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[cubanlord]

What movie is this? Any reviews? Anyone know about it?

[cwemory]

444 is the Korean title for the film "Captivity".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captivity_%28film%29
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/captivity/

[cubanlord]

dang...a mixture of hostel and saw.....

I am going to see this movie.

[cwemory]

I'm a bit worried about the director being Roland Joff�, who began his career with the great The Killing Fields and The Mission, and then followed it up with the disasterous Super Mario Brothers and The Scarlet Letter.

[cubanlord]

[mindmetoo]

[davai!]

I worked on the set in Moscow (Summer 2005) but I will refrain from a review as I have only seen it via a cheap pirate DVD dubbed into Russian. I actually got in the film as a NY cop, which was fun. Look for me about 11 min. from the start for about 3 seconds....

Shooting it in Moscow was done as it was Russian financed (and you should have seen the "Producer" types coming in to the set in their G Wagens!) and they were trying to take advantage of cheap labor, etc. But the inevitable red tape and general Do-anything-in-Russia-BS cost them a few extra millions.

Captivity has been considered a make-or-break for Joffe's career. It will be interesting to see the effect.

If anyone has any specific ??? let me know.

[julian_w]

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From the creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly/Serenity...

Joss Wheadon's take on '4.4.4.' ('Captivity')

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... This is strange, to me, cos just today someone sent me a link to that 'Flixation' site I hadn't heard of before, so I was thinking about favourite movies, and Aliens and Serenity versus easy all-too-easy ultra-violence like A Clockwork Orange... and yeah yeah I know the whole idea of the director 'commenting on violence by making a movie about it doesn't endorse it' angle... but dah... all is linked. All are responsible for each other.

I know the risk of the 'any publicity is good publicity' truism, and I know one shouldn't feed the trolls... And I know not every artist should have to create works of blissfully vacuous beauty - fears are valid topics for artistic expression too, as much as desire and the rest - but if someone is blessed with all of the talent, finance and imagination for creating a full length movie for the sake of either 'art' or 'entertainment', can they not also stop and think ... I mean like use their wonderful imaginations for half a minute... and imagine the impact the images will have ... you know, in the sense of the 'bigger picture.' I mean, does the director not have any sisters or something?

I think we'll have to use this whole discussion topic in class. And in the bar...

[holiday72]

This movie is awful, saw it yesterday.

[cubanlord]

i saw it today. The plot was different, but predictable. on a scale of 1 through 10 (10 being best), I say I give this a 3

[Beageal]

Why is it called 4.4.4. in Korea? Is 444 the special phone number for when you're being held captive?