Just saw "Inside Man" with Denzel Washington and Clive Owen. I can honestly say that it was a better movie than I expected.
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Just saw "Inside Man" with Denzel Washington and Clive Owen. I can honestly say that it was a better movie than I expected.
^agreed. i had read about it in different reviews but enjoyed it much better then i thought i would.
anyone seen JCVD?
Watched two movies yesterday: "Attack Force" with Steven Seagal which was, as most of his movies, really bad! I expected that though, and find it quite funny to watch that bad movies. Anyone seen it or any other "interesting" Seagal movies?
I also watched "Superbad" for the second time. Maybe a bit too long, but I think it's just brilliant! McLovin and the cops are just awesome!
Me and the woman actually watched this for the first time last night, I must have fallen asleep a hundred times (nothing to do with the movie) but from what I saw it was pretty good!Quote:
Originally Posted by gerbick
I just watched the day the earth stood still...how can people still hire Keanu? He must be one of the worst actors in Hollywood.
And the movie was just awful and pointless.
^ Agreed. It was like an action version of "An Inconvenient Truth". I use the term action loosely.
Just finished Humboldt County. What a nice change that was. I recommend it if you're looking for a nice slower paced movie that actually focuses more on characters then explosions.
i rented Saw V last night(redbox is an amazing thing) i dont care what anyone says i love this ****ing series. i wouldnt even call the movies sequels they are continuations, because each ****ing movie ends with a to be continuedish ending, and the next movie litterally picks up where the last one left off. I also wouldnt call these horror movies anymore, then have officially moved over to the thriller/drama genre. Just a fantastic movie. i love the traps.
Are you serious? I LOVED the first one. It was such a great jump start for the genre but damn 4-5 were total garbage.
All the traps were pretty boring but the last one was pretty damn brutal.
the first one was the pilot. but now its got a solid story.
if you watch all five movies they are all intertwined with each other.
Like take friday the 13th, the only thing that keeps the continuance in that series is jason. how many ****ing times has he died? thousdands of times.
With Saw, its like a ****ing tv series. you can trace characters throughout the movies. you see in saw 5 questions answered from saw 2-4 details about how the earlier movies traps and victims are coming out in the later movies. in the first one jigsaw is working alone. in the second one we find out jigsaw has an acomplice(in reality from what we learned in saw 5, he had two amanda was the newer of the two) Saw 3 sees the doctor/father ****, which happens concurrently with saw 4's events which happen Just before saw 5.
All 5 movies could have been crammed into one movie but so much of it would have had to been cut. Did jigsaw have a 3rd accomplice? was his ex wife helping The 1st accomplice capture agent stranm?
most "horror" just add in differnt characters, have the same general plot and kill the bad guy in the end. Saw keeps alot of the characters and reuses them to make the story work
I will give you that the plot is sorta interesting but just seems to be trying way to hard now. Maybe 4 and 5 were trying to get together and solve old issues and start mixing together but damn what a mess the whole thing is becoming. It's like each one is trying out out-do the last in how complex and twisted they can connect everything. I will have to have a sit down and have a SAW marathon one day and see how it all flows...
it all flows perfectly. I really dont think these movies get the credit they deserve. again its not oscar worth stuff but this series is the heart shaped peg that fits the heart shaped hole in my life. i honestly had WTf moments trying to think if they shot parts of Saw V during the other movies and had this **** all planned out, or if they re did the shots to make it seem like they did.
Definitely went back. They made the first and saw it's success, made a second one and it did the same, then it got out of control. I think 6-7 are already written. I will obviously watch them all. People say that these sequels are getting out of hand but seriously look at all the good horror franchises. Freddy & Jason have around 9 each and even Child's Play has 5 now- **** even Psycho has 4 and those are AWFUL. I just think they are trying to make it too complex and they are starting to wear the plot VERY thin.
i disagree. i think the original plot was pretty thin. what they did with the 5th movie was kill off the remaining characters for the first 4 movies, and now we are left with some building blocks going forward.
there are now only 2 people alive from the first 5 movies, Hoffman, and jigsaws wife. in the 5th movie we find out that someone knows who hoffman is(possibly jigsaws wife). Jigsaws wife recieved that box(items inside unknown). In saw 4 the autopsy of jigsaw reveals a tape directed towards hoffman letting him know hes not alone, there is another, and that hoffman wont go untested(this apparently happens after the events of saw 5)
So going forward we have the new jigsaw(hoffman), a possible apprentice(jigsaws wife), the FBI is going to continue searching for the fake jigsaw(stramn). its as if saw 1-5 was chapter one, and saw 6 if done correctly could be the start of chapter two.
We'll see I suppose.
and now to change topics a bit. When I saw Friday the 13th there was a preview for Last House on the Left. I knew it was being made but didn't realize it was so close to releasing. I remember the old one and even for Wes Cravens first film it was pretty brutal for the times(and even now). I know there are films like SAW that as far as gore go WAY beyond what that film did. I am just not sure if this remake will be as dirty and brutal as the original. It will probably be a theater trip for me as I like to give most horrors a chance.
What will happen next- a remake to I Spit on Your Grave?! Nothing now will be like the golden age of horror.
saw 2 was the best so far. 5 was the worst. But I've liked them all.
I hope once the industry is bored of remaking all those bleh Japanese ghost horrors they move onto the Italian Cannibal genre. They will probably ruin them worse then the Japanese remakes but damned if I wouldn't love to see some new flicks from that genre.
wannabe grab midnight meat train.
That was a waste of time. Tell me you didn't actually like that?
Some funny deaths but it still wasn't even worth the time...
Was just browsing around BD looking for a new movies to watch and came across this. I forgot about this preview but this was also before Friday the 13th.
The Haunting in Connecticut
Watched Jason X last night. Figured I should watch it to complete seeing the series. There was a few interesting kills but wow was it awful. Not even classic retro 80's awful. Just bad.
Watching Eden Lake now. I ****ing HATE kids. So this movie is actually pissing me off and kinda creepy at the same time.
I finally saw wall-e tonight. Not quite the perfection that Incredibles was but still quite good. Even if it's bad, I can watch pixar renders endlessly.
I got in trouble for pausing Wall E too much to look at their textures. ****ing perfection in each and every frame.
Just watched No Country for Old Men again... sorry, but the bad guy/villain lover in me just can't help but cheer on Javier Bardem's character. Seriously... he saw no wrong in his actions. Any of them... that conviction is where I want to be one day.
wall-e on a 52" and on Blue-ray gives me a wood-e
Eden Park was ****ing brutal. Another notch in the belt for NEVER having kids. **** em.
I recommend it for any horror type fan or just someone looking to feel dirty after seeing a movie.
Pixar is just magic every time but this new one has me wondering what they have up their sleeves as far as technology advances and story.
wall-e had a definite apple influence. The Wall-E unit made a mac start up chime when it rebooted and the Eva unit was quite obviously a 700th generation iphone.
That's because Eva is an Ipod, sort of :) http://money.cnn.com/2008/05/09/tech...tune/index.htm
any of you FK'rs going to see watchmen next week?
I see a lot of interweb buzz about this. Granted, I am not a comic book/graphic novel guy by any means, but I couldn't tell you the least little thing about this group of "super" heroes... I used quotes, as it's my understanding that many of them do not even have powers? I don't get this...does it mean that they just dress up and run around town looking weird? There's this guy Elliot Offen that used to jog around Manhattan in a tu-tu. Seems very reminiscent.Quote:
Originally Posted by silverx2
http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i5...fn1/new023.jpg
Regardless, with all of the hype surrounding this thing, I can't understand the support behind it. This is not to say that it won't be good or whatever...but are they expecting mainstream success here on the level of the Batman or Spiderman franchise?
Please elaborate...
iv never read the graphic novel and the only information i know about the movie is what iv read from previews. but the previews have me interested. i read the EW artical this moring "will anyone watch the watchmen?" heres a snippet that makes me think it could be a movie ill really enjoy.
"All this, for a violent, ironic superhero epic that doesn't like superheroes in the first place. Directed by "300's" Zack Snyder, "Watchmen" presents a set of familiar superhero archetypes -- and then subverts them completely. Rorschach (Jackie Earl Haley) is like the Spirit ... except he's a joyless, hard-line misanthrope. The Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) is like Captain America ... but loyal only to sadistic thrills and a corrupt worldview. Nite Owl (Patrick Wilson) is part Batman, part Iron Man ... except he's also a schlubby, impotent coward. Ozymandias (Matthew Goode) is the resident genius ... who's built an empire on superhero toys. (You see what we mean by irony.)
Says Billy Crudup, whose blue, naked Dr. Manhattan is an almighty Superman dangerously detached from his own humanity: " 'Watchmen' is a kind of thrilling thought experiment. What would people who dress up in costumes to fight crime actually be like? Well, they'd probably be fetishists who lived on the fringes of society. They'd all be a bunch of freaking lunatics."
http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movi...men/index.html
interesting.
I think I mentioned this when I was attending the BFI festival but I just have to say if you're looking for a creepy mystery horror film then Hansel & Gretel might just be what you're looking for. Very creepy.
hmm, its not on netflix yet.
Yeah I am not sure how big of a movie it really will be. Might take a bit for Netflix to pick it up. Is it not on there at all or just not available yet?
I also HIGHLY recommend Johnny Mad Dog. That movie is just so intense. A lot of people compare it to the movie City of God. That movie has been on my list for so long I think it is finally time to sit down and watch it. I feel that movie is just what I am looking for. A serious intense film that is also beautifully shot.
apparently the new street fighter movie is really bad(gasp)
"Kristin Kreuk is the only cast member who doesn't embarrass herself, but that's not saying much. She acquits herself competently enough in the fight scenes, but in a film called Street Fighter you would expect there to be a lot of kick-ass fights, right? Instead, we're subjected to tired, wire-work sequences that went out of fashion years ago; no one ever seems in any real jeopardy of being hurt in these fights, and you don't get any sense of a character's brute force or skill. There's better staged and more enjoyable brawls between Peter and the Chicken on Family Guy. The film simply limps along from one poorly staged set-piece to another, climaxing with a whimper rather than a bang. "
maybe we should have started a petition.
Didn't expect anything else. The street fighter later years on college humor are where it's at :)
Just watched RocknRolla. Not Richie's best but still good. Bit of a clone of lock stock as far as pacing goes.
Push was decent. Not what you expect but not all that sly in the end. I could totally see someone writing a Pushers vs. Jumpers.
Pineapple Express was hilarious. A bit goofier than the usual Seth Rogen, but if you're into the pot humor stuff, it's a classic.