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[hammerfan]

Originally Posted by PishPosh

Grabbers - 7/10

Neat little Irish horror/comedy on Netflix right now. Not a completely original idea, but a lot of fun to watch... and Ruth Bradley is hot as love.

Yes! I really enjoyed this movie!

[PishPosh]

Originally Posted by hammerfan

Yes! I really enjoyed this movie!

Yea it had it's moments. A few of them I could more than relate to.

[Khaleesi]

Frankenstein's Army:
Loved it! Also loved that it was "found footage", my guilty pleasure.

[Angra]

"The Incredible Burt Wonderstone" 8-9/10

Hilarious.

Might be the funniest i've ever seen Steve Carell in a lead role and the funniest i've seen Jim Carrey in many years. Even Steve Buscemi and especially Alan Arkin had me laughing several times. Everybody just seemed to be at their funniest in this movie. The story wasn't bad either.

Definitely the funniest movie of 2013 for me.

[newb]

American Hustle

the cast did a great job on this one.

[ChronoGrl]

Originally Posted by Straker

Just got through watching Upstream Color.... One of the best movies I have seen in a while. Beautifully shot and scored story free of the pointless exposition that spoils so many cookie cutter movies around today. Everything is stripped down to basic themes and ideas which gives the audience a chance to engage with the content. There are scenes that play out and feel like scenes from Koyaanisqatsi and certainly the score is influenced by Philip Glass. I feel like the movie attempts to engage the audience on both a conscious and subconscious level and to a certain extent it achieves that. Everything feels relevant, but its hard to process it all and put it all together, but that's part of the experience of movies like this. Things don't really get wrapped up at the end, which will no doubt frustrate viewers, but for anyone who wants something a little different its well worth a watch. Personally I hope we see more movies like this, rather than the seemingly endless stream of movies containing formulaic and mundane exposition that attempts to walk the audience through every aspect of the story.

Brilliant review and I completely agree with you. Absolutely adored this movie. When I first saw it, I didn't "get" it per se, but it was definitely something that I connected to emotionally. The sound and direction are just so haunting. After reading a few analysis of it online, I grew to appreciate it more and now that I've had some time away from it I want to see it again.


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My recently watched...


True Adolescents (2009)



Continued with my Mark Duplass journey, I found this movie absolutely delightful - Subtly funny (a skinny jean-wearing hipster hiking with Converse in the woods - brilliant!) and ultimately charming. Duplass was fun to watch as the 34-year-old Hipster taking his cousin and cousin's friend on a camping trip - It's a solid mumblecore coming-of-age film with good humor and a lot of heart. I really loved this. Definitely recommended for fans of Duplass and mumblecore.

4/5.


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Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001)



I tried with this one, I really did. I gave it an hour until I ultimately gave up. I can't say that it's a bad movie; I just feel as though I watched it out of context. I think that if I saw it when it came out, I probably would have been impressed and interested in its handling of sex and sexuality but watching it now it just seems like a sexual roadtrip movie with people that I honestly can't stand. Ok, maybe that's a bit unfair but I just didn't connect with the two younger male characters; I found them obnoxious and, maybe you're supposed to - but it kept me from really wanting to watch this movie further. I just didn't connect with it.


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Amélie (2001)



I wanted to watch something bright, happy, sweet, and romantic, and that's exactly what this is. I haven't seen since I saw it in the theater and I think I found it even more charming this time around. I love Jean-Pierre Jeunet and now I want to re-watch Delicatessen.

4.75/5.


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Dead Hooker in a Trunk (2009)



Eh - I wanted to like this one. I want the Soska Sisters to be successful, but I don't think that this is my genre. Also, it suffers a bit from its low budget; the acting isn't great and I don't think that they made a very good case for not going to the cops about THE FRIGGIN DEAD HOOKER IN THE TRUNK. I couldn't suspend my disbelief on that.

Unfortunately didn't work for me but I hope the Soska Sisters continue to produce movies and improve on their work.

[urgeok2]

Originally Posted by ChronoGrl

Eh - I wanted to like this one. I want the Soska Sisters to be successful, but I don't think that this is my genre. Also, it suffers a bit from its low budget; the acting isn't great and I don't think that they made a very good case for not going to the cops about THE FRIGGIN DEAD HOOKER IN THE TRUNK. I couldn't suspend my disbelief on that.

Unfortunately didn't work for me but I hope the Soska Sisters continue to produce movies and improve on their work.

I've heard nothing but bad things about this ..

but apparently they turned it around with American Mary

[ChronoGrl]

Originally Posted by urgeok2

I've heard nothing but bad things about this ..

but apparently they turned it around with American Mary

Yeah, I didn't want to crap on it because I realize that it's low-budget, but I just didn't think it was very good at all - The acting and writing were REALLY lacking.

I thought that American Mary was good - I was a little disappointed only because of the hype (I was expecting it to shock me more), but Missmacabre has an interesting take on it here (which made me respect the movie more):

http://horror.com/forum/showthread.php?t=63401&page=2

Originally Posted by missmacabre

I have to say, I really enjoyed it, but I'm very biased about my Canadian horror filmmakers.

I can tell they took a lot of inspiration from Ginger Snaps. It was bloody, and sexy. Seeing as Ginger Snaps was a coming of age movie for me when I hit puberty, American Mary is the horror movie that echoes my feeling of being a 20-something, paying off debt and making the choices I have to make in order to be stable.

I guess spoilers here:

I did think it had some good feminist views, primarily, a womans right to bodily autonomy. The woman who had her nipples removed to stop looking like a sex object and the consequences of the choice she made was a high point for me. That screamed feminism, from not just a white cis girl pov. It's very much like a trans-person wanting to be in the body that's right for them, and the attacks they suffer from loved ones and strangers for making that choice. Even the ending, it was like seeing how abortion providers are mistreated and attacked for providing services to women.

But overall, it could have been better. There were a lot of plot holes, and it was a lot more style than substance. I still very much enjoyed the movie though, and can't wait to see more from Jenn and Sylv.

[phantomstranger]

"Dead In Tombstone" (2013)
-Danny Trejo, Dina Meyer, Anthony Michael Hall, Mickey Rourke

Plot: IMDB
A gang overruns a small mining town murdering their own leader Guerrero in a cold blooded power grab.Sentenced to an eternity in hell he finds himself confronted by Satan himself offering a daring proposition: deliver the six souls of his former gang and he will escape damnation. With time running out, he sets out on a brutal rampage to avenge his own death.

Phantoms Review: As I've said in earlier posts, I love Western movies, along with Horror, it's my favorite genre, and whenever these two meet I'm interested, sadly, though , most of the hybrids are ...well...crap.
Surprisingly, " Dead In Tombstone" is actually pretty decent. While it's obviously done on a low budget, it's well acted, has plenty of bloody action and a good ( if very simple) plot.
Dina Meyer is drop dead gorgeous, Danny Trejo is tough and scary looking and Anthony Michael Hall makes for a good villain. Mickey Rourke is virtually unrecognizable as the devil because ( to be blunt) he's gotten so fat.
If your not expecting too much, it's a fun movie.

[Angra]

"Tyrannosaur" 7/10

Noticed this title on Netflix and saw that Peter Mullan (Session 9) was starring it,
so decided to give it a try.
And of course... he was terrific. But he was still topped by an outstanding performance from Olivia Colman (Hot Fuzz).

It's a slow, sad and gritty story that starts out with Mullan killing his own dog in rage. Yea, real nice fellow. By the end of the movie you believe all men in britain are crazy assholes.

Just too slow in places.



"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" 7-8/10

Yes, this was a good watch. Loved the daydreaming scenes, which were nicely made.
But for me the best and funniest part of the movie took place in New York. As soon as Ben Stiller started travelling around the world the daydreaming more or less stopped and the movie became slower and less funny. Sure, there were some beautiful sceneries, but his crush and his asshole boss (Adam Scott was a delight to watch in that role) were still in New York and that was too bad. I would've liked to see more of them. Wish he had brought them with him on his journey.

But Ben Stiller was actually pretty funny in this flick and Kristen Wiig was god damn hot!