question. do u guys all watch these movies in theatres/dvds or do u stream them off a website or something?. if u get them online mind posting some movie site links to where u get these? ive been watching some movies on pretty shitty quality. i dont know if someone posted this before but i dont feel liek looking through 50+ pages so.
dragon ball evolution - was retarded. make up was real cheesy. bad acting. i guess they shoulda just stuck with the cartoon
street fighter legend of chun li- definitely better than the first. there was only a couple of parts that were over the top. they brought up ryu at the very end so im guessing theyre gonna try and set up another street fighter movie.
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elegy - boooring. good cast with penelope cruz, ben kingsley, patricia clarkson, peter sarsgaard and dennis hopper.[/quote]
Watched it on Friday night. It was too long. When it started, it seemed like it was going to be funny, but then the mood of the movie completely shifted and got depressing.
Bolt - Normally, I like a good CG movie, but I couldn’t just get into this one. It felt a lot longer than it really was and I don’t think I could get around the choice of John Travolta as the voice of Bolt. He doesn’t have a pleasant voice to listen to.
Elegy - Too long and totally uneven shift in mood. It starts out like it’s going to be a funnier movie about an older guy that’s still trying to hook up with younger women, but then it gets all serious and it’s pretty depressing by the end.
Twilight - As someone that hasn’t read (and still has no intention of reading) these books, I’m speaking about this movie strictly as a stand-alone movie. I thought it was way too long. They could have cut 20 minutes out of this movie and it would have been a lot more interesting.
The movie didn’t even seem to get going until the 90 minute mark. Too many scenes of music and scenery and them just talking (yet you can’t hear what’s being said).
I’m sure all the tweens love this and think it’s really romantic, but this just felt like a glorified version of something I’d watch on the CW.
Punisher: War Zone - Bad story, plot holes, and over-the-top accents. Despite this movies flaws, I still enjoyed the hell out of it. It has great action and gory violence. I said right after the movie that it was ‘brilliant in its terribleness’.
Ray Stevenson was a great choice for The Punisher.
I Love You, Man - Absolutely loved this! I thought it was a good story, with great dialog and characters and pretty funny throughout the film. It’s one of those movies I’ll need to see again on DVD because everyone was laughing so hard you couldn’t always hear all the dialog. I recommend this one highly.
EDIT: Fixed Punisher after Steel Nation pointed out my mistake. Apparently, I had War Journal on the brain.
Snatch - Seriously, who hasn’t seen this? I don’t really need to explain it, other than it’s one of my favourite movies of all time. It also features one of my favourite Drum & Bass producers as well.
Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels - Made before Snatch, this movie is also awesome. It’s a bit slower, but still an amazing movie. I love how Guy Ritchie always brings everybody’s story together. It’s so perfect, every time.
[quote]AngryVader wrote: Punisher: War Journal - Bad story, plot holes, and over-the-top accents. Despite this movies flaws, I still enjoyed the hell out of it. It has great action and gory violence. I said right after the movie that it was ‘brilliant in its terribleness’.
Ray Stevenson was a great choice for The Punisher.
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I agree with this (though it’s War Zone, not War Journal). Just watched this last night and I was entertained despite the terrible production of the movie. Ray Stevenson was the only actor that actually showed up for his part. The rest were total shit. Dominic West was particularly bad as Jigsaw, and his makeup was freaking retarded looking.
The story was stupid as hell. With The Punisher, you can’t expect it to be Godfather-esque, but this was really bad.
The violence was awe-inspiring. Every death was like a scene from Hellraiser. And I thought Rambo IV was over the top. This is a whole new level. The Punisher is not satisfied until he’s killed EVERY villain at least 3 times over, just in case.
Overall, I’d say it’s worth a Redbox, or just wait til it’s on HBO (cable could never play this one). C-
[quote]AngryVader wrote: Bolt - Normally, I like a good CG movie, but I couldn’t just get into this one. It felt a lot longer than it really was and I don’t think I could get around the choice of John Travolta as the voice of Bolt. He doesn’t have a pleasant voice to listen to.
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But you have to admit, Rhino was the shit.
During yesterday’s Kurt Russell marathon at my house:
Escape From New York- Yep, never saw this one either. Unfortunately I’m coming to the conclusion that I simply don’t like John Carpenter movies. I guess it’s because I didn’t see them when I was young and now with all the new technology out there, his movies seem kind of dated and silly (in a bad way) to me. During the scenes shot in the “futuristic” headquarters, all I could think of was the scene in Airplane 2 when Shatner was asking about all the wall panels with lights. They’re not doing anything! They’re just panels of lights going on and off.
Yes, I’ve wrote on here a couple weeks back how I loved Big Trouble in Little China. I guess it’s because in that movie everyone wasn’t trying to be a hard ass like in EFNY.
[quote]Rattler wrote:
Snatch - Seriously, who hasn’t seen this? I don’t really need to explain it, other than it’s one of my favourite movies of all time. It also features one of my favourite Drum & Bass producers as well.
Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels - Made before Snatch, this movie is also awesome. It’s a bit slower, but still an amazing movie. I love how Guy Ritchie always brings everybody’s story together. It’s so perfect, every time. [/quote]
YESSSS!!! those movies kick ass…I have been trying to get lock stock and two smoking barrels for my collection but i swear everytime I want a movie there all out or in back order or something…the world is against me.
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AngryVader wrote: Bolt - Normally, I like a good CG movie, but I couldn’t just get into this one. It felt a lot longer than it really was and I don’t think I could get around the choice of John Travolta as the voice of Bolt. He doesn’t have a pleasant voice to listen to.
But you have to admit, Rhino was the shit.
During yesterday’s Kurt Russell marathon at my house:
Escape From New York- Yep, never saw this one either. Unfortunately I’m coming to the conclusion that I simply don’t like John Carpenter movies. I guess it’s because I didn’t see them when I was young and now with all the new technology out there, his movies seem kind of dated and silly (in a bad way) to me. During the scenes shot in the “futuristic” headquarters, all I could think of was the scene in Airplane 2 when Shatner was asking about all the wall panels with lights. They’re not doing anything! They’re just panels of lights going on and off.
Yes, I’ve wrote on here a couple weeks back how I loved Big Trouble in Little China. I guess it’s because in that movie everyone wasn’t trying to be a hard ass like in EFNY.
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you should check out escape from LA cheesier FXs
I tried to watch Punisher: War Zone but the dialogue and even the story was just soooo bad. The crazy brother’s accent just got on my nerves. The scene where The Beaut falls into the glass crusher got to me though, that was downright skin crawly.
Big Stan - A movie written and starring Rob Schneider. It’s about as good as you’d think a movie written by and starring Rob Schneider would be. Which is to say, not very. The genuine laughs are few and far between.
Rachel Getting Married - I thought this was boring and long. It seems like every scene lingered on, like the dude that won’t go home even though the game has been over for an hour. Anne Hathaway is good, but I thought the rest of movie was pretty pointless. There’s actually a scene where the father and son-in-law have a race to see who can fill the dish washer the fastest with the most dishes used. The whole family is there laughing and cheering. How frigging exciting! How frigging stupid! I guess that passes for entertainment in the boring, nerd family. It’s too melodramatic and I didn’t like any of the characters. I didn’t find any of them sympathetic. Plus, the wedding seemed like one those weird weddings that you’d hate to attend.
Ten Inch Hero - The only thing good about this was Jensen Ackles. I thought it sucked otherwise. Everyone had some major ‘issue’ they had to work out during the course of the movie and they were all too unbelievable in the first place. There’s some goofy shit in Santa Cruz (the movie’s setting), but I don’t think this goofy.
40 Days and 40 Nights - I think the reason I never watched this movie when it first came out was despite that I love Shannyn Sossamon, this movie came out back when I still didn’t like Josh Hartnett. Now that I don’t mind Hartnett, I figured I’d give this a try. Yeah, it’s not good. Plenty of hot chicks though and nudity, but I thought all of his friends in the movie were annoying and the whole premise just seemed like bullshit to me.
I’m supposed to believe that a guy that apparently gets ass thrown at him left and right, is still having a hard time getting over a bitchy ex-girlfriend that treated him like shit and broke up with him six months ago. Whatever…
Kind of weird that I watched two movies back to back set in the Bay Area and didn’t like either one of them. Oh well…
Quantum of Solace - As others have said, the first 15 minutes of this were pretty kick ass. Then it just kind of dropped off after that. The ending was a bit over the top, even for a Bond film. I still like Daniel Craig as Bond though.
The new Bond girls were attractive too (I thought the main one was Rashida Jones for a second), but I didn’t really think there was much there beyond the looks.
Marley & Me - Cute movie and wasn’t quite what I expected. Anyone that’s owned a dog before can sympathize with this movie. It kind of pissed me off that about halfway though the end of the movie, you know what’s coming. Kind of manipulating.
Slumdog Millionaire - Normally, I don’t expect a movie like this to live up to the hype, but I thought this was really good. Not The Dark Knight good, but still one of the best films of 2009.
Synecdoche New York - Objectively the best film I have ever seen. Its exploration of perspective, identity, the fourth wall, and the unconscious is surreal, provoking, and oddly affecting.
Harsh Times - This movie was Christian Bale rocking post traumatic stress and fucking people’s days up. Good shit, and still quite tense at the end. The performances here were great.
Nick and Nora’s Infinite Playlist - I felt my testicles transforming into ovaries as I watched this. Has anyone’s life ever been like the existences portrayed here? No.
I also rewatched In Bruges over the weekend and I fucking love that movie.
Nick and nora was meh.
Got sucked into watching Sexy Beast with Ben Kingsley…again.Don’t know what it is about that movie.In Bruges was good too.
Does everybody have those fav’s that no matter how late it is or what you had planned you get sucked in.
Mine are:The thing(remake),Cool hand Luke,The Godfather 1&2,Scarface,to name a few.
I recorded The Unforgiven and need to get to it since it seems to be good from what I hear. Clint Eastwood can still pull off some serious badassery as seen in Gran Torino.
i love you man - great movie. paul rudd is very funny and sweet in this film. it was a comedy from a perspective not often shown in movies. the awkward parts were hilarious and the whole Rush as a uniting force was good stuff.
flags of our fathers and letters from iwo jima. great. clint eastwood is amazing. the idea of the research into this undertaking is mindblowing to me. the battle sequences and the cinematography…wow. they were both well written and acted. i really like k. watanabe (in letters); and b. pepper (in flags). they stand out in every role i have seen them in and they were so good in this project.
rabbit proof fence - great movie, true story about caste system oppression in australia from the 40s to the 70s. a law dictates interracial children should be removed from their homes and sent way for training and placement elsewhere. three young aboriginal children refuse to remain separated from their family and escape to return home. i loved the ending. definitely an inspirational film.