What Films Have You Seen Recently? - Page 2389

sjconstable · #**23881** 26th July 2013, 03:57 PM

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Originally Posted by J Harker

So if I follow what I'm seeing is actually a 4.3 image stretched lengthways?
I'll have a fiddle when I get in from work. Thanks for that.

Yep that's it, non-anamorphic widescreen is in a 4:3 format that needs manually stretching/zooming, thus losing out on some detail compared to anamorphic which is already set for 16:9, and yours is kinda half-stretched haha. No worries mate.

trebor8273 · #**23882** 26th July 2013, 08:45 PM

Red dawn.

A long time since I've seen it was expecting it to be a typical 80s brat movie but its so much more, great performances and darker than I remember. WOLVERINES!! 9/10

Trancers
Tim thomerson as jack deth not much else to be said 7.5

Trancers 2
For me a better movie than the first with a good cast including Jeffrey combs, Barbara crampton, Richard lynch . 8/10

Trancers 3
Probably my favourite of the movies, in no small part thanks to Andrew Robinson as the dreanged Col. Daddy muthuh. 8.5/10

Equilibrium
Brilliant movie, shame its taking so long to get around to watching it, very glad to have it in my collection. Some great fights but also top notch acting and story, poor old Sean bean is there nothing apart from sharpe in which he doesn't die! 9/10

Make Them Die Slowly · #**23883** 26th July 2013, 09:00 PM

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Originally Posted by trebor8273

Red dawn.

A long time since I've seen it was expecting it to be a typical 80s brat movie but its so much more, great performances and darker than I remember. WOLVERINES!! 9/10

Avoid the remake at all costs, it's bloody dire.

troggi · #**23884** 26th July 2013, 10:42 PM

"Punisher: War Zone"
That's more like it! Ray Stevenson actually looks like Frank Castle and acts just as brutally. This is the dog's whassnames, no tedious origins to go through no trying to give Frank "humanity", no shades of monochrome just black and white. In the comics Frank Castle is not a man who is over-complicated by emotions, they were ripped from him when his family were killed, and that seems to be how he is portrayed in this film. He sees that he has killed a good man and goes to make amends. Not emotionally but "matter-of-factly!" Oh, alright then, in his dealings with the little girl his composure almost breaks but he just goes on to get the job done.

19/10 for sheer bloody mayhem and murder and a good number of faces blown off!

Demdike@Cult Labs · #**23885** 26th July 2013, 10:46 PM

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Originally Posted by troggi

"Punisher: War Zone"
That's more like it! Ray Stevenson actually looks like Frank Castle and acts just as brutally. This is the dog's whassnames, no tedious origins to go through no trying to give Frank "humanity", no shades of monochrome just black and white. In the comics Frank Castle is not a man who is over-complicated by emotions, they were ripped from him when his family were killed, and that seems to be how he is portrayed in this film. He sees that he has killed a good man and goes to make amends. Not emotionally but "matter-of-factly!" Oh, alright then, in his dealings with the little girl his composure almost breaks but he just goes on to get the job done.

19/10 for sheer bloody mayhem and murder and a good number of faces blown off!

Glad you enjoyed it Troggi after i raved about it to you.

Nordicdusk · #**23886** 26th July 2013, 10:54 PM

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Originally Posted by troggi

"Lady Vengeance"
I'm a relative newcomer to Korean cinema having only seen a handful of films so "Sympathy for Lady Vengeance" was a new experience for me and I liked it! I refuse to say that I understood all of the film but I laid back and let the experience wash over me until the brutal "vengeance" whereupon I sat bolt upright having not "seen it coming"!

What a great film, I'll be keeping an eye out for the rest of the "trilogy" in my forays and I think that "Oldboy" will be on the agenda tomorrow (CEX usually have a couple of copies, if not HMV is only 5 minutes walk from there)! I was going to give this film only 15/10 but that "vengeance" scene really got under my skin and any film that leaves such a positive lasting impression on me deserves an outstanding 20/10!

The Trilogy is amazing check out I Saw the Devil if you have not seen it and a Bitter Sweet Life Dem recommended the latter to me and its a fantastic film.

troggi · #**23887** 26th July 2013, 10:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Demdike

Glad you enjoyed it Troggi after i raved about it to you.

Thanks Dem. To be honest if it hadn't been for your recommendation it would've still been sittin' on t' pile waitin' but I had an itch that wouldn't be scratched to see some heads bein' twokked and that did the trick!

troggi · #**23888** 26th July 2013, 11:00 PM

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Originally Posted by nordicdusk

The Trilogy is amazing check out I Saw the Devil if you have not seen it and a Bitter Sweet Life Dem recommended the latter to me and its a fantastic film.

I'm very glad I picked up "Oldboy" and "Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance" today although I wouldn't mind the collectors set complete with "Oldboy" hammer/bottle opener combo! Strangely enough I already do have a hammer/bottle opener combo but it hasn't got "Oldboy" stamped on the head!