A few films recently watched.

[keltoi]

le havre - simple, quirky, stylish and sweet... charming and so beautifully, thoroughly french... 8/10.

 

nice recommendation ludd... at least i took your "wtf" as a recommendation.

[Rubin Farr]

Dark Shadows - 2/10 worst Tim Burton movie since Planet of the Apes

 

Project X - 6/10 tons of teen titties

[soundwave]

Dredd 3D - as far away from the cartoon Hollywood Stallone version as possible and all the better for it. The dark drab colours and gritty backdrop are a good homage to the comic and the gory violence was like watching Robocop for the first time again. Karl Urban also settles well into the helmet towards the later half of the film which also has the best artistic use of 3D since Avatar. The soundtrack felt a little cheap to me but should keep gothy 2000ad fans comfortable. 9.5/10

[awepittance]

 

 

I know you love Lifeforce and Zardoz.

 

Why can you not one day, love Prometheus?

 

 

 

 

i wouldn't say i love either of those movies, they are quirky fun blips on the scifi spectrum. Lifeforce less so, Prometheus however is a prequel to one of my favorite movies of all time. It had big shoes to fill

[Atop]

And there was no way it could fill those shoes.

 

I think the film will age well.

 

Dune suffered from the same issues when it was released.

 

I still have to explain to many people why I love Dune.

 

And I was kidding about Lifeforce and Zardoz, of which I enjoy both but they are pure sci-fi camp.

 

This weekend is all about the Master.

 

[Guest Jimmy McMessageboard]

is everyone trying to see the master in 70mm?

[logakght]

Bride of Re-Animator: 8.8/10

[tec]

Juan of the Dead - Fun, more than obvious but if you enjoyed Shaun of the Dead you'll like this too.

[awepittance]

Samsara - 9/10, pretty much almost as good as Baraka. Technically better in many regards, the cinematography was amazing.

[gaarg]

Louis C.K. Hilarious: 9/10. I haven't laughed so much in a long time. It's hilarious really.

[chim]

Troll 2 - 6/10

 

Bourne Identity - 10/10

 

Darkman - 8/10

[Guest RadarJammer]

Resident Evil 5 zombie movies are one of my favorite genres and I happily put up with the luke warm RE movies 1-4 but this was a bad movie. If you looked at one thing on the screen it could be ok but if you looked at the whole thing it just didn't look or feel right. The ending scene was the highlight not just because it set up an interesting and potentially great looking sequel but it meant I could get up and leave the theator as a shitty brostep song started playing for the ending credits. 2.5/10

[chim]

Prometheus (again)

 

This movie really gets a lot better if you look at it as a space comedy. Glad I got the "serious" view out of the way the first time.

[logakght]

The Hunger Games: Entertaining piece of shit 6.7/10

[Guest apeterlives]

Ralph Bakshi short:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JBtNeDGj1MY

[lumpenprol]

Four Lions: um...yeah. It's sort of an uneasy comedy-drama hybrid. Most of the comedy was trying too hard and fell flat. It worked pretty well as a straight drama, and became more of that as it went along, which was good. Not really sure what the film was aiming for, though. I think it "over humanized" suicide bombers on the one hand, but seemed offensive to Islam on the other. So not sure it would make anyone happy. Acting was pretty good. I think it might have been very good if it was played as a straight drama with dark humor elements, rather than a comedy with dramatic elements - sort of like Three Kings. Even the lines that should have been pretty funny somehow didn't quite live up to their full potential, maybe it was the delivery or pacing...or maybe the subject matter is just "too soon." I found the wife's support of her husband's martyrdom to be chilling, I think the point was to show how even people with very normal lives could support terror as a rational response to injustice, but it just came across as "these people are batshit crazy" (as it should have, there's no way to rationalize that). I did like her attacking the hard-line Muslim dude with a squirtgun though. All told, 5/10 or 6/10.

[dr lopez]

yeah four lions was a difficult one... I laughed a lot, but it was kind of nervous laughter, not brilliant satire or absurdist the day today laughter. I thought the ending was way too sad for a comedy film, which is why I agree that leaving it feels more like a dramedy.

[keltoi]

magnolia (1st rewatch since release) - such depth and complexity... immense, masterful, gripping film-making and top drawer performances throughout (even cruise and reilly win me over)... a work of genius... only crit it's a tad long. 8.9/10

[Squee]

I watched The Grey yesterday. Man, I was on the edge of my seat most of the time. I was really surprised by it. I liked how the wolves were being kept in the background, almost like you would do with a monster in a monster movie, and I actually think they looked pretty good even though they were CGi.

The ending ruined the movie for me. It went straight from a 9/10 to a 6/10.

 

I was really looking forward to seeing Liam Neeson battle it out with an alpha wolf but then... nothing. NOTHING!? WHAT?!

 

[awepittance]

another problem with four lions at least for me is that chris morris acts like he now has some kind of fatwa against him like he's some kind of bad ass for touching the '3rd rail'. To me the movie suffers from being overly conventional politiically, you're not Salmon Rushdie bro, sorry bro.

[chim]

I watched The Grey yesterday.

 

Great film! I agree about the ending.

 

Starship Troopers: Invasion - 1/10

 

Oh god why did I even bother..

[kichiguy]

Compliance - Stupidity is frustrating/10

[kinski]

so i decided to waste my life and this is how my weekend ended up being like:

 

the 40yo virgin - really cute and not at all gross. i was expecting it to be absolutely terrible, but it's actually a decent flick. enjoyed it!

 

funny people - i liked it. it's not that good, but i enjoy the general washedup comedian story and its execution. second part of the movie was unnecessary, though. still, it was weird seeing an adam sandler movie where there's not one scene of him speaking in his retard voice. nor there was any signature stoner seth rogen laugh anywhere! what a treat.

 

i love you, man - kinda boring with huge plotholes but with a chuckle here and there. passable.

 

hangover part ii - very mindless, mildly funny.

 

due date - insanely stupid, sometimes funny, sometimes way gross.

 

forgetting sarah marshall - i kinda liked the idea, but the overthetopness of it all made everything so boring and way too long.

 

slackers - absolutely terrible.

 

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other stuff from week earlier:

 

the green hornet - hilarious. i loved it. comedic bits were not forced, action scenes were really well made. quite a surprise it wasn't a (bigger?) hit.

 

vulgar - cool indie thriller/horror about a clown with twists and very few silly shortcuts.

 

hot tub time machine - it made no sense, but craig robinson was really funny in this.

 

thank you, good night!

[randomAmateur]

fist of the northstar - didn't see in a while and it's still nice

 

contact - mhh I didn't like it but poeple say it's good

[Nebraska]

 

an attempt at trying to make rapping seem like brain surgery: ice-t goes around interviewing "all the dopest rappers" to get an idea of how they come up with their raps (off the dome) and to "spit" some "real shit". this could've easily been a spot for fader's youtube page but it's extended to the 1hr mark with repetitive and (sometimes) aggravating self-promotion

 

1.5 soft tacos out of 5