Movie Tab II

Thor - This movie was pretty awesome. It managed to keep what was so great about the old Marvel comic book, and not seem overly campy at the same time. I want a sequel.

Beerfest - The guys from Super Troopers play the American beer drinking team in this incredibly funny movie. Their best since Super Troopers.

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark - Cool twisted little horror flick about evil little gnomes who feed on people's teeth and kidnap little children. I love that you actually SEE the monsters, cause I hate movies where they leave that up to your imagination, which I know sounds bad, but I just want monsters in my monster movies, okay?

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Matchstick Men (2003)

Some interesting aspects and an excellent Nicolas Cage performance makes it a solid 3 out of 5. But that "pissed blood" moment is hilarious, so its 3.5/5.

Dick Tracy (1990)

Uggh. What a boring waste of time. I give it points because at least Al Pacino is good. Everyone else, bleurghh.

Dead Again (1991) +

This is more like it. An uberstylish thriller, in which combines solid writing and direction into a good movie. What makes it great, though, are the terrific performances from Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Wayne Knight and Robin Williams.

The Last Waltz (1978)

Probably the best concert film ever made.

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"George, this is a little too much for me. Escaped convicts, fugitive sex... I've got a cockfight to focus on."

I've not seen Dead Again for ages. That was during Ken's first period of Stateside recognition as a director.

Peter's Friends and Frankenstein did for him, I think, but it's nice to see him being trusted again with something mainstream and non-Shakespearean.

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"Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how the Tatty 100 is done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves." - Brendan Behan

Trainspotting

I absolutely loved this movie. I had never seen it before until yesterday. I have really been missing out. I might review it, but I wanna watch it again first. I can't believe how good it actually was -- I was worried it wouldn't appeal to me. I was completely engrossed. Definitely going to be one of my favorite films now. Looks beautiful on Blu-ray.

The Perfect House (2010)

Directed by: Kris Hulbert and Randy Kent
Written by: Kris Hulbert

This film contains 3 short stories about a house or to be more specific the basement. In the present day Mike and Marisol are going to look at their dream house, the real estate agent showing the house is a sexual innuendo dropping sadistic woman, eventually at the end of the tour she takes them to the basement which is when the 3 stories start.



“THE STORM” The first story is in black and white and takes place around the 60’s, the family is taking shelter in the basement because of a massive storm that is approaching the house. The kids are always being tormented by their mother being called weak and useless. With the flashbacks that you see that there are a lot of skeletons in this families closet. They soon realizes that the storm is not the only thing they have to worry about.

“CHIC-KEN” The second story set in 1986 starts off with a man mopping up blood and a girl locked in a cage in the corner of the basement. The man uses her as an audience while he allows people to choose the way they die and then carries it out, the girl is forced to watch while this is being done. The girl in the cage (Holly Greene) and the psychotic killer (Jonathan Tiersten) have great on screen chemistry and really play off each other doing a top notch job. This section of the movie has some extreme gore and you really feel you are watching one of the sickest killers ever.



“DINNER GUEST” You get a teaser of the third part at the very beginning of the film when a man invites his neighbors over to his house for dinner. There is an important lesson to learn from this part and that is to always remember to return stuff to its owner after borrowing it and definitely don’t call it trash and throw it away. The man (Dustin Stevens) ties the family up in his basement, he is very upset at having his Weed Whacker thrown away by his neighbor, so he decides to start taking stuff from the father starting with his kids and proceeding from there. This is by far the sickest and most sadistic part of the film, starting with the two youngest children having to fight each other to the death in order to save their mother. The anger and viciousness of the killings provide any horror fan with plenty of blood flying everywhere.

As far as I can tell this is not available on DVD yet, the extras on the copy I have said that this was going to premiere on Facebook, so I did some looking and I'll put the link below.
http://www.facebook.com/ThePerfectHouseMovie



Oh yeah and Chris Raab from CKY, Viva La Bam and Jackass makes a small appearance in the film.

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The Lion King (1994)

Cop Out (2010)

Narc (2002)

Green Lantern - I don't get why this film was a flop. I had a great time watching it, it was fun sci-fi superhero escapism. It's silly at points, sure, and I can think of one instance where the screenwriter got LAZY and literally picked the main character up and physically moved him to the plot point, but other than that, it was pretty fun.

Dylan Dog: Dead of Night

I have never read the comic series so there are a few things that bugged me about this movie. Does Dylan have some kind of super powers or anything because the beating he took in the movie was just beyond ridiculous if he didn't. There was a good amount of comedy in this but not to much to make it suck. All in all this was a good movie, I enjoyed watching it very much. But I will say one last thing and that is if your going to make a vampire/werewolf/zombie film then please rate it R.

Of Mice and Men (1992)

Watched in English class after reading the book. A enjoyable adaptation faithful to the source material, carried by Malkovitch's fantastic performance.




Persona (1966)

Probably the only film I can name that somehow manages to be both bizarre and disturbing, and boring and melodramatic at the same time. Though Bergman's camerawork, which finds elegance in its simplicity, is to be commended, that's hardly enough to save a film that just doesn't know how to get its point across (whatever that may be). A cliched art-house psychodrama.

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"Don't be so gloomy. After all it's not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."

X-Men: First Class

I am not a huge fan of the X-Men, All I remember was watching the cartoons on TV after school. The first 2 X-men movies were cool movies with good special effects, but First Class is 100 percent the best out of the X-Men series. Wolverine and Gambit were always my favorite from when I was much younger so it was cool that Wolverine had a very very small part in this one, and why does Gambit have such a tiny part in the series. Also for any hardcore X-Men fans, is that really how Beast came to be?

First off, the bolded words can describe countless movies plus probably the majority of David Lynch's features . I'm still looking for more actual discussion of this film at a still only one page thread over here. Please feel free to add your thoughts.

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Glad you liked it. As for the BEAST character.

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Suspect's Reviews

The Exorcist (1973)



The Exorcist is a film of I've avoided for years out of pure fear of its reputation. The scariest movie of all time? Not quite, but it is pretty shocking. The Exorcist succeeds because of the numerous taboos it viciously shatters throughout its run time; in that regard, it is indeed one of the most powerful films ever made. Friedkin's artistry is undeniable and Linda Blair creates a truly horrifying villain in the possessed Regan.

Morning Glory (2010)

Most people that I have talked to hated this movie. I thought this was a pretty good movie and I am always a fan of Harrison Ford, Ford's character in this show was great. It was almost like his Indiana Jones character by being grumpy and basically just being a hard-ass. The only thing was that I hate these kinds of movies so I just really hate those kind of ending like this movie had.

Two and a half for Harrison Ford

Good Neighbors (2010)

Directed by: Jacob Tierney
Written by: Jacob Tierney and Chrystine Brouillet

The movie starts out slow. In fact I was ready to turn it off a few times. But it is just attempting to establish the plot I suppose. Almost the entire movie takes place in the apartment building in Montreal in the neighborhood of Notre Dame de Grace (I really don’t know why that is so special). Louise (Emily Hampshire) lives alone with 2 cats with which she has bonded. The crazy French lady upstairs hates her cats with a passion. Spencer (Scott Speedman) is a man bound to a wheelchair with a crazy love for fish that eat other living things, he’s not to big on the cats either because they tease his fish, also there are definitely some anger issues with him.



The new neighbor that moves in at the beginning of the film is Victor (Jay Baruchel) who is basically the same in this movie as he is in any film, spazy, nervous, weird, and has a crazy looking cat that he brought back from China(in the movie). Louise becomes obsessed with the serial killer that’s on the loose, this just becomes more so when her friend is killed by the serial killer(don’t worry that’s not a spoiler). Basically this is just another story of people contained in a small space trying to figure out who the killer is, I said at the beginning that the movie starts out slow but in truth the whole movie is slow and I found myself still waiting for things to happen. Might make for a rental if you really love Indie films and cats.

Little Big Man

I spent a good part of this movie with the feeling that I'd seen this movie before, only not really. There was something about the idiotic Jack Crabb and his way of bumbling through one situation after another that seemed far too familiar. And then it hit me, it was like I was watching a wild west version of Forrest Gump - only far more depressing and far less entertaining - and while I found Gump to be endearing at times, Crabb did little more than annoy me.

I will give it some credit for the scale of the film and for its depictions of the brutality of that era.

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Here's what I've seen since my last post.



Exorcist II: The Heretic (John Boorman, 1977) (camp rating: )



Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist (Paul Schrader, 2005) +



Warlock (Steve Miner, 1989) - (knowing camp rating: )



Rouge (Stanley Kwan, 1988)



Unfaithfully Yours (Preston Sturges, 1948) +



Center Stage (Stanley Kwan, 1992)



The Goddess (Yonggang Wu, 1934)



Zhi guo yuan ("Romance of a Fruit Peddler") (Shichuan Zhang, 1922) (middling physical comedy but worth seeing as the earliest existent Chinese film, portraying recognizable street scenes and characters.)



Last Life in the Universe (Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, 2003)



The Heroic Trio (Johnny To, 1992) (camp rating: )



Hellzapoppin' (H.C. Potter, 1941) (meta-film rating: )



Blackthorn (Mateo Gil, 2011) +

and several early W.C. Fields shorts:



The Fatal Glass of Beer (short) (Clyde Bruckman, 1933)
Pool Sharks (short) (Edwin Middleton, 1915) +
The Dentist (short) (Leslie Pearce, 1932)
The Golf Specialist (short) (Monte Brice, 1930) - (Fields' classic golf routine which later appeared in You're Telling Me! - minus the cloying story of that later film)

I also re-watched these:



Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai, 1994)



Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (Nagisa Oshima, 1983)



Hard Boiled (John Woo, 1992)



Halloween (John Carpenter, 1978) +



After Hours (Martin Scorsese, 1985) -

The Scent Of The Green Papaya (Tran Anh Hung, 1993) -5/5



Finally a good film ive seen about Vietnam. I'm sick of seeing the Vietnamese portrayed in such a negative light (Apocalypse Now, or for that matter any Hollywood film about Vietnam). This film is sublime, gentle, and beautiful to the senses. Anyone who is interested in Asian cinema must watch this film.