Bloodrayne


Never seen it before, thought Id give it a go. Lets just say Im not going to rush out and buy it on dvd.

I LOVED this film.

Watchmen

all kinds of awsome. it depressed me in print - but fascinated me on film.

i think the drab artwork and plodding pace got to me in the book.
seeing the characters come to life on screen was a completely different story.

i couldnt believe how - in several instances - the actors looked exactly like they did in the comics ... not to mention they even sounded exactly like you would have imagined.

loved this movie.

Synecdoche, New York (2008)

Well, I don't think I could write a review of this film that would even be worth writing. It's about a lot of things, including you.

Just watch it. Then watch it again.

Red Mist aka Freakdog (2008)

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Lack of scares and pretty ridiculous 'out of the body experience' storyline.

>>: C-

Nobel Son (2008)

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Too much failed 'twists' made it kinda boring.

>>: C

The Experiment


A good thriller, a family abducted wake up with no memory and are the siubjects of an unseen force manipulating them for its own ends.

Couple of nice little twists and well worth checking out.

Friday the 13th (2009)

So I got to see iot finaly. I liked it, I thought they made a reasonable story out of it, but the very start with Mrs Vorhease seemed a bit pointless. It would have been better with out that. And it did seem a bit ruched towards the end. It's one of the better Friday the 13th movies from the second half of the series. I want another new one now.


7/10

Watchmen

I really enjoyed it, but it still works infinitely on the page. The film seemed seemed torn between the plot and the characters: neither element had nearly enough room to grow.

My main gripe was Veidt/Ozymandias (Spoilers): The great debate of the novel's ending was whether or not Veidt was good or evil. This portrayal paints him WAY too flat: he's a bad guy with good intentions. Period. I blame this equally on the script and the actor, who never really made him seem charming (or human) in any way.

Still...I did really enjoy the majority of it. Great story, perfect cast, and the overall look was dead-on.

Watched Last House on the Left original last night. Not as effective as I remembered it being.

Re-watching the Watchmen today. Any new insights will be posted.

I'd like to just mention that I found the plot obscenely offensive and misguided. The film made me angry to the point that my hands trembled. The acting is fine, though the direction I didn't think was anything beyond par. It simply reeked of misguided intentions and from my point of view an utter void of any understanding of S and M.

Right down to the final soft scene being an extremely campy soft tender one.

Not to pick on your opinion or anything dude... I just REALLY hate that movie.

I have to agree with Az on this one. I watched Secretary and I was so incredibly offended, I barely made it through the film.

I feel as though the controversial issues of self-harm and sadomasochistic sexuality were paraded before the audience strictly to be risque, but didn't serve as an actual representation of the demographic. I felt as though the portrayal of self-harm and S&M were presented in terms of what someone thinks these traits should be, but not how they actually are.

I don't think that the writer/directors had any understanding of self-mutilation issues and I feel as though it was incredibly dumbed down for the sake of being controversial.

Same with the sadomasochism.

Perhaps it is intended for the yuppy who wishes to be full S and M yet thinks this is such a hight they are reaching without knowing they themselfs are missing the point. Not everyone is aware of the truth in certain circumstances or subcultures. This is probably as far as the imagination of people similar to the characters stretches. In which case would make it a true representation.

For one, you have to look beyond the S&M portrayal on-screen and delve a bit into the background of both characters - their mentality, thinking, emotions, intelligence and fetishes.

What we have here, are two very complex characters who stand out in a crowd not because of their identities, but because of their unique personalities. The first 15-odd minutes give a perfect insight into the first character, and the last 20 show us the other side of the second character. Both of them on the brink of an emotional abyss, and looking to stretch/attach themselves to anything they can find solace in. Its a perfect take for any one of us in today's world, and to deny it would be like avoiding a mirror of sorts.

To dismiss the flick as just a controversial exotic parade would be unfair. Anyone who has an emotional side and even empathises with their movies' characters would realise this.

I guess this flick is not meant for the practically inclined ones. You need a sensitive side to your own personality to watch this one and appreciate it.

The "complexity" of the characters are the traits of self-mutilation and sadomasochism. For Maggie, she is a depressive with a severe self-mutilation addiction. That is the crux her personality and what was painstakingly portrayed onscreen. However, since I think that the onscreen affliction of self-mutilation was more of a stereotype or caricature of the illness than an actual victim/persona of it, I was frustrated. In short, I DO identify intimately with this personality type and I thought that my demographic was horribly misrepresented onscreen, and that is what I thought was offensive.

So the issue wasn't that I was looking at the movie in a practical or pragmatic perspective; I was absolutely emotionally involved with the two characters. I just feel as though their construct was a horrible misrepresentation of the actual demo (the demo that I have identified myself with in various times of my life).

In short, these "complex characters" were nothing but caricatures and stereotypes; the outsider's view of what it is like to have these traits and desires. It's more the assumptive vision of the masses, a generalized and simplistic view of what it is like to live with that kind of depression and desperation (and sadomasochistic sexual desire). The characters didn't seem real to me at all. It played out more like poorly-written erotic fiction from an author who fantasizes about being a sadomasochist, but has no idea what the lifestyle is actually like.

Deadringers
liked it a lot, but then, when has Cronenberg ever made anything i didnt like?

Last House On The Left (77)
I liked this a lot too, a creepy film. This is my fav from Wes Craven.

Dark City


Dark City is a surreal place. Its filled with bleak yet powerful images, a man with no identity coming to terms with who he really is and Strangers with sinister motives.

I like this film, I like it alot.

session 9
 

Just finished Session 9. Was kinda disappointed. Any semblance of a scary scene just fizzled out. Anywayz.
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Simon Says.

mind numbing piece of crap. assembled by a butcher, written by a moron.

Last House on the Left

I enjoyed it but I found the original more disturbing, mostly because the torture the girls went through in the original was more humiliating and disgusting.

Driller Killer

Ahh, I think this is a great movie, just fucking short of brilliant.

8.5/10

I love this movie!

I'm a big fan of Abel Ferrara myself. Bad Lt and King Of New York are amazing. Angel Of Vengeance is worth a watch to especially how its in the gritty style of Driller Killer.

Last Watched:

Dollman

Great OTT fun... a lot like Trancers funnily enough!

Just Buried

Not to bad for a made for cable kinda deal although it felt like a double episode of a program like Six Feet Under. Shades of shit like Heathers made this a pretty decent distraction.

A Force Of One

One of the better early Chuck Norris flicks. Not a bad watch but I dig stuff like Silent Rage a lot more.

13 B (2009)

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Synopsis: Manohar, a middle-class man, and his family live on the 13th floor in apartment - 13B. The women in his family are all hooked on a new television show called "Sab Khairiyat (All are just fine)" that eerily resembles Manohar's family. As the show progresses, everything that unfolds on the show take place in the family, too.

Though bit lengthy (first half was kinda dull and the 2nd was full with twists & turns) but overall, it was a pretty decent horror thriller from India in compare to other recent Bollywood horror films. Kudos to the writer cum director of the movie Vikram K. Kumar for his fair enough effort.:)

>>: B

I have a deep empathy for Gyllenhaal's character, but certainly a very limited sense for Spader's. Needless to say both these characters have emotional issues, issues that the film would have us believe can be dealt with via a sado-masochistic sexual relationship. In fact Gyllenhaal's character comes to depend on this as a remedy for her emotional problems.

Spader's obsessive compulsions are not the least bit empathetic, he essentially at times mentally abuses a vulnerable, naive young women caught between a sudden sexual attraction and her own personal problems.

Anyway you look at this film, it portrays a obscenely unhealthy sexual relationship, between two people you genuinely need to sort through emotional issues that are ruining there lives. It tries to throw this particular fetish into the mix as an expression of unhealthy tendencies and have us believe it is an "OK" way to deal with such problems.

I certainly believe I have a sensitive side to my personality, and more then fleeting experience with both healthy and un-healthy BDSM relationships. It is certainly not lack of empathy but rather a greater understanding that the pain that depresses someone is such away can't be so frivolous attached to rough sexual exploits.

It really, really does.

Monty Python's The Meaning of Life.


9/10

Never fails to make me laugh.

Punisher: Warzone---first twenty minutes were damn good....then it kinda fell apart.

Krull ... cheesy but still somehow endearing

Silent Running

One of my all time favourites, fantastic film. If the closing scenes dont affect you, you're not human.


Badlands

Another good 'un. Martin Sheen was excellent but it didnt run out the way I expected. Maybe thats no bad thing?

Rachel Getting Married (2008)

Role Models (2008)

>>: B-

The Last House on the Left (2009) - Kind of.

Went to see this with a bunch of friends...most of them fucking hated it and left after like half an hour. I wasn't overly impressed either...I normally would have stuck around to see how things turned out, but it wasn't nearly good enough to stick around after my ride peeled, haha.

Instead, we all went to my place and watched Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog :D .

Max Payne

It was.......ok

race to witch mountain.

fun flick - more emphasis on action than comedy (i was expecting the latter given the lead)

A huge improvement on the origional - which despite what the purists may think - wasnt gold.

Poltergeist.

Eden Lake

That was a lot better than I expected, one of the more gritty and realist horror movies I have seen for a while. We were planning a camping trip this summer, now my girlfriend is not so big on the idea....

8/10

Synechdoche, New York

A sprawling, epic ode to whiney, hypochondriacal, pretentious, emotionally detached dickheads everywhere. It plays out not as genius, but as a string of heartless gimmicks which left me cold.

Charlie Kaufman's writing is best left to other directors. I found this to be his weakest film to date... which is still better than most films by nature of it's sheer audacity.

6.5/10

Never much liked Charlie Kaufman, with exception of Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.

Well, here's a tip...

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If backwoods kids start to fuck with you, don't go back. AND don't follow them to their house... JUST GO AWAY.

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I thought that that was the weakest part of the film; why the HELL would they go back the next day if those kids popped their tires. I would say Rednecks 1, Chrono 0, let's go to a fucking hotel.


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Eden Lake: 2/5

I was really disappointed. Some intense moments, but the characters continued to make poor decisions time and time again.

Wasn't a huge fan.

Watchmen


Unfamiliar with the graphic novel so had no idea what to expect. Bleak and apocalyptic were not at the forefront of my expectations. Very impressive film, didnt feel nearly three hours long which is certainly a good thing.