Napolean Dynamite

7/10

Run Lola Run is great. Just finished Stardom. Interestingly done. It begins like your average movie. The characters are filmed, seemingly unaware of the camera. 5 minutes later, you are zoomed into what essentially is the lens of a video camera. From there forth, the film consists entirely of television-like filmed material. Interviews, documentary segments, talkshows, advertisements, etc. 5 minutes from the end, you are zoomed out of the lens, and the finale is delivered like the introduction. It's only then you truly realize what the zooming in of the lens meant. The material within the middle all relates to the life of this one woman. It's interesting how, through these superficial bite-sized television segments, just how much characterization can occur. You get a sense of herself, her life, her family, her friends... it's really well done. Much like The Whalestoe Letters (the novel, if you've read it) which consists entirely of letters written by a single women; begging the question... are the characters portrayed real? Are they as written? Or are we only seeing a biased image? In this sense the film was excellent. The concept and delivery. Content-wise, it was alright. Nothing overly special, but it was a nice Canadian flick.

"Wrong turn 2" 7/10


Slightly better than the first for 1 reason only. Henry Rollins. He owned this movie.
The rest of the cast looked like they were in a different/worse horror movie.

Resident Evil: Extinction. In the process, half-way through. My god, this is quite bad. I think it merits a spot on the worst list. I refuse to believe that they went with the "an-ally-is-infected-but-doesn't-tell-anyone-until-it-is-too-late" scenario AGAIN!!! SERIOUSLY. That just blows me away. And I love how the lead walks around the desert, alone, all dramatically. She hops off of her bike, and strikes a pose. Or struts along in the sand. I feel embarrassed to watch this, I really do. And that crow scene? OH MY GOD... I really... I just don't know. Who wrote this? It's of an elementary level. NO ONE can suspend their disbelief this much. It's almost as bad as the government gathering teenagers to detect signals, or robots having lips in this past summer's Transformers.

PS. Unlike most, I didn't loathe the first two installments.
From what I recall, anyway. My taste has changed dramatically.
The first had a certain atmosphere.
The second had some good action.
The third... is just shit. So far, anyway.

EDIIIT.

Okay, I just pissed myself laughing. Was this movie suppose to come with 3D glasses? The scene in which the scientist injects himself with 32 tons of antidote and becomes some hideous creature, and ATTACKS the screen with poorly CGI'd tentacles... COME ON. That was just, hahahahaha!!!

You know, I haven't seen either of these films... But they seem to be getting some attention around here... I'll have to check them out.

Hmmm. I actually didn't think that this movie wasn't that bad. I mean, it wasn't amazing, but I thought that it served well as a decent action/horror flic. Now, I hadn't seen either of the first two movies, so I'm not sure if that would affect my viewing of the third. However, I thought that the post-apocalyptic themes were handled really well, as well as the bad ass Mila (though I can agree that she was DEFINITELY posing a bit)... The crow scene I actually thought was fairly well done... I liked the concept of the animals feeding on the infected corpses and then becoming infected themselves... The scene obviously borrowed a page from The Birds, but I thought that the scene did siege very VERY well.

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But, I agree, I am SO sick and tired of people trying to hide bites in zombie films... They're going to find you out. KILL YOURSELF NOW.

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I just watched the movie Little Monsters - free On Demand!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...ogrl/10m-2.jpg

I used to watch it all the time when I was younger... I find the sets of the "underworld" as well as the cheesey costumes to be FANTASTIC... But I am NOT sure that it's stood the test of time.

But, still. The nostalgia.

B-/B

If you're a gore fan u should definitely give them a view.

Maybe my opinion will change by the end, who knows. I did just catch the massive zombie raid scene, and it was pretty well done action-wise. Still... eh... btw, did this movie get a major budget cut? It looks fairly... cheap(er).

LITTLE MONSTERS!!! Loved that flick. Rented it every weekend at this old, old VHS rental place nearby. It was open for a few months, and then shut down. I was sad. That and The Wizard. Some of my favourite childhood flicks.

You wont.

That movie just sucks all the way through.

No Country For Old Men (2007)

The best movie of the year, and one of the best movies in many years. Surely filmmaking can't get much better than this nowadays. Or, actually, ever.

Into The Wild (2007)

This was very, very good. It had a few sections where it really dragged, but the cinematography was magnificent and the acting strong.

Also, these two films contained two of the best endings I've seen all year.

The ending was alright. The fight wasn't as climactic as I had hoped. But I enjoyed the multiple Alice zoom-out scene. The effects got a tad better toward the end, as well. But still... meh. It just wasn't all that good. This was the first film in a while where I didn't exactly pay full attention - thus the reasoning of my posting here half-way through.

Alky, you have me really wanting to see both No Country for Old Men and Gone Baby Gone.