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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Mar 21, 2011 9:17:47 GMT -5
Rango - gorgeous animation, good story, very dark for a kids film. Highly recommended.
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Post by Grendel on Mar 21, 2011 9:45:32 GMT -5
Let Me In -- This remake of a foreign film that I haven't seen stands alone in it's own right. Definitely not a movie for everyone, but I like it. There are some things in this film that may creep some people out, but don't let that stop you from seeing it.
From Paris, With Love. -- One of my guilty pleasure films. John Travolta in a slight fat suit sporting a goatee and shaved head kicking all kinds of ass. It sounds silly, but it actually works. A good, dumb action film. I can recommend it.
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Mar 21, 2011 9:52:42 GMT -5
From Paris, With Love. -- One of my guilty pleasure films. John Travolta in a slight fat suit sporting a goatee and shaved head kicking all kinds of ass. It sounds silly, but it actually works. A good, dumb action film. I can recommend it. I'll second this. It was easily one of the more fun action movies recently.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2011 10:04:38 GMT -5
Rango - gorgeous animation, good story, very dark for a kids film. Highly recommended. I would agree with this assesment. The animation was some of the best I've seen. The level of detail on the animals was outstanding. For people who know how hard it is to animate hair - this movie will blow.your.mind. Mr. Timms ? --------- Desperate Measures: Michael Keaton and Andy Garcia. "I can't imagine a God that would care. " A really great 90's flick. Keaton plays the most charismatic bad guy I've seen in a while. His lines were so cool in their sociopathic-ness that I couldn't help but root for him.
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Post by The Ichi on Mar 21, 2011 10:13:03 GMT -5
A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) A very bland remake of Wes Craven's breakout film. I'm a pretty vocal remake hater but I went into this with as open a mind as possible, but right away things went wrong. The new version of Freddy Kruger, whilst not a bad effort by Jackie Earle Haley, is introduced straight away with no build-up, so the main selling point of the movie is chucked out the window. There are no scares to be found, unless you count the 178 jump scenes. The acting is pretty shoddy aside from Haley. Overall not offensively bad like some remakes, but very forgetable. 5/10
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Post by Wolf Hawkfield no1 NZ poster on Mar 21, 2011 23:53:54 GMT -5
Saw 3D: arguably the most funny (unintentionally) film of 2011
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Post by Caglar13 on Mar 22, 2011 0:17:54 GMT -5
Rango - gorgeous animation, good story, very dark for a kids film. Highly recommended. Agreed. Probably wouldn't take the kiddies to see it, but I loved the hell out of this movie. Can't wait to get it on blu-ray.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2011 0:20:14 GMT -5
Centurion
Bad-ass gladiator carnage flick. There's a couple instances where the CG blood becomes pretty apparent, but they seem to only keep that for the large-scale battles. When it's usually one on one or the sort, they go for the actual blood effect. Either way, awesome flick.
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Mar 28, 2011 1:39:15 GMT -5
"PONTYPOOL"Story: A morning radio host (who really made me think of Don Imus) and his staff are trying to deal with the reports coming in of people in the small town of Pontypool acting strangely... wandering the streets, babbling, and finally attacking and killing innocent victims. A very interesting take on the 'zombie plague' genre, where... {Spoiler}... the virus that is infecting people is in words. The infected word gets stuck in the mind, then it jumbles all the rest of the words, leading to babbling. The victims then attack others in an attempt to get new words, or something. The action slowly builds from the confused phone calls and reports from an ill-fated 'traffic reporter' trapped in the middle of the action, to an in-studio situation where one of the staff becomes infected and deteriorates in front of them. Stephen McHattie turns in a great performance as Grant Mazzy, a former big city shock jock who had been fired and forced to work at a rinky-dink local radio station. He is pissed at his situation and it bleeds out when he's on the air. That is, until the crap hits the fan... Very nicely made film, which builds the suspense up by not letting you see the carnage but hear it. One problem: there is an uncomfortable scene that has clearly been edited, where... {Spoiler}... an infected child attacks the crew and is stomped to death. Now, the problem I had wasn't with the image but with how badly it was edited. Recommended. A fascinating new twist on the 'zombie plague' genre. Definitely worth seeing.
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Post by Virt McGirt on Mar 28, 2011 1:51:09 GMT -5
Dance Flick: Definitely better than all the horrid "Seltzer/Friedberg _____ Movie Debaccles," but, I expected a bit more from the Wayans'.
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Post by The Line on Mar 28, 2011 2:08:26 GMT -5
I'll be able to churn these out, soon. Just holding off on my Blu-Ray viewings until after my new Home Theater is all here and set up(hopefully no later than the 9th). Got 6 in the mail(Black Swan, Taxi Driver, The Song Remains the Same, Memento, Venture Brothers, and Planet Earth) plus whatever I have via netflix.
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Apr 4, 2011 1:55:35 GMT -5
(2 movies this night) "THE PRODIGAL BOXER" (1974)A young man accidently kills another during a fight over gambling. The victim's crimelord bosses track him down and kill his father. His mother takes him away from town to teach him to fight so he can exact revenge. "MILITANT EAGLE" (197?)An undercover warrior disguised as a travelling performer with 4 kids tries to stop an evil warlord from starting a war, with the help of a female martial artist and a fishmonger (I think) whose families were slaughtered by the warlord's minions. There's also an assassin working for the warlord with ties to the undercover warrior. Both are good ol'fashioned kung-fu movies. Both movies are jam-packed with more story than I've summarized above, because telling the whole stories would both spoil the fun and take too damn long. The fight scenes are above average for the genre, with only one scene from "ME" that is a little silly (featuring a monster of a man with what looks like a giant spiked baseball bat). May not be recognized or sought after classics, but damn fun for a good price. Recommended.(And one I saw earlier this week...) "ORGASMO"Trey Parker stars as a Mormon who is tricked into appearing in an X-rated movie as Orgasmo, a super-hero with a ray gun that causes... With his new sidekick (played by Dian Bachar), he learns that his porn producing boss is a crook. He also learns that his sidekick has also invented a real Orgasmatron gun, so they don real costumes and fight to save the day. I love the "South Park" guys, but watching this movie felt like a chore. There were very few 'laugh out loud' moments for me. I spent more time trying to name the porn stars I recognized. Great song for the end credits, though. Thumbs up on that one. Not recommended. Watch this only if you've seen all of the other Parker/Stone movies.
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Post by Disaster Report on Apr 4, 2011 2:33:46 GMT -5
Sucker Punch: I watched it, and I'm still not sure what I watched. It's fanservice that manages to seem sexist, it's drama but it has action, and it's fun but also sad. I'm still not sure how the fight scenes fit into the flow of the film, and they're cool to look at, but I don't know why we're suddenly fighting mech samurais with miniguns and steam-powered zombie nazis.
Very good eye candy, and an interesting story, but I think I need to rewatch it to fully digest the concept. Which seems weird considering I went in expecting a total popcorn flick.
Drive Angry: Guy trying to save his granddaughter from cultists, and does so via multiple gunfights, car chases, explosions, and cool poses. This is great if you go in expecting total over-the-top cheese and nothing remotely intellectual. That's what I wanted, and that's what I got, and it was a blast. And I don't even like Nick Cage, but he was really cool here.
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Apr 4, 2011 8:29:17 GMT -5
Yogi Bear - Not as terrible as it looked
The Tourist - fairly lame thriller
Hereafter - A shockingly boring Eastwood movie vaguely about the afterlife.
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Post by Jiren on Apr 4, 2011 9:38:19 GMT -5
I went into this with zero knowledge save for the fact that the main character takes a pill which makes him smarter and I really liked it. I thought the plot was interesting and realistic, The main character was likable and well acted by Bradley Cooper. I though De Niro's part was too small for all his advertising but it's still a good performance (It's De Niro). I found the movie slows down in the middle with the whole {Spoiler}Model murder subplot that doesn't really surve a purpose except to have {Spoiler}The Lawyer steal the batch of pills , It a twist I don't mind but I think it could have been handled a better way that doesn't slow the movie down. Aside from that I found it a really good movie.
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Post by Disaster Report on Apr 5, 2011 16:36:42 GMT -5
I went to see Insidious yesterday. My main problem with it: {Spoiler}The poster in the lobby of the theater even says something like "the house isn't haunted, the child is" and it's a picture of this kid with red eyes. But he's never even haunted. It's about this kid doing astral projection and his spirit gets lost, so demons and spirits are trying to take over his body. TRYING. They never actually do it. The one time the kid gets up and kicks some ass on people, they show you that his body was being manipulated by a demon that's behind him, and not actually inside him. Other than that, it was so-so. Some good jump moments and I really liked how they did some of the paranormal investigating, but on the whole, just kind of there. Anyone saying scariest movie ever is being untruthful, or hasn't watched many scary movies. I've seen scarier episodes of Full House.
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Apr 11, 2011 2:50:54 GMT -5
(the other 2 movies tonight) "MOONLIGHT SWORD AND JADE LION"A female martial artist searches for her teacher's brother, only to find a crime lord. "THE BLOODY FISTS"A small village tries to keep a valuable cure out of the hands of the Japanese, while a fugitive from the law appears in town. More good ol'fashioned kung-fu. "MS&JL" is the most off-the-wall of the four, with crazy weapons (an extendo-spear, chained sickle swords and something that looked like a bouquet of flowers that has spikes, gas and that explode...), impossible feats, and mismatched dialogue (an entire gang of men have women's voices). The story makes almost no sense as well... the "Jade Lion" is mentioned only after about an hour of the movie, and there's nothing about a Moonlight Sword at all. In other words, the kind of movie that MST3K would love. "The Bloody Fists" is the best of the four, and it lives up to it's name. It certainly had the best fights (choreographed by Yuen Woo Ping), which were done in a more realistic fashion than the others. The story was also the clearest and easiest to follow. And man, the Japanese villains were the nastiest... even the one Chinese traitor was pretty slimy. I mean, he doesn't even blink when... {Spoiler}he walks in on his own sister being raped by the Japanese. Recommended.
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Apr 18, 2011 1:05:26 GMT -5
(Another two movies tonight) "BLACK BELT JONES"Jim Kelly is Black Belt Jones, fighting to stop the mob from taking over his late friend's karate school. "HOT POTATO"Jim Kelly returns as Black Belt Jones, this time to rescue a kidnapped senator's daughter from an evil warlord. "Black Belt Jones" is a great mix of "Enter The Dragon" martial arts and "Shaft" social message. Kelly is super-cool, the bad guys are the usual stereotypes, the women are pretty (and can kick ass) and the fights are not badly done. Of course, the bad guys follow the rules of "one (or two) guy attacks while the others circle menacingly", and the fights too ofter go into slow motion, but other than that, it's fun. "Hot Potato" is the opposite. It's a mash-up of horrible comedy, bad fights, bad romance and bad filming. Kelly teams up with his old friends Chicago, a fat fighter called White Rhino and a female cop named Pam, as they sneak through the jungles of Chang Lon to the warlord's camp, rescue the daughter (who is actually a double), then escape, then BACK when the double is discovered. There's TONS of distracting bickering between Rhino and Chicago... The warlord speaks in fortune cookie sayings... There's a fight scene that is just two minutes of Kelly and the bad guys CIRCLING... Rhino almost punches out an elephant... Chicago is more worried about who's paying for his hat than the fight he's in... An exploding toy car... And tell me, if THESE guys attacked you in a forest, what would your reaction be? {Spoiler} You'd be too busy laughing your ass off, wouldn't you? And I mean, there's an ARMY of these guys! "Black Belt Jones" is great fun. "Hot Potato" is so inept you almost have to see it to appreciate how bad it is. Almost. EDIT: I almost forgot... there's a scene of miss-matched day/night footage in "Hot Potato" where they tried to cover it up in the editing room by using tint on the film... but they didn't take into account the actor walking on screen, so the edge of the tint shows! I'll post an image when I get home today.
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Apr 18, 2011 23:35:13 GMT -5
And here it is... You can see Jim Kelly walk out from under the tint used to make the scene more night-like. Then the scene cuts right to pitch black...
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on May 3, 2011 0:16:42 GMT -5
(the other two) "THREE THE HARD WAY"Football great Jim Brown recruits two old friends, Fred ("From Duck Til Dawn") Williamson and Jim "Enter the Dragon") Kelly, to stop a white supremacist group from killing all the African-Americans in the US... and rescue his girlfriend. Enjoyable in a 'brain: off' kind of way. Lots of big explosions (man, cars sure did blow up easily back then) and 'trying to be hip' dialogue. The story itself is kind of thin and there's a few bits that don't make a lot of sense... {Spoiler}... OK, the whole BEGINNING OF THE MOVIE makes no sense. Jim Brown's girlfriend is kidnapped in LA, and in eminent danger... so what does he do? A) fly to Chicago and New York to get the rest of the movie's cast, or B) talk to a couple of witnesses who actually have a good information about WHERE SHE WAS TAKEN? ... but it moves along at a good speed and isn't boring. The good: a scene where a trio of dominatrices 'get information' out of a captive. The bad: Jim Kelly's acting. He's usually out of his depth when in a scene with other actors, but when those other actors are Jim Brown and Fred Williamson... well, let's just say that the pool isn't really that deep to begin with. "BLACK SAMSON"Rockne Tarkington is Samson, a simple bar owner and neighbourhood leader who is trying to keep the Mob and their drugs off of his street. Surprisingly, I found this to be the most enjoyable of the four in this set. Samson is pretty much an average guy, trying to keep his corner of the world safe for himself, his neighbours and his bar. Sure, he carries a huge carved walking stick, and yes, he has a pet lion, but he's not the invulnerable super-cool character that these movies usually star. William Smith is a bit over-the-top as violent gangster Johnny Nappa, who gives up on diplomacy and starts in with the physical stuff when Samson rejects his money. Genre regular Carol Speed is great as Leslie, Samson's love who doesn't want lose him and is willing to go to great lengths to help. So, of the four movie set, "Black Samson" is the real gem, followed by "Black Belt Jones" and "Three the Hard Way". "Hot Potato" is best viewed as part of an instructional on how not to make a movie. Recommended.
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