I Love You Man

I laughed out loud a couple of times

Mirrors (2008). Pretty cool flick with some good ideas. It was not as Hollywood as i expected it would be, but it was still pretty much standard fare. i liked the ending. Ashe.
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Super Capers.
A pisstake on the superhero thing that wasn't another "movie" movie seemed like it could work. What you get is a watered down hybrid of Mystery Men and Sky High.
It was funny in maybe 2 places...but really not worth the watch...and every fucking parody pointed out as though every single person ever watching it would've missed everything. "Look, a parody. Idiot"
Crap.

"The Golden Hawk" (1954)
-Sterling Hayden, Rhonda Fleming

Plot: IMDB

Kit Gerardo, also known as The Hawk, is one of Frances's most daring privateers, rescues Rouge from a Spanish ship. She is also a pirate, working to restore the fortune the French took from her. When Kit is captured by the governor of Cartagena, Luis del Toro, Rouge demands that he be hanged for piracy. Only one person knows it, but Kit is the governor's son.

Phantom's Review: Low budget, but fun pirate adventure. Great sea battles. good looking women, and cool sword fights. Very enjoyable.

No doubt, really enjoyed it.

Scars of Dracula (1970)

Another great Hammer Dracula sequel. This action packed installment has some nice sequences, including the discovery of bodies horribly gored by bats in a church , Dracula climbing up the Castle wall as Bram Stoker noted, and a vampire seduction ending with Dracula stabbing the woman to death. Christopher Lee has more screen time than usual, and here Dracula is thoroughly evil and sadistic.

>>: B+

Death Bell (2008). Starts out promising, then gets rather slow in building up the premise, get a little more interesting, after which it takes off like a demon rocket. This turned out to be a pretty brutal and twisted Korean flick that kept me guessing till the very end. One plot is still bugging me, but i probably just missed something. Definitely worth a watch. Ashe.
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district 9


asolutely amazing in every way.

i know sooner or later there will be those who will think its cool to say they thought the movie sucked ...

i cant wait to hear how articulately that will be explained.

I didn't like it- my review's a page or two back if you want articulation.

Theoretically it was well concieved, and there's plenty of good ideas in it, but the central character is as dull and unlikable as they come- so after awhile I was numb to any of his pain.

Effects-wise it was phenomenal, but after awhile I was tired of brain-splatter-camera shots and a film which tried to attain all of its emotional height by close-ups of a man going "Oh fook. Oh fookin shit, man", "You're my fooking wife, man!", "What the fook?!", etc.

funny, but it wasnt the documentary approach to the film that achieved realism for me .. it was the man you hated so much.

i thought his character was completely believable. you dont have to like a character for a character to be real. i thought the guy was 100% dead on. there were clues given here and there that painted a much more detailed portrait of the man and his life.. Much more layered than you give credit for.

your criticism to me sounds like the movie isnt cinematic enough .. i can dig it if you dont like documentary style films ..

i dont mind them .. ikeep hearing people moaning about them all being alike ... (but nothing said about the 10,000 of other films all being shot alike in the non documentary style ?

the splatter was real .. these are what these weapons did ..

unless you want to go back to the days of the western where people got shot, bloodlessly held their chest and fell over ... then you might have to deal with realistic violence.



i cna honestly say that there wasnt a frame of this film that ddnt ring true to me with one exception ...

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the fuel they needed also triggers a transformation in humans ?


but the film was so good i was easily able to overlook the convenience



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now that i think of it- the gun, the ship .. the technology was based on biology - so maybe that wasnt as goofy as i was initially thinking.

Confessions of a Shopaholic.

Fun little chick flick that I watched with my mom. It was a guilty-pleasure blast.

3/5.

It wasn't the actual explosions, it was that fact that the brain matter had to splatter onto the camera lens. And one time was okay, but I grew tired of that gimmick.

The Haunting of Molly Hartley (2008) --A steaming pile of suck. Even chicks in school uniforms couldn't save this movie.

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Thoughts on the last two?

Funny People - Could have been better. Had some genuinely funny moments but second half felt like a bit of an overkill. Is it just me, or Sandler doesnt tickle the funny bones anymore?

Inglourious Basterds - Kickass. Amazing how much versatility Tarantino has poured into this one, making it unique and different from the original on which this is based. Eli Roth was a real revelation (he should look to act more). I d say its 2009's #2 so far, behind District 9.

I thought Sandler was really funny, but I grew up with him so there'll always be a place for the guy in my heart.

Reservoir Dogs (1992)

Are you gonna bark all day, little doggy, or are you gonna bite?

>>: A

Grace (2009)

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One of the best in Horror this year.

>>: A-

The Fall (2006). i am sorta wavering on whether i really liked this one or not. Visually arresting and very well done, then near ending just seemed off in its execution, though the very ending was quite powerful. In a sense it almost fell flat just before it ended, which is ironic because that is the plight of the main character. Definitely worth a watch, and when all is said and done, and a little time has passed, i will probably really come to like it. Ashe.
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The last movie I saw was the Haunting in Connecticut. It was alright.

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I had this on my top 11 of 2008. Loved it.

I just watched:

Elite Squad

A City of God-style Brazilian favela cop story is brutal and fun and interesting with a solid ending, but a meandering pace and somewhat displeasing structure. Worth a rent if you dig tough-guy cop stories with subtitles.

7/10

A Perfect Getaway--Note to aspiring screenwriters--a twist is not a story, and therefore not a film. What a waste of time.

The last horror film I saw was The Haunting in Connecticut. It wasn't all that bad, a little of the modern "shocks with CGI" that seem to be all to prevalent in todays horror films. 6/10.

Rewatched Halloween (2007). I take back what I said about it being 'the worst remake.' I think when I first watched it I had just watched House of 1000 Corpses or something, which REALLY sucks. Decent flick, but hate the first hour. Too much on the 'psyche', not enough on the stabby. Might go see part 2 tomorrow if it isn't too crowded.

Hannibal

I've always enjoyed the fact that there's more Hannibal in this film, as the name would suggest, as he's an interesting character. I somehow feel I would like him. But I fear the more I watch it the more things don't seem to work in the film. Just little things. Where did Lecter get the chloroform from after the pig incident? Surely they would have taken any he had on his persons from him. There were others. But it's still an enjoyable film with a good ending, although I would have prefered the original one. I also thought Julianna Moore was a good choice for Starling.

4/5

Same, saw it at midnight.

Fireproof......

Slingblade
a powerful film.

Iron Man (2008)

Hide (2008)

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>>: C-

Total Recall.
I just love this movie...not having seen it for about 3-4 years only made me enjoy it more. Classic stuff. I hope that one day I'll see another action/sci-fi movie I consider equal to this.

That. Looks. AWESOME. Adding it to my Netlfix queue right now. Thanks for the rec! :)



I feel the same way. GORGEOUS but with a lot of weaknesses.

... Well?

WELL?!?!?!

I really want to see this. Any good guys?

Didnt like it very much. I thought the basic premise was a big letdown.
Zombie did a half-decent job with the atmosphere and the pacing, but overall...flat.
I sincerely hope he doesnt make #3.

Knowing (2008). Great story with some absolutely incredible special effects. i swear the score was in a Korean flick, maybe from the Oldboy series? i did not like the ending only because of its implications.

As a non-Christian the biblical imagery and references were rather annoying. i mean, the star people had angelic freaking wings, ephemeral as they were. At the very end, in the new "Garden of Eden," i could not help but to look for apples in that tree amongst the fileds of gold. In all honesty, had the ending catered to my own beliefs in such a strong fashion then i probably would have loved it, but it didn't. Just saying. Ashe.
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I liked it quite a bit. I knew exactly what I was going into when I went. I thought the movie was great in terms of visuals. I was surprised at how big of a role Brad Dourif had and was quite pleased with it. It was a fucking brutal movie, of course, but Zombie does a better job at fleshing out his characters (save Loomis) from his original. I never bought Laurie's "tough girl" act, though I thought that helped the movie. Annie seems to have matured and is worried about her father's health, which I thought was a pretty good decision. Brackett stole the show for me though, best performance in the movie. And damn it, I just love seeing Michael Myers!

Enjoyed it and I will be buying the DVD and using it frequently. I love watching Zombie's movies when I'm drunk with friends. Haha.

Currently at Festival of Fear - been spending most of my time checking out horror flicks in the "Screaming Rooms". Here's what I've caught so far:


My Name Is Bruce (2007)

Had rock bottom expectations for this - largely thanks to all the crap it gets around here - but I actually really enjoyed it. The plot was pretty ridiculous (of course) and the supporting cast was horrible...but Bruce made it all worthwhile. Even though he's just playing himself, it's got to be one of his most entertaining performances...hilarious.

Maybe it's just because my expectations were so low, or maybe it's just because I watched it in a room full of rabid Bruce Campbell fans, but for whatever reason I thought it was great fun.


Laid to Rest (2009)

Best slasher I've seen in years. In all honesty I'm pretty tired of the genre, but this was badass. The main thing that set it apart from the typical slasher was the main girl...she completely broke away from the traditional "survivor girl" formula, and her brain damage really made for a unique kind of character. On top of that, the kills were insane...usually I could care less about gore, but it's incredibly well done here - lots of the red stuff, and kills that I can bet you've never seen before; really original stuff and a super cool looking villain.

Highly recommended to all slasher fans, a must-see for sure.


Deadgirl (2008)

Well...definitely an original concept. It had some flaws in the script and some logic trouble in spots, but overall I was pretty impressed. Some fucked up shit in this one, but its a fresh idea and really well executed. I'd recommend this one as well...not as strongly as Laid to Rest, but it's worth a look for sure.

Poker Run (2008)

I'll be gentle on this one - the co-writer/producer was there introducing it, and said that we weren't watching the final edit. The film's only major issue was the pacing near the first; things took what seemed like forever to get started. Hopefully they fix that in the final cut, because once shit starts hitting the fan this is a pretty solid thriller. Doesn't really bring anything new to the table - two wannabe bikers go on a Poker Run with their wives, meet up with two guys who turn out to be all kinds of fucked up and kidnap the wives - but it turned out to be a pretty fucking brutal cat-and-mouse game. Nothing special really, but once it got going I was entertained for sure. I think some of you around here will like this one...not for everybody though.

That's it for now...going to check out at least one more tomorrow, maybe more depending on the schedule.

Sin Nombre (2009)

Beauty wrapped in ugliness wrapped in beauty wrapped in ugliness. It's a film which substitutes the flashiness these types of movies usually have (Meirelles, Lund and Boyle, I'm looking at you) and replaces it with moments of reflection, both soft and heavy. The violence is teetering on unbearable but for as many torturous moments as there are there are just as many moments of warmth, stemming from believable relationships of friendship and love. The story is helped by tremendous acting; Edgar Flores and Paulina Gaitan are extraordinary and revealing- heartbreakingly real. Through its themes of extreme human suffering, director Cary Fukunaga's debut film is filled with incredible photography and endearing storytelling.

Highly, highly, HIGHLY recommended.

Halloween 2


Wow. Rob Zombie might just be cool after all. That was fucking great! Not to mention Myers actually ANNIHILATING people with the knife for once. Constant stabs. The ending was a bit bizarre, but expected. It actually gave me a bit of a 'Dark Knight' feel. One scene comes to mind.


7.5/10

Walled In (2009)--Crap. Misha Barton can't act her way out of a wet paper bag, and Cameron Bright approaches Shia LaBeouf levels of annoyance.