Saw “The Game” with Michael Douglas and Sean Penn. I just love this movie. Totally underrated. The plot is just do fucking awesome. And Douglas is basically Gordon Gekko here.
Anyone who has not seen this is doing themselves a huge disservice.
And I saw Looper for the second time. Really good Sci-fi
[quote]Spock81 wrote:
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
Oh Really.
What makes No Country your fav?
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Oh my, nobody has ever asked me that before…
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Where do I begin?!
WELL firstly, Anton Chigurh=SUPA AWESOME!!!
I have liked many a badguy in my day, but no one even comes close to Anton!
I was also able to watch this movie like once a week for months without getting bored, and that’s a big deal to me. REwatch ability is signs of a classic forsure.
For a while it felt like Tommy Lee Jones was living inside my head narrating the story of my life 
Everything is also so damn quoteable.
Let me ask you something. If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?
If there’s a dull moment during a conversation you can just say this.
Do you have any idea how crazy you are?
You mean the nature of this conversation?
I mean the nature of you…
UM oH and that big cow killing murder weapon machine that he carried everywhere, fucking so cool.
And I was able to read the book. My brain rarely shuts up enough to let me finish an ENTIRE BOOK, but I couldn’t put this one down.
Magic, pure magic it was.
This post is too long.
BYE
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I wouldn’t normally bring books into a movie thread, but you should absolutely look at Cormac McCarthy’s other books if you liked that one. Blood Meridian is easily one of the finest things written in the last century.
The Social Network - I’m not really sure exactly what I expected of this film, though, it never really ‘took’ off for me, a decent documentary about the whole facebook thang would probably have been equally if not more entertaining. 2/5.
Shattered Glass - Really intriguing, somewhat thought provoking (to begin with), though, ultimately not enough substance for a feature film 2.5/5.
The Thing (the new one) - Pretty good, though, really not that very different than the original. 3/5.
Stranger than fiction - Not as silly as I thought it was going to be (I’m generally not a big fan of comedy films, too long to sustain funniness), twas quite nice & heartwarming though, I just feel they could have made a lot more of the: Female voice in the head angle. 3.5/5.
The Krays - Really, really fucked up! Nowhere even close to being a gangster classic though. 3/5.
[quote]jjackkrash wrote:
Spock, you remind me of a buddy I haven’t seen in a while. Back in the day, if I mentioned I’d seen a new movie, he’d ask: “how’d that movie rank on a scale from 1 to Total Recall.”
I just saw the remake, by the way, and really enjoyed it.
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OMG YAY!! I love reminding people of buddy’s, :D!
Oh, and thanks for the book tip person whose user name starts with A
Abbbiguin, or somethin.
FInally saw looper last night! Pretty darn good, very weird though. I had no idea who I wanted to die and who I wanted to live.
ALSO, loved seein’ bruce willis shootin’ people. Getting excited for the next Die Hard WOOOOOOTTTTT.!
Last night, I saw two films, one on Cable TV, one on DVD.
First, was Paul Verhoeven’s 1995 classic, “Showgirls.” Like some other Verhoeven films, I am still trying to decide whether or not it was the worst theatrical release of its year, or the best. It was like encountering some kind of horrible old-world type Nosferatu vampire – completely horrifying and soul-sucking, yet oddly entrancing and compelling, so much so that you really can’t draw away. But the good moments were great…some of Jesse’s acting really made me laugh harder than any comedy since ‘Something about Mary,’ and Kyle Maclachlan’s greasy tan-ness kept reminding me of a Preparation H suppository.
The film is undeniably a joy to any Saved by the Bell fans. Just imagine that the owner of Cheetah’s is in fact Dustin Diamond, and Kyle Maclachlan’s character is in fact Mario Lopez, and the whole movie becomes a masterpiece.
Next, I watched 2009’s “Antichrist,” starring Willem Dafoe, and Charlotte Gainsbourg.
Approaching this film, I had no small degree of trepidation – it had not been that long since seeing Dafoe in “4:44 Last Day On Earth,” and after that experiment in nerve-deadening boredom I was loathe to see the same actor in what seemed to boil down to another minimalist experiment in filmic nihilism; or at least that was my impression given the blurbs on the DVD box and on some internet reviews.
I have no idea if I should recommend this movie or not. It was gruesome, and horrifying in a on a level that few movies manage to reach. A few of the scenes actually managed to give me sympathetic twitches & discomfort, which for me is close to impossible – I almost never react to anything on screen on an actual nerve/visceral level. Several scenes also combined sadism & sex in a rather explicit fashion – in fact the actors’ body doubles were professional porn actors.
I haven’t mentioned what this film is about, yet, have I? That’s because I’m still not sure – though I don’t consider that obscurity to be a negative, in this case. Basically, a married couple’s kid dies, they go to a remote cabin to mourn & get away from it all, some things which might be supernatural happen, and from there it’s like they were tossed into some kind of Heironymous Bosch nightmare.
If you are a person who isn’t innately turned off by hard R sexuality combined with gruesome sadism, and you don’t mind surrealistic horror, you just might love this movie. And I do mean ‘love,’ because I’m still not 100% sure if it’s possible to ‘like’ this movie. I’ll have to let it sink in, maybe see it a second time.
Maybe next time I won’t watch ‘Showgirls’ right before watching this one…
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Oh, and it’s from Lars von Trier, director of Dancer in the Dark, Melancholia, and Dogville. It definitely has some of the ‘minimalist’ feel of Dogville (and Manderlay), and the mixture of starkness and inter-personal complexity that you see in Dancer in the Dark. So…if you’re familiar with that style, it is at least some kind of starting point as to whether or not you can tolerate this film.
Saw ‘Jack Reacher’ in the theater , i read some of the books and figured it would be ok ,
the movie was kind of annoying, biggest reason being the bad guys were just kind of fkin stupid and incompetent, in any movie the protagonist needs to be evenly matched and given a strong challenge.
[quote]Field wrote:
Saw ‘Jack Reacher’ in the theater , i read some of the books and figured it would be ok ,
the movie was kind of annoying, biggest reason being the bad guys were just kind of fkin stupid and incompetent, in any movie the protagonist needs to be evenly matched and given a strong challenge.[/quote]
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Didn’t read any of the books but was aware of the discrepancies between movie and books.
Couldn’t really get into the movie. There were some good bits, though. But didn’t like the acting of Rosamund Pike and those bad guys seemed ‘forced’ and looked pretty moronic. The appearance of Werner Herzog looked like a gimmick.
Holla!
I saw Gangster Squad and I liked it.
THe critics gave it a horrible review on rotton tomatoes and that upsets me…
Something about a weak script or whatever.
BUT the actors were so good I didn’t even notice that what they were saying was semi-dumb at times.
Sean penn was AMAZING.
ANd Josh Brolin was in this movie and and… he’s Llewelyn Moss tear.
His character was THE PERFECT MAN, and here’s why:
I used to see this boy at the gym all the time and I told my friends that he was a “well-planted man”. Which means if you gave him a running hug type thing he would not fall over.
Josh Brolin is a well planted man, very well planted indeed.
So to summerize:
This movie contains good acting, well planted men, awesome shooting scenes, and gets an overall rating of 3.69 outta 5 from MOI.
KTHANKSBYE
I watched In Time on DVD.
Horrible Robin Hood rip off. Don’t waste any time on this one.
TED!
“put the ring in her ass and let her Fart it out”
Hahahahhahahahahahahahahahah ahhhhhhhhhhhh
Life of Pi- visually stunning modern fable of individual faith and religious tolerance.
Silver Linings Playbook
Holy Shit! I Loved this Movie!
I’m a Cowboys fan. I hate dancing. I was diagnosed bipolar in my mid-30s. And yet this may be one of my favorite movies. Great performances. Great script. Damn, I’m a sappy bitch.
I’m surprised nobody has posted a review of Zero Dark Thirty yet. I’m going to see it as soon as I get a chance. Hopefully that is before it’s out of theaters.
Zero Dark Thirty, what’s to say, it’s just really well done and rather accurate from what I’ve heard. The whole movie is just very intriguing.
I thought The Hobbit sucked, however.
[quote]PB Andy wrote:
Zero Dark Thirty, what’s to say, it’s just really well done and rather accurate from what I’ve heard. The whole movie is just very intriguing.
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I agree, watched it the other day and thought it was pretty sweet.
[quote]pushharder wrote:
[quote]Steel Nation wrote:
I’m surprised nobody has posted a review of Zero Dark Thirty yet. I’m going to see it as soon as I get a chance. Hopefully that is before it’s out of theaters.[/quote]
I liked it. Rather slow in many places in the first half of the movie but the raid itself was impossibly realistic. [/quote]
Cool. I was going to see it either way but I was really hoping they got the raid part right.
Watched Road to Perdition again. I like this movie more each time I rewatch it, weird. Problem is, while I’m watching it, the Opeth song “Ghost of Perdtion” pops into my head lol.
I also watched Django. Pretty good but kinda long but you have to expect that in a Tarantino flick along with the buckets o’ blood. It’s so over the top it’s good. The German actor is excellent as well.