[Movies] Talk about the last movie you saw 2: Electric Threadaloo

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Alex B.

Finally saw Inglourious Basterds and have to echo the other sentiments I've read, it was awesome. I was happy my wife loved it as well.

District Nine was pretty good. I thought it started off great, then devolved into a standard-issue action movie (thought it definitely redeemed itself in the end, the last few moments of the movie were awesome). It was also inconsistent in its point of view - some of the movie was documentary, the rest wasn't, and that bothered me as a writer.

I'm deeply ashamed to say I went to see GiJoe. A friend was in town and it happened to start right when we were bored and looking for something to do. While terrible in pretty much every way, it was terrible in the same ways that the original cartoon was, so I was able to enjoy it on that level. Plus, Scarlett is hott. It'll be great RiffTrax material.

I badly want to see 9.
 
Cajungal

Cajungal

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Just saw 9. Like Shawnacy says, it's steampunky. Very interesting, visually appealing, and just the right length in my opinion. Just enough exposition. I'd recommend it.
 
Espy

Espy

Cajungal said:
Just saw 9. Like Shawnacy says, it's steampunky. Very interesting, visually appealing, and just the right length in my opinion. Just enough exposition. I'd recommend it.
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Totally agree. It was really, really good.
Me and the wife really enjoyed it, and I have to say, it looked AMAZING. It really sets a new standard for CGI movies.
 
ElJuski

ElJuski

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Yeah, In Bruges is one of my favorite movies of all time. Overlooked in the theatres, I'm glad it's worming its way into people's hearts. "OH SHI--A BOTTLE"

Finally caught Hot Rod last night. I'm...not so sure what I think of it. Parts of it were inspired, other parts were rote and stupid. What a weird feeling!
 
Shegokigo

Shegokigo

Lisa Lampanelli: Dirty Girl
If you know her and like her, it's probably her best special. If you don't. Skip it.

Porco Rosso (anime)
Another fantastic Ghibli film. If that's not a good enough compliment I don't know what is.

Master of Horror: John Landis - Family
Wow... I was not expecting that at all. Fantastic little horror movie, only 1hr log and it has George Wendt as a psycho killer. What more could one ask for?!

Comedians of Comedy: The Movie
Patton Oswalt, Brian Posehn, Maria Bamford, Zach Galifianakis. These comedians have a cult following and for good reason. They're VERY niche in style and if you don't "get it" you never will. This movie is VERY VERY raw and documentary style. You really have to have a love for these guys to enjoy this movie, but if you do, you'll probably watch it a few times just to catch everything. Great watch.
 
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ElJuski said:
Yeah, In Bruges is one of my favorite movies of all time. Overlooked in the theatres, I'm glad it's worming its way into people's hearts. "OH SHI--A BOTTLE"
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No kidding. If 'the internet' had not been so positive about In Bruges I would propably never have seen it. I don't think it was even available in cinemas in Sweden.
 
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ThatNickGuy

Wolverine

Huh, you know, it wasn't actually that bad. I mean, the special effects were pretty terrible a lot of times (the bone claws, particularly), but it was quite a bit better than X-Men 3...which, isn't saying a lot, I know, but still.

No, honestly, the first half of the movie was pretty entertaining. Funny enough, the crap in the movie doesn't really start until the most overrated, horrible character in comics shows up: Gambit. His accent comes and goes and he goes from being knocked out cold by Wolverine to...running across the rooftops and leaping into the battle between Logan and Sabretooth.

Plus, there's the whole destruction of the Deadpool character, but the parts where Reynolds got to speak at the beginning, where he just DOESN'T SHUT UP was hilarious.

Overall, as I said, it was better than X3, but still not a great movie by any means. Plus, I wanted to just shave Jackman's eyebrows off so he would stop doing that stupid eyebrow raising thing like he was The Rock or something.
 
Shegokigo

Shegokigo

To Kill a Mockingbird
I was in total shock when my GF told me she hadn't seen this film, so we added it to DVD que a few weeks back and got it in yesterday. It still stands as a firm, powerful movie. I think everyone needs to have seen this film at least once in their lifetime. It's just one of those movies.

Apocolypse Now
An assigned film to my GF from her English class, we picked this up at the video rental store (Netflix would have taken too long and there was no instant watch for it). It's a Coppola movie. Plain and simple. Very solid cast: Martin Sheen, Harrison Ford, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall. If you understand that, enjoy that, and haven't seen this one I would highly recommend it as it's quintesentially his style.
 
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Staff member
Apocalypse Now is an incredible movie. There's so much subtext in the imagery alone. I bored the crap out of my wife ranting on about it. Like Willard's room...the focus on the fan alone and its monotonous hum speaks pages without having said a word. It's what a movie should be. The visual element should be for more than listing action...it's a character. It's a good director that knows this. It also doesn't hurt that it's and adaptation of an amazing book that is so relevant in this internet-fed numbness around us all today.
 
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Alex B.

Did you guys watch the original or the Redux? Personally I like the Redux more.

Also, you chould catch the documentary about it, Hearts of Darkness. One of the best film documentaries ever made.
 
Charlie Don't Surf

Charlie Don't Surf

I got to see a sneak preview of Steven Soderbergh's The Informant! starring Matt Damon last night.


It was fucking hilarious. A couple scenes in the last little bit kind of don't work, but I was laughing my ass off throughout.
 
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Wasabi Poptart

Just watched Shoot Em Up a few nights ago. It reminded me a little of old kung fu movies where the guys go flying through the air during fight sequences. Bad...and yet I couldn't stop watching. I would recommend it to my dad who loves action movies without much of a story. I certainly won't look at carrots the same way.
 
CynicismKills

CynicismKills

Saw 9 last weekend. Good CGI for the style, story was awful and character development made no sense. Action was good, visuals were great, and some scenes (Over the Rainbow to OH GOD RUN) were good.

All in all it felt rushed to me, like Acker didn't have enough material to fill a whole movie inbetween the beginning and end of the short (as that's basically what it was).
 
Shegokigo

Shegokigo

The Blob: 1958 Color Version
What can be said that is not already known? One of the "grand daddies" of horror and one of the original great "inanimate object gonna kill you" styles of monster flick.
 
Frank

Frank

I saw Gamer. Yeah, Gamer.

It was one of the dumbest movies I have ever seen. It was also one of the most unintentionally, or maybe intentionally, it's hard to tell, movies I have ever seen. Michael C. Hall was fucking hilarious. I wondered why he would pick Gamer as one of his only forays into film and after watching it, I know. Honestly, the entire movie comes off as insane. Insane in an incoherent, manic, retarded way. Don't see this in theatres, don't even rent it. Steal it somehow and watch it with friends capable of mocking it. It is wholly mockable. My friends and I (3 of us total) had the entire stadium seated giga-theatre to ourselves. So we got to chide, laugh and mock as loudly as we wanted. It probably made the experience a dozen times better than it would if we would have had to show proper theatre decor.
 
Sparhawk

Sparhawk

Watched 300, it felt like the comic, and I didn't really like the style that Miller had used on it. That's both good and bad, combined. I really am not a fan of gratuitous blood, and to be honest, the arrow wounds kinda bothered me, since they were target arrow holes and not barbed arrow wounds.
 
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I actually saw 300 for the first time on TNT this week, too. It was as bad as I suspected it might be. It was boring, and the visual style sucked ass, to put it bluntly. Like someone wrapped the camera in gauze. I appreciate the idea behind it, but the execution was fairly terrible. That "make it look like the comic" bit is gimmicky and wears thin very quickly.
 
Shawn

Shawn

Wolverine: X-Men Origins.
So it starts out decent then turns into X-men 3 all over again.
"Oh no! Save the Mutant Cameos from the secret lab, Wolverine!"
 
Charlie Don't Surf

Charlie Don't Surf

Yesterday I watched Grosse Pointe Blank, Sleepers, and In the Loop.

They were all varying degrees of good! I kind of didn't like Sleepers that much, but I don't really think it was bad. The voiceover was annoying. Grosse Pointe Blank was pretty awesome even though it was really conventional. In the Loop was FUCKING HILARIOUS. It was really perfect at managing to be highbrow and lowbrow at the exact same time, sometimes in the same sentence.
 
drawn_inward

drawn_inward

<b>Inglorious Basterds</b>

I didn't want to watch this. My gf nearly literally nagged me to death to watch it. I like some of Tarantino's movies (Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs and Jackie Brown) and writing (True Romance). The rest of his stuff is kind of lame.

There was much to like about the movie.
- I liked some of the dialogue. It was funny.
- I liked some of the acting (not Pitt).
- I really liked the music.

What took me out of the movie though was
the theater scene. The audience I was with nearly laughed and cheered throughout the movie. Then, I see Hitler and his cronies doing the same at their theater. It made my stomach churn. I haven't had this kind of reaction to a movie before. I wanted to leave the theater. I don't know what Tarantino's message is, but it bothered me.

Maybe I'm getting softer as I get older, but I am losing my taste for violence. I know it's just a film, but it bugged me quite a bit.
 
Shegokigo

Shegokigo

A Boy and His Dog

The Netflix description was dead on:
Vic (a young Don Johnson) roams a postapocalyptic wasteland accompanied by his telepathic, ever-grumbling dog, eventually winding up in the clutches of a female-dominated underground society that wants his sperm. This low-budget cult film remains darkly humorous and unflinchingly brutal as its characters face difficult choices -- and the end of the world as they know it.
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It... was..... freakin.... great!!!! :D-:thumbsup:


Oh, and I can count on Fade not only to have the exact opposite opinion on everything in life, but in movies too as I do.
 
Shannow

Shannow

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Shegokigo said:
A Boy and His Dog

The Netflix description was dead on:
Vic (a young Don Johnson) roams a postapocalyptic wasteland accompanied by his telepathic, ever-grumbling dog, eventually winding up in the clutches of a female-dominated underground society that wants his sperm. This low-budget cult film remains darkly humorous and unflinchingly brutal as its characters face difficult choices -- and the end of the world as they know it.
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It... was..... freakin.... great!!!! :D-:thumbsup:


Oh, and I can count on Fade not only to have the exact opposite opinion on everything in life, but in movies too as I do.
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yeah, I happened upon that on the Xbox a couple weeks ago in a stupor after coming home from the bar, went wtf is this!? My friend clued me into the book, which is apparently insanely better. I watched the movie, and after the fist 4 minutes of the dog talking and him complaining about not getting laid, I was hooked.

Fun shitty movie. I snagged the story from my frined, going to read it soon.


Also, anyone watched The Informant! yet? I may try to see it this week.
 
Shakey

Shakey

Into the Wild

It's been a while since I read the book, but it seems like a pretty good adaptation of it. The book is so short and easy to read I don't know why you wouldn't read it. I always enjoyed passing it around to different people I knew and getting their reaction from it. If you absolutely can't be bothered to read it, I'd recommend watching the movie.
 
Shegokigo

Shegokigo

The Blob: 1988

I was skeptical, after watching the 1958 version last week, I finally decided to break down and watch the "remake". I almost never enjoy a reboot of a great monster movie, but finally decided to give it a shot.... and wow was I ever glad I did.

All in all it was a great retelling of the story for a 80's timeline. More violence, gore, explosions, all around 80s horror movie perfection.
 
Shawn

Shawn

Shegokigo said:
The Blob: 1988

I was skeptical, after watching the 1958 version last week, I finally decided to break down and watch the "remake". I almost never enjoy a reboot of a great monster movie, but finally decided to give it a shot.... and wow was I ever glad I did.

All in all it was a great retelling of the story for a 80's timeline. More violence, gore, explosions, all around 80s horror movie perfection.
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Yeah. I think this one is a great example of a GOOD remake. Improves upon the special effects. Completely sticks to the horror aspect. Gives the creature a "twist" origin. I usually pop it on every Halloween during any marathons my friends and I have.

The film also made me realize that being pulled down a drain is probably one of the worst ways to die.
... with the exception of guts sucked out one's anus. That's still number one with me.
 
Shannow

Shannow

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Charlie Dont Surf;260879][quote=Shannow said:
Also, anyone watched The Informant! yet? I may try to see it this week.
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Charlie Dont Surf said:
I got to see a sneak preview of Steven Soderbergh's The Informant! starring Matt Damon last night.


It was fucking hilarious. A couple scenes in the last little bit kind of don't work, but I was laughing my ass off throughout.
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Thanks, Chuckles. Your tastes seem to line right up alongside mine, so that is a good enough reccomendation for me! :)
 
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