Last Seen 70s/80s Movie

[crabapple]

Enchanted (theatre).....I give it a 7.5 or an 8 if I'm feeling really friendly. Fun movie, decent, charming.

Time After Time (video) classic fave.

[Disease]

Originally Posted by Psycom5k

I agree, the conecept was nice though, even if it was kinda a rip off of Hostel.


Also, Wrong Turn, for what I thought was the first time, but then realized it wasn't when I saw the inbred hillbillies (i just never knew the name of the movie). The ending was lame as hell, but I liked it.

Yeah I did that, I hired it, then when I went to watch it I realized I had seen it on cable a few years before but never caught the name. I felt ripped off. :mad:

[novakru]

August Rush- 5 stars

[Zero]

on video i just watched Paris Je T'aime - cool if you love Paris but generally uneven and not many segments that were inspiring (for those who might not know the film is broken into segment - one for each district (or quartieme) of Paris and each directed by a different director. The Cohen Brothers had a nice one as did Wes Craven, but most were fairly uninteresting.

Like I said, if you love Paris and have spent time there you will appreciate it - if not then its an interesting 'film school' exercise in style and short filmmaking

[Posher778]

Shoot Em' Up- 6.5/10

One of the best mindless shooting movies i've seen in a while, worth a watch. Clive Owen does a good job as usual.

[hellfire1]

Originally Posted by ChronoGrl

hee... Not lame at all... And, honestly, it wasn't just the bikinis... I thought that atmospherically it worked better... I thought that it handled the concept of alienation a lot better than Hostel did, and, well, the torture scene in Touristas was more gruesome (I wasn't impressed with Hostel and make the argument that if it should truly be considered "torture porn," there should be a LOT more torture), and I felt more threat from Touristas than I did with Hostel. Not to mention, the landscape is gorgeous yet so threatening at the same time... I thought the direction was fantastic.

Glad I found a like mind..

Exactly. I found the characters more likeable and was therefore more drawn into the movie, making it more suspenseful for me and caught myself wincing at certain torture scenes which I found 10 times more gruesome than Hostel (if that's all people are looking for in a film)... just overall the better movie imo, and this coming from a guy who made such movies like Blue Crush and Into the Blue.



Anyhoo... Stardust and Dead Silence (kinda).

[BLAdams]

Watched The Reaping and Delta Farce a couple of nights ago.......

The Reaping was VERY GOOD well worth watching wouldn't mind watching it again......:o

Delta Farce on the other hand was a big disappointment. It wasn't as funny as I thought it would be.
Larry the Cable Guy and Bill Engvall together in a movie should have had me rolling on the floor but I was far from it......:mad:

[Geddy]

Children Of Men.

[ChronoGrl]

Originally Posted by hellfire1

Exactly. I found the characters more likeable and was therefore more drawn into the movie, making it more suspenseful for me and caught myself wincing at certain torture scenes which I found 10 times more gruesome than Hostel (if that's all people are looking for in a film)... just overall the better movie imo, and this coming from a guy who made such movies like Blue Crush and Into the Blue.

Well said. *knods sagely*

Anyhoo... Stardust and Dead Silence (kinda).

What did you think? I absolutely ADORED Stardust... Thought that it was whimsical and very well done (and the first time that I've enjoyed Robert DeNiro in a LONG time)... I really need to get my hand on the Neil Gaimon novel... Dead Silence however... Ech. Blech.

...

Today...

Me and my boyfriend's family went to see

BEOWULF 3D




My initial responses to Beowulf's previews:

1. That looks AWESOME!
...
2. Wait, that looks like crappy CGI.
...
3. Well, maybe it'll look better in 3D...

Yeah, not so much.

Honestly, the beasties were spectacular (Grendel, the Sea Monsters, and the last battle, a Dragon). They looked incredible and the action scenes were definitely enjoyable.

HOWEVER

For most of it, I just felt as though I were watching a video game. The story and the writing were terrible, and they should have just stuck with action... The humans looked awful (because of the method of transposing CGI, they looked as though they were stepping out of some king of RPG to the big screen... Dull faces, unrealistic hair and all of the issues that comes from creating CGI people).

The only human character who stuck out was John Malkovich, who was honestly enjoyable... But he didn't have enough screen time.

The themes of the story were pedantic parables about pride, bravado, and hubris... Nothing new with no attempt to make them novel.

I had heard a few reviews that had claimed that the movie was tongue and cheek, but the movie took itself far too seriously to be self conscious in anyway, shape or form.

Some parts were pretty to look at, but overall it was yawnable...

C+/B- (The special effects were really INCREDIBLE... There were just too little beasties. Alas).

[Phalanx]

Apocalypto.
First time viewing.
Exciting in parts, sad in some, downright fucked up in others.
Overall pretty decent, not really my kind've movie though.