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Post by Animavore » Sat Mar 05, 2011 12:36 am

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Yes. It is real.

Alien vs Ninja. A tale of anachronistic ninjas sporting black spray-painted ice-hockey pads and black PVC under the thumb of a grand master and his gas mask wearing guardians do battle against a bulimic Pokemon from outer space.

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Sounds pretty awesome on paper, right?
Wrong.
It started off pretty decent with some nice sword work but once the alien came into it, very early in this 75 minute film, it was like watching an episode of the Power Rangers only with some gore as they chased a rubber monster around the same two or three sets only shot from different angles while dodgy techno music played in the background.
The special effects were no better than the ones seen on a ghost train at your average carnival. At one stage a guy gets decapitated and a crow is heard cawing and fluttering in towards it. What looked like a stuffed crow mounted on a stick pops onto the screen and pecks at his eye.They seemingly had a guy basically holding mounted crow like a hammer and bashing at his cornea a couple of times.

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It also featured one of the most bizarre sexually suggestive male vs female on screen tussles I have ever seen or are likely to see and one bit toward they end where a ninja, under the mind control of the alien with a little pink foetus down his throat starts calling the protagonist a, "Mother fucking son of a bitch", in mock American English (which the protagonist can't understand), which is then followed by chants of, "Fuck you" by the other controlled ninjas, which I just simply can't make head nor tail of.
Add on top of this the dodgy slap-stick, the bad acting which you can tell even though they're speaking a language I don't understand, slow motion techniques used incorrectly and desultory editing and you have a film which should be avoided like Jersey Shore.

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Re: More good movies we've seen.

Post by Pappa » Sun Mar 06, 2011 8:39 pm

I watched The Gruffalo a couple of weeks ago. It's a 30 minute animated retelling of the kids book.
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Earlier today I watched "Lost and Found", a 24 minute animation based on a book of the same name. It's a stunning piece of animation, my 2 year old loved it too and got really caught up in the story, clapping and cheering and almost crying at one point too.
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Post by tattuchu » Sun Mar 06, 2011 11:13 pm

Those look like vids I would like, Pappa.
"It's a stunning piece of animation, my 2 year old loved it too and got really caught up in the story, clapping and cheering and almost crying at one point too."
Then I will definitely cry :cry:
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Post by Pappa » Mon Mar 07, 2011 4:15 pm

tattuchu wrote:Those look like vids I would like, Pappa.
"It's a stunning piece of animation, my 2 year old loved it too and got really caught up in the story, clapping and cheering and almost crying at one point too."
Then I will definitely cry :cry:
I'm pretty sure you'd love it tat.

It doesn't appear to be available in NTSC DVD.... but here's a torrent for a version of it recorded from TV:
http://torrents.sumotorrent.com/torrent ... 40.torrent
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Post by FBM » Mon Mar 07, 2011 11:18 pm

Pappa wrote:I saw Winter's Bone, after Animavore recommended it a couple of weeks ago. It was really good. I loved the pace and atmosphere of it all... the uncle reminded me of FBM too. :hehe:

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Post by Pappa » Mon Mar 07, 2011 11:38 pm

FBM wrote:
Pappa wrote:I saw Winter's Bone, after Animavore recommended it a couple of weeks ago. It was really good. I loved the pace and atmosphere of it all... the uncle reminded me of FBM too. :hehe:

I...uhm...don't have a mole over my left eye. :shifty:
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Post by Pappa » Wed Mar 09, 2011 11:49 pm

Monsters (2010)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1470827/

Cool premise, nice cinematography, hot chick, love story and Cthuluesque aliens... what more could you ask for?
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Post by surreptitious57 » Thu Mar 10, 2011 2:56 am

Kontroll - the best foreign film I have ever seen - outside of United States - bar none
Funny Games - the original - the re make made some so angry they walked out
Solaris - the re make with George Clooney - remarkably tight and nuanced
Dogtooth - taking indoctrination to a dark and disturbing place . . .
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Post by tattuchu » Fri Mar 11, 2011 1:18 pm

Run, Fatboy, Run, with Simon Pegg. Not as funny as Shaun of the Dead or Hot Fuzz, but still pretty good. And I cried at the end. So there you go.
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Fri Mar 11, 2011 3:02 pm

Pappa wrote:Monsters (2010)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1470827/

Cool premise, nice cinematography, hot chick, love story and Cthuluesque aliens... what more could you ask for?
Available for instant play on Netflix. :woot:
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Post by Pappa » Fri Mar 11, 2011 3:08 pm

They Live

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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Fri Mar 11, 2011 3:09 pm

Pappa wrote:They Live

Not a stupid movie. Rather, something a stupid movie found stuck to the sole of its shoe after a walk in the doggie park.
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Fri Mar 11, 2011 9:33 pm

Battle Los Angeles: Much fun. :dance: Not Henry V. But much fun. :dance:
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sat Mar 12, 2011 2:02 pm

Gawdzilla wrote:Battle Los Angeles: Much fun. :dance: Not Henry V. But much fun. :dance:
BTW, from the original trailers I saw I deduce that there was a major rewrite somewhere along the line. This movie is not a Cloverfield/War of the Worlds clone. You don't see people being sucked up into the alien contraptions. (But I may be thinking of a different movie entirely, of course.)
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