The Petrified Forest (1936)

Powerful film about humanity and the flaws of human nature. All-star cast includes Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis, and Leslie Howard.

Skinnned Alive

7/10

an enjoyable trash film.

Doom.... i like it :D

Dead Meat

Better than I was expecting, but still nothing to write home about. I was mildly entertained, but the acting & script fell flat at times. I did like the ending though. It was alright overall, but pretty good for the budget.

C+



City of Rott

It is just cool that stuff like this exists. Awesomely violent & gory zombie cartoon. It seems to get a bit redundant thought because it is literally nonstop zombie splatter for about 70 minutes and there are only so many ways a zombie can eat a human or a be killed. Overall, I was entertained a lot, but the best part about this is the hope it gives me that in the future this animation sub-genre will be expanded on. I was entertained, but I still saw room for improvement.

B

Kwaidan

Visually stunning and really entertaining through all 4 stories. Really enjoyed it.

Brother Bear 2 - 9 / 10

Major Payne.

Watched Room 6, but fell asleep. Was, at best, okay from what I saw. Lesbo blood bath was an added bonus that helped it out.

Just saw "Alien", "Aliens", and "Alien 3" for the first time on Cinemax InDemand. Pretty good shit.

I'm about an hour into 8 Crazy nights.

The Descent-With Neil Marshall and cast commentary.

watched 1/2 of World Trade Centre

i had some huge misgivings about this one but i let my curiosity get the better of me.

i have to say that so far - based on what i've seen - this is an important movie and it had to be made. the film up to now - had been handled with tact... it deals with the impact it had on people - as individuals.

one of the greatest strenghts of people - is also one of its greatest weaknesses. We are tough, we can survive.... but that also causes us to forget.

we have rememberance days that mean very little to people these days .. understandably - people for the most point who were born in the last 30 - 40 years havent had to deal with the impact of WWII personally.

the same thing may happen with Sept. 11 - but i hope not. people should never forget what happened. its shouldnt be sensationalized or trivialized .. but it should be remembered always.

Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday

Barring one HUGE plothole (2 if you want to be picky...), this is easily one of my favourites in the series. Original, gory, and brought a great new character into the mythos...much, much more than you can say for installments like Parts 6 and 7.

Just finished off the Blade trilogy.
Ranked in comparison to other installments;

Blade Two > Blade Three > Blade One.

The Hitcher

wow. this was great! not really horror, but suspense and action, haha. The *spoiler* main suspense scene with the girl tied up was insane, totally not ending how i thought! kinda sad though *end spoiler* I loved it, very intense.

9/10

Little Miss sunshine - great great movie - highly recommended.

You've gotta ignore the plotholes with flicks like this for sure. I loved the dispaching of Jason at the begining!
Have you seen The Hidden dude? I dug Jason Goes To Hell but The Hidden kicked its ass.

Collateral (2004)

Fun movie, nothing more nothing less. Good performances, as usual, by Cruise and Foxx. I was a little dissatisfied with the ending, but it worked, I suppose, enough for the flick.

Syriana (2005)

It's nice to see a film with such a passionate message to get across, but the overall product was a little too hectic. Good acting and good pace, but it felt at times as though Gaghan was shoving a little too much information down our throats at once.

The Time Machine.

A very underrated movie IMO. Guy Pearce did excellently with the limited scope he had for acting, plus the pace and the timing of the movie was nicely done. No complains about the CGI shots either, like the moon cracking, the settlements on the side of the hills, the futuristic earth etc. Overall, I enjoyed this one.

Fast, pacy, enjoyable flick.

Frailty...

One of my favourites man...no idea why nobody likes it.

i enjoyed the time machine remake .. watched it just a little while ago.

Walk The Line.

I liked The Time Machine remake, but it was nowhere near the original.

DaVinci Code

The Descent

9/10 wow!


*spoiler* The first time you see the monsters (behind juno) completely surprised me... wow...*

Aenigma...

Ghostbusters 2

Rocky 2...

Oldboy.

The fight scene with the prison gaurds is probably the best fight scene ive ever had the fortune to see, but sadly, the movie was brought down heavily by too many twists and a not-so-good ending. I really was looking for some more good revenge, like what was going on in the beginning, but i didnt really get what i wanted.:(

The Exterminator (Director's Cut)

good 80s action flick.:)

Resident Evil
Resident Evil: Apocolypse

You bought it, no? (Pretty sure I saw you mention it in Recent Aquisitions...)

Watch it again in a couple months. I watched it before I knew all the hype....know that I hear how people make it sound, it amazes me how different the movie actually was. Now that your expectations are out of the way, you'll enjoy it alot more next time around.

I try to do this as often as possible, give movies that I didnt like a second chance. Most of the time they're alot better than I remember them...28 Days Later is a good example. HATED it the first time that I watched it...bought it/re-watched it a few months back and really enjoyed it. Beautiful movie. Amityville Horror was still crap though...

Im rambling...all Im saying: Give Oldboy another chance!

The whole movie was about revenge, and everything that happened in the movie was an act of revenge, so it definitely wasn't lacking that. I think I know what you mean though - the fight scenes, brutal revenge.

I really liked the ending; and I can honestly say at first... I didn't get it at all and thought "this is silly." But then I did some research and thought about it (along with a few visits to IMDb forums), and I was astonished with how great the ending was once I fully understood it in my own context. It's certainly the type that isn't straight-forward, it lets the viewer decide... come to their own conclusions. It's a thinker's ending.

IMO it did live up to it's hype, and I agree with The_Return, check it out again sometime... you never know. :)

I agree on the end parts of oldboy being not all that dynamic...I mean through and through it was ok, but the revealation at the end that it was some fool caught up by a schoolyard rumour that wasn't really...I mean, surely it wasn't worth the time...but hey, it was ok by me.
Maybe best watched with the other ones in the series?

The Break Up
Fox and the Hound 2


I expected worse from both, although I liked The Break Up more.

Big Fish
Boys Don't Cry

Both excellent films. One completely fantastical, the other brutally real.

Unbreakable.

More often than not I keep comparing it mentally with Burton's Planet of the Apes, and it wins easily by a mile. Dont know why I do it, maybe because of almost parallel plots and the almost similar enigmatic ending (other than the fact that they are both remakes, but of course).

The Time Machine is one remake I have really loved, other than Dawn & TCM. Maybe its time other remakes started to put some "class" into 'em.

yeah, i bought it.

SPOILERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


i just really didnt like the ending. thats what turned me off the most. the poor dude fucked his daughter, ended up cutting off his toungue and begging for forgiveness. What i really wanted to see was Oh Daesu smash the motherfucker's face in. I mean, he waited 15 years for that moment!

but ya, ill watch it again at a later time, see if my mind changes.

its definetly a good film, no doubt...just not really my style, didnt find the second half to really be satisfying, and thats what i look for in a revenge film.

as for 28 Days Later, i wasnt really hearing any hype, so when i first saw it, it astounded me. still does. (i personally think the film lives up to the hype and beyond. fucking incredible movie imo)


i think im gonna watch that oldboy fight scene again right now though. what an amazing piece of film making.