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[Front242]

Watched Ip Man 3 a few days ago. Big Donnie Yen fan and must say it was excellent. Great action as with all the Ip Man movies (even the ones without Donnie Yen are great too) but also great storyline and acting, especially from Donnie. Not sure there's a 3D bluray out anywhere and pretty gutted if it was a cinema only release for 3D 'cos you can tell looking at it that it was clearly made for 3D. Never watched a 3D martial arts film but some scenes even have some semi depth in the 2D version. Gonna keep hunting for a 3D version! Well worth watching anyway.

 

[Kieran]

That's interesting, I didn't think that was made in 3D. I agree about the Ip Man films, I don't think I've seen one I didn't enjoy. And there's different types of them too. The Grandmaster was an Ip Man story, wasn't it? How was Iron Mike in it?

I was thinking of you the other day, buddy, I watched Jet Li, The One. Sheesh, I'll never get that time back again. The FX were great, but once I saw Jason Statham, I shoulda kicked the box to knock it off... :nono

 

[kskate2]

Did anyone like The Martian?

 

[Front242]

That's interesting, I didn't think that was made in 3D. I agree about the Ip Man films, I don't think I've seen one I didn't enjoy. And there's different types of them too. The Grandmaster was an Ip Man story, wasn't it? How was Iron Mike in it?

I was thinking of you the other day, buddy, I watched Jet Li, The One. Sheesh, I'll never get that time back again. The FX were great, but once I saw Jason Statham, I shoulda kicked the box to knock it off... :nono

Yeah, The Grandmaster is about Ip Man also. I thought Mike Tyson was pretty good in Ip Man 3 but it's hilarious when he speaks some Cantonese :laydownlaughing Definitely check it out. The One is a poor enough Jet Li film. Kiss of the dragon and Fearless Director's cut are two decent ones but he has lots of other good older ones too which no doubt you've seen a good few of like Romeo Must Die, Once upon a time in China 1-3 and part 6. He wasn't in 4 and 5.

 

[Kieran]

That's interesting, I didn't think that was made in 3D. I agree about the Ip Man films, I don't think I've seen one I didn't enjoy. And there's different types of them too. The Grandmaster was an Ip Man story, wasn't it? How was Iron Mike in it?

I was thinking of you the other day, buddy, I watched Jet Li, The One. Sheesh, I'll never get that time back again. The FX were great, but once I saw Jason Statham, I shoulda kicked the box to knock it off... :nono

Yeah, The Grandmaster is about Ip Man also. I thought Mike Tyson was pretty good in Ip Man 3 but it's hilarious when he speaks some Cantonese :laydownlaughing Definitely check it out. The One is a poor enough Jet Li film. Kiss of the dragon and Fearless Director's cut are two decent ones but he has lots of other good older ones too which no doubt you've seen a good few of like Romeo Must Die, Once upon a time in China 1-3 and part 6. He wasn't in 4 and 5.

I can imagine Tyson churning out some Cantonese: Flied lice, sucker! :snicker

There aren't many Jet Li films on Netflix, I already watched The One, and have no interest in The Expendables or War (another Jason Statham flick. Seriously, how does this bloke have a career?), but what about The Forbidden Kingdom, Martial Arts of Shaolin, or Unleashed? These any good?

 

[Front242]

^ Have them all but only watched Unleashed which I actually thought was good. They called it Danny The Dog in the US :Cover Bob Hoskins was good in that and some decent fight scenes. For a very good martial arts film I recommend Blood And Blood (2009) with Michael Jai White. Guy is badass.

[video=youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpWvnZVGbEg[/video]

 

[Kieran]

^ Have them all but only watched Unleashed which I actually thought was good. They called it Danny The Dog in the US :Cover Bob Hoskins was good in that and some decent fight scenes. For a very good martial arts film I recommend Blood And Blood (2009) with Michael Jai White. Guy is badass.

[video=youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpWvnZVGbEg[/video]

Ah great, thanks, because the missus is heading away for a few nights next weekend so I like my diet of beers and takeaway and a few chop socky flicks. They don't have that Michael Jai White film on Netflix, but what about Falcon Rising?

You better start watching these films, buddy, no point me asking you if you haven't! :snicker.

I'll try Unleashed first next week. It gets a 7 on iMDB, which isn't shoddy... :hug

 

[Front242]

Haven't watched Falcon Rising yet but flicked through it and looks decent. I love Jai White's deep menacing voice, he's class.

 

[Kieran]

There's another called Skin Trade, looks like an action film. I'll try that...

 

[Front242]

There's another called Skin Trade, looks like an action film. I'll try that...

Some great fight scenes in that. Can't go wrong with Dolph Lundgren, Michael Jai White and Tony Jaa. Jai White is an incredible martial artist. 7 black belts in Tang Soo Do, Wushu, Kyokushin, Shotokan, Tae Kwon Do, Kobudo and Goju Ryu.

 

[Kieran]

They're after filming another Bourne movie with Matt Damon. Now, much as I enjoyed the first 3 (the last 2nd and 3rd are basically inferior remakes of the first film), I think this one looks like yest another remake of the first film. The usual types are there, with Tommy lee Jones drafted in to replace the Brian Cox character. I'm a little dubious about it...

[video=youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v71ce1Dqqns[/video]

 

[Moxie]

The Director's Guild of America has voted on their 80 Best Directed Films (as it is their 80th Anniversary.) There are a few I would drop off, and I don't agree with the order, completely, but I agree with #1.


Title Director Year
1. The Godfather Francis Ford Coppola 1972
2. Citizen Kane Orson Welles 1941
3. Lawrence of Arabia David Lean 1962
4. 2001: A Space Odyssey Stanley Kubrick 1968
5. Casablanca Michael Curtiz 1942
6. The Godfather: Part II Francis Ford Coppola 1974
7. Apocalypse Now Francis Ford Coppola 1979
8. Schindler’s List Steven Spielberg 1993
9. Gone With the Wind Victor Fleming 1939
10. Goodfellas Martin Scorsese 1990
11. Chinatown Roman Polanski 1974
12. The Wizard of Oz Victor Fleming 1939
13. Raging Bull Martin Scorsese 1980
14. Jaws Steven Spielberg 1975
15. It’s a Wonderful Life Frank Capra 1946
16. Dr. Strangelove or: How I
Learned to Stop Worrying
and Love the Bomb Stanley Kubrick 1964
17. The Shawshank Redemption Frank Darabont 1994
18. The Graduate Mike Nichols 1967
19. Star Wars: Episode IV —
A New Hope George Lucas 1977
20. Blade Runner Ridley Scott 1982

#8. Schindler’s List (Photo: Photofest)

21. On the Waterfront Elia Kazan 1954
22. Pulp Fiction Quentin Tarantino 1994
23. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial Steven Spielberg 1982
24. Annie Hall Woody Allen 1977
25. Saving Private Ryan Steven Spielberg 1998
26. Seven Samurai Akira Kurosawa 1954
27. A Clockwork Orange Stanley Kubrick 1971
28. Raiders of the Lost Ark Steven Spielberg 1981
29. Vertigo Alfred Hitchcock 1958
30. Sunset Boulevard Billy Wilder 1950

#13. Raging Bull (Photo: Photofest)

31. To Kill A Mockingbird Robert Mulligan 1962
32. Psycho Alfred Hitchcock 1960
33. The Searchers John Ford 1956
34. Forrest Gump Robert Zemeckis 1994
35. Singin’ in the Rain Stanley Donen,
Gene Kelly 1952
36. 8 ½ Federico Fellini 1963
37. The Third Man Carol Reed 1949
38. The Best Years of Our Lives William Wyler 1946
39. Rear Window Alfred Hitchcock 1954
40. The Bridge on the River Kwai David Lean 1957

#43. The Sound of Music (Photo: Photofest)

41. North by Northwest Alfred Hitchcock 1959
42. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Miloš Forman 1975
43. The Sound of Music Robert Wise 1965
44. Taxi Driver Martin Scorsese 1976
45. Titanic James Cameron 1997
46. The Shining Stanley Kubrick 1980
47. Amadeus Miloš Forman 1984
48. Doctor Zhivago David Lean 1965
49. West Side Story Jerome Robbins,
Robert Wise 1961
50. Some Like it Hot Billy Wilder 1959

#56. The Hurt Locker (Photo: Everett)

51. Ben-Hur William Wyler 1959
52. Fargo Ethan Coen,
Joel Coen 1996
53. The Silence of the Lambs Jonathan Demme 1991
54. The Apartment Billy Wilder 1960
55. Avatar James Cameron 2009
56. The Hurt Locker Kathryn Bigelow 2008
57. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre John Huston 1948
58. Birdman or
(The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Alejandro G. Iñárritu 2014
59. All About Eve Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1950
60. The Deer Hunter Michael Cimino 1978

#59. All About Eve (Photo: Photofest)

61. There Will Be Blood Paul Thomas Anderson 2007
62. The Sting George Roy Hill 1973
63. The Wild Bunch Sam Peckinpah 1969
64. Alien Ridley Scott 1979
65. Rocky John G. Avildsen 1976
66. The Conformist Bernardo Bertolucci 1970
67. Gandhi Richard Attenborough 1982
68. The Bicycle Thief Vittorio De Sica 1948
69. Cinema Paradiso Giuseppe Tornatore 1988
70. Brazil Terry Gilliam 1985

#71. The Grapes of Wrath (Photo: AMPAS)

71. The Grapes of Wrath John Ford 1940
72. All the President’s Men Alan J. Pakula 1976
73. Barry Lyndon Stanley Kubrick 1975
74. Touch of Evil Orson Welles 1958
75. Once Upon a Time in America Sergio Leone 1984
76. Unforgiven Clint Eastwood 1992
77. The Usual Suspects Bryan Singer 1995
78. Network Sidney Lumet 1976
79. Rashomon Akira Kurosawa 1950
80. Once Upon a Time in the West Sergio Leone 1968

 

[Murat Baslamisli]

Deadpool ! I cannot remember laughing this hard in a while ! Do NOT take your kids to it though.

 

[Kieran]

It's an action hero flick with a diff, right? I'll check it out when it comes in DVD.

I binged on the last two Superman films, thought they weren't as bad as I expected, although Batman v Superman is very messy and cluttered. We don't need to see the Dark Knight's back story every film, and Doomsday is a film in itself, but was tacked onto the last 30 minutes here because they seemed at a loss as to who their villain should be. Jesse Eisenberg was hopelessly miscast as Lex Luther. It's kinda like the mistake the TV show Sherlock made when casting Moriarty - they sent a kid to do a man's job. Lex Luther and Moriarty are evil geniuses, not angry teenagers with skin issues.

I watched Avengers, Age of Ultron too. My brother told me before I watched that it was the weakest Marvel film, but I enjoyed that too. I must be easily pleased. The Marvel films are the ultimate in lightweight entertainment. Kids can watch them too (although not Deadpool, according to Murat :snicker ), and this was no exception.

Gonna watch Jurassic World later...

 

[the AntiPusher]

Captain America Civil War reviews are extremely positive!! I expect it will be the blockbuster of this year like The Force Awaken was in 2015/2016

Spoilers Alerts;



The movie is phenomenal, best Marvel movie by Far, Storylines are fantastic and action sequences are on par with the first Avengers movie. Four Stars ALL the way

 

[Billie]

Anybody watched "Snowden"? There is a new cinema opening tomorrow close by so we'll walk to it and see it.

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[britbox]

Anybody watched "Snowden"? There is a new cinema opening tomorrow close by so we'll walk to it and see it.

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No, but I like all that kind of stuff... Will check that one out. Let me know what you think.

 

[Billie]

No, but I like all that kind of stuff... Will check that one out. Let me know what you think.

It's thought provoking. Joseph Gordon-Levitt did a great job of portraying a conscientious human being in a ruthless world of politics. I recommend it. Since I already watched a documentary about him, some things were familiar. Oliver Stone can make anybody step back and think about different issues. Love his work.

And the seats in our new cinema are fabulous, like those in business class on airplanes.

 

[britbox]

I'll check that one out. I saw Briget Jones's baby with the Missus a couple of days ago. Quite enjoyed it, although I was about the only fella there.

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

I'll check that one out. I saw Briget Jones's baby with the Missus a couple of days ago. Quite enjoyed it, although I was about the only fella there.

Kudos to you for being the only man watching Bridget Jones Baby,I recently saw it,I also enjoyed it.I went and saw 'Sully' the Tom Hanks film,a few people raved about the film,stating that Tom Hanks would get a Best Actor nominee? hmmm it was okay,maybe I was expecting more.