Movies ive seen lately and what they were like.

what leads you to meepume that I haven't heard of Kidulthood?

You may not have heard of this one

I assumed nothing. Its not a very big film, was only shown in a couple of UK cinemas and is essentially a straight-to-DVD release. The majority of people on LS are from the US, where it is virtually unheard-of.

So, yeah. Dont try and be clever for the sake of it.

yeah, meepgot.

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Xihilisk: You may not have heard of this one I assumed nothing. Its not a very big film, was only shown in a couple of UK cinemas and is essentially a straight-to-DVD release. The majority of people on LS are from the US, where it is virtually unheard-of. So, yeah. Dont try and be clever for the sake of it.

Dude, there's this cool thing, called the Internet, and you can download MOOBIES for FREE -- from all over the world!!! And people talk about their favorite ones and you can really learn a lot! Also, how do you know what's heard of here in the US? Every torrent site I look at has had it up for weeks, if not months. Geeks like indie-type and foreign films.

(You are 40% Wotak.)

Ultraviolet was forgettable pap. Even worse than usual pap, it was made for girls, which means lots of girl-power idiocy on top of regular pap.

vasudeva:

Xihilisk: You may not have heard of this one I assumed nothing. Its not a very big film, was only shown in a couple of UK cinemas and is essentially a straight-to-DVD release. The majority of people on LS are from the US, where it is virtually unheard-of. So, yeah. Dont try and be clever for the sake of it.

I think your problem is in repeatedly assuming you're aware of obscure references that the rest of us are not.

Dude, there's this cool thing, called the Internet, and you can download MOOBIES for FREE -- from all over the world!!! And people talk about their favorite ones and you can really learn a lot! Also, how do you know what's heard of here in the US? Every torrent site I look at has had it up for weeks, if not months. Geeks like indie-type and foreign films.

(You are 40% Wotak.)

Ultraviolet was forgettable pap. Even worse than usual pap, it was made for girls, which means lots of girl-power idiocy on top of regular pap.

Ill state again, i assumed nothing. No elitest "i know films you dont" meep, no obscure references. It just wasnt a very big film, thats it. Hence, "you may not have heard of it". If you have, fairplay. Your reading far too much in to my post.

fyi, i hadn't heard of that movie until now. i apparently need to get me some pirate bay, stat.

Xihilisk: You're reading my posts far too much.

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Kidulthood, nevar heard of it.

But like Mundra, i've been neglecting TPB since I only have 5GB out of 1200 left. Guess I need to do some cleaning out the hard disks, but I think I'd rather get one of those new beefy Seagates instead.

Ha!! I cant believe that! I actually looked at the "your" in my post and thought "I bet they're reduced to pointing out my grammatical errors next!"

And what do you know!!

Xihilisk: Ha!! I cant believe that! I actually looked at the "your" in my post and thought "I bet they're reduced to pointing out my grammatical errors next!" And what do you know!!

Shut.

vasudeva:

Xihilisk: You're reading my posts far too much.

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Xihilisk: Ha!! I cant believe that! I actually looked at the "your" in my post and thought "I bet they're reduced to pointing out my grammatical errors next!" And what do you know!!

You did assume that we hadn't heard of Kidulthood simply by putting the warning in the beginning of the Kidulthood review but not in any of the other movie reviews.

I wasn't even aware of Underworld Evolution until I read a review in the newspaper while I had already been looking forward to seeing Kidulthood for a while.

Even without torrent and the websites, one can easily find out about upcoming events. 10 minutes away there's an old movie theater that's since been bought and turned into an independent showcase. I'm a frequent and just by conversing with the owners who are very in touch with their customers and other goings on in the community, I found out about this movie and many more, all on my very own.

meep, if you don't have the spare time I do, peel open a magazine to educate yourself and those around you on the movies they may not have heard of.

You guys might not know about this one: It's called Night Watch. It's a Russian film about vampires (being from Arkansas, I am incredibly familiar with Russian vampire movies ^v^). It's pretty good, although a blatant rip-off of the Matrix meets Underworld. The pacing is, at times, a tad rushed and I found myself fighting for details, but it ultimately made the film more interesting to watch.

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I liked Night Watch a lot. I didn't find it a ripoff of Matrix so much as a ripoff of post-modern Western film-making in general. Perhaps that's just how the trends go though. Definitely a lot more hip than I imagined a Russian movie capable of.

Day Watch was maybe a little more accessible but I remember the first one being more fun.

Either one, fighting for details? meep yeah. I think it relied somewhat on cultural idioms that we as Westerners haven't internalized and don't understand without it being spelled out for us.

Vasudeva: Either one, fighting for details? meep yeah. I think it relied somewhat on cultural idioms that we as Westerners haven't internalized and don't understand without it being spelled out for us.

I can see that. The "licensing" they talk about seems to be ingrained in the society in some level. It's passed-over so quickly and therefore never fully explained that it must be some understood social facet. Maybe it has something to do with a state still primarilly controlled in a militaristic fashion - who knows (except teh Russian Vampires ^vodka^).

I'll get Day Watch soon.

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I liked Ultraviolet.

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Vasudeva: I didn't find it a ripoff of Matrix so much as a ripoff of post-modern Western film-making in general.

After reading this, I rethought my point and reviewed my statement and realized that possibly it's not a rip-off at all.

The long, black coat and the sunglasses pulled from the collection in the kitchen may be a bit of a parody of Western culture.

Neo never actively chose his look. His "Matrix" appearance was explained as an idealized image of himself. In juxtaposition, our hero/antihero searched through his closet for his appearance and found nothing but the long, black jacket at the end of the bar... it was a matter of necessity.

No matter how Western, how stylized and clean the images of the movie are, they never betray the reality of the setting - a stark and utilitarian landscape.

FUN

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Xihilisk is: 40% Wotak

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vasudeva: Either one, fighting for details? meep yeah. I think it relied somewhat on cultural idioms that we as Westerners haven't internalized and don't understand without it being spelled out for us.

Nope. I watched it with some bona fide Russians, in their native tongue. The movie's bunk. Pacing, discontinuities, meepty plot (especially in the last quarter).

It's even worse than the original drivel of a book it's based on.

Im still yet to see Nightwatch, ive heard lots of good things about it though. Today i watched The Manchurian Candidate(The newest one) and Oldboy. Both were much better than any of the films i posted above. I really want to see the original Manchurian Candidate now, but i think the modern setting of the remake makes the technology and theories involved much more believable. But i havent seen the original so not sure if there are any differences. Oldboy lagged a little in the middle, but then the ending redeemed every negative thought i had about it.

I haven't seen any of the movies in the Nightwatch, Daywatch series. I have heard excellent things about them though. Mostly about their originality and unique special effects.

The remake of The Manchurian Candidate is pure meep compared to the original. That tripe was un-meeping-watchable.

Angela Lansbury was hawt when she was young. Age was unkind to her, to say the least.

For some reason, my torrents never go above 15-20kbps. Ive tried absolutely everything i can think of to remedy this, to no avail. So i use warez-bb.org and Rapidshare to get my films, and they dont have Nightwatch. Gutted.

They do have Daywatch though, so would it be really bad to watch Daywatch without having seen Nightwatch??

You have ports opened in your firewall for your bittorrent client?

[url]http://www.portforward.com[/url]

yeah, and ive tried ports above 50000(i heard some ISPs block high traffic through lower port numbers). Ive tried every BT client i can find, disabling the firewall altogether. I used to get 200-300k at all times, but then one day it just bottomed out to the meep speeds i get now. Theres a lot of stuff on the net about Tiscali(my ISP) blocking p2p traffic altogether. So its probably that. But i move house on saturday so im going to get a new ISP and hopefully ill get good speeds again and i wont have to renew my Rapidshare account.

Crackalackin:

vasudeva: Either one, fighting for details? meep yeah. I think it relied somewhat on cultural idioms that we as Westerners haven't internalized and don't understand without it being spelled out for us.

Nope. I watched it with some bona fide Russians, in their native tongue. The movie's bunk. Pacing, discontinuities, meepty plot (especially in the last quarter). It's even worse than the original drivel of a book it's based on.

Oh. Suxor. It's still fun to watch despite the "ok wtf why did that just happen" interludes. (Possibly not more than once.)

Xihilisk: yeah, and ive tried ports above 50000(i heard some ISPs block high traffic through lower port numbers). Ive tried every BT client i can find, disabling the firewall altogether. I used to get 200-300k at all times, but then one day it just bottomed out to the meep speeds i get now.

Try finding torrents that let you join while using encryption to get around traffic shaping. If your client doesn't do encryption, it is a piece of meep. In fact, if your client is not uTorrent, it is probably a piece of meep.

The original Manchurian Candidate was better than the remake in every way. I say this despite it being filmed in the '60s and using Frank Sinatra, neither of which do me much good.

Xihilisk: yeah, and ive tried ports above 50000(i heard some ISPs block high traffic through lower port numbers). Ive tried every BT client i can find, disabling the firewall altogether. I used to get 200-300k at all times, but then one day it just bottomed out to the meep speeds i get now. Theres a lot of stuff on the net about Tiscali(my ISP) blocking p2p traffic altogether. So its probably that. But i move house on saturday so im going to get a new ISP and hopefully ill get good speeds again and i wont have to renew my Rapidshare account.

If you're bandwidth woes coinside with installing XP SP2 then you might benefit from a modified TCPIP.sys file. More info and patch here.

guitarjon123: Xihilisk is:

My heart grew 3 apples tall when I saw this.

vasudeva: The original Manchurian Candidate was better than the remake in every way. I say this despite it being filmed in the '60s and using Frank Sinatra, neither of which do me much good.

Also The Day of the Jackal.

LORDKAHUNA:

vasudeva: The original Manchurian Candidate was better than the remake in every way. I say this despite it being filmed in the '60s and using Frank Sinatra, neither of which do me much good.

Also The Day of the Jackal.

Truth.

If you're bandwidth woes coinside with installing XP SP2 then you might benefit from a modified TCPIP.sys file. More info and patch here.

Yeah ive already set the max open TCP connections at 80, only gave me a 10kbps increase in speed. And it makes my router spaz out after an hour or so.

Just found an English dubbed version of Nightwatch, so will be watching soon. Good timing too, as i was just about to watch Daywatch.

ohno, Nightwatch sucked. Really bad. Nothing like what i thought it would be. I thought the story was pretty lame, re-hashed material from other modern sci-fi's. The nu-metal soundtrack. The subverted Hollywood style. Bored me to meep. I dont think the "american-come-russian hybrid" accents of the English dub voices helped, might try it with subtitles.