A few films recently watched.

  On 12/5/2011 at 4:50 PM, iep said:

hah! i did both--IN THE SAME DAY!

 

 

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liek ah bawss

 

 

edit: it sure wasn't as alpine and romantically french as the movie tho :D

LOL YESTERDAY you were crying for your mom, stating the route was too difficult...

and you were too gripped to reached the last bolt as well, knuclehead!

  On 12/5/2011 at 12:17 PM, Squee said:

In Bruges is great. Looking forward to the director's next movie

Yeah In Bruges gets better on repeat viewings. Weird but very good film. And yes, Colin Farrel slays it...completely overturned any preconceptions I had about him as an actor. It was like watching Brad Pitt actually be good in a movie, but better, since even at his best Brad Pitt is kinda shit.

  On 12/5/2011 at 6:06 PM, iep said:

and you were too gripped to reached the last bolt as well, knuclehead!

 

 

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fu :D

 

LOVE YOU BACK

I just re-watched Kaboom

and still love it. Quite unique... If I would be the director I would be very proud of having made this film before the end of the world

Boy Wonder 8/10

ride the high country - kind of plodding (maybe intentional to reflect the old-timers' struggle) until some unsettling strawdogs-esque weirdness and an awesome all-guns-blazing finale. still a beautifully shot western. 7.4/10

The Thing 8/10 = the SFX & sound were excellent as a whole it delivered where it counted but the ending was a bit of a cop out for me personally with a few continuity flaws leading into Carpenter classic.

  On 12/5/2011 at 7:55 PM, chris moss acid said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tlt05VbspAQ

this has already ticked a lot of boxes and I haven't even seen it yet

  On 12/4/2011 at 10:02 PM, viscosity said:

Snowtown

sounds like the title of the bachelor party I just went to

  On 12/4/2011 at 10:02 PM, viscosity said:

Dead Man Shoes

sounds like the title of the bachelor party I just went to

sounds like you should have filmed this bachelor party!

i tried to watch the incredible hulk with edward norton, i stopped the film when he's naked in guatemala and then plays paedo checking out schoolgirls hidden behind a tree. damn

did that scene hit too close to home?

I found Dead Man Shoes pretty awful, don't get the praise for it.

Cave of Forgotten Dreams - 10/10

Take Me Home Tonight - 5/10

Insidious - 7/10

Abre los ojos - Original Spanish version of Vanilla Sky. Never seen Vanila Sky and had zero idea what this was gonna be about. Pleasantly surprised though figured the twist out prettty soon. Plus I am completely in love with Penelope Cruz so that's always a bonus. 6.6 / 10

36 - French police thriller pitting Daniel Auteil's good bad cop against Depardieu's bad bad cop. Unusually hollywoodesque for French cinema, in fact had the feel of a Western set in modern Paris. Again had no idea what I was getting as I don't like to read blurbs or watch trailers so another pleasant surprise. 7 / 10

  On 12/7/2011 at 11:13 PM, vasio said:

I found Dead Man Shoes pretty awful, don't get the praise for it.

i too didn't get the praise for it but i didn't think it was awful more just mediocre. I liked the whole scene where he makes everybody take too much acid, but beyond that it was underwhelming

Indiana Jones 4 - maybe after all this time of hearing it was awful I expected less, but it was really good. I'm fine with the alien aspect but it just didn't need that ending. Marianne is still nice.

Deathproof - a lot better than I expected even if it's a bit of a mess. It's either extended Tarantino conversation in a car/bar or a violent car chase. Fun though.

Kite Runner - very solid adaptation of the book. I cried a bit but I think I was more remembering the emotions from the book which made me sob like a wild bitch a few years ago

edit: thought of some more

Planet Terror - enjoyed it but it goes on a bit aimlessly for a while before getting shamelessly stupid which was what it was supposed to be about

Le Donk & Scor-Zay-Zee - pleasant, nothing really happens and Considine is playing the same guy from Rome Brass pretty much. A few lols from Scor Zay Zee, something about his pronunciation of 'keyboard'

Stroszek - yeah, bizarre, amazing ending but lost me a bit in the middle

i watched two today; martyrs (for the second time) and we need to talk about kevin. i feel all fuzzy inside.

  On 12/9/2011 at 1:17 AM, flurobox said:

...and we need to talk about kevin. i feel all fuzzy inside.

I was kinda disappointed by it.

Now Final Destination 5 on the other hand... 999/10

For the record, Dead Man Shoes is one of my favourite movies of all time. If you don't like it I don't think I can make you understand why, but it's about the atmosphere, the candid realism, brother-brother relationship, and absolutely depressing story. Like everything else Shane does, in every single scene it feels like you're there, it does alot with a very small setting.

I watched insidious yesterday, was too tired to think of something else;

somewhat of suspense in the beginning/ 10

starting to lose its suspense, and some introduction of funny elements in the middle / 10

director lost his mind in the end/ 10

the page turner - Plodding but short French "thriller" revolves around the revenge of a young woman on the pianist who caused her to fuck up her piano recital as a 10 yr old girl. Predictable but very watchable. Probably because Déborah François is now the new love of my life. ---- 6 / 10