[quote]pushmepullme wrote:
Doug Adams wrote:
Red Dawn- WOLVERINES!!! Lol. While it’s a favorite to tin-foil wearing Chicken Littles everywhere, I don’t think this movie is aging too well. While I try my best to suspend belief, some of the scenes are a little too ridiculous. Why does C Thomas Howell stand there like a sitting duck so the helicopter can cut him to pieces? That’s just stupid.
One of my all time favorites that I always think I need to re-watch…maybe I should just let the memory be.[/quote]
That movie is very era specific. Everyone thought it could happen when we first saw that movie. Now, it seems like some alternate universe.
Stand By Me has held up well though and still works today. Few movies can still have an impact decades after they were made.
Star Wars (the original three)
Maybe Die Hard
Braveheart
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DOTD is the best horror remake to date. I dare you to find one better. [/quote]
I’m just biased because I don’t like horror movies… They also blocked off the route I used to take to walk to school. Some little tunnel that I always walked through. Stupid movie made my walk an extra 10min long.
DOTD is the best horror remake to date. I dare you to find one better.
I’m just biased because I don’t like horror movies… They also blocked off the route I used to take to walk to school. Some little tunnel that I always walked through. Stupid movie made my walk an extra 10min long.
So yeah, biased.[/quote]
Was it the tunnel they used in the movie? When I saw Ving Rhames and the nurse start through there I thought “don’t go in there stupid, the zombies will corner you!”
Sleepover Nightmare - Total shit! It’s a misleading title in the first place. When you see “Sleepover”, you think it’s going to be about a bunch of sexy teens or college girls having a sleepover. This movie was mainly about a outdoor party in some guy’s backyard during the DAY. Plus, this movie fails two of my rules for a good slasher flick: it contained no real nudity, and it pussed out and did a lot of cut away shots when people would get killed.
Very little point of impact stuff here. They even decided to give the killer super strength. In once scene he kills a guy by punching a half-empty beer can into someone’s forehead.
Wanted - Saw this in the theater, but felt like watching it again. I still enjoyed it. Prof X was right about the alternate opening. It was very similar to the beginning of Assassin’s Creed.
The X Files: I Want to Believe - This was pretty boring. I almost fell asleep towards the end. After watching it, I’m really scratching my head as to why they even bothered to make this. I think they waited too long. One thing I thought was funny was that there was a part in the movie where they actually reused the same shot of Scully and Skinner driving when trying to find Mulder. You see the shot of them driving, then they show what’s happening to Mulder for a few minutes, and then they show the SAME shot of them driving again.
I guess they backed up the car for a few minutes? I agree that it might have been interesting to make a new series about Xzibit’s and Amanada Peet’s chacaters, but…um…they kind of ‘eliminated’ that possibility.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation - This movie’s first mistake was that it didn’t really even focus on Leatherface and turned him into a screaming child that was into cross-dressing. What the fuck is that all about? There is very little killing in this movie and they went for the Leatherface’s weird family angle. One of those family members was played by Matt McConaughey, who plays Vilmer, and actually really seemed to embrace the role.
He’s about the only thing interesting character in the movie. Renee Zellweger plays one of the girls kidnapped by Leatherface’s family, but is pretty forgettable. The other girl is known as “Heather: The girl that won’t die!” Poor, poor, Heather. Let’s review her role. Warning! This contains ‘spoilers’.
After being locked in a small freezer, Leatherface spikes her on a meat hook and leaves here there.
Later, we see Heather crawling on the road, somehow with no injury to her back. I’m left to wonder how she got off the meat hook in the first place since they do not show this.
As she’s rounded back up by a member of Leatherface’s family she simply says, “Please don’t hit me.”
Now, back at the house, Vilmer bites a chunk of her face off. As she’s laying in a pool of her own blood, she seems to be napping. As Renee Zellweger’s character is trying to wake her, Heather mumbles things about ‘needing to find her other shoe’ and ‘needing to sleep for a few more minutes’. I guess nothing phases Heather. Also, a closeup of Heather’s face shows no injury.
Later, we see Leatherface wearing a woman’s face. By Renee Zellweger’s reaction, we are left to assume this is Heather’s face. Ha! Heatherface.
However, we are then shown a scene with everyone sitting at a dinner table and there’s Heather, who appears to still have her face. Vilmer then douses Heather with lighter fluid and lights her on fire. Heather runs off in a full sprint directly to the nearest wall. She is put out with a fire extinguisher though.
Finally, Vilmer appears to crush Heather’s head with his robotic leg. Did I neglect to mention he had a robotic leg? However, we don’t actually see her death, so who knows, perhaps Heather lives on.
[quote]Doug Adams wrote:
Rattler wrote:
Professor X wrote:
DOTD is the best horror remake to date. I dare you to find one better.
I’m just biased because I don’t like horror movies… They also blocked off the route I used to take to walk to school. Some little tunnel that I always walked through. Stupid movie made my walk an extra 10min long.
So yeah, biased.
Was it the tunnel they used in the movie? When I saw Ving Rhames and the nurse start through there I thought “don’t go in there stupid, the zombies will corner you!”[/quote]
Yeah, the same tunnel. I walked through there every day on the way to school, saved some time. Then they started filming and they blocked it off a lot. Except I never knew when they were filming it. So I would get there, and have to backtrack and go over the bridge instead.
And a note, the mall they used is now gone and is replaced by a shit ton of townhouses.
Prince Caspian last night with my boys (5,3). It was a good Disney fantasy movie. I did not read that book, so I don’t know how closely it followed the story. It’s funny how quickly kids can pick out the good or bad guys.
Batman: The Dark Knight - I really wanted to see this when it was in the theater but never got around to it. So, I made sure to rent it last night. Um, yeah, awesome freakin’ movie. I had heard a lot about Heath Ledger’s role as The Joker, how good he was, Oscar talk, all that.
So, I really had my expectations set pretty high for him, he did not disappoint. Amazing performance by him. I think his role as The Joker was superior to Jack Nicholson’s. I understand that their roles were different because the movies were different but Ledger portrayed something more in The Joker. I don’t know, great movie, I’ll be buying this one.
Also, I’m going to see Yes Man soon for a ‘free’ sneak preview. I subscribe to this guy’s newsletter and get free tix fairly regularly. If you’re near The Arundel Mills Mall in MD it’s a great deal. If you’re not, his reviews are pretty cool for only 10 bucks a year.
So I went to see the new Punisher War Zone movie this last weekend, wasn’t really expecting to much just thought I’d go check it out. Well the movie was the most ridiculous movie I’ve eve seen more so in a bad way than a good way. In the opening scene the Punisher knifes down about 30 people. It was probably one of the goriest movies I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen a lot of horror movies. In one part of the movie he blows someone up while the person is in mid-air and they just disintegrate.
Also all the actors in the frekin movie had an Irish accent. One guy was supposed to be Jamaican and you could tell he was trying so hard to have the “ya man” Jamaican accent, but he just sounded Irish.
I really liked it. It was dark and moody and gritty.
But I want to know the origins of this Joker. In regards to the scars???
I don’t want to spoil anything but if anyone knows the origins if you would please PM me.
or is it all a secret to his character?
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He gave an origin. Two of them.
I like the fact that he was so insane that no one may ever know where the scars came from. I also hate the fact that the best actor to play that part will never be seen in that role again.
I really liked it. It was dark and moody and gritty.
But I want to know the origins of this Joker. In regards to the scars???
I don’t want to spoil anything but if anyone knows the origins if you would please PM me.
or is it all a secret to his character?
He gave an origin. Two of them.
I like the fact that he was so insane that no one may ever know where the scars came from. I also hate the fact that the best actor to play that part will never be seen in that role again.[/quote]
See that is what I meant… there were two. I just didn’t know if it had been covered in a comic or not already.
and I want to know if he was set loose on Gotham by someone else.
It isn’t just that he died they should talk Oscar. That was just an amazing performance.
They really did a good job with fleshing out everyone and I also loved the scene on the two ferries.
I really liked it. It was dark and moody and gritty.
But I want to know the origins of this Joker. In regards to the scars???
I don’t want to spoil anything but if anyone knows the origins if you would please PM me.
or is it all a secret to his character?
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If I recall correctly one thing the Joker says that the scars came form his alcoholic father, although when he says this its tough to tell if he’s been serious because he’s so nuts.
The Passion of Joan of Arc, was pretty good actually.
i take a class called “Film as Art” so dont think im some deeply cultured man who watches classic movies in his spare time. …not that theres anyhting wrong with that.