Topic: Latest Movie You Watched

[Skadi]

I believe Zac Efron is going to star in the US remake.

what the flip? You're joking right? One of the reasons DN worked as a movie is they got the actors close to the characters. It would lose it's 'death noteness' if it was remade. The idea of a Shinigami doesn't even translate well culture to culture.. Plus.. it's about 4 years late to jump on the band wagon

*hope's it was Red's dry sense of humor..*

[redlandslide]

This is probably not the time to mention that Miley Sirus is also rumoured to be in it.

[xtopave]

Does somebody remember a remake by Hollywood that isn't crap compared to the original?

[Skadi]

Death Note makes no sense though...

The Ring wan't bad. Let Me In might be ok.. thought I've only seen one add.

[Nobby]

Insomnia was OK
and
Point of No Return was not bad

The Magnificent 7 / Battle Beyond the Stars
and A Fistful of Dollars
were Good 

[xtopave]

Also Dark Water was OK. Well, the original was only OK and not excellent.

I saw Les Choristes some time ago and I meant to post in this thread cause I truly recommend it. It's excellent.

[Skadi]

I didn't see theoriginal of Dark Water, but Dark Water did have a good creepy effect. And I haven't seen either version of the other.

The Magnificent 7 / Battle Beyond the Stars
and A Fistful of Dollars
were Good 

Not as good as the originals

I'm assuming they'll pretty up Girl With the Dragon Tattoo also, or make it fashionably more hip.

Let the Right One In will always probably win out because they spent so much time casting it. Same with Girl With a Dragon Tattoo, it's hard for me now to not think of those actors as those characters.

[Skadi]

Insomnia was OK
and
Point of No Return was not bad

The Magnificent 7 / Battle Beyond the Stars
and A Fistful of Dollars
were Good 

lmao I had to go google Battle Beyond the Stars

Nothing can compare to Seven Samurai

[laama]

Kung Fu Kid 2010 8/10

[Nobby]

Is that an AKA for The Karate Kid ?

Coz it makes more sense --- being set in China 

[dweez]

Yes, a lot of people pissed and moaned about "That's not karate, that's kung-fu".  No, that's a movie...get over it.

[mishca09]

whats the difference ?

I saw The Town

I liked it although there wasn't a lot of eye candy. and Ben affleck wasn't horrible usually his acting makes me grind my teeth.

[Skadi]

and Ben affleck wasn't horrible usually his acting makes me grind my teeth.

He really is pretty terrible He's an ok guy, so I'd like to like him.. but he's just not that good of an actor.

[chekovsulu]

whats the difference ?

I'm no expert, but when I did kung fu (the teacher lady called it Wing Chun), the Karate classes looked more aggressive and seemed to require more physical exertion.  Of course, these are only observations made upon walking past the classes, but it made my kung fu lessons seem a bit tame.  The karate people even got to say the "HAH" thing they do on TV.

I considered switching, but the Karate teacher looked angry and I liked the people I met in kung fu (one of them liked Star Trek and looked suspiciously like a ninja).

I'm terrible at making comparisons 

[smokester]

whats the difference ?

Karate is Japanese (Okinawan to be precise) and Kung-Fu is Chinese.  If we forget the people that think they're all 'slanty eyed' so they are the same, you actually have to very different countries and forms of martial art.  The Chinese and Japanese have a terrible history toward one another (well Japan does against China) which is bad enough, but if the kid were to learn boxing (also a martial art) it would seem a little odd calling it the Karate kid would it not.