered this series by accident here on Z-télé (the French dubbed version, Le Diable et Moi).
I like it so much that I buy the DVD of both seasons 1 and 2. IMHO very original and fun. The series pilot was directed by Kevin Smith.  8)

(http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll206/Calimero_34/ReaperSeason1.jpg)

(http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll206/Calimero_34/ReaperSeason2.jpg)

Sadly the Network pulled the plug on the show… stupid Network  >:(
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Renfield286 on July 20, 2009, 06:45:15 AM
not a movie, but a miniseries on DVD, and possibly one of the best uk zombie projects.
my GF got it for me for my birthday
(http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg241/Renfield286/6059447x.jpg)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Mancha on July 22, 2009, 04:11:03 AM
I just finished watching Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan (2007), which I found in the New Releases section at Blockbuster. 

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51KO-s3mV%2BL._SL500_AA240_.jpg)

This movie, set in the late 1100’s, depicts the early life of who else?, but Genghis Khan.  It’s in, I would assume, Chinese, with subtitles.  Good flick; well worth the rental.  Makes me wanna go off and check out the Mongolian characters set from Copplestone.

(http://www.copplestonecastings.co.uk/images/bu20.jpg)

Ooh, Mongolian goodness…
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Poiter50 on July 22, 2009, 04:29:10 AM
That is a later Mongolian set as suited to the 1920s-30s, although if you take out the revolver armed character, they would suit. Very Chinese looking as against Genghis's boys.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Mancha on July 22, 2009, 05:12:03 AM
Yes, the outfits, sans firearms of course, look about the same as those in the movie.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Helen on July 24, 2009, 01:12:38 AM
(http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s266/HelenBachaus/51SsDQseRYL__SL500_AA240_.jpg)

(http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s266/HelenBachaus/51pnavoyO6L__SL500_AA240_.jpg)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: JollyBob on July 28, 2009, 11:05:57 AM
Not a movie, but I got this:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/619E13JHBEL._SL500_AA240_.jpg)

From what I've heard, the effects are extremely ropey by todays standards (think seventies Dr Who with no budget!  :o ) but the stories more than compensate for that. Looking forward to getting stuck in.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Landsknecht on July 29, 2009, 09:22:24 PM
You should take a look at "The Last King of Scotland", it's about Idi Amin played by Forest Whitaker.  It's a very good movie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV_QgKJFZP0

Bit of a theme:

(http://i106.piczo.com/view/1/w/m/q/1/9/3/s/g/y/4/p/img/i316442613_79644_5.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51KY77lJNkL._SL500.jpg)

(http://www.britfilms.tv/images/news/Come%20to%20Dada%20DVD.jpg) (http://www.israel-shops.com/images/thunderboltDVD1.jpg)

My favourite bit from Raid on Entebbe:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysKBI3_B6U4

Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Hammers on August 13, 2009, 09:07:41 PM
From Amazon.co.uk:

Smiley's People - Alec Guinness goodness
All the King's Men - Got it despite some reserve at this very forum. Who can resist Gallipoli
Extras, the Special - I love mockumentaries
The Trench - also per recommendation, Daniel Craig is the shit
State of Play - what a line up of actors, both main protagonists from 'Life on Mars' *and* David Morrissey, just to name three.
Mad Men-season 2 - finally other cable channels are catching up with HBO; very stylish
North West Frontier - a classic I felt I needed for my current project, it's got a armoured train!
The Monocled Mutineer - more WWI goodness; I really liked Riley so I figured this one would suit me
Carnivale, season two - I hope you've seen it, it's in par with Mad Men when it comes to contemporary execution
Life on Mars, season 2 - [to young children and Americans:] a BBC hit tv series about... well, think Mark Twain's 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' but set in Manchester in the '70ties and without any Yankee whatsoever... Well, watch it.

Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Prof.Witchheimer on September 28, 2009, 04:39:29 AM
Sukiyaki Western Django. What a great fun!

(http://www.wasabi.li/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/sukiyaki_western_django_poster.jpg)

(http://anarielle.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/sukiyaki-western-django-1.jpg)

(http://blog.mlive.com/movies_impact/2008/10/large_sukiyaki.jpg)

(http://www.kreativrauschen.de/blog/bilder/sukiyaki-western-django-3.jpg)

(http://www.splatterwelt.ch/wp-content/uploads/sukiyaki-western-django_14.jpg)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Onebigriver on October 07, 2009, 09:07:43 AM
A two-fer DVD, The Land That Time Forgot and The People That Time Forgot
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Col.Stone on October 08, 2009, 05:50:21 PM
Go tell the spartans & where eagles dare, £2,80 each  :D
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Plynkes on October 14, 2009, 09:20:03 PM
Birthday Prezzies!

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/assembly.jpg)
(from the makers of Taegukgi, which I liked, though I thought it lost it's way a bit towards the end before finishing well, still good, mind.)
 
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/assembly01.jpg)


***


(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/admiral_dvd.jpg)

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/admiral-battle.jpg)


***


(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/Copyofredbaronbd2d.jpg)

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/Richtofhen_MC.jpg)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Hammers on October 15, 2009, 05:55:21 PM
Happy birthday, mate! Quite some loot you've got there. I enjoyed the Red Baron, save for Lena Headey who was quite miscast.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Col.Stone on October 16, 2009, 02:17:53 PM
Happy birthday :)

I enjoyed the Red Baron, save Lena Headey who was quite miscast.
i agree, i spent half the movie wondering just what they were thinking when they choose her.. :(
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Helen on October 16, 2009, 07:18:05 PM
Happy birthday Dylan. I agree with Peder, some nice goodies there. The Admiral which I've is a good movie for the relevant parts.

Helen
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: TheMightyFlip on October 24, 2009, 09:08:38 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51gZlnGbH6L._SS500_.jpg)

Great film for £6, loved Robert De Nero's sky captain.

(http://www.gonewiththetwins.com/pages/dvds/2009/infestation.jpg)

Infestation, an ok film nothing that hasnt been seen elsewhere.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Hammers on November 05, 2009, 10:10:02 AM
I am watching HBO's "Generation Kill", which i find a bit of bloody good, really. Not that I'd game it. A good mix between Marine gung-ho and  dissolution which feels authentic. I am modestly proud that one of the main protagonists, Sergeant Brad Colbert, is played by Swedish lad Alexander Skarsgard.

EDIT: having seen a little bit further into the series I should add that it is not for the weak of stomach. It is pretty gruesome in places.  :?
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Hammers on November 05, 2009, 10:19:24 AM
Also: has anyone seen this:
(http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTcwOTAyMjEzMV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNjU5OTQzMg@@._V1._SX97_SY140_.jpg)

I saw this Canadian flick about Paaschendale on the shelf at a gas station but did buy it. Is it any good?
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Plynkes on November 05, 2009, 10:47:38 AM
Naughty boy. Seems IMDB don't want you hotlinking their pictures.


Generation Kill is rather good, isn't it. An episode was on telly here last night. It is about the only thing I make a point of not missing at the moment.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: revford on November 05, 2009, 12:32:41 PM
One of our gaming group picked up Generation Kill on DVD a while back and it's still making the rounds at the moment.  :)

The streams of abuse from the Sergeant towards his "Whisky Tango" driver had us rolling about.

As a helpful bonus, the DVD box has a booklet of US Military terms and slang to help you translate what they're talking about.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Wirelizard on November 05, 2009, 12:48:57 PM
I saw this Canadian flick about Paaschendale on the shelf at a gas station but did buy it. Is it any good?

If that's the Paul Gross one, then yes, apparently it is pretty decent. Made for TV, but a reasonable budget and such.

Passchendaele on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passchendaele_(film)).
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Calimero on November 05, 2009, 02:43:15 PM

Was made for TV? Apparently it was a regular theatre release as it open in 202 screens in Canada… but sadly not near where I live :-[
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Wirelizard on November 05, 2009, 09:46:42 PM
Was made for TV? Apparently it was a regular theatre release as it open in 202 screens in Canada… but sadly not near where I live :-[

Ah, you're right. Here I am linking to Wikipedia articles - perhaps I should actually, you know, read the whole article before I start typing, or something, as it does talk about the theatrical release in that very article...  ;D
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Hammers on November 06, 2009, 07:43:34 AM
Naughty boy. Seems IMDB don't want you hotlinking their pictures.


Generation Kill is rather good, isn't it. An episode was on telly here last night. It is about the only thing I make a point of not missing at the moment.

I am having a lot of fun at the character portrayals, especial those two idiot platoon leaders 'Hitman' and 'Captain America'.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Helen on November 06, 2009, 09:05:46 AM
Blakes 7 Series III, 3:10 to Yuma, One Man's Hero and Cyrano de Bergerac.

Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Calimero on November 08, 2009, 07:37:28 PM

I buy a copy of The Fantastic Four… Not a particularly inspiring film but it was dirt cheap at the local Wal-Mart… There is a problem though. Although the box was written in both English and French and that it clearly stated that the DVD include the dubbed French version, it didn’t!!!  :-[

That’s not the first time it happen to me… make me wonder if big company have any respect for the French speaking Canadian… we are a market of several millions after all…
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: twrchtrwyth on November 08, 2009, 09:13:24 PM
I buy a copy of The Fantastic Four… Not a particularly inspiring film but it was dirt cheap at the local Wal-Mart… There is a problem though. Although the box was written in both English and French and that it clearly stated that the DVD include the dubbed French version, it didn’t!!!  :-[

That’s not the first time it happen to me… make me wonder if big company have any respect for the French speaking Canadian… we are a market of several millions after all…

With you were respect for languages is concerned. >:(
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: JollyBob on November 09, 2009, 04:12:17 PM
Quite frankly Calimero, watching that turgid lump of studio butchered crap in a language you are not 100% fluent in could only improve it IMO. At least you could make up some significantly less banal dialogue.  lol
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: voltan on November 10, 2009, 01:17:34 PM
Finally got myself a copy of the omega man
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Hammers on November 12, 2009, 12:19:51 PM
Got these today:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/510SXKZC89L._SL500_AA240_.jpg)

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51zHAJxzPLL._SL500_AA240_.jpg)

Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: TheMightyFlip on November 12, 2009, 06:47:47 PM
Patlabor 1
Ghost in the Shell 2.0 and Ghost in the Shell 2 (double box set)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: majorsmith on November 13, 2009, 08:12:21 PM
Quote
Quite frankly Calimero, watching that turgid lump of studio butchered crap in a language you are not 100% fluent in could only improve it IMO. At least you could make up some significantly less banal dialogue.

i watched transformers in thai, nuff said!
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Helen on November 13, 2009, 08:39:50 PM
Witchfinder General (uncut) version.

You just have to love Vincent Price  8)

Helen
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: answer_is_42 on November 13, 2009, 11:13:37 PM
I rented The Admiral the other day. Terrible acting, bayonet charges, Russians, the Imperial German Navy, tons of high explosive and some really big hats. What's not to like?
Not a film I'd really consider buying, though, unless it was dirt cheap.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Wirelizard on November 14, 2009, 06:50:45 AM
Rental, not buying, but I got all three of the good Indiana Jones movies out, watched them with beer. First (Lost Ark) really is the best, Temple of Doom hits the gore/grossout too hard. Last Crusade is good fun.

The less said about Crystal Skull, the better. Didn't bother renting it.  lol
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Westfalia Chris on November 14, 2009, 10:31:45 AM
I purchased more DVDs in the last weeks than over the last year in Germany, so it´ll take some time to watch through all. Mainly stuff I always wanted but which was prohibitively expensive back home.

I´ll only list the most "gameable" ones (though I´m sure there is a potential subject in "Yes, Prime Minister", though I haven´t pinned it down yet).

Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Plynkes on November 19, 2009, 01:03:26 AM
I am watching HBO's "Generation Kill"...

It just finished on TV here. Good ending! If in doubt, end with the Man in Black.

(Um, SPOILERS, I suppose. But not really. Only if you don't want to know what tune they end the series with.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dFl9OHE-8g

What a song!
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Hammers on November 26, 2009, 05:03:46 PM
...well, not really received, but very much appreciated. Yesterday I discovered, in earnest so to say, the BBC series 'The Thick of It'. Not quite West Wing, is it? :) What a stream of horrible abuse and filth Peter Capaldi is capable of. I love it! I am very keen to see 'In the Loop'.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: revford on November 28, 2009, 12:51:43 PM
If you're enjoying this series of The Thick Of It, it's well worth looking up the first too as well.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Col.Stone on November 30, 2009, 05:19:33 PM
How the West Was Won; or The Macahans, Season 1 dvdbox woopie :D
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Prof.Witchheimer on December 05, 2009, 10:30:45 AM
First Squad
Wikipedia - Set during the opening days of World War II on the Eastern Front. Its main cast are a group of Soviet teenagers with extraordinary abilities; the teenagers have been drafted to form a special unit to fight the invading German army. They are opposed by a Schutzstaffel (SS) officer who is attempting to raise from the dead a supernatural army of crusaders from the 12th-century Order of the Sacred Cross and enlist them in the Nazi cause. Pretty soon all the teenagers die, except for the protagonist Nadia. She is taken to a secret Soviet lab that studies supernatural phenomena, especially contacts with the dead. Nadia's task is to dive into the world of the dead for reconnaissance. There, in the Gloomy Valley, she meets her dead friends and tries to persuade them to continue fighting.

(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/4/3_05_12_09_11_28_13_1.jpg)

Dead snow - Snow, Mountains, some students on vacation and nazi Zombies :) sometimes really disgusting, but cool

(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/4/3_05_12_09_11_28_13_0.jpg)

Zombieland - pretty cool, love it! Bill Murray as zombie!

(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/4/3_05_12_09_11_28_13_2.jpg)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: archangel1 on December 05, 2009, 09:38:26 PM
Zombieland - pretty cool, love it! Bill Murray as zombie!

As far as I'm concerned, that's about all he'd be good at! Don't like him at all - too smarmy.  Barely tolerated him in Ghostbusters.  Highly overrated as being funny.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Helen on December 05, 2009, 10:59:04 PM
As far as I'm concerned, that's about all he'd be good at! Don't like him at all - too smarmy.  Barely tolerated him in Ghostbusters.  Highly overrated as being funny.

I love Bill Murray in "Lost in Translation."

Helen
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Mancha on December 09, 2009, 05:27:33 AM
I just finished watching Purple Butterfly, a presumably Chinese movie set in Shanghai in the early 1930’s.  Its two themes are (1) two relationships, and (2) a Chinese spy group facing off against their Japanese brethren. 

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51GHEDYP6WL._SS500_.jpg)

I found it a somewhat confusing movie, as it seems to jump around from the past, in flashback, to the present, and then to the past again, or maybe I just didn’t get it.  Seemingly random events were occasionally portrayed as being related to each other, but it then seemed as if they weren’t related to each other, which might make sense given the title of the movie and that old butterfly’s wings concept (you know the one; a butterfly flaps its wings over the ocean, causing a breeze, which propels a boat, which brings a stranger to a distant shore…yatta, yatta, yatta…which leads to the end of the world).  The female character is incredibly attractive, with pouty lips, almond eyes, unblemished skin, and the strange name Cynthia, but like everyone else in the movie, she never smiles (and indeed, what was there to smile about?).  In fact, most of the movie is composed of scenes of endless rainfall and equally endless expressionless gazing of one character upon another, without blinking their eyes or showing any emotion at all.  One wonders why they didn’t all kill themselves in ennui-driven angst (or would that be angst-driven ennui?). 

Checking my impressions against those of Amazon.com, I find there:

"Zhang Ziyi looks as beautiful as ever in Purple Butterfly, a film that takes her out of the martial-arts world of Hero and House of Flying Daggers. She plays a member of Purple Butterfly, an underground resistance group fighting against the Japanese aggression in early-1930s China. The movie's central dilemma comes when her ex-lover, a Japanese agent (Toru Nakamura), returns to Shanghai and is earmarked for assassination by Purple Butterfly. This compelling-sounding set-up is frustratingly unfulfilled, as director Ye Lou (Shuzou River) opts for an opaque brand of storytelling, in which chronology is jumbled and drama short-circuited. The film looks gorgeous, but it is close to impossible to understand what is going on at any given moment. If handsome images and dreamlike editing are enough, the movie might work for a very select group of patient viewers and Zhang Ziyi fanatics."

Ah, I don’t feel like such an idiot anymore.  :)

If anyone’s seen it and can explain what happened at the Japanese Club near the end of the movie, I’d appreciate it.  Send me a PM.  My (and Amazon's) criticisms aside, it was an interesting movie, and surely there’s some inspiration to be gleaned for hardcore historians from the inter-wars setting. 
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Mancha on December 09, 2009, 05:32:29 AM
I love Bill Murray in "Lost in Translation."

I agree.  And he was fun as the badger in Fantastic Mr. Fox as well:

(http://blog.mtviggy.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/fantastic_mr_fox_bill-murray-390x292.jpg)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Prof.Witchheimer on December 09, 2009, 05:47:05 AM
I agree.  And he was fun as the badger in Fantastic Mr. Fox as well:

and he wasn't bad in "Broken Flowers". Actualy I like Bill Murray.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Helen on December 09, 2009, 06:28:50 AM
and he wasn't bad in "Broken Flowers". Actualy I like Bill Murray.

I've that movie too, but felt it was a little dry compared with Lost in Translation.

Helen
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: General Roos on December 09, 2009, 07:32:44 AM
Miller´s Crossing, The Untouchables, Once upon a time in America, Bugsy Malone and some prohibition documenatries on YouTube.

(http://cinematorium.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/millerscrossing11.jpg)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Prof.Witchheimer on December 09, 2009, 08:04:45 AM
I've that movie too, but felt it was a little dry compared with Lost in Translation.

Agree. It's generally hard to beat Lost in Translation. But Broken Flowers has an own flair and a great soundtrack too.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Lowtardog on December 09, 2009, 09:14:11 AM
It just finished on TV here. Good ending! If in doubt, end with the Man in Black.

(Um, SPOILERS, I suppose. But not really. Only if you don't want to know what tune they end the series with.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dFl9OHE-8g

What a song!


You are not wrong there, spot on tune methinks
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Prof.Witchheimer on December 09, 2009, 12:43:58 PM
Pandorum - interstellar thriller/horror with kinda zombies. Some fun.

(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/4/3_09_12_09_1_39_19.jpg)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: voltan on December 21, 2009, 10:08:45 AM
Logan's run and soylent green, though I don't have time to watch either of them before i head to work  :'(

(http://filmgrounds.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/logans_run1.jpg)
(http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/Business/images-3/soylent-green-poster.jpg)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Col.Stone on December 24, 2009, 09:41:50 PM
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/84/Che-movie-poster2.jpg)

Che Part 1: The Argentine and Che Part 2: Guerrilla
(really one film cut in two halves)

High hopes for this one :)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Chairface on December 29, 2009, 04:03:06 AM
(http://www.technofile.com/images/bd/munchausen.jpg)

So awesome! Does anyone make a mini?
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Hammers on December 29, 2009, 10:04:50 AM
(http://www.technofile.com/images/bd/munchausen.jpg)

So awesome! Does anyone make a mini?

BlueRay, eh? How has the film fared from remastering?
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Chairface on December 29, 2009, 07:59:15 PM
BlueRay, eh? How has the film fared from remastering?

Sorry, got the regular version. The blueray image was the first one that showed up on the search.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Unforgiven on December 30, 2009, 12:28:55 AM
Well I rented these from my uncle:

Hunt for the Red October
Red Dawn
Shaun of the Dead
Stalingrad

Guess that will inspire me for my Neo-Soviet Imperial Guard force and my zombie horde...  ;D
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Bako on December 30, 2009, 12:38:18 AM
Thanks for reminding me that I need to replace my VHS copy of Red Dawn. :)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Heldrak on January 01, 2010, 03:10:58 PM
Longtime ERB fan that I am, I rented the truly awful direct-to-video PRINCESS OF MARS:

(http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u219/Heldrak/Forum%20Saves/images-1.jpg)

I tried to tough it out, but I couldn't stand the awful acting by Antonio Sabato, Jr. (as John Carter) and ex-porn star Traci Lords (as Dejah Thoris) and I gave up halfway through...

In a way, I'm glad they released this abomination as it will be a blueprint of what not to do for Pixar.

I also rented MONSTERS VS. ALIENS at the same time and I thought that it was good harmless fun.

Title: Re: Latest 1 inspiring movie 1 uninspiring received
Post by: bandit86 on January 04, 2010, 12:07:38 PM
Great Movie and a horrible movie

Good news first I just watched “Up in the air” with George Clooney what an absolute GEM and in MHO Oscar worthy for Movie, Actor, Actress and Supporting actress for Anna Kendrick(I called Marisa Tomei for my Cousin Vinny before anyone else did and I think this Girl should get a nod too) Even a small part by JK Simmons one of my favorite actors is great.
The movie would be a great choice for any couples looking to see something that both might like and although there are some funny and uplifting parts of the movie it is pretty depressing overall an extremely poignant for this time in our history.
41/2 out of 5

So horrible

Princes of Mars with Traci Lords, OMG look like it was filmed and written by a 12 year old. I apologized to all 12year olds they could have done better. Although I started to watch it to see Traci (who is still hot) I could not watch the whole thing (thank God It was free) Just thinking of this film makes me puke just a bit in my mouth. Edgar Rice Burroughs is spinning in his grave. Save yourself and don't even look at this piece of (fill in the blank)
, OMG look like it was filmed and written by a 12 year old. I apologized to all 12year olds they could have done better. Although I started to watch it to see Traci (who is still hot) I could not watch the whole thing (thank God It was free) Just thinking of this film makes me puke just a bit in my mouth. Edgar Rice Burroughs is spinning in his grave. Save yourself and don't even look at this piece of (fill in the blank)
-27 out of 5 and I did not even see the whole thing

Heldrak gave up halfway through I did not last that long
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Plynkes on January 21, 2010, 07:57:11 PM
Something nice in the post today...

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/Jodhaa-akbarbox.jpg)

Three disc collector's edition of the Hindi historical/romantic epic Jodhaa Akbar. Came with a shed load of very nice postcards. Here's just a few of them:

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/Jodhaa-akbarcards.jpg)

I'm sick and tired of not getting to see all of this whenever it is on the telly. It's always on at some stupid hour like Two O'Clock in the morning and so I either don't notice it is on, miss the start, or fall asleep in in the chair while watching it. Well not any more. Finally I shall see it all the way through. A tiny bit too much sitting about in palaces talking and not quite enough people having their heads stoved in for my liking (but you can say the same about El Cid, and definitely about ...yawn... Ben Hur), but any film which features people being stamped on by elephants is okay by me.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Calimero on January 21, 2010, 08:41:52 PM
Sorry, got the regular version. The blueray image was the first one that showed up on the search.

@ Chairface, may I ask were you get this film and did you notice if it have a French soundtrack? My sister would LOVE to have this movie but she doesn’t quite understand English well enough...
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Helen on January 21, 2010, 08:57:12 PM
Something nice in the post today...

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/Jodhaa-akbarbox.jpg)


Great pickup Dylan, This movie alongside Mughal Eazam were given to me by my former Indian Housemate. They are great movies an with English Sub-Titles However, the former is the better of the two if you like to see a good battle with elephants, cavalry, infantry an artillery. Oh, an I just adore the Indian love story of both.

Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Plynkes on January 21, 2010, 09:06:20 PM
Looks really interesting but is it any good?

Also are we talking serious bucks for a rare import?


A tenner for the "Collectors Edition", which is odd as the ordinary 1-disc/no postcards version was fifteen quid (£20 if you want Blu-Ray).

It's like most historical epics, some good battle scenes and in between lots of talking. But visually a feast throughout, and not done on the cheap neither. Though it is a Bollywood movie it isn't really done in the traditional Bollywood style, i.e. the characters don't inexplicably burst into song and dance routines for no reason at the drop of a hat. What musical bits it does have are managed without breaking the mood, by having such things as palace entertainments for the Emperor.

Basically it is a love story about a cross-cultures romance between the Mughal Emperor and a Rajput princess, with the lesson that Muslims and Hindus ought to be getting it on on the bedroom, rather than massacring one another with elephants, cannons and big knives.

Some scenes from the opening battle (better make sure the damn thing works). On my signal, unleash elephants!

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/ja-4.jpg)

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/ja-6.jpg)


16th Century Designated Marksman vs. 16th Century Main Battle Tank. Who will win? Bet now!
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/Ja-9.jpg)

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/ja-12.jpg)

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/ja-10.jpg)

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/ja-11.jpg)
"Get in! Back of the net!"


(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/ja-7.jpg)
"No, wait! Please! Surely there has been some misunder-"

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/ja-8.jpg)
Oof! He's gonna have a headache in the morning.


Edit: Thanks, Helen. Haven't seen that one. I'll have to check it out.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: kidterminal on January 25, 2010, 05:50:29 AM
The Omega Man 1971 last man on earth apocalypse film. Not a great film but loads of fun.

Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: kidterminal on January 25, 2010, 07:46:22 PM
It sure was.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Hammers on February 02, 2010, 07:47:24 AM
Disrict 9, pretty  interesting SciFI.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Doomhippie on February 02, 2010, 05:54:47 PM
Today "The Good, The Bad, The Weird" and Inglorious Bastards arrived. I hope they are not some nutered German version....
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Commander Vyper on February 02, 2010, 07:56:52 PM
Semi Pro Pontypool and the Illusionist.

All very good and different in their own ways.

Semi Pro - Will Farrell just does 70's themed comedy so well

Pontypool - brilliant fresh take on the zombie genre.

The Illusionist -it's no 'The Prestige' but good none the less. (The Prestige however is amazingly good with Chris Nolan at the helm, Christian Bale, Michael Cain Hugh Jackman, and an great cameo by Serkis and David Bowie as Tesla).

The Commander
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: twrchtrwyth on February 03, 2010, 02:08:13 AM
Pontypool - brilliant fresh take on the zombie genre.
There was nothing in the local news about a zombie attack in south Wales! lol
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Hammers on February 03, 2010, 07:09:16 AM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61EHq3HvZwL._SL500_AA240_.jpg)

Is it any good or just a clever pun?
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: voltan on February 03, 2010, 09:27:37 AM
There was nothing in the local news about a zombie attack in south Wales! lol
There's a good chance no-one noticed  ;D
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: dijit on February 04, 2010, 12:07:36 PM
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/fi/thumb/5/56/Neon_Genesis_Evangelion_kansi.jpeg/300px-Neon_Genesis_Evangelion_kansi.jpeg)
well not actually this, but the full series, but it was thr best picture I could find.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Col.Stone on February 04, 2010, 03:57:54 PM
High hopes :)

Alien Quadrilogy (9 Disc Complete Box Set)
Disc 1 (ALIEN)
118 minutes viewing the 2003 Theatrical cut with all new commentary and Ridley Scott's new intro
Disc 2 (ALIEN BONUS DISC)
216 minutes of all new, never before seen video features
Disc 3 (ALIENS)
154 minutes viewing the Special Edition cut with all new commentary and James Cameron Intro
Disc 4 (ALIENS BONUS DISC)
198 minutes of all new, never before seen video features
Disc 5 (ALIEN 3)
137 minutes viewing the theatrical cut with the all new commentary
157 minutes viewing the all new Special Edition Cut
Disc 6 (ALIEN 3 BONUS DISC)
174 minutes of all new, never before seen video features
Disc 7 (ALIEN RESURRECTION)
109 minutes viewing the theatrical cut with the all new commentary
120 minutes viewing the all new Special Edition Cut with intro by Jean Pierre Jeunet
Disc 8 (ALIEN RESURRECTION BONUS DISC)
194 minutes of all new, never before seen video features
Disc 9 (BONUS DISC)
104 minutes of all new, never before seen video features
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/518i9eaRhTL._SL500_AA240_.jpg)

cheap as chips at amazon and play :D
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: AKULA on February 04, 2010, 10:20:31 PM
Watched it from start to finish the otherday - enjoy it Tomas (although I admit I could just as easily have watched Aliens, 4 times over).

 :)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: dijit on February 05, 2010, 11:47:37 AM
Personally I think Alien is the best of the bunch, but I know I'm a minority thinking that.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Fugazi on February 05, 2010, 12:08:28 PM
An inspiring variant of an invasion of the USandA   lol
"The Mouse That Roared" - the unforgetable Peter Sellers.

Use the new Perry "War of the roses" plastics vs. "modern" troops of the 50's?  ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty0Nmh9Nq60

Here an additional very good series for modern combat:
(http://s2.imgimg.de/uploads/GenKill13458303jpg.jpg)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: HerbyF on February 05, 2010, 02:07:54 PM
Just picked up "Once Upon A Time In China"
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: archangel1 on February 15, 2010, 11:48:27 PM
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4030/4360969698_4c725914a9.jpg)

Pretty decent movie about the siege of Port Arthur (1905) and the Battle of Tsushima.  Not a lot of land-based combat but some very nice model ships.  Even the subtitles aren't too bad, other than one reference to 1938! Plus, it stars Toshiro Mifune.  'Nuff said!
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Plynkes on February 16, 2010, 04:09:56 PM
Amazon only wanted just over three quid for the DVD of this, so I bit their hand off. Also got a copy for big bruv, he likes it too, mostly because he is obsessed with Japanese tattoos (to the extent of being covered with them himself):

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/yakuza_ver3.jpg)

Classic cult 70s thriller.

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/Yakuza1.jpg)

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/Yakuza2.jpg)

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/Yakuza3.jpg)

Love it!
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: dijit on February 17, 2010, 10:01:43 AM
(http://flyingfarther.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/zombieland.jpg)
Absolutely fantastic - for once a film that makes me want to do zombie gaming.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: voltan on March 18, 2010, 09:43:58 PM
Bit of a splurge last few days, have got;

Hot fuzz, Nausicaa of the valley of the wind, the cat returns and team america world police
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: bandit86 on March 20, 2010, 09:22:59 AM
Trenches  Sci fi mini movie
http://www.hulu.com/watch/134917/trenches-fubar#s-p2-so-i0
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Hrothgar on March 20, 2010, 03:06:25 PM
Rome, the miniseries:
(http://backseatcuddler.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/rome.jpg)
I just rented the whole series and am about half-way through rewatching it. Good stuff-it is very evocative and gives a great sense of the momentous events of the time even if the history is a bit dodgy in places. I hope it will move me to get back to work on my WF Caeserian Legionnaires.

Also, Halo Legends:
(http://dvdmedia.ign.com/dvd/image/article/104/1042505/halo-legends-leaps-home-20091105092102898_640w.jpg)

The first two episodes I thought were very good. I enjoyed the animation style and thought the whole summary backstory  to the Halo universe was engrossing and well-represented. One other episode was mildly intriguing. The rest-well, if such as thing as mind bleach existed...
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: kidterminal on March 20, 2010, 04:35:47 PM
Here's an update on my latest DVD acquisitions.

Hellboy Blood & Iron
(http://i640.photobucket.com/albums/uu125/kidterminal/Hellboy1.jpg)
Hellboy Sword of Storms
(http://i640.photobucket.com/albums/uu125/kidterminal/Hellboy1.jpg)
Hellboy and the Golden Army
(http://i640.photobucket.com/albums/uu125/kidterminal/hellboy-ii-golden-army-post.jpg)
That's more Hellboy than you can shake a stick at.
Rob
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: HerbyF on March 22, 2010, 02:59:24 AM
Just picked a copy of "The Inspector General" with Danny Kaye at the Dollar Tree Store.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Hammers on March 23, 2010, 09:21:28 AM
I watched "The Young Victoria" the other night.

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/21/Tyvpic.jpg/200px-Tyvpic.jpg)

I bit bloody good, I must say. Emily Blunt is probably a fair bit more attractive than the real Queen Vic (Gawd bless her!). It was not the romantic costume drama I expected but a quite interesting account of the court intrigues concerning her crowning and marriage.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Lowtardog on March 23, 2010, 09:59:20 AM
A few over the last week or so

Zombieland
Survival of the Dead (bit naff tbh)
Evolution
Last Samurai

All background sound and eye candy for when painting
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: ushistoryprof on March 24, 2010, 05:43:31 PM
I went on an anime vsf/steampunk kick and watched Steamboy, Howls Moving Castle and Castle in the Sky.  If you want to get into the feel of VSF and Steampunk you just need to watch these.  For you Post Apocalyptic types try Vapire Hunter D for a very strange twist on the world of tomorrow.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: white knight on March 26, 2010, 10:06:32 PM
For you Post Apocalyptic types try Vapire Hunter D for a very strange twist on the world of tomorrow.

Especially the second one, bloodlust, is a personal favourite.  8)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: kidterminal on March 27, 2010, 10:55:22 PM
I went on an anime vsf/steampunk kick and watched Steamboy, Howls Moving Castle and Castle in the Sky.  If you want to get into the feel of VSF and Steampunk you just need to watch these.  For you Post Apocalyptic types try Vapire Hunter D for a very strange twist on the world of tomorrow.

I would have to agree.

Rob
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: JollyBob on March 29, 2010, 12:13:47 PM
Seems like our local HMV is having a bit of a clear-out.

Just picked up Jin-Roh for a fiver, and the second and third Young Indiana Jones boxed sets (War years/Years of Change) for £7 each!  :D

For some reason the first box was still forty quid, but I seem to remember that one was a bit ropey anyway. I'll probably try to pick it up cheap second hand on Amazon at some point, just for completeness sake.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Plynkes on March 30, 2010, 10:52:08 AM
Just had to pop home for something and found the Postie had left this...

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/Threeburials.jpg)

I love Tommy Lee Jones when he's in stuff like this. He's possibly my favourite current American actor, and my second-favourite Texan of all time (after Beyoncé of course).
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: rob_alderman on March 30, 2010, 11:22:17 AM
ZULU!!!!!

I have never watched it before, but I have just bought it and fully intend to watch it soon!  :)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Comsquare on March 31, 2010, 05:57:54 PM
The BoondockSaints: All Saints day   :D

Now I have only to find some minis to represent them.

Oh no, a new project.... lol
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Helen on April 03, 2010, 09:26:52 PM
Thanks to Dylan I purchased "The Yakuza" and what a brillant movie. I was very moved - thanks Dylan.

I also purchased "The Keys of the Kingdom" an another brillant movie. Love Gregory Peck in the role and the Mother Superior. Some touching moments and naturally some funny moments. Oh, the war-time scenes are great too.

"Angels & Demons" which I very much enjoyed viewing.

Helen

Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Plynkes on April 04, 2010, 11:16:08 AM
Glad you enjoyed it, Helen. Events towards the end are surprisingly touching aren't they, for an otherwise hardboiled kind of picture.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Helen on April 04, 2010, 08:54:23 PM
Glad you enjoyed it, Helen. Events towards the end are surprisingly touching aren't they, for an otherwise hardboiled kind of picture.

Yes Dylan, especially when you have Brian Keith in the cast.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Luddite on April 05, 2010, 12:53:37 PM
Inspiring films eh?

Well, i'll put forward the Terminator movies.  'Dash it all man!  The clockwork soldiers are running riot!!'


And the absolute pinnacle has to be 'The Man Who Would Be King'.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073341/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073341/)

Peachy Carnehan: Home to what? A porters uniform outside a restaurant and six penny tips from belching civilians for closing cab doors on their blowzy women?
Daniel Dravot: Not for us thank you. Not after watching afghans come howling down out of the hills and taking battlefield command when all the officers copped it.
Peachy Carnehan: Well said, brother Dravot.

Daniel Dravot: Now listen to me you benighted muckers. We're going to teach you soldiering. The world's noblest profession. When we're done with you, you'll be able to slaughter your enemies like civilized men.

Billy Fish: He wants to know if you are gods.
Peachy Carnehan: Not gods - Englishmen. The next best thing.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Plynkes on April 05, 2010, 01:52:48 PM
Luddite, the idea of this thread is telling other folks what you just bought, rather than merely good films you can think of.  It's a little LAF tradition we have. :)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Sterling Moose on April 05, 2010, 02:00:41 PM
Sherlock Holmes (the new one)
Double Bill - The Magnificent 7/The Alamo ($5)
Day of the Dead Remake (I'm not expecting too much from this one, but for $5....)

Watched Sherlock and thoroughly enjoyed it.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Luddite on April 06, 2010, 12:48:55 AM
Luddite, the idea of this thread is telling other folks what you just bought, rather than merely good films you can think of.  It's a little LAF tradition we have. :)

Ah right...

OK.

Last few i bought.

2012
Missed it at the cinema and bought it without renting prior.  Throwaway popcorn movie.  Special effects not bad.  Fairly pedestrian script...

Watchmen
Almost word for word, scene for scene from the graphic novel (except the divergent ending).  Ruddy marvellous, but then i'm a fan.   :D

Survival of the Dead
Latest offering from Romero.  He's been on form with the last few films but this one fell flat for me.  the whole 'Irish feuding families' thing just left me a bit cold...

Clash of the Titans
A classic missing from the DVD shelf...prompted by the new film soon to be released.  I'm looking forward to the remake although the missus has disavowed as the work of Beelzebub...

Bill Hicks - Totally
All the good ones die young and they didn't come much better than Bill Hicks...'stop your internal monologue...you're wrong...get over it...ok...'   :D
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Aaron on April 07, 2010, 11:51:08 AM
Not gaming realted at all, but the wife and I watch Food, Inc last night. No surprises inside for anyone who has read any of Michael Pollan's books, but still quite an eye-opener. Not recomended for those about to eat.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: JollyBob on April 07, 2010, 11:55:46 AM
Picked up the original minseries of Edge of Darkness from HMV the other day. Only £6! Trying to convince the Mrs to watch it with me, but think I'm on a hiding to nothing there.

Now, who'd win in a fight between Bob Peck and Mel Gibson...?
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Svennn on April 07, 2010, 12:00:49 PM
Mel Gibson - just. On the basis that Bob Peck is dead ;D
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: JollyBob on April 07, 2010, 12:27:49 PM
Oh.  :(

Did I know that? Can't think...

Well, all bets are off then.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Steve F on April 07, 2010, 01:04:30 PM
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.  Though Lord alone knows what it will inspire me to do!
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Prof.Witchheimer on April 09, 2010, 07:09:49 PM
(http://www.horror-movies.ca/albums/userpics/poster_i_sell_the_dead.jpg)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: ushistoryprof on April 13, 2010, 07:15:11 PM
Just saw"Young Victoria" and the new Sherlock Holmes movie, two very different versions of Victorian England.  Great sets and costumes.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: TheMightyFlip on April 19, 2010, 09:51:08 AM
Just got some DVDs for free.

Stargate SG1 Collection 12 to 17 unopened, binned the magazines though.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: M Blakey on April 23, 2010, 02:12:55 PM
Finally got my Blu ray working on ps3 and gave my blu ray Band of Brothers a go and wow what a brilliant picture and the peices of info that are on the special bar in film are really good Also a great series.

blu ray is the way forward just purchased Zulu on blu ray really looking forward to it :)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Shikari Sahib on April 23, 2010, 03:10:49 PM
taken from web in last weeks, very inspiring
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa305/pieropredator/zulu.jpg)

(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa305/pieropredator/ilancieridelbengala.jpg)

(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa305/pieropredator/beau1.jpg)

(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa305/pieropredator/200px-Breaker_morant.jpg)

(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa305/pieropredator/51JF8KX6FSL.jpg)

Piero

Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Comsquare on May 01, 2010, 12:49:56 PM
Watched yesterday "Pandorum".

Very nice movie :)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: HerbyF on May 05, 2010, 06:57:38 PM
I got a movie on close out called "1612" Lots of Polish winged hussars, Russians and pretty grusome battle scenes.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: General Roos on May 05, 2010, 07:30:55 PM
History Channels "4 Years of Thunder". Almost 4 hrs of WWI airwar. The documentary contains some stunning and authentic footage from actual dogfights.  ;D

(http://www.fbo.com.au/DVDImages/DBX11842.jpg)
 
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Helen on May 05, 2010, 08:18:47 PM
"Flesh and Blood."

Helen
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: General Roos on May 05, 2010, 10:21:58 PM
Mattias
I suspect this may be more likely to be from 1920's american films? I cannot imagine taking a movie camera aloft in 1914-18 during combat.

I have seen film of the devastation of the war from the air.

Hi Bezzo.

No, it´s not clips from some 20´s movie.

You be the judge. You can see one of the clips here: (at 8:57): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E15Qq4xcLpw&playnext_from=TL&videos=eUDaumbuFNo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E15Qq4xcLpw&playnext_from=TL&videos=eUDaumbuFNo)

All the best!  :)

 
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Hammers on May 06, 2010, 07:51:31 AM
Hi Bezzo.

No, it´s not clips from some 20´s movie.

You be the judge. You can see one of the clips here: (at 8:57): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E15Qq4xcLpw&playnext_from=TL&videos=eUDaumbuFNo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E15Qq4xcLpw&playnext_from=TL&videos=eUDaumbuFNo)

All the best!  :)

 

That's quite something. Also inspires me to pomading and combing my hair with the aid of a ruler.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: General Roos on May 06, 2010, 09:29:20 AM
Bezzo: I recommend the documentary if your in to WWI aviation. All the parts are out on YouTube.

You´ll find the first part here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b8Rx0XX9EE&playnext_from=TL&videos=HIyPoF6HWuc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b8Rx0XX9EE&playnext_from=TL&videos=HIyPoF6HWuc)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Plynkes on May 08, 2010, 12:10:19 PM
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/Masai.jpg)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Hammers on May 19, 2010, 02:20:23 PM
What do we think of this film?:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51AneiXEg9L._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Plynkes on May 20, 2010, 08:12:30 AM
It's pretty good. The only thing that spoils it a little for me is that while exotic locales were used to shoot the NWF and Sudan battle scenes, Wales is made to stand in for South Africa. To me it just looks too much like home, and not some exotic country on the other side of the planet. But it is a little thing.

I don't know how full the version is that is currently doing the rounds. It was recently on British TV and the NWF scenes were cut altogether.  :(
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Helen on May 20, 2010, 08:30:42 AM
I rented "The Baader Meinhof Complex" and was educated about this group's activities. Well worth viewing in my opinion.

Helen
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Wirelizard on May 21, 2010, 07:14:16 AM
I just watched "The Good, The Bad, And The Weird".
 o_o
 lol

I want so badly to do BoB/pulp crossover now. Several types of bandits vs Japanese Imperial Army vs Mongols, with high pulpish gunplay. Awesome.

If you haven't seen this, do. Well worth the two hours plus.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Argonor on May 21, 2010, 07:58:28 AM
I just watched "The Good, The Bad, And The Weird".
 o_o
 lol

I want so badly to do BoB/pulp crossover now. Several types of bandits vs Japanese Imperial Army vs Mongols, with high pulpish gunplay. Awesome.

If you haven't seen this, do. Well worth the two hours plus.

Want to - saw the trailer
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: TheMightyFlip on May 23, 2010, 12:40:25 PM
Bought and watched The Road. Kinda hard to work out my feelings on it, I watched it, didnt get the urge to turn it off, but nothing made me go "wow amazing" Im thinking I like it....
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: OSHIROmodels on May 23, 2010, 12:52:46 PM
I just watched "The Good, The Bad, And The Weird".
 o_o
 lol

I want so badly to do BoB/pulp crossover now. Several types of bandits vs Japanese Imperial Army vs Mongols, with high pulpish gunplay. Awesome.

If you haven't seen this, do. Well worth the two hours plus.


Fantastic film  :D I do prefer the Asian ending to the western one.

Bought Sherlock Holmes the other day..

 :D  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D

cheers

James

Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: General Roos on May 23, 2010, 01:36:07 PM
Peter the Great with Maximillian Schell as the tsar.

Battle scene from the Great Northern War 1:13 into this clip. Swedes charging a russian bastillion. Historically incorrect but fun to watch!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsTjLmyW9fI&playnext_from=TL&videos=78E6yz4_x6E (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsTjLmyW9fI&playnext_from=TL&videos=78E6yz4_x6E)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Hammers on May 23, 2010, 01:42:45 PM
... Historically incorrect but fun to watch!...

As long as we win the battle I am willing to watch it.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: OSHIROmodels on May 23, 2010, 02:49:26 PM
Quote
Peter the Great with Maximillian Schell as the tsar.

Was this the mini seris on telly years and years ago? If so, where the hell can I get a copy, I've been looking for years and years.

cheers

James
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: General Roos on May 23, 2010, 03:13:49 PM
As long as we win the battle I am willing to watch it.

Unfortunately they had to portray one of few losses for our team.  :-[

Was this the mini seris on telly years and years ago? If so, where the hell can I get a copy, I've been looking for years and years.

Yes, it´s the mini series from 1986. There ain´t no proper DVD-edition yet, but you can watch it on YouTube.  :?

Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Hammers on May 23, 2010, 04:32:29 PM
Unfortunately they had to portray on of few losses for the our team.  :-[

Where are all the history revisionists when you need them...
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: OSHIROmodels on May 23, 2010, 05:39:15 PM
Yes, it´s the mini series from 1986. There ain´t no proper DVD-edition yet, but you can watch it on YouTube.  :?

 :( :(  :( :(

Ah well, something to do at work then  ;)

cheers

James
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: ushistoryprof on May 30, 2010, 05:03:02 PM
OK, I just watched the revampted 1925 silent movie "the Lost World" with more than 30 minutes restored to the movie.  It was a real trip to watch a 1920's sci fi/pulp movie and its "special effects."  Yes, its not 21st century quality but it was campy fun and has that pulp feel so many of us strive for in our games.  It was well worth 90 minutes to see a truely lost world of the 1920's.  Enjoy!
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Comsquare on June 02, 2010, 10:44:07 PM
The new Sherlock Holmes.
Like it very much :-*

A shame that I missed it in the cinema ::)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Comsquare on June 03, 2010, 09:37:02 PM
Sukiyaki Western Django  ;D :-*
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Argonor on June 04, 2010, 07:01:39 AM
Sukiyaki Western Django  ;D :-*

Just watched the trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nluPs-nGngk

Looks absolutely interesting....
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: white knight on June 04, 2010, 01:40:14 PM
Isn't he the director of the Dead or Alive trilogy? If so, I hated those movies. :(
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Argonor on June 04, 2010, 01:57:21 PM
I think that one is called Corey Yuen?
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: white knight on June 04, 2010, 02:16:48 PM
No, I checked, it is indeed Takashi Miike. On the other hand, I saw he also did Zebraman, which I liked.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Comsquare on June 04, 2010, 03:08:53 PM
Yeah,

it's a very entertaining version of "Yojimbo", "Fistfull of Dollars", "Last Man Standing" etc.
I enjoyed it very much. :D

If you want to buy it then try to hunt down the Japanese Version.
It's about 20 minutes longer than the versions for the other markets.
I bought my copy on ebay, and it includes also english as spoken language.

If you like western, Tarantino and asian movies then that is the right movie for you.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: white knight on June 04, 2010, 10:17:17 PM
If you want to buy it then try to hunt down the Japanese Version.
It's about 20 minutes longer than the versions for the other markets.
I bought my copy on ebay, and it includes also english as spoken language.

I don't like dubbed versions. Does it also include english subtitles for the original version?
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Comsquare on June 05, 2010, 10:42:02 AM
I don't like dubbed versions. Does it also include english subtitles for the original version?

No, it doesn't include english subtitles, because the original version IS in english.
They have synchronised it afterwards to japanese.

It's nice to hear the cast speak english.

So, if you want to see it the japanese way, you have to watch it in english with japanese subtitles ;)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: white knight on June 05, 2010, 11:24:34 AM
Just rewatched the trailer with the sound on and they are speaking a nice engrish indeed.  lol
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Silent Invader on June 07, 2010, 08:22:24 PM
Not sure that they count as inspiring but they were certainly bargains.  From a Morrissons Supermarket:

Diary of the Dead £2
Ultraviolet  £3
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: aircav on June 08, 2010, 11:14:33 AM
Not sure that they count as inspiring but they were certainly bargains.  From a Morrissons Supermarket:

Diary of the Dead £2
Ultraviolet  £3

Don't know about Ultraviolet seems £3 too much to me  :D
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Silent Invader on June 08, 2010, 04:00:17 PM
Don't know about Ultraviolet seems £3 too much to me  :D

It's only saving grace is Milla Jovovich, who I do find most inspiring - indeed she has been the the best thing in many a sci-fi movie.  ;)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: TheMightyFlip on June 08, 2010, 05:03:04 PM
(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0002ZMHX6.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg)

Superman the Animated Series volume 1, since I have all the Batman DVD's.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: M Blakey on June 08, 2010, 10:52:52 PM
well today after receiving a £30 gift voucher for helping a lady out who cut her head open (pretty nasty cut, didnt help i only got back to work after passing a week of First aid Courses) i decided to spend it on a movie and i got

The Book of Eli on blu ray
and Hurt Locker also blu ray

just watched Book of Eli with my missus and we loved it. really has inspired me to do some post apocolypto games also re play fallout 3 ;)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Comsquare on June 10, 2010, 10:11:15 PM
"Dark Angel" with Dolph Lundgren.
Like the idea with the "Alien Drug Dealer", have to make one :D
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: archangel1 on June 11, 2010, 03:02:07 PM
(http://www.renaud-bray.com/ImagesEditeurs/PG/1057/1057293-gf.jpg)

Now to find a spare 5 hours in which to watch it!  o_o

(http://www.blogomatic3000.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Gold_Monkey.jpg)

Just grabbed this one, too.  Interestingly, my cover has a reversed shot of Jake and Jack while everything else is the same (except no PG sticker)!
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Helen on June 11, 2010, 10:24:25 PM
(http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s266/HelenBachaus/DVDs/Castagiantshadow.jpg)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Hammers on June 14, 2010, 09:25:05 PM
I am 2/3 trough BBC's 1964 documentary series "The Great War". What a marvelous production, probably the best I have seen on the topic! I also made me reflect on the lost art of documentary narration (in this case it is Sir Michael Redgrave).
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Prof.Witchheimer on June 16, 2010, 11:56:15 AM
Kotovsky, an outlaw, a romantic, a revolutionary.

A new Russian serial. More about Kotovsky - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigory_Kotovsky

(http://filmix.net/uploads/posts/2010-03/1267455014_kotovskij.jpg)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Comsquare on June 19, 2010, 12:47:34 AM
District 9.
Saw it today, lot of potential.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: General Roos on June 19, 2010, 01:09:48 AM
(http://www.blogomatic3000.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Gold_Monkey.jpg)

Just grabbed this one, too.  Interestingly, my cover has a reversed shot of Jake and Jack while everything else is the same (except no PG sticker)!

I saw the Gold Monkey om TV as a child. Must get myself a copy of the series a.s.a.p  ;D
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: General Roos on June 20, 2010, 10:03:23 PM
The Crazies (the remake).  >:(

Creepy movie. I´m going use the story for a skimrish game.  :)

Survivors, the army and a whole lot of crazies picking each other off.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Lowtardog on June 21, 2010, 12:45:19 AM
The full set of Deadwood for Fathers Day :D
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: General Roos on July 07, 2010, 09:49:07 PM
Captain Cook - Obsession & Discovery.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Helen on July 07, 2010, 09:57:13 PM
The Red Baron,

Helen
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Helen on July 08, 2010, 04:24:27 AM
Go the Serbs!

(http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s266/HelenBachaus/DVDs/2183_Carlston_za_Ognjenku.jpg)

Helen
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Col.Stone on July 15, 2010, 09:32:30 PM
(http://www.impawards.com/2009/posters/terminator_salvation_ver8.jpg)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Calimero on July 15, 2010, 09:42:28 PM

I find this in the discount bin at the local Zellers

(http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll206/Calimero_34/LeGantdeFer.jpg)

It was about 6.00$ Not too bad for a nice, little animation film 8)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Helen on July 23, 2010, 09:12:12 AM
El Alamein a film by Enzo Monteleone (great movie and probably one of the better movies for this genre, sad about the mock-up tanks. Based around a unit of the Pavia division), and

Attack and Retreat - Italians in Russia during WWII. A B&W film, a long film but very interesting.

Helen
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: joroas on July 23, 2010, 09:31:42 AM
Anyone else think that the new Inglorious Bastards is plain wrong on so many levels?
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: white knight on July 23, 2010, 09:33:20 AM
It was an orgy of wrongness. Can't say I enjoyed it much.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: General Roos on July 23, 2010, 10:08:34 AM
Anyone else think that the new Inglorious Bastards is plain wrong on so many levels?

It depends on what you mean by "plain wrong"?!

It does not purport to be a historically accurate arty-farty "Letters of Iwo Jima" kind of movie.

I enjoyed Inglorious Bastards very much.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: joroas on July 23, 2010, 10:36:44 AM
It went wrong when I started to think the German sergeant they murdered was braver than the Americans.  I identified more with the "supposed" bad guys.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: white knight on July 23, 2010, 11:42:23 AM
It went wrong when I started to think the German sergeant they murdered was braver than the Americans. 

I thought the same thing.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Argonor on July 23, 2010, 01:11:56 PM
I think that's part of the ploy... A war has two sides two it, and twisting our views on something is what art is supposed to do (or so I've been told).

Now, I haven't watched it, yet, but if you think of it: The average German soldier probably felt he was fighting a good fight for his country, culture, and way of life. Sound familiar?
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: white knight on July 23, 2010, 01:36:32 PM
While I accept that statement as true, I do not think it applies to this movie.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: joroas on July 23, 2010, 03:11:00 PM
I agree, the German sergeant was highly decorated and refused to lead his friends into an ambush, they clubbed him to death with a baseball bat, shot a second in the back while he was surrendered and carved a swastika into the forehead of a third.  All of this, mind, after they had scalped the rest of the dead German soldiers, all wehrmacht, not SS.  It was sick.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: white knight on July 23, 2010, 05:44:45 PM
Yes, there was no respect for a honourable enemy. They acted like animals. I understand that was the whole point, but it still makes it hard to sympathise with them at all (in fact, I quickly found I was hoping they would just die).
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Shikari Sahib on July 23, 2010, 06:34:33 PM
El Alamein a film by Enzo Monteleone (great movie and probably one of the better movies for this genre, sad about the mock-up tanks. Based around a unit of the Pavia division), and

Attack and Retreat - Italians in Russia during WWII. A B&W film, a long film but very interesting.

Helen

Helen I have noted that you have a particular interest in Italian movie s and books,
Very good to' find somebody interested in hour history, but just a question , do you find them in italian language or traslate in english?
Piero
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: joroas on July 23, 2010, 08:09:00 PM
Quote
Yes, there was no respect for a honourable enemy. They acted like animals. I understand that was the whole point, but it still makes it hard to sympathise with them at all (in fact, I quickly found I was hoping they would just die).

Sadly, after 30 minutes, I was hoping the Germans would kill them, too.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Helen on July 23, 2010, 09:26:49 PM
Helen I have noted that you have a particular interest in Italian movie s and books,
Very good to' find somebody interested in hour history, but just a question , do you find them in italian language or traslate in english?
Piero

Hi Piero,

The El Alamein had English sub titles where's Attack and Retreat is in spoken English. Of the books, the Fologore was with Italian an English text and the other is in English text.

My uncle was at El Alamein and before his passing many years ago he chatted about his actions against the brave Italians. Who were steadfast and fought like tigers - Much bravado, salute!

Helen
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Shikari Sahib on July 25, 2010, 05:15:27 PM
Might I echo Helen's sentiments. My father was in the Desert in WW2 and he never regarded the Italians as the 'easy foe'.

If you are fighting for your life I do not think "nationality" is a crucial factor. 

I honour all combatants irrespective of where they happened to be born.

Yes I completely agree.
Some years ago in Cassino I saw many old people speaking togheter, some where German, some English.; they fought angainst each  other and was really commovent to see them hug  and clasp their hands .
 
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Col.Stone on July 25, 2010, 06:17:35 PM
Day of the dead,
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088993/
survival of the dead
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1134854/
& Defiance (ww2 eastern europe/ partisans..)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1034303/

Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: traveller on July 27, 2010, 09:44:38 AM
Just ordered 2 movies (All teh King´s Men + Rough Crossings) that I found on this site:

http://www.britishempire.co.uk/media/silverscreen.htm
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Wirelizard on August 01, 2010, 02:08:16 AM
Finally watched "Lawrence of Arabia", in a long 3hr45min (!) DVD presentation.

I have an urge to order lots of Brigade's Arab Revolt horsemen now, thousands of them!

Great epic movie, well worth it. The local university cinema shows Lawrence on the big screen periodically, I'm going to make an effort to go next time it runs - all those desert landscape shots would look even better on a big screen.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: bandit86 on August 01, 2010, 09:52:07 AM
Not sure if this has been mentioned before but I just caught a movie on Netflix called “it happened here” about England under Germany occupation during WWII.  Not and action flick, very much a human drama and a brilliant piece of film making.   One should also consider that the film was made in 1965 by two teenager film makers (which blew my mind)  Well worth watching especially for those who are into the VBCW gaming.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Silent Invader on August 09, 2010, 07:34:43 PM
Mohawk (1956)

A recent purchase from a discount store.

I wouldn't describe it as an inspiring but it intrigued me, mostly for its use of outdoors and action footage taken from the Drums Along The Mohawk (1939), which was set in New York State in 1776.  Aside from that borrowed from elsewhere, the bulk of the Mohawk footage seems to have been shot on an indoors set, with many of the buildings, clothing and scenarios constructed to merge (not quite) seamlessly with the footage culled from DATM.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: ushistoryprof on August 10, 2010, 06:26:33 PM
Mohawk (1956)

A recent purchase from a discount store.

I wouldn't describe it as an inspiring but it intrigued me, mostly for its use of outdoors and action footage taken from the Drums Along The Mohawk (1939), which was set in New York State in 1776.  Aside from that borrowed from elsewhere, the bulk of the Mohawk footage seems to have been shot on an indoors set, with many of the buildings, clothing and scenarios constructed to merge (not quite) seamlessly with the footage culled from DATM.
  Have you seen the 1947 Gary Cooper film "Unconquered" some what based on Pontiacs rebellion of the 1760's and the battle for Fort Pitt.  Not too historic but it has lots of ideas, and cool costumes for those interested in the early Indian Wars.  Besides with Boris Karloff as a Seneca chief how can you go wrong... Prof
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: ushistoryprof on August 10, 2010, 06:33:11 PM
Just watche Johnny Depp's verson of "Alice in Wonderland" and it was very...different.  My wife and I both ended up enjoying the movie.  The only problem was all the 3D stuff thrown at the screen for shock effect. I am so done with 3D, a good story is so much more important.   Prof
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Silent Invader on August 10, 2010, 06:37:46 PM
  Have you seen the 1947 Gary Cooper film "Unconquered" some what based on Pontiacs rebellion of the 1760's and the battle for Fort Pitt.  Not too historic but it has lots of ideas, and cool costumes for those interested in the early Indian Wars.  Besides with Boris Karloff as a Seneca chief how can you go wrong... Prof

Thanks Prof.  That one's new to me and so I have added it to the list to acquire.  Cheers  :)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Centaur_Seducer on August 11, 2010, 04:24:03 PM
Well, not a movie, but still a film :)
The new Doctor Who series, Season 1-3. Got it for 12 quid including postage off e-bay :)

And I would'nt have bought them if it weren't for the lovely Dr Who minis that people put up here over and over again :)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Plynkes on August 13, 2010, 12:59:48 PM
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/Capitainesmall.jpg)

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/37155.jpg)
(Yes, I know Bollywood movies are ludicrous, but many of us harbour our own little guilty pleasures, don't we? Besides, this one is a classic, and I am currently obsessed with the lovely Zeenat Aman, so stop laughing at me, as I can't help myself. lol)




Edit: Ooh, you can jump straight to the songs directly from the main DVD menu. Excellent idea!
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: white knight on August 13, 2010, 02:12:49 PM
There's no "skip the songs" option included? ;)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Plynkes on August 13, 2010, 09:03:06 PM
Why no, who on earth in their right mind would want that?  :)

I just finished watching it, and it was great! I've had the soundtrack on my iPod for ages, I don't know why I never got around to buying the DVD until now.

This film has everything! In addition to some great songs there's the lovely Zeenat:
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/Yaadon%20Ki%20Baaraat%20vidcaps/Zeenat.jpg)

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/Yaadon%20Ki%20Baaraat%20vidcaps/Zeenat4.jpg)
(Shake 'em, baby!)
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/Yaadon%20Ki%20Baaraat%20vidcaps/Zeenat2.jpg)


Kung Fu!

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/Yaadon%20Ki%20Baaraat%20vidcaps/MartialArts2.jpg)

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/Yaadon%20Ki%20Baaraat%20vidcaps/MartialArts.jpg)
(Well, after a fashion.)


But the main thing I noticed was...

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/Yaadon%20Ki%20Baaraat%20vidcaps/Sten6.jpg)
...lots...
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/Yaadon%20Ki%20Baaraat%20vidcaps/Sten7.jpg)

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/Yaadon%20Ki%20Baaraat%20vidcaps/Sten1.jpg)
...and lots...
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/Yaadon%20Ki%20Baaraat%20vidcaps/Sten2.jpg)

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/Yaadon%20Ki%20Baaraat%20vidcaps/Sten5.jpg)
...of Sten guns...
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/Yaadon%20Ki%20Baaraat%20vidcaps/Sten4.jpg)

Plynkes says: Five Stars. Highly recommended (but only if you like this kind of thing). Time to start badgering Rich to bring out a PDF of Bollywood archetypes for .45 Adventure, and some rules for song and dance numbers.  ;)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Col.Stone on August 15, 2010, 03:31:36 PM
Green zone =)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSX7LaFtwIU
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Bravo Six on August 15, 2010, 11:26:45 PM
That was a great action flick Col.

I just got:

(http://a.imageshack.us/img535/3540/ffvndvd.jpg)

(http://a.imageshack.us/img96/698/bgvndvd.jpg)

Both of these came in a tin collectors case with booklets.

-Todd
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: General Roos on August 30, 2010, 09:18:58 PM
BBC - 20th Century Battlefields - 1982 The Falklands.

Awesome documentary.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: traveller on August 31, 2010, 09:15:25 AM
"Tobruk" Czech low budget WW2 movie. Real crap..... :-[
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Hammers on August 31, 2010, 09:20:27 AM
"Tobruk" Czech low budget WW2 movie. Real crap..... :-[

I could not make the subtitles work, which makes watching it a bit of a challenge. Seems it is not even worth the trouble.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: traveller on August 31, 2010, 02:37:22 PM
I could not make the subtitles work, which makes watching it a bit of a challenge. Seems it is not even worth the trouble.

They didn´t say much of interest...10 actors a few rifles and a machine gun plus lots of desert. The only value was that I learned that there were Czech troops in North Africa, which was news to me. I consider using this DVD in the "Build something contest"  :D
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Fjodin on September 01, 2010, 02:38:42 PM
BBC - 20th Century Battlefields - 1982 The Falklands.

Awesome documentary.
The whole series are AMAZING!
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Dr.Falkenhayn on September 06, 2010, 04:22:13 PM
see what i got!  ;D ;D ;D
(http://i940.photobucket.com/albums/ad244/Falkenhayn/Real%20World/Photobucket001.jpg)
the complete Saga!

(http://i940.photobucket.com/albums/ad244/Falkenhayn/Real%20World/Photobucket002.jpg)
Must have!
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: archangel1 on September 15, 2010, 10:45:45 PM
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51N8A1DZS8L._SS500_.jpg)

Supposedly the best jungle serial ever produced.  It'll be interesting to compare it with Kay Aldridge's Nyoka and the Tigermen, which I unfortunately only have on VHS.  Miss Gifford's playing essentially the same character but the hero in that one was Clayton Moore, about seven years before he became world famous as TV's The Lone Ranger
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Black Cat Bases on September 18, 2010, 07:52:11 PM
For the love of all that is holy do not watch Army of the dead  :o I got it because a it was cheap and b the tag line is "never trust a skeleton with a shotgun!"
 I want my time, sanity and money back ;D, if anyone wants it send me your address and you can have it !!!(Just don't blame me)  I like most b movies but it was too much for even me it has no redeeming features at all even the skeletons suck big time.
Ben
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Argonor on September 20, 2010, 10:43:08 AM
For the love of all that is holy do not watch Army of the dead 

Never even heard of it before  lol
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: archangel1 on September 20, 2010, 05:47:14 PM
(http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/images/warlords_l200912171707.jpg)

Very entertaining and quite gory for a change.  The Chinese seem to excel at this type of movie and, of course, the cinematography is excellent.

It's set during the Taiping Rebellion in China which overlapped the period of the American Civil War on both sides by several years.  Deaths incurred during the ACW were between 600-700,000.  Over 20 million people died during the Rebellion.  When you consider this was a blackpowder period, combined with medieval swords, spears and bows and arrows, the toll is mind-boggling.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Calimero on September 23, 2010, 10:39:42 PM
I was on a kind of DVD buying spree lately. I bought;

The Supernatural Series Seasons 1 to 4 (at a fair price on eBay but they can be find on Amazon.ca for the same price)

The Book of Eli
The Road
Zombieland

and The Eagle has Landed… oddly enough, the French version title of this one is l’Aigle s’est Envolé lol
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Argonor on September 24, 2010, 07:42:28 AM

and The Eagle has Landed… oddly enough, the French version title of this one is l’Aigle s’est Envolé lol


Does that mean that it has flown? My French is somewhat outdated....
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Calimero on September 24, 2010, 12:43:14 PM

If you translate the French title back in English it become "The Eagle has Take Off"…
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Hammers on September 24, 2010, 12:49:41 PM
"The Eagle Has Left the Building"
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Argonor on September 24, 2010, 01:33:37 PM
"The Eagle Has Left the Building"

Never heard somebody call him that....
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Skrapwelder on September 28, 2010, 04:18:04 PM
I just finished watching "The Ghost Writer" with Ewan McGregor and was surprised how much it kept making me think of a Lovecraft story without the horror elements.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Wirelizard on September 30, 2010, 07:01:27 AM
Just watched the 1939 "Beau Geste" starring Gary Cooper.

Good pulpy fun, cardboard characters and all. The evil, scarred Sgt. Markov!
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Dr.Falkenhayn on October 07, 2010, 03:03:32 PM
I just finished watching "The Ghost Writer" with Ewan McGregor and was surprised how much it kept making me think of a Lovecraft story without the horror elements.
i enjoyed the Ghost Writer too,nice ending!
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: traveller on October 08, 2010, 05:19:45 AM
"All the Kings Men" about the "Vanished Batallion" that disappeared in Gallipoli. Interesting story, I already bought some Woodbine miniatures to paint up the Sandringham company
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: archangel1 on October 10, 2010, 12:50:22 AM
(http://img.amazon.ca/images/I/61g0eYaG7GL.jpg)

Finally! Not as good as Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or The Great Race but still fun.  Susan Hampshire is delicious!
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: traveller on October 12, 2010, 08:10:35 PM
Just watched "Simba", a movie from the 50´s about the Mau-Mau rebellion. Not bad condiering it´s more than 50 years old. It gave a good feel for the terrain and the combatants involved. I just wish someone would sculpt those askaris:

(http://i732.photobucket.com/albums/ww323/Travellera/Mau-Mau%20Rebellion/Simba4.jpg)

(http://i732.photobucket.com/albums/ww323/Travellera/Mau-Mau%20Rebellion/Simba1.jpg)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: white knight on October 22, 2010, 08:17:09 PM
Solomon Kane (just watched it and liked it, shame the limited success makes a sequel unlikely)
(http://thespotlightreport.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/solomon-kane-2.jpg)

Sukiyaki Western Django
(http://www.24framespersecond.net/images/uploads/djangoDVD.jpg)

Wolfhound: the rise of the warrior (Russian fantasy, not watched yet).
(http://productimages.wehkamp.nl/is/image/Wehkamp/?src=Wehkamp%2F166802_pb_01)

Today it's me, tomorrow it's you (spaghetti western, not watched yet, but no high expectations, pictures on the back are not from the movie, that's sloppy)
(http://www.fmautomobielen.nl/films/today-its-me-tomorrow-its-you/image/dvd-hoes.jpg)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Dr.Falkenhayn on October 22, 2010, 09:27:55 PM
sorry White Knight,Salomon Kane is the worst Film i watched this Year,absolutely awfull,My Tipp:WALHALLA RISING.You have to see this!  :D
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: YPU on October 22, 2010, 09:36:32 PM
sorry White Knight,Salomon Kane is the worst Film i watched this Year,absolutely awfull.

I was following the making of a bit, not much info, but it turned out a lot better then I expected. Its pretty slock fantasy, but then it kind of always was that way.

The villains were weak, I will say that, and Kane wasn't nearly as evil enough at the start. Ok its a guilty please to me.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: white knight on October 24, 2010, 10:07:07 AM
Sukiyaki Western Django
(http://www.24framespersecond.net/images/uploads/djangoDVD.jpg)

Just watched it and well... I didn't hate it as much as every other Takashi Miike film I've seen.  :-I But Tarentino can't act and as with Mr. Miike's other movies, there are plenty of bits that don't make sense or are outright absurd/silly. And Tarentino can't act and should stop doing these cameo's.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: white knight on October 24, 2010, 10:14:04 AM
Did I mention Tarentino can't act?  >:(
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: starkadder on October 24, 2010, 10:16:47 AM
Tarantino has been in freefall since Jackie Brown. The perils of being of a magpie I suppose. Who needs originality in the post-modern age when the ability to mash elements of cross-cultural trash can be seen as something wonderful? The Kill Bill films have to be some of the most over-rated films of all time. All the sophistication of a twelve year old's sensibility.

But that's just me.

And as an actor, he makes a fine video-store clerk...
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Plynkes on October 24, 2010, 10:34:05 AM
Funny that ain't it, as I felt Jackie Brown was his best film and one where I thought he'd married his signature style to a story where you actually care what happens to the characters and become emotionally involved for once (rather than just saying "Wow, this is so fucking cool!").

Unfortunately, he backed away from making more films like that and went back to style over substance with a vengeance. Shame really. Jackie Brown is one of my favourite pictures. Where did it all go wrong?
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: manic _miner on October 24, 2010, 10:50:17 AM
 Bought and watched Solomon Kane last night and thought it was good.

 Also go the D&D complete cartoon series in the Forbidden Planet sale too.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: starkadder on October 25, 2010, 07:25:22 AM
I felt Jackie Brown was his best film and one where I thought he'd married his signature style to a story where you actually care what happens to the characters and become emotionally involved for once (rather than just saying "Wow, this is so fucking cool!").

We're agreeing Plynkes. My point was that it was his last best film. It was all over red-rover after that.

My most recent guilty pleasure was going over Fritz Lang's M scene-by-scene ths weekend. It's still one of my favourite films. The treatment of the subject matter alone, given the age of the film, is amazing.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Plynkes on October 25, 2010, 07:50:33 AM
Oh yes, I understood that (I think I may have phrased my post badly, making it look otherwise).
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: bigmanfran on October 29, 2010, 10:41:15 AM
The Good,The Bad and the Weird.

(http://[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/angrylurker/5125773776/][img]http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1333/5125773776_64641af8d3_m.jpg)[/url]
Quad (http://www.flickr.com/photos/angrylurker/5125773776/) by bigmanfran (http://www.flickr.com/people/angrylurker/), on Flickr[/img]


Very good movie set in 1930,s Manchuria, if in doubt I put a trailer on my blog.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: bigmanfran on October 29, 2010, 11:05:13 AM
Apologies about the picture but Flickr is acting the arse,I put it in my gallery aswell. >:(
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: abhorsen950 on October 29, 2010, 11:40:24 AM
We Were Soldiers, I watched it two days ago and it gave me the urge to start wargaming again,
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: abhorsen950 on October 31, 2010, 12:30:50 PM
Another film for me, can't wait to give this a watch: WITTMAN v EKINS - The death of a panzer ace.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: General Roos on October 31, 2010, 01:14:13 PM
The first 6 episodes of HBO´s Boardwalk Empire. Great inspiration for my Bootleggers game!

(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/7/2767_31_10_10_2_20_19.jpg)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Uncle Mike on October 31, 2010, 01:41:16 PM
The Relic...I always gave it a hard time, but actually...on a second watching, not bad. A few vaguely Cthulhuish references, slightly better script than needed and a fairly convincing monster. Not great but a worthy waste of weekend time.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Col.Stone on November 04, 2010, 11:28:07 PM
The blue max
 George Peppard and Ursula Andress
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/32/BlueMax_poster.jpg/220px-BlueMax_poster.jpg)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: HPFlashman on November 13, 2010, 11:29:46 AM
Just in from Amazon.co.uk :

* The Sand Pebbles
* Northwest Passage
* North West Frontier
* Rudyard Kipling`s Kim

Really looking forward to The Sand Pebbles, as it comes highly recommended. Kim should be good - atleast the book are seriously entertaining.

The two others are, untill watched, a bit more on the curiosa side of things, but looking forward to watching them anyhow.  :)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Will Bailie on November 27, 2010, 09:54:22 PM
1I'm sure this has been mentioned before, but I just saw it, so new to me!  Excellent war film. I usually put on a DVD while painting - I couldn't do that for with this film, because i needed to pay attention to the subtitles (there's a dubbed soundtrack in American English, but it sounded weird coming from Russian faces...)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg_QWrxZjtI&feature=player_embedded
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: white knight on November 27, 2010, 10:10:52 PM
IP Man
First part set in 30s China, then during the Japanese occupation. Based on a true story. Excellent inspiration for pulp games in china.

(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_S3_eo1HpckQ/TAFciZw_EcI/AAAAAAAAAiE/FDb1sPBH8_U/s1600/ip-man.jpg)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: JollyBob on November 30, 2010, 11:12:36 AM
Oooh, Ip Man, I've been wanting to see that myself. Donnie Yen is such an under-rated action star. And weirdly is looking younger than he did 10 years ago. (The blessing of Chinese genetics, or just a very good surgeon?)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Plynkes on November 30, 2010, 11:18:40 AM
Is I.P. Man the story of a maverick troubleshooting Games Workshop lawyer and his never-ending quest to crush all non-official 40K material?
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: white knight on November 30, 2010, 12:34:09 PM
Oooh, Ip Man, I've been wanting to see that myself. Donnie Yen is such an under-rated action star. And weirdly is looking younger than he did 10 years ago. (The blessing of Chinese genetics, or just a very good surgeon?)

It's a good watch. There is also some subtle humour in otherwise very serious subject.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Hammers on November 30, 2010, 12:52:49 PM
It's a good watch. There is also some subtle humour in otherwise very serious subject.

It's not a bad for being a Kung Fu.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Christian on December 06, 2010, 10:42:38 AM
(http://www.filmshaft.com/images/2009/11/Harry-Brown-Quad1-512x382.jpg)

This movie was great.

It has got me thinking of some new ideas (for me, at least) for characters and settings, let me tell you.

It seems to have a bit of an association with Gran Torino due to the similarity of the protagonists (i.e. vigilante septagenarians). But, I have to say, I prefer Harry Brown. It has a really gritty approach to it that's a bit of a hallmark with British films; This is England, Lock Stock etc.

Well worth a watch.

I want to see, and would probably comission, a 28mm Harry Brown.

Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Bugsda on December 06, 2010, 01:48:23 PM
I've heard about this, apparently it was all filmed down the Albany Road Estate in Camberwell so it's a bit of a local epic. 8)

I'm assuming it's a kind of "Get Carter's Pension"  ;)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Hammers on December 07, 2010, 09:03:54 AM
I liked it. Now and then I need injections of Old Testament vengeance.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: white knight on December 20, 2010, 01:30:27 PM
Second box to complete the set, a childhood hero:
(http://static.letsbuyit.com/filer/images/fr/products/original/195/51/albator-84-edition-vf-4-dvd-partie-2-19551187.jpeg)

Never seen, but apparently set in the same universe:
(http://www.manga-news.com/public/images/dvd_volumes/Galaxy-Railways-Integrale-VF_.jpg)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: white knight on December 25, 2010, 09:34:43 PM
(http://www.chrisandphilpresent.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/GoemonDVD.jpg)

(http://www.shockya.com/news/wp-content/uploads/outlander_poster4.jpg)

(http://www.stalepopcorn.co.uk/wp-content/Uploads/BattleStar_Tin_DVD_2D_RGB.JPG)

(http://productimages.wehkamp.nl/is/image/Wehkamp/180451_pb_01/2009artikelDetailVisualPortrait/good-the-bad-the-weird-(dvd).jpg)

Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: traveller on January 02, 2011, 05:29:39 PM
Anyone seen this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKYVtU7G0IA

seem to be in style with "Machete"
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Red Orc on January 02, 2011, 05:48:00 PM
Not exactly a movie but TV series DVDs count right?

19 hours of Jeeves and Wooster! Hurrah! All of my VBCW research in one box! Thank you Brother and Sister-in-Law!
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: bandit86 on January 03, 2011, 06:27:46 AM
Well I bought the new Predator movie.. and then proceeded to leave it in the shopping cart when loading my car.   >:( >:(  Well I'll look at it like I was a secret santa to a stranger :)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: AKULA on January 03, 2011, 08:34:12 AM
Got the original series of Battlestar Galactica for Christmas - as one of my projects for 2011 is the reimagined-BSG.  Having watched all of the new BSG Series, plus the Plan & Razor back to back, several times, it was fun to see the much more cheesy original.

Its not the 35 year old effects that make it dated, but rather the screenplay, and naevity of the characters......at the start Adama comes across as almost a bumbling old man, compared to the the badarse of the new series.

 :)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Commander Vyper on January 05, 2011, 07:16:19 PM

I want to see, and would probably comission, a 28mm Harry Brown.


Pretty sure Artizan did one but buggered if I can find it!
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: General Roos on January 05, 2011, 07:43:05 PM
Scarface from 1932. The film is supposed to be loosely based upon the life of Al Capone. Paul Muni is brilliant as Antonio 'Tony' Camonte.    
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: General Roos on January 11, 2011, 02:49:17 PM
St. Valentine's Day Massacre from 1967. Dramatization of the Chicago mob wars in the 1920's between Al Capone and "Bugs" Moran which culminated in the notorious gangland slaughter on February 14th. A great prohibition era movie.  :)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: bandit86 on January 22, 2011, 07:07:36 AM
The Tournament
Lot of gaming potentail as 30 assassins and one priest with a crisis of faith hunt each other in a winner take all game. good acting,cool plott lots of action.  A very underated film.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0471041/
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Steve F on February 03, 2011, 04:44:21 PM
High Treason, a fairly obscure SF movie from 1929.  It was one of the first British  sound films, but sadly only silent prints have survived.

Probably not suitable for LPL5 Round 10, which is a bit of a pity!

(http://i814.photobucket.com/albums/zz62/SteveFlanaganUK/2011%20-%2002%20-%20Feb/3325166.jpg)

(http://i814.photobucket.com/albums/zz62/SteveFlanaganUK/2011%20-%2002%20-%20Feb/image102008b.jpg)

(http://i814.photobucket.com/albums/zz62/SteveFlanaganUK/2011%20-%2002%20-%20Feb/high_treason_3_l.jpg)

(http://i814.photobucket.com/albums/zz62/SteveFlanaganUK/2011%20-%2002%20-%20Feb/high_treason_2_l.jpg)

(http://i814.photobucket.com/albums/zz62/SteveFlanaganUK/2011%20-%2002%20-%20Feb/3325165.jpg)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Steve F on February 03, 2011, 04:49:39 PM
Pretty sure Artizan did one but buggered if I can find it!

Artizan did Harry Palmer, in one of the KKBB packs: same actor, but a bit young!
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Captain Nemo on February 03, 2011, 05:09:45 PM
High Treason, a fairly obscure SF movie from 1929.  It was one of the first British  sound films, but sadly only silent prints have survived.

Probably not suitable for LPL5 Round 10, which is a bit of a pity!

(http://i814.photobucket.com/albums/zz62/SteveFlanaganUK/2011%20-%2002%20-%20Feb/3325165.jpg)


Wow Steve F! That film looks very interesting.... I'll have to see if I can find a copy over here in the colonies. Thanks for posting this info!
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Post by: Steve F on February 03, 2011, 05:21:24 PM
Wow Steve F! That film looks very interesting.... I'll have to see if I can find a copy over here in the colonies. Thanks for posting this info!

It's not been released officially, Captain.  I got mine off eBay UK, and its  a home copied thing with the title written on it in green felt tip.  The seller put up another copy as soon as I bought mine.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Commander Vyper on February 03, 2011, 06:37:21 PM
Shutter Island on DVD on Sunday bloody good film followed closely by The King's Speech, a little cinema outling for me and a few friends; very very good film, deserves all the praise it's receiving. Superb.

The Commander
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Hammers on February 04, 2011, 07:39:57 AM
High Treason, a fairly obscure SF movie from 1929.  It was one of the first British  sound films, but sadly only silent prints have survived.


Lovely, Steve. A bit before its time, using German weaponry, Portuguese helmets and and tin can life support systems, just like Star Wars.

Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: warrenss2 on February 14, 2011, 12:53:15 AM
I've always enjoyed this one.

It's not much for inspirational wargaming. Just a fun movie.

(http://cover7.cduniverse.com/MuzeVideoArt/Large/64/224364.jpg)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Hammers on February 21, 2011, 09:09:09 AM
Well, when I claim 'received' I've only seen it on the telly: Downton Abbey is just being aired in Sweden. Lovely stuff, although I am hoping that something more dramatic than a farmer with dropsy and a homosexual duke will eventually happen.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: bandit86 on February 23, 2011, 09:12:55 PM

Love this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoUNsogdAus

 :o
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Plynkes on February 23, 2011, 09:29:41 PM
Well, when I claim 'received' I've only seen it on the telly: Downton Abbey is just being aired in Sweden. Lovely stuff, although I am hoping that something more dramatic than a farmer with dropsy and a homosexual duke will eventually happen.

I usually can't stand this kind of thing, but I loved Downton Abbey. Couldn't tell you quite why, but it had a certain quality that made it unmissable telly for me. The upper crust lot are all made entirely out of Edwardian stiffness and the daughters are bitches (apart from the extremely cute youngest one), but the below-stairs mob are a great cast of heroes and villains. Maggie Smith is wonderful ("What is a weekend?"), but my favourite characters are Bates and Anna.


Spoiler: In 1914 there is a big war! Surely in the second series a bunch of them are bound to get killed in it.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: JollyBob on February 24, 2011, 10:22:48 AM
Gots to agree with Plynkes there, costume dramas are not usually my cup of tea at all, but Downton Abbey had me hooked. Maggie Smith ought to get a special award for aceness. I loved the bit at the village fete where her rival says she won't take offence at something she's said, and she turns away muttering "Oh. I must have said it wrong..."  lol

Perfect storytelling where you care about the characters more than the events that surround them.


Anyway, this last week I have recieved and watched Shutter Island, which was good, if a little obvious. Nicely played though, and DiCaprio actually looks like a grown-up for a change.

And Watchmen, which is lovely to look at, but curiously uninvolving. A good adaptation, the change in the ending didn't upset me like it did some, with kudos for getting the images from the page onto the screen so effectively, but I found it oddly flat like I was watching cut scenes frm a video game in a lot of places.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Hammers on February 24, 2011, 01:40:45 PM
"What is a weekend?"

That may very well be the telly quote of the year. Add Maggie Smiths subtle acting on top of that...

I wonder if they will add any trench warfare in the next season. Although it would ruin the show I am hoping that caddish footman will be gassed to an inch of his life.  >:D ;) (as you can see I am quite involved...)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Hammers on February 24, 2011, 01:44:14 PM
The battle between the grand old dames is probably the most enjoyable bits since they are both flawed. Which brings me to my main objection with the series: the decent are a little to decent, the wicked a little to singularly so.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Hammers on March 05, 2011, 09:35:00 PM
Anyone seen this?

(http://cdon.se/media-dynamic/images/product/movie/dvd/image0/trolljegeren-13439370-frntl.jpg)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Comsquare on March 05, 2011, 10:10:22 PM
Did anybody saw this before?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C8J37kVp7E

Not sure what I should think about it right now :?
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: The Somnambulist on March 09, 2011, 06:54:08 PM
Anyone seen this?

(http://cdon.se/media-dynamic/images/product/movie/dvd/image0/trolljegeren-13439370-frntl.jpg)

I haven't, is it any good? I saw Rare Exports last year which I really enjoyed, this looks like it may be in the same vein?
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Hammers on March 09, 2011, 08:32:40 PM
I haven't, is it any good? I saw Rare Exports last year which I really enjoyed, this looks like it may be in the same vein?

I've seen snippets. It's about a film team discovering that trolls do exist in northern Norway but are kept in reserves by a government agency. It's very low budget but quite funny.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Bako on March 10, 2011, 08:03:23 PM
Just got a copy of Hunter Prey and Dark Star: Hyperdrive Edition in the post.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Regulator on March 12, 2011, 10:04:24 AM
Not really received lastly, but i watched it a week ago or so: Akira Kurosawa's Kagemusha! Such a lovely movie if you want to paint a samurai armies.

Stephan
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Wirelizard on March 18, 2011, 06:10:26 PM
Not received, just watched in the theatre, The King's Speech with Colin Firth, Helen Bonham Carter & Geoffery Rush. Good low key period movie, not a lot of wargaming potential, although I can see where the VBCW folks would find background material! Guy Pearce as the weak, villainous chap giving duty up for "the woman I love" is entertaining; naturally he has some of the best lines.

Best exchange, though, is during Firth & Rush's first meeting, proud and prickly Duke of York vs blunt Aussie speech therapist:
"Surely the mind of a Prince of the Realm is aware of what his mouth is doing?"
"You haven't... much experience of royalty, have you, Doctor?"
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Aaron on March 21, 2011, 12:03:50 PM
Get Low starring Robert Duval and Bill Murray. It is the story set in the depression-era southern US of a mysterious recluse who throws a large party for his own funeral. I didn't know what to expect going in and even over half way through the movie I wasn't sure where the story was going. It is just a very good story well told. The acting and costumes / sets were top-notch.

I understand that it took years to convince a studio to pick this up and I can understand why. Films built around a solid script seem pretty rare these days. It didn't have lots of big explosions or CGI either. Yet for all of that I was thoroughly entertained.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: archangel1 on March 21, 2011, 06:12:07 PM
Can't stand Bill Murray.  An extremely overrated 'actor' as far as I'm concerned.  He was tolerable in Ghostbusters only because the rest of the cast was so good.  Picturing him with Sigourney Weaver makes me shudder!
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Aaron on March 22, 2011, 11:23:00 AM
I suspect you wouldn't care for Get Low then. A shame because it is a great film and he turns in a pretty good performance. Perhaps my favorite role of his after Razor's Edge.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: bandit86 on March 27, 2011, 12:43:27 PM
I just watched a really good film on Netflix called “Carve her name with pride” The story of Violette Sazbo a British agent in WWII. The film made in 1958 (great year that) was not known to me and I am so glad a pick this little gem to watch. Well worth a look.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: pauld on March 27, 2011, 02:19:45 PM
Soldiers and Saints

never heard of it but doing the weekly shop at Morrison's I noticed it at £3 so slipped it in the trolley while she wasn't looking  ;)

It is a small scale WW2 infantry film where a small handful of GI's escape capture from the Germans in the wintery Ardennes forest...they decide to get through to their own lines 20 miles or so away but with only 1 captured K98 and 4 rounds between them.

Not a bad film at all - small scale and much about the group interaction but there is a couple of good skirmishes in the snowy forest which are very well done

would make a nice senario for Nuts! or similar games
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: bandit86 on April 09, 2011, 05:06:18 AM
Just watched "Hunter Prey" on netflix.  it was actually pretty good not a great movie but not bad either.  I loved the armor which were made from Boba fett helmets re worked and Nerf Guns.  Worth a look.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: bandit86 on April 18, 2011, 09:17:59 AM
Doghouse: British zombie film Ending was a bit lame but the rest was fun :D
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Remington on May 09, 2011, 09:03:19 PM
I just cashed in a voucher I got for my birthday beginning of the month... It was exchanged for Zulu, African Queen and Mountains of the Moon. Looking forward to all three of them.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: General Roos on May 10, 2011, 01:22:49 PM
Not a wargaming related film, but still...

Tikimentary - In search of the Lost Paradise. A documentary about tiki fans (like me) and the tiki scene. Awesome!
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: swiftnick on May 11, 2011, 02:37:00 PM
Saw 13 assassins on Monday. Lots of daft hats and swordplay. I thought it would inspire me to paint samurai but I'm afraid not. It seems more like a spaghetti western
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: General Roos on May 18, 2011, 10:13:00 PM
La Horde. A french zombie movie.

A good movie apart from an annoying actress!  The female cop. >:(
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: matakishi on May 19, 2011, 06:41:43 AM
I didn't mind her, the old legionnaire stole the show though :)

I have recently received:
Danger man the colour years, Professionals season 1, Rockford files season 1, The Saint season 1 and the complete Strange Report box set. None of which are films of course...

(http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQjXjD1tdQXGGXgFYW4inYnBt5Fm1M5CI9mIg0cLKja6nDCSiOfZA)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: ushistoryprof on May 22, 2011, 11:40:05 PM
Just saw the latest Pirates of the Caribbean movies and it was quite good.  The story line is fun, the pirates are full of life, Captain Jack is Captain Jack and Penelope Cruz is hot, and it’s got mermaids.  The movie is much more like the first and best of the series.  It has lots of ideas for campaigns and has a solid adventure feel as well.
Prof
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http://worldhistoryprof.blogspot.com/
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: TheMightyFlip on May 23, 2011, 09:39:26 PM
Just spent the last hour and a bit watching The Evil Dead the Musical, great fun.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Heldrak on May 23, 2011, 10:07:37 PM
I saw the Thor film over the weekend. Surprisingly good for a comic book movie!  :o
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Remington on May 26, 2011, 09:12:50 PM
Just saw Tracker. A Boer veteran and tracker (Ray Winstone) emigrates to New Zealand in 1903 after losing everything in the Boer War. There he comes to join a man hunt to find a Maori (Temuera Morrison aka Jango Fett) accused of murder.

It was a nice film. Certainly not a masterpiece, but cool in an old-school kind of way. Besides Ray Winstone doing his best South African accent was quite fun. :D
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Post by: General Roos on May 26, 2011, 11:26:51 PM
True Grit. What a superb movie!

But I missed the typical Coen:ish dialogue.
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Post by: traveller on June 10, 2011, 04:39:53 PM
"The War that made America" - 4 part mini series documentary of the French & Indian Wars. Great complement to "The Last of the Mohicans" movie. Made me place an order for Perry AWI Indians...
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Post by: Aaron on June 10, 2011, 05:24:39 PM
It is good, isn't it? I'm about due for another viewing myself. Maybe it will inspire me to finish my blockhouse and base up a few more trees.
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Post by: traveller on June 10, 2011, 06:36:40 PM
It is good, isn't it? I'm about due for another viewing myself. Maybe it will inspire me to finish my blockhouse and base up a few more trees.

I think it was quite good. A thorough overview of the war AND disclosing George Washington as a real sissy  :D
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Post by: HerbyF on June 12, 2011, 06:39:03 PM
Just picked up a boxed set really cheap. 8 movies for $4.99. "Girls,Guns, & G-strings" Haven't watched any yet, but it looks promising.
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Post by: Aaron on June 14, 2011, 11:14:10 AM
I think it was quite good. A thorough overview of the war AND disclosing George Washington as a real sissy  :D

I'm not sure about sissy, but I do picture him more like Mr. Bean than national saviour. I'm one of the last card-carrying loyalists in the states though.  :D
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Post by: Powered Armored Stooge on June 14, 2011, 04:03:28 PM
For me, lets see:

RoboCop (Fueling my love of Cyborgs and Power Armor)

Tremors (Giant Monsters. Check. MOSTLY good characters. Check.)

A Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy (Just because. Its actually very true to the book which I liked)

On a totally different train of thought does any one know of any good Post Apoc Movies aside from MAD MAX and its sequels.
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Post by: Commander Vyper on June 14, 2011, 06:48:55 PM
So you've just received these or you've just blurted out your top list of fav films?  ::) Sounds like the latter to me.  :D

Post apoc, (dystopian futures).

This should do you:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dystopian_films (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dystopian_films)

The Commander
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Post by: Hammers on June 15, 2011, 06:29:37 AM
Nanking

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/ec/Nanking_movie_poster1.jpg/220px-Nanking_movie_poster1.jpg)

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_%28film%29)

It is about the 1938 massacre of Chinese civilians and soldiers and mass rape of women by the Japanese as the capital of the Chinese republic was sacked. I had only read about this briefly in a Time Life book but never fully understood the magnitude and modern day implications of this horrible event. Sometimes one feels just too Euro-centric than what is good for oneself...
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Post by: Hammers on June 15, 2011, 09:43:58 AM
Age of Heroes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Heroes_%28film%29

Simplistic and Matinée but entertaining! About the creation of Ian Flemming's creation of... etc
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Post by: Big Martin on June 15, 2011, 11:45:19 AM
Nanking

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/ec/Nanking_movie_poster1.jpg/220px-Nanking_movie_poster1.jpg)

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_%28film%29)

It is about the 1938 massacre of Chinese civilians and soldiers and mass rape of women by the Japanese as the capital of the Chinese republic was sacked. I had only read about this briefly in a Time Life book but never fully understood the magnitude and modern day implications of this horrible event. Sometimes one feels just too Euro-centric than what is good for oneself...

Not sure I can stomach that. My great uncle was in China with the army at the time and saw some pretty horrendous things done by the Japanese. He was lucky in his time being up before WW2 broke out and being back in Wales before he was recalled to a new batallion of the SWB and missed still being out east.
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Post by: Hammers on June 15, 2011, 03:21:39 PM
Not sure I can stomach that. My great uncle was in China with the army at the time and saw some pretty horrendous things done by the Japanese. He was lucky in his time being up before WW2 broke out and being back in Wales before he was recalled to a new batallion of the SWB and missed still being out east.

It certainly is like watching a film about the Holocaust. The worst bit is, IMO, exactly this. Still living, former Japanese rank 'n filers recounting their deeds. Old men talking about rape, murder and torture they've taken part in. To hear them say it is just mind made me ask in an inner voice: ' So how come you are not dangling in the gallows?'. Still, I think the film gives a bit of perspective... Watch it and perhaps you'll see it.
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Post by: Plynkes on June 23, 2011, 12:27:41 PM
Possibly my favourite Doctor Who adventure of all time. Well maybe, maybe not. It's up there, though. Certainly a contender.

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/518Z7X1C2ML.jpg)

One of the more (deliberately) comedic storylines, not really surprising given that Douglas Adams wrote the script. That didn't stop old Scaroth and his Cthulhu monster face scaring the shit out of me as a little nipper, though.

Can't believe I waited until now to get it.
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Post by: Hammers on June 23, 2011, 06:50:55 PM
From personal experience I have come to find it inadvisable to re-watch old films and shows which  used to thrill/scare/amuse oneself to pieces as one was a wee thing. Myself I find myself almost invariably disappointed.
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Post by: Plynkes on June 23, 2011, 08:07:51 PM
That is very true. But not in this case, trust me. Tom Baker's time as the Doctor holds me in the same thrall now as it did when I was a child.


Just without all the covering my eyes and hiding behind the sofa.  :)
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Post by: Plynkes on June 26, 2011, 02:02:52 PM
It's just a fun cult TV show. No idea why you two feel the need to read so much into it.
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Post by: Remington on June 26, 2011, 02:15:11 PM
I watched Rango last night... Lovely little film that was far more adult that the "Family flick" tag made it appear to be. And it includes an appearance of the Man with No Name... so how could I resist.
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Post by: Hammers on June 26, 2011, 03:25:51 PM
...Just without all the covering my eyes and hiding behind the sofa.  :)

I don't believe you. ;)
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Post by: General Roos on June 30, 2011, 08:38:51 PM
Zulu Dawn from 1979.

It's amazing how they could tame colonialism with spears, shields, and a lot of fighting spirit
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Post by: General Roos on June 30, 2011, 10:56:25 PM
Zulu from 1964.

I like the close-ups of Michael Caines amalgam fillings. Really brings one back to 1879.  ;)
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Post by: Plynkes on July 01, 2011, 07:39:13 AM
Zulu from 1964.I like the close-ups of Michael Caines amalgam fillings. Really brings one back to 1879.  ;)

Surprisingly not an anachronism. Dates from the 1820s.
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Post by: General Roos on July 01, 2011, 07:52:38 AM
Surprisingly not an anachronism. Dates from the 1820s.

Oh, the joke´s on me then!  :-X
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Post by: James Holloway on July 05, 2011, 11:15:20 PM
I picked up a French film about the Resistance in WWII at Poundland today -- I didn't know if it would be any good, but I figured for £1, how could I go wrong? I enjoyed it a lot -- a very thoughtful, nuanced portrayal that avoids mythologising either side. Definitely a quid well spent.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Army_of_Crime (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Army_of_Crime)
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Post by: carlos marighela on July 10, 2011, 11:37:56 AM
I just watched Lebanon, the Israeli film about a tank in the 1982 war. Biggest pile of shit I've seen in years, a complete waste of time. The tagline should have been 'no war movie cliche left behind'.
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Post by: Hammers on July 10, 2011, 02:24:49 PM
I just watched Lebanon, the Israeli film about a tank in the 1982 war. Biggest pile of shit I've seen in years, a complete waste of time. The tagline should have been 'no war movie cliche left behind'.

Isn't that the one where the perspective is completely from within the tank? I thought the idea seemed a bit original (I haven't seen it though...)
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Post by: traveller on July 10, 2011, 04:19:29 PM
I just watched Lebanon, the Israeli film about a tank in the 1982 war. Biggest pile of shit I've seen in years, a complete waste of time. The tagline should have been 'no war movie cliche left behind'.

second that, very disappointing movie  :'(
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Post by: carlos marighela on July 10, 2011, 10:02:59 PM
Isn't that the one where the perspective is completely from within the tank? I thought the idea seemed a bit original (I haven't seen it though...)

The director apparently thought that Das Boot in a tank was a good idea, perhaps it might have been but for so, so many reasons this film is really fucking woeful. If you weren't at the outset then by about 15mins in you are hoping for a large HEAT round, IED or whatever to put the crew out of their collective misery.

Waltz for Bashir is an incomparably better film.
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Post by: matakishi on July 16, 2011, 09:50:06 AM
Just arrived today:

(http://www.matakishi.com/Spirit%2010%20mins%20composite.jpg)

Got some friends coming round tonight to watch it, will report back after the event :)
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Post by: Col.Stone on July 16, 2011, 10:08:08 AM
Lebanon  :'( :'( >:( >:( >:(

I'll give that a miss then, thank's, because it's one of those films i would have bought without any thinking if i spotted it in a store :D
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Post by: WillieB on July 20, 2011, 09:46:25 PM
Finally a good version of Taras Bulba! Pure nostalgia!
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Post by: archangel1 on July 21, 2011, 06:16:51 AM
Just watched Hammer's Brides of Dracula for the first time in many years.  It's always been one of my favourites in the cycle but I'd forgotten how good it actually is.  The castle sets are amazing and Freda Jackson is brilliant as the housekeeper Greta.  Great fun!

Edit: Received today.  Would you believe...

(http://img.amazon.ca/images/I/51rPb4ZhvzL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
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Post by: Old Goat on July 24, 2011, 07:26:37 AM
Ironclad... :o

Great Cast, great battle scenes, lashings of gore and a happy ending (ahhhh...)

However Season of the Witch was poo.  Complete Poo... :`
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Post by: matakishi on July 24, 2011, 07:44:48 AM
Well, 10 minutes was an interesting film. A strange mix of 40's clothing and 80s settings and hair (budget induced) but worth watching to see the Spirit done right as far as atmosphere and heart are concerned.

I too have Get Smart season 1 :)
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Post by: Centaur_Seducer on July 24, 2011, 08:43:15 PM
Pandorum.
Bloody hell, it's been a long time since I was actually surprised on more than one occassion!
Excellent film :) For me it's up there with the classics such as Alien, Event Horizon and other sci-fi horror greats.


(http://www.moviesonline.ca/movie-gallery/albums/userpics//poster_pandorum_poster.jpg)
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Post by: carlos marighela on July 29, 2011, 11:28:32 PM
Missed it when it came out and only just caught up with Tropa de Elite 2 (Elite Squad 2). If you haven't seen the original you really should. Thankfully less violent than the first and the ending appeared a little rushed but a good film none the less. The caricature of the fat guy presenting the tabloid crime show is absolutely dead on the money. It was brilliantly funny and absolutely true to the format that is franchised across Brazil.


Of course events have moved on since they started making the film but the street scenes still have an almost cinéma vérité feel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsZP9ZX3fsI&feature=related
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Post by: carlos marighela on July 29, 2011, 11:34:19 PM
Sorry, found a subtitled version of the trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CkVEIYRhS0
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Post by: joroas on August 27, 2011, 07:15:56 AM
Just watched the Stallone version of Get Carter, I'm not sure there was a story line just a collection of random events..........
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Post by: Calimero on August 27, 2011, 02:20:55 PM

Cop Land wasn't bad... IIRC ::)
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Post by: Donpimpom on August 27, 2011, 03:27:09 PM
Captain America, i really love the pulpish supertecnology gadgets from Hydra
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Post by: Diakon on September 08, 2011, 11:48:56 PM
Found a copy of CGI movie Resident Evil Degeneration in Poundland! Thoroughly enjoyed it. Especially for a quid!
  lol
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Post by: manic _miner on September 10, 2011, 07:56:52 AM
 Bought the new movie 13 assassins and watched it last night.Great film with loads of samurai action.
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Post by: Connectamabob on September 17, 2011, 01:29:13 AM
Underworld and Watchmen, both films I hadn't seen up to this point because despite the hype the both looked kind of rubbish, but they both turned out to be surprisingly good.

Underworld had a surprisingly well executed plot (I was especially impressed with how well it handled exposition, which is usually a problem area for a films of this type/genre), and the main characters were for the most part surprisingly well done.

Aside from some on-and-off bad acting, and some (thankfully not plot necessary) unexplained bits where it felt like something noticeably got cut, Watchmen was very well put together also. Still not sold on Zack Snyder though. How much was him, and how much was the source material? Hard to say when an adaptation is so cut-and-paste, but some of the squiffier performances make me skeptical.

I will say that I didn't see why everyone fixates on Dr. Manhattan's wang so much. Eye-rollingly immature squick/fear reactions to male nudity aside, it's actually very rarely on screen, and when it is it's just a vague blue shape. People need to grown the fuck up.
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Post by: Diakon on September 23, 2011, 01:12:56 AM
Just watched Clint Eastwoods Flags Of Our Fathers and Letters From Iwo Jima. Was really impressed with them both but thought that Letters From Iwo Jima was the better film of the two.
The music in both of them was beautiful too.
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Post by: Comsquare on October 15, 2011, 08:49:00 PM
Bunraku :D
Pretty nice movie, enjoyed it ;D
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Post by: zizi666 on October 15, 2011, 11:06:49 PM
Generation kill.
watched 5 of 6 episodes fridaynight.
Would have loved some more action, but all in all a good mini-series.
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Post by: Sterling Moose on October 16, 2011, 01:32:46 AM
Caught a couple of films on the plane enroute back to Canada

X-Men 1st Class - surprisingly good!!  The best of the X-Men films so far.
Thor - crap, but I expected nothing less
Pirates of the Caribbean On Strange Tides (or something like that) - pretty good, way way better than the third one.
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Post by: archangel1 on October 16, 2011, 05:32:01 AM
Bunraku...

Bunraku is Japanese puppet theatre.  What's the connection in terms of the movie?

Since Ron Perlman is in it, it can't be too bad.  Demi Moore looks pretty hot, too.
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Post by: Comsquare on October 16, 2011, 05:15:57 PM
Bunraku is Japanese puppet theatre.  What's the connection in terms of the movie?

Since Ron Perlman is in it, it can't be too bad.  Demi Moore looks pretty hot, too.

The prologue is played by puppetplayers/ looks like a shadowtheater, also the scenery the movie is set in looks like a theater-stage.
I'm not really familiar with the Bunraku (knew that's the japanese Puppet Theater, though),
but maybe the story is something typical too.

It's a revenge story, with strangers coming to town to fight evil etc.
really enjoyed it, visually, storywise and from the Martial arts involved :)
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Post by: Anpu on October 20, 2011, 06:35:14 PM
Treasure Island from 1989 with Charlton Heston and Christian Bale.
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Post by: carlos marighela on October 22, 2011, 07:22:10 AM
Armadillo, fantastic documentary about the Danish contingent in Helmand. First rate film.
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Post by: zizi666 on October 22, 2011, 02:17:55 PM
Armadillo, fantastic documentary about the Danish contingent in Helmand. First rate film.

I second that.
P.S.: If you liked this one, then you also should check out Restrepo.
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Post by: carlos marighela on October 22, 2011, 07:08:40 PM
Seen that one already, another excellent film.
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Post by: zizi666 on October 23, 2011, 05:20:26 AM
next week I should receive "This is war - memories of Iraq" (Amazon order - costs £2.99 but saved me the P&P on the total :))
Anyone know if it's any good ?
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Post by: Aaron on October 27, 2011, 12:40:47 PM
Treasure Island from 1989 with Charlton Heston and Christian Bale.

Some may consider this heresy, but that is my favorite film adaptation of the book to date!
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Post by: Anpu on October 27, 2011, 12:46:01 PM
Some may consider this heresy, but that is my favorite film adaptation of the book to date!

I agree, the best one for me at least.
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Post by: joroas on October 28, 2011, 11:53:33 AM
No, but I notice that Sainsburys have a nice offer on the cartoon boxed set and the last live action movie.
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Post by: Steve F on October 28, 2011, 05:01:14 PM
No, but I notice that Sainsburys have a nice offer on the cartoon boxed set and the last live action movie.

Oh, dear, Lord. Is that "HER-JAY'S-AD-VEN-TURES-OF-TIN-TIN!"?  So bad it kept me away from the books for years...

This stop-motion animation from 1947, on the other and, looks rather entertaining:
http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2011/that-other-tintin-movie/ (http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2011/that-other-tintin-movie/)
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Post by: Connectamabob on October 29, 2011, 11:56:36 AM
Das Boot. Can't believe it took me so long to get around to seeing this for the fist time. It was awesome! My favorite war movie for a long time has been Apocalypse Now, but I think this has tied it in a single viewing.

Awesome, just bloody awesome. I could write a whole thesis on all the things this movie is an example of how to do right compared to other works, and I'll bet many, many film students already have.
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Post by: Calimero on October 29, 2011, 03:34:17 PM

So... should this be in the "Latest NOT inspiring" movie threads? ;)
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Post by: Commander Vyper on October 29, 2011, 05:42:09 PM
Saw Contagion last night, Steve Soderburg. Very good science fact rather than fiction, pleasing to see Gwenyth Paltrow's skull cap cut off in the autopsy.

Loads of inspiration for my zed games and government response to any 'outbreak'.

The Commander
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Post by: Steve F on October 30, 2011, 05:57:24 PM
A bit behind the times, I just saw Red Cliff.  Wow!  It strikes me that this mix of big-battle formations and outrageous individual heroics is just what Warhammer and its competitors are trying to simulate.  (Rather too much use of fire and explosions, perhaps, but that's modern cinema for you.)
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Post by: Connectamabob on October 31, 2011, 02:36:15 AM
City of Lost Children. Heaps of imagery that wouldn't go amiss in either the fantasy or steampunk boards here, though the "romance" angle between the two protagonists was a little... weird (an eight year old girl and a full grown man with a childlike mind... ohhhhhhkaaaaaayyyy :? )
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Post by: archangel1 on October 31, 2011, 03:54:27 AM
...I just saw Red Cliff.  Wow!...

Which version? I've got the 288 minute one and I think it's amazing.  A bit over the top, of course, because we are talking Chinese super-soldiers here but the fight choreography (and overall cinematography) is brilliant.  I particularly like the scene during the 'tortoise' battle when Guan Yu carves his way through the enemy troops using their own spears! Of course, the hero I really liked was the one that gets killed.  Typical! Well worth the viewing, in my opinion.
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Post by: zizi666 on October 31, 2011, 05:42:19 AM
City of Lost Children. Heaps of imagery that wouldn't go amiss in either the fantasy or steampunk boards here, though the "romance" angle between the two protagonists was a little... weird (an eight year old girl and a full grown man with a childlike mind... ohhhhhhkaaaaaayyyy :? )

Ah, La cité des enfants perdus. Loved every minute of it.
If you like it, you should also check out Delicatessen. completely different setting but also fun to watch.
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Post by: Steve F on October 31, 2011, 08:36:07 AM
Which version?

The shorter one.  Still impressive and coherent, but perhaps more bladder-friendly!
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Post by: gamingdog on October 31, 2011, 01:23:30 PM
saw something called "Battle Royal" a truly messed up movie. 40 Japanese student's are pitted against each other each given a weapon and they have 3 days to off each other until there is only one left.
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Post by: white knight on October 31, 2011, 02:08:53 PM
Pretty good movie though.

The sequel sucked.
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Post by: The Somnambulist on October 31, 2011, 10:51:11 PM
Saw Tintin today, thoroughly enjoyed it! Never been a fan of the books so didn't know if/what liberties had been taken.
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Post by: dijit on November 01, 2011, 12:14:14 PM
Just seen a rather fantastic norweigan film - The Troll Hunter:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLEo7H9tqSM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLEo7H9tqSM)
The last troll feels a little OTT, but otherwise really very well done and with good dry humour.
Duncan
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Post by: inkydave on November 01, 2011, 01:22:08 PM
Howls moving castle for about the 5th time. Really must model a castle with legs lol
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Post by: zizi666 on November 01, 2011, 03:34:52 PM
Howls moving castle for about the 5th time. Really must model a castle with legs lol

There's a papermodel of that somewhere on the web.
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Post by: inkydave on November 01, 2011, 06:40:53 PM
There's a papermodel of that somewhere on the web.

Good spot Zizi. Wow there is some great stuff out there. I suspect that because you print it yourself it can be scaled to meet your needs and if you dont want it in paper use them as plans.



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Post by: Steve F on November 10, 2011, 07:19:48 PM
The first series (of two) of the BBC's 1980s English Civil War drama, By the Sword Divided.  I hope it'll give me the impetus to get back to my stalled "At Hob's Hill, 1645" project.
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Post by: joroas on November 13, 2011, 02:04:48 AM
I have just watched the last series of Shield, the end was not what I expected!  :o :o :o
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Post by: voltan on November 19, 2011, 01:47:08 PM
The series HMS Ark Royal, reacent one on discovery (not the one from the 70's, which I have also been looking for along with any of the warship series) got it from the works for £8ish seen it on e-bay for £14 odd.
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Post by: joroas on November 30, 2011, 09:26:58 AM
Picked up The Pacific at Sainsbury's for £18 but as I had vouchers as a loyal customer, it was nearer £14!  :D
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Post by: white knight on November 30, 2011, 07:20:45 PM
The complete stargate SG-1 series in one box set.  :)
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Post by: inkydave on December 02, 2011, 11:01:29 AM
Not a movie but a trailer. The new Guy Ritchie Sherlock Holmes. Looks fricking awesome!!!!
I really enjoyed his first Holmesian effort and this 1 looks even better :D 
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Post by: Helen on December 03, 2011, 07:17:04 PM
Captain America and Pacific. Love them both especially Pacific.
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Post by: inkydave on December 11, 2011, 01:09:23 PM
I have just bought "Gettysburg" for £1 (Tom Berenger, Martin Sheen, Jeff Daniels), Before I commit 4 hours of life watching it can I ask

"Is it any good?"

Dialogue can be clumsy and unintentionally funny at times but with so many reenactors involved the battle scenes are very well realised. Little round top is good but pickets charge is even better. A mini gripe is i wish they gave the cannons recoil. Well worth £1!!!
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Post by: Plynkes on December 11, 2011, 02:07:14 PM
...but with so many reenactors involved the battle scenes are very well realised.

Except that many of them re-enactors are rather too 'super-sized' to be convincing veterans of the Army of Northern Virginia for my money.  :)


I think it is well-worth seeing. Some great familiar faces doing their thing, and Jeff Daniels is rather surprisingly good in a serious role. I think Stephen Lang, Martin Sheen, Tom Berenger and Sam Elliott are always worth watching, even when they are in shit films. And this is by no means a shit film, though it can be a bit too talky when trying to cram in all the exposition about motivation and why they are all fighting and such.

Here's a bit of fun for you: Try and see if you can spot former Bond, George Lazenby in there. He has a speaking role, but not for long.
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Post by: HerbyF on December 12, 2011, 01:59:04 AM
I really liked it. I have it in a 2 disc set with "Gods and Generals"
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Post by: Connectamabob on December 13, 2011, 03:09:23 PM
Kingdom of Heaven, the director's cut version. I enjoyed it a lot. Thought the character's attitudes on religion were a bit cynical in ways which didn't quite seem historically realistic, even bordering on the heavy-handed (this coming from a weak atheist), but I give big props to the writer for making it naturalistic instead of stopping to preach at the audience. The color grading was quite oddly bad, especially for a Ridley Scott film. All the same, fantastic movie IMO.

First non-LotR/PotC Orlando Bloom role I've seen, and I was pleasantly surprised by how differently he comes across here. I really liked the "thousand yard stare" he pulled off, and how it gradually changes and "heals" over the course of the movie, but never completely goes away.
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Post by: Argonor on December 13, 2011, 03:47:16 PM
Watched 'The Wolfman' (new) couple of days ago. Liked it. Guessed the plot very early on, though. Never saw the classic one.
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Post by: zizi666 on December 13, 2011, 05:17:37 PM
First non-LotR/PotC Orlando Bloom role I've seen

Sure about that ?
Haven't you ever seen Black Hawk Down ?
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Post by: Connectamabob on December 13, 2011, 08:24:45 PM
Not yet. It's on my "to get around to" list. Modern warfare is not a genre that really sparks me, entertainment wise, so it hasn't felt pressing, even though it does look good from what I've seen.

Didn't find Bloom problematic in Kingdom as he was played as more of a scrappy little survivor than a war horse. Didn't find him lacking in gravitas, he just had gravitas of different sort than, say, the Liam Neeson type. As I mentioned before, I was impressed with his shell shocked/haunted act. As someone who's been through that kind of thing myself I found it to be one of the more identifiable depictions I've seen by an actor.

He did seem lightweight in Pirates, but that series is hardly to be taken seriously anyway. Almost  everyone in those films was comically lightweight, and a protagonist who looks straight off the cover of a YA romance novel was in good company as far as absurdities go.
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Post by: Plynkes on December 13, 2011, 08:32:18 PM
I'm not altogether sure it is possible to be too lightweight for the film adaptation of a theme park ride.
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Post by: Steve F on December 14, 2011, 06:14:43 AM
Don't Lose Your Head (or Carry On Don't Lose Your Head, as it was rebranded), for gruelling resarch into French Revolutionary guillotine construction as envisaged by 1960s British set designers.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Poiter50 on December 22, 2011, 07:14:17 AM
Had it for ages but finally watched "Mongol". This is the first part in what turned out to be a series, now to find time over Xmas to watch part 2.

Great movie on the trials and tribulations of becoming the Supreme Khan. Not quite what I have read on his younger days but then nor are the Arthur books in comparison to the movies.
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Post by: JollyBob on December 22, 2011, 02:45:16 PM
X-Men: First Class.

Yes. Yes, it was. Like a Connery-era Bond with super powers.
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Post by: Sterling Moose on December 27, 2011, 03:58:21 PM
Stocked up a bit at the Annual Walmart Boxing Day DVD sale:

Sinbad boxed set (Ray Harryhausen classics) - 7th Voyage, Eye of the Tiger & Golden Voyage $10
Sahara - harmless pulpy romp $3.97
Spartacus, Gods of the Arena - Complete collection $20
Judge Dread - Stallone but pretty good for $5

There were a few other bargains but I already have them.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Hammers on January 09, 2012, 03:37:34 PM
Not exactly movie and not exactly received. I do however really dig the 2nd (as well as the first series) of 'Sherlock'. One thought 'another beaten to death nag risen from the dead' but it is god damn clever!
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Post by: Poiter50 on January 10, 2012, 12:19:24 AM
That's good to hear, it starts here in a few weeks IIRC.

Not exactly movie and not exactly received. I do however really dig the 2nd (as well as the first series) of 'Sherlock'. One thought 'another beaten to death nag risen from the dead' but it is god damn clever!
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Post by: HPFlashman on January 10, 2012, 01:25:30 AM
The Santa haul was good this year:

Hornblower, the complete series
Dads Army, the complete series
Waterloo
Cromwell
The charge of the light brigade
Captain America.

Gone trough all of them with the exception of Dads Army which did not find favour with the Mrs, along with the complete Sharp series for the third time and feel somewhat hankering for Napeolonics for some odd reason... :D
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Post by: Plynkes on January 10, 2012, 01:30:17 PM
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/zakazane.jpg)
That fellow on the right is not Nigel Hawthorne.


90s TV movie about Stanley and Livingstone. Saw it at the time and have been looking for it for a bit. Only region 2 version I could find was this Czech one (hence the incomprehensible title), but it is still English language audio, so no worries there.

The Czech for 'English' appears to be 'Anglicky.' I approve, and I think we should appropriate it as our own name for ourselves, as it has a much better ring to it. I certainly feel more Anglicky than English.  ;D
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Post by: Sangennaru on January 10, 2012, 01:57:38 PM
That fellow on the right is not Nigel Hawthorne.

lol lol lol. i googled the real actor... they're quite different indeed!
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Post by: carlos marighela on January 10, 2012, 02:17:58 PM
That fellow on the right is not Nigel Hawthorne.


Are you quite sure? He's a very versatile actor.
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Post by: OSHIROmodels on January 11, 2012, 05:11:42 PM
Even more versatile than we thought  ;D

cheers

James
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Post by: inkydave on January 14, 2012, 07:17:59 PM
2 British Film Institute Kurosawa box sets. Kurosawa classic collection & Kurosawa crime collection. A little expensive but I couldnt resist. 9 films in total. His non-samurai stuff.

Think I will treat myself to 'Stray dog' tonight. :D
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Post by: Argonor on January 24, 2012, 11:38:02 AM
Cost me a whole £1. What a rip off!

 lol
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Post by: Prof.Witchheimer on January 24, 2012, 11:43:43 AM
Watched this. Irish police + FBI. Amazing.
 
(http://moviebuzzers.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/the-guard-movie-poster.jpg)
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Post by: carlos marighela on January 24, 2012, 11:46:28 AM
Cost me a whole £1. What a rip off!

Look upon it not as a movie but as the basis of some terrain or the start of a 'LAF build something'  comp. If you can build something taller on a DVD than James' 'Wizards' Tower, I'll send you a quid myself.
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Post by: artshiraz on January 24, 2012, 01:57:53 PM
Greetings

I saw Hemmett yesterday evening. Made me consider starting the whole Film Noir/Gangsters up to the 40s again. :)

Jo
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Post by: von der Tann on January 29, 2012, 11:16:19 AM
Le Mac

(http://i486.photobucket.com/albums/rr229/BloodRavens/lemac.jpg)

Hillarious gangster flic. Hot chicks, funny situations and the whole in french.  :D

Can't say I am a very good french speaker but that movie makes me want to go back to relearn all the french that I have forgotten since leaving school all those years ago.
Don't know if there is an English version, but if you need to laugh, chuckle or a reason to spend 2 hours on the couch in front of the TV eating popcorn, this movie is for you.

von der Tann
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Post by: Plynkes on January 30, 2012, 05:36:28 PM
Some nice soul gave me this for Christmas, and I watched it last night...

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/13.jpg)

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/13assassins8506x900.jpg)

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/13-assassins-movie-image-04.jpg)

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/2011_13_assassins_001.jpg)

Strangely familiar set-up as we follow a veteran Samurai assemble a crack team to take on a suicide mission. We have all the archetypes you'll be familiar with from every film like this going right back to the original: the raw kid; a couple of weapons masters; a washed-up gambler seeking redemption; a smart-mouthed, non-Samurai outsider*; a couple of explosives experts and... uh, six other guys.

I thought it was great fun, if a little daft in places. Their A-Team meets MacGyver meets Saw death-trap base is silly, as is the way thirteen guys are able to take on literally hundreds of mooks, but I still enjoyed it. A bit like Zulu it has a long build-up to the main action, but once it starts, the fight lasts continuously for the whole rest of the film without let-up. Blimey! Not used to that.

As there were so many of them you didn't really get a handle on the characters of all the team, but the main ones were cool. The main baddie is an utterly irredeemable monster, but I found myself almost taking a shine to him, for his sheer childish delight in mayhem for its own sake, and the fact that for the most part he is utterly fearless.

Big plus points for being entirely bereft of all that balletic wire-work and silly slow-motion flying about that you would have got if this were a Chinese, rather than Japanese film. That stuff really gets on my wick.

If you like Samurai movies that are heavy on the action you'll probably like this.




*Who has something distinctly fishy about him, but I won't go into that.
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Post by: Lowtardog on February 07, 2012, 11:02:09 AM
Bit of a samurai fix for me too

7 Samurai
Yojimbo
Throne of Blood
Shoguns Assassin
Shoguns Samurai
Zaitochi

All good eye candy for my 2012 project

And 13 assasins is a cracker of a film too
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Post by: Connectamabob on February 09, 2012, 05:49:06 AM
Big plus points for being entirely bereft of all that balletic wire-work and silly slow-motion flying about that you would have got if this were a Chinese, rather than Japanese film. That stuff really gets on my wick.

Aaaah, I was starting to think I was the only one. Old kung fu student + raised by a physicist = the gibberish mechanics/kinesiology is too obvious for me.

But you had me at "Takashi Miike". I still get cold bowels thinking about Audition.

Speaking of horror...
(http://www.movie-list.com/posters/big/zoom/sauna.jpg)

Creepy atmospheric little period piece horror film. Great visuals and acting, but it openly thumbs it's nose at any desire you may have to understand what's going on. Ambiguity is a good thing IMO, but this one takes it to such an extreme that it comes off more as an undeveloped story concept fragment put to film than an actual story with deliberately ambiguous or unanswered elements. Still, it's creepy and well performed enough to warrant a recommendation.
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Post by: H.M.Stanley on February 12, 2012, 08:16:46 PM
Young Winston - very enjoyable even without the "cut" dream scene
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Post by: meninobesta on February 16, 2012, 02:38:58 PM
saw this trailer, seems to be very inspiring for pulp this:
Code: [Select]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z09bNgSeMI
EDIT: sorry, forgot that the youtube link posted the embedded clip. if the link continues to be too much just delete it and google for Danger 5. sorry once again
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Post by: JollyBob on February 16, 2012, 02:53:05 PM
There's an awful lot of swastikas in that trailer, mate. I'm assuming the law is the same for obvious parody, so you might want to replace it with a link so Prof doesn't get a telling off.   :)
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Post by: meninobesta on February 16, 2012, 03:36:48 PM
There's an awful lot of swastikas in that trailer, mate. I'm assuming the law is the same for obvious parody, so you might want to replace it with a link so Prof doesn't get a telling off.   :)

fixed it, sorry once again!
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Post by: JollyBob on February 17, 2012, 09:49:25 AM
No problem, it looks like a laugh anyway - might be a wait for the DVD and enjoy with many beers option.  :)
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: german asia corps on March 03, 2012, 06:25:27 PM
Band of Brothers box set
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Post by: traveller on March 03, 2012, 06:54:41 PM
1920 Battle of Warzaw
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Post by: joroas on March 05, 2012, 09:29:41 AM
Max Schmeling, although the box art convinced me it was a war film it was lying.  The film was about boxing and his propaganda usefulness to the regime.  Only a small cameo of his time in Crete was shown as the war element.  More like Ali than anything else.


Interestingly, the German box art concentrates on his boxing.
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Post by: inkydave on March 05, 2012, 02:42:46 PM
Barefoot Gen 1&2. Classic anime.
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Post by: Sterling Moose on March 12, 2012, 02:31:13 AM
Game of Thrones, Season 1 on Blueray, a snip at $34.00 from Target.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Chairface on March 12, 2012, 04:27:19 AM
Game of Thrones, Season 1 on Blueray, a snip at $34.00 from Target.

You are going to love it.
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Post by: Steve F on March 12, 2012, 09:33:41 AM
The 2011 version of The Three Musketeers, though The Adventures of Milady might have been a better title, given the director's obvious preferences!

(http://i814.photobucket.com/albums/zz62/SteveFlanaganUK/2012%20-%2003%20-%20March/Milla-Jovovich-in-The-Three-Musketeers-2011.jpg)

It's very silly, but since the Dick Lester Version of the 1970s is absolutely unimprovable as a faithful adaptation of Dumas, I've no problem with further remakes going off at a tangent.

(http://i814.photobucket.com/albums/zz62/SteveFlanaganUK/2012%20-%2003%20-%20March/ThreeMusketeersStill3.jpg)

There's even a wargame, of sorts.

(http://i814.photobucket.com/albums/zz62/SteveFlanaganUK/2012%20-%2003%20-%20March/the_three_musketeers_2011_1024x768_310740.jpg)
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Post by: cuprum on April 03, 2012, 04:01:02 PM
I propose to see the Russian version of "Treasure Island".
 Subtitles in English. In my opinion - a very good movie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9I7ubAyrb4&feature=fvwrel
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Post by: Anpu on April 03, 2012, 04:22:04 PM
The Thing 2011 prequel. Will have to see it tonight
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Post by: cuprum on April 03, 2012, 04:23:53 PM
Just take a look Russian film about the Second Chechen War "The Storm Gate". Do not forget to include English subtitles.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntGbzTEGL2k&feature=relmfu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gmSoQR57Tc&feature=relmfu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbkbYleziCs&feature=relmfu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLdZc52k3cw&feature=relmfu
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Post by: commissarmoody on April 03, 2012, 07:28:51 PM
Thanks for the post
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Post by: cuprum on April 04, 2012, 03:24:33 PM
For lovers of medieval battles.
 Russian film in 1938 - "Alexander Nevsky".
 The history of the struggle of the great Russian prince-commander against the Teutonic Knights and his great victory in the Battle on the Ice.

To view go to YouTub

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qnaj12zmBeQ&list=FLEK3tT7DcfWGWJpNEDBdWog&index=156&feature=plpp_video
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Post by: cuprum on April 07, 2012, 03:58:37 PM
Gas Attack WW I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzSeTvR_sdY
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Post by: Lowtardog on April 25, 2012, 10:02:13 AM
Musashi with Mifune :-*
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Post by: white knight on April 30, 2012, 10:44:11 AM
In all honesty I would of banned it if I was on the film censor board.

Based on watching the trailer alone, I think I would agree. The "freedom of the arts"-argument just holds no relevance to this sort of sick garbage. Why do people even want to make something like that?
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Post by: Mike D. Mc Brice on May 15, 2012, 11:19:25 AM
...

If you can get a horror movie off the ground then you can churn the money into a real project you want to make. Think how many horror films P jackson made before getting into stuff that was more mainstream. These days with CGI they can be made on the super cheap as well.


Peter Jackson did 2 Horror Films and I doubt he made Bad Taste with the plan in mind to impress Hollywood.

Funny about your comments is that people said the same about films like "Dawn of the Dead", "Evil Dead", "Hellraiser" or "TCM" when these were released. And as you mention Hellraiser I think that "Hellraise 2" is hardly any less gory than "Hostel". And Hellraiser spawned nearly as many mindless sequels.









 

Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received: The Divide.
Post by: Commander Vyper on May 20, 2012, 10:41:18 PM
(http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSR-l6mLGyiDyL28K095fKYjDsd9jhiVTiYuLx3IstD7TXkG2zYKQ)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaLpieSNIfk

Very good dark, violent and disturbing post apoc film about nine strangers trapped in a panic room following a nuclear attack.

NBC suits you see really inspired and I wish someone would sculpt something similar for gaming purposes, really special:

(http://www.aceshowbiz.com/images/still/the-divide06.jpg)

Though the film is more about the descent of humanity rather than fallout style action. Well worth a watch and has Michael Biehn in it too. Deeply depressing and fatalistic but very thought provoking.

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Post by: commissarmoody on May 21, 2012, 02:02:49 AM
That looks like a pretty cool movie, when is it coming out?
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Post by: zizi666 on May 21, 2012, 04:58:30 AM
That looks like a pretty cool movie, when is it coming out?

Last year.
P.S. for all cinematographic stuff, IMDB is your friend :
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1535616/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1535616/)
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Post by: Commander Vyper on May 21, 2012, 06:35:34 PM
That looks like a pretty cool movie, when is it coming out?

DVD in the UK now and as Zizi said, been out a while mate.

;)
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Post by: carlos marighela on May 21, 2012, 08:34:33 PM
I think you would agree if he had made mainstream films from the get go we never would of heard of him.

Sad to think he didn't get a crack at the mainstream much earlier then.
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Post by: Calimero on August 15, 2012, 12:42:18 AM

The local Wal-Mart had a sale on TV series on DVD. I’ve pick up these;

Fringe Seasons 2 and 3
Apocalypse; La 2ème Guerre Mondiale

8)
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Post by: SBRPearce on August 15, 2012, 01:02:06 PM
"Pale Rider" - I'm on something of a Western kick recently. (And whenever I'm down, I just rewatch "Quigley Down Under", which is a great picture in its way.)
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Post by: Momotaro on August 18, 2012, 01:20:32 PM
Not released yet, but a heads-up: the famous BBC MR James Christmas Ghost Stories are coming out on DVD!

Whistle and I'll Come to You is first, along with The Stalls of Barchester+A Warning to the Curious.  Amazon has them listed for release on Monday (20th August).  More will be released in September, and the box set will be in October.

Excellent!
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Post by: Hammers on August 25, 2012, 07:27:01 PM
I have been watching The Pillars of the Earth and while they are really piling on the misfortunes of our protagonists a bit too thick I find it a quite captivating series.
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Post by: Plynkes on August 25, 2012, 07:34:03 PM
The first adaptation of Pillars of the Earth was in board game form. I tried to like the TV series, but couldn't get into it. The board game however, was lots of fun.
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Post by: commissarmoody on August 28, 2012, 05:44:12 AM
http://www.youtube.com/v/9y3UtljT3kM?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0
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Post by: Poiter50 on August 28, 2012, 06:40:40 AM
Loved Series 1 & 2, great stuff wrapped around History.
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Post by: commissarmoody on August 28, 2012, 06:48:18 AM
I just got both of them on DVD, I will have no life for the rest of the week. lol
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Post by: starkadder on August 28, 2012, 10:34:30 AM
The live-action version (2010) of Space Battleship Yamato, the old anime series.

The acting doesn't so much chew the scenery as consume it whole, munching as it goes.

Loved it.
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Post by: white knight on August 29, 2012, 09:15:35 AM
The acting doesn't so much chew the scenery as consume it whole, munching as it goes.

I loved it too. The acting does grate at times, as does the corny music and melodramatic ending, but it's still a wonderful transition from anime to live action.
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Post by: AKULA on August 29, 2012, 09:38:55 AM
Planet of the Apes (original) box set, including Beneath, Escape, Conquest, Battle etc

plus the Box set of the POTA TV Series.

 8)
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Post by: OSHIROmodels on August 29, 2012, 12:17:25 PM
Quote
and Ichi - not watched yet but seems to be a female Zatoichi

Yes it is but not bad if you can get over some of the overacting  :)

cheers

James
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Post by: white knight on August 29, 2012, 12:44:45 PM
Overacting seems to be a recurring feature in a lot of Asian movies. Must be a cultural difference thing.
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Post by: Dr. The Viking on August 29, 2012, 08:47:16 PM
Planet of the Apes (original) box set, including Beneath, Escape, Conquest, Battle etc

plus the Box set of the POTA TV Series.

 8)

Forgive my ignorance but are these movies worth watching?

I haven't seen anything but the Burton one and the 2011 one. Oh and when I was 10 I saw the one were they end up in the circus or something.

But - with regards to getting them now and seeing them for the first time; do they stand the test of time?
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Post by: THE CID on August 29, 2012, 08:53:52 PM
1st is a classic and 2nd is good, rest not much cop.  THE CID
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Steve F on August 29, 2012, 08:59:14 PM
1st is a classic and 2nd is good, rest not much cop.  THE CID

It's pretty much a straight line decline in quality through the original five.  Definitely see the first.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: starkadder on August 30, 2012, 07:44:14 AM
Overacting seems to be a recurring feature in a lot of Asian movies. Must be a cultural difference thing.

Now if you want some quality rough acting you should try Samurai Pirate (aka Sinbad <sic> the Samurai) with Toshiro Mifune. Made in the same year as Rashomon, it's an object lesson in why you need a decent director.

And again, it's a hoot. Has the worst witch-hag in all of filmdom.
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Post by: traveller on September 05, 2012, 11:40:06 AM
Watched Warriors of the Rainbow (full movie) on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTmdtJqd-DA

Great action scenes, but where to find suitable miniatures for the Seediq Bale?
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Helen on September 24, 2012, 04:36:37 AM
Beyond the Border is a very good movie involving the Swedes and the Germans in WW2 along the border.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVcijNPYqOM

Highly recommended.

Cheers,

Helen
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Post by: commissarmoody on October 03, 2012, 11:28:45 PM
http://www.youtube.com/v/dv4uxkAXSXg?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0">
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Post by: traveller on October 05, 2012, 01:19:10 AM
Just watched "For greater glory" good battle scenes from the Cristero War in Mexico 1927-1929
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Post by: commissarmoody on October 12, 2012, 08:37:30 AM
I am watching "John Rabe" at the moment.
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Post by: CyberAlien312 on October 12, 2012, 11:15:25 AM
I'm watching "Tombstone".  Great film! :)
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Post by: zizi666 on October 12, 2012, 12:47:31 PM
I am watching "John Rabe" at the moment.

Haven't seen it, but I did watch "City of Life and Death" which handles the same subject.
Excellent movie, even if it depicts the ugliest side of mankind.
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Post by: commissarmoody on October 12, 2012, 01:13:36 PM
I have that lined up to watch next.
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Post by: Blodwin on October 19, 2012, 09:40:11 PM
Me to, watch the opening scenes - got shouted at for not helping with the washing up and life took over!! :-X

Looking forward to retirement!!!



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Post by: Commander Vyper on October 22, 2012, 11:29:04 AM
The Raid: absolutely amazing action sequences.

Bought War of the Dead too this week.... will watch and report back ;)
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Post by: Lowtardog on November 08, 2012, 06:02:01 PM
This for a bit of samurai inspiration

(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AYtCvm_Rhs8/T_9ENLYBZSI/AAAAAAAADmU/vxFsHTJOdVI/s1600/hara-kiri.jpg)
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Post by: CyberAlien312 on November 09, 2012, 07:43:49 AM
Isn't the title a bit of a spoiler?  :)
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Post by: Lowtardog on November 09, 2012, 08:06:17 AM
Isn't the title a bit of a spoiler?  :)

 lol ;D ah but there is a twist :D
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Blodwin on November 09, 2012, 09:51:19 PM
Now, that is a spoiler!! :)
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Post by: Donpimpom on November 19, 2012, 06:38:48 PM
can't be worse than have Sean Bean in the cast
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Post by: traveller on November 22, 2012, 02:57:48 PM
Has anyone seen John Sayles movie "Amigo" set in Philippines during the Spanish-American War?
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Post by: commissarmoody on November 22, 2012, 08:00:01 PM
Its a decent movie traveler. It mostly focus on the village head as he tries to remain neutral and run  the day to day affairs. While trying to appease the occupying US troops, a undermining priest, and deal with the locale insurgents who are lead by his brother
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Post by: traveller on November 22, 2012, 08:32:45 PM
Thanks Commissar, is it available on DVD yet?
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: commissarmoody on November 22, 2012, 08:46:16 PM
It should be, but your going to have to hunt for it online. I watched it on instant watch on Netflix.
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Post by: Jakar Nilson on November 22, 2012, 08:47:24 PM
(http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s266/HelenBachaus/DVDs/Castagiantshadow.jpg)

I watched this last week, after searching for movies about the '48 Arab-Israeli War. I love the fact that they have this highly detailed model of Latrun- who builds such a detailed model when you're barely scrapping by in a war? Well, apart from the French Resistance in "Top Secret"...
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Post by: Legion1963 on November 22, 2012, 09:49:24 PM
Seems there's no reason not to have a thread for this as well:

Picked up these:
Perfect scenario for a WWII/Weird War II game. 8)
(http://www.dvdbooty.com/images/the-eagle-has-landed-B00004WI54_220x312.jpg)

(http://www.thefilmasylum.com/news/data/upimages/curseflower_us_dvd.jpg)
Excellemt movie. And one of my faves. Very good stuff for scenerio building.
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Post by: Legion1963 on November 22, 2012, 09:50:14 PM
Robert Duvall as a Nazi?  Now that's funny.....  German cowboys.  :lol:
Yes and Larry Hackmann is in there too.
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Post by: zizi666 on November 23, 2012, 02:37:17 AM
Yes and Larry Hackmann is in there too.

Well, at least for a couple of minutes  :D
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Post by: Landsknecht on December 13, 2012, 03:09:20 PM
Has anyone seen this movie?  Is it worth watching?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tPSU3wN508 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tPSU3wN508)
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Post by: carlos marighela on December 20, 2012, 09:02:47 AM
See whether your local rental store has a copy of Matando Carlos, you'll enjoy that and it's got a really great soundtrack, every half decent Mexican band for the past dozen years, Plastilina Mosh, Las Ultrasonicas etc etc
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Post by: OSHIROmodels on December 20, 2012, 09:07:01 AM
This for a bit of samurai inspiration

(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AYtCvm_Rhs8/T_9ENLYBZSI/AAAAAAAADmU/vxFsHTJOdVI/s1600/hara-kiri.jpg)

Did you watch it  ;)

cheers

James
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Post by: Lowtardog on December 20, 2012, 09:20:30 AM
I did James, quite slow and very atmospheric, the sword fight at the end was awesome but not enough hack and slash  :D ;D
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Post by: OSHIROmodels on December 20, 2012, 11:07:21 AM
I did James, quite slow and very atmospheric, the sword fight at the end was awesome but not enough hack and slash  :D ;D

Still a bit grim though  :-X lol

cheers

James
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Post by: Red Orc on January 09, 2013, 10:44:31 AM
Got the DVD of Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows for Christmas, which means I can go through and mine it for VSF plot elements. Hurrah!
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Post by: CyberAlien312 on January 09, 2013, 04:29:58 PM
The Living Daylights of the one and only James Bond film series. I haven't watched it yet, but when I have, I will have watched all of the 007-films and my life will be complete.  :D
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Post by: Legion1963 on January 10, 2013, 01:53:32 PM
Recently i bought Bridge over the river Kwai and Lawrence of Arabia. The first i have a number of times and has been an inspiration to say the least. The second is to long ago to remember specifics but the book (The seven pillars of wisdom) was an intrigueing read. Still have to watch that one.
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Post by: Red Orc on January 14, 2013, 09:11:31 AM
It's my birthday today, and among other gaming-related goodies my kids gave me the DVD of John Carter. I know it's supposed to be a turkey, but hey, I like Flash Gordon, so sue me. I expect 2 hours of enjoyable Victorio-pulp daftness. Or at the very least, I hope it looks nice.
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Post by: Plynkes on January 14, 2013, 09:18:17 AM
Actually, I don't think it is that bad a movie. I almost never like the big, overblown modern CGI-action fests. I hate them normally. But I didn't hate this. It was quite entertaining.


I think it is more that they fucked up the marketing than actually made a terrible movie.
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Post by: Red Orc on January 14, 2013, 09:31:53 AM
Oh good. Still, I think carlos marighela and Doomsdave had the right idea - Beyonce would have made a great Dejah Thoris:

http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=16599.30
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Post by: carlos marighela on January 14, 2013, 06:50:59 PM
JLo has a better booty, if that's the criteria sought.
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Post by: Grimmnar on January 15, 2013, 07:02:06 AM
Been watching John Carter for the past month or so on Starz. Much better than what i was expecting after seeing all the bad mouthing that was done to it.
Just got Dredd a couple of days ago since it came out on DVD. Watched it last night. Damn bloody movie indeed. The GF was a bit squeamish in it and didn't finish watching it with me. Though i think Urban must have hurt his face muscle trying to keep that angry look through the whole movie i liked it a lot as well. Another good movie i thought was better than what the critics panned it to be. Was surprised though how soon it came out on DVD release. Pleasantly surprised.
Both good choices and finds. :-)

Grimm
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Post by: bandit86 on January 15, 2013, 09:54:16 AM
Wow! Grimm it took you a month to watch John Carter lol
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Post by: manic _miner on January 15, 2013, 06:12:31 PM
 Borrowed John Carter from my brother and watched it twice in one day.Great film indeed.You will love it Mark.

 My wife got Dredd and we watched it last night.Another good movie.Love how they did it and the gore was well done too.Over the top just like it should be.

 Another good movie I watched recently was Lone Ninja.Lots of leaping around like Crouching Tiget hidden dragon if you like that take on the oriental theme.The ending was left open for a sequel.It is a Manga live action movie.Been way too long since I watched my manga movies.
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Post by: carlos marighela on January 15, 2013, 09:15:33 PM
I look forward to Geordies vs Zombies. That would be mint that.
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Post by: Grimmnar on January 15, 2013, 09:45:15 PM
Wow! Grimm it took you a month to watch John Carter lol
Yeah well i can only get to watch a minute here and a minute there. :-)

Grimm
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Post by: Jakar Nilson on January 16, 2013, 12:20:02 AM
Yeah well i can only get to watch a minute here and a minute there. :-)

Grimm

That sounds like when I was reading it on the computer. Chapter here and chapter there...
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Post by: Grimmnar on January 16, 2013, 01:50:59 AM
That sounds like when I was reading it on the computer. Chapter here and chapter there...
Hell reading the book would take me years. I am a slow reader.
But as for the movie itself, over the past month or so that it has been on Starz i have watched it probably 7 times and bits and pieces to count as a few more times. I like it for what it is/was made to be.

Grimm
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Post by: zizi666 on January 18, 2013, 03:04:58 AM
Just watched Tintin. It was MUCH better than I was led to believe and I really enjoyed it. The CGI was especially good too which I assume is because they used wingnut who are the CGI gurus of the 21st century.

If you like pulp then this is a must see. 

True ! I grew up with the comics (Belgian, right) and was weary when they announced a movie, but I have to admit I enjoyed every moment of it.
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Post by: white knight on January 18, 2013, 08:44:47 AM
I thought Captain Haddock was either too short or his head too big.
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Post by: white knight on January 18, 2013, 10:41:09 AM
We have captain birdseye overhere too, except he's called Captain Iglo.
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Post by: white knight on January 18, 2013, 03:01:06 PM
Does that mean 'birdseye' in Belgium talk?

Funnily enough, it means igloo.

How embarrasing I dont even know what language is spoken there.  ::) Then again I struggle with english.....

We have three official languages, so you could do the effort of knowing at least one.   ;)
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Post by: Blodwin on January 18, 2013, 03:56:37 PM
Trudged to ASDA in the snow for supplies and got "Dread" as well. :)

Blodwin
 
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Post by: joroas on January 18, 2013, 04:10:49 PM
I picked up A Man Called Horse from Tesco, the mane actor was Richard Harris.   A really good tail.  The boxed set was heavier as it had some shoes in.
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Post by: joroas on January 18, 2013, 04:33:33 PM
Is that the one with the warning that it's low in salt but high in Shergar?  lol
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Post by: joroas on January 18, 2013, 06:48:58 PM
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/c175.0.403.403/p403x403/19227_10151274302164902_785807106_n.jpg)
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Post by: joroas on January 18, 2013, 10:14:02 PM
Quote
But I cannot imagine what they will find in their quarter-pandas Shocked

Well, as I get older I realise that things are rarely black and white and I'm not sure that I could bear to know the truth about them.  8)
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Post by: joroas on January 18, 2013, 10:22:57 PM
Rare?  I prefer my Tory MPs medium to well done!  lol
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Post by: zizi666 on January 19, 2013, 12:04:09 AM
So do kids get taught 3 languages at school? How the heck does that work?

Very few people speak a second language here unless its the language of their parents home country and the parents prefer to speak it at home. Even NZ is more multi lingual. They almost speak english and of course hobbit.

I'm afraid that's a question that can't be answered without going into politics  :?
Let's leave it at the fact that in the small germanic part you'll probably find most people able to speak 3 languages followed by Flanders and that you'll find that a lot inhabitants of Brussels and Wallonia only speak French (even if they know dutch or english)
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Post by: zizi666 on January 19, 2013, 12:55:44 AM
Now, now, guys. No need to get your nickers in a twist.
It is a touchy subject in Belgium (and politics in a whole are forbidden in this forum), but to ask that the whole world is on the level with what's happening in our tiny land is too much.
How many nations are represented on LAF ? If we were to learn the exact political situation of all countries where a LAFfer lives, there hardly would be any time left for hobbyrelated posts ( or as is often the case with Bezzo, humouristic posts )

So, definitly no harm done.
Now, enough about that. Let's leave this thread for what it's intended : movies  :)
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Post by: joroas on January 19, 2013, 09:12:54 AM
I can't believe that Aussies don't learn a second language.  In the UK we teach at least one in every school.  My school, as an example, teaches French, German, Spanish and Latin.  o_o
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Post by: Poiter50 on January 19, 2013, 09:25:58 AM
Actually a second language is TAUGHT at Primary & Secondary Leavel but at some stage it becomes optional and most of the students opt out. We continue to teach European languages when more localised languages such as Indonesian, Japanese or one of the Chinese mainstrean languages would be far more appropriate given where most of our trade is coming from/going to.

I can't believe that Aussies don't learn a second language.  In the UK we teach at least one in every school.  My school, as an example, teaches French, German, Spanish and Latin.  o_o
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Post by: joroas on January 19, 2013, 10:09:52 AM
Tesco Hotdogs are now being investigated:

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BA9ZBEcCAAA_xDX.jpg:large)
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Post by: Lowtardog on January 19, 2013, 12:50:42 PM
Tesco Hotdogs are now being investigated:

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BA9ZBEcCAAA_xDX.jpg:large)

Lol, that used to be my Avatar lol
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Post by: joroas on January 19, 2013, 01:27:27 PM
Well, to be honest, if a Brit goes abroad he is more likely to need Spanish than any other language, but this is often exchanged by speaking English slowly, loudly and adding an "o" to the occasional noun. :D
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Post by: twrchtrwyth on January 19, 2013, 06:30:25 PM
I can't believe that Aussies don't learn a second language.  In the UK we teach at least one in every school.  My school, as an example, teaches French, German, Spanish and Latin.  o_o
And mine taught English and French as a second language.  ;)
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Post by: carlos marighela on January 19, 2013, 09:26:46 PM
Most, if not all Australian schools do teach second languages. Mine offered French, German and Latin. I can think of quite a few schools that offer Indonesian, it was trendy in the 1990s. A lot of places offer Japanese and Chinese. Then of course you have the fact that Australia has a huge immigrant population so you have a considerable chunk of the population whose family speaks, Italian, Greek, Vietnamese, Cantonese, etc, etc etc.

One of the biggest obstacles to get children to study Mandarin, apart from its realtive complexity is the way the subject is taught and assessed. We have a very large population of native Chinese speakers and not surprisingly, having been raised with the language, their offspring tend to do far better than non-native speakers. So a teenager who wants to excel in their matriculation and get higher marks for a place at a university is likely to know that they won't be competing on a level playing ground. Studies have shown that this is one of the subjects that drops away for secondary school students the further they progress through secondaty school.
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Post by: Hammers on January 21, 2013, 11:32:14 AM
It's my birthday today, and among other gaming-related goodies my kids gave me the DVD of John Carter. I know it's supposed to be a turkey, but hey, I like Flash Gordon, so sue me. I expect 2 hours of enjoyable Victorio-pulp daftness. Or at the very least, I hope it looks nice.

I expected this one to be some bland Disney production where they had taken all the ooomph out of an good old well established story. It was much more enjoyable than I expected. Good storyline and at times rather funny.
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Post by: Red Orc on January 23, 2013, 01:21:05 AM
I expected this one to be some bland Disney production where they had taken all the ooomph out of an good old well established story. It was much more enjoyable than I expected. Good storyline and at times rather funny.

Yeah, I enjoyed it. I'm not so knowledgeable about the books, or the comics for that matter, but the only noticeable 'ooomph' that was taken out I thought was if 'ooomph' is a euphemism for 'nudity'. Which, given that it was a Disney film, and there were rumoured to be tie-in toys (though I don't remember seeing any) and over here it least it was rated '12' (no-one under 12 can see it unless accompanied by an adult) then I didn't really expect the massive amounts of flesh that are implied in the originals and shown in most of the artwork. And occassionally minis.
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Post by: Plynkes on February 02, 2013, 02:24:53 PM
Gang met up last night. We played the "War on Terror" board game that the Daily Mail got in such a tizz over. In shockingly poor taste, rather like the real thing, but unlike the real thing heaps of fun. It was our first gaming night since before Christmas, so there were presents, among them this...

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/tnt-jackson-movie-poster-1974-1020193387_zps5627b223.jpg)


My small collection of Blaxploitation favourites is slowly growing...

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/Blax/smallC_zpsdfd73025.jpg) (http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/Blax/smallFB_zps119d9952.jpg)

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/Blax/smallCJ_zpsabbac5de.jpg) (http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/Blax/smallCJ2_zpsb1d949f1.jpg)

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/Blax/smallBC_zps13ba1b5f.jpg) (http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/Blax/smallSF_zps780b8dba.jpg) (http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/Blax/smallA110S_zps532e9678.jpg)


Plus I have these two, which aren't really Blaxploitation as such, but are connected to it by their star, and are certainly exploitation...

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/Blax/smallBDH_zps5c87d065.jpg) (http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/Blax/smallA_zpsdfaff741.jpg)

Yes, before Spartacus: Tits and Sand, there was THE ARENA!!!!  :)

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Post by: carlos marighela on February 02, 2013, 02:46:10 PM
Dunno how anyone could concentrate on a board game with Pam Grier on the screen.
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Post by: Sterling Moose on February 02, 2013, 02:53:33 PM
Sinbad and the Minotaur - starring Manu Bennett (from Spartacus Blood and Sand)
it inspired me never to watch it again and to burn it in the garden as soon as the snow clears!!
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Post by: Plynkes on February 02, 2013, 03:00:30 PM
Dunno how anyone could concentrate on a board game with Pam Grier on the screen.

I agree, but Pam Grier wasn't on the screen. There was no screen. There was just Jeanne Bell in her DVD case.
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Post by: Legion1963 on February 08, 2013, 09:53:26 PM
Gang met up last night. We played the "War on Terror" board game that the Daily Mail got in such a tizz over. In shockingly poor taste, rather like the real thing, but unlike the real thing heaps of fun. It was our first gaming night since before Christmas, so there were presents, among them this...

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/tnt-jackson-movie-poster-1974-1020193387_zps5627b223.jpg)


My small collection of Blaxploitation favourites is slowly growing...

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/Blax/smallC_zpsdfd73025.jpg) (http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/Blax/smallFB_zps119d9952.jpg)

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/Blax/smallCJ_zpsabbac5de.jpg) (http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/Blax/smallCJ2_zpsb1d949f1.jpg)

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/Blax/smallBC_zps13ba1b5f.jpg) (http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/Blax/smallSF_zps780b8dba.jpg) (http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/Blax/smallA110S_zps532e9678.jpg)


Plus I have these two, which aren't really Blaxploitation as such, but are connected to it by their star, and are certainly exploitation...

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/Blax/smallBDH_zps5c87d065.jpg) (http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/Blax/smallA_zpsdfaff741.jpg)

Yes, before Spartacus: Tits and Sand, there was THE ARENA!!!!  :)


Oww.....Pam Grier.....yummy  8)
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Post by: CyberAlien312 on February 09, 2013, 11:14:12 AM
It's not really a movie, but I am watching the 1980's TV series "Robin of Sherwood". It's great fun, and it has certainly tempted me to buy Conquest Games' not-Robin of Sherwood figures.
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Post by: Onebigriver on February 09, 2013, 12:00:56 PM
Sinbad and the Minotaur - starring Manu Bennett (from Spartacus Blood and Sand)
it inspired me never to watch it again and to burn it in the garden as soon as the snow clears!!

Waste of a good base for wargames terrain!  :D
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Post by: starkadder on February 15, 2013, 10:38:48 AM
Had a few major blows recently so I've haven't been too jolly.

My beloved leaped into the breach with a most magnificent present:

6 DVD set of Patrick McGoohan's Danger Man (39 eps) and
5 DVD set of Patrick McGoohan's The Prisoner

I think I'll spend the weekend with a weather balloon over my face. Yayy.
 
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Post by: zizi666 on February 16, 2013, 12:37:31 AM
5 DVD set of Patrick McGoohan's The Prisoner

Ooh, very nice !
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Post by: Lowtardog on February 21, 2013, 06:12:37 PM
Kagemusha, Sanjuro and Hidden Fortress for a bit of samurai action :D
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Post by: CyberAlien312 on March 01, 2013, 07:30:04 AM
Game of Thrones - series 1. Now I only need to get series 2 and I can catch up with everybody else.  :)
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Post by: bandit86 on March 04, 2013, 06:54:23 AM
 Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (2011)
A remake of the 1962 version, both are a really good samurai movie. I have not seen the 1962 version in decades but I remember that I loved it. This is the same movie but in color and the ending is different.(the 1962 is a better ending.) Well worth the view Now on netflix
 
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Post by: Legion1963 on March 10, 2013, 06:47:01 PM
Beowulf and Grendel. I knew i have seen this film before when i picked it up at the local DVD rental. But it was a very pleasant and inspiring re-viewing with lost of detail that escaped my attention the first time. Great natural surroundings and a good story.
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Post by: zizi666 on March 11, 2013, 06:25:11 AM
that version I like more than the CGI one.

didn't bother to view the CGI one as I was certain it was worse  :D
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Post by: white knight on March 11, 2013, 08:04:58 AM
Did anyone see the Christophe Lambert one?
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Post by: Black Cat Bases on March 15, 2013, 12:26:02 PM
Just seen a great short film called The Candy Shop a great modern fairy tale about sex trafficking stars Doug jones as a very creepy candy man well worth a look
.http://laughingsquid.com/the-candy-shop-an-allegorical-film-about-sexual-trafficking-of-children/
 hope that works,if not do look it out.
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Post by: Sardoo on March 22, 2013, 07:31:40 PM
"Sharpe's Waterloo" great stuff!
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Post by: joroas on March 24, 2013, 08:37:35 PM
Just watched "Katyn", very poignant, as I have visited Krakow a few times.  Last time I was at Wawel Castle, the WWII HQ for the General Government, there was a protest march about the Katyn murders.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: Sardoo on March 24, 2013, 10:46:34 PM
Sons of Anarchy series 1-4! Now off to look for biker figures to paint! Any suggestions?
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Post by: Sardoo on April 10, 2013, 11:57:41 PM
Cheers. I'll check out their site!
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Post by: Blue in vt on April 11, 2013, 12:41:46 AM
For bikers in the Samcro style....I'm going with rogue trader era squats!  Should be fun....love that show.

My latest movie was. 3$ impulse buy of the classic John Wayne Alamo! Cheesey in every way but I still love it!

Blue
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Post by: Hammers on April 11, 2013, 09:06:53 AM
Sons of Anarchy series 1-4! Now off to look for biker figures to paint! Any suggestions?

Copplestone Castings and and EM.4 make some very nice bikers, all scuplted by the demi-god Mark Copplestone. There is a set in Foundry's Street Violence which aint shit.
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Post by: JollyBob on April 12, 2013, 10:09:49 AM
Went a bit silly and got the new Dredd movie, Kingdom of Heaven and Ironclad.

Have managed to watch Dredd, thought it was a blast, but not sure when I'll get chance to watch the other two. 
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Post by: Lowtardog on April 12, 2013, 10:19:20 AM
Copplestone Castings and and EM.4 make some very nice bikers, all scuplted by the demi-god Mark Copplestone. There is a set in Foundry's Street Violence which aint shit.

Obelisk miniatures will add nicely to that group too
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Post by: Lowtardog on April 12, 2013, 10:19:58 AM
Went a bit silly and got the new Dredd movie, Kingdom of Heaven and Ironclad.

Have managed to watch Dredd, thought it was a blast, but not sure when I'll get chance to watch the other two. 

Kingdom of heaven is a must see, ironclad is a bit like magnificent 7 in chainmail
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Post by: H.M.Stanley on April 19, 2013, 10:07:25 PM
Kingdom of Heaven

Orlando Bloom out-acted by the anvil he was hammering.

What possessed Ridley to agree to that casting....?  :o

 lol

I saw "KoH" and almost jumped straight away without reading your post

However, i will see your Bloom epic and raise you Crow's Robin Hood - what a pile ...
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Post by: General Roos on April 22, 2013, 07:16:51 AM
like a scene from Saving Private Littlejohn.

 lol
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Post by: joroas on May 02, 2013, 09:33:33 PM
I noticed today that The Postman is set in 2013!  Yet another movie deadline gone: 1984, Space 1999, 2001: ASO and 2010: ASO2...... :o :o
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Post by: white knight on May 03, 2013, 09:22:42 PM
Today I picked up:
- the 2 Sherlock movies with Robert Downey Jr.
- season 1 of Ripper Street
- season 1 of Copper

Should provide some inspiration for Eotd/IHMN.  :D
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Post by: Diplomatist on May 30, 2013, 12:32:55 PM
Just a note to flag that my local Poundland is selling DVDs of the Chinese epic 'Red Cliff' (a special two-disc edition, no less).

Certainly inspiring and well-worth getting!
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Post by: H.M.Stanley on May 30, 2013, 12:58:18 PM
Lawless as i'm a sucker for gangster films

I'll fetch me knittin ...
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Post by: Poiter50 on May 30, 2013, 02:13:34 PM
New World and if this cold weather keeps up, it is time for a fire and a viewing!
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Post by: Doomhippie on May 30, 2013, 03:06:27 PM
Dare I say "The Hobbit"?
Seen it three times in a row.  :D

My wife was always commenting "are you looking that again?" - "Yes, but Richard is playing Thorin." - [googly eyed] "Ohhh, Richard :-*!"  lol
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Post by: traveller on June 02, 2013, 06:09:07 AM
Just watched the first episode of the "Ripper Street" 3-DVD. Very inspirational!!!!!!
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Post by: Hammers on June 04, 2013, 09:57:16 PM
I've just been wathing the first 90 min episode of "Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter" (which may have the name Generation War). Ever since Band of Brothers I've been waiting for a WWII production seen through the eyes of Germans and this may be it. I am very please, if it is at all possible to say so about this topic, with this TV series so far.
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: zizi666 on June 04, 2013, 10:30:58 PM
I've just been wathing the first 90 min episode of "Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter" (which may have the name Generation War). Ever since Band of Brothers I've been waiting for a WWII production seen through the eyes of Germans and this may be it. I am very please, if it is at all possible to say so about this topic, with this TV series so far.

Yep, watched it last week. Some twists are unrealistic, but apart from those a very nice series.
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Post by: carlos marighela on June 09, 2013, 05:42:40 PM
This one, courtesy of YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VYBgrjSA1k


Damn good flick, as far as docu dramas go.  I understand it was originally a mini series on TV in Portugal.
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Post by: commissarmoody on July 06, 2013, 11:38:19 PM
Not so much a movie but, I think the images are pretty cool.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5sqPxbLmIU
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: traveller on November 09, 2014, 02:13:50 PM
Tracker (2010)

http://www.google.se/search?q=tracker+trailer+2010&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=sv&client=safari

Now I am gonna paint boers and maoris :)
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Post by: Calimero on March 05, 2015, 09:06:08 PM
Hello everybody!

A bit of threadomancy here, but I've just watched The Flu (in Korean*) on my PC and I quite enjoyed it. I also own The Host on DVD. I would like to know if you have any suggestions for other Koreans movies that have Post-Apoc, Contagion, Monsters, Aliens Invasion or Zombies Infestation twists? English translation or close caption are best but Korean is OK too... if that's a good movie.

Cheers!

* didn't understand a thing of the dialogues... lol
Title: Re: Latest inspiring movie received
Post by: joroas on January 07, 2016, 08:52:34 PM
Not often you find good stuff in a charity shop, but these gems were only a £1 each:

(http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i27/Shaz4/fb6cd4f8-acf5-4713-86c1-783fbda93cb9_zpsgcf05bb4.jpg) (http://s68.photobucket.com/user/Shaz4/media/fb6cd4f8-acf5-4713-86c1-783fbda93cb9_zpsgcf05bb4.jpg.html)
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Post by: commissarmoody on January 07, 2016, 08:59:43 PM
I wasn't that impressed with C.S.A. but did enjoy "it happened here". Great finds all around.
Both do provide great "what if" gaming fodder.
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Post by: traveller on January 08, 2016, 06:10:51 AM
Just saw "Bone Tomahawk" - great movie with opportunities for a crossover from the "13th Warrior"
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Post by: joroas on January 18, 2016, 08:21:18 AM
Tom Cruise in Oblivion.  Weird enough for a good scenario..
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Post by: Connectamabob on December 22, 2017, 11:19:57 AM
Because I was up when it dropped on Netflix, I just got done watching Bright.

It had the the odd feel of being a TV script filmed with a big Hollywood budget. Y'know how TV movies are often written so that big events play out in a conspicously small way on a conspicously limited stage, because the budget is so small that the story has to be written entirely around it, like the way software had to be written back in the 8-bit days? It's that kind of script... only shot with big-budget production values.

But it works. I enjoyed it. There's some good urban fantasy imagery in there (check out the centaur in police riot gear) and they REALLY take the advantage of the allegorical leaning elements in ways that actual realistic fiction or historical dramatizations about the same subject too often chicken out on, yet feels real.

From the trailers a lot of people were comparing it to Shadowrun, and that's just as apt in the movie itself. No cyberpunk, and the world in this film has always had fantasy folk in it, but otherwise it's pretty spot on, and I'll bet Shadowrun fans will absolutely eat it up.

Also I really liked the orcs. I kinda favor the modern sort of "fantasy klingons" interpretation of orcs you see in video games, but feel like most versions of that I see are only half good (including the actual Star Trek klingons). The scene with the orc gang boss in this movie manages to pretty much hit it out of the park in one go. Plus the orc makeup is really good.
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Post by: Bravo Six on March 03, 2019, 06:00:32 PM
Got this little gem off eBay recently. I smell a BoB style project coming this summer  lol

(https://i.imgur.com/LCbMYAC.jpg)
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Post by: Comsquare on March 03, 2019, 06:40:40 PM
Got this little gem off eBay recently. I smell a BoB style project coming this summer  lol

(https://i.imgur.com/LCbMYAC.jpg)

Yepp. great movie :)

Do you know about these minis:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hMCtcmTmAoo/UE8YckP-ROI/AAAAAAAAAR8/vkceRTf6SYc/s1600/Manchurian+Bandits+front+s.jpg

Available here, looking for "Manchurian Bandits" ;)
http://tsuba-miniatures.blogspot.com/
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Post by: Bravo Six on March 04, 2019, 02:09:43 AM
Thanks Comsquare. I HAVE seen those before. :)
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Post by: CapnJim on May 31, 2023, 07:55:32 PM
Matewan, a 1987 film by John Sayles.  Its about the bespoke battle in the West Virginia Coal Mine Wars.  Good movie - I got it at the Mine wars Museum in Matewan, WV a couple weeks ago.  I've already watched it... :D
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Post by: Kourtchatovium104 on December 01, 2023, 02:02:01 PM
Colorised Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956). A good idea for a wargame re-using aliens and WWII US Army!
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Post by: Basementboy on February 08, 2024, 09:13:04 AM
Just watched the wonderful Goodbye Lenin- fascinating historical film about the GDR, with a great sense of humour and a real heart to it as well.
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Post by: carlos marighela on February 08, 2024, 10:44:34 AM
Just watched the wonderful Goodbye Lenin- fascinating historical film about the GDR, with a great sense of humour and a real heart to it as well.

Superb little flick that one.

I've been watching Masters of the Air on Apple TV. I was pleasantly surprised. It's no masterpiece , it's not even 'Twelve O'Clock High' but it's quite entertaining.
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Post by: Basementboy on February 19, 2024, 11:25:58 AM
I’m back- having watched another film about the GDR- The Lives Of Others. Much less easy going than the Goodbye Lenin, but certainly a beautiful film. Then followed it up with the infamous Come And See- an extremely grim film, but well worth watching if you can stomach the darker scenes.