A few films recently watched.

*spins out of control*

The Gate is a beautiful 80s horror movie for sure. The part with the construction worker zombie who was trapped in the wall when the house was built used to scare the absolute SHIT out of me when i was a kid. I saw the movie way too young but i think in the end i was better for it, this movie and 'return of the living dead' i saw when i was like 8 years old. plus the stop motion animation minion demons look awesome still to this day. I don't understand why they exactly have to remake a movie like the Gate.

What happened to when hollywood would try to release a remake as it's own movie with a new twist? I actually don't mind remakes like Innerspace was to Fantastic Voyage. The gate is just such a vague concept that can be remade easily into a different movie, guy finds a gate to hell in his back yard <--- thats all they would need to base it on.

  On 5/6/2010 at 10:36 PM, Awepittance said:

plus the stop motion animation minion demons look awesome still to this day.

 

it wasn't stop motion. it was people in suits that they made look small with camera tricks. pretty hardcore

i was wondering why it looked so fluid...

"forced perspective" is the phrase i was looking for

saw joan rivers: a piece of work last night at the sf international film festival closing night. joan was there for a Q&A afterwards. couldnt help thinking that if joan was there then turn off the film and send her out to entertain. made me feel very gay (was at the castro theatre). documentary itself was very good. very funny but also insightful. it's playing the film festival circuit. i recommend.

was basically a documentary that followed her for a year. showed what a insecure workaholic she is. very brutal honesty.

i didnt know much about her before last night. i was inspired by her annoyance of things. i let way too much stuff not annoy me. i'm gonna be joan-rivers-pissed-off from now on. go

Grace.. reminded me of the Little Shop of Horrors, except more disturbing

kick-ass

fun

  On 5/7/2010 at 10:20 PM, viscosity said:

Grace.. reminded me of the Little Shop of Horrors, except more disturbing

that's an odd thought

they have similar themes I thought, just substitute plant for baby

i'm speaking of the 1986 broadway adaptation btw. haven't seen the original

Daybreakers - 5 out of 10 Burns

I'm kind of ashamed to say it, but I actually kind of enjoyed this flick.

The idea behind the movie was fairly interesting. In a not to distant future an epidemic strikes and vampires are the dominant species. In order to sustain themselves they are industrial-farming a dwindling human population to satisfy global blood demand. Needless to say, this isn't your average vampire flick. In-fact, at times it felt a lot more like a zombie movie which I had no problems with since I love zombie movies. That being said, there were plenty of problems with the film. To name a few, the cure that they came up with was pathetic. Willem Dafoe's role was especially bad. The movie also got terribly cheesy towards the end when vampires started exploding from being stabbed with wood stakes, something that didn't seem to match the rest of the movie. I give this bad boy 5 out of 10 burns just because I love zombie movies... even though this wasn't a zombie movie.

  On 5/4/2010 at 1:26 PM, tidbit said:

  On 5/4/2010 at 6:48 AM, goffer said:

My favorite Bunuel films are The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and The Exterminating Angel ...

yap, definitely those two.. i also liked tristana... mind that deneuve is on it

Thanks, fellas.

Moonwalker - Michael Jackson turned into an anthropomorphic rabbit, a sports car, then a gundam and then a spaceship. I don't know why the game was just him busting kids out of cupboards in pool halls, there's a lot in the film to work with. Perhaps I quit the game too early and there's more to it. Haven't played the arcade version tho. The little stories are sometimes baffling, some of the sequences are quite impressive and it's about on bluray now so it's worth grabbing the 720p rip if you ever want to check it out.

thief (1981)

8/10

  On 5/8/2010 at 6:51 PM, futuregirlfriend said:

 

Moonwalker - Michael Jackson turned into an anthropomorphic rabbit, a sports car, then a gundam and then a spaceship. I don't know why the game was just him busting kids out of cupboards in pool halls, there's a lot in the film to work with. Perhaps I quit the game too early and there's more to it. Haven't played the arcade version tho. The little stories are sometimes baffling, some of the sequences are quite impressive and it's about on bluray now so it's worth grabbing the 720p rip if you ever want to check it out.

i really enjoy this movie, very nostalgic for me.

Kick Ass - 6/10

What the fuck? Did I just watch Zombieland 2?

For once, Nicolas Cage was the highlight of the movie. I loved the way he talked, the way he interacted with his daughter (especially the birthday scene where they high five instead of hugging), and his awkward jokes.

The horrible special effects bothered me quite a lot but you know what really annoyed me? It wasn't violent at all! Everyone has been talking about how violent and brutal this movie is but you don't get to see anything really violent. Where was all the over the top violence that Sin City had?

You know what? Fuck this movie. I'm not even giving it 6/10 - I'm giving it 5/10.

Dni zatmeniya (4/5)

Beautiful cinematography and music, didn't really resonate with me all the time though. Still, I need to see me some more Sokurov. Man with vision.

  On 5/8/2010 at 11:26 AM, JW Modestburns said:

Daybreakers - 5 out of 10 Burns

 

I actually kind of enjoyed this flick.

 

how can a movie you liked get only 5/10? what kind of system is this?

Timecop 6/10

not as good as I'd hoped. wanted some asskicking and some timecopping but they went with the dead wife who you know isnt dead as soon as you think for a millisecond. i like the idea behind the film, time travel ripple removal service but damn if the film wasnt pointless and not much fun either. and what the fuck was with the graphic nudity? felt really out of place. full bush? wow. timecop could use a reboot as a tv series - each week a new ripple to be investigated. i loved how he'd come back and stuff had changed. maybe that tv show already exists. so basically remove the martial arts shit and the nudity and make it more like sliders.

to have and have not 6/10

that girl cannot sing. why isnt anyone else laughing at her!?! wasn't bogarts greatest moment was it?

  On 5/8/2010 at 6:51 PM, futuregirlfriend said:

  On 5/4/2010 at 1:26 PM, tidbit said:

  On 5/4/2010 at 6:48 AM, goffer said:

My favorite Bunuel films are The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and The Exterminating Angel ...

yap, definitely those two.. i also liked tristana... mind that deneuve is on it

 

Thanks, fellas.

 

Moonwalker - Michael Jackson turned into an anthropomorphic rabbit, a sports car, then a gundam and then a spaceship. I don't know why the game was just him busting kids out of cupboards in pool halls, there's a lot in the film to work with. Perhaps I quit the game too early and there's more to it. Haven't played the arcade version tho. The little stories are sometimes baffling, some of the sequences are quite impressive and it's about on bluray now so it's worth grabbing the 720p rip if you ever want to check it out.

in the process of downloading the 720p rip. theres some gloriously insane moment in this film.. lol at joe pesci

there is a weird part in the movie where a parody of steven spielberg as a clayanimation character with a giant nose morphs into some weird devil/reptile creature , i wonder if michael jackson hated him for some reason or had an anti semitic past, sorry to be so serious in my response to moonwalker, the part just weirded me out last time i saw it.

who knows.. i dont think id be entirely surprised to find out michael jackson was anti semitic

i still love this part of the movie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP410Sv-b2E

  Quote

"They suck... they're like leeches... It's a conspiracy. The Jews do it on purpose."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4466038.stm

Well I never...

well i'll be damned what a surprise, now i'm wondering if him an Spielberg had some kind of falling out or disagreement, after all Jackson did work with a number of very big filmmakers at the time, John Landis and Coppola

the movie Moonwalker for me encapsulates so much of what was memorable or evocative for me as a child, the bizarre scenes with Pesci megalomaniacal talking about infecting all the kids in the world with drugs or the liberal use of stop motion animation. One of the best parts for me in it is a very short clip where it shows a robot dancing to the Jackson 5 track

a hearty lol at coppola for directing 'captain eo'

apparently, historically speaking it's the still to this day the most expensive movie ever made per minute.

and how much of a ripoff is the Borg from star trek off the captain eo bad guys?