General Movie Discussion - **please mark spoilers**

[Jon]

I am watching the teaser movie for 28 weeks later called 28 days later and I am waiting on it to stop sucking.

[ZoNeSeeK]

you mean the teaser for the sequel to 28 days later called 28 weeks later? :P

Yeah its not firected by Boyle and Cillian isnt in it so im dubious.

[Jon]

The plot is total fluff!

[ZoNeSeeK]

Yer, it looks pretty disappointing.

[Rjeso]

I haven't seen much of anything on 28 Weeks. Cillian's not in it? Pfffffft. Did they carry any of the characters over?

[Matt]

Its funny because all the previews show that guy and he's not even in the movie. Its like they want you to remember how cool it was.

[Hannah]

I haven't seen much of anything on 28 Weeks. Cillian's not in it? Pfffffft. Did they carry any of the characters over?

My thoughts exactly. No Cillian? Well then, fuck you 28 Weeks Later.

(Although in reality my obsession with Zombie/ish movies is way too big to allow this movie to pass me by without going to see it... and I've already promised my sister that we'd see it together.)

[Matt]

Yeah, pretty much gotta see it. :lol:

[Rjeso]

Its funny because all the previews show that guy and he's not even in the movie.

Laaaaaaaame. :angry:

[fernandito]

We can all complain as much as we want, but in the end, we'll all end up watching this movie. I know I am. :)

[Matt]

Oh yeah, me too. But I won't go to the theater, I like to do something like this at home so I can mute the gross parts for Dora. :lol:

[Rjeso]

A mod should change the title of this thread. Just sayin. ;)

I might rent it, but I'm not seeing it in the theater.

[ZoNeSeeK]

We can all complain as much as we want, but in the end, we'll all end up watching this movie. I know I am. :)

True, pequeño pollo femenino, true.

[LadyHitchhiker]

I REALLY want to see this.. I got the prequel graphic novel and it was pretty interesting.. I can't wait to see how they tie it into the movie.

[Aaron]

ooh, graphic novel?

do tell...

[Matt]

Seriously...that is something I would love to see.

[Brice]

I love zombie movies but, I this doesn't look like anything special to me. I'll just wait till my roommate buys the DVD and then maybe I'll watch it.

[John Blaze]

Its funny because all the previews show that guy and he's not even in the movie. Its like they want you to remember how cool it was.

When was it cool? How popular was this movie that it required a sequel? I remember watching it and thinking, "ok, this must be when it gets really good" and being dissapointed everytime. Resident Evil might have been dissapointing crap but it was TONS better than this shit. Even Shawn of the Dead was better than this shit as a serious movie, and as a comedy, it rocked my socks.

[Rjeso]

I heart Shaun of the Dead. I neeeed to see Hot Fuzz.

[Matt]

Shaun of the Dead is my favorite zombie movie.

I did think 28 days was cool because of the idea itself. They really wanted to eat you, know way to know if it was the whole world, the guy was such an anti-hero.

I liked Children of Men for the same reasons.

[Rjeso]

Yeah, I thought 28 Days Later was fun. It was predictable in the "oh, there's a big window, an infected's gonna crash through it" sort of way, but it was still entertaining to watch. I don't like many horror flicks for that very reason, but that one transcended it in some inexplicable way.

Shaun of the Dead was just hilarious. I love British humor.

[Matt]

Exactly. I felt the same way about Cell.

The second time through, when I wasn't chomping at the bit to find out what happened to his boy, it ended up with a lot of interesting aspects.

And I am the same, I don't really do the whole "Dawn of the Dead" and other movies like that. Sometimes the gross out factor is too high. :arg:

[Brice]

Exactly. I felt the same way about Cell.

The second time through, when I wasn't chomping at the bit to find out what happened to his boy, it ended up with a lot of interesting aspects.

And I am the same, I don't really do the whole "Dawn of the Dead" and other movies like that. Sometimes the gross out factor is too high. :arg:

:o You don't like "Dawn Of The Dead"?

[Matt]

I have actually never seen it :o

The only zombie movies I have seen are the two mentioned in this thread.

[Brice]

I have actually never seen it :o

The only zombie movies I have seen are the two mentioned in this thread.

:o :o :o

Inconcievable!

Go

Watch

it

NOW!!!

It's a classic zombie movie. One of the best there is.

[Fall of Gilead]

I'll probably end up seeing it sometime.

[fernandito]

True, pequeño pollo femenino, true.

:lol:


Well it's true, right? It's like all those folks that keep complaining about a hypothetical DT movie. I bet that as soon as they see a preview for it, they'll rush to the theatres: "Oh my GODZ!!1 The dark Tower movie! I better reserve my tickets online! lolz!!!!111one"

[Rjeso]

...my little girl chicken?

*took German, not Spanish*

[OchrisO]

I think little girly chicken is probably what he was shooting for, because feminino is feminine, and not girl, which is muchacha. I just finished my second semester of spanish, and I am pretty sick of it. haha.

[Matt]

My wife and I are thinking about taking Spanish, it would help with our jobs a lot. Hers especially

[fernandito]

My wife and I are thinking about taking Spanish, it would help with our jobs a lot. Hers especially

En que trabajan?

[Matt]

Ummmm...at a bank? :lol:

[David]

Laney and I are reluctantly psyched about going to see it this week. We absolutely LOVED the first one, but we're both kinda confused as to how they'll overcome the virus being contained in the UK and reappearing in what appears to be the US. Regardless, for those who will be waiting for the video or simply don't plan on seeing it, i'd be happy to provide an unbiased review sometime in the next week or two.

[fernandito]

I looked up the trailer on youtube (tm) earlier on today, and I have to say that it looks really promising. I'm pretty sure it won't be as good as the first one [?], but I think it'll have a decent rip.

[LadyHitchhiker]

The graphic novel includes a little bit of post 28 days later, (obviously) but it also supposedly shows a LITTLE bit of what will be on 28 weeks later. I just hope I didn't ruin it for myself by reading the book. :(

[OchrisO]

I hope this one will have more suprise full frontal male nudity, because I enjoy watching tough guys in the theater try to pretend that they are disgusted by it. :)

[VolsToTheWall]

I might rent it, but I'm not seeing it in the theater.
I'm with ya, I'm just gonna wait and Netflix this one.

[Aaron]

What is the graphic novel called?

[Brice]

I hope this one will have more suprise full frontal male nudity, because I enjoy watching tough guys in the theater try to pretend that they are disgusted by it. :)

Well, if they don't make a big scene about it someone might think they liked it. :lol:

[Matt]

I always yell "COCK!!" and point. :lol:

[tamez]

I have actually never seen it :o

The only zombie movies I have seen are the two mentioned in this thread.


:o
you need to have a Zombie movie night then
and go get a bunch of old ones
for real.
must sees= anything named dawn of the dead or night of the living dead

[fernandito]

I haven't seen the remake of Dawn by Zack Snyder. Worthy of the original?

[Brice]

I have actually never seen it :o

The only zombie movies I have seen are the two mentioned in this thread.


:o
you need to have a Zombie movie night then
and go get a bunch of old ones
for real.
must sees= anything named dawn of the dead or night of the living dead

Might as well add Day of The Dead and just watch the whole original trilogy at once. Some other good ones are:

White Zombie
Braindead
Evil Dead and Evil Dead II
Fulci's-Zombie
Fulci's-City Of The Living Dead
Dellamorte Dellamore
Reanimator
Army Of Darkness
Make Them Die Slowly

[Brice]

I haven't seen the remake of Dawn by Zack Snyder. Worthy of the original?

As far as remakes go it was a damn good one. Worthy of the original? I don't know but if you can just watch it for a good zombie movie you should like it.

[tamez]

has anyone seen the Serpent and the Rainbow recently?
I remember watching it when i was young
but don't remember the details ... i know it freaked me out though
i need to rent that shit.

[Matt]

I remember that one from back in the day. Didn't it have Cosby's tv kid in it?

We should probably have a best zombie movie poll in here. :lol:

[Brice]

has anyone seen the Serpent and the Rainbow recently?
I remember watching it when i was young
but don't remember the details ... i know it freaked me out though
i need to rent that shit.

I ain't seen that in a while.
It's a pretty good movie but, a better book written by an ethnobotanist named Wade Davis who travelled to Haiti.

[Brice]

I remember that one from back in the day. Didn't it have Cosby's tv kid in it?

We should probably have a best zombie movie poll in here. :lol:


I don't remember if she was in it or not.

I'd actually had the same thought the other day when I saw the zombie threads. There seems to be a lot of love for zombies here. :couple:

[OchrisO]

has anyone seen the Serpent and the Rainbow recently?
I remember watching it when i was young
but don't remember the details ... i know it freaked me out though
i need to rent that shit.

The part where the main character gets his junk nailed down to the chair he is sitting in still makes me want to cry.

[Hannah]

I hope this one will have more suprise full frontal male nudity, because I enjoy watching tough guys in the theater try to pretend that they are disgusted by it. :)

I hope so too, but for different reasons.

[fernandito]

I hope this one will have more suprise full frontal male nudity, because I enjoy watching tough guys in the theater try to pretend that they are disgusted by it. :)

I hope so too, but for different reasons.

I think Santa just crossed you off the list. :onfire:

[Hannah]

Santa crossed me off his list a long time ago.

[Matt]

Yep, her friends just have to get her gifts now and we are shunned by proxy. :huglove:

[fernandito]

:lol:


Well, has anyone seen the movie yet?

[Fall of Gilead]

1 helicopter + a whole hell of a lot of infected = great splattery fun for the whole family! :thumbsup:

[fernandito]

Good enough for me! AMC , here I come! :onfire:

[Fall of Gilead]

:rock:

[fernandito]

I went to go see it last night :dance: I think the perfect word to describe that movie (besides entertaining) is intense, especially the part where

The guy sinks his thumbs into his wifes eyes

[Fall of Gilead]

It was even better than the similar scene in the first movie!

[ZoNeSeeK]

Alot of the reviews for 28 weeks later have been fairly glowing - http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/28_weeks_later/

[Wuducynn]

I still haven't seen the first one. It got a lot of mixed reviews so I was hesitant about seeing it in the theater.

[Cutter]

Alot of the reviews for 28 weeks later have been fairly glowing - http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/28_weeks_later/

Sweet!! I was a big fan of the first one. I always throw it in the dvd player about every 4 months for another viewing.

[fernandito]

I think that 28WL has one of the best opening scenes for any movie, ever.

[Fall of Gilead]

I heard that there was someone on some site comparing the movie to the Iraq war. :rolleyes:

[Erin]

Well, I have to admit, I didn't think it was great, but I did like it.

You're right. I the opening scene was very intense and my favorite part of the movie.

I can't believe he left his wife like that while she was screaming for him to help her

[Matt]

You go, we go.

I haven't see it but I could never leave Dora to zombies.

[ZoNeSeeK]

28 days later was awesome. Like Children of Men (one of the best films of last year imo), the brits are just naturals at punchy and realistic doom films. Its unrealistic for the good side of people to always shine through.


Like the berko army unit towards the end of the movie - the viewer is expecting some kind of hollywood salvation at the end of their journey, but humans are always capable of making things worse.

[Matt]

I loved Children of Men too.

[fernandito]

Is that the one with Clive Owen?

[Matt]

I believe so. dog faced british actor?

[fernandito]

:lol:

Well, now that you mention it, he does kinda look like a dog. The guy who played Dwight in Sin City, yes?

[ZoNeSeeK]

A thread for general movie discussion, what you've just seen, what you've loved, disliked, opinions etc, and remember to respect other people's views if they differ from your own.

Also, make sure you mark any spoilers using spoiler tags.

[fernandito]

Hey Zone, have you seen this movie called 300? :onfire:

[She-Oy]

This is too anyone who hasn't yet seen Pan's Labryinth....GO RENT IT/BUY IT NOW!
Will and I were lucky enough to catch it at the ONE theater it played at here for a short while.
It's a beautiful, sad movie. Del Torro really outdid himself with this one.

And now I must see the Fountain...

[fernandito]

I've heard really, really good things about Pan's labyrinth. It's out on DVD already, yes?

[She-Oy]

Yes, it came out two weeks ago, along with the Fountain (which by the way was directed by the same man who did Pi and Requiem)

[Matt]

I am hoping to watch Apocolypto some time this weekend. :nana:

[Jean]

I am hoping to watch Apocolypto some time this weekend. :nana:
it's an absolutely great movie, one of the best I've ever seen. Even better than Braveheart, which wasn't entirely free from Hollywood.

[David]

I went to go see it last night :dance: I think the perfect word to describe that movie (besides entertaining) is intense...
Precisely!!!

To me, it was one of the most intense and horrifying (Horrifying... not creepy) movies i've ever seen in a theater. If you are planning on seeing this, please, I beg you, see it on the big screen in a theater with a good sound system. There is no possible way that the intense nature of this movie can be conveyed the way it is mean't to be conveyed in the comfort of your home.

It's the only 'zombie' movie i've ever seen where I truly felt that the scope of the epidemic and the the terror that the survivors endure is what would truly go down.

[fernandito]

I went to go see it again last night, and I took my sister. I wouldn't shut up about it and the curiosity finally got to her. I told her that there was a scene there that would make her squirm and wince, and she said : "there hasn't been a single scene in any movie to make me squirm."

Once again, I'm talking about the scene where

the guy digs his thumbs into his wife's eyes.

When that scene came on, I could hear her muttering "ohmygodohmgodohmygod", then she finally broke and buried her face into her hands:lol:

[David]

:rofl:

Lany did the same thing, except it was, "IwannagoseeShrek!IwannagoseeShrek!"

[Kristi]

I agree Apocolypto is a great movie. It has you on the edge of your seat thru the whole thing.

[ZoNeSeeK]

we;ve got gold class tix but will save them for simpsons movie i think :P

[LadyGan]

Hey Zone, have you seen this movie called 300?

I thought it was pretty good.

[ZoNeSeeK]

Yeah Pan's Labyrinth is very good. Its not necessarily about what you think, though... :)

[VolsToTheWall]

This is too anyone who hasn't yet seen Pan's Labryinth....GO RENT IT/BUY IT NOW!
I watched that the other night, loved it. I highly recommend it to those who haven't seen it yet.




I am hoping to watch Apocolypto some time this weekend.
I just watched it last night, such a great movie, just flew by. Highly recommended as well.




And now I must see the Fountain...
I also rented this the other night, but I thought it was just ok. Nothing special.

[She-Oy]

Dang Vol! You are one movie-rentin' fool aren't ya? :lol:

And yeah, Apocolypto was great! Actually the only two movies we actually went to the theater for this year were Apocolypto and Pan's...and both were subtitled....guess I was just tryin' to culturalize myself...ha!

[Odetta]

I just rented Children of Men... gonna watch it this weekend!

[fernandito]

Damnit, everyone is talking about that movie. I guess I'll have to jump up on the bandwagon and rent it as well! :P

[Randall Flagg]

Just returned from seeing Bug.
Wow! It is a Tour de Force for Ashley Judd, and a return to greatness for William Friedkin.

William Friedkin (http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/classifieds?category=search1&SearchType=1&q=William%20Friedkin&Class=%25&FromDate=19150101&ToDate=20071231)'s latest film, "Bug," begins as an ominous rumble of unease, and builds to a shriek. The last 20 minutes are searingly intense

It just builds and builds till the tension is so thich you could chew on it.
I give it 5 beers out of a six pack.


A paranoid personality finds its mate, and they race each other into madness.

[sullivan19]

I thought 28 weeks later was pretty good. The coolest thing for me was the locations in London on the big screen. I walk across that bridge, where Cillian picks up all the money, all the time. And the tunnel they get chased through is down the road from me. Bloody thing, its murder at rush hour! I'd rather go through with the infected than the commuters!

[Fall of Gilead]

They probably had to jump through hoops to get those locations emptied!

[VolsToTheWall]

Dang Vol! You are one movie-rentin' fool aren't ya? :lol:


They're all through Netflix but yeah, I watch a lot of movies, maybe too many. :lol:

[VolsToTheWall]

Just returned from seeing Bug.
Wow! It is a Tour de Force for Ashley Judd, and a return to greatness for William Friedkin.

William Friedkin (http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/classifieds?category=search1&SearchType=1&q=William%20Friedkin&Class=%25&FromDate=19150101&ToDate=20071231)'s latest film, "Bug," begins as an ominous rumble of unease, and builds to a shriek. The last 20 minutes are searingly intense

It just builds and builds till the tension is so thich you could chew on it.
I give it 5 beers out of a six pack.


A paranoid personality finds its mate, and they race each other into madness.
I thought this movie looked cool from a trailer I saw. I wish I could go and see all the movies I want that are coming out, but I'll just have to let all but a few go and wait 'til I can Netflix 'em.

[Still Servant]

Has anybody seen a movie called Old Boy?

I shall now wait for your response.

[sullivan19]

They did during the summer, around four in the morning when nobody was about.

[Odetta]

Watched Rocky Balboa last night. (aka Rocky 6)

It actually wasn't as bad as I was expecting. He wrote to be a lot like the style of the first Rocky.

Rocky 5 was way worse than this one.

[Randall Flagg]

Saw Disturbia today.
Interesting new teenage take on Rear Window.
It unwound a bit in the 3rd reel and turned into the typical slasher flick.
3 beers out of a six pack.

[Chassit]

Anyone seen Spiderman 3, I have heard mostly bad things about it, but a couple of friends saw it and said it was good.


XIX

[VolsToTheWall]

Has anybody seen a movie called Old Boy?
No, but somebody recommended it in the horror forum, so I looked it up up, thought it sounded cool, and added it in my queue.




Rocky 5 was way worse than this one.
For sure, it was so much better than that one. That's why I'm kinda glad he made this movie, it leaves this series with a better taste in your mouth than that horrid piece of crap which is #5.



Saw Disturbia today.
Interesting new teenage take on Rear Window.
It unwound a bit in the 3rd reel and turned into the typical slasher flick.
3 beers out of a six pack.
It shall be relegated to rental status for me.



Anyone seen Spiderman 3, I have heard mostly bad things about it, but a couple of friends saw it and said it was good.
I liked it but it was not on par with the first two.
It just feels like it has too much content crammed in w/o enough build up time. With all the characters they try to fit in.


I saw Letters From Iwo Jima the other night. I thought it was real good, definitely worth a rental. I liked getting to see what that battle might have looked like from the opposing perspective.
It was also interesting to see the act of them commiting suicide covered in the way that it was. All the other movies I've seen just depict them doing it as emotionless robots. It was interesting to see how they showed the emotions of those who were about to kill themselves for honor's sake, and also the ones who didn't want to go through with their own suicide.

[fernandito]

Finally got around to seeing Apocalypto. I didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would, but it kept me entertained enough to make me want to keep watching. Following in RF's footsteps : 4 beers out of a six pack :)

[Telynn]

Saw Shrek 3. And to jump on the bandwagon, I would give it 4 and half beers out of a sixpack.

As for Spiderman 3, it was fun, but lacked a little from the first two. When comic hero type movies start throwing in multiple bad guys, that's never a good sign.

[OchrisO]

And now I must see the Fountain...


The movie is crammed full of symbolism. I loved it. I kept having "Oh yeah!" moments for a week after watching it because I thought about it so much.

[ZoNeSeeK]

Whats it about?

[Still Servant]

[quote]Has anybody seen a movie called Old Boy?

No, but somebody recommended it in the horror forum, so I looked it up up, thought it sounded cool, and added it in my queue.

Hmm, not sure if I would call it a horror film. In a way, I think that cheapens the film. Not to say that all horror films are cheap, but most modern day horror films do tend to have a stigma about them.

It's more of a revenge flick.

[Jimmy]

Yeah, that was me that mentioned Old Boy. I wouldn't call it scary, SS is right about it being a revenge flick. Though with the gore, and personal tragedies the main character goes through, it can almost be classified as a horror movie.

Things happen to that guy that makes most real horror movies seem like an episode of 7th Heaven.

[ZoNeSeeK]

This is a reason why alot of films are shot in Sydney or other metro locations here - because we're cheap sluts when it comes to filming rights on land :P

[VolsToTheWall]

[quote]Has anybody seen a movie called Old Boy?

No, but somebody recommended it in the horror forum, so I looked it up up, thought it sounded cool, and added it in my queue.

Hmm, not sure if I would call it a horror film. In a way, I think that cheapens the film. Not to say that all horror films are cheap, but most modern day horror films do tend to have a stigma about them.

It's more of a revenge flick.

Anyway, I liked the decription for it. It also had a good star rating. Also, I can never get enough of cool revenge flicks, so there's another reason I should enjoy it.

[She-Oy]

I saw The Queen the other night. Really was more interesting than I assumed it would be. Good insight into how the Royal family works (if the movie holds any truths, Prince Phillip is an ASSHOLE!!!)

[Matt]

I watched several this weekend.

Music and Lyrics--it was great. I love Drew Barrymore and she was funny in this one. Obviously not something I would go out of my way to watch, but it was fun.

Apocolypto--Wonderful!! Fast paced ride with plenty of hard stuff for me but not too bloody for Dora. Man, that dude can take some punishment.

I loved the whole I am going to jump of a waterfall that is impossible for you to survive...don't try it. Then they do.

Letters from Iwo--Much better than Flags imo. Really shows the dark side of war in the way that we had to make the enemy look like monsters so we could fight and they were just scared boys. Great movie.

[fernandito]

I thought 28 weeks later was pretty good. The coolest thing for me was the locations in London on the big screen. I walk across that bridge, where Cillian picks up all the money, all the time. And the tunnel they get chased through is down the road from me. Bloody thing, its murder at rush hour! I'd rather go through with the infected than the commuters!

That's 28 days later, love. :)

[sullivan19]

I thought 28 weeks later was pretty good. The coolest thing for me was the locations in London on the big screen. I walk across that bridge, where Cillian picks up all the money, all the time. And the tunnel they get chased through is down the road from me. Bloody thing, its murder at rush hour! I'd rather go through with the infected than the commuters!

That's 28 days later, love. :)

Oh yeah!

[Hannah]

I saw it with my brother and sister for my brother's birthday and my birthday. I like it. My brother almost threw up at the part where, as FP has mentioned a couple of times

the guy gouges his wife's eyes out with his thumbs.

Good stuff.

[tamez]

i'm thinking of going to see it finally
i just couldn't make myself go to the threatre
with Shrek and Pirates opening like that
i hate people

if Hannah liked it though
i'm sure i will too :D

[Hannah]

I think you'll like it Tamez! I still have to see Grindhouse, w/ the zombies per your recommendation too.

[fernandito]

I think you'll like it Tamez! I still have to see Grindhouse, w/ the zombies per your recommendation too.

I love Grindhouse. Planet Terror was amazing, and Death Proof disappointed me a lot little.

[sarajean]

they're making a live action teen titans! movie!!!!

*does an extremely happy dance*

(unless it sucks)

[fernandito]

A God of War and Castlevania movie are also in the works. :)

[Telynn]

I saw a trailer for a movie called Enchanted. Anyone else seen this? Unless they showed all the good parts of the movie in the trailer, it should be really funny. I know me (and everyone else in the theatre) laughed really hard at the trailer. "Nobody stabs MY bus!"

[sarajean]

claire danes...really? (http://www.stardustmovie.com/)

regardless...i'm stoked.

[OchrisO]

claire danes...really? (http://www.stardustmovie.com/)

regardless...i'm stoked.

The trailer for it, though I have alreadyy noticed a few changes from the book, makes me giddy like a schoolgirl.

And yeah, I like Claire Danes, but I didn't really see her as the star.

[Jon]

I just hope 28 is better than the teaser they aired on TV.

[Erin]

When my family goes on camping trips we always tell made-up stories before falling to sleep. It was my turn last week when we went and I was out of ideas so I told a shortened version of Stardust. My family was all into it and thinking I was somekind of creative genius but then I had to fess up that it was a Neil Gaimen story.

Anyways, that was rambling and off topic. Can't wait to see the movie.

[OchrisO]

When my family goes on camping trips we always tell made-up stories before falling to sleep. It was my turn last week when we went and I was out of ideas so I told a shortened version of Stardust. My family was all into it and thinking I was somekind of creative genius but then I had to fess up that it was a Neil Gaimen story.

Anyways, that was rambling and off topic. Can't wait to see the movie.

hahaha. That's great. I didn't even know you had read it yet.

[sarajean]

i saw the first trailer for it on something that we had recorded. i paused it and started screaming for drake to come in the room so that he could see.

i think he's going to love it.

(meanwhile, jeff was in the kitchen calling me a dork under his breath.)

[Erin]

But...dorks are awesome! :D

[sarajean]

:lol:

yeah, but every time he sees me geek out about something, he has to tell me what a dork i am.

and then drake tells him to stop being mean to mommy!

[Still Servant]

Yeah, that was me that mentioned Old Boy. I wouldn't call it scary, SS is right about it being a revenge flick. Though with the gore, and personal tragedies the main character goes through, it can almost be classified as a horror movie.

Things happen to that guy that makes most real horror movies seem like an episode of 7th Heaven.

I agree Jimmy, Old Boy has it's horror moments that would put most horror films to shame.

By the way, 7th Heaven is scarier than most horror films.
:lol:

Also, have you seen Lady Vengeance? It sounds good too.

Anyway, Vols let us know what you think of the movie. I'm always interested to hear opinions on this film.

[VolsToTheWall]

Anyway, Vols let us know what you think of the movie. I'm always interested to hear opinions on this film.
Sure thing, I'll post what I thought about it when it finally pops off my queue. I'm also always open to suggestions for good movies that may have slipped through the cracks.

[Matt]

We watched The Fountain this weekend. It was shit <_<

imo of course

[OchrisO]

I find The Fountain to be amazing in symbolic literature sort of way. I'm a big English nerd and there's so much to disect in that movie that i was thinking about it for a week after I watched it. As a movie and a story, I suppose it is lacking, but I knew it wasn't going to be that going into it.

[Matt]

Oh man, I missed that last part on the poster I guess. :lol:

I mean, I got it and all...it was just

ick.

[Erin]

I'm really wanting to see The Fountain. I've heard a pretty equal amount of good and bad about it.

[OchrisO]

My theory is you will like it. I have it on myy blockbuster queue. We can watch it when I get it.

[ZoNeSeeK]

Apocolypto--Wonderful!! Fast paced ride with plenty of hard stuff for me but not too bloody for Dora. Man, that dude can take some punishment.



Er .. what would be considered too bloody for dora then? :)

Well RT (www.rottentomatoes.com) critics average was 50% for the founatain (as opposed to say, 95% for Lost in Translation, 61% for 300, 91% for Children of Men and 88% for Sunshine and 61% for spiderman 3) *pokes tongue out at FP*

Odetta: what did you think of children of men?

Has anyone seen Half Nelson?

[Matt]

Er .. what would be considered too bloody for dora then?

Saw movies
Hostel

Anything where lots of blood splatters the camera.

I think Mel heard the complaints about Passion being too much and toned it down a bit. In the head chopping scene, he could have focused on the neck and the chop but most of it was side scene to something else.

So not too bloody considering whats out there.

[Odetta]

[QUOTE=Matt;12209]



Odetta: what did you think of children of men?



Oh, I LOVED it! I really want to read the book now, because I am sure it's even better than the book!

[Telynn]

I don't get the constant need to show the gore all the time. I can kinda understand in Passion. He had a point to make there. Although that is the reason I couldn't make myself go see it. But any other movie it doesn't seem that necesssary. I saw the movie Blood Diamond (VERY good BTW) and there was a scene where a guy got his hand cut off. You saw them put his arm across the log, you saw the machete go down, you heard it chop and you heard the guy scream. I think we got the point without showing the blood spurting like the black knight scene in Monty Python. Believe me, it made me squirm in my seat. It didn't need to show it.

[ZoNeSeeK]

[QUOTE=Matt;12209]



Odetta: what did you think of children of men?



Oh, I LOVED it! I really want to read the book now, because I am sure it's even better than the book!

Apparently the movie and the book have different slants or direction on the same central story. Cuaren (sp?) (the director) added a far more political bias in the film re: england's foreign and immigration policies, criticism of the insitution etc (similar to V for Vendetta but not as central to the plot), probably because the book was written by a British senator (PD James i think?). I thought they would have had pink floyd on the soundtrack somewhere :)

[Still Servant]

Oh, I LOVED it! I really want to read the book [Children of men] now, because I am sure it's even better than the book!

I really loved Children of Men and was looking forward to reading the book. I was actually pretty disappointed. It wasn't bad but it just didn't do anything for me. Maybe if I read the book first, then saw the movie I would have felt differently. So in this case, I can easily say the movie was better than the book.

I thought it was a very well made movie with great acting performances. Although he wasn't in it very much, I continue to be impressed with Chiwetel Ejiofor who was also in The Inside Man with Clive Owen. I loved his scene near the end where he is having a conversation with Theo as bullets ricochet around the wall near him. Good stuff.

Anyway, pick up the book. It's not long and it's worth a read just for the sake of comparison.

[ZoNeSeeK]

The soundtrack is awesome too :)

[Jean]

I don't get the constant need to show the gore all the time. I can kinda understand in Passion. He had a point to make there. Although that is the reason I couldn't make myself go see it. But any other movie it doesn't seem that necesssary. I saw the movie Blood Diamond (VERY good BTW) and there was a scene where a guy got his hand cut off. You saw them put his arm across the log, you saw the machete go down, you heard it chop and you heard the guy scream. I think we got the point without showing the blood spurting like the black knight scene in Monty Python. Believe me, it made me squirm in my seat. It didn't need to show it.
Unnecessary gore more often than not reveals creative impotence.

Was watching Hitchcock's Rebecca once again... Remember that scene in the mortuary, when he has to identify her body? We see several men, they are standing their backs to us and looking down at something lying at the table we can't really see. A single lamp shines from above, they are standing in that circle of light, the rest in darkness. Then they all turn away from her and move towards us, their faces expressionless, eyes looking inside, as if they were still seeing what they had just seen.

In most modern movies, the director would feel compelled to show the decomposed body. It wouldn't produce one tenth of the impression...

[Odetta]

Oh, I LOVED it! I really want to read the book [Children of men] now, because I am sure it's even better than the book!

I really loved Children of Men and was looking forward to reading the book. I was actually pretty disappointed. It wasn't bad but it just didn't do anything for me. Maybe if I read the book first, then saw the movie I would have felt differently. So in this case, I can easily say the movie was better than the book.

I thought it was a very well made movie with great acting performances. Although he wasn't in it very much, I continue to be impressed with Chiwetel Ejiofor who was also in The Inside Man with Clive Owen. I loved his scene near the end where he is having a conversation with Theo as bullets ricochet around the wall near him. Good stuff.

Anyway, pick up the book. It's not long and it's worth a read just for the sake of comparison.

OK...will do.
and yes, ZoNe, the music was really good.

[Matt]

I don't get the constant need to show the gore all the time. I can kinda understand in Passion. He had a point to make there. Although that is the reason I couldn't make myself go see it. But any other movie it doesn't seem that necesssary. I saw the movie Blood Diamond (VERY good BTW) and there was a scene where a guy got his hand cut off. You saw them put his arm across the log, you saw the machete go down, you heard it chop and you heard the guy scream. I think we got the point without showing the blood spurting like the black knight scene in Monty Python. Believe me, it made me squirm in my seat. It didn't need to show it.
Unnecessary gore more often than not reveals creative impotence.

Was watching Hitchcock's Rebecca once again... Remember that scene in the mortuary, when he has to identify her body? We see several men, they are standing their backs to us and looking down at something lying at the table we can't really see. A single lamp shines from above, they are standing in that circle of light, the rest in darkness. Then they all turn away from her and move towards us, their faces expressionless, eyes looking inside, as if they were still seeing what they had just seen.

In most modern movies, the director would feel compelled to show the decomposed body. It wouldn't produce one tenth of the impression...

I couldn't agree more with that.

[laney]

scariest environment imaginable.
seriously, i screamed a lot.

[fernandito]

That movie is the shit, isn't it? :) What was your favorite scene?

[Telynn]

And no one could do that like Hitchcock. I remember feeling so helpless and vulnerable while watching Rear Window.

[Darkthoughts]

Saw Y Tu Mama Tambien for the first time last night - I loved it (Gael Garcia Bernal had quite alot to do with that :D). Its the only film of Cuaron's I've seen except for PoA.

I really like his style of directing...and I believe he wrote the film too, right?

[Randall Flagg]

Saw Ocean's 13 Friday.
Sorry, but it was boring.
3 beers out of a 6 pack.

[VolsToTheWall]

I agree Jimmy, Old Boy has it's horror moments that would put most horror films to shame.
Anyway, Vols let us know what you think of the movie. I'm always interested to hear opinions on this film.

I watched Old Boy the other night. I loved it. Besides having plenty of violence for those looking for that I especially liked the dentistry with a hammer bit. hehe, it has a great story and keeps you really interested right up until the very end. I enjoyed the dark humor of the movie as well. After watching it, I can understand why you would want to defend it being just labeled as "another horror film", since it is so much more than that, though as both of you have stated, it does have it's share of moments that would please a fan of the horror genre. I guess in my parting thoughts, I would just say that I'm glad this was recommended to me, and it was one of those movies that stuck with me after I watched it. I kept thinking about things from the movie. It's nice when you come across a movie that has that effect on you.

A couple of final thoughts. I also like the psychological thriller elements in it. I like how it keeps you guessing and involved with the storyline. The theme of revenge is well executed. You start off thinking that it's gonna be about Dae-su seeking revenge against Woo-jin, and then realize that Dae-su has more trials ahead of him still yet. Woo-jin's statement "Whether it is a grain of sand or a rock, in water they both sink alike", of course saying that even a small act such as when Dae-su saw Woo-jin with his Sister and setting the rumor on it's course is worthy of revenge. Even though this was a minor act, that makes no difference in the revenge that Woo-jin is planning for Dae-su. I like the little hints that we are thrown, like the reason that Dae-su was imprisoned was because of his wagging tongue, and then we are shown why, and then in the end when Dae-su cuts off the tip of that wagging tonuge that led to all of his troubles. I also like the ending with the snow falling symbolizing Dae-su possibly getting a chance at some sort of a fresh start and a chance at possible redemption of his soul.

[Frunobulax]

Went on a film watching streak.
In two days:
-Jesus Camp
-Quinceañera
-Running With Scissors
-Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas

[Darkthoughts]

Theres a film of Running With Scissors! What did you think of it? Have you read the book?

[Frunobulax]

I read the book in two days in Seattle. It was one of the best books I read while in the great Northwest--and I read a lot of books. The movie was a little bit of a let down, though. I still suggest renting it.

[Darkthoughts]

I shall! If I don't like it will you buy my popcorn? :P
I've read the book which was great, if not bizarre - how much of it were they able to portray in the film?

[VolsToTheWall]

I watched The Bridge today. It is a documentary about the world's most prolific suicide destination, The Golden Gate Bridge. I thought it was a well made and moving documentary, and yes this film is disturbing, but it is also engrossing. The film is in no way over graphic, and I feel that it treats the subjects of the film in a respectful manner. Whether you want to see it or not depends on whether you are willing to go where the film takes you mentally, but as I just said, it is done with tact in how they deal with the deceased. I would recommend it as long as you know what you're getting into going in, yes it was a sad film, but it was also a very good documentary. Just keep in mind that there is actual footage of people jumping, but as I said it is not overly graphic, as they don't show a continuous shot.

A few of the parts that really stuck with me. The father of one of the jumpers who talks about how he grew to accept the fact that his son was going to commit suicide, and just the amount of detail he goes into. Also, the story of that photographer who took a photo of that girl who was going to jump, and then the photographer pulls her back over the railing and manages to stop her. The story told first hand by the one guy who managed to survive his suicide attempt, and how he had second thoughts the minute he left the bridge. His whole story was very moving. Of course the eventual footage of the long haired guy jumping(forget his name), who is discussed in detail, and then we eventually see his last moments. His whole story was very involving.

[Frunobulax]

I plan on renting The Mayor Of Sunset Strip--a documentary about radio personality and LA legend Rodney Bingenheimer, host of Rodney on the ROQ for over 30 years.

[fernandito]

I just finished watching Children of Men, fantastic movie. Those brits have a knack for making amazing post-apocalyptic flicks, don't they? :onfire:


"It's strawberry cough!!"

[towerguard]

[QUOTE=Matt;12209]



Odetta: what did you think of children of men?



Oh, I LOVED it! I really want to read the book now, because I am sure it's even better than the book!

I've not even thought of picking up the book, the movie was just too good. :lol:
It was my favorite movie of last year, thats for sure. It should have gotten more awards than it did. Everytime I hear "Goodbye Ruby Tuesday" I get movie flashbacks, and come on, they were able to slip King Crimson into the movie! :rock:

[Randall Flagg]

Saw 1408 today and enjoyed it. I made a couple of comments about it in the 1408 thread in The Oracle.
Good movie. I give it 5 beers out of a six pack.

[VolsToTheWall]

I saw 1408 last night and I thought it was a good movie. Another successful short story to movie transition. I thought Cusack really nailed his part down. I also liked the pacing of the movie. Sammy boy only got to drop one F bomb since this is PG-13 and there wasn't a Mother inserted in front of it either. :lol: Anyway, I would recommend this movie, and as far as a rating I'd agree with RF and give it 5 beers out of a six pack.

[Frunobulax]

I'll have to go get money to see 1408.

Re-watched For Your Consideration two nights ago. Still a weak Guest film, but still funny.

[Erin]

I'm going to watch 12 Monkeys tonight. I've never seen it before, but i've heard good things.

[VolsToTheWall]

I'll have to go get money to see 1408.
Def go see it if you can Deaner. Oh yeah I got to see the trailer for The Simpsons movie also. The trailer was very funny.




I'm going to watch 12 Monkeys tonight. I've never seen it before, but i've heard good things.
It's been a long time since I've watched that, but yeah I remember it being a good movie.

[OchrisO]

I'm going to watch 12 Monkeys tonight. I've never seen it before, but i've heard good things.

I can't believe you had never seen that. Had I known, we would have fixed that a long time ago. It is a great movie.

[Erin]

Well, I ended up not watching 12 Monkeys but instead went to a friend's and watched Marie Antionette. I really liked it, now I am dying to get a biography on her and get the whole story. This was a far better movie than Lost in Translation, Coppola did well.

I'll prob. watch 12 Monkeys tomorrow night.

[ZoNeSeeK]

*throws lava at erin*

Yeah 12 monkeys is pretty cool, I really liked it when it came out, haven't seen it for ages though.

Has anyone seen City of Lost Children?

[OchrisO]

*throws lava at erin*

Yeah 12 monkeys is pretty cool, I really liked it when it came out, haven't seen it for ages though.

Has anyone seen City of Lost Children?

I have it, but haven't gotten around to watching it yet. I started it one day but didn't get very far before I had to go do something else. It seemed interesting though, I just haven't gotten back to it.

[Jean]

Has anyone seen City of Lost Children?

Is it the same as La cité des enfants perdus? I love that movie! Though their (Jeunet et Caro) other one, Delicatessen is even better.

[OchrisO]

Has anyone seen City of Lost Children?

Is it the same as La cité des enfants perdus? I love that movie! Though their (Jeunet et Caro) other one, Delicatessen is even better.

That's the one I was talking about.

[ZoNeSeeK]

*about to become unpopular again*

I actually liked the way Alien: Resurrection was directed and scripted and am interested in seeing a cité des enfants perdus? (thankyou Jean).

*wanders off to find a torrent*

[fernandito]

I actually liked the way Alien: Resurrection was directed and scripted and am interested in seeing a cité des enfants perdus? (thankyou Jean).


Actually, I like the way Ressurection was directed too. I especially love the part where


they're swimming underwater and the alien grabs hold of that chicks leg right before she makes it across

[ZoNeSeeK]

You dont put that on A<->B repeat and sit there with your pants off, do you?

[OchrisO]

*about to become unpopular again*

I actually liked the way Alien: Resurrection was directed and scripted and am interested in seeing a cité des enfants perdus? (thankyou Jean).

*wanders off to find a torrent*


I like Alien: Resurrection strictly based on how hot I find Winona Ryder in it.

[Matt]

12 Monkeys will always hold a special place in my mind. I love the movie but it was also the first "at home" date movie me and Dora watched together.

We ended up doing it the whole time. :lol:

[fernandito]

You dont put that on A<->B repeat and sit there with your pants off, do you?

No. I leave them on. :)


OChris - Doesn't Winona look amazing with her hair like that? :wub:

[Darkthoughts]

Jeunet et Caro are fantastic! I saw La Cite... at the cinema when it came out, obviously that was a long time ago...I may have to buy a copy on ebay. I have Delicatessen.

I bought The Science of Sleep yesterday but haven't watched it yet. I might also have a Studio Ghibli fest this weekend.

[Jean]

Darkthoughts loves Jeunet et Caro, too! Thank you darling :rose: you've made my day :rose:

[Randall Flagg]

Saw Knocked up Monday, and Live free or Die Harder today.
Knocked up was very funny. 5 beers on the Flagg Six Pack Rating.
Die Harder was exactly what one would want and expect from a Die Hard movie.
6 beers on the RF SPR:
http://img184.imageshack.us/img184/8094/drakes6tf1.jpg

[ZoNeSeeK]

yeah knocked up isn't as fluffy as the concept seems - very funny and full of colourful language :D

[Mordred Deschain]

My all time fravorite to just sit back and watch....The Matrix. I love the camera work.
The Usual Suspects I watch a lot.

[ZoNeSeeK]

Aliens is probably the only movie i could watch without getting sick of :P

[kithereal]

Watched the Break up last night.....it was your typical Jennifer Anniston movie......YAWN

I am chomping at the bit for my parents to finish Deadwood season three....so I can borrow it.....I LOVE THAT SHOW.

very much looking forward to seeing The next Harry Potter Movie....
weird ...I am saving the harry potter books until I have seen all the movies...
I know that is weird but....the movies are magical to me...

has anyone seen the Hudsucker Proxy?.....If you have not ....you really should if you have the opportunity...it is on my top 10...

KIT

[Odetta]

Aliens is probably the only movie i could watch without getting sick of :P

Alien, for me!

[Darkthoughts]

Darkthoughts loves Jeunet et Caro, too! Thank you darling :rose: you've made my day :rose:

:huglove: I'm a bit of a sucker for films with subtitles I must confess!

Other top titles on my foreign films list are:

Seven Samurai
Cinema Paradiso
Etre et Avoir (a documentary, but its beautiful)

Do you have any recommendations Jean?

[fernandito]

Aliens is probably the only movie i could watch without getting sick of :P

Alien, for me!

There are only 4 movies I could watch over and over and never get tired of them:


-fear and loathing in las vegas
-american history x
-300
-mortal kombat

[Mordred Deschain]

I am chomping at the bit for my parents to finish Deadwood season three....so I can borrow it.....I LOVE THAT SHOW.

very much looking forward to seeing The next Harry Potter Movie....
weird ...I am saving the harry potter books until I have seen all the movies...
I know that is weird but....the movies are magical to me...


KIT


Deadwood rocks!!

You're probably better off waiting to read the books, in my opinion, right now I'm pissed off with what was left out. But You'll like the books if you like the movies. I didn't start reading them until after watched the 3rd movie.

[Jean]

Darkthoughts loves Jeunet et Caro, too! Thank you darling :rose: you've made my day :rose:

:huglove: I'm a bit of a sucker for films with subtitles I must confess!

Other top titles on my foreign films list are:

Seven Samurai
Cinema Paradiso
Etre et Avoir (a documentary, but its beautiful)

Do you have any recommendations Jean?

oh darling, this is great! http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k291/mishemplushem/Facilitation/0134-bear.gifhttp://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k291/mishemplushem/Facilitation/0134-bear.gifhttp://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k291/mishemplushem/Facilitation/0134-bear.gif

let's start with the Japanese

if you liked Seven Samurai, I believe you would love more Kurosawa. I would especially recommend Yojimbo (The Bodyguard), Ran (King Lear), Kagemusha (The Shadow Warrior), and the classical Rashomon. I haven't yet seen Kumonosu-Jo (Throne of Blood) and Akahige (Red Beard), but I am going to, in the nearest future (bearpurrs in anticipation). There are other interesting Japanese directors (for example, Kenji Mizoguti, such films as The Life of Oharu or Tales of the Pale and Silvery Moon After the Rain), but Kurosawa is the greatest!

[Darkthoughts]

I'm going into town later, so I'll check out what they have at the dvd rental place - its got a pretty impressive world cinema section for a small town. I'll let you know what I find ;)

[OchrisO]

I watched Dead Silence last night, which turne dout to not be as horrible as I expected it to be. I actually enjoyed it.

[VolsToTheWall]

I watched Dead Silence last night, which turne dout to not be as horrible as I expected it to be. I actually enjoyed it.
I watched this one last night as well. Mayhap we were watching at the same time? :lol: While this isn't a movie I'm likely to watch again anytime soon, it was entertaining. Like yourself, I wasn't expecting a whole lot going in, but I always put the new horror flicks in my queue even if I think they might suck, sometimes there's something to be gleaned even from the suckiness. ;) Not that this was one of those, I did enjoy it.

[OchrisO]

I watched Dead Silence last night, which turne dout to not be as horrible as I expected it to be. I actually enjoyed it.
I watched this one last night as well. Mayhap we were watching at the same time? :lol: While this isn't a movie I'm likely to watch again anytime soon, it was entertaining. Like yourself, I wasn't expecting a whole lot going in, but I always put the new horror flicks in my queue even if I think they might suck, sometimes there's something to be gleaned even from the suckiness. ;) Not that this was one of those, I did enjoy it.

Haha. that's possible. I was watching it somewhere around 9 or 10pm est.

That's pretty much hwo I feel about horror stuff as well, though I have experienced a lot of disappointment lately.

[Mordred Deschain]

Darkthoughts loves Jeunet et Caro, too! Thank you darling :rose: you've made my day :rose:

:huglove: I'm a bit of a sucker for films with subtitles I must confess!

Other top titles on my foreign films list are:

Seven Samurai
Cinema Paradiso
Etre et Avoir (a documentary, but its beautiful)

Do you have any recommendations Jean?

Have you seen Battle Royal?

[Darkthoughts]

No, but I'll add it to my "check it out" list ;) I've only just gotten back into watching movies, I didn't have the time to do it when my kids were very small - so I'm enjoying digging back through my collection.

[VolsToTheWall]

That's pretty much hwo I feel about horror stuff as well, though I have experienced a lot of disappointment lately.
I watched an interesting low budget horror flick last night. It is definitely in the b-range, but I thought it was fun. It's called Behind the Mask:The Rise of Leslie Vernon. It is about this trio that's documenting an aspiring movie-style killer, along the lines of Jason Voorhees and Michael Myers. It documents him planning his murder spree and such. I'll leave it at that. It is low budget, but I thought it was clever and had some good humor in it. I thought it was worth a rental, I enjoyed it. But keep in mind, I have a high tolerance for low budget horror movies. :lol:

[Mordred Deschain]

I watched Stomp the Yard (not by choice) so I rented Breakin' for payback.

[Randall Flagg]

Took the kids to see Transformers.
They liked it. I thought it was waaaay toooooooo long. They should have trimmed a good 20 minutes off the movie.
I give it 3 beers on the RFSP rating.

[kithereal]

Took the kids to see Transformers.
They liked it. I thought it was waaaay toooooooo long. They should have trimmed a good 20 minutes off the movie.
I give it 3 beers on the RFSP rating.


The movie was long....and the fight scenes were epic but i really liked the movie.....

Did you see the trailer for the new JJ Abrams movie before the transformers movie?
looks really cool...
There is link to see it if anyone is interested I'll post it...
KIT

[fernandito]

I saw the Transformers last night/morning. The action was orgasmic, but there were some things I could of done without, like the credibility of some of the situations. For example, the scene where they're 'hiding' in the garden, you mean to tell me none of the neighbors are going to notice 15+ foot metallic things roaming around in the neighbors garden? And didn't the movie sometimes feel like a car commercial? I kept expecting to hear someone in the background scream : "AHHHHHHHH LIKE A ROCK!!"

[Odetta]

Did they have the old Transformers song? That's what I wanna know!

[fernandito]

:lol:

No, they didn't. But there were several [drunk] people down in the front row screaming TRANSFORMERS! ROBOTS IN DISGUISE! :)

[Odetta]

Well, that's good then!

[VolsToTheWall]

I've seen Transformers as well. I enjoyed it, I thought it was a fun movie, though I will have to agree that it did run longer than needed. You'd think they would've trimmed it to under two hours. If you're only going to see one action movie this summer (as they like to say :lol:), Live Free or Die Hard is a much better movie.

[ZoNeSeeK]

:lol:

No, they didn't. But there were several [drunk] people down in the front row screaming TRANSFORMERS! ROBOTS IN DISGUISE! :)

I don't abide noise at the movies. You wanna crinkle that chip packet? You'll be doing it with a black eye you noisy fucking pain in the ass. If anyone was screaming anything at any point in any state in any row of any cinema id set them on fire.

[VolsToTheWall]

If anyone was screaming anything at any point in any state in any row of any cinema id set them on fire.
Not to discourage your pyromania or anything, but then the fire alarms would go off and you'd miss the movie. :P

[Mordred Deschain]

Holy Crap, I just watched Transformers tonight. I've watched Pirates 3, Spiderman 3, and FF Rise of the Silver Surfer, and Transformers beats them all by a LARGE margin in my book. I thought it was going to be a disaster, and being a huge Transformers fan, I could not be happier with the movie!!!

[OchrisO]

I though Transformers was amaing. I had no hope for it when I went and saw it because I knew they had made Bumblebee a Camaro, and that annoys me, because in my eyes, Bumblebee having an inferiority complex and still always coing to the rescue was the crux of the show. They did ok with taht though, by making him an old beat up camaro, at least. All in all, it was a great movie. A few people I know have been complaining about teh product placement, but what they don't seem to rememebr is that transformers was really just a 30 minute commercial for the toys anyway, as most 80s cartoons were. The product palcement didn't bother me.

[Mordred Deschain]

The only thing so far at bugged me is they stayed pretty straight with the autobots (except bumblebee) and they were pretty liberal with the decepticons.

[Randall Flagg]

Watched Letters From Iwo Jima today. Very good movie. It was fascinating to view the conquest of the island from a different perspective. (I had previously viewed Flags of our Fathers).
6 Beers on the RFSPRS.

http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/4343/drakes6la7.jpg

[Erin]

I though Transformers was amaing. I had no hope for it when I went and saw it because I knew they had made Bumblebee a Camaro, and that annoys me, because in my eyes, Bumblebee having an inferiority complex and still always coing to the rescue was the crux of the show. They did ok with taht though, by making him an old beat up camaro, at least. All in all, it was a great movie. A few people I know have been complaining about teh product placement, but what they don't seem to rememebr is that transformers was really just a 30 minute commercial for the toys anyway, as most 80s cartoons were. The product palcement didn't bother me.

You had like 90 million typos during that post. :P

I saw Apocolypto last night. I really enjoyed it. It was a very suspensful, exciting movie.

[ZoNeSeeK]

headless mayan dudes turn you on, dont they Erin? :P

[fernandito]

I finally got around to seeing Memento last night. I love how the movie is told in a 'backwards' like fashion.

[Randall Flagg]

Wow, Memento has been out a long time. I think the DVD even has an option to "reverse" the order of scenes so that it is told in linear fashion.

Watched Shooter today. Pretty good. Some interesting stuff on snipers, but a bit over the top with conspiracies etc.
4 beers on the RFSPRS.

[Matt]

Watched Letters From Iwo Jima today. Very good movie. It was fascinating to view the conquest of the island from a different perspective. (I had previously viewed Flags of our Fathers).
6 Beers on the RFSPRS.

http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/4343/drakes6la7.jpg


I agree, I thought Letters was much better than Flags. I knew the other side was human of course, but that really brought it home.

[Randall Flagg]

Ok. I'm on a roll.
Just viewed Pan's Labyrinth and I was quite impressed. A powerful narrative and visual story. Made me realize how little Spanish I understand. Highly recommended.
6 beers on the RFSPRS.
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[ZoNeSeeK]

Yeah, its very good

[Erin]

headless mayan dudes turn you on, dont they Erin? :P

You betcha. Mmmm, all the blue naked bodies...:wub:

[ZoNeSeeK]

Darkthoughts loves Jeunet et Caro, too! Thank you darling :rose: you've made my day :rose:

:huglove: I'm a bit of a sucker for films with subtitles I must confess!

Other top titles on my foreign films list are:

Seven Samurai
Cinema Paradiso
Etre et Avoir (a documentary, but its beautiful)

Do you have any recommendations Jean?


*clutches onto Darkthoughts and doesnt let go* :)

See The Barbarian Invasions, Pan's Labyrinth, Cache (Or Hidden in some nations), Funny Games, The Lives of Others if you haven't already.

[Darkthoughts]

*swoons* :D

I watched Pan's Labyrinth about 2 weeks ago and loved it - Mercedes was played by the actress also in Y Tu Mama Tambien for some random trivia.

Haven't seen the others - I'm going into town tomorrow though (where I think a hideously large overdue fine awaits me at the video store)

[ZoNeSeeK]

yeah, definitely get The Barbarian Invasions and Funny Games if they are there, although Funny Games might be hard to get hold of as its a local from Hungary I think

[Randall Flagg]

Just viewed Black Sanke Moan. Very interesting movie. Samual Jackson gives and understated (for him) performance and Christina Ricca takes chances few actresses would.
4 Beers. Check it out.

[fernandito]

Wow, Memento has been out a long time. I think the DVD even has an option to "reverse" the order of scenes so that it is told in linear fashion.


Really? My friend burned me a copy, and it didn't come with the main menu. I think I'll order it and add it to my original DVD collection, it's certainly worth it. :)

[OchrisO]

Just viewed Black Sanke Moan. Very interesting movie. Samual Jackson gives and understated (for him) performance and Christina Ricca takes chances few actresses would.
4 Beers. Check it out.

I love the scene in that where he is singing the song and it i storming. I really like that song.

[Randall Flagg]

The song is an adaptation from one by Blind Lemon Jefferson:


That Black Snake Moan

soundclip (http://blueslyrics.tripod.com/sounds/blind_lemon_jefferson/that_black_snake_moan.ram)
by Blind Lemon Jefferson (http://allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?UID=3:06:28|PM&p=amg&uid=3:06:28|PM&sql=B390)
recording of circa June 1926, Chicago, Illinois
from Blind Lemon Jefferson (Milestone 47022) (http://allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?UID=3:06:28|PM&p=amg&uid=3:06:28|PM&sql=A88838), copyright notice (http://blueslyrics.tripod.com/disclaimer.htm#top)

I - I ain't got no mama now
I - I ain't got no mama now
She told me late last night, "You don't need no mama no how"

Mmm, mmm, black snake crawlin' in my room
Mmm, mmm, black snake crawlin' in my room
Some pretty mama better come and get this black snake soon

Ohh-oh, that must have been a bed bug, baby a chinch can't bite that hard1
Ohh-oh, that must have been a bed bug, honey a chinch can't bite that hard
Ask my sugar for fifty cents, she said "Lemon, ain't a child in the yard"

Mama, that's all right, mama that's all right for you
Mama, that's all right, mama that's all right for you
Mama, that's all right, most seen all you do2

Mmm, mmm, what's the matter now?
Mmm, mmm, honey what's the matter now?
Sugar, what's the matter, don't like no black snake no how

Mmm, mmm, wonder where my black snake gone?
Mmm, mmm, wonder where this black snake gone?
Black snake mama done run my darlin' home




Link to audio Clip of Black Snake Moan by Jefferson (http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/6665322/a/Black+Snake+Moan.htm)

[Lance]

I've really wanted to watch Black Snake Moan and The Shooter. But there're always out whenever I get to the store. <_<

And Memento is one of my all time favs.

[Randall Flagg]

Haven't seen Beerfest, but Artie Lang's Beer League is funny. Sophomoric, but still funny.

[Matt]

Finally got to watch Live Free or Die Hard today and LOVED it!! I usually hate every movie that I see in the theater (its the environment) and even though someone was kicking my chair and a handicapped person was commenting loudly, it was still really fun.

the tunnel scene was seriously edge of your seat.

and

McClain shooting that badguy through his own bullet would was brilliant. Almost as good as "only two bullets" from the first movie.

[fernandito]

I got to watch Live Free or Die Hard on friday. Loved it :) . I think my favorite part was the tunnel scene as well. That, and "enough of this Kung Fu shit." :lol:

[Hannah]

I saw OotP this weekend. Twice. Pretty good, I guess. My friend said it was like the paper you write the night before it's due in class. You leave out a lot of the fluff to concentrate on the important stuff, but somehow the paper is worse without the fluff. That was OotP to me. Fluffless, and a little bland. But overall, one of the best HP movies since CoS.

I :wub: Dobby.

[OchrisO]

I saw OotP this weekend. Twice. Pretty good, I guess. My friend said it was like the paper you write the night before it's due in class. You leave out a lot of the fluff to concentrate on the important stuff, but somehow the paper is worse without the fluff. That was OotP to me. Fluffless, and a little bland. But overall, one of the best HP movies since CoS.

I :wub: Dobby.

The more I think about it, the less I like it.

I was pretty annoyed that they didn't really attach you to Sirius.
I was very annoyed that they left out the whole sirius giving harry the mirror and telling him to speak into it if he needs him, and the scene at the end where harry is crying and trying to talk into the mirror. I think that is a very important part of the book for them to leave out.

The battle in the ministry was missing a lot of stuff as well, Neville getting his nose broken, Ginny hurting her ankle, in fact, the kids hardly did anything.

It also annoyed me that the conversation at the end between Harry and Dumbledore was so calm. When I read that scene in the book it was a very moving part and I imagines harry being upset, crying and screaming at Dumbledore.

All in all, that book is way more emotional than the movie was.

[Jean]

I was pretty annoyed that they didn't really attach you to Sirius.
I was very annoyed that they left out the whole sirius giving harry the mirror and telling him to speak into it if he needs him, and the scene at the end where harry is crying and trying to talk into the mirror. I think that is a very important part of the book for them to leave out.

The battle in the ministry was missing a lot of stuff as well, Neville getting his nose broken, Ginny hurting her ankle, in fact, the kids hardly did anything.

It also annoyed me that the conversation at the end between Harry and Dumbledore was so calm. When I read that scene in the book it was a very moving part and I imagines harry being upset, crying and screaming at Dumbledore.

All in all, that book is way more emotional than the movie was.

that's why I am so reluctant to watch those movies at all. I suspected that, the books being so packed both with actions and emotions/metaphysics - work for mind and heart and soul - they would have to omit something, and I didn't want to see them sacrifice the soul-working part.

[ZoNeSeeK]

I saw zodiac on monday. I really enjoyed it, but im a sucker for any kind of crime thriller. Silence of the Lambs is up there in my top 3. :)

[fernandito]

In which movie is it that the doctor says something like "His heartbeat never went above 80"...is it Silence of the Lambs or Hannibal? I haven't seen those movies in a while...

[Matt]

I think that may have been Silence of the Lambs. When the admin of the asylum Lector is in is describing to Clarice about how she should be careful.

Hannible had ate some orderlies.

[fernandito]

I think I need to watch SoTL sometime this week :)


On another note, I saw 1408 last night. I think it started off really well, but it started to lose steam after about 3/4 of the movie.

[Mordred Deschain]

Heh...I just watched Breaken'.

[ZoNeSeeK]

Yeah, Matt is right.

[Odetta]

I think that may have been Silence of the Lambs. When the admin of the asylum Lector is in is describing to Clarice about how she should be careful.

Hannible had ate some orderlies.

That is correct, sir.

[Matt]

:o

I can't believe I got something right :lol:

[Matt]

We are going to watch that Sandra Bullock film "Premonition" tonight. I hope its good.

[Jean]

even if the movie isn't great, Sandra will be. http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k291/mishemplushem/Facilitation/bear_wub.gif

[Randall Flagg]

We are going to watch that Sandra Bullock film "Premonition" tonight. I hope its good.

Not do say I told you so......but the movie isn't very good.
2 Beers on the RFSPRS.

[Matt]

Dang :(

that's a pretty low rating. But Jean is right.

Sandra = hubbabubba

[Randall Flagg]

Jusr watched I now pronouce you Chuck and Larry.
Mildy amusing. 3 beers max on the RFSPRS.

[fernandito]

Sandra = hubbabubba

You know, I don't find Ms. Bullock attractive in the least bit. She kind of reminds me of a pig, I keep expecting her to slip and let out a oink-oink. :)


And I've heard that the Chuck and Larry sucked.


(no pun intended)

[Matt]

To each their own Fever, I think she is a cutie.

[Randall Flagg]

Sandra = hubbabubba

You know, I don't find Ms. Bullock attractive in the least bit. She kind of reminds me of a pig, I keep expecting her to slip and let out a oink-oink. :)


Although not exacly my style, if she's a pig, I want bacon for breakfast.:thumbsup:

[Matt]

:clap:

[Jean]

if she is a pig, I would forget that my city is the centre of the universe and move to a farm, only to be able to see dozens of those every day:

http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k291/mishemplushem/Misc/sandra_bullock.jpg

[fernandito]

Sandra = hubbabubba

You know, I don't find Ms. Bullock attractive in the least bit. She kind of reminds me of a pig, I keep expecting her to slip and let out a oink-oink. :)


Although not exacly my style, if she's a pig, I want bacon for breakfast.:thumbsup:

:lol:

[Mordred Deschain]

LOL Miss Congeniality is on TBS right now!!!