Nurse 3D



Wasn't really into this one aside from a few moments. The lead role was just played too over the top to the point of being unlikeable. Seems to be aimed at the Suicide Girls/Mall Goth crowd so maybe it was just lost on me.

The Ring

Loved this too - It is great to see Bruce Dern in a serious role and own it. I always loved him but never seemed to get the parts he should.

About Time...yeah...it's the Four Weddings and a Funeral director...but I'm a sucka for anything time-travel

Last Vegas---hate to see these good actors in a lame comedy

Dark Touch (2013)

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Why the hell she killed all those children??

And like that, there were also few more questions left unanswered in this seemingly potential 'evil child' sort of horror flick. The decent cast with a good production value failed to save it for its underdeveloped plot elements. Disappointed.

>>: C+

The Ruins
Second time I saw this. Still a good movie.
Didn't know it starred the girl from Donnie Darko.
And another castmember now plays an agent in The Following.

Predator 2
Reading and talking about it made me wanna watch it again.
Too bad I discovered a little mistake.
But I still like it.
And I always keep dreaming of the lost possibilities.
The bit at the end when Danny Glover gets the gun that belong to a pirate captain from 1715. Pirates & Predators, how awesome would that be?!

SWEET. I'm in. ::wink::

sick as a dog still - watched a lot of movies yesterday..picked at random

Dan in Real Life

Hugh Hefner, Activist, Playboy, Rebel

The Loved ones

The Dream Team

How to Lose Friends and Alienate People

Definitely. Hopefully we'll get to see him in more decent roles after this.

::big grin::

Great flick. I always bring it up with people but so few have seen it.

The Conjuring

Urban Legend -

For some reason I thought this was going to be a real horror movie and not a comedy horror type like Scary Movie or Scream. I vaguely remember seeing the sequel a long time ago. I don't remember it being this light. Maybe I thought the original would be better because of the cast. I was wrong. This is the sort of movie that almost everyone just shows up to pick up a check. Robert Englund is in this too for a few quick moments. Maybe an excuse is since most of these actors were young back then it's acceptable. This was released in Dawson's Creek time I guess because Joshua Jackson's character has a radio reference to that show. Tara Reid looks different in this movie too. This is the kind of movie that in the end even though they are in a large campus area, everyone disappears except for the main characters. It's only watchable for Alicia Witt and even then that's no reason to watch a bad horror movie.

It had a ton of flaws but it was still a real horror movie IMO and not a comedy. There was nothing funny about this. It didnt pick fun at other horror movies and have a ton of slapstick. It was just badly made. Still there's worse slasher films i think.

There are worse horror movies. But when I mean real horror I mean serious. Not stuff played with humor.

SPOILERS!!!










To start you have the opening with the crazy gas attendant but it's obvious that someone will be in the truck. Then the Urban Legend jokes. Stuff like the coke and candy. Moving on to the death with the girl in the room and Alicia Witt's character not seeing it because of what happened last time. The rent-a-cop. Even though she's probably the best character in the movie. I remember her in the sequel too. If you use Halloween as the standard real horror movie. This isn't in that category.

I never saw it as playing with humor. I think the movie was trying to be serious. Any humor you might have found I believe was unintentional. Those are flaws in the writing but certainly not attempts at humor. I really don't see how you can say it wasn't a horror movie. It might not have been a good one but its still horror. But hey that's just what I think.

It's horror. It's just not real horror like Halloween. It's light, 90s slasher horror with I guess unintentional humor. Like I found many parts of Scream humorous even though many see that as serious horror. And I like Scream.

OK I misunderstood your meaning

I preferred the sequel because it was a lot darker in tone (same deal with Final Destination 2). Urban Legend was part of the whole Screamteen hangover of that era where most American horror was quite lightweight/fun. That era was touted as some kind of revitalization of the genre but in many ways it almost killed it. Ginger Snaps was one of the few films of that era I'd actually rate as a decent horror flick.

Adult World



Emma Roberts' first decent role IMO. I thought this film was a really good coming of age drama with just the right amount of comedy. It's not going to be for everyone but if it looks like your kind of thing definitely check it out.

The Devil's Rock (2011) Ok little occult horror, bit boring in parts but overall not bad.

Homefront--Statham doing his Statham thing...I enjoyed it

Force of Execution--bloated Seagal still doing his thing but Tae Kwon Do World Champion Bren Foster makes for a pretty good action star...if only he could act.

not that "acting" is that important for "action stars"

I'm remembering a bit more about the Urban Legend sequel now. At least that the setting was good and the actress from Once Upon a Time was in it. The rent-a-cop from the first one too, I think. But I do like the Ginger Snaps movies. The setting of the third one as a prequel confused me when I first watched it.

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Toad Road (2012)

This one messed with my head a little bit. It's a bit like a mumblecore film, with lots of meandering, improvised dialogue. However, since most of the activity in the film is not simulated, including drug use, pranks with fire, and drunken face-punching, it comes across more as a raw, wasted youth documentary than a pure drama. The fiction stuff (i.e., the horror parts), are surreal and genuinely creepy, and intertwined with the docu-stuff makes for a disorienting experience.

As if the film were not already chilling enough, I noticed during the closing credits that the film is "In Memory of Sara Anne Jones," who I recognized to be one of the two main actors. My first thought was that it was a Blair Witch-like marketing ploy, but a quick internet search reveals ample evidence that the actress died of a heroine overdose not long after making the film. Given that her story arc in the film is that of a newbie drug user who goes further down a spiral of (unsimulated) drug use, this fact left me shaken. I'm still not sure what to make of the experience, other than I enjoyed the film and am still thinking about it, and am grateful to have survived my years of similarly reckless behavior.

Yeah I really didn't like that one when I first saw it. Been meaning to re-watch the series and see if I like the third film this time round. The first sequel was entertaining but thematically it was dumbed down compared to the original. Still it's got nothing on the embarrassingly bad high school level feminist ideology of Nurse 3D ::big grin::

Valentine was another one of that era that wasn't too bad either IMO. Definitely no masterpiece but it was good to see a straight up slasher without all the overdone self reflexive bullshit.

We Are What We Are (2013)

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The Mexican original was far more engaging & entertaining. Though it's not a straight remake as plotwise both are quite different but where the original version did have some social commentary, it just a tale of a cannibal-family, made decently with a slow & subtle approach.

>>: B

That's really sad. I was thinking to gave it a watch but read couple of mixed reviews of it and so wasn't sure. There's plenty of interesting movies to watch, I might give it a shot someday.

Twelve (2008) Reasonable slasher about a man disfigured while in prison getting revenge on the twelve jurors that put him there. Was decent enough-kept me entertained was paced pretty well. The killer was a little bit derivative of Leatherface but other than that worth a watch.

British gangsters followed by American gangsters.

Even with a very used story, the British gangsters are infinitely more interesting to watch.

Recognizing this, the head American gangster was also British :)


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The Devils Due..I thought it was a pretty lame movie...One to avoid guys::sad::

Oh wow, I had no idea that she overdosed in real-life. That definitely changes my opinion of the film, especially since the actress is my age. Gives me the chills. God, what a tragic waste of a young life. That heroin is really something else. I mean, just look at Philip Seymour Hoffman. Ugh.

Anyway...

...on a not-as-depressing note, here's my round-up from last week.

Kissed (1996)--A Canadian film about a young woman involved in necrophilia. The movie seemed to focus more on the philosophical (and dare I even say it?) "romantic" aspects of the taboo, unlike "Aftermath" which was all about unhinged sexuality and brutal perversion. The female lead did a great job with the role, although I think her supposed reverence and "love" for the departed was still an act of extreme violation in so many ways. But hey, it made for a great horror Valentine's Day movie. Much more engaging than the usual rom-com schlock.

Paranoid (2000)--I was a huge fan of Jessica Alba when she starred in the TV series Dark Angel, but beyond that, I think she's proved herself to be less of an artist and more of a "I'm too pretty not to be in movies" type of actress. Since Paranoid was one of her very early, pre-Dark Angel roles, I thought I'd give it a chance. But what I can say, Alba is a mess, the story is a mess and the only thing I somewhat enjoyed was seeing Iain Glen outside of "Game of Thrones".

Satan's Little Helper (2004)--This one was just too ridiculous for me and the acting was terrible. A poor man's "Trick r' Treat", I suppose.

Killer Joe

Mesmerizing, dialogue and music driven film. Half unpleasant, half funny.
It strikes a lasting impression.

Maniac (remake)

Effective and well made for what it is. I have to admit i find slasher horror like this a soulless exercise i usually avoid but i was curious.

Loved the Gorgio Moroder influenced score that really drove home the 80's salute but to say i enjoyed the film would be a grand exaggeration.

Mama...love this movie..one of the best movies of 2013..::wink::

Got that on dvd love it as well great stuff.

Great flick I really should watch it again especially after becoming a big fan of McConaughey after watching True Detective. He was great in Dallas Buyers Club too. Guy really tears it up with the darker stuff.

The Thing (1982)
I've seen this movie a couple of times but now that I was in Lovecraftian mood, it was even better.
Only thing that confused me a little bit was the ending.
Read somewhere that the bottle at the end was a molotov and not a drink.
And the non-Kurt Russell guy took a drink so he's supposed to be the thing.
Also read about the alternative ending, in which an infected dog escapes.

The Thing (2011)
Was in the mood, so I gave the prequel/remake ago.
Better than I expected.
The creature was done quite right. Special effects and gore were good.
The atmosphere wasn't a tight as in the original.
The story wasn't great (some things didn't make sense) but still better than expected.
Only the way they tried to tie the ending to the start of the original was a bit messy. =SPOILER at the bottom!=
Overal not bad, but could've better with some changes.









All of a sudden a guy who got attacked by The Thing appears again, without any wounds. In my logic he was supposed to be dead (or consumed).
But he turns out to be the guy in the original, who's shooting at the dog from inside the chopper.

Don't forget Frailty too..

Haunter (2013)

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>>: B-

Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox (2013)

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Surprised to see a poor-skinny man of steel & such a short-lived Hal Jordan in that alternate timeline. Overall, great animation, great story & to some extent, there's over-the-top violence for a DC animated movie.

>>: A-

I Spit on Your Grave 2 (2013)

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Better than its predecessor/the remake.

>>: B

I've seen Thing 82 a few times, and I never got the impression the drink/bottle, the two guys shared at the end, was a molotov cocktail. I seem to remember them both drinking from it... so I don't get what that's all about. If one of them were an alien, they could have killed the man pretty easy. Plus the alien would be putting out the fire. I don't really see any reason to think we're supposed to think one of them was an alien.

Pain and Gain

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Basically a slick entertaining episode of the world's dumbest criminals.

It was just a fan theory I read about.
But like you said, there's no indication that bottle was a molotov.

Dark Shadows(2012)...another brilliant movie..8/10

Laid To Rest (2009) - 5/10

I don't expect much from newer Slasher movies, and I didn't really get much, other than a few moments of confusion from this one. Still, not the worst I've seen.

Elysium (2013) - 6/10

Good effects. Very predictable story. Only watched it for Jodi Foster and was surprised how small her role was.

Man Of Steel (2013) - 6/10

A few interesting ideas, and some good effects but I wasn't really blown away.