A few films recently watched.

[lumpenprol]

word, the fuck all these boring white people doing in my movie.

 

edit: about the last king of scotland.

 

lol, agreed

[lumpenprol]

World's Greatest Dad - 3/10

Really really bad.

I agree with that one... it felt too much like a Todd Solondz film though with all the substance filtered out.

 

if that's the robin williams one, I thought it started pretty well but lost my interest after the son died - strayed too far from plausibility.

[Guest futuregirlfriend]

World's Greatest Dad - 3/10 Really really bad.

I agree with that one... it felt too much like a Todd Solondz film though with all the substance filtered out.

 

bang on.

[goffer]

I have been watching a lot of Dexter lately. I remember watching season 1 and really liking it. There were some episodes of season 3 on the telly and the gf showed interest. I figured I'd much rather watch Dexter with her than most of the other shit she makes me watch, so I went and grabbed the first 2 season in HD and started from scratch again. Season 1 is awesome for what it is, a TV show. You can both take it at face value and analyze it if you please, which works for the the gf and I. We started season 2 last week and are 6 episodes deep, but something seems off about it.; the characters feel flat and most of it's substance seems to have faded. It just feels like a CSI type show now. I'm not sure what happened; I hope it turns around again in season 3.

[keltoi]

Sherlock Holmes - 7.5/10

 

 

really? what pushed it over a 7 for you?

I give it a generous 7, it was a bit pedestrian in its story and Robert Downey jr. was not a good choice for the lead in this case. I did like that they showed the Holmes that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle would have imagined though, barring the love interest (Holmes was always portrayed as almost inhuman in his lack of emotion by Doyle).

 

I've been trying to inflate some of my ratings because I feel like I'm always too negative. I genuinely had fun watching it though.

 

 

World's Greatest Dad - 3/10

Really really bad.

 

lol

[kokoon]

I have been watching a lot of Dexter lately. I remember watching season 1 and really liking it. There were some episodes of season 3 on the telly and the gf showed interest. I figured I'd much rather watch Dexter with her than most of the other shit she makes me watch, so I went and grabbed the first 2 season in HD and started from scratch again. Season 1 is awesome for what it is, a TV show. You can both take it at face value and analyze it if you please, which works for the the gf and I. We started season 2 last week and are 6 episodes deep, but something seems off about it.; the characters feel flat and most of it's substance seems to have faded. It just feels like a CSI type show now. I'm not sure what happened; I hope it turns around again in season 3.

we just went through entire dexter. season 1 was simply excellent. a really good series. i was glad there were 3 more seasons.

 

but season 2 was BAD. like, really bad. completely different feeling than in the first one. apparently the first season is the only one adapted from a book or something.

 

season 3 and 4 are better than 2 i guess, but still far from season 1.

 

 

but this is a movie thread!

[Guest ataraxy2]

I have been watching a lot of Dexter lately. I remember watching season 1 and really liking it. There were some episodes of season 3 on the telly and the gf showed interest. I figured I'd much rather watch Dexter with her than most of the other shit she makes me watch, so I went and grabbed the first 2 season in HD and started from scratch again. Season 1 is awesome for what it is, a TV show. You can both take it at face value and analyze it if you please, which works for the the gf and I. We started season 2 last week and are 6 episodes deep, but something seems off about it.; the characters feel flat and most of it's substance seems to have faded. It just feels like a CSI type show now. I'm not sure what happened; I hope it turns around again in season 3.

we just went through entire dexter. season 1 was simply excellent. a really good series. i was glad there were 3 more seasons.

 

but season 2 was BAD. like, really bad. completely different feeling than in the first one. apparently the first season is the only one adapted from a book or something.

 

season 3 and 4 are better than 2 i guess, but still far from season 1.

 

 

but this is a movie thread!

 

Interesting. It's actually a good thing Season 1 is the only one adapted from a book, as if the first one "Darkly Dreaming Dexter" is any basis for the others, the books serve nothing else but fuel for fire. It's incredible something so fooking awful turned into something so good. S1 and S2 anyway. S3 is terribly dull and predictable. S4 however I've heard nothing but good about, and I can't wait until it comes out on DVD.

 

Anyway interesting that the two of you seem to go against the general consensus of S2 being superior to S1. I think they are on par with one another, which is just fantastic.

 

Recent films seen:

 

Fight Club 9/10 - rewatch

Mulholland Drive 10/10 - rewatch

Heat 10/10 - rewatch

Sherlock Holmes 7/10

 

Possibly tonight it's going to be a rewatch of Lost Highway...

[goffer]

Well it seems that S2 is tailored more towards the general consensus... it was much easier to watch/follow compared to S1 and far more predictable. There wasn't enough left in the air; I felt no mystery as I watched it. They basically turned Dexter into a cardboard cutout who narrates his every move and emotion. It's not the actors fault as he did amazingly well in S1, it's just poor story telling and direction.

[Guest futuregirlfriend]

Waterworld - What are/were people expecting from this film? It's pretty enjoyable. Now to wait for someone to upload The Postman 1080p.

[Guest Yegg]

Sherlock Holmes - 7.5/10

 

 

really? what pushed it over a 7 for you?

I give it a generous 7, it was a bit pedestrian in its story and Robert Downey jr. was not a good choice for the lead in this case. I did like that they showed the Holmes that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle would have imagined though, barring the love interest (Holmes was always portrayed as almost inhuman in his lack of emotion by Doyle).

 

I've been trying to inflate some of my ratings because I feel like I'm always too negative. I genuinely had fun watching it though.

 

 

World's Greatest Dad - 3/10

Really really bad.

 

lol

 

3 out of 10 is inflated.

It's so bad, you have no idea.

[Boxing Day]

The Wolf Man A.K.A Van Helsing Part II - 8/10

 

Shutter Island - 10/10 - MINDFUCK!!!

[Dragon]

I've just watched 'Chronopolis', which I heard about at the Ae subforum.

 

9/10. Apparently this was made in 1983, which predates CG animation. If this is stopframe animation, then Piotr Kamler one of the greatest, most underrated animators in history. Loads of amazing and incredibly surreal imagery, set to an equally surreal background music. My dad caught a glimpse of it, he said it looked like socialist propaganda. There's an emotional moment 36 minutes in when the main character (I think..?) falls in love with a morphing white ball. After a couple of minutes of stroking, he sits on it and starts to spin, faster and faster, until he and une ball start dancing and bouncing along a tightrope.

 

The music perfectly fits the animation. This is like Koyaanisqatsi from an alien world, but with IDM music instead of classical.

 

If you want to watch Chronopolis, either download it (much easier) or buy the hard to find DVD release included with "Á la recherche du temps", which also includes 9 short films and a documentary.

[kokoon]

Now to wait for someone to upload The Postman 1080p.

there's a blu-ray image on a certain private hd tracker that ends with bits and starts with hd.

[Squee]

Shutter Island - 10/10 - MINDFUCK!!!

 

Seriously?

My friend and I were talking about what the big twist would be and unfortunately we had figured it all out before the movie began.

[Boxing Day]

Shutter Island - 10/10 - MINDFUCK!!!

 

Seriously?

My friend and I were talking about what the big twist would be and unfortunately we had figured it all out before the movie began.

 

Spoilers

 

I don't think it was a twist .. I truly believe He was Teddy the US Marshall .. If i learned something from watching Darren Brown is that subliminal suggestion is everything .. Since he got on that Island . Gandhi , The Nazi , The Nurses , the patients .. and even his partner were suggesting stuff to him , they created the story of the fucked up Mother to use it against him in the end ..

the Doctor in the Cave and rorschach were right .. they manipulated him (With drugs , suggestions , etc) ..

He was investigating a top secret experiment .. he was going to expose it .. that is more enough reason for them to keep him on the island ..

MK Ultra was real , the government does this kind of top secret experiments all the time .. (Cold War

Oh .. THE LOBOTOMY AND THE LIGHTHOUSE EXPERIMENTS WERE ACTUALLY HAPPENING !!!

 

[SR4]

The Lives of Others-8.5/10

 

The ending was ridiculously good.....shows you how far american cinema has fallen.

[goffer]

Mhmmm Lives of Others made it onto my top 10 of 2000s

[awepittance]

Julia - really depressing movie about a washed up middle aged compulsive liar alcoholic woman played by Tilda Swinson. Probably the best role i've ever seen her in, she embodied this sleazy character pefectly. and maybe it was just because i just saw Bad Lieutenant but the movie reminded me a lot of it. You're just watching her get closer and closer to rock bottom and make stupider decisions as the movie progresses. The ending was a little bit of a redemption kind of thing which took away from the visceral nature of the movie but overall i liked it a lot, 7.5/10

[Guest futuregirlfriend]

JFK - I don't know enough about the JFK shooting to have much of an opinion on whether or not the things presented in the film are truthful or fantasy, but it was compelling viewing.

[goffer]

I really enjoyed that reenactment scene of Oswald on the run... the editing was perfect.

[awepittance]

JFK is probably my favorite Olvier stone movie, i'm sure other movies have done this before him (battle of algiers comes to mind) but the way he connects together actual stock footage from the time period with reenacted black and white stuff with Oldman playing Oswald is really engrossing. Nixon is a lot more boring and drawn out but it's probably Stone's most similar film,it almost feels like a sequel in a way. Nixon was underrated i think, a lot of critics couldn't take Anthony Hopkins seriously as nixon but i think he does a great job.

[Guest Fishtank]

Shutter Island

it gets a 6/10 because of the

**spoiler**

 

FIGHT CLUBy TWIST NOOOOOOOO!!!

 

other than that it's great

[Squee]

Shutter Island

it gets a 6/10 because of the

**spoiler**

 

FIGHT CLUBy TWIST NOOOOOOOO!!!

 

other than that it's great

 

 

And Identity and The Machinist and Secret Window and...

 

[Guest Benedict Cumberbatch]

kurt & courtney 4/10

really boring. tupac & biggie had some conspiracies but this really had nothing. i don't mind the look-how-we-failed type of film (lost in mancha!!) but this just didnt hold my interest. could be because i haven't enjoy nirvana's music since his death, luckily there wasn't any in the film! aren't earth like a legendary band? big hype on here when they drop an album. i don't see how that dillion chap could even find his guitar. this documentary was basically interviews with lots of junkies. it was really sad. maybe helped us understand kurt a little more

 

lost in la mancha 7/10

liked it. need to read up if he tried again since.

[chassis]

Wolfman.

I laughed at some bits but it wasnt bad enough to be funny the whole way through. And its wasnt a good film attal.