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Quint sees John Rhys-Davies in the NZ horror flick FERRYMAN and Gary Oldman and Paddy Considine in BACKWOODS at FF!!!

Not on my watch. by Edmundo	Sep 21st, 2007 09:39:20 PM
No way
Just saw the Ferryman Trailer by Dr Uwe Boll	Sep 21st, 2007 09:39:21 PM
Nice mix of actors, looks like it could be good throwaway fun with a couple of creepy scenes. There is a pizza-face monster man in it though (bit of a worry that).
Dr. Boll by Quint	Sep 21st, 2007 10:05:41 PM
That creature does look pretty forgettable, but luckily you don't deal with it in the movie for more than 90 seconds. It's more about the human characters with a little Thing-like question of "what body is hiding the evil."
Quint: Oldman "might be a really good actor"... by Captain Happy	Sep 21st, 2007 10:21:47 PM
Are you kidding?!?! Have you seen "Sid & Nancy", "State of Grace"? The man is an icon - he's a great actor who always makes the characters he plays uniquely his own & is always a treat to watch - one of the great actors. You were kidding, right?
Excellent! by Dr Uwe Boll	Sep 21st, 2007 10:34:50 PM
That's what I like to hear, thanks for the info Quint. I'll be sure to check this one out.
The Ferryman by Detective_Fingerling	Sep 21st, 2007 10:59:18 PM
So is the "Ferryman" JRD? I thought the concept of the ferryman was to get a ride from him from one side to the other. If they pick him up shipwrecked doesn't that break the rules?
haha yes captain happy by T 1000 xp professional	Sep 21st, 2007 11:44:12 PM
Quint was kidding. Oldman is a genius.
REPENT!!!! by pretentiousboy	Sep 21st, 2007 11:59:30 PM
By your own admission you (whoevers reading this) is a lying, stealing, blasmephous, adulteress at heart and you will have to face god on judgement day. If you dont have jesus in your life you will be send to hell. One big difference between christianity and the rest, its grace through faith (NOT WORKS). Google video search the ark, ITS THERE FOLKS, up on a mountain where the bible said it was, EXACT cubic measurements, the turkish govt even built a memorial visitor center around it. Google video search red sea chariots, there there, 17 century with thier wheels broken, JUST LIKE WHAT THE BIBLE SAID. Sodom and gomorreah, huge sulfuric balls, millions, at the sight. THEN go research evolution, nothing will open your eyes up when you see that its a joke and that carbon dating is a joke, if dinosaurs did exist millions of years ago why do we have chunks of flesh from t-rex, folks its impossible, it would be fossilized. YOU ONLY HAVE ONE SHOT AT THIS FOLKS> and jesus loves you.
Asps! Very dangerous. by Osmosis Jones	Sep 22nd, 2007 12:18:32 AM
You go first!
have ferryman by MignolaFan	Sep 22nd, 2007 12:35:18 AM
at house, can't wait to watch it. Hope I don't agree with quint.
Considine & Oldman together on screen? by John-Locke	Sep 22nd, 2007 01:37:50 AM
I'm in, that's all there is to it.
Ferryman is already out on DVD in some countries. by DerLanghaarige	Sep 22nd, 2007 02:22:22 AM
But I haven't watched it yet.
ferryman=boredom by Benway1	Sep 22nd, 2007 03:44:43 AM
Saw it a few weeks ago, this thing screams DTV. The concept seems quite nice at first and some scenes work disturbingly well like the switch to a female body and the following conversation and not to forget the dog scenes that got me but most of the overacting and unimpressive direction made this pretty annoying to sit through. The ferryman himself wasn't that much of a revelation and that running out time concept didn't work that well either.
REPENT!!!! by FILMFUNK	Sep 22nd, 2007 04:44:02 AM
Piss off!
Backwoods was on TV here (France) a few weeks back by SpencerTrilby	Sep 22nd, 2007 04:55:13 AM
god it was awful; and it kills me to say so as I'm a huge Oldman fan but c'mon it was terrible.
I will never forget "Rys-Davies will eat a phone book." by Daddylonghead	Sep 22nd, 2007 05:22:14 AM
That was one of the all-time funniest things I have ever read on AICN, and for me is now indelibly associated with Rhys-Davies... I don't remember what the movie was, but it was a stinker, and Quint was commenting on Rhys-Davies being in it, and said "Rhys-Davies would eat a phonebook if you paid him." That still cracks me up, years later.
I hope Lionsgate... by CurryIce	Sep 22nd, 2007 05:27:04 AM
...will release Backwoods ASAP. I'm waiting for this one for a looong time. And Quint: "Gary Oldman might be a good actor..."??? Watch "The Contender", right now!
Huge Sulphuric Balls! by all	Sep 22nd, 2007 09:38:33 AM
SO MUCH latent homosexuality in your post, Repent. You're going to hell for sure. And I agree wit
continued by all	Sep 22nd, 2007 09:39:28 AM
h your obviously sarcastic understatement Quint. Gary Oldman is fucking great!
Hey pretentiousboy... by Edward_nygma	Sep 22nd, 2007 10:01:58 AM
... suck on my huge sulphuric balls.
Captain Happy by drunkenmonkey73	Sep 22nd, 2007 10:33:29 AM
Oldman v Considine its like Ali v Frazer. should be good then
Oldman v Considine by drunkenmonkey73	Sep 22nd, 2007 10:34:35 AM
its like Ali v Frazer. should be good then
Great Koldo Serra by Javi-LHP	Sep 22nd, 2007 11:55:36 AM
I've watched it in Spain some months ago. I think it's a good movie, maybe not as much as its references (Deliverance and Straw Dogs) but it works, the characters are good and you can feel the situation in your own body. I think Koldo Serra will give us great movies in the future. www.cinemavip.com
Daddylonghead by DocPazuzu	Sep 22nd, 2007 11:59:29 AM
Hilarious, and so very, very true.
Off Topic Question by jimmy_009	Sep 22nd, 2007 12:41:03 PM
Anyone know when or if Into the Wild is going to be released nation wide? I live in Seattle and it's not playing anywhere. You'd think a movie like this was tailor made for Seattle , WTF?
John Rhys-Davies gotta eat! by DocPazuzu	Sep 22nd, 2007 06:33:57 PM
...a phone book.
Google the Ark, The Chariots by kevinwillis.net	Sep 23rd, 2007 12:02:07 AM
Oh, yeah. That proves something. Not. Apologetics is for those with shakey beliefs. Faith doesn't require tangible confirmation. Quantifiable evidence is sort of beside the point.
"get me everyone" "what do you mean everyone?" by Prossor	Sep 23rd, 2007 03:03:07 AM
EEEEEEEEEVEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRYYYY YYYY OOOOOOOOOONNNNEEEEEEEEEEE
OFF TOPIC: KILL The Dark is Rising by Sepulchrave	Sep 23rd, 2007 07:14:51 AM
This is reputedly a very powerful website, though I think there is not much one can do to derail a corporate children’s film; the kids are at the mercy if the adults who decide that the film is suitable for their offspring and get dragged to mediocre garbage all the time. But SOMETHING HAS TO BE DONE. I haven’t seen any news on AICN about the trailer for The Dark is Rising. Suffice to say that there are sloppy adaptations, incomplete adaptations and then there are adaptations are that evil, immoral, corrupted. TDIR is the latter. Susan Cooper’s glorious pre-Christian epic has been delivered into the claws of Walden media, into the hands of some foul Christian fundamentalist film-maker, into the putrid corporate magical tripe of yet another ‘world beyond your imagination’ those worlds so small, so tacky and empty of all mystical or spiritual feeling. Someone commenting on the film has remarked that ‘as a fantasy film, it has not historical context’. That, in a nutshell, encapsulates everything stupid, ignorant and ridiculous about the corporate American attitude to fantasy; everything that these vapid suburbanites can’t grasp about the world of myth, everything that separates the glory of The Lord of the Rings (thank you New Zealanders and Brits) from the lustreless, ugly trash of The Lion The Witch and Wardrobe (thank you corporate America and Walden media). If you think that there was any similarity between those two films then I can’t begin to describe what lack of sensitivity you display. And The Dark is Rising is many hundreds of steps lower down the ladder than the Lewis adaptation. The Dark is Rising has been stripped of its Arthurian myths, emptied of its Celtic content; no Mabinogion for the children; why should they be taught about the ancient roots of their own civilisation? Why not substitute something warm and air-conditioned and dry; something with a plastic Jesus at the center that smells like the inside of a mall? This film must be destroyed. It’s a violation. It’s evil because it’s ignorant and heartless where it should be richly informed by its source material; a channel for the deep spiritual history of Britain and Ireland, not a soapbox for a synthetic, factory-farmed faith fifty years old. I urge AICN to do all it can to torpedo this monstrosity and not to let it ride in on the coattails of Harry Potter and His Dark Materials. Do not let kids see this film.
Calm Down Sepulchrave, Relax, Sepulchrave by Sepulchrave	Sep 23rd, 2007 01:15:55 PM
Eat the shit, it's warm and it's not so bad after the first three mouthfuls.
I am sorry to hear they did that to the Dark is Rising by Daddylonghead	Sep 23rd, 2007 06:39:17 PM
those are fine books; my niece and nephew have been reading Lloyd Alexander and I was going to give them the Dark is Rising books next. Looking at the movie's wikipedia entry, I see that the protagonist has been taken past puberty and given a love interest, turned into an American, there have been action sequences added as well as a school bullying subplot... I don't doubt for a moment that it's also been butchered into a goddamned christian parable, but where did you hear that? Any details would be welcome. BTW, Sepulchrave, I am a big Peake fan & even have a Peake illo (from Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner) on my arm... http://tinyurl.com/2ujezb. Did you ever see the BBC adaptation of Gormenghast? I have not, but heard it (understandably) fell short.

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