A few films recently watched.

Blue Velvet - 8/10

 

Shallow Grave - 6/10

prodigal son - 10/10

 

patlabor III (well, listened to to it while i worked) - 6/10

 

die hard - 10/10 best film to work too

Troll 2 - 14/54

anecdoche, ny 7/10

la sirène du mississipi 8.5/10

la vallee 6.9/10

a boy and his dog x/y

 

  o00o said:

I just watched primer - now I need more like this!

 

there aren't very many sci fi movies or any movies for that matter that give me this same creepy feeling of Primer. maybe Inland Empire but i don't think reaches the greatness of Primer.

 

 

Timecrimes was ok it didn't remind me of primer very much.

Edited May 17, 2009 by Awepittance

The Machinist - 94/100

Outlander - so far it's like some sci fi beowulf viking epic, it's got terrible bits interspersed with viking on alien action, really, 40 minutes in i can't complain too much, bar the sub par acting. don't expect a masterpiece though, not at all.

 

downloading some kung fu at the moment. very excited for "drunken master 2" and ninja checkmate

milk - 8/10

all about lily chou-chou - 9/10

dr strangelove - 9/10

 

 

  Deep Fried Everything said:

dr strangelove - 45/10

 

FIX0ZR'd!

The Last Winter 2/10

 

Wanted to like this because it's Ron Perlman in a lead role with no prosthetics for a change, and I read a review saying it was subtle and creepy (I stopped reading then because I like knowing as little as possible about a film before I see it).

 

HOWEVER

 

This is just lolfully bad. Drinking game bad.

 

It's a horror movie made just for the OMG THE WORLD IS GONNA END IN TEN YEARS BECAUSE AL GORE SAID SO PS DONT TRUST THE MAN gullible hippy environmental hysterical dogma crowd.

 

In 15 years when the world hasn't ended, this is going to be a major cult classic, the same way those terrible earnest "natures revenge" movies from the seventies are now. This is the new Night of the Lepus.

 

Theres a whiny environmentalist guy who whines at one point about "damaging the tundra" by driving a truck or something over it. WTF tundra is dead grass and ice and dirt. He's also fucking Ron Perlman's girlfriend, so even if you believe his extremist hippy views you are still gonna hate him for being a smug shit and fucking the iconic character actor's girlfriend

 

There are many bad things about this film (not least the bad student filmmaker jumpcuts) but the most bad/funny thing is"

 

 

 

 

 

ps i oppose the exploitation of non-renewable resorces, i just hate gullible hippies and dumb movies that take themselves deadly seriously

I'm Alan Partridge Season 1 - 5/10

I was really disappointed with this show because I love Steve Coogan. Didn't realize before renting this that it had a laugh track and that really took me out of the show. The only shows with laugh tracks that work are filmed in front of a live studio audience.

Extreme Movie - negative one million/10

 

Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl - 8/10

 

The Apple - 8.5/10

 

Haute Tension - 6/10

 

Sheitan - 7.7/10

Edited May 20, 2009 by Yegg

primer - 9/10

 

tokyo zombie - 6/10

 

memento - 7/10

The Baader Meinhof Complex - 8/10, engaging biopic of militant left-wing german radicals in the 60s-70s. if you weren't alive at this time, you may have no idea of the crazy shit these guys accomplished. i wished it had given more context - it's pretty much limited to its characters - but they already crammed a lot of stuff into a fairly long film. also, some great boobs, if you're into that sort of thing.

  zaphod said:

primer - 9/10

 

this seems to have one of the highest success rates of any indie movie here on watmm !

 

it's a shame that the writer/director/composer/editor/main actor hasn't done anything since nor plans to

Edited May 20, 2009 by Awepittance

i was really surprised by it. definitely looked more expensive than it was. i also really liked the setting. i've never seen a sci fi themed film set in such a mundane world before...just office parks and storage lots and places like that. i was really taken by it, seems like it could have happened around where i live.

  zaphod said:

i was really surprised by it. definitely looked more expensive than it was. i also really liked the setting. i've never seen a sci fi themed film set in such a mundane world before...just office parks and storage lots and places like that. i was really taken by it, seems like it could have happened around where i live.

 

 

i was surprised by it too, when i first started watching i got a little bit of an 'o brother' jaded feeling when i felt it was going to be a run of the mill mumblecore indie movie with no payoff, but yeah i was blown away by it in the end. Since then i have seen it about 10 times and it's a movie where every time you watch it you come to a new realization or have a new theory about it. It reminds me of a David Lynch movie in regards to the confusion and mind fuck you feel as it progresses, but unlike a Lynch movie (ala muholland drive) the confusion/disorientation has a 'scientific' explanation and not in a heavy handed way either, they let the atmosphere play out to almost perfection.

angels & demons - 4/10

had a medium popcorn so was happy but the film itself was pretty dull and the twist was seen coming

 

wolverine - 6/10

fun but unsatisfying

 

transporter 2 - 7/10

fun but lost something with the bigger budget from the first film

 

 

  Awepittance said:

  zaphod said:

primer - 9/10

 

this seems to have one of the highest success rates of any indie movie here on watmm !

 

the concept and pacing were novel and effective, no doubt, but as a movie it annoyed the everlasting shit (?) out of me, especially the first half. that sappy friggin soundtrack. those forced "emotional" sequences. the oh so profound voice-overs. the whole presentation didn't sit well with me, i would've preferred to have seen in it a much less hollywoodesque and more abstracted form cos the ideas definitely had some nicely claustrophobic, disturbing quality to them.

 

edit: everlasting shit

Edited May 20, 2009 by iep

i didn't find the soundtrack sappy at all, in fact i listen to it all the time and it's even more impressive to me it was also composed by Shane curath. I can understand some of your complaints though, the movie does tend to take itself a little seriously, but it works for me.

black hawk down - 5/10

weirdly pornographic war film. i'm still confused by ridley scott. he's made, maybe, three movies that tackle either the history of the middle east or us foreign affairs and i still have no idea where he stands on anything. on the one hand you have kingdom of heaven, which was good, but had some extremely liberal interpretations of history (saladin had sufi mystics execute almost all of the crusaders in jerusalem, had families pay him a toll to exit the city or had them enslaved). i enjoyed the sentiment of that film, but it was revisionist history. and then on the other end of the spectrum is body of lies, which was as cynical as i've seen, and i suppose a liberal look at modern affairs in the middle east. but i'm not sure what the point of that film was given the ending.

i work in a cinema.

 

i have seen 'monsters vs. aliens' 6 times.

 

*loads gun*

  takeshi said:

I'm Alan Partridge Season 1 - 5/10

I was really disappointed with this show because I love Steve Coogan. Didn't realize before renting this that it had a laugh track and that really took me out of the show. The only shows with laugh tracks that work are filmed in front of a live studio audience.

 

this program is incredible as far as im concerned. it makes me hurt with laughter.

  Awepittance said:

  zaphod said:

primer - 9/10

 

this seems to have one of the highest success rates of any indie movie here on watmm !

 

it's a shame that the writer/director/composer/editor/main actor hasn't done anything since nor plans to

 

It dosent surprise me that wattum loves Primer. Primer is mostly driven by its premise and its plot mechanics, rather than people or emotions, which is very wattum. Primer is probably ullillillia's favourite film.

 

I suggested Timecrimes to somebody who like Primer because it tells a similar kind of story but in a way more "cinematic" way. It's a slightly simpler take on the story with more emphasis on the characters and what they want and why they want it. Plus it has actual cinematography.

what

 

edit: never mind

Edited May 21, 2009 by tauboo