godzillasushi wrote:Worst movie I watched for the first time was The Last Boy Scout.
havocSchultz wrote:godzillasushi wrote:Worst movie I watched for the first time was The Last Boy Scout.
You're not part of the family...
doglips wrote:Keepcoolbutcare wrote:great review.
Thanks, you gonna bump this up your list?
tapehead wrote:Keepcoolbutcare wrote:I'm gonna give SUNSHINE another peep when it comes out on DVD, just to make sure my scathing pan wasn't just me being on the rag that day...
I've been wondering about that too.
Keepcoolbutcare wrote:tapehead wrote:Keepcoolbutcare wrote:I'm gonna give SUNSHINE another peep when it comes out on DVD, just to make sure my scathing pan wasn't just me being on the rag that day...
I've been wondering about that too.
sometimes I get the menstrual cramps real bad...
/Raising Arizona
Keepcoolbutcare wrote:tapehead wrote:Keepcoolbutcare wrote:I'm gonna give SUNSHINE another peep when it comes out on DVD, just to make sure my scathing pan wasn't just me being on the rag that day...
I've been wondering about that too.
sometimes I get the menstrual cramps real bad...
/Raising Arizona
stereosforgeeks wrote:There is some really great stuff in Sunshine for the first 2/3rds. That ending makes me want to gouge my eyes out, though. Its not even a good example of the genre it mimics at the end.
Keepcoolbutcare wrote:tapehead wrote:Keepcoolbutcare wrote:I'm gonna give SUNSHINE another peep when it comes out on DVD, just to make sure my scathing pan wasn't just me being on the rag that day...
I've been wondering about that too.
sometimes I get the menstrual cramps real bad...
/Raising Arizona
tapehead wrote:I thought you were planning on hunting down Danny Boyle to kill him.
Nachokoolaid wrote:Once Upon a Time in the West. It was the first time I had seen it, and while I think The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly is better, I really liked Bronson in this.
Keepcoolbutcare wrote:Nachokoolaid wrote:Once Upon a Time in the West. It was the first time I had seen it, and while I think The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly is better, I really liked Bronson in this.
I too have trouble deciding between the two...
but Bronson was just...well, Bronson.
Robards, on the other hand, was aces. And Claudia Cardinale was the hottest thing in the world at the time. And Henry fucking Fonda as the heavy?
perfection.
havocSchultz wrote:Hey...if you guys got trouble deciding between the two of them - then check out Leone VS. Leone...
Where we finally decide which is better...
(Once Upon a Time in the West, in my opinion, is one of the best movies ever made...muthafuckin' Charlie Bronson...)
bastard_robo wrote:havocSchultz wrote:Hey...if you guys got trouble deciding between the two of them - then check out Leone VS. Leone...
Where we finally decide which is better...
(Once Upon a Time in the West, in my opinion, is one of the best movies ever made...muthafuckin' Charlie Bronson...)
You know, I own OUTITW and yet, i've never watched it.
havocSchultz wrote:bastard_robo wrote:havocSchultz wrote:Hey...if you guys got trouble deciding between the two of them - then check out Leone VS. Leone...
Where we finally decide which is better...
(Once Upon a Time in the West, in my opinion, is one of the best movies ever made...muthafuckin' Charlie Bronson...)
You know, I own OUTITW and yet, i've never watched it.
Go FORTH!!!
And watch it NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Keepcoolbutcare wrote:doglips wrote:Keepcoolbutcare wrote:great review.
Thanks, you gonna bump this up your list?
it's at #8, with a bullet. Sorry I haven't gotten to it yet, but, well, there's just so much stuff that just came out that either I haven't seen or really wanted to see again.
Favorite first view for July was, of course, PERFUME: THE STORY OF A MURDERER, which I can attest (after 3(!?!?) viewings in 2 days, and one of the times not shrooming!) is as brilliant as I thought it was initially.
But the best flick I saw in July comes down to RIO BRAVO or THE INCREDIBLES, and you can put a gun to my mothers head and I still wouldn't be able to tell you which I prefer (sorry mom).
Worst? RENAISSANCE, which was fucking useless. I'm gonna give SUNSHINE another peep when it comes out on DVD, just to make sure my scathing pan wasn't just me being on the rag that day...
Leckomaniac wrote:I had a chance to see ONCE today. Its been 12 hours since the film let out and i simply can't stop thinking about it. I actually had to leave the house and go out and buy the soundtrack. What a lovely little film. It has infected me. Loved it.
Keepcoolbutcare wrote:Leckomaniac wrote:I had a chance to see ONCE today. Its been 12 hours since the film let out and i simply can't stop thinking about it. I actually had to leave the house and go out and buy the soundtrack. What a lovely little film. It has infected me. Loved it.
'bout damn time someone else has seen/commented on that lovely flick...
tapehead wrote:I saw it at the Melbourne international Film Festival last weekend, and wrote a brief review on it -here
bastard_robo wrote:Just Finished watching DYNAMITE WARRIOR. Its a movie produced the guys who made ONG BAK.
Fuckin A what an Oddball film. Its one of those films were you think your getting one thing, and it becomes somthing else.
The box had it begged as a simple revenge movie. Turns out to be a muay Tai supernatural film.
Keepcoolbutcare wrote:Leckomaniac wrote:I had a chance to see ONCE today. Its been 12 hours since the film let out and i simply can't stop thinking about it. I actually had to leave the house and go out and buy the soundtrack. What a lovely little film. It has infected me. Loved it.
'bout damn time someone else has seen/commented on that lovely flick...
Stephen Spielberg, on July 31st, wrote:A little movie called Once gave me enough inspiration to last the rest of the year.
magicmonkey wrote:"Sun Ra's Space is the Place" was also pretty cosmic. "How come you dress up like you do?"
"I am the myth, just like black people are a myth in society!"
magicmonkey wrote:I watched Bergman's "Shame". A kickass, to me, pre-telling of "Straw Dogs" but this time set in an unnamed war. Hardcore Bergman at his most absolute brilliantist. Man, if I thought I hated war before, I hate it even more now.
Pacino86845 wrote:How about the requisite Knocked Up comparison? Better, worse, just as good, or completely different and thus shouldn't be compared?
Pacino86845 wrote:The only thing that'd stop me from putting salt in those wounds of yours would be other wounds to put salt in.
Pacino86845 wrote:It was a special cocktail of my own preparation... at least 60% salt there... the dehydration adds a little extra flavor to the proceedings.
Pacino86845 wrote:Well in July the notable mention was Michael Moore's Sicko, which I thought was his best, most mature, film to date. I'd watched Hot Fuzz a second time, and enjoyed it more the second time, so it officially became the first movie I gave a rating bump to this year (from a "good" 7 to a "very good" 8 ).
Pacino86845 wrote:For worst film it's a tie between Hostel II and 28 Weeks Later, which each received a 3/10 from me. I didn't have high expectations going in, but I was sorely disappointed by these movies.
Pacino86845 wrote:List your top 2007 films for the Summer season, which goes from May to August, inclusive.
Keepcoolbutcare wrote:ooh, what didn't you like about 28 WEEKS LATER Pacino? I can't wait to revisit that one on DVD, adored the opening scenes, loved the blatant Iraq war metaphor, but the shaky-avid-fart-cam got to be a bit much...
PERFUME: The Story of a Murderer
ONCE
KNOCKED UP
PAPRIKA
SiCKO
Pacino86845 wrote:Keepcoolbutcare wrote:ooh, what didn't you like about 28 WEEKS LATER Pacino? I can't wait to revisit that one on DVD, adored the opening scenes, loved the blatant Iraq war metaphor, but the shaky-avid-fart-cam got to be a bit much...
Oh boy, 100% agree on the first five minutes. I didn't know Robert Carlyle was gonna be in it, so not only did seeing him have me jump up in joy, but to have that edge-of-the-seat opening had me positively giddy at what the rest of the film was going to bring... sadly, it all fell apart quite quickly. The Robert Carlyle twist was unaffecting, the massacre of innocents, the mother situation... all these things may seem good written out like this, but watching it unfold the way they filmed it was pretty uninteresting for me, and very predictable. I even started nodding off at some point in the middle of the film, then I woke up to see Robert Carlyle slobbering and I was like "whatever, I'm going back to sleep." Coming out of the film I thought that it was so conventional that it hurt, but then again I haven't been pleased with a zombie film in a looooong time.
I'd say that the careless use of the shaky cam in this movie contributed to my eyes getting tired and my falling asleep. The audience in the room, however, seemed to really get a kick out of the movie (I watched it at the genre festival where I met Chan-Wook Park, so it was a room full of geeks).
Although I'm not the biggest fan of 28 Days Later, at least Danny Boyle did something different with the zombie genre while demonstrating a keen understanding of what makes the genre work in the first place. Boyle had taken the claustrophobic atmosphere of the typical zombie film, whereby humans are outnumbered by zombies, usually because there aren't that many humans to begin with (set it in a small town, a shopping mall, etc), and transfused it to a larger scale, whereby a large space becomes akin to a small town. And just to be absolutely sure that he had the effect he wanted, and to flex his directorial chops, he made the very ballsy choice to film the entire movie on some unimpressive digital cameras.
28 Weeks Later was shot like a music video.
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