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**Wendigo** · December 20th, 2009, 09:56 PM

Who'd have thought it? A parody of Jaws based on a killer TREE!
Step forward Director Michael Pleckaitis, what an absolute gem of a movie littered with lots of loving references to Jaws. "We're gonna need a bigger axe"... "My husband tells me that you work in trees"... it's unbelievably daft but I loved it
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0337332/

I've got the follow up to watch afterwards Trees 2 : The Root of All Evil
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0419098/

**tamsmith** · December 20th, 2009, 10:36 PM

Its an oldie but a goodie.

One of my favorites.

"Tamsmith rides again and again".

**Devius** · December 20th, 2009, 10:52 PM

Frost/Nixon

Good film....

**hattertim** · December 20th, 2009, 11:06 PM

Dug out an old fave tonight...

...This Island Earth (1955)...one of the best sci-fi films of the 1950's! Along with Forbidden Planet, Them!, War of the Worlds & When Worlds Collide, this has stood the test of time for me.

**Mr. Christy Canyon** · December 21st, 2009, 01:53 PM

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

It's an ok movie, not bad but not great, though I just LOVE Kristanna Loken!!!

**Devius** · December 22nd, 2009, 06:35 PM

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Originally Posted by dohupa

Watched it last night - barely reasonable quality off some cam rip in a warez site.

I liked the plot and it will be a massive hit with the effects and all... once again Cameron doesn't give a toss about directives from the studios about the duration... so just like the Abyss is long but worth of your time.

Saw Avatar today. Visually speaking, it was like watching the artwork of Roger Dean on steroids, and I thought it was truly fantastic!!!
However, the plot felt cobbled together from The Last Samurai, Dances with Wolves and Gorillas In The Mist, to name but a few films...why, oh why does these movies with such dazzling spectacle, let us down with so-so plotting???

st4bilo · December 22nd, 2009, 06:54 PM

Wayne's World

A blast from the past.....

**dohupa** · December 23rd, 2009, 09:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Devius

....why, oh why does these movies with such dazzling spectacle, let us down with so-so plotting???

Not an easy task to write up something extravagant these days; script writing ain't easy. Most has been told anyway, so how do you come up with something original that will surprise the crowd?

You need sharp minds AND also give them some air to breathe; that is, not have 200 pages done during the course of a weekend.

I will definitely watch it again though on Blue Ray over at my buddy's massive 1080p projector lol.

**Devius** · December 24th, 2009, 05:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dohupa

Not an easy task to write up something extravagant these days; script writing ain't easy. Most has been told anyway, so how do you come up with something original that will surprise the crowd?

You need sharp minds AND also give them some air to breathe; that is, not have 200 pages done during the course of a weekend.

I will definitely watch it again though on Blue Ray over at my buddy's massive 1080p projector lol.

James Cameron's message appears to be that for mankind, exploration & exploitation goes hand-in-hand (and after Copenhagen, he could be right).
But his message got smothered in the delivery, imo...

**Oswald** · December 24th, 2009, 05:13 PM

The Happiest Days Of Your Life

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042541/

A 1950 British comedy film directed by Frank Launder, based on the play by John Dighton. The two men also wrote the screenplay. It's one of a stable of classic British film comedies produced by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat for British Lion Film Corporation. The film was made on location and at Riverside Studios, London.

Set in 1949, confusion reigns when St Swithin's Girls School is accidentally billeted at Nutborne College: a boys school. The two heads, Wetherby Pond (Alastair Sim) and Muriel Whitchurch (Margaret Rutherford), try to cope with the ensuing chaos, as the children and staff attempt to live in the newly cramped conditions (it being impossible to share dormitories or other facilities), and seek to prevent the children taking advantage of their new opportunities.

Additional humour is derived from the departure of the Nutbourne College domestic staff and their hurried (and not very effective) replacement with the St Swithin's School Home Economics class.

The main comedy is derived from the fact that the parents of the St Swithins girls would consider it improper for their daughters to be exposed to the rough mix of boys in Pond's school, and from the consequent need to conceal the fact that the girls are now sharing a school that's full of boys. Pond is offended at the suggestion that his boys are not suitable company for the young ladies of St Swithin's, but he needs to appease Miss Whitchurch in order to salvage his chances of an appointment to a prestigious all-boys school for which he is in the running, and which depends on his ability to prevent his current post presenting the appearance of a bear garden.

Matters come to a head when a group of school governors, from the prestigious establishment to which Pond has applied to become the next headmaster, pay a visit at the same time as the parents of some of the St Swithin's girls. Frantic classroom changes are made, and hockey, lacrosse and rugby posts and nets are swapped about, as students and staff try to hide the unusual arrangement.

Two simultaneous tours of the school premises are arranged: one for the girls parents, and a separate one for the Governors; and never the twain must meet! The facade finally collapses when the parents become obsessed with seeing a girls lacrosse match at the same time as one of the Governors has been promised a rugby match.

The punchline is delivered - a clever swipe at wartime bureaucracy - when, weeks too late, a Ministry of Schools official arrives, to declare everything sorted out. "You're a co-educational school, I believe; well I've arranged for ANOTHER co-educational school to replace St Swithin's next week... Oh, it appears they're ahead of schedule." At this point, several more coachloads of children and staff appear noisily, and utter chaos reigns.

Fade out on Alastair Sim and Margaret Rutherford, quietly discussing in which remote and unattractive corner of the British Empire they might best try to pick up the pieces of their respective careers.

December 20th, 2009, 09:56 PM	#131
Wendigo Former Staff Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Blighty Posts: 113,801 Thanks: 259,910 Thanked 1,139,462 Times in 113,921 Posts	Trees Who'd have thought it? A parody of Jaws based on a killer TREE! Step forward Director Michael Pleckaitis, what an absolute gem of a movie littered with lots of loving references to Jaws. "We're gonna need a bigger axe"... "My husband tells me that you work in trees"... it's unbelievably daft but I loved it http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0337332/ I've got the follow up to watch afterwards Trees 2 : The Root of All Evil http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0419098/

December 20th, 2009, 10:52 PM	#133
Devius Veteran Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: It's a London Thing.... Posts: 23,514 Thanks: 142,126 Thanked 228,366 Times in 23,543 Posts	Frost/Nixon Good film.... __________________ "I've had it with them, I've had it with you, I've had it with ALL THIS - I WANT ROOM SERVICE!* I want the club sandwich, I want the cold Mexican beer, I want a $10,000-a-night hooker!"* Johnny Mnemonic (1995)

December 20th, 2009, 10:36 PM	#132
tamsmith Veteran Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Coming close to the Slippery Slope. Posts: 7,800 Thanks: 77,915 Thanked 280,416 Times in 9,078 Posts	Its an oldie but a goodie. One of my favorites. "Tamsmith rides again and again".

December 20th, 2009, 11:06 PM	#134
hattertim R.I.P. Join Date: May 2006 Location: Reading, UK Posts: 10,640 Thanks: 11,180 Thanked 602,751 Times in 10,415 Posts	Dug out an old fave tonight... ...This Island Earth (1955)...one of the best sci-fi films of the 1950's! Along with Forbidden Planet, Them!, War of the Worlds & When Worlds Collide, this has stood the test of time for me.

December 21st, 2009, 01:53 PM	#135
Mr. Christy Canyon Vintage Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Deep in the Canyon Posts: 1,653 Thanks: 16,394 Thanked 40,643 Times in 1,637 Posts	Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines It's an ok movie, not bad but not great, though I just LOVE Kristanna Loken!!!

December 22nd, 2009, 06:54 PM	#137
st4bilo Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 76 Thanks: 226 Thanked 599 Times in 68 Posts	Wayne's World A blast from the past.....

December 24th, 2009, 05:13 PM	#140
Oswald Veteran Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 13,115 Thanks: 51,076 Thanked 282,496 Times in 13,805 Posts	The Happiest Days Of Your Life http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042541/ A 1950 British comedy film directed by Frank Launder, based on the play by John Dighton. The two men also wrote the screenplay. It's one of a stable of classic British film comedies produced by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat for British Lion Film Corporation. The film was made on location and at Riverside Studios, London. Set in 1949, confusion reigns when St Swithin's Girls School is accidentally billeted at Nutborne College: a boys school. The two heads, Wetherby Pond (Alastair Sim) and Muriel Whitchurch (Margaret Rutherford), try to cope with the ensuing chaos, as the children and staff attempt to live in the newly cramped conditions (it being impossible to share dormitories or other facilities), and seek to prevent the children taking advantage of their new opportunities. Additional humour is derived from the departure of the Nutbourne College domestic staff and their hurried (and not very effective) replacement with the St Swithin's School Home Economics class. The main comedy is derived from the fact that the parents of the St Swithins girls would consider it improper for their daughters to be exposed to the rough mix of boys in Pond's school, and from the consequent need to conceal the fact that the girls are now sharing a school that's full of boys. Pond is offended at the suggestion that his boys are not suitable company for the young ladies of St Swithin's, but he needs to appease Miss Whitchurch in order to salvage his chances of an appointment to a prestigious all-boys school for which he is in the running, and which depends on his ability to prevent his current post presenting the appearance of a bear garden. Matters come to a head when a group of school governors, from the prestigious establishment to which Pond has applied to become the next headmaster, pay a visit at the same time as the parents of some of the St Swithin's girls. Frantic classroom changes are made, and hockey, lacrosse and rugby posts and nets are swapped about, as students and staff try to hide the unusual arrangement. Two simultaneous tours of the school premises are arranged: one for the girls parents, and a separate one for the Governors; and never the twain must meet! The facade finally collapses when the parents become obsessed with seeing a girls lacrosse match at the same time as one of the Governors has been promised a rugby match. The punchline is delivered - a clever swipe at wartime bureaucracy - when, weeks too late, a Ministry of Schools official arrives, to declare everything sorted out. "You're a co-educational school, I believe; well I've arranged for ANOTHER co-educational school to replace St Swithin's next week... Oh, it appears they're ahead of schedule." At this point, several more coachloads of children and staff appear noisily, and utter chaos reigns. Fade out on Alastair Sim and Margaret Rutherford, quietly discussing in which remote and unattractive corner of the British Empire they might best try to pick up the pieces of their respective careers.