Mum & Dad.

Being as the dvd case said it was the "extreme unrated version" I was expecting it to be a little more... extreme. It was good. I enjoyed it. I liked frontier(s) more, for this kind of thing.

Wild Strawberries (1957)

An artistic piece of emotional observation of life's love, regrets, and losses that comes with a highly sincere touch from Bergman. One of his best of the best.

>>: A+


Where the Wild Things Are (2009)

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>>: B+

Planet of the Apes (Remake)- Not too bad, easy enough to watch but not a particularly good film. Acting is pretty good, Paul Giamatti is quality as the slave trader and provides some much needed comedy.

Sheitan (2006). Pretty witty little French flick that threatens to turn nasty at ever corner. The acting was fine, and the characters were a great trio of boorish thugs, potential sluts/teases, and creepy creepies. When things get going they get weird, with the central creep really got my skin crawling. The disconcerting feeling it generates is almost on par with Calvaire and Frontiers, only that it spends more actually generating this icky feeling, like a smoldering fire that may erupt at any time. Some things are just wrong, and this film seems attracted to such things like a moth to a flame. The ending, while not at all what i expected, was actually good in its own way. All in all i really liked it. Ashe.
d

Avatar (2009)

Absolutely breathtaking...I'm not jumping on the "best movie ever" bandwagon, but it's one of the year's best for sure and has some of the most mindblowing effects that I've ever seen.

Deserves the hype - see in in theatres.

How was this?

I liked it more than Frontier(s) because how it was loosely based on true events.

"Paranormal Activity"

While it wasn't the scariest movie ever made, it was still a very creepy and well made little movie. It takes a little while to get going. but it was worth it. A nice addition to the horror genre.

Night at the Museum 2- Some high points some low points.

Last Move I watched
 

The original Phantasm film on DVD. I don't have cable, so if I can't see something on You-Tube, I just buy the DVD.:cool:

Pretty solid entertainer. Has a great soundtrack too. See if you can dig it out.

Knowing
wasn't as good as Avatar

If only you had seen it before...

Avatar will be the benchmark from now, and many (if not all) will fall well short.

Halloween 2 remake.

Coffin Rock (2009)

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Another psycho thriller from the producers of Wolf Creek, in a remote fishing town, happily married Rob and Jess have been trying to have a baby for three long years and she is becoming desperate. In a drunken mistake, she sleeps with Evan, a young stranger come to town whose interest in her borders on the obsessive. The day she discovers she is pregnant, Jess' guilt turns to horror as Evan begins a terrifying transformation from stalker to psychopath, determined to prove paternity of the child and claim Jess for his own. In the vein of Fatal Attraction and Cape Fear, Coffin Rock is a story of infidelity, leading to harassment, terror and murder.

>>: B-


(500) Days of Summer (2009)

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Wow! A really pretty nice romantic flick with a beautiful story that I have been missing for quite a long time. Marvelous performance from JGL & Zooey.

>>: A-

and....

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Back to back:)

One False Move (1992). This rather simple story is effectively told, with appropriate character development and an effective big city cops meets backwater police chief. After a pretty gruesome start, this film settles down and events move forward perfectly. The small town feel in Arkansas was nicely created. The acting was superb on all accounts, with Cynda Williams making for an alluring though haunting antiheroine. The direction was great, and at times the camera work fun and creative. The dialogue was well crafted. All in all a great little flick. Ashe.
derek

exactly:cool:

You lucky dog.

watching Dario Argento's: Inferno

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A powerful and amazing film. Quaid is absolutely brilliant in it. One of the most underrated and highly overlooked masterpieces of our time.

Highly recommended to Return, Fortunato, Alky, Psycho_d, Rod, NE, and anyone else who loves such gritty shots at brutal realism in their cinema.

I guess I saw it once on a movie channel here but that was quite a long time ago, really a brilliant piece it was as far I remember. Later I looked for the dvd here but couldn't find it on the stores. Anyway, thanks for the reminder; I'll definitely looking for it next time again.

Paranormal Entity (2009)

Recommended to all PARANORMAL ACTIVITY lovers & haters. Here's my brief review.

>>: B+

Gutterballs (2008). Absolute sleaze gore that i enjoyed none the less. Would this be considered sexploitation or is it in another class??? It was pretty graphic in both gore and sex.


Always looking out for us. Sounds great.
d

cold prey - not bad for a slasher

Sexploitation indeed. The movie is pretty much a homage to the similar flicks of the late 70s and 80s actually.

Tell me you got the sequel too, Urge. Pretty effective companion piece to the original's continuity.

Black Christmas (Original of course, gets better every time. Can't wait til I have kids to introduce this tradition to.)
Life is Beautiful (happiest sad movie I've ever seen.)

Going to have A nightmare on elm street marathon when my brother gets here. He said he wanted to watch them all. Woooo! :D

Thirt13n Ghosts

My last seen movie was some christmas 1. My last seen "hooror" was prom night. That was more of a thriller though.

i downloaded it - somewhere.


last seen,

Avatar - in 3D

very entertaining ...formulatic - but entertaining

Tsotsi (2005). An absolutely powerful film from South Africa, Tsotsi is a profound tale of a thug's return to humanity. The acting was splendid, the direction great, and the cinematography captured both the intimate feelings of characters as well as the landscape of desparation that they live in. Great film from all sides. Ashe.
derek

Avatar (2009)

Well, what I most want to say about this one is that I haven't felt this way after leaving a theatre since Jurassic Park.

What a knock-out. What grows from a slightly-overused Fern Gully-esque cautionary tale plot (and I don't even mean that as negatively as it sounds), is as wondrous as the gorgeous, new nature we're exposed to for all of the film's nearly 3 hours.

All-in-all, pretty great.

Sherlock Holmes (2009)

Great entertainment. I'll admit that I'm not overly well-versed in Holmes history (I've only read a couple of the original stories, and the only film version I've seen is the Peter Cushing Hound of the Baskervilles) but as far as I can tell this version still sticks to the core of what makes Holmes such an amazing character, and also fully succeeds in updating him for a modern audience. Could have done without the love interest - though Rachel McAdams is drop-dead gorgeous as always, her character could easily have been written out.

A solid action movie with a crackling script and great performances wrapped around a half-decent mystery - Downey Jr. continues his hot streak and leads this to be one of the most entertaining films of '09. I can see Holmes purists getting pissed at certain elements, but overall it's a fantastic facelift for a classic character.

The Name of the Rose (1986). i was lucky to have seen this movie about 2 weeks after reading the book Civilization of the Middle Ages. Otherwise, some of the historical nuances would have made no sense. The setting is pretty accurately portrayed, and the underlying backstory concerning the two sects of monks was spot on. Sean Connery was of course his good old self, and newcomer Christian Slater played the young apprentice with aplomb. He must have been stoked to do the scene with "the girl." The mood of restrictive repression of the times was nicely created, and the camera captured the dirty and ominous medieval nature of the land, monastary, and peasant village. The story was strong and well layed out. The direction was great. While the ending smelled of Hollywood, it did not detract anything from the wonderful nature of this film. Overall a really good watch. Ashe.
derek

i've been calling it ferngully as well.


last seen,


Sherlock holmes .. fabtastic
Horsemen
monsters inc (blu-ray)

Killer Klowns from Outer Space. :cool:

Bruno
thought it was actually pretty funny.

Planet Terror w/ my zombie hating Dad. Good times.