Movie Tab II [Archive] - Page 22

PimpDaShizzle V2.0

04-13-07, 08:32 PM

The Good Shepherd :up: :up:
http://www.wherehouse.com/amgcover/dvd/large/u2/88/u28838td5ek.jpg

Pretty good movie. It took me three different nights to watch the whole thing though because of school and work. I watched the last third, then the first, and then the middle. I think it added to the whole mystery. Dang I'm smart.

Frankenstein :up: :up: :up: :up:
http://www.wherehouse.com/amgcover/dvd/large/t8/34/t83402kycvy.jpg

Okay. Let me break it down. This movie is now one of my favorites. UNF' UNF'!

Turistas :down: :down:
http://www.wherehouse.com/amgcover/dvd/large/u2/86/u28676rbggh.jpg

What a steaming pile of cat vomit. This movie is bad. I guess this is how you don't direct the composition and camera movement.

SamsoniteDelilah

04-13-07, 08:35 PM

Pimp! Dang!! :)
I love that version of Frankenstein, too, although I"m not sure I'm supposed to collapse with laughter when Igor drops the abbynormal brain. :D

gummo

04-13-07, 10:59 PM

The Pursuit of Happyness

Excellent movie! A+

PimpDaShizzle V2.0

04-14-07, 03:08 AM

Pimp! Dang!! :)
I love that version of Frankenstein, too, although I"m not sure I'm supposed to collapse with laughter when Igor drops the abbynormal brain. :D
I laughed when the monster threw the girl in the lake. She sank like she was made of plutonium. Oops.

undercoverlover

04-14-07, 12:46 PM

i watched about 40 minutes of Dogville - i was fascinated and i need to see the whole thing through.

B-card

04-14-07, 12:54 PM

The Hitcher(Dave Mayers 2007)-2/5 the only pleasant thing in the movie was Sophia Bush

Sedai

04-14-07, 03:26 PM

12 Angry Men (Lumet, 1957)

5

Thursday Next

04-14-07, 04:12 PM

Rocky

Ðèstîñy

04-14-07, 05:44 PM

The Big Brawl (1980) Warner Home Video
One of Jackie Chan's best. I will be keeping my VHS, as they now sale the DVD Battle Creek Brawl, 'dubbed'. Don't think so.

ash_is_the_gal

04-14-07, 08:13 PM

some stuff lately -

Breakfast at Tiffanys

Lonsome Jim

United 93

Jesus Camp (maddening!)

Network

Dreamland

Children of Men

Mad Hatter

04-14-07, 10:45 PM

Volver - Fantastic movie!

gummo

04-15-07, 08:27 AM

Children of Men :up: :up:

PimpDaShizzle V2.0

04-15-07, 05:38 PM

Breakfast at Tiffanys
Is this a comedy? I've only read the book. Don't make fun of me. I dated this girl named Tiffany, and she thought that for some reason since her name was Tiffany, I'd want to read a book with her name in the title... later on, I did the dumping. Booya. :up:

ash_is_the_gal

04-15-07, 06:21 PM

Is this a comedy? I've only read the book. Don't make fun of me. I dated this girl named Tiffany, and she thought that for some reason since her name was Tiffany, I'd want to read a book with her name in the title... later on, I did the dumping. Booya. :up:

hee! old fashioned romantic comedy, to be more specific. hella cute. and i mean that in the most masculine way.

gummo

04-15-07, 06:29 PM

Is this a comedy? I've only read the book. Don't make fun of me. I dated this girl named Tiffany, and she thought that for some reason since her name was Tiffany, I'd want to read a book with her name in the title... later on, I did the dumping. Booya. :up:

:laugh: That's funny! When I was a kid, my mom bought me my first tape, Starship Knee Deep in The Hoopla because it had the song, Sara on it. lmao

Sleezy

04-15-07, 08:00 PM

Crank (Neveldine/Taylor, 2006) 5

Wow. What a cinematic masterpiece. Emotionally moving, intellectually engaging, and some very deep, involved performances all around. In fact, the word "poetic" comes to mind. Why this gem didn't win an Oscar is beyond me.

adidasss

04-15-07, 09:39 PM

Lol....

gummo

04-15-07, 09:59 PM

Half Nelson :up: 1/2

SamsoniteDelilah

04-16-07, 01:43 AM

I watched the whole first season of "24" this weekend. Good tv!
The storylines are suspenseful and the acting is really solid. Interesting twists here and there, too. There's room for improvement in season 2 (see spoiler below), but I'm planning to find it and see if they do!

such as: the reliance on Nina's romances to divert attention from the cloak and dagger stuff got a little old. And people got kidnapped about one time too many each. But aside from those things becoming predictable, it was awesome.

PimpDaShizzle V2.0

04-16-07, 02:45 AM

:laugh: That's funny! When I was a kid, my mom bought me my first tape, Starship Knee Deep in The Hoopla because it had the song, Sara on it. lmao
Hahaha. It's the thought that counts. :D

hee! old fashioned romantic comedy, to be more specific. hella cute. and i mean that in the most masculine way.
That's what I thought but the book seemed to be a pretty sad story about a girl with no direction. WHuTevA!... :indifferent:

linespalsy

04-16-07, 11:20 PM

PimpDaShizzle V2.0

04-17-07, 03:32 AM

Some stuff I've seen lately:

The French Lieutenant's Woman
The Duelists
The Draughtsman's Contract
Brick
The Crossing Guard
The Pillow Book
Children of Men
All the King's Men
Adaptation
The Hidden Fortress
The Mosquito Coast
Babel
Oscar and Lucinda
Once a Thief
Jacob's Ladder
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Love's Labour's Lost
Melvin Goes to Dinner
The Private Eyes
Yokai Monsters
I've only seen Jacob's Ladder once and I remember it as being a good movie. I'm tempted to see it again but I don't want to ruin a good memory with the reality of it being a potential piece of crap. What did you think of it, Lines?

Tacitus

04-17-07, 08:56 AM

Animal Love (1995, Ulrich Seidl)

3/5

Austria's underbelly show love for their pets. Seidl unveils a fascinating collection of teutonic nutters whose disfunctional lives are mirrored in their, often quite disturbing, devotion to all things canine...with a ferret and a rabbit thrown in for luck.

The film doesn't suggest that any, shall we say, illegal activity is taking place (though in the case of the Whatever Happened To Baby Jane style character, I have my suspicions) and goes some way towards opening a window into the lives of some marginalised members of society.

Animal Love drags terribly in the middle third, the director content to spend far too much time with his initial subjects when some equally interesting people are rushed in towards the end.

Not for everyone, then, and by no means a masterpeice, but a film you'll never forget. ;)

Note to MoFos of a sensitive disposition - Animal Love depicts a sex scene between two fantastically ugly swingers towards the end. Perhaps unsurprisingly, they're a-goin' at it doggystyle.

Arf! :D

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b69/greenspagbol/ulrich10.jpg

"I am big! It's just the chiuauas which got small!"

Cocaine Cowboys (2006, Billy Corben)

2/5

.....or How Miami Made Money In The 70s & 80s...

Cocaine Cowboys tears along at such a breakneck speed that one begins to wonder if the movie itself hasn't been indulging in the old Bolivian marching powder a bit too much. News report upon news report get intercut, along with a series of increasingly annoying talking heads, supposedly the main players in this particular import/export business - rattling along in front of a Miami Vice style Jan Hammer soundtrack.

The film would have been much more interesting, and a hell of a lot better, with a director who was willing to get under the skins of these people and ask pertinant questions instead of allowing them the time to spout tedious macho garbage (in the case of the hitman) or smug "we just provided an import service" platitudes.

An opportunity well and truly missed. ;)

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b69/greenspagbol/4-1.jpg

With a moustache like that, how this man can afford to be so self-satisfied is beyond me...

undercoverlover

04-17-07, 09:23 AM

you've got mail

Lion King

ash_is_the_gal

04-17-07, 11:37 AM

That's what I thought but the book seemed to be a pretty sad story about a girl with no direction. WHuTevA!... :indifferent:

yeah! thats the movie too. not depressing, though. really feel-good. trust in meeeee.

ash_is_the_gal

04-17-07, 11:42 AM

oh! this weekend, it was -

Wolf Creek

Children of Men (twice!)

Sedai

04-17-07, 01:06 PM

oh! this weekend, it was -

Wolf Creek

Children of Men (twice!)

So, I take it you liked Children of Men? Love that film!

linespalsy

04-17-07, 01:09 PM

I've only seen Jacob's Ladder once and I remember it as being a good movie. I'm tempted to see it again but I don't want to ruin a good memory with the reality of it being a potential piece of crap. What did you think of it, Lines?

It's got a pretty cool story and good acting so yeah, I'm glad I saw it and would recommend it to people. On the other hand It's pretty blunt and I probably wouldn't want to see it again any time soon. I think they hammer in a few points throughout the movie and then over-explain them at the end.

Of the stuff in that last batch, I'd say the Duelists is the one I'd watch the most. Not all that complex or anything but it's just really satisfying both drama- and cinematically.

Just watched My Fair Lady.

gummo

04-17-07, 03:40 PM

So, I take it you liked Children of Men? Love that film!

I know this was directed for Ash, but I also saw this movie this weekend. I enjoyed it very much, Seds! I was a bit lost in the beginning, I couldn't understand why he was chosen to be the guy to get the lady out of there, I still don't, but now it just doesn't matter because I enjoyed the movie too much to care. lol Oh and I wasn't sure why there wasn't any children until about 30 mins into the film, when my boyfriend had to explain it to me....lol. But after I found out why, it all made sense! I loved the movie.

undercoverlover

04-17-07, 06:19 PM

cor lots of people been watching children of men lately- gonna have to rent me that one

Piddzilla

04-19-07, 01:53 PM

Marie Antoinette (2006 - Sofia Coppola)

Hmmm.. interesting. Quite reactionary stuff. Personally I read this as a defense speech for the clueless celebrity and royalty societies now and then. Marie doesn't have a clue about what's happening outside Versailles except, perhaps, a little bit about the jet set life in Paris (where they obviously listened to retro 80's hits in the 18th century allready). Nothing they write about her in the papers is true, no one understands her. She is living in a bubble of luxury, leisure and also boredom. It really is a film about Britney... Then when they take her head off.... the film is allready over. That's the hardest part for me to understand. Coppola had the chance to invite the outside, the real world, and to show the concequences of living that kind of life by showing how Marie's life ended. But instead the director chooses to celebrate the carefree clueless life that Marie leads and if something bad happens, it's not because of her.

Sedai

04-19-07, 02:56 PM

Party Monster - The Shockumentary

3

Short piece on Michael Alig, the club promoter turned murderer from the mid 90s. Somewhat interesting, but, the doc could have been better put together.

Sedai

04-19-07, 03:10 PM

I know this was directed for Ash, but I also saw this movie this weekend. I enjoyed it very much, Seds! I was a bit lost in the beginning, I couldn't understand why he was chosen to be the guy to get the lady out of there, I still don't, but now it just doesn't matter because I enjoyed the movie too much to care. lol Oh and I wasn't sure why there wasn't any children until about 30 mins into the film, when my boyfriend had to explain it to me....lol. But after I found out why, it all made sense! I loved the movie.

The actually didn't choose him to take her. They (The Phishes) simply wanted him to use his connection with his cousin to get the transit papers for Kee. The cousin is only able to procure joint transit papers, though, so Theo is needed to use the papers properly. Regardless, the Phishes are up to no good, which forces Theo to abscond with Kee in the middle of the night, rendering the whole "transit papers" issue moot.

Piddzilla

04-19-07, 03:44 PM

Little Miss Sunshine (2006 - Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris)

Very nice.... Feel good. Mission completed.

ash_is_the_gal

04-19-07, 03:47 PM

So, I take it you liked Children of Men? Love that film!

it was incredible. i only wish i hadn't waited for the DVD to come out!

Piddzilla

04-19-07, 04:00 PM

it was incredible. i only wish i hadn't waited for the DVD to come out!

It gets bad over time?

Sedai

04-19-07, 04:46 PM

It gets bad over time?

Negative. For this particular film, though, seeing it on the silver screen really enhances the experience. I think that is what she meant, maybe?

Aniko

04-19-07, 07:38 PM

Recently...aside from movies I've seen over and over again...

Volver ~ :up: I Loved it.

Fearless ~ :up: I Loved it.

Curse of the Golden Flower ~ It was well done and looked pretty, but not my favorite of Zhang’s. Costumes were gorgeous.

Limelight ~ :up: I loved it. Chaplin’s fabulous.

As Good as It Gets ~ :) I really liked it. I’m not a huge Helen Hunt fan, but she was terrific.

The Da Vinci Code ~ It was ok. I’m glad I saw it, but won’t be seeing it again.

PimpDaShizzle V2.0

04-19-07, 08:28 PM

Casino Royale :up: :down:
http://www.wherehouse.com/amgcover/dvd/large/u2/63/u26342ju7uj.jpg

Pretty dope-a-thon foot chase at the beginning, but it could have ended about 40 minutes earlier than it did. No body's perfect, except for your Royal Shizznes'. And, spelling ROYAL with an E at the end makes ROYALE, which according to dictionary.com is some sort of custard that you put into soup. Casino Custard? Something is up in the hood. Do not buy custard pie after seeing this movie. You will only be disappointed.

gummo

04-19-07, 11:35 PM

Flightplan - Did anyone else laugh during this movie? I laughed at some of the acting...not that it was really bad or anything, just some of the scenes, for instance, when Foster's character was accusing the Arabs of looking in her child's bedroom window, then somehow she comes up with this idea that they will highjack the plane. lmao @ the rediculousness. Then I laughed everytime she would take off running in the plane. Plus the plane looked like a casino or a really fancy bar. lol and then the therapist! ahahaha!!! And at the end when she comes out of the plane holding her daughter and a few people are like, "it's her daughter." It was just too funny! Anyway, I had a good laugh and I wanted to see how it turned out at the end.

linespalsy

04-20-07, 12:38 AM

I just saw Cast Away. it was okay, better than i expected from zemeckis. at the end i kept thinking of limbo (which came out a year earlier) and how much of a better movie it was, but i liked the wilson story; especially when he first appears, right at that point the movie gets a weird sort of abstract mood to it for a minute. that was the best minute in the whole movie. the ending was okay but blunt (again, see limbo instead). i don't think tom hanks was good enough, cuz i didn't believe in his suicide episode. also too much dialog to explain what was going on in his head, especially since it was going to be explained in the end anyway. still, for a lot of it zemeckis showed surprising restraint.

Yesterday I saw Heaven. Super cool romance. it had a cool slightly unreal tone and look to it, kind of like sex and lucia, and sometimes threatened to go in an expected direction but each time sidestepped in cool and believable ways. I didn't really like Tykwer before this.

A couple movies I saw recently but forgot to mention in my last post:

The Indian Runner
Curse of the Golden Flower

Piddzilla

04-20-07, 08:39 AM

Negative. For this particular film, though, seeing it on the silver screen really enhances the experience. I think that is what she meant, maybe?

He he.. I think that's what she means. I was only being a jerk....

ash_is_the_gal

04-20-07, 12:23 PM

I was only being a jerk....

hieee, Piddz!

thankfully, Sedai was able to be my mouth when i wasn't here. i would have more than likely came back with something fairly smart. im so... annoying.

i have Storytelling and Muriels Wedding at home right now. bite sized reviews coming: soon-ish.

Sedai

04-20-07, 12:29 PM

He he.. I think that's what she means. I was only being a jerk....

Do you have your chair, your paddle ball game, and your remote control? ;)

Piddzilla

04-20-07, 12:58 PM

Sunset Blvd. (1950 - Billy Wilder)

Holy cow, what a movie! I'd never seen it before, I'm embarrassed to say...

I love this kind of meta films, film about film. It's so fantastic that the characters are played by actors upon which the characters could have been based on! Swanson.... wow... amazing.

Of course, my instant thought is what David Lynch had in mind what he did Mulholland Dr. That one must be some kind of way of paying homage to Sunset Blvd.

Piddzilla

04-20-07, 01:13 PM

Of course, my instant thought is what David Lynch had in mind what he did Mulholland Dr. That one must be some kind of way of paying homage to Sunset Blvd.

He he... apparently I wasn't the only one to think about that.

http://www.mulholland-drive.net/studies/sunset.htm

http://khaokal.netslums.com/nicomi/random/mdvs/

...and I'm sure it goes on and on...

ash_is_the_gal

04-20-07, 02:33 PM

He he... apparently I wasn't the only one to think about that.

http://www.mulholland-drive.net/studies/sunset.htm

http://khaokal.netslums.com/nicomi/random/mdvs/

...and I'm sure it goes on and on...

thanks for the info, Piddz! ive added this movie to my list.

Mad Hatter

04-21-07, 11:06 AM

Just watched Big Trouble In Little China. Haven't seen it in years and I still love this movie!

B-card

04-21-07, 12:12 PM

A guide to recognizing your saints(Dito Montiel 2006)-4.5/5

Sleezy

04-21-07, 12:24 PM

Hot Fuzz (Wright, 2007) 4

It limped a bit in the first act, but started to pick up speed in the second. By the third act, I felt like I was where Wright and Pegg wanted me to be. I wasn't expecting the gore, to be honest, but I guess I should have been (knowing those guys). Still, the finale was just a hilarious thrillride, and well worth the price of admission. My favorite shot, though, was the ode to Bad Boys II, which was in my opinion the most successful joke of the film.

TheUsualSuspect

04-21-07, 05:51 PM

The Descent 8/10

ash_is_the_gal

04-22-07, 12:58 AM

A guide to recognizing your saints(Dito Montiel 2006)-4.5/5

aaaaaaaaaaaand?

B-card

04-22-07, 04:31 AM

aaaaaaaaaaaand?
aaaaand it was really good reminded me A Bronx Tale

undercoverlover

04-22-07, 11:29 AM

Pennis from heaven - strange but nice visuals

Ðèstîñy

04-22-07, 11:33 AM

Pennis from heaven - strange but nice visuals

Not half as strange as what I first thought that said. ;)

B-card

04-22-07, 04:32 PM

Pathfinder(Marcus Nispel 2007)-1/5 OMG what a piece of crap.To all of you who haven't watched it DON'T DO IT

gummo

04-22-07, 04:55 PM

Dead In The Water hahaha, a pretty bad movie but I was entertained. 2/5

B-card

04-23-07, 04:01 AM

Singles(Cameran Crowe 1992)-4/5 it was good mostly because it's not the usual romantic comedy that you expect.O and the music of Pearl Jam and Alice in chains

Goodfellas(Martin Scorsese 1990)-5/5 spеechless what a movie.I remember some moments when I watched it for the first time back in the mid 90's when I was 6-7 but they were like 2 or 3 and when I watched it last night I felt great because that's what this movie is great

Sinny McGuffins

04-24-07, 02:32 PM

Chuck&Buck
(Miguel Arteta, 2000)

At 27 and still living life like a kid, Buck tries to rekindle his friendship with his childhood friend Chuck. But it becomes more a case of stalking when Chuck doesn't share Buck's enthusiasm.

http://www.tvguide.com/movies/dbpix/images/42316a.jpg

Decent little indie film. This was the first film penned by Mike White that I've seen without Jack Black, and it was refreshing to see something a little different. Well, a lot different. White's writing and performance were both very interesting. I'd reccomend Chuck&Buck to everyone.

undercoverlover

04-24-07, 02:45 PM

Pathfinder(Marcus Nispel 2007)-1/5 OMG what a piece of crap.To all of you who haven't watched it DON'T DO IT

damn if only i had seen your post before i wasted my time on Pathfinder. To be honest i was looking forward to it, it had a lot of potential that was squandered. I personally would have thought it would have worked better if it had been in subtitles - something about the indians talking in english made it weird. about half way through i was thinking 'oh this is gonna finish soon' and i think maybe it would have worked better if it was almost half normal running times because it was moving pretty quickly at the beginning anyway. I loathed the opening sequence - i thought i was watching another trailer for a different film.

I didnt totally hate it but i feel let down

B-card

04-24-07, 03:35 PM

I loathed the opening sequence - i thought i was watching another trailer for a different film.

me too it was awful.Though I laughed most of the time

anyway:

Lara Croft:Tomb Raider(Simon West 2001)-It's not much but it's always fun when I watch it 4/5

dog.gon.gun

04-24-07, 08:13 PM

Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir)
5

A very unique, haunting, and mysterious movie. Good times.

Mad Hatter

04-25-07, 04:11 PM

Laura - Great movie. Gene Tierney was fantastic in this!

diamondgeeza

04-25-07, 04:27 PM

The Illusionist - 4/5

Sedai

04-25-07, 05:00 PM

Network (Lumet, 1976)

4_5

Required viewing, kiddies.... Get with it.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off (Hughes, 1986)

3

Starting to show its age.

dog.gon.gun

04-25-07, 07:45 PM

The Last Tycoon (Elia Kazan)
2_5

The more time I have to think about this movie, the less I like it.

B-card

04-26-07, 12:35 PM

Unknown(Simon Brand 2006)-The movie had an interesting idea and a great cast but finished so quickly 4/5

Mad Hatter

04-26-07, 10:06 PM

Mr. Deeds Goes To Town - Easily a top 10!

dog.gon.gun

04-26-07, 10:48 PM

The Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese)
4_5
I don't know why I didn't watch this movie sooner! That guy Scorsese never ceases to amaze me.

Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (Curt Geda)
2
I was hoping for something like Mask of the Phantasm. Silly me.

Millions (Danny Boyle)
3_5
Good wholesome fun that left me in a happy mood. I was dancing during the end credits.

PimpDaShizzle V2.0

04-27-07, 02:24 PM

The Last King of Scotland :up: :up:
http://www.wherehouse.com/amgcover/dvd/large/u3/53/u35307ltf6x.jpg

Thought it was pretty good and it reminded me of Blow in the way that a person's swept into a high life style real quick with serious consequences. Blow is better.

Piddzilla

04-27-07, 08:25 PM

Wall Street (1987 - Oliver Stone)

Good stuff....

dog.gon.gun

04-27-07, 08:47 PM

The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (Justin Lin)
3

Caught this on HBO for some reason or another and was surprisingly entertained.

diamondgeeza

04-28-07, 08:44 AM

300 3_5
Ghost Rider 2_5
Night at the Museum 4_5

B-card

04-28-07, 10:41 AM

Blade II(Guillermo Del Toro 2002)-4/5

Blade:Trinity(David S. Goyer 2004)-3/5

Fight Club(David Fincher 1999)-5/5

undercoverlover

04-28-07, 12:42 PM

clueless - loving the 90's teen movie, i went around for weeks after i first saw this going 'whatever'

dog.gon.gun

04-28-07, 02:38 PM

linespalsy

04-29-07, 12:58 AM

Prospero's Books. One of the most beautiful movies ever made. I'm really surprised this hasn't had a good dvd release.

The Falls. Sitting through all three hours of this at a time is a lesson in tedium. There's just too much information to absorb. I place it with David Cronenberg's "Crimes of the Future" as an interesting if not entirely watchable early experiment that I might go back to some day.

Hurlyburly. I wish I could have seen the stage revival of this in N.Y. a few years ago. Basically the main reason to see this is for talented actors simultaneously playing and examining trainwrecks. The combined manicness + super slow dramatic pacing really wore me down after a while though.

Hot Fuzz. Saw it this afternoon. Most of it's pretty funny, like Shaun of the Dead (that one might be a little funnier), but it's the genre switching that gave it an edge for me. Good twist.

Talk to Her. I put off seeing this for a while but I'm glad I got around to it. I don't know what else to say about it other than it's excellent.

Piddzilla

04-29-07, 04:57 AM

Miami Vice: Unrated (Michael Mann)
4

A minor improvement on the theatrical version, with a little more character development and a different beginning. Still a really smart and underrated cop movie, in my opinion. Also, the commentary on this disc features none other than the great Michael Mann, himself! That was definitely a good listen with alot of insight into the movie, the law, and the art of filmmaking.

I wasn't aware of that they had made another version. The original was a disappointment; too much love story and not enough focus on the relation between Crockett and Tubbs or on the crime plot.

La Battaglia di Algeri (1965 - Gillo Pontecorvo)

Fantastic film. It's frightening how contemporary it feels. If you haven't seen it allready - see it!

It's about the Algerian resistance that was born in the Alger casbah against the French colonist rulers in the 1950's. It's very realist and Pontecorvo's style is similar to the documentary or the news reel. It raises some really interesting questions about the justification of terrorism. For instance, many of the French soldiers are veterans from the French resistance against the Nazis during WWII. Now they are themselves playing the role of oppressors. Another thing I found interesting is how the police often are portraited as people who simply are doing their job, sometimes trying to save Algerians from the French mob.

These days, the War on Terror days, this film is a must see..... Isn't it funny how little things change during half a century?

PimpDaShizzle V2.0

04-29-07, 05:00 AM

Deja Vu :up: :down:
http://www.wherehouse.com/amgcover/dvd/large/u3/27/u32737q0iap.jpg

Maybe it's because I'm tired, but I never really got into this movie and the lead female wasn't a very good actress. She sort of looked like H. Berry, but she wasn't. What I'm trying to say is that H. Berry is a very hot, like an oven.

B-card

04-29-07, 05:13 AM

dog.gon.gun

04-29-07, 05:48 AM

Gosford Park (Robert Altman)
5

PimpDaShizzle V2.0

04-29-07, 04:59 PM

Gosford Park is a goooooood movie.

The Strange Case of Senior Computer :up: :up:
http://www.wherehouse.com/amgcover/dvd/large/t1/93/t19388pzghb.jpg

I've seen this movie before and I still like it, a lot. The robot is hilarious. "Resorted to thieving like a welfare mother in a Wal-Mart." Hahahaha. If you can find this somewhere you need to see it.

linespalsy

04-29-07, 08:14 PM

Meet the Robinsons in 3D.

This is a fun movie.

Danger!! It is more cloying and less funny than any other recent kids movie I've seen (anything by Pixar, Monster House, even those Robert Rodriguez kiddie flicks). Bring headphones and listen to a happy-sounding aphex twin album/compilation (richard d james album), ween, or some 1980s video game-esque electronica. It is worth seeing this way because the 3-D gimmick is awesome and really well done. You will be completely able to follow the plot without the sound anyway because it is a Disney movie. Don't bother seeing it without the 3-D effect.

Monkeypunch

04-29-07, 08:29 PM

Beetlejuice - I forget how many times this makes it I've watched this film, but it really is a classic comedy. It's kind of shocking, having not seen it in a while, the level of pitch black humour and gruesome special effects in the film, and Michael Keaton is hilarious. I wonder what happened to him? He was a huge star, I mean he was...no IS Batman, and now he doesn't make films anymore.

Pyro Tramp

04-30-07, 09:20 AM

Grindhouse- 3_5
Planet Terror- 4_5
Death Proof- 2

Monkeypunch

05-01-07, 08:01 PM

Dreamgirls - Good movie, not great. Eddie Murphy is awesome in it, and how often do you hear that anymore. :D (Oh, and the guy who was Urkel is in it for about two minutes. LOL.)

B-card

05-02-07, 03:44 PM

Blood and chocolate-Sucks 2/5

Interview with a Vampire-Ecxellent 5/5

American History X-Amazing 5/5

Independence Day-Entertainingly good 4/5

Mad Hatter

05-02-07, 04:02 PM

Defending Your Life - Another great Albert Brooks film.

dog.gon.gun

05-02-07, 05:12 PM

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones)
5

My stomach still hurts from all the laughing.

The Crying Game (Neil Jordan)
3_5

I had the twist ruined for me, but that doesn't change the fact that this was a really weird and unique cinematic experience.

undercoverlover

05-02-07, 08:35 PM

^^ and there was much rejoicing

Antz - i prefer this one to a bugs life

Holden Pike

05-02-07, 09:11 PM

Defending Your Life - Another great Albert Brooks film.

Indeed.

Check out the Albert Brooks thread HERE (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?t=10237).

linespalsy

05-02-07, 11:17 PM

A bunch of early short films by Peter Greenaway: H is for House, Dear Phone, Windows, Intervals, Water Wrackets, A Walk Through H, and Vertical Features Remake. Some good stuff, especially A Walk Through H, which was difficult enough that I'll need to see it again some time.

Also saw High Society - nothing special.

gummo

05-02-07, 11:55 PM

Escape

05-03-07, 12:53 AM

I saw The Silence of The Lambs again. But I think this will be the last time I watch it because I'm afraid I'll start picking it apart and not like it as much. I noticed myself finding imperfections in this movie last night. Oh no...How many times have you watched it and I really neeeeeed to know what bothered you about it now.
Did you see Red Dragon? I enjoyed that as well. Loved where the guy was saying "Do you see" to the dude he had taped up watching his home made movie. :D

Monkeypunch

05-03-07, 02:27 AM

The Doors - billionth time. It's not a great movie, no, and bits of it's dialogue are pretty bad, honestly, but Val Kilmer is fantastic, and it did take guts to re-envision Jim Morrison's life as a psycho-drama musical. (make no bones about it, The Doors is technically a musical. every other scene is a song.)

gummo

05-03-07, 09:07 AM

How many times have you watched it and I really neeeeeed to know what bothered you about it now.
Did you see Red Dragon? I enjoyed that as well. Loved where the guy was saying "Do you see" to the dude he had taped up watching his home made movie. :D

I'm not sure how many times I have watched this movie, I know I've seen it at least 5-7 times during the 90s, and even more in the past 7 years. My estimate would be about 20 times. I have learned over the past few years not to watch movies over and over or I will start to dislike them. But I was bored and thought The Silence of The Lambs would lift me from my bordom.

What bothered me this time was how unrealistic the process of catching Buffalo Bill is. For example, when Starling finds out about the storage space and goes alone to check it out. Why didn't the FBI check it out sooner? And if they didn't know about it, Starling still should not have gone alone. Even if the rest of the FBI didn't listen/believe Starling, she should not have gone alone. In real life you would see a whole mess of FBI agents swarming this storage space. Also, when Starling went to the house to see the woman and saw that there was a man there, right then she should have called for backup. I know she already figured that the FBI found the guy, but still. And when she was in the house talking to the guy and realized it was Buffalo Bill, she should have called for backup before she went off searching for him. And when she was down in the basement where the girl was and told her that other FBI are on the way, she never made the call. Maybe she was saying this to calm the girl down, but still, she should have made the call.

I know that I'm nichpicking, but some things just seemed unbelievable.

Ðèstîñy

05-03-07, 10:14 AM

I know that I'm nichpicking, but some things just seemed unbelievable.

Gummo, I have only seen that movie one time, finally talked into seeing it by my sister, and I complained about those same exact things.

Yoda

05-03-07, 11:19 AM

Finally got around to seeing The Thin Red Line.

adidasss

05-03-07, 11:47 AM

What'ya think of it?

Sedai

05-03-07, 01:00 PM

Yes, do tell, Chris.

Meanwhile:

300 (in IMAX) 3

Some serious acting/direction issues here, but I had fun watching it, anyway.

Children of Men 5

adidasss

05-03-07, 01:54 PM

OCD anyone?

And do explain the direction issues with 300.

Sedai

05-03-07, 02:17 PM

adidasss

05-03-07, 04:36 PM

OCD? Sorry, don't know what you mean.

300 was poorly directed, as in, when they would shoot a scene, the director would watch it through his view finder and yell "that's the one" when, it wasn't the one. Leonidas was good, for the most part, but a couple of his scenes were stilted and corny, and should have been done again, with pokes and prods from the director on how to make the scene better.

"But, it's an action fantasy film, so why worry about the acting?"

Because I saw LotR, and this thing didn't come close to the magnificence of those films, at all. Visually stunning, and as I said, I was entertained, but...I mean, come on, you were buying some of that dialogue?

"Never retreat, never surrender" x5

Terrible, trite, silly. But, just in places. The film did a lot right, too, hence my 3 boxes of popcorn. Some of the scenes were just sick, and some were breathtakingly beautiful. But the film is flawed, for the reasons I mentioned.
Why would you blame the director for "trite" dialog? From what I understand, the film is almost a literal adaptation of the comic. Maybe this will help explain the "over the top" bits of macho bs:
"Like the comic book, the adaptation also used the character Dilios as a narrator. Snyder used this narrative technique to show the audience that the surreal "Frank Miller world" of 300 was related from a subjective perspective. By utilizing Dilios' gift of storytelling, Snyder is able to introduce fantasy elements into the film, explaining that "Dilios is a guy who knows how not to wreck a good story with truth." When you take that into consideration, you can view the film as Spartan propaganda...it's a recount of a story told in hopes of creating additional motivation for troops facing battle...

And OCD is obsessive compulsive disorder...you must've seen CoM a dozen times by now...not very healthy...;)

Sedai

05-03-07, 06:06 PM

I know what OCD is silly, wasn't sure what the reference was to! Yeah, I'm sick, deal with it.

The dialog comment was separate from my director issues, and I just threw that on there as an aside. The macho BS didn't really get to me as much as some of the wooden delivery. They should have tried the scene again, in a few places. I would like to visit The Oracle, though...

adidasss

05-03-07, 06:33 PM

Lol...yeah, that scene was beautiful...all things considered, I'd say Snyder did a pretty spectacular job of it...if there are any flaws to 300, it's in the original material...

On the other hand, I may have been distracted by all the oiled, chizzled (how do you spell that?) male bodies...http://www.gay.hr/web/smilies/hypno.gif http://www.gay.hr/web/smilies/giggle.gif

Piddzilla

05-03-07, 06:43 PM

Babel (2006 - Alejandro González Iñárritu)

I liked it a lot. Subtle yet sharp critique of the Western World in general and the USA in particular. And other good stuff too of course....

adidasss

05-03-07, 06:45 PM

Too bad they chose to cast Pitt though...I actually fast forwarded scenes with him...terrible overacting...

Escape

05-04-07, 12:27 AM

Starling should not have gone alone.

Didn't they even ask her why she went alone without backup? I believe that was one of my own gripes I had myself actually. I only have seen it a couple times so fuzzy on them right now. I personally always thought it to be over rated along with her acting in that one. A decent film but not spectacular ground breaking stuff by any means.

Piddzilla

05-04-07, 01:28 PM

Too bad they chose to cast Pitt though...I actually fast forwarded scenes with him...terrible overacting...

I disagree. I'm absolutely no fan of Pitt but this one I think he pulled off nicely.

adidasss

05-04-07, 02:27 PM

You jest surely...

Sedai

05-04-07, 02:38 PM

I like Pitt. Army of the 12 Monkeys, man!

And...stop calling Piddz Shirley. ;)

linespalsy

05-04-07, 04:34 PM

Images (Robert Altman) and Deja Vu.

I'll need to see Images again. I started really getting into it after a little while. One of the things I liked especially was all the really meandering (almost hypnotic) shots which would take a really long time focusing on one odd detail and then eventually find some key counterweight (often way off in the distance) that seemed to come from nowhere. I couldn't really follow it all that well. Partly because it's a deliberately hard to follow movie, partly because I kept getting interrupted while watching it, and partly because the audio levels vary so much but I had to watch it with the sound way down because it was late at night.

Deja Vu was decent, actually. Seemingly openended (which is a must for Science Fiction movies of this sort), or at least it left me with a few key questions that I haven't fully be able to work out yet. I enjoyed it and would certainly be willing to watch it again some time.

Sedai

05-04-07, 05:22 PM

Glad you liked Images, Lines. I also really liked the way the film was shot. What did you think of the bizarre minimalist score by John Williams? Quite different for him.

linespalsy

05-04-07, 06:17 PM

Unfortunately I actually had a hard time appreciating the score. Because I was already having trouble following the basic drift of the dialog and narration, I was basically trying my hardest to ignore [with limited success] any noises that would obstruct said dialog and narration. I wouldn't be surprised if I dug the music on reviewing the movie under better circumstances though, I really liked what Williams did for The Long Goodbye.

Sedai

05-04-07, 06:18 PM

This stuff is certainly...odd. Not your usual Williams, by any stretch. Really, I would NEVER have listed him as a possibility while I watched the film, and, when i saw his name roll, I did a triple take.

linespalsy

05-04-07, 06:20 PM

It certainly seemed an excellent fit for the jarring and unpredictable mood changes of the film, if nothing else.

jrs

05-04-07, 06:43 PM

Spiderman 3

Monkeypunch

05-04-07, 09:18 PM

The U.S. VS. John Lennon - a great documentary about the attempted deportation of some guy named John Winston Ono Lennon, whoever he was. LOL. But seriously, it was a great film, very entertaining, and I loved seeing the footage of John and Yoko together. It was very clear that they were over the moon for each other, and it was sweet.

Caitlyn

05-04-07, 11:14 PM

The Queen (2006) 3/5

Golgot

05-04-07, 11:29 PM

They wore nothing but leather pants. What's not to like?

OCD anyone?

(;))

---

A Mighty Wind

Only turned up to 5-n-a-half. Improvised beige.

(Liked the colostomy-sales-song at the end tho)

TheUsualSuspect

05-05-07, 01:31 AM

Spider-Man 3

Sleezy

05-05-07, 03:45 AM

Spider-Man 3 (Raimi, 2007) 1_5

Pretty bad.

Pyro Tramp

05-05-07, 06:05 AM

Spiderman 3- 4

Pretty good.

B-card

05-06-07, 11:40 AM

Spiderman 3(Sam Raimi 2007)-2/5 Pretty stupid
The Ex(Jesse Peretz 2007)-3/5
Hot Fuzz(Edgar Wright 2007)-4/5

PimpDaShizzle V2.0

05-06-07, 04:35 PM

Copying Beethoven :up: :up:
http://www.wherehouse.com/amgcover/dvd/large/u2/92/u29239lm9cq.jpg

I liked it. I like to watch it. It make me likes. I happy to watch music from instruments. Ed Harris is a good actor. I like to eat beef jerky and then floss the teeth goblins away afterwards. On the really real, Ed Harris is a good actor and the female lead, Diane Kruger, is a hotty-moo-hotty.

Alien VS Predator :up: :up:
http://www.wherehouse.com/amgcover/dvd/large/t5/49/t54937q7u78.jpg

I finally got around to seeing this. I was expecting some low budget piece of garbage that looked like dirty ass. My expectations were not satisfied. I got to watch a some predators do their thizzang' against some retard aliens. I'm also a firm believer that the cheese in this movie and movies like it make them a little better.

Sedai

05-06-07, 08:09 PM

Spiderman III (Raimi, 2007) 2_5

Not as good as the first two entries, but, not as horrible as you might have heard. Sure it has a few bad scenes, and the film is jumbled mess, but Gwen Stacy was damn hot, and gets two of my boxes of popcorn all on her own.

Cars (Lasseter, 2006) 3_5

Fun movie with heart. I liked this better than the past couple of animated films I have seen from these guys.

Shadow of a Doubt (Hitchcock, 1943) 5

Perhaps one of the quintessential Noir films, this is becoming one of my favorite Hitch films. Cotton is menacing, chilling, and terrifying, in such subtle ways. This film is ingenious. See this if you haven't, and soon.

Pulp Fiction (Tarantino, 1994) 4

Still love it. Stylized, bad ass shlock.

Mulholland Drive (Lynch, 2001) 5

I guess I should stop posting all the films I watch obsessively in the movie tab. Starting to draw some comments on this clearly odd behavior. ;)

Sleezy

05-06-07, 08:34 PM

but Gwen Stacy was damn hot, and gets two of my boxes of popcorn all on her own.

I'll give ya that one. :yup:

Escape

05-06-07, 08:53 PM

Spiderman 3 3_5

I really liked the two lose ends that were tied up.

Sandman was forgiven for the accidental death of Pete's Uncle. In a way though, that other dude was still the cause of it since it was his distraction that brought about the gun going off. So it was still sort of Petes fault for letting him go that day anyways.

And Harry's old man died trying to kill Spiderman whereas Harry died trying to save it. It was all so...so touching. *sniff*

dog.gon.gun

05-07-07, 09:28 PM

Little Children (Todd Field)
4_5

A smart, funny, and powerful piece of work. That punk from The Bad News Bears did a pretty good job, too.

Serenity (Joss Whedon)
2_5

A decent popcorn flick.

Pyro Tramp

05-07-07, 09:56 PM

Have you seen the TV series Firefly d.g.g? If not Serenity is only half a film.

adidasss

05-07-07, 10:14 PM

I haven't and I loved every second of it...:-/

Pyro Tramp

05-07-07, 10:21 PM

It's a far more satisfying movie for having watched Firefly but still awesome on it's own, i'd imagine, can't remember which i saw first. Darn, tempted to watch it now.

undercoverlover

05-07-07, 10:21 PM

primary colours

Tacitus

05-08-07, 07:10 AM

Resurrection Man (1998, Marc Evans)

1/5

Tripe like this really is quite shameful to behold. Picture some bizarre cross between Goodfellas and Hannibal based on a highly fictionalized account of the Shankill Butchers, probably the most psychotic gang of killers in Northern Ireland's recent past.

If you think this sounds like a heady brew, think on - A poor script, listless performances (even from the usually reliable Jimmys: Ellis and Nesbitt) and a director who throws every Norn Irish cliché in the book at the screen while somehow convinced that long tracking shots, freeze frames and the ugly interruption of 70s pop songs to David Holmes' score give Resurrection Man a Scorsese quality.

They don't.

On the day that Northern Ireland's political power is finally given back to the people a film like this should serve as a timely reminder as to how far we've come as a society.

It doesn't.

If you're after a better story revolving around the Shankill Butchers, try Thaddeus O'Sullivan's Nothing Personal. ;)

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b69/greenspagbol/cap001-1.jpg

undercoverlover

05-08-07, 09:09 PM

Napoleon Dynamite - didnt love it, didnt hate it. Lead was pretty annoying and the whole thing seemed a little pointless

Escape

05-08-07, 10:40 PM

Napoleon Dynamite - didnt love it, didnt hate it. Lead was pretty annoying and the whole thing seemed a little pointless
I felt totally ripped off when I bought this movie without seeing it first. I thought it was boring and just plain dumb. I agree with you when you say it seemed pointless cause it was......bigtime.

linespalsy

05-08-07, 11:20 PM

Next, and I saw Spidey 3 over the weekend. I've heard a lot of disappointment over the new Spiderman, and I agree that it's not all that great, but disagree that the first two were all that. It was a really enjoyable blockbuster and a nice trip through some nostalgia for me, but I suspect it will diminish on repeated viewings, just like 1 and 2. Loved that first big action scene though. It wasn't quite as exciting as the "speeder" chase in The Incredibles, but it was on similar territory and by far the best part of the movie in purely cinematic terms. It was good cheese.

Did anyone else think the actress playing Betsy Brant was pulling a Parker Posey-type act there?

Edit: oh yeah, Next was pretty average. Dick and Moore are what pulled me in, so it had some intrinsic interest but otherwise... both Femme Fatale and Run Lola covered similar territory and were better movies (and I wasn't that wild about those two either so that's not much of a feat).

Piddzilla

05-09-07, 09:26 AM

La Science des rêves / The Science of Sleep (2006 - Michel Gondry)

Lots of ups and downs... At first I thought it was very charming but after a while I got fed up with it. A couple of hillarious lines though.

ash_is_the_gal

05-09-07, 10:26 AM

Muriels Wedding, excellent!

Sedai

05-09-07, 10:30 AM

The Passenger (Antonioni, 1975)

5

My favorite Antonioni so far, and a terrific performance from Nicholson. Highly recommended.

birdygyrl

05-09-07, 11:40 AM

The Passenger (Antonioni, 1975)

5

My favorite Antonioni so far, and a terrific performance from Nicholson. Highly recommended.

Thanks for the recommendation Sedai. Its in my Netflix queue. Looking forward to watching it.

Sedai

05-09-07, 12:29 PM

The final sequence is worth the price of the rental, all on its own. Actually, any of the sequences are worth the price of rental. This guy was a master.

Piddzilla

05-09-07, 07:38 PM

The Passenger (Antonioni, 1975)

5

My favorite Antonioni so far, and a terrific performance from Nicholson. Highly recommended.

My sister is giving it to me for my birthday. :D

Ðèstîñy

05-10-07, 04:32 AM

While I was sick, I did get to enjoy one of the many makings of Dracula. I really enjoyed this one allot.

Dracula (1979)

Cast:
Frank Langella
Laurence Olivier
Donald Pleasence
Kate Nelligan

It reminded me of when I was younger, growing up in Florida, and Vincent Price use to host this Saturday special. It was nothing but classic horror movies. I can't remember how many they played each Saturday, but I was there for them all.

linespalsy

05-11-07, 12:56 AM

Just saw Witness for the Prosecution. I think this bumps 1,2,3 down to third place on my list of awesome Wilder films. First is still Sunset Blvd.

B-card

05-12-07, 12:47 PM

Broken Arrow(John Woo 1995)-3/5
Reno 911:Miami(Ben Garant 2007)-4/5

diamondgeeza

05-12-07, 03:27 PM

White Noise 2: The Light - 2_5
The 'Burbs Uncut - 4_5

tazzmania89

05-12-07, 04:04 PM

The Day After Tomarrow - Roland Emmerich

always freaks me out every single time i watch it

linespalsy

05-13-07, 03:56 PM

The Claim - 10/10, reminds me of McCabe & Mrs. Miller. Anyone who liked that owes it to themselves to check this out. And I need to start looking for more films by Michael Winterbottom.

undercoverlover

05-13-07, 04:34 PM

Holden Pike

05-13-07, 04:43 PM

The Claim - 10/10, reminds me of McCabe & Mrs. Miller. Anyone who liked that owes it to themselves to check this out. And I need to start looking for more films by Michael Winterbottom.

http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/mgm/the_claim/_group_photos/michael_winterbottom2.jpg

Yeah, The Claim, based on Thomas Hardy's novel The Mayor of Casterbridge, is certainly McCabe & Mrs. Milleresque. In a good way. I love Sarah Polley in that movie. Nastassja Kinski and Peter Mullan, too. Great cinematography by Alwin H. Kuchler (Morvern Callar, Proof).

I like Winterbottom, he's a good filmmaker. And his films vary quite a bit in subject matter and style from piece to piece, kind of like Alan Parker in that regard. 24 Hour Party People is probably the best-known of his stuff, and it's very good. Also check out Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story, Wonderland (1999), Welcome to Sarajevo, Code 46 and Jude (a good, moody adaptation of Hardy's Jude the Obscure starring Chris Eccleston, Kate Winslet and Rachel Griffiths).

He's got a rather mainstream awards-bait project coming up later this year: A Mighty Heart with Angelina Jolie as the widow of Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter who was kindapped in Pakistan and executed by Al Qaeda.

Holden Pike

05-13-07, 04:54 PM

Cleo 5 to 7 - Jean Luc Goddard

hated the first half but the second half really brought it to life. The story of a young woman in paris waiting to find out the results of her medical exam and the likely outcome is cancer.

I like Cléo from 5 to 7 a lot. And it's not Godard but another of the French New Wave directors, Agnès Varda.

undercoverlover

05-13-07, 05:14 PM

sorry got confused, im about to sit down to watch godard's Breathless aka A Bout De Souffle

linespalsy

05-13-07, 10:12 PM

http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/mgm/the_claim/_group_photos/michael_winterbottom2.jpg

Yeah, The Claim, based on Thomas Hardy's novel The Mayor of Casterbridge, is certainly McCabe & Mrs. Milleresque. In a good way. I love Sarah Polley in that movie. Nastassja Kinski and Peter Mullan, too. Great cinematography by Alwin H. Kuchler (Morvern Callar, Proof).

I like Winterbottom, he's a good filmmaker. And his films vary quite a bit in subject matter and style from piece to piece, kind of like Alan Parker in that regard. 24 Hour Party People is probably the best-known of his stuff, and it's very good. Also check out Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story, Wonderland (1999), Welcome to Sarajevo, Code 46 and Jude (a good, moody adaptation of Hardy's Jude the Obscure starring Chris Eccleston, Kate Winslet and Rachel Griffiths).

He's got a rather mainstream awards-bait project coming up later this year: A Mighty Heart with Angelina Jolie as the widow of Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter who was kindapped in Pakistan and executed by Al Qaeda.

Hi. Thanks a lot, those suggestions all look great. I notice that Wonderland also has a Michael Nyman score so I think that will be next on my list. One of the thing I liked about the Claim was the sound production and editing. It's not something I usually notice but it had a lot of the scenes where the audio would overlap into the next shot or wouldn't quite match with the distance of the cameras. Those scenes where Dillon and his wife were hiking through the snow storm with the sounds of their breathing fading in and out were incredibly haunting. I just loved everything about that movie, it's one of those ones that really got its hooks into me pretty deep.

Escape

05-15-07, 08:10 PM

Last King of Scotland (3/5)

TheUsualSuspect

05-16-07, 10:46 PM

Blood Diamond
Children of Men
The Weather Man

Tacitus

05-17-07, 08:05 AM

Hi. Thanks a lot, those suggestions all look great. I notice that Wonderland also has a Michael Nyman score so I think that will be next on my list. One of the thing I liked about the Claim was the sound production and editing. It's not something I usually notice but it had a lot of the scenes where the audio would overlap into the next shot or wouldn't quite match with the distance of the cameras. Those scenes where Dillon and his wife were hiking through the snow storm with the sounds of their breathing fading in and out were incredibly haunting. I just loved everything about that movie, it's one of those ones that really got its hooks into me pretty deep.

I'll echo HP on Winterbottom - he's a director I've liked for a while and own quite a few of his films.

He works a lot with screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce, who I also have a great deal of time for. ;)

Escape

05-17-07, 03:55 PM

Last King of Scotland (3/5)
Actually, I want to change my rating. I'm knocking it down to 2.5/5.
Three is still a little to high for me.

B-card

05-17-07, 04:36 PM

The Hills Have Eyes II(Martin Weisz 2007)-boring the first part was better this one was too dark I couldn't see most of the massacre 2/5

Demolition man(Marco Brambilla 1993)-decent action from the past 4/5

Monkeypunch

05-17-07, 05:08 PM

Pan's Labyrinth - I loved this film. Unbelievably imaginative and haunting. So many parts of it just stick with you. I liked the director's other films, but this is, by far, his best.

B-card

05-18-07, 12:49 PM

Team America:World Police(Trey Parker 2004)-This movie was freakin' funny I laughed my ass off 5/5

linespalsy

05-18-07, 07:56 PM

Wonderland (Michael Winterbottom 1999) - excellent. I wasn't as immediately grabbed as I was with the more epic 'The Claim' (I think that one is to 'McCabe & Mrs. Miller' as this one is to 'Short Cuts'), but by the end I was in love again. I don't know what's next. I tried to get Code 46 at the video store but they said their copy is missing. Guess I'll have to choose another one.

Tonight I'm going to rewatch The Pledge. Should be good, I've recently gotten very into The Indian Runner and The Crossing Guard. I saw the Pledge a few years ago and don't remember much about it other than that it was good. I remember it being pretty slow and am thinking that's why it didn't really stick the first time through. I hope it does this time.

Piddzilla

05-19-07, 06:01 PM

The Funeral (1996 - Abel Ferrara)

Hmmm... Not bad. Pretty interesting piece of work. The ending made me think of The Proposition (2005).

Has anyone seen The Funeral? And what do you think of it then?

Escape

05-20-07, 08:09 PM

Rear Window (1954) (8/10)

ash_is_the_gal

05-21-07, 02:08 AM

Salvage (2006)

http://www.impawards.com/2006/posters/salvage.jpg

just watched this one for the first time. anyone else seen this? thoughts?

Bill

05-21-07, 02:14 AM

Chinatown (First time)- (9/10)

gummo

05-21-07, 10:53 PM

28 Weeks Later A

Tacitus

05-22-07, 07:58 AM

The Good Thief (2002, Neil Jordan)

4/5

Jordan's oft-overlooked remake of Bob le flambeur saw the beginning of a return to form in a career which had started to go South, in my eyes at least, with Interview With The Vampire and Michael Collins.

The reasons? A sense of fun not seen since the one true dud from his 'good' period, We're No Angels, a surprising feel for the material as realised in Jordan's screenplay adaption, a collection of offbeat and engaging characters and most importantly a great performance from Nick Nolte as the dishevelled junkie tea leaf of the title.

The format is fairly traditional for a heist movie (Jordan can't, however, help himself by making one of the crew a transsexual bodybuilder. Thank God, there's life in him yet!) but there's a subtle joie de vivre here which is sorely missing from, if we're talking about recent Euro Robbery movies, Ocean's Twelve.

Breakfast On Pluto continued Jordan's renaissance but I fear that we're not out of the woods yet when it comes to discussing a return to form by the Paddy Auteur to rival Angel or Mona Lisa. ;)

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Mad Hatter

05-22-07, 03:54 PM

The Desperate Hours - Humphrey Bogart and Frederic March makes a great onscreen duo.

Escape

05-23-07, 10:13 AM

Boiler Room (7/10)

I really really wanted about another minute of an extended ending.

I wanted to actually witness the FBI rushing in showing surprise on everyone of those maggot's faces then slamming them down on the floor and cuffing them. Especially Ben Affleck's. Damn how I wanted to see someone clean his clock. Those kind of people are all leeches anyways.

Tacitus

05-23-07, 12:11 PM

Longford (2006, Tom Hooper)

3.5/5

Non BritFos might find this useful:

Ian Brady and Myra Hindley were a particularly vicious duo of child killers who murdered (at least) 5 boys and girls in the mid 1960s. The Lord Longford of my memory was the fantastically dotty old bloke who campaigned all his life for penal reform but will probably just be remembered for his misguided efforts to bring Myra Hindley to parole.

She died a few years ago in prison, which is where an increasingly infirm Brady will spend the rest of his days.

/history lesson ;)

Longford sees a great cast (especially for a British TV movie) with Jim Broadbent, in the title role, walking away with the BAFTA a few nights ago for best actor. A film on such a sensitive subject needs a believable group of actors to stop the production deteriorating into a Movie of the Week snorefest - Broadbent is backed up here by Andy Serkis (Brady) and, interestingly, Samantha Morton as Hindley.

As befits an actress who I rate extremely highly, Sam's fantastic in the role of the young woman who Longford thinks was abused, bullied and cajoled by her lover into helping commit terrible crimes.

Broadbent's Longford comes across as a lot more than a kindly old bleeding heart, someone who is driven by his Faith as much as by his sense of justice. Best actor? I dunno. He had to wear a lot of makeup, I guess, and aged by 40 years through the course of the film so, on that criteria he deserved it.

Serkis shows (again) that there's more to him than Gollum and he is deliciously chilling in places as the sadistic Ian Brady.

Longford tries hard to rise above it's TV roots but just doesn't quite manage. The script is rather uninspiring, as is the direction, but the film is watchable on the strength of the three above performances, with Morton's my personal highlight, alone.

Don't watch this expecting a serial killer flick, whatever you do. It's a story about relationships which doesn't feel the need to judge those who have already been judged...

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Mad Hatter

05-23-07, 04:35 PM

It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World - A funny zany comedy with a stellar cast!

linespalsy

05-23-07, 04:42 PM

Saw some stuff lately: Shivers, Fay Grim and Sonatine.

Fay Grim: read a lot of complaints about this recently - too much of a spy thriller, not enough of a spy thriller, can't decide what it wants to be - but they were mostly coming from the same critics who thought No Such Thing were just a deadpan beauty and the beast love story. Needless to say I thought this was good. Not sure how good, as only time and further viewings will tell.

Shivers: Cronenberg's first really watchable film. Nobody does sci-fi horror as well as this guy (well, maybe Ridley Scott did once).
"Roger, I had a very disturbing dream last night. In this dream I found myself making love to a strange man. Only I'm having trouble you see, because he's old... and dying... and he smells bad, and I find him repulsive. But then he tells me that everything is erotic, that everything is sexual. You know what I mean? He tells me that even old flesh is erotic flesh. That disease is the love of two alien kinds of creatures for each other. That even dying is an act of eroticism. That talking is sexual. That breathing is sexual. That even to physically exist is sexual. And I believe him, and we make love beautifully."

Sonatine: Really liked it. I don't think it's a matter of "getting it" more, since there doesn't seem to be much to "get" in Takeshi Kitano's films. Maybe I'm just more open to his detached bipolarness, due to my recent saga of illness (I've had really bad sinus infections four times in the last two months, every time I get better it just comes back after a week or two). I have similarly mixed reactions to Resnais, going back and forth between loving and being bored by Hiroshima mon amour and Last Year at Marienbad.

PimpDaShizzle V2.0

05-25-07, 12:35 AM

Pan's Labyrinth :up: :down:
http://www.wherehouse.com/amgcover/dvd/large/u3/43/u34350on0hy.jpg

First of all, you see that DVD cover right above this text? Well, it looks freakin' badass. BUT, to be a whole lot more accurate there should be a picture of a captain shaving with a little girl that looks like she's looking for a place to discretely let go of a real smelly fart. Then, if there was any room left over, that faun could be hiding behind a tree in the background. I guess I was a little disappointed. I wanted more fantasy land because it's what I was expecting. I know my expectations are my responsibility, but that picture is very attractive! DANG IT! And the whole concept of a fairy tale for grown ups makes it even worse. It was still kind of interesting though.

Seraphim Falls :down: :down:
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What a piece of crap! How dare someone make me watch what felt like hours and hours of one guy chasing another just so that they can make some dumbass moral statement at the end! The story MIGHT have held up for a short film. What was with conclusive flashback thing-a-ma-jig? The acting was horrible during that.

The Fountain :up: :up:
http://www.wherehouse.com/amgcover/dvd/large/u3/50/u35069j90m6.jpg

Some guy: "What's this movie's deal?"
Me: "It's a dope-a-thon story... OW!"

That's what I would say to anyone that asked me what this movie's deal was all about.

SamsoniteDelilah

05-27-07, 12:58 AM

naomie Pirates of the Carribbean: Dead Man's Chest - "I feel sullied... and unusual." - Capt. Jack Sparrow. :D :D :D Indeed, Mr Depp: if Withnail were a pirate, he'd be Captain Jack. Fun film, of course. The plot got a bit sidetracked with effects in places, but overall good stuff. Great character work by Naomie Harris.

Splash - awww! Fun, with a few lighthearted jabs at the scientific-minded. Hard to believe that was 94 years ago already (I refuse to do the math).

jrs

05-27-07, 06:25 AM

Pirates of the Carbbean: At World's End :up:
The Ultimate Matrix Collection (HD-DVD) :up: :up: :up: :up: :up:

undercoverlover

05-27-07, 11:24 AM

Cutthroat Island - trashy pirate action, i loved it

Escape

05-27-07, 06:18 PM

Apollo 13 (7.5/10)

My first time seeing this and for a non action flick, it certainly kept me in suspense even if I did know the outcome. So many odds against them yet they still managed to beat them all. :)

Monkeypunch

05-28-07, 12:19 AM

Monty Python's The Meaning of Life - not their best, but riotously funny in so many places that it gets a strong recommendation from me. 4/5

gummo

05-28-07, 01:41 PM

undercoverlover

05-28-07, 01:49 PM

the parent trap
Father of the bride 2

SamsoniteDelilah

05-28-07, 02:39 PM

Last evening, I watched the first 30 min of The Brothers Grimm before diving for the remote and rescuing myself. E. Gads. Best I've ever liked Matt Damon, but that's not saying much really.

Escape

05-28-07, 02:58 PM

Did you watch this on tv the other day? lol It was playing on like 6 channels!
lol, on DVD but that's funny cause I noticed that myself. I actually put it in the dvd player, went on to the computer for a bit more with my back turned to the t.v., then I heard what sounded like a very interesting program about landing on the moon. It was the intro of the film but I didn't know that myself. So I turn my head around to look to see what it was about, then I see Tom Hanks and Kevin Bacon showing up there. I'm like "wtf.....this is Apollo 13". :goof:
I chuckled to myself a bit, then played the DVD about 15 minutes later.
I think the one I spotted was on CBC around 9pm. But you say more than one station huh. Weird heheh.

Mad Hatter

05-28-07, 04:44 PM

Venus - Peter O'Toole is brilliant in this.

SamsoniteDelilah

05-28-07, 07:26 PM

Session 9 - innnnnteresting. Suspense/thriller about a work crew who go to clean up an abandoned insane asylum that has sat empty for fifteen years. Good job making a nail-biter and nice use of the thremulin (sp?!) in the score.

linespalsy

05-29-07, 10:08 AM

Session 9nice use of the thremulin (sp?!) in the score.

Do you mean theremin? Those things are pretty cool. When I was in high school my friend's dad used to play a mean theremin.

Thursday Next

05-29-07, 06:22 PM

Wow, haven't been on here in pretty much forever...anyway, this evening I watched Red Road. Which was pretty brilliant. Disturbing, tense despite being slowly paced and very powerful. It has had quite a bit of critical acclaim but still not a lot of people have seen it, and they should :) .

Monkeypunch

05-29-07, 07:09 PM

Speed - Awesome action movie!

adidasss

05-29-07, 07:22 PM

Escape

05-29-07, 09:08 PM

The Net (6.5/10)

Not a bad flick for my first time seeing it.

I just wish they came up with a better way to get her to knock his ass out, rather than standing their with the extinguisher behind her back, then then "KAPOW!!" She looked too unnatural standing there and he should have noticed that and been ready for it. Little things like that annoy me allot.

allthatglitters

05-29-07, 10:02 PM

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

Liked it a lot.

Mad Hatter

05-30-07, 10:27 AM

High Fidelity - I watched it for the first time last night. As much as I like John Cusack, I don't know why I waited so long to see this. It was really fun to watch!

Mad Hatter

05-30-07, 09:07 PM

Unfogiven - I was simply blown away at how great this movie is.
Midnight Cowboy - Never seen this before, but really enjoyed it.

PimpDaShizzle V2.0

05-31-07, 12:46 AM

Apocalypto :up: :down:
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I've got some mixed feelings about this. I never felt really connected to the main character because I became more interested in the "ball eater" and his trouble with having kids. It seemed like it was longer than it needed to be too. The ending worked for me though. It turned what felt like this huge moment in a groups life into a minor blip within that regions culture. I didn't like some of the camera work either. Kind of seemed like it was rushed in parts.

Some of those chick were very good lookin'.

jrs

05-31-07, 03:07 AM

Hostel Part II 2_5

Piddzilla

05-31-07, 07:24 AM

Stranger Than Fiction (2006 - Marc Forster)

I'm kind of tired of these movies that claim you have to live in some sort of dreamworld to break free from conformity. It's like the only chance of escaping the boredom and the apathy is if some supernatural thing happens to you. Still, it's a pretty pleasant little film, a The Truman Show of Will Ferrell who btw does a good and convincing job. The ensemble as a whole is really good on all parts and it's got a couple of funny scenes and a couple of moving ones. It's the style and overall message that kind of irritates me, I guess.

Piddzilla

05-31-07, 07:27 AM

Mad Hatter

05-31-07, 06:14 PM

The Wolf Man - THis was pretty good. Plus, it has Claude Rains in the film. I've always liked him and I didn't know he was in it!

Piddzilla

05-31-07, 06:35 PM

Shortbus (2006 - John Cameron Mitchell)

I think it was a very good film. I guess there are a lot of things you could discuss about it, but right now I can only say that I liked it... Anyone else seen it?

PimpDaShizzle V2.0

05-31-07, 08:31 PM

Do you think the fact that the language was Maya effected you and your opinion of the film in any way?
Not really. I'd say M. Gibson played a larger role in my final thoughts on the film. I couldn't help but notice the parallels between Apocalypto and The Last Temptation. When I saw a little midget being carried on someone's back in Apocalypto I kind of laughed because it reminded me of the little pale guy in The Last Temptation, which then lead to me wonder what sort of fetish M. Gibson has with little people and whether he intentionally associates them with bad things. It's a slippery slope.

linespalsy

06-01-07, 12:11 AM

Last Temptation = The Passion?

movies I saw

the hustler
this was good, not sure what to say about it. i guess the acting is the main reason to see it. paul newman on his way to his great role in scorsese's pool hustler flick.

how to murder your wife
really funny for the most part - gloppita gloppita - however: i'm not sure why this ending didn't bother me in my fair lady, but it did here. i think the trial scene was too excessive but otherwise this is a great movie.

days of wine and roses
was hoping this would be as good as glengarry glen ross. i guess lemon had to stumble a bit before he could play a dramatic role that powerfully. i think the main problem here was more ordinary though, just the single-mindedness of moralizing bleaching out all the depth.

pirates of the carribean 3
i actually liked this. it's a lot more uneven than the earlier two films though.

the good shepherd
i had no idea deniro directed this until the credits. i can't really clarify my thoughts on this but by the end i was pretty happy it was over. i think it was trying to be sort of a godfather-esque saga but wound up more part 3 than part 1 or 2. not terrible but not terribly memorable either.

the good german
i've been waiting for soderbergh to do something as awesome as the limey since, well, the limey. this wasn't as good but it was his best recent movie that i've seen and one of the best-looking ones i've seen from the last few years.

infernal affairs
like this and the departed both.

body double
had some pretty funny twists but sometimes (and many times while watching this) I think De Palma likes deliberately making his characters detestable and poorly acted, just to torture the audience. i've got nothing against lame nobodies being the main characters of movies, but i actually found myself wanting to bully this guy.

Piddzilla

06-01-07, 05:12 AM

Not really. I'd say M. Gibson played a larger role in my final thoughts on the film. I couldn't help but notice the parallels between Apocalypto and The Last Temptation. When I saw a little midget being carried on someone's back in Apocalypto I kind of laughed because it reminded me of the little pale guy in The Last Temptation, which then lead to me wonder what sort of fetish M. Gibson has with little people and whether he intentionally associates them with bad things. It's a slippery slope.

Gibson seems to have a thing for deformity and so called freaks as symbols of evil. I've thought about that too.

I was just asking because Gibson's use of original ancient languages in both The Passion of Christ and Apocalypto has been seen by many as indicators of authencity, and not only on the language level.

jrs

06-01-07, 05:53 AM

Bug - 0 A flat out piece of sh*t. One of the top F++ of all time. :sick: :down: :sleep:

OG-

06-01-07, 05:55 AM

Bug - 0 A flat out piece of sh*t. One of the top F++ of all time. :sick: :down: :sleep:

And yet I still can't wait to go see it today! :#

jrs

06-01-07, 06:06 AM

And yet I still can't wait to go see it today! :#

Hope you don't have to pay then ....you'll be totally disappointed.

B-card

06-01-07, 06:38 AM

TMNT-It's better than most animations that come out lately

Primeval-pfff what a crap Whatever you do don't watch it

Hostel Part II-this one wasn't that disgusting

Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny-so funny I even play some parts of the film over and over again and laugh

Piddzilla

06-01-07, 07:03 PM

Children of Men (2006 - Alfonso Cuarón)

Escape

06-01-07, 08:09 PM

Jackie Brown (7.5/10)

undercoverlover

06-01-07, 08:25 PM

Pirates of the caribbean 3: At worlds end

liked it much better than the second one but i didnt like the ending. Special effects were reali good this time, i wasnt that impressed with the kracken and thankfully there was no kracken action sequences in this one. Storyline was a bit out of the blue in the second half with tia dalma. I loved barbossa in this movie, geoffery rush played him so well. Keith richards cameo was underplayed and too short. Elizabeths part was much more enjoyble to watch this time - she wasnt so anoying and had better fight scenes too.

The malestrom scene was amazing to watch and i started to wish that it was a smell-o-vision screen so i could smell the waves it looked that good. I felt the ending was too ridiculous and nothing ended as it should have - wills final situation came straight out of left field and i dont think it was that believable. I loved how elizabeths story played out, that she ended up so much enveloped in the pirate world.

Mad Hatter

06-02-07, 05:26 AM

Duck Soup
The Adventures Of Robin Hood

PimpDaShizzle V2.0

06-02-07, 11:47 AM

Gibson seems to have a thing for deformity and so called freaks as symbols of evil. I've thought about that too.

I was just asking because Gibson's use of original ancient languages in both The Passion of Christ and Apocalypto has been seen by many as indicators of authencity, and not only on the language level.
I guess it could be an indicator of authenticity, but I wouldn't say it's a guarantee. There were some parts in Apocalypto where I asked myself, "Come on, would they really say/do something like that?" Some of it seemed pretty modern and western. If I remember correctly, The Passion did a much better job at rendering a time, place, and culture - but then again, I could be totally wrong about that.

Whoever corrected me, thanks. I was calling The Passion, The Last Temptation. OUCH!

Piddzilla

06-02-07, 01:26 PM

I guess it could be an indicator of authenticity, but I wouldn't say it's a guarantee. There were some parts in Apocalypto where I asked myself, "Come on, would they really say/do something like that?" Some of it seemed pretty modern and western. If I remember correctly, The Passion did a much better job at rendering a time, place, and culture - but then again, I could be totally wrong about that.

Whoever corrected me, thanks. I was calling The Passion, The Last Temptation. OUCH!

and I said authencity instead of authenticity.

I've been thinking that this semi trend of using the original language instead of having Maya people or Japanese people speaking English with an accent will be seen as a way of enabling the film industry to tell stories about other cultures without having to incorporate The White Hero. But, still, it's Hollywood's and mainstream cinema's point of view in the end anyway.

I'm actually about to write an article about this, and that's why I asked you.

Caitlyn

06-02-07, 01:33 PM

Pirates of the Caribbean: At world’s End (2007) ~ 3½/5
The Others (2001) ~ 3½/5
Cold Mountain (2003) ~ 4/5
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) ~ 4/5

OG-

06-02-07, 03:12 PM

Hope you don't have to pay then ....you'll be totally disappointed.

It couldn't have been farther from what I expected, but it still worked a number on me something fierce. I can see why you wouldn't like it and I can see why the vast majority of people will not like it.

Hell, to say I liked it would be less than accurate. That would be like saying I like being emotionally raped.

Bug is a devastating film. Powerful filmmaking with absolutely astonishing performances. Ashley Judd is phenomenal in it.

5 Its brazen exploitation of all too real characters made me sick to my stomach in a way only art can.

B-card

06-02-07, 04:16 PM

Next(Lee Tamahory 2007)-4/5

Vacancy(Nimrod Anthal 2007)-5/5

ash_is_the_gal

06-03-07, 02:01 PM

ive been trying to cover old groundwork and see some films that i've never seen that i definitely should have:

the Evil Dead - i watched this last night and i laughed my ass off! i was more creeped out in the beginning, more than anything, but towards the end that kind of dwindled away. i didn't mind, though. i have the sequel, which ill try to watch tonight. 8/10

Dawn of the Dead (2003) - i was really disappointed with this. i saw the original for the first time about a year ago or something, and i really enjoyed it. i was told the remake was more scary and less comedy, but i was really bored through a good chunk. actually, i thought the first half hour was pretty decent, with plenty of potential, but once we got into the mall, i was really bored. i also don't really think fast zombies 'do' it for me. they just aren't as scary as the ones that shuffle! they kept killing off characters before you even got a chance to like them, too. actually, i didn't really care for any of the characters, even the ones that lived. i hated some of the action scenes. i found them a trifle confusing and obnoxious. 3/10

Pans Labyrinth - this drew me in from the very first moment. unfortunately, the DVD i rented skipped like a mother and i had to return and exchange it only to have that one skip too, so i wasn't able to enjoy this to the max. i may buy it anyway. i returned it before checking out any of the extras. someone else on here said they wished they could have seen more of the fantasy world, and if anything, i kind of have to agree with that, but i still really loved the plot, and the characters. the ending was really disturbing, and hella depressing. are you supposed to wonder if the whole thing was just in her head? if thats the case, it was the most depressing thing ever. i loved it. 9/10

Basic Instinct - no, i never saw this! it for the most part lived up to my expectations. great sex scenes, and i can't ask for more than that. i've not seen much of Sharon Stone, which im glad i fixed. Michael Douglas just aint sexy, though. 7.5/10

Deliver us from Evil - interviews with families and victims of Priest Oliver O'Grady child molester, and O'grady himself. was absolutely infuriating, and while i more often than not don't have the attention span for documentaries (seriously) its worth a watch if you're interested in how backwards the Catholic Church is (if you didn't already know). 7/10

PimpDaShizzle V2.0

06-03-07, 03:15 PM

and I said authencity instead of authenticity.

I've been thinking that this semi trend of using the original language instead of having Maya people or Japanese people speaking English with an accent will be seen as a way of enabling the film industry to tell stories about other cultures without having to incorporate The White Hero. But, still, it's Hollywood's and mainstream cinema's point of view in the end anyway.

I'm actually about to write an article about this, and that's why I asked you.
That's interesting. Does the "White Hero" depend on the race or culture. There's probably tons of examples of someone who isn't white that still appeals to the majority, western whites, by over coming temptations of other cultures. That'd make it more appealing because the majority could say, "See, even someone who isn't like us agrees that our way is right." On the flip side, a white hero beating the minority is also appealing. Coming from within the wrong to join the right or being of the right and defeating the wrong.

Has anyone ever had a "banana boat?" I was BBQ'n with some friends last night and someone mentioned the banana boat. You cut a banana down the middle and stuff it with marshmallows and chocolate then wrap it in tinfoil and put it on some coals of a fire. Open, let cool, and then eat. It was pretty delicious - I was kind of drunk though so I don't know how it would taste now.

gummo

06-03-07, 05:25 PM

Last King of Scotland A+

Thursday Next

06-03-07, 05:32 PM

Last King of Scotland A+

Finally got round to watching this the other week, excellent film.

PimpDaShizzle V2.0

06-03-07, 06:06 PM

Snakes on a Plane :down: :down:
http://www.wherehouse.com/amgcover/dvd/large/t8/81/t88172voeyr.jpg

Some funny parts. For example, "Get off my d_ck snake!" Someone says that after a snakes crawls out of an airplane toilet and grabs hold of his wiener. That's a sort of dumb funny I can enjoy at the moment, one time. The whole movie is filled with those jokes so it got kind of old. Sam Jackson... what the hell man? Seriously.

Escape

06-03-07, 06:28 PM

5 Its brazen exploitation of all too real characters made me sick to my stomach in a way only art can.
5 out of 5 huh OG. I'm not sure if you're just goofing around but if you aren't, what is an example of this brazen exploitations of the characters that you speak of here? I do plan to catch it either at the Cinema or on DVD in the future.

Vacancy(Nimrod Anthal 2007)-5/5
Glad you enjoyed this B-card. Another film I want to see eventually on DVD. It didn't stick around too long in theatres unfortunately for me.

Dawn of the Dead (2003) - i was really disappointed with this. i saw the original for the first time about a year ago or something, and i really enjoyed it. i was told the remake was more scary and less comedy, but i was really bored through a good chunk. actually, i thought the first half hour was pretty decent, with plenty of potential, but once we got into the mall, i was really bored. i also don't really think fast zombies 'do' it for me. they just aren't as scary as the ones that shuffle! they kept killing off characters before you even got a chance to like them, too. actually, i didn't really care for any of the characters, even though ones that lived. i hated some of the action scenes. i found them a trifle confusing and obnoxious. 3/10
I actually had the opposite feelings as you have here. I saw the remake first, loved the fast zombies, then a little later, caught the remake on DVD and hated it. Boring, dated, and goofy. I even tried to give it away on here once heheh.

gummo Last King of Scotland A+
Forest Whitaker played an excellent General Idi Amin Dada but that was the only thing worth watching to me. And if in real life, this doctor did do that deed that almost got him killed, then he was a total imbecile for doing so on the fact alone that this General was such an emotionally unsteady tyrant and he took such a stupid chance like that. Not too smart for a Doc.

gummo

06-03-07, 06:43 PM

Forest Whitaker played an excellent General Idi Amin Dada but that was the only thing worth watching to me. And if in real life, this doctor did do that deed that almost got him killed, then he was a total imbecile for doing so on the fact alone that this General was such an emotionally unsteady tyrant and he took such a stupid chance like that. Not too smart for a Doc.

The doctor was very naiive. As if he didn't know what was going on, that Idi Amin was a madman, killing hundreds of thousands of Ugandans. Anyway, I gave it an A+ because I think all the actors had a great performance and I think they told the story very well!

Escape

06-03-07, 06:52 PM

The doctor was very naiive. As if he didn't know what was going on, that Idi Amin was a madman, killing hundreds of thousands of Ugandans.
I'm not sure if this was exactly how it happened according to the Doctor's bio, but yeah, it seems that the actor portrayed him as being so simple minded in the film but in real life, I personally doubt as you say, that he was as naive. :nope:

Sedai

06-03-07, 07:33 PM

The Big Sleep (Hawks, 1946) - Second time through with this one. The convoluted plot made more sense this time, but that doesn't matter, because I can watch Bogart/Bacall ALL DAY LONG...

5

http://www.businesslife.com/newsstand/sl_pastissues/2005/sl_jun/bacall.jpg

The Black Dalia (DePalma, 2006)

While watching this, I was wishing I had been in the film The Big Sleep, and had been shot and killed by Lash Canino. Again a convoluted plot, but, this time around, I had to watch sophomoric dullards trash scene after scene of obtuse nonsense, rife with cliche' dialogue. Johansson is miscast AGAIN in this film. Girl needs to pick some different roles for herself...Mia Kirshner's Elizabeth Short is the lone beacon of interest, character-wise. Unfortunately, we only see her briefly, in screen test reels being studied by the detectives. Bordering on the absurd in places, DePalma certainly missed with this one.

1_5

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2006/11/24/black_dahlia_061122070222637_wideweb__300x410.jpg

OG-

06-03-07, 08:19 PM

5 out of 5 huh OG. I'm not sure if you're just goofing around but if you aren't, what is an example of this brazen exploitations of the characters that you speak of here? I do plan to catch it either at the Cinema or on DVD in the future.

Perhaps exploitation was the wrong word. I should make it clear that the characters are never exploited and the movie is not, at all, exploitative. By effect it exploits the viewer. These characters are real. I'm not sure what font or other text emphasis I can use to highlight that. Bug is painfully real.

I know people like the ones in the movie. I've seen the mindless depression people can enter, Bug takes someone in that state and pushes them to the razor edge of insanity.

It does it incredibly artfully - for lack of a better word - but the effect on the viewer is exhausting. However, this is only going to be the case if you know people like Peter or Agnes. If you know someone who knows their life is meaningless. If you know someone in an abusive relationship or with a sorrowful drug habit. If you meet any of these criteria, the truth of characters in Bug will literally make you sick to your stomach.

The horror genre aspects of the film are, relatively speaking, meaningless. Which is why they really only comprise the last 25 or so minutes of the film. And this isn't a psychological thriller. It is purely a near flawless capture of sanity unraveling.

In retrospect, the rating should probably drop to a 4.5 instead of a 5 due to a mildly implausible jump in the psychological state of Agnes/Ashley Judd. It isn't unbelievable in the scope of the character, but the editing removes a bit of the effectiveness of her sudden conversion to Peter's thought process.

Either way, Friedkin will trap you in a slow burn that will eventually singe your very nerves. But, this movie is not for everyone. And that is not to say that it will be above some people's head - the story simply won't click with some people depending on their own life. If you're in the minority who will have vulnerable spots for its claws to catch hold of, it will not let go even after you're out of the theater.

PimpDaShizzle V2.0

06-03-07, 08:39 PM

DVDGUY

06-03-07, 08:46 PM

Death Race 2000 - So bad its good! I enjoyed myself!

Spiderman 3 - Boring. Bad characters. Emo spidey. Awful

PotC 3 - Too long for its content. Same old tricks. Awful

Rumble in the Bronx - I love this cheesy Chan classic!

Evil Dead 2 - Awesome! Pseudo remake. Kinda ;)

They Shoot Horses Don't They? - One of my all time faves!

http://www.videodetective.com/photos/648/027240_37.jpg

I really do urge people to watch this film!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065088/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Shoot_Horses,_Don't_They%3F

OG-

06-03-07, 09:01 PM

Is Bug out on DVD? I just watched the trailer. Looks kind of interesting. It'd be funny if the whole perspective took a step back and you realized they were all meth addicts or speed freaks imagining bugs all over their skin. Or, maybe not. Either way. Whatever.

No, its in theaters for the time being. Should be playing somewhere near you, at least for the next week. After that I'd expect a sharp drop off.

Ðèstîñy

06-03-07, 09:49 PM

I just finished Near Dark. I have another favorite vampire movie. :yup:

PimpDaShizzle V2.0

06-04-07, 04:25 AM

Event Horizon :up: :down:
http://www.wherehouse.com/amgcover/dvd/large/t0/20/t02049ayyrr.jpg

I really like this movie, but there's a couple of things that really get to me. A lot of the one liners are really just... one liners. The imagery is pretty groovy. Some of the spectacles come off as just... spectacles. I doubt I can really explain it. The cockpit of their original ship looks exactly like the one from the Matrix, it even has "Morpheus" as the captain. Spooky?

Mad Hatter

06-04-07, 07:23 AM

The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938 - 8/10

ash_is_the_gal

06-04-07, 11:27 AM

I actually had the opposite feelings as you have here. I saw the remake first, loved the fast zombies, then a little later, caught the remake on DVD and hated it. Boring, dated, and goofy. I even tried to give it away on here once heheh.

theres just something very unscary about fast zombies that 'roar' rather than shuffling, confused ones that kind of softly hum. im not sure. the remake was too dramatic!

linespalsy

06-05-07, 11:40 AM

Rikyu (Teshigahara, 1989) and Vatel (Joffe, 2000). Interesting pair, in that they both are about master artists working for vulgar lords. I like Teshigahara's film better, but it's always fun seeing Tim Roth play a jaded villian character.

Speaking of Teshigahara, I already have the Eureka dvds of Pitfall and The Face of Another, but I'm really looking forward to the Criterion release of Woman in the Dunes. Now if only someone would put out The Ruined Map.

Caitlyn

06-05-07, 12:50 PM

Queen of the Damned (2002) ~ 2½/5
Interview With A Vampire (1994) ~ 3/5
Dracula 2000(2000) ~ 2½/5
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) ~ 3½/5
Nosferatu (1922) ~ 5/5

B-card

06-05-07, 01:19 PM

Queen of the Damned (2002) ~ 2½/5
Interview With A Vampire (1994) ~ 3/5
Dracula 2000(2000) ~ 2½/5
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) ~ 3½/5
Nosferatu (1922) ~ 5/5

I see you are on some kind of a Vampire wave or something but
why Interview with a Vampire 3/5?

undercoverlover

06-05-07, 03:00 PM

^^do you think that is a low or high score B-Card?

Caitlyn

06-05-07, 03:09 PM

^^do you think that is a low or high score B-Card?

I was curious about that too.... I've always thought 3/5 was a fairly decent score.... :)

Thursday Next

06-05-07, 05:50 PM

I was curious about that too.... I've always thought 3/5 was a fairly decent score.... :)

It's not a bad score, it's just that it makes it only half a point better than Queen of the Damned...

B-card

06-06-07, 02:11 PM

^^do you think that is a low or high score B-Card?

It's not a bad score, it's just that it makes it only half a point better than Queen of the Damned...

I think its low for this movie you could give it at least 4/5 if you like it but still it needs more.For me this movie is absolute 5 this is Tom's best role he is so passioned and dedicated as if it's not him(but that's my opinion)

anyway:

Money Talks(Brett Ratner 1997)-3/5

Ready to Rumble(Brain Robbins 2000)-2/5