A few films recently watched.

cloudy with a chance of meatballs 6/10

when this was in cinemas it looked shit. the animation looked bad, it didnt look funny. i didnt grow up with the book either. so i skipped it. but watching it on netflix play instant it was the opposite. it looked really good. it was really funny. well i gave it 6 so it wasn't great but it was much better than i expected. steve the monkey ripping out a gummy bears heart with his bare hands earned the 6 stars.

wow the cinema is full of shit right now... is this the time of year when studios hide the flops they know they have?

until harry potter plops next week.

isn't this the time of year for the oscar push films? i guess that's more decemberish

fu mcgriff

  On 11/12/2010 at 4:18 PM, kokoon said:

wat

the ear bugs from the Wrath of Khan....

part 1 out of 3 (1h 40 min each)

9/10

love it so far. pretty much what i was hoping "che" would be.

edit: part 2 - 8/10

part 3 - 7/10

film festival, day 1:

- Hahaha: 5/10 - there is not story. but i still enjoyed it to some extent, i'm a sucker for cultures of far-east.

- The Time That Remains: 8.5/10 - i enjoyed it very much. provocative, at least for me (never bothered that much about the situation in

Palestine/Israel). recommended.

- The Good Heart: 3/10 - an insultingly banal and cheesy story with a worthless "twist". don't watch.

Sometimes emotional movies are my favorites. I remember when I first saw Magnolia I was so blown away that I went out and purchased it first thing the next day.

This movie reminded me a tiny bit of that. It's a family drama. Actually it's somewhat strange. It's visually brilliant, and John Adams' music is incredible.

By the time the climax came towards the very end I was really torn down, and that feeling is similar to the one you get in the great moments of something like Magnolia, where the pressure and stress of the moment has built up slowly for the past 2 hours and comes exploding out in a fit of teary catharsis.

crazy heart ***1/2

stanley & iris ****

five easy pieces ****

triangle - 10/10

awesome horror mystery thriller that involves time travel on a ship from the 1930's in the ocean. don't watch the trailer or it'll give too much away...

Skyline 6/10

This is really a mixed bag here. It's directed by special effects guys so you get cinema quality special effects, which are really good, mixed in with TV grade writing and acting, which is bad. I would recommended this to people who like the original programming on the sci-fi channel.

Bruno 8/10

Hilarious, maybe a little too gay

The Descent 2 5/10

The original is one of my favorite movies ever, this one is not great but not terrible

film festival, day 2:

- A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop: 6/10 - entertaining, but really nothing special.

- Service : 7/10 - a bit slow, but a nice watch nonetheless.

- Another Year: 9.5/10 - great! i'm fucking old.

  On 11/13/2010 at 11:35 PM, Fishtank said:

Skyline 6/10

This is really a mixed bag here. It's directed by special effects guys so you get cinema quality special effects, which are really good, mixed in with TV grade writing and acting, which is bad. I would recommended this to people who like the original programming on the sci-fi channel.

I just got back from seeing Due Date (stupid fun), and snuck in for the last half of Skyline.....

this film is one of the worst things I have ever laid my eyes on, giving it a 6 is almost as funny as Due Date, for fucks sake Skyline was almost as funny as Due Date......

here is what my main man film critic genius Dave has to say about it:

The Basics: Some aliens come to earth and land in Los Angeles. They're on a mission to eat up a bunch of jerks, so it's lucky for them they dropped down in that specific spot; they'll never go hungry. These aliens are also virtually unstoppable. Nuclear bombs, stealth fighter planes, all the weaponry on hand in the U.S. military's arsenal, none of that stuff can slay these creatures. To do that, the characters discover, requires good old fashioned hand-to-hand combat. Well, hand-to-tentacle. Anyway, remember that next time you think all it'll take to vanquish the monster is a bigger gun.

What's The Deal: This pretty awful movie is from a team of visual effects-making brothers, Colin and Greg Strause, who've been making stuff look awesome for several years now. And they're getting better as feature directors (their last one was the barfy AVPR: Aliens vs. Predator--Requiem). Now, when I say "better" I don't mean that this one is any good. It's just not as bad as AVPR. These guys love to make monsters and it shows, because the aliens are beautifully designed, like asymmetrical Frank Gehry buildings with tentacles. And the effects are impressively crushing, loud and fireballish. But then it's like they remembered there also had to be people in the movie so the monsters would have someone to kill, and they just decided to go surfing the day all that boring stuff was being cast and shot.

Dave knows....

it's a bad movie but

there were some scenes that made it more entertaining than a lot of the movies I've seen recently, like Monsters

FACT: Monsters is leaps and bounds better than Skyline!

Enter the Void - "Pompous" would be my word for this. I had no idea were Gaspar Noé was trying to go at the end and seeing the same extremely long camera transitions 50 times to another mediocre scene even made me want to turn it off at some point. 2/5

Io sono l'amore - Wasn't so sure I'd give this a chance but I'm very glad I did. The beautiful atmosphere, very nice editing and music grabbed me and left me completely satisfied. 4/5

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time - I might be a bit old for this. But this is really well crafted. 3/5, but if I was the target audience it would surely be a 5.

enter the void was great i dont know what youre talking about

With regards to "Snuffbox", watching it out of context doesn't do it much justice, it gets better and better on every rewatch,

definitely a show you have to see in one go on DVD.

Berry and Fulcher are funny as fuck. I'm a big fan of Garth Marenghi's Dark place and Man to Man with Dean learner

also.

Recent watches: Psychoville Halloween special. Brilliant, almost my favourite thing on TV right now and can't wait for series 2.

I also stuck on my Ghostwatch DVD with Parky on Halloween as part of the national Seance for Ghostwatch: Behind the curtains.

Never fails to make me happy.

Films: Nightmares(1983) Wee horror/thriller anthology with some average stories but interestingly featuring Lance Henriksen

and Veronica Cartwright from the Aliens films. The last story featuring a big Rat demon, in which they simply optically add in a regular rat, make it huge (and roar) and generally struggle to make it look menacing is the greatest laugh I've had in ages. Also worth checking out

for the ridiculous second story with a young Emilio estivez obsessed with reaching level 13 of an arcade called "The Bishop of battle".

which he becomes a part of.

Funnier than Tron and a great time capsule with an arcade full of desirable cabs to die for, including about 3 pacman machines

and some vector FX which kick ass.

She killed in Ecstasy. Jess Franco film I hadn't seen in years with the beautiful Soledad Miranda. She's almost

worth watching the movie for alone, apart from that, it's what you expect from Franco, weird, slightly dreamlike and

absurd plotting, lots of zooms but holds together for the most part.

  On 11/15/2010 at 2:29 AM, Z_B_Z said:

enter the void was great i dont know what youre talking about

Agreed! I loved it!

  On 11/15/2010 at 3:09 AM, Squee said:

  On 11/15/2010 at 2:29 AM, Z_B_Z said:

enter the void was great i dont know what youre talking about

 

Agreed! I loved it!

Damn I want to see this in a theatre!

  On 11/2/2010 at 7:40 PM, gaarg said:

  On 11/2/2010 at 6:10 PM, ZiggomaticV17 said:

Saw Oldboy. WTF MAN WTF! I JUST WANTED EVERYONE TO DIE. The guy was such a dumbass and this movie was disgusting.

When you're older than 20 you'll start to understand movies like Oldboy.

Oldboy was boss. total rollercoaster of a movie

i hadn't seen Batman Returns in like 10 or 11 years, so i decided to see it again. i didn't remember a damn thing from the first time i saw it, but it was fucking fantastic. i think Tim Burton should just make more batman movies.

  On 11/15/2010 at 4:19 AM, Atop said:

  On 11/15/2010 at 3:09 AM, Squee said:

  On 11/15/2010 at 2:29 AM, Z_B_Z said:

enter the void was great i dont know what youre talking about

 

Agreed! I loved it!

 

Damn I want to see this in a theatre!

big screen hd is the next best thing

making it a goal to watch Apocalypse Now for the first time tomorrow

The social Network = 7 /10

I fail to see what makes this movie a masterpiece and the critical acclaim that surrounds it. It was just ok.

FOur problems :

- The score : does Trent Reznor realizes that his score is already outdated ? It sounded to me like some 80s movie score, but in the bad way. And not only it's already outdated, but it's bad too. I was like wtf, T.Reznor has reached a new low.

- The linearity of the narrative: The scheme story/confrontation with the lawyers/ story / lawyers / etc... gets boring. There's no surprise. The movie is just a straight line forward, with nothing special to expect.

- The quick speed montage is annoying too. Only a few scenes last more than 5 minutes. The tension can't build properly, it's just a machine gun of images.

- Despite what the critics say, Fincher doesn't get very critical of Zuckerberg. The film is really made liek a success story. You don't get to sympathize with the losers (Eduardo).

Still enjoyable, but nowhere near a masterpiece.

127 hours 6/10

going in i wondered if they could really make a film out of this. well they did but it feels unfinished, unforfilling and kinda odd. you already know the guy is about to cut his arm off so until that point you're just waiting for it. then he does it. its shown in the background almost in a blur. you never really just see him cutting through skin etc. wasn't gory enough. too MOR, trying not to make missy throwup. the only thing that saved it was the nerve noise. that worked really well. james franco was solid and he needed to be as he was the only one in the film pretty much. i enjoyed the screening but felt unsatisfied afterwards. wait for the dvd

north by northwest 7/10

a rewathcing on blueray. not my favourite hitchcock. it has its moments.

an education 7/10

kindof a chickflick but it had me hooked. the baby talk names were totally out of place and no-one would actually write that into the story so i figured at that point it was based on a true story. solid stuff.

leaves of grass - 3/10, tries to mix some kind of coen bros thing with something like "you can count on me" but ends up full retard. norton arguing with himself is kinda fun though.