Brief reviews of movies you saw recently

[Jimmy McNulty]

The godfather: 9.5/10

Brilliantly directed. Almost every scene is masterfully done. Coppla does does an incredible job of building suspense. The actors are top notch, all of them do a spectacular job.

Snakes on a plane: Fucking awsome/ten

need I say more?

[GreyClock]

Step Up

totally ga y/10

(it was a sneak preview ok, we didn't know what we were going to see)

[Muffin Fellow]

Snakes on a Plane is excelent when everyone in the theatre is intoxicated.

[chocolatechipclock]

Snakes on a Plane is excelent when everyone in the theatre is intoxicated.

yeah I watched it while pretty baked, it was great.

[Starman]

Dawn Of The Dead

This movie had a very good idea, but didn't pull its full capability out. This movie should have been scarier, though it was a total gorefest. The effect were good, and a good story line.

3.5/5

[Kombucha]

V for Vendetta: 9/10
Very good movie.

Ultraviolet: 7/10
Good but not so good.

[StrangeClock]

Blade: Trinity
So absurdly, wretchedly, farfetchedly bad! I just laughed my ass off at how bizarrely tasteless the whole thing is. Unlike the first two, it's no longer written for a I'm a edgy teen audience, apparently - it's now written by a I'm a edgy teen audience. The attempts at jokes were embarassing, but the sheer amount of pointless out of place swearing and internet forum-bred  insults... like ten recent Kevin Smith movies. The godawful posing, the ratio of bad-guys-hit-nothing, good-guys-hit-everything, the plotholes that reach straight through the earth to China, the sad tragic hipster product placement for Alienware and iPods, the unspeakably vile soundtrack, the overuse of sound effects (like when the chick pops the earphones into her ears at the end)... Is there some kind of Lifetime Achievement Razzie award? This movie so deserves it. It only just misses the "so bad, it's good" mark.

I spent most of the movie laughing in disbelief, the only scenes that actually served their intended purpose were the ones with the vampire dogs. So bad! God!


the Descent
A bunch of chicks decide to go spelunking for fun and get trapped with underground vampire people. If the plot sounds familiar, it's probably because the movie "the Cave" was also released last year, and it was the same thing, just with a bigger budget, less credible story and more guys. Anyway, this movie surprised me, I wouldn't call it good, but worth a rent on a rainy day. The special effects are quite nice, and the sound work especially impressed me. Like when one of the girls gets her throat chewed by one of the creatures. I think someone here mentioned it was by the same director as Dog Soldiers? Sounds about right, neither are amazing movies, but good fun nonetheless.


They Live
Haha. Great bit of sci-fi pulp. The story reminds me of classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers, minced in with a fun script that just doesn't care and professional wrestler-level acting, which is to say not very good.

[LeekClock]

Caché (hidden)
 
Good french thriller. I like the direction a lot. I like how the story is crafted. It allows you to become involved.
 
Also, the dvd extras are really great if you're interested in the filmmaking process, or if you want to understand the director's motives and way of working, and how he feels about the story.
 
Film: 4/5
 
Extras: 4.5/5

[Losperman]

The Wicker Man - 7/10

I liked a lot of the acting, and the story/writing was mostly solid. Nicolas Cage's character was great. My biggest complaint is with the ending. I won't ruin anything, but it's way too predictable, and shows it's dependance on Hollywood trends. It didn't exactly ruin the movie, but it is a drawback. Maybe I will have a different opinion a few years down the line, when the film stands on it's own, but right now it's too much of a clone.

Hairspray - 4/10

John Water's movies get better over time, which isn't saying much. But as terrible as they usually are, they also manage to wedge a space in your heart. Hairspray started to create that wedge, but I think it only made it halfway in. Some of the acting was actually terrible, and not just campy, like it should have been. And there were far too many silent shots of pointless dancing that could have been used more productively.

[Kombucha]

A Beautiful Mind: 9/1o
Great movie okay?

Sphere: 8/10
Also good.

[DigitalLemonClock]

That's exactly what I thought about Napoleon Dynamite and Anchorman, but i sat through and ended up really enjoying them.

But, live and let live, right?

If you didn't enjoy Napoleon Dynamite the first hour how did you enjoy the last 30 minutes? Same for Anchorman.

I thought the Descent achieved some nice points; it made me succesfully claustrophobic at times, it had some very well composed shots that made the the hour long chickflick part of the movie bearable, and the the first few times they encounter the enemy is fucking scary as shit.

Well anyway,  that's how I experienced it on Lowlands festival, outside with 500 people, in the rain, stoned out of my mind.

[Losperman]

Crank - 9/10

This movie was ridiculous, but it didn't take itself seriously, so it kind of balanced out. Jason Statham was awesome, as usual, although he's still being typecast in his roles. Amy Smart was pretty hot, especially in the Chinatown scene. The action was good and the gore was great. Not too many complaints about this one.

[Shadz]

Lil Miss Sun Shine
6/10

Not the funniest movie I ever seen, the plot was a bit stupid but some parts were hilarious.

Accepted
8/10

Yet another teen movie. Nice plot and characters were cool. I laughed at like every 5 mins.

[StrangeClock]

Well anyway,  that's how I experienced it on Lowlands festival, outside with 500 people, in the rain, stoned out of my mind.

That's probably the best way to see a movie!

Funny enough I first saw Dog Soldiers at Lowlands, though it was an inside showing.

seriously though Blade Trinity why would a police sergeant use an Alienware laptop? Does he play Elder Scrolls: Oblivion when he's not hunting tasteless actors? I could write a book about this movie.

[Munglai]

Crank - 9/10

This movie was ridiculous, but it didn't take itself seriously, so it kind of balanced out. Jason Statham was awesome, as usual, although he's still being typecast in his roles. Amy Smart was pretty hot, especially in the Chinatown scene. The action was good and the gore was great. Not too many complaints about this one.

I thought Crank was brilliant. That and Snakes on a Plane are the best proper action films that have been done for ages. They've got all that same kind of extreme Die Hard/Speed feel to them but with enough new ideas and likeable characters and stuff to make them not just a shitty ripoff of those films (or the Matrix) like all action films for ages have been. Also Crank was really interestingly directed with all really cool visual stuff stuck into it.

[Hate Clock]

I thought Crank was brilliant. That and Snakes on a Plane are the best proper action films that have been done for ages. They've got all that same kind of extreme Die Hard/Speed feel to them but with enough new ideas and likeable characters and stuff to make them not just a shitty ripoff of those films (or the Matrix) like all action films for ages have been. Also Crank was really interestingly directed with all really cool visual stuff stuck into it.

I'm going to have to see Crank again.  I mean I liked it, but I didn't like it as much as I think I shouldve.  I had a pretty bad headache.

[Munglai]

I'm going to have to see Crank again.  I mean I liked it, but I didn't like it as much as I think I shouldve.  I had a pretty bad headache.

It's probably not a good film to watch with a headache because it's basically just an angry cockney smashing stuff for two hours.

[Hate Clock]

It's probably not a good film to watch with a headache because it's basically just an angry cockney smashing stuff for two hours.

I thought the pacing was just a little bit off, and he needed to do everything faster.  There were some parts where the action kind of slowed down and I wouldve liked the whole movie to just be this insane killing spree.  Also there werent enough straight up BRAWLS.

[Poltergeist]

Lil Miss Sun Shine
6/10

Not the funniest movie I ever seen, the plot was a bit stupid but some parts were hilarious.

Accepted
8/10

Yet another teen movie. Nice plot and characters were cool. I laughed at like every 5 mins.

.... You're insane. Switch the ratings. Accepted was another average teen movie, Little miss sunshine wasn't really a comedy, but it was awesome.

[Jimmy McNulty]

The Godfather Part 2: 10/10
As good, if not better, than the original. The plot is complex and somewhat hard to follow at the beggining, but it sorts itself out in time. Great performances all around.

Waynes World: 10/10
Wonderfully absurd. One of the best comedies I've ever seen.

Alien: 10/10
Yet another awsome movie. I had pretty much spoiled it for myself via wikipedia, but what I saw went above and beyond my expectations. The atmosphere is chilling, the characters are all very real, and the alien, damn is that fucker creepy. I loved how you saw so little of it. It didn't strike like a viper, darting out of a corner and nabbing you, but was much more subtle. He creeps up slowly, almost barely noticable, like when Brett is looking for Jonesy and the camera pans down from the ceiling and you see the alien, right? There is absolutly no emphasis on it. Like it's just part of the background. Fucking. Awsome.