What movie did you watch last night? (5 Viewers)

[Mormon Nailer]

I have a question about this film that has been bugging me for ages.

Spoiler

Roger Ebert says that this film hangs on a name being used twice, once in the wrong context. I presume he was talking about how the prostitute and the girl from In Bruges both refer to him as Mr. Butterfly - meaning that the prostitute is in on the whole thing.

However, the prostitute calls him that because of his tattoo and the In Bruge lady call him that because of the incident when they were testing the gun, so it doesn't prove anything.

Am I right? Am I missing something?

 

[Mormon Nailer]

What a pile of muck.

Note to writer:
You can't start with the set piece and then try and do the building empathy with the characters thing in flashback. It kind of defeats the whole point of building the suspense.
I watched the first 5 mins and then forwarded through the next 20 minutes of needless empathy building nonsense to get back to the action

Note to self:
If the directors' are called The Brothers xxxxx give it a miss.

 

[ratmonkey]

I have a question about this film that has been bugging me for ages.

Spoiler

Roger Ebert says that this film hangs on a name being used twice, once in the wrong context. I presume he was talking about how the prostitute and the girl from In Bruges both refer to him as Mr. Butterfly - meaning that the prostitute is in on the whole thing.

However, the prostitute calls him that because of his tattoo and the In Bruge lady call him that because of the incident when they were testing the gun, so it doesn't prove anything.

Am I right? Am I missing something?

Spoiler

I didn't notice, but Clooney does use two names in it. I think the butterfly business has more to do with some kind of merging in his mind of them (and also your one he kills at the start, all of them look vaguely similar). I was more wondering why client lady wanted a gun with such a high rate of fire when she said she only had one target.

 

[ratmonkey]

Also

Spoiler

Small down, cop and Swedish guy killed, no one asks the foreign lad recently arrived in the town anything about it? And did he ever get his shoes back?

 

[Jill Hives]

I watched some film with Michael Sheen last night. He loves darts and with a trip to Blackpool hopes to reconnect his wife who just left him. Anyone know the name of it? It was rather endearing and holy hell did Sheen have great hair in it. A big curly mop like that guy on QI that I have a crush on. It was a cute film.

 

[Lili Marlene]

a trip to Blackpool hopes to reconnect with his wife

good god almighty, does... not.... compute.

anyway five seconds on wikipedia gave me this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartlands_(film)

that it?

 

[Jill Hives]

good god almighty, does... not.... compute.

anyway five seconds on wikipedia gave me this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartlands_(film)



that it?

Yep, that's it. My brain was working faster than my fingers. I left out a few words there.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Not the grammar, just the idea of trying to save a relationship by going to Blackpool.

 

[Jill Hives]

Epic hair in the first 30 minutes or so. I wish I could find a photo.

 

[Lili Marlene]

http://www.acephotos.org/pic-gallery/michael-sheen-pics.htm

print it off and put it on your wall kids

 

[Mormon Nailer]

Fabulous.
The taglines from the poster above give a wrong impression.
It's a journey film rather than some independance day thing.

 

[ratmonkey]

Hong Kong Godfather. This has way more machete fights than the actual Godfather, more machetes than Machete, and more Han from Enter the Dragon, still called Han here. Also it appears that the 80s also happened in Hong Kong also, dodgy mullets and white suits all over the place.
If you like your triad films to have a final third consisting of machetecuffs, you may enjoy this.

Le Cercle Rouge, which is French for top quality crime film. The police chief who kept on about all men being guilty would have loved Bronson in 10 to Midnight.

 

[Jill Hives]

Fabulous.
The taglines from the poster above give a wrong impression.
It's a journey film rather than some independance day thing.

Is this out on DVD yet? Anyone know? Also what about The Town and The Kids Are Alright? I missed all these in the theatre.

 

[Kermit McDermott]

I always watch this when it's on...even though its a bit crap.

 

[Mormon Nailer]

Is this out on DVD yet? Anyone know?.

I got it off TPB. There are DVD's on Amazon so I guss it's been released.

 

[ratmonkey]

Entertaining silliness.

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This is many kinds of ridiculous. Laser fingers, leg amputations, chicken foot stilts, snakes as weapons, lobster claws for hands, kung fu gorillas, that kind of thing.

 

[Cormcolash]

Hahaha, INCONCEIVABLE PLOT!

Too bad these kung fu gorillas weren't in the trailer, DAMN

 

[ratmonkey]

It's a dude in a gorilla suit, they'd already used up their effects budget on the snakes and lasers.

This is the last ten minutes or so, gorilla appears towards the start.

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[Cormcolash]

Hahahaha that is fucking INCREDIBLE!

You ever see this? The fight at the end is genius!

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[ratmonkey]

Thought that was the Crippled Avengers, (aka Return of the 5 Deadly Venoms or something, just as the Venoms lads, but unrealted to the original film, mainly staright up kung fu after they deliver the cripplings to the protagonists, it's pretty great), but it's not. That's going on the list of shit I need to see post haste.

Donnie Yen pulls some Serious Acting Faces in this. It's patchy, last half hour or so is pretty good.