Brief reviews of movies you saw recently

[Poltergeist]

STANLEY YELNATS
Also, not bad, but felt really off some of the time.  The ending felt super rushed, and I'm not sure I recall if that's how the book ended, but I don't think they remembered to make the connection between Zero and the oracle lady from a long time ago that they did in the book.

I don't remember the movie very well, but I'm pretty sure they implied it. I actually felt the movie adaptation did a really good job and made enough changes to really make it work well as a movie.

[Topcatyo]

WALL•E
Good shit.

[Topcatyo]

By the way, in WALL•E, when they showed the wanted poster of WALL•E and EVE, did anyone else think "BONN•E and CLYDE"?

[Poltergeist]

I didn't, but you are adorable

[salt]

Slumdog Millionaire
9/10

What a great movie. It's just really refreshing to see something so charming and sad and dark all mixed into one great movie. It was very well paced, clever, and you immediately understand what's going on and how it's structured from the beggining. It was very well acted, even by the child actors (who tend to do a 'meh' job in most movies imo), and even though the ending was relatively cheesy and Hollywood-y, it was all done in a good way. I'll have to say that this is not as amazing as people tend to say it is, but it deserves its awards. I'm glad this was set in India, because that just made it so much more fascinating. It's sort of like a regular UK or Hollywood movie, but set in India, and though that may seem not so extraordinary, it really changed a lot. Also, it looked great, and was shot very well.

Go and see this pls.

[FLOUNDERMAN_CLOCK]

Well I saw Coraline for my birthday, my mom said it was one of the best movies she'd ever seen. And I have to say, it was certainly a good movie. Usually I don't like 3D movies but the 3D really added to the magic of the film.

[Topcatyo]

Eagle Eye
Not a bad movie, and it's really interesting, but pretty soon tons of things are coming at you faster than the camera is shaking and there are explosions left and right and conspiracies and terrorism and supercomputers and everything.  The movie seems complicated (by the end you realize it's really not, but the pacing makes it seem that way) and it suffers from what The Dark Knight did where things are tense for way too long and you start to get tired and begin wishing for the movie to just end already.

[SnakeClock]

CORALINE
9/10

So

completely

amazing.

This might be one of the first movies where the 3D effects felt so part and parcel with the movie, rather than just a gimmick. It really brought out the stop-motion texture and substance to the film, and the effects were so incredibly subtle and intrinsic, it actually added to the film. I saw it in 2D on opening day, then saw it in 3D the next day, it felt like a different movie.

Besides all that, though, it's astounding. Henry Selick's unique artistic direction loaned itself incredibly well to Neil Gaiman's brand of dark magic. I thought the cast of mainstream actors like Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher and John Hodgman would detract from it, but I barely noticed it was them (especially Fanning), and towards the end, the film just became so uniquely frightening. The way everything is visualized in the film, from the way the world fades out when Coraline walks too far, to the final form of the Other Mother, were all images that will stay with me. After the movie was over, I heard the audience say the strangest things, like "I can feel you, Mommy! I can feel you!" Now that is some interesting terror.

Plus, it's a Henry Selick movie where Tim Burton finally doesn't have his name plastered all over it. Incredibly satisfying.

[Moose Clock]

CORALINE
9/10

So

completely

amazing.

This might be one of the first movies where the 3D effects felt so part and parcel with the movie, rather than just a gimmick. It really brought out the stop-motion texture and substance to the film, and the effects were so incredibly subtle and intrinsic, it actually added to the film. I saw it in 2D on opening day, then saw it in 3D the next day, it felt like a different movie.

Besides all that, though, it's astounding. Henry Selick's unique artistic direction loaned itself incredibly well to Neil Gaiman's brand of dark magic. I thought the cast of mainstream actors like Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher and John Hodgman would detract from it, but I barely noticed it was them (especially Fanning), and towards the end, the film just became so uniquely frightening. The way everything is visualized in the film, from the way the world fades out when Coraline walks too far, to the final form of the Other Mother, were all images that will stay with me. After the movie was over, I heard the audience say the strangest things, like "I can feel you, Mommy! I can feel you!" Now that is some interesting terror.

Plus, it's a Henry Selick movie where Tim Burton finally doesn't have his name plastered all over it. Incredibly satisfying.

That sums up what I had to say about Coraline. Truly amazing.

[Asshatclock]

Resident Evil Degeneration

Its a lot better then those godawfull movies.

[RomanClock]

Plus, it's a Henry Selick movie where Tim Burton finally doesn't have his name plastered all over it. Incredibly satisfying.

I guess I should go see it in 3D!
Also, Selick made James and the Giant Peach, largely ignored though, even though its also a great movie. Looking at his profile, he only releases a feature length movie every 4-6 years. I hope Coraline's great reception motivates him to make more!

[Slurpee]

Friday the 13th - it was aight.
The kind of movie, you know, even as a big dork for the franchise, I'd see it again, but I wouldn't break an appointment or anything, just if I ain't got anything better to do.
It feels like they fucked up. Like one half of the creative team wanted to revamp and update the franchise, and the other half just wanted a big smily tip of the hat to the first couple movies, and they ended up not really having it either way.
Like, the My Bloody Valentine remake, I got a big grindhouse vibe off of- it knew it was a bullshit popcorn rollercoaster thing, so it just tried to be fun, and it succeeded. Here it was like, the whole weed thing, and the underground tunnels- it just didn't feel like the filmmakers knew what they were going for.
And the continuity immigrant from Transformers kind of ruined things for me. I take it most people were like "Tee-hee! He's an asshole." but I was wondering if he remembered that New York was destroyed by giant robots 2 years ago.

I saw Coraline, too, but I don't have anything new to say about it. It was really good, and go see it, preferably in 3d, because it really does come damn close to making a true narrative difference.

[TequilaClock]

Ratatouille - 91/100

Wonderful, I love food and Pixar's works. They make a great combination for me. They voice acting and the human expressions by the way, are impressive and delicious, pure caricatures.

Now I gotta watch Coraline sometime soon.

[Topcatyo]

Ghost Town
I wasn't really expecting this movie to be amazing or anything before I watched it, and it wasn't, but it was still rather enjoyable.  My only problems with the movie were that it followed that standard "comedy movie" formula, just with ghosts, and that so much of the movie was so fucking awkward.
However, both were somewhat justified in that the movie followed the formula but still did itwell, and that the awkward scenes were usually cut short by or at least quickly followed by a scene that was genuinely funny or whatever.
It's not groundbreaking or anything, but I liked it.
I'm surprised that, what with it being a movie with ghosts and all that, they didn't use a lot of CG.
Interesting things I noted were that I could've sworn I heard the word "fuck" more than once in the movie (it's rated PG-13).  I dunno what their rules with that word were, but I could've sworn for PG-13 it was "one fuck per movie" or whatever.  Maybe not, maybe I imagined one of the fucks, whatever.
Also interesting is that they used a Beatles song in its original form, which is awesome because I'm tired of movies/commercials/whatever remaking a Beatles song when they use it.

[Poltergeist]

Fuck can be used as an explitive, but it's considered more harsh when used as an actual word. Example

"Oh fuck!"

is not as bad as

"I'm going to fuck you in the eye!"

[Topcatyo]

Fuck can be used as an explitive, but it's considered more harsh when used as an actual word. Example

"Oh fuck!"

is not as bad as

"I'm going to fuck you in the eye!"

Ah, I see.  As far as I know, they were only used as "sentence enhancers".
Like
"What are you, some fucking plan ruiner" or whatever the guy said, and what the other guy said being
"Maybe if you weren't such a fucking prick..."

According to Wikipedia, the most trusted source ever:

The word fuck can be used anywhere from one time to as many as four, but there are exceptions to this rule.

So there ya go.
This is still the first time I've seen a PG-13 movie with more than one "fuck", but, then again, most of the time when a movie goes over one "fuck" is when the director says "take out half the dialogue and just put that word in", so...

[Kombucha]

I heard fuck in a PG movie once.

[TequilaClock]

The Big Lebowski - 88/100

Hahaha that was amazing

[Poltergeist]

The Big Lebowski - 88/100

Hahaha that was amazing

I liked it but he ending narration was just AWFUL

[Topcatyo]

I heard fuck in a PG movie once.

Spaceballs was a PG movie.

Anyway

The Thing
Fucking awesome.  I posted about it in the The Thing thread.