Brief reviews of movies you saw recently

[AdrenalineClock]

I simply don't see your problem with Casino Royale's plot having any merit, because it was definitely there.


Also, Predator, I'd appreciate it if you eased up on the posts that make me want to punch you.

[Topcatyo]

Airplane: - Great

Airplane was a great movie with a lot of strange humor, as well as a lot of puns.  The plot of ridiculous, and it works great.  As always, Leslie Nielsen just make the movie 10 times better.  I suggest watching it.

[Randy Pearson]

Creepshow:

This film is an absolute gem. From beginning to end it's either horrifying or a laugh-out-loud riot. I love how Stephen King and George A. Romero were able to take this film and exploit the completely out-there and over-the-top story ideas that you found in fifties comic books but still make them into something that'll scare the hell out of you. I think this has to be the number one (if only) trully effective horror-comedy. The cinematography and visual effects really made me feel like I was reading a comic book come to life. There's some pretty bad acting in it, but it's still very enjoyable, especially the segment with Leslie Nielson, "Hold Your Breath."

If you want to be scared out of your mind, see Creepshow. If you want to laugh uncotrolably, see Creepshow. If you want to see Stephen King and George A. Romero at some of their best, see Creepshow.

9/10

[Topcatyo]

The Warriors - Awesome

I played the game before I got the movie simply because the game got to me first.  However, Rockstar did a spot-on job with the movie.
The movie is about The Warriors being blamed for a major gang-leader's death.  They then try and make it home while every cop and gang in New York is looking for them.
All the characters are cool, the chase scenes are well done, and the fight scenes are spectacular.  A great movie all-around.  Watch it now if you haven't.

[Jimmy McNulty]

This Is Spinal Tap: 11/10
Arguably the best comedy I've ever seen. Wickedly funny and original. Stonehenge is awesome too.

[PossumClock]

Rocky Balboa

I reccomend it, but you could live without it. Basically, the whole first hour is about how everyone aged since episode 5, and how much they're lives have grown apart and stuffs. The last half hour is about him getting an eight pack and beating the shit out of a blak man.


P.S. Mike Tyson is in it.  :3

[CrustClock]

[IMDB]Wild Things[/IMDB]

A ridiculous crime drama boasting an all-star cast including Matt Dillon, the lovely Neve Campbell and Denise Richards, Kevin Bacon and Bill Murray. You could probably make a nice drinking game with this movie: "drink every time there's a major plot-twist".

The film begins as a tale of a college lecturer who is accused of rape by two of his students (Campbell and Richards). But it quickly turns into the story of an elaborate con and an officer's (Bacon) plan to reveal them. Throughout the movie are countless double-crosses and shifts in the balance of power. I don't want to ruin the ending in case you ever intend on seeing this movie but I will say that squashed  into the last 15 minutes of the movie there are 3 major plot twists. The story is incredibly convoluted, but in a kind of no-brainer kind of way - not to be taken seriously in any way at all.

6/10 - good fun for it's wealth of stars and ott plot. But don't expect anything that'll keep you glued to your seat, despite it's twists.

[IMDB]Paris, Texas[/IMDB]

Beautifully shot and directed. Ry Cooper's simple yet brilliant score fits perfectly with the film's more beautiful imagery. Touching and very well acted,  a must-watch.

9/10

This Is Spinal Tap: 11/10
Arguably the best comedy I've ever seen. Wickedly funny and original. Stonehenge is awesome too.

[ChocolateCoffin]

[IMDB]Paris, Texas[/IMDB]

Beautifully shot and directed. Ry Cooper's simple yet brilliant score fits perfectly with the film's more beautiful imagery. Touching and very well acted,  a must-watch.

9/10

[IMDB]Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind[/IMDB]

9/10

Wonderfully acted and shot.

[Hate Clock]

No no no, not at all.

2001 had a detectable and entertaining plot until the last 20 minutes or so, making the better part of the movie understandable. Casino Royale, on the other hand, had very little plot detectable until the last third of the movie. For example, I could completely understand what occured in 2001 UP UNTIL Dave reached the monolith in orbit of Jupiter, but I couldn't find a major plot in Casino Royale up until midway through the poker game, and even then it seemed to totally cancel out the first half of the movie before he arrived. Casino Royale also seemed to be padded out with action sequences and classic bond love scenes. Don't get me wrong, I know this is typically the Bond formula, but from what I've seen in earlier Bond movies, this padding seemed irrelevant to the plot, or just because they hadn't revealed enough about it in the earlier part of the movie. Maybe I'm just judging in on prior experience in bond, maybe I just prefer science fiction. You can't change my opinion.

EDIT: Plus, in 2001 any parts that would confuse you early on would be revealed as significant later in the movie, rather than in bond, (I didn't seem to catch) the majority of plot details seemed to be left out.

Maybe it's because I saw Casino with a large group of people.

I had no problem discerning what was going on Casino Royale, and I had absolutely no problem with all the action and fucking.  Because thats what makes great film, death and sex.

You might just have sort of learning disability.  Like downs.

[AdrenalineClock]

I saw Little Miss Sunshine, I won't rate it because that seems more and more pointless, but it was very good.  Very funny characters and dialogue, and despite the dark humor it was still a nice movie with people you cared for and it makes you appreciate family.

[Hate Clock]

I saw Little Miss Sunshine, I won't rate it because that seems more and more pointless, but it was very good.  Very funny characters and dialogue, and despite the dark humor it was still a nice movie with people you cared for and it makes you appreciate family.

Quality post, this was one of my favorite movies.  It made me feel really good inside, like how I'd probably feel if I ever donated money to charity or starving children in Africa.

[Jimmy McNulty]

Un Chein Andalou

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wierdest sixteen minutes of my life. I want to say it's brilliant, but it was just so...weird. I'm going to need to watch it again.

Mulholland Dr. 10/10

One of the most thrilling and surreal films I have ever seen. I'm still trying to make sense of it. It's brilliant, but extremely confusing.

[AdrenalineClock]

So a film can get a 10/10 while being extremely confusing but Casino Royale is majorly flawed because of it?  Royale is at least 300% more coherent than anything Lynch has done.

[PossumClock]

Lost Boys: 9/10

Just saw this movie. Great movie. And no, i'm not saying this because of my Keifer Sutherland fetish. Lots of great deaths in this movie, i.e. Death by Stereo.

[CrustClock]

You might just have sort of learning disability.

Like lmfao

[FrankClock]

I just saw The Good Shepard in the movie theathers. It was pretty good. Matt Damon plays a cold Ivy League cast into the role of starting what is now known as the CIA. I don't want to give away too much but something happens when he is a child which gives him this cold demenor. He has a child via Angelina Jolie's character, yet he doesn't see his kid until he is 5 or 6. This make his son bitter and apparently want to join his father and goes to the same process of Ivy League, Skull n Bones, CIA. Alot of people said how the guy (a british actor) didn't look like Matt or Angelina. But I thought he had Damon's teeth and Jolie's lips so it was viable that he was their child. Either way, it is a dark look into the life of some one that does what needs to be done. How he got there and what he did. De Niro (atleast with this film) shows that he is as good a director as he is an actor.

9.5/10

Also, I got Clerks 2 on DVD and rewatched it again along with the 90 min making of documentary along with 27 minutes of unused footage, along with the 10 best (out of 75) Train Wrecks they put together. This is a really good movie. Period. Kevin Smith always makes fun of the fact that he is not a film maker. Well, I agree with him. He is a story teller and a great one at that. I mean its got its normal Kevin Smith humor and what not (enlarged clits, Ass To Mouth and Donkey Shows) but it also has heart. The Jail House scene is probably one of the best scenes ever in film. Atleast I think so. The way Randel pours his heart out. Behind every jerk faced kinda guy Randel is to people, there is a hidden want to be needed. And Randel needs Dante as much as Dante needs Randel.

10/10

[StrangeClock]

Happy Feet
Beautiful CGI nature - absolute garbage story. I can accept that it's centered around the usual cliché of a character with a useless talent that eventually turns out to save the world, but it being a kids' movie is no excuse for the insanely simplified ending. "Gasp! That penguin in our zoo tapdances! Thus... penguins must be preserved thus the UN must vote to stop all fishing around the arctic AND we must release the penguin in the wild with a transmitter." I would've expected them to stick the penguin in a circus or at least abuse him for  a marketing scheme. There's no end to the leaps of logic, and must it be so goddamn crowded? I swear, it's like at all times there must be three characters talking through each other, and the wild rides through arctic tunnels don't end. Crap!

I seriously did not want to see this movie, but my family wanted to go see one and I didn't want to be a stick in the mud, especially because there were almost no movies I wanted to see at all (Charlotte's Web, no thanks, Flushed Away, mweh) -- I haven't seen Casino Royale or Borat yet but neither seems a good movie to go see with my family.

2001: a Space Odyssey
Ssssooooo slowwwww it takes some concentration to keep watching it. Cinematically fascinating and wonderful effects for its time. Made me respect Kubrick more, but it'll never be one of my favorites.

Amélie
Very cute. The movie too. HAH. The French seem to have a slightly immature sense of humor, maybe that explains their love of Jerry Lewis. Lovely story and form though, and Audrey Tautou is mouthwatering.

[LeekClock]

Home Alone

Everyone has seen this movie, of course, but I just watched it again for the first time in years. And I still think  it's a great film... Maybe partially due to a nostalgic bias. Watched it a million times as a kid. Everything, down to the intonation of the actors voices as they deliver their lines,  has stuck in my mind.

Chris Columbus directs people well, I guess: Making funny observations on family relationships and getting an alarming amount of charisma and humour out of Macaulay Culkin.

The script is great too. Perfect tight structure, and full of dialogue that you can tell had a lot of thought and consideration put into it. And a lot of the family observations ring very true.

[Topcatyo]

Grandma's boy - Fuckin' hilarious[/U]

Grandma's Boy is not a movie to watch if you want a mature movie.  It's not the movie to watch if you're looking for any kind of plot.  It is the movie you're looking for a movie about getting high, having parties, people acting stupid, and jerking-off on your best friend's mom.  The movie is not by any means good, but you'll laugh your ass off at the movie (Peter Dante especially) if you approach it with an open mind and be open for lowbrow humor.

Dead Alive - Fucking gross

I have never seen Saving Private Ryan.  I've not seen any movie gorier than that either (or, at least, how gory I'd expect it to be) until today.  The goriest movie I had seen up until about 9 o'clock was Shaun of the Dead.  That's nothing compared to this.  This is a zombie movie by Peter Jackson, and it is so gory it astounded me that I wasn't throwing up (barf bags were sold at theaters showing this).  From limbs being blended to 30 zombies being chopped up with a lawnmower to a guy being attacked by intestines, Dead Alive shows no mercy.  Watch it if you're looking for splatter porn.  Don't watch it if you're looking for a plot.

Also, Dead Alive is known as Braindead to you clocks from across the pond.

[cokezeroglock]

The Italian Job (1969)
This is the real one, not that shitty remake they did.
Simply, utterly amazing. Sleek 60's style, an amazing chase scene, and great humour to boot. If you haven't seen it, see it. Now.