The Quiet Earth" & "The Far Side of the Moon": Movie Reviews

[sebas531]

]b]dark man.
get rich or die trying
in her shoes[/b]

Get Rich or Die Tryin' was terrible

hahahahahahahah. I guess that I should apologize. I have a strange sense of humor.

I should contribute to this thread. I would say Life Is Beautiful is a really good movie.

 

[eveseh]

Get Rich or Die Tryin' was terrible

come on,it wasnt that terrible,it's a cool movie
to see,i think it gave you some ideas in life

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Cool! I just noticed that THX 1138 is on TCM. That is another favorite that I haven't seen in since the 70s.

 

[JamesU]

come on,it wasnt that terrible,it's a cool movie
to see,i think it gave you some ideas in life

http://imdb.com/title/tt0430308/

look at the rating

 

[eveseh]

http://imdb.com/title/tt0430308/

look at the rating

yea,i have seen it,but nothing's wrong wit it
i think it's a cool film to watch,haha

 

[rcgldr]

memento - memory duration adjusted to fit the script.

Actually, this sounds very organic to me. Memory doesn't work like clockwork.

True, but it always varied by just the right amount to fit the screen play. As mentioned, driving from the town to the cave and/or back seemed took a long time, not to mention continuiging with a task that started before the drive.

I agree that the Sixth Sense was pretty weak. I knew something was strange throughout the whole movie because no way are children that young allowed to associate with a grown man alone

Yes, the "field work" just didn't seem right to me. And all the coincidences, in addition to what I previously mentioned, the bathroom scene where the door and the medicine cabinet both happened to be opened just enough for the main character to see that his wife is taking anti-depressants. The other was that his clothes were always changing except for the shirt, which for some reason the director felt was important. So many things left unexplained. Who's dressing the main character? How does the main character move about town (always on the bus)? Where does the main character sleep? What and where does the main character eat?

jacobs ladder

For me, yet another very annoying movie. Most of the movie leads the viewer into one direction, a mystery to be solved, but the solution for all that is witnessed, is that it's just some bad dream. The Usual Suspects, is similar, almost the entire movie is just some story made up by the main character.

As previously posted, I find too many of the so called "clever" movies to have too many plot faults and/or an extreme number of coincidences.

rants about other movies

Now I don't mind plot faults as much in the not so serious movies or TV shows. In Star Trek, Spock's strength varied from episode to episode, sometimes he could punch big dents in metal walls, while other times he could be subdued by a couple of humans. When transporting a bomb off the ship, why not just scatter it instead of re-assembling it outside (other than for a cool scene). In one episode (a piece of the action), the Enterprise stuns every one in a several block radius of the landing party. A lot of episodes would last maybe 2 minutes if they simply would stun everything around the landing party if an all clear wasn't received, and then transport back the landing party. Still it was a fun show to watch at the time.

In Star Wars Episode 6, soon after Luke finds out that Leah is his twin sister, Luke asks Leah if she remembers her "real" mother, and Leah responds yes, but her real mother died when Leah was young. However, in Star Wars 3, rather that come up with a reason for Padme choosing to go with Leah and not Luke when they split up the twins, they just kill off Padme instead, a significant change to the time line of the series, and a bit of a copout. "Higher ground" was probably the worst part of EP3 though. So most of the movie was good except for the fact that they had to rush everything at the end of EP3 so that the characters were in place for where they start EP4. For example, the transition for Anakin to end up as Darth Vader was supposed to have taken much longer than it did in EP3, but if EP3 were made this way, you don't get a Darth Vader by the end of EP3, so they had to rush that.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

A Clockwork Orange
Kafka

 

[JamesU]

requiem for a dream was surprisingly good...

I don't see Pulp Fiction on this list either

 

[turbo]

A Clockwork Orange

I'm singing in the rain...

 

[rocketboy]

requiem for a dream was surprisingly good...

I don't see Pulp Fiction on this list either

Oh man Pulp Fiction was awesome!

I just finished watching The Quiet Earth after hearing interesting things about it... man that movie is messed! I'm confused, how did the explosion at the end send him to an alternate universe or sumtin near Saturn? And why did the movie have to show him naked? I really didn't need to see that LMAO.

I didn't mind Get Rich or Die Tryin', it doesn't come close to my "top movies" list but it was entertaining.

Catch Me If You Can was good. I like movies like that that really make you think about what is happening and to figure things outm(that's one thing Get rich... didn't have, it was pure entertainment... same with Tokyo Drift, very entertaining but not very mind blowing or thought envoking)

I'll have to check out Contact.

 

[JamesU]

I'll have to check out Contact.

Yes, do. it's a lot better that Get Rich or Die Tryin'

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I just finished watching The Quiet Earth after hearing interesting things about it... man that movie is messed! I'm confused, how did the explosion at the end send him to an alternate universe or sumtin near Saturn?

Warning: spoiler!

My take was that he died again in the explosion which again left him in an alternate universe. Note that the last "event" had already begun when the truck blew up. This is how they ended up where they were in the first place - by dying during an event. And I don't think that was necessarily supposed to be Saturn. I think the point was that he was now in a universe far different from ours.

And why did the movie have to show him naked? I really didn't need to see that LMAO.

In the very beginning? He had died and was born again, but we didn't understand that until later.

Personally, I was more disturbed by a guy in a dress who throws a party for paper cut-outs. And I loved how Nixon was right next to Hitler!

 

[rocketboy]

Warning: spoiler!

My take was that he died again in the explosion which again left him in an alternate universe. Note that the last "event" had already begun when the truck blew up. This is how they ended up where they were in the first place - by dying during an event. And I don't think that was necessarily supposed to be Saturn. I think the point was that he was now in a universe far different from ours.

Oh, that makes more sense then.. thx

In the very beginning? He had died and was born again, but we didn't understand that until later.

Personally, I was more disturbed by a guy in a dress who throws a party for paper cut-outs. And I loved how Nixon was right next to Hitler!

Ya he may have died and was born again, but we don't need a full frontal haha, he could have still had the sheets on. And then again when he gets up and walks toward the bathroom, they could have done the camera shot from behind instead of the side!

LOL, I thought his paper cut-out party was awesome... hilarious.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Ya he may have died and was born again, but we don't need a full frontal haha, he could have still had the sheets on. And then again when he gets up and walks toward the bathroom, they could have done the camera shot from behind instead of the side!

It was an artsy fartsy thing.

When a lesser known movie starts with a scene like that it always puts me on guard, but in this case I thought it worked. He was like a naked babe lost in the woods. But I'm with you; I wish they would stick with female nudity.

 

[LENIN]

My personal favorite is Bicentennial Man. Mostly becouse o thre great story I like science fiction stuff especially Asimov. My othere favorites are :

-Kill Bill (I and II)
-Pulp Fiction
-LOTR (especially the big battels)
-Shawshank redemption
-Bridge on the river Kwai
-The Postman Always Rings Twice

 

[heman]

i see no one has mentioned

"The Negotiator"

a great movie to watch...nothing more exciting i have seen ever!

Well my pic ...the movies i like which haven't been mentioned
Trainspotting
School of Rock
ButterFly Effect

 

[heman]

was just watching the posts...
i think i can bet on that "Shawshank Redemption"is the movie that is favourite of many guys...