A few films recently watched.

  On 10/25/2010 at 3:41 AM, Terpentintollwut said:

  On 10/23/2010 at 4:43 AM, yek said:

28 weeks later/. good film, probably the goriest zombie film i've ever seen. i didn't expect it to be as good as the first, i don't know if it was, but it was different than the first. entertaining, fast paced. thumbs up.

 

I also thought it was alright. And by alright I mean not a total disappointment when compared the brilliant 28 Days Later. It was a nice adaption and pretty atmospheric in its own way. I guess it's easier to digest than the original by Boyle, but it doesn't matter. It was a pleasant surprise with much fewer flaws than I expected.

I hated the helicopter scene where Michael from Lost slashes all the infected with the rotor

  On 10/25/2010 at 9:39 AM, Squee said:

  On 10/25/2010 at 3:41 AM, Terpentintollwut said:

  On 10/23/2010 at 4:43 AM, yek said:

28 weeks later/. good film

I also thought it was alright. And by alright I mean not a total disappointment when compared the brilliant 28 Days Later.

I hated the helicopter scene where Michael from Lost slashes all the infected with the rotor

Yuzzuh, That was one of the dumbest scenes I have ever seen besides intentionally B movies.

  On 10/25/2010 at 11:09 AM, Blanket Fort Collapse said:

  On 10/25/2010 at 9:39 AM, Squee said:

  On 10/25/2010 at 3:41 AM, Terpentintollwut said:

  On 10/23/2010 at 4:43 AM, yek said:

28 weeks later/. good film

I also thought it was alright. And by alright I mean not a total disappointment when compared the brilliant 28 Days Later.

I hated the helicopter scene where Michael from Lost slashes all the infected with the rotor

 

Yuzzuh, That was one of the dumbest scenes I have ever seen besides intentionally B movies.

I swear there's been two films I've seen recently with this helicopter slicing up zombies angle... What was the other?

Was it Planet Terror?

Yup I thought there might have been something similar in The Crazies but it was Grindhouse: Planet Terror

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HelicopterBlender

http://www.thelondondailynews.com/chemical-leak-shuts-down-city-p-4657.html

Speaking of zombies, there's been a chemical spill in London this morning, people taken ill. Zombie outbreak maybe? Hopefully. I want to helicopter blender.

  On 10/25/2010 at 4:51 AM, Atop said:

  On 10/25/2010 at 4:14 AM, Fishtank said:

Catfish 2/10

You might like it if you're into human interest stories or facebook drama, nothing about it is like Hitchcock in any way shape or form and this movies previews are misleading.

 

This film is real though, no points for it being a documentary? Or the ending being fucking nuts??? You wanted a slasher film from what the trailer led you to believe? Human interest? So many questions.......

 

I was expecting a Facebook relationship gone horribly awry, something shocking or interesting, what I got was a mislead romance between a college kid and very sad redneck person (I actually knew someone like that) and a lame story that doesn't belong in theaters, actually I bet the whole thing was set up to sell that lady's shitty paintings! Why would I give it points for being real? that doesn't make it good.

last night had three grown men (inc me) screaming at the tv watching the french horror 'Inside'!!!

www.bloody-disgusting.com/film/1739

dunno if i'm going soft in my old age and i've seen some nasty shit over the years like japanese extream to banned nasties but this film has raised the bar

cant believe it passed 18 cert in the uk

This review sums it up pretty well

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It must be said that the filmmakers, who profess to be as surprised as we are about how things play out, are being disingenuous at best and underhanded at worst.

  On 10/25/2010 at 3:40 PM, soundwave said:

last night had three grown men (inc me) screaming at the tv watching the french horror 'Inside'!!!

 

www.bloody-disgusting.com/film/1739

 

dunno if i'm going soft in my old age and i've seen some nasty shit over the years like japanese extream to banned nasties but this film has raised the bar

 

cant believe it passed 18 cert in the uk

Pretty nasty movie. Watch Martyrs once you've collected yourself.

God I love Inside and Martyrs so much..

lol i just saw catfish and i think i know the girl whose picture was used as Angela's profile picture. need to check asap and tell her.

othe rthan that the movie is okay but the trailer was really misleading, there's no shocking twist to the story.

so... one friend says the pic is not the woman i'm thinking it is. so now i'd be embarrased to ask her. we'll see...

okay not her. boo.

The Maze.... as low budget as it was, it was an ok film. Ending dragged on abit but it was a good time waster film

waynes world 9/10

hadn't seen it in years. very good memories of it from my youth. my wife hadn't seen it. no idea how. it held up pretty well and didnt shit on my memories at all

Blind Chance - 8/10. Polish film that was apparently banned when it was first released (early 80s I think). "Witek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witek's life."

  On 10/25/2010 at 8:26 PM, Benedict Cumberbatch said:

waynes world 9/10

Ribbed for her pleasure, ewwwwwwwwwwwwww.

Breaking Bad 1&2

Was comparing this with Dexter at first, but damn, this show is just incredible. Never expected it to be so good and even complex.

If it continues with this kinda climax I´m scared to watch season 3.

  On 10/26/2010 at 10:37 PM, plstik said:

Breaking Bad 1&2

Was comparing this with Dexter at first, but damn, this show is just incredible. Never expected it to be so good and even complex.

If it continues with this kinda climax I´m scared to watch season 3.

Season 3 is just as amazing. If not better.

I have a weird love/hate relationship with Dexter. I hate pretty much all the actors, I hate most of the characters (especially Vince Masuka - what the fuck were they thinking? And his fucking laughter! Fuck! Last episode he stood topless in his office while showing off his ridiculous tattoo on his back which then also revealed that he was wearing a leopard thong - he's like the Jar Jar of Dexter), the show is going absolutely nowhere, and still I keep watching it because season one and four were both great. Heck, season four was brilliant thanks to John Lithgow.

  On 10/26/2010 at 10:37 PM, plstik said:

Breaking Bad 1&2

Was comparing this with Dexter at first, but damn, this show is just incredible. Never expected it to be so good and even complex.

If it continues with this kinda climax I´m scared to watch season 3.

I've just started watching this as well, half way through season 2, it's awesome! Such an intense show!

The part in the first season where Walt is deciding what to do with Crazy 8 was so brilliantly written. It made you understand his plight perfectly.

Tron (original) - 9/10 - such a good classic movie. Watching it again it's obvious just how much Disney was trying to ride the coattails of star wars, but Tron is a much better unique movie in and of itself than was Black-hole.

Sooooo sad the new one has such a bland modern hollywood CGI look. The CGI work in the original still stands up to what people expect today from visual effects, even the way they colorized the black and white footage is really impressive.

Jeff Bridges is great in it, and it's one of the only movies that David Warner get's a major role in. He's fucking awesome.

The tools for visual effects were so limited back then it really goes to show how it forces people to be creative and puzzle solving. With today's computer power, now things can always be left on the backburner for CGI post production. I think this is why the tron legacy look suffers so much. Instead of trying to do something unique, they wanted to just mute the colors and make it quasi resemble the original. I'm so tired of lazy color filtering in new movies.

watching Tron makes me want to watch Black-hole again, all i remember from it was Anthony perkin's hanging out with an R2D2 ripoff

  On 7/13/2010 at 5:35 PM, kokoon said:

  On 7/13/2010 at 12:17 PM, the anonymous forumite said:

 

Scenario fail.

 

1) The hallucinations. So the guy starts seeing weird stuff, the tension builds up, until the point where we discover that what should be another hallucination is not (the other Sam). And then, no more hallucinations, no point made about the hallucinations, and no more hallucinations until the end of the movie. Which leaves you thinking that they were only here to fill the film. Stupid.

 

2) The clone. No explanations (unless I missed something) are given about why he was waken up. The original Sam seems to have no clue as well. Stupid. If I missed something, pls explain.

 

3) Sam never tried to go out of the work zone. But finally, he does. He's been there for years, but only now he decides to go, freely, explore beyond the work zone. Stupid.

 

4) The company behind the operation (Lunar). We have absolutely no knowledge of the inner workings and conspiracy they set up. Just a super cliché videoconference. Stupid, again.

 

5) The ending: only a few lines about Sam's return on earth and a mention of the company going down 30% on the stock market. Who cares ? Stupid.

 

So yes, scenario fail, permanent Solaris-wannabee-ism (I'm not even comparing it to Trakovsky, but Moon makes Soderbergh look like a Genius) , and cheap effects for a 2010 film. Science fiction should be much more than this, think Blade Runner.

1. hallucinations - yeah, this wasn't really explained, but what keltoi wrote makes some sense.

2. the clone - he's obviously waken up because the previous one seemed "expired"

3+4+5 - i agree.

 

mostly, i was just annoyed by how people were raving about this being good sci-fi. for fucks sake, this story is an n-th rehash of the most overused "short story" plot. i can understand there was little/zero budget for the movie, but at least they could get a decent plot.

 

also, i thought the scenario was indeed confusing. among other things, it took me quite some time even to figure out the second guy was supposed to look the same (beard, etc...) - wtf how can you fuck that up??

watched this tonight, and i gotta say i agree generally with a few of the points above; did anyone else find it extraordinarily odd that the clones just see each other and DON'T intially quesiton wtf is up with, oh i don't know, the fact that there are clones?!? obviously things are different in the world of this movie, harvesting a hybrid helium from the moon, etc, but there were several things that just seemed off.

and many of the details concerning how the company relates to and controls the aspect of the operation on the moon have to be assumed to be structured in a certain way for the plot to come off sensibly. i buy the cold hard calculating "serve my master" or "serve the ultimate purpose" programming of the HAL 9000 over this empathetic computer.. it just seems liked the whole thing was primed for failure (for the company) from the beginning and the sam's pretty much just talked themselves into a solution that could have been easily avoided by the corporation. for being soulless, they're really kind of... dumb.

still great atmosphere, good score, and i liked the set design; very reminiscent of 2001 in parts. i'd give it a 6.5 or 7.

it's just a very weak movie in all regards with a very specific target audience, which somehow fell for it.

I liked the music and set design, the rest was pretty damn stupid. As a mood piece it's allright.