A few films recently watched.

best horror flick i've seen in ages, 7.5/10

pretty cool that they're releasing it on vhs too (as an option to dvd/blu ray), considering the movie is from 2009.

the road was shit. and it doesn't look any different than any other post apocalypse film. it's the same tropes seen in any of those, so i don't really know what awepittance is talking about or expecting. it's the same shit, but not as entertaining and weighed down by its own self importance.

i'm still here - yeah i don't know about this one. i laughed at a couple scenes but overall it was just weird and pointless. would have been cooler if it had been real.

  On 12/11/2010 at 12:25 AM, remy marathe said:

so i don't really know what awepittance is talking about or expecting.

i don't know either, it just looked visually 'right' from the trailer, it didn't look hollywood to me, but of course trailers can be deceiving.

its a little more natural looking, i'll give you that. i know what you mean with post apocalypse movies though. everything has a filter applied to it and people dress like they live in new mexico in 1850 and suddenly the audience is supposed to identify with that. it's pretty lazy. i felt like children of men had an interesting look to it, even though that isn't a straight end of the world movie.

Enter the Void - omg/10

  On 12/11/2010 at 6:43 AM, Capsaicin said:

Enter the Void - omg/10

QFT

21 Grams (for the fourth time) - 10/10

I love that movie. Fantastic actors (even though I want to punch Sean Penn right in the face) and a very simple story which is made interesting because of the non-chronological way the story is told.

watched david lynch's dune for the billionth time, i give it wyrding module/10. love it so much.

also rewatched 24 hour party people. 9/10. i'm a bit biased as i love manchester bands and i love steve coogan. i don't know if tony wilson actually said this, but either way, it's a great line:

"We are not really a company, we are an experiment in human nature(...) I protected myself from the dilemma of selling out by having nothing to sell."

How To Train Your Dragon = Much Better Than Most Pixar Shit Including Up and Wall-E / 10

Enter The Void

holy fucking wow.

...well, my night's a write-off

*ponders existence*

Im into Christmas film season with my dvd player

Scrooged - 7/10 Bill Murray makes this film his own

Home Alone - 9/10 seen it a million times and Marvs scream still cracks me up

  On 12/12/2010 at 4:49 AM, The Overlook said:

How To Train Your Dragon = Much Better Than Most Pixar Shit Including Up and Wall-E / 10

I do love Wall-E but shit yeah, one of the best animated films of recent.

A Clockwork Orange (blu-ray) 9/10

forgot how much I loved this movie. the characters are so vivid, the acting spot on, there really isn't anything quite like it. the imdb trivia is an interesting read. it was Kubrick's first solo screenplay, first use of Dolby sound, first use of remote microphones, and first use of a vocoder in any recording. it should've won best picture, imo, as it was nominated, but oh well..

420th page, seemed like the right time to contribute.

  On 12/11/2010 at 4:26 PM, disparaissant said:

watched david lynch's dune for the billionth time, i give it wyrding module/10. love it so much.

Indeed, need to watch it soon, been fiending, here is music by The Wyrding Module, one half of Team Doyobi,

  On 12/12/2010 at 10:06 PM, Atop said:

  On 12/12/2010 at 4:49 AM, The Overlook said:

How To Train Your Dragon = Much Better Than Most Pixar Shit Including Up and Wall-E / 10

I do love Wall-E but shit yeah, one of the best animated films of recent.

Ah yes, I loved HTTYD! I was laughing my ass off when the kid was confusing the dragons. Their facial expressions were hilarious.

was waiting tables in a theatre/restaurant while this was playing in 3D, got to see it like three times for free, damn I miss that job!

The sting

Goodbye Children

The Age of Innocence

Sisters

Shock

The Imaginarium Of Dr. Parnassus

Totally Awesome / 10

The Children are Alright 8/10

I liked it but for some reason I can't enjoy movies that don't have a tightly wraped up ending anymore, I need epilogues for everything now. I'ts like i chare about the characters so much i need to know how ther life is going lol. that probably means the movie is doing something right.

I'd like to sincerely big up whoever mentioned the following

Triangle http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1187064/

The Power Of Nightmares http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0430484/

Triangle reminded me a bit of The Shining and Dead End, excellent psychological thriller. I can't believe I haven't heard of the director Christopher Smith until now, I've subsequently "bought" Creep and Severance and greatly look forward to watchin em.

The Power Of Nightmares was also excellent, a BBC documentary that touches on some of the same themes as the Zeitgiest films did, however being the BBC this comes across as better researched, not as scattered and generally more sober than the somewhat propaganda like Zeitgeist films.

Someone was talking about documentaries on one of the previous pages, a couple I can greatly recommend are

Dark Days http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0235327/

Winnebago Man http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1396557/

legend of the guardians - 4/10 - i really wanted to see it and hoped it would be good after bumping into a random "screenshot", unfortunately the RT are spot on on this, real shame that so much cgi effort and gorgeous results (despite every other scene being shot against sunrise) went into such cliched story with awful pacing.

the baader meinhof complex - 8/10

wow the weather underground were pussies compared to these guys

I'm Still Here 1/10

Surprisingly bad, he's either trying to hard or not trying hard enough I can't tell...

sorry but Up and WallE are way better than HTTYD

btw, "legend of the guardians", wasn't expecting this at all, pretty neat

7,5 racist owls out of 10

Bad Lieutenant - Port Call Orleans or whatever with Nic Cage

7/10

this guy is hilarious - ending was a bit :<