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Count_Slapula

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Three Kingdoms Resurrection of the Dragon



Release Date: 3 April 2008 (China)
Genre: Action/Drama/War




Compared to Red Cliff:
Action: TK:ROTD By Far
Drama: TK:ROTD By Far
Storyline/Plot: TK:ROTD
Directing/Production: Tie Both Did Great, Although Production on TK:ROTD is Slightly Better

This Movie Makes Red Cliff Look Bad....


Mike Manson said:
I think I bought Flashpoint on DVD like two years ago, but still haven't checked it out.

Gonna watch it tonight.
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Ouch, lol...If you seen SPL (Killzone) its not as good in my opinion, Flash Point is just a nearly mindless MMA movie...
 
Mike Manson

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Mike Manson said:
Das Experiment

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0250258/
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Just read, that they are remaking this movie:

While we wait for Paul Scheuring's The Experiment to get some sort of release date from Sony Pictures, below you'll find some early art from the remake starring Adrien Brody, Forest Whitaker, Elijah Wood, Cam Gigandet, Clifton Collins Jr and Maggie Grace. The original Das Experiment, directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, centered on a group of ordinary men recruited to take on the roles of guards and prisoners as part of a research study and examined how the effects of assigned roles, power and control affected the participants.
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http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/19821
 
rambo187

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Fire of Conscience (2010)


With his latest film, director Dante Lam firmly establishes himself as Hong Kong's brightest light for a possible renaissance of this once world-class hotbed of action Cinema. FIRE OF CONSCIENCE is a taut, gripping police thriller, brimming with gunplay, explosions and perilous stunt work that leaves its audience breathless and exhilarated.



Mourning the death of his wife, Detective Manfred Fong (Leon Lai) is falling apart. He lives out of his car, sports a scraggy beard and dishevelled appearance, drinks heavily and regularly takes out his pent-up aggression on suspects. His behaviour has attracted the attention of his superiors, and Internal Affairs have started sniffing around. His loyal team, including Liu Kai Chi and Michelle Ye, do their best to keep him washed, fed and on the straight & narrow, but it's proving an uphill struggle. Manfred crosses paths with the slick regional head, Kee (Richie Ren) while investigating the murder of a prostitute and the pair hit it off and soon find themselves working together after a teahouse shootout uncovers some serious bomb-making equipment.



FIRE OF CONSCIENCE wastes no time in establishing and fleshing out its characters, but mercifully restrains itself from the normal prerequisite melodrama in favour of thrilling on-location chases and gunfights, filmed in some of Hong Kong's busiest commercial districts. Intentionally evoking the likes of Michael Mann's HEAT in these scenes of fierce urban violence, stylistically Lam's film is closer to those of Paul Greengrass, eschewing Mann's steely sheen for a grittier handheld urgency. The result is a frantically paced film with precious little downtime, and audiences will need their wits about them to keep track with who is who when pins are pulled and bullets start flying.



Lam takes full advantage of the story's featured weapons dealers and bomb makers, unleashing a high-calibre arsenal of handguns and automatic weapons as well as some impressively grisly explosions. FIRE OF CONSCIENCE is surprisingly violent for a down-the-line policier - characters get shot, blown up, gassed, crushed, run over, stabbed and at one point even waterboarded. But all the while, it is handled efficiently, effectively and never feels sadistic or unnecessarily gratuitous. Our heroes are fallible, our villains are vicious and anyone can, and quite possibly will, get gunned down or injured at any moment. These guys spend long periods of the movie battered, bruised and bandaged up.



Leon Lai does an effective job of portraying the tortured, vengeful Manfred, without feeling the need to go all crazy-eyed, Aaron Kwok-style. It's his conscience the film's title refers to, and his struggle to continue upholding the law even as life repeatedly deals him the worst possible hand is portrayed authentically, with the bare minimum of sappy flashbacks or redemptive histrionics. Liu Kai Chi's Cheung-on is the character given the broken marriage and cute kid to deal with, but his admittedly rather touching father-daughter moment is nicely counter-balanced by his harbouring of a suitably unsavoury secret that threatens not only his own integrity, but that of Manfred and the whole team.



Richie Ren is at his most slippery smooth as Kee the glamorous career cop - well dressed, charismatic, with a taste for fast cars, beautiful women and big plays on the stock market. At first he appears to offer a crutch of support to Manfred, but before long it becomes apparent Kee's motives are far more self-serving. Michelle Ye ensures May is more than just window dressing in Manfred's team and her performance displays some of her best film work to date. Frequently first through the door, May proves more than capable wielding a handgun or hotfooting it through Central with an automatic rifle strapped across her chest, though is not beyond turning on the waterworks when an emotional counterpoint to the relentless action is required. In what could so easily have been a nothing role, Ye brings credibility and capability to the part. Which is just as well, as the other actresses, Vivian Hsu and Tiffany Tang, aren't given much to do but stand by their respective man or be placed in harm's way and exploited for emotional leverage.



At the end of the day FIRE OF CONSCIENCE is all about the action, which thankfully Dante Lam delivers in spades - stylishly, inventively and at a breakneck pace. There are passing nods to the stylings of John Woo throughout, not least in a moment towards the end when Lai goes one better than Chow Yun Fat's "baby in the hospital" finale from HARD BOILED, while maintaining a street smart authenticity best seen in Derek Yee's work. In short, FIRE OF CONSCIENCE is a blast from beginning to end, delivering a much-needed grenade down the pants of an increasingly tired and world-weary sub-genre.
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iaoish

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Er komt een vrouw bij de dokter. (orriginal title)
Stricken (international title)



It is about a guy (Stijn) who is married with Carmen. And has a daughter.
Carmen is struck with breast cancer and she goes in and out of hospitals, getting chemo and all that.
Stijn is there to support her but it takes a big toll out of him, so he starts living a double life.
During the day he supports his wife but at night he starts partying and having sex with other woman.
The reason why he does this is because the burden of taking care of Carmen is to great for him. So he needs an outlet, so he can keep supporting his wife Carmen.

This is a movie based on a book written by Stijn himself.

For the guys. This movie is best viewed with your lady, it's a bit of a chickflick and I must admit I haven't seen it myself but everyone who read the book or saw the movie really liked it.



Here is the torrent... with english subs.

http://www.torrentdownloads.net/tor...(DTS+DD5.1)(nl+eng+Subs)+DVD9+PAL+2Lions-Team
 
Mike Manson

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rambo187 said:
Ex Drummer (2007)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0812243/

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Watched this the other night on DVD. Crazy ass movie. The one scene where asks "Big Dick" why he's called liek that and he gets his bitch to come in the room and show him the pussu and suddenly they are standing inside of her snatch talkin about how his dick destroyed it, had me rollin...

Some scenes are a bit too much, but overall a good movie...a must see even.
 
Mike Manson

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Just watched this. Pretty good movie.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1132620/



Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her uncle is convinced it was murder and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the tattooed, ruthless computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate. When the pair link Harriet's disappearance to a number of grotesque murders from almost forty years ago, they begin to unravel a dark and appalling family history. But the Vanger's are a secretive clan, and Blomkvist and Salander are about to find out just how far they are prepared to go to protect themselves.
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David Fincher is about to remake this movie. Supposed to drop end of next year starring Daniel Craig.
 
rambo187

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Mike Manson said:
Just watched this. Pretty good movie.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1132620/


David Fincher is about to remake this movie. Supposed to drop end of next year starring Daniel Craig.
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i already saw next 2 parts too and for adaptation its pretty good even that they miss few things from the book. now remake nothing against just wondering whos gonna play Lisbeth cuz that girl from OG movie is exactly like Lisbeth in book 100% they get her spot on with everything so im curious now fro american versio of Lisbeth
 
iaoish

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Scrap Heaven



The lives of three people intersect on a late bus ride that's hijacked by a suicidal political flunky. Shingo is a miserable young desk cop bucking for homicide division. Tetsu is a restroom cleaning attendant who has a mentally ill father and a penchant for mischief. And Saki is a petulant druggist/chemist who was born without an eye and keeps her disfigurement hidden behind shades. Months after the hijacking, the trio lives re-intertwine as they playfully seek revenge for their unhappy lives, until the games become deadly serious.
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Good entertaining movie with dark humor in it.

Couldn't find a trailer with subtitles.

 
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