What movie did you last watch? - Page 65

Binkie · 05-04-2006, 09:15 PM

Scary Movie 4

I'll be one of those to admit that I found the first three funny to moderately funny. Laughed at enough of the jokes to say I "enjoyed" watching them. However, this one sparked very few to no laughs. Perhaps the pop-culture references have passed me up, maybe it was because the movies they 'spoofed' were ones I mostly slept through, or maybe it was because the jokes fluxed between recycled laughs and ho-hum "potty humor." Can't attribute it to one thing or another, really.

angel011 · 05-04-2006, 11:53 PM

"Elizabethtown". Cute, but somewhat slow, and the last part of the movie seemed out of place to me. Still, the characters were interesting enough to make the movie enjoyable.

"Underworld 2". Stupid, boring, doesn't make any sense, the ending was an imitation of the ending of "Terminator 2", the movie looked like a retarded kid wrote the script.

spookypurple · 05-05-2006, 01:43 AM

I saw Silent Hill again.

Hmm.

end.of.eternity · 05-05-2006, 04:35 AM

I watched Omen II again.

(Jonathan Scott-Taylorlovelovelovelovelovelovelove)

spookypurple · 05-05-2006, 05:43 AM

Did you see they've remade The Omen?

I couldn't believe it when I saw the trailer... Still I suppose this year (date-wise) is a bit of a gift!

Beowulf · 05-05-2006, 04:39 PM

Gladiator (2000 , Directed by Ridley Scott)

When a Roman general is betrayed and his family murdered by a corrupt prince, he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge. IMDB

Another classic by Ridley Scott

Godslayer Jillian · 05-05-2006, 06:17 PM

I just bought Queen of the Damned yesterday!!!!!

*drools*

4mytribe · 05-05-2006, 09:59 PM

Man this is one crazy months for movies:
Poseidin Adventure
MI3 (or two cant remember)
XMen
and some others wow

Binkie · 05-05-2006, 10:08 PM

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Originally Posted by 4mytribe

MI3 (or two cant remember)

Was it in a theater or on video/dvd?

Theater = 3
Video/DVD = 2

4mytribe · 05-05-2006, 11:13 PM

Ok once again I look bad. Hey I even asked before I posted to try not to look stupid hahahaha.

angel011 · 05-06-2006, 01:48 AM

V for Vendetta. Loved it. Nice, dark visuals, dark story, Hugo Weaving is amazing.

Postcards from the Future, a documentary about Chuck Palahniuk. Laughed all the time, what a woderful weirdo. My boyfriend said all of us writers were crazy (he enjoyed the documentary, too -- one of his birthday presents to me was Palahniuk's Choke).

Loy · 05-06-2006, 03:54 AM

Angel-not all writers are fucking nuts. I, for example, am perfectly sane in every way you can imagine....then again, I'm no longer a "writer".

Here's a few

Mission Impossible 3-It's got explosions and Tom Cruise, so you're gonna see it. On the Tom Cruise side it (sadly) delivers. See Tom Cruise brood. See Tom Cruise "kick ass". See a close-up of Tom Cruise that's so close that you can make out the patterns his crossing nose-hairs make. Look and realise that lonely overweight, middle-aged, midwestern housewives go to sleep masturbating over his perfect teeth, thus giving him a career. Then realise that he and his concubine just birthed the anti-christ (say it..."ALL HAIL SURI! ALL HAIL THE DARK ONE!"), then try not crying over the sad state of the world...on the explosions side, it also delivers...it delivers well....just not well enough to make you forget that you're looking at a 50-foot tall Tom fucking Cruise.....

The Celestine Prophecies-Everybody has what I call the Battlefield Earth moment at least once during their film-viewing years....that moment where you're watching a film that so god-awful that you're slapping your forehead and wondering why nobody else is with you right then so when you try explaining to others how fucking horrible the film is they can back you up, so you start planning a time when you and your buddies can watch it (I picked Battlefield Earth. However, use any Tim Burton film after "Ed Wood" for the best effect)....this justifies me seeing this POS 3 times (and before you wonder why I'd give my money to a crappy film, all I can say is that I don't pay for movies anymore....yeah, I'm special).

OK, so cram every sacharinne-coated new-age self-affirmation onto a screen and...you'd have something that would've been better than this. See, the "story" is what makes college students fail "exposition 101" (not just exposition 101...hell, I only took a quarter of Spanish in high school....failed...and even MY Spanish was better than the spanish used in the dialogue), the "actors" are stunt doubles who make Keanu Reeves seem like Richard Burton by comparison (you can so see the director telling them things like "OK, what's 2 plus 6? GREAT!! That's the look we want!"), the "special" effects don't deserve the tag "special".....oh my god this was fucking horrible.

And the thing that really blew my mind? Me and my friends were the ONLY people in the theatre who saw this as the piece of shit that it was....now, maybe I wasn't lesbian enough, or rich enough, or new-agey enough to understand it. All I know is that I have taste, and that was what was preventing the message.......hold on....

*walks away busting up laughing as I howl "Message! Oh my god, I can't believe I said that with a straight face"*

sorry....my tastes prevent me from taking in bullshit without gagging or laughing. Now, all I have to do is come up with a new term for films like this and "What the Bleep Do We Know" and "One"...New-Age Exploitation....NewSploitation? Hmmmm....any ideas guys?

"History Of Violence"-some people think this isn't a "real" Cronenburg film because there's a lack of bodies mutating out-of-control, or new orifices being created for sexual purposes. These people couldn't be more wrong. One of Cronenburgs greatest aspect is his exploration of the psychic space created by change, and this downbeat story is all about that. And yes, there's gore....and just like every other Cronenberg film, you can remove the gore and still be disturbed by the film. Also like every other Conenberg film....every new viewing reveals more than you saw before. If this isn't a real Cronenberg film, I'm not sure what is.

More to come later.....

end.of.eternity · 05-06-2006, 05:45 AM

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Originally Posted by spookypurple

Did you see they've remade The Omen?

I couldn't believe it when I saw the trailer... Still I suppose this year (date-wise) is a bit of a gift!

Whaat... No, I didn't!

I must search this trailer too!

end.of.eternity · 05-06-2006, 05:51 AM

So now i saw it. But why on earth did they remade it? Omens are good the way they are. except the third movie. I didn't like it at all.

Loy · 05-06-2006, 06:13 AM

Yeah...part 4 was SOOOO much better.

Sorry, but the Omen films were well-made Christploitation films, and I think that also answers your question as to why is there a remake-because they were well made Christploitation films, which Mel Gibsons porno-pretending-to-be-art flick "the Passion" and the umpteen-zillion "Omega Code/Left Behind" films have shown there a market for....not that the Omega Behind flicks are actually well made...Holy Fuck, now I've got an idea for causing either alcoholism or aneurisms in a crowd....double feature...."Celestine Prophecies" and "Omega Code 2"....oh hell yeah.....

Loy · 05-06-2006, 08:30 AM

more....

"Art School Confidential"-after creating a modern masterpiece with "Ghost World" (and it is. shut up you...), Terry Zwigoff and Dan Clowes team up again to adapt another Zwigoff storyline for film. The result? It's a good film. I just can't get excited about it. Why? Two words-"Ghost World". "GW" was such an amazing combination of talent and originality that ANYTHING these guys'll do together will always be compared to it. I know it's unfair, I know I'm supposed to give this one a chance, and I'll probably be able to in another year or so. Right now, I can't help compare and contrast a perfectly well made, sarcastically funny, visually muted (in a way that elevates this whole thing) film to a flat out masterpiece....fuck, I'm a bad reviewer.....

"Thank You For Smoking"-some of you might think I hated this film because I'm a smoker. No, I hate this film because of the rank hypocrisy that surrounds it. Is it a good film? Uhhhh....yes and no. It's funny when it's supposed to be, sad when it's supposed to be....it's a well-oiled machine...a perfectly executed film that doesn't deviate from anything you thought was going to happen. This, however, is the film's biggest fault. It's too generic. It's what Kevin Murphy would've called a black comedy with a side of social commentary that you'd order at the McDonald-like multiplexes of the future. The film reminds you that film (and art in general) isn't about fulfilling expectations but challenging them and going beyond them.

Oh yeah, the hypocrisy? See, the director said in an interview that this film isn't an anti-smoking film. See, it's a satire on spin. And even though he refuses to show people smoke on screen, and even though anybody connected to tobacco is either a bloodthirsty ghoul or a bumbling dolt, he's not attacking smokers, but giving them a choice as to whether they want to smoke or not (I swear he actually said all this)....in other words, he's guilty of doing the same thing this too-safe-for-it's-own-good "satire" is supposedly attacking.

Neil Young-Heart Of Gold-it's Neil Young in the Grand Old Opry filmed by the guy who did "Stop Making Sense". Do I REALLY need to explain how cool this film is?

No Direction Home-A documentary about Bob Dylan by Martin Scorcese...one American Master telling the story of another American Master....once again, do I REALLY need to explain how cool this film is?

RoboVampire-so bad it's good, this film....wow...I'm trying to figure out how to explain. See, one of the games you start playing as you're watching this is "what connected the scene before this to thise one?". As far as I can tell, the film-makers took the footage cut from 4 or 5 different films and spliced them together, figuring that audiences would make up their own storylines. It's got Rambo-type action, then it's got this Robocop thing, then it's got hopping vampires, then the drug cartel attacks itself, even when they're attacking the enemies, and a girl gets "tortured" in the most atrociously fake torture scene since "S nuff"....again, do I REALLY have to explain how cool this film is?

Empty_Purple_Stars · 05-06-2006, 08:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Loy

Angel
-not all writers are fucking nuts.

I, for example, am perfectly sane in every way you can imagine....

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!

*takes breath*

Bwahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahaha!!!

*inhales deeply*

There, I feel better.

*humps your leg*

angel011 · 05-06-2006, 08:54 AM

EPS, I'm smiling at you!

Empty_Purple_Stars · 05-06-2006, 08:58 AM

*Hee*

I couldn't help it..

Somewhere far, far, away, an Angel lost its wings when Loy typed those words..

Pun Intended.

angel011 · 05-06-2006, 09:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Empty_Purple_Stars

*Hee*

I couldn't help it..

Somewhere far, far, away, an Angel lost its wings when Loy typed those words..

Pun Intended.

...lost its wings, and got new, leathery ones. At least, that's what my boyfriend believes.

horrorgirl · 05-06-2006, 09:14 AM

Let Sleeping Corpses Lie

It's a great zombie flick from 1974 made by Spanish director Jorge Grau. I totally recommend this film.

Beowulf · 05-06-2006, 09:48 AM

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Originally Posted by horrorgirl

Let Sleeping Corpses Lie

It's a great zombie flick from 1974 made by Spanish director Jorge Grau. I totally recommend this film.

"A cop chases two hippies suspected of a series of Manson family-like murders; unbeknownst to him, the real culprits are the living dead, brought to life with a thirst for human flesh by chemical pesticides being used by area farmers" IMDB

Horrorgirl, after reading this synopsis about the film on IMDB, I`m going to look for this film. It almost sounds like a plot from a Troma film.

horrorgirl · 05-06-2006, 10:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Beowulf

"A cop chases two hippies suspected of a series of Manson family-like murders; unbeknownst to him, the real culprits are the living dead, brought to life with a thirst for human flesh by chemical pesticides being used by area farmers" IMDB

Horrorgirl, after reading this synopsis about the film on IMDB, I`m going to look for this film. It almost sounds like a plot from a Troma film.

It's really well made and the gore looks really great. It's pretty impressive for being made in the early 70's. It's only available in the 'Walking Dead' Fright Pack, which is a set of six zombie movies for one low price.

Beowulf · 05-06-2006, 03:38 PM

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Originally Posted by horrorgirl

It's really well made and the gore looks really great. It's pretty impressive for being made in the early 70's. It's only available in the 'Walking Dead' Fright Pack, which is a set of six zombie movies for one low price.

Thanks Horrorgirl,

WizardElement5 · 05-06-2006, 05:05 PM

I just watched Hell Boy. Wow, I really loved the Professor's study in Section 51. Predominantly red with a big gold statue as a centre-piece, perhaps a little overpowering for home decor, but then again... I think I'd have to do the next room in a more Giger-esque style by way of contrast. Blacks and grey metals with cold blue spotlights. I need to decorate my house, so I'm looking out for good ideas. Oh, and the film was good fun and quite romantic.