Nine Queens (2000). Descent enough con job flick, which was all the more interesting as it was set in Argentina. The story was pretty good and the acting was impressive. There was one rather unfair scene which only served to mislead the viewer, with maybe a couple of holes here and there, but overall worth the watch. The ending was a little contrived, but maybe there have been so many great "con" flicks that incredible endings (aka The Usual Suspects) are in short supply. Ashe.
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District 9.
Best movie I've seen this year...though I don't see a lot of new films...I thought it was really good, *slight spoiler*
The journey of the guy you start with to who he is at the end is a bit mental, the whole thing with *actual spoiler* the collaboration with the alien, was something I had no idea about and didn't expect either. I love that they gave both sides an actual "part". Cool surprise there
Oh, and some goddamn cool fucking weaponary going on there, VERY impressive effects.
Nice, attention holding movie. See it if you can still catch it on the big screen.

Ditto. It was bit unpredictable throughout the movie.
**Spoiler**
I love that scene when the alien robot freeze all the bullets & throw back to the underground gang soldiers, awesome. Btw, I thought it'd be interesting if they could show some details on 'Inter Species Prostitution':D**Spoiler**

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Visually stunning. Brilliant animation/cinematography.
Characterisation should have improved.
Ending is a slight let-down.
Gives off a distinct Wall-E vibe for some reason.
Best to watch - in theaters.

Massacre In Dinosaur Valley

Loved this trashy gem great mix of subgenres I had a blast.

Re-visited a favorite with some friends last night:

Ace in the Hole (1951)

Like many of Wilder's best films, this one involves bad intentions gone worse. Hard-boiled and uncompromising, this story of greed and corruption paints a brutally accurate portrait of the power of the press, and the things it can do to humanity. Kirk Douglas was perfectly cast for this film; he is cocky but unstable, cartoonish but human, tough and weak simultaneously. His tough guy persona lends a helping hand to the already devilishly crafted Chuck Tatem. Molly Haskell poetically described this film as "noir in broad daylight", and I think that description paints a nice picture of the kind of strange genre hybrid Wilder constructs here. The ever sing-songy presence of the big daytime circus comes to a screeching clash with the story's dark themes, and the result is a fierce commentary on the human race still as funny, sad and relevant today as it was in 1951.

I still highly recommend this one to everyone on this site- it's got a little something for everybody. Fort, Return, Geddy, V, Roshiq and Pap Noir, I look at you especially!

Barton Fink

Dragon Hunters- awesome, brilliant, incredible, mind-blowing...

JCVD- Very good, rent it!
Van Damme should should play himself more often, I like him with a little soft creamy middle. Probably would save his career.

Oh yeah, great film! It pairs nicely with Sidney Lumet's Network.

Ah, roshiq! How did you see this?

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Even though it's not a movie, tonight I finished watching the Twin Peaks series with my brother and his girlfriend. Neither of them had seen it before, so a couple of months ago we started watching a few episodes here and there.

It was probably my fourth or fifth time seeing the series all the way through, and it continues to be in my top 5. Hands down. The majority of it is so damn good, in retrospect it's always (even) easy to take in the 8 or so bad episodes.

Wonderful movie. One of the best movies ever made.

The Nugget

Australian comedy about a group of friends who find the biggest gold nugget ever and everything that happens therein.

Very funny.

Big fan of this one...it was actually my first exposure to Wilder's work. Brilliant film.

Oh wow, everyone's already seen it! That's good though.

my last seen as well.

it was beautifully done visually .. but there was no story to speak of. no more depth or origionality than an after school special.

the characters were weak and unorigional as hell.


but it was still worth seeing just to be amazed at what you could drink in with your eyes.

Yep.

I didnt care about the characters or what the story was (Wall-E, Matrix and Terminator future all rolled into one) and thought the time given to set a story such as this was very short.

Just a dazzling visual feast, nothing more.

For the first time ever:

Alien

Now, Aliens

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:mad:

Sonny Boy.

Oh man, this is one crazy movie!

Some unoriginal (but in pretty good quality) dvds are now available here in a store. Just bought them one & gave it a watch the other night. You won't be laughing out loud with most of the scenes, but there will be a smile in your face the whole way through. The humor works very well with the characters in it.
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Last seen:

Countess Dracula (1971)

>>: B-


*batteries Not Included (1987)

Charming little nostalgic experience.

>>: B+


Aliens in the Attic (2009)

>>: B-

Smash Cut (2009)

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A tribute to the low budget schlock of Herschell Gordon Lewis' films.
Bad story, bad acting but still worth watching for the original fans of Lewis who may have that 'so-bad-they're-good' feel from this splatstick comedy. Featuring a cast of grindhouse and/or B-movie legends like David Hess (steals the show), Michael Berryman, Ray Sager and plus a H.G. Lewis appearance and adult film starlet Sasha Grey in this blood-splattered celebration of H.G Lewis’s work.

>>: C+

Twilight ...................... :o


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So my friend and I had read the book and decided to have a girl's night, knock back a couple of beers, and try to live our teenage romantic years... ... ... OK, I really don't have much of an excuse for watching this movie, especially since I had heard how awful it was from various sources, but I just finished the book and I had hoped that at least a PART of the film would make me feel like a silly 17-year-old in love again...

But not so much. It was pretty turgid. Over-dramatic. TERRIBLY acted (ok, I'm a total pedophile for saying this, but I think that Robert Pattinson is ridiculously hot, but he can't act his way out of a paper bag), and just... really really cheesy. I realize that the target demographic are "'tweens," but could we please give them some damn credit! Sure, I was brooding and moody at 17, but I was also intelligent, well-spoken, and enjoyed movies with substance. Of course, there isn't much to the book outside of the silly love story (not very much conflict or drama, so I'd say that the movie at least added a bit of that), but the on screen "intensity" was enough to make me scoff. They should have made this a silent picture with the amount of baleful glances back and forth.

Ick.

Oh, well. This will remain a guilty pleasure and nothing but, but it was still pretty awful regardless. I think that it could have been a lot better. Not amazing, but at least watchable.

2/5.

i saw twilight in the theatre, and again on dvd...

and i still cant remember a damn thing about the movie..

i've never experienced such a total lack of 'presence' in my life.

vampires supposedly throw no reflections ... neither does this movie.

(i didnt hate it - i didnt anything it)

Don't you judge me!

Definitely! Especially if it had a different cast, plot, and was based on a different book, maybe a good one. :D

In all seriousness, I never have and never plan to read the book or watch the movie, so I have no real opinion on it.

Cabin Fever

nice original piece

Err soo the Canadian horror movie channel Scream has recently rebranded and turned into the Dusk channel. aka they played a bunch of Supernatural reruns on Scream, their female demographic shot through the roof so now they just play psychological thrillers and chick flicks with a paranormal edge. I'm upset by this, but with them debuting on 09/09/09 their gimic has been to play some newer and/or good movies for 9 days stright at 9pm. Last night's line-up wasn't bad.

We watched Silence of the Lambs which is my bf's favourite.
Then Misery which just scares the shit out of me. Kathy Bates has scared me since childhood.

Whiteout (2009)

Flat-out insulting to the viewer's intelligence. Not only is the plot dull and predictable, the writers felt the need to spell everything out as often as possible. I honestly can't remember the last time I saw a movie with such an ungodly amount of awful expository dialogue, and so many useless flashbacks.

Beyond that, it gives you no reason to care what's going on. The characters are underdeveloped, and there is no tension whatsoever. When the "mystery" - if you can call it that - was solved near the end, it may have been the most anti-climactic climax of all time. I just sat there thinking "Yes...and?".

There really isn't anything redeeming about this movie, at all...and I haven't even mentioned the gaping holes in logic (a certain underground escape left me in awe of it's idiocy), the horrid CGI, the sloppy editing - the list goes on. I haven't read the graphic novel that this was based on, so perhaps it's more worthwhile. The movie sure as Hell isn't.

The Sixth Sense

That ending still gets me.

Yeah, I think that sums it up pretty well. I think the only reason why it stuck with me is that I enjoyed the book (just a silly summer "'tween" read) and was disappointed how awful the movie turned out to be. I mean, high school romance shouldn't be THAT hard to put on screen, right?

LOL - I know, the book isn't great; I certainly wouldn't recommend it to anyone... But it should have been an easy movie to make; pure teen fantasy. But it was just... ick.

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Liked it quite a bit.

The Incredible Hulk
A bit far off from the comic as far as origins go, but better than most Marvel movies. norton and Roth were both very fun to watch. We watched the deleted scenes and I think they should have left a few of them in to back up the way General Ross is an ass in the comics.

Survival of the Dead.

loved it. top notch acting, great cinematography, best one since Day.

Ahhh there's the answer to my question in the other thread :D

Can't wait till this is released.

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)

An excellent addition to the franchise. Loved every part of it. Great animation, great humor and overall a great family film.

>>: A


Sleep Dealer (2008)

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Very original and impressive idea. Bit slow paced but the portrayal of the future and its look of globalization, immigration, the coexistence of humans and technology and transnational borders were interesting. Aside from director's critique on social and political progress, the story sometimes feel flat. The concept was ambitious & had potentials but eventually leaves a bit to be unsatisfied.

>>: B

The African Queen (1951). Classic love story set in an exotic and adventurous setting. Some of the scenery of Uganda was spendid and the river rapid scenes were incredible. Overall a great film.

le petit lieutenant (2006). A slow burner of a French police drama, this flick beautifully protrays the tedium of being a detective, drinking and being silly until the call of duty finally comes. The characters are revealed to be normal, even mundane, and thusly believable. When there is finally a crime to be inspected, it is not the crime of the century, but rather just a typical crime, and typical detective work ensues. The beauty of this film is that it protrays real life without being flat or overly boring. The caracters are perfectly defective, like all of us. Instead of superheroes, we have a collection of drunks, burnouts, racists, rookies, etc. That this mundane collection of people will lead to an event that will change all of their lives is the extraordinary element of this film. Ashe.
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One part of that movie really stuck with me to be honest. The baseball scene... I loved it.

hiya
 

friday the 13th , when jasons mummy was alive and kicking

John Carpenter's The Thing (1982) - Scientists in the Antarctic are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people that it kills.

F**ing awesome

It is indeed fucking awesome :cool:

I can't for the life of me figure out what the Hell is going on in your sig.