Rate & Mini-Summarize the Last Movie You Saw [Archive]

The GWD

08-10-2008, 10:51 PM

X Files II

I'm one of the biggest X files nerds alive and have been following media on this movie since it was announced. Maybe I had too high of expectations going in, but I was so very disappointed. Duchovny and Anderson slip comfortably into their iconic roles, but the story can't match their chemistry. I knew going in this was going to be a monster of the week type X-Files flick, and I was fine with that. They could have done quite a lot, especially since all the advances in special effects since the last movie in '98. Not that I want Chris Carter to go Michael Bay on our asses, but the whole movie felt like it could have been a double part episode in the first seasons. It just didn't feel theatric enough for me. There's also a side story involving Scully and her ethics and it bored the shit out of me as it would have done nicely in a soap opera, but not the fucking X-Files! That being said, there's some of the shows signature humor and intensity. I only marginally liked this movie because I'm such a fan of the X-Files, but I would never recommend it to a non-fan. I do hope they make another film, but I hope it revolves around the extraterrestrial arc of the X-Files legend. That worked for the first film quite nicely, and it makes for a more epic moviegoing experience.

7/10

nuclearjew

08-11-2008, 12:35 AM

vasili denisov

08-12-2008, 02:41 PM

Celine and Julie Go Boating

Two women meet, then attempt to solve the mystery of a house which gives anyone who enters a brief, fading vision before forcing the entrant out again. A benign cousin of Mulholland Drive, this french movie was made after the algerian war and the tumult of the sixties, feels like a retreat to childhood from the difficulties of the world. Sex and love, two subjects usually explored better by this country's films than anywhere, are only briefly touched on, and only in the context of a childhood friendship recalled.

There's almost no music, the photography is plain; if man is good and corrupted by society, perhaps stories are inherently good and damaged by structure and flourish of any kind. The movie goes on and on for three hours, like a long, open day of a child during summer, with the viewer trying to puzzle out whether there's something more to what's going on, the same demand made of a soup can or a toilet found in a museum.

TheImpossibleMan

08-12-2008, 02:58 PM

Pineapple Express

This might be the most retarded movie I've ever seen. It makes Dumb and Dumber look like Shakespeare. It was still enjoyable but I think it really needs to be seen under the influence for maximum lulz.

3/5
+1, but stoners beware that it is pretty violent, so don't freak out...I remember hating Hot Fuzz the first time I saw it, because I was stoned and I wasn't anticpating the gore (though in retrospect I really should have).

I give the express 5 out of 7.

HAWK

08-12-2008, 03:10 PM

STEP BROTHERS

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d9/StepbrothersMP08.jpg/200px-StepbrothersMP08.jpg

A definite upgrade over WF's previous lackluster film "Semi-Pro." I laughed my ass off the whole time. Not bad considering I didn't even want to see it.

misterfatt

08-12-2008, 03:14 PM

i saw stepbrothers in theaters and thought it was will ferrell's best movie to date.

then again, i was on shrooms and found the trailer for the dancing chihuahua movie to be the greatest thing ever.

macready

08-12-2008, 03:44 PM

CONAN THE BARBARIAN. The special edition
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b46/macreadys_hat/5125086ZW8L__SL500_AA240_.jpg

Bought this a while ago and finally got round to watching it this afternoon.
As with most movies watched when young and impressionable this one doesn't quite live up to how I remembered it and although its still visually stunning to look at, it slow pacing really lets it down, however what I was most disappointed with was the awful cuts that have been made to this DVD version to remove scenes of alleged animal cruelty (horses falling over as far as I can tell) and also the variable quality of the print transfer leaves a lot to be desired. The 5.1 soundtrack was pretty good and the extras were a nice addition but on the whole I was left feeling pretty disappointed and at no stage during the movie did i feel (unlike on my initial viewing) the need to slice peoples heads off with huge steel sword and go around knocking camels out with my bare fists.

6.5/10

Kopek

08-12-2008, 05:15 PM

Pineapple Express - 5/10

Just felt like three different movies at once. Once it was a buddy comedy that dealt with weed. Another time it was an extremely violent and hyper real action film. Another had something to do with inappropriate relationships with high school girls. The R-rated railers [which pretty much spell out the entire movie and its definite great spots] lead it to be more comedic than it was actually filmed. The script was a lot tighter and funnier on the page. Getting killed by a Daewoo does suck. This time it feels like the improv ruined the final product.

Step Brothers - 6.5/10

This is an instance where the trailers don't quite spell out how batshit crazy this film gets at times. Not quite the return to 'Anchorman'-esque awesome but getting there. It's not trying to be anything more than what it is --- two man children with clear emotional issues that go way beyond sanity. Extreme improvement from the original script that took some even more bizarre turns. Dropping Vanilla Ice references will never get old.

Bill Paxton

08-13-2008, 12:21 PM

Step Brothers - 8 out of 10.

I loved this movie. Ferrell and Riley play off each other so well. Had an excellent laugh per minute ratio and as others have said its pretty insance.

The scene with Will Ferrell's brother (his brother in the movie) and his family singing in the car almost made me shit myself.

NOTKyle

08-13-2008, 12:23 PM

Derek's son is so punchable. I hated that kid after seeing him for 30 seconds.

Bill Paxton

08-13-2008, 12:29 PM

Great voice though

NOTKyle

08-13-2008, 12:33 PM

The voice lessons really paid off.

One Under

08-13-2008, 12:33 PM

Every scene with Derek's wife and Riley was fucking awesome.

Snatch

08-16-2008, 12:02 AM

Funny Games- 1/5

If you have balls don't see this movie. The entire purpose will be lost on you. It seems like the entire point is to try cause the viewer to stop watching the movie out of disgust. The only problem is, the people that would watch this movie, are probably the unwavering type. So, what you get, is a lesson in fucking pointlessness.

Quite literally, it is the most insultingly shitty movie I have seen this year. It doesn't accomplish anything. "Oh, it's supposed to piss you off." I couldn't even look at Michael Pitt after the first three minutes of the movie. You're supposed to "agonize" for the family, but none of the characters get developed at any point at all. So, I didn't feel anything for them during their misfortune.

So, if you like shitty torture porn, enjoy this complete piece of shit

nuclearjew

08-16-2008, 12:20 AM

Snatch not liking a movie? No wai!

bixby

08-16-2008, 12:21 AM

Holy shit, Hancock is a fucking mess. Thank the sweet Lord for torrents.

Spoilers, whatever. You should read them, though, so you don't have to spend the last 30-45 minutes of a movie slapping your forehead repeatedly.

I knew the twist, I heard it was awful, but I didn't know it was this awful. This movie can't make up it's fucking mind about anything--okay, when they're close they lose their powers. Okay, simple enough, it's retarded you're even going in this direction with the story, but I'll roll...wait, so why is Will Smith losing his powers when he's miles away, then gaining them back when Charlize Theron's close to him? Then losing them again? He's got his powers, he doesn't have them. She's right down the fucking hallway in the hospital, and he's got his powers...no, wait, he doesn't have them anymore. MAKE UP YOUR MIND YOU SCHIZOPHRENIC PIECE OF SHIT! If this were really the case, Smith would've been losing his powers the minute he stepped near their house at the beginning of the film. Hell, he would've lost them anytime he flew over their neighborhood.

Okay, now everything's really emotional in the hospital, because the movie thinks if you cry enough and have enough people screaming, then that will fool dumber audience members into thinking that the scene is dramatic. Jason Bateman looks like the only one who knows how much this movie sucks, and it's really fun to watch his bored, eye rolling "what the fffuuccckkk" facial expressions in these final scenes.

Oh look, Will Smith is bouncing off sort of like the Ang Lee Hulk to save/get away from Theron--oh, Peter Berg, you master satirist, you.

One month later? Whatever helps you wrap up your shitty little story there, movie. Oh, look, Theron and Bateman are walking with their kid, exchanging "witty" sitcom dialogue about all the famous historical figures she's meet. Oh, how pleasant! Don't explore the fact that she mentioned the only way she can grow old/die is by being near Smith, thus inevitably leading her to watch her husband and her son die someday. That would actually be, you know, interesting.

Will Smith calls Bateman while sitting on a roof in New York, next to an eagle (...so, because he uses an eagle as his kind of sort of logo, he takes up eagle training so he can have a mascot? Fuck you, movie)

Will Smith tells Bateman to look at the moon, Bateman looks at the moon and sees this stupid red heart logo on it's surface, giving Bateman free advertising for some fucking humanitarian subplot he had that nobody cared about.

Hancock jumps off the roof, with a homage to Daredevil--oh, Peter Berg! You're so good at satirizing the shitty superhero movies! You really showed these other hacks how to really make a shitty movie in this genre.

Oh, and fuck you too, Will Smith. You and your lame-ass, forced "brooding" acting style these days.

Bill Paxton

08-17-2008, 12:13 PM

The Ruins - 3 out of 10

I was really looking forward to the movie. I heard really good thing, and I knew it was supposed to be gorey, the book was supposedly good, and the premise was somewhat orignal. However, it sucked for the most part. The ending made no sense whatsoever
The natives freak out and kill one of their own when the little kid is simply touched by the plants on the temple. However, throughout the movie it becomes pretty obvious that you need some sort of open wound for this stuff to get inside you. Also, what was the point of having the first girl jump down to the german dude who fell down the shaft? Once they noticed the rope was too short, why not bring her back up and cut the tents up and make the rope longer and try again?

Another thing, once the girl noticed that the flower was in fact making the cell phone noise, why on earth would she reach out to touch it? What good comes of that? Why wouldn't you immediately freak out and get the fuck out of there.

There was a lot more shit that made this movie suck as well, but i feel like im rambling. The only reason it got a 3 was because there were some decent gorey sequences, plus we saw the blonde chick naked.

El Torpedo

08-17-2008, 04:15 PM

I kinda liked The Ruins, the first death was awesome.

Although the plants ringing and talking and shit was a little retarded, but that didn't take toooo much away from it for me.

I just hadn't seen a decent original horror movie in ages, thats all it was, decent. The main chick was completely unlikeable though.

6.5/10

Zilchoid

08-18-2008, 10:33 PM

Pineapple Express - 8.5/10

Hilarious. Apatow scores again. I wasn't stoned, but laughed along with the stoners both in-house and on screen. I laughed so much and so hard at a couple of scenes that I found myself coughing. Seth Rogen gives off a Lewis Black vibe with all of his ranting and gyrations, and I found myself rooting for him and hating him at different times. James Franco made be believe he's really a good dude and would be a pretty good friend, albeit a drug dealer. PE was like a more serious Cheech and Chong movie, with a better adventure thrown in. It also had solid action scenes with a lot of good POV and establishing shots with good camera movement.

Tropic Thunder - 3/10

I couldn't wait for this one to be over. It had wholly unbelieveable characters who I couldn't connect to, despite my efforts. There were many moments where I think I was supposed to laugh, but wound up going, "Meh." Sure, it was planned to be a send-up or inside laugh at the excess and silliness of Hollywoodian actors, but I just wasn't drinking the Kool-Aid.

Kopek

08-19-2008, 01:36 AM

Tropic Thunder - 8/10

This was the kind of movie Pineapple Express wanted to be: right mix of high concept action sequences and razor sharp satire on the war film genre that ripped a new asshole on everyone in the theater. Any war movie that was made in the last 25 years was roasted. The archetypes of the type of actors you'll see in these kind of over the top films were spot on. Tom Cruise, though his introduction was kind of heavy handed, warmed up on me the more he was shown (which is far beyond the term "extended cameo") and killed at the end. Nick Nolte is also lost under all the Downey Jr suckoff for his creepy old guy. So, to clarify the rankings for summer comedies...

Tropic Thunder > Step Brothers > Pineapple Express

Kilgore

08-19-2008, 11:09 AM

Smart People

Good Dark Comedy. Not really funny like funny haha, but more fun to watch. Quaids character was kinda depressing to watch but had is moments, Sarah Jessica Parker was kinda blah. Thomas Haden Church the underachiever and Ellen Page the overachiever really stole the film and made it work.

8/10

feith

08-19-2008, 11:14 AM

Pineapple Express.

4/5

The beginning was funny, but it got completely out of hand, plus i was in a theater with a bunch of wanna be hippie high school kids that just found out what a cross joint was during that movie.

it was a let down.

MDiver01

08-19-2008, 11:13 PM

it was a let down but you still gave it a 4?

Rumpleforeskin

08-20-2008, 07:02 PM

Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay

I guess I pretty much liked the first one enough. While not a classic in my book, it still was funnier than anything I've seen since, including a gaggle of Judd Apatow movies (which I don't think are particularly funny). This one had me chuckling occasionally and laughing out loud once or twice. Then at work today I found myself quietly giggling while uttering cockmeat sandwich and thinking about NPH branding that chicks ass and whatnot.

3/5

bpb

08-21-2008, 06:20 PM

Tropic Thunder 4/5

I was only expecting to like Downey's character but I actually liked the cast as a whole. The only thing that disappointed me was that all the funny scenes between the black actor and the "black" actor were shown in the previews.

misterfatt

08-21-2008, 06:26 PM

Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay
the best seven seconds of the movie:

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Rumpleforeskin

08-21-2008, 06:27 PM

Commando

This is an odd movie for me. I really didn't like it when I was younger, then kind of started to like again a few years ago after I got the DVD (good beer drinkin' movie), but now I sort of don't care for it anymore. I guess it's just the over-the-top action scenes, like where there are 100 chaundanistas firing at Arnold, who shoots back and kills all of them without even taking any cover. Not as good as Running Man, and nowhere near as good as Predator as far as pure-Arnold movies go. Also, the blu-ray presentation looked like shit. Stick with the DVD.

2.75/5

banethejuggalo

08-22-2008, 12:47 AM

Tropic Thunder
I hate Ben Stiller but I still Fucking loved this movie. I laughed until my spleen split. Genius.

Hulud

08-23-2008, 11:30 PM

Be Kind Rewind

Mos Def works at a video store and his friend played by Jack Black becomes magnetized and erases all the tapes. they start to re-record the movies themselves. pretty funny, enjoyable film. 6/10

Draven X 23

08-23-2008, 11:42 PM

Tropic Thunder
I hate Ben Stiller but I still Fucking loved this movie. I laughed until my spleen split. Genius.

Stiller is only good when he plays off the wall characters. When he plays an everyman he usually sucks ass.

Da Raider

08-24-2008, 02:51 AM

Cloverfield: 2 out of 5
The two is for the novel way that they shot the film. Too bad the characters suck and I wanted them all to die a horrible death. The film was really lacking in many ways. At least they all die at the end. Most of them anyway.

DjAg

08-30-2008, 06:06 AM

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008) (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mummy_tomb_of_the_dragon_emperor/)
5/10
It's like a chick flick with a lot more death (and 'undeath', I suppose). No substance, completely structurally formulated, and ridiculous flaws in how uninformed and/or ignorant the characters are. Anytime such flaws are required to build something lasting longer than the length of a television episode, it is a sign that the movie should not be made.

My journal at rottentomatoes.com (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/vine/journal_view.php?journalid=562996&view=public)

storm

08-30-2008, 09:57 PM

DEATH NOTE 1 + 2 LIVE ACTION on DVD.

Japanese flick. Japanese language only, with English subtitles. Mostly live action (only the gods of death are animated) version of the Manga cartoon series.

Basically, bright young guy finds a 'Death Note' - a book which gives the power to kill people by writing their name in it while picturing their face. It also lets him see the God of Death who accompanies the book.

He starts killing criminals who slip though the justice system. But things soon get complicated when the police get onto his tail, particularly one very odd young genius.

Lots of clever twists and turns in this movie with very few holes in the plot. The 'rules' of the death note keep things from getting silly and give some great oppurtunities for the scriptwriters.

Deals with issues of power, justice, right and wrong. Keeps you guessing and surprised with where it goes. Gets you leaning one way then challenges that position.

Not a typical hollywood ending.

Movie one stands on it's own well.
Movie two really should be seen after the first so you know what's going on.

Looks great. groovy animation. Great looking cast. Good acting.

Very, very cool movie.
I found it totally enthralling.

4.5/5

Interesting trivia: co-stars the actor who plays 'Chairman Kaga' in Iron Chef.

http://www.deathnotefilms.com/home.php

Bill Paxton

08-31-2008, 12:07 PM

Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead 7.5 out of 10

Wow, this movie was so over the top and ridiculous but thoroughly enjoyable. Basically a sorta musical comedy horror movie with some of the best death sequences I have ever seen. A few queasy moments but all and all a really good film.

I watched it when i was stoned so i feel like that might have made it funnier than it really was so i'll probably have to watch it sober at some point.

BIG PIZZLE

08-31-2008, 04:32 PM

Tropic Thunder.

Without tom cruise this movie would have been horrible.

DjAg

08-31-2008, 08:56 PM

The Fall (2008) (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10007441-fall/)
8/10
With stunning visuals and an absolutely fantastic story, 'The Fall' throws its viewers through a few emotional and comical hoops in a way most movies cannot, and comes out with stunning results.

RedBEARD

09-01-2008, 04:35 PM

The Scorpion King 2

Randy Couture is good at punching people in the mouth. He should stick to that because he's a terrible actor. Then again, he has good company here, but even so he's the worst of the bunch as the evil general/king dude. Some kid (whose character eventually becomes The Rock's character from "The Scorpion King") is trying to take him down and he's got this semi-attractive Philippino chick helping him, and of course they wind up hooking up by the end...Speaking of which, you know your budget was blown by the rest of your production when you get to the end of the film and all you can afford to do is have your hero fight a fucking INVISIBLE SCORPION that was Randy Couture. Seriously, a giant scorpion no one can see until it smashes into something - terrible.

Poorly written, even more poorly directed, and very poorly acted - not worth the time it'll take you to forget you saw it.

3/10

Mr. Brown

09-01-2008, 06:14 PM

Tratior

Story about a former US Special Forces Sargent whom seems to have crossed sides and begins to work with a terrorist network. It was not so much about which side is he really working for but the inner struggle of being a man of faith (Muslim) and how far he's willing to bend the rules of said faith to stop those who are preventing it. The story wasn't fleshed out a well is it could have been but then again it supposedly is based off an idea from Stevie Martin, so I give it some leeway. Don Cheadle is great with the limited script and Guy Pearce was also very good. Overall decent movie, but could have been much much better.

7.5/10

MDiver01

09-01-2008, 09:22 PM

The Strangers

Horrible. It was so slow and the way they kept playing games with them was retarded. You could totally see everything coming. I was not suprised once not even with the end.

2/5

Kilgore

09-03-2008, 11:07 AM

Expired
Terrible Terrible movie. Story about two meter maids one is lonely and pathatic and the other is a asshole. Why is Samantha Morton a movie star? She is horrible to look at and her acting is worst. Jason Patric's charater tried to hard to be a badass, not very convincing.
1/10

Death at a Funeral
I thought I went 2 for 2 on shitty films. Watched about 30 minutes of it and turned it off cause it was kinda boring and not very funny. I told my sister the next day that I started watching it and she said it was too funny and I needed to watch the rest. So I did. I laughed my ass off. They really nailed this one.
8/10

Da Raider

09-12-2008, 01:55 PM

Things We Lost In The Fire (2007): 3.5 out of 5

Halle Berry is married to David Duchovny, have two kids and live a great life in Seattle. David's best friend is played by Benicio Del Toro, who happens to also be a heroin addict. Anyway, David is murdered and Halle has to pick up the peices of her life. Although she was not fond of Benicio, he was her husband's best friend and when she finds out that he is living in a methodone clinic she has him live in the family's garage. The movie focuses on Halle and her family's struggle with the grief of losing David as well as Benicio's struggle with heroin addiction and his interaction with the family. Good film, slow, a potential tear jerker, especially for people who have recently lost a loved one.

FlipHKD

09-14-2008, 01:10 AM

Burn After Reading - 10/10

Yes, the Coen Brothers have done it again.

nuclearjew

09-14-2008, 01:12 AM

Burn After Reading - 10/10

Yes, the Coen Brothers have done it again.
I haven't seen this yet, but you overrate comedies.

FlipHKD

09-14-2008, 01:54 AM

I haven't seen this yet, but you overrate comedies.

I know, I have that problem where I don't see shitty comedies but when I do see a good one I really enjoy it as if I had seen a years worth of shitty comedies.

Sir Droopy

09-14-2008, 08:28 AM

The Ghosts of Rwanda-Documentary

Through the media & the accounts of various people that lived through it, the worst genocide of African people in modern day history. You'll feel sad, despair, anger, grief and maybe a tad bit thankful to whatever God you pray to that you didn't have to live through something so awful. I thought it was very necessary to watch to understand what truly happened there. 5 stars.

ADD

09-14-2008, 04:30 PM

Burn After Reading 7/10

I went in expecting a dud after NCFOM, but I love Pitt and I love Clooney and the Coens, so of course I went. I have to say it was much better and funnier than I had hoped for. The cast is really good, and just when you're like "where's this going?", it goes somewhere. I know a lot of critics have shit on it, but I say see it. See it at the least for Pitt's performance. If you're not dying to go though, you could wait for the DVD or BluRay.

nirvanasaves

09-14-2008, 11:13 PM

Burn After Reading 9/10. It aint Lebowski but still very good.

Area Man

09-15-2008, 01:34 AM

May you be in heaven a full half hour ...

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

7/10

When I ordered this from netflix I thought it was a Heist movie. It is not really a heist flick, but it is about a robbery. Ethan Hawke and P.S. Hoffman are brothers who are very different but they both make lots of horrible decisions in regards to planning and executing this robbery. We watch them fall apart and destroy the lives of people around them. The movie paints a picture of how things can go from bad to worse and it felt like a very realistic portrayl of people in very depressing situations. Its an emotional ride down.

Bill Paxton

09-17-2008, 11:02 AM

The Foot Fist Way - 3 out of 10

I guess I can't say this is my official score since I haven't watched it all the way through but the first half was so incredibly sub par I don't know if I ever will. The acting was clunky and wooden at best. Jokes, and one liners that probably could have been funny if delivered by someone else just fall flat.

There were certain scenes that i was just like "why is this even in the movie?" There was a scene with the main character and his wife waiting to be seated at a restaurant. He jokes about the buzzer thing a bit and then thats it.

There were a few relatively funny moments and one moment I reeally LOLed at (but I had seen it in trailers anyways).

All in all a huge dissappointment considering how much Will Ferrell raved about it. Probably would have been a pretty good vehicle for him to star in.

Kopek

09-17-2008, 03:18 PM

If you didn't laugh at "I'm so hungry I could eat a grown man's ass", you hate comedy.

Kilgore

09-18-2008, 10:44 AM

Baby Mama

I went to Blockbuster last night. Just as I grabbed Baby Mama this other lady was going to get it too, but her man said, "I don't want to watch that, it's a chick flick" I thought to myself that it has Amy and Tina can't be to chicky.

It was funny and all, but it's a chick flick.

6.5/10

Jericho

09-18-2008, 11:12 AM

It has Dax Shepard, and that's an automatic B- at best

Da Raider

09-21-2008, 04:51 AM

Nacho Libre: 1 out of 5 stars

I laughed once during the entire film, and I'm pretty sure it was at some unintentional comedy. Jack Black speaking in a spanish accent? Hilarious! Except not. What a lame fucking movie.

Archetype

09-21-2008, 04:52 AM

Everyone's a critic. By critic, I of course mean idiot. In case you didn't catch that.

Da Raider

09-21-2008, 04:57 AM

Everyone's a critic. By critic, I of course mean idiot. In case you didn't catch that.

speaking of which...tell your mom she gets 3 out of 5 stars, but only due to that thing she does with her tongue.

The GWD

09-21-2008, 04:59 AM

The worst piece of art The Artist ever created was the condition he left his mothers' vagina in after he came tumbling out.

Bill Paxton

09-21-2008, 07:04 PM

If you didn't laugh at "I'm so hungry I could eat a grown man's ass", you hate comedy.

If I remember correctly that was one of the lines where i thought to myself "man, that should have been really funny" but the delivery of it just didn't work for me.

Every line sounded like it was being read straight from the script. Things that should have been funny for the most part just got a 'heh heh" from me.

nuclearjew

09-21-2008, 07:07 PM

If I remember correctly that was one of the lines where i thought to myself "man, that should have been really funny" but the delivery of it just didn't work for me.

Every line sounded like it was being read straight from the script. Things that should have been funny for the most part just got a 'heh heh" from me.
I've actually felt that way about a lot of the comedies this year. Pineapple Express, Tropic Thunder, Foot Fist Way...they just really underwhelmed me. I actually laughed more watching Zohan for some reason, maybe because that movie didn't take itself very seriously.

nuclearjew

09-21-2008, 07:14 PM

Grieves

09-21-2008, 07:27 PM

Wall-E

I just watched this today out of boredom. It seemed to borrow a lot of ideas from Idiocracy. I get it, corporations are bad and they make you fat and pollute the environment. People want to lie around drinking Slurpees while commuting everywhere in hover-wheelchairs. Maybe I'm getting too old for these morality tales.

2/5
So you've just stopped liking children's movies. Next, thinking about girls' tits will make you feel strange things in your pants and you're not sure why but their pussies are still kind of wierd to you. In about a year you'll learn to beat off, and sometime after 2013 you'll make love to a woman for the first time.

You're becoming a man.

MDiver01

09-22-2008, 12:02 AM

I liked it and I get boners. Wall-e's chick was hot.

Spit Fire Rae

09-22-2008, 12:19 AM

Righteous Kill: Probably 3 Out Of 5. Obviously Amazing Cast But The Twist Was Predictable. A Bit Of A Let Down Even If The Acting Was Good.

The GWD

09-22-2008, 12:29 AM

Righteous Kill: Probably 3 Out Of 5. Obviously Amazing Cast But The Twist Was Predictable. A Bit Of A Let Down Even If The Acting Was Good.

Why Do You Type Like This? It's Blowing My Fucking Mind.

Rolling Stone only gave it one star, so I'm not even sure if it's worth checking out.

ruffdog

09-22-2008, 12:46 AM

Burn After Reading

8/10.

Great movie. Lots of unexpected events. and John Malkovich was awesome.

Cornelius

09-22-2008, 01:29 AM

Traitor

7/10.

Didn't expect much, but left the movie pretty well pleased. Good action, intriguing story, and great acting that carries the sub-par plot. It was successful because the story is a current issue that draws lots of emotion.

Da Raider

09-22-2008, 11:10 AM

Hancock: 2.5 out of 5 stars

Will Smith is Hancock, a superhero of sorts. Except for the part where he's an asshole, drunk and talks smack. He saves people from criminals but he goes about it in a destructive way. One day he saves Jason Bateman's character who decides that he will use his PR skills to improve Hancock's image. Anyway, I liked the concept and the movie up to this point, but it rapidly goes downhill after that. Charlize Theron play's Bateman's wife has a secret and it is revealed very quickly and very poorly. The first act was great, but the 2nd and 3rd act were formulaic crap.

Kilgore

09-22-2008, 05:19 PM

The Go Getter.

I don't who the main guy is in this movie never seen him before, but Jena Malone and Zooey Deschanel are in it. Maura Tierney and Judy Greer have small roles. Bill Duke has a five minute seen that is awesome. The movie kinda reminded me of Into the Wild. This kid stars out in Oregon to find his brother and goes all over the place. I really enjoyed it.

8.5/10

YellowFever

09-23-2008, 12:52 AM

Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay: 3 out of 5

Thought it was ok, part 1 was definitely better. Didn't like the whole Kumar love story, that type of shit doesn't belong in a stoner movie. Oh and btw, yes I was stoned while watching this movie.

Celtickliq

09-23-2008, 01:07 PM

Stephen King's The Mist: 4/5

Caught this for the first time last weekend on Blu-ray. Beautiful copy with one of the discs having the film in black and white. Even though the special effects were pretty bad, it did not hurt the overall quality of the film.

Thomas Jane delivers for the most part. Marcia Gay Harden and Toby Jones are the main characters that had the most impact on me. Like most Stephen King stories, social issues are at the forefront. There are a few frustrating moments to watch and for me, that was a good thing. I cant remember a film watching experience where I had such a connection to a character (Harden) Harden plays such a complete bitch that you are almost rooting for the "Mist" to kill her off.

The actually pay off is much more satisfying.

The last 5 minutes of the film are pretty haunting. It is dark and pretty disturbing. You will either love it or hate it.

Blu-Ray owners should check out the Frank Darabont commentary track. Hardly no no pause, Darabont goes all out and goes pretty in depth with the story, filming and public reaction.

VoxAngelikus

09-23-2008, 04:04 PM

Technically, the last movie I saw was "Zodiac", which I liked con mucho gusto. In fact, if my penis were small enough, I'd take my "Zodiac" DVD and have sex with the hole of the disc. Thankfully, I'm about 2 cm too big. Phew!

Anyway, the last movie before that was:

DEEP IMPACT (the asteroid movie, not the porno)

Simply put, this movie sucked balls. I thought maybe after a few years (the movie is almost 10 years old) the film might appeal to a more mature VoxAngelikus, but no. The same inadequacies and shortcomings make this movie fall way short of my expectancies for a good disaster movie.

First of all, a mile-wide comet hits the planet, and after 2 years underground everything is find and dandy? Sorry, that's not how it works. I have watched enough Discovery Channel and National Geographic Channel to know that if a mile-wide comet hit the Earth, we'd be right fucked for a long ass time.

Second of all, what the fuck is Elijah Wood doing outrunning a fucking tidal wave on a motorbike? Seriously? Suspension of disbelief is one thing, but this is just too fucking much, man. The wave is supposed to be going 3500mph. But he outruns it on a moped. Give me a fucking break.

Finally, the most disappointing aspect of the movie is the fact that there was a chance to make this a really good, scary, tense movie. Never mind that schlocky "Armageddon" bullshit. That movie was a loud, noisy mess. "Deep Impact" tried to get into the emotions of people on Earth after finding out that all of humanity could be killed forever. That is a scary plot, especially when you consider that it is something that could happen.

Instead I get Tea Leoni making up with her estranged daddy, no mention of any other countries beside America (other than to say people died elsewhere), and a lot of characters dying. But you know what, I didn't give a fuck about any of them. It was almost 3 in the morning and I was pissed because for a movie that wanted me to feel the emotion, they were pretty fucking scarce. Shit, I was hoping the comet would kill everyone. Even the effects were shitty.

Asteroid movies were done a great disservice by "Armageddon" and "Deep Impact". There is an untapped potential in that genre.

3/10

MDiver01

09-24-2008, 05:33 AM

he out ran the wave because he had a head start duh.

Bastard

09-25-2008, 12:27 AM

Lakeview Terrace (2008)
Samuel Jackson plays an everyday working man that has a nice house where he is trying to raise a daughter and son. He also hates white people and is a cop that is on a downward spiral. Enter his new neighbors who happen to be a white man and black lady. The couple make a bad first impression by having sex in their swimming pool which Jackson’s kids could see from their window. Things escalate from there. I believe that Samuel Jackson can play a superb villain if given the right material. He’s very subtle at first with his jabs and responses to the couple. He doesn’t even start yelling until an hour into the film. All the other acting seemed phoned in and was forgettable. Overall, it was pretty boring. Just a lackluster film that felt like a badly drawn out law and order episode. 1 ½ stars for Samuel Jackson’s half hearted shouting.

MDiver01

09-25-2008, 12:28 AM

Jackson hating white people? GTFO! No way.

Bastard

09-25-2008, 12:33 AM

Jackson hating white people? GTFO! No way.

I know that is a huge leap from some of his past roles. Actually, the hating on white people was one of the few things that this movie got right.

nuclearjew

09-25-2008, 12:34 AM

Your review sounds like the exact opposite of what the commercials try to portray.

Bastard

09-25-2008, 12:37 AM

Chalk it up to another case of the studios putting any noteworthy scenes into the trailer while the rest of the film offers very little.

bixby

09-25-2008, 12:39 AM

Aw, man, I was hoping SLJ would be screaming at the top of his lungs the entire film. Another missed opportunity, Hollywood.

IM DA POLEASE YOU HAFTA DO WHAT I SAY!

DRINK, BITCH!

Celtickliq

09-25-2008, 09:22 AM

Bastard

09-27-2008, 03:39 AM

Did the movie give a reason why he hates white people?

Yes.

Apparently, white people want to keep him down.

He also blames a white person for the death of his wife.

VoxAngelikus

09-29-2008, 11:22 AM

The Prestige

This was a really crafty little movie starring Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale as two magicians who are involved in a magic trick that goes tragically wrong, killing Jackman's wife. The two magicians devote their lives to attempting to upstage each other by proving who is the better magician.

Christian Bale's "The Teleporting Man" trick is quite simply done, while Hugh Jackman goes to ridiculous extremes in his attempts to do the trick better.

David Bowie stars as a very peculiar Nikola Tesla, whose scientific experiments go beyond science and into the supernatural.

Christopher Nolan is an outstanding filmmaker. While I haven't seen "The Dark Knight" (I hate the movie theater, fuck you), I thoroughly enjoyed "Memento" and "Batman Begins", and I even enjoyed "Insomnia".

"The Prestige" is much better than that other magician movie with Edward Norton and Jessica Biel, which sucked balls. The movie goes at an extremely fast pace, jumping quickly through the important parts of the two magician's lives. Bale and Jackman and Bowie are all excellent, as is Michael Caine. And like any good movie about magic and prestidigitation, the entire movie is a set-up for a magic trick twist ending the lengths each man will go to in order to be the best magician.

I really... wow, this is such a disjointed review. I may have to come back and edit it. But plainly put, the movie was good.

9/10 (would have been 10/10 if Scarlett Johanssen had a topless scene or two)

Spit Fire Rae

09-29-2008, 11:51 PM

Sex And The City. I Thought It Was Delightful But As A Heads Up It Was Far More Depressing Than I Originally Thought It Would Be. That Way Have Made It More Appealing Though. It Was Unexpected.

Spit Fire Rae

09-29-2008, 11:52 PM

*May Have . . . Sorry. T9 Let's Me Down Occasionally

nuclearjew

09-29-2008, 11:53 PM

Why Do You Capitalize Every Word In Your Posts? Are You A Retard?

Spit Fire Rae

09-29-2008, 11:56 PM

Also, 88 Minutes. It Had Al Pacino In It Which Helped It. The Plot Held My Attention Not To Mentio It Was Pretty Fast Paced. My Fiance Says Movies Like That Should Have A Better Ending Though.

Spit Fire Rae

09-29-2008, 11:57 PM

Yes I Am A Retard. Spread The Word Because I'm Sick Of Explaining This To People.

nuclearjew

09-30-2008, 12:01 AM

I'd Do It Just To Piss You Off If Given The Option. Unfortunately If You Had Read My Response Pages Ago . . . It's How T9 Works On My Phone. I Have No Choice. Get Over It You Nit Picking Fuck
Maybe you should do us all a favor and stop posting incessantly from your phone?

Spit Fire Rae

09-30-2008, 12:10 AM

nuclearjew

09-30-2008, 12:11 AM

Maybe You Should Read Content And Stop Obsessing About Some Capital Letters. Because As Much As It Pisses People Like You Off, There Are Others Who Can Move Past That Earth Shattering Grammar Error And Process My Posts.
Also, 88 Minutes. It Had Al Pacino In It Which Helped It. The Plot Held My Attention Not To Mentio It Was Pretty Fast Paced. My Fiance Says Movies Like That Should Have A Better Ending Though.
So basically you think what your fiance tells you to think?

Candycane

09-30-2008, 12:12 AM

WhAt Is ThE BiG DeAl WiTh HoW SyNtAx LoOkS, It BoThErS mE nOt.

Spit Fire Rae

09-30-2008, 12:13 AM

Or I Was Forwarding His Opinion As Well. What Is Your Deal?

ShitBreak

09-30-2008, 12:16 AM

I Think His Deal Is That You Are A Fucking Retard. Was That Not Made Clear?

Candycane

09-30-2008, 12:17 AM

I actually think Jew's deal is a 5 dollar footlong.

nuclearjew

09-30-2008, 12:19 AM

More like a $2.50 6-incher.

Wackity shmackity dooooooo!

Spit Fire Rae

09-30-2008, 12:34 AM

Aw Man. I Don't Think I'll Be Able To Sleep Tonight. You're . . . Words . . . Are . . . Just . . . Too . . . Hurtful!

Archangel

10-01-2008, 07:56 AM

Also, 88 Minutes. It Had Alicia Witt In It Which Helped It.

Fixed.

Celtickliq

10-01-2008, 09:25 AM

Body of Lies:

Perfect word to describe this movie? "Eh."

I think I saw the film shown in the trailer. I am just not sure.

I thought Russell Crowe would be playing sort of a bad guy playing both sides of the war but that turned out not to be the case at all. I think I would have done the exact same things if I was in Crowe's shoes.

The film goes heavy into the satellite coverage the USA government is using to fight the war on terror. Crowe and company use this technology to help Leo DiCaprio (Named Ferris) capture the head of a terrorist cell with direct ties to Bin Laden. Body of Lies points out how useless this technology is as the enemy is very old school. Thus, old school tactics need to be used. Enter the Jordan intelligence agency and the rest is cliche.

Throw in a ridiculous romantic interest for DiCaprio's character, a few extended scenes from "Spy Game" and an ending that really has no pay off.

I will say that there is a pretty decent torture scene at the end though. But that hardly saves this.

But at the end, I sort of walked out of the room wondering what was the whole point of the film.

2/5

VoxAngelikus

10-01-2008, 09:37 AM

Kilgore

10-01-2008, 12:24 PM

Eagle Eye

Better than average action movie

7/10

Spit Fire Rae

10-01-2008, 09:15 PM

Bastard

10-02-2008, 01:06 AM

I don't care about [Spit Fire Rae's] incessant capitalization... I care about the fact that this idiot's reviews were two-line pieces of shit that didn't tell me anything about the movies.

First of all, you didn't rate the movies. Second of all, mini-summary does not mean one or two lines of waffle. Your summaries were stupid and pedantic.

Alright, first of all, grow up and stop with the unnecessary name calling. I'm not offended by someone I don't know, so don't' waste your time.Second of all, I give my opinion of the movie. If you don't like what I have to say, stop reading my posts. You people need to get laid or something. you're very angry.

Vox has a point though. You aren’t providing enough specific details about the movie and reasons why you liked it or didn’t like it and I don’t mean what your fiancée tells you to think. This isn’t the what did you do today thread. You are providing information that is only relevant to people who care about your daily activities and that belongs in your blog or an instant message or some other place. So, either you fail to understand what a rate and summary movie thread is or you just choose to disregard it and post crap.

TheImpossibleMan

10-02-2008, 02:56 PM

Van Helsing - Great movie...or GREATEST movie???? Watched it last night and it was one of the greatest moviegoing experiences ever for me. I didn't stop laughing at any point and there are some awesome running themes. 10/10

Kilgore

10-02-2008, 03:49 PM

Run Fatboy Run

Out of the Shawn of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, I would say that it is the least funniest of the three, but still funny.

6.71/10

c_thur

10-02-2008, 06:18 PM

In Bruges- great movie, comedy and drama

The GWD

10-04-2008, 02:21 AM

The King of Kong, on G4 - 8/10

I've heard many people rave about this movie, and I just saw it for the first time on TV. I played in arcades when I was a kid, but I'm not really the sentimental type so the scene doesn't hold a whole lot of interest for me. But this movie does a great job of making it appealing to the arcade gamers and non-arcade gamers alike. They also do a great job of building up this Billy Mitchell douche as possibly the biggest douche of all time. Good stuff.

MDiver01

10-04-2008, 06:24 AM

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Started out kind of slow but once it gets going its good. Before I didnt see Val and RDJ working together really that great but once I saw the movie they did.

4/5

Snatch

10-05-2008, 12:11 AM

Nick and Norah 2/5-

If you want to fuck a 13 year old girl, take her to see this. It's good for what it is. I can't believe I went to see it. Michael Cera does finger the chick, so that's kinda funny. Beyond that, they refer to hipsters as "Emo Punk kids." It's like it was written by a 50 something, and then they consulted with some 17 year old girls who work at Urban Outfitters to figure out how to make it cool.

MDiver01

10-05-2008, 12:15 AM

finger fucking sure was cool when I was 13.

noahsdove

10-05-2008, 12:50 AM

I watched Heckler tonight and . Its a fucking good movie. Its to the point and absolutely precise when it comes to critics and hecklers who bash and berate people who are at an event and feel the need to , Like Joe Rogan said"Be a douchebag" I like jamie Kennedys humor. I never saw son of the mak so I cant rate it

YellowFever

10-06-2008, 12:02 AM

I Am Legend - 2.5/5

Saw this on TV for the 2nd time. I actually kind of hated it when I first saw it, but its not as bad the 2nd time around. I still hate the fact that they really tried to force-feed the Bob Marley references to coincide with the story.

Whoever made the decision to not include the alternate ending should be shot.

Ace Rockola

10-06-2008, 12:26 AM

^ I love the article on Cracked about I Am Legend and with the alternate ending, the movie should've been called 'So I'm the Asshole?'

Baby Mama 7/10

Tina Fey plays a stuck up business exec with a t-shaped uterus and can't get pregnant, so she hires a white trash Amy Poehler to be her surrogate. The Odd Couple-esque premise has been done a thousand times, so the movie becomes very predictable. Greg Kinnear plays a love interest for Tina Fey's character, and again it's very predictable. I got a few chuckles out of Steve Martin's character, who is Tina Fey's crazy boss, and a quite a few out of Amy Poehler but that's probably due to the amount of alcohol I drank before watching.

I would've given it a 5, but in one of the scenes, Tina Fey dresses kind of slutty and she has a really nice rack so it got 2 extra points.

Kilgore

10-06-2008, 10:48 AM

The Fall

Takes place in the 20s in a hospital. A little girl with a broken arm befriends an actor who got hurt after a fall during a movie shoot. He tells her a story of a guild of 5 trying to get revenge on the same guy for different reasons.

The story and the acting were very good, but the cinamotography is the best I have seen since the English Patient. Vidid Colors and Awesome Camera angles.

Must See!

10/10

Celtickliq

10-06-2008, 11:02 AM

The English Patient had cinematography? Weird....

The GWD

10-07-2008, 02:11 AM

What happens in Vegas - 2/10

Ughhhh, my girlfriend rented this fucking thing and I sat through however long it was wondering when it was going to end. They hate eachother, that shtick gets old. They want to get back together, but you all knew that was going to happen. Corny shit. It just gets a 2 because Rob Corddry made me chuckle inwardly a couple times. I was surprised to see Zach Galifianakas, but he's wasted in a bit role with a one note joke. This movie was vomit, vomit comprised of shit. And the shit was made up of more vomit. This movie was the result from whatever came out of the 2 girls one cup's asses.

Nature's Folly

10-07-2008, 02:22 AM

6655321

10-08-2008, 12:03 PM

Chapter 27

i have nothing to say other than i fucking hated it.

0/5

The Happening

plants? really? the only good thing about this was the death scenes and zooey.

1.5/5

Candycane

10-08-2008, 01:17 PM

Felon 9/10

Honestly I was so surprised by this film. I saw who was in it, Stephen Dorff who hasn't been in anything "good" since Blade, and Val Kilmer who I all but forgot about. But wow! This movie takes you from the get go and really doesn't drag at all. It's one of those fraked up movies though. You feel like shit about the US justice system, not that I didn't already but we all file some of that away for our daily dealings. But this movie brings it to life, and it's not really slanted one way or the other, just a view of what can and does happen in the Federal prison system. I recommend this movie even if the brutality is quite raw at some times, it's not gratuitous at all and I suspect is less than what really happens on a day to day basis. And Kilmer and Dorff are excellent in it.

bdjlo09

10-13-2008, 07:47 PM

Mummy Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
5/10
Too much special effects, Not enough story.
The son was too old for the part.
Delicious Rachel Weiss was MIA
Jel Li didn't have much to do other than scream and get angry.
However, The Yetis and the Monster were pretty cool.

Celtickliq

10-14-2008, 10:56 AM

Trick 'r Treat: 4/5

The Trick 'r Treat production story is an interesting one. The story is from Michael Doughtery, one of the writers of Superman Returns. If you do a quick search at Amazon, you will find Trick 'r Treat books, dolls, shirts and endless amounts of other merchandise. Only problem is the movie has been finished for a little over two years and Warner Bros refuses to distribute it. I have my own personal beliefs as to why (coughSuperman Returnscough) but nothing has been confirmed.

So what Doughtery has been doing the last few weeks is holding private screenings of the film to get word out there a la John Carpenter for Halloween.

Trick 'r Treat is an anthology of four stories from a small Ohio town on Halloween night that are eventually connected. If you really want to over analyze, the film represents the 4 phases of your life that you celebrate Halloween. The first is with your parents, the second is your teenage years, third is when you are in your 20's and forth is when you are elderly.

Trick 'r Treat brings the a new Halloween killer to the big screen named "Sam." Sam originated in some short cartoon films (http://mikedougherty.com/downloads_films.htm) that Doughtery created as an animator. That said, the film visuals that Doughtery has created is pretty impressive when you compare them to most other Halloween films. Doughtery lets the stories unfold as if it were a comic book film instead of horror. You have a heavy comicbook animated opening credits, some pretty looking one shot scenes with no dialogue just visuals and various other comicbook styles.

With not too many scares, Trick 'r Treat is a film audiences are not use to. The best compliment I can pay the film is that it is able to dupicate the formula of TV series Tales from the Crypt perfectly. Nothing too scary, alot of stuff that is creepy as hell and a well paced, told and edited story.

Here is a pic I took after the screening. Dylan Baker is on the left, Doughtery is on the right. James Marsden was also there too in the audience.

http://i37.tinypic.com/16ks84x.jpg

Kopek

10-14-2008, 12:18 PM

This has been sitting on the shelves for two years because Dougherty and his writing partner backed out of scripting Supes 2 AND he basically had to reshoot the entire second half of the film do to low test screening before the initial release date in October 2007. Not good.

HAWK

10-14-2008, 03:59 PM

WALL-E

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c2/WALL-Eposter.jpg/200px-WALL-Eposter.jpg

In my opinion, Pixar's best effort to date. There are those who couldn't hook up with Wall-E's character due to the lack of dialogue...i.e. People whining it's stupid, etc. Man up already.

Great flick for all.

4.75/5

HAWK

10-14-2008, 04:03 PM

PINEAPPLE EXPRESS

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/27/Pineapple_express.jpg/200px-Pineapple_express.jpg

Slightly better than 'Step Brothers' but not as good as 'Tropic Thunder.' None-the-less a hilarious film in the spirit of Cheech and Chong. A decent mix of comedy and action.

3.5/5

Candycane

10-20-2008, 10:30 AM

Indian Jones and the Crystal Skull 2/5

This movie perplexed and disappointed me. It's kinda hard to ruin the "Indie" magic formula and yet somehow this time they did. It came off as cheesy and cliché instead of witty and exciting. Maybe the first three movies are better in my head because nostalgia of my youth plays a part. But I feel this movie was far fetched and fell flat.

Kilgore

10-20-2008, 11:14 AM

Choke

Not a single theatre in my town was playing this. Not sure if it was because it's been out for a month, or if its one of those movies that doesn't make a lot of money so its in limited release. I read the book last month and abosutely loved it! One of the best reads all year. I wasn't completely let down by the movie it was still pretty decent. Still had that great Palahniuk vibe.

6.3/10

}{arlequin

10-20-2008, 11:23 AM

OSS 117

french, james bond-esque comedy taking place in the 50's. the feel and vibe of older movies is conveyed in the same way as 'catch me if you can'. not quite slapstic, more of a dialogue/situation that's comedic. it has its share of action as well. if you like peter sellers' films, this will entertain you.

7/10

Da Raider

10-20-2008, 06:43 PM

Cocaine Cowboys: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Documentary about the wild 70's & 80's in Miami when Cocaine was THE drug of choice and anyone with access to a supply could be king. And bloodshed followed. Great interviews. Not an action flick, strictly a documentary.

}{arlequin

10-23-2008, 10:34 AM

finally got around to watching In Bruges last night. not a whole lot to add over what's already been said. you don't quite watch this movie but rather experience it. it's more of a state of mind that happens to be visual. everything within the flick, from the characters, to the dialogue, to the cinematography is intriguing. funny too. the setting of the movie itself practically becomes a main character as well. plus, the american jokes are funny.

i happen to like the artist so bonus points for having a bosch reference or two.

it started out as an 8/10 but once you see the whole thing, i think it's a 9/10

ShitBreak

11-01-2008, 03:13 PM

Zack and Miri Make a Porno

Two lifelong friends have no money, so they decide to shoot a low budget porn in order to shave off their debts.

This movie worked so fucking well for so many reasons. The "hybrid" mix of what makes Kevin Smith films great (filth, pop culture, great dialogue) and what has made some of the Seth Rogen/Judd Apatow films great (crossing the line between sentimental and filth) works perfectly.

Just like he has done in EVERY role he has been in, Craig Robinson (Darryl from the Office) steals the show. Everything out of his mouth is gold, and he is the 3rd lead...so you get plenty of him. Liz Banks has some great comedic timing, Ricky Mabe, Traci Lords (yes...that Traci Lords), Jeff Anderson, Jay Mewes, and Katie Morgan, and awesome cameos by Brandon Routh, Justin Long, Tyler Labine... together are what made the movie work so well. The cast was perfect.

Only complaint is that the ending seemed a bit rushed. Like they realized they needed to end it in 10 minutes, so they did. But that didn't hurt the film's overall potential.

Check it out if you get the chance. One of the funniest movies of the year. I think still may have liked "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" or "Tropic Thunder" more, but this is right there with them. But, there aren't any other good comedies out there right now, so if you want to laugh a lot, this is the movie for you.

8/10

Kilgore

11-03-2008, 10:24 AM

Zack and Miri Make a Porno

Good movie. Kinda predictable. It went where I really didn't want to see it go. It took that road well traveled. Other then that pretty damn funny and decent story line.

7.5/10

Da Raider

11-03-2008, 11:43 AM

The Proposition: Film is based in 1880's Australia. Stars Guy Pierce as Charlie Burns, the middle brother in the Burns Gang. The film starts off with Charlie Burns and his younger brother Mike getting into a shootout with the Law. They are captured and Captain Morris Stanley (played by Ray Winstone) makes Charlie an offer. Kill the eldest brother Arthur (played by Danny Huston) and the Captain will give the two younger brothers a full pardon. The Captain's reasoning is that the Arthur is the real madman behind the gang. If Charlie doesn't accept or even if he doesn't kill his own brother by Christmas (9 days away) the younger brother gets hanged.

There are many things that I loved about this film. The cinematography, the costuming are both excellent. They do a great job in showing us the hardscrabble times that the film is based in. Other than the accents and the aborigines instead of Indians, this could be the Wild Wild West. They even make sure to make all the main characters, most of whom would be considered bad guys, well rounded. The Captain, isn't really a bad man, he just wound up in a difficult spot. His love for his wife is evident in the film. Art Burns is a madman killer in reputation. He is a killer, but he's not a madman. He cares for his family.

My only negative on this flim is it gets a tad slow in parts, especially when they start doing that random whispering with weird music. Not sure if they are trying to remind you that they are trampling around in Aboriginal Australia, but it doesn't really seem to serve it's purpose.

With all the violence, retribution and cruelness, this movie makes cases for love, family and what people will do for both.

I give this film a 4 out of 5 stars.

El Torpedo

11-04-2008, 12:31 PM

Funny Games 8.5/10

I guess this is a shot for shot remake of an older Austrian film. It stars Tim Roth and Naomi Watts. I saw this a few weeks ago and it keeps coming back, I wasn't sure if I liked it while watching it, it starts off excruciatingly slowly but once it gets interesting it's both familiar and unique. It's a story not uncommon for horror movies, a family is terrorised at their lakeside cottage by two disturbed young men for a night after a wager is placed on whether or not the family will be alive and the young men dead by the following morning. This is something we've all seen before but it's the fine line between this overused storyline and the eccentricities. There are small lines and events delivered that transform the movie from an uncomfortable horror to a philosphical and fun environment quite effectively. Unlike other attempts at this kind of thing they toe the line perfectly without stepping to far into either border and refuse to slap the viewer in the face with any absurdities. Highly reccomended.

redsox39

11-04-2008, 12:38 PM

dantino

11-04-2008, 12:38 PM

Cool hand Luke

9/10

Basically what we got here is a failure to communicate.

defprophet

11-04-2008, 12:52 PM

Not to be a cock, but I have to disagree. While the movie was visually ok, and it had good acting (for the most part), it was pretty boring for a dark comedy about 2 hitmen.

I thought it was hilarious every time Colin Farrel would say "In fucking Bruges", I don't think I would call it boring, maybe a tad slow though.

moe_blunts

11-05-2008, 03:28 PM

The Spongebob Squarepance Movie

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0345950/

Fucking Awesome. I lolollollollol'd and Roflwaffled a lot

9/10

6655321

11-05-2008, 03:40 PM

you're a tard.

}{arlequin

11-10-2008, 10:36 AM

watched a bunch of movies over the weekend

Transsiberian is about an american couple travelling china->moscow aboard the famous train. bad things happen en route. the end. well, not really... it has great scenery, even better acting by ben kingsley and emily mortimer, there is a certain level of suspense in the film, not horror-like, rather somewhat morose. drugs, murder, etc... overall, it carries this feeling of discomfort for the viewer, knowing things are getting worse and worse

plot is somewhat tired so it should be a 7/10 but the train/siberian setting hasn't been utilized much so it pushes it to an 8/10

Inside man - yes, another bank heist movie. yes, there are lots of elements that are similar if not same as in other heist films. what sets this one apart in my eyes is the same that was successful for "The Bank Job", which is the fact that it's not just about the money. the actual contents of a certain deposit box add significantly to the story. the actual plan/method of the heist was enjoyable too. the fact that it's a spike lee film is a bonus. 7/10

Shooter. i liked this one a lot more than i thought i would. premise seems simple and predictable, yet how it was presented is much more than that. i don't feel about the acting one way or another, but how a fairly basic plot was expanded, along w/ great action, makes this a fun movie to watch. 8/10

also watched Forgetting Sarah Marshall. not as funny as people made it out to be. in fact, if it didn't have mila kunis in it (whom i find very bang-able), i wouldn't even watch it. the jokes are typical and predictable. few funny scenes/dialogues, but that's it. 6/10
(keep in mind, i also didn't find napoleon dynamite very funny either)

Kilgore

11-10-2008, 03:06 PM

Rocknrolla

Guy Richie Nails another, I'm sure its a better lay then Maddona. I always find it so strange hearing gangsta talk with a English accent. Great flick, everyone should go see it. I liked it better the Lock Stocked.

8.5/10

Penguin Rick

11-12-2008, 02:39 AM

Madagascar 2

The lead penguin character is honestly one of the coolest movie characters ever created.

4/5

Tar Heel

11-12-2008, 12:54 PM

Role Models

9 out of 10

Funniest movie I have seen since knocked up. Shit had be laughing for the entire movie. Even the sappy slow parts are laced with hilarity. I reccomend getting completely faded before viewing. It definitely boosts the experience... although the same could be said about pretty much all non-chick flicks. There is really no amount of sweet chronic that makes a romance or sad movies better.

Tar Heel

11-12-2008, 01:00 PM

Heartbreak Kid

8.5 out of 10

I don't know why, but I hadn't heard any reviews about this movie before I watched it the other night. I was pleasently surprised. If you like the uncomfortable situations that Ben Stiller is a master of putting himself in, you will like this movie. It's one of those movies that I know some people won't like because it's that stressful brand of comedy where the main character gets completely shit on for 98% of the movie. Jerry Stiller plays the father and every line of his is brilliant. I had a dislocated rib and was laughing like a motherfucker, even though it hurt like a bitch.

Candycane

11-14-2008, 04:39 PM

The Strangers

Maybe I'm becoming a pussy whiny girl, I don't think so since I live for shit like 'The Last House on the Left' and such, but this movie jeebed me. I was hiding behind my pillow pretty much the whole time. You don't think the premise will really go anywhere. Two lovers who are strained in their relationship going back to a somewhat isolated cabin after a wedding. Random stranger knocking at the door at 4 am, which in and of itself is kinda creepy, and the creepiness and terror never stop. I think this movie did exactly what is was intended to do: scare my panties I do not wear off me.

4.5/5

El Torpedo

11-14-2008, 08:45 PM

moe_blunts

11-16-2008, 10:21 AM

Madagascar 2

The lead penguin character is honestly one of the coolest movie characters ever created.

4/5

I just saw this movie. Although I agree that the penguins were hilarious, I think overall this movie was WAY LESS FUNNY THAN THE ORIGINAL. However, the lemur king (sasha baren coen or however you spell it) was still awesome and the grandma still kicked ass. My favorite new character was that hippo dude. "you chunky gurl.....you hefty"

that being said, it was way too sentimental and the giraffe with the hippo-chick was fucking stupid. david schwimmer was much funnier as a hypochondriac and chris rock's character (or characters) played the "race card" the entire movie.

7/10

(i give the original 9.5/10)

Kilgore

11-17-2008, 10:05 AM

Quantum of Solace

Movie Kicked ass, but more Borne then James.
9/10

The Happening

I didn't find it as bad as everyone made it out to be.
5/10

Quid Pro Quo

I only got it cause it has Vera Farmiga. Different movie. Wheelchair guy meets faker wheelchair chick.
7.3/10

UNC

11-17-2008, 01:57 PM

Body Of Lies was pretty good. The ending was a little cliche but was still a rememberable movie. De Caprio was great and his face to face meetings with Crowe were the best parts of the movie.

8.5/10

ruffdog

11-17-2008, 02:18 PM

Body of Lies

5/10 Too long and too gay. Not much action.

Rocknrolla
6/10 NO action. Mostly talk.

Zack and Miri Make a porno

7/10 Started out funny then turned to a chick flick.

NOTKyle

11-19-2008, 02:46 AM

Twelve Monkeys - 5/5

The first 15 minutes of this movie made me want to walk out, because I figured it was going to be shitty post apocolyptic through and through. But the farther it got into the plot, and the more Brad Pitt was on screen (deserved to win an Oscar for this roll) the more engrossed I became. It might now be one of my favorite movies, because of all of the thought that could potentially go into it, or how entertaining it is on the surface alone.

Rent it now.

Kilgore

11-20-2008, 02:01 PM

Sukiyaki Western Django

I got it cause it has Tarantino in it. Too bad he wasn't in the first half of the movie. Cause the first half was boring as hell. How do you make a action Japanese western that drags? Beats the hell out of me, but this film found a way to do it.

4.5/10

6655321

11-20-2008, 02:24 PM

tarantino blows huge dicks as an actor.

Meet Bill

sort of a romanticish comedy. it's not usually the type of flick i go for, but it wasn't half bad. i didn't really understand jessica alba digging the whole 15 year old kid part, but if i was in his shoes i would've done the same thing. i also didn't like how much of a pussy Bill was, he could've gotten way more even, imo. it was a decent way to kill an hour and a half.

7/10 (for jessica alba and elizabeth banks)

NOTKyle

11-23-2008, 01:09 PM

El Torpedo

11-23-2008, 01:21 PM

Wristcutters: A Love Story

It's about the place that people go after they "off" themselves. Not heaven, but not quite hell, almost a state of purgatory. It's a really well written movie, and also well shot. PLUS you get to see the kid from Almost Famous still rockin' the same hair cut.

4.5/5

I saw the movie because of Tom Waits but I was surprised by how much I actually liked it. I would do dirty, dirty things to Shannon Sossamyn.

Archangel

11-23-2008, 01:43 PM

In Bruges

I usually cannot stand Colin Farrell, so it was rather surprising when I really started enjoying his performance about ten minutes into the movie. The backdrop is pictoresquely beautiful, and the town really gets into its role as the secret protagonist. There is something about British gangster movies, isn't there? Ralph Fiennes is brilliantly laconic, Clémence Poésy is pretty as hell, and the movie has just the right mix of humour, drama and utter surreal weirdness.

4.5 out of 5. Only because Poésy doesn't get naked, unusually for her.

locke8

11-23-2008, 01:59 PM

21

2/5

What a crock of shit. I give it two points just for Kevin Spacey being in the film, even though i could tell he didn't want to be. The rest of the characters were forced, and i didn't care about any of them. While it seemed really cool that the main character was some mathematical genius, how likely is it to see any human being conduct them self purely of reason. Once he gets to vegas, it's not even so much the place that changes him as him realizing that he never really was that great- he was always as much of a piece of shit as the rest of us.

riseabove!

11-28-2008, 12:31 AM

ruffdog

12-01-2008, 01:59 PM

quantum of solace

8/10
good action and not as long as casino royale.

Cracker

12-01-2008, 02:07 PM

Street Kings

Some decent action scenes, but the plot left much to be desired. Felt like a dumbed-down Training Day.

5/10

the creeps

12-02-2008, 03:12 AM

Twilight

I can't believe I wasted my time watching this. The vampires were a bunch of pussies, the plot was boring, and the action wasn't worth watching.

1/10 word to the wise: don't see this P.O.S.
100% agree. my lone add on. if you go with a girl, the odds of you getting a BJ or sex of any kind go thru the roof.

or maybe that was just my personal exp.

mongo

12-02-2008, 03:14 AM

v for vendetta

watched it for the first time tonight. meh.

teh end.

3/10

The GWD

12-02-2008, 03:16 AM

100% agree. my lone add on. if you go with a girl, the odds of you getting a BJ or sex of any kind go thru the roof.

or maybe that was just my personal exp.

Why would going to a movie with a girl increase the chances of you getting blown by your boyfriend? Ohhh, Snap!

ElemenoP

12-10-2008, 01:33 AM

Sex and the City: The Movie.

I loved it. Only because I think that I'm hanging on to the last bits of the series as much as I can. I really hated the Jennifer Hudson character, Louise. I could do without her in this movie.

4/5

the creeps

12-10-2008, 01:40 AM

step brothers
boats n hoes. it has lines that you will be saying to your friends for sometime to come. way better than semi pro. and somewhat better than walk hard.

7/10

VoxAngelikus

12-10-2008, 12:10 PM

Gary_Busey

12-14-2008, 07:09 PM

Son of Rambo

Pretty sweet film. The kid who plays the bully is a surprisingly good actor. A few solid laughs in this film, with a heartfelt ending. Lots of originality in the plot and characters. I enjoyed this one a lot.

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Bastard

12-15-2008, 07:46 AM

Candycane

12-17-2008, 07:32 PM

The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)
I didn’t expect much from this remake and that’s what this film delivered. For those not familiar with the story, it is about an alien who has come to save the earth by eliminating the human race. Connelly portrays a scientist who tries to help the alien Keanu and convince him that mankind can change and is worth saving. This film would have been a lot better if Connelly’s acts of persuasion involved some nudity and attractive, acrobatic lesbians. Instead we get desperate pleas, classical music, and an annoying kid. It does not offer much in terms of action. I wish there had been more scenes with the giant killing machine gort. Mostly it is just spheres and clouds of destruction. It’s also not a surprise that Keanu is good at playing the part of an alien. 1/5 stars

It reminded me so much of The Happening, in a way shoving this "you fucked the planet up now the planet will fuck you up " theme. I get it. I get that we have to change, but a cheesy re-make with an over dramatic Will Smith Jr kid ain't going to do it. This movie had the potential to be great but the original didn't really need to be touched. I think Jennifer Connelly was miscast and the entire movie just pisses you off.

1/5 stars as well.

Candycane

12-17-2008, 07:36 PM

Burn After Reading

A nice follow-up to "No Country For Old Men" for the Coen brothers, "Burn After Reading" is a conspiracy espionage thriller with nothing to fight over and a bunch of complete fools and idiots caught in the middle, with disastrous consequences for just about everyone involved.

The movie centers around two gym workers who find a CD filled with what they think is an ex-spy's top secret CIA information. In traditional Coen brothers fashion, chaos follows as the two workers try to blackmail the spy in exchange for the information. By the end of the movie, everybody is convinced they are being watched, and nobody has any idea what is really going on.

There is a lot of black humor in "Burn After Reading", their funniest film since "The Big Lebowski". Maybe not coincidentally, this film seems to have received the same criticisms and mixed reviews as "Lebowski", and for me, the movie has the same rewatchability factor as "Lebowski". There are really funny performances from George Clooney, John Malkovich, Frances McDormand and especially Brad Pitt, whose doofy gym employee, Chad, steals the show.

The Coen's particular brand of dark humor - blending tragedy with well-crafted, intelligent comedy - can be an acquired taste. Here they hit their mark, with a finely interwoven non-story and great turns by their actors.

8/10

I loved this movie too. I actually feel like I was one of the only people who hated "No Country For Old Men" gahh to me it sucked and I was so disappointed. I feel they had their mojo back (for me) in this movie. In the spirit of Fargo and even Raising Arizona-ish I loved watching this "dark" comedy. You are laughing one minute and then BOOM a tragedy so to speak happens. Brad Pitt as much as I can't stand him really catches you off guard as a dimwitted personal trainer type employee. He seems to not take himself so seriously in this movie and it works. Great ensemble cast and I enjoyed it a lot.

8/10 stars as well.

Rumpleforeskin

12-17-2008, 09:53 PM

The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)

This was excruciatingly terrible in almost every concievable way, and I had very low expectations. The writing was shitty, the directing was shitty, and the pacing was especially shitty (the aliens show up literally 5 minutes into the movie). The plot was illogical every step of the way, exemplified by the fact that anyone in their right mind would have abandoned the fucking kid the first chance they got. The two tiny scenes that were actually interesting (Keanu's meeting with Lo Pan and his meeting with John Cleese) were too short to be significant. I wouldn't even rent this one. Maybe watch it on FX in a year if you really want to punish yourself.

0/5

6655321

12-17-2008, 09:54 PM

sweet reevyoo, brah.

Bastard

12-19-2008, 12:10 AM

Gran Torino (2008)
Clint Eastwood stars as a racist Korean war veteran that recently lost his wife and is alienated from his own sons. Eastwood starts to hang out with the cute Hmong chick that lives next door. Eventually, Eastwood bonds with the family next door and befriends the son and tries to teach him how not to be such a pussy.
I thought Eastwood was excellent as an angry old man that was set in his ways and who threatened anyone who stepped on his lawn. Ahney Her does an excellent job and I thought that she had great chemistry with Clint Eastwood. In fact I almost wish it had remained focused on Eastwood and Her’s characters instead of the brother. Bee Vang, who portrays the Hmong guy Eastwood takes under his wing, does an adequate job and one particular scene between Eastwood, Vang, and Eastwood’s barber friend is pretty funny. The ending of this film was predictable but overall I enjoyed the movie and would watch it again. 3.5/ 5

Nature's Folly

12-19-2008, 01:01 AM

Transporter 3 - 1/5

For some who like statham, this will not be one you will enjoy. Out of all the Transporter movies this is by far the worst. Not only is the story lame, what with the underlying message about polluting and government and corp. corruption, The co star women they have this time around is also fucking useless and really hard to understand. If you have seen the previews, she is also ugly as hell too. I for one hated the fact they tried to shoehorn in some sappy romantic storyline. That is what was so cool about the Transporter Charater, he is alone and he likes it that way. This might be a good watch on TV on a rainy afternoon movie, but by no means should you pay money for this.

Kilgore

12-22-2008, 02:05 PM

Gran Torino

Unlike Bastard, I didn't mind the shift in story line. Yes the end was pretty predictable, but I loved it. Classic Eastwood.

9/10

the creeps

12-22-2008, 02:18 PM

reefer madness: the musical
a remake of sorts. it follows a teenage boy and girl that fall in love and battle the evils of weed and its "addictive" nature. i laughed at some points. kristen bell looks hot in the flick. but i doubt i would watch it again.
4/10

Le Goat

12-24-2008, 03:40 PM

Slumdog Millionaire-

If you don't fall in love with Danny Boyle after this then you sir, are retarded. No, not JUST retarded, but like, 'face' retarded. It's so fucking well shot that, for me at least, it's just plain fucking gorgeous. I love when a movie is put together in such a way that it's not 'A. B. C..etc..' but rather starts out with him getting tortured then him reliving how he knows the answer It's just plain beautiful and I am very, very glad it's getting the acclaim it deserves.

Great Acting. Great Directing. Amazing Music.

4.75/5 for me (I think it needed Latika to get naked)

YellowFever

12-28-2008, 11:58 PM

The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttons - 2.5/5 ( 2.5 because I fell asleep on and off during the middle half after gorging myself during Christmas Dinner)

Pretty good movie from what I saw while conscious. Somewhat similar to Forrest Gump (cuz it has the same writer). Felt it spent too long on Brad Pitt being old, and not enough time being young.

Le Goat

12-29-2008, 12:04 AM

so you fucking rate a movie even though you fell asleep because of some outside influance?

hardcore fail

FlipHKD

12-29-2008, 02:13 AM

I just finished watching Slumdog Millionaire and I'm with goat on this one.

My initial feelings from watching the poorly put together trailer for it was that it was just another love story movie(that's what it made it look like to me) but I saw it anyway and I was blown away.

The acting was top notch, cinematography was on spot, Danny Boyle just won himself a fan.

9.5/10

Also

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - 9.5/10
Milk - 9/10
Let the Right one In - 10/10

this has been one hell of a week

Penguin Rick

12-29-2008, 03:26 AM

Four Christmases

Yea, yea it is a chick's flick. But it's actually really funny and Witherspoon and Vaugn got surprisingly good chemistry together. I liked it since it was fairly original and had good acting with a good script.

4/5

oculus

12-29-2008, 05:04 AM

The wackness

Dealer trades pot for therapy, becomes friends with his therapist, was a pretty good movie staring Josh Peck, of drake and josh. I must say those two kids are really accepting any role they can to shed the kiddie image but he does pretty good, and the movie has a nice old school hip-hop sound track. I would recommend it.

YellowFever

12-30-2008, 09:07 PM

so you fucking rate a movie even though you fell asleep because of some outside influance?

hardcore fail

I gave it 2.5 only because I missed half of it. If I stayed awake, I would have given it a 5/5

Anyway on to another review:

Gran Torino 4/5

I actually stayed awake throughout this whole movie. Take out the last 20 minutes and this movie would have been billed as a comedy. Never heard a theatre laugh so much during a Clint Eastwood movie. And also never heard so many awesome Asian racial slurs in a 2 hour span. (I think the whites in the theater were afraid to laugh at some of them around us minorities).

Everyone is correct that the movie was predictable but who cares. Good flick.

Grieves

12-30-2008, 09:09 PM

Everyone is correct that the movie was predictable but who cares. Good flick.So Clint Eastwood does kill the kid.

CTricksterGirl

12-30-2008, 09:33 PM

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 4/5

When I initially heard this movie was almost 3 hours long, I thought, fuck, I am going to be dying after 2 hours, I was astonished to say, the time flew by. I did not feel like this movie lagged at any part and it held my interest for the whole time. The cinematography was gorgeous, the special effects amazing, and the acting, especially by Faune A. Chambers (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0150330/), who played Button's mother figure, was wonderful. The only reason I didn't give this movie 5/5 is because I hated that I had to ask logical questions even though it was a whimsical movie without answer such as why they had certain events that seemed signifcant, but really weren't....

Other than that, the movie is worth it and while I don;t think Brad Pitt is Oscar worthy, I think some of the aspects of the movie are...at least Golden Globe winner for sure.

bones12

01-02-2009, 12:09 PM

Gran Torino 4/5

Everyone is correct that the movie was predictable but who cares. Good flick.

Couldn't disagree more about the predictability. You knew the end result, but how it got there was far from predictable.

Clint is the man, and everything he does is gold. His subtle acting was great, and his directing was top notch as usual. 4.5/5

BIG PIZZLE

01-02-2009, 12:58 PM

The Dark Night: Not as good as Iron Man.

NOTKyle

01-02-2009, 01:02 PM

The Dark Night: Not as good as Iron Man.

If the internet hype around Batman hadn't shown up, I think alot of people would've been saying the same thing.

Le Goat

01-02-2009, 04:07 PM

Retards.

Stick to Gonzo Porn

InterningIsiah

01-02-2009, 07:21 PM

The Wrestler: Real good for both wrestling and non wrestling fans. The beginning and the end will satisfy the wrestling fans, the middle will satisfy those who like a story about someone who can't seem to let go of the past.

4.5/5

Le Goat

01-04-2009, 03:32 AM

'3:10 to Yuma'

I have been meaning to see this movie for a while now. I've heard great things about the story so I figured I would put it into my Netflix que and give it a try. It's gorgeous on Blu-Ray... The story was indeed great. I liked that Crowe AND Bale had smart characters (Bale's is in his own distinct way). The acting from all characters was pretty fucking good and the dialogue wasn't typical twangy western shit. The only thing I didn't like about it is the 'law man' that Ben stabbed in the troat while everyone was sleeping. That fucker is ugly as faces balloon knot.

I give it a 4/5

the creeps

01-04-2009, 03:58 AM

lost boys 2: two people move to a town where corey feldmen is doing a shitty job of killing vampires. if he has been killing vampires since he was a kid shouldn't all those motherfuckers be dead by now? it fucking sucked.

0/5

Aegis

01-04-2009, 10:27 AM

v for vendetta

watched it for the first time tonight. meh.

teh end.

3/10

Wrong, the dialog alone gives this movie a 8/10. Add to that the decent story line and the dirty whore in the school girl outfit and you've got 9/10.

YellowFever

01-04-2009, 01:01 PM

Couldn't disagree more about the predictability. You knew the end result, but how it got there was far from predictable.

Clint is the man, and everything he does is gold. His subtle acting was great, and his directing was top notch as usual. 4.5/5

Ok well maybe it was just me but I kinda had a feeling of "how it got there". Oh well I'm not gonna knock it, Gran Torino is in my top 10 for 08.

It was a great movie until I saw this: Slumdog Millionaire 5/5

I'm still reeling from the awesomeness of this movie. Wasn't much of a Danny Boyle fan after seeing The Beach and 28 Days Later, but I may have to revisit these movies and then some. (And yes, I've never seen Trainspotting).

If this movie doesn't win best picture I'll be very disappointed. My only complaint was the fucking old people sitting next to me who came in 15 minutes late, made me move over one seat so they can sit next to each other, and had to say out loud the ending titles because they were fucking retarded and couldn't read to themselves silently.

}{arlequin

01-04-2009, 01:32 PM

Hancock
sadly, the best part about this movie was charlize's character. i'm not gonna go as far and say the movie sucked, after all i was mildly entertained, but a cinematic tour de force it isn't. watched the unrated version as opposed to the theatrical, which seemed to have more curse words and not much else. don't even bother w/ it. seeing it on cable will be enough. 5/10

Shoot 'Em Up
the premise was that it will have a lot of shooting, and a lot of scenes that aren't very believable. where some movies will have one or two scenes like that, this one is put together entirely from such scenes. it knows it's over the top, does not try to hide it, and simply becomes fun because of that. did i mention it has a lot of shooting in it? bellucci's cleavage sprinkled throughout the film doesn't hurt either. 7/10

nuclearjew

01-04-2009, 01:35 PM

It was a great movie until I saw this: Slumdog Millionaire 5/5

I'm still reeling from the awesomeness of this movie. Wasn't much of a Danny Boyle fan after seeing The Beach and 28 Days Later, but I may have to revisit these movies and then some. (And yes, I've never seen Trainspotting).

If this movie doesn't win best picture I'll be very disappointed. My only complaint was the fucking old people sitting next to me who came in 15 minutes late, made me move over one seat so they can sit next to each other, and had to say out loud the ending titles because they were fucking retarded and couldn't read to themselves silently.
It was pretty stupid how the movie ended on a Bollywood dance number. Completely out of place with respect to the rest of the movie.

Le Goat

01-04-2009, 01:43 PM

I agree on that. I think that was more for the actual Indian audience, seeing as how the co-directer was Indian.

YellowFever

01-04-2009, 09:01 PM

I didn't mind the dance number at all. Yes it was out of place but I guess they were trying to make it as "Bollywood" as possible. And the fact that the dance number was after the movie ended made it okay.

If they worked it into the movie (see Spider Man 3) I would have walked out.

Hulud

01-04-2009, 09:35 PM

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 4/5

think most people will know this is about a guy who ages backwards, the aging effects are very well done, the acting is good, the three hours goes by quickly. would expect to see this get at least a few nominations for oscar, as it did for the GGs. recommended.

nuclearjew

01-04-2009, 11:34 PM

Le Goat

01-04-2009, 11:36 PM

Which is why Danny Boyle > Bollywood

nuclearjew

01-04-2009, 11:39 PM

Bollywood is for queers like ole Kuru.

the creeps

01-05-2009, 12:42 AM

super high me.

doug benson from last comic standing and random VH1 shows, decided to stop smoking weed for 30 days then go on a weed binge for 30 days, while doing so he takes test both of the body and mind.

tons of great comics drop by patton oswalt, brian posehn, rob riggle, rob hubble and jeff ross just to name a few,
it is some good shit. doug is funny and the story moves along well.
3/5

Gary_Busey

01-05-2009, 01:05 AM

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

It's long, but you don't notice it. It's refreshing to see a movie that actually focuses on the story, and it's a really good story at that. Interesting concept, acting is top notch, Pitt is solid in this movie as always. Definitely worth the price of admission and I recommend people pay to see this.

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NOTKyle

01-05-2009, 03:49 AM

I saw that and Burn After Reading in the same day, and decided Brad Pitt is a better actor than anybody gives him credit for.

HAWK

01-05-2009, 01:20 PM

Wrong, the dialog alone gives this movie a 8/10. Add to that the decent story line and the dirty whore in the school girl outfit and you've got 9/10.

Agreed. V's lines in the movie were ridiculously good.

ElemenoP

01-07-2009, 01:03 AM

À la folie... pas du tout (He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not)

I've always loved Audrey Tautou. So when I saw this foreign flick - I had to rent it. It's a pretty twisted romance about an art student who suffers from erotomania with a doctor.... to the point where she loses her job, scholarship and starts stalking the doctor. She starts planning imaginery trips, sending him love letters, paintings and alot of other twisted and very scary things.

I don't want to say more about this movie - but I really enjoyed how the movie was filmed where it showed the student's delusional perspective on her interactions with the doctor and then in the latter part of the movie, the director begins to piece the story together in a more sane point of view.

I really liked this movie -- except it made me wonder if this is how some girls are like when they're either depressed after a break up or mentally obsessed with a guy.

4/5

Hulud

01-11-2009, 01:32 PM

Eagle Eye

completely ridiculous movie about a guy who is being told to do stuff while his every move is watched by various electronic devices. silly, but entertaining. 5.5/10

banethejuggalo

01-11-2009, 10:45 PM

Unborn
Cheap scares, crappy overall
3/10

the creeps

01-12-2009, 02:59 AM

Eagle Eye

completely ridiculous movie about a guy who is being told to do stuff while his every move is watched by various electronic devices. silly, but entertaining. 5.5/10
i would say the same about it. i would add that it needed more dawson.

Meet Bill.
aaron eckhart stars as bill a giant pussy with no really purpose or drive in life. it trys to be a feel good movie, it has a few good laughs, but as it ends you feel like something is missing.

6/10

Snatch

01-12-2009, 10:54 PM

Slumdog Millionaire-
7/10

Positive-
Probably the best date movie you can do. That's about the nicest way to put it. I was expecting a Danny Boyle film, and I was only partly disappointed. The scenes with young Salim/Jamal/Latika are amazing. The Hindi/Muslim riot was breath-taking. The sound was great throughout the whole movie, with a soundtrack that was Indian, but not Bollywood (fucking M.I.A. music video and all). They give you subtitles at points to help if you can't understand every word that the dotheads spoke. The villains (and that's just about all there is) are all loathsome. India sucks, and I would never want to go (I don't like how curry smells), but he gave Wes Anderson a run for his money in making India beautiful.

Negative-
Couldn't relate to any of the characters. Maybe the cultural divide was too huge. The actors that play the grown up Salim/Jamal are way too fucking soft. It's hard to believe that there is any grit, when the characters become so faggoty. There is basically not a single cathartic moment in the entire film. Maybe if there was a twist, or some sort of unpredictable moment.

Bla bla. Still good.

Le Goat

01-12-2009, 11:02 PM

Snatch

01-12-2009, 11:05 PM

The fuck are you talking about no 'unpredictable' moment? The whole fucking thing is setup as unpredictable, even until about 5 minutes before teh Bollywood Dance number.

Ya, the whole time you weren't thinking about the lifeline he had for phone a friend, and who the fuck was he supposed to call. It wasn't obvious that they were going to let him out of the jail. I mean, the ride wasn't predictable, but every stop was.

YellowFever

01-13-2009, 10:15 PM

Ya, the whole time you weren't thinking about the lifeline he had for phone a friend, and who the fuck was he supposed to call. It wasn't obvious that they were going to let him out of the jail. I mean, the ride wasn't predictable, but every stop was.

Predictable is in the eye of the beholder.

I predicted the phone the brother gave to Latika was a bomb and when he used his lifeline to call him or her it would go off and revenge would have been accomplished.

Unfortunately, my prediction was wrong.

nuclearjew

01-13-2009, 10:18 PM

That would've made the movie 1000 times better.

Le Goat

01-13-2009, 10:24 PM

Predictable is in the eye of the beholder.

I predicted the phone the brother gave to Latika was a bomb and when he used his lifeline to call him or her it would go off and revenge would have been accomplished.

Unfortunately, my prediction was wrong.

i actually thought the same thing.

NOTKyle

01-13-2009, 10:31 PM

I like how happy the movie ends, it's like the sickeningly happy ending of Holes. And I agree that Jamal is too soft as a grown up, no kid that goes through that much would wind up serving chai. He'd be killin ****** like Salim, all day errryday.

nuclearjew

01-13-2009, 11:00 PM

Salim looked like the Michael Jackson zombie from Thriller:

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Le Goat

01-13-2009, 11:04 PM

Salim looked like the Michael Jackson zombie from Thriller:

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I SAID THE SAME FUCKING THING OUT LOUD TO MYSELF!!!!!!!!111

CTricksterGirl

01-13-2009, 11:07 PM

Lars and the Real Girl http://goldstars.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/lars_and_the_real_girl_movie_poster_onesheet.jpg 4 OUT OF 5

It was way better than I thought it would be and it made me want to cuddle chubby Ryan Gosling so hard even with all of his anti-social, delusional issues....

Bastard

01-14-2009, 04:26 AM

Defiance (2008)
Daniel Craig stars in this story about brothers from Poland that try to survive after the Nazis kill their family. The brothers hide in the forest and they take in various people on the run from the Nazi hordes. They try to establish a community and struggle against those Nazi bastards as well as each other while trying to provide supplies, protection, and a somewhat normal daily routine. Perhaps I’m just a sucker for movies that portray people killing Nazis, but this movie did keep my attention throughout. I enjoyed it more than Valkyrie. 3/5

Snatch

01-14-2009, 09:17 AM

That would've made the movie 1000 times better.

This. Way different though. Doubt people would've liked it as much.

STDSkillz

01-14-2009, 09:43 AM

YellowFever

01-14-2009, 09:48 PM

Gran Torino

Saw this yesterday, enjoyed the story, acting, and direction of the movie. Probably laughed at the racial epithets a little too much. Liked the ending less than the rest of the movie, but it was still well done.

9/10

Good, someone else laughed at the epithets too. I really believe they were meant to be laughed at. I felt like a dick as I was sitting next to my friend and his Hmong girlfriend. But whatever.

Ghostrider

01-15-2009, 01:11 AM

Gran Torino 4.5 of 5 stars.

The only thing I even remotely disliked was th seemingly contrived racial slurs. Other wise the sho was excellent.

the creeps

01-15-2009, 02:18 AM

kung fu panda.
fat ass panda that don't know shit all the sudden knows some shit. funny cute more than funny haha.

5/10

ADD

01-17-2009, 10:12 AM

Paul Blart Mall Cop

Best PG movie I've seen in a while. Pretty funny. A stupid feel good movie.

6/10

Bill Paxton

01-17-2009, 10:49 AM

Audition - 2/10

I just watched this movie last weekend after people constantly referencing it as a great japanese horror movie. I had heard about certain scenes from it and really looked forward to seeing this.

Maybe my expectations were too high, or maybe I was expecting something different altogether, but I thought this movie was pretty awful.

There was just so much build up to the one torcher scene, which granted was pretty bad, but not nearly as bad as I expected. Also, maybe it was just me but there were a few scenes that I just did not get at all, like the blowjob scene, the multiple dream sequences that kind of made me lose track of what was going on. All in all i just thought it was kind of a slow plodding movie until the very end, which was also pretty disappointing.

noahsdove

01-21-2009, 09:15 PM

My bloody valentine in 3-d

I give it a 4 out of 10. The plot wasnt anything original and the cast didnt seem to bring anything to the table. The storyline was very predictable and the only reason that I didnt give it a 1 was because the 3-d was pretty good. I have to admit the new technology that they use for 3d is much better then red and blue glasses.
However the preview for coraline in 3d before this made it worthwhile as coraline looks pretty fucking good.

The theatre I went to I talked to the manager who said that MBV was absolute crap for the non 3d version. Its a renter i suppose.

noahsdove

01-21-2009, 09:17 PM

Gran Torino

8 of 10

Clint eastwood is a racist fuck in this movie. However its not like you would think. The generation he portrays knew nothing better and didnt grow up in the civil rights movement so this is all he knows.
The story was original and the plot made the whole movie. I definately reccomend seeing this one.

Da Raider

01-23-2009, 11:32 AM

Taken
4 out of 5 stars
Liam Neeson is a retired body guard / secret service / special ops guy who has relocated to be near his daughter, who he basically didn't see growing up. Anyway, she goes away to Paris with her equally naive friend and they are both kidnapped by nasty Albanians who specialize in prostitution and body trafficking. Liam's character doesn't have much to go on, but he's got specialized skills (and friends) to help him get his daughter back. He arrives in Paris and the blood, and action start to flow.

Le Goat

01-23-2009, 11:33 AM

thanks for fucking copy/pasting a summary.

Da Raider

01-23-2009, 11:35 AM

thanks for fucking copy/pasting a summary.

fuck off, turd.

El Torpedo

01-23-2009, 11:47 AM

Gran Torino

3.5/5

I loved Eastwood in this, even though he seemed pretty over the top for a bunch of it. I don't know if they were trying to make it as funny as it was, the racial slurs were hilarious but didn't come off as offensive to me, maybe that has something to do with my whiteness.

A lot of you are saying the acting was great, and I didn't get that at all, Thao and his sister were borderline terrible at some parts. Eastwood was great though.

The movie as a whole really paid off though and I'd definitely recommend it.

misterfatt

01-23-2009, 12:58 PM

ruffdog

01-23-2009, 01:06 PM

fucken Albanians

HAWK

01-23-2009, 01:24 PM

SOUL MEN

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This is your typical comedy...but it's still funny as fuck. I laughed all the way through. Both Jackson and Mac were hilarious. However, if you don't like funny dialogue then it probably not for you. If you're one of these guys that only go for slapstick and people running into doors...then this isn't for you. Plus, the soundtrack is great.

Check it out.

8/10

misterfatt

01-23-2009, 01:37 PM

you don't have to pretend to like terrible movies just because you're black.

HAWK

01-23-2009, 01:52 PM

I don't get it.

A. I liked the movie and thought it was funny.
B. I'm not black.
C. What's your point?

misterfatt

01-23-2009, 01:58 PM

B. I'm not black.
then you have no excuse.

HAWK

01-23-2009, 06:05 PM

if i say you're black, you're black.

Only from the waist down.

then you have no excuse.

I found the shit talking back and forth between Mac and Sam was funny as hell. The plot and the rest of the movie was just ok. No more, no less.

the creeps

01-24-2009, 03:46 AM

hamlet 2

some failed actor teaches high school drama. he needs to save the program from getting shut down so he writes "hamlet 2 "

funny at moments not gut busting, the old chick form the 40 year old virgin was awesome in this. it was a good rent.

6.5/10

bones12

01-24-2009, 09:41 AM

Frost/Nixon - absolutely loved it. I thought Frank Langella did an outstanding job of playing Nixon. His mannerisms and style of speech were spot on. The last half hour was just fantastic film making. 8.5/10

Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Inventive, original, and beautifully shot, but I don't know. I'd never see it again and the pace was slow, but at the same time I didn't find myself looking at my watch. I can't really wrap my head around whether I liked it or not. I think that's it....liked it, didn't love it at all. 7/10

The Wrestler - gritty and sad, Rourke was excellent. Very good movie, but I don't think it deserved an Oscar nod that some are saying should have come it's way. 8/10

Step Brothers - can't believe it took me this long to see. Just what I thought, if not maybe even a little funnier. I could not stop laughing when Ferrell asked the dad if the house was haunted after telling the brothers they were selling it. Classic Ferrell, and John C. 8/10

Upcoming movie weekend of Slumdog Millionaire, The Reader, and Synedoche NY. Can't wait to see Slumdog, and quite intrigued about Synedoche NY that I've heard some amazing things about.

Tiger

01-24-2009, 11:31 AM

SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
i just watched this film last night. The acting by the boy(Dev Patel) was outstanding. I thought the last twenty minutes dragged on a bit too much, but this is an oscar worthy film. 7.5/10
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/16/Slumdog_Millionaire_poster.jpg

Summary:
A young indian boy whose family lives in the projects goes on who wants to be a millionaire and wins the million. He is accused of cheating and is tortured. A true underdog film!

Da Raider

01-24-2009, 01:06 PM

so basically, it's man on fire.

pretty much.

Da Raider

01-24-2009, 01:17 PM

The Quiet Man
4 out of 5 stars
Starring Christian Slater as McConnell, a beaten, defeated loner who works for a large company. The movie starts out with him in his cubicle, he's loading his gun with six bullets, assigning each bullet to an employee that he hates. Just as he's about to load the sixth and final bullet, he drops is and it falls under his cube and rolls out into the hallway. As he drops to his knees to retreive the final bullet gun shots ring out, another dismayed employee has already started taking his revenge. People are dropping right and left but McConnell causually stands up and strikes a conversation with the gunman. The gunman aims for McConnell's boss, but misses. They both shout "Damn!" at the same time. Classic. Anyway, it's obvious that these two connect but eventually, they get into an argument, but McConnell wins the argument by empyting his gun on the gunman. McConnell, the quiet, beaten man, suddenly is thrust into the spotlight as the hero. A great opening idea for a film, Slater is underrated as the lead, Elisha Cuthbert plays the love interest (who is only his love interest for a specific reason) and William H Macy plays the type A personality big boss. Some funny scenes, some darks scenes. Definitely different, watch it.

ruffdog

01-27-2009, 03:32 PM

Notorious 7/10
bad acting all around except for Biggie

ruffdog

01-27-2009, 03:32 PM

and 2 people got arrested after the movie ended. I was like COPS WUT!

HAWK

01-27-2009, 04:29 PM

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Bangkok Dangerous

What a piece of shit.

That's my review.

0/10

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Not as bad as Bangkok...but damn close. The idea of getting orders from a sewing machine was a bit to much for me to believe. Throw in some nice effects and some average action and you get 3 out of 10 stars.

3/10

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Burn After Reading

A decent flick. Typical Cohen brothers. Intelligence is truly overrated. Funny in it's own way...but definitely worth seeing especially if you've like Cohen's previous work. Good but not their best.

6/10

Jericho

01-28-2009, 02:09 AM

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Paul Blart: Mall Cop

I wanted to like this, I really did. I like Kevin James, and it wasn't getting pisspoor reviews, so I thought I'd give it a whirl. What a total shitpile. If you think watching Kevin James on a segway for an hour is hilarious, here's your movie. It isn't like he wasn't trying, but there was nothing to work with here. None of the secondary characters were even accidentally interesting, I never laughed once because every joke was seen coming for a mile, and I can't even say that it was a joke dragged on way too long because the movie was like 70 fucking minutes...this is a horrible, horrible piece of crap 1/5

Jericho

01-28-2009, 03:22 AM

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Notorious

I wasn't really into rap during high school and wasn't into the whole East coast-West coast feuds, but I did see the effect that it had on those around me. And I can say that even if you were a metalhead, this is a really good movie that seems to be pretty accurate to my recollection. This is pretty damned good as a stand alone movie without knowing the story. I thought the kid they got to play Biggie did a phenomenal job and even though you knew the end game, it was still a good time getting there. I'll recommend this one. It was solid. 3/5

Cracker

01-30-2009, 03:12 PM

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This Film Is Not Yet Rated

Pretty good documentary about the MPAA, which I never realised was so screwed up. They don't even release the names of who rates the movies, well, until the guy who directed this did it for them.

Candycane

02-02-2009, 09:44 AM

Taken 3.75/5 (haaa)

I would have given this film a solid five if it hadn't been for Maggie Graces' deplorable acting. She really ruined the first 15 minutes of the film. I think the director told her to act "immature" for her age, which she is supposed to be 17, but came off as 10. It was really distracting and perhaps she was miscast all together. Anyway, once you get over that the film is fast paced and heart pounding. You have to have a bit of disbelief for a lot of movies in todays world, and this is no exception. But you have no problem buying the story, it seems plausible and Liam Neeson rivals Jason Bourne and even Bond in badassery. I didn't like the "Hostel" feel of "Europe is a scary place" when really the world is, not just Europe. Entertaining and not too long.