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You don't like anything.
We watched Rashomon in film class today. The guy beside me walked out like 1 minute before the ending. Scum.

[Reply #281 on:]

That's too bad homer I know you were looking forward to it

[Reply #282 on:]

You don't like anything.
We watched Rashomon in film class today. The guy beside me walked out like 1 minute before the ending. Scum.

I didn't say I hated it.
I just said it was ok!

[Reply #283 on:]

Bear have you seen Grizzly Man?

[Reply #284 on:]

No whats it about

[Reply #285 on:]

A crazy bastard who gets eaten by bears, thus proving there might be a God.
A Bear God, perhaps?

[Reply #286 on:]

I love people brave enough to do things like that. They're my personal heroes. He was kind've a gayboy a little, but he did it out of Love.

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There was nothing brave about him. He was a fruity fruit.

[Reply #288 on:]

madagascar 2

It was ok... first one was better.

C

[Reply #289 on:]

What would you give an A?

[Reply #290 on:]

Books are you a film student

[Reply #291 on:]

Who's asking?
Are you still coming to see Clockwork Orange with me? I asked MrBlonde and he's frightened of me

Since this is the review thread I watched Brokeback Mountain today. It was pretty good, a bit gay, but good, so I'd give it 8.5/10.

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Not gay enough, you say?

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Clockwork Orange is great!

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Would you like to drink milk with me Laura?

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Clockwork Orange is great!

Whoa, I thought when it came to movies, you had no soul Hojay...

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Oldboy

Oldboy was my introduction to Korean cinema, and what an introduction it was...

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Initially it seems to make little sense the first thing we see is a man with a dog leaning backwards over the edge of a tall building and another man is holding onto his tie which prevents him from falling, this man says he has a story to tell. Then the story begins with the man, Oh Dae-Su, drunk in a police station, a friend collects him but while his friend is making a call in a public phone box he vanishes. The next time we see him he is imprisoned in a room never seeing his captor who feeds him through a hatch in the door and gasses him anytime something needs doing in the room. He learns from the television that his wife has been murdered and that evidence at the scene suggests that he is the killer even though he has been in his room for a year at this point.

As the years pass Oh Dae-Su plans his revenge while trying to escape but shortly before he manages to break out he is gassed again and wakes up outside on the roof of the tall building where he meets the man with the dog. After letting his story he leaves the man who then jumps but Oh Dae-Su does not look back. While looking at the fish in a restaurant window a stranger gives him a wallet and a phone. He goes inside and after eating a live octopus receives a call during which he passes out.
When he wakes up he discovers that the girl who served him in the restaurant has taken him home. Although he initially doesn't trust her they soon falls in love. Shortly after this he is told he has five days to discover why he was kidnapped or the girl will be killed. He only has a few clues as to his captor but as he follows them and gets closer his life gets more confusing till eventually he realises what he did to earn such a terrible punishment.

The action is exciting and and a few places fairly gruelling such as when he uses a claw hammer for tooth extraction although some people might find the octopus eating more disturbing. Min-sik Choi did a great job as Oh Dae-Su and Chan-wook Park's direction was top notch. Although an English dub was available on the DVD I watched it in Korean with English subtitles.

9/10

[Reply #297 on:]

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days.

A big foreign movie in 2008. They showed the fetus, but ultimately I found it pointless. Aesthetically pleasing, but sometimes aggravating and tiring.

6.5/10

[Reply #298 on:]

Futurama: Into The Wild Green Yonder

Well, it's been fun, so long meatbags, I assume mArc can shut down the site now?

A-

[Reply #299 on:]

Goodness me, I hope not.

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I do.

I've had enough of you, Books.

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Lady Vengeance

Having enjoyed the first two films in Park Chan-wook's Vengeance Trilogy I looked forward to watching the third. While I didn't think this was as good as Oldboy it was still a good film.

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Yeong-ae Lee was very good in the roll of Geum-ja Lee, a woman who had spent thirteen years in prison for a crime she didn't commit. While in prison she had been a model prisoner even going as far as to donate one of her kidneys to help a fellow inmate.

Once outside though she has only one aim in mind; to find the man who forced her into confessing to the murder he had committed and to kill him and to be reunited with the daughter she lost because of him. She gets a job working in the bakery of a man she met when he worked in her prison. She finds out that her daughter has been adopted by an Australian couple and can only speak English, even so she returns to Korea with her mother. With the help of people she previously knew in prison she manages to capture Mr. Baek, played by Oldboy star Min-sik Choi. She soon learns that he has killed other children so instead of exacting her revenge alone she persuades the policeman originally responsible for her arrest to help her bring the victim's families together so they could all have their revenge.

As mentioned before Yeong-ae Lee was excellent as the beautiful avenging angel and Park Chan-wook's direction was very good too. While there are some violent scenes they seemed far less gory and disturbing than those in the previous two films. I watched the "fade to black and white" version of the film where the colour is gradually drained from the picture so it starts with bright colours but by the end it is almost black and white.

8/10

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Tropic Thunder

It was alright
*shrugs*
I'll have forgotten this movie tomorrow.

6/10


Hellboy II (Or 2 for the Americans)

I don't remember anything about the first, but this was pretty good...it's best when they're in the troll market and Guillermo del Toro can really get creative. The story itself is meh, it doesn't make sense why Hellboy sides with the humans, he's just a big jerk.

7.5/10

[Reply #303 on:]

I just saw the Terminator for the first time last night. It sucked.

2/5

[Reply #304 on:]

The effects were pretty bad, but you should see T2, it's great. A 9/5/10 for me.

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they were originally planing on hiring OJ Simpson to play the terminator, bt they didn't think people would believe him playing a killer

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I read that somewhere, that's hillarious

Books is 9/5/10 an 18?

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Futurama: Into The Wild Green Yonder

Best Futurama Movie EVER.

A

[Reply #308 on:]

Coraline in the cinema! Sham-wow!

First off they made me pay THREE BUCKS extra for those glasses! Insert mad face! BUT, I won't have to buy new once for Avatar Anyway, it was busier than I thought. some thoughts on the 3D: It wasn't bad, it wasn't great, to be honest my feelings are pretty neutral on the issue, and it really doesn't make thaaat much of a difference. Sometimes my eyes got confused and it felt like I was crosseyed for a second.
There were a couple buffoons sitting down the row who kept saying "what." everytime something happened, and having that retard cletus-guffaw. ARGH. People are horrible things. Oh, I forget to mention, Dakota Fanning's character said "I lost the game" once and those people laughed uproariously. Scum.

As for the movie it was fantastic and magical. And that's all I have to say about it.

8.764/10

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Curse of the Komodo

Jim Wynorski + giant, CGI lizards + softcore porn stars = nonstop hilarity!  Seriously, this may be my favorite non-MST3K B-movie since Raptor Island.

Okay, so there's no actual "curse."  It's your basic "noble scientists get double-crossed by their own ambitions and the military and/or a big corporation"-story with giant monsters.  Unlike Wynorski's previous dino-monster flick, Raptor, which used monster footage from Roger Corman's rubber puppet series, Carnosaur, Komodo uses CGI exclusively.  Surprisingly it's not as bad as I'd come to expect.  The monster design is goofy, looking little like a komodo dragon and moving even less naturally.  It's barely professional, obviously, we're not talking Industrial Light and Magic here.

Speaking of "barely professional" performances, you were wondering about the softcore porn stars, weren't you?  Yes, Glori-Anne Gilbert (whose other credits include Lusty Busty Babe-a-que, The Breastford Wives, and House on Hooter Hill) whips her assets out under a flimsy pretext and despite their proximity to a giant lizard.  Hey, they had to get their R-rating somehow.

But getting back to the story...the military, who is evil because they're the military, has launched a program on Isla Damas (which is one helicopter ride from Hawaii, though the actual island is off is actually off the coast of Chile) to genetically engineer more efficient food crops headed up by the the lead scientist, who is somehow duped into making giant komodo dragon-based weapons instead.  Genes are genes, right?  Anyway, a musclebound casino robber, his  girlfriend (the remarkably bra-less Ms. Brasselle), their wily getaway helicopter pilot, and Mr. Redshirt land on the island during a storm.  The fences fail and long, boring, and ultimately futile shootouts commence with the actors practically having to say "POW!" when they fire their suspiciously inadequate guns.  Blanks must have been too expensive or the director was just keen on adding the muzzle flashes in post-production.  Either way, since none of the actions ever cycled it allowed the main scientist's Lee-Enfield to be fired semi-automatic.

Oh, and there are zombies as well.

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Because I'm stupid and I left my wallet in my car, my boyfriend and I opted to see Coraline instead of Friday the 13 which I know we could have totally snuck into but we did pay for the glasses and whatnot. I'm still mad at myself however. And I'll bet the ticket booth lady thought I was a fucking moron for not having any ID on me.

While we both liked the movie, neither of us could figure out who the intended audience for Neil Gaiman is. He is undoubtedly a great writer, he just writes totally random stuff. And Coraline was no exception. The effects were cool, but I find the 3D gimmick should only be applied to these kind of animated movies. We did not need My Bloody Valentine to be in 3D, that's just stupid. But this was a pretty good movie.

And dude, those two old ladies with all the stuffed dogs...yeah that's my mom in twenty years. Maybe less.

A-

I also watched Seven Pounds with Will Smith and Rosario Dawson this morning. Damn...it was all intense and shit.

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An American Carol

Worst than Scary or whatever Movie 3. Only watched it for 15 mins of it. It is also too right wing and silly.

F--

[Reply #312 on:]

Atanarjuat:

The first movie ever made in Inuktitut. Boring, better luck next time, I spent the last 40 minutes on 2x.

5/10

[Reply #313 on:]

1408

I'm shocked how good this movie was. The ending was kinda weak.

B

[Reply #314 on:]

Did you watch both endings?

And Books, you didn't think Tropic Thunder was hilarious?

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I couldn't stop laughing when the director blew up 

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Body Of Lies
Decent CIA anti-terrorism thriller thing, reminds me of The Kingdom sorta, but better and more gritty.
Crowe and DiCaprio are ok, but Mark Strong was good in it too.

B

[Reply #316 on:]

Closer
Ooo

Pineapple Express
Hee

Clerks 2
haa

The all get a b+!

[Reply #317 on:]

Ghost Town

Probably the only film I've thoroughly enjoyed watching out of all the movies I don't remember going to see in the past few months.

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Bolt 3D
The hamster ruled, it was mostly serious except for the hamster now that I think of it:


I liked all the action stuff near the start, graphics were nice enough I guess.

Awesome Hamster/10

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I'm watching Australia, I'm just taking a break. Comments later.