What was the last movie you watched? [Archive] - Page 9

HEIRESS

10-05-2008, 07:38 PM

I was sick all week so I watched ALOT

"miss pettigrew lives for a day"

Im was torn between hating and being fixated by amy adam's character. fannie Mcdormand <4.

"88 minutes"

ridiculously bad. the only fun part was picking out all the vancouver locations that they filmed at. my friend works in the research building on the UBC campus that the classroom scene was filmed in.

"the foot fist way"

ehhhhhhhhhh...

"then she found me"

helen hunt is aging really badly, she needs to gain some weight to fill out her wrinkled face. bette midler played her mother in it and she looked younger than helen.

"pathology"

I told my mom it was going to be shit but she rented it anyways. I only watched 10 minutes. utter shit.

BBboy20

10-05-2008, 10:12 PM

Miracle At St. Anna.

It's not often when your general epic score becomes infectious in your head.

paul jones

10-05-2008, 11:42 PM

The Sorcerers

starring Boris Karloff,Ian Ogilvy and some nice looking women

made in 1967

mad shit(y)

Guy Incognito

10-06-2008, 08:14 AM

Run Fatboy Run

Totally underrated by everyone who heard of it and told me about it. I liked it a lot.

watched this on saturday.

Was alright, rubbish story but there were some good gags and all the actors were good expecially dylan moran

MC Moot

10-06-2008, 08:15 AM

I went and saw "Sukiyaki Western Django"...what a glorious bloody mess of a movie that was...Tarantino's brief role is so apporpriate as a warning of what is about to come,combines 1100 feudal Japan with classic spaghetti western themes so you kinda end up a mish mash of "Fistful of Dollars",meets "Yojimbo" meets every blood spurting,limb losing flick you've ever seen...and yes I know there were no handguns in 1100...stupid and fun,my girl HATED it...

B-

MC Moot

10-08-2008, 09:05 AM

I watched "Goya's Ghost" last night...if this movie had been filmed with all Spanish actors in Spanish not just,Javier Bardem it might have been a real winner...they obviously had alot of clout filming around Madrid including the Royal Palace...anyway's I sat through it because of Goya and the fact that I'm generally a sucker for movies about artists...by the way alot of people expected the Spanish Inquisition...

C+

hmmmm movies about artists I liked:

I Shot Andy Warhol
Surviving Picasso
Pollock
My Left Foot (Christy Brown)
Factory Girl (Warhol kinda)
Basquiat
Lust for Life (Van Gogh)
The Agony and the Ecstasy (Michelangelo)

You?

HEIRESS

10-08-2008, 10:42 AM

I couldnt sit through more than half an hour of the movie about Gustav Klimt (called Klimt) starring john malkovich.

I wanted to like something about it, but I couldnt.

mate_spawn_die

10-08-2008, 02:11 PM

"typin' over here boss!"

cool hand luke

jennyb

10-10-2008, 12:31 AM

tonight I went to the theater and saw "boogie man" the lee atwater story - whoa has anyone seen this? it is mind boggling

Dorothy Wood

10-10-2008, 12:55 AM

Baby Mama. I laughed a lot, but I wouldn't say it was a good movie. it reminded me of a 90's rom com. the editing was kinda weird. I liked all the characters for the most part, but it seemed disjointed. if I didn't already like the actors playing the parts, I probably would've hated it.

Audio.

10-10-2008, 04:57 AM

Zatoichi with the insane cgi blood splatter and no subtitles (y)

BBboy20

10-10-2008, 11:09 PM

Body of Lies.

Jitters

10-11-2008, 09:15 PM

Big Trouble In Little China

abcdefz

10-12-2008, 04:13 PM

Appaloosa.

Pretty good.

paul jones

10-12-2008, 07:58 PM

kleptomaniac

10-12-2008, 08:40 PM

eagle eye :cool:(y)

abcdefz

10-13-2008, 12:40 PM

Robocop 2

I only realised at the end Irvin Kershner(empire Strikes Back) directed it.

I only ever saw Robocop once,when it came out and never saw 2 or 3 so thank fuck for cheap Trilogy box sets on sale at the garage(y)

I think Kirshner directed one of the Bond movies, too.

Is Robocop 2 any good? I remembered thinking it was so-so when it came out, but, damn, do people slag on that.

Frank Miller wrote it, too, I believe.

Matt

10-13-2008, 04:56 PM

I think Kirshner directed one of the Bond movies, too.

Is Robocop 2 any good? I remembered thinking it was so-so when it came out, but, damn, do people slag on that.

Frank Miller wrote it, too, I believe.

Miller wrote it, but his script was so cut up and edited by Kershner, and it was nothing like he wrote it.

Despite that, it was a pretty good movie. Far too slow in the middle, though, and it tries to make up for that by rushing through the end.

Way better than that sub-made-for-TV crap called Robocop 3.

MC Moot

10-14-2008, 02:13 PM

I watched "The Happening" this weekend,strike 2 for Shymalan...I really want him to create but this was only a marginal improvement over "Lady in the Water" which was such a dud...he didn't even do a cameo in this one either...maybe he should try directing someone elses script for a change...although that's a big part of what I find to be of interest about him to begin with...damn it all...:(

C

Randetica

10-14-2008, 04:15 PM

'as good as it gets' (y)(y)(y)(y)

saz

10-14-2008, 04:39 PM

felon. not bad at all, pretty decent indie prison flick.

body of lies. another fine film from ridley scott. (y)

Randetica

10-17-2008, 04:24 PM

'breakfast at tiffany's'

BangkokB

10-17-2008, 06:13 PM

felon. not bad at all, pretty decent indie prison flick.

body of lies. another fine film from ridley scott. (y)

Yes: and I liked where he quit caring and as soon as the gate opened he was like a lion. Lion? Did I say Lion?http://images.encyclopediadramatica.com/images/8/82/Amlion.jpg (")

BangkokB

10-18-2008, 02:53 AM

Right now I'm watching Up in Smoke

Timeless Classic

roosta

10-18-2008, 03:07 AM

Burn After Reading

It's pretty good...but not what I was expecting. The trailers bill it as some kind of laugh-a-minute riot, but its not...it is funny...but not that funny. Or its not as funny as it thinks it is....but it's still good. Brad Pitt, also, isn't as funny in this as he or the Coen's think. Again, he's good...but you get the impression they think it's funnier than it really is.

Still, I enjoyed it.

Randetica

10-19-2008, 03:02 PM

'flightplan'

it just isnt the same without the snakes

Rock

10-19-2008, 07:33 PM

Hannibal Rising.

It had its moments but overall was a sedative. Who would have known that Hannibal had samurai skills.

BBboy20

10-19-2008, 07:37 PM

Max Payne.

Randetica

10-20-2008, 06:56 AM

Hannibal Rising.

It had its moments but overall was a sedative. Who would have known that Hannibal had samurai skills.

lol, it didnt have too much to do with the silence of lambs.. i would liked it better if it was just some movie

camo

10-20-2008, 07:13 AM

MC Moot

10-21-2008, 01:50 PM

I watched "The Mist"...and you know what?...I thought it was cheesey good times...particularily the last 10 minutes...I grew up in a port town with wicked fogs, so I loved the short story when I was a kid...plus I'm a sucker for movies where humans are confined in a landscape of their own making like in a store or a mall or a car,whateva...

C+

MC Moot

10-21-2008, 01:53 PM

I wasn't impressed either. He did cameo though, he was the guy who kept calling Marky Marks girlfriend. The guy she ate Tiramisu with but only that one time :)

ahhhhhh...I totally missed that...

Don't open my pantry,Father...I found one of them in there and I locked him in... (y)

trailerprincess

10-21-2008, 02:18 PM

I watched loads when I was away - some good, some bad.* Marks out of 10 below
Apocalypto - 8
Recount - 9.5
10,000BC - 2
Run Fatboy Run - 6
The Dark Knight - 9.5
Bangkok Dangerous - 7
Baby Mama - 5I
ndiana Jones - 5
Eagle Eye - 6.5
The Girl in the Park - 6
Second Hand Wedding - 7
Made of Honour - 6
Sex and the City - 8
Nixon - 9.5
88 minutes - 6
The Happening - 5
The Cleaner - 5
Son of Rambow - 10
Vantage Point - 7
Hancock - 6
Step Brothers - 6
Into the Wild - 8

na§tee

10-21-2008, 02:38 PM

aahhahah i spot another person who has been on a long haul flight recently : )

i saw:

indiana jones
the happening
baba mama
the incredible hulk
iron man
hancock
get smart
the forbidden kingdom
brick lane

on planes.

i saw tropic thunder, land and freedom and 16 candles on land.

the happening is a real piece of horseshit.

Randetica

10-21-2008, 04:08 PM

'about schmidt' (y)

Freebasser

10-21-2008, 04:11 PM

Burn After Reading.

T'was pretty damn good (y)

TAL

10-21-2008, 04:30 PM

Guy Incognito

10-22-2008, 01:24 PM

watched american gangster for the first time at the weekend, brilliant, could have been a bit longer and still been good, i thought his rise was done very quickly but i guess that might have been the point. 8 out of 10

Drederick Tatum

10-22-2008, 04:46 PM

Roadhouse.

the greatest movie of all time or just the best?

Adam

10-25-2008, 05:45 AM

I just watched Meet The Spartans - even in my stoned state it wasn't even worth a smirk!!!

why?
why make it?
why did I watch it?

Just gonna download Transporter2 now [shush, I liked the first]

Adam

10-25-2008, 07:24 AM

Just gonna download Transporter2 now [shush, I liked the first]

It was ok. Not as good as the first and bit too much like Die Hard now!

Downloading Cloverfield atm

Adam

10-25-2008, 08:55 AM

Cloverfield is the best movie of the morning so far! Not sure what next yet?

checkyourprez

10-25-2008, 10:27 AM

cloverfield sucked so much dick im surprised there wasnt a picture of that monster with a huge penis in its mouth on the cover of that dvd when it came out.

anyway....i just watched a real movie, for a real man.....RAMBO III

as badass as i remember, maybe even more badass. that john rambo knows how to kick ass. i miss the days of 80s and early 90s action movies. CGI is cool, but oftentimes it just looks too fake ya know.

kleptomaniac

10-25-2008, 11:31 AM

hancock - not as bad as i thought it'd be. i liked it! (y)

the happening - also not as bad as i thought it'd be. i already knew the entire plot and still thought it was pretty good.
except...no on-screen cameo from night?! :(

the strangers - not as scary as i thought it'd be. overall - lame. (n)

10-25-2008, 01:55 PM

Hancock was pretty good up until the fucked up ending. It felt like the choices the main characters made had very little emotional weight to them. To me, the reveal of the circumstances (or what they are fated to do?) felt rushed and therefore we got what we got. Did that make sense? Uh, I'm trying really hard not to spoil this.

WANTED is fucking badass all the way though. It would have been cool to see this in theaters but I'm looking forward to watching this again.

Randetica

10-25-2008, 06:18 PM

'charlie wilson's war'

Audio.

10-25-2008, 08:36 PM

Lone Wolf McQuade

kleptomaniac

10-25-2008, 11:28 PM

team america - fuck yeah! :cool:(y)

MIKEtotheD

10-26-2008, 12:09 AM

Max Payne.
It's far from a boring movie, but I didn't particularly care for it.

Randetica

10-26-2008, 06:53 PM

'the last man on earth'

roosta

10-26-2008, 07:24 PM

Easy Rider

I quite liked it. One scene stuck out as being very awkward and poorly done, but the rest of it was pretty good.

hpdrifter

10-27-2008, 05:37 PM

I watched Just Friends twice yesterday on TV while flipping between Pretty Woman, Cabin Fever, and Good Will Hunting.

ToucanSpam

10-27-2008, 05:44 PM

Just Friends is a fucking good rom com. I don't care if it's emasculating to like those movies, but sometimes I love watching the happy endings they have.

TAL

10-27-2008, 06:00 PM

Saturday:
Cassandra's Dream
Heathers

Sunday:
Cry-Baby
A Lot Like Love

DIGI

10-27-2008, 07:54 PM

Roadhouse.

the greatest movie of all time or just the best?

You had it right the first time.

The scene towards the end where Wesley's fat henchman is about to get flattened by the stuffed bear is priceless.

I do seriously love it, though. I have the VHS, dvd, and special edition dvd.

Randetica

10-27-2008, 08:13 PM

'the butterfly effect'

Adam

10-28-2008, 03:20 AM

the happening - also not as bad as i thought it'd be...

Your expections must of been lower than mine. I thought it was gonna be pretty bad but it was even worse!

trailerprincess

10-28-2008, 03:23 AM

Enron - The Smartest Guys in the room

Really interesting and scary at the same time.

camo

10-28-2008, 07:01 AM

Aliens.

Playing Dead Space got me into the mood of watching it again.

It's still my favorite film of all time (y)

'All right, sweethearts, what are you waiting for? Breakfast in bed? Another glorious day in the Corps! A day in the Corps is like a day on the farm. Every meal's a banquet! Every paycheck a fortune! Every formation a parade! I LOVE the Corps!'

saz

10-28-2008, 09:12 AM

nobody touch nothin' (http://www.alicia-logic.com/capsimages/a_001AlMatthews.jpg) (y)

camo

10-28-2008, 09:42 AM

awesome

Randetica

10-28-2008, 07:58 PM

'the departed'

Dharma

10-29-2008, 12:36 AM

The secret life of bees <3

paul jones

10-29-2008, 02:40 AM

The secret life of bees <3

what's that about?

Randetica

10-29-2008, 08:11 AM

pirates i think

Dharma

10-29-2008, 01:38 PM

what's that about?

Roaches.

Randetica

10-29-2008, 06:41 PM

^with wooden legs

'the last time i saw paris'

kinda reminded me a bit of 'giant' but it was way weaker

Randetica

10-30-2008, 08:26 PM

'sunset boulevard' (y)

Randetica

10-31-2008, 07:38 PM

'the thin man goes home'

BBboy20

11-01-2008, 03:42 AM

Dead Space: Downfall

abcdefz

11-01-2008, 03:29 PM

'the thin man goes home'

...any good?

I liked the first one, kinda liked the second one.

Randetica

11-01-2008, 05:31 PM

...any good?

I liked the first one, kinda liked the second one.

i really liked the start, all easy going and sweet humor but then it got too detective like for me (i didnt see the other series so i didnt know) but it's definitely worth a watch (y)

abcdefz

11-01-2008, 06:14 PM

Nice to know.

Me:

Momma's Man. Maybe the most overrated movie of the year so far?

Unsympathetic, unattractive, uncharismatic lead and pretty dull supporting characters and some downright bad acting. There might have
been a movie to be made about the parents (maybe), but this wasn't much at all.

C.

na§tee

11-01-2008, 06:28 PM

so two weeks ago i started my new job at a cinema in bristol. well, most of our energy is put towards the cinema but it's really a 'digital media centre' that has lots of other different faces: a cafe/bar, research and development into mobile technology, social and pervasive gaming, toys, youth media programmes, weird digital.. strangeness.. and stuff. ugh, it's a huge machine.

anyhiz, part of the sweet deal is that all employees get 2 free cinema tickets a week. the cinema shows mostly independent films so it's all the sort of regular indie 'art' jive plus the occasional documentary/festival/season/whatevs. for my role though i get sent to preview screenings organised by the independent cinema office before films comes out (wahoo!) and have to get the distributors to send us screeners so critics can view the films blah blah/arrange press shows/get freebies so we can have competitions yadda yadda. so all in all i should be watching a shitload of films so i can (apparently) do my job better.

so what have i done during my first fortnight here instead of taking advantage of my workplace's sweet deal?

went to the brash new cinema de lux and saw quantum of solace! fuck yeah!

well. i'll make the inevitable comparison to casino royale and say that i preferred casino royale. it was much more raw. daniel craig is fantastic though and mathieu almeric is suitably psychopathic. btw, is it just me or does anyone find he has the blackest of black eyes? he just looks like he was born to play a bad guy. i think a big part of why i enjoyed casino royale a lot more was because eva greene wasn't just a piece of eye candy, she had a good storyline and an involved part to play. the girls here are just meh. but. bond is bond and all the bond-y things you all expect are there.

abcdefz

11-01-2008, 06:35 PM

^

Kind of the gist of what I've been hearing. Sort of like an extended coda to Casino Royale?

roosta

11-02-2008, 01:44 PM

An Unreasonable Man

Documentary about Ralph Nader. Its on Google Video. Great stuff. amazing how pissed off Democrats are about 2000...such unfounded, misplaced blame.

paul jones

11-02-2008, 10:06 PM

THEY LIVE

Rowdy Roddy Piper killing aliens(y)

mikizee

11-02-2008, 10:33 PM

Goodfellas on full HD blu-ray.

it was sweet

roosta

11-03-2008, 05:31 PM

Quantum of Solace.

Its good enough, probably not as good as CR. It seemed much more Bond-y though, with the overall plot and villains etc.

Audio.

11-06-2008, 03:12 PM

Godzilla vs King Kong.

kleptomaniac

11-09-2008, 01:14 AM

reservoir dogs :cool:

i love tim roth / mr. orange!! <3

Randetica

11-09-2008, 07:47 PM

'roar'

'the little mermaid'

'in der arche ist der wurm drin'

havent seen those movies in many years

roosta

11-09-2008, 07:53 PM

Star Wars: Episode IV "A New Hope"

Took an odd notion the other morning to go out and buy the original trilogy on DVD. Havn't watched them in years. I always thought 'A New Hope' was worse than it actually is, but i was pleasantly surprised. Still a great, fun little movie.

Lucas kind of over did it in the redux version however; Mos Eisley has far too much going on..but other than that the new effects improve it.

Rock

11-09-2008, 09:28 PM

Rocknrolla - I hope that guy ritchie goes back to making good movies again as soon as madonna is out of his life.
I liked a lot of the characters but nothing clever going on in the movie.

DIGI

11-09-2008, 09:34 PM

I dont care to see it just because of the American narrator trying to pull off the accent while pronouncing the title. Annoying.

Doomsday.

This old head I work with suggested I watch it. It's no Mad Max.

Rhona Mitra is hot, though.

MC Moot

11-10-2008, 10:15 AM

I watched Mongol (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0416044/)…good stuff as to it’s accuracy I can’t speak…but young Genghis comes off as kind of considerate and compassionate, compared to what known history paints him as…sweeping landscapes…good stuff…

B

I also watched “Oceans Thirteen” which was entirely ridiculous but entertaining to look at…the weakest of the 3…love the shots traded between Pitt and Clooney in the closing scene…”Try and keep the weight off…”…”why don’t you settle down and have a couple of kids…”…funny jive…

C

Yorkshire~Rose

11-10-2008, 11:14 AM

A present from a boardmember, 'Switchblade Romance' aka Haute Tension.
Two (very bloody) thumbs up (y)(y)
Just wish i hadn't watched it straight before my dinner.

roosta

11-11-2008, 03:59 PM

Hunger

brilliant / depressing / stunning / awful / amazing.

na§tee

11-11-2008, 04:04 PM

ha, i was coming in here to say i should be seeing it this week. using my free work tickets.

it's on at work and people will not stop crapping on about it. film of the year to a lot of them, apparently. read so many steve mcqueen interviews in the past month. it's meant to be stunning. although the opening line of a review went something like PISS. SHIT. BLOOD. VOMIT.. lovely. DAMMIT i should have gone tonight : (

roosta

11-11-2008, 04:11 PM

Randetica

11-11-2008, 08:39 PM

'goodfellas'

good, indeed. (y)

taquitos

11-12-2008, 12:02 AM

let the right one in

na§tee

11-13-2008, 04:37 PM

hunger.

well. there certainly was a lot of piss and shit and blood, that's for sure. it was stunning. i don't really know what else to add. you can tell it is directed by an artist and co-written by a playwright (the long priest/sands scene) this would normally be a warning sign if i had just read it in a magazine, but nah. it's not pretentious like that.

one of my favourite scenes was when one of the riot police was crying and it was juxtaposed with bobby lying on the ground all bloodied - and he looked almost post-orgasmic.

when.. hrm, can't give it away to people who have not seen it, but that bit with the daisies? totally unexpected. i said "what the fuck!" out loud in the cinema.

i also liked it when one of the guards was mopping up all that piss. i felt almost scared as it was coming towards 'me' - urgghhh.
edit: er, i realise that 'liked it' suggests that i enjoyed the approaching piss. not so. haha.

great film. go see.

HEIRESS

11-14-2008, 01:41 PM

oh man, I want to see that movie.

TAL

11-14-2008, 02:07 PM

Point Break

Still awesome!

abcdefz

11-15-2008, 01:01 PM

[B]
Lucas kind of over did it in the redux version however; Mos Eisley has far too much going on..

I thought so, too. In the original, it really did look like some wretched, lowly-populated outpost. With lasers.

BBboy20

11-15-2008, 08:18 PM

Quantum of Solace

abcdefz

11-16-2008, 04:43 PM

Role Models

Could've been worse.

C.

Randetica

11-16-2008, 08:47 PM

'manufacturing dissent'

'the da vinci code'

MC Moot

11-17-2008, 02:07 PM

Brian De Palma’s “Redacted”…so very bad, just awful…zero merit…no wonder I never had never heard of it…should have rented “Stop Loss”…:rolleyes:

D

“Walk Hard” more total and utter shit…someone needs to ground Apatow pronto…pretty clear that he read “Cash” and came up with this dipshit idea…garbage through and through…and for christ’s sake: Eddie Vedder…why?...Ed?...why?

D

A bad weekend for movies,I hate it when that happens…

Randetica

11-18-2008, 10:08 PM

'the english patient'

b i o n i c

11-18-2008, 10:17 PM

ive been in bed all day, sick like a peachy

i watched these online:

stanley kubrick's boxes (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5739282975440441779&ei=1H8jSY7MIIWiqgKbyPnnBg&q=stanley+kubrick+boxes&hl=en) - doc about looking through his stuff after he died. made by a non-retard ronson.

space odyssey: 2001 (http://static.youku.com/v1.0.0357/v/swf/qplayer.swf?VideoIDS=XMjU3Mzc2MjQ&embedid=-&showAd=0) - i skimmed this, ive seen it many times.

the roman empire (http://www.guba.com/all/search?query=+The+Roman+Empire+part&set=5&x=0&y=0) - interesting as fuck (p 1-6). basically, we're fucked.

roosta

11-19-2008, 03:55 AM

the roman empire (http://www.guba.com/all/search?query=+The+Roman+Empire+part&set=5&x=0&y=0) - interesting as fuck (p 1-6). basically, we're fucked.

:confused:

Randetica

11-19-2008, 09:12 PM

'capote'

hpdrifter

11-19-2008, 09:18 PM

I thought Capote was good.

Things We Lost in the Fire

*shrug*

Audio.

11-21-2008, 05:30 AM

The Truman Show

mate_spawn_die

11-21-2008, 06:30 AM

sling blade

i loved it
the soundtrack was also well done

Randetica

11-21-2008, 07:15 PM

'the shining' (y)

Randetica

11-22-2008, 12:53 AM

'the mist'

it was pretty good at wasting some of my lifetime

abcdefz

11-22-2008, 02:24 PM

sling blade

i loved it
the soundtrack was also well done

Did you watch the "Sling Blade" short with Molly Ringwald?

Anyway -- Sling Blade. It'd be interesting to see Billy Bob's original cut. Harvey chopped out about 30 minutes, from what I understand.

All the Pretty Horses never got a fair shake, either. I'd love to see the full version with the Lanois score and all. A few years back,
Damon said it was still the best movie he'd ever been in.

mate_spawn_die

11-22-2008, 07:49 PM

Did you watch the "Sling Blade" short with Molly Ringwald?

Anyway -- Sling Blade. It'd be interesting to see Billy Bob's original cut. Harvey chopped out about 30 minutes, from what I understand.

no i didn't... i rented from netflix and i think the second disc must've had the short

abcdefz

11-23-2008, 05:10 PM

Netflix on occasion gets studios to pree copies specifically for them, which sometimes gets weird. Now and again, several copies of a
movie from Netflix won't play for me, but I go to the store and rent a copy which has an altogether different label and it's fine.

roosta

11-23-2008, 06:30 PM

The Baader-Meinhof Complex

Its OK, not great. It was interesting enough in a historical sense, but it failed to explain the character's motivation, most of them were pretty much 2-dimensional charactures.

Randetica

11-23-2008, 10:48 PM

'fargo'

'monster'

MC Moot

11-25-2008, 10:13 AM

"Trpic Thunder"...I thought it was a nice rip…especially as a kid who grew upand became fascinated with Platoon,Apocalypse Now,Deer Hunter,Full Metal Jacket,Hamburger Hill…shit even The Green Berets for the propaganda and to how to make a pungi stick trap…anyway’s,funny,funny…if Stiller would loose the low brow pandering he could make really funny flicks…fart jokes do nada…
B

“Capricorn One” on the cable t.v Sunday afternoon…the ultimate conspiracy movie…run O.J run!...I’m not a proponent of remakes but there’s potential here…amazing helicopters / biplane chase…
C+

taquitos

11-25-2008, 12:14 PM

I stayed in last night and watched Last Year at Marienbad again, as well Fugitive Alien II: Star Force on mst3k.

Both are timeless classics.

funk63

11-25-2008, 12:23 PM

Akira, freaking anime classic.

kleptomaniac

11-27-2008, 12:17 AM

dreamgirls - i was surprised that i really, really liked it! i kinda want the soundtrack now... :o

memento - fucking awesome!! :cool:

Lyman Zerga

11-27-2008, 01:37 AM

'little miss sunshine'

grandpa was the best

b-grrrlie

11-28-2008, 06:33 PM

I finally saw Capote as well, borrowed it form the lubrary.

Now I'm attendting the Stockholm Filmfestival, pity I've been workin atllthe theim as wll so I hav'en't ben abel tosee allt he fimls I've wanted,b
ut I've seen at least

Wendy and Lucy 8 (10)
Rumba 7 (10)
Surveilance 6 (10)
Downloading Nancy 6 (10)
Rachel Getting Married 7½ (10)
A Complete History of My Sexual Failures 8 (10)

maybe more (I'm a bit drunk now so vantä renmenber them allO and ther'es gonna ve mre over the weekend.

TAL

11-28-2008, 07:02 PM

Bring It On: All Or Nothing

Lyman Zerga

11-30-2008, 09:31 AM

'singin' in the rain'

Praying Mantis

11-30-2008, 10:46 AM

SHOOTER - Awesome Movie.

funk63

11-30-2008, 11:14 AM

edmond

abcdefz

11-30-2008, 05:01 PM

memento - fucking awesome!! :cool:

(y)(y)(y)(y)

Slumdog Millionaire

Pretty good. I loved the look of it.

B.

Happy-Go-Lucky

Lady annoyed the fuck out of me. I left.

b-grrrlie

11-30-2008, 05:50 PM

Shit, I can't remember making my previous post! :o

Anyroad... the filmfestival is over now, and didn't get to see half the ones I wanted to
(mainly cause I was working fulltime, attended some courses, preparing for some courses and running some courses...)
but I saw at least (adding to the previous)

Tokyo! (9/10)
Adoration
Happy-go-lucky (7/10)
Achilles and the tortoise (6/10)
Frozen River (9½/10)
Brothers Bloom (8/10)
Dream (6/10)
Lion's den (9/10)
You must remember this

abcdefz

11-30-2008, 05:56 PM

[COLOR="DarkOrchid"]Shit, I can't remember making my previous post! :o

...I read that and was going to suggest a few strong cups of coffee. ;)

Yeah -- so far, Frozen River is probably the best thing I've seen this year, unless I'm forgetting something. Then probably Wall*E?

yeahwho

11-30-2008, 06:26 PM

...I read that and was going to suggest a few strong cups of coffee. ;)

Yeah -- so far, Frozen River is probably the best thing I've seen this year, unless I'm forgetting something. Then probably Wall*E?

I haven't seen Wall*E yet,

Soooo, on your recommendation abcdefz, I am going to ask you, should I buy the DVD or rent it?

I usually only buy 3, maybe 4 DVD's a year.

abcdefz

11-30-2008, 06:29 PM

Rent. The first hour is absolute aces; the second hour works much better conceptually than theatrically.

But if you have any kids you can give a copy to, they'll probably never stop watching it, and Lord knows it's better than Shrek. :D

Of course, I could be wrong.

yeahwho

11-30-2008, 06:44 PM

Lyman Zerga

11-30-2008, 10:11 PM

stick to the real movies you fucking nuts

Lex Diamonds

11-30-2008, 10:15 PM

I just watched 3:10 To Yuma. Not a bad film. Of course the two starring roles (Bale & Crowe) are stellar performances but Matthew McConnaughey actually acting? I never thought I'd see the day. Cool ending as well.

MC Moot

12-02-2008, 10:46 AM

"Atonement" man that was a long way to go for such a little pay off...sometimes it's just not enough for a movie to look good...belongs in a box set with "The English patient" and "A Very Long Engagement"...:rolleyes:

C

"The Band's Visit" ...this received alot of positive reviews and press when it was at the arts theatres here...I don't get it?...there were some nice moments but it was just mediocre at best...I guess a movie that portray's a positive Israeli/Arab plot is an easy lay for critics...I prefer "Paradise Now" though...

C

Gareth

12-02-2008, 02:24 PM

quantum of solace
it makes me want to start wearing crisp white/beige chinos
they look really cool

roosta

12-02-2008, 02:38 PM

Network

Holy fucking shit, what a good film. Seriously good, can't believe it took me this long to find it. And pretty prophetic too.

MC Moot

12-02-2008, 03:08 PM

Network

Holy fucking shit, what a good film. Seriously good, can't believe it took me this long to find it. And pretty prophetic too.

I want you to get up… (http://www.beastieboys.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=85249)(y)

hpdrifter

12-02-2008, 03:11 PM

MC Moot

12-02-2008, 03:50 PM

I watched Good Luck Chuck last night. :|

Fiance made me, that's all I have to say about that.

I am adding Network to the Netflix queue. Should I do the original or special edition? It doesn't really say how they are different.

^Network does have some drag time in it but as mentioned it's totally prophetic and so damned far ahead of it’s time…especially if you have any interest in media manipulation and such…the deterioration of Peter Finch’s character is stunning…it has this amazing visual texture to it and the split screen stuff is so great…I don't think I've seen the special version,give a run,I say!

P.S: P.M you address I snagged a book for you!...;)

b i o n i c

12-02-2008, 08:16 PM

i watched these online:

the roman empire (http://www.guba.com/all/search?query=+The+Roman+Empire+part&set=5&x=0&y=0) - interesting as fuck (p 1-6). basically, we're fucked.
:confused:
the link is a search result because its in three parts... click on 'the roman empire part 1" and so on

berri eenterestink :

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/hugochavez/view/

hpdrifter

12-03-2008, 12:52 PM

P.S: P.M you address I snagged a book for you!...;)

MC Moot has exceeded their stored private messages quota and can not accept further messages until they clear some space.

:(

kleptomaniac

12-04-2008, 12:45 PM

gridlock'd :cool:(y)(y)

roosta

12-04-2008, 10:29 PM

the link is a search result because its in three parts... click on 'the roman empire part 1" and so on

berri eenterestink :

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/hugochavez/view/

that still doesnt explain what i was confused about

"basically were fucked"

b i o n i c

12-04-2008, 10:54 PM

oh - because either contrived or intrinsically, i thought it made a good analogy for america. especially the end. (n):( i mean i know a lot of people say that a lot, but i was especially thinking that after i watched it

Lyman Zerga

12-05-2008, 12:14 AM

'the beach'

it was more serious and also better than i thought

mate_spawn_die

12-05-2008, 12:57 AM

one crazy summer

Audio.

12-05-2008, 07:28 PM

Its not out yet but the film look beautiful imo its animated and looks almost like the same motion A Scanner Darkly uses.

Waltz with Bashir
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1185616/mediaindex

roosta

12-05-2008, 07:51 PM

Its not out yet but the film look beautiful imo its animated and looks almost like the same motion A Scanner Darkly uses.

Waltz with Bashir
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1185616/mediaindex

its on in the cinema across the road from me, i might check it out.

jennyb

12-06-2008, 12:19 AM

Quantum of Solace in a theater in Canada with my hands all over my boyfriend. :)(y)

roosta

12-06-2008, 05:32 AM

For the first time in ages I gave up watching a film halfway through. I usually insist on watching the whole thing, but i couldn't be fucked this time.

Wanted is a load of balls. All bad style and no substance.

Lifes too short.

abcdefz

12-06-2008, 01:38 PM

About half of No Way Out.

I guess Ebert was giving out four stars like candy back in the 80's, too. :rolleyes:

I might watch the rest, but a friend loaned me series two of Bullshit, which is pretty good so far.

abcdefz

12-06-2008, 01:42 PM

Thanks... fucking hated Shrek... most anything has to be an improvement on Shrek.

I didn't see the last Shrek (III? IV?) but I did see a couple of them and was really blown away at the marketing angle of the film, knowing it was aimed at elementary aged kids. It has an overt corporate look that seemed surreal and sickening when you think about the intended audience. At what point do the producers of that sort of film have any shame?

OK, now you've set me off. Sorry for the rant. I hear Wall*E is the opposite of this sort of marketing and kind of shows the heap pile of consumerism.

That monet in Shrek where the girlk is singing and the nest's eggs all pop is fucking hilarious, though.

This couple at this place where I eat have a son who worked on Shrek, so they have a picture with him and his Oscar displayed. I'm such a
dick -- when they solicit praise by prodding "Wasn't that movie wonderful!?" I reply with dodges like, "He must have had fun working on that!"
or some such. :rolleyes:

The two edged sword that is WALL*E is that it's an entertainment, in part, about how slovenly people become because they just want to be
fed entertainment. Hmmmm....

paul jones

12-06-2008, 07:51 PM

I watched the last 10 mins of some John Wayne film where he got shot near the hip

na§tee

12-06-2008, 08:07 PM

OK, now you've set me off. Sorry for the rant. I hear Wall*E is the opposite of this sort of marketing and kind of shows the heap pile of consumerism.
ha.

i went to a marketing event hosted by disney recently (i'm from an indie cinema and though we don't show many of their films - them being for da big bucks an all - they really want to court us. plus, because they have lots of money they put on a good show and you get goodie bags yeeeahhh) and they are, unsurprisingly, slick as fuck.

they said that pixar movies (which they obviously promote too) are really difficult to find that obvious marketing angle that maybe other disney products have, and they specifically mentioned wall-e. no star voices, heck, no voices at all - weird robot.. thing. green.. message.. somewhere.

their new movie, up, looks great (saw a few scenes there) but again, no idea what the hook will be.

they found the time to have some sly digs at dreamworks, ha!

neglecting the marketing side, at said event i saw a really long scene from doubt and it looked pretty bad. nothing to get excited about, kids. up on the other hand...

Lyman Zerga

12-07-2008, 04:40 AM

'bruce almighty'

'west side story'

'man on the moon'

abcdefz

12-07-2008, 04:31 PM

at said event i saw a really long scene from doubt and it looked pretty bad. nothing to get excited about, kids. up on the other hand...

Man, the previews for Doubt look bad. Looks like the director pushed the actors firmly into ham territory, though Streep pulls off some of it.

12-08-2008, 05:48 AM

Let The Right One In. Waaaaaay better than Twilight. In this movie, the vampires act like vampires instead of glitter graphics.

BBboy20

12-09-2008, 05:41 PM

Because he's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now.
So we'll hunt him, because he can take it.
Because he's not our hero.
He's a silent guardian, a watchful protector.
A dark knight.

MC Moot

12-10-2008, 10:42 AM

"The Backwoods" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0473333/) it was fun..in the tradition of "Deliverance" or "Southern Comfort" urban dwellers are harrased,hunted and killed by inbred/incestous hill peoples...set in Northern Spain,Oldman speaks Spanish really quite well at times...also features Paddy Considine whom I've liked since "In America"...

B-

MC Moot

12-11-2008, 01:15 PM

"Across the Universe"...well I tried to watch it...one of the worst movies I've ever seen...really...just horrid...shame on Bono for partaking...I can't even assign a letter grade it's just that bad...:eek:

Lyman Zerga

12-12-2008, 12:43 AM

bono nooooooo!!!

Lyman Zerga

12-13-2008, 03:48 AM

'it's a wonderful life'

abcdefz

12-13-2008, 02:44 PM

^

That's a seriously good movie.

Me: most of Roger Dodger. I saw it a long time ago, and it loses impact the second time around. Plus my fucking Blockbuster DVD froze
and I couldn't finish it anyway. (n)

Lyman Zerga

12-14-2008, 12:26 AM

That's a seriously good movie.

das right

roosta

12-14-2008, 06:39 PM

The Mist

brilliant.

na§tee

12-14-2008, 06:57 PM

the other boleyn girl.

meh. bored. i thought there would at least be plenty of shots of eric bana shagging but NO! just a normal amount. ha.

i also really don't like scarlett as an actress. sorry, scarlett. i'm not going to return any of your phone calls.

Lyman Zerga

12-15-2008, 08:13 AM

The Mist

brilliant.

liar!

that's a seriously awful movie.

mate_spawn_die

12-15-2008, 08:26 AM

national lampoon's vacation

"I think you're all fucked in the head. We're ten hours from the fucking fun park and you want to bail out.
Well I'll tell you something. This is no longer a vacation. It's a quest. It's a quest for fun.
I'm gonna have fun and you're gonna have fun. We're all gonna have so much fucking fun
we'll need plastic surgery to remove our godamn smiles. You'll be whistling 'Zip-A-Dee Doo-Dah'
out of you're assholes! I gotta be crazy! I'm on a pilgrimage to see a moose. Praise Marty Moose! Holy Shit!"

HAHAHAHAHAHA! fucking classic (y)

gbsuey

12-15-2008, 09:03 AM

Ok so this isn't the LAST film i saw(that was Elf last night-bloody great i love Will Ferrel!) but i just remembered i saw probably the worst film i ever saw a few wekks ago. Don't remember what it was called but it was about spiders and some trekkers getting messd up and organ trading. And there were a whole shit load of big spiders in it and i'm guessing that's where the budget went coz the acting and "special" effects and shit were so bad it was funny. And yet i had to watch it right through to see what happened-so to save anyone else here's the spoiler-there were so many spiders so the baddies could harvest the organs from the victims of spider bites coz the venom stopped them going bad so quick.
Ta-da! now you never need to sit through it-i still don't know what it was called tho-Bad spider movie

roosta

12-15-2008, 01:00 PM

liar!

that's a seriously awful movie.

i loved it. one of the best horror films ive seen in years!

Lyman Zerga

12-16-2008, 01:27 AM

i loved it. one of the best horror films ive seen in years!

it would have been good if it was about something more realistic like terrorist attacks or natural disasters but instead it was some made up octopus, super insect mutant crap trying to eat humans that are locked in a super market (spoiler my ass) this movie would be much better if it was made in the 40s, now that i think about it

you must be chokin anywayz

funk63

12-16-2008, 03:28 AM

Just watched pursuit of happyness for the first time. Man that was a good movie. I was fuckin rootin for that guy and Im glad he got it. Tearjerked me.

trailerprincess

12-16-2008, 07:39 AM

I saw 'There will be blood' at the weekend. I thought it was well made and though I know it was 'slow' on purpose, I did find myself getting a bit distracted by the end. The preacher kid was good though.

saz

12-16-2008, 08:35 PM

i loved it. one of the best horror films ive seen in years!

dude i can't believe you liked this movie. it was so incredibly bad. the effects were ridiculously low budget and cheesy as hell, and the ending was so stupid.

checkyourprez

12-16-2008, 09:02 PM

dude i can't believe you liked this movie. it was so incredibly bad. the effects were ridiculously low budget and cheesy as hell, and the ending was so stupid.

i saw the new punisher last night. terrible. dont waste your money. i really had some decent hopes for this movie. they tried to make it comic book voilence but it was way too gory and over the top. i loved sin city and that type of stuff, 300, kill bill, quentin voilence. all those movies i love the violence. but this shit was gross. not cool. not even a good story. jigsaw was the dumbest fucking badguy. the movie was a genuine waste of my life.

roosta

12-17-2008, 05:22 PM

dude i can't believe you liked this movie. it was so incredibly bad. the effects were ridiculously low budget and cheesy as hell, and the ending was so stupid.

i thought the special effects were fine.

i also enjoyed the ending, if it was a little "lets try and be shocking"

the scene where the huge Lovecraftian creature walks past them was jaw-dropping.

i loved the idea, the interplay, the power struggles..i found it pretty original.

of course the premise is bat shit crazy..but thats ok.

Lyman Zerga

12-25-2008, 07:17 AM

the first two beethoven movies

watch must.

Lyman Zerga

12-26-2008, 07:12 AM

'scrooged'

abcdefz

12-26-2008, 05:46 PM

Doubt.

Some real heavy handed symbolism and inexcusable Dutch angles, but it was still pretty good. The priest has a sermon about gossip that is great.

B.

kll

12-26-2008, 06:12 PM

benjamin button - i cried

Audio.

12-27-2008, 05:24 AM

Kung Fu Hustle

Junker

12-28-2008, 11:07 PM

Kung Fu Hustle

LOL Great movie! (y)

I watched again The Lost Boys. (y)(y)(y)

Audio.

12-29-2008, 12:26 AM

The Ringer

BEST MOVIE EVER... EERR.

TimDoolan

12-29-2008, 01:45 AM

Valkyrie, pretty good movie
Star Wars, the classic. Just watched it once with George Lucas commentary, then again without.

Lyman Zerga

12-29-2008, 10:44 AM

'a few good men'

what about demiiiiiiii!!!!

roosta

12-29-2008, 02:54 PM

The Deer Hunter

first time seeing it. a m a z i n g.

MC Moot

12-29-2008, 03:51 PM

“The Hoax” it was interesting…Gere was impressive and I always’s like Alfred Molina…it’s belongs to a certain sub-genre of films…how would you say?...based on historical characters and or events in which the “facts” are often contested or accounted diferentially and an element of foul play or crime exists…you know like:

“Hollywoodland”
“Confessions of a Dangerous Mind”
“Auto Focus”
“The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper”
“Assassination of Richard Nixon”

Or even “Catch Me If You Can” fits… which I didn’t really dig but works into whateva you call this genre….

C+

and I watched "Step Brothers" which had me laughing a few times which means alot...stoopid fun eggnog watch...

B-

and I re-watched "Tenacious D: and the Pick of Destiny" which I think you either get it and love it or don't and hate it...I think if you were'nt born between 1970 and 1980 this movie would suck for you...I'm somewhere inbetween...

C+

And I watched "Burn After Reading" which I was really let down by...it had it's moments but too few too far apart...slay me,but it's not a whole lot more entertaining than "Ladykillers" and nowhere near as fine as "Oh Brother" on my Coen comic slide scale...

C+

Yorkshire~Rose

12-29-2008, 05:05 PM

i thought the special effects were fine.

i also enjoyed the ending, if it was a little "lets try and be shocking"

the scene where the huge Lovecraftian creature walks past them was jaw-dropping.

i loved the idea, the interplay, the power struggles..i found it pretty original.

of course the premise is bat shit crazy..but thats ok.

You're not alone roosta, i loved it too.
The ending made me feel like i'd been punched in the stomach. Repeatedly.
(not that i love being punched in the stomach you understand)

Um....last movie i watched was my annual viewing of National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (y)

MC Moot

12-30-2008, 12:39 PM

I watched "Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten" (http://www.joestrummerthemovie.com/)again...I got it in my stocking...it's the 3rd time I've watched it and is simply the best music documentary ever made or that I've seen at least...buy it,don't rent it...it's just that great...(y)

paul jones

12-30-2008, 08:48 PM

Fletch Lives

saw it in Lidl's for £4.99 whilst buying the german ham they don't sell anywhere else.Fletch also in case as is part of a 'Slim Pack' but it was one of those 'I have to buy that now' moments.

BBboy20

01-02-2009, 01:03 AM

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

kleptomaniac

01-02-2009, 02:53 AM

valkyrie ~ i didn't hate it (y)
even though at times i wanted to stop watching the movie and see 'yes man' instead... :/

Rock

01-02-2009, 03:01 AM

The Ruins. Fucking terrible. Book was waaaay better (surprise surprise). Nice bewbs on that one chick though. Now that I think about it..those were probably the only two good things about the movie.

na§tee

01-02-2009, 02:01 PM

the reader.

ah, it looked so good on paper! alas! oh dear. i read the guardian's review (http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/jan/02/the-reader-kate-winslet-film) today (one star!) and was like 'oh, tit. that sounds bad. surely not? what say you, our head of programming?' so i talked to him and he said that while he agreed with everything the review said he would have rated (he hates the star system) it three or even four stars. the performances, technical stuff, etc are good, yes, i can't fault that, but eh, even kate winslet playing it tone-perfect can't help it. we're playing che part 1 and far north too tonight. should have seen che :(

anyway. yeah. this was a bit boring. it wasn't as erotic or as dramatic as it could have been at all. my colleague said people were crying when he saw it. hrmm. i don't think so. without giving it away to other people who may want to see it, its central premise is all well and good but the fact she doesn't admit to, it is so shameful, that she takes the full blame for those crimes? come onnnnn! and the bit with the money and the auschwitz survivor that the guardian mentioned - yes, that was pretty toe curling, too.

one star. okay, kate, i like you. two. but that's it. ralph fiennes is meh, too. don't understand why he is on the poster. the german boy is much better.

(ooh i have some gossip about ralph fiennes from someone who worked with him in theatre and it is lol! i'll save it for a rainy day)

kleptomaniac

01-02-2009, 04:23 PM

orgazmo ~ best movie ever! and trey & matt are so cute in it!! one of my faves now :D

Guy Incognito

01-02-2009, 06:48 PM

the day the earth stood still - technically it was fucking garbage, effects were shit, keanu was shit, will smiths lad was shit, story was thin, john cleese was unnecessary and it just stopped but as i didnt really know what was going to happen it kept me watching. jennifer connelly is so hot tho.

ScarySquirrel

01-02-2009, 07:59 PM

At this very moment, I'm watching 88 Minutes. Well, kind of watching it... I can't say I'm all that interested in it but I'll probably watch it through to the end.

Lyman Zerga

01-06-2009, 12:29 PM

'kingpin'

the retarded love child movie of dumb and dumber and the big lebowski

MC Moot

01-07-2009, 04:06 PM

I watched Ghost Town...it had some great Gervais'isms in it...but the whole time I couldn't help but think how much better it may have been if it was set in London intstead of NYC and with an all British cast...and I find Tea Leoni to be terrible actor in everything she's ever done...just don't dig her...

C

na§tee

01-07-2009, 06:27 PM

mum and dad.

not because i really wanted to, but it was allocated as homework for a film course i'm doing for work atm - it came out on all platforms at the same time (cinema, dvd, on demand, download etc) and was made for £100k.

not a massive fan of horror films like this but it was nicely done, i guess. not entirely gross out like hostel or saw (although it had a really urrghhh scene involving, erm, 'dad' jerking off into a vagina.. that he had butchered out of his victim) - thinly based on the rose/fred west story. okay for the budget. interested to see where that strand of movies go next.

BBboy20

01-08-2009, 03:03 AM

Resident Evil: Degeneration

What the live-action films should have been.

mate_spawn_die

01-08-2009, 03:09 AM

weird science (www.youtube.com/watch?v=04il74pijpY)

funk63

01-08-2009, 03:26 AM

the story of riki-oh

roosta

01-08-2009, 06:13 PM

Lyman Zerga

01-08-2009, 06:21 PM

Che: Part One

I quite liked it. Its very documentary like, almost like a news crew was following the action. Not a biopic at all, but more a slice of the mans life (the most important slice).

Worth checking out.

i really need to see it since i care about everything thats about che and benicio is also one of my top fav actors

na§tee

01-09-2009, 07:04 PM

the untouchables.
kevin costner in not shit shocker!

trainspotting.
"that beats any meat injection. that beats any fucking cock in the world"
it's making me feel a bit homesick for glasgow (i know it is set in edinburgh but it was mostly filmed in glasgow) despite the junkies. that pub where begbie smashes the glass - that was my former local! SAFE!

i've realised that i've been in a room in one way or another at various times with five/six (jonny lee miller was there so briefly i can't really count him) of the cast from this film. not because i am some schmoozy high flier but because the people i used to work for/hang with used to get invited to steal free booze from various film events quite often and many of the cast still live in bonnie scotland/have nout else to do (i'm looking at you peter mullan/ewen bremner/kevin mckidd/shirley henderson)

shirley has a really annoying voice.

i used to sort of dislike this film but not so much now. it's smart, moving and funny. i guess i was 13 when it originally came out..

It's SHITE being Scottish! We're the lowest of the low. The scum of the fucking Earth! The most wretched, miserable, servile, pathetic trash that was ever shat into civilization. Some hate the English. I don't. They're just wankers. We, on the other hand, are COLONIZED by wankers. Can't even find a decent culture to be colonized BY. We're ruled by effete assholes. It's a SHITE state of affairs to be in, Tommy, and ALL the fresh air in the world won't make any fucking difference!

haha. he delivers that so perfectly.

i met the creator of that puppet baby used on the film - the one crawling on the ceiling - at an exhibition and took a picture of the freaky shit but can't be arsed looking through my photobucket to find it. i know i did post it here though. eek. it's scary.

TAL

01-09-2009, 11:37 PM

I never understood why people think the crawling baby is scary or freaky or disturbing. It just looks fake, that's all.

b i o n i c

01-10-2009, 02:37 AM

munich - damn, jewish secret agents eat alot

passion of the christ - jesus had quite the meticulously kept beard

there will be blood - theres about to be sparks - my dvd malfunctioned half way through!

roosta

01-10-2009, 06:28 AM

I never understood why people think the crawling baby is scary or freaky or disturbing. It just looks fake, that's all.

fake crawling babys with spinning heads on the ceiling are freaky and disturbing

MC Moot

01-10-2009, 12:41 PM

I watched "In the Valley of Elah"...another fantastic Tommy Lee Jones joint...with Charlize Theron,Jason Patric,Susan Sarandon,James Franco and Josh Brolin...I had no idea of the casting until it unrolled in front of my eyes...nice...I think Mr Jones is at the pinnacle of his career...seriously...this completes a triple header really...Rarely do actors knock three out of the proverbial movie park in a row...

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

No Country for Old Men

In the Valley of Elah

hell yeah...(y)

abcdefz

01-10-2009, 01:28 PM

[COLOR="Blue"]The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

Boy, that was a good movie. And Levon Helm was terrific. And pretty much unrecognizable. Props to Tommy for casting him. (y)

abcdefz

01-10-2009, 01:29 PM

MC Moot

01-10-2009, 01:37 PM

*drools*

Remember,you're not permited within 500 meters of Mr Soderburg under the terms of the restraining order...;)

abcdefz

01-10-2009, 01:51 PM

Remember,you're not permited within 500 meters of Mr Soderburg under the terms of the restraining order...;)

It's not stalking if it's destiny.

na§tee

01-10-2009, 07:13 PM

australia.

i didn't want it to be turd like everyone was saying but.. yeah. it's turd.

a real bore. i understand parts of it are meant to be parody but it just doesn't know what genre it is.. romance? drama? western? war movie? hey i know, let's make this movie nearly three hours long and chuck em all in! and i think i've been pretty generous with my evaluation of this movie. i would be more than happy to romanticise the fuck out of that country (because i do) but this was just one step toooo far.. some cringey moments in here. mostly nicole kidman and her immobile face/puffy lips, hugh jackman saying "crikey" every ten minutes (seriously. because he is australian. and that's what australians do. scoff) and this really embarassing bit where their characters are getting bizzay and it cuts to these awful, awful vistas of the outback and waterfalls and lovely touristy bits of australia and i was like "huh? need more naked hugh jackman! he's the only thing keeping me in this cinema, man! is this censorship or what? seriously, where's the good old fashioned boning?!"

urrghhh.

david wenham is pretty good though.

Lyman Zerga

01-10-2009, 07:39 PM

'the dark knight'

Videodrome

01-10-2009, 07:48 PM

the story of riki-oh

classic.

roosta

01-11-2009, 04:23 AM

slumdog millionaire

brilliant
brilliant
brilliant
brilliant
brilliant
brilliant
brilliant

like 'no country for old men' one of those films that definitely lives up to the hype. i can't recommend it enough.

Guy Incognito

01-12-2009, 03:48 AM

st trinians - all right if you take your brain out i suppose

remember the titans - never seen it before, why is it all films about american football are really great yet i dont really like that sport? Anyway, good film.

roosta

01-12-2009, 04:50 AM

zack and miri make a porno

pretty shit. not very funny, trades off seth rogen's inherent charm to the point where he becomes annoying, and uses funny accents and racial stereotypes for far too many jokes.

then they shoe-horn in the obligatory "serious" storyline and it feels completely out of place, poorly constructed and poorly timed. the "fight" that starts the winding up of the plot is completely implausible and fake.

smith is a hack. i used to like him, then i realized alot of his other films are no where near as good as i remembered.

paul jones

01-13-2009, 12:50 PM

Heaven can wait (1943) Don Ameche is on top form here.

the remake with Warren Beatty in 1978 is total shit btw

Lyman Zerga

01-13-2009, 07:43 PM

'burn after reading'

it was weird but better than i thought

Rock

01-14-2009, 02:20 PM

The Unborn. I should have been more skeptical about this movie when we were the only people in the theater. The only thing that kept me awake was my sister and our friend screaming at every pop out scary moment. My sister actually screamed during a cut scene that was just a train going by. Movie...not too good. Experience...fucking great.

Lyman Zerga

01-14-2009, 07:02 PM

'frozen river'

bout time!

women were walking on thin ice but i liked it anywayz

b i o n i c

01-14-2009, 07:05 PM

'burn after reading'

it was weird but better than i thought

i worked on that for 2 days... i should be in the credits but im not!

Lyman Zerga

01-14-2009, 07:11 PM

i worked on that for 2 days... i should be in the credits but im not!

no but steve should!

kleptomaniac

01-15-2009, 05:18 PM

gran torino ~ we were going to see the unborn ('cause of gary!) and ended up seeing this instead...seriously, i didn't know it was going to be that good! it was cute, funny, sweet, sad, scary, awesome all at once!!! :D

and, uh, i have to admit i didn't know that a gran torino was a car before i watched it. but neither did my roomie! :o

roosta

01-15-2009, 06:36 PM

role models

v funny. well worth checking out.

Lyman Zerga

01-15-2009, 07:36 PM

'hunger'

shitty (y)

BangkokB

01-16-2009, 10:13 AM

I watched Trainspotting again for the 1st time in 10+ years. Great Flick

camo

01-16-2009, 10:17 AM

role models

v funny. well worth checking out.

Fully agree

BangkokB

01-16-2009, 01:04 PM

zack and miri make a porno

"I'd like a Double Expresso so I can stay up all night cause I'm in the mood to FUCK!"

I thought that was Hilarious. I've always gotten a kick watching porno stars deliver their lines. And as an added bonus you see Zack say the lines he wrote with the enthusiasm as if it was Shakespeare

Lyman Zerga

01-18-2009, 05:59 PM

'W.'

trailerprincess

01-19-2009, 10:35 AM

The Messenger, the story of Jean d'Arc. Not too bad at all but Milla was too manic throughout, like she'd forgotten her meds.

The newer X Files movie - not that great but David Duchovny can carry off a beard which is good to know (for when we get married).

MC Moot

01-19-2009, 10:36 AM

"Pineapple Express" I liked it…funny,dumb,funny….Franco made that movie…I’ve always’s found Seth Rogen to be creepy and this sealed it…

B

saz

01-19-2009, 02:29 PM

defiance (y)

MC Moot

01-19-2009, 03:02 PM

defiance (y)

I was quite interested in seeing that until I heard Daniel Craig's Polish "accent"...that destined it to be a DVD rental...I also wonder if the movie would be faring better if Israel wasn't in Gaza at the moment...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2009/jan/13/defiance

:rolleyes:

saz

01-19-2009, 06:41 PM

whatever, i liked it.

Lyman Zerga

01-19-2009, 08:52 PM

'quarantine'

na§tee

01-21-2009, 06:28 PM

slumdog millionaire.

great film, yes, but not as out-of-this-world-you-make-me-want-to-jerk-off amazing as everyone says it is. call me a cynic but it annoyed me a little that the central premise revolved around the million dollar question that we had to believe was broadcast LIVE, ha! yeah right. aaaanyway, casting that aside, it in a lovely enjoyable film with ok performances from the leads and great ones from anil kapoor/irfan khan.

took me a wee while to realise that dev is the guy from skins. come back to bristol! we'll have yer back! stuff LA, dude!

roosta

01-21-2009, 07:45 PM

slumdog millionaire.

great film, yes, but not as out-of-this-world-you-make-me-want-to-jerk-off amazing as everyone says it is. call me a cynic but it annoyed me a little that the central premise revolved around the million dollar question that we had to believe was broadcast LIVE, ha! yeah right.

i don't really understand this criticism...is it that unbelievable that a game show would go out live? ok, it doesn't happen much (anymore) but it used to..its not out of this world unbelievable...and, the fact is, it made the drama. If it wasn't going out live it would have sucked half the drama out of that scene. So for the sake of a better ending they did something that was likely not to happen, but is not unrealistic. That's fair enough if you ask me.

Lyman Zerga

01-21-2009, 08:15 PM

'che'

yeh (y)

Junker

01-21-2009, 08:52 PM

Tropic Thunder
Very funny!
Downey Jr. was really good at it.

camo

01-22-2009, 04:51 AM

hey matey, where have you been?

na§tee

01-22-2009, 05:08 AM

i don't really understand this criticism...is it that unbelievable that a game show would go out live? ok, it doesn't happen much (anymore) but it used to..its not out of this world unbelievable...and, the fact is, it made the drama. If it wasn't going out live it would have sucked half the drama out of that scene. So for the sake of a better ending they did something that was likely not to happen, but is not unrealistic. That's fair enough if you ask me.
yes, it is that unbelievable and unrealistic. of course it would have sucked all the drama out of the scene if it wasn't suggested it was live - which is why it feels shoe-horned in. of course it is an absurd premise. you've giving twelve million rupees away and time for people to go to their laptops, google the answer and win the big bucks. not to mention that if people did this is would no longer be a compelling show for audiences. it is conveniently ignored for the sake of the DRAMA.

but as i said these little details shouldn't really matter in the big picture because it a feel-good crowd pleaser of a film, right? i think the genres just don't fit. it started off as a dickensian romp in the mumbai slums and then it seaged not unseamlessly into this happy ever after romance. the child actors pissed all over the adult ones.

you are being a real pedant lately, roosta :/