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[Josquius]

Blade! Runner: The Final Cut

I've seen another version of Blade! Runner before.  On this viewing my favorite part of the film is when Daryl Hannah spray paints mascara on her eyes giving her a raccoon look.  It's good to know that Avril Lavigne will still be an influence on fashion in the dark, dystopic future.

Blade! ?
You make it sound like an anime.

[Savonarola]

Blade! Runner: The Final Cut

I've seen another version of Blade! Runner before.  On this viewing my favorite part of the film is when Daryl Hannah spray paints mascara on her eyes giving her a raccoon look.  It's good to know that Avril Lavigne will still be an influence on fashion in the dark, dystopic future.

Blade! ?
You make it sound like an anime.

I envision it as a Bollywood musical set in a dystopian future Idaho. 

[Neil]

You know, I'm looking forward to Zombieland.  It actually looks funny, and I normally hate just about everything.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

You know, I'm looking forward to Zombieland.  It actually looks funny, and I normally hate just about everything.

They should put that on the poster :p

[sbr]

You know, I'm looking forward to Zombieland.  It actually looks funny, and I normally hate just about everything.

I just saw a trailer for it on TV tonight for the first time, looks very funny.  Not likely to break my 5+ year streak of not going to a theater though it might be close.

[Syt]

Dumplings
An aged former Hong Kong actress tries to win back her husband's affections by trying a mircale diet to sustain her youth, administered by a mysterious woman from mainland China. Entertainingly gross, but the loose ends could have been tied up a bit nicer.

6.6 mid-term embryos minced into dumpling filler out of 10.

[Eddie Teach]

Brief Encounter- Couple of married people meet at a train station, begin non-sexual affair, come to their senses and end it. Good old fashioned family values; they don't make 'em like that anymore.

[Cerr]

District 9. Good film but not great. Don't really get why certain people here thought it was amazing.

Fish Tank. Grim and depressing English film set in a working class area. The accents were a bit annoying and there was far too much dancing. The Irish actor Michael Fassbender was good in it though.

Surrogates. Interesting premise. The way the surrogates moved and looked just a bit non-human was well done. The film though was a mixture of films I've seen before (I-Robot, The Matrix and possibly a few others). The plot didn't amount to much and was very predictable. It seemed to be just going through the motions.

[Syt]

Fish Tank. Grim and depressing English film set in a working class area. The accents were a bit annoying and there was far too much dancing. The Irish actor Michael Fassbender was good in it though.

He's half Irish, half German. Which is why he was great as Brit spy with knowledge of (slightly accented) German in Inglourious Basterds.

[Cerr]

Fish Tank. Grim and depressing English film set in a working class area. The accents were a bit annoying and there was far too much dancing. The Irish actor Michael Fassbender was good in it though.

He's half Irish, half German.

Fair enough. 

[Josephus]

The Anvil Story.

You don't have to like Anvil (I sure don't) to enjoy this documentary,now on DVD. It's the best rockumentary since Anvil. It even has its own Rob(b) Reiner and an amp that goes to 11.

And who'd a thunk that one of the forerunners of 80s trash metal was fronted by a couple nice Jewish kids from Toronto.

Four Satan Worship Salutes out of Five.

[Syt]

Fish Tank. Grim and depressing English film set in a working class area. The accents were a bit annoying and there was far too much dancing. The Irish actor Michael Fassbender was good in it though.

He's half Irish, half German.

Fair enough. 

He's almost exclusively in English language productions, though. E.g. he played Christenson on Band of Brothers.

[Sheilbh]

Brief Encounter- Couple of married people meet at a train station, begin non-sexual affair, come to their senses and end it. Good old fashioned family values; they don't make 'em like that anymore.

I love that film.  Noel Coward's best

[Darth Wagtaros]

Two bad Russian fantasy movies: Nightwatch and its sequel Daywatch.

[CountDeMoney]

From the "Oh, Come On Now" files...

David Cronenberg is Remaking David Cronenberg's The Fly
September 23, 2009
by Alex Billington


Yep, you read that right. David Cronenberg is developing a reboot of his own 1986 sci-fi classic The Fly. Cronenberg's film is already a remake of Kurt Neumann's 1958 film of the same name as well. The story centers on an eccentric scientist named Seth Brundle (played by Jeff Goldblum) who, after an experiment with teleportation goes awry, is transformed into a fly. Geena Davis starred as Goldblum's love interest, Veronica. Oddly, Cronenberg has said in the past that he did not want to be involved a remake, but now he's just doing it on his own. I can't wait for someone to talk with him to find out exactly why he's coming back.

This is only in the early development stages (via Risky Biz), so we're not sure when Cronenberg will get to this. A return to The Fly would also mark the latest in a mini-trend of directors remaking their own work. Michael Haneke last year remade his thriller Funny Games while Werner Herzog re-imagined his doc Little Dieter Learns to Fly with the 2006 feature Rescue Dawn. Cronenberg was attached to direct the Robert Ludlum adaptation The Matarese Circle but apparently ditched that to take on Cosmopolis instead. The Fly is a seminal sci-fi classic, but even with Cronenberg directing, I'm not sure a reboot is a good idea?