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To Die For looked like smut from the cover. I guess I'll rent it after the orgy of praise it's received here.

Eraser

6th Day

End Of Days

Eraser is good. The last quality Arnie movie.

End of Days is decent/fun. A step down for Schwarzenegger though.

6th Day was disappointing. It's got a decent story and some nifty sfx but it feels like a TV movie.

Anyway you can't go wrong with buying those. I own all 3 as well.

Been going through season sets of The Shield instead of being productive. It's compulsively watchable just like 24 although perhaps not quite as addictive. If you want a show about dirty cops bucking the system and you've finished going through The Wire, I'd recommend this show. It takes it's liberties with realism...but it's quite entertaining and the stories have a good flow to them...

I bought Silverado yesterday, watching it now, its a very under rated western

Thats a good movie. A classic. Kevin Costner is a bit daft in that movie though...

I watched the making of extra and it was all his idea after he was told he wouldn't be one of the standout hero's.

Danny Glover is great in it, damn i love a good western

You ever see Tombstone? imho that was the best western of the 90's....I liked it even more than Unforgiven...

This guy was too fuckin cool:

I haven't been under a rock sly

Im not a huge fan of Unforgiven to be honest, Tombstone is a far better film.

Val Kilmer adds a really cool charm to Doc " I'm your huckleberry "

Doc Holliday was a total scene stealer. I gotta admit man, I was a little misty eyed when Doc was on his death bed...somebody should have kept the alcohol away from the guy...

What did you think of Open Range? Costner sure loves westerns....

I bought Silverado yesterday, watching it now, its a very under rated western

Thats a good movie. A classic. Kevin Costner is a bit daft in that movie though...

I watched the making of extra and it was all his idea after he was told he wouldn't be one of the standout hero's.

Danny Glover is great in it, damn i love a good western

You ever see Tombstone? imho that was the best western of the 90's....I liked it even more than Unforgiven...

This guy was too fuckin cool:

I bought Silverado yesterday, watching it now, its a very under rated western

Thats a good movie. A classic. Kevin Costner is a bit daft in it though...

Re watched Charlie Wilson's War.

Philip Seymour Hoffman is an absolute hoot in this and his delivery is impeccable.

A nice little true story.

I wanted to see this but Julia Roberts presence kept me away....

I've heard nothing but good things about it though....

I love Sax. Dave Grusin and Sanborn are my favorites. I've always been fond of 80's pop for the inclusion of the sax. It can be cheesy a lot of times, but I still love it...

randy....you're really reaching here bud...I think Trent is more concerned with releasing an album and touring than worrying about an 80's icon who hasn't been relevant in the business for over a decade. Harsh but it's the truth.

I was a huge Rockstar fanboy, I even liked "The Warriors", but they really let me down with Manhunt 2. That game was just an absolute turd.

Question to all you wii owners, is this pretty much a dead year for wii? I ask because it's obvious nintendo makes the best games for this console. Now that we have mario kart coming out next week in America, is that pretty much the last A-list game until nintendo updates another classic like Donkey Kong, Pilot Wings,etc?

Warriors was classic on Ps2. I haven't got Bully yet for 360.

Kane & Lynch is one of my favorites on 360, it's like a big action movie, with amazing online game where you heist banks.

Yeah man I'm still playing The Warriors...

I need to get the 360 but I'm waiting for microsoft to release a version that's more reliable. I don't want to pay hundreds of dollars for a microwave.

I need a movie to hire out tonight, but I can't think of anything. Sadly I think I've asked this question too late as there's probably no awesome movie people are online right now . Still though, I want a weird (quirky would be a better word) sort of sarcastic comedy, but I can't for the life of me think of any that I haven't seen.

Pecker. Better off Dead. Cabin Boy. The Burbs. Dead Man on Campus. Kingpin. Groundhog Day. Caddyshack. Love Stinks.

Best I can do off the top of my head. Most of those I doubt you can find in the video store though...

Anyone see Smokin' Aces?

Pretty good, a bit of a mess at times but funny, violence, nudity, guns, drugs...

I thought it was pretty bad dude...Joe Carnahan the director is pretty damn cool...but this was a misfire imho. Nothing really worked, the way it was shot, the dialogue, the action...I just didn't really care for any of it. It was pretty forgettable. Even good directors screw up from time to time (Mann w/Miami Vice, DePalma with pretty much everything after Mission Impossible,etc).

Yeah Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is great. Shane hasn't lost his touch with the rapid fire dialogue.... I want to see a sequel badly....I hope we get one...but again it doesn't seem like Shane's style. That and Robert Downey jr. is becoming too big of a star for movies like this...

ER: I just saw the ending of Total Recall with verhoeven/arnie commentary (arnie is priceless ), and Verhoeven says that Quaid indeed gets a lobotomy at the end of the movie. The whole thing was a dream...I'm not sure how I feel about this to be honest....

It would have sucked with Swayze so it's probably best that the movie didn't star him. The guy is literally a plank of wood...

Isn't the X rated just a couple more frames of gore? I have the Criteron edition and there doesn't seem to be much of a difference. Robocop 2 is a pretty worthy sequal in my eyes, it was written by the master of comic noir Frank Miller. For a movie Verhoven had no part in, I thought it was great.

Yeah, I think it's about an extra 30 seconds of gore...but it's shot in such an over the top cartoonish way I'm surprised it got the X rating. Even Total Recall, another Verhoeven movie was initially rated X for the same reason (the scenes where arnie escapes by shoving a metal rod through one of the bad guy's head was longer). In Robocop, I believe the extra gore was in Murphy's death scene and the scene where the Ed 209 robot basically shoots the absolute shit out of that corporate douche bag in the highrise building.

ER: It's interesting you mention Total Recall because apparently that movie started out as a David Cronenberg movie and Verhoeven significantly altered it for his tastes...I recently rewatched Total Recall and I dunno man, I just felt it didn't hold up as well as it used to. When it first came out, it was just a dazzling futuristic film...but I think it would have been a lot more cerebral and perhaps satisfying with Cronenberg now that I think about it. What was your take on the ending? Was Qaid living out his fantasy as a secret agent and eventually getting a lobotomy (the ending fades to white) or was it a conspiracy and Quaid was in fact a real secret agent?

Anyway, Shane Black is bar none the greatest action writer ever. I have a hard bound copy of his scripts for The Last Boyscout and The Long Kiss Goodnight in my bookshelf. It's a shame he renounced the whole genre as soulless...

The x-rated cut of Robocop is a classic. Robocop 2...I don't remember that well but I don't think I liked it much. I remember it had a kid in it who was a complete asshole to Robocop... Never saw Robocop III though. I remember seeing the ads as a kid when that movie was in theaters, they kept showing Robocop on a jetpack or something....it looked really stupid. I gotta rent that one though along with Conan The Destroyer...

I was a huge Rockstar fanboy, I even liked "The Warriors", but they really let me down with Manhunt 2. That game was just an absolute turd.

Question to all you wii owners, is this pretty much a dead year for wii? I ask because it's obvious nintendo makes the best games for this console. Now that we have mario kart coming out next week in America, is that pretty much the last A-list game until nintendo updates another classic like Donkey Kong, Pilot Wings,etc?

"Goldfinger" will always be the classic Bond film but in many ways "Casino Royale" is even better.

From Russia With Love?

In any case, Casino Royale was a lot better than I expected it to be. Much better than it had any right to be considering the director (Martin Campbell). In particular, the cinematography and fight choreography were awesome. Beautifully shot, paced and edited. Nearly a perfect Bond movie. The only scenes I would have done away with was the overlong action scene with Bond in Miami airport and perhaps shortened the ending action scene... This movie also has the classiest Bond girls since The Spy Who Loved Me.

You're thinking of that other babe, the italian chick who gets killed halfway into the movie. She was the one who was riding the horse...and bond...bad pun I know....

And what is this nonsense I hear about Predator being shit? Predator is a genre classic...possibly the best film of it's kind. Dutch Schaeffer is the most badass Arnold character ever... The only scene in the movie I wish they deleted was the opening with the spaceship flying towards earth.

Let's not talk about Predator 2 though. That movie disappointed me nearly as much as Terminator 3.

Just got done watching AVPR. I actually thought it was pretty good. Not as good as the first, but good in my opinion none the less.

One you hit your late teens/20's you will hate this movie and the original Alien vs Predator. They are just a disgrace compared to Alien 1,2 and Predator.

Yeah, yeah that was the link, there was some half baked theory that this is Craigs MO for new Bond, there will be some subtle kind of homoerotic subtext. This sounds like something I made up but it is lossely based on fact, well at least speculation.

It's sort of going back on Connary in a weird way. These were the issues but then Bond went all 60s and kind of execessive, action oriented, more about the locations and dominating chicks in the 70s. In the 90s they sterred away with more hardboiled then sort of played up to it late 90s.

So now all they can do is go back to old school topics but rework them. Casino Royale was first book I think but the misogny won't fly no more, so they making him gay?

Too far if you ask me. I prefered Dalton, sort of like Live and Let Die style.

You're onto something, they were actually working in the homoerotica in Casino Royale. All those scenes with Bond in a uber tight speedo rising out of the water bare chested were there for a reason. To set up his "lifestyle change" in the sequel...

Maybe Kojima will do MGS 5 for PS4 since this one didn't live upto his expectations. One can only hope...

So you mean that Bond has sworn off women after Vesper Lynd betrayed him in Casino Royale? I guess that's kind of extreme but it makes sense...

Rewatched The Living Daylights and Licence to Kill. I'm a huge fan of Dalton as Bond. He was a ruthless bastard. B)

Living Daylights is my favorite bond movie. It's the first one I saw. That A-ha song is pretty good as well. Chickezie should do a cover. I didn't really know when I saw it, but it's sort of more serious than later day Bond which more like Austin Powers.

I liked parts of Goldeneye and Casino Royale was a true return to form. However, Licence to Kill was my favorite bond flick. Dalton was a very underrated Bond. He was very good as the hard edged ruthless bond. Certainly much more convincing than Daniel Craig. He also is the classiest of the lot and the best actor since Connery in the role.

Rewatched The Living Daylights and Licence to Kill. I'm a huge fan of Dalton as Bond. He was a ruthless bastard. B)

Awesome! I love Jane's addiction. B)