A few films recently watched.

i wouldnt say its a good flick

I would say it is a statement on the current mind set of America....

How this is a nation with cities full of trash people....

and at the core of the American dream is a bunch of cheap wine, stupidity, blood lust, sexual perversion/repression, and street lights......

  On 9/30/2010 at 9:31 PM, Billov said:

Must be about 3 people who've given Trash Humpers a good score... its going in my "to watch" list...

...I gave it minus 10 out of 10. That's not a good score.

  On 10/1/2010 at 12:20 AM, Squee said:

  On 9/30/2010 at 9:31 PM, Billov said:

Must be about 3 people who've given Trash Humpers a good score... its going in my "to watch" list...

 

...I gave it minus 10 out of 10. That's not a good score.

probably makes me want to watch it just as much as a positive 10/10 would...

  On 10/1/2010 at 12:30 AM, Billov said:

  On 10/1/2010 at 12:20 AM, Squee said:

  On 9/30/2010 at 9:31 PM, Billov said:

Must be about 3 people who've given Trash Humpers a good score... its going in my "to watch" list...

 

...I gave it minus 10 out of 10. That's not a good score.

probably makes me want to watch it just as much as a positive 10/10 would...

Haha, enjoy.

No seriously, it was awful. It could have been fun and twisted and all that but it failed miserably.

for all the Lynch/Herzog fans in here i haven't seen any reviews of Herzog's post Bad Lieutenant movie 'My son my son, what have ye done?'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43oniH2EAdw

edit: has anybody seen it? it was not well received by critics so im actually very curious about it. critics lately have been lovin the Herzog

Monsters (2010) - 2/10

one of the biggest cockteases of a movie i have ever seen. Seems to try and be a little bit like Cloverfield or REC except it's not a first person point of view movie, it just follows a forced naturalistic journey of a guy and a girl to get through the 'infected zone' in between the border of the US and mexico.

You see one quick glimpse of a monster in the trailer, it looks like a giant octopus. Unfortunately every monster you see in the movie looks exactly rhe same, like they didnt have time to do more CGI models. The first time you see them is hugely non suspenseful, a fight with some soldiers on TV through night vision. Usually things like this look cool enough to be entertaining, if the mood and cinematography is good. I enjoyed Cloverfield, i thought it was gimmikcy as hell but still veyr enjoyable. This movie is the antithesis of that. the movie is built around a single gimmick with very little enjoyability factor. It relies too hard on exotic locales and extras to build it some kind of cinematic backbone, when the script itself is TV movie quality writing. The acting is O.K.. There are so many forced emotional moments in this movie that don't carry the proper weight that it becomes insulting. I was especially pissed because i paid to rent this movie, i wish i could get a refund. a badly done indie movie pretending it's more artful than it actually is

edit: district 9 started a trend that a lot of people have picked up on and fucked up miserably. There is even this new movie called 'the dead' thats about a white soldier dude blowing away african zombies in ghana where most of the actors are actual locals. Way to go, steal the 'style' from District 9 but none of the substance that made it good

i heard the dead was a really entertaining movie. have you actually seen it or are you just making baseless assumptions? and how did district 9 have substance? it had a flimsy tacked on apartheid metaphor and devolved into a shoot em up with robots and explosions and awful peter jackson slow mo melodrama. i mean, it was somewhat entertaining, but come on.

haha yeah I guess thinking back on it District 9 really didn't have much of any "substance" at all, it was just really well made. It was a very fucking simplistic story and the dialogue wasn't that in depth or anything it was just well acted, well shot, great cgi overall well done. I would agree substance would be a wrong word to describe what District 9 had in its favor.

I was kind of intrigued to see how Monsters was going to turn out after seeing the trailer a wee bit back and then seeing that it was out before the theaters I was like sweet that's going to be a nice free download in full quality. I am sad to read it wasn't that good. :(

district 9 was awesome.

  On 10/1/2010 at 11:18 AM, delet... said:

district 9 was awesome.

Absolutely. And in my case it was actually better the second time around. I had stayed away from the trailers because I didn't want anything spoiled so I guess I was kind of overwhelmed when I finally watched it. The second time I watched it I could lean back and enjoy the show.

yeah, i didn't watch any trailers either, but that is always the case with something i am actually going to watch, cause if you have half a brain a trailer will cause you to second guess at every moment the flow of the film once you start watching it, as you continuous wonder how the moment you are watching leads you to the moment you saw in the trailer, it kills all the mystery and suspense and just basically short-changes the whole movie experience.

bring me the head of alfredo garcia - mexican underworld yarn about a man losing it all for greed with dark comic moments. apparently this was listed as one of the worst 50 films of all time but i call it a classic masterpiece. 8/10

sam peckinpah fuckin rules.

  On 10/1/2010 at 12:42 PM, keltoi said:

bring me the head of alfredo garcia

  On 10/1/2010 at 12:42 PM, keltoi said:

apparently this was listed as one of the worst 50 films of all time

probably in the 90s. fuck the 90s.

  On 10/1/2010 at 12:49 PM, analogue wings said:

  On 10/1/2010 at 12:42 PM, keltoi said:

bring me the head of alfredo garcia

  On 10/1/2010 at 12:42 PM, keltoi said:

apparently this was listed as one of the worst 50 films of all time

 

probably in the 90s. fuck the 90s.

nah it was in '78.

The_Fifty_Worst_Films_of_All_Time

this medved guy was only 17 at the time. i don't think this book's even remotely respected in movie circles or anything. in fact probably the complete opposite.

here's his list from here... the omen lol...

1. Abraham Lincoln (1930 - D.W Griffth)

2. Airport 1975 ( 1976)

3. Alakazam the Great (1960 - Saiyu-ki, Japan)

4. The Ambushers (1967-Dean Martin)

5. Assassination of Trotsky (1972-Richard Burton)

6. At Long Last Love (1975- Peter Bogdanovich)

7. The Big Noise (1944-Laurel and Hardy)

8. Boy, Did I Get the Wrong Number (1966-Bob Hope)

9. Bring me to the head of Alfredo Garcia (1974 - Has a 7.5 rating on IMDB)

10. Che! (1969 - Omar Sharif as CHE Guevara)

11. The Conqueror (1956- A Howard Hughes Production)

12. Daughter of the Jungle (1949)

13. Dick Tracy Vs. Cueball (1949)

14. Dondi (1961- 3.4 rating on IMDB)

15. EEGAH! (1962- Richard Kiel)

16. Godzilla Vs the Smog Monster (1972-Japan)

17. The Goldwyn Follies (1938-Adolphe Menjou)

18. The Horror of party beach (1964, First Horror Monster Musical-2.2 rating IMDB)

19. Hurry Sundown (1967-Otto Preminger with Michael Caine)

20. Ivan the Terrible (Parts 1 and 2) (1944 - 58)

21. Jamaica Inn (1939 - Alfred Hitchcock)

22. Jet Attack! (1958)

23. Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1973)

24.King Richard and The Crusaders (1954)

25. The Last Movie (1971 - Dennis Hopper)

26. Last Year at Marienbad (1962-7.9 rating on IMDB)

27. Lost Horizon (1973)

28. Myra Beckinridge (1970)

29. New Moon (1940 - 7.2 Rating on IMDB)

30. Northwest Mounted Police (1940)

31. The Omen (1976 - 7.6 Rating on IMDB)

32. Parnell (1937)

33. A Place for Lovers (1969, Vittorio De Sica)

34. Return of Sabata (1972)

35. Robot Monster (1953)

36. Santa Claus Conquers The Martians (1964)

37. Say One For Me (1959)

38. Solomon and Sheba (1959- King Vidor with Yul Brenner)

39. Spinout (1966 - Elvis)

40. The Story Of Man Kind (1957 - Marx Brothers with Hedy Lamarr)

41. Swamp Woman (1955)

42. Swing Your Lady (1938 - Humphrey Bogart does "Comedy")

43. The Terror of Tiny Town (1938)

44. That Hagen Girl (1947-Ronald Reagan with Shirley Temple)

45. Three on a Couch (1966-Janet Leigh)

46. The Trial Of Billy Jack (1974)

47. Trouble Man (1972 - Blacksploitation)

48. Twilight on the Rio Grande (1948)

49. Valley of the Dolls (1967)

50. Zabriskie Point (1970 - Michelangelo Antonioni)

ah it was just some kid being a mirezzi

predators....

holy fuck! what went wrong?!..

2 out of 10.

  On 10/1/2010 at 2:04 PM, analogue wings said:

ah it was just some kid being a mirezzi

lol aye.

oh good, that 2/10 has saved me some trouble. I'll tell you what went wrong though, it's the fanbois implicit faith in Robert Rodriguez, that's where it all goes wrong, next you'll be buying his brand of cigarettes and toiletries.

Iron Giant

still one of the best animated films ever

  On 10/1/2010 at 2:04 PM, analogue wings said:

ah it was just some kid being a mirezzi

FU

  On 10/1/2010 at 2:25 PM, keltoi said:

  On 10/1/2010 at 2:04 PM, analogue wings said:

ah it was just some kid being a mirezzi

 

lol aye.

FU!!

Medved is a self-described "culture crusader" and one of the worst critics to ever abuse a typewriter. I am many things, misanthrope and contrarian probably among them, but you're all lucky I'm not like Michael Medved. Actually, maybe we can get him to post here.

  On 10/1/2010 at 2:58 PM, chimera slot mom said:

Iron Giant

 

still one of the best animated films ever

Indeed. For me, Pixar is all about Brad Bird. Without him, they're just another Hollywood shitbox.

I just watched the Prince of Persia movie and liked it, despite the awful and horribly miscast Gynecologicaal.

i still

+ will check Iron Giant after quota refresh.

  On 10/1/2010 at 2:26 AM, remy marathe said:

i heard the dead was a really entertaining movie. have you actually seen it or are you just making baseless assumptions? and how did district 9 have substance? it had a flimsy tacked on apartheid metaphor and devolved into a shoot em up with robots and explosions and awful peter jackson slow mo melodrama. i mean, it was somewhat entertaining, but come on.

case 1 : I have seen the trailer for the Dead. I've also seen one of those 4 minute preview clips from it ... within that time period you can easily see how abysmal the acting is and how the only remotely cool thing about it is the setting and locals. see for yourself if you don't believe me. it really looks extremely shit. and come on 'the dead' at least if you're going to make the 50th zombie movie this year come up with a better title

case 2: lol watch the trailer for the Dead

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANpgVWVvpjs

tell me with a straight face that the filmmakers of this movie weren't influenced by district 9 and thought they could save a derivative shit zombie film by moving it to africa.

do you also see how i said 'none of the substance that made D9 good' as if i mean the movie was filled to the brim with substance! come on you fuckers you know i didn't mean it that way. I just meant that movies like Monsters and the Dead seem to be following a particular template adding no originality and bringing nothing new to the table. the 'substance' i was referring to in District 9 referred to a handful of moments that had originality or creativity. At least District 9 was funny in parts. Monsters was a melodramatic piece of shit. At least be inspired by it's creativity, not it's most basic and stealable aspect (a horror movie taking place in a 3rd world setting)

How to Train Your Dragon - Lovely/10

I loved it. Great designs. Great and yet weird dragon designs. Excellent humor. Cute story.