“I am David”
Just watched it on IFC.
summery: In 1952 a bulgarian boy who was born into a Stanlist labor camp escapes and makes his way to Denmark.
Very good movie.
quantum of solace. pretty good. action. bad guys not as flagrantly eeevil as the last one. not enough of craig’s physique. oh well. saw a trailer for the star trek flick coming in may '09. it looks great.
true blood finale was awesome.
I’ve been loading up my Netflix que with a lot of samurai flicks lately.
The Sword of Doom was really good. I’d seen this one before in bits and pieces, but as a whole it was a lot better than I expected.
The plot structure is unusual, focuses mostly on a master swordsman’s moral decay over a period of years. Toshiro Mifune plays a secondary character who only influences the main events from the sidelines and is awesome as always.
Shogun Assassin was as good as the hype. The story was a little strange, basically The Lone Wolf and Cub series condensed into a feature film. The story is basically just an excuse to go from one awesome sword fight to another.
There are copious amounts of bright red blood, and even though the atmosphere is extremely grim I laughed my ass off the whole time.
Kit Kittredge: An American Girl - Cute movie. It’s definitely a family-oriented, but I didn’t think it was tough to sit through or anything like that.
Mister Foe - Basically this is a movie about a creepy stalker dude with mother issues. I don’t think they knew what they wanted to do with this movie. It starts out kind of funny, then gets creepy, then serious, then an almost thriller ending. I kind of felt like it was all over the place and uneven. However, I still managed to like the characters and the interaction between them.
The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury - Cool, but very short, cartoon about the events immediately after Pitch Black. I actually think it might have made a halfway decent movie if they had gone that route. Hearing Vin Diesel talks makes me laugh now though. He sounds like a combination of Elmer Fudd and Sly Stallone. “Are you afwaid of duh dahwk? huh huh huh”
Alone in the Dark - Sucked, as all Uwe Boll movies do. I don’t even know why I bothered with it. I think I’m waiting to watch the Uwe Boll movie that has any redeeming value to it. Eventually, he has to make one movie that will be good. Right?
The Invisible - Pretty boring moving that would probably have a lot of appeal to the tween-CW-watching demographic. This movie nearly put me to sleep with it’s slow pace, uninteresting story and characters.
Alone with Her - Unremarkable movie about a stalker. The girl he was stalking wasn’t even cute either. Although it’s kind of scary in the beginning because he basically shows how you could easily buy and bug a person’s home to stalk them. It just didn’t really break any new ground here. It’s low-budget, but I think that actually kind of worked for it.
Cannibal! The Musical - I thought this was hysterical, but I’m a South Park fan. I wish Matt and Trey would do more live action movies. Maybe when South Park has finally run its course they’ll give us a few movies like this.
I’ve only seen one Uwe Boll movie, Postal. I didn’t think it was too bad, I was entertained.
I hear the rest of his movies are really terrible though, but I can’t comment as I haven’t seen them. I did see the video of him boxing his critics. Hilarious.
I didn’t watch Quantum of Solace in theaters because I knew it was bad. Last night the DVD screener got released so I ended up watching it at home just to see. It was truly awful. Probably the worst Bond movie I’ve seen.
All three Bourne movies were better. This is what happens when you get a homosexual director with no action experience to direct a Bond film. To even get 65% at RT makes me think critics were bribed.
I also watched Let the Right One In. It was a little odd. I can’t call it a bad movie, because the acting, directing etc. were quite good, but I didn’t enjoy it either.
Then I went online to read about the book it was based on, because there was one scene that especially weird, and the things I found out made the story even more odd.
I just watched Happy Gilmore for like the 20th time on USA. It still kicks ass, of course.
HellBoy II The Golden Army (on DVD)
yes, I typed out the full title, that’s how much I like that movie.
Just finished watching Wall-E, and it was absolutely fantastic. I wouldn’t expect anything less from Pixar, they’re always on top of their game for the most part when it comes to ingenuity.
Home for Thanksgiving so I finally got to watch movies:
Sukiyaki Western Django:
Loved it, the cinematography was wonderful. The violence was very pretty, yet still wonderfully gorey. If you like weird, watch it. It’s in English, but thay all have Japanese accents, so we went with subtitles.
There’s also a really hot dance scene. She doesn’t strip or anything, but the way she moves…
In Bruges:
The writing is fantastic, it’s witty and disturbing. It’s got some great one liners. Midgets, but no hot girls.
Redbelt:
It’s Mammet.
Quantum of Solace:
I wanted to zone out, this worked well for it. Nothing fantastic violence or girl wise.
[quote]Fergy wrote:
Just finished watching Wall-E, and it was absolutely fantastic. I wouldn’t expect anything less from Pixar, they’re always on top of their game for the most part when it comes to ingenuity. [/quote]
Agreed. I don’t think it’s going to take hover chairs and a deep space voyage for humans to get really fat and lazy though. We seem to be handling that just fine right here.
Rize - I came across this again since watching it last on tv a few years back.
Its a documentary on the whole Krump vs Clowning dance scene in California. If you like Dancing, street culture and HipHop then you should watch this. The Soundtrack is great too. (its now spread across the world Krumping that is).
Step Up 2 - it a dance movie(i know its aimed at the teeny audience, but i enjoy watching/learning dance moves), plot was cliche and worse than the first one(which was a okay film to watch). Most of the dancing was okay and nothing spectacular(stomp the yard was way better). But the DVD extras had a couple of good B-Boy crews.
The Graduate- Watched it for the second time, its a classic and very funny. Totally worth the watch. I’m still a bit bewildered by the ending.
21- I like Kevin Spacey and feel he did a good job in this movie. If you like the casino style movies then a good watch.
Incredible Hulk - It was good, but I guess I was expecting more. I love in the eric bana version how hulk power jumps across the desert, this one he had to jump like 4 times to get on a building. I didn’t like the job Roth did on his character either. I can honestly say while watching this I wanted to go in my garage and do a huge deadlift or something. Laughed at the reference to Lou Ferrigo, too bad most people won’t know it when they see it.
Quantum of Solace - Good, but feel it could of been more Bondish. Felt like another action film. Craig did a good job though. The bad guys sucked. I’ll watch it again when its out on DVD.
I didnt understand the end of ‘Silent Hill’
anyone care to explain it? Why are they in the same room but different ‘places’ at the same time? how did that happen?
Is it because she went at night and he went during the day?
[quote]Subliminal-Steve wrote:
I didnt understand the end of ‘Silent Hill’
anyone care to explain it? Why are they in the same room but different ‘places’ at the same time? how did that happen?
Is it because she went at night and he went during the day?[/quote]
Watch the movie extras.
Their goal was to create Silent Hill as some kind of dimension instead of a specific place (their goal was to make sequels). That way in later movies, they could basically stick “Silent Hill” wherever they needed it.
In other words, they were still trapped in that other dimension even though they could still interact with the places in this world.
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Oh right I see, I just saw it when it came on tv so couldn’t see the extras
cheers though
Juno - It was ok, but I don’t think it lived up the the hype. Some funny bits, but overall I thought it was pretty forgettable.
The Rookie - Cheesy, feel good baseball movie with Randy Quaid and Rachel Griffiths. Randy I like as an actor but he seems to be the same guy in every movie. Rachel was pretty hot as a southern gal.
He Was a Quiet Man - A very odd movie about a troubled man(Christian Slater) who goes to work planning to go postal only to have a co-worker beat him to it. He becomes romantically involved with the only survivor(Elisha Cuthbert).
I found this to be a very interesting flick, and Christian just nails his character who is awkward, odd, and crazy. Part comedy, part tripy drama(talking goldfish?), part suspense, and part tragic love story, I liked it very much.
I like Christian Slater, He’s in my favourite movie, True Romance, just watched that again last night
I finally saw The Strangers a few nights ago.
I had read all about it already, so nothing was much of a surprise.
It was still a “fun” scary movie.
It made me keep looking over my shoulder…
Hancock. The unrated version is better than the theatrical release.
I think this movie deserved more credit.