Hey you - YOU.

I just called you out on page 2860.

Nope, felt it was just right. :o

The Fog (1980)

>>: B

Coraline (2009)

>>: B+

Proof Of Life
suckage.

Just caught the last 20 minutes or so of Angels With Dirty Faces on TCM - one of my all-time favourite Gangster flicks. I'd forgot just how powerful the ending was...great movie. I really should give it another watch in it's entirety sometime soon.

The Aviator (2004)

Wonderful film. Exciting, inspiring and interesting. DiCaprio was cast perfectly as Hughes.

-9.5/10

I've got to second that. Extremely powerful film, great cast, phenomenal ending.

Recent recs of Luis Bunuel in this thread made me check this out...

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What a wonderful flick. Surreal and emotionally bold, with a final scene which hits you like a sledgehammer. I ll be on the lookout for more of this great man's work from now on.

"Inside" 8/10

Without a doubt in my mind the most disgusting movie i've ever seen.

Felt like the gory violence was not only right in my face, but also forced down my throat.

It was really a yuck experience, but in a good way.





And I see Betty Blue has gotten a tad more insane. :D

"The signal" 8/10

* Contains spoilers*

My only tiny "problem" with this one is the scene where Lewis (AJ Bowen was awsome) gets his head smashed in. You actually see half his head disappear. But next time you see him lying on the floor his head is back to normal. A little later he gets up and continues the hunt, looking pretty normal in the face. Maybe the director just thought the head smashing scene was too awsome to cut out or maybe he realized afterwards that the character Lewis Denton was the highlight of the movie. Coz he was. :)

"Day of the dead - the beginning/contagium" 1-2/10

What a pile of poo.

The build-up sucked and took forever, and the story was just horrible from start to finnish.

Buy The Ticket Take The Ride

Pretty decent Hunter S Thompson doco. Enjoyed it a lot and its made me keen to read more of his stuff.

May I personally recommend Viridiana? Also, for Bunuel's closest thing to a horror movie, try The Exterminating Angel.

Up (2009)

What a wonderful film! Another work of art from Pixar (AKA the studio that currently can do no wrong), and even though it isn't quite as stunning as WALL·E it's still easily among their best work. It manages to be incredibly touching without being too saccharine, and delivers a truly thrilling adventure with a great cast of characters, brilliant visuals and lots of laughs. "Kevin" had me in stitches...that bird stole the show for me.

Fans of adventure and/or animation in general: consider this a must-see.

Noted, my friend. Thanks. :)


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Ah, haha. Alright. I'll get back to you. I don't have time to rebut right now.

"Hellboy 2" 8/10

Liked it much better than the first.

Totally agreed on HB2.
It just felt like a better example of fantasy/action, I haven't read much of the comic to compare, but yeah, definately preferred the second.

The Other (1972)

A tale of twin brothers.

>>: B+

Yeh?

I was the opposite. It seemed more geared to kids than the first which put me off it.

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

Out Of The Blue
this one blew me away with its realism and brutality. By far one of the best New Zealand films I've ever seen.

Frailty
Bill Paxton is awesome.

Double Team
wow, that was a good time. I couldn't remember why i had this movie on my wish list, now I do:
Van Damme vs. Rourke

That movie is freakin amazing. Every character is so real. I really loved the old lady.

I still remember the day of that shooting pretty vividly. Where it all went down is just outta town from where I live.

Last watched:

Rest in Pieces: A Portrait of Joe Coleman

Amazing. Quite possibly the best documentary I've seen. Really interesting. If you dug Crumb you've gotta check this one out.

R.O.T.O.R

Low budget Terminator meets Robocop knock off. Had some hilarious moments that only 80s trash like this delivers.

Tales From The Darkside

Lots of fun. This one is the real Creepshow 3 in my eyes. I got a real kick out of David Johansen from the New York Dolls playing the hitman hired to kill the vengeance seeking kitty :D

Saw QUARANTINE today, which started out as really promising. Before I stopped the movie twice in irritation with the writing. Finally made it to the end but found it pretty unsatisfying. Plenty of scares, sure, but not a lot of meat on those bones.

I wanted it to be so much better than it ended up being. Anyone seen the original to compare?

I think it's the lack of some kind of justice that gets to me. No revenge in the end.

Eden Lake actually managed to leave me with a feeling of being stressed out. Seriously. Just like a very stressful and irritating day at work.

Where i appreciated the originality of Irreversible and Funny Games I didn't get anything out of Eden Lake other than some good acting.

The Opposit of Sex

Smart, funny, touching.

Wonderful performances from Christina Ricci, Martin Donovan and Lisa Kudrow

Seconded, the both of them.

Especially The Exterminating Angel, which I can't wait to watch again.

L'eclisse (1962)

The final segment in Antonioni's informal trilogy is a giant question. He boldly asks "so what?", and directs it both at his audience and at himself. Like the central character, Vittoria, the director goes in and out of the narrative, alternating between disinterest and curiosity; he may point his camera at what he wants us to see, or he may point it at something that steals his attention, a momentary distraction. The important thing to note is that out of the infinite number of conceivable stories about potential lovers, Antonioni chooses this one- but the choice is not only unimportant, it is irrelevant; he shows us the selfishness of the organic human being, the idea that every person foolishly looks at the world as a personal camera, and that their life represents the big picture, when in fact life moves on every day with or without any certain individual. When the picture finishes, there is the revelation that the central characters are not really central at all. This doesn't mean that the movie's two stars are not special, however. Alain Delon plays his part with an ecstatic energy which not only makes him delicately interesting- it allows him to be completely absorbed with himself. And Monica Vitti- illuminating seems an understatement for this woman; she is indescribably attractive, and she approaches this part with an innocence that the story simply could not do without. The film is beautiful; Antonioni may not have any answers to his questions, but the process is so natural and soothing that it just doesn't matter.The final segment in Antonioni's informal trilogy is a giant question mark. He boldly asks the question "so what?", and directs it both at his audience and at himself. Like the central character, Vittoria, the director goes in and out of the narrative, alternating between disinterest and curiosity; he may point his camera at what he wants us to see, or he may point it at something that steals his attention, a momentary distraction. The important thing to note is that out of the infinite number of conceivable stories about potential lovers, Antonioni chooses this one- but the choice is not only unimportant, it is irrelevant; he shows us the selfishness of the organic human being, the idea that every person foolishly looks at the world as a personal camera, and that their life represents the big picture, when in fact life moves on every day with or without any certain individual. When the picture finishes, there is the revelation that the central characters are not really central at all. This doesn't mean that the movie's two stars are not special, however. Alain Delon plays his part with an ecstatic energy which not only makes him delicately interesting- it allows him to be completely absorbed with himself. And Monica Vitti- illuminating seems an understatement for this woman; she is indescribably attractive, and she approaches this part with an innocence that the story simply could not do without. The film is beautiful; Antonioni may not have any answers to his questions, but the process is so natural and soothing that it just doesn't matter.

Among the recent victimization or survival horror trend I think Eden Lake is the best of its kind...the "irritation" or "brutality" at the end or through the whole movie made it a modern day classic. Like Anguur, the ending also disturbingly pissed me off at the very first time but later I came to realize that's actually the true beauty or success of this movie!:D

In a situation like this I think people doesn't always react or made the right decisions to save themselves that probably they 'should' to protect them blah-blah...but the misjudgments or ignorance about the situation or the consequences that it leading them towards have always been a major part of this kinda horrifyingly sad incidents. And in case of Eden Lake events where a bunch of ruthless kids were after an innocent couple made the drama even more twisting than other films. Here the ringleader of the little gang was actually playing the main part quite alone and stimulating or forcing others to conducting those course of actions in disturbing but believable fashion even that could happen to anyone in a situation or place like that at anytime.

I guess you just appreciate exactly what i hate about this genre.