First off, it had a shit loads of different monsters. That was its biggest plus.

And then there was the humor that worked really well, like the face slapping and Hellboy getting his ass kicked by the lockers. Funny fucking shit.

To be honest, despite several attepts i've never made it all the way through the first one.

Eden Lake. Starts out pretty slow, then slowly builds up a painful head of steam until the brutal, bitter end. Great flick that is a tad difficult to watch.

Serenity. Fun spaceship action flick. Good story, great action (spaceship and hand to hand stuff), nice sheilas to look at (but with a PG-13 not much of their clothes come off). Enjoyable none-the-less. Ashe.
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Friday the 13th (remake) - 2/10

Pretty much pure garbage. I'm not against some remakes either. I actually liked the TCM and Halloween remakes. (Blasphemy around here I know, but whatever.) But this? Terrible. Abercrombie douchebags who I couldn't care less about getting killed? *yawn* Cardboard cutouts could act better than these people. Boring and uninspiring deaths abound. See that electric bug zapper that is featured predominantly in two shots? Yeah we're not going to kill anyone with that. Let's just use a machete. Again. Jason becomes a human-sized gopher building tunnels under the camp which he then fills with odd bits of junk? Yeah. Ok. Sure. I'm right with ya on that. Not.



Star Trek (remake) - 10/10

I'm not a huge Star Trek fan. I used to be into it a little bit as a kid. I used to like Next Gen for a season or two, but it just go boring and predictable. But the reboot is pretty amazing. I could have done without the whole time travel plot mechanic, but otherwise, awesome movie. I especially loved the look of the movie. I had my reservations about the light flares from what I had read online. They in fact make the movie what it is. I think that without the light flares, the movie would have looked like any other sci-fi movie out there.

"Eden lake" 4/10

Good cast, but I hate these kind of horror movies..

Agreed! I thought that the second one was just pure fun to watch - the landscape and alternate world of beasties was so much fun and inspired! I had a blast with this one.

I wasn't a huge fan of this one, either. My biggest issue is that I feel as though our two victims could have escaped their fate pretty much at any time within the first 20 minutes and when they didn't, I just didn't pity their torment. I really hate movies when the victims have truly brought the torture onto themselves.

But that's poetic justice!

Oh yea, they reeeally deserved what was coming to them. :rolleyes:


I just hate cruel horror movies like Eden Lake, Funny Games, The Devils Rejects etc. Even Irreversible. Nothing good ever happens to the "good guys".

These kind of movies always leave me in a bad mood and i don't appreciate that.

I haven't seen Eden Lake so I can't comment on it specifically, but I don't mind movies where it's all about the bad guys or the monster. I liked Devil's Rejects- didn't love it, because I thought it needed more plot development- but I didn't mind that it was all focused on the bad guys.

I find it irritating after a certain point...

"DON'T GO IN THE HOUSE! DON'T GO IN THE HOUSE! DON'T GO IN TH - ... Oh, FINE. DIE."

And, yes, I realize that the classing "Don't go into the -" is a pivotal theme in a lot of horror movies; I just get tired of it when our heroes are in situations that they put themselves into (especially in the case of Eden Lake when they KNEW there was danger involved in going back).

I agree with you on that one, too. To me, Funny Games was even worse because of the complete and utter victimization. I understand that's the point of the film, but it just makes me feel... icky. I had to turn The Devils Rejects off because I couldn't deal with the cruelty. :o

Scarecrow (1973)

Scarecrow is a phenomenal film. It boasts fantastic performances by Al Pacino and Gene Hackman (who are both at the top of their game), wonderful direction (most notably in director Jerry Schatzberg's use of long takes which fits this film perfectly) and brilliant writing with deep, complex and most importantly 'real' characters.

Hackman plays Max, a recently released convict who dreams of moving to Pittsburgh to open his own car wash. Pacino plays Francis an ex-sailor who plans on going to Detroit to meet his child for the first time. The two become friends and bond while hitchhiking and in a manner similar to 'Midnight Cowboy' their odd realationship begins.

The one and only complaint I have about Scarecrow is, sometimes the scenese were cut short a bit early. One scene in particular (I won't reveal as it is a major spoiler) could have had so much more emotional resonance had the director let it go on a tad bit longer.

-9.5/10