Films Recently Watched

[baph]

i'm 20 so nbd, :wang:

 

you lucky mofo

[Silent Member]

Just saw Evil Dead 1981 after seeing the 2013 trailer for the remake they are doing of it.

 

Not bad considering its time period. Really looking forward to the remake now.

You should see evil dead 2 first, also a remake, sort of. It's more funner and stuff.

Edited October 25, 2012 by Gocab

[FLA FUR BIS FLE]

Killer Joe was the strangest movie I've seen in a while. The chicken bit, and the ending...just.. wat.

[Schlitze]

Just saw Evil Dead 1981 after seeing the 2013 trailer for the remake they are doing of it.

 

Not bad considering its time period. Really looking forward to the remake now.

Yeah, I watched that trailer yesterday and it does look pretty good. A lot of fans (including myself) were in doubt about an Evil Dead remake (they were mainly pissed off that the character Ash wasn't going to feature) but judging by the trailer it looks like a real dark horror film without the comedy of the original.

 

On the the subject of the possessed, some pretty cool footage from The Exorcist i found

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzXSGh7LeMw[/url]

Edited October 25, 2012 by Schlitze

[AJW]

my son my son what have ye done

 

I liked it, it's a great story (based on truth apparently)? However it seemed like it should have been half an hour longer and more aspects of his wonderfully weird personality could have been explored (more straight narrative scenes from Peru would have been nice) I felt the presence of Herzogism but it came across as stilted in this film. Plus the small anecdotes leading to flashback scenes set up got on my nerves.

[Guest Jimmy McMessageboard]

should have been longer is a strange criticism.

[Guest boo]

you're strange

[Guest Jimmy McMessageboard]

your a pow'r rang'r

[Guest boo]

the thing (2011) - should have been longer, and less shit. should have been loads of good film.

prometheus - should have been longer]

black swan - couldn't get far in to it, felt like i should be watching it with a gf

cube - should have been longer

 

[cruising for burgers]

the thing (2011) - should have been longer, and less shit. should have been loads of good film.

prometheus - should have been longer]

black swan - couldn't get far in to it, felt like i should be watching it with a gf

cube - should have been longer

lol

[Salvatorin]

can someone help me out? I'm trying to recall a scene in which a bunch of children in ww2 europe piss in a bucket or something and then force another child to drink it. I think it was "die blechtrommel" but I can't remember for the life of me.

[J3FF3R00]

Cloud atlas

 

4/10

Edited October 28, 2012 by jefferoo

[YEK]

i'm watching Pumpkinhead. it's really f'ing bad.

[Squee]

can someone help me out? I'm trying to recall a scene in which a bunch of children in ww2 europe piss in a bucket or something and then force another child to drink it. I think it was "die blechtrommel" but I can't remember for the life of me.

 

The Tin Drum?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078875/

[dr lopez]

"die blechtrommel"

I love german cause it's like funny english! Let's do it together! Die (The) Blech (Tin) Trommel (Drum) YAY!

[Redruth]

bellflower 8/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1242599/ i enjoyed this. extremely accurate depiction of its subject matter. it achieved precisely what it set out to achieve. worth the watch

[sheatheman]

The Master 8.5/10

 

Equally as brilliant as There Will be Blood, and equally as maddening. My favorite thing about Paul Thomas Anderson is the way he uses soundtracks.

 

Joaquin Phoenix's character is a drifter in the film, and he has this amazing theme, these meandering, contrapuntal, apocalyptic flutes that fade in and out of audibility.

 

There is this excellent scene where he is wandering towards a sort of party boat, and his theme is in the foreground, but as he approaches, salsa music can be heard coming from the dance floor on the upper deck. So as he gets closer, his internal theme keeps playing, but is slowly being drowned out by the salsa music. But for a long time, both are being played, his indecision about whether or not to sneak onto the boat causing his internal theme to increase in volume before it fades out entirely when he decides to get on the boat. I don't recall diegetic and non diegetic music being used so powerfully and effectively for narrative before.

 

That, and the opening music is just stunning. It's also excellently acted by Phoenix, and almost as excellently by Hoffman, though I hated Amy Adams. She comes to have a much more major role than she should.

[Redruth]

The Master 8.5/10

 

Equally as brilliant as There Will be Blood, and equally as maddening. My favorite thing about Paul Thomas Anderson is the way he uses soundtracks.

 

Joaquin Phoenix's character is a drifter in the film, and he has this amazing theme, these meandering, contrapuntal, apocalyptic flutes that fade in and out of audibility.

 

thx u plees. i've been pleasure-delaying this one, but now you've got me so worked up with your gushing review, i'll likely burst

Edited October 28, 2012 by Redruth

[autopilot]

I finally watched Network because I've seen its name pop up on WATMM so many times. Brilliant film. I thought it was just some nicely done satire until the board room scene where Ned Beatty lectures Howard Beale. Then, for me, the film became tops.

[cruising for burgers]

scene where Ned Beatty lectures Howard Beale. Then, for me, the film became tops.

yes!!!

 

 

Arthur Jensen: [bellowing] You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and I won't have it! Is that clear? You think you've merely stopped a business deal. That is not the case! The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back! It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity! It is ecological balance! You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations. There are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no third worlds. There is no West. There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars. Petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars, reichmarks, rins, rubles, pounds, and shekels. It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic and subatomic and galactic structure of things today! And YOU have meddled with the primal forces of nature, and YOU... WILL... ATONE!

Arthur Jensen: [calmly] Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale? You get up on your little twenty-one inch screen and howl about America and democracy. There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those *are* the nations of the world today. What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state, Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions, and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments, just like we do. We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business. The world is a business, Mr. Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime. And our children will live, Mr. Beale, to see that... perfect world... in which there's no war or famine, oppression or brutality. One vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock. All necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused. And I have chosen you, Mr. Beale, to preach this evangel.

 

Edited October 27, 2012 by THIS IS MICHAEL JACKSON

[Guest HokusPoker]

Requiem for a Dream - 9.5/10.

Aronofsky's use of camera perspective, color and music is mind-blowing.

[logakght]

Audition: Pretty slow at the first part, kinda good at the end. 8/10

[Atop]

Killer Joe was the strangest movie I've seen in a while. The chicken bit, and the ending...just.. wat.

 

I be strokin'.

[Guest disparaissant]

Alien - 10/10

this is probably my favourite horror movie. the only flaws i can find with it are that it's dated (the computers and everyone smoking on a spaceship) but that's nothing that can be helped.

[AJW]

Alien - 10/10

this is probably my favourite horror movie. the only flaws i can find with it are that it's dated (the computers and everyone smoking on a spaceship) but that's nothing that can be helped.

 

funny. I really enjoy those aspects of the film, together with nice dark shots and the feel of a somewhat dilapitated ship. Only downside for me is the slightly drawn out lights flashing and sirens blaring segment towards the end.

Almost flawless film for sure. And even better than the director's cut IMO.

 

Since it's that time of the year I've been watching the Halloween films. The thing is with these films is that they always tend to have a good build up, a semi tense feel of a storm approaching but as soon as everyones aware of the danger afoot it just boild down to a robotic figure in a mask killing people in silly ways. That and Donald Pleasance the token mad Brit who is treated like a nutter by the townsfolk.

 

It's definetely better than Friday 13th, but not as good as Nightmare On Elm Street.