HP 7.2 ................................... 8/10............ So many unanswered questions but they gave more Warwick Davis so that pleases me immensely :)

Battle: Los Angeles 6 out of 10

Entertaining, not worthy of the Black Hawk Down and ID4 comparisions. The acting was decent but they werent really convincing marines. The Action was good though so its at least a solid rental.

Santa Sangre (1989) - Yet another Alejandro Jodorowsky film containing his usual staples of oddities. Though while retaining his style, it is one of his more normal films as there is a coherent story here of a young circus performer who witnesses the destruction of his family, his father castrated, commits suicide and his mother's arms amputated leaving him in obvious mental distress. There are plenty of unexplainables but I found myself laughing at some of the more blatant symbolism, as I'm sure it was intended, and in awe of a lot of the imagery. All of Jodorowsky's films have this effect on me. There are some sfx flubs such as during the scene when the tattooed lady is murdered, you can see blood shooting off the trick knife but these are few and far between. The ending is great and solves the story quite nicely. 4 out of 5.

The Resurrected (1992) - Dan O' Bannon directs this very close adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. Even though I have not yet read the original story I still found the story intriguing. SFX from Todd Masters are creepy and unnerving. Decent cast includes Chris Sarandon as Ward, John Terry, Jane Sibbett and Robert Romanus. Recommended for Lovecraft fans. 4 out of 5.

Transformers: Dark of the Moon [4.5 out of 5]
I liked this one more than the previous two mainly because of the Decepticons use of extreme violence towards the humans. I was really surprised by the brutality in what would presumably be called a family film so that definitely earned serious points with me. The only complaints I had were 1) It was overly long. 2) Sam's love interest looked like someone punched her in the face then put her on a medieval rack.

Batman Forever 3 out of 10
Damn you Joel Shumacher, damn you to hell.

lol, that's two hours of your life you'll never get back....

anyway...yesterday I saw

La conqu�te (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1711484/) 7 out of 10

The Myth
Dir. Stanley Tong

Jackie Chan back in China, back where he does his best work. :D

Sadly he seems to have trodden in something in Hollywood and brought some of it back with him. :sad: Bad script and bad CGI saved from mediocrity only by the occasional recreation of the old Jackie magic from the Project A and Armour of God days.

The sticky conveyor belt was Chan gold

Sucker Punch: Extended Cut. A vast improvement over the theatrical release though it's still too abstract and arty-farty at times.

Bleeders (1997) - Based off of H.P. Lovecraft's Lurking Fear, the story follows a sickly gentleman and his fiancee/nurse as he searches out his ancestry in modern day Maine. I almost enjoyed the ride but in the last 20 minutes or so the film really fell apart. Dan O' Bannon did some reworkings on the script but it didn't save it from badly directed action sequences and poor sfx. 2 out of 5.

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides with my G.F. (no, not Guardian Force).

I give it a 9/10 :)

Renaissance Man (1994) with Denny DeVito. 9/10

WRECKED (2011)
Adrien Brody wakes up alone in a car wreck in the middle of a forest. There’s one dead body in the car and another outside. He doesn’t remember how he got there or who he is. As we get further into the plot, things start to get worse for him as he finds out more about himself and just his situation in general.
With premises like this, the film can end up really interesting and engaging or a complete bore and utterly predictable.
“Wrecked” was a bit of a struggle to sit through for the most part during it’s short 90 minute running time.
I think the worst part for me was that the ENTIRE film is in the trailer. I shit you not. Even the ‘twist’ at the end is shown. Had I not seen the trailer, the film might have been a little more interesting.
The only thing the trailer didn’t show was the dog. Yeah. The dog. There’s a dog. Just a dog. Being a dog. In the middle of Nowhere, B.C.
If you’re a Brody enthusiast then watch it for that, as he’s the only saving grace with his nerdy good looks and “I like that guy” charms.
2 out of 5

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KYNODONTAS [Dogtooth] (2009)
A surreal Greek film that really isn’t for everybody.
In fact, I’ll bet more people will hate it rather than love it. It’s disturbing. It’s creepy. It’s hilarious. …and just plain weird.
It’s about three teenagers (One boy, two girls) who have lived there whole life confined to a gated off country home with absolutely no real knowledge of what’s past the gate, apart from a few lies their parents told them.
The kids are absolutely terrified to visit outside of the gate by their father who’s told them a story about a non-existent brother who struggles to survive outside the gate.
Things start to unravel out of control once of the kids gets a taste of what’s outside the gate. …..and it’s really, really fun.
The entire film is framed in such a way that it looks like an old family film you’d see on the Wonder Years or a photograph in your grandparent’s photo albums and the colors are so plain and washed that any other color is a shock to see.
The performances are wonderful and so believable you forget they aren’t real people which adds to the extreme creepiness to it all.
I loved this movie and highly recommend it to be the patient and not easily disturbed.
4 out of 5

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SALINUI CHUEOK [MEMORIES OF MURDER] (2003)
From Korean director, Bong Joon-Ho, the guy who brought us the highly entertaining “creature feature :laugh:” “The Host”.
Inspired by a real serial-killer case, it stars Park Chan-wook regular, Song Kang-Ho as a village’s detective overwhelmed by a sort of case he’s never dealt with such grisly murders before. In comes “May 18”’s Kim Sang-kyung as an outside detective who’s much more experienced and in turn broodier with nicer clothing. :laugh:
The first act is a little too silly and littered with badly timed moments of humor and goofy performances but after that the story really takes off and is well worth the wait.
Joon-Ho is a master at incorporating the setting and back-drop as part of the character and that makes it happily impossible to turn it into an American remake. :)
The cultural differences also drive parts of the story and characters which is just so interesting to see in a murder mystery for those that are tired of the usual Hollywood fare.
By the end, it’s taken all the usual elements of this type of story, stomped all over them and handed them back to you in an unrecognizable shape.
Highly recommended for fans of this genre.
3 � out of 5

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TOY STORY 3 (2010)
The final chapter in the insanely impressive and popular Disney/Pixar Toy Story series.
Woody, Buzz and the rest of the gang are mistakenly delivered to a day-care where things are run a little differently than in Andy’s bedroom. There they meet an odd array of toys including a Ken doll, a half-witted baby and a intimidating purple Teddy-bear (brilliantly voiced by Ned Beatty) who runs the place with an iron-cotton filled-paw.
The humor is at the top of it’s game, as Pixar always is. The action scenes are wonderfully choreographed with so much imagination it’s must have gone through so much carefully planned storyboarding and rewrites to perfect it like it is.
In the theatres, the 3D was top notch…on my TV screen…well, I have no 3D at home, so I had to use my memory. It’s still just as good with or without (I’m looking at you Avatar).
Apart from a few slow moments, the film is next to perfect. It’s not often I can say this about “trilogies” usually, they’re worn out at the end and resort to pure goofiness, but this is just as good as it’s first two, if not better.
Was it worth the 11 year wait?
Yes. Yes it was. The wait was not only part of the backbone of the story but it just attached the viewers to the characters even more so, based on how long those toys have been a part of our lives.
4 out of 5

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PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2 (2010)
Paranormal Activity was a reasonably effective horror film done on an extremely low budget. It asked the audience to rely on their imaginations instead of fancy effects or make-up. It was refreshing compared to most of the over-done remakes and endless sequels and prequels. It offered a number of good scares, a few tense moments and unpredictable jumps that got the job done without leaving a bad taste in your mouth.
Less than a year later, the sequel is pumped out into theaters so quickly you’d swear your kid brother wrote and filmed it on his digital camera in less than a week.
It doesn’t explore any new territory with it’s stereotypical characters or painfully predictable character and story arcs.
It’s got cash cow written all over it and offers no apologies whatsoever.
Granted it has a few mediocre tense moments but that’s about it.
If you have the time to watch this movie go have a nap or clean out the car, cause they will be ultimately more satisfying than this snoozefest.
1 � out of 5

Memories of Murder. it was quite good, though some of the subs were a bit funky at times.

Memories of Murder. it was quite good, though some of the subs were a bit funky at times.

I noticed that too. :laugh:

I don't know if they got better as the movie progressed or they were just bad near the beginning.

Batman Returns.
Definatly darker and more entrenched in Burtonland than the previous outing but in my opinion still a great movie (compared to the next 2 movies). The score is dark and interesting, and I believe Danny Devito steals the show with his interpration on Oswald Cobblepot aka The Penguin. There is only two gripes I have with the movie is that is a little too violent for certain age groups and the sexual innuendo is pretty blatant. Cases in point Batman(Michael Keaton) incinerating a henchmen and sticking several bombs to a guy, and Max Shreck's(Christopher Walken) convincing The Penguin to run in the Mayoral run in Gotham (Unlimited Poontang). Still a great watch.

8/10

Fully agreed. :D

Batman Returns is my favorite of all the Batman live action flicks.

It's just so....odd.

It's the Batman movie Burton wanted to make.

the tail end of Machete...

Because of cuckoo......

I just won't bother......

Zwuh?

Cuckoo?

I didn't see Machete. Who?

I should eat you.

I should eat you.

You'd be stuck with leftovers for months. :laugh:

I saw Capn yesterday. Even though I hate hate Cap.............. it was actually a good movie.

I saw Capn yesterday. Even though I hate hate Cap.............. it was actually a good movie.

What did Captain America ever do to you?

He expected me to watch Thor.

That's a hanging offense.

Yup............. I skipped Thor....... My bf had to fill me in :p

He expected me to watch Thor.

That's a hanging offense.

I'd say that's more of a lashing, if anything.

The Cap movie from the early 90s, now that's a capital offense.

Reb Brown is god.

Don't know who Reb Brown is.

The guy who did the 2 Captain America movies.

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Pierre Kirby is also quite the diety.

Ah, didn't know the dude's name.

Search results for "Spoony+captain+america" on blip.tv (http://blip.tv/search?q=Spoony+captain+america)

Enjoy.

If you want Pierre Kirby stuff, I can dig that up for ya, too. Cinema Snob is quite the rabid fan.

Captain America (1990) - IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103923/)

What is this shit?

Why hasn't Spoony reviewed it?

What is this shit?

Why hasn't Spoony reviewed it?

That's the Cap movie I was talking about.

Well no wonder you didn't like it XD

I'm still waiting on a vlog review of the new one from him.

Having everyone involved with that turd put to death is on my bucket list.

Just got back from Cowboys & Aliens, and it was pretty much exactly as I predicted. Started out well, but then devolved to all of the typical cliches of the Western genre. Kurtzman & Orci are hacks, and all of their scripts are exactly the same. Even got boring in the exact same place as always so they could stick a bunch of exposition in the characters mouths to explain their plot.

So basically, you'll feel exactly the same about this film as you did their past films (Transformers 1 & 2, Star Trek). I was hoping Favreau's influence would make a different, but apparently not.

Nice acting, though. They tried to fool us into thinking Harrison Ford could be a bad guy, but I think we all know that's impossible. And Craig just reaffirms his position as the ultimate badass.

This one movie with China Chow, Mark Wahlberg, and Lou Diamond Philips in it.

1968 - Il grande silenzio

Just saw The Adjustment Bureau. Been anticipating it for awhile, but I read a couple reviews that weren't that favorable, so I didn't get my hopes up.

Started out rather well, but the final act just devolved into a typical Hollywood chase scene (kind of similar to the Bourne films, actually). I was very disappointed that the filmmakers went the route. Especially with this entirely overhanded "fate vs. freewill" message. I actually feel sick, like a person physically forced their views down my throat and out my rectum.

Still, it was enjoyable for the most part. And I like the score.

Season of the Witch (2011) - Fantasy-action flick starring Nicolas Cage and Ron Perlman. Tbh the main reason I wanted to see this was Perlman since I rarely see him in the flesh anymore. There are some funny buddy-buddy moments between the two but the action just isn't there.
There's a sequence where they push a carriage over a rickety old bridge. *yawn*
And there's a twist near the end that removed what little interest I still had in the story.
The supposed witch turns out to be a demon-possessed girl. Double *yawn*
Another case of the trailer being better than the entire movie. 2 out of 5.

Just finished Sucker Punch, a film that I've been looking forward to for awhile (since I love Zack Snyder), and I unfortunately missed it in theaters.

Oh, my god, though. It just might be the worst film of this year. Not only does it have a ridiculous and cliched plot, but the dialogue and acting are atrocious, too. It has definitely been awhile since I've seen a film this bad. I actually hate it even more than I normally would (compared to similar bland action films) because it actually thinks it's being clever or tear-jerking or something, when in fact it's being abhorrent and disgusting (I'm talking about the ending here). The film is cavalier with action and violence and death until the very end, when you're suddenly supposed to care or something. I also found the near rape of several of the characters (I think it happened over 4 times) just got very, very irritating. I won't even say revolting, as the director was so flippant with it that it didn't even hold any real drama.

Have to say, this film has definitely made me wary of Snyder, especially with what he'll do with Superman. Can't say that I'm eager to see any original content from him again any time soon, either (Sucker Punch was his first non-adapted film).


Season of the Witch (2011) - Fantasy-action flick starring Nicolas Cage and Ron Perlman. Tbh the main reason I wanted to see this was Perlman since I rarely see him in the flesh anymore. There are some funny buddy-buddy moments between the two but the action just isn't there.
There's a sequence where they push a carriage over a rickety old bridge. *yawn*
And there's a twist near the end that removed what little interest I still had in the story.
The supposed witch turns out to be a demon-possessed girl. Double *yawn*
Another case of the trailer being better than the entire movie. 2 out of 5.

Jeez. And here I was slightly curious about that movie.

Hellboy
Dir. Guillermo del Toro

Watched this yet again. It's great. Starts not so good and ends not so good but in-between is pure fappy goodness. :D

The Borrower Arrietty. It was lovely, beautiful soundtrack too.

Joe's Apartment, had a good laugh again after first watching it years ago...

and

The Butterfly Effect 2, Erica Durance - too sexy... :D

watched Cowboys & Aliens last night. i thought it was pretty good. it was a very fun movie.

Battle: Los Angeles [3.5 out of 5 stars]

Devil in Miss Jones 4: The Final Outrage [5 out of 5 stars]

[Rec] � (2009) - The story follows a camera equipped SWAT team as they "search for survivors" in the aftermath of the first film. There's some nice innovative camera views and such but what really sets the film apart is the turn the story takes with the "zombies". There's a hint of it at the end of the last but it's in full paranormal swing here. Some nice gore and twists ensue. Fans of [REC] will rejoice, though there is one added element that I didn't enjoy all that much. the teenagers 4 out of 5.

Just saw three films back-to-back: Kill the Irishman, I Am Number Four, and The Lincoln Lawyer.

Kill the Irishman, while still a good film, wasn't quite as flawless as I was expecting. Most of the supporting characters are either background noise or are there to move to plot along (or in the case of Val Kilmer, actually spell it out). But, the story is pretty moving (it's based on a true story) and Ray Stevenson's performance is remarkable (but that's not all surprising, really). Nice score, too. 8/10

I Am Number is a very bland film. Everything about this film has been done before. There is absolutely nothing original or surprising about this film. However, the effects were quite good for it's meager budget, and both the lead (Alex Pettyfer, a Brit) and his best friend (an Australian) absolutely nailed their American accents. In fact, I actually forgot that Pettyfer was English. 5/10

And finally, The Lincoln Lawyer. I actually think this is probably the best film of the year so far (that I've seen). Nothing all that surprising about it (it's a typical crime/legal film), but it does it superbly well, and the performances are excellent. Might just be McConaughey's best performance to date. I was thoroughly intrigued and involved in the film, which is more than I can say for most of the films I've seen the year. 9/10

Wanted

Tron: Legacy
I really dont know what to rate this film. On one hand the acting is pretty meh (Except Jeff Bridges as Hero and Main Villian), but the action and effects are more then competent. At least on Bluray sometimes I could barely tell that CLU was CG. The music in my opinion was better than the music of the first (never watched the movie, but listened to the music). Daft Punk outdid their selves with the score, comprised of electronic and orchestrated music. All in all it was fairly entertaining.

Fast and Furious.
Dir. Who cares, really?

It was poo.

If it was the first one, the director was Rob Cohen, of Dragonheart and Mummy 3 fame.

It was the 4th one. They dropped the "The" off the title. I liked the first one. :laugh: Guilty pleasure.

Then that would be Justin Lin, creator of such masterpieces as The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, Fast Five, and the upcoming The Fast and the Furious 6 and Terminator 5.

I'll watch Fast Five someday. The rock was giving Vin the pimp hand in the trailer. :laugh:
Tokyo Drift was a total stalled engine.
Didn't watch T4 . Can't see me watching T5 either. Unless Arnie plays the T-Aged60+

Arnie is actually attached to T5, and it apparently takes place in 2012 or 2013 in London.

It was the 4th one. They dropped the "The" off the title. I liked the first one. :laugh: Guilty pleasure.

Be careful with that, you might have your Class A cinephile license revoked. :p

Be careful with that, you might have your Class A cinephile license revoked. :p

Shhh, don't tell anyone but...

..the A is short for Arsehole. :erm:

Keep it hush and my reputation will be safe. :D

Shhh, don't tell anyone but...

..the A is short for Arsehole. :erm:

Keep it hush and my reputation will be safe. :D

Gotcha. :D

Don't know if these count but the 1st 2 episodes of Band of Brothers.
(one of the DVD bonuses is a complete rank guide along with the patches)

The Sky Crawlers (2008)
Dir. Mamoru Oshii

Slow and mostly action-less anime from Oshii and Production I.G.
It has his signature lighting effects and lengthy scenes but don't expect anything like his other great works. It's firmly in the thinking-man's niche.
It's very good. and the subtleties of the plot linger in the brain after viewing.

For anyone that has seen it, I'd be interested to know who you thought [real spoiler] :

the father of Suito Kusanagi's daughter was? Jinroh or Teacher?
My initial thought was Teacher because she can age but I'm really not sure.

Super (2010) - James Gunn directs this indie superhero tale about a man (Rainn Wilson) who loses his wife (Liv Tyler) to a sociopath drug dealer (Kevin Bacon) causing him to snap and create his alter ego The Crimson Bolt, a vigilante who fights crime with his unruly sidekick Boltie (Ellen Page). Great comedy and ultraviolent action fill the screen. I really loved this film for how unorthodox it was. I highly recommend this one. 5 out of 5.

:rofldata:

Great little film "Super" was.

No rules. No shame.

James Gunn is a nut.

watched Rise of the Planet of the Apes earlier tonight. i thought it was quite good. been an Apes fan since i was a kid.

:rofldata:

Great little film "Super" was.

No rules. No shame.

James Gunn is a nut.

I saw that at my local Target.

watched Rise of the Planet of the Apes earlier tonight. i thought it was quite good. been an Apes fan since i was a kid.

Just got back from it, as well. Pretty good. I read an outline of the first draft of the script, and while it was different in some areas:

Will died at the end, and there were a couple more tangent plots and characters that were either eliminated or combined

overall, it was pretty much what I was expecting. Nothing wrong with that. Definitely a lot better than most of the films that are made, anyways. I'm definitely looking forward to the sequel (so I really hope this film makes enough to earn one; it's looking good though, as it's already grossed its budget back).

Andy Serkis as Caesar was the real stand-out, though. I didn't think his character would really work without dialogue, but, boy, did he prove me wrong.

Solaris (Clooney one)

Meh, not bad. Interesting film, love sci-fi though so I enjoyed it. Plus Daniel Faraday from LOST is in it.

Solaris (Clooney one)

I picked that up today. Not watched it yet.

I'd really like to see the 1972 version first but I don't have it. :sad:

I picked that up today. Not watched it yet.

I'd really like to see the 1972 version first but I don't have it. :sad:


If you enjoy sci-fi it's worth watching, definitely a unique film. I've heard the 1972 version is amazing but I haven't gotten around to seeing it.

I picked that up today. Not watched it yet.

I'd really like to see the 1972 version first but I don't have it. :sad:

I really liked it.

Approach it as a psychological drama rather than a sci-fi.

If liked Moon or The Fountain you'll probably really enjoy this.

It's suffocating. :)

...and yeah....Faraday is a bonus. :D

Approach it as a psychological drama rather than a sci-fi.

I'll keep that in mind. I'm excited. Clooney is great. I've not seen Moon yet. :sad:

Loved The Fountain after repeated viewings. I was unsure how I felt about it after only one. The accompanying graphic novel helped me engage with it more.

I've not seen Moon yet. :sad:


:O You really need to, like now! Brilliant film.

:O You really need to, like now! Brilliant film.

I will pick it up someday. It's been on my list of things to get for ages. Most of my favourite films of all time are intelligent Sci-fi.

Plus.....it's got The Rockwell.

http://www.gifsoup.com/webroot/animatedgifs/1032251_o.gif

You cant' really go wrong.

some terrible horror flick on Chiller whos name eludes me

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

Portions of the Girlfriend Experience

Blade Runner: Final Cut on Blu Ray
I absolutely love this film. The removal of the Deckard narration helps this movie infinitley, the picture and sound quality is excellent, and still entertains and provokes thought. Ridley Scott has created a vision of the future that has stood the test of time. Harrison Ford is perfect as Rick Deckard, a wary Los Angeles detective/blade runner. Opposite him is the sympathetic and fear inducing replicant leader Roy Battey (Rutger Hauer) whos goal is to extend his lifespan. Deckard's hunt for Battey sets up one of the most iconic scenes in film history. I recomend getting the Final Cut on Blu-Ray for the definitive experience.
Score 10/10

Score 10/10

Agreed. :D It and Alien are the real reason Ridley gets respect.

Agreed. :D It and Alien are the real reason Ridley gets respect.

Love them both. btw, the Alien 3 Assembly Cut is the best Alien film IMO, you seen it? 40 minutes longer than the theatrical.

Anyways, Just finished watching Rise of the Planet of the Apes, WOW! what a film. Was skeptical at first but it was brilliant.

When Draco Malfoy says "get your dirty hands off me" and Caeser shouts "NO!" I had goosebumps.

8.5/10

When Draco Malfoy says "get your dirty hands off me" and Caeser shouts "NO!" I had goosebumps.

Yeah, that was a spectacular part. Unfortunately, some douche in my theater had the nerve to laugh at that part, and totally ruined the moment for me. I actually thought about smacking for a second or two. I hate those types of people, though, that go to a film that they find ridiculous just to laugh at it and ruin the film for the people that do enjoy it.

Crazy, Stupid, Love

Normally not my kinda thing, but this movie had something about it I kind of enjoyed. Wasn't my choice of cinema viewing leisure, but I actually wound up loving it at around the halfway mark. I give it a solid 7/10, for renewing itself midway through after only a so-so long beginning.

......

......

I like to /yell that in World of Warcraft. Seems so contradictory :laugh:

I like to /yell that in World of Warcraft. Seems so contradictory :laugh:

Never played WoW.

Never played WoW.

Trust me, you're really not missing much :p It's little more than a virtual chatroom at this point.

Trust me, you're really not missing much :p It's little more than a virtual chatroom at this point.

Like this. :naughty:

Like this. :naughty:

Very much, just no female Blood Elf ass to stare at.

Omg, I am a sad, strange little man.

Very much, just no female Blood Elf ass to stare at.

Omg, I am a sad, strange little man.

with a GF

Omg, I am a sad, strange little man.

...and you have my pity.

...and you have my pity.



So where are those Corn Flakes? :3

YOU! ARE! A! TOOOOYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!

That reminds me, think you can mark me down as 'Toy Story 3' for my next entry in this thread ^^ I will watch it as soon as I rise by the morn.

YOU! ARE! A! TOOOOYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!

That reminds me, think you can mark me down as 'Toy Story 3' for my next entry in this thread ^^ I will watch it as soon as I rise by the morn.

Better hop to it sir.

If you fail on your end, there will be Corn Flakes waiting for you in the morning.

Better hop to it sir.

If you fail on your end, there will be Corn Flakes waiting for you in the morning.

Woah, decisions decisions. . . . *Sun rises*. . . . *Sun sets*. . . . *Moon rises*. . . . *Moon sets*. . . . *Sun rises*. . . . *Sun sets*. . . . *Moon rises*. . . .

*At last gasps and lifts his hand in contemplation* Cornflakes AND Toy Story 3 :D

Woah, decisions decisions. . . . *Sun rises*. . . . *Sun sets*. . . . *Moon rises*. . . . *Moon sets*. . . . *Sun rises*. . . . *Sun sets*. . . . *Moon rises*. . . .

*At last gasps and lifts his hand in contemplation* Cornflakes AND Toy Story 3 :D

That's the spirit!!

That's the spirit!! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMrDUOe2uuk)

Trolololo

Trolololo

No, this is The Spirit.

Transformer 3 : Dark of The Moon :D

Love them both. btw, the Alien 3 Assembly Cut is the best Alien film IMO, you seen it? [/spoiler]

Yea, seen that. Huge improvement over the butchered theatrical cut.
I've tried to convince a few people to give it a chance but they got burned so bad with the other version that they won't take the plunge. :rolleyes:

First one is still my favourite. I never tire of it. The first scene on the ship as the camera pans through the silent ship is fantastic.

I don't understand all this movie talk.

Laterz.

Return to Oz again.......... and Labyrinth directly after................. I always get the urge to watch those 2 movies in succession.....

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

I like how most of it dealt with the aftermath of The Girl Who Played with Fire. You never see the main characters have to recover in the hospital or face legal repercussions form their action movie shenanigans. I can not see this being adapted without changing a bunch of stuff; only 2 fight scenes?, main character either in hospital or in court?, villains a bunch of old guys?. main characters just kinda say "smell 'ya later" without any I love yous or I don't love yous or anything like that?

I wonder why Lizbeth's lesbian didn't visit her at all.

Overall, I think I liked Played with Fire most of all. It had the best balance of everything and had the advantage of already established characters and world while Dragon Tattoo really took it's sweet time to pick up and go.

Rewatched Salvage and Zombie Diaries, this time with my gf. Decided to add ZD to a box of dvds we're getting rid of. Salvage is a keeper though.

I was bored and rewatched Scott Pilgrim vs. the World again.

I was bored and rewatched Scott Pilgrim vs. the World again.

HD watched a movie? :shock:

Beast Master 3/5

That wasn't a panther, it was just a tiger in black face!

You can dodge a ferret you can dodge a ball.

HD watched a movie? :shock:

�I know, right?

�I know, right?

How do you do that mexican upsidedown question mark?

How do you do that mexican upsidedown question mark?

I copy'd and pasted it off the Interbutts.

I usually have to turn the screen bottom side up type than turn it back right side up to do that.

I usually have to turn the screen bottom side up type than turn it back right side up to do that.

:-*

:negativemoticon:

Re-Animator (1985)
Dir. by Stuart Gordon

It must be 10 years since I last seen Re-Animator, I had forgotten a few things. It was still as fun as ever.
Jeffrey Combs is second only to Bruce Campbell in the B-Movie pantheon, for me, anyhow.

The Lost World of Jurassic Park, I really love this movie despite its flaws, the chases and dino sequences are very well pulled off and enhanced by John Williams great score. (too bad there is no 320 or lossless fx free complete version).

The Invincible Ironman 2007 3/5

It's not a bad movie it's just pointless.

Story spoilers...

The main story is that Stark industries is doing this huge archeology job in China trying to unearth the lost city of the Mandarin but a small group of terrorists are sworn to guard the city and keep the mandarin form ever resurrecting. James Rhodes is working on the site for Tony but they keep getting attacked and eventually the crew is killed and Rhodey is taken prisoner.

Here's the deal though, this isn't pseudo fallowup story to the Robert Downey Jr. movie but a whole new origin story. So the next parts are pretty much the film with Tony being bushwhacked in a military convoy on his way to rescue Rhodey, Tony taken prisoner, getting the light up heart, building the prototype armor, and getting back to civilization. But in this Tony already hates making weapons and his father for doing so, the Buddhist monk who gets shot has no real impact on Tony due to the fact that the character of Yensin is now filled by Rhodey, the monk, the 1 member of the terrorists who hates killing people and wants to free Tony. She's a lady by the way.
When the duo get back to America it turns out Tony's father and the board of directors fingered Tony as the weapons supplier to the terrorists who captured them.
It also turns out that Tony was Ironman before he became Ironman and had a whole hall of armor set up with the silver, gold, ultimate, Hulkbuster, stealth, scuba, and warmachine suits completed before him and Rhodey even made the prototype in the cave with a box of scraps.
Skipping along it turns out the Chinese love interest is actually the last descendant of the Mandarin and has to sacrifice her self so he can possess her body to bring himself back. He also has a bunch of golems who are benders plus an evil dragon because the Chinese believed dragons are evil. Tony get's shot out of the sky by a bunch of terracotta warriors with arrows while he's in the ironman suit and then kills the dragon by sticking a foam steal injector and inflates it like a marshmallow fluffed cream puff.
Finally he has a showdown with the naked chinese girl who is possessed by the Mandarin and the expels him out of her body but dies. Tony and Rhodey are cleared on all charges and Tony buys the company just to give Rhodey a rise and then gives it back to his father for some reason because they're both cool now.

SO basically it covers the same territory as Ironman but Tony doesn't grow at all and the battles are kinda lame plus the whole exotic asian vibe was kinda boring for the most part.

But Tony was naked in 2 different scenes.

Also Pepper Potts was english.

I went into nostalgia mode last night and watched some films I used to love as a kid.

Antz: The animation has aged pretty poorly but it is still a fun film. The whole adventure to Insectopia could have been done so much better though, it was like "Hey princess, let's find this place!" then 20 minutes later "We've found it, time to go back" The voice acting is great and it's definately an interesting film. 6/10

Small Soldiers: Major Chip Hazard is badass, 'nuff said. 7/10

deadly friend.
a movie long sought after by me, when, at the tender age of 8, i saw it first.
then saw sam slamming that basektball to the old hags face and blowing up her head.
i shouted AWESOME.

i looked everywhere for it. and finally found it after i picked up a pic gif of said scene in 4chan.

Starship Troopers and Robocop.
2 of Paul Veerhoven's bloodiest movies. Robocop is as great as always, violent, funny and smart. Starship Troopers being an homage to scifi B-Movies has fairly cheesy dialouge but solid action and some rather intelligent satire. Too bad these movies got sequels because all the sequels suck ass.

I watch A LOT of movies in between fapping........here goes:

Blitz - after lacklustre The Expendables & The Mechanic films, it's nice to see Jason Statham back in the saddle. If you like his films, I would highly recommend this one. :) 3 1/2 out of 5

All 5 Fast & Furious films in a row :laugh: :laugh: - I thought my brain was going to leak out of my ears. 1 & 5 were actually pretty entertaining for what they were. 2,3 & 4 weren't so good...at all.

Your Highness - Not as bad as everybody said it was. Not very good either. Danny McBride punches Natalie Portman square in the face. I laughed. 1 1/2 out of 5

Arthur - Russell Brand playing Russell Brand...except not as icky. Helen Mirren shines. The rest should just go away. 2 out of 5

Super 8 - fun throwback to the 80's sci-fi and adventure films. There's even the obligatory fat kid. 3 out of 5

RIO - birds suck. Especially boring bird movies where you dont' actually get to see Anne Hathaway. 2 out of 5

Fritt Vilt (Cold Prey) - Norwegian slasher flick takes a tired formula and does nothing to change it....yet still makes a good movie where the kids aren't actually stupid. 3 out of 5

13 - remake of the french film "13 Tzameti". Gritty, intense and twisty & turney galore. 3 out of 5

La habitaci�n del ni�o (The Baby's Room) - Effective thriller from Spain. Had a few good chills and scares. Doesn't quite add up to it's full potential. 3 out of 5

The Birds - Hitchcock classic. Near perfection. 'nuff said 4 1/2 out of 5

The Beaver - Mel Gibson lives his life through a puppet......and it's depressing as hell. Highly original, quirky, sad, funny and incredible performances all around. 4 out of 5.

Requiem For A Dream

Castle in the Sky 5/5


That part at the beginning with Pazu testing his theory about the jewel thing was hilarious.
Dola was a cross between the grandma form Garfield's Christmas, Mom form Futurama, & Ma Fratelli form the Goonies.
Robot designs are fun and unique.
The overall designs and patterns of the castle were very unique in that way where you want to say they're meant to be maybe mesoamerican but not really.


So I had a feeling that this was a case with Totoro at the very least but it turns out there are 2 different english voice casts for Totoro, Kiki, laputa, and Lupin. The 1st being done by streamline for their 1st theatrical releases and VHS and the 2nd done by Disney. has anyone seen both of them enough to say which cast is better? Should I try to hunt down the older versions or just go with the newer ones that are out now?

Starship Troopers is one of my all-time favourite films. The third wasn't so bad. They are making a fourth apparently but it's going to be animated.

All 5 Fast & Furious films in a row :laugh: :laugh: - I thought my brain was going to leak out of my ears. 1 & 5 were actually pretty entertaining for what they were. 2,3 & 4 weren't so good...at all.

Still makes me laugh. I don't know whether to pat you on the back or kick you in the ass for such an endeavour. :-P

I haven't watched a flim lately.

Casino Royale - WOW, what a film, completely forgot how awesome it is, best bond film IMO 5/5
Quantum of Solace - After the awesomeness of CR I had to watch QoS again, not amazing but still fun, loved Dench in it and the illuminati style organisation was cool - 3/5

Big Wet Tits 6

Pirates 4.

Pretty lame, really. All of the characters were really misused, Blackbeard was a waste, and the characters end up at the exact same place they were at the end of the last film.

Glad I didn't waste money seeing it.

5/10.

Perfect Blue

David Lynch's 1984 adaptation of Dune. Maybe a failure of narrative but an awesome fever-dream vision of the book.

Evil Bong (2006) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0829424/)

Pretty silly romp about a possessed bong that is ordered from the back of a stoner magazine. Anyone who smokes from it has their conscience transported to a strip bar on another plane and is killed by one of the strippers which subsequently stops their heart in the real world.

super 8.
felt like watching jaws and E.T. at the same time.

a quick wiki read confirmed my suspicions later.

Conan (the first one).

Honestly, I have no idea why this film is hailed as one of the greatest films ever (at least in the fantasy genre). Everything about this film was very cheaply made and campy. Arnold as Conan was a joke (thank God he learned how to act later in life), the fight scenes were atrociously bad (I even laughed at them), and the utter lack of dialogue made what little story there was very hard to become invested in.

The score, while good, didn't blow me away, either. I might change my mind after I've listened to it a couple times on its own, though.

Overall: 5/10.

Conan (the first one).

Honestly, I have no idea why this film is hailed as one of the greatest films ever (at least in the fantasy genre). Everything about this film was very cheaply made and campy. Arnold as Conan was a joke (thank God he learned how to act later in life), the fight scenes were atrociously bad (I even laughed at them), and the utter lack of dialogue made what little story there was very hard to become invested in.

The score, while good, didn't blow me away, either. I might change my mind after I've listened to it a couple times on its own, though.

Overall: 5/10.

I disagree but to each his own I guess.

Just got done watching The Watchmen (lol at the redudancy) and I absolutely love this movie. I have never read the original Graphic Novel but this movie makes me want to get it.

Conan (the first one).

Honestly, I have no idea why this film is hailed as one of the greatest films ever (at least in the fantasy genre). Everything about this film was very cheaply made and campy. Arnold as Conan was a joke (thank God he learned how to act later in life), the fight scenes were atrociously bad (I even laughed at them), and the utter lack of dialogue made what little story there was very hard to become invested in.

The score, while good, didn't blow me away, either. I might change my mind after I've listened to it a couple times on its own, though.

Overall: 5/10.

did you watch the dub? or the original with arnold speaking..... something?

The ending to it has been slightly changed (Manhattan isn't blamed for the attacks in the comic), but the film version makes a lot more sense. Other than that, it's one of the most faithful adaptions I've ever seen.

As for Conan, it's probably just a generational thing. I'm 19, so I grew up watching more modern films (to me, Lord of the Rings is the best fantasy saga, and are also some of my favorite films... period).

Im 18 and watched those movies so its not really generation its just taste I guess.

Conan (the first one).

Honestly, I have no idea why this film is hailed as one of the greatest films ever (at least in the fantasy genre). Everything about this film was very cheaply made and campy. Arnold as Conan was a joke (thank God he learned how to act later in life), the fight scenes were atrociously bad (I even laughed at them), and the utter lack of dialogue made what little story there was very hard to become invested in.

The score, while good, didn't blow me away, either. I might change my mind after I've listened to it a couple times on its own, though.

Overall: 5/10.

Oh yeah, the original had lots of flaws but I still like to see it every now and then. I am a Poledouris fan and think the score stands on its own. If you don't like it you likely compairing to someone elses work which came out this year. You young whiper-snappers :D

Oh yeah, the original had lots of flaws but I still like to see it every now and then. I am a Poledouris and think the score stands on its own. If you don't like it you likely compairing to someone elses work which came out this year. You young whiper-snappers :D

Probably. I've found that happen quite a bit with a lot of things (not just music). I think in a way the newer stuff might be slightly better because they've had the time to analyze those works and make them better.

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Im 18 and watched those movies so its not really generation its just taste I guess.

Must be. Maybe it has to do with the types of films we grew up watching and became accustomed to? Perhaps you've seen more historic films than I have? I've seen maybe 20 films at most that were made before 1980.

Conan (the first one).

Honestly, I have no idea why this film is hailed as one of the greatest films ever (at least in the fantasy genre). Everything about this film was very cheaply made and campy. Arnold as Conan was a joke (thank God he learned how to act later in life), the fight scenes were atrociously bad (I even laughed at them), and the utter lack of dialogue made what little story there was very hard to become invested in.

The score, while good, didn't blow me away, either.Overall: 5/10.




I've seen maybe 20 films at most that were made before 1980.

I know! I know! I feel so ashamed...

Probably. I've found that happen quite a bit with a lot of things (not just music). I think in a way the newer stuff might be slightly better because they've had the time to analyze those works and make them better.

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Must be. Maybe it has to do with the types of films we grew up watching and became accustomed to? Perhaps you've seen more historic films than I have? I've seen maybe 20 films at most that were made before 1980.

I am sure you are a lot younger than I am (like the majority on ffshrine) so your taste in movies in general would be quite different than someone that has see a few decades in film come and go. I like many films that came out before my time so there is another point in which you and I are different. Today's audience is used to white knuckled action in both the visual and story pacing departments. Show them a well crafted masterpiece from another time and the yawn and say "I could hardly keep my eyes open"...shame.

Oh, no. I'm not that sort. I hate blockbuster films that are all action/flash and no brains. I'm a story-first type of guy (as I am a writer). I will agree that most of the films produced today (and probably throughout the history of film) are absolute garbage.

Films of the past face a different challenge: the evolution of style. Many films (like Conan or Superman: The Movie) have not dated well. Films that feature big effects are usually more prone to this, given the nature of technology. The nature of what a film is or meant to be has even changed drastically since their inception. Just as the styles of music and fashion change and evolve, tastes in film and storytelling do, as well.

My gripes with Conan were:

- little-to-no story; the lack of dialogue certainly didn't help (silence and no dialogue is good if the story is strong)
- bad acting
- shoddy FX/acting
- would jump from somber drama to excessive violence to almost slapstick comedy

Sounds like you just described the first "Evil Dead" :rofldata:

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I never really liked Conan that much either.......and I grew up with it, the old codger that I am. :-\

I can't deny the quality of the score though. Good stuff.

I saw Cowboys and Aliens with my bf. I thought it was a fun romp of a movie. Some of it was pretty awesome, some of it was pretty dumb, Bond wouldn't quit doin' his signature duck face, Han was all grumpy-old-guy, and the aliens were weirdly designed. I liked it. I put it the same category of romp as Fifth Element :)

Kingdom of Heaven. I know it's been around for awhile, but after having a discussion with a fellow member here about the Knights Templar, so decided to finally watch it. All in all, it wasn't a bad movie (I'm a sucker for movies based on historical events, Red Cliff is another example of a movie based on historical events which I thoroughly enjoyed) and I'd recommend it to anyone who likes seeing large scale battles.

I haven't watched a flim lately.

Rise of the Planet of the Apes - better than I thought it would be. But being a Sci-fi fan I feel like it could be better/more refined than what it is... Now I'm inspired to watch the original Planet of the Apes again.

Rise of the Planet of the Apes - better than I thought it would be. But being a Sci-fi fan I feel like it could be better/more refined than what it is... Now I'm inspired to watch the original Planet of the Apes again.

I watched Tim Burton's version last night and it made me want to turn off and instead watch the original. :D

The old one is the best.

I haven't watched any of the old films in ages, but I have a feeling I won't care for them as much as the new one. Yes, the science and character development is a bit wonky, but I just don't think I could buy seeing actors in monkey suits talking.

The version presented in Rise is so much more plausible and ingenious. The old ones are just too dated at this point.

The last movie I kinda watched was the tv edit of Watchmen the other day.......... Now my bf saw it in the theater without me because there's a lot in there I didn't want to see and I always said I would maybe watch the tv edit........... Well about a half hour in my bf says there's at least 20 minutes already cut......... about an hour in he said about 30 - 40 minutes cut and lines changed........ Now by this point I'm frikin' sick of the tv edit and I asked if what they cut was better than what they left in and he said ya.... so we changed the channel. Stupid TNT leaving in all the parts I DIDN'T want.

The last movie I kinda watched was the tv edit of Watchmen the other day.......... Now my bf saw it in the theater without me because there's a lot in there I didn't want to see and I always said I would maybe watch the tv edit........... Well about a half hour in my bf says there's at least 20 minutes already cut......... about an hour in he said about 30 - 40 minutes cut and lines changed........ Now by this point I'm frikin' sick of the tv edit and I asked if what they cut was better than what they left in and he said ya.... so we changed the channel. Stupid TNT leaving in all the parts I DIDN'T want.

I love how Cinemax only shows the Directors Cut edition. The only way I want to watch Watchmen (redundancy lol).

Just finished watching Batman Returns.

Ninja Assassin (2009)

Proof positive that ninjas are way cooler than pirates. :D

I did a mini Predator marathon.

Now I hear Peter Cullen screaming in my dreams. :sad:

I did a mini Predator marathon.

Now I hear Peter Cullen screaming in my dreams. :sad:

I recently saw Predator 2 for the first time in over 10 years. I was like, "Wait, Bill Paxton's in this movie? Wait, the girl from Running Man is in this movie? HOLY SHIT, GARY BUSEY IS IN THIS MOVIE??!! This movie has fucking everybody!" (Except, you know, Stallone or Schwarzenegger) :D

Planet 51 (2009) - A bit wary of this one but it actually turned out to be quite decent. It certainly didn't have the imagination of a Pixar film but it did make me laugh more than a few times. The premise is intriguing enough and the animation fine. 3 out of 5.

Is it just me or did Neera look a lot like an alien Jessica Alba?

Also saw Shark Tale and Flushed Away. Both 1 (or less) out of 5.

I'm in the middle of a little Bond marathon (although I only own 9 of the 22 films, and I don't plan on watching the last two Brosnan or Craig films).

So, just watched three Connery films: Goldfinger, Thunderball, and Diamonds are Forever.

Goldfinger has always been a personal favorite of mine. I'm still not too keen on the older films (the humor, the gadgets, the bad guys), but this film manages to make it all work (for the most part). Goldfinger was brilliantly played (even though his scheme was a little more than daft). Connery was excellent. The women were absolutely stunning. But most of all, John Barry was on top form. The title song is one of my favorites (along with You Know My Name and one other I'm blanking on). The brass is incredible. And the score is equally brilliant. 8/10.

So you can imagine my disappointment with Thunderball. The plot is absolute crap, the film stretches on for far too long, the characters actions are ridiculous, and like with all of the older Bond films, it seems, the fight scenes are laughable. I can only image how much fun I'll have watching this story again in Never Say Never Again. 4/10.

And then finally we're back to something more adequate. Diamonds are Forever is far from being a perfect film, but I liked it because unlike some of the later **cough**Moore**cough** films, the camp humor is intentional, and played very well. The film again, like Thunderball, is far too long for what little plot there is, which is exacerbated by the endless action scenes, but Connery is still fun as Bond. Jill St. John, while being a poor actress, is still captivatingly beautiful, and how Blofeld and Bond's relationship is portrayed, reminds me of Batman and the Joker. Although Bond is far more willing to kill the bad guy. I was curious why I liked this film more than Thunderball, and then I realized why: it's the same director as Goldfinger, Guy Hamilton. 7/10.

Onwards to The Man With The Golden Gun, Never Say Never Again, and The Living Daylights (which exhausts my current supply of 007).

Babylon 5: The Lost Tales (Voices in the Dark)
Dir. J. Michael Straczynski

B5 fans will enjoy this.
It's mostly green-screen which was disappointing but with Straczynski on writing and directing duties it's like going back in time.
It's not essential but it's very worthwhile.

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So, just watched The Man With The Golden Gun and Never Say Never Again, and am nearly done with The Living Daylights.

TMWTGG was a nice fun romp. Not exactly what I want from a Bond film, but it was no worse than Diamonds Are Forever, and only slightly worse than Goldfinger. Moore is my least favorite Bond, but he still gets the job done. The title song is great. Do not understand the hate for it. And Christopher Lee was excellent as Scaramanga. Probably my favorite villain so far, along with Goldfinger (although Scaramanga's scheme was a lot better). The only thing about this film I really detested was the sound affect used during the barrel roll. God, that sapped all of the realism and intensity out of that stunt. 7.5/10.

Never Say Never Again, on the other hand, is one of the worst films I've ever seen (not just of the Bond franchise). The story is almost a carbon copy of Thunderball, and I didn't even care for the original. This version piles on cliche after cliche, the pacing is atrocious, the title song is definitely the worst of the Bond films, and has one of the most horrific scores I've ever heard. Connery is definitely too old for the role at this point, and whoever thought Kim Basinger would make a good Bond girl should've been fired. 1/10.

So far I've really been liking The Living Daylights (aside from all of the 80s style music), so hopefully I'll post my thoughts on that soon.

Caddyshack 4/5

The Shunned House (2003) - Italian production shot on digital video that takes place in a dilapidated old house where a writer and his assistant are researching for a book. There are three intercutting stories contained in the film based off of three H.P. Lovecraft stories (The Shunned House, Dreams in the Witch House, and The Music of Erich Zann). The film is shot well and the music adds nice flavor to the horror though the dialogue is hard to understand since English is not the actors' first language. It becomes confusing towards the end as the intercutting of stories (and periods) increases but the Lovecraft adaptations are solid. Recommended for fans of Lovecraft looking for decent horror based off his text. 3 out of 5.

Despicable Me

MST3K Manos: The Hands of Fate 1/5

MST3K Manos: The Hands of Fate 1/5

"Do Something! God!"

Was a great episode. I enjoyed Cave Dwellers more though.

Last I saw was Suburban Girl.
It was ok.

Big Fish 4/5

Insidious (2010) - I had a lot of anticipation for this one but it turned out to be a huge letdown. The film just wasn't scary and I realize that I'm a horror movie veteran and I'm rarely frightened but I was sincerely bored with the story. The only things I can give it are that it was shot well and it had originality. 2 out of 5.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 4/5
It's held up super well with nice pacing, nice looking Henson puppets, and a bunch of characters who never get too much or too little screen time.

Dragon Wars Rifftrax.

Recently saw The Inbetweeners Movie in the cinema, so that was the last film I saw.

Hit-and-miss really, hardly a masterpiece of a movie.

Blade Runner - very different from what I had thought it would be like. More of an art film than anything. I thought it had good visuals and interesting premise. However, I did not like it. I will probably get lynched for writing this but sorry to say I was pretty bored throughout. There was not much character development so I could not bring myself to care for the characters much. Also, since I didn't see this film 10 years ago, the central ideas of this film are not that novel or intriguing to me.

Insidious (2010) - I had a lot of anticipation for this one but it turned out to be a huge letdown. The film just wasn't scary and I realize that I'm a horror movie veteran and I'm rarely frightened but I was sincerely bored with the story. The only things I can give it are that it was shot well and it had originality. 2 out of 5.

I share your opinion, 100%.

Mortal Kombat

Hesher.
Dir. Spencer Susser

Even Nat and a damn Star Wars reference can't sully this work of genius. Pure, raw emotion.

One scene in particular had me holding my chest laughing and simultaneously feeling like I wanted to cry from overwhelming sympathy.

5 out of 5.

Batman: Under The Red Hood

This is one highly underrated animated movie imo.

The Adventures of Mark Twain 2/5

Yes the claymation one. It's regarded as a creepy and disturbing children's movie, but only part of it is that way. I couldn't watch it in one sitting :( The movie is pretty much broken into segments and has no real flow of a story. It's strange and stuff but it's really not that great. I recommend seeing it at least once though.

Pocahontas.
Never seen it before now for some reason.
Found an old VHS copy.
It was ok.
Pre-insane Mel Gibson.

Pocahontas.
Never seen it before now for some reason.
Found an old VHS copy.
It was ok.
Pre-insane Mel Gibson.
As a sorta' Disney Classics fan, I actually found Pocahontas slightly boring - I still enjoy it and like it and stuff, but I just felt that in comparison to other Disney Classics of that era, it was like they took those, ripped some of the elements out that made those good and then made Pocahontas. That, plus I don't really care for any of the characters; I didn't care about any of them and I didn't like the villain. The whole spiritual vibe to the film doesn't really hit me, either.

Just watched this......


OMG! It's sooooooooooooooooooooooo bad! Everything about this thing is awful. Half the time it's funny awful and the other half is confusing awful. The very first song intro to the town is horrendous. We get a giant chorus telling us how great this place is, and when the camera pans back to show it all we see nothing! The entire movie is that way. It's like they were afraid to animate things that didn't act stiff. It's bad. I swear the main villain guy sounds EXACTLY like Spoony making fun of Travolta's character in Battlefield Earth XD I give this a 1/5.

Muppet Treasure Island

4 out 5

Great for a laugh, and the music isnt bad. Sure beats the everloving hell out of new kids movies.

muppets movies are always charming

misu's film looks like bad ripoff of disney

More like a bad rip off of Bluth :laugh:

More like a bad rip off of Bluth :laugh:

...which in turn was a good rip-off of Disney.

Except for A Troll in Central Park :laugh: That wasn't good at all. Oh Dom DeLuise..... poor thing.

Super 8. Loved "The Case" during the credits!

Open Season (2006) - Not the greatest animation around and I wasn't all that impressed by the first section of the film but by the end I was having fun. 3 out of 5.

Rango, a complete bore. 1 out of 5.
Leprechaun 4 - 0 out of 5. Enough said.
Critters 2 - 2 out of 5.

Tinkerbell

Tinkerbell
I swore you already said that, but I'll guess it was on another thread.

Was that any good? I can't say it looked all too great.

It was in another thread I mentioned it.

It was okay.

The Matrix 4/5

Seeing it now the special effects still hold up and look good but are almost quaint what with everyone and their brother having done some kind of parody of the slo-mo camera pans.

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It was in another thread I mentioned it.

It was okay.

Do you remember which one? I think there's at least 2 of them. Seen bits and pieces and I like the wings style and detail and how the music isn't disney pop but Celtic lullabies.

Colin
Dir. Marc Price

The made for �45 zombie film. The SFX are astonishing considering the budget, they look like they cost 100x more.
Sadly the lighting is dreadful, locations are uninspired and the "acting" is laughable at times.
The thing that sets it aside form other zombie films is interesting but the film is plodding in it's delivery.
Top marks for effort, low marks for entertainment.

Not exactly movies, but I've been watching the new episodes of Doctor Who.

So, the newest ones since the hiatus were "Lets Kill Hitler" and "Night Terrors".

Have to say, I am really, really disappointed in how Series 6 has been going. It seems Moffat is only pleased in writing what he himself enjoys, and really doesn't care what other people fancy. The time travel history of River Song is really driving me nuts, and is not enjoyable at all. It feels like fan fiction at its worse.

And yet while it's nice to have a break from all of that vomit-inducing timeline jumbling, I find it really hard to invest myself in done-in-one stories (which is why I prefer episodic, long-arc shows). It doesn't help that "Night Terrors" had only the faintest hints of a plot and was in fact not scary at all for being a horror episode. Quite disappointing.

Matt Smith is a terrific Doctor, and it saddens me that just like the previous ones (Doctor's, that is) since the reboot, he spends most of his time being absolutely wasted. I also find myself increasingly irritated by Amy and Rory. They seem to serve no purpose, and have almost the exact same lines every single episode. Either progress their storylines, or finally kill them off; for real, this time. It seems like the writers want to, so let them!

It sucks that aside from the Christmas Special and Neil Gaiman's episode, Who has been crap for over a year now. :(

Paul (2011) - A decent comedy from the director of Superbad which includes a lot of the same actors. I enjoyed the first 45 minutes the most but it ran out of steam towards the end. Some nice appropriate casting and the sfx of Paul was great. 3 out of 5.

Also watched Sherlock Holmes. 1 out of 5.
And Monster House. 2 out of 5.

Training Day

Critters 3 & 4 (1991) - The third installment is decent fun as it takes the action out of the hick town of Grover's Bend and ends up in a low-rent apartment building in the city. I'm not saying it's great but I had fun watching it. Also Leonardo DiCaprio's 1st film role. 3 out of 5.

The 4th and final Critters installment takes place in deep space as Charlie and a salvage crew battle the Crites on an abandoned ship. Brad Dourif oddly stars in this one. 2 out of 5.

Total Recall

Epic Veerhoven film is epic.

4.5/5

Operation: Endgame

Training Day

Denzel makes his Momma proud. And Ethan Hawke gets invited over for cookies. Good times.

I enjoyed that too. :)

Rifftrax Willy Wonka and Rifftrax Last Airbender.
Former was great, Latter was funny, but could have been better. Last Airbender is Fucking horrible, so even watching it with riffs was grating.

Batman Begins

Hate on me if you must but I like this film better than Batman 89, not as much as Returns but this is a definitive Batman story that does the Batman justice. The acting is pretty great with Bale as Wayne/Bats, Michael Caine as Alfred, Morgan Freeman as Lucious Fox, Liam Neeson as Ducard, Tom Wilkinson as Falcone, Gary Oldman as Sgt. Gordon, and Cillian Murphy as Dr. Jonathan Crane. The one dark spot of the cast would have to be Katie Holmes as Rachel Dawes. Rutger Hauer, Ken Watanabe and Linus Roache also star as Wayne Enterprises Chairman of the Board Mr. Earl, Raas al Ghul, and Thomas Wayne respectively. The fear that Wayne puts in criminals hearts as Batman is almost palpable, the story is engaging, the music suits the film flawlessly, the direction is great, and it also resurrected Batman in Film.

When I first watched it when I was a kid on vacation in Texas, we stopped at an Imax theater to watch it. It blew any notion of of Batman Forever and Batman and Robin being good movies completly out of the water, mind you I was about 12 when I saw it then so It completly changed the way I saw Batman.

Starship Troopers

for the score

The mask

Jim Carry was SMOKIN' .

Batman Begins

Hate on me if you must but I like this film better than Batman 89, not as much as Returns but this is a definitive Batman story that does the Batman justice. The acting is pretty great with Bale as Wayne/Bats, Michael Caine as Alfred, Morgan Freeman as Lucious Fox, Liam Neeson as Ducard, Tom Wilkinson as Falcone, Gary Oldman as Sgt. Gordon, and Cillian Murphy as Dr. Jonathan Crane. The one dark spot of the cast would have to be Katie Holmes as Rachel Dawes. Rutger Hauer, Ken Watanabe and Linus Roache also star as Wayne Enterprises Chairman of the Board Mr. Earl, Raas al Ghul, and Thomas Wayne respectively. The fear that Wayne puts in criminals hearts as Batman is almost palpable, the story is engaging, the music suits the film flawlessly, the direction is great, and it also resurrected Batman in Film.

When I first watched it when I was a kid on vacation in Texas, we stopped at an Imax theater to watch it. It blew any notion of of Batman Forever and Batman and Robin being good movies completly out of the water, mind you I was about 12 when I saw it then so It completly changed the way I saw Batman.

Same here. I was 13 when Begins came out, and it had been several years since I had seen the Burton films so I didn't remember much about them (didn't see the Schumacher one's until 2007 or so).

The Nolan films is how I see Batman, and are definitely in my top 10 favorite comic book films of all time.

Now, I enjoy the Burton films, but there's just something about them I don't like. Maybe it's because they don't take themselves seriously. Maybe it's because I still cannot buy Michael Keaton as Batman or Bruce Wayne. It's probably all of those things and more.

I'm just one of those people that does prefer realism to camp. Of course, I don't think realism applies to everything, and I love sensationalism, as well, but for a character like Batman, it needs to be as realistic and gritty as possible. The Burton films work just fine on their own, but they're not what I would call iconic.

Re-watched 'Super' at my friend's house.

Quite enjoy that film, unsure why they never released it in cinemas over here.

Band of Brothers part 5. Jimmy Fallon had a walk on roll at the end.

Band of Brothers part 5. Jimmy Fallon had a walk on roll at the end.

Yes he did. :)

You catch any of the other funny guy appearances yet?

Re-watched 'Super' at my friend's house.

Quite enjoy that film, unsure why they never released it in cinemas over here.

I saw that at my local retailer, but didn't buy it.

Broke.

Yes he did. :)

You catch any of the other funny guy appearances yet?

Simon Pegg was in the 1st or 2nd part.

a clip from Blade Runner

didn't see the whole thing

Black Hawk Down

300
Princess Bride

Cold Fish (2010) - Shion Sono directs this true crime thriller about a simple man caught up with the wrong people. Honestly I was disappointed for there is no striking visuals like Sono's other films and there are some redundant scenes. The film is 2 hrs 25 min and it feels like it as it takes awhile for anything interesting to happen. There are some haunting images in the last few minutes but it just wasn't enough. 2 out of 5. I would recommend watching the Shion Sono film I watched before this, Strange Circus (2005) which has an incredibly striking visual style and a bizarre and cryptic story throughout. 3 out of 5.

Also watched Bride of Re-Animator. 3 out of 5.
Beyond Re-Animator. 2 out of 5. It didn't get a 1 or 0 purely for my love of the character and Jeffrey Combs portrayal.
Captain America: The First Avenger. 3 out of 5.
Unknown (2011). 2 out of 5.

Moon (2009) 4/5

I liked how the creepy computer was actually good. was that the original Sam who asked the daughter who was asking about her mother during the space phone call?

i am watching Conan the barbarian and the three musketeers!!! so nice movie:kirbyfly:

Good Fellas, Rocky 3, and We Were Soldiers

conan the barbarian (2011).

i dont get why people hated this movie.
while it did have a cliched story, i expected copious amounts of violence to compensate it, and it delivered.



I'm just one of those people that does prefer realism to camp. Of course, I don't think realism applies to everything, and I love sensationalism, as well, but for a character like Batman, it needs to be as realistic and gritty as possible. The Burton films work just fine on their own, but they're not what I would call iconic.

youre forgetting one thing: they are movies based on comics.

thats why nicholson's joker is better than ledgers: nicholson killed for fun, when it was funny.
ledger killed to prove a point and create chaos.

Hereafter (2010) - I was interested in this because Clint Eastwood directs but it wasn't my kind of movie. It was very slow and the ending was abrupt. Bryce Dallas Howard was a nice touch, though I wish there had been more of her. 2 out of 5.

The Fox and the Hound

I thought Kurt Russel voiced Todd, he was named Todd in Soldier.

Zombie Women of Satan (2009) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1468757/) (1.5 out of 5 stars)

Like most movies on Chiller channel it was heavily edited so that's why I don't normally bother but it looked fun...it wasn't really. The only real satisfaction was occasionally the blurs placed by the channel would disappear and you could see some tits, ass or crotch.

... was subjected to true horror...

The King of Fighters live action movie (WTF DID THEY DO TO MAI SHIRANUI AND ANDY BOGARD!!? @$$HOL3$!!). Overall a complete waste of time and overall garbage. My score: -10/5

Battle of Los Angeles (not the big screen version, but the B grade one...). I'm not even going to bother describing this atrocity... B grade filth. My score: -10/5

Tekken live action movie. Like King of Fighters, I had the vain hope this was going to be good... it wasn't. Same reasons as for King of Fighters, and guess what... same score: -10/5

... was subjected to true horror...

:rofldata: Crap movies rarely come along one at a time. That happens me a lot as well.

Enter the Void (2009) - Gaspar Noe directs this story about an aimless drug dealer living in Japan who dies in a police raid. That's not a spoiler since the movie only becomes interesting after this event. Cinematography is great as Noe experiments with POV. Incredibly long trippy sequences look as if they're seen under a microscope. The story isn't anything special though and it can become boring at times. 3 out of 5.

Big Trouble in Little China

God I love that movie. :D

Enter the Void (2009) 3 out of 5.

I thought pretty much the same.

The film could benefit with 30 minutes cut out......and I know that's A LOT. :p

I've never seen anyone capture the effects of a psychedelic drug trip quite as well as this though. The first 20 minutes was it down to near perfection.

Fear & Loathing tried but instead came off as something someone thought tripping out was.

Where the Wild Things Are, The Hangover, & Death to Smoochy.

(500) Days of Summer - 4/5

Good movie about bad relationships. I hope not too many guys get to go through the horror that is (like) Summer.

Ironclad (2011) - A great medieval action story based on true events. Despite being an independent film, director Johnathan English pulls off massive sets and decent sfx. Gory battle scenes throughout the movie are the high point and casting is well done. 4 out of 5.

The Grudge 1 and 2 (Remakes)
The Ring 1 and 2 (Remakes)

The first American Ring film is a great movie in my opinion. Plenty of tension, great score, solid acting (especially by Naomi Watts and Brian Cox). Second one is utterly unforgettable. Both arent really scary in my opinion.

However The Grudge 1 and 2 are both fairly lacking movies but the scares still have me reeling after watching them several times.

Iron Man

Iron Man 2

Thor

Marvel Combo breaker

Horrible Bosses

Marvel Combo breaker

Horrible Bosses

I bet Green Goblin would make a horrible boss.

The Incredible Hulk

Thor

Commiserations. :notgood:

Commiserations. :notgood:

I guess you could say it left you feelingTHOR?

I guess you could say it left you feelingTHOR?

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3sNAA9YoLDk/TocO6xZlpWI/AAAAAAAAAZ0/5KPu6hrfURY/s1600/Bear_Clapping.gif It did. :D

Commiserations. :notgood:

I figured if I could survive pneumonia twice, Thor would be a cakewalk.

Poltergeist 4/5

Love the "fake" ending only to have the real escape a few scenes later.

otoko-tachi no yamato. (the men of the yamato).

an epic war drama showcasing the final days of the epinomous battleship and the men that lived, fought, and died defending it.

eponymous
:smrt:
Did it just show the last suicide mission, or did it talk about others as well?

The Shining (1980)

Still fun after all these years. :D

:smrt:
Did it just show the last suicide mission, or did it talk about others as well?

the second half of the film deals with yamato heading for okinawa and its ultimate fate

Jaws

Saw V (2008) - This franchise ran out of steam 2 movies ago yet it keeps on milking that cash cow. Found the story confusing as well as the two main adversaries hard to tell apart. Some good gore and squirm moments but that's all. 2 out of 5.

Thor. Not bad I guess...

The Ninth Configuration (5/5) - very impressive in many ways. Glad I did not quit watching because of the melodramatic beginning. Lots of good dialogue and a very good script. Definitely has rewatch value as well. Highway recommended if you are looking for a movie that makes you think.

Captain.America.The.First.Avenger

Kung Fu Panda 2
Gary Oldman is the peacock!

Bridesmaids - Not as bad as Bud made it out to be. Liked the line about cracking a semen coated blanket in half. Rose Byrne is hot.

Flight of Dragons - Classic.

The Number 23 (2007) - Interesting and refreshing seeing Jim Carrey in something other than some wacky comedy acting, well, wacky. Comedy still shines through but it's overweighed by some nice creepy vibes. JC's sex scenes with Virigina Madsen/Fabrizia are hard to watch since it's hard to watch JC humping away. The story is original enough but the ending could have been deranged instead of what it was. 3 out of 5.