Movies! Movies! Movies! (Non-Japanese)

bmwracer wrote:'racer << HP ignorant. :sweat:

It's all good!

I'm actually really looking forward to the Sherlock Holmes movie!

Wynter wrote:It's all good!

I'm actually really looking forward to the Sherlock Holmes movie!

I saw a trailer a long time ago... Looks to be quite revisionist.

I'd give it a 6.5/10. Minus 1 point for not having the climactic battle scene at the end. I do understand that there is way too much to show in 2.5 or 3 hours. Otherwise, great filming, directing is good... still don't like the plot changes though.

bmwracer wrote:
I saw a trailer a long time ago... Looks to be quite revisionist.

The preview looked like fun.

I love RObert Downey.... :smitten:

But I dont recall Holmes was a pugilist.

Just a coke addict... :hehe:

krim wrote:I'd give it a 6.5/10. Minus 1 point for not having the climactic battle scene at the end. I do under

I was thinking you were AWOL, krim.

But when I searched(not using the search engine) I saw you in the movies thread.. :beaten:

^ I think Holmes was a heroin addict.

bmwracer wrote:^ I think Holmes was a heroin addict.

Was he?

He had an awful lot of energy for a guy doing heroine.

EDIT:

According to Wiki~ Use of drugs
Holmes uses addictive drugs, which he turns to especially when lacking stimulating cases. Holmes is a habitual cocaine user, which he injects in a 7 percent solution, often using a special syringe that he keeps in a leather case. Holmes is also an occasional user of morphine, but expressed strong disapproval when he visited an opium den. All three were legal in late-19th-century England.

I liked the film THe 7 Percent Solution when it came out. :mrgreen:

Eve wrote:


Was he?

He had an awful lot of energy for a guy doing heroine.

Is it time to Wiki? :beaten:

It was cocaine AND morphine, I think...

Anime Dad wrote:

It was cocaine AND morphine, I think...

Wiki said so too. Well done, AD! :applaud:

See above.

NEW Saw movie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_pGTi2SqRs

Eve wrote:


I was thinking you were AWOL, krim.

But when I searched(not using the search engine) I saw you in the movies thread.. :beaten:

i was in san diego all last week. :beaten:

Stevie wrote:NEW Saw movie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_pGTi2SqRs

Yeeech. :bleh:

bmwracer wrote:
Yeeech. :bleh:

My thoughts exactly. :shakehead:

Our engineering manager has seen all of 'em... :sweat:

Go figure. :crazy:

krim wrote:

i was in san diego all last week. :beaten:

Perfect place to hop on the I-10 East ;)

Wynter wrote:

My thoughts exactly. :shakehead:

After those reviews I think I'll skip it. :sweat:

@Beem~ I dont get the fascination at all.

Eve wrote:

Perfect place to hop on the I-10 East ;)

actually, i live about a mile from I-10. I take it to get to work every morning. :mrgreen:

krim wrote:

actually, i live about a mile from I-10. I take it to get to work every morning. :mrgreen:

Just a hop skip and a jump........ :mrgreen:

Ninja Assassin Trailer.Staring Rain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEOcHftH7NM&feature=channel_page

I know Korean actors are trying to ride the hallyu into international -read Hollywood- recognition, but why are they settling for just any crap movie. Ninja Assasin? After that dismal flop of Speed Racer, looks like Rain is going for another swing-and-a-miss. Jun Ji Hyun failed with Blood, which would have been enjoyable had someone along the way decided to write a real plot. Asians in Hollywood have worked for years to create an acceptance of non-martial arts roles, and the cream of the crop of Asian films(not sure of Rain, but Jun is one of the best Korea has) just take ninja or sword wielding schoolgirl parts?

Kijinnmaru wrote:Asians in Hollywood have worked for years to create an acceptance of non-martial arts roles, and the cream of the crop of Asian films(not sure of Rain, but Jun is one of the best Korea has) just take ninja or sword wielding schoolgirl parts?

The stereotype lives....! :sweat: :shakehead:

Hmm. I was reading through this thread and heard about the Downey Jr. "Holmes" movie for the first time. Well that'll be annoying. I'm a Downey Jr. fan... but I'm a Holmes nut, and the previews I just watched have little or nothing to do with Holmes.

I guess I'll wait to netflix it.

By the way, Eve. The 7 Percent Solution isn't really Holmes. That's from a book of the same title, written in 1976 by Nicholas Meyers. It's plot was about a supposed meeting between Holmes and Freud, and Freud's efforts to cure Holmes's addiction.

Holmes' fondness for cocaine was never a big deal in the original stories.
Watson, as a Doctor, simply disapproved.

Movies:

Boy, I saw "Teahouse of the August Moon" for the first time in... 20(?) years last weekend, and it was outstanding.

You can tell it was originally a Broadway comedy, but this thing was filmed on 1956, on Okinawa. Glen ford (Funniest role he ever had), Marlon Brando, Paul Ford (The Colonel from the original Sgt. Bilko show) Eddie Albert (Green Acres) Harry Morgan (Mash) And the rest of the cast made up of some of the better known Japanese actors and actresses of the period.

It's the story of the bumbling American occupation force (In the person of Glen ford) trying to get Okinawa's economy going again in 1946.

A very funny movie, beautifully done.