'300' wasn't that bad.

Saw 'Resident Evil:Extinction' yesterday. Awful.

haha yea..i liked it. the only thing was that the whole time i kept thinking about 4chan and the internets.

currently getting devil's advocate, it's just going so fucking slow...it will be some time until i actually get to watch it.

fight club. again.

Going to see The Kingdom tomorrow night.

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LOLL me too!!!

SPARTA KUNG FUUUU!!1!!11!!!

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GREAT MOVIE.

Princess Bride.......again. Easily in my top 5 movies of all time.

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That movie is absolutely amazing. I saw this Princess Bride poster the other day, and I regret not getting it.

I prefer back to the future and The Goonies!!!

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haven't seen princess bride...for the longest time i never realized it wasn't a movie aimed at 9 year old girls.

back to the future and the goonies kick ass though.

sweden is coming through on devils advocate...earlier great britain jumped in there but was only downloading from me which seemed to hamper the swedish effort. luckily those limey bastards buggered off!

Tigerland is one of the best army movies of all time. Any time i mention anything about this movie only about 1 in 10 have seen it.

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Just saw it last night. Fucking awesome movie

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you'll love it! watch it fo me, mayne

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Starship Motherfucking Troopers.

Inland Empire!!!!
It could be the best Lynch movie,3 hours and if it lasted one more it would be even better

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Yes! Watched that movie way too much when I was young. Loved the shower scene, probably the first tits I saw.

Been reminiscing about Princess Mononoke lately. Hands down it is my favorite animated film.

I saw Joyeux Noel.

It's a french movie about the first world war, when France, Germany and Scottland stopped shooting for christmas, they feasted christmas together...that was a good movie...kinda different from other war movie, those i dont like...

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Watched Superbad recently. Comedy of the year! McLovin was fucking hilarious.

man i swear, i havnt heard one fucking bad comment about this movie. gotta see it.

now watching: jumanji. always had a sentimental connection with this movie.

The worst thing you can say about Superbad is that there aren't enough drawings of penises.

Actually the worst thing about Superbad is that it, because of when it came out and who it's produced by, can't avoid drawing comparisons to the superior Knocked Up. And that's totally unfair, because Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg wrote Superbad when they were 14. At the same time, holy shit.

I stopped watching about halfway through because I got bored, other than that there were some funny parts in it

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Rented '1408' last night. Typical Stephen King story which , as usual, doesn't translate into a good film.

Also, saw 'Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma' recently and all I can say is 'wow'. It was much tamer than the book, but no less shocking.

Gosh the film may not have been great but the story was genius. (adds book to list of books to read)

i watched 300 for the second time and i still have no fucking clue what the hunchbacked guy says at about 1:18:00. he tells xerxes that he'll take them to that path and that he wants women, wealth, "and one more thing, i want...." what the hell did he say? i've played it back a few times and still can't make it out.

Basically he wants to wear a suit of armor or otherwise look like a badass or something. The important thing is that it doesn't matter at all to your understanding of the film.

Saw Elizabeth: The Golden Age. Great performance from Cate, but you knew that before going in. It wasn't as well put together as the previous one, so it was somewhat disappointing. But I didn't pay to see it, so it couldn't be extremely disappointing. Now I just have to see Across the Universe.

i want to know what he says. nothing else. i understand the film fine...it isn't very deep. i just want to know what he says. you obviously don't know, or you'd have posted it. next.

I wonder what Saw 4 will be like...
Who thinks it will be as good as the others?

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I told you what he said. He wanted a uniform (remembered it as a suit of armor until I recalled that they didn't wear anything). Moreover, if you're so clever, you can deduce it from the context as well. He wanted to fit in and be the Spartan ideal. That's his entire arc. A uniform made him look the shit. So that's what he asked for.

I haven't liked any of the Saw movies and I doubt I'll like this new one. I doubt I'll even bother to see it. But my guess would be that they know well enough how to deliver what the Saw fans want to be able to churn out quite a few of these.

Watched Taxi Driver.

It was curiously unsatisfying.

All I could think about afterwards was how much more I liked Raging Bull.

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i loved taxi driver

the ending is awesome, the last scene when he's back driving the cab

leaves much to the imagination i think

thanks. haha i was a bit drunk last night...i guess being an arse as well. even thinking the word uniform doesn't line up exactly since he says it so damn weird. funny that they gave him some goofy ass shit after that.

I just found out Hollywood is going to remake Battle Royale... assholes. I suppose I'll give it a chance anyway...

My buddy collects Asian horror films and we recently set up this thing where every Saturday night, a bunch of friends all meet at my friend's house where, in his basement, he's got a 6'x8' movie projector (it's from around the early '90s but it works fine) and we watch Asian horror flicks all night. This weekend we'll probably be watching Shutter and maybe this other goofy looking one called Sars Wars. It should be a fun time.

Shutter trailer

Sars Wars trailer

Sars Wars clip

I was actually contemplating whether the two latter belong in funny internet crap, hehe.

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haha that second one is like thailand's shaun of the dead.

hahaha, yeah you might say that.

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and it'll probally be shitty and scrap the actual meaning of Battle Royale and then Japs will still like it or laugh at this....Hollywood is good to do shitty remake...

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yeah that's why I call them assholes. Of all movies, I really don't see why that one needs to be remade... assholes...

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Just watched So I Married an Axe Murderer for the second time. Good movie. Mike Myers is great

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just watched lost in translation
liked it.

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That movie was so confusing.

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how was that confusing? at all?

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I think I'm going to order an assload of Troma movies from the internet..I have quite a few burned but there are lots to be had.

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It would take an ass like yours to receive such a hefty load. Because of all those dudes who've done you.

And Lost in Translation is a bit elliptical, but not really confusing. If you want confusing, I can give you some confusing-ass movies.

Watched The Wicker Man on HBO. With all the context and the whole rest of the movie, those handful of funny moments I knew from youtube aren't as funny. Still funny, though.

Elizabeth: The Golden Age was all right. I found the original online afterward and realized how much better it hung together. Across the Universe was, I think, ultimately good, though it's more of an interesting failure than anything else. Certain sequences were great, other ones entirely not, and the story was just fluff, deliberately built out of 60's movie cliches, until the end, where by accretion it seemed to have mattered a bit. The biggest shame was to see 'I am the Walrus' included for no reason other so Bono could sing it. Poorly.

I'd expect you to prefer Taxi Driver, to be honest, Jim. But I guess, when I think about it, it's not surprising that you'd be into a film that does as well as film will at viscerally depicting boxing. But I think I like Raging Bull more as a bravura performance of editing than I do as a film.

wicker man youtube collage is one of the funniest things ive seen on the internet. i saw wicker man on hbo the other day but didnt watch it for that reason...i didnt want to ruin the collage

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I do have a large gorilla ass...it's seriously a black man's ass but pasty white.


I just watched "The Princess Bride" and was quite disappointed. I figured the story, art and general direction would be a lot stronger due to the positive things I've heard about the film. Lame.

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haha, I grew up watching that movie and still like it. The princess is fuckin' slammin! In fact it was on the other day. A few others that I grew up with and have great nostalgic value are Willow, Hook (one of Spielberg's more underrated and overlooked films), True Lies, Rumble In The Bronx, The NeverEnding Story, and Labyrinth. Ah memories..

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Princess Bride is objectively "teh shitz" actually. Haven't seen it in quite a while, but I think it's pretty damn funny.

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Well, not so much confusing as just downright strange.

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I hadn't watched the end when I posted that. They remove the entire 'Oh no, not the bees! Not the bees!' line and play most of that scene as somewhat subdued audio over a diffused, slow-mo shot of the main girl. LAME. But all of the other funny moments were left in. And they still managed to rape a classic and make Ed Woodward roll over in his grave, despite his still being alive.

I can name about 1,000 movies stranger than Lost in Translation, both in the weird for weird's sake category and the more important one of being a unique piece of cinema. It's one of many, many recent films that benefits a great deal from being received by an audience that doesn't know many films or much about film, and so take it for being a real artistic statement rather than the uncentered borrowings of a woman who didn't need to figure out how to direct because her father made sure that all the infill positions were superbly occupied. It doesn't know what it wants to be and ends up being nothing, but doesn't seem that way because the skill level is much higher than we're used to seeing with nothings. It also made people appreciate Broken Flowers less than they should have.

That said, there are much lamer movies. Like the remake of The Wicker Man.

The Princess Bride is a treasured piece of our collective childhood. I wouldn't expect a nigger butt to understand. Seriously, though, you needed to see it at the right time, or you need to still be open to innocent charms.

Yes, perhaps I should have watched it when I was a child and had no concept of a good film.

Oh, and LOL @ nigger butt.

I'm about to order these:

Hard Rock Zombies
The Ice Cream Man
Troma's War
Decampitated
Terror Firmer

Thinking about one more to get..

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Andre the giant is in the Princess Bride. This is a man who could eat hundreds of cheeseburgers in one sitting.

From that alone, the film gets my approval.


Watched a French movie, "Le Mustache", quite unremarkable.

Watch a 70's version of "Jesus Christ Superstar", I think it was the first film version with most of the actual broadway actors. I thought it was pretty cool.

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The Princess Bride is one of my top 5 favorite movies of all time.

I just watched Accepted on HBO. I didn't expect it to be funny at all but I still gave it a chance. The movie was actually not as bad as I thought it would be. It wasn't 'da shit' by any means, but it wasn't terrible. I really liked that the movie was 90 minutes long...the perfect length for a stupid comedy. I'll give it a solid 2 1/2 stars.

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Watched Cape Fear last night. Great movie Deniro is awesome.

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your formula for movie posts is getting a little monotonous... although you did change the placement of the smiley face.

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Watched Eraserhead again. Great movie. Nance is awesome.

Seriously, though, it remains awesome.

I'm not good at giving reviews

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Seen The Mark of Cain today, not bad. The friggin' accents are horrible though.

Man, I just fucking saw it and not only is it funny as shit but it shows what a CRAP remake that movie was. "Killing me won't bring back your DAMN HONEY."
What the fuck?? And the way he punches that woman in the face just gets me EVERY TIME.

Best movie I've seen recently was "A Lizard In Woman's Skin", one of Lucio Fulci's (City Of The Living Dead, The Beyond) early films. Totally amazing. The aesthetic level of those 70's and early 80's Italian horror/mystery/wtf/thrillers is so high it's unbelievable.

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If you guys haven't seen "Freaks" from 1932 do so. You think there's freaks on metaltabs? No way. These probably weren't special effects of any kind either. Legless, armless, siamese twins, the works. Oh yeah! Lots of midgets! I know ya like them.
And you'll discover a line current cartoon fans know and love towards the end. "one of us, one of us, gooble gobble, gooble gobble"
It's on Turner Classic Movies. Awesome.

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I love that movie L,B'XXX, watched it so much as a kid.

Just finished watching 'Ravenous'.

Not at all what I was expecting, which is good because I believed it to be a standard cannibal/horror film. I've never seen a movie like it. Also, Robert Carlyle is such a great actor, and this was one of his better roles.

There weren't any special effects, Tod Browning got into show business by running away and joining the circus and the freaks were all people he knew.

But metaltabs still has the lamest people.

The line that gets me more than the 'killing me won't bring back YOUR DAMN HONEY!' is the snap-pan and then zoom to Burstyn yelling 'BUT I KNOW IT WILL!' That whole sequence doesn't play nearly as well as pure audio.

I didn't think there would be in something done the way it was, but thanks for that input, PST. They had several Browning movies on last night so it was pretty cool. Seeing Lionel Barrymore in a dress was pretty amusing in "The Devil Dolls." Drew looks a little like him.

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Watched 'Irreversible' last night. One of the most depressing films I've ever seen but I loved every minute of it.

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Saw Michael Clayton, Gone Baby Gone, Into the Wild, and Hotel Chevalier. Clayton was a cool and well-made twist on noir, Baby was better than you'd expect from Affleck as a director (though by no means anywhere near living up to its hype; it was an okay crime drama with a lot of stylistic and structural mistakes and it keeps getting hailed as though it not only is great, but it gives you head in the theater, Into the Wild was, like Penn's other directorial efforts, pretty strange but engaging and stimulating, and Chevalier was unmemorable aside from Natalie Portman's finally getting naked. And what forgettable, pointless nudity it was. I haven't seen The Darjeeling Limited yet, but some friends have whose opinion I tend to trust, and they say it's terrible.

So probably Into the Wild is tops in my recent new film experience. Penn made some weird choices, if you know the facts of the case (at least as far as they're presented by Krakauer), and his style has always been somewhat unusual, but it ended up doing exactly what it should have done, and maybe even as well as it should have done it. And that's saying a lot.

Might go to that.

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Oh, I also saw House of 1000 Corpses for the first time last night. Found it pretty boring.

it is

Watched a low budget Sonny Chiba film called "8th samurai"

This was beyond cheese and some of the set design looked like televsion show quality, like a Dr who set but medieval Japanese.


Cheesiest soundtrack, 80's synth. It was good tho, horrible acting but entertaining.


Wal-Mart documentary. I'll never go there again.

Ghosts on Mars. a John Carpenter film that is terrible beyond reckoning, the worst film ever and I wish I had the DVD to hear the commentary.

Audio commentaries for horrible films, financial disasters, total bombs with A list lines up. This is the sort of thing thats getting my interest. I was watching Zardoz with commentaries and the director seemed like he just didn't want to be there. It's fascinating, makes me want to buy horrible movies just to hear how the people involved explain, go in-depth on films they usually wish they never made.

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rob zombie now is working on a halloween remake

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Thats a done deal Doc, though I doubt it has been released in Holland yet. I think it's his best film, but that really isn't saying much.

oh well, i guess it about to hit the cinemas here then. I like devils reject best sofar

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Yeah, it's out and I saw it. It was pretty bad. Though I guess if you really wish that the original Halloween had featured more of a youthful Michael Myers saying 'fuck you!' over and over again instead of the classic opening sequence, or that a much larger person had played Michael, or that the murder scenes gave up their grace and went for gorey, but in that boring and non-visceral/cinematic way that our sampling friend Zombie seems to have mastered, then you're in for a real treat. If the guy gave us all the gore he does in a cinematically effective way, rather than just letting it limp towards us like an ugly crippled girl in heat, he might be worth something, but right now he's the cinematic equivalent of a Puff Daddy hit song.

Ghosts of Mars is remarkable for one reason: Anthrax did the score. But the score just consists of instrumental versions of songs from The Threat is Real, so it's not that remarkable.

Watched 28 days, horrible movie about a virus infection. Reminds me of shaun of the dead but this time it's meant in a serious way. Pff...

Storyline is flawed and lame, graphics are somewhat cool but it's not convincing.

A mighty heart was pretty good, I was suprised with Angelina Jolie. Not really my kind of movie but it was good.

Does anyone know of any recent movies with a surprising storyline? I'm getting kind of bored lately....

memento is the first that comes to mind, but thats pretty old

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Yeah, that's a good one. Problem is I've seen it twice allready

haha, I never made it to the end, too drunk to stay awake

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Inland Empire comes to mind, as do several other Lynch films (specifically Eraserhead, Lost Highway, and Mulholland Dr.) that you've probably already seen. And I can't recommend Last Year at Marienbad enough. Videodrome, eXistenZ, and Naked Lunch from Cronenberg. Sex and Lucia and pretty much anything by Medem; a lot of Almodovar. The Saragossa Manuscript. Anything by Raoul Ruiz. Pretty much anything by Oshima, Matsumoto, or Miike. 3 Women. That should probably be enough to start.

oh yeah, we viewed eXistenZ in philosophy class, i was really, really, really impressed

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Thanks man! I love the Lynch stuff, I'll get crackin'

I saw Eraserhead... and unfortunately I smoked right before it. Anyway, now I live in a sewer drain a bit south of my city and live off of rats.

Worth seeing though!

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Crap, I still haven't seen Naked Lunch or eXistenZ and I'm a huge Cronenberg fan. Scanners is probably one of the best sci-fi movies I've ever seen. None of this space cadet bullshit, that film is raw! Who can forget the classic "spontaneous combustion/decapitation" scene...
The movie that really turned me on to his work was Dead Ringers. The story in that one gets totally warped.

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If you can give me an idea of other films you like in that tradition and I'll be able to recommend more and better.

Just finished Mystic River. That shit sucked pretty hard. The only reason it won an academy award is because Clint Eastwood directed that shit. BOOO

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Finally, randomly found The Offence, which is probably now among my favorite Lumet films, though one stylistic choice possibly ruined it enough to knock it down a bit. It's always a shame to see almost everything done perfectly and then one seriously wrong move thrown in. He seriously did it pitch-perfect, much better in his use of space, architecture, shot composition, and editing than most of his great films, and then added a really dumb superimposition over several key flashbacks. Shame. Even if it doesn't end up being a top Lumet, though, it's definitely up there with The Hill and The Man Who Would Be King as the only genuinely good pieces of acting by Sean Connery.

Well, I finally went to see it last night. It was alright, mediocre at best. Overall, I wasn't as impressed with it as I was with Saw 1 2 & 3.

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Fuck You

The problem here is that Clint Eastwood can make good films, and Mystic River was good.

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Saw 30 Days of Night and Lars and the Real Girl this weekend. Both were flawed but much better than I expected, only a few bad choices in each.

wanted to see that 30 days of night movie..might just wind up downloading it though.

last night i watched the tripper at my cousins house. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0760187/

was ok..kinda stupid.. at least they intentionally tried to make it a comedy as well as a horror movie..otherwise it would've been really bad. there were some parts where we couldn't fucking believe they wanted us to buy what was happening.

I'm not sure 30 Days of Night would be nearly as effective on your laptop. A lot of what's good about it (and pretty much any horror film that has make-you-jump scares) is in the sound design, and a multiplex theater's sound system kicks the ass off your computer's speakers. There aren't many good horror films out there without good sound design, and they're all best in theaters if you can do it. I'm glad I got it in theaters. Justify the ticket price by sneaking into another flick or two.

i say headphones kicks the shit out of cinemaplex speakers.

just watched a scanner darkly, very good film. loved it

irreversible was also extremely awesome. and not just because of the violence, of which there is only about 1 scenes worth anyway.

Beowulf (3D also) were terrible. If you're a fan of the epic poem don't waste you time on the film.

Headphones are better in terms of detail, but in a good theater a film with good sound design (for example, anything by David Lynch) will punch you back into your seat. You can't beat the spatial or visceral experience of a good theater with headphones, and until you can they'll always lose, no matter what you say.

I'm not looking forward to Beowulf as an adaptation of the poem. But was it also a shitty experience in 3D? If so, I bet Avatar will still be the shit.

Saw American Gangster. I wish Ridley Scott could make a movie without having to waste so much money on actors. His films are always awesome in terms of things under his direct control, but there's never enough of that because of the money. Also saw Lions for Lambs, which was less crappy than I expected, and Redacted, which could have been so much more interesting than it was. De Palma's idea for it was really, really clever and it was well constructed, but all that murdered its pacing and a lot of its effectiveness. It was surprisingly balanced, though; way more than Bill O'Reilly would lead you to believe.

Agreed. It was gh3y.

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I wasn't planning on it, nor was I the video game either.

I saw Orgazmo last night. It was just wacky as hell and made me laugh a shit load; the theme song owns too. It's overall pretty neatly done/well executed and had a more legit plot than I expected.

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Mulholland drive was mind blowing through headphones. one of my favourite movies.

plus im pretty hard of hearing so naturally headphones are better for me. then still i need subtitles.

RE beowulf, thats already a movie with christopher lamberdt in it right?

also, ive seen a beowulf cartoon, it was really really really good. he did battle with grendel.

Yeah the original Beowulf & Grendel movie wasn't accurate either.

Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes)


This movie is intense. A German movie about some Conquistidors under Pizzaro who split off from his expedition in search for "El Dorado" in the Amazon jungle. Made in the 70's.


really haunting and negative, real intense, great movie.

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Even if you're hard of hearing you'll get knocked back in your seat by a wave of sound in a good theater; I've seen Mulholland Dr. both ways and I know which one I'd prefer (though that's also for image quality). The best I've heard/felt was Inland Empire; you could literally feel each punch in the wife-beating scene.

If you liked Aguirre, I'd say check out anything you can by Herzog. That's probably his best, but he's got a lot of other good ones. Including another about a float down a Peruvian river, Fitzcarraldo.

im hanging to see inland empire, is it great?

I'd say it's great; it's basically Lynch given the greatest palette imaginable, combining the layered worlds he's been building lately with the freedom of imagination from Eraserhead. Of course, it's also a three hour movie that feels like it was made up as it went along (it was, but I think the structure is as apparent if you pay attention as it is in more obviously written works), shot with a DV camera that's worse than the one I first learned on, and it indulges in everything Lynch has ever shown interest in, which has rubbed a lot of people, including big Lynch fans, the wrong way. But I thought it was tits.

I saw the Beowulf 3D experience. It was less of a dumb screenplay than I expected (though if I'd recalled that it was written by Roger Avary and Neil Gaiman I'd have been less surprised that it wasn't ridiculously dumb), but a deconstruction of the Beowulf myth isn't really appropriate for a Robert Zemeckis 3D extravaganza. I didn't think the 3D was really well used, since it didn't explore space as it would be uniquely suited to do, but was mostly a gimmick for throwing stuff at the audience. Crispin Glover was a good Grendel, appropriately pathetic. Ray Winstone's cockney accent was really distracting, as in 'I'm here to kill yoah mon-stah.' I actually liked the take on the script but would rather have seen it in Avary's proposed small-budget live-action 'epic' version, which would be suited to the interpretation of the poem. But it felt like less of a waste than I'd expected. And the trailer for Coraline, as well as the knowledge that Avatar is coming around the same time, gives me hope that we might have a decent 3D experience in the next year or so. Or maybe it'll still be a stupid gimmicky excuse to throw fake stuff at the audience.

On the Scandinavian theme, I saw Norway's The Bothersome Man, which is awesome. One of the various films about a hellish afterlife, and one of the better ones, at least of late. Real beautiful cinematography, plus a great bit of fabulism and gallows humor make it.

I also saw Control, which was really good. It had all the cliches of a biopic, but it was really invested in a series of powerfully sculpted images (not surprising since it was the first film by a photographer) rather than those cliches, so it worked for me. Plus, Joy Division rocked and any film that features Stroszeck is clearly awesome.

Then I saw Before the Devil Knows Your Dead, which I'm still kinda conflicted about. Outside of one really dumb choice in the editing it's very well-directed, the acting is on fire, the sense of tragedy in the family and in the story is well-woven, and it's crushing. At the same time, I think it all was kept at arm's length in a weird way, resulting in a lot of activity at the imdb boards pointing out plot holes that weren't there and such. But I think it was a flawed great film rather than a mediocre script made the best of by a lot of talent, though it might have been both.

All in all a good few days at the movies. Looking forward to the opening of No Country for Old Men and I'm Not There on Wednesday.