The SRK Movie Fanatic Thread (REVIEWS, QUESTIONS, RANTS, STARS...ETC.) EVERYTHING!

System_1 · December 30, 2006, 7:47pm

Yeah well that doesn’t give the movie an excuse. Also, this young whippersnapper did real those novels later on.

Rocky Balboa was a great ass movie. Sly wrote/directed/acted in a great, great film. If I had it my way, he’d be a Best Actor nod, but it’ll properly go to Leo :arazz: (Its not that I don’t like Leo, its just that I can’t get over that baby face of his. Trying to act and hard and grow a beard didn’t help. Neither did having that phonyass accent in Blood Diamond either.

ChairHome · December 30, 2006, 9:50pm

Did anyone see the movie “One Missed Call”? Its another Japanese horror movie along the lines of “The Ring”. I thought it was pretty good, but could someone explain the ending to me? It seemed like a joke.

AkumaTX · December 31, 2006, 5:31am

so i watched eragon. Ok movie like a 2/5. Ive never read the book or anything but on a sole movie critic, movie felt like it was rushed. Like they tried to cram and move the story along way too fast.

matrix9280 · December 31, 2006, 6:37am

What’s the longest American movie ever made? A couple that came to mind were:

Once Upon a Time in America: 229 minutes
Godfather 2: 200 minutes
Lawrence of Arabia: 216 minutes
The Ten Commandments: 220 minutes
Lord of the Rings Return of the King: 201 minutes (252 minutes extended edition)
Dances with Wolves Director’s Cut: 236 minutes
Ben Hur: 212 minutes

Kill Bill would have been up there (both volumes together are 247 minutes long) but the movie was split up. Are there any other movies that are up in the 200+minute range that I may have missed? If so please let me know. I’m still trying to figure out what’s the longest movie ever made.

P.S. I already checked Wikipedia and all they had were a bunch of experimental or foreign films. I wouldn’t even count those as movies.

P.Gorath · December 31, 2006, 6:58am

I’m guessing the answer would be von Stroheim’s Greed, an American film whose final print ran 10 hours long. Unfortunately MGM later had it re-cut and destroyed most of the negative so now we only have a 239 minute restored cut available.

YellowS4 · January 1, 2007, 7:52am

I enjoyed A Scanner Darkly, the ending threw me for a loop trying to remember what the fuck he was doing haha.

Sat through the Riddick trilogy again over the weekend; still good, nothing great but plenty of potential in the char / universe still imo.

Gonna go through Half Nelson & Good Sheppard later.

HK movies still suck.

Chozen1 · January 1, 2007, 3:04pm

HK movies still suck.

what? either the ones you have seem are either stupid or you have a lousy choice in selecting the channel 5 action cinema specials. (im assuming you’re referring to hong kong films) if so, try blade of fury for starters

P.Gorath · January 1, 2007, 10:49pm

they made a third riddick? or do you mean some cartoon or other?

YellowS4 · January 2, 2007, 1:03am

Dark Fury is considered canon apparently.

I think they put Escape from Butcher Bay a part of canon as well lol. Quadrilogy!

Weeks · January 2, 2007, 1:22am

wtf. Hong Kong movies rock. A Better Tomorrow, The Killer, Hard Boiled…these movies kick ass!

AkumaTX · January 2, 2007, 4:02am

what are some good kung fu flicks with lots of action.

NG1313 · January 2, 2007, 4:10am

Shaolin & Wu Tang. Buy it tomorrow.

Chozen1 · January 2, 2007, 5:25am

re: above

you obviously need a lot to learn about the genre

AkumaTX · January 2, 2007, 5:27am

yet you dont attempt to help.

System_1 · January 2, 2007, 9:23am

Great, now we’re gonna get this huge rant about how awesome Kung-Fu movies are, how much of a fakeass bitch Bruce Lee was, and a laundry list of subbed and dubbed flicks.

Just joking ya know('cept for the Bruce Lee part) >_>

Anyway, watched A Scanner Darkly today. I liked it, in that “WTF is this shit” kinda thing.

Debaser · January 2, 2007, 9:45am

There’s a kung fu movie thread a few pages back if you want to search for it.

angryliberal · January 2, 2007, 9:00pm

has anyone seen "pan’s labyrinth’? it’s getting some pretty good reviews…

Geese_Pants · January 2, 2007, 10:03pm

Something I received in my email today…

Black Author wins The Matrix Copyright Infringement Case

This little known story has met a just conclusion, as Sophia Stewart,
African American author of The Matrix will finally receive her just due
from the copyright infringement of her original work!!!

A six-year dispute has ended involving Sophia Stewart, the Wachowski Brothers, Joel Silver and Warner Brothers. Stewart’s allegations, involving copyright infringement and racketeering, were received and acknowledged by the Central District of California, Judge Margaret Morrow
residing. Stewart, a New Yorker who has resided in Salt Lake City for the past
five years, will recover damages from the films, The Matrix I, II and III, as
well as The Terminator and its sequels. She will soon receive one of the
biggest payoffs in the history of Hollywood, as the gross receipts of both
films and their sequels total over 2.5 billion dollars.

Stewart filed her case in 1999, after viewing the Matrix, which she felt
had been based on her manuscript, “The Third Eye,” copyrighted in 1981.
In the mid-eighties Stewart had submitted her manuscript to an ad placed by
the Wachowski Brothers, requesting new sci-fi works.

According to court documentation, an FBI investigation discovered that more
than thirty minutes had been edited from the original film, in an attempt
to avoid penalties for copyright infringement. The investigation also
stated that “credible witnesses employed at Warner Brothers came forward,
claiming that the executives and lawyers had full knowledge that the work
in question did not belong to the Wachowski Brothers.” These witnesses
claimed to have seen Stewart’s original work and that it had been “often
used during preparation of the motion pictures.” The defendants tried, on
several occasions, to have Stewart’s case dismissed, without success.

Stewart has confronted skepticism on all sides, much of which comes from
Matrix fans, who are strangely loyal to the Wachowski Brothers.
One on-line forum, entitled Matrix Explained has an entire section devoted to Stewart. Some who have researched her history and writings are open to her story.

Others are suspicious and mocking. “It doesn’t bother me,” said Stewart in a phone
interview last week, “I always knew what was true.”

Some fans, are unaware of the case or they question its legitimacy, due to
the fact that it has received little to no media coverage. Though the case
was not made public until October of 2003, Stewart has her own explanation,
as quoted at aghettotymz.com:

“The reason you have not seen any of this in the media is because Warner
Brothers parent company is AOL-Time Warner… this GIANT owns 95 percent of
the media… let me give you a clue as to what they own in the media
business… New York Times papers/magazines, LA Times papers/magazines,
People Magazine, CNN news, Extra, Celebrity Justice, Entertainment Tonight,
HBO, New Line Cinema, Dreamworks, Newsweek, Village Roadshow… many,
many more!.. They are not going to report on themselves. They have been
surpressing my case for years…”

Fans who have taken Stewart’s allegations seriously, have found eerie
mythological parallels, which seem significant in a case that revolves
around the highly metaphorical and symbolic Matrix series. Sophia, the Greek
goddess of wisdom has been referenced many times in speculation about Stewart. In
one book about the Goddess Sophia, it reads, “The black goddess is the
mistress of web creation spun in her divine matrix”

Although there have been outside implications as to racial injustice
(Stewart is African American), she does not feel that this is the case.
“This is all about the Benjamins,” said Stewart. “It’s not about money with
me. It’s about justice.”

Stewart’s future plans involve a record label, entitled Popsilk Records, and
a motion picture production company, All Eyez On Me, in reference to God.
“I wrote The Third Eye to wake people up, to remind them why God put them here.
There’s more to life than money,” said Stewart. “My whole to the world is
about God and good and about choice, about spirituality over ‘technocracy’.”

If Stewart represents spirituality, then she truly has prevailed over the
"technocracy" represented in both the Terminator and the Matrix, and now,
ironically, by their supposed creators.

Stewart is currently having discussions with CBS about a possible exclusive
story and has several media engagements in the near future to nationally
publicize her victory.
June 13th 2004. Sophia Stewart’s press release read: “The Matrix & Terminator
movie franchises have made world history and have ultimately changed the
way people view movies and how Hollywood does business, yet the real truth
about the creator and creation of these films continue to elude the
masses because the hidden secret of the matter is that these films were created
and written by a Black woman… a Black woman named Sophia Stewart. But
Hollywood does not want you to know this fact simply because it would change history. Also it would encourage our Black children to realize a dream and that is…
nothing is impossible for them to achieve!”

P.Gorath · January 3, 2007, 1:39am

Geese_Pants · January 3, 2007, 1:41am

Hmmmm…I was skeptical for a minute. Conspiracy?