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Topic Started: Dec 28 2004, 03:43:56 AM (109,707 Views)
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Just finished Into Darkness. I'd say I enjoyed it just as much as the previous film. I've never been the biggest Star Trek fan, and really all I know about it is the big things that are usually referenced in pop culture. My stepdad always liked it, so I've seen the first three or four movies and quite a few episodes of the shows when I was a kid, although I don't remember much about them. Anyway, these two movies, to me, felt like the perfect way to reboot a franchise, or whatever they call these two movies. It's familiar, with recognizable characters and themes for anybody who has knowledge of the franchise, but it's also fresh enough for modern audiences, and I guess, not so geeky. Basically it's taken something I thought was kinda boring and cheesy when I was a kid watching it with my stepdad, and made it into a new universe that's interesting and entertaining.
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watching the entire Friday The 13th series, parts I-XII
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Sep 17 2013, 06:41:19 AM
Just finished Into Darkness. I'd say I enjoyed it just as much as the previous film. I've never been the biggest Star Trek fan, and really all I know about it is the big things that are usually referenced in pop culture. My stepdad always liked it, so I've seen the first three or four movies and quite a few episodes of the shows when I was a kid, although I don't remember much about them. Anyway, these two movies, to me, felt like the perfect way to reboot a franchise, or whatever they call these two movies. It's familiar, with recognizable characters and themes for anybody who has knowledge of the franchise, but it's also fresh enough for modern audiences, and I guess, not so geeky. Basically it's taken something I thought was kinda boring and cheesy when I was a kid watching it with my stepdad, and made it into a new universe that's interesting and entertaining.
A man after my own heart. It's always confused me why so many fans disliked the new ones. The 2009 film was as much a sequel as it was a reboot, it doesn't disregard everything that came before it.
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I just watched World War Z and I thought it was a great film, I hear people saying Brad Pitt was a bad choice, I thought he did a fantastic job, I actually felt emotion for the characters and not to mention, this is the most realistic zombie outbreak movie to date imo, if zombies where to happen I'm pretty sure this would be the way it would happen. Overall I loved the movie, it's now made it to my favorites list.
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I'm watching Ancient Sniper :roy:

K, k I'm kidding. I just watched Mona Lisa Smile a few nights back with a lady friend. Great movie.


.... *sigh* I'm such a girl.

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I saw R.I.P.D. this morning

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I thought R.I.P.D. was pretty ok, favorite line (witch i use very often) is "This is some honkey tonk bullshit!"
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Watching Arrow, first episode with Deadshot. It's pretty damn cool seeing those characters on the silver screen/TV, even though Deadshot seems off IMO. For the guy who never misses a shot, he sure seems reckless as hell.
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Watching Shutter Islands now. Brilliant film IMO. The atmosphere, style, the acting *DiCaprio especially stands out in this performance* build up, and finally conclusion, all makes for a tight, great watching experience.
Especially that ending...
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Apr 26 2013, 02:15:35 AM
Last night I saw Rob Zombie's new film, The Lords of Salem... It's a shame, because it should have been a good movie: the premise is pretty interesting, there are some great shots and cinematography and the Satanic scenes are pretty good (for the most part), and Sheri Moon isn't completely unbearable.

The problem is that a lot of the movie is very boring, and there is virtually no plot, or reason for anything that happens. Plot points are dropped and seemingly forgotten or ignored, there's some pretty painful dialog, and most of the things that are meant to be scary come off as just stupid or stale (there are more than enough Satanic horror clichés packed in here)...or worse, stupid and completely random - for example, one scene features our hero, Heidi, in a dark apartment transfixed by a large red neon crucifix, and a large Bigfoot-like creature appears behind her, unbeknownst to Heidi, and we are then shown a brief scene (flashback? dream? who knows?) which depicts two men in masks standing guard in the woods as the beast walks between them toward the camera. I assumed this creature to be an embodiment of Satan himself, but I will never know because nothing else happens when we return to Heidi after the woods scene, and the monster is never seen or mentioned again, and has nothing to do with the rest of the movie.

The worst part of all this is that the last 45 minutes or so devolve into complete nonsense - the majority of the second half is a jumble of random hallucinogenic scenes that aren't explained or don't seem to have any purpose or even any connection to each other (like the "monster" scene I described, although it gets much weirder). And then the movie abruptly ends, with no resolution or explanation of anything that happened, and as the credits roll we see the top of Heidi's apartment building and some trees, as the camera points at the sky and slowly revolves in a full circle.

I suppose that, since I'm sitting here almost 24 hours later attempting to wrap my head around whatever it is I saw last night, Zombie accomplished whatever it was he was trying to accomplish with this movie. There are clear influences from the likes of David Lynch and Stanley Kubrick... The problem is that Rob Zombie is certainly no David Lynch, or Kubrick for that matter. Maybe the problem lies in his skills as a writer, because I felt he certainly did an admirable job directing. If the screenplay had been in someone else's hands, or even if he had an experienced collaborator, this could have been saved. Hell, even if it had been a weird "WTF" art film that was mean to puzzling from the get-go, á la David Lynch, it could've been better. The way it is now, though, it feels like Zombie just ran out of ideas halfway through writing the movie and decided to just jumble a bunch of scenes together and not even bother to end it.

What a shame.

TL;DR: The Lords of Salem sucked. Sorry guys, got carried away with this write up.
I read somewhere (cant remember) that the movie never really was supposed to have a very rooted plot. it was just a shock value movie. I thought it was an ok film. def not RZ best, but i wouldnt say it sucked.

Best part was the masturbating priests at the end. LOL
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Source_(2002_film)
This is horribly bad. It's so bad, the director doesn't even have a Wikipedia page. Just caught it on TV.
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Earlier today I saw The Lost Boys, I've had it on DVD for ages but I never actually watched it until today. I really liked it, one of the best vampire movies I've seen (along with Dracula and From Dusk Till Dawn).
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The Town. Really good flick so far, one badass intro too.
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I'm really the first who would tell you that most Fan Made stuff is 100% awful. But not this time. It's well produced and Directed. Working like a Pitch to executives. It's not perfect, but a step in the right direction.
I know little about Wonder Woman myself, but have been trying as she seems interesting enough. (By that I mean Not Interesting, but her following has me curious)
Do to my lack of knowledge I can't say what much of anything is, but it appears that Themyscira and the Amazons make an appearance, and these really well made CGI monster like creatures.
Check it out, it's bery good, and not predictably sexualized.
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I'm really the first who would tell you that most Fan Made stuff is 100% awful. But not this time. It's well produced and Directed. Working like a Pitch to executives. It's not perfect, but a step in the right direction.
I know little about Wonder Woman myself, but have been trying as she seems interesting enough. (By that I mean Not Interesting, but her following has me curious)
Do to my lack of knowledge I can't say what much of anything is, but it appears that Themyscira and the Amazons make an appearance, and these really well made CGI monster like creatures.
Check it out, it's bery good, and not predictably sexualized.
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Indeed. It's not terrible and the design of Wonder Woman doesn't have pants. (I hate the design of WW with pants, it just looks weird compared to everything else about her design. I know they don't want to make her oversexualized but she's a friggin' Amazonian queen. They're the most beautiful women in the universe, practically, why wouldn't they show off? If not for superiority reasons.)

Anyway, I've been on a DC marathon so I watched The Flashpoint Paradox. Pretty good. Kevin Conroy playing Batman even for a short time is an instant plus in my book. Sometimes I wonder why they don't just hire him for every DC animated movie. But this movie, as well as Doom, endeared me to Flash a lot more than I thought I would and made me sympathize with the guy. I still think the whole 'costume pops out of his ring' thing is dumb and his arch-nemesis' name being Eobord Thawne is the stupidest fuck thing ever, but the character is pretty cool.
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The Absolute Best Couch gag ever.
And what do you know, Guillermo Del Toro Directed it. (The Man Responsible for Pacific Rim)

It's hard to spot all the references, But I saw a Jaeger, Alfred Hitchcock, Stephen King, cthulhu, HP Lovecraft, Edgar Allen Poe, Dracula, Godzilla Skeleton, Pale Man, Frankenstein's Monster, The Mummy, Bride of Frankenstein, The Invisible Man, That One monster from "20 Million Miles to Earth, Gort from The Day the Earth Stood Still. And many other references to his work and others...
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I just finished watching Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas. Fucking crazy film.
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My Bloody Valentine 3D,One of the realistic Slasher movie i ever watched
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Re-watching Clannad with le lady friend.
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Watching "The Puffy Chair", it's for Film Studies but man is it boring so far (13 minutes in)
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