Point taken.

They are. But you you can still hear the original voice, intonation, emphasis,...
So I would only miss out on the wrong translations. So, in my case, subs over dubs.

I'm not saying the voices are more important. They're just as important as other aspects.
I'm no genius or anything, I just don't have problem with watching and reading subs at the same time. Should it happen that I miss something, I'll rewind.

So you prefer visuals over audio. Don't agree, but I understand.

Not saying you're lazy, but in general I think it's lazy.
I think if people tried a little harder, they might adapt and dubs wouldn't be necessary. Except maybe the deaf, those bad of hearing and kids up until a certain age

I know you're not some dumb 'murican. Probably should've started our discussion with that.

The Invitation (2015)

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>>: C


The Finest Hours (2016)

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>>: B-

I don't know exactly why, But I was quite bored throughout this one. Might be because I didn't really care about the fate of any of the characters.

Hellraiser II & III

Started out as just background noise so I could try out some werewolf designs, buuuuut I started paying a little too much attention to them and once again got nothing done... Maybe I should play BAD movies when I draw? ::big grin::

I hate rewinding a movie, especially when I'm watching it for the first time. Takes me away from the film and I feel less invested after I'm caught up.

Like I said I agree and do love subs over dubs on most occasions. I especially got uptight about it during my anime phase some time ago. America can't dub worth shit half the time. I swear they pick voice actors in from off the street sometimes. If I didn't get used to it or it didn't get better that's when subs came into play.

It's a "to each their own thing" really. 8)

Yeah having ADD doesn't help either when watching subs. I don't think this relates to anything you said but it made me think of it. Recently I watched two subbed movies, and enjoyed them very much. Only time I found them bothersome was when I get distracted by a sound or my eyes linger too long just anywhere, and I miss a line and have to rewind. It's annoying but tolerable. But it's also why I can't even read books anymore without a plot line or characters that'll just suck me in almost literally. Otherwise I stare at the page thinking about all the things I could be doing instead. Also why I prefer short horror stories as apposed to long ones.

"Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story" 8/10

I don't remember if it was Marlon or MichaelMyers (or somebody else) who recommended this movie to me a little while ago, but whoever it was, thank you. It was a lot of fun and I was laughing my ass off throughout the entire silly story. Instantly became my favorite John C. Reilly comedy.

HUSH
Absolutely nothing new in in this home invasion movie but it was well crafted and pretty tense. The guy from Newsroom made a surprisingly good bad guy.. Nice that there was no stupid twist either.

Actually, I do think you're correct, people do learn to read subs faster & better with practice, of course. Ironically, I've been leaving the Closed Caption on for everything I watch on Netflix (& some other formats) for some 5 years now. It's because I hate it when actors say something undecipherable! Drives me nutso! (which seems to be more acceptable to the industry)

I'm sure I hear things wrong sometimes -- but 80% of the time I ask the person watching next to me, they didn't understand it either, & apparently, they usually don't care. That, & I'm sure they hate when I ask.

So, I've gotten a lot of practice reading "subs" that way. I guess I hate missing dialogue more than watching with CC/subs. ::big grin::


Oh ya, I'll rewind to catch what missed, & freeze-fame the big text. It does take you out of the immersement of the story. One reason I sometimes prefer dubs, like the good old Godzilla films.

Yep, like you said, sometimes I'll be reading a book, & then I'll find myself staring past the page, daydreaming about something else. That ADD? ::big grin::

Same here.
It's one of the things I love so much about Lovecraft stories.
Not too many characters and one decent plot.

Glad you liked it.
I think it's quite underrated and one of the better spoof movies.

That's me as well.

Really doesn't help that I read at the speed of snail.

Maybe not a lot of people have seen it due to its awful cover.

I saw it. It was funny. Although I don't remember much of anything now. http://forums.civfanatics.com/images/smilies/idunno.gif

Yeah, that's another reason I like subs. I'm able to keep following the story when I miss out on audio. Or when there's a noise you can barely hear. Or slang.

Probably ::big grin::
There's an alternative cover but it's not as sexy.

They should've used this one instead




Or this one



::big grin::

I loved it. I'm gonna post a review tomorrow (was gonna do it today but had stuff to do)

"The Dead Room" 7/10

A Kiwi ghost flick and quite an action packed one.

Had the same issues with this one as I had with House on Pine Street, which were the repetitiveness of the scare effects (sounds, furnitures moving and doors opening and closing). Would have been such a cool ghost flick if what it did at the very end had been used throughout the entire movie. But with that being said, it's hard to be really annoyed about a movie that doesn't contain a single dull moment. Unless you find movies about haunted houses dull, then you're probably better off watching something else. ::smile::

Yeah pretty much I guess. ::big grin::
I've been diagnosed with it but I'm no doctor so I don't know how I would explain it other than having the attention span equivalent of a goldfish.


I really need to get my hands on some Lovecraft books. With no money flow at the moment I'm stuck with what I can find for 25cents at thrift stores and trading sites til I can afford EBay or Amazon again. Have you any recommendations?

Hush (2016)

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Ditto! This is a good example of how to still make an entertaining & exciting flick within a tired & very common theme. Mike Flanagan (Absentia, Oculus) is becoming a pro in the genre film making who has successively given us good & decent horror films.

>>: B+

Baskin (2015)
D
Boring, messy and weird just for the sake of being weird.
At times I felt like watching some shitty 80's movie.

I have Collected Stories Volume 1 to 4. They're quite cheap and that way you have all his stories.
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Cowboys vs. Dinosaurs

Godammit why do I keep doing this to myself. The characters are stupid, the story is stupid, the CGI and acting is AWFUL. Theropods eat the townspeople and they try to mix in dramatic build up. That's not the time for build up, that shit belongs in the beginning of your shitty movie, not the end where it's time for the finale of fight scenes!

The gore in here is just about the worst. People fall down like an idiot before the bad CGI monsters can even touch them and blood splatters like a balloon being popped! Or like they just said 'fuck it' and used a photoshop brush. Either way it looks about as real as Dolly Parton's boobs!

The main character, whose name of COURSE is Walker, was injured from bull riding, and yet the build up is getting back on a horse. Well yeah a bull's going to buck you off moron! A horse is a whole other story! I couldn't even try to give two fucks when they had the dramatic slow motion play for him as he got in the saddle again.

There was something else that happened after his injuries that had him abusing his girlfriend or something before he left for three years. They NEVER go into detail about it, and yet for some reason the movie tries to show the sheriff as the villain in this!

Also none of the people in this are cowboys. So the title is a lie. Putting someone on a horse doesn't make them a cowboy. If anything it's; One kind-of-but-not-really-cowboy, two chicks and a black guy who CERTAINLY doesn't die.

This movie was just terrible, stupid, painful and not nearly short enough! In the mood for a dinosaur movie but already saw Jurassic Park a couple thousand times? WATCH IT ANOTHER THOUSAND TIMES. It's better than this!


Thanks much, man! 8)

Too much time or lack of better material?
Or maybe quit living in denial and admit you like these movies. ::wink::

Lost Woods. I tried to watch it on Youtube. It was bad, and I turned it off.

lolz! Ditto...if there's an element like a ghost of a creepy old lady in your story then heck! you should exploit that one as far as you can.::big grin:: As a low budget horror feature it's a passable watch for the haunted house movie lovers only and I agree about the repetitive scare factor issues but House on Pine Street was a better film, IMO, at least in terms of direction, story development & the 'doors'! ::smile::

Shadow Zombie, 2013. 9/10

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Serenity

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DOWNFALL (2003). Very good depiction of the last couple of weeks of The Third Reich, based on Trudi Junge's recollections (Hitler's secretary). ****1/2

Serenity - Excellent movie & tv season.


Ill have to check that out.

Maybe all of them? The inhumanity! ::shocked::

Ride Along 2 (2016)
This was so bland and boring I quit watching. I'm surprised I lasted an hour.
Tried watching the rest the day after but I turned it off after a couple of minutes. A PG-13 Ice Cube is just sad and Kevin Hart gets more annoying every time I see him. That guy is so unfunny it hurts.

God Kevin Hart is annoying. Why'd you even bother?

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
4/10

"Unrealistic"

The thing that irked me the most was some unrealistic action. Which may sound odd or insignificant to some, but for those who respect the original's documentary style immersion, and remember this remake's "police film" opening, a cartoonish action shot can nudge that car off the suspension-of-disbelief track for the duration.

What was the scene? While Morgan "male friend #1" was running through the bountiful amount of sheets hungout to dry, Leatherface completely lops off half of Morgan's leg with one swing of a chainsaw. It's just physically impossible... Why include that? That's not horrific, that's comical. There's more poorly designed action violence... like when Leatherface stands still while Biel takes multiple chops at his arm. Is this the director of Toxic Avenger?

And when the film has little else to offer -- with unlikable boorish protagonists, sketchy shallow plot, flat villains, and a host of routine horror cliches and shots -- don't diminish the horror with unrealistic action violence.

R. Lee Ermey did a great job as the sheriff. Eric Balfour, as Kemper, held the story together by its threads. Jessica Biel's body was ridiculous, but her character was shapeless and uninspiring.

Boredom and the Cube, nigga!

Fifty Shades Of Black (2016)
C/C-
Spoof on Fifty Shades of Grey starring Marlon Wayans.
Quite average but some fun jokes.
I think the low ratings are exaggerated. Especially when compared to other movies. Remember when IMDB ratings were kinda accurate? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

No I do not.

Se7en

Finally I have time to write all my reviews.

Casino Royale (2006)

I'm not a huge James Bond fan, but I like a good spy thriller, and Daniel Craig's Bond movies have been some of the best in the past few years. I went back to his first Bond outing, Casino Royale, which is arguably Craig's best. In Casino Royale, James Bond has been armed with a license to kill and goes out on his first mission as 007 where he must defeat a weapons dealer in a high stakes game of poker. This movie serves as a reboot of the Bond franchise and shows a new story arc for Craig's Bond, so we see a more vulnerable and less experienced James Bond. There are still some ridiculously fantastic action sequences to behold, but it's obvious that he's not nearly as sharp as he will come to be. The action scenes aren't even the best part of the movie though. The second act takes place almost entirely around a poker table, changing from a spy movie to a more contained thriller. It's suspenseful and incredibly well acted. Casino Royale gives one of the more memorable Bond movies that I've ever seen and set up Craig for a great run in the role.

8/10

Joy (2015)

Jennifer Lawrence made a name for herself by starring in The Hunger Games, and she's easily one of the most recognizable actresses in Hollywood. But what does she do now that The Hunger Games has ended? Her first post-HG project is reteaming with David O. Russell, director of Silver Linings Playbook and American Hussle, which netted her one Academy Award win and two nominations (including Joy). Although Joy wasn't as well-received as their other pairings, it still gives Jennifer Lawrence a movie to carry on her own without a franchise title to support her. Joy is a biographical film about the life of Joy Mangano, the inventor of the Miracle Mop, because evidently she needed a biopic. She grew up in a home where everyone around her had a dead-end job, and her grandmother was the only source of optimism for Joy. By the time she's 30, Joy is a divorced mother of two, working a dead-end job, her parents are divorced but still live with Joy, and her ex-husband lives in her basement. To add insult to injury, her sister constantly humiliates Joy in front of her children. The rest of the film is Joy overcoming these obstacles to become an overnight success with her first invention, the Miracle Mop, and selling the product on QVC. It is one of those inspirational bio-dramas we get a few times a year, but it never feels overly sappy or fake. The real issue is the film's first half which drug on about 20 minutes too long hammering in how much the characters' lives suck. Once Joy makes the prototype for the Miracle Mop and starts her business, the movie's quality picks up immensly. You actually start caring about the characters rather than just saying "Wow, their lives suck." The ensemble cast, which includes Lawrence, Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro, does typically great work and salvages the movie's slower parts. Joy is definitely one of those movies that you really go see for the cast, but it's often fun to watch Joy's race to the top even if it takes a long time for her to start.

6/10

The Big Short (2015)

The financial crisis of 2008 and the men who pulled the strings behind it is a story too crazy to make up, and that's exactly the premise of The Big Short, a lesson in the Great Recession of the United States and a black comedy about the people that caused it. The Big Short starts in 2005 with hedge fund manager Michael Burry who discovers that the U.S. housing market is extremely unstable. Predicting that the market will collapse sometime in 2007. Burry realizes he can profit from the crash by betting against the housing market. His idea is laughed off by major investment and commercial banks, but they accept his proposal, believing the market is stable. From there, Burry's idea is heard by several hedge fund managers and traders, and their profits increase as the housing market crashes. The documentary-style camerawork and dark comedy make this dense subject easily accessible to almost everyone. The film's funnier moments come when some random anachronistic celebrity comes to explain financial terms to the audience, with the best being Selena Gomez. Even with all the black humor in the movie, The Big Short can't help but make you angry at the real-world villains that it's protraying, which is exactly what the movie wants. The Big Short is both hilarious and angering, and while it's obviously not a documentary, it does offer one of the best on-screen presentations of the 2008 financial crisis that is thought-provoking yet accessible.

9/10

The Boss (2016)

To start off, if you don't like Melissa McCarthy, just don't go see The Boss. It's not some surprise role where she showcases her broad dramatic acting talent that will be loved and adored the world over. It's a Melissa McCarthy comedy, and I look for two things in comedies: a relatively likable atmosphere and, ya know, comedy. Funny comedy. The Boss has just enough of both of those to recommend to a comedy fan even if it's not as strong as McCarthy's work with Paul Feig. In The Boss, business tycoon Michelle Darnell is sent to prison for insider trading, and after she's released from prison five months later, Michelle is ready to rebuild her fortune at any cost. She is taken in by an old employee, Claire Rawlins, whose to-die-for brownies present the perfect opportunity to build another dynasty. With the help of Claire, her daughter and her girl scout troop, Michelle starts the brownie making business, but Michelle learns that people she screwed over in the past aren't so quick to forgive and forget. Melissa McCarthy has a knack for making the most despicable characters actually seem someone likable (maybe that's just because I can relate to an arrogant power-hungry business tycoon?), so you never outright hate Michelle Darnell. She grew up moving around several foster families, so it's hard not to show some sympathy towards her character and why she ended up so narcissistic. Although some of the jokes fall flat, there are two more jokes to make up for it, and there's some hilariously memorable lines in The Boss. Although it's not as consistently funny as some of her other work, The Boss should please Melissa McCarthy fans until Ghostbusters this summer.

6/10

Hush (2016)

Mike Flanagan is a director to keep his eye on, especially with the long-delayed Before I Wake. His knack for taking familiar horror tropes and adding a little twist to them has allowed him to make some of the best psychological horror films of the past few years in Oculus, Absentia and now Hush. Hush takes the ever-popular home invasion trope and adds an interesting surprise to the plot: the main character is deaf. This makes for some incredibly intense sequences where someone who can hear could easily get out of the situation, and she has to rely only her sight and touch to survive the night. Even if the home invasion plot doesn't offer much new, there are some incredibly original sequences that arise due to her disability. Also, the intruder cut the lights to the house, so she can hardly use her eyesight to help her anyway. The deaf woman, Maddie, is an author, so she has to come up with several different endings to her books and decide on the right one. She does this several times in the movie when trying to figure out how to get out alive including one part that provides one of the best shocks in the movie. Mike Flanagan creates a home invasion thriller that distinguishes itself from the pack by being both original and brutally effective.

9/10

They Look Like People, 2015. 7/10






Holidays, 2016. 7/10

Good reviews! The Big Short has been on my short list since I heard about it on NPR. And Hush is one of the horrors I'd likely see.

Interesting you reviewed Casino Royale, as I recently checked that out again. I think it's one of the top 5 Bond films, along with the debuts of the other Bonds: Goldfinger, GoldenEye, and Live and Let Die.

I think the opening construction yard action sequence in Casino Royale is fantastic. And along with your remarks, this film gives Bond and love-interest real-life emotional depth, and serves up plenty of enjoyable suspense around the poker table.

The Visit 2015

It was ok. Disappointed by the reveal, particularly because I expected most of it. Acting was average. Same with the cinematography. I did not care about the characters or what was happening. Its worth a single watch, but otherwise its not all that great.

5/10

This one is on my must watch list!!

I really liked it, maybe because it was something new and not being remade.

OMG, can't wait to see this one ::love::

Another one on my must watch list!

I really liked it!!

Yeah, I;m not sure about this one.....

I don't know why anyone would watch this movie!!

ZoZo

D

I'm starting to lose track of all the movie I'm watching on Screambox.....

Mr. Right (2015)

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>>: C+


Decay (2015)

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>>: D