What Film (Movie) Have You Just Watched?

[Mekong]

Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

 

Seen it more than a dozen times but it still cracks me up Guy Richie's best, who the hell can cast Vinny Jones (an ex UK Football Hardman) with the lines "He beat him to death with a rubber dildo"

 

In typical Richie fashion the movie hops from scene to scene but the continuity is via the soundtrack which for this movie he chose 100 Mile City by Ocean Colour Scene, anyone who listens to this without remembering the movie is a liar. (unless you are unfortunate enough to have never seen the movie)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yxp3D7NJ04

[zzzz]

Looper

 

"In 2074, when the mob wants to get rid of someone, the target is sent 30 years into the past, where a hired gun awaits. Someone like Joe, who one day learns the mob wants to 'close the loop' by transporting back Joe's future self."

 

This movies takes you on a loop in more ways than one. On the surface, it appears to be about the mob and violence in a Sci-Fi setting, but the message of the movie turns into one about love. This is easily one of the top 10 movies of 2012.

[khunsanuk]

Hi,

 

Saw that as well. Thought it was okay, but also quite weird at times. Would certainly not put it in my Top 10 of 2012.

 

Sanuk!

[zzzz]

 

... Thought it was okay, but also quite weird at times....

 

 

Have you ever seen a Sci-Fi flic that is not 'quite weird'?

[khunsanuk]

Hi,

 

Hahahaha, point taken

 

Sanuk!

[Redbaron]

I really liked it. Wouldn't call it "one of the greats" but it was a good laugh and full of excitement... the carving of the arm and subsequent "instant" amputations got the mind racing.

[huumlaar]

Sayjann

 

"if they leave out the scene featuring Tom Bombadil"

 

Not in the Hobbit, that's in LOTR's

 

Peter Jackson felt it had no importance on the story so left it out of the LOTR series.

 

"Both Ralph Bakshi and Peter Jackson stated that the reason the character was omitted from their films was because, in their view, he does little to advance the story, and would make their films unnecessarily long."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Bombadil

 

In many film and radio adaptations of The Lord of the Rings, Bombadil is notable by his absence, possibly because nobody knows quite what to do with him. Peter Jackson justified his omission of Bombadil from the film The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) by pointing out that he did little to advance the story, having nothing to do with the Ring storyline, and serving little purpose when it came to getting the hobbits to Rivendell, and putting together the Fellowship. However, much of Bombadil's dialogue, and the scene in which the hobbits meet Old Man Willow, are transplanted into the scenes that Merry and Pippin share with Treebeard in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002).

 

http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Tom_Bombadil

 

In Tolkien's own words: "Tom Bombadil is not an important person -- to the narrative. I suppose he has some importance as a 'comment.'

 

Read more: http://www.cracked.com/article_19156_6-deleted-scenes-that-prove-book-isnt-always-better.html#ixzz2Gz8gOdw

 

That all said I think it's one of the best bits of the Tolkien books, one of the most interesting too.

[unit731]

Chicago Cab (1997 - Hellcab)

[unit731]

Lincoln

[Palatkik]

Going to KFC will never be the same again...