I just watched The Incredibles again, still my favorite 3D animated film of all time, it just does so many things right, hell it does almost everything right.
The One - I love this flick. Great action scenes (yes, I do enjoy that Jet Li, is more gun heavy than MA in here), cool story and sfx still look great years after release.
The One - I love this flick. Great action scenes (yes, I do enjoy that Jet Li, is more gun heavy than MA in here), cool story and sfx still look great years after release.
Exit Wounds - Last great theatrical flick Seagal had, and man, its a blast. Sure DMX there (kinda of minus, though I didn't mind him much), but the action is fucking awesome. I love Seagal vs MJ White improvised swordfight.
Dead Heat - Treat Williams as a zombie cop out to stop Vincent Price, with Joe Piscopoe in tow. Classically bad, but also awesome.
Fuckin' word. I'm off of Jamie Foxx Oscar bait shit for good.
The Shining - Snowy hedge maze and a few other scenes dragged a little, but that's an issue I have with most Kubrick flicks. Mostly pretty awesome with one weird Lynchian wtf moment when Wendy looks into a nearby room and sees someone in a bear costume fellating a dude?
Exit Wounds - Last great theatrical flick Seagal had, and man, its a blast. Sure DMX there (kinda of minus, though I didn't mind him much), but the action is fucking awesome. I love Seagal vs MJ White improvised swordfight.
I checked out of that movie when DMX ran up a wall.
Dead Heat - Treat Williams as a zombie cop out to stop Vincent Price, with Joe Piscopoe in tow. Classically bad, but also awesome.
I've wanted to see this ever since I saw the trailer on youtube for it, but I've been too cheap to buy the dvd and too lazy to track down a pirated copy
Sometimes the dubs of older movies are partly damaged, so they just kind of smush together a full one from the preserved parts of more than one dub. The DVD of Master of the Flying Guillotine cycles through three different dubs throughout the movie if I recall.
Sweet little claymation animated feature about a little girl in Australia and her penpal, an obese, middle-aged Jewish man in New York. Told almost completely through narration, and done in sepia tones/black and white. Kind of a tear-jerker, but very good.
This was quite good and much scarier than Paranormal Activity IMO. It had a lot of those moments that make you go "no, fuck that!". I consider myself a tough crowd as far as horror movies go (i don't have an inherent love for the genre so they have to really impress me), so take that as a high recommendation.
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You're trying to understand, I told you your brother had been killed,
Yet here he stands in the very shadow of the man you came here to destroy.
You came here to avenge His death, you came here to save mankind...
Can you see now, you cannot do both?
Rec is way awesome. I'm still waiting for a watchable version of Rec 2 to hit the tubes.
I just watched Martyrs. What is with people's obsession lately with movies about people getting tortured while tied to a chair? It tries to go for some metaphysical angle, but in the end it's pretty much just mumbo-jumbo in an otherwise unpleasant movie.
I just sat through Judgement Night and then fucking DOOM GENERATION.
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You're trying to understand, I told you your brother had been killed,
Yet here he stands in the very shadow of the man you came here to destroy.
You came here to avenge His death, you came here to save mankind...
Can you see now, you cannot do both?
Halloween night I watched the Dawn of the Dead remake and then Candyman. I enjoyed both. I wanted to watch Dawn of the Dead and then the remake, but my file was corrupted on the original. PISS! Candyman was pretty awesome though.
Saw 2010 for the first time last night. Decent, was definitely a Clarke-formula story.
Up tonight on my catching-up-with-21st-century-horror binge is Ju-On.
After that, I so far have Blair Witch, The Orphange, TCM remake, 1408, Shutter and Pulse lined up.
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You're trying to understand, I told you your brother had been killed,
Yet here he stands in the very shadow of the man you came here to destroy.
You came here to avenge His death, you came here to save mankind...
Can you see now, you cannot do both?
The Young Master - 8.5/10 - fucking awesome kung fu flick directed by and starring Jackie Chan in his prime. Along with all of the usual prop integration Jackie is renowned for and the slapstick humour of the genre, the last fight is fucking epic and one of the better battles i’ve seen in a kung fu flick.
Funny Games (remake) - 6.5/10 - This was really good, but i felt the breaking of the fourth wall was a little forced and made the whole point of the movie too obvious. It was really nicely acted and well shot. This is my first Haneke film, and I really enjoyed it, so I now have Hidden sitting here waiting to be watched.
Brain Damage - 8/10 - Hennenlotter’s best film in my opinion. Its utterly ridiculous like his other works, but the story in this is stronger and all of the hallucination visuals are really awesome.
Massacre at Central High - 4/10 - 70’s drive in slop. A school kid gets revenge on a gang of thugs who cripple him. Its basically played out like a slasher yet most of the deaths are by dynamite. Worth a watch but its pretty damn bad.
Bad Biology - 7/10 - I downloaded this after watching Brain Damage. I never thought Hennenlotter would out do the ridiculousness of Frankenhooker, but in that area Bad Biology beats it tenfold. This may be the only true sexploitation flick released in years. Man, it is just so fucking insane. I don’t want to spoil anything, so I’ll just say that If you see this I guarantee you’ll be glad you did. I think it comes out on dvd in a few months so keep an eye out.
Winter Passing- Another one of those movies you never hear about that has Ed Harris, Will Ferrell, and Zooey Deschanel. It's like Rachel Getting Married where you're kind of uncomfortable watching a bunch of unlikable people do horrible things, but unlike Rachel Getting Married, i didn't turn it off before they all redeemed themselves. It's a pretty enjoyable movie! Zooey is a coke head who drowns a kitten and Will Ferrel is a social retard who wears eyeliner and doesn't try to be funny.
Bridge to Teribethia- it's a Disney teen movie where Zooey Deschanel indirectly kills a little girl by being all Roman Polanski with that kid. It's not great. It's not awful. It's pretty okay!
Just saw The Box. It was pretty sweet, very much like Richard Kelly's other films. A lot of ambiguity and abstractions, but it ties together in the end much neater than Southland Tales or even Donnie Darko.
The Young Master - 8.5/10 - fucking awesome kung fu flick directed by and starring Jackie Chan in his prime. Along with all of the usual prop integration Jackie is renowned for and the slapstick humour of the genre, the last fight is fucking epic and one of the better battles i’ve seen in a kung fu flick.
The Keeper - Yet another latest from Steven Seagal and surprisingly decent to boot. Seagal gets the chance to have his own version of Bodyguard mixed with bits of Taken, as he hired to protect daughter of his old war buddy in Texas. Lots of bloody shootouts, and Seagal actually not doubled much in the action scenes.
indeed I did. it was very true.they changed a couple of scenes just to keep the flow of the movie and to not get a nc 17. the music was great but it was placeholder becus they weren't finished. it had superman,batman,spiderman,dark knight,and good the bad and the ugly music. and it all fit perfectly. they play the batman music when they get in the mist mobile.
the casting was pretty spot on too. mclovin did a really good red mist. the guy playing kickass doesn't really sell it until the end though.
cage and hitgirl were spot the fuck on. cages big daddy was all kinds of woop ass. and when he was in costume he sounded like a mix of adam west and shatner as batman. hitgirl has the best scenes in the movie. she is a one girl killing squad.
I fucking loved it. the screening was full of studio heads and theater buyers and fans. and with the reception the crowd gave it will def get picked up. for real, see it as soon as it hits. even you cynical fucks will love it.
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