In the Mouth of Madness

Watched a couple "Fr-" films tonight:


- Friday the 13th, Part II : Watched this a year or so ago and really didnt like it, but found myself enjoying it quite a bit this time around. Pretty cool slasher fare, really original ideas in a few places.

- Frantic : I loved this movie! Fantastic plot, wonderfully acted, great score, directing...humor, suspence, action...Entertaining and intriguing, this is damn near a perfect movie. The fact that I only paid $2.50 for the DVD just makes it that much sweeter.

Probably the best of the series. Have you seen Mario Bava's Bay Of Blood (Twitch of the Death Nerve)?

Badly want to, but no.

Was thinking of getting it off Ebay, but couldnt find anything reasonable.

As for Part II being the best of the series...well, so far I'd have to agree...but Ive still only seen this and the original:o. Have the boxset though, planning to work my way through.

Part 3's the best. Followed by part 6.



Tonight I watched a couple favorites of mine:

Rosemary's Baby (1968) and The Thing (1982).

What is rosemary's baby about?

Zoolander.

Mee Shee the water giant - a couple of thing saved this from being a turd kids movie but it had great creature effects and at least a couple of decent performances.

lucky number slevin - entertaining - definately some great performances - ben kingsley and lucy liu in particular. (morgan freeman pretty much mails these things in)

this is another movie that had an asian feel to it ...
explaining why would be a spoiler..i

The Departedd

9.5/10

Scorsese's best. Nicholson was beyond perfect. I expected much less from Dicaprio, but he was damn good. I also see a good future for Mark Wahlberg.

perfrect plot, great violence and scorsese style dark comedy.

Rosemary's Baby is a very atmospheric and chilling little horror story about a couple who move to New York with intentions of living a happy life...with a child. So they start trying to make one. Well, through some complications (I won't spoil anything for you), Rosemary starts believeing that the baby inside her is in grave danger. Conspiracies fly all over the place, accusations are thrown, and everything goes to Hell from there.

You must see this. It is a classic.

Dead and Buried (1981) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082242/)

Somehow, I had never seen this one before. It wasn't bad and had better acting that most horror of this era. It is kind of a different take on the zombie genre from most recent films.

Better than Goodfellas!? Impossible, I say!

Oh, and I watched Dead and Buried last night too. Much better than I had expected.

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Thank You for Smoking

This was a pretty wity, funny dark comedy. I was entertained pretty much from start to finish. It's definately adult oriented, but as long as you are an adult with a sense of humor, you will probably think it's pretty good.

B+



Click

What has happened to Adam Sandler? This movie was so scripted and contrived that it just made me want to 'click' it off. There was a few funny jokes here and there but on the whole, this movie sucked. It's about a dozen other movie melded together in to one unfunny script. Christopher Walken is the bright spot, but even he isn't as bright of a spot as he usually is.

D+



Christine

This is a pretty good John Carpener film based on a Stephen King novel, but I just have a little bit of an issue with a car being scary. Sort of seems like a stupid villain. Acting is good, gore is fairly minimal, the direction seems weird. Like motion camera was still in it's experimental phase when this was made because this film had a lot of shaky camerawork. It's a little slow moving, but overall it's entertaining.

C+

V For Vendetta
I liked it but I really feel it's garned more praise than it deserves. The plot really wasn't fleshed out enough for me to feel that sympathetic for V. Good movie, I'd say 7 out of 10, I really enjoyed it. I just wished it was either a half hour or so shorter or had more to it.

Massacre at Central High
Troll 2

Unfortunately, The Grudge 2. Really poor.

Clownhouse.

For some odd reason I couldnt enjoy the movie normally as I enjoy slashers. Maybe the overdose of slashers recently has me saturated or something. I oughta need a break from watching em and go back to watching some other genre for awhile. Still, a pretty decent watch.

wolf creek

Land Of The Dead.

c'est arrivé près de chez vous, aka, man bites dog.

gallipoli

:)

Offerings
Phantom of the Mall: Eric's Revenge

one of my all time faves..

nice use of Jarre's music.

Shrek 2


:rolleyes:

The Bat.It was pretty good.

Akeelah and the Bee..

hard not to like this one ..

Did an animated night

Over the Hedge...very funny...nice animation

Monster House...another one worth watching.

I watched this because my mom needed company. Thoroughly enjoyed it.

Guess Who..

I went into this one not expecting much - and laughed beginning to end.

the origional is a classic... i thought this would suck in a huge way in comparrison and the gimmick of the race reversal would flop ... but what it did was give Bernie Mac a chance to shine ... that guy is funny as hell in this ..and he plays the dramatic side well too..

this can't be dismissed as a dumb 'urban' comedy - it has a lot more going for it than that ..

Watched Dead Alive last night. 1st time with my 15 year old son....he seemed to appreciate it.

Halloween. Along with part 2, still my favorite slasher (because thewy are the only ones i like...)

However, a couple of things that still bug me are Michael being able to pin someone to the wall with a 10" butcher knife (whgich would have about a quarter of an inch in the wall....) and picking up a nurse with the scalpel in part 2... Just a little to over the top for me.

The Omen 666

Not too bad, but I really missed the score from the original film.

the part they keep showing on tv with Julia Stiles falling from the banister makes me want to kick her in the face to get things moving....


call me prejudcied but i was never interested inthis one, i love the original too much. It just isnt worth it without david Warner, and no Gregory Peck. CMON!

What could beat Gregory Peck saying "Damien?"

They at least have the pane of glass liberating the photagrapher from his head, right?



Right....?

who plays the david warner character in this one ?

His head is loosed in a different and rather enjoyable manner - best shot in the film.

I liked the original as a kid, but it hasn't really held up for me, so I don't mind this take on it. It isn't as good, becasue there's no Gregory Peck or David Warner but it really is the music that I miss the most.

I watched F13 part VII the other day, I had seen it before but it's still fun to watch I guess, so cheesey! The I watched some kinda lame movie with Edward Furlong called Intermedio, right now on Sci-Fi it's like the 8 days of Halloween or something so they are playing tons of movies, Oh yea I was pissed cause Dawn of the Dead was on and I missed it!!

David Thewlis plays the photographer

Pete Postlethwaite plays the Fr. Brennen

Micheal Gambon plays Bugenhagen

Thewlis !


thats actually damn good casting.

the big lebowski

sin city