movies

[Darkweasel]

Just watched Eastern Promises. Damn good film. I knew nothing about it (apart from a very rough idea of the story outline) beforehand, deliberately keeping away from reviews etc. so nothing was ruined for me.
I thought A History of Violence was pretty good. This was even better.

[andeh]

Spent all yesterday watching the Die Hard quadrilogy. A day very well spent I think

[Xzar]

Spent all yesterday watching the Die Hard quadrilogy. A day very well spent I think

Noooo! Don't use that word! It's a tetrology!

[Pulverizer]

Spent all yesterday watching the Die Hard quadrilogy. A day very well spent I think

Noooo! Don't use that word! It's a tetrology!

Quadrilogy was what it was released under. Tetralogy would be Greek anyway, and we're more Latin overall. Despite the use of 'trilogy'.

Tetralogy does sound cool though.

[andeh]

I've never ever heard the word tetrology, ya learn sumut new everyday. And it does indeed say quadrilogy on the box I have

[Xzar]

Quadrilogy isn't a real word.

It's taken one root for 4 - quad, and applied it to the second half of a word for three 'tri', and stuck '-logy' on the end. Hence it's like saying a Foureesome. It's silly and makes no sense. Tetralogy is the correct word, in sequence of Duology, Trilogy, Tetralogy. These are recognised terms for collections of artistic works. I don't know where this 'Quadrilogy' term came from, but it's nonsense. Latin numbers go; unus, duo, tres, quattor,, et al. Greek ones go; una, duo, tria, tetra. Duology and Trilogy came from the Greek and it's literary and theatrical legacy. 'Quadrilogy' is just something that really riles me, annoys me everytime I look at my Alien boxset.

[Darkweasel]

Enough of this Tritetraquadridualogical nonsense.
Go and watch El Orfanato (The Orphanage). A fantastic spanish ghost story produced by Guillermo Del Toro.
Scary as fook and just as tragic. Marvellous film.

[andeh]

Quadrilogy isn't a real word.

It's taken one root for 4 - quad, and applied it to the second half of a word for three 'tri', and stuck '-logy' on the end. Hence it's like saying a Foureesome. It's silly and makes no sense. Tetralogy is the correct word, in sequence of Duology, Trilogy, Tetralogy. These are recognised terms for collections of artistic works. I don't know where this 'Quadrilogy' term came from, but it's nonsense. Latin numbers go; unus, duo, tres, quattor,, et al. Greek ones go; una, duo, tria, tetra. Duology and Trilogy came from the Greek and it's literary and theatrical legacy. 'Quadrilogy' is just something that really riles me, annoys me everytime I look at my Alien boxset.

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I'm sticking to quadrilogy

[ele_is_crazy]

Recently watched Sweeney Todd which I thought was quite good. And Aeon Flux which was absolutely awful, but watched it with a rifftrax so that lightened it up somewhat. And Paprika which was very good, more colourful and less depressing than Perfect Blue.

[Xzar]

I wasn't trying to be pedantic with the quadrilogy thing - it just happens to be a pet hate of mine. A serious pathological pet hate.

I just watched The Proposition which I thought was okay, but one of my mates bigged it up a bit too much so I was slightly disappointed.

And I remember seeing that film Perfect Blue many years ago - didn't like at all :-\

[Big D]

Quadrilogy is a bit of a clunky word. I suppose there's a perfectly valid reason why Quartet isn't appropriate?

Perfect Blue is a film I rate quite highly. It gets a bit uncomfortable in a couple of places and the story needs a bit of effort to keep up with but it's till one of my favourites.

[Pulverizer]

I wasn't trying to be pedantic with the quadrilogy thing - it just happens to be a pet hate of mine. A serious pathological pet hate.

If I ever release a box set of four, I'll call it a Tetrology.

[andeh]

I actually looked up Quadrilogy last night out of boredom in the font of all knowledge that is Wikipedia, and was immediately redirected to Tetrology. Legacy is another word for it, sounds better than quadrilogy as well.

Anyway, I saw Total Recall the other day, bloody daft but it was a good larf

[MetalBeast]

Anyway, I saw Total Recall the other day, bloody daft but it was a good larf

MY NAME IS NOT QUUUUUAAAAAAAIIIIIIIID!

Classic film, even if it is as cheesy as fuck.

I saw "Diary of the Dead" last night. It was pretty good.
It's not as good as "Night of the living dead" or "Dawn..." but I preferred it to "Day..." and "Land...".

My favourite Zombie movies are still "Braindead" and the insane Japanese movie "Wild Zero".

Be Kind Rewind is well worth a look, although those who can't stand Jack Black should avoid it.

[Darkweasel]

Anyway, I saw Total Recall the other day, bloody daft but it was a good larf