Movie Tab II

[Iroquois]

Thanks Escape :)

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre - 7.5/10

[PimpDaShizzle V2.0]

Saw III :down: :down:
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This is a horrible movie.

Jesus Camp :up: :down:
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It was kind of interesting but I think most people are aware of the content. The bias of the filmmakers is noticable with a lot of the camera work, but that's expected.

[Escape]

Thanks Escape :)

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre - 7.5/10

No problemo. :D

I enjoyed the TCM remake more than the original by far. As for the one that just came out, not so much but still better than the original. :yup:

[diamondgeeza]

Little Voice (1998) 2/5
The Hustler (1961) 4/5
The Commitments (1991) 4.5/5
All on FilmFour (http://www.channel4.com/film/filmontv/index.html)

[Escape]

The Messengers (4/10)

Slow,dragged on, creeped forward in snail speed....oh did I mention slow. It was Crap. Nothing new or inventive in this one. Bypass it by all means.

[Tacitus]

The Van (1996, Stephen Frears)

4/5

I finally got my hands on the DVD version of this, my favourite in Roddy Doyle's Barrytown trilogy, and watched it last night for the first time in almost a decade.

The Van is funny, touching and as joyously profane as only an Irish film can be, with a wonderful performance by Colm Meaney.

If your knowledge of Roddy Doyle as a writer only extends to The Commitments, track this down (followed by The Snapper) and prepare to find out just why I think that Alan Parker's film is the least accomplished of the three... :)

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"It's like the inside of a leper..."

[Piddzilla]

Farväl Falkenberg ("Falkenberg Farewell") (2006 - Jesper Ganslandt)

Amazing film. It captures the melancholy of the swedish summer... I could really identify with a lot of it. If you like Show Me Love by Lukas Moodysson, you should really check this one out.

[jrs]

Freedom Writers 4 - Very inspirational and has at times some emotional moments.

The Messengers (4/10)

Slow,dragged on, ..... It was Crap. Nothing new or inventive .....Bypass it by all means.

The beginning part was a little slow yes I agree. Though crap? I wouldn't put it it that way. Like you said nothing that original....maybe you're right. I have one major problem, you see The Messengers (originally a japanese film) wasn't "fully" up to par to its original japanese counterpart like The Ring was. That's just my problem with it

[Escape]

The beginning part was a little slow yes I agree. Though crap? I wouldn't put it it that way. Like you said nothing that original....maybe you're right. I have one major problem, you see [B]The Messengers (originally a japanese film) wasn't "fully" up to par to its original japanese counterpart like The Ring was. That's just my problem with it

Well I mean here is how went for me jrs.

It started off fine cause I expected it to establish some kind of a little history to what got the family there. But the thing I found annoying is the constant showing of the feet creeping to the noise or the area they were curious about, over and over again. And it was mostly the teenage girl too. Show her face then her feet, her feet then her face. I mean c'mon already. Then the kid seeing the ghouls over and over again and pointing. And you could even tell when the so called fright was about to happen. Music died down and right on cue, BOO! someone or something touches them. And this took up a good part of the story. Around 3/4. It did have it's moments like where the girl was being pulled down the stairs but her acting was terrible following that little incident. She did NOT look as petrified as she should have been. Total phoney baloney acting in fact. There was no twist either. All it was about was this guy went psycho on his wife and kid and they didnt rest till they got him back. Big whoopie. There should have been at least a couple twists in there to make it worthwhile, for me anyways.

[gummo]

Clerks II - funny stuff! And the predictability made it easier to just sit back and laugh. Sometimes guessing the ending just gets in the way of the comedy. 4.7/5 for comedy. Overall, 3.5/5.

[PimpDaShizzle V2.0]

A Decade Under The Influence :up: :up:
the 70's films that changed everything
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This is a badass documentary about badass films made in the 70s and the way they shaped the industry, what stories were told, and how they were made. Mucho Goodoe'.

Alien :up: :up:
That huge creature they find with a hole in its chest is amazing. WELL DONE!

Mulholland Drive :up: :down:
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I still don't understand why everyone seems to love this movie. I think it's boring. This was when Naomi Watts was hot.

[blibblobblib]

Here are a few films i have had the pleasure to view lately.

Pans Labyrinth - 4 Unnecessarily gory but awesome
Marnie - 4 Screwed up classic Hitch. Loved it.
Notes on a Scandal - 5 Delicious
Prairie Home Companion - 3 A sweet film for Mr Altman to end on.
The Sixth Sense - 5 Wonderful. It breaks my heart. Why wasnt Toni Collette given an Oscar for her performance in this?
Unbreakable - 5 Perfection
American Werewolf in London - 4 Oh god still horrifying. The bit with the Nazi nightmare....EURGH!
The Holiday - 2 Average and enjoyable.
Borat - 4 Much better than i thought it would be. Mr Cohen really pushes it in this. He has large balls.
Devil Wears Prada - 3 Love the Streep
Memoirs of a Geisha - 3 Beautiful but a bit boring.Mulholland Drive :up: :down:
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I still don't understand why everyone seems to love this movie. I think it's boring. This was when Naomi Watts was hot.
Your brain is obviously too small to understand it. For increased enjoyment i would reccommend enlarging your brain then watch again. :D

[Mad Hatter]

Watched Little Miss Sunshine for the 2nd time. I think I liked it even more than the first viewing 4/5
Hero - Great martial arts film!

[Monkeypunch]

Hollywoodland - 4/5. Okay, this film made Ben Affleck into a good actor. He's only in it for maybe half of the film's running time, and I really wish there was more of him. Adrien Brody is good as a P.I., but Affleck is mesmerising as George Reeves, the actor that became famous for playing Superman in the 1950's, then dying under suspicious circumstances. I'd have nominated him best supporting actor over Mark Wahlberg in a heartbeat.

[blibblobblib]

Monkeypunch, thats Monkey from the ITV ads. Have you seen them? I thought your were in the states? Thats a funny monkey.

[Monkeypunch]

Monkeypunch, thats Monkey from the ITV ads. Have you seen them? I thought your were in the states? Thats a funny monkey.

I have seen the ads. My sister lives in England, and she showed me all of them on YouTube. Very funny stuff.

[Piddzilla]

An Inconvenient Truth (2006 - Davis Guggenheim)

Imagine how close this man came to become the president of USA.

[blibblobblib]

An Inconvenient Truth (2006 - Davis Guggenheim)

Imagine how close this man came to become the president of USA.
Is this derogatory remark or praise? I cannot tell.

[Piddzilla]

Is this derogatory remark or praise? I cannot tell.

It's neither, actually. I wasn't commenting so much on the film as on the fact that there's actually an environmentalist who won the most votes in an American presidential election (and I'm not talking about Ralph Nader). It just emphazises what a completely waste of this planet's valuable time it was to put George W. Bush in the White House - for two periods.

The film isn't anything special on an informative level, really. I knew most of the stuff Al's talking about allready, I've even read some of his sources first hand. But I'm sure there's a lot of people (Americans in particular, obviously) that need to be informed about this and I think the film is doing a good job doing that.

What I thought was interesting was the stuff about Al Gore that I didn't know before. I wasn't aware of his family's background in the tobacco industry or that he's been such a devoted environmentalist for so long. They obviously had to tone down that side of him during the campaign for the 2000 election so he wouldn't come out as an "extremist".

The Squid and the Whale (2005 - Noah Baumbach)

Very nice. I have to be honest, I wasn't aware that it was the guy who'd co-written the script for The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou who'd made this one. Or that Wes Anderson was involved in it. But it did remind me of The Royal Tenenbaums so I wasn't suprised when I realized which guys had directed/written and produced it. But I did enjoy every second of it.

[gummo]

The Squid and the Whale (2005 - Noah Baumbach)

Very nice. I have to be honest, I wasn't aware that it was the guy who'd co-written the script for The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou who'd made this one. Or that Wes Anderson was involved in it. But it did remind me of The Royal Tenenbaums so I wasn't suprised when I realized which guys had directed/written and produced it. But I did enjoy every second of it.

I also enjoyed The Squid and Whale!


I saw Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning last night. I was expecting a little more of a story about Leatherface growing up and less about him as an adult. It was good anyway, but I was a little disappointed.

[Escape]

I saw Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning last night. I was expecting a little more of a story about Leatherface growing up and less about him as an adult. It was good anyway, but I was a little disappointed.
Yup, same here seeing as they advertised it that way. It hardly showed anything really of his torments as a child or teenager. The one before was much better.

[PimpDaShizzle V2.0]

Your brain is obviously too small to understand it. For increased enjoyment i would reccommend enlarging your brain then watch again. :D
I have a brain size complex. Thanks for bringing that up in public.

But for really-reals, the movie's boring. I'd rather watch COPS and eat celery with my dog.

[PimpDaShizzle V2.0]

Dog Day Afternoon :up: :up:
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Al Pacino is a freakin' genius. His body language and delivery are like a pack of rabid lobsters defending their cave from a hungry sea lion. And, for whatever reason, the whole crossdresser-my-wife-needs-a-surgery felt like a slippery phantom sucker punched me in the gonads. I had heard about this movie and some parts but no one ever mentioned that. Whatever. It's a good movie.

[Thursday Next]

The Constant Gardener 4/5 Pretty good, but not much fun.

Hellboy 2/5 Looks great, script sucks.

[blibblobblib]

I have a brain size complex. Thanks for bringing that up in public.
Remember, its not the size that matters, its what you do with it that....no wait it is size that matters. Sorry dude.
But for really-reals, the movie's boring. I'd rather watch COPS and eat celery with my dog.
What ever floats your boat!

[Sleezy]

Dogville (von Trier, 2003)

Don't know how I feel about this one yet.

[Iroquois]

Highlander - 8.5/10
Glengarry Glen Ross - 8.5/10

[John McClane]

Hannibal Rising- D+ If it wasn't for Gong Li, I would've felt very upset about spending $8.50 on this film. :) The worst of the Hannibal series.

[jrs]

Hannibal Rising- D+ If it wasn't for Gong Li, I would've felt very upset about spending $8.50 on this film. :) The worst of the Hannibal series.


I though it was second best, right behind Silence of the Lambs. Gong Li or no Gong Li, the film is an excellent solid made prequel all the way. I glad I own it.

[jrs]

300 5 A+++ - Came back from watching the studio invitation screening. Can't wait till tomorrow for Grindhouse. :D

[ash_is_the_gal]

some stuff lately!

Bottlerocket

Running with Scissors - um, what?

Sherrybaby - Maggie Gynenhaalfdjflsd all skanked out? i am so there.

Minnies First Time - i didn't realize til i just typed out the title how much it sounds like a soft core porno. and i just realized Alec Baldwins part in this one was practically exactly like his part in Running with Scissors. that Nikki Reed girl isn't so bad though.

Conversation(s) with Other Women - i liked the split screen idea. i really liked the interaction between the two main leads, but i somehow think this movie would have worked better if... if...

god. im really boring myself, and im tired. im going to bed!

[Sedai]

American Psycho (Harron, 2000)

[blibblobblib]

Delicatessen 4

[Thursday Next]

Doctor Zhivago 4

[undercoverlover]

Garden State---really impressed with Zach Braff's movie, tender and sweet and funny

Show boat---i love a musical

[linespalsy]

the last movie i saw was 'seven swords' which was quite a while ago, actually.

[jrs]

Grindhouse 5
88 Minutes 4
Number 23 4_5

[Piddzilla]

Le Temps du loup (2003 - Michael Haneke)

It's been a while since I watched a Haneke film. This one's perhaps not one of his strongest but I could still appreciate it. It's got some typical Haneke features over it, like the unconventional narrative structure; it's not only an open end, the whole film is more like a state rather than a journey from A to B. It's a bleak look into the future, not science fiction really. But still a criticism of society and consumerism which, of course, also is typical for Haneke.

[Sedai]

Children of Men (Cuaron, 2006)

5

[adidasss]

Over the Hedge 3 - not very funny
Half Nelson 4 - loved the moral ambiguity.

[blibblobblib]

Grindhouse 5
88 Minutes 4
Number 23 4_5
ACK! JRS, what was Grindhouse like? I CANT WAIT to see that. or those. So what happens? Do you sit through one film and the next one comes on or do they play both films at the cinema and you just go see them both? And if they are played together, do they seem short?

[Sleezy]

Children of Men (Cuaron, 2006)

5


Is this the third time now? :D

I really regret not seeing this one yet; but somehow, I think I'd rather wait for the DVD and experience it at home without all the modern cinema disruptions. :yup:

[Tacitus]

The Black Dahlia (2006, Brian De Palma)

1/5

Jesus wept. :rolleyes:

I've never been a fan of De Palma but this abject Chinatown-lite nonsense takes the biscuit. If you're gonna have a leading man in the shape of Josh 'The American Clive Owen' Hartnett at least have the decency of attaching a couple of electrodes to his nads to liven the stiff up a bit...

Children Of Men (2006, Alfonso Cuarón)

3.5/5

Not bad, and does a convincing job of looking like Half Life II, but Clive 'The English Josh Hartnett' Owen is his usual, listless self. If you like your dystopia served up on a great big plate with extra fries then Children Of Men may well be fantastic - it looks good, has a great selection of Brit character actors (Ma Larkin in dreads, for example) and is supremely noisy.

Julianne Moore's hair is still extremely sexy and a Fiat Multipla makes a good cameo but, and if we're talking modern Brit-based near-future shock, 28 Days Later... gets my vote every single time. :)

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Would you feel safe if Mankind's future was in the hands of Willie Nelson and a tree?

[blibblobblib]

Julianne Moore's hair is still extremely sexyAMEN to that Taccy. Apparently it was up for a BAFTA but lost out to Forrest Whittakers belly.

[Tacitus]

AMEN to that Taccy. Apparently it was up for a BAFTA but lost out to Forrest Whittakers belly.

Outrage! :D

Apparently the hair escaped and was last seen on top of a straw, being sued by Nicole Kidman under the Trades Descriptions Act...

[gummo]

Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind - I loved it!!!

[Sedai]

Is this the third time now? :D

I really regret not seeing this one yet; but somehow, I think I'd rather wait for the DVD and experience it at home without all the modern cinema disruptions. :yup:

Fourth time, actually. ;)

You should definitely see it in the theater. Don't wait for DVD!!!! ;)

[blibblobblib]

Fourth time, actually. ;)

You should definitely see it in the theater. Don't wait for DVD!!!! ;)
Seds right, COM is a definite cinema film. The sound alone is amazing.

[undercoverlover]

Breif Encounter - pretty good

[Thursday Next]

Planet of the Apes - Completely daft, but kind of fun in a camp, Star-Trekky way. 3.5/5

[Mad Hatter]

Marie Antoinette - Not as good as I had hoped

[Pyro Tramp]

I'm kinda half way through The Host, THe Prestige and The Man Who Fell To Earth

[blibblobblib]

At the same time?

Thats pretty hardcore.

[undercoverlover]

hot fuzz - fookin brilliant, predictable but funny as hell. Best end shoot out scene ever.

'By the power of Greyskull!'

[Thursday Next]

Stalker - I thought I was going to like this, there were some gorgeous images and good dialogue, but it was veeeeery slow and I suppose I just wasn't in the mood to concentrate on it. Could have done with a bit of editing.

[Mad Hatter]

HollywoodLand - I really liked this one alot. There were some pretty solid performances from this movie.

[jrs]

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[gummo]

The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till. :( sad documentary. It made me sad and angry! grr!

[undercoverlover]

Hello, Dolly - really enjoyed it, some dance sequences were way too long but fun nonetheless. Love the way Streisand talks in that really fast way, great dialogue

[PimpDaShizzle V2.0]

Star Wars: Episode I, II, and III :down: :down:
All of these movies suck. I couldn't think of a better time to use the phrase, wooden acting. Lucas needs to stick to combing his beard and stay away from directing.

"We need to go to the other planet for whatever."
FLY TO PLANET
"We are at the planet. These guys look dangerous."
FIGHT
"We need to go to the other planet for whatever."
FLY TO PLANET
"We are at the planet. These guys look dangerous.
FIGHT

The Edge :up: :down:
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This movie's pretty good. But, ever since I saw a clip of some lady in a sweat suit get slightly mangled by a bear, movie versions of animal attacks seem real fake. Anthony Hopkins character is kind of cheese ball at times too.

Unknown :up: :up:
I liked it. The ending is a little scattered though.

[gummo]

[I][B]The Edge :up: :down:
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This movie's pretty good. But, ever since I saw a clip of some lady in a sweat suit get slightly mangled by a bear, movie versions of animal attacks seem real fake. Anthony Hopkins character is kind of cheese ball at times too.

.

The Edge tore me in two different directions as well, pimp. The actor I love the most (hopkins) and the actor I HATE the most (baldwin) were the stars of this movie. But placing the actors aside, I enjoyed the movie. It had some suspensful scenes that had me on "the edge" of my seat. Add the two actors and we have a movie I can take or leave.

[Mad Hatter]

The Night Listener - A decent thriller.

[Piddzilla]

Caché (2005 - Michael Haneke)

One of Haneke's best. It's all there, the multilayered narrative, the misunderstood conception of reality, the wide and narrow perspective at the same time, the open end, unsolved mysteries and, as always, a pessimism that goes through it all. But this time Haneke works within the thriller genre which demands from him to work with some conventional methods to achieve the necessary suspense. There's nothing conventional about Caché though, on the contrary, these minor concessions for mainstream cinema only emphasize Haneke's skills as a director and the result is a bold dive into the dark depths of our hidden secrets, individually and collectively. The special features on my disc contain an interview with Haneke in which he, as several times before, refers to mainstream cinema, and American cinema in particular, when asked to explain why he makes certain choices in his directing. In mainstream cinema a crisis will bring the family closer together, make them cast all their ordinary problems aside and realize the value of the family unit. Haneke instead shows how a crisis threatens to bring the family values down when dark secrets are running the risk of being drawn out into the light. I'm absolutely looking forward to Haneke's American/British/French production, Funny Games (2007), a remake of his own 1997 film with the same title, now with stars like Naomi Watts and Tim Roth in the cast. It's a complete independet low budget project, but still.... it's interesting that Haneke is glancing at the American market and the mainstream cinema which his own films are supposed to be a reaction against. Maybe he wants America to acknowlede him in the same way as European directors like Almodovar and von Trier have been acknowledged on the other side of the Atlantic. We'll see.....

[Mad Hatter]

The Usual Suspects - I love this movie!

[Sedai]

Children of Men (Cuaron, 2006)

Memoirs of a Geisha (Marshall, 2005)

[Mad Hatter]

Jackie Brown
Torn Curtain
Open Season

[Thursday Next]

Hot Fuzz

[Tacitus]

The Departed (2006, Martin Scorsese)

3.5/5

Marty's pretty faithful reworking of (whisper it) 2002's classic HK Cop & Robberathon, Infernal Affairs doesn't do anything badly wrong...

...It's just that the Bostonian Murphia take on the story is inferior in every single way (ok, maybe not every single way, just acting, direction, screenplay etc) to Siu Fai Mak and Wai Keung Lau's version.

Now, in most other years I'd have put The Departed's prominence in the Academy Award nominations down to guilt at not honouring Scorsese as best director in the past. 2006 has been so generally low (from what I've seen anyway) in standards of filmic excellence (or, indeed, adequacy) that I'm not really surprised that it tickles the octogenarian voters' prostates to such a degree that it's there on merit.

Marky Mark though? If they're handing out nominations on such slight grounds as 'having a truly awful haircut' then why not hand out gongs to Matt 'Sheep Impression' Damon and Leo 'Constipated Looking' DiCaprio?

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Baaaa!! Gmnfffhhhhh!!

[Escape]

The Departed (8/10)

Thought Dicaprio played his part much better than Damon did his.

[undercoverlover]

Troy
Its a wonderful life
Little miss sunshine
plan 9 from outer space - possibly the hokiest film ever

[linespalsy]

last movies i saw were Don't Come Knocking and Time of the Gypsies. I'm really liking Kusturica's films more and more.

[Mad Hatter]

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

[Sedai]

RV (Sonnenfeld, 2006) - I chuckled a couple of times, so I guess I have to give it two boxes... Otherwise...terrible stuff...

2

[jrs]

I just saw Number 23 again. It is absolutely sensational. Better than expected. For those who haven't seen it..... be prepared for a shocker!!!!!! :D

4_5

[Tacitus]

last movies i saw were Don't Come Knocking and Time of the Gypsies. I'm really liking Kusturica's films more and more.

What did you think of Don't Come Knocking?

I saw it 6 months ago and, while perfectly watchable, I wasn't exactly bowled over. Certainly not as bowled over as I want to be by WW, though he hasn't done that to me in a while.

Nice cast, nice script, nicely shot. Very....nice. ;)

[dog.gon.gun]

The War of the Worlds (Byron Haskin)
3

On the whole, I found the movie laughably ridiculous at times in terms of dialogue and acting, but it was still fun to watch. Better than the new one at least.

[Monkeypunch]

Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1987, dir. Todd Haynes) - This is an odd one. Infamous underground short film about the life and death of 1970's pop star, Karen Carpenter, told using Barbie dolls instead of actors. It sounds like it would be funny, but it truly isn't. You can see it online if you look for it, but the film itself has been banned from release since 1989 at the request of Richard Carpenter (who comes off very poorly in the film, I might add.) I couldn't look away from this one, it's kind of a haunting, disturbing, and emotional film.

[adidasss]

****ing Åmål - Lukas Moodyson (1998) 4.5

[linespalsy]

What did you think of Don't Come Knocking?

I saw it 6 months ago and, while perfectly watchable, I wasn't exactly bowled over. Certainly not as bowled over as I want to be by WW, though he hasn't done that to me in a while.

Nice cast, nice script, nicely shot. Very....nice. ;)

No, I wasn't amazed either. I can't say I was disappointed tho. My grandparents were visiting and brought it up with them, and I knew nothing going into it so was really pleasantly surprised to see Sam Shepard (screenplay too!), Tim Roth and Sarah Polley. I agree it looked great; nice scenery, really fantastical colors. In the end there was something that kept me from falling in love with the movie, but I'm not sure just what it was. Did you see Sarah Polley in No Such Thing? That was something I really fell in love with her over.

[Mad Hatter]

Watched Chinatown last night. I don't think a plot can get much better than this!

[Thursday Next]

Ghost. Meh :indifferent:

[undercoverlover]

Inherit the wind - fantastic movie, loved it all

[Sleezy]

Babel (Inarritu, 2006) 5

Stunning film.

[PimpDaShizzle V2.0]

Babel :up: :up:
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Everyone knows, it's a good movie.

[undercoverlover]

54 - jam packed with sex, drugs and conning the IRS, just the way i like my movies
The Day the Earth Stood Still - Excellent classic sci-fi

[Sleezy]

The Gift (Raimi, 2000) 4

Not a perfect film, as the organization and pace of the film felt a little off; but the emotional flavor and some strong performances more than satisfied my expectations.

[Monkeypunch]

Snakes on a Plane - cause sometimes, you just need to see Samuel L Jackson fight snakes...on a plane. Can there be a sequel soon please?

[undercoverlover]

23 - OMG, loved this movie, thought it was gonna tur out to be some classy piece of psychological film noir but instead morphed into this kind of tortured soul story of obsession. I wasnt that taken with the ending though i would have prefered a different kind of conclusion- even though there was no real conclusion.

[Thursday Next]

Kill Bill. Indescribably awful.

[Mad Hatter]

The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre - Fantastic!

[Sedai]

Memoirs of a Geisha (Marshall, 2005)

Pan's Labyrinth (Del Toro, 2006)

Great stuff all around...

[Mad Hatter]

Sunset Bouleveard - Got to love Billy Wilder!

[Golgot]

Tadpole - Sex and Voltaire eh? With added dufflecoats? Hmm.

Presented with the clunky pretentiousness of teen espousing philosophy (deliberately? not sure), this short tale of a 15-year-old's love/lust for his step mum is still a fine watch. The faffing around in French and the facile quotes are annoying, but everything else is handled with an accessible lightness of touch. Bebe Neuwirth, Weaver and Ritter are all class, and the book-bruised kid-lead does well n'all.

[Mad Hatter]

The Prestige....finally!

[Monkeypunch]

Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny - had it's moments. I expected to love it more than I actually did. Still worth it for a good sort of dumbass time. John C Reilly as Sasquatch is funny, and so is Tim Robbins as a creepy one-legged man ("I miss my sweet-ass leg!"). Silly fun, but not much else.

[Pyro Tramp]

I found Pick of Destiny disappointing, there was nothing really wrong with it, i found, just an average film. Loved the showdown with Grohl as the Devil tho.

[Mad Hatter]

Stranger than fiction - I really liked Emma Thompson and Dustin Hoffman in this.

[Sedai]

The Prestige (Nolan, 2006)

I enjoyed it. I do think the second act was muddled, and I think they could have spent more time tightening up the screenplay. Still, they had me thinking I had the twist figured out, which I thought was way obvious, but they pulled a fast one on me, and changed it up at the the end. I had to ask myself, though... Without that final twist, would the film hold its salt? I would have to say no, it wouldn't. So, for magician films, even though I liked many of the interesting tidbits about the craft in The Prestige, I think I prefer The Illusionist. The Illusionist would still have been an excellent film, sans twist. The twist just made it better...

[PimpDaShizzle V2.0]

The Prestige :up: :up:
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I was surprised at how good this ended up being. Some of the times I was saying, "Yeah-boyee, yah' best tah' wreck dat' foolio'." But then, I would be saying that about the person I was rooting for. It's an amazing kawinkydink'. Anyways, it's good.

[gummo]

Open Water 2: Adrift

I was in the mood for a stranded in the sea disaster movie after watching this heroic episode of the tv show "I Shouldn't Be Alive." so I grabbed this one. Heh, it was alright. The ending was a little weird...in a bad way. Do we just assume the girly that took off is dead? I understand this is based on true events, but we could have gotten a little more information. And no offense, well I am sure the people involved would be offended, but these people were idiots...and if you watch the movie you will see what I mean.

I have a feeling I will be checking out the first one soon since it has a shark in it.

[Mad Hatter]

bringing Up Baby - A great classic.

[dog.gon.gun]

Don Juan DeMarco (Jeremy Leven)
2

Silly tripe.

Through a Glass Darkly (Ingmar Bergman)
5

Why don't they make movies like this anymore? Oh yeah. People hate being forced to think.

Winter Light (Ingmar Bergman)
5

Another thoroughly depressing classic by the grandmaster of Swedish cinema.

[Mad Hatter]

Broadcast News - A great 80's film!

[PimpDaShizzle V2.0]

The Man In The Iron Mask :up: :down:
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Eh, it's all right I guess. I think the target audience was old ladies though. I've seen John Malkovich do much better too.

[linespalsy]

Zodiac (excellent. replaces Fight Club as Fincher's best.)
Belly of an Architect (the worst Greenaway film I've seen so far, but still all right).

[Mad Hatter]

Babel - Overall, a really good film.
The Wicker Man - I didn't see the ending coming at all!
A Good Year - My least favorite Russell Crowe film.
Adventures In Babysitting - Haven't watched this one in years!

[gummo]

http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/columbia_pictures/stranger_than_fiction/strangerthanfiction_bigearlyposter.jpg

I haven't seen all of the movies he stared in but so far this is my favorite performance by Will Ferrell. This movie had me cracking up in many scenes. The scene with Emma Thompson and Queen Latifah visiting the hospital was hilarious!!

5/5

[Sedai]

LotR - The Return of the King

The Breakfast Club

[Thursday Next]

Chungking Express - It's not In the Mood For Love, but it's still quite good. 3.5/5

[Pyro Tramp]

I really enjoyed Chungking Express and have tried watching In The Mood For Love but couldn't finish it on 3 occasions....

[OG-]

I'm actually with you on that, Pyro. I dig the hell out of Chungking, but never truly saw the passion for In The Mood.

[Pyro Tramp]

The Host- 3_5 Good, but disappointing. Didn't like the sometimes uneven and inappropriate use of humour or the monster design, luckily it's well shot and put together.

[OG-]

The Host- 3_5 Good, but disappointing. Didn't like the sometimes uneven and inappropriate use of humour or the monster design, luckily it's well shot and put together.

Really? I absolutely love the monster design. The humor, just like in Memories of Murder, is an Asian blend of slapstick-ish quality that takes some getting used to - so I'll give you that.

Still counts as one of the best monster movies ever made in my book.

[Pyro Tramp]

It threw me a bit in Memories of Murder but in the end helped the movie as a whole but in The Host it didn't seem to add to the tone or flesh the characters. The creature was interesting but it looked like a stupid slug more than anything very menacing, i suppose that something more simplistic wouldn't be as good, didn't much care for it's swinging under the bridge movement either. Anyway, as monster movies go, it rates up there but certainly not a classic. Might change my opinion after a watching it in one go with full attention.

[adidasss]

I actually shut it off half way threw, I'm not big on monster films in general. Memories of murder was awesome though.

[dog.gon.gun]

Nacho Libre (Jared Hess)
1_5

This is why I hate watching movies at school.

[PimpDaShizzle V2.0]

Apollo 13 :up: :up:
http://www.wherehouse.com/amgcover/dvd/large/t0/22/t02294ghoue.jpg
I like this movie even though Bill Paxton is in it.

Lord of The Rings: Return of The King :up: :down:
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I think there's way too much talking. I felt the same way about the recent Star Wars movies - talk about where you're going, then go there, talk about what you need to do, then do it. It's boring to me.

[Thursday Next]

Singin' in the Rain - A film from the days when a lot of tap dancing was considered to be top class entertainment...Still, I've seen worse...

[undercoverlover]

forest gump
All dogs go to heaven
This Boys Life

[Monkeypunch]

Borat - so incredibly funny!!! Thumbs way way up from me.

[Mad Hatter]

Half Nelson

[Piddzilla]

Laitakaupungin valot / Lights in the Dusk (2006 - Aki Kaurismäki)

I love Kaurismäki's style. It's minimalistic, very peeled off and with a dry sense of humour even if you're watching a tragedy. Kaurismäki never beats around the bush, he gets right to it. There's not one line to much in the dialogue, not one word too many. The actors are just barely acting, it seems. As with the 2002 masterpiece, The Man Without a Past, it's about getting back into the game after being knocked down, guided by a light at the end of the tunnel (as the titel, Lights in the Dusk, suggests). I wasn't as moved as I was by The Man Without a Past this time though. I have a problem with characters that are passive and doesn't seem to mind that they are being exploited and abused by others. It makes me angry, which perhaps is a good thing. Kaurismäki is one of the most original uncompromising directors in Europe, and probably the world too, right now. This one is absolutely worth the 75 mins you invest in it.

[Tacitus]

The Proposition (2005, John Hillcoat)

4/5

Improving with each viewing, I guess the appreciation of this contemplative Aussie Western differs depending on your mood. It certainly seems to for me...

Wonderful cinematography by Benoît Delhomme, equally fantastic score by Nick Cave and excellent performances by Ray Winstone, Emily Watson, Faramir, Danny Huston and Guy Pearce should have been enough to at least satisfy me first time round but I was left with one major gripe - Cave's screenplay, and in particular the script's slightness.

Not so anymore. ;)

The Proposition's screenplay certainly doesn't have a 'wow' factor but I'm beginning to revel in the quietness of it. The way violence happens off camera, the lonely sadness of Emily Watson's Martha, the mutterings of The Outback itself.

Yep, you heard me - listen carefully and you can hear the quiet declamation of the soil...

...It might take you a few viewings, though...

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b69/greenspagbol/flicks_review2-1_04.jpg

Mention 'Mike from Neighbours' to me again...I dare you.

[Piddzilla]

The Proposition (2005, John Hillcoat)

4/5

Improving with each viewing, I guess the appreciation of this contemplative Aussie Western differs depending on your mood. It certainly seems to for me...

Wonderful cinematography by Benoît Delhomme, equally fantastic score by Nick Cave and excellent performances by Ray Winstone, Emily Watson, Faramir, Danny Huston and Guy Pearce should have been enough to at least satisfy me first time round but I was left with one major gripe - Cave's screenplay, and in particular the script's slightness.

Not so anymore. ;)

The Proposition's screenplay certainly doesn't have a 'wow' factor but I'm beginning to revel in the quietness of it. The way violence happens off camera, the lonely sadness of Emily Watson's Martha, the mutterings of The Outback itself.

Yep, you heard me - listen carefully and you can hear the quiet declamation of the soil...

...It might take you a few viewings, though...

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b69/greenspagbol/flicks_review2-1_04.jpg

Mention 'Mike from Neighbours' to me again...I dare you.

I thought The Proposition had something almost biblical over itself and I imagine Cave's script to have something to do with that. I think it's a strength that it's got this quietness, as you call it, over it. The film left me thinking a lot....

[Thursday Next]

Chinatown 4/5

[Sleezy]

Zodiac (Fincher, 2007) 4

A fairly rudimentary concept that steps from mediocre into outstanding by way of solid performances by Gyllenhaal and Downey, and a likewise phenomenal one by Ruffalo; not to mention Fincher's penchant for unique cinematic style which, while much more reserved in this film than in some of his previous efforts, lends itself quite strongly to the mystique of the Zodiac killer and the mercurial investigations conducted for the purpose of rooting him out. Simply put, this film is a terribly fun historical whodunnit, complete with wrenching suspense and a surprisingly humorous flavor, which I think all too often finds itself omitted from most films in this genre.

A Scanner Darkly (Linklater, 2006) 3_5

I'm still working on this one. After spending several months popping the DVD in, watching a half-hour and then getting lost, only to shelve it for weeks, etc., I finally made it through. This is a doosy of a cerebral experience, coupled quite interestingly with a visual animation style that makes your eyes (and your brain) constantly work. I think there's a depth here that I've recognized but not quite grasped yet, and I'm looking forward to subsequent viewings. I'm just pleasantly surprised to find some kind of glue holding together what at first seemed to be a completely disjointed series of scenes. I do think some missteps in pacing were taken, particularly in the third act (which rushes too quickly and too internally to its close); but I understand that the screenplay is adapted from the novel by Philip K. Dick, which is always a tricky task to pull off.

Though interestingly enough, this film has got me dying to read the book. :)

[Mad Hatter]

12 Angry Men - I absolutely loved this!

[PimpDaShizzle V2.0]

Borat :up: :up:
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This movie had me laughing the whole time.

[linespalsy]

I will be checking out the Proposition. Hadn't heard of it but it sounds goood. Saw A Prairie Home Companion last night. Man, it sucks that there ain't gonna be no more Altman movies.

Got to see Vengeance is Mine and Nishi Ginza Station on the big screen monday night. Vengeance is Mine is still great. Nishi Ginza Station not so great, pretty much just an sex comedy of the sort that I figure were probably churned out regularly by studios in the fifties/sixties. Interesting that it lightly lampoons the convoluted rationalizations for pandering to the male libido, that Imamura would later give to some of his most ridiculous antiheroes, but it's got nothing on the Pornographers in that dept.

[Tacitus]

I thought The Proposition had something almost biblical over itself and I imagine Cave's script to have something to do with that. I think it's a strength that it's got this quietness, as you call it, over it. The film left me thinking a lot....

I probably made the mistake of concentrating too much on the Guy Pearce/Danny Huston relationship on the first few viewings when Emily Watson and Ray Winstone are the heartbeat of the film.

Probably. :)

The Tartan release has a great commentary by Hillcoat and Cave, by the way, but the extras disc isn't fantastic... ;)

[undercoverlover]

mr. deeds goes to town

[Mad Hatter]

Some Like It Hot

[Thursday Next]

To Kill A Mockingbird 4/5

[Piddzilla]

Apocalypto (2006 - Mel Gibson)

Although not as controversial as The Passion of the Christ I can see where the criticism of it comes from and I agree with some of it. Still, I think it is probably Gibson's best film so far. He proves himself as a solid action director and I was also very impressed with his use of color. The pyramid village scenes in particular looked really good.

But...

The quote right at the beginning of the film puts words to what the whole film suggests: that the cultures of what became America were bound to go under because of their own rottenness, removing the guilt from the shoulders of the Europeans for the genocide on the continent.

[gummo]

OPEN WATER

http://www.celluloid-dreams.de/content/images/kritiken-filmbilder/open-water/open-water-3.jpg

I enjoyed this one much more than the 2nd one. If I haden't watched the special features I would have thought these shark were trained or were mechanical. But these people were in the shark's natural environment. The director hired a shark specialist in and they used raw meat as bait to guide these sharks to where they want them to be in the water. OMG!

They used "unknown" actors...they say that's how they wanted it, mainly because it's low budget. But my guess is they hired unknowns because no "known" actor would jump in the ocean with a million sharks swimming among them.

After seeing the special features I am shocked by how these actors would agree to this!!! I was tense throughout the whole thing.

The movie itself was quite well done for such a low budget. The actors were good enough. And it's interesting because the couple reminded me of me and my boyfriend....So I found myself putting us in their place in the middle of the open water.

[ash_is_the_gal]

A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints - watched it a few days ago. anyone see this? if so, thoughts?

the Squid and the Whale

Running with Scissors

[John McClane]

Running with ScissorsHow was that?

[ash_is_the_gal]

How was that?

:indifferent:

[ash_is_the_gal]

oohers! i forgot, i finally saw United 93, and i loved it.

[jrs]

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[PimpDaShizzle V2.0]

Kill Bill: Vol II :down: :down:
http://www.wherehouse.com/amgcover/dvd/large/t4/62/t46250ble09.jpg
What a piece of crap. When did he, Q. Tarantino, come up with this idea? "But, DaShiz, it's an homage, you just don't get it." No, I get it. It's a shining example of what it looks like when you take classic technique and combine it with a retarded script. Pure crap.

[Iroquois]

^ very nice.

Back to the Future - 8/10

[Tacitus]

Kill Bill: Vol II :down: :down:
http://www.wherehouse.com/amgcover/dvd/large/t4/62/t46250ble09.jpg
What a piece of crap. When did he, Q. Tarantino, come up with this idea? "But, DaShiz, it's an homage, you just don't get it." No, I get it. It's a shining example of what it looks like when you take classic technique and combine it with a retarded script. Pure crap.

I've always thought QT was a better director than screenwriter. It's a pity that he only comes in an all-in-one package...

[Caitlyn]

The Holiday (2006) 2½/5


Does Rufus ever play anything other than an arse?

[Thursday Next]

Does Rufus ever play anything other than an arse?

Yes - see Middlemarch :)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/725000/images/_729714_middle_150.jpg

[linespalsy]

Vengeance is Mine
Nishi Ginza Station
A Prairie Home Companion
Pigs & Battleships
Buffalo '66

[Caitlyn]

Yes - see Middlemarch :)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/725000/images/_729714_middle_150.jpg


Thanks... I'll have to check it out.... :)



300 (2006) 4/5

[linespalsy]

The Prestige. Actually I watched it twice in a row and spent a couple hours afterwards discussing it with the people I saw it with. Maybe we're just slow, or maybe the movie is just that awesome.

[Thursday Next]

Talk to Her 3.5/5

[undercoverlover]

snatch
my big fat greek wedding
hook

[adidasss]

Talk to Her 3.5/5

Dear lord. I'm assuming you mean Hable con ella?

[Holden Pike]

Talk to Her is my favorite of Almodovar's great movies, which is saying a lot. That everybody doesn't love it like I do saddens me, but I can't say it surprises me.

I hope Thursday gives it a spin again sometime down the line. It's an amazing film.

[John McClane]

Road to Perdition- Man, I forgot just how much I loved it.

[Thursday Next]

Dear lord. I'm assuming you mean Hable con ella?

Talk to Her is my favorite of Almodovar's great movies, which is saying a lot. That everybody doesn't love it like I do saddens me, but I can't say it surprises me.

I hope Thursday gives it a spin again sometime down the line. It's an amazing film.


:confused: I did like it, I just didn't love it. It's not like I rated it 1 star or something. Maybe 3.5 was a bit harsh, it could have been 4, but unsettling films like this are hard to rate straight away, it's as you find yourself thinking about them afterwards that they go up in your estimation. My favourite Almodovar film is Bad Education; I'm not sure exactly what Talk To Her lacked that I liked about Bad Education. Warmth, perhaps. (Or maybe male nudity...:) )

[adidasss]

:confused: I did like it, I just didn't love it. It's not like I rated it 1 star or something. Maybe 3.5 was a bit harsh, it could have been 4, but unsettling films like this are hard to rate straight away, it's as you find yourself thinking about them afterwards that they go up in your estimation. My favourite Almodovar film is Bad Education; I'm not sure exactly what Talk To Her lacked that I liked about Bad Education. Warmth, perhaps. (Or maybe male nudity...:) )

I actually think Talk to her is a much "warmer" story than Bad education.

[Thursday Next]

I actually think Talk to her is a much "warmer" story than Bad education.

I think you're right, at least the men in Talk to Her have genuine friendship while just about everyone in Bad Education is trying to get something out of someone else. I guess 'warm' is the wrong word.

[Mad Hatter]

The Third Man
Dressed To Kill

[ash_is_the_gal]

thanks to recent discussion on this thread, i rented Talk to her at my local video store last night. mini review: soonish!

[Monkeypunch]

Casino Royale - Really cool. Daniel Craig makes a great James Bond.

[Mad Hatter]

Kagemusha - God I love Kurosawa!

[PimpDaShizzle V2.0]

Seven :up: :up:
http://www.wherehouse.com/amgcover/dvd/large/t4/02/t40259tqnqa.jpg

This is a good movie.

"Just because the f_cker's got a library card doesn't make em', Yoda!"

[Thursday Next]

Eyes Wide Shut - I don't know why this film has had such negative press; I liked it, mainly because you were never quite sure what to expect next. The scene in the costume rental shop with the daughter of the proprietor was one of the funniest things I have seen in a long time. Alan Cumming was great, as always. And I liked the music.

[Mad Hatter]

Angels With Dirty Faces

[PimpDaShizzle V2.0]

Angels With Dirty Faces
Wasn't that the movie Kevin was watching in Home Alone?

[undercoverlover]

no it was called "Angels With Filthy Souls."

[Mad Hatter]

Murder On The Orient Express - What a great cast!
The Thin Man - I liked William Powell and Myrna Loy's chemistry.

[Ladies Man]

I've recently watched:

Hot Fuzz - pretty cool. Still, Shaun of the Dead takes the cake.

[Mad Hatter]

Captain Blood - My, my, is Mr. Flynn a handsome gent!

[PimpDaShizzle V2.0]

Tideland :confused: :up: :up:
http://www.wherehouse.com/amgcover/dvd/large/u2/91/u29132fhvvy.jpg

I liked it, but I don't know why. I heard T. Gilliam say, "It's about a girl fantasizing about killing her parents." That might be what it's about, and it'd make some sense, but it wouldn't have been my first guess as to what the film was about. I'd consider it a mix between J. Svankmajer's, Alice, and G. Van Sant's, My Own Private Idaho. It's also got an interesting documentary that follows T.G. as he makes the movie.

[jrs]

Very Bad Things on ShowtimeHD

[Sleezy]

300 (Snyder, 2007) 4

Pretty good. I had issues at times with the dialogue, the acting, and some of the added material; but overall, it was extremely faithful and well-adapted to Frank Miller's graphic mini-series.

That said, getting to watch two very specific shots on an IMAX screen -- the Persian messengers riding toward Sparta; and Leonidas cutting stylishly through the enemy at the Hot Gates, respectively -- was worth every last penny I spent on my ticket. This was easily the most visually cathartic, super-charged cinema experience I've ever indulged.

[PimpDaShizzle V2.0]

Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny :down: :up:
http://www.wherehouse.com/amgcover/dvd/large/u0/12/u01272t3yoq.jpg

I watched J. Black and K. Gass on some late night talk show and they acknowledged the fact that it, the movie, wasn't doing very well in theaters and that at the most they hoped it would become the best cult movie, ever. I'm guessing it didn't do well in the theater because it wasn't very good and I doubt it's going to be remembered as a classic cult movie. I laughed at some of the lines, but I'm also retarded sometimes. Anyways, I'd only recommend this if you're a fan of their music. If you're not a fan, there's barely a chance that you'll like it.

I would have rather watched Airheads.

[John McClane]

Children of Men
5

[Monkeypunch]

Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny :down: :up:
http://www.wherehouse.com/amgcover/dvd/large/u0/12/u01272t3yoq.jpg

I watched J. Black and K. Gass on some late night talk show and they acknowledged the fact that it, the movie, wasn't doing very well in theaters and that at the most they hoped it would become the best cult movie, ever. I'm guessing it didn't do well in the theater because it wasn't very good and I doubt it's going to be remembered as a classic cult movie. I laughed at some of the lines, but I'm also retarded sometimes. Anyways, I'd only recommend this if you're a fan of their music. If you're not a fan, there's barely a chance that you'll like it.

I would have rather watched Airheads.

I am a fan of their music, and I didn't like it all that much. The TV series they did was MUCH funnier.

[jrs]

300 at the Imax in Phoenix

[Sedai]

Casino Royale (Campbell, 2006)

4

One of the better spy pieces I have seen in a while. Craig is a great bond, and I LUUUUUUV Eva Green. A couple issues with cohesiveness of the story, but pretty minor, considering.

Watching her die in such a horribly beautiful way really affected me, and I cried. Incredible scene.

[Thursday Next]

Rashomon

[Caitlyn]

The Illusionist (2006) 4/5
The Departed (2006) 3½/5

[Piddzilla]

The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006 - Ken Loach)

Loach delivers, socialist debate and everything. Actually, it's the best film I've seen in quite a while. Anyone else seen it? What do you think?

[Sedai]

The Departed (2006) 3½/5


ACK!

What happened Caity? Not your cup of tea?

[Mad Hatter]

The long Hot Summer

[Caitlyn]

Blood Diamond (2006) 4½/5

[PimpDaShizzle V2.0]

8 1/2 :king: :up: :up:
http://www.wherehouse.com/amgcover/dvd/large/t2/24/t22403j4cgj.jpg

This movie is a perfect mix of the abstract and the concrete. The characters, acting, dialogue, composition, editing, pacing - everything, is awesome.

[Mad Hatter]

The Garden Of Allah

[Tacitus]

Lady In The Water (2006, M. Night Shyamalan)

2/5

Nicely crafted and visualised (not surprising as Chris Doyle did the DP duties) but irritatingly slight and more than a little dull.

I didn't laugh out loud at the screenplay (as I did with The Village) so that counts for something, I guess, and at least Bryce Dallas Howard wasn't being chased by The Honey Monster in this one.

Shyamalan goes to unnecessary lengths, in the DVD extras, to point out that Lady In The Water is a bedtime story. Heading the critics off at the pass, maybe, but quite fitting as I'd fallen into an almost catatonic state before I could reach for the remote's 'off' button...

Jobe done, Night, now go and make that Splatter movie. Just don't write the damn thing. ;)

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b69/greenspagbol/lady-in-the-water.jpg

[Caitlyn]

ACK!

What happened Caity? Not your cup of tea?

Sorry, I missed this earlier… I enjoyed The Departed but it just didn't blow me away(pun intended ;) ). I mainly figured out what was going to happen during the first 30 minutes... and, to me, it ended up being just another unrealistic Hollywood cops and robbers… and what was up with Jack's character? I wanted to run him through the car wash.... on the hood....

[PimpDaShizzle V2.0]

Blood Diamond :up: :up:
http://www.firstshowing.net/img/blooddiamond_01.jpg

This had a lot more action than what I expected and L. DiCaprio's accent didn't make me throw my own feces at the screen, which I was kind of expecting to do, for fun mainly, but anyways... The only thing that really got me besides how gorgeous J. Connelly is was how annoying D. Hounsou's character, Solomon, could be at times. Oh well. Still a good movie.

[Thursday Next]

Roman Holiday. Cute.

[Tacitus]

An Inconvenient Truth (2006, Davis Guggenheim)

2/5

Highly laudible, and all that, but if I ever see another flippin' graph I'll grab Albert 'Disappearing Bald Spot' Gore squarely by the nads and shout rude words about his wife being a nutter. :furiousdevil:

The sad fact is this - I learned more about what the jilted President was trying to say by listening to the commentary track.

AG didn't appear on the commentary track.

Davis Guggenheim directed a few episodes of Deadwood and, by the end of An Inconvenient Truth, I was yearning for Swearengen & Co's Shakespearian declamations more than ever.

"Global Warming? Gut the c*cksuckers!" :D

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b69/greenspagbol/aninconvenienttruth.gif

Anyone mind if I croon the first verse of My Way?

[jrs]

Workprint of 300

[Thursday Next]

True Romance. 3/5. Not quite funny enough to work as a black comedy.

[PimpDaShizzle V2.0]

Kalifornia :up: :up:
http://www.wherehouse.com/amgcover/dvd/large/t0/73/t073082vyll.jpg

B. Pitt's character, Early, is absolutely hilarious - when he's not killing people. A man named Bojan Bazelli did the camera work, which is amazing. B. Bazelli's also the one who did Surviving the Game and Pumpkinhead, neither of which come close to what he did with Kalifornia. What didn't DaShiz like about it though?... D. Duchovny's voice over, that's what I didn't like. And, as an FYI, all the towns these people visit while on their trip west spell out the four main actors names. I don't remember where I read that, it could have been here, Amazon.com, or IMDB.com, but it doesn't matter, because it's true.

[Mad Hatter]

Sherlock Holmes - The Woman In Green

[Thursday Next]

Quiz Show 4/5.

Rented this after its inclusion in the mofo top 100; good film, don't know why I haven't seen it before.

[Escape]

'Invincible'

I enjoyed this one. I love it when a person takes the pain that another (his wife leaving him he didnt live up to her expectations ) does to one and makes something positive out of it, especially when it's a true story for the most part.

[Piddzilla]

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006 - Larry Charles)

Hmmm.... No, not at all as funny as everyone says. A few things were hillarious though. And it seemed to be staged to a much higher degree than I expected too.

[Strummer521]

[I][B]Hmmm.... No, not at all as funny as everyone says.

I kind of agree with you, but of course, you let it get overhyped by waiting so long to see it, and probably heard about so many of the funniest parts that it would have been impossible to watch with fresh eyes. Of course, I'm just guessing because I don't know your situation, but I saw it late like you did and that was the case for me.

[Mad Hatter]

The Mark Of Zorro

[PimpDaShizzle V2.0]

Eragon :up: :up:
http://www.wherehouse.com/amgcover/dvd/large/u3/26/u32668c2oiv.jpg

This movie comes equipped with lines such as "I'm just a farm boy." and "You have enough heart for the both of us." and "We can do this... together." I gave it two thumbs up because it's for kids, and I would have really liked this, even more than I did just now, when I was a youngen'.

Day of the Dead :down: :down:
http://www.wherehouse.com/amgcover/dvd/large/t4/90/t49015fsu8y.jpg

Go ahead, all you horror fan-boys, and start to cry and whine about why I'm stupid for giving this two thumbs down. You want to know why I didn't like it? I'm tired of crap movies using the military as some sort of retarded systematic giant. There always seems to be the wild card, the joker, the crazy, the weakling, and then the commander that has no emotion. It's crap: a cheap generic movie fertilizer to help a weak story line.

[Caitlyn]

A Good Year (2006) 2/5 - (and the 2 is for "Lance Armstrong" .... ;) )

[Mad Hatter]

Now, Voyager - Bette Davis gave an outstanding performance in this!

[Piddzilla]

I kind of agree with you, but of course, you let it get overhyped by waiting so long to see it, and probably heard about so many of the funniest parts that it would have been impossible to watch with fresh eyes. Of course, I'm just guessing because I don't know your situation, but I saw it late like you did and that was the case for me.

You're partly right, I guess. But I've never been too fond of the Borat character. I think Ali G is much much funnier. Not surprisingly I thought the scene where Borat enters that hotel with his pants way down below his ass and talking the ebonics was probably the funniest scene of the film.

[Mad Hatter]

We're No Angels
The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes - My favorite of the Sherlock Holmes series!

[Thursday Next]

42nd Street

[Aniko]

Now, Voyager - Bette Davis gave an outstanding performance in this!

I love Now, Voyager. It's one of my favorites with Bette. She was fabulous. I'm glad you liked it. :)



Recently saw the first time...

Red Beard...:up: I loved everything about this movie. It was wonderful. Thanks Brian, wherever you are.

Only Human... :laugh: :up: Hit my quirky spot that needed to be filled. Family disfunction and discord kicked up a notch. I liked it alot. :D

Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles... :) I liked this quiet little charmer alot.

House of Flying Daggers... :) T’was beautiful for the most part. Loved the drum scene and the bamboo forest scene and all the intrigue, but the end...ehhh.

Hero... :up: Gorgeous. I loved the cast too.

For Your Consideration... :) Obviously, not as good as some of Guest’s other movies, but I still liked it alot. I probably would have loved it if last quarter of the movie wasn’t so flat.

Duel to the Death (1982)... Still thinking about whether I liked it or not. Very dated, good solid story, forced humor toward the beginning, but not carried throughout which made it odd. I knew the special effects would be a little cheesy and dated and I was ready to overlook them, but some of the cheeziness was hard not to overlook. Some great fight scenes though with the usual intrigue and tragic deaths. I wish the Japanese and Chinese fighter interacted more than they did though, so part of the story was a little disappointing. I’m glad I saw it, but won’t be seeing it again.

[Sleezy]

Children of Men (Cuaron, 2006) 5

Four months ago, Ann Hornaday of the Washington Post wrote:

"With its bleak palette of British blues and grays and its mournful conclusion, Children of Men can't be described as a feel-good movie, except to people who care deeply about the future of filmmaking. They'll walk out of the theater on air."

Well, I might not be walking out of a theater, but I feel like I've watched something that isn't just terribly haunting and poignant, but true. Children of Men is not science fiction. It's a quick dip into the darker side of humanity... which isn't so much a dark side as it is a deprived one. The world weathers us all as we grow older, but children remain ever innocent and joyous and free. They are our symbol of hope. They remind us of who we are, and why we must always strive to leave this world in better shape than how we found it. To lose our children means losing the spiritual, moral, and emotional ground on which we walk. The film begs the question, "What shall we do without the sound of a child's laughter?," and I have no answer.

I have no answer.

[Sedai]

Children of Men (Cuaron, 2006)

5


Yeah...watched it again.... Found a couple people that hadn't seen it, and it was time to pop it in again!

Just incredible...

[Mad Hatter]

All The President's Men

[PimpDaShizzle V2.0]

Rocky Balboa :up: :up:
http://www.wherehouse.com/amgcover/dvd/large/u2/89/u28937ei3dh.jpg

A lot of the metaphors were kind of hard to miss but overall I liked it.

[Thursday Next]

Lawrence of Arabia 5/5

First time I've seen this all the way through, and wow. Excellent film, great performances with moments of unlooked for humour ("On the whole, I wish I'd stayed in Tunbridge Wells.").

Makes me despair even more at the current state of the British film industry...

[Tacitus]

There's nowt wrong with the British film industry that shooting Richard Curtis wouldn't go a long way towards fixing.

Get Ken Loach, Mike Leigh and Danny Boyle to hold him down with Shane Meadows pulling the trigger.

As well as lancing a particularly noxious boil, the act would also serve as a warning for brogue-wearers thinking about going to film school... ;)

[Mad Hatter]

Children Of Men - I liked this more than I had anticipated.

[linespalsy]

8 1/2 :king: :up: :up:
http://www.wherehouse.com/amgcover/dvd/large/t2/24/t22403j4cgj.jpg

This movie is a perfect mix of the abstract and the concrete. The characters, acting, dialogue, composition, editing, pacing - everything, is awesome.

Did you get the one with the Fellini-made documentary ("a director's notebook" or some such title) as a bonus feature? It's pretty messy and low budget but I enjoyed it almost as much as the main feature (which is to say, quite a lot).

EDIT: oh yeah, i watched a lot of movies recently. maybe i'll post about them when i can think of something to say. i've got a cold and i'm exhausted right now though.

[PimpDaShizzle V2.0]

Curse of the Golden Flower :up: :up:
http://www.wherehouse.com/amgcover/dvd/large/u2/89/u28998qnkd2.jpg

Usually I rent these types of movies for the cheese ball fighting but I ended up being pretty darned impressed with the story. And, for some reason, I enjoy the type of ending this one had. Also, those women have amazing breasts. Dang!

Lines:
I used to own the Criterion version of 8 1/2 but I sold it for crank. That version probably had the doc', which I didn't watch. I rented the one I listed at Hollyweird Video and didn't notice any sort of doc' with it. I'll need to go find it though. Good lookin' out baloney-slice!

[Pyro Tramp]

Curse of the Golden Flower :up: :up:
http://www.wherehouse.com/amgcover/dvd/large/u2/89/u28998qnkd2.jpg

Also, those women have amazing breasts. Dang!


I'd Gong her Li's.

[PimpDaShizzle V2.0]

Children of Men :up: :up:
http://www.wherehouse.com/amgcover/dvd/large/u3/33/u33377jdmn1.jpg

Very good movie. Even though I disagree with a lot of its predictions there's no way I can overlook the story as being really good, and the technique is da' bomb dizzle.

[Sedai]

Sky High

Not good.

[Pyro Tramp]

Bruce Campbell or Asian one Sedai? One of them i liked, the other i didn't...

[Sedai]

Ah yes, Bruce Campbell was in it, so I liked that much about it. The girl was hot until she turned into a power ranger. It had some fun moments, but, overall, was just too silly for my tastes....

[Mad Hatter]

Adam's Rib

[B-card]

The Fountain(Daren Aronofsky 2006)-Beautiful!

[Thursday Next]

Interstella 5555. I love this film. :)

http://music.tetrap.com/items/g/in5555.jpg

[Mad Hatter]

The Red Shoes

[Tacitus]

Casino Royale (2006, Martin Campbell)

2.5/5

Not much to say other than it was enjoyable enough fluff, in one ear and out the other.

I've always liked Craig as an actor and he fits the 'Bond As Bastard' niche pretty well. His head looks like it's been Photoshopped to his body, at 75% of the original size, though...

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b69/greenspagbol/daniel-craig-speedo12.jpg

Doesn't it? ;)

[Pyro Tramp]

La Dolce Vita- it was good i suppose but waaay long. Plus a lot of the commentary the film makes (Hollywood in Italy, religion) is probably more cultural and dated for me to really connect to.

[PimpDaShizzle V2.0]

Kingdom of Heaven :up: :up:
http://www.wherehouse.com/amgcover/dvd/large/t6/53/t65306mmopm.jpg

Dang! This movie would beat up The Lord Of The Rings in a fist fight. See it.

[Bill]

Saw- 3/5.

[Escape]

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (7.5/10)

[Monkeypunch]

The Dark Crystal - Amazing (and creepy) puppetry from Jim Henson. Believe it or not, a sequel is on the way next year. :)

[jrs]

Meet the Robinsons :up: 4/5

[Mad Hatter]

The Palm Beach Story

[Thursday Next]

Cronos 4/5

Glad I finally got to see this as it has been on my rental list for ages. Not brilliant, but good. A more subtle take on the vampire genre.

http://www.dvdoutsider.co.uk/dvd/pix/c/cr/cronos1.jpg

[undercoverlover]

Angels in America - still blows me away

Anchorman

[Piddzilla]

Casino Royale (2006, Martin Campbell)

2.5/5

Not much to say other than it was enjoyable enough fluff, in one ear and out the other.

I've always liked Craig as an actor and he fits the 'Bond As Bastard' niche pretty well. His head looks like it's been Photoshopped to his body, at 75% of the original size, though...

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b69/greenspagbol/daniel-craig-speedo12.jpg

Doesn't it? ;)


I saw it last night and it probably gets about the same rating from me.

I was a bit disappointed though since both people and critics whose taste in movies I respect said it was really good. To me it was thin story, lots of boring meaningless action, unrealistic story evolvement and some pretty obvious in-your-face product placement (Sony Ericsson, anyone?). Everything a Bond movie is supposed to contain, I guess. The parts, which I presume are the reasons for the film being viewed as different from other Bond films, which presented Bond as a naive emotional human being were pretty interesting from a bondological point of view. Bond's experience of hurt and loss in Casino Royale works as a perfect set up and gives the character an alibi for future sexist behaviour and casual sex at least three times during every assignment, things we associate and expect Bond to be engaging in. M, of course, will be the only woman Bond will every fully trust again.

[linespalsy]

Dramatically and as storytelling it was way better than recent Bond movies, which isn't saying much. The big jump in quality in this one came in the requisite openning chase scene. That thing was actually pretty exciting, unlike 99% of Bond action scenes. I guess in the wide world of cinema it's far from great but in the much narrower arena of the action blockbuster, it was only surpassed by the Bourne Supremacy and Children of Men (if that's even comparable) in recent memory. I did get a good laugh out of Tacitus's comment about Craig's head tho.

STUFF I SAW RECENTLY AND LOVED:

The French Leiutenant's Woman
The Pillow Book
Children of Men

STUFF I SAW RECENTLY AND LIKED:

The Proposition
Babel
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Don't be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
The Hidden Fortress
Once a Thief
Yankee Doodle Dandy (actually there were only one or two scenes I liked in this, both where Cagney dances. But I liked those scenes a lot, especially the one where he pretends to be like 70 years old.)

MOVIES I SAW RECENTLY AND DIDN'T LIKE:

Something's Gotta Give
Mean Girls
Yokai Monsters

[Caitlyn]

The Lake House (2006) 1½/5

[Tacitus]

I saw it last night and it probably gets about the same rating from me.

I was a bit disappointed though since both people and critics whose taste in movies I respect said it was really good. To me it was thin story, lots of boring meaningless action, unrealistic story evolvement and some pretty obvious in-your-face product placement (Sony Ericsson, anyone?). Everything a Bond movie is supposed to contain, I guess. The parts, which I presume are the reasons for the film being viewed as different from other Bond films, which presented Bond as a naive emotional human being were pretty interesting from a bondological point of view. Bond's experience of hurt and loss in Casino Royale works as a perfect set up and gives the character an alibi for future sexist behaviour and casual sex at least three times during every assignment, things we associate and expect Bond to be engaging in. M, of course, will be the only woman Bond will every fully trust again.

Heh, I forgot to mention the product placement. It was pretty blatant, wasn't it?

As well as my Sony Ericsson (I had an Ericsson mobile years ago and now own smaller all-in-one remotes) I've got to go out and buy a new Ford (was that the new Mondeo? I know that model isn't on sale in Europe at the moment but wouldn't put it past Ford to supply a prototype for some advance publicity), seeing as I can't afford the Aston DB9 Volante (Aston Martin was owned by Ford at the time, by the way) and an Omega watch...

[Piddzilla]

Heh, I forgot to mention the product placement. It was pretty blatant, wasn't it?

As well as my Sony Ericsson (I had an Ericsson mobile years ago and now own smaller all-in-one remotes) I've got to go out and buy a new Ford (was that the new Mondeo? I know that model isn't on sale in Europe at the moment but wouldn't put it past Ford to supply a prototype for some advance publicity), seeing as I can't afford the Aston DB9 Volante (Aston Martin was owned by Ford at the time, by the way) and an Omega watch...

I was actually a bit surprised over the extent of how dependent the film seemed to be on corporate sponsors. You would think that the Bond franchise doesn't have any trouble scraping together the funds necessary for making these films. I thought perhaps the Ford and the Sony Ericsson were given some time in the flashlight for a few seconds there in the beginning somewhere, but it was all over the film! The most extraordinary thing though is that I think it works. People accept the Bond/commercial experience and wants the stuff Bond's got.

I own a Sony Ericsson too by the way.... :D

[Tacitus]

I was actually a bit surprised over the extent of how dependent the film seemed to be on corporate sponsors. You would think that the Bond franchise doesn't have any trouble scraping together the funds necessary for making these films. I thought perhaps the Ford and the Sony Ericsson were given some time in the flashlight for a few seconds there in the beginning somewhere, but it was all over the film! The most extraordinary thing though is that I think it works. People accept the Bond/commercial experience and wants the stuff Bond's got.

I own a Sony Ericsson too by the way.... :D

In my former life I was a Land Rover employee (also owned by Ford, so they're past masters at this) at the time of the Tomb Raider films and we supplied a specially modded Defender for the movie. It only appeared for a few seconds, being driven by the lovely Ms Jolie, but we introduced 2 special edition Defender Tomb Raider models on the back of it. They sold like hot cakes. ;)

A few months after the first film came out I was charged with overseeing the Land Rover exhibit at the Game & Country Fair (http://www.countrymanfairs.co.uk/midland/midland_home.html) at Weston Park (the biggest agricultural-type show in England apparently). I managed to blag the original vehicle from the film and made it centrepiece to our stand.

Once the hoards of wax-jacketed males were made aware that Angelina had plumped her shapely rear on that very Landie's seat we became the biggest attraction in the show - and took a fair few orders.


http://www.defendernet.it/Immagini/Immagini%20-%20Tomb%20Raider/Tomb%209.jpg

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b69/greenspagbol/0102042571500.jpg

Ahhhh the power of product placement....and a nice arse... :D

[Piddzilla]

Hey! I shook Lemmy's hand! Beat that!!!

http://www.motorhead.ru/imagespress/intprimechoicelem.jpg

[Piddzilla]

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b69/greenspagbol/0102042571500.jpg

Ahhhh the power of product placement....and a nice arse... :D


Did you lick the seat?

[Escape]

North by Northwest (7/10)

A couple scenes annoyed me though with this one.


*Spoilers for North By Northwest*

- The airplane hitting the truck. There was really no reason for it to loose control like that. Just seemed like an unnatural move to even be that low to the ground if indeed the pilot was supposed to be checking to see if he was under there.

- And if your going to shoot him, why do it in a plane. Why not just drive up to him and kill the guy. Though this question comes after knowing that the writer admitted on the DVD commentary, that he wish he never added the shots since the intention first was to make it look like an accident.

- The fight scene on top of Mount Everest. When he knocked the guy off as he had the knife to him. It's as if he got this burst of super human strength out of nowhere. Impossible to throw a guy off you if all his weight is coming down on you like that. Not when you are struggling all along proving it was enough just to hold him off.

- And again in the end where the two bad dudes are chasing after him without a gun to show. All of the sudden they stopped carrying guns? I can't see that happening. At least not with one of the guys being the muscle who always carried one.

[Tacitus]

Did you lick the seat?

I sat on it and wiggled about a bit, if that counts?

Seeing as probably 50 hairy-arsed Brummies in the Land Rover factory (where it was, and probably still is, kept) had sat on the seat after Angelina, I figured that discretion was the better part of valour in this case...

Oh, and the V8 under the bonnet was nearly as loud as Lemmy. ;)

[Escape]

The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965) (7/10)

I thought Charlton Heston did a fantastic job in his role as Michelangelo.

[Caitlyn]

World Trade Center (2006) 3/5

[Sedai]

Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (Park, 2002)

Second time seeing it. Great film, but, I think twice was enough. Some harsh stuff in this film.

4_5

[B-card]

The Killer(John Woo 1989)-4/5

[Sleezy]

GRINDHOUSE

"Machete" (Rodriguez, 2007) 5

The best fake trailer of the series. This one was actually at times a believable 1970's action trailer, and I loved the little nods to other bits of Rodriguez mythos. Hilarious.

Planet Terror (Rodriguez, 2007) 4

In the area of violent, over-the-top Robert Rodriguez flicks, this one probably takes the pie. Incredible action; smooth pacing; excellent chemistry among the cast; and a really slick screenplay that was altogether emotionally engaging, terrifying, and hilarious: this one really delivers. On top of that, the 1970's visual overlay and film nods (cheesy title art, burn marks, missing reel, etc.) really cap off the nostalgic feel. I loved it.

"Werewolf Women of the S.S." (Zombie, 2007) 1

Rob Zombie's fake trailer was awful. It was just too ridiculous, like the gag was forced. And the editing was bad.

"Don't Scream" (Wright, 2007) 4_5

Edgar Wright's fake trailer was just brilliant. Over-the-top, but still somehow subtle in its humor. The funniest bit was at the end with the trailer announcer saying "Don't" for the last time. Perfect.

"Thanksgiving" (Roth, 2007) 3_5

I don't really know what to say about Eli Roth's trailer. The deliberate similarity to Halloween was obvious, plus I loved how the trailer didn't seem to be very cohesive in telling you what the story was about. (All those old trailers just seemed to show you scenes from the movie.) But... how horrifyingly macabre this one was. I can't even describe it.

Death Proof (Tarantino, 2007) 2_5

Meh. Tarantino's film had a fantastic skeletal concept going for it, especially in the beginning half. There was perhaps too much of the bar segment, but still the tension built very well to a brutal crescendo. And then Tarantino tried to do it again in the very same way for the rest of the film, but he lost me. In fact, he lost a lot of people: several got up and left. There was just too much 'Tarantino-style-sitting around-a-table-talking-about-weird-stuff', and the lurking terror was lost. Not to mention, Tarantino just didn't manage the 70's kitsch flair very well. There were some nice nods in the beginning, but somewhere in the middle, it just became a Tarantino film... and not a very good one. The finale was refreshingly good, however, but unexpected and very much overdue.

***

Overall, Rodriguez is just a better, more competent, more responsible director than Tarantino. I sorta felt like Rodriguez took the idea of mimicking/honoring 1970's cheesy cinema seriously, while Tarantino never got past the "that would be cool" phase. Rodriguez left him playing in his sandbox. If it wasn't for Kurt Russell playing a role that was suited so perfectly for him, the film would have floundered and died altogether. And you know, I still feel like he was underused.

[Tacitus]

Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (Park, 2002)

Second time seeing it. Great film, but, I think twice was enough. Some harsh stuff in this film.

4_5

Better than Oldboy?

I think so. Much more subtle. ;)

[undercoverlover]

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