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WEREWOLVES, ZOMBIES, VAMPIRES...! ...ninjas...?

Baraka_Guru — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:17:22 GMT

It's obvious that movies have trends. Lately, it's been zombies and vampires, with a few werewolves tossed in. Frankly, it's all good. But is it overdone? Are we headed for tilt? Maybe, maybe not.

The same thing happened in the '80s with movies about ninjas. They were awesome, no matter how cheesy they were. As a kid I loved the concept of ninjas: deadly martial artists who could appear and disappear, leaving corpses and the occasional shuriken as the only evidence that they were ever there.

I've been hiding it well enough here on TFP, but I'm into ninjas just about as much as Crompsie....er..Plan9...is into his monstrous triad.

Coming out of the '80s and into the '90s to today, the idea of ninjas in movies were mainly for comedic effect. Maybe it was warranted during our hangover from those movies. But are we over it?

I am.

Enter Ninja Assassin! It's funny, just a few months ago, I was lamenting the lack of big-budget ninja action. The martial art of choice in film these days has been kung-fu. And here seemingly out of nowhere---like the ninja---my despair gets assassinated by this Joel Silver/Wachowski-brother joint.

I don't care if it sucks and gets panned by the critics. I'm totally hitting this on the big screen.

Feast your eyes, ninja fans!

How many films have you seen in your life?

oliver9184 — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:41:02 GMT

I have now reached 1,700 with IMDB's 'my movies' feature. I think I have a chance of making 10,000 by the time my life comes to an end. Who else keeps track, and if you do what's your total? If not, a rough estimate? Who's seen the most movies?

There is a few on my list that I walked out of, fell asleep during or fast-forwarded through but I still counted them. I haven't included any TV shows or TV movies.

V (2009 reimagining)

Baraka_Guru — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:17:18 GMT

Anyone watching the new V?

I vaguely remember the original as a kid: mostly the general feel of the series and the true nature of the "Visitors," rather than what was actually happening plotwise. I did get a bit nostalgic seeing the pilot last week.

Promo Trailer:

Sneak Peek (Some slight spoilers, it's close to being a summary to the pilot):

**Some slight spoilers in video**

I must say I'm enjoying it. It's not blowing my mind, but it's good enough for me.

The issues I have are with some sloppy acting and some slightly lame characterization, plus a little bit of identity crisis in terms of genre. But it's not that bad.

What I do like is its use of suspense. It isn't in your face like other sci-fi. I'm going to continue watching it as I'm already looking forward to the third episode.

Plus, here is the requisite "worth the price of admission":

Anyone else watching this?

Actor Quotes

little_tippler — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:06:30 GMT

Did a quick search but didn't find a thread on TFP where actors are quoted. This sort of thing constantly appears in magazines, websites, blogs, TV, etc.

I thought we could have some fun and post any interesting quotes we may come across from actors here in Entertainment.

They can be stupid (there will be many of those!), clever, intelligent, humorous, funny, snarky, whatever.

I'll start:

Quote:

Originally Posted by George Clooney

I'm ok with getting older because it's better than the other option, which is being dead."

Man has a point. :p

Female actors?

oliver9184 — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:40:12 GMT

Just like that male actors thread but females. For me this is harder because I get distracted by sex appeal and that seriously distorts my judgement of how proficient their their acting is or isn't. For me Lindsay Lohan has phonomenal sex appeal and for a long time I found myself defending the quality of her acting against critics. I am still very fond of her but I wouldn't say her acting is anything special. It doesn't help that her choice of roles has been staggeringly bad for years.

My other favourites are Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson, Reese Witherspoon and Rachel McAdams. But if I'm being honest I'd watch anything any of these are in not because they are great actors (they can be but not always), but because they are extremely nice to look at. Eric Roberts' daughter (and Julia Roberts' neice) Emma Roberts has, like Lindsay, had an impressive career as a child star and I'm keen to see her in more serious films than Wildchild and Hotel for Dogs.

My favourites from bygone times are Joan Blondell, Olivia De Havilland, Faye Dunaway, Jenny Agutter and (when she was younger) Winona Ryder.

Help: Find an old children's book.

Jozrael — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:15:09 GMT

Ok so I've been trying very hard to remember the title of a book I read as a child.

General plot: There is a young boy who lives in a sort of underground dystopia. He endeavors to escape, finds a young girl on his way, and they make their way painfully to the surface past guards, etc. They eventually escape into the surface world, where all the artificial rules and restrictions of their previous life no longer apply.

The title was short, 3 or 4 words, and involved the word 'dark' or darkness.

Something like:

Into the Darkness
Out of the Darkness
Diving into darkness

Something like that.

>< sorry for not having much to work off of.

What's the most depraved book you've read?

oliver9184 — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:28:30 GMT

I have just finished reading American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis and because it describes some very shocking things it got me wondering whether it was the most disturbing, depraved book I have read.

I thought so immediately after finishing it. But on balance I think I was more appalled by The Room by Hubert Selby Jr. Both books feature very heavy and detailed violence but I found that of American Psycho easier to bear, I think partly because it was tempered by humor and an unreal, slightly absurd atmosphere - and partly because most of the violence was directed against women and, being male, I found it less easy to identify with. The things that are described in The Room were more troubling to me because they mostly happen to men, and their perpetrator was - unlike Patrick Bateman - someone I ended up utterly detesting. Reading The Room was like being deep inside the guy's mind and his most lurid fantasies. The reader is trapped in his mind just as he is trapped in the room - it gets claustrophobic.

So those two are the 'worst' fiction books I've read. I know some people find non-fiction and true crime more affecting because they know that what's described really happened. I'm not one of them but if I was I think Panzram: A Journal of Murder by Gaddis and Long would be the most horrific book I have read so far. Carl Panzram was an American serial killer who lived in the first half of the 20th Century and whose detailed first-hand confessions and memoirs make up the bulk of that book.

Now American Psycho's finished I'm going to read something more wholesome (Moby Dick perhaps) but at some point in the future I may want to read about some more extremely cold-blooded, insanely detailed, elaborate and pointless suffering. What I want to know is: what else is as bad as, or even worse than the three books I've mentioned here? Have you ever had to stop reading, look up and around, and pause a moment for your mind to properly boggle at the awfulness of what you just read? What was that book?

Ginger or Mary Ann: The Definitive Poll

FuglyStick — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:39:19 GMT

Choose wisely--

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I gotta go with Ginger, cuz she's, uh, ginger.

TVGuide's sexiest women of Sci Fi

FuglyStick — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:19:18 GMT

Who was number one? It wasn't Eliza Dushku, Tricia Helfer, or Jeri Ryan. It was Lynda Carter, Wonder Woman of the 70s--

I was six years old when Wonder Woman first aired in '75, and I knew even then that she was HOT. Together with Erin Gray from Buck Rogers, she helped jump start my puberty.

Role of sex in books?

Zeraph — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:59:10 GMT

How much of a role do you think sex should play in a good novel? This includes all the genres except the romance/erotic novels of course.

I got to thinking of classics (again excluding romantic classics) and I can't think of 1 sex scene in the whole bunch. Do you think it was more a sign of the times? Or is it just distracting in a good book that has a real message? I mean, it's certainly a lot more realistic for the characters to be having sex in the book, just like they would in real life. So what do you think? Will the classics of the future have sexual exploits in them?

Have you ever taken note of what you read in a year

Strange Famous — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:18:08 GMT

Last year I did, and this year I have.

It's pretty depressing to realise that I read so much trash to be honest

January
The Fifth Woman - Henning Mankell
Ghost Ship: The Mysterious True Story of the Mary Celeste - Brian Hicks
How the Dead Live - Derek Raymond
Arctic Chill - Arnaldur Indridason
Voices - Arnaldur Indrisason

February
The Laughing Policeman - Maj Sjowall
I was Dora Suraz - Derek Raymond
DeKok and Variations of Murder - AC Baantjer
The Abominable Man - Maj Sjowall
The State of Denmark - Derek Raymond
DeKok and the Dead Lovers - AC Baantjer
The Big Kill - Mickey Spillane

March
100 Bullets: The Counterfifth Detective - Vertigo
Pride of Baghdad - Brian Vaughan
Nightmare in the Street - Derek Raymond
The Tale of One Bad Rat - Bryan Talbot

April
The Wake (Sandman Vol 10) - Neil Gaiman
The Great White Hopes (The Quest to Defeat Jak Johnson) - Graeme Kent

May
William an the Television Show - Richmal Crompton
DeKok and the Death of a Clown - AC Baantjer
The Man Who Smiled - Henning Mankell
Jar City - Arnaldur Indridason
Sleepwalk - Adrian Tomine
1066 - The Year of The Three Battles - Frank McLynn
The Man Who Went up in Smoke - Maj Sjowall
Roseanna - Maj Sjowall

June
The Fire Engine that Disappeared - Maj Sjowall
True Polar Adventures - Paul Dowswell
The Return of the Dancing Master - Henning Mankell

July
Before the Frost - Henning Mankell
Murder at the Savoy - Maj Sjowall

August
Rosemary's Baby - Ira Levin
The Last Day's of Newgate - Andrew Pepper
Descendant - Graham Masterton
The Man in the Picture - Susan Hil
The Draining Lake - Arnaldur Indridason
The Pilgrims Progress - John Bunyan
Overshadows - Richard Palmisano
The Haunted - Jack Smurl
Grave's End: A True Ghost Story b- Elaine Mercado
A Great and Terrible King: Edward I - Marc Morris
House of Spirits and Whispers: The True Story of a Haunted House - Anne Wilder

September
The Revenge of Captain Payne - Andrew Pepper
Return of the Dancing Master - Henning Mankell
Island of Dr Moreau - HG Wells
The Willows, The Wendigo and The Listener - Algernon Blackwood
Case Histories - Kate Atkinson

October
Kill Devil and Water - Andrew Pepper
Popco - Scarlett Thomas

Horror Movies

ZombieSquirrel — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:44:45 GMT

Halloween is approaching and I always like to watch horror movies during the month of October. (It gets me in the spooky mood.)

Obviously I like Zombie movies, and I think my favorite is Dawn of the Dead, the remake. (That just may be because I have a thing for Mekhi Phifer.)

What is your favorite horror movie? What other horror movies do you suggest???