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[Guiberu]

Snowpiercer

Fantastic flick. Really enjoyed it from start to finish. The right balance of action, character development, and over-arcing story.

Very much a closed scenario, Korean style piece of cinema. So don't watch it expecting a generic American blockbuster.

It's a well rounded, well acted, modern SciFi movie.

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*cuts arm off*

 

[Currygan]

since I'm in a bit of a Hannibal craze, yesterday I watched Red Dragon


it's honestly one of the shittiest big budget movies I've ever seen. Such a gigantic pile of rotten arse

 

[Ridley327]

since I'm in a bit of a Hannibal craze, yesterday I watched Red Dragon


it's honestly one of the shittiest big budget movies I've ever seen. Such a gigantic pile of rotten arse

That's Brett Ratner!™

 

[ViewtifulJC]

since I'm in a bit of a Hannibal craze, yesterday I watched Red Dragon


it's honestly one of the shittiest big budget movies I've ever seen. Such a gigantic pile of rotten arse

If you thought that was bad, wait until you see Ridley Scott's Hannibal and Hannibal Rising!

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do not see Ridley Scott's Hannibal or Hannibal Rising

 

[Divius]

since I'm in a bit of a Hannibal craze, yesterday I watched Red Dragon

I saw the show a while back as well, but have only seen The Silence of the Lambs. Are any of the other movies worth checking out?

 

[ViewtifulJC]

I saw the show a while back as well, but have only seen The Silence of the Lambs. Are any of the other movies worth checking out?

Michael Mann's Manhunter is good...stay the fuck away from Red Dragon, Hannibal, and especially Hannibal Rising.

 

[big ander]

I've only seen pieces of it but isn't Hannibal supposed to be fun to watch because it's psychotic?

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brain-feeding and such

 

[Escape Goat]

I watched King Kong last week. What the fuck was that? Amateur hour.

 

[Divius]

Michael Mann's Manhunter is good...

Oh I've seen that, forgot. I'll stay away from the others then.

 

[HiResDes]

Just watched Under the Skin, big review coming up.

 

[UrbanRats]

Howl's moving castle: Oh shit guys, it's been 2 hours and we need an happy ending!
Fuck this bullshit movie.

 

[Ridley327]

I watched King Kong last week. What the fuck was that? Amateur hour.

If only it was an hour long, instead of 47.

 

[thenexus6]

Manhunter is so good

 

[captive]

Saw the Lego Movie this past weekend. I thought it was fantastically over the top and "dumb funny" but still made me laugh. About midway point it occurred to me that we may be watching

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some kids imagination playing with logos. And was pleasantly surprised, to me the movie made more sense this way given it was fantastical and sometimes stupid, which fits right a long with a kids imagination.

I thought it was really well done and had a good message.
I was annoyed because read that blog about how "we're losing all our strong female characters" and the blogger was giving shit to the Lego movie about Wildstyle saying "blah blah blah I'm so pretty blah blah blah" but it was the main character day dreaming, not something that Wildstyle actually said.it was not demeaning to the Wildstyle and was just showing how stupid the main character was. Also Wildstyle served several purposes in the movie, other than just a female character because the movie needed a female character.


Also saw Edge of Tomorrow a few weeks ago. This movie, man it was good. I'm not sure where to start. I enjoyed every minute of it. Bill Paxton was great. Cruise was Cruise and Blunt was, well pretty Blunt. I hope it does well enough world wide and on home video sources so that we continue to get intelligent movies such as this.

 

[Ridley327]

At the Earth's Core looks and sounds like a prog rock cover come to life, bolstered by an amusingly uppity performance from Peter Cushing, the wonderful costume designer who thought it was a good idea to emphasize the hell out of Caroline Munro's cleavage, and more one-off bizarre monsters than you can shake an umbrella converted into a bow at. Immensely silly from beginning to end, and all the better for it.

 

[Reckoner]

Tape for its plot is really engaging. So simple, yet you can't look away waiting to see what's going to happen. Loved what Uma Thurman's character brought to the movie halfway in. Clever and funny. You can really see where Linklater's talent lies in this.

 

[Summer Haze]

I just watched Rise of The Planet of The Apes for the first time just now, figured I better see it before I go and watch the sequel in a weeks time. I absolutely loved it. I'm such a sucker when it comes to animal movies, even when the animals are CGI, lol. Apparently, the second sequel is supposed to be even better, so I'm pretty excited to see it.

 

[Currygan]

That's Brett Ratner!™

so damn true. Man is the definition of BLAAAAND

If you thought that was bad, wait until you see Ridley Scott's Hannibal and Hannibal Rising!

Spoiler

do not see Ridley Scott's Hannibal or Hannibal Rising

rofl, I sure as hell won't, thanks VC, I was kinda curious about Hannibal but I'll just rewatch SOTL instead

 

[~Kinggi~]

The Sacrament.

Yeah that was pretty disturbing. It still fell into many of the same cliched traps these found footage horror movies do, but it was an interesting idea to have the film crew be the Vice guys, you know the guys that do documentaries IRL about fucked up shit. I also appreciated

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it didnt go supernatural, the horror was the cult

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

Oh god, my girlfriend wants to see that terrible looking flood/disaster movie.

 

[FTF]

The Sacrament.

Yeah that was pretty disturbing. It still fell into many of the same cliched traps these found footage horror movies do, but it was an interesting idea to have the film crew be the Vice guys, you know the guys that do documentaries IRL about fucked up shit. I also appreciated

Spoiler

it didnt go supernatural, the horror was the cult

Daaa Sacrament.

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Is that Mike Ditka?

 

[Net_Wrecker]

Oh god, my girlfriend wants to see that terrible looking flood/disaster movie.

Pretend it's Noah 2: God Harder and you'll be alright.

Noah's back, and this time he ain't got a boat.

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

Pretend it's Noah 2: God Harder and you'll be alright.

Noah's back, and this time he ain't got a boat.

I'm hoping she'll just forget about it. I can barely remember the trailer and we saw it last night before Apes.

 

[BiGBoSSMk23]

Unhung Heroes, lol...

Watched it with the gf. Came away rather impressed with how much this "cockumentary" mirrored my feelings on the pornifcation of society, and the whole ironic emptiness "size-sensitive" women eventually feel from a life-time of getting packed with 3 pounds of loveless dicks.

Catfish was a very heartwarming commentary on the stigmatization of cross-demographic friendship. This lady went through all the trouble of creating an elaborate web of deceit just cause she wanted to connect with somebody whose work inspired her art. I guess being afraid of coming off as a creep chicken-hawk also has consequences.

 

[UrbanRats]

Catfish was a very heartwarming commentary on the stigmatization of cross-demographic friendship. This lady went through all the trouble of creating an elaborate web of deceit just cause she wanted to connect with somebody whose work inspired her art. I guess being afraid of coming off as a creep chicken-hawk also has consequences.

The movie was kind of an interesting little experiment, especially at the time it came out.

I've seen 2 episodes of the show on MTV, however, and it's god awful.
I get the faux doc style and all, but you need at least decent actors and writers to pull it off.

 

[kurisu_1974]

Yeah the Catfish TV show made me retroactively like the movie less.

 

[Divius]

The Sacrament.

I went into that movie blind and that poster is one hell of a

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spoiler

if you ask me.

 

[Count Dookkake]

You guys realize that THE SACRAMENT is more-or-less based on a true event, right?

It's Jonestown, set now.

 

[strafer]

I'm watching Pandorum tonight.

 

[Divius]

You guys realize that THE SACRAMENT is more-or-less based on a true event, right?

It's Jonestown, set now.

I only read about that afterwards, but like I said; I went in blind. No idea what the movie was about, just that it was the new Ti West. I'm just saying the poster is a pretty big spoiler for those who don't know what they are getting into.

 

[harSon]

You guys realize that THE SACRAMENT is more-or-less based on a true event, right?

It's Jonestown, set now.

Yup, it's almost a 1:1 retelling of it. If anything, Jonestown was worst Lol.

 

[90TilInfinity]

Central Station [Central do Brasil]. Fernanda Montenegro plays a cantankerous (borderline despicable, lol, though it all screams "defence mechanism") old woman (Dora) who finds herself in the care of a mischievous boy on the search for his dad. It's a sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes charming journey (pilgrimage?) out of Rio and into rural Brazil. The Christian overtones feed into the plot well too, both metaphorically, and almost as a way to justify Dora's constant agitation, though aren't forced down your throat the way you'd think.

I wouldn't say I loved the film, but it's really well made, and I think it's journey will (did) endear itself to alot of people.

 

[J-Roderton]

The Purge

Was pretty good. Wish I had more back story on the New Founding Fathers. Cool premise.

 

[thenexus6]

Sleepless in Seattle First time, liked it. Liked You've got mail more though

 

[strafer]

I'm watching Pandorum tonight.

It was good.

Dead Spacey.

 

[Dragoon En Regalia]

1941 never had a better summary prepared for it than the line Robert Stack delivers about halfway into what feels like an 8-hour-long film: What a mess. What a goddamn mess. It's a comedy that's never funny, there's a massive cast that is given nothing to do but shout at the top of their lungs, and its special effects are so numerous that they stop feeling special about 10 minutes in. If it wasn't for Pearl Harbor, I would say this is how Michael Bay would have depicted World War II: a tone-deaf calamity of loud noises and explosions.

At least it has an awesome dance sequence. I quite liked it, but it's essentially the Spielberg version of IAMMMMW, which immediately puts people off. My dad absolutely loves it, though...I blame the SNL factor, since he can't get enough of their starring roles here.

 

[ViewtifulJC]

Hercules in New York - worth it for this and this

 

[Blader]

Paper Moon
Cute kid. Puts the vast majority of child acting to shame; even better than most (all?) Spielberg movie kids. I've never seen Ryan O'Neal in anything but Barry Lyndon, so it was surprising to see him in such an animated, fun role. He also reminds me a lot of Ethan Hawke, as a random observation.

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Was looking forward to this because I was a big fan of the Tinker Tailor Solider Spy film a couple years ago (which was my first exposure to Le Carre). I didn't have a fucking clue about what was happening or why until about 10 minutes before the movie explained it all. I liked it though. I need to see more Richard Burton stuff too.

 

[Borgnine]

I 10'd Paper Moon when I saw if for the first time a few years ago thinking I'd be knee deep in Blu-ray rewatches at this point, but those fucks haven't released one yet, or even mentioned it and I'll be god damned if I'm watching it in Plebeian 480p.

 

[thenexus6]

Hercules in New York - worth it for this and this

i'm tired of the same old faces!

 

[Meliorism]

You guys realize that THE SACRAMENT is more-or-less based on a true event, right?

It's Jonestown, set now.

And it's garbage. Cute how Ti West tries to play it off as an original. Creating his own fanfiction from Jonestown. Women lulz amirite. Such a disappointing trajectory he's taken after House of the Devil.

 

[~Kinggi~]

I went into that movie blind and that poster is one hell of a

Spoiler

spoiler

if you ask me.

I went into it blind too so i was surprised that the poster they used to promote the movie had that on it. I realized this today and edited it out just in case.

Yup, it's almost a 1:1 retelling of it. If anything, Jonestown was worst Lol.

I have heard of the Jonestown event but never pursued details. I am actually surprised how close the movie is to what actually happened. And damn, 900 people holy shit.

 

[Currygan]

Hercules in New York - worth it for this and this

is it me or Arnold's accent has gotten worse since this?

 

[ViewtifulJC]

is it me or Arnold's accent has gotten worse since this?

IAMNOTUGLYIAMBEUTIFULDATSWATDABODYIZSUPPOSETOLOOKLIKE

 

[Draper]

Watching Noah currently. Is it me or is this movie pretty bad?

 

[Blader]

I would edit that if I were you.

(and yes, it's kind of bad.)

 

[ACESmkII]

Watched The Sessions yesterday and was pleasantly surprised. I felt it was a pretty solid drama.

One thing I was not expecting was Helen Hunt going full on nude in it in quite a few scenes, and I thought that was something she was against. It definitely fit in with her character and the story of the film though.

 

[lazybones18]

The Times of Harvey Milk

Have the 2008 biopic on Blu-Ray but never got around to seeing it, so I decided to watch the documentary for the first time instead. Very informative and very good. Dan White is such a little bitch. And found guilty of voluntary manslaughter....I can't even

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

Life Itself was fantastic. I shed tears.

 

[harSon]

Watching Noah currently. Is it me or is this movie pretty bad?

On the plus side, you didn't pay anything to see it.