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AICN-DOWNUNDER: The Independent, Beowulf, American Gangster and Gabriel!

Zob Rombie by darrenspool	Dec 1st, 2007 01:56:28 AM
Give him a break.
"The Time of Heroes is Dead: The Christ God has killed it" by NoDiggity	Dec 1st, 2007 01:56:30 AM
Ironically, we only know the story of Beowulf because Christian Monks preserved the story. Those ANTI HEROIC Christian monks!
Of course, that line is ripped off from Excalibur by NoDiggity	Dec 1st, 2007 02:04:41 AM
The original line was Merlin's. "The one god comes to drive out the many gods, the spirits of wood and stream grow silent. It is a time for man and their ways". The line applied against Christianity in this movie is senseless and bigoted, though.
Gabriel is such a try hard piece of shit... by Sledge Hammer	Dec 1st, 2007 02:11:51 AM
Basically all it is The Prophecy minus the Walken or Mortensen greatness, filmed in a Matrix style with a goth Crow rainy-day sheen over the top, and some really, really fucking bad acting. Truly fucking awful.
Holy Shit Frank Darabonts next film is ...... by NomoredirtyjokespleaseweareYanks	Dec 1st, 2007 02:17:33 AM
The Long Fucking Walk. YYYYYEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSS!
Fuck GABRIEL! by MaxTheSilent	Dec 1st, 2007 02:30:43 AM
The only thing worse than the government-mandated 'glamorous junkies in love' dog-shit that passes for the Australian film industry these days is when locals pile loads of money and Herculean effort in making derivative Hollywood-wannabe garbage like GABRIEL.
I wanna go to Australia and get DRUNK by Stereotypical Evil Archer	Dec 1st, 2007 02:48:14 AM
'Cause it's fun and the women are hot and actually drink "beer" GASP and SHUDDER in HORROR. No girly drinks in Melbourne.
HD is only 2 Megapixels...35mm is 12.6 Megapixels by Stereotypical Evil Archer	Dec 1st, 2007 02:53:50 AM
HD is a myth and a lie.
is latauro the annoying fat one? by ironic_name	Dec 1st, 2007 03:39:27 AM
or the annoying thin one?
Latauro, re: review credits by raw_bean	Dec 1st, 2007 10:29:36 AM
After making a big point about crediting reviews only when you have one of someone else's to print, you went ahead and credited yourself with the Gabriel review. Might wanna fix that. :^)
raw_bean by Latauro	Dec 1st, 2007 03:36:22 PM
Thank you for bringing that to my attention. The correct name has been submitted to the AICN editors and will hopefully be corrected soon!
why is Gangster only coming out next yr.. by couP	Dec 1st, 2007 06:08:20 PM
sick of these delayed release dates. Miami Weisz, neisz. As usual, a good read.
I'm sorry, but when I saw Down Under and Gabriel in the same hea by Anna Valerious	Dec 1st, 2007 06:31:23 PM
...I thought it would have something to do with Hugh Jackman. Sorry.
Grendel was terrible. Beowulf looked cool by BMacSmith	Dec 1st, 2007 08:01:06 PM
very uneven quality in that movie
Gabriel: Image quality is terrible by ephor	Dec 1st, 2007 11:15:36 PM
Is it just me? Was it just the print I saw? I saw the trailer several times at the front of other movies and it looked fine but when I saw the fiolm it self It was grainy as hell, had extremely obvious compression artefacts in bright lights and shadows and basically had shit all contrast. there were no real blacks, just greys! It looked horrible. Not to mention the crappy script, appalling dialogue, wooden acting and inept fight scenes. This was a major disappointment for the local industry and HD cinema in general. The JVC camera they used must be shit.
Gabriel was just horrible by red_weed	Dec 2nd, 2007 03:01:11 AM
I hate to say it as i wanted so much to like it and to be able to support independent aussie films, especially when they try something as cool as this. You can tell they put in a heap of effort and there are little bits that seem to work, but this is not something i could ever recommend to anybody
Fuck Rudd by Ellms	Dec 2nd, 2007 04:48:11 PM
Having all his little bastards wear kevin 07 shirts and putting up a false myspace cause you know myspace is the place to be if you dont have a life.i was going to see Gabriel yesterday night but couldnt but i cant wait to see it in a shitty small cinema near where i live.
Memories by Latauro	Dec 4th, 2007 07:14:06 PM
I stand by what I said, but I will admit to a problem I have with my own reviews: unless I absolutely love or hate something, my reviews tend to be "It was good, BUT..." or "It was bad, BUT..." with a constant emphasis on the "BUT", therefore giving a possibly skewed impression of what I actually thought of it. I have tried to change my style in this regard, but a leopard can't change its reaction to a pretty good gangster film.

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