yeah

Irreversible. Really good. The rape scene was brutal. Really hard to watch.

yeah you're pretty dumb

exploding cannon balls?

exploding cannon balls?

<i>You don't get it.</I>

Irreversible. Really good. The rape scene was brutal. Really hard to watch.

What did you think was really good about it

no exploding cannonballs lol

i'm 5 episodes into season 2 of breaking bad

i don't know how this survives on basic cable but i am really fucking glad it does. what a spectacular show. bryan cranston and aaron paul.. probably the best acting i've ever seen on television?

i want to keep watching but i really shouldn't : x

also not sure why it took me so long to start watching it.

yeah its the best show on teevee. except for mad men

season 2 of breaking bad was so cartoonish

new treme starts soon, that'll be good

lows: jonah hill's girlfriend is peggy from mad men? never in the real universe.

seems less impossible

eat a dick redbreegull, you wish my life sucked _|_

oh, and funny games (austrian) was excellent.

Still haunts me from time to time.

season 2 of breaking bad was so cartoonish



you're familiar with the premise of the show, yeah? kind of automatically cartoonish.

you're familiar with the premise of the show, yeah? kind of automatically cartoonish.

am i "familiar with the premise of the show"?


seriously do you talk like this normally

why don't you just say "have you seen the show"

i guess because I OBVIOUSLY HAVE BECAUSE I AM COMMENTING ON THE SECOND SEASON

fucking hell eulogy

fucking hell.

i mean if someone makes a statement about a subset of an entity, and the subset being discussed is of the chronological variety, and moreover is the most recent of these, you can safely infer that the observation being made is in comparison to other subsets that came before

don't you have an english degree or something

it's not the most recent subset. plus i would have thought you would have understood that it's going to be cartoonish based on the premise. but you know. be a dick about it if it makes you feel good.

breaking bad rulez

it's not the most recent subset. plus i would have thought you would have understood that it's going to be cartoonish based on the premise. but you know. be a dick about it if it makes you feel good.
there's a third season? okay, i didn't know that. i stopped watching it. because the second season was

wait for it

so cartoonish

THE IMPLICATION BEING THAT THE FIRST SEASON WAS NOT SO CARTOONISH AS TO BE UNWATCHABLE

BUT BE A MORON ABOUT IT IF IT MAKES YOU FEEL GOOD

we will now spend three pages delving into the etymology of the modifier "so" and how eulogy is incapable of basic comprehension

COMMENCE

I THINK I'LL PASS, THANKS

sorry, you failed.

Paul - B
I was pleasantly surprised given the premise, the lack of Edgar Wright, and the fact that the alien was voiced by Seth Rogen.

Scream 4 - C-

Congratulations, Wes Craven, you made a film that is self-referential about being self-referential. About itself.

Red Riding Hood or whatever it's called - F

Nothing to like here. Cinema has enough hunky, stilted werewolf men as it is. Clumsy dialogue, fuck all character development, basically just weak allegorical abstinence porn.

Scream 4 - C-

Congratulations, Wes Craven, you made a film that is self-referential about being self-referential. About itself.



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Dead Man - A.
I lived under a rock and didn't even know about it till I was told and downloaded it.

Easy A - well now... I watched all of it, which I hardly do with movies, so that's something

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Really beautiful film by Wim Wenders about Pina Bausch. Cinematography was pretty stunning, and i'll probably see it a few more times to get a better opinion about it as a whole, but just now it's a B+

Talking Funny

I could listen to those four people for hours. A bit short, though.

Thor

Doesn't really seem like a stand-alone project; rather, it's a movie in which the story does little besides set up future movies (in this case, The Avengers movie which comes out next year). Fun to watch, and some decent humor at times, but overall kinda meh.

C

2081

Interesting short film with underdeveloped ideas.

B-

Thor - C+
accidentally bought a 3d ticket, it wasn't nearly as offensive as I thought it would be

Close Encounters of the Third Kind - ehhh, this was OK. I liked the subtle humor thrown in, too.

i watched Eternal sunshine of the Spotless Mind again, it really kicks inception to the curb

yeah you know, it was the movie that i thought of the most during inception. And yeah, it's a lot better. Probably the last good movie Jim Carrey made.

Wait...only?

Thor was OK. not great. but entertaining...

B

local theater had 2d, 3d and 3d IMAX. i had read that the 3D was terribly done, so I bought a ticket for the 2D version instead. Not sure why anybody would pay $20 a ticket to see a crap conversion blown up to IMAX size???

'cause it's in 3D. people don't just see things in 3D everyday you know

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Wait...only?

definitely only

eternal sunshine is definitely my favorite of jim carrey's movies, but he's made other good ones:

truman show
er...i love you philip morris
the mask?

oh yeah the mask, that was pretty good

yes, but it's worth adding that bruce almighty was a steaming pile of preachy horseshit

truman show


actually i saw this last weekend for the first time since... it was in theaters? dunno, been awhile

it held up unbelievably well. i'm tempted to say "it was ahead of its time!" but i guess there are other movies that have done the 'world within a world' thing. i'm not a film aficionado so i wouldn't know.

i love how the first half is all about truman and then - boom - it switches over to the outside world and who's pulling the strings. it's like a scorsese film where it ends up being a completely different film in its latter half. and it never takes itself too srsly so it gets away with such a ridiculous plot

yeah truman show is good.

yes, but it's worth adding that bruce almighty was a steaming pile of preachy horseshit

this is completely correct

Army of Darkness - Bruce Campbell and Sam Raimi/Ted Raimi make a good team, as always. this was great

strange powers: stephin merritt and the magnetic fields

i enjoyed it quite a bit. only picked up on him recently despite having 69 love songs sitting on my hdd for years, but this was a nice portrait of him and the band afaik.

Island of Dr Moreau - pretty strange; loved the book - the movie was ok, i guess

Priest - I enjoyed it; opened the way for a sequel, though

Scream 4 - pretty funny but useless

Upside Down: The Creation Records Story - gotta love a documentary containing some of my fave musick

Army of Darkness - Bruce Campbell and Sam Raimi/Ted Raimi make a good team, as always. this was great

no shit

Just watched Come and See for what I think is the third time. So so great. Apparently, live ammunition was used in some of the fighting scenes.

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i've wanted to see that for a long time based on the film poster alone

no shit

i know

Priest

Meh.

D+

Pirates of the Carribean: On Stranger Tides

Got a little repetitive with all the Johnny Depp/Penelope Cruz banter that didn't really go anywhere for most of the movie. Not much going on that didn't happen in the last three movies, though the story of this movie was a step up from the confusing clusterfuck that was At World's End. I've always liked the interactions between Depp and Geoffrey Rush in the series; they play off each other well. Overall, the movie was okay, I guess.

C+

Apparently the pre-release buzz on X-Men: First Class is terrific.

bridesmaids :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:

Hangover II is being raped in most all reviews. Shocking.

bridesmaids :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:

This actually looks pretty funny. Probably wait for the DVD though.

the Adjustment Bureau was really good, I thought, up until the end which was kind of lame.

Rango was definitely darker than expected but it was also not all that funny or entertaining, so we didn't watch all of it. Went to sleep instead.

Aalso, Friday night, I re-watched Down by Law, which is such an excellent movie.

X-Men: First Class

Entertaining reboot. Liked that it had a sense of humor, too. James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender were solid in their roles, and Kevin Bacon was an enjoyably manic villain. The Hugh Jackman cameo was great. At times it was a bit draggy, and with an ensemble cast like this, it's inevitable that some of the roles will be a little under-written. But overall, a solid popcorn flick.

Oh, and I think I'm in love with Jennifer Lawrence. Super cute, and great as a young and impressionable Mystique.

B+

Hangover II is being raped in most all reviews. Shocking.

why do you post shit like this

by the way i'm not like super excited about x-men but kevin bacon as sebastian shaw is absolutely awesome

die welle- german adaptation of the novel the wave. not bad, a bit too cool for me sometimes, but i enjoyed it. i loved that book in middle school.

i watched Eternal sunshine of the Spotless Mind again, it really kicks inception to the curb

hate inception.

bridesmaids was cute. i watched it with my best gal pal and we had a lot of laughs.

four dogs - A

hilarious. black comedy about british suicide bombers

being john malkovich - B

the machinist - A+

four dogs - A

hilarious. black comedy about british suicide bombers


Chris Morris is a motherfucking genius, I want to see this so bad.

if you don't know now you know: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brass_Eye

bridesmaids at the theater two weeks in a ros :cool:

black swan

STUPID! STUPID! STUPID!

i finally watched pineapple express & i don't get the hype.

anybody ever seen Waking Life? it kind of blew my mind last night. through a lot of it (especially the first half) i was doing a lot of eye-rolling and loud sighs and wondering when it was going to end but i thought it came together nicely eventually.

bridesmaids at the theater two weeks in a ros :cool:

It's actually one of the funnier movies I've seen lately. I mean, it's kinda dumb but has quite a lot of funny bits.

four dogs - A

hilarious. black comedy about british suicide bombersfour lions

it's about crows though.

Chris Morris is a motherfucking genius, I want to see this so bad.

if you don't know now you know: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brass_Eye

it's on netflix instant mang

anybody ever seen Waking Life? it kind of blew my mind last night. through a lot of it (especially the first half) i was doing a lot of eye-rolling and loud sighs and wondering when it was going to end but i thought it came together nicely eventually.

when that movie came out a lot of people that went to school with me started taking lucid dreaming seriously. That lasted about six or seven months.

i thought that movie was pretty fucking dumb to begin with but all the cell coloring or whatever you call it was interesting to look at.

black death - warped perspective, guess it's appropriate though. not bad, just super dramatic.

rango - not sure how i feel about this. it was weird, not at all what i was expecting really. sort of subversive, but nothing really kept me too interested.

DiG!

Starring The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Dandy Warhols

Depressing and embarrassing. Anton Newcombe reminds me of some people that I've known. It's cool to see such continuous creation unfold, but the whole thing is just one big implosion...

Chris Morris is a motherfucking genius, I want to see this so bad.

if you don't know now you know: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brass_Eye

i was just going to say that you asshole!

rubber - killer tire. pretty bizarre.

Crazy movie news: During the filming of an action scene in The Dark Knight Rises, Anne Hathaway got carried away and accidentally bashed a stuntman full-force in the face with the butt of a gun, leaving the poor guy with a black-and-blue mug.

http://www.movieweb.com/news/the-dark-knight-rises-finds-anne-hathaway-injuring-stuntman

thats some fucking crazy movie news right there! hold the movie news presses, we got something mental up in here!

Cedar Rapids - some funny parts; overall not great

Idiots and Angels - unique but just ok

Kaboom - really awful

The Clinic - ehhh

After.Life - thought this was OK but didn't this already happen better in Awake?

X men fc A-

super 8 B+

Super 8

War of the Worlds meets The Goonies, with a dash of Stand By Me. Some stellar acting, some cute laugh-out-loud moments and a few really neat action sequences (that train crash was hella awesome). The whole wasn't as good as the sum of the parts, though; it was a bit interminable at times, which kept it from being as good as it could have been. Overall, a solid homage to old Spielberg movies of the late 70s/early 80s.

B

Green Lantern

Felt like a poor man's Thor to me. It seemed like the script needed another rewrite or two, as most of the movie's attempts at humor fell flat and the dramatic parts often came off as corny and forced. I felt like Ryan Reynolds was kinda stuck in neutral as Hal Jordan, and I've never been much of a Blake Lively fan. Mark Strong as Sinestro was probably my favorite thing about the movie. Solid effects and action sequences, though they could have been a little more creative with the Green Lantern's abilities. Overall, not half-bad, not half-good.

C-

I'm taking a class about film adaptations, so I've just seen a bunch of American dramas on the silver screen such as:

The Emperor Jones
Long Day's Journey Into Night
The Glass Menagerie
A Streetcar Named Desire (oh god)
Picnic (even worse)
A Raisin In The Sun
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (actually loved this one)
The Piano Lesson

and we are watching three more next week before the class ends. x___x

Everything about Super 8 was so mediocre. I'd give it a solid C for sure.

Paul - F

I was really surprised at how much this movie blowed, wasn't expecting this crap at all. I like Simon Pegg and Nick Frost and Superbad was great. There's nothing redeeming here. Not funny and the anti-religious preachyness was very annoying.

Green lantern. B-

Not great, not near as bad as reviews are saying

it's not a movie, but i've been going through all the seasons of Weeds (just about to start season 6) ... i saw season 1 long ago and thought 'meh'... premise was good but the acting and writing was a bit wonky so i never had much interest in continuing

so fast forward some 5 years later, i'm at a used dvd store and figure whatever, bought all six seasons. and god... i love this show so much. and i love mary louise parker. the fact a woman born in 1964 can still look that good is mindblowing

anyway judging from reviews online there seems to be a consensus that the show was good for the first three seasons but afterwards it went downhill but i couldn't disagree more. not saying the last two seasons were amazing, but it did a good balancing act of making the show 'darker' with maintaining comedy elements. yeah its not set in the suburbs anymore, but who cares? thats what keeps it realistic, things change. especially when you traffic insane amounts of drugs

I watched The Way of the Warrior yesterday. Aesthetically, I liked it a lot, even if most of it was made on a computer. But it did feel like something was lacking. Good eye candy though, some really striking shots / imagery.

Hot Coffee - B+/A-?

doc on hbo about "tort reform" that dispels a lot of the uninformed and ignorant bullshit that gets spewed by people who don't know anything aside from what giant corporations want them to know about the civil justice system.

i knew the mcdonald's coffee lady was pretty horribly burned, but i hadn't seen pictures before. it was pretty awful.

YEAH BUT SHE'S STUPID N SHIT FOR SPILLING IT ON HER DUMB LAP LOL

*POUNDS GREASEBURGER*

they asked random people what they "knew" about the case and they said that it was frivolous and contributing to the downfall of society. then they told them what actually happened and showed them pictures and they were all like "oh lol nvm then"

Honestly I've kind of taken the benefit of the doubt on a lot of those "frivolous" suits just because i think someone should

what actually happened? save me 90 minutes.

nobody wants to save you time you stupid fuck

nobody wants to save you time you stupid fuck
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yeah that's me dog and you're McNulty

I just watched Sunshine and Mr. Roberts. The former was more depressing, the latter a bit less believable. Hah!

what actually happened? save me 90 minutes.

the movie talks about other stuff too, but basically

she wasn't driving. her nephew was. they went through the drive thru and then pulled into one of those spots near the exit. she went to put cream and sugar in her coffee, so she took the lid off, and it spilled in her lap and gave her third degree burns. the coffee temperature was between 180 and 190 degrees (which is fucking scalding hot). they had had all kinds of coffee burn complaints in the past and hadn't bothered to do anything about it.

the woman's family requested that they pay her medical expenses (lots of skin grafts were required) and look at how stupid hot their coffee was. they refused.

so they went to trial and the jury came up with a punitive damage amount equivalent to two days of mcdonald's coffee sales alone. which the judge then reduced.

watched the adjustment bureau last night and i thought it was okay. emily blunt is a pretty lady

the movie talks about other stuff too, but basically

she wasn't driving. her nephew was. they went through the drive thru and then pulled into one of those spots near the exit. she went to put cream and sugar in her coffee, so she took the lid off, and it spilled in her lap and gave her third degree burns. the coffee temperature was between 180 and 190 degrees (which is fucking scalding hot). they had had all kinds of coffee burn complaints in the past and hadn't bothered to do anything about it.

the woman's family requested that they pay her medical expenses (lots of skin grafts were required) and look at how stupid hot their coffee was. they refused.

so they went to trial and the jury came up with a punitive damage amount equivalent to two days of mcdonald's coffee sales alone. which the judge then reduced.

Oh right, that was my big stress point whenever someone would bring this up. SHE GOT THIRD DEGREE BURNS MAN. SHE HAD ASH INSTEAD OF SKIN. FROM COFFEE. Yeah I remember that, it was on here.

The last two are Barefoot in the Park and The Odd Couple, and then I can never watch anything from the 40s-50s Hollywood icons ever again.

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - B

The story didn't feel coherent. And I wish they focused on Crazy Horse instead of Sitting Bull.

falling down, with michael douglas. so awesome

transformers.


fool me once, michael bay, shame on you.
fool me twice, shame on me.
fool me three times...well....nostalgia is a fucking powerful thing.


it had some cool 3d and the whole last hour chicago battle was fucking epic but goddamn michael bay was molested as a kid or something.

Transformers: Dark of the Moon

Yes, the story doesn't make any goddamn sense, and reeks of lowest-common-denominatorism, to boot. Yes, Michael Bay ogles Rosie Huntington-Whitely with his camera every chance he gets. Yes, John Tuturro probably thinks he's funnier than he actually is. But unlike the last movie, I can honestly say I was entertained. I found myself actually laughing at the jokes (for the most part) in the movie, which is more than I can say about the vast majority of the attempts at humor in the first two movies. The fact that Bay shot most of the movie with 3D cameras means there's far less of his trademark shaking-the-camera-violently-until-the-audience-gets-a-migraine action sequences. John Malkovich hamming it up as Shia LeBeouf's boss was a hoot. Leonard Nimoy as the voice of Sentinel Prime was cool. And as Turalyon said, the final battle was pretty epic (though it went on a bit too long), and watching the scene where the soldiers jump out of a helicopter and glide into downtown Chicago was worth the price of admission on its own.

Accept that movies about giant robots that turn into cars and whatever else probably will never get any better than this, turn your brain off, and enjoy watching shit blow up for a few hours (in 3D, preferably).

B

you officially have zero credibility

first:
"When has Terrence Malick ever made a good movie?"
then:
"TRANSFORMERS: EXPLOSIONS AND TOYS IN 3D: B!!!!"

You have dog feces for a mind.

the first transformers was enjoyable nonsense but there was no reason to make more except for money. the second one was so godawful but there are worse ways to spend two hours i guess

Name five things.

Remember you're one of the millions that <i>continue to encourage this shit to be made</I> when you buy that fucking ticket so STOP IT. I know it's not "that terrible" or you can do "worse things" or whatever but really, you continue to encourage Hollywood to continue to make dogshit like this over and over again. Michael Bay is a millionare because people refuse to have standards and are generally "meh" about going to see something this fucking dumb. It's like how nobody seems to like the Black Eyed Peas but they are famous. Someone out there is settling for mediocrity and bullshit and giving these people careers they don't deserve.

cancer
warsaw

... fuck i got nothin

meth

Hall Pass - kinda funny; loses steam around an hour and a half

The Company Men - absolutely incredible; loved it

Factotum - I think I watched this back when it came out on video but I hadn't read any Bukowski. Compared to the book, this movie is balls. Actually, even without being compared to the book, it's pretty balls.

Name five things.

Remember you're one of the millions that <i>continue to encourage this shit to be made</I> when you buy that fucking ticket so STOP IT. I know it's not "that terrible" or you can do "worse things" or whatever but really, you continue to encourage Hollywood to continue to make dogshit like this over and over again. Michael Bay is a millionare because people refuse to have standards and are generally "meh" about going to see something this fucking dumb. It's like how nobody seems to like the Black Eyed Peas but they are famous. Someone out there is settling for mediocrity and bullshit and giving these people careers they don't deserve.

its a chicken vs egg debate.
Regardless of that supply and demand element, he's still creating a visual feast, even if the buffet is for a herd of sheep. I mean, understanding the market he aims for, he does make some pretty shit for the eyes. And what more has television ever really been I guess.

does anyone feel like the title "Dark Of The Moon" not being dragged out for questioning in every single available public forum might be a sign that society as a whole is suffering from fetal alcohol syndrome?

he does make some pretty shit for the eyes.

i completely disagree. it's garish, awful, and is pretty much artless in composition.

I haven't watched a Michael Bay movie since Independence Day. I thought his shit was horrible then, and I know it's only bigger and worse.

Paul - I guess it was pretty cute. Totally something I'd rent for the kid when she's a little older.

Name five things.

Remember you're one of the millions that <i>continue to encourage this shit to be made</I> when you buy that fucking ticket so STOP IT. I know it's not "that terrible" or you can do "worse things" or whatever but really, you continue to encourage Hollywood to continue to make dogshit like this over and over again. Michael Bay is a millionare because people refuse to have standards and are generally "meh" about going to see something this fucking dumb. It's like how nobody seems to like the Black Eyed Peas but they are famous. Someone out there is settling for mediocrity and bullshit and giving these people careers they don't deserve.
I got four free tix to it - am I part of the problem?:(

i think even going to see it at all is destroying our culture.

Damn. Also, I was the only one of the group who hated it.:beatup:

nd watching the scene where the soldiers jump out of a helicopter and glide into downtown Chicago was worth the price of admission on its own.

how many times can michael bay explode an american city before it becomes old? I mean seriously, jesus fucking christ.

Synecdoche and some other shit I don't remember. Meh.

die in a fire cunt

Django - A+

Wow this movie is fantastic! Instantly one of my favorites.

Transformers. Things blew up - A.

first:
"When has Terrence Malick ever made a good movie?"


That's not what I said. I said, "When was the last time Terrence Malick made a good movie?" I haven't seen The Tree of Life yet, but The Thin Red Line and The New World were both mediocre. Days of Heaven is the last great movie he made, and that was 33 years ago, so yeah.


Remember you're one of the millions that <i>continue to encourage this shit to be made</I> when you buy that fucking ticket so STOP IT.

I'm sorry. I'll go to my room now and watch Citizen Kane and Gone With The Wind back-to-back. How foolish of me to spend money on a summer blockbuster.

I know it's not "that terrible" or you can do "worse things" or whatever but really, you continue to encourage Hollywood to continue to make dogshit like this over and over again. Michael Bay is a millionare because people refuse to have standards and are generally "meh" about going to see something this fucking dumb. It's like how nobody seems to like the Black Eyed Peas but they are famous. Someone out there is settling for mediocrity and bullshit and giving these people careers they don't deserve.

Firstly, the Black Eyed Peas do suck. At least we can agree on that.

Secondly, I'm not saying Transformers is high art or something resembling a cinematic masterpiece by giving it a B. What I'm saying is it passes muster as a decent summer popcorn movie. Yes, I can probably easily name hundreds of movies I've seen in my lifetime that have better directing, better acting, better writing, etc., but when I watch a movie, I'm not always looking for a work of art. I watch different movies for different reasons.

Just curious: What was the last movie you saw that you enjoyed, on whatever level?


I haven't watched a Michael Bay movie since Independence Day.

Independence Day was made by Roland Emmerich. You're probably confusing it with Armageddon, which sucked, even on a "summer popcorn movie" level.

i think even going to see it at all is destroying our culture.

Blah, blah, blah. Get off the damned soapbox already. You've made your point.

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die in a fire cunt

Did you like Synedouche, then?

Transformers. Things blew up - F-.

Fixed.

Just curious: What was the last movie you saw that you enjoyed, on whatever level?

Cave of Forgotten Dreams i saw in the theatre, I've been on an Herzog kick. Aguirre, the Wrath of God and Lessons of Darkness were also very good
watched American Psycho again last night, Goodfellas was a couple days before that

Are you trying to act like I don't enjoy anything because I think Transformers is beneath us as a culture? Fuck you guy.

'll go to my room now and watch Citizen Kane and Gone With The Wind back-to-back. How foolish of me to spend money on a summer blockbuster

Yeah that's what I'm talking about, you know me. I love old shit.

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I guess. I think everyone should be better than Transformers: Explosions and Toys in 3D.

Summer movies used to be Indiana Jones and Back to the Future. Good stories with good characters. These days people's standards for entertainment are so low that formulaic Marvel super hero movies and dreck like Transformers are deemed "passable" and Avatar is a "masterpiece."

I'm not saying fun ain't fun, the last silly, the over the top movie I enjoyed was Scott Pilgrim. But see that had heart and was refreshing visually. I want to see something as exuberantly over the top as a Michael Bay movie but with a working brain behind it. Shit, I'd want him to direct the Authority. I don't think he's self aware enough, though.

I just don't understand why action movies have to so inherently stupid.

And a phrase I want to go away is "summer popcorn flick" and giving them a free pass to be dumb and commercialized as fuck.

Did you like Synedouche, then?

No, I haven't gotten around to it I just want ilp to stop posting.

i saw cave of forgotten dreams last night, in 3-d. so fucking awesome!

Transformers 3D is below American Culture. So rich and diverse. No room amongst the McD's for any of that shit.

SA Film is so terrible. Even Tsotsi was such a forced exported cliche and that got an oscar or some shit. I guess District 9 was alright, but also felt imported, not exported.

Candid Camera based movies are the biggest grossing over here. There was one guy who for many many years held a monopoly on that market, but in recent years some young guns have decided to take it on and earn some of that monies too. Maybe it'll start a cycle of higher quality production. I like watching SA candid camera movies, we're a pretty unique bunch.

Cave of Forgotten Dreams i saw in the theatre, I've been on an Herzog kick. Aguirre, the Wrath of God and Lessons of Darkness were also very good
watched American Psycho again last night, Goodfellas was a couple days before that

All of those are quality movies. I haven't seen American Psycho in awhile, and I wish I could have seen Cave of Forgotten Dreams in 3D.

Are you trying to act like I don't enjoy anything because I think Transformers is beneath us as a culture? Fuck you guy.

No, I wasn't trying to be condescending. I was just curious what had been on your radar as of late.

Summer movies used to be Indiana Jones and Back to the Future. Good stories with good characters. These days people's standards for entertainment are so low that formulaic Marvel super hero movies and dreck like Transformers are deemed "passable" and Avatar is a "masterpiece."

I'm not saying fun ain't fun, the last silly, the over the top movie I enjoyed was Scott Pilgrim. But see that had heart and was refreshing visually. I want to see something as exuberantly over the top as a Michael Bay movie but with a working brain behind it. Shit, I'd want him to direct the Authority. I don't think he's self aware enough, though.

I just don't understand why action movies have to so inherently stupid.

And a phrase I want to go away is "summer popcorn flick" and giving them a free pass to be dumb and commercialized as fuck.

Even Indiana Jones and BTTF were plenty silly, but I agree they're like classic cinema compared to what passes for blockbusters these days. I have hopes for Cowboys and Aliens, but I'm tempering my expectations.

Transformers 3D is below American Culture. So rich and diverse. No room amongst the McD's for any of that shit.

You're missing the point.

Even Indiana Jones and BTTF were plenty silly,

like i said, nothing wrong with silly but you need to have human characters in it

does anyone even remember the names of the non robot protagonists in transformers? is shia the beef even remotely engaging as an actual character, or is it the typical hollow michael bay pastiche of a person

i mean the first transformers made someone as terrible as megan fox famous for being hot. and that's it.

the model actress that played le buff's love interest displayed probably the worst acting i have seen in a long time.

you know i'm thinking about it and michael bay is the director equivalent of patrick bateman.

Horrible Bosses was a lot less funny than I thought it would be.

Bad Teacher was a lot funnier than I thought it would be.

Re-watched Little Athens, too, and it's just such a good movie. <3

Old School - still don't find this movie funny :\

just watched this...
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Funny, I can totally see history repeating itself and me being the parent that would have my daughter watch this. My parents were pretty open to us watching these kinds of movies growing up, if nothing else so that we could be, I dunno, "aware" (or "scared", as in some cases).

First real movie poster for The Dark Knight Rises:

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Horrible Bosses is fucking hilarious. Granted I had absolutely no knowledge of the movie whatsoever going in, which always helps.

how often do sppunks posts champion the cause of total ignorance?

The new Captain America tv spot has Tool's "46&2" rocking. Can't wait for this to come out

Get Carter (1971)

Gritty and bleak - starring a very young and sinister Michael Caine. Stays with you for hours.

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Utu (1984)

Set during the Maori Land Wars of the late 1800's - the film is about a Maori captain and an English settler out for revenge. In the words of a friend of mine "Forget Clint Eastwood. Vengeance is Bruno Lawrence with a four barrel shotgun."

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Excellent films, both of them. Highly reccomended.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2

Believe the hype. They saved the best HP movie for last. Loads of action, some funny bits, and parts that will give you a lump in your throat. Alan Rickman and Maggie Smith have always been great in the series, but in this one they really shined. Yeah, if you haven't seen the other movies you won't really have much clue as to what's going on, but whatever. Awesome. Only quibble I have is at the end, when you see the kids in the future after they've all grown up, the CGI or makeup or whatever looked kinda hokey. But yeah, big freaking deal. Go see it already.

A

la confidential- 10.A++

duh

I want to see the new Winnie the Pooh pretty badly.

90% on RT and A- on onion. "Adventures of" from the 70s is one of the finest animated films of all time.

la confidential- 10.A++

duh

Yuuuuup.

"Fucking me and fucking Bud aren't the same thing."
"Stop talking about Bud White."

Harold and Maude (1971) - probably my favorite movie

i saw Let Me In last night. probably one the best vampire movie i've ever seen. shame nobody saw this in theaters. i can see why, it's pretty slow moving. but its very good. go rent it

i saw Let Me In last night. probably one the best vampire movie i've ever seen. shame nobody saw this in theaters. i can see why, it's pretty slow moving. but its very good. go rent it

had you already seen Let the Right One In?

I dunno if i want to watch the remake, i liked the original that much.

no i've never seen the original so i couldn't say how they compare

but i will say the movie didn't have a cheesy "hollywood remake!" feel to it, it seemed original and relatively low budget so i doubt it butchered the original that much, if at all

Hype! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype!) was pretty cool. The kid and I rocked out to it, throwing pillows and stuff.

Paranormal Activity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranormal_Activity) - second time watching it; first time was in theaters. Still really dig it. Also, still haven't seen the alternate endings. Ordered DVD from Netflix.

Limitless - C+
It wasn't terrible but nothing that interesting either. Bradley Cooper is awfully pretty to look at though.

The Tourist - D+
I will watch Johnny Depp in almost anything, but he is just totally miscast in this. Angelina Jolie has a "British accent" also. Meh.

Rabbit-Proof Fence - B
One of those triumph of spirit movies that is good but mildly depressing because you learn something new and fucked up about what went on not too long ago. Australia was racist, too!

I have also watched the first four Harry Potter movies (Prisoner of Azkaban was the best thus far, though I guess they skimped on the haircut budget in Goblet of Fire) but have mainly been rewatching the new Sherlocke series and MI-5. I am surprised I have not developed a British accent of my own!

I watched The Way of the Warrior yesterday. Aesthetically, I liked it a lot, even if most of it was made on a computer. But it did feel like something was lacking. Good eye candy though, some really striking shots / imagery.

Sorry, i think I meant Warriors Way. Cowboy vs Ninja stuff.




I've been watching almost exclusively westerns lately. If anyone has any suggestions I'd appreciate it.

Alan Rickman and Maggie Smith have always been great in the series, but in this one they really shined.

they were in it for like five minutes total.

just saw Hobo with a Shotgun for the first time. normally i find troma-esque gore fests really distasteful even in spite of irony, but this pulls it off perfectly.

gotta love the risky business-era tom cruise villain brothers. they really steal the show, with a delorean to boot

harry pooter 7p2- 7.B-

i enjoyed 7p1 more. that movie felt heavier where this one had too much going on to really feel the doom and gloom of the situation and thus appreciate the conquering of it all. as said above, sure the longtime characters had moments to "shine", but they didn't have enough screen time to make it feel meaningful. the snape character was the most interesting of the series by far, and i don't feel his story was done justice the last couple of movies.

snape is the reason i stuck with the books. i almost quit when rowling decided that puberty was best represented by Harry having wild mood swings for one book

Yeah, the fifth book is horrible. As if he wasn't angsty enough from the antagonist possessing him every so often. Plus it's the longest of the series, it's just more pages to be filled with shit. I have yet to see the last two HP movies, it's kind of relieving that it's all concluded now.

Just watched 3/4 of Fantasia on VHS. The first half was fucking beautiful, I especially love the very first section. By the end of the Rites of Spring section I was starting to get worn out. If I'd stopped there it would have been an A+ grade experience, but I continued on and watched the fucking My Little Pony section. Even if it didn't jarringly go from dramatic dinosaurs-dying-out-and-natural-disasters-a-go-go to (literally) rainbows and cherubs, it would have drained my enjoyment a lot. After that I couldn't be bothered with the rest.

C+ (but a high C+)

So you didn't get to Satan, demons, ghosts and boobs?
Good stuff from disney right there!

I've never liked that part for some reason. I couldn't be bothered sitting through the whole thing.

man, the bald mountain/ave maria segment is well worth sitting through my little pony. fuck you pasta.


alien- A.95

i'd never seen this before. for being made in 1979 it held up real well. they sure don't make movies like this these days. really, it's as good a sci-fi/horror movie as i've ever seen. i'm ashamed i hadn't bothered with it until now. only negative thing is the cat plot device. but i did get a laugh out of this 2 second scene:

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ian holm iis awesome in that movie

i had no idea there'd be a fucking android. obviously i'd seen some of the iconic parts of the movie over the years, but never the scene where a newly dismembered robot head was having a conversation with the crew. that was gold.

Harry potter - B

Cool magic battles. Too bad they don't actually explain how he comes back to life.

Captain America - B+++

Now this is the stuff

Paranormal Activity 2 was OK; doing it as a "parallel prequel" was dumb.

pretty crazy that this is really happening

http://s3.amazonaws.com/coolproduction/ckeditor_assets/pictures/2647/original/avengersassembled.jpg?1311536167

i had no idea there'd be a fucking android. obviously i'd seen some of the iconic parts of the movie over the years, but never the scene where a newly dismembered robot head was having a conversation with the crew. that was gold.

yeah with the reveal, i didn't expect it but I knew what the milk meant since I had seen a part of Alien Ressurection.

even the rain - pretty good, gael garcia bernal is such a dreamboat. pretty poignant parallel stories about imperialism in latin america

Kill Bill Volumes 1 and 2
Inception
The Men Who Stare at Goats

Last night we watched both Source Code and Limitless and loved both.

Trash Humpers. It was interesting.

x-men first class: 7.B

pretty solid. was not expecting as many comedy moments, let alone them actually being funny. pretty ok job developing the character stories that needed to be told, but at times the movie felt too fast in doing so- mystique's development in particular. i forgot kevin bacon was in this; he was pretty good actually. say what you will about january jones but she was smokin'.

Hot Tub Time Machine - C-?

Surprisingly not that much fun. some funny bits but fell short of expectations.

I've been watching almost exclusively westerns lately. If anyone has any suggestions I'd appreciate it.

And not a single fuck was given that day.

Been watching that damn Deadwood series.
It's alright, at first I thought it was shit, but then the characters sucked me in and now I kinda love elements of it, but mostly it's just okay.

deadwood was pretty entertaining, but toward the end of season 3 i got bored with it and didn't bother finishing it.

i watched source code this morning, it was okay. i really hated jeffrey wright's character.

deadwood is/was good but they say cocksucker too much.

i used to get lost during ian mcshane's monologues cause they were so damn wordy and i would always watch it stoned

deadwood was pretty entertaining, but toward the end of season 3 i got bored with it and didn't bother finishing it.

so did HBO, didn't they?

so did HBO, didn't they?i suppose you're right. they finished out the season iirc and didn't renew.

that was the nadir of glacial pacing in HBO shows, i think. It might have been the same time when Entourage was about not making movies.

The Wire has glacial pacing sometimes, but each scene is fairly satisfying because the characters are so alive, and each show is jam packed with so many plot lines it seems faster

Captain America: The First Avenger

Better than Thor, seemed like a 21st century take on a retro propaganda piece, meaning it was nice that the movie knew its roots and played off them (the cheeseball Captain America tour shown in the movie was good for a few laughs). Still, not much you haven't seen before; it still felt like a formulaic superhero origin/build-up movie. Now that they're all out of the way, bring on The Avengers!

B-

Cowboys and Aliens

The movie I was most excited for this summer wound up being underwhelming. For what it's worth, Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford were well-cast in their roles. Well-shot and well-acted, and the final battle was fairly exciting, but it came off as way too serious for this type of movie. In the end, you've got a below-average western mixed with a below-average alien movie. The whole was better than the sum of its parts, but just barely. Disappointed.

C+

i started watching Hesher this morning. it was pretty great so far, i only got about halfway through. i will report back after i finish it tonight.

the ending of hesher was way sad.

what happened?

i don't want to ruin it for everyone else.

so my response is here, in black text: the kid tries to tell natalie portman's character that he loves her and finds that hesher's getting it on with her so he flips out. his grandma dies (his mom died a month earlier) and everyone gets real upset. then hesher shows up drunk at the funeral and takes the casket out with the kid and his dad for a walk, cause the grandma always used to go for walks and they had promised her they would join her. hesher leaves. it was good though, you should watch it.

all i see is natalie flips drunk dad promised join.

sounds good.

sum ting wong

those damn ads!

movies i've seen in recent memory:

limitless: very dumb, predictable
bridesmaids: funny
horrible bosses: pretty funny

been watching a lot of friday night lights, really enjoy that. starting second season, a little too much highschool girl drama, but im sure it'll get better

funny > pretty funny? just

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

Not too shabby. In a way, this reminded me of Splice, except with apes instead of a hot human-animal hybrid who has sex with Adrien Brody. Andy Serkis's motion capture work was excellent. Human characters could have benefited from a stronger script. Final battle was exciting. Not a James Franco fan, but I liked him just fine in this. I also like how it had the Icarus space mission in it from the original movie.

B

The Fighter

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B+

And I'll just come out and say it...Anne Hathaway's Catwoman costume kinda stinks.

funny > pretty funny? just

yes

limitless: very dumb, predictable

I watched 30 mins of this movie and turned away, I'm consistently surprised with how many people think it's "great" and "thought provoking."

I'm not sure why banality surprises me anymore but there you go.

Cowboys and Aliens made me want to shoot my face off.

I'm still holding out for Apollo 18, though I am a little wary.

apollo 18 looks hilarious

Noooooo...

I want to like it. I want it to be my next Cloverfield (a movie I love and watch and bought a t-shirt of) but I'm losing hope by the week.

D, you really have inflated expectations of obviously terrible studio fodder.

I would have thought you'd learned after Independence Day 2: Battle of Los Angeles was such a let down.

I'm still holding out for Apollo 18, though I am a little wary.

Ditto, but ask yourself: What was the last good "found footage" movie? Cloverfield? Yeah, it was entertaining, but it was stupid-taining, not to mention headache-inducing. I think most "found footage" movies wind up being wasted potential more often than not, and there have been so many of them lately that the genre feels kind of played out at this point. The apex remains, and likely will always be, Cannibal Holocaust.

Bridesmaids - B-/C+
Meh. Too long, too obvious. At least it had Jon Hamm as an asshole and Chris O'Dowd as the love interest.

i feel the same way about bridesmaids, mo.

super 8 - started out cool. the ending was horribly sappy and ridiculous. i couldn't stay into it.

sister act - fucking hilarious

Tree of Life - B+?

Stunningly beautiful, but I'm still not gonna want to put a movie in the A-range if the ending disappoints/annoys me as much as this one did. Was completely on board until the end. Then, eh.

Jessica Chastain, Pitt, and all the kid actors were phenomenal though. Totally worth seeing. Which for a 138-movie is kind of a feat in and of itself.

There's Something Wrong With Aunt Diane - I have trouble grading docs, but this was like an hour long dateline episode stretched an extra 40 minutes for no real reason. No new info, but it did kind of give me the feeling that the husband is not being entirely forthcoming.

holy crap this thread is over four years old

I was stoked about the World War Z movie coming out next year...until I read this. Now it sounds like they shat all over the source material.

http://www.movies.com/movie-news/world-war-z-movie/3869?wssac=164&wssaffid=news

They scheduled the release of the movie on the date of the so-called Mayan Apocalypse. Nice marketing move.

movies i've seen in recent memory:

limitless: very dumb, predictable
bridesmaids: funny
horrible bosses: pretty funny

been watching a lot of friday night lights, really enjoy that. starting second season, a little too much highschool girl drama, but im sure it'll get better

Skip season 2 and go to season 3, it is one of the worst seasons of any show (that is otherwise good) I've ever seen. It's really, really bad.

Watched The Help this weekend.

I'll give it a solid B/B+: It was too long and obvious is parts.

D, you really have inflated expectations of obviously terrible studio fodder.

I would have thought you'd learned after Independence Day 2: Battle of Los Angeles was such a let down.
I can't help it. I heart aliens.

Ditto, but ask yourself: What was the last good "found footage" movie? Cloverfield? Yeah, it was entertaining, but it was stupid-taining, not to mention headache-inducing. I think most "found footage" movies wind up being wasted potential more often than not, and there have been so many of them lately that the genre feels kind of played out at this point. The apex remains, and likely will always be, Cannibal Holocaust.
I liked District 9 but that's not considered found footage, is it?

Anyone who doesn't like cloverfield or district 9 can lick my balls in the dead heat of summer.

also, i watched The Omega Man yesterday and that shit was hood.

I can't help it. I heart aliens.


I liked District 9 but that's not considered found footage, is it?

Anyone who doesn't like cloverfield or district 9 can lick my balls in the dead heat of summer.

District 9 isn't found footage. It is good though.

district 9 is alright.


i, for one, am thoroughly excited for Cowboys vs Aliens. But thats cause of my cowboy kick lately.

district 9 looks good, even if it seems a heavy handed parable of apartheid

cloverfield looks alright, i like the ground level godzilla movie idea in general

cowboys and aliens is so, so awful but my opinion is suspect because of my track record

cowboys and aliens is so, so awful but my opinion is suspect because of my track record

I thought it was "meh." I can't completely and irrevocably hate anything with Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford, but, although it wasn't terrible, it was awfully disappointing.

district 9 looks good, even if it seems a heavy handed parable of apartheid


It is, but it's well-done. A good friend mine have had a few debates about the movie: I liked it, but he didn't. In his opinion, he thinks it stupid that the movie expects the audience to cheer on the main character in the 10 or so minutes he's given to redeem himself in the end, considering he spends most of the rest of the movie being an unlikeable, cowardly, obnoxious, annoying douche. What the main character does at the end doesn't do nearly enough to redeem him or make you give a wet fart about him, he says.

district 9 looks good, even if it seems a heavy handed parable of apartheid



ah, down here no one really cared. It was amusing. No old wounds or anything, we're a pretty easy going bunch of folk, we can laugh at ourselves!

from CvsA i'm expecting a lot of cheese.
I mean, I love really bad spaghetti westerns a lot.

whats the soundtrack like?

It is, but it's well-done. A good friend mine have had a few debates about the movie: I liked it, but he didn't. In his opinion, he thinks it stupid that the movie expects the audience to cheer on the main character in the 10 or so minutes he's given to redeem himself in the end, considering he spends most of the rest of the movie being an unlikeable, cowardly, obnoxious, annoying douche. What the main character does at the end doesn't do nearly enough to redeem him or make you give a wet fart about him, he says.

Wikkus! He's a fucking institution.

http://www.imdb.com/news/ni14246256/

New installment of Blade Runner? Hmm...

http://www.imdb.com/news/ni14246256/

New installment of Blade Runner? Hmm...

Man, Hollywood really does ruin everything.

Everything it once created, that is. What the fuck?

it's based of the book more closely, from what I hear. i don't know why that's a good idea.

I am enjoying the Angry Boys series.

Fright Night (remake)

Good fun, didn't take itself too seriously. A bit slow to start, but picks up about midway. Colin Farrell and David Tennant definitely seemed to be enjoying themselves while hamming it up in their own unique ways. The humor was a bit hit-and-miss, but worked most of the time. Overall, a better movie than it should have been.

B

IN BRUGES - 11 A+

30 Minutes or Less was pretty funny. It's not a re-watch by any means but it's a little funnier than the previews suggest.

IN BRUGES - 11 A+

This movie fucking rocked.

coraline - pretty good, i absolutely loved the creepy factor in this film, but it never really seemed to go all the way and it's kind of stuck in limbo between a children's flick and a creepy stop-motion movie for adults.

Scarface

I wasted $10 on Don't be Afraid of the Dark tonight. Was it supposed to be a comedy because everyone in the theater, I think, assumed it had to be. I walked out after 45 minutes (maybe less, I didn't check).

That's what I get for paying for movies.

i'm really disappointed that this is apparently not very good, because pan's labyrinth fucking ruled.

also i thought i posted this yesterday but

Teeth - B?

Kind of silly and a one trick pony... but it sustains a knowing wink for the entire running time. So it's pretty enjoyable.

also i desperately want to see final destination 5

: x

Solaris (1972)

I rate this film 8.5 Tarkovskys out of 10

Transformers - D-

What the fuck. What the fucking fuck. I don't think I'd ever seen all of this movie at once, or sober, before - wow. What a shitfest.
I wanna punch that hot British hacker chick in her stupid face.

The Room

Too much bad acting and not enough downright awful acting. Wiseau should have had way more screen time.

Just realised the San Francisco connection between this film and Monte's monstrosity of a music video.

Teeth

YES

IT'S REAL

VAGINA DENTATA!! VAGINA DENTATA!!!!

it's too bad because "vagina dentata" has a nice, musical ring to it that rolls right off the tongue.

also Rabbit Hole was a solid B-

vagina dentata is a great band name

in a perfect world they'd be riot grrls with monsterously huge riffs, like an unholy combination of sleater-kinney and mastodon