A few films recently watched.

The Midnight Meat Train

7/10

Adaptation of a Clive Barker short story from the collection "Books of Blood", and one of the better short story adaptations that I have seen. The only thing that pissed me off was the terrible cgi blood. That shit never looks good. Practical violence fx ftw.

Antichrist...

I give it four mommies out of five mommies...

beautiful images, disturbing images and panic inducing sound/acting/scenes....

the soundtrack is almost as freaky as the film...

be warned that this film has fucked up shit that happens in it...

it is Lars Von Trier's tribute to Tarkovsky...

he did well having set such a high mark for himself.....

CHAOS REIGNS!

  On 9/13/2009 at 11:08 AM, Atop said:

Antichrist...

 

I give it four mommies out of five mommies...

 

beautiful images, disturbing images and panic inducing sound/acting/scenes....

 

the soundtrack is almost as freaky as the film...

 

be warned that this film has fucked up shit that happens in it...

 

it is Lars Von Trier's tribute to Tarkovsky...

 

he did well having set such a high mark for himself.....

 

 

 

CHAOS REIGNS!

Apart from that I loved it.

I watched Year One last night. Holy shit, if that is what a Harold Ramis production is like today then we're all fucked when it comes to Ghostbusters III. 4/10

  On 9/12/2009 at 4:23 PM, tidbit said:

radio on 8/10 (10/10 for the soundtrack)

is the title inspired by the modern lovers - roadrunner?

somewhat id say

(77->80)

Tyson 7/10 and that's being generous. The subject matter is so inherently mesmerizing it's hard to see how you could fail at making a documentary about it, yet Toback almost did. It seems his only objective was to "humanize" Tyson, so he let all the rest fall by the wayside - the amazing fights, the incredible quotes. I get a more entertaining portrait of Tyson from reading internet quote collections and watching clips online (higher quality btw, wtf did Toback do to the footage?). I have no idea why Toback decided to chop up each fight so all the energy is lost. Some really poor stylistic choices in this film, I felt like I could have easily done a better job myself.

  On 9/13/2009 at 12:52 PM, Squee said:

  On 9/13/2009 at 11:08 AM, Atop said:

Antichrist...

 

I give it four mommies out of five mommies...

 

beautiful images, disturbing images and panic inducing sound/acting/scenes....

 

the soundtrack is almost as freaky as the film...

 

be warned that this film has fucked up shit that happens in it...

 

it is Lars Von Trier's tribute to Tarkovsky...

 

he did well having set such a high mark for himself.....

 

 

 

CHAOS REIGNS!

 

 

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The part where the fox says "CHAOS REIGNS!" was kinda ridiculous.

 

 

Apart from that I loved it.

 

I watched Year One last night. Holy shit, if that is what a Harold Ramis production is like today then we're all fucked when it comes to Ghostbusters III. 4/10

yes Year One is terrible....

but in Antichrist I loved that part for the sheer wtf moment...

and it was an intense moment...

'Begotten' whatever!!!

i think i kind of knew it was coming for some reason. perhaps i saw it in a review. i dunno.

Dead Snow: Interesting little film... entertaining for what it was... zombie nazi's, hot girls, chainsaws, and drunken porta-potty sex.

District 9 : I went in watching this having never seen a preview or read a thing. I suspected it to be some big budget Independence Day remake but was quite surprised at what it actually was and how well general public grabbed it. I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would but still way too over hyped.

Oldboy : re-watched this after picking it up Blu-ray... the transfer was nothing special but the audio was amazing. I had my roommate watch it will me but he didn't get into it and all he had to say at the end was, "hmm..." I still find this film to be one of the better films to come out in the last 6 years.

Unagi (1998) - 8.5/10

  On 9/14/2009 at 7:26 AM, goffer said:

Oldboy : re-watched this after picking it up Blu-ray... the transfer was nothing special but the audio was amazing. I had my roommate watch it will me but he didn't get into it and all he had to say at the end was, "hmm..." I still find this film to be one of the better films to come out in the last 6 years.

tis good, I agree. Suicide Circle is also great if your into asian film

has been mentioned here before but I just saw Let the Right One In. pretty sweet vampire flick

  On 9/14/2009 at 9:46 AM, viscosity said:

  On 9/14/2009 at 7:26 AM, goffer said:

Oldboy : re-watched this after picking it up Blu-ray... the transfer was nothing special but the audio was amazing. I had my roommate watch it will me but he didn't get into it and all he had to say at the end was, "hmm..." I still find this film to be one of the better films to come out in the last 6 years.

tis good, I agree. Suicide Circle is also great if your into asian film

 

 

has been mentioned here before but I just saw Let the Right One In. pretty sweet vampire flick

from where is your avatar? also, your name is icky :D

Icky Poo Poo - 1/10

i saw a video of some girl

and the title was antichrist. that from that movie?

  On 9/14/2009 at 11:54 AM, olson said:

i saw a video of some girl

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getting her labia cut off

and the title was antichrist. that from that movie?

Most likely - great movie.

  On 9/14/2009 at 11:54 AM, olson said:

i saw a video of some girl

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getting her labia cut off

and the title was antichrist. that from that movie?

you are a spoil whore, OUT OF THIS THREAD! OUT OF THIS THREAD NOW!

Extract - 8/10

I thought it was very funny. I dunno. I have a hard time rating Mike Judge movies after only seeing them once, as they tend to gather more steam after subsequent viewings. It is always nice to watch a comedy where they aren't always relying on silly gags and slapstick for laughs.

  On 9/14/2009 at 9:54 AM, thanksomuch said:

from where is your avatar? also, your name is icky :D

Dune... movie was shoddy but I liked the mask so i took a screen

  On 9/14/2009 at 1:45 PM, Atop said:

  On 9/14/2009 at 11:54 AM, olson said:

i saw a video of some girl

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getting her labia cut off

and the title was antichrist. that from that movie?

 

you are a spoil whore, OUT OF THIS THREAD! OUT OF THIS THREAD NOW!

Now with spoiler tags

nice one Squee

and Dune isn't shoddy it just isn't for everyone.....

Lynch doesn't do "shoddy"...

lynch does shoddy and dune is is shod..

besides its more or less his frankenstein, he sorta disowned it afterwards when they fucked with his original cut

frankenstein in the sense of the monster in the story, not any film adaptation. . just thought it could have been much better

I finally got to watch Three Extremes without any sound problems. On the original DVD I bought a couple of years back the sound was out of sync with the picture and it got worse and worse throughout the short films, so I've never really seen Box the way it is supposed to be but I loved it. I love how the silence can truly haunt the audience.

I loved Three Extremes... Fruit Chan, Miike, and Clan-wook Park... there is nothing more to be said.