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 10/11/2009 09:11:56 AM · #676
Pan's Labyrinth (Spanish: El laberinto del fauno) 10/10

Yeah, I know I'm a little behind on the times. But I've put off watching this because I hate reading subtitles during movies. It was a beautiful movie though.
 10/11/2009 09:21:37 AM · #677
trick r treat. 4 halloween intertwined tales of horror. not for the squeemish, but for the horror fan? 9/10

and clerks remains one of the all time best movies ever in my mind, can still watch it all the way through and laugh consistently. "37? in a row?"
 10/11/2009 09:37:57 AM · #678
District 9 - from 1 to 10 I'll give it a zero. Not that I don't like independent movies, but this one was simply awful with a lot of ugly scenes and maybe one of the worst sci-fi movies ever. The main character was one of the lamest and most anoying characters I've ever seen and I didn't like the story. I really didn't care weather the aliens will have rights or will they return home.

The new Star Trek movie on the other hand was mind blowing 10/10 for acting and script, not to mention the fight scenes.

G.I.Joe Rise of Cobra - The effects and action scenes were awesome but the story was cheap with premisess of a soup opera. 7/10

If wanna have a good laugh you should watch Year One or Hangover great comedies

Next for watching is the Land of the Lost, I hope it's good
10/15/2009 10:02:49 AM · #679
Pyaasa (1957) directed by Guru Dutt - the struggling poet gets the girl in the end. A+
10/15/2009 11:13:03 AM · #680
The Brothers Bloom, 10+, gorgeously cinematic and smart, slyly funny in parts, heartbreaking in other parts. Acting superb.
 10/15/2009 12:21:00 PM · #681
Phantasm III 1979

umm - yellow blood, flying skull penetrating spheres, body parts that turn into giant fly like things, bad hair, sand people ( sort of ). there was a sweet car in it though.

i give it 3 of 5*'s


10/15/2009 12:24:24 PM · #682
Originally posted by krnodil:
The Brothers Bloom, 10+, gorgeously cinematic and smart, slyly funny in parts, heartbreaking in other parts. Acting superb.


Me too!!!! And I agree that it was a definite 10! One of the better movies I've seen in awhile.
 10/15/2009 01:01:00 PM · #683
Zombieland - rated R.

Great movie. Silly story overall, but they did it right. Gross and funny. I recommend it to anyone who liked Shawn of the Dead.
 10/28/2009 09:56:07 AM · #684
Watched a good one last night!!!

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY (Dvd screener leaked!!!)

Movie lives up to about 80% of the hype around it, but damn is it creepy. Filmed in the Blair Witch Style (single camera operated by the cast members (of which there are only 6 in the whole movie, and only 2 for 98% of the movie)

Defitiely made me jump a few times. Its a slow burn too...not a gory horror movie. No blood, no guts, no slashers, etc.

A lot of really intense situations and apparently the whole film was done for $15-20k.

Definitely check it out. My wife was half watching/listening while she was on her laptop and still was scared to go to bed by herself!

10/28/2009 09:57:30 AM · #685
Originally posted by quiet_observation:
Pyaasa (1957) directed by Guru Dutt - the struggling poet gets the girl in the end. A+


Surprised to see this here!
 10/31/2009 01:20:16 PM · #686
Paranormal Activity: 9/10

I think this film is such an achievement, and a refreshing one at that. I think cinema went on a weird distorted path that gave itself a very weird perception of what 'horror' films should be and people mistook garbage like Saw, Jason, Wrong Turn or whatever else as horror films. They're not. They're 'disgust' films where the shock is in the blood and the gore and the jumpy bits.

PA cost $15,000, has a cast of 4 people (in the current release as the ending was changed) and is one of the best films I've seen in a long time. There are no plot twists, no gore-porn, no stupid amounts of blood: Instead we have a Hitchcock-esque creation that is so simple, it's amazing nobody thought of it before. The basic premise is (crudely put): Blair Witch but with a haunted house. However, I think psychologically, the premise goes a lot deeper than that. Everybody has had fears of the dark, or when you're a kid and you hear a noise that could be a footstep or could be nothing, but your imagination plays tricks on you and your left in bed wide awake listening. This film does that to you. It rekindles the childhood fears of the unknown and what's lurking down the stairs.

I was in a movie theater full of jocks and football players and 20 minutes in, they were too scared to shout out, or joke around and some of them actually left the theater. I haven't heard of anything like that since The Exorcist.

People have given it negative feedback because it isn't 'jumpy' enough. These people are missing the point of the movie. It's a slow build, and one you can see coming but I think that is the greatness of it. To make it a jumpy film would ruin it, and ruin the psychological effects with cheap gimmicks or sound bytes. The scariest thing about this film is the atmosphere it creates and again, the fear of the unknown.

I think the camera angle is simply genius though as it gives a view of a world we can see but are powerless to do anything about, (much like Micah's role in the film- he can see the effects but is powerless).

I could waffle on but you get the point. The only slight beef I had with the film was that it felt like they didn't know how to end it effectively. They do end it on a very intense point (which I appreciated as so many films take the wind-down approach to tie up loose ends) however, but I felt that they went for the 'jumpy' market with the last piece of acting. For those of you who have seen it, I meant the VERY last bit of acting, not the bit when the door opens.

In summary, it's a great triumph in cinema to make a genuinely scary horror film, on this budget and have the effect on people it does. My wife had to leave the cinema halfway through because it reminded her of things, and then once we got home you could tell we were thinking the same thing: is there anyone there?
 10/31/2009 03:57:59 PM · #687
Tokyo Gore Police - Lots of blood...lame story...not scary 4/10
 10/31/2009 04:37:48 PM · #688
Yeah Tez, I thought the ending was pretty solid, I'm going to try and find a copy with the other ending, but no luck thus far. Too not say too much, but the part with the dragging...amazing.
 10/31/2009 04:53:32 PM · #689
The Orphan -

Good thriller, would watch it again, a few surprises. I liked it.

The Hangover -

The funniest movie I have ever seen, I laughed from the begining to the end. Would watch many more times. Would recommend to anyone and EVERYONE!! Must see.
 10/31/2009 06:24:48 PM · #690
Michael Jackson's This Is It: 8/10

A documentary of his behind the scene rehearsal of the concert he never performed. It was very inspiring to see how he creates and performs.
 10/31/2009 06:28:27 PM · #691
It's been a while since I was at the theatre, so the last movie I saw was Moon. If you like sci-fi, particularly hard sci-fi, you'll really like this movie. It was excellent.
 10/31/2009 09:42:13 PM · #692
Originally posted by AJSullivan:
Yeah Tez, I thought the ending was pretty solid, I'm going to try and find a copy with the other ending, but no luck thus far. Too not say too much, but the part with the dragging...amazing.


I remember up until that point i was kinda getting a bit disillusioned with it and thinking "well, it hasn't actually hurt anybody yet". That's another one of the reasons why I thought it was so good because everything came at the right time. So you think you've figured it out and then something happens, it escalates.

The dragging part was when it tipped over the edge and went off. The screams in the theater made me laugh too :)
 10/31/2009 10:13:33 PM · #693
Originally posted by Louis:
It's been a while since I was at the theatre, so the last movie I saw was Moon. If you like sci-fi, particularly hard sci-fi, you'll really like this movie. It was excellent.


I'm counting the days for the DVD release, couldn't find a theater that played the film when It was out in theaters, but I heard they mention Helium 3 in the movie, can't wait for it.
 11/02/2009 02:15:57 PM · #694
Originally posted by vikas:
Originally posted by quiet_observation:
Pyaasa (1957) directed by Guru Dutt - the struggling poet gets the girl in the end. A+


Surprised to see this here!


Cinema studies (along with netflix and nehaflix) open up new horizons.
 11/14/2009 04:29:02 PM · #695
Disney's A Christmas Carol 3/10

The three points are for the visuals as I saw this in 3D and that was well done.

The movie was a fright - a hapless and joyless interpretation of the story. Jim Carrey was horrendous as Scrooge, providing no sense of reform or joy in life. He overacted the ghosts - more of a bad comedy routine than a character. His interpretation of Scrooge was more along the lines of "If I act nice to others, I will not have such long chains when I die".

Tthe director and writers attempted to use the period language from Dickens original, but it was how it was interpreted that missed the mark.

Overall, it really missed the mark.

11/14/2009 05:19:25 PM · #696
Going to see This Is It tonight.
 11/14/2009 07:49:10 PM · #697
Isaac and I went to see Nosferatu: A Symphony of Terror (1922) on Hallowe'en night -- original silent film with live organ and percussion accompaniment presented by the San Francisco Symphony. I'm not too into ratings, but it has to get at least an 8/10 for being the original vampire movie.

Message edited by author 2009-11-14 19:49:31.
 11/14/2009 07:52:51 PM · #698
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Isaac and I went to see Nosferatu: A Symphony of Terror (1922) on Hallowe'en night -- original silent film with live organ and percussion accompaniment presented by the San Francisco Symphony. I'm not too into ratings, but it has to get at least an 8/10 for being the original vampire movie.


Fantastic film. I'm a huge fan of German Expressionist films and Nosteratu is one of my favourites. So much to learn from a photography point of view in those films as well.
 11/14/2009 08:00:30 PM · #699
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Isaac and I went to see Nosferatu: A Symphony of Terror (1922) on Hallowe'en night -- original silent film with live organ and percussion accompaniment presented by the San Francisco Symphony. I'm not too into ratings, but it has to get at least an 8/10 for being the original vampire movie.


Funny you mention it. That Friday, my son and I went to see the original 1925 Phantom of the Opera (with Lon Chaney) set to live pipe organ accompaniment. In a church! It was quite a treat. Ten. Why not?
12/01/2009 08:33:55 AM · #700
I watched "UP" sunday night. If you haven't seen it, I suggest doing so. Amazing movie. I usually don't dig the Pixar stuff, but I was hearing so many good things about this, that I had to see it. Amazing graphics, awesome story, and if you don't get a little choked up during the first 15-20 minutes of the movie, you have no soul.
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