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Post by Scrubb on Aug 29, 2012 3:34:25 GMT 2
Really, I genuinely had no clue that Prometheus was part of the Alien franchise. The last scene, I looked over at Mr_S and said "oh, so this was a prequel to Alien. Keep in mind I was living in France when it came out and I didn't watch TV or see trailers for it, just posters, so I hadn't heard anything at all about it.
And I guess I didn't literally think, while watching, "this seems like an homage to Alien"; but during a few scenes I thought it seemed to be very similar (especially the robot head - that seemed like a rip off, actually) in pacing and style. It made a lot of sense when the final scene made it obvious that it wasn't just a fluke.
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Post by Grecian on Aug 29, 2012 19:43:30 GMT 2
Fair play there, Scrubb! I believe you and that's all that counts.
Is that the 'VHS' that hasn't been released yet, Trentt?
If so, show us yer site!
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Post by trentt on Aug 29, 2012 23:39:26 GMT 2
It hasn't been released yet??
I was skeptical, being as it's a found-footage-anthology movie, and found-footage films are a dime a dozen, but it's pretty good, help lots of surprises, good dose of gore, some genuine creepiness, and made me jump more than once.
I found it on the site I mentioned earlier, veehd.com
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Post by Grecian on Aug 30, 2012 19:07:32 GMT 2
Not released over here!
Is this the one?
Looks a tad Blair Witchey, which was good.
I'll have a butchers via your veehd.com site and see how it goes..
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Post by trentt on Aug 30, 2012 23:59:03 GMT 2
I can tell just from the image that it's the one I saw. "The Blair Witch Project" got this whole ball rolling of course, so I always compare each home video/found footage movie to that one. Many are bilgewater. This one is decent.
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Post by Grecian on Aug 31, 2012 20:51:01 GMT 2
I registered on veed.com but can't work out how to download a film!
Is 'Chernobyl Diaries' of the same genre - hand held etc? The trailers look ok. Reminded me of Hostal a tad.
Just watched Kill List. I should have known that the ending would make no sense! Great Actors/resses...
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Post by trentt on Sept 1, 2012 0:45:36 GMT 2
Click on the movie from the list of them (whatever you're searching), on the left is a "download" button to click. Then the screen refreshes itself with "download link" kind of in the center of where the film would display if you'd stream it. Click that link and then your computer should ask you what you want to do with the file (save it, open it, etc.). I recommend downloading the add-on DownThemAll , which sometimes works better and faster than the Microsoft-installed save option on PCs (and sometimes not, so I try them alternately).
veehd.com has a problem with one of its servers (v42), which is shite, and sometimes things won't start, won't finish, or if they do download completely, it will take 10 hours. They have other well functioning servers, so it's kind of a crap shoot. Don't give up if one fails. Everyone there bitches about v42.
"Chernobyl Diaries" is also in that genre. The version I saw was recorded in a cinema on someone's smartphone, so not the best format, and you could hear the audience sometimes, so I couldn't follow it 100%. It was OK. "VHS" is better IMHO.
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Post by Grecian on Sept 1, 2012 19:37:06 GMT 2
Thanks for that, but...
I stick 'V/H/S Film 2012' into the search function and all manner of shite comes up below - but not the film I want!
Any ideas?
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Post by trentt on Sept 1, 2012 20:49:01 GMT 2
Right now veehd is down so I can't give you a link. Here's what I'd try. Type "horror" into the search box. A bunch of films will come up. Click on any one that looks like a horror film. Once you are in that film, below the viewing screen you should see a bunch of tags. Click on the "horror" tag - which is different from searching for something with "horror" in the title - and you should end up with a list of films tagged as horror film that's about 500 pages long. "VHS" is one of the newer uploaded ones so I think somewhere in the first 2 or 3 pages you should find it.
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Post by Grecian on Sept 4, 2012 20:28:04 GMT 2
trentt? I think it's working!
I'll let you know...and thanks!
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Post by Grecian on Sept 4, 2012 21:19:39 GMT 2
eff it!
"Windows Media Player cannot play the file. The Player might not support the file type or might not support the codec that was used to compress the file."
Any ideas?
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Post by OnlyMark on Sept 4, 2012 21:42:46 GMT 2
A long time ago I downloaded VLC media player - www.videolan.org/vlc/index.htmlIt seemed to play most things that Windows didn't, couldn't or just felt like not bothering with. Not really had a problem playing stuff with that though I expect there are some things it can't play.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 5, 2012 1:04:17 GMT 2
I wanted to see Chernobyl Diaries, but it sank without a trace after about a week here.
However, I did see the excellent "Land of Oblivion" a few months ago. Not filmed as a horror movie at all, which is what made the real horror come through.
La Terre Outragée will turn heads. This beautifully textured drama about the Chernobyl disaster and its long-term legacy was shot on location, giving the film a shocking sense of immediacy. The camera captures the sobering reality of the environmental catastrophe that devastated Ukraine. But the eerily vacant landscape is only a backdrop to the human cost of the tragedy, which is what director and writer Michale Boganim focuses on in her authoritative feature debut.
The film begins in pastoral reverie as a young couple drifts down a sun-dappled river, a place where boys frolic and fishermen dip their rods. Anya (Olga Kurylenko) and Piotr (Nikita Emshanov) are about to be married, but news arrives of an accident at the nuclear power plant, and Piotr, a firefighter, is summoned away from his nuptials. Soon rain begins to fall — black rain — and the disaster's full dimension starts to percolate into the consciousness of the people of Pripyat, a town only a few kilometers away from the power station.
A few years later, Anya is now a local guide for curious tourists who don radiation-proof suits and bus through the town snapping photos of a transformed world. Like many others, Anya finds herself caught between leaving and staying.
As her heroine struggles with her demons, Boganim depicts a community that, despite the dangers, refuses to leave its history behind. The residents' houses — derelict, abandoned and overgrown with weeds — nestle within an area still contaminated with too much radioactivity to be safe, but the lure of the place they call home is like a siren. Squatters move in to family houses while relatives of those killed find themselves trapped and unable to make sense of it all. The aftermath of Chernobyl is fully exposed, forcing us to imagine what a nuclear future might look like — something the people of Fukushima have only just recently contemplated.
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Post by Grecian on Sept 5, 2012 19:58:51 GMT 2
Thanks, Mark but?
You haven't posted on Flushed for eons and then suddenly a Link to download?
Call me a sceptic but I just couldn't bring myself to click on it - even if it looks kosher.
Sounds ok, MrK, but the thought of downlaoding it and then trying to 'marry' the film up with subtitles horrifies me - and I certainly wouldn't buy the DVD. I watch out for the film on the TV listings.
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Post by OnlyMark on Sept 5, 2012 22:09:18 GMT 2
Trust me. I'm a doctor.
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Post by Grecian on Sept 6, 2012 19:42:17 GMT 2
Nurse!
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Post by Scrubb on Sept 8, 2012 19:01:04 GMT 2
STarted watching Hanna last night - seems really good, but I was so tired that we turned it off after the first 1/2 hour or so, and I went to bed. Will watch the rest tonight.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 11, 2012 22:34:56 GMT 2
Killer Joe by William Friedkin and an amazingly excellent movie. Best toxic role ever by Matthew McConaughey -- definitely worthy of an Oscar.
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Post by Grecian on Sept 12, 2012 19:10:51 GMT 2
Cracking waste of Keyboard time there, Scrubb!
Looks good, MrK and I'll defo' watch that as my kind of film.
I watched Hangover and the original Get Carter. Hangover's a good laugh and I never get tired of Get Carter.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 16, 2012 1:52:10 GMT 2
Hangover 2 is not bad either, although just a rehash. Just like in the first movie, the very best part is in the final credits when you find out all of the details of what happened to them.
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Post by Grecian on Sept 16, 2012 19:48:41 GMT 2
Set in Thailand?...always a winner!
There's loads of good films coming out at the moment here - Lawless looks good as does Killing me Softly. Ray Liotta is one of my favourite Actors.
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 2, 2012 20:58:38 GMT 2
Lawless was pretty good even if it got the usual gentle Hollywood treatment.
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Post by Grecian on Oct 3, 2012 18:51:20 GMT 2
I assume, then, that Hollywood will 'water down' their remake of the Indonesian film, the Raid?
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 16, 2012 22:35:46 GMT 2
I saw a grim Mexican film today, Después de Lucía, which confirms how a high school girl who makes a mistake can be considered the #1 school slut no matter where in the world.
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Post by Grecian on Oct 18, 2012 19:33:25 GMT 2
I assume subtitles were involved?
Retreat, The Firm - both ones - about Football Hooligans; not the Tom Cruise one, and Essex Boys about the 1995 triple murder in....err...Essex!
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 27, 2012 20:15:31 GMT 2
Yes, there were indeed subtitles.
Yesterday I saw Skyfall, and I will readily admit that I liked it, at least within its genre.
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Post by Grecian on Oct 28, 2012 21:24:30 GMT 2
I'm waiting for it to come out here - next week? - and I reckon it could break all Box Office records here as it has got great Reviews and everyone is talking about it...
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Post by Hedonista on Oct 28, 2012 21:32:39 GMT 2
Has any Bond film ever got so much hype before?
Whatever I'm looking forward to seeing it, hoping to catch it whilst travelling in Asia over the next few weeks, to fill in one of my sad lonely git evenings.
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Post by Grecian on Oct 29, 2012 21:26:10 GMT 2
Every Bond film beats the previous Bond films for Hype - just that this one looks good.
I saw Layer Cake with Daniel Crag in it - probably better than loads of Bond films but maybe not as good as his latest!
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Post by kerouac2 on Nov 7, 2012 0:07:55 GMT 2
I even have the DVD of Layer Cake. It's was one of those situations where you have to buy 5 DVDs for an unbeatable price or else pay the same price for 2 of them.
But Layer Cake really was not bad at all.
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