The Hills Have Eyes 2: I should have known better since the first one made me punch my tv in the face. I’m sure anyone in the National Guard had to cringe they have the movie portrayed them as a bunch of retards that shoot their CO, fall off cliffs, and are for the most part the dumbest fucking people on planet earth. But I guess that’s par for the course in horror, dumb characters making the dumbest possible decisions.
Eddie Izzard: Glorious. “I want to live until I die, no more, no less.” Genius. I’ll admit that the goofy, slapstick style British humor is off at times, but the subtlety of Izzard is genius. My stomach hurts today from laughing so much.
Zombie Strippers - Campy, but annoying it a way, because you could tell they were trying too hard to be campy. Plus, what was with the lame attempt at political commentary? How could you take any kind of political commentary seriously in movie where the only thing it has going for it is Jenna Jameson’s tits. There are lots and lots of tits in the movie though. I’m also starting to get annoyed with bad CG gore in these movies. I’d rather they blow up fake looking dummies and use lots of fake blood still.
Urban Legends: The Final Cut - Stupid. A movie like this only works based on the strength of the death scenes and the only good one was right at the beginning of the movie. No boobs either, which as I’ve said before, is a requirement for a good slasher flick.
Wicked Lake - The first ten minutes were incoherent and unwatchable. I then watched the rest of the movie on 10x speed and it still felt too long.
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest - I’ve never watched this all the way though. I’ve only seen bits and pieces over the years. Great movie. Not really anything new I can say about this, so I’ll leave it at that. Although, I did think it was kind of funny how I watched this on Wednesday and then It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia had a reference to this on Thursday’s new episode.
My Big Fat Greek Wedding - Thought this started out funny, but was just okay overall. For all the hype I heard about how funny this was, I was expecting A LOT more. I see funnier TV shows on a weekly basis.
Scenes of a Sexual Nature - A bunch of short stories about couples that are very loosely related. I thought it was uneven and boring. I also think it was misleading to call this Scenes of a Sexual Nature, when the movie contains no sex at all. A more apt title would have been “Scenes about boring people talking in a park”.
RocknRolla: If you like Guy Ritchie movies, you’ll like this one. It follows the same basic premise of a bunch of shady people doing their own thing, with all their paths coming together at some point. It was fun seeing King Leonidas and Stringer Bell team up for some criminal hijinks, and Tom Wilkinson was brilliant as usual.
[quote]AngryVader wrote:
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest - I’ve never watched this all the way though. I’ve only seen bits and pieces over the years. Great movie. Not really anything new I can say about this, so I’ll leave it at that. Although, I did think it was kind of funny how I watched this on Wednesday and then It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia had a reference to this on Thursday’s new episode.
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Great movie, Jack Nicholson in his prime.
I just watched ‘Amu’ on DVD, it made me cry. Its about this Indian-American whose adopted as a young child by a Hindu woman.
She goes back to New Dehli, India for a visit(the first since going to the US). Anyway she experiences Deja Vu and begins to remember her younger brother, father(all murdered) and birth mother.
She in fact remembers the real life events that swept across India in the aftermath of 1984(at that time the Prime Minister Indira Ghandi was gunned down by her Sikh bodyguards, in retaliation to the events at a holy temple highly regarded by the Sikh diaspora. After this many thousands of Sikhs were murdered, raped and abused by the majority Hindus).
Also i liked the lead protaganist, she doesn’t wear make up(doesn’t need to) and acts well.
The DVD cover also reads that it won a few international awards, well worth watching.
Watch ‘Running with Arnold’ - I just watched it on TV, its a documentary on his bid to win the election in California.
There is a bit were some journalist finds an old interview of his where he describes being involved in a gangbang in California’s legendary Gold gym!
Maybe that’s why he took his pictures down at that branch.
It was a very dirty political affair(when are they not?).[/quote]
I’ll have to check that out. What channel was it on?
Halloween 5 - Apart from the first 5 minuets(which made next to no sense, Myers apparently spends a year with some guy in a shack in the middle of the woods 20 feet from where he was “killed” in the previous movie? what?)the rest I actually enjoyed and it almost was a credible attempt at improving the franchise. I was impressed they got the same actors back from the previous film to redeem their roles. I hate it when they just hire new actors to play the same role, seems tacky. The ending was a bit of a let down though. Who the fuck was the guy in the cowboy boots? Here I thought the Undertaker was coming to kick Meyer’s ass.
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead - Not bad, not good. Phillip Seymour Hoffman kills as usual, Marisa Tomei is naked most of the time, and Ethan Hawk cries a lot which always makes me happy because I for some reason hate him(though Gattaca is probably one of my favorite movies of all time). Ending was horrible. What is with this theme of ending movies like you ran out of money? Maybe I have gotten used to crazy plot twists at the end, but crappy endings always leave me feeling jipped.
Saw V-- One of the worst movies I have seen in a while. It was basically a bunch of torture scenes with a story used as an excuse so they could make torture scenes.
I watched Monster Squad over the weekend. Its about a group of kids that have a club centered around monsters. When Dracula, Wolfman, the Mummy, Frankensteins Monster, and the creature from the black lagoon show up to try and destroy an amulet the kids use their monster knowledge to fight them.
I was quite disappointed with it. I remember watching this movie over and over again as a kid and loving it. It just didn’t stand up to my memories of it.
[quote]Stone101 wrote:
Saw V-- One of the worst movies I have seen in a while. It was basically a bunch of torture scenes with a story used as an excuse so they could make torture scenes.[/quote]
[quote]p-dubs wrote:
I watched Monster Squad over the weekend. Its about a group of kids that have a club centered around monsters. When Dracula, Wolfman, the Mummy, Frankensteins Monster, and the creature from the black lagoon show up to try and destroy an amulet the kids use their monster knowledge to fight them.
I was quite disappointed with it. I remember watching this movie over and over again as a kid and loving it. It just didn’t stand up to my memories of it.[/quote]
I love that movie, but you’re right, not quite as good as when you were a kid, but still good IMO.
Watched Halloween: Rob Zombie remake
not a bad movie. got a little boring in the middle, but overall a decent horror movie :shrug:
Casino Royale, great Bond flick not that campy crap Brosnen did, actual plot and suspense. My only complaint is the same complaint I have with all Bond flicks and it is this; there are some of the finest women in these movies and not ONE flash of some tit. Whats a brother got to do to see some nipple(female) in these 007 flicks?
[quote]Pootie Tang wrote:
Casino Royale, great Bond flick not that campy crap Brosnen did, actual plot and suspense. My only complaint is the same complaint I have with all Bond flicks and it is this; there are some of the finest women in these movies and not ONE flash of some tit. Whats a brother got to do to see some nipple(female) in these 007 flicks? [/quote]
If you want to see Eva Green naked, rent a movie called The Dreamers.
[quote]Pootie Tang wrote:
Casino Royale, great Bond flick not that campy crap Brosnen did, actual plot and suspense. My only complaint is the same complaint I have with all Bond flicks and it is this; there are some of the finest women in these movies and not ONE flash of some tit. Whats a brother got to do to see some nipple(female) in these 007 flicks? [/quote]
Hmmm, Halle Berry was full frontal in that last Brosnan flick. I had no complaints…even though the rest of the movie sucked. You can only pause and rewind that one scene so many times.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Pootie Tang wrote:
Casino Royale, great Bond flick not that campy crap Brosnen did, actual plot and suspense. My only complaint is the same complaint I have with all Bond flicks and it is this; there are some of the finest women in these movies and not ONE flash of some tit. Whats a brother got to do to see some nipple(female) in these 007 flicks?
Hmmm, Halle Berry was full frontal in that last Brosnan flick. I had no complaints…even though the rest of the movie sucked. You can only pause and rewind that one scene so many times.[/quote]