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  • Creasy47 wrote: » Murdock wrote: » Star Trek Beyond! This looks like a boatload of fun, was pretty surprised at how horrible the fan reactions were to it. Then again - and this will be a sin to some - I never grew up watching the televi…
  • Ed83 wrote: » boldfinger wrote: » @Ed83, can you contrive a way to pull screenshots and post them here :-)? I believe that will be possible. I will definitely share some screenshots when the time comes. Cool, thanks, I´ll be lookin…
  • Agent007391 wrote: » DaltonCraig007 wrote: » That scene from Crystal Skull was topped in Die Hard 5 when Bruce Willis decides to walk around Tchernobyl casually wearing only a pair of jeans and t-shirt. Not to mention taking a swim in t…
  • RC7 wrote: » doubleoego wrote: » But when your comrades are rounding up and killing unarmed innocents it's enough to make you pause, think and reevaluate where your loyalties lie. Then nothing happens for the next 120 minutes. I really,…
  • @Ed83, can you contrive a way to pull screenshots and post them here :-)?
  • NickTwentyTwo wrote: » To be fair to Mark, he kind of acted the hell out of it, despite not having any lines. But I agree, the whole thing is pretty amusing. He did indeed. I think he expressed more emotions in those few seconds than he did i…
  • mepal1 wrote: » DarthDimi wrote: » I thought Mark Hamill looked splendid in the film! I wish i had a well paid job, where all i had to do was to stand near a cliff edge, turn around and say nothing. ;) When I saw he´s listed secon…
  • RC7 wrote: » Which reminds me, they got over his death pretty quickly. What are you talking about? They first had to blow up the big thing, and then it wasn´t adressed directly, but it wasn´t as if it was ignored or something. chrisi…
  • Oh come on, everybody loves the Spanish inquisition. I think it´s hard to really get a reliable impression at a cinema unless you have people there who are trained well and have a visual sense. I don´t know how it is in your respective countries…
  • sunsanvil wrote: » AceHole wrote: » There is a cold, nontheatrical element to 4K quality that seems to take away from the experience. I can't quite put my finger on it, but it is not really 'better'... What are you basing that on? What…
  • BAIN123 wrote: » One other thing that bothered me a bit was the blatant Nazi-symbolism. In the OT it wasn't too overplayed. Here, it feels thrust into your face. Which fits perfectly to a bunch of just-not-anymore-teenagers playing generals. …
  • chrisisall wrote: » I can make movies look however I want with my TV. Except The Matrix- can't totally get rid of the green haze without messing up the 'real life' sequences... Changing the setting for different films is not how I will have i…
  • Murdock wrote: » chrisisall wrote: » boldfinger wrote: » BAIN123 wrote: » Lancaster007 wrote: » Just found a review which says just about what I thought of it, but more eloquently than I could! http://www.vox.com/2015/12/26/106648…
  • The action scenes don´t appeal to me, but Christoph Waltz and Samuel L. Jackson both look awesome.
  • BAIN123 wrote: » Lancaster007 wrote: » Just found a review which says just about what I thought of it, but more eloquently than I could! http://www.vox.com/2015/12/26/10664834/star-force-awakens-derivative He has a point about the nost…
  • Creasy47 wrote: » I was never bothered by the CGI in that fall from the bell tower in QoS, then I saw some sort of featurette a few months back that showed why: it wasn't. I don't know what exact blending of practical effects vs. CG that scene had…
  • chrisisall wrote: » Well then SPECTRE is great because it didn't seem any longer to me than QOS... ;) To me SP seemed endless at times... not to mention pointless...
  • sunsanvil wrote: » The entire catalog was freshly scanned at 4K by Lowry. How much cleanup work they did or did not do on each title is another matter. I don't care about 4K. We don't need more pixels, we need better pixels. HDR 2K beats the…
  • mepal1 wrote: » Did anyone notice how the characters in SWTFA understood what 'BB8' was saying, coz i didnt understand a bloody word he said. It´s a simple trick. The guys in Ocean´s Eleven used it too when conversing with the little Chinese …
  • Risico007 wrote: » Walecs wrote: » Back in 2013, the Sun reported that Bond 24 would be titled Devil May Care. Yes and I am waiting for the next bond title rumor hopefully we get a few more this time around How about "Blofeld"? Haha.
  • Murdock wrote: » For f's sake people really lose their shirts over the Brother line. It was a single throwaway line that had no impact on Bond. Only Blofeld's ego. Big whoop. 8-} Nothing in SP had any impact on Bond. And it was much more tha…
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote: » Another cool setting could be a factory in an exotic country. I've worked inside a factory before and you could stage a lot of thrilling action around the constant movement of the machinery. The movie could have Hun…
  • bondsum wrote: » My ranking 1. Star Wars (A New Hope) 2. EMPIRE 3. Menace 4. Sith 5. Clones 6. Jedi 7. Awakens Also, I'd like to remind those that weren't around in 1977 that it was no secret that Lucas had borrowed elements from other…
  • Creasy47 wrote: » bondjames wrote: » @Creasy47, it's near the end when they are racing on the Embankment on a 40 degree or so angle. There is a closeup of Hinx's face through the car windshield and it is almost identical to Bond's on the bike …
  • chrisisall wrote: » talos7 wrote: » How about this? Go to the 49 sec. mark Saw it live, it still amazes me. He's a Bond in real life. No, he´s a bloody adrenaline junkie, but I admit this was the first that came to my mind when I…
  • Matt007 wrote: » My main issue was star killer base. The depth of the trench is like thousands of miles deep. That's a lot of land to shift and would probably alter all sorts of physics of the planet. Not to mention how it took the energy from the…
  • DarthDimi wrote: » I have no idea. 3D belongs in a theme park. Anyone wasting their money on 3D in the theatre has little love for or little understanding of the art of filmmaking. Quote of the year :-bd !
  • Since everybody mentions alcoholic beverages I´m not sure if my all-time favorite really fits the prescription: Moore: "I´m looking for Dr. Goodhead." Goodhead: "You´ve found her." Moore, shocked: "A woman?!" Never fails to crack me up :…
  • timmer wrote: » delfloria wrote: » U.N.C.L.E. continues to go out with a bang this year as Collider also lists it among the 10 best action films of 2015. (courtesy of The UNCLE Inner Circle FB group) http://collider.com/best-action-movies-of-2…