The SRK Movie Fanatic Thread (REVIEWS, QUESTIONS, RANTS, STARS...ETC.) EVERYTHING!!!

[Taito]

I saw Narc again. It would be one of my favorite movies of the decade if it weren't for a couple of unwatchably awful scenes. Great acting from Ray Liotta.

[Dirt Mc Girt]

lol@the eye

i wish i found alba hot so i could at least justify wasting 90 minutes on this movie

so bad

i just watched gone baby gone too on blu, why was this movie not nominated for best picture? that and ass of jesse james were better than half the movies nominated, but both got ignored

[HeaT]

In Bruges comes out on dvd on tuesday...probably the best movie of the year so far...rent it/netflix it no doubt

i think i may agree about in bruges, actually, in bruges and the fall are probably the best movies i seen this year...this year has been disappointing so far imo...i cannot think of any movies i seen besides these 2 that i would REALLY recommend to anyone as being actually really good...and there are few movies coming out that i am excited about the rest of the year...hopefully some sleepers come out or something...

im outi

Roberth

[Dirt Mc Girt]

yea this year has sucked for movies in theaters

at this rate cabin fever 2 will win movie of the year

[P. Gorath]

the other good movies from this year I would say are The Bank Job and Bigger, Stronger, Faster.

I watched America Psycho 2. I thought it tried. The script had its moments but the pacing was really off. It was also very hard to swallow that Mila Kunis could kill Patrick Bateman, or that Bateman would be doing his thing in front of a little girl. Also there is zero nudity and they don't show a single kill shot. Ok so the movie sucked.

[angryliberal]

why would they amke an amaerican psycho 2?!

anyways, i was going to watch solaris this weekend, but the only free time i had to watch it, i was on mushrooms, and i don't think it would be a good idea to try and fully experience a russian film while on drugs.

adding in bruges to my very long netflix list...

[OrangeCat]

I contemplated suicide since I saw the trailer for "Disaster Movie". It's shit like this that makes me wonder if there are any braindead execs even there to greenlight shitty films like this or if there's just a big pile of money laying around for the "Epic Movie" and "Meet the Spartans" producers to grab and make any god damn piece of shit film. Seriously if this film isn't representative of the worst sort of hackery and lack of talent, I don't know what is.

OC

[mylthazz]

the signal is a pretty good horror flick

came out last week i think

[angryliberal]

I contemplated suicide since I saw the trailer for "Disaster Movie". It's shit like this that makes me wonder if there are any braindead execs even there to greenlight shitty films like this or if there's just a big pile of money laying around for the "Epic Movie" and "Meet the Spartans" producers to grab and make any god damn piece of shit film. Seriously if this film isn't representative of the worst sort of hackery and lack of talent, I don't know what is.

OC

yeah, you look back on quality parodies like airplane!, kentucky fried movie, spaceballs and you wonder what the fuck happened...

[YellowS4]

the signal is a pretty good horror flick

came out last week i think

The Signal is random as fuck. Some parts completely ruin the film though. I didn't really expect it to turn out that way though, I thought it'd be straight up killing left and right.

[P. Gorath]

oh yeah, the other great movie to come out this year is the doc Young @ Heart


..it will make you cry, and it has a death count higher than a Saw sequel

[goodm0urning]

IamRob from Freak Safari does a great write-up of M. Night Shyamalan. (http://www.freaksafari.com/index-area-shyamalan.html)Besides ripping off Nickelodeon, he comes off as an overly pretentious douchebag. So we’re clear, directors don’t need to make appearances in every one of their movies. M. Night is trying to be like Alfred Hitchcock, except Hitchcock was brilliant, and M. Night is a boring jackass that reeks of curry (I’m assuming the curry odor. But seriously, what Indian person doesn’t smell like curry?) As if this weren’t enough to make him worthy of being a barf bag for Amy Winehouse’s withdrawal periods, he goes so far as to think he can act.And there's a discussion thread about it here. (http://www.freaksafari.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3962)

[scum gale 88]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=I1KEyS916eI&feature=related

Ive lost my faith in mankind.
is hancock even out yet? are they really trying to be THAT ahead of the pack? movies that have only been around a few weeks are being parodied. are they seriously just making fun of one gag from every movie that was in the trailer for that specific movie? (the zohan parody, sex and the city, hancock). fuckers....theyre just tossing shit in there with no context whatsoever. Im going to make my own, ready, here is how I would do it.

1. insert random character from something that has been popular for the last 6 months.
2. have them say something that is poorly thought out and *hopefully* grab a cheap laugh out of 4 or 5 people in the theater drunk or high enough to "get it".
3. promptly hit them with something large and heavy.
4. repeat for 95 minutes, yeesh.

[ckrazy]

Anyone here watch "The Warlord" yet? It a Jet Li movie (no not that random crouching tiger hidden dragon flying bullshit) It came out in 07 but I finally decided to watch it just now. I liked it but seriously they need to stop making Jet Li so broken in the fight scenes. It gave me a feeling like watching "Troy" but with Asians.

[mylthazz]

0 for 2 on weeds s4 imo

way over the top and formulaic

[mylthazz]

Infinitely. Unlike Nightmare on Elm Street, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, or Halloween, Friday the 13th the original isnt even the best of the series, least of all leagues better than anything that followed (as is the case for Halloween). Hell, F13 Part 2 is better than the original, not to mention parts 4 and 6

do you love 7? the telekenetic carrie one?

everyone seems to think thats the highlight of the franchise but i like 4/6 the best

5 is up there too for me but i think its more sentimental because i remember USA up all night playing it all the time and i must of watched it 20 times in a year when i was a kid, even if it wasn't technically a jason movie

[BunnyHead]

Is anybody going to see that movie

"The Wackness"???

It looks pretty entertaining
plus Josh is in it and I like him.

[angryliberal]

0 for 2 on weeds s4 imo

way over the top and formulaic

that sucks...i just finished s3 on dvd...

[mylthazz]

that sucks...i just finished s3 on dvd...

i think they're trying to continue what they started in s3 where nancy really just gets off on doing this illegal stuff and its not really about the money anymore to her

but every episode since middle of 3 has been the same

crazy drug mission -> oh no she's going to get caught -> oh wait nevermind, swerve you saw in the first 10 mins saves her -> kids complain cause mom isn't in their life -> andy does something random

but i guess one positive is nancy's dress gets shorter every episode

i think the whole celia storyline so far is much more interesting than nancy

kevin nealon and celia's daughter were hilarious last episode, and celia is killing it

too bad she put on like 60 lbs somehow between s3 and s4

[MAGUS1234]

Casandras dream - Nat so good, Collin and some other dude as brothers have debts to pay and must go beyond the call of duty to pay them off. Pretty typical plot with typical turns.

My blueberry nights - Meeeh, hot chicks lookin and actin not so hot. Some chick gets dumped, enter life crisis, enter road trip to random towns workin random jobs that would otherwise cost loot and take a long time lookin for places and jobs, but she makes it look effortless.....and boring!

Irma LaDouce - Old romance of a prostitute and ex cops funny relation in france.

Rambo - SO manly, it wont just drop your balls or put hair on your chest, you'll grow fully dropped testicles on your chest (no homo)

[P. Gorath]

none of the good theaters near me are showing wall-e

[mylthazz]

i'd like to see Trumbo, but i think i'm going to have to wait for the dvd on that one unless i want to go to ny

The Visitor looks pretty good too

no room for those movies in the theaters for non comic book or animated movies this summer though

[angryliberal]

i think they're trying to continue what they started in s3 where nancy really just gets off on doing this illegal stuff and its not really about the money anymore to her

but every episode since middle of 3 has been the same

crazy drug mission -> oh no she's going to get caught -> oh wait nevermind, swerve you saw in the first 10 mins saves her -> kids complain cause mom isn't in their life -> andy does something random

but i guess one positive is nancy's dress gets shorter every episode

i think the whole celia storyline so far is much more interesting than nancy

kevin nealon and celia's daughter were hilarious last episode, and celia is killing it

too bad she put on like 60 lbs somehow between s3 and s4

i love how they really started to focus on the whole nancy/conrad thing, then the whole things shifts locations...ui know a bit about s4, mostly that she's living in the san diego area now...

i miss the raw awesomeness of s1 - "what do you call the space between the ass hole and dick?"

"the coffee table"

classic...

[mylthazz]

wanted did 18.5 mil on fri, estimated 48 mil for the weekend :tup:

wall e only did 23 mil, but pixar movies usually open decent then stay around forever

[goodm0urning]

The Visitor looks pretty good tooThe Visitor is very good.

Saw Get Smart last night. It had some amusing moments, but the movie as a whole is utterly inconsequential. Hopefully The Dark Knight delivers on the promise of Batman Begins, or this summer season will be very disappointing.

[mylthazz]

watched Night of the Living Dorks over the weekend

pretty decent horror comedy

i'd say use the subtitles instead of the dubs, the dubbing is really bad

the main chick is really hot too

i read its getting remade already for US, even though it came out in 2004

[HeaT]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=00dfGFBjIBw

you know you want it...

im outi

Roberth

[Sheng-Long]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=00dfGFBjIBw

you know you want it...

im outi

Roberth

bloody marvelous!

I thought the redhead was Christina Hendricks for a sec, but then I realized its the girl from St. Trinian's. I guess Bond girls have only one agent (other than Bond).

[goodm0urning]

Wall-E was excellent. Go see it.

[mylthazz]

watched a lot of crap over the weekend.

batman the original on blu-ray. looked really good, but i forgot how campy this show/movie was. i wish more comic book movies would go back to this instead of taking themselves so seriously

reign over me - blu-ray PQ was alright, i think it would of been better if sandler wasn't the lead. not bc sandler is a bad actor, but whenever i see him i just think of his stupid roles like i now pronounce you chuck and larry and can't take him seriously. decent movie though, but no real resolution at the end

point break - blu ray PQ was really nice. never seen this before, only that scene from hot fuzz. i dunno i really hated this movie, that 10 minute sky diving sequence was pretty funny, but the action wasn't that good and story was unbelievable

house of 1000 corpses/devil's rejects - both looked really good in blu, i saw DR in theaters before and liked it, first time seeing 1000 corpses. i thought it was alright, a little over the top. after watching 1000 corpses, i dunno why they didn't bring any of the underground stuff back into devil's rejects. plus was there a connection at all between dr. satan and the firefly family? i must of missed it, but why were they helping dr. satan out?

[scum gale 88]

watched a lot of crap over the weekend.

batman the original on blu-ray. looked really good, but i forgot how campy this show/movie was. i wish more comic book movies would go back to this instead of taking themselves so seriously

you and me both.

I bought a ton of those digiview dvd's at walmart, gamera being the highlight of the bunch.
Joseph Lai is AMAZING

[Taito]

Wall-E left a strong impression on me in many ways. I felt that movie succeeded in a lot of ways where standard live-action movies have failed miserably for many years. I'll just use one example this time.

After I saw Wall-E I realized how tired I am of so many movies having to use violence and tragedy to sell a movie. There's really nothing mature or necessary about violence and related uses of shock value. Violence in movies today isn't too different than 80s movies where the female lead had to go topless or do an awkard sex scene with the main actor at least once. Everyday life isn't plagued with death and destruction. Even in a war zone, the most interesting story in that setting doesn't always have to be related to the fucking war.

I just hate that it's the accepted norm in most films to have at least an explosion or a gunshot or adultery. Being bombarded with violent images doesn't necessarily desensitize you. It's like spending your day stuffing your face with cake and lollipops and candy bars and sour gumballs and frosting and doughnuts and Skittles and soda and Yoohoo and etc.-- you wouldn't be 'desensitized' to all the sugar you jammed down your throat, you'll just wanna scrub your mouth out or throw up.

I'd like to see more movies like Good Night and Good Luck, where you can go through a movie with serious subject matter, but without anybody gettng killed or any other 'mature' antisocial activity. I'm just burnt out by the facade that the most interesting story most live-action movies can tell must revolve around death and destruction. If this sounds weird to some people, oh well.

[scum gale 88]

^^^
truth

but really, when there is a live action flick out and it isnt action or war or some shit its usually a lousy comedy, romantic comedy, or something that wouldnt appeal to anyone who is a man. in short, none of it is really that interesting, to me at least.

you know whats a great movie (if you arent already aware of it)? Ghost World, some of my friends hate on it because they say its a "chick flick". which leads me into my next statement:
my friends are idiots.
Ghost World is one of the few times I liked the movie over the (comic) book.

[goodm0urning]

The use of violence in film, as with any medium, works or doesn't work depending entirely on context. One gunshot to the head in Schindler's List is more effective than hundreds of gunshots in the Matrix due to the weight of the material. When somebody is killed in Schindler's List, it means something. It's eye candy when somebody is killed in the Matrix.

If violence works in a film that has a cavalier attitude towards the lives that are in jeopardy, it's the exception rather than the rule.

[Remy Saotome]

Am I the only one who was ticked off by 007: Casino Royale ending in a cliffhanger?

[EvilSamurai]

watched a lot of crap over the weekend.

batman the original on blu-ray. looked really good, but i forgot how campy this show/movie was. i wish more comic book movies would go back to this instead of taking themselves so seriously

point break - blu ray PQ was really nice. never seen this before, only that scene from hot fuzz. i dunno i really hated this movie, that 10 minute sky diving sequence was pretty funny, but the action wasn't that good and story was unbelievable

snip


- Yeah, I wish we had some comic book flicks that don't take themselves seriously too, just not ones involving Batman. Maybe like a non-serious Spiderman movie (not like 3 but more like one that just embraces the absurdity of the whole thing) instead of the dreck that we got.

- Point Break is awesome dude but you have to watch it in the right mindset. It is Keanu's second-best performance of all time. The first is of course, Bill + Ted (which still holds up imo).

Am I the only one who was ticked off by 007: Casino Royale ending in a cliffhanger?

I loved the ending to Casino Royale where he just gunned down the dude on Lake Cuomo with the assault rifle and took the money and the Bond theme started playing for the first time in the movie. It sort of just let you know that now, Bond is Bond.

The use of violence in film, as with any medium, works or doesn't work depending entirely on context. One gunshot to the head in Schindler's List is more effective than hundreds of gunshots in the Matrix due to the weight of the material. When somebody is killed in Schindler's List, it means something. It's eye candy when somebody is killed in the Matrix.

If violence works in a film that has a cavalier attitude towards the lives that are in jeopardy, it's the exception rather than the rule.

I wouldn't say it's the exception. It just works in some cases (RoboCop, Bad Boys, Rambo2, some slasher flick series, James Bond, etc.) but not in others (Matrix sequels, XXX, Steven Segal movies, etc.)

[rcaido]

Watch Iron Man in the theaters last night...About $50 for family outing...Shits crazy but at least the movie was good. 9 out 10

CJ7 - Watch this in the plane when i was coming back from my vacation...Very different Stephen Chow film...Its more of a family kids film w/ touch of drama/sci-fi...Not what i expected but still had its charm like most Chow films...7 out 10

An Empress and the Warriors - Another film i watched in the plane...Donnie Yen wasted...I was expecting better fight scenes from him at least...Had the stupid love story...Movie could have been better if had some subtlety & movie was very predictable...5 out 10

[mylthazz]

man amazon wants $25 for tracey fragments, thats more than most blu-rays

bestbuy/cc are 19.99 but with tax + gas its basically the same

anyone else picking that up tomorrow? i liked the book a lot, hate ellen page, but figured i'll give it a watch

[mylthazz]

oh yea if you like horror there's a movie coming out tomorrow called "Dead and Gone"

my friend edited the film and said its really good horror-comedy film, up there with Evil Dead/Return of the Living Dead. he gave me a dvd screener of it and i watched it last night and i agree.

the guy who did the music for friday the 13th did the music for it too

sucks that movies like this end up straight to dvd and obscurity, but so many crap horror movies end up in theaters

[P. Gorath]

netflix?


i watched la haine and diary of the dead. good stuff

[mylthazz]

ah i tried netflix once and didn't like it

movies kept arriving broken and the blu-rays i got would always skip

same for bb online

i have a lot of disposable income for some reason so i just waste it all instead

[P. Gorath]

you could have bankrolled your own movie or two with all that by this point i bet

[EvilSamurai]

Does anyone have the new Inglorious Bastards (not the one QT has been planning for a decade but the old one) 3 disc DVD set? How are the picture quality and special features?

you could have bankrolled your own movie or two with all that by this point i bet

yeah. How many DVD/Blu-ray/Laserdiscs/actual prints do you own?

[mylthazz]

i have like 3000 dvd, 100 or so laserdisks, 300 blu ray, 250 hd dvd, 50 d-vhs, and about 225 or so actual film reels
i could probably afford to fund a movie or two and be okay financially, but i'm really risk adverse so i wouldn't do it

plus iw ork like 18 hours a day between all the restaurants i own/sports betting/other business ventures and its hard to just step away from them for one day let alone a month. then usually watch a movie and sleep for 4 hours then repeat

though i was actually looking to sell all 37 restaurants and do something else, but most of them have been printing money the last couple of years for some reason, so its kind of hard to just give that up. only thing is it takes so long to just keep track of them. and if i just sell some then i'll get higher prices on food for the profitable ones since i'm buying less which cuts the profit down, so its either all or nothing with selling them

[mylthazz]

the tracey fragments is alright

looks like it must of took forever to edit, so much going on but a lot of its the same stuff

hilarious end scene in the car, i wish i coudl do that to women but i'm not as cool as slim twig

nothing special though for all the hype/awards it won

well most of the awards it won were canadian so i don't even think they count in the grand scheme of things

[mylthazz]

i always wondered why did george mc fly let biff work for him at the end of BTTF1?

didn't he try to rape his wife

[Remy Saotome]

To completely humiliate Biff.

[mylthazz]

i dunno i still wouldn't want to keep a rapist around my house even to humiliate them

especially with a daughter

man i watched friday the 13th part 1/2 for the first time in like 6 years after discussion couple pages back

1 and 2 are pretty bad

how did this series ever get popular

maybe they just cared about rape less in BTTF time? like in Friday the 13th 1 there's so much sexual harassment going on at that job and the women just have to take it. like when steve is mind fucking alice saying he's going to put her on a bus while feeling her up. thats a 100 million dollar lawsuit in this age

makes me wish i was alive in the 70s

[goodm0urning]

i dunno i still wouldn't want to keep a rapist around my house even to humiliate them

especially with a daughterGeorge already proved that he can beat the shit out of Biff when he gets out of line. In fact, George probably rapes Biff on a regular basis in order to assert his dominance, and to illustrate to him the unpleasantness of rape. Do you really think Biff would be so light in the loafers by the end of the movie if he hadn't been ritualistically cored out every Saturday afternoon on the hood of George's car?

[HyperGear]

Trailer for the REC remake called Quarantine

http://movies.yahoo.com/premieres/8720872/standardformat/

[Weta]

Just some friendly, edited advice - don't watch the Quarantine trailer. I can't say why really without spoiling the movie, and [Rec] itself. If you watch that trailer you will regret it later on, just trust me.

So far, [Rec] is my film of the year, and I recommend you skip the middleman and just pick it up.

A close second or third is Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13c2QZWTWNw). This is a real return to form (if that's even possible..) for Troma. It's a huge fanservice orgy for existing fans, and arguably the most accessible film Kaufman's ever made if you're new (there's an argument to be made for Cannibal! The Musical or Toxie 1, I guess).

[P. Gorath]

I could be wrong but I didn't think Quarantine was shot-for-shot, just a remake.

Sig - come on, Part 2 isnt so bad. It's better than 3!

I watched Maniac Cop 3 last night...this industry needs a new Larry Cohen to fill the void. Cohen with Lustig assist is top tier. Are Maniac Cop 1 and 2 even on dvd?

[mylthazz]

ha i just watched 3 this morning since i'm still stranded at home and that one is pretty bad too

i got this book

http://www.amazon.com/Crystal-Lake-Memories-Complete-History/dp/1845763432/ref=wl_it_dp?ie=UTF8&coliid=ILZYELATGGMBD&colid=1BIKCLFPJJZH5

so i've been reading it while going through the movies

pretty interesting how almost everyone involved in the making of the movies have nothing good to say about them

my [rec] blu-ray import came today, hope its good

[HeaT]

Sorry about this, but don't watch that trailer. Quarantine is a supposed shot-for-shot remake of [Rec].. and the trailer spoils the ending of [Rec] (and by association, Quarantine).

.

actually you are the one that just spoiled the ending cause we wouldnt have know that the end was spoiled if you didnt say the end was spoiled...da fuck!

im outi

Roberth

[mylthazz]

I watched Maniac Cop 3 last night...this industry needs a new Larry Cohen to fill the void. Cohen with Lustig assist is top tier. Are Maniac Cop 1 and 2 even on dvd?

i just checked and i have 1, but no 2

i don't think 2 ever came to the US

btw, halloween blu ray in october 3disks with a 4 and 1/2 hour documentary

:party:

[rcaido]

Which movie should i see tonight? Hancock, Hellboy2, or Journey to the Center of Earth 3D?

[Dirt Mc Girt]

hellboy imo

established good director, first was a good blend of comedy/action

journey looks stupid, but i want to see how the new 3D is since i msised out on beowulf

[rcaido]

Didn't like the first Hellboy but this one looks better...Journey doesn't look good to me at all & like you i haven't experience this new 3D stuff...Hancock looks good but dont if my 4 year old can watch it...

[HeaT]

yo man this movie looks to be interesting, havent heard of it until now...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sGGRS_UaPY

im outi

Roberth

[P. Gorath]

best movie of sundance and coming out later this year:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTGeVWhBj5E

[MiLky]

Baghead is a ridiculous name. I want to see it regardless.

[.Free.]

The movie i can't wait to see is The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYYs2sXMquw) with Brad Pitt movie looks really interesting.

[Chozen1]

yo man this movie looks to be interesting, havent heard of it until now...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sGGRS_UaPY

im outi

Roberth

actually does look good

[Sheng-Long]

06-21-2008
It's too bad that some of the scenes in Metropolis have become lost due to improper film storing methods. That movie really is visually amazing, especially for the time it was made.

OMG OMG OMG OMG !!!


07-03-2008
Missing scenes from Fritz Lang's Metropolis turn up after 80 years
· Peter Bradshaw: Lost footage could finally make sense of film
http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2288990,00.html

Lost copy was found in Argentina.

I don't think I've ever said this or will ever say this again...but thank god for Nazis who escaped to South America.

[P. Gorath]

I've decided that Stallone's body of work shits all over Arnold's.

[mylthazz]

Stallone also co-writes and produces most of his movies

and occassionally directs

guy is a beast

hgh for the win

[EvilSamurai]

Stallone also co-writes and produces most of his movies

and occassionally directs

guy is a beast

hgh for the win

It will eventually catch up to him.

[Remy Saotome]

OMG OMG OMG OMG !!!

http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2288990,00.html

Lost copy was found in Argentina.

I don't think I've ever said this or will ever say this again...but thank god for Nazis who escaped to South America.Dang that's awesome!:amazed:

[Taito]

I've decided that Stallone's body of work shits all over Arnold's.
Stallone has decent dramatic roles under his wing that Arnold never even attempted.. but Arnold's near-20-year reign of badassery can't really be topped. Who else greets his best friend with a standing arm wrestle while calling his mother a bitch to his face.

[SNAAAAKE]

It will eventually catch up to him.

AND? there is nothing to "catch up". he lived long enough and made something out of his life. whatever it takes to be rich and famous. Arnold admitted to taking anabolic steroid too. it is what it is.

[rcaido]

Stallone has decent dramatic roles under his wing that Arnold never even attempted.. but Arnold's near-20-year reign of badassery can't really be topped. Who else greets his best friend with a standing arm wrestle while calling his mother a bitch to his face.

Fuck that Stallone would kill Arnold in an arm wrestling match...

*Turns hat around*

[bokchoy]

Am I the only one who was ticked off by 007: Casino Royale ending in a cliffhanger?

I'm not ticked off. In fact, I loved it, not so much because I like cliffhangers (I'm usually not crazy about them) but because I really like the new direction that 007 is taking with Daniel Craig and the fact that the story continues implies that they'll continue the new trend they're setting for 007.

My favorite Bond movie ever.

[P. Gorath]

so ive been making my way through the oeuvre of phoebe cates and I'm on this one called Date With an Angel that I taped off of showtime and I'm watching the title credits and it says written and directed by Tom McLaughlin and I'm like, that can't be THE tom mclaughlin can it? and sure enough it is, of Jason Lives and One Dark Night fame. So now I have seen every Tom McLaughlin movie (he wrote all of em too).

On an unrelated note, sig have you seen an old 70s movie called Joe?

[HeaT]

Arnold admitted to taking anabolic steroid too.

im just curious what does this have to do with anything??? you do realize he was a professional bodybuilder right???

like no professional bodybuilder needs to "admit" to it, like thats what they do...

im outi

Roberth

[Dirt Mc Girt]

On an unrelated note, sig have you seen an old 70s movie called Joe?

nah never heard of it, is it any good

on an unrelarted note the jig is up/shit hit the fan/lame cliche so i think this is the end

so if it is bye guys and i love you esp p gorath and angry liberal

[angryliberal]

baghead looks interesting. i actually like the name baghead - anyways, looks like it could either be very interesting or cliche. i'll give it a shot on pg's recommendation.

edit: heat, movie looked interesting but it's sporting a pg-13 rating...c'mon, with a line like "i have a very specific set of skills...", you gotta have a hard R...

[Vynce]

Just watched Southland Tales. Do not recommend to anyone.

Its like the producers or whoever wanted to see how many b-list celebs they could put in a terrible movie. I guess it was good for watching and going, "hey, its that guy/girl". A lot of it just seemed like the guy who wrote the script was just throwing random stuff in there just for the sake of being weird.

I found out that this movie was based on some graphic novels, so I guess something was lost in translation. It was also written/directed by the guy who did Donnie Darko, so I guess it explains some of it, but its like he was trying for something profound that you could read into like Donnie Darko, but the execution was terrible.

I respectfully disagree. I thought it was great. And weird. One of the better movies I've seen recently. I picked it up on DVD a few weeks ago, and just got around to watching it today.

[HeaT]

baghead looks interesting. i actually like the name baghead - anyways, looks like it could either be very interesting or cliche. i'll give it a shot on pg's recommendation.

edit: heat, movie looked interesting but it's sporting a pg-13 rating...c'mon, with a line like "i have a very specific set of skills...", you gotta have a hard R...

i didnt even see the rating, i honestly dont pay attention to ratings...it just looked cool to me...

anyway im not sure if i posted this before, but the director of city of god and constant gardener is coming out with a new movie called blindness, looks tight...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgY7HuWsmKQ

im outi

Roberth

[angryliberal]

i didnt even see the rating, i honestly dont pay attention to ratings...it just looked cool to me...

anyway im not sure if i posted this before, but the director of city of god and constant gardener is coming out with a new movie called blindness, looks tight...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgY7HuWsmKQ

im outi

Roberth

i always forget that the constant gardener and city of god were made by the same person. looks very interesting.

[bokchoy]

Just watched Juno for the first time. It's not much of a BD purchase, but it's a really good movie. Didn't realize how awesome of a year 2007 was for film until I got to see No Country, There Will Be Blood and now Juno. All my friends wanted to watch were Transformers, Pirates, 300 and Spider-Man. Hell, we even saw I Am Legend. Didn't get to see these sleepers until actually buying them on Blu-Ray.

I really liked how un-cheesy the dialogue was. Usually, in films of any genre, the characters' llines generally seem like they're specifically designed to convey to the audience what the director wanted to convey, to a point where the lines sacrifice believability and start to lose the illusion of cinema. Even the good, oscar-worthy movies suffer from this. In Juno, even though the teenage slang is totally over the top, the dialogue seems less manufactured and more natural, while at the same time, it doesn't completely lose you along the way.

I found the movie to be hilarious, and I'm normally used to (and a big fan of) slapstick Stiller/Ferrell type humor. I haven't seen any other of Ellen Page's performances, so it's hard for me to judge how far out of character she had to be to play Juno, but she was pretty good in this movie.

[angryliberal]

if you want to see a disturbing performance of hers, see hard candy. plus, you get to see her overly toned stomach...

[mylthazz]

thanks for whoever recommended californication

show is epic

showtime knows what they're doing

[P. Gorath]

...that would be me

[angryliberal]

thanks for whoever recommended californication

show is epic

showtime knows what they're doing

i thought we lost you...

i actually never watched "john from cincinnatti", i sent it back and moved californication to the top of my list.

[P. Gorath]

as a sexual deviant i think the show will be right up your alley lib

[angryliberal]

yeah, that's the feeling i get from the description...

[NYPhrost]

i'm looking for the name of a Japanese movie. It's like the japan version of the running man. where there's like 9 or 10 ppl, and they have to kill eachother to get out of the building. Or something to that effect. any help would be great, thanks.

[mylthazz]

i thought we lost you...

i actually never watched "john from cincinnatti", i sent it back and moved californication to the top of my list.

oh yea i still might be screwed

i was reading the local news and it talked about a murder in the town i lived in before i bought this house

and wow look the house the murder occurred in was the one i used to live in

so as a joke i looked up murders in the town i lived before that and there was a murder/robbery on the same street i grew up on, not the same house

both within 2 weeks and both in towns where they have like one murder every 10 years

so somehow i convinced myself that someone is looking for me and trying to kill me, but hopefully its just a coincedence

the sexual stuff in californication kind of dies down towards the end vs the 1st/2nd episode, but the story is really good

the sex is just an added bonus

[mylthazz]

yo guys don't bother to see batman the dark knight

over hyped and critics can't pan it cause of heath ledger, someone no one cared about before he died

[P. Gorath]

sig is chris hitchens minus the vodka and english accent

[goodm0urning]

yo guys don't bother to see batman the dark knight

over hyped and critics can't pan it cause of heath ledger, someone no one cared about before he diedPretty sure you're one of the four or five people in the civilized world who feels this way.

[mylthazz]

i tried to read the batman thread, but its way too long so i only read the last couple of pages. i'm sure other people had problems with it

technology was a huge crutch in the movie. anytime there was a problem they're like hey lets just invent some random technology that makes no sense and everything will be okay. so uncle tom morgan freeman is sitting there watching a million screens at once and he's able to find joker and know exactly where its coming from? i know the movie is supposed to be escapism but i still can't let me mind believe this is even close to possible

the scene underground with joker trying to get harvey dent just didn't really seem like it was shot well. maybe the problem is nolan just doesn't direct action too well, but he could of easily brought on a second unit (or "third" unit) director to do that. i mean it was an alright scene, but i think it could of been so much better and higher intensity, but it was just kind of blah.

also story wise it seemed like they were just trying to shove ideas down the audiences mouth, like they were too stupid to figure it out on their own. like hey in case you didn't get it by now let batman have a monologue to catch you up. they told the same story about morality from so many different characters, even alfred.

my main problem too was everything just seemed rushed and there was no build up to most of it. action was filmed way too tight and cut too fast like a commercial.

and for everyone who didn't like the story they justify it by saying things like, "action/special effects were awesome". journey to the center of the earth 3d looked awesome too and in 5 years the special effects will look like crap. the story was weak and movies with weak stories won't hold up in the long run.

i really feel like a good film should offer ideas and let the viewer think and come out of it with they want. when watching batman i felt like i was being lectured for 2.5 hours about morality surrounded by average action scenes that had no build up and were cut too fast instead of letting you see whats going on

[mylthazz]

oh and anyone who thinks ledger joker > nicholsons joker is crazy

ledgers joker was 1D, nicholsons had many layers to it

[ElderGOD]

oh and anyone who thinks ledger joker > nicholsons joker is crazy

ledgers joker was 1D, nicholsons had many layers to it

WOW

I agree with Sigley for once.

Yea, current joker was good, but nowhere near legendary.

[angryliberal]

wow, i completely disagree sigley...while i didn't think as a whole movie, knight was better than begins, heath's character was leaps and bounds better than jack's. jack was being jack. don't get me wrong, i like jack's joker, but heath's is making me see that movie at least two or three more times for his performance...

[goodm0urning]

ledgers joker was 1D, nicholsons had many layers to itCare to expand on this? It is not possible for me to disagree with you more strongly, but I'm at least interested in knowing why you think this.

[EvilSamurai]

oh and anyone who thinks ledger joker > nicholsons joker is crazy

ledgers joker was 1D, nicholsons had many layers to it

Nicholson as the Joker was just himself gone wild. Now Nicholson is a many layered guy and is not quite right in the head to begin with so it worked so he was able the illusion of a multilayered character without actually doing anything. This is not his fault but rather the screenwriter's who basically wrote the role for Nicholson, made up a lame origin story, and came up with some shit for him to do. The problem was that the character wasn't the Joker, it was Jack Nicholson entertaining the audience with dark humor.

Ledger was the Joker as the actual Joker character doesn't really have layers. His only layer is Joker. His actions might be complex and multilayered but he as a person is not that deep. People can speculate all they want about what makes him tick but he is always ticking. He does random shit that he finds fun. He may simply give you a little talking to like he did to Dent in the hospital or he may impale your head on a pencil. Basically, Nolan's movie had the Joker; Burton's had Jack Nicholson. You, rsigley, simply find Jack Nicholson more entertaining than the Joker but you can't deny that Nolan took the character and elevated it to a place never before seen on screen, including B:TAS, and only occasionally glimpsed and hinted at in the comics. What Robert De Niro did as Jake LaMotta, Heath Ledger did as the Joker. His performance is THAT good.

i tried to read the batman thread, but its way too long so i only read the last couple of pages. i'm sure other people had problems with it

technology was a huge crutch in the movie. anytime there was a problem they're like hey lets just invent some random technology that makes no sense and everything will be okay. so uncle tom morgan freeman is sitting there watching a million screens at once and he's able to find joker and know exactly where its coming from? i know the movie is supposed to be escapism but i still can't let me mind believe this is even close to possible

the scene underground with joker trying to get harvey dent just didn't really seem like it was shot well. maybe the problem is nolan just doesn't direct action too well, but he could of easily brought on a second unit (or "third" unit) director to do that. i mean it was an alright scene, but i think it could of been so much better and higher intensity, but it was just kind of blah.

also story wise it seemed like they were just trying to shove ideas down the audiences mouth, like they were too stupid to figure it out on their own. like hey in case you didn't get it by now let batman have a monologue to catch you up. they told the same story about morality from so many different characters, even alfred.

my main problem too was everything just seemed rushed and there was no build up to most of it. action was filmed way too tight and cut too fast like a commercial.

and for everyone who didn't like the story they justify it by saying things like, "action/special effects were awesome". journey to the center of the earth 3d looked awesome too and in 5 years the special effects will look like crap. the story was weak and movies with weak stories won't hold up in the long run.

i really feel like a good film should offer ideas and let the viewer think and come out of it with they want. when watching batman i felt like i was being lectured for 2.5 hours about morality surrounded by average action scenes that had no build up and were cut too fast instead of letting you see whats going on
the special effects in Dark Knight will still look good decades from now as there is hardly any CGI. Sort of how the space battle in Return of the Jedi is still the best ever in the Star Wars series. The originals still hold up while the prequels already look somewhat dated.

[Remy Saotome]

Commercial for the Day the Earth Stood Still remake looks godawful. Fuck it.

And where the hell is Gort?

[HeaT]

oh and anyone who thinks ledger joker > nicholsons joker is crazy

ledgers joker was 1D, nicholsons had many layers to it

thats bullshit to the nth degree and you know it...jack is fucking overrated actor i dont give a shit what ANYONE says...what layers did he have??? the jack layer...jack acts the same in every movie dawg...

EXPLAIN why ledgers joker was 1D, id like to hear your logic behind that, cause off the top of my head IMMEDIATELY i can think of examples where it is not 1D...

there was a lot of shit in the dark knight i didnt like, and its not as fucking epic as everyone is making it out to be...corney lines (also all them dudes in the masks at the beginging were horrible at their voice acting), bad actions scenes by batman, poorly coreographed shit like like me throw this elbow and hold it...joker swinging at batman with a pipe for a while was lame...2 face (not harvey) was lame, i didnt care for his girly/whiny anger, he felt rushed, 5 min 2 face suit...i dont know how i feel about spending so much time on the chinese dude...

whatever i still thought it was good and will see it again...

im outi

Roberth

[bokchoy]

Jack Nicholson is awesome. Probably one of the best actors of our time. Don't diss.

But yeah, Ledger's Joker > Nicholson's Joker by a fucking longshot. Nicholson did a great job but TDK was a lot deeper than the old Batman and Ledger took it to a whole new level.

[HeaT]

Jack Nicholson is awesome. Probably one of the best actors of our time. Don't diss.

But yeah, Ledger's Joker > Nicholson's Joker by a fucking longshot. Nicholson did a great job but TDK was a lot deeper than the old Batman and Ledger took it to a whole new level.

naw im going to dis, cause ive always thought that dude was overrated...i could never see him being anyone but jack, hes too one dimensional in his acting ability, which leads him to being not so diverse when it comes to acting..."differently" or creating a believable character that i cant point back and back and back to his methods used to other characters in his past movies. which leads to the same shit its like a melting pot of skills where he pulls the same shit everytime...in MOST of his films imo...

thats not to say i dont like that shit that he has done and that he hasnt been good in some of the things he has done, but hes mad overrated from an acting standpoint in how I view acting to be good...

im outi

Roberth

[angryliberal]

early jack >>>>>>>>>>>>> modern jack, but at least he hasn't slipped off like de niro or pacino...wtf happened to those guys?!i mean, if you look at the sheer epicness of their early careers compared to the absolute shit they put out now.

anyways, i think it's fair to assume that anyone who likes jack over heath as joker is not based on the performance, no matter what they say. in fact, i watched both the jokers today due to batman being all over basic cable today, jack wasn't stretching anything in that performance. it was entertaining, yes, but the insanity of every little nuance heath put into his performance not only stole the show, defined everything that made the movie good. i want to watch it again right now just to absorb more of that character he created...

[bokchoy]

Nicholson is so not one dimensional, and I haven't seen any pre-1980 Nicholson except for Cuckoo's Nest. Look at his role in the big movies he's in. The Shining, Batman, Hoffa, As Good As It Gets, The Departed, A Few Good Men. While he's not extremely diverse, he not always typecasted into the same role, and still does a great job each time.

Even if he was one-dimensional, you don't have to be diverse to be a good actor. If someone was typecasted in a similar role in lots of movies, but did an excellent job each time, he can still be a great actor. Besides, when producers are shopping for actors for a particular role, they are more likely to cast actors who have already proven that they can shine in that specific type of character. Nicholson plays a great crazy, angry guy.

I think he's up there with Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Al Pacino as one of the best actors of our time. Top 5 easily, unless you can name five better actors.

But yeah... Heath's Joker > Jack's Joker. Better dialogue, better story, AND better performance.

[Weeks]

naw im going to dis, cause ive always thought that dude was overrated...i could never see him being anyone but jack, hes too one dimensional in his acting ability

you know it's weird, i feel that way about a lot of 'famous' actors. nicholson, cruise, samuel jackson - they always tend to be the same in most of their movies

i don't know if it's just them having roles written with them in mind, or what

[HeaT]

you know it's weird, i feel that way about a lot of 'famous' actors. nicholson, cruise, samuel jackson - they always tend to be the same in most of their movies

i don't know if it's just them having roles written with them in mind, or what

i definately agree with the actors you just listed...they have their exceptions but for the most part its the same...

out of most of famous ones tom hanks does a good job of breaking this mold imo...that dude has mad skill...

angry, i also agree with early jack being > than later...

im outi

Roberth

[NYPhrost]

i'm going to try once more.

i'm looking for the name of a Japanese movie. It's like the japan version of the running man. where there's like 9 or 10 ppl, and they have to kill eachother to get out of the building. Or something to that effect. any help would be great, thanks.

[angryliberal]

angry, i also agree with early jack being > than later...

even if he doesn't have a huge range, his work in the 70's is epic - easy rider, chinatown, five easy pieces, cuckoo's nest...

[mylthazz]

i guess the problem is

jack was in a cartoon with tim burton and told jokes and did different things

burton you never had a feeling it was a real place and it was scary

heath ledger's joker was just hatred, and it was in chicago. nolan's "gotham city" looks like a nice place to live compared to burtons

i guess i liked the sillier batman better, not the dark frank miller inspired batman so i would tend to like nicholsons portrayal better. plus i like the batman world created by burton vs nolan.

Jack Nicholson > Cesar Romero > Mark Hammill > my friend who came dressed to a halloween party as the joker > Heath Ledger

[angryliberal]

which comes back to what i said before, people's choice in jack over heath is more in their idea of what joker should be over the actual heart of each performance...heath fucking owned that role...based purely on acting ability, heath was easily the stronger performer. though, he also had a more gritty script to develop the character around, but the simple fact that you never saw heath on camera proves to me how amazing his performance was...

[mylthazz]

oh well at least it was better than SHUTTER

another bomb for the guys from the creek

it was pretty weird to see that guy who is with hiro from heroes talk in perfect english instead of the broken one on the show

[angryliberal]

btw, have you watched mad men yet? we seem to be pretty close in television appreciation, and i definately recommend that show...

[mylthazz]

i bought the blu ray but haven't watched it yet ut def want to. Was planning to this weekend but instead watched one flew over cuckoo's nest (good movie as always, but blu ray isn't much of an improvement over the 2 disk version i have - special book its contained in is nice though), shutter (crap), unbreakable (finally on blu, looks really nice) and finished up californication.
maybe i'll watch most of it tonight/tomorrow, because next 2 weeks there's a lot of crappy horror coming to blu ray i want to watch and never seen. i know what you did last summer/still know/urban legend/mortuary/lost boys sequel/salvage/venegeance

plus all the tom clancy movies + doomsday + dark city

so gonna get a huge backlog going i think

is mad men good? i saw it has that kid who ruined Angel for me, connor - forget his real name

[angryliberal]

i only watched like 3 eps last night cuz amc was running a marathon, but the ones i saw were very well written. like, "first season west wing" well written.

i don't think i'll ever understand you and pg's love of campy horror...or the movie unbreakable...i really disliked that film...

[HeaT]

yo this shit is interesting...

i thought that no one could out TOP or EQUAL ledger's joker performance, so it would be weird to cast joker for the 3rd movie again BUT, i read this thing in the TDK thread and i forgot about this man, but daniel day lewis, ya, now that shit would be epic lewis vs ledger, i think lewis could do something special with that shit too definately...mofo almost looks like a joker to beghin wtih with his long slender face...i definately think he could equal that performance or dare i saw...MAYBE top it!?!?!?! i dont know...

I WANT TO SEE IT!!!

im outi

Roberth

[P. Gorath]

mad men is pretty damn awesome. season two starts next week.

i watched this french movie called Diva. it was alright

[HeaT]

which comes back to what i said before, people's choice in jack over heath is more in their idea of what joker should be over the actual heart of each performance...heath fucking owned that role...based purely on acting ability, heath was easily the stronger performer. though, he also had a more gritty script to develop the character around, but the simple fact that you never saw heath on camera proves to me how amazing his performance was...

exactly...

im outi

Roberth

[Dirt Mc Girt]

anyone watch Fear Itself? turned on my regular tv for the first time in like 2 months and apparently i've been dvr'ing all the episodes

wondering if they're worth it

[mylthazz]

top 50 movies that outgrossed meet dave

http://www.bestweekever.tv/2008/07/14/50-movies-that-out-grossed-meet-dave-in-their-opening-weekends/

[angryliberal]

ok, so i finished mad men season one - AMAZING! they have all of season one on amc on-demand right now, so me and the misses have been watching non-stop the last few days. ia lso got through the first few eps of californication last night b4 i fell asleep. duchovny is my idol in that - a writer and sexual deviant. he is who i wanna be when i grow up, minus writing for a blog...but overall, i love the show. my girl almost died when he was banging that scientology chick and puked all over the painting. good stuff.

[mylthazz]

damn have to find some time to watch mad men

was going to, but ended up watching The Ruins (decent horror) and WNBA basketball on espn2

i still know what you did last summer blu ray got canceled :(

have to import it from the UK

[angryliberal]

you really should...the show is so good...

i just realised that peggy on that show was chloe bartlet on west wing...

[HeaT]

damn have to find some time to watch mad men

was going to, but ended up watching The Ruins (decent horror) and WNBA basketball on espn2

i still know what you did last summer blu ray got canceled :(

have to import it from the UK

you know what the ruins was suprisingly good imo...the best thing about it imo was everyones performance was really good like wtf good...i was like wow...i was impressed with their acting...

im outi

Roberth

[mylthazz]

yea acting was definitely better than most horror movies out there

my problem was it wasn't deep enough

they just kliled the people and didn't explore anything about the characters. just a can you survive this, okay how about this etc etc instead of examining what going through this is doing to the people

btw al, weeds is getting pretty good now. the secondary characters like andy/doug/celia are really carrying it with the subplots

too bad they basically kicked dean and his daughter off of the show, i liked them

[angryliberal]

yeah, i saw they were listed as off the show on imdb. so, in spite of the locale change, there is still side story going on in the agrestic area?

[mylthazz]

a little. couple of them are in a hotel since the town is destroyed, but they basically dumped most of the majestic/agrestic people and brought a couple to where they are now

but conrad/hayley/other chick are gone, one of the PTA girls shows up with celia but for the most part all the minor chars are gone

[angryliberal]

i'm actually quite annoyed they dropped conrad - why did they even begin to introduce the conrad / nancy thing? plus, i loved hayley, she was cool. andy and doug together has always been a good thing for the show...those two kill me, especially doug...

[HeaT]

yea acting was definitely better than most horror movies out there

my problem was it wasn't deep enough

they just kliled the people and didn't explore anything about the characters. just a can you survive this, okay how about this etc etc instead of examining what going through this is doing to the people


ya it wasnt deep, it was basically how you described it in your spoiler...

but i think tried to do that to show what it was doing to the other people through the blond chick, who sort lost it at the end mentally??? i dont know

did you see the uncut version??? that shit was serious AHAHAH...

im outi

Roberth

[angryliberal]

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117989391.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

i have no words...

[Shaft Agent]

i watched Salò or the 120 Days of Sodom a few weeks ago. anybody see this one? makes me want to grow up to be a libertine :lol:

[angryliberal]

i tried to watch salo on sveeral occassions, but never got through it...not my kind of film...

[Shaft Agent]

:lol: you know a movie is messed up when unapologetic sexual deviants can't even finish it. i read the director was murdered shortly after it was released.

[angryliberal]

it wasn't even that it disturbed me or anything, it just didn't capture my attention. movies like last house, disgusted me, but i sat through the whole thing. salo just made me want to fast forward through it...

[P. Gorath]

I watched Salo on the big screen during a Pasolini festival here a few years ago. My favorite part is after they have eaten the shit and the bearded libertine give the young boy a big wet shit kiss.

that movie with an audience = ggpo

[EvilSamurai]

I watched Salo on the big screen during a Pasolini festival here a few years ago. My favorite part is after they have eaten the shit and the bearded libertine give the young boy a big wet shit kiss.

that movie with an audience = ggpo

I view Cannibal Holocaust as a comedy and I still can't sit through Salo. I have seen the whole thing but not in one sitting.

[HeaT]

i have not even heard of this movie Salo, but sounds...interesting...

im outi

Roberth

[P. Gorath]

the movie is actually tame compared to the book. That is the only book I've read where it actually made me feel physically sick the more I read.

[HeaT]

what is the movie/book about??? and is it just mad graphic???

im outi

Roberth

[EvilSamurai]

It is a transposition of de Sade's The 120 Days of Sodom (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_120_Days_of_Sodom) to the last days of Fascist Italy.

[Ghostal]

what is the movie/book about??? and is it just mad graphic???

im outi

Roberth

It is MAD graphic.
You can't even make a comparison in media, honestly.
But I would rather watch 9/11 jumper vids and Iraqi prisoner beheadings than read that book again.

Here's a quick summary of the general plot (no actual spoilers really, despite the tags:)

Salò occurs in the Republic of Salò, the Fascist rump state established in the Nazi-occupied portion of Italy in 1944. The story is in four segments loosely parallel to Dante's Inferno: the Anteinferno, the Circle of Manias, the Circle of Feces, and the Circle of Blood.

Four men of power, the Duke, the Bishop, the Magistrate, and the President agree to marry each other's daughters as the first step in a debauched ritual. With the aid of several collaborator young men, they kidnap 9 young men and 9 young women, and take them to a palace near Marzabotto. Accompanying them are four middle-aged prostitutes, also collaborators, whose function in the debauchery will be to recount erotically arousing stories for the men of power, and who, in turn, will sadistically exploit their victims. The story depicts the many days at the palace, during which the four men of power devise increasingly abhorrent tortures and humiliations for their own pleasure.

[angryliberal]

yeah, i get sick just reading a synopsis of the book, there's no way i could stomach reading it...

[P. Gorath]

It's interesting though because I think we in America have been lead to believe that perversity and sexual depravity is some kind new phenomenon that "kids these days" brought in and that our culture has gotten coarser and coarser as it has gone on. While the truth is that everything under the sun has been thought of or done long before we were ever born and people back in the day were much more fucked up than us - there is no such thing as a golden age.


here is a text version of the book online. you only need to read an excerpt to get it: http://www.globusz.com/ebooks/120Days/00000010.htm

[goodm0urning]

It's interesting though because I think we in America have been lead to believe that perversity and sexual depravity is some kind new phenomenon that "kids these days" brought in and that our culture has gotten coarser and coarser as it has gone on. While the truth is that everything under the sun has been thought of or done long before we were ever born and people back in the day were much more fucked up than us - there is no such thing as a golden age.One would hope that any age of enlightenment could be considered golden, when cultural standards have shifted against the elaborate tortures and depravity found in world history. I'd like to think that we have that now, but I'm not sure the United States circa 2008 can be considered to be in an age of enlightened anything.

[angryliberal]

It's interesting though because I think we in America have been lead to believe that perversity and sexual depravity is some kind new phenomenon that "kids these days" brought in and that our culture has gotten coarser and coarser as it has gone on. While the truth is that everything under the sun has been thought of or done long before we were ever born and people back in the day were much more fucked up than us - there is no such thing as a golden age.


here is a text version of the book online. you only need to read an excerpt to get it: http://www.globusz.com/ebooks/120Days/00000010.htm

i have been a student of sex from the time i found a penthouse under my older brother's bed when i was five. the history of sex and people's views on sex and sexuality throughout the ages has been a interest of mine, and i can tell you we are definately NOT living in an age of depravity compared to the insane appetites of aristocrats throughout history...

[angryliberal]

aronofsky to direct robocop remake -
http://www.variety.com/VR1117989455.html

[ChairHome]

Poster for the Robert Rodriguez produced Red Sonja (http://splashpage.mtv.com/2008/07/24/exclusive-first-look-red-sonja-poster/) (Starring Rose McGowan)

[angryliberal]

i believe it's safe to assume if robert rodriguez's name is on it, rose will be the star...

[EvilSamurai]

aronofsky to direct robocop remake -
http://www.variety.com/VR1117989455.html

It's not a remake. It's a sequel to the original set 20 years later in LA instead of Detroit.

[angryliberal]

It's not a remake. It's a sequel to the original set 20 years later in LA instead of Detroit.

i see...the director was actually the more interesting point, for me ar least. i don't have the affection most do for robocop...i could care less about the actual movie...

[mylthazz]

i believe it's safe to assume if robert rodriguez's name is on it, rose will be the star...

they broke up

[EvilSamurai]

i see...the director was actually the more interesting point, for me ar least. i don't have the affection most do for robocop...i could care less about the actual movie...

I love the og Robocop but I couln't give a shit less about the sequels.

[angryliberal]

they broke up

i heard this wasn't true...but i could be wrong...

i read about the breakup, but then like a few days later i read that it was a rumor, and that they are still together...

either way, i don't really have a problem with rose mcgowan in skimpy outfits...

[Remy Saotome]

either way, i don't really have a problem with rose mcgowan in skimpy outfits...Me neither. Or with red hair. Even if this movie is a total dog, I will more than likely own it on DVD in the end.

[mylthazz]

i hope for rodriguez sake they stay together

i mean he did ruin his marriage for her and probably cost himself millions

would suck to lose her year later

[angryliberal]

xfiles got a 28% on rt - i was suspicious of seeing this in the first place, but now the "wait for dvd" option seems the best...

and i am a x-files junkie, but i let xfiles die in season 7, no need to bring out the dead corpse anymore...

[mylthazz]

just watch s4-6

pretend rest didn't happen

[Remy Saotome]

pretend rest didn't happenThat reminds me of Rorschach's manner of speech.

[angryliberal]

just watch s4-6

pretend rest didn't happen

i like the early seasons too...but i'm more of a fan of the one time eps over the "myth-arc" eps...also, i enjoy the more humorous eps like "jose chung's from outer space" and "bad blood"...

[goodm0urning]

I never liked the episodes that unquestioningly assumed the existence of paranormal phenomena. Nevertheless, I do like the occasional X-Files episode, like the one with the guy who was ordinary except for his bizarre amount of dumb luck.

[mylthazz]

amazing how empty the theater was for Step Brothers

don't think i ever saw a movie that opened on friday that empty at ~7:30pm

wasn't like it was just after a showing too, it was the first showing in like 2 hours

[EvilSamurai]

amazing how empty the theater was for Step Brothers

don't think i ever saw a movie that opened on friday that empty at ~7:30pm

wasn't like it was just after a showing too, it was the first showing in like 2 hours

People are still going to see Dark Knight.

[Deadpool135]

Thumbs down to X-Files. But if my memory serves me right, I remember the first movie was fantastic. The new movie isn't even worth a rent.

Watched a Saw V preview, they didn't show much. I didn't even know there was a fourth one...

I swear movies are taking a turn for the worse lately.

[goodm0urning]

I watched Mishima: a Life in Four Chapters this evening. It was excellent. I was particularly surprised by the clarity of the storytelling, given that the film is episodic and contains sequences shot in three distinctly different visual styles. I love how Paul Schrader is chiefly concerned with communicating the material as clearly and as effectively as he can without giving a shit about how modern movies are supposed to be assembled.

Mishima is one of the best biographical dramas I think I've ever seen, if not the best. In fact, it leaves Spike Lee's Malcolm X (my second choice) in the dust.

[bokchoy]

I swear movies are taking a turn for the worse lately.

Are you serious?

Movies have taken a turn for the worse about a decade ago, as well as a decade before that. If anything, the past year or so has been pretty damn solid for movie releases.

[EvilSamurai]

I watched Mishima: a Life in Four Chapters this evening. It was excellent. I was particularly surprised by the clarity of the storytelling, given that the film is episodic and contains sequences shot in three distinctly different visual styles. I love how Paul Schrader is chiefly concerned with communicating the material as clearly and as effectively as he can without giving a shit about how modern movies are supposed to be assembled.

Mishima is one of the best biographical dramas I think I've ever seen, if not the best. In fact, it leaves Spike Lee's Malcolm X (my second choice) in the dust.

The actor who played Mishima was also great in Vengeance is Mine about some Japanese serial killer from the 70s.

[P. Gorath]

somehow i didnt get to any movies this weekend. Meant to see step bros and x-files, and maybe brideshead revisited.

i start new job tomorrow, after a month sitting on my ass and collecting severance. Now I just need sig to write that killer screenplay i know he has inside of him so I can fast track my fortune

[angryliberal]

what's the new job?

[Shaft Agent]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEyJ2kdaaTQ

[mylthazz]

damn i dunno how i know what you did last summer/urban legend got popular

both sucked so much

the ending scene in i know was hilarious though, something about i always cared about you. came off as so phony but hilarious

have to get the sequel now (the blu rays been canceled :( but importing it from the UK) to see how love hewitt survived being attacked in the shower

[goodm0urning]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEyJ2kdaaTQThis film has a 99% chance of turning out to be a bitter, shallow screed.

I watched Terminator 2 for the first time in probably over a decade. The kid at the beginning is Danny Cooksey, who played Bobby Budnick in the terrific Nickelodeon sitcom, Salute Your Shorts.

Classic Budnick line, in response to why he refuses to swim in the lake: "Because fish farted in it."

[HeaT]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEyJ2kdaaTQ

looks tight...

im outi

Roberth

[mylthazz]

lionsgate fucking with clive barker's midnight meat train

supposed to come out tomorrow to theaters, but now its only going to dollar theaters

i only seen one of those once when i was in middle of nowhere utah (ironically i checked movietickets.com and its playing at that theater)

lionsgate is going downhill since they switched owners. the new owners don't want anything to do with horror

[NYPhrost]

i don't know if this has been posted yet. but i saw the preview for "death race"

:rolleyes::rolleyes:

i mean where is the Twisted Metal copyright? I was telling my wife when the preview first started: "Yea!! A Twisted Metal Movie!!!" But as time went on and i didn't hear any names ex. sweettooth. I was like " Oh my god, I can't believe they didn't get sued."

Discuss

[Remy Saotome]

I'm pretty sure that there was an old movie called Death Race, and this is another of those so-called "re-imaginings".

[mylthazz]

yea its a remake of Death Race 2000 from 1975 which was before Twisted Metal I think

[MiLky]

yea its a remake of Death Race 2000 from 1975 which was before Twisted Metal I think

I think you are right!

On that, seems like a movie that has no business being re-made by anyone. And being remade by the crappier Paul Anderson is even worse.

[angryliberal]

i love how there are two paul andersons - one who couldn't make a movie to save his life and one who makes some of the most brilliant films of our time...

[Taito]

I watched Terminator 2 for the first time in probably over a decade. The kid at the beginning is Danny Cooksey, who played Bobby Budnick in the terrific Nickelodeon sitcom, Salute Your Shorts.

Nikki Cox was in the mall/arcade scene.

(RIP pre-Crisis Nikki)

[P. Gorath]

I thought the new Death Race looked pretty good/fun. It's not like the old one is anything but a camp classic. And Statham owns me.

[BudaFuka]

Nikki Cox was in the mall/arcade scene.

(RIP pre-Crisis Nikki)

Wait happened to Nikki Cox.

*googles*

OH MY GOD!!!! (http://www.tvguide.com/images/pgimg/jay_mohr05.jpg)

[Kusanagi02]

I just finished watching one of the cheesiest horror/suspense movies ever. And it was called Devon's Ghost. It came out in 2005 and i never was able to obtain a copy of it so i ended up downloading it.
But mediocre is just being nice to this movie. The main guy who was killing everybody was just awesome. He was using a baseball bat with a circular saw attached at the end and was basically running after people and merc them off one by one.

[Taito]

Wait happened to Nikki Cox.

*googles*

OH MY GOD!!!! (http://www.tvguide.com/images/pgimg/jay_mohr05.jpg)
More like this shit (http://dish.fancast.com/050508-nikki.jpg)

[BlodiaVulcan5]

honorable mention: Angel-A by Luc Besson

[OrangeCat]

Well ever since Guillermo Del Toro bursted onto the scene with Blade 2, I've watched most of his films and I'm in the most peculiar situation with his works and wonder if anyone else has a similar relationship between either an actor or a director.

I don't *love* his movies as most other people seem to do but I respect the work and effort he puts into his work enough that I don't outright say I hate his works. Basically my respect keeps me at a placid indifference where I can understand why people would have joygasms at whatever he fucking makes, but the flaws that I perceive seem to keep me from joining in the appreciation orgy. The flaw I find with most of his work is his character development is really shallow, either following a cliche or producing stock characters as a result of being almost secondary to his vision of the movie world.

OC

[orochizoolander]

GDT is a good director but he hasn't made any great movies just a bunch of decent 7/10's though the art direction on hellboy2 was gdlke:tup:


Am I the only one who liked the first deathrace and is looking forward to the sequel albeit mindlessly?

[P. Gorath]

so apparently Midnight Meat Train came out this weekend? In 109 theaters? And for some reason none of them are in LA?

[mylthazz]

so apparently Midnight Meat Train came out this weekend? In 109 theaters? And for some reason none of them are in LA?

straight to dollar theaters in obscure places only to fulfill contracts that they have to show it in theaters

i think dollar theaters show movies off of dvd not film so they don't have to drop a couple mil to make film transfers

there's a showing in LA apparently on aug 15th at Nuart Theater at midnight

[mylthazz]

interesting article about MMT here

http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/13151

[P. Gorath]

yeah Nuart's where I saw Bubba Ho Tep during its theatrical run

[goodm0urning]

I rewatched Harold and Kumar 2 last night. I maintain that this is a very underrated and funny movie.

[EvilSamurai]

I rewatched Harold and Kumar 2 last night. I maintain that this is a very underrated and funny movie.

It is. Some scenes just don't work. Like the square root of 3 poem recitation was out of place.

[BudaFuka]

I rewatched Harold and Kumar 2 last night. I maintain that this is a very underrated and funny movie.

It's definitely the ballsiest satire in a while.

[mastermind]

Finally got an opportunity to see ●REC. Not bad at all.

What's bad is that they're going to be americanizing it and thusly, screwing it up.

[mylthazz]

Finally got an opportunity to see ●REC. Not bad at all.

What's bad is that they're going to be americanizing it and thusly, screwing it up.

you don't have to watch it

i've changed my minds about remakes because a lot of the time it leads people to renting or buying the original which is always good bc those directors get more money

[mylthazz]

nancy botwin finally showed them titties last night during a rough sex scene (her back was all cut up)

and it was for a long time and multiple angles none of that quick cut stuff

:tup:

took 4 seasons but it was worth the wait

[angryliberal]

the dirty fucking things i would do to that woman...

[Shaft Agent]

i just finished watching Felon. Stephen Dorff was great, Michael from LOST was great, and fat Val Kilmer is too strong. fans of 'Nadia' from 24 (Marisol Nichols); it's in your best interest to watch this.

[w1r3d]

I saw The Wackness (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/wackness/) on Sunday. Pretty good. The dude playing the drug dealer had me dying at times. :tup:

[DaDesiCanadian]

i just finished watching Felon. Stephen Dorff was great, Michael from LOST was great, and fat Val Kilmer is too strong. fans of 'Nadia' from 24 (Marisol Nichols); it's in your best interest to watch this.

Tell me more about THE NADIA's involvement in this movie.

[SNAAAAKE]

Tell me more about THE NADIA's involvement in this movie.

just watch..good-azz movie..and u get to see her tittties :looney:

[P. Gorath]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNM9kKo4JNU

[mylthazz]

the ending to pineapple express in the diner was the funniest scene i ever seen in my life

[mylthazz]

I want to see Mirrors, but I don't want to see the trailer for Lakeview Terrace again. Once is enough and I've seen it 3x now.

And he has the color on his side

BLUE

Such a dilemma.

sucks that this weeks Weeds episode was all filler

they just wrapped up almost every subplot (at least 6) in one episode.

[MiLky]

just watch..good-azz movie..and u get to see her tittties :looney:

Felon was surprisingly good.

the ending to pineapple express in the diner was the funniest scene i ever seen in my life

I really want to see this, will get to it in the next week, Tropic thunder was great as well.

[mylthazz]

yea i liked tropic thunder, different type of comedy than pineapple express though so i don't think you can really compare the two

both were really good for their sub genre of comedy IMO

i ended up seeing Mirrors, it was alright. jack bauer kind of ruined the movie with his acting and why the heck was amy smart in this movie. she's so bad.

gore is really up there though. its not really a remake of the original. same general idea, but the movie is really different.

also the wizard of the gore remake with crispin glover as montag and that hot slut bijou phillips is finally coming out on tuesday. getting good reviews

[P. Gorath]

i will try to see mirrors, pineapple, and tropic thunder this weekend. Saw wizard of gore like 3 years ago...that thing has been on the festival circuit forever

[mylthazz]

is it good? gonna get the dvd regardless, just wondering if it should go to the front of back of the pile of movies to watch

if you can only see one i'd see tropic thunder - its a more complete movie. pineapple express was funnier i though, but it was just like a lot of funny scenes strung together by weak connections. the scenes in tropic thunder flowed really nice.

i finally saw midnight meat train at a $1 theater couple nights ago. bloody and awesome movie. can't believe they didn't bring this to regular theaters.

mirrors was kind of depressing bc

there's no hope at all for the chars. no way for them to survive"]

[goodm0urning]

Tropic Thunder was a crackup. I don't know that I'd have really been missing out if I hadn't seen it, but it was worth the time and money to see so many prominent actors basically taking the piss on themselves.

RDJ obviously remains a national treasure, but the dark horse of Tropic Thunder is Tom Cruise.

[mylthazz]

i ended up getting the wizard of gore in the mail on sat a little early and the movie is just as confusing as the original with all the twists and crappy editing effects. the main actor kip pardue was really bad too

the killing gene (it was called w delta z but they renamed it for some reason). it was alright, they're marketing it as a movie like saw except they don't really show anything at all. didn't really like it though melissa george is still banging.

in the mail i got prom night 2008 on blu ray too, getting ready to watch that crap.

running pretty bad this weekend with movie choices

[OrangeCat]

I saw the trailer for the new supposed "representation of a generation" film College. The sad thing is that a similar film (which IMHO is far superior) was released in the 90's called PCU with a similar premise and far more wit than the comedy that American Pie has come to sow.

OC

[mylthazz]

ha pcu

i rememebr that movie being on comedy central every damn day when i got home from school

must of watched it 90 times

[OrangeCat]

ha pcu

i rememebr that movie being on comedy central every damn day when i got home from school

must of watched it 90 times
I loved that love interest of the main protagonist. Man...I would've fucked her rotten. It was Megan Ward as it turns out.

OC

[P. Gorath]

i saw PCU twice in the theater

[mylthazz]

man i found out they released a prom night boxset in canada with uncut version of 3

but its full screen and so are 2 and 4

wondering if its worth it to just get 3 on dvd to see some upscaled male penis and side tit or stick with vhs copy


http://www.amazon.ca/Prom-Night-Collection/dp/B00142UZ3A/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1219079943&sr=1-1

[Dirt Mc Girt]

anyone ever see jumper?

the story has so much potential it seems and they just blew it.

there's a good doc on the disk called jumper uncensored or something where it shows doug liman just shitting on the script and spending insane amount of money in reshoots and delaying everything for months. the guy shot a couple weeks worth of footage and fired everyone except for one actor and recast it. pretty ridiculous.

wanted to watch Gattaca but my blu ray disk i bought didn't work for some reason. first time that happened :( never had that problem with dvd

thinking about mirrors, that scene where he pulls the nun out of the monastery with a gun is one of the top scenes i ever seen i think

[MiLky]

Yeah Jumper seemed like a heap of wasted potential.

[DeathReaper47]

I know this is technically an anime film, but it's too good to be confined by a label.

Grave of the Fireflies.

If you have not seen this film, do yourself a favor and set aside an hour and a half to watch this powerful, emotional film. I cannot even express in words how powerful this flim was for me to watch...

I JUST watched this film yesterday. Truly one of the most powerful, tragic war films ever created.

[Dirt Mc Girt]

oh yea one thing i noticed too

that classical music from sunshine is becoming the new generic movie trailer music after people abused the one from requiem from a dream so bad

i've heard it in about 3 different movie trailers in the past month

[HeaT]

how do you go from making the decent to doomsday, da fuck happened there...

doomsday was so bad it became a comedy for me and my friends...shit was outrageous...

im outi

Roberth

[P. Gorath]

..................

[P. Gorath]

oh. my. god.

I am changed.

The man I was an hour and a half ago is not the man I am now.

I think I have - no, I know I have just seen the most disturbing movie I have ever sat through alone in my apartment at 11:30pm on a sunday.

I need to go to bed but I can't. My head is too fucked up, thoughts reeling.

This was seriously liked 3 movies in one. You are watching it and think you have it all figured out, then you notice you're only 40 minutes into the movie...and you're going to sit through another act before the shit REALLY hits the fan.

Tears appear in my eyes as I think back on what they witnessed.

Somewhere along the way this became a religious experience...and I have been martyred.

[MiLky]

oh. my. god.

I am changed.

The man I was an hour and a half ago is not the man I am now.

I think I have - no, I know I have just seen the most disturbing movie I have ever sat through alone in my apartment at 11:30pm on a sunday.

I need to go to bed but I can't. My head is too fucked up, thoughts reeling.

This was seriously liked 3 movies in one. You are watching it and think you have it all figured out, then you notice you're only 40 minutes into the movie...and you're going to sit through another act before the shit REALLY hits the fan.

Tears appear in my eyes as I think back on what they witnessed.

Somewhere along the way this became a religious experience...and I have been martyred.

What movie? Curious piqued.

[Sixshot]

Man, I've deleted at least 60% of all the recent movies I've torrented.

Has anyone seen Eastern Promises? I have the shit on my HDD but still haven't watched it.

Or 3:10 to Yuma? Or Last King of Scotland? I snagged King of Kong, awesome stuff. Very humorous indeed.

Michael Clayton was kind of decent I thought. I have Zodiac also and still haven't watched it yet because it looks like it will DRAAAAAAGGGG.

[SNAAAAKE]

Eastern Promises is really good..watch it like right now !! :tup:

3:10 to Yuma is good too..anything with christian bale is auto win.

last king of scotland was whack..dumb plot and boring..dont bother.

zodiac was "OK" at best. kind of a snooze fest. its too damn long. could have been an hour movie or a documentary of some sort.

[rcaido]

I was at a b-day party today & some dude put in a movie called Mutant Chronicles...Shit was pretty gory & had cool look to it...Imagine Sin City mixed w/ Resident Evil...Pretty campy film but had some decent actors Thomas Jane & Hellboy...Even John Malkovich had a small role...Did this come out in theaters or straight to DVD? Never heard of this movie before...

[HeaT]

last king of scotland was whack..dumb plot and boring..dont bother.


i thought last king of scottland was really good...one of the top movies released that year...

im outi

Roberth

[angryliberal]

pg is tormenting us in te way he was tormented - was it "fool's gold"?

[P. Gorath]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhh

All day today I haven't been able to think of anything but this movie. This is why I love movies. Anyone see Nacho Cerda's old short film Aftermath? This is like that meets Hellraiser.

[angryliberal]

is the title "AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhh"?

edit: sorry, i had to look up what "aftermath" was - so, is it about sado-masochistic demons from hell that enoy defiling corpses in a very disturbing manner?

edit edit: was it august underground's mordum? sorry, been looking up disturbing films and that one was on some lists and i never heard of it...

[P. Gorath]

...look back at one of my last few posts in this thread

then read the spoiler again paying attention to one of the lines

[angryliberal]

ahhhhhhh....got it now...i can't believe pg has been horror-movie defeated...

that's a french film, correct? seems like they own horror for free right now...

edit: have you seen "mordum"? from the stuff i've read, it seems pretty intense...

[goodm0urning]

Girlfriend and I watched Idiocracy last night. She enjoyed it a lot; I enjoyed it with reservations.

It dragged in spots during the first half, and voiceover was used way too often to explain things. There was also one key scene in which the CGI was Saturday morning cartoon quality. Perhaps if Mike Judge had access to more money, the stuff that was explained through narration could have been illustrated visually, and the effects as a whole could have been polished up. Or it could just be that some of the stuff he was attempting to portray was beyond cinema, in which case, it would have been better off as a novel.

On the other hand, the satire was brilliant and it had an uplifting (and kind of overstated) message at the end. Luke Wilson was obviously cast to type, as he fits the role perfectly.

[Sheng-Long]

TIFF '08 (http://tiff08.ca/filmsandschedules/default.aspx) is almost here!


...and voiceover was used way too often to explain things.

I'm pretty sure that was done on purpose.

[angryliberal]

re: movie pg saw

ok, so the very brief plot description on wiki left me wanting to see the film, while pg's review has w