ChiefsPlanet - Movies and TV Movies

Battle Royal was just added to Netflix instant. For those of you who bought into the Hunger Games craze -- this movie predates that (2000). I've mentioned it a few times in this thread but I really recommend that you watch this movie. Definitely not kid friendly.

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I watched this last weekend, strange movie and quite possibly the loudest machine gun I've ever heard.

Bambi

07-02-2012 08:25 PM

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Originally Posted by QuikSsurfer (Post 8711425)

This is on my "Essential not quite horror but more brutal" movies list from a couple years ago. It's amazing more people don't do this... rip off foreign cinema or book, write an American version, get rich... ala Hunger Games

QuikSsurfer

07-02-2012 09:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Wickedson (Post 8715456)

Where is this list of yours? If Oldboy (trilogy) isn't on it - I don't care about it anymore.
And Battle Royal was indeed a book before movie -- I own it but never finished it.

blaise

07-03-2012 05:47 AM

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Originally Posted by QuikSsurfer (Post 8715597)

Where is this list of yours? If Oldboy (trilogy) isn't on it - I don't care about it anymore.
And Battle Royal was indeed a book before movie -- I own it but never finished it.

I read an interview a month ago that said Spike Lee intends to keep the octopus scene in his Oldboy remake. We'll see how that goes.

Deberg_1990

07-03-2012 06:34 AM

Watched Haywire, We Bought a Zoo and Girl with the Dragon Tat (Fincher version) over the weekend.

Haywire was kinda meh......kind of slow and boring.

Zoo was solid. Lesser Crowe, but a nice family, crowd pleasing, put a smile on your face flick.

Dragon Tat was flat out awesome. I was riveted from start to finish. I want to go watch the Swedish sequels on Netflix now because im not sure they will do American made remakes of those.

Deberg_1990

07-03-2012 06:36 AM

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Originally Posted by QuikSsurfer (Post 8707282)

I'm very late to the party on this but I started up the 90s (1990 to be exact) series "Twin Peaks" yesterday on netflix after having watched a few David Lynch films over the weekend... I watched 5 straight episodes yesterday and am totally hooked on this 30 episode series. Some great stuff here.
Anyone remember this series?

http://www.russtamblyn.com/twinpeaks2dvd.jpg

I havent seen any of those in 20 years probably. I remember it started off great the first season, then the 2nd season went downhill.

Bambi

07-03-2012 07:29 AM

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Originally Posted by QuikSsurfer (Post 8715597)

Where is this list of yours? If Oldboy (trilogy) isn't on it - I don't care about it anymore.
And Battle Royal was indeed a book before movie -- I own it but never finished it.

http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showp...&postcount=131

patteeu

07-03-2012 07:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Deberg_1990 (Post 8715921)

Dragon Tat was flat out awesome. I was riveted from start to finish. I want to go watch the Swedish sequels on Netflix now because im not sure they will do American made remakes of those.

There is an extended version of the Swedish trilogy available on Netflix streaming that might interest you:

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The Dragon Tattoo Trilogy contains more than two hours of additional footage not seen in the theatrical versions of the original Swedish films. Amassing a total of 9 hours of story content and presented in 6 parts, this complete version of the international hit series restores notable characters and subplots from Stieg Larsson's best-selling novels.

I haven't watched it yet so I can't say whether it's any good or not.

QuikSsurfer

07-03-2012 09:47 AM

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Originally Posted by blaise (Post 8715905)

I read an interview a month ago that said Spike Lee intends to keep the octopus scene in his Oldboy remake. We'll see how that goes.

Ughh...
Well as long as they keep the hallway fight scene totally intact - and one full shot - I'm good.

blaise

07-03-2012 10:55 AM

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Originally Posted by QuikSsurfer (Post 8716209)

Ughh...
Well as long as they keep the hallway fight scene totally intact - and one full shot - I'm good.