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Post by T. Miller on Jul 15, 2006 22:42:34 GMT -5
Saw the Exorcism of Emily Rose. I have to say that the movie was quite disappointing.... Some good ideas and a few good images, but the full potential just wasn't met in this film. If you pause the film however, the characters make some absolutely funny faces (yea... got a bit bored)... like in the hopital when she's staring out the window at the clouds,if you pause it, she looks cross-eyed while appearing to be having some gastrointestinal issues.
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Post by UncleJager on Jul 25, 2006 10:24:42 GMT -5
Munich: I think the trailer made it look more like a thriller, while it seems more to be a psycological drama. They did a nice job making the film feel aged, ie not so shinney and crystal clean colors, to make it feel like we really where watching the 70's. I knew about the olympic shootings but I never knew about the israely response, so for that the movie was interesting, but otherwise I feel that some of the movie could have been shaved ddown to make it a little more faster paced. Overall not bad, but I was a little bored at points.
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Post by UncleJager on Jul 25, 2006 10:47:08 GMT -5
IZO: the story line is the spirit of a ruthless swordman roams the land getting revange for his murder by killing everyone he meets. Sounds like an entertaining idea! For a well reviewed Jap. film this was one of the worst productions I have scene. A lot of the locations were very "stage" everything was obviously fake outdoors, or very flatly lit. The acting was low key as well. Add to that this movie purposly has no plot or connection between scenes, beyond the the presence of Izo. The time keeps shifting between Japan's waring states era and today. And sometimes the two come together such as a fight scene between Izo and two other swordsman (dressed in samuria armour) on a bridge with what appeared to be the same truck running back and forth. This was supposed to be a film like EareserHead where the movie is supposed to be symbolic of something, Izo had not wierd elements like EareserHead just some guy killing random people. Let me describe two scenes as examples: Izo is in a cave resting, two man in business suits walk up to the entrence of the cave and start talking to him, one even offers Izo his business card because he is a realestate agent. Izo stabs the guy, he stagers and suddenly both business suit men have vampire teeth and they start stabing Izo with large kitchen knives. After some stabing Izo kills the two. He is pulled through a wall by an invisable force and lands in a elementary school class room, everyone stares and Izo runs out in panic. In the narrow hallway he is blocked in between two groups of ordinary looking women. They advance on him and he starts hacking them apart as we cut back and forth to the classroom where the children are giving gloomy answeres to "what is life," "what is love". When the hacking is doen the teacher from the classroom comes out unphased by the pile of dead women in the hall she just steps overthem and walk away as Izo bows to her like a student to a teacher. The lack of plot and abondance of randomness made me loose interest in the film very quickly to the point that I eventualy gave up on it because I began to doze off.
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Post by UncleJager on Aug 3, 2006 18:05:03 GMT -5
Dog Soldiers: Soldiers on a routine excersise in Scotish Highlands get more then they barganed for when they are attacked by werewolves. A movie with nothing new to say but it was still entertaining. It was sort of Aliens done with wolves with the typical survival horror elements mixed in. T's comment with Underworld is that the werewolves looked like boiled sausages, well here they were dirty, tall men with giant wolf heads and paw/hands, which created a strange effect since the rest of the werewolf was remarkably hairless. There were some cool moments in the film but most was nothing new. Something good to rent for a night of fun, but far from a must in the horror library
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Post by UncleJager on Aug 6, 2006 16:22:09 GMT -5
Hostel: I thought I would like this movie more than I ended up liking it. It didn't really have much substance looking back at it. I also understand why the Slovakian gov. was pissed after the movie came out, since all the officials in the town where in on the deal. The plot twist about the business the place was running was kinda cool, different from the usual one psyco chopping at peeps. It was a mildly entertaining watch but not worth repeating. My greatest thrill in the film was noticing on a counter that there was a bottle of beer that I liked and tried from the area. But atleast they were in a place that looked like Slovakia and the cars were sufficiantly crappy. Though the bandits did not speak Slovakian as far as I could tell.
Dead Alive: A definate cinametic highlight. Really twisted and funny zombie movie from Peter Jackson. It's a little slow in the middle, and the pupettering is really weak, but the end zombie fest made up for it. I will never look at a lawn-mower the same again. If you liked Shawn of the Dead this is a good watch, though not as slick as Shawn this was even more humerous.
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LEGION
Canonised Regular Joe
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Post by LEGION on Aug 6, 2006 18:27:29 GMT -5
Spider Monkey!!!
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Post by UncleJager on Aug 6, 2006 20:28:03 GMT -5
Rat Monkey of Samoa!
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Post by UncleJager on Sept 10, 2006 9:13:39 GMT -5
Saw2: After not really enjoying the last two movies from this general genre Hostel and Devils Regects, I wasn't sure about this one either. Watching it changed all that. I think this sequal kept the basic concept of one alive nicely and added enough twists and turns to make this movie interesting on its own, not just a repeat of the first film. I think what I really liked about this movie that was missing in the other two was the story twists. I knew people were being stollen in Hostel so there was no supprise there. While I was expecting things to twist in Saw Dos the final twist was a good supprise.
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Post by Alan Fuckin' Alda on Oct 24, 2006 9:22:52 GMT -5
Has anyone seen Wolf Creek? If you have, can you tell me if this movie is supposed to be scary in any way? I never once felt even slightly uncomfortable watching it. I heard people say this movie is terrifying, gory, etc. Then I watched it.
There were no typical "something unexpectedly pops on screen" moments, the mood wasn't that disturbing, the killer wasn't very menacing, the gore was nearly non-existant. I never cared about the well being of any character. And to top it off, no gratuitous nudity.
So did anyone else see it and think the same thing, or am I just desensitized to "scary" movies?
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Post by T. Miller on Oct 26, 2006 14:52:15 GMT -5
We just saw Black Dahlia... so disappointing! Didn't give what the previews led one to expect, the film's progression felt forced, the attempts at being a noir film were half-hearted, and the female lead sat around constantly with a slackjawed expression on her face that reminded me very much of my cat when he goes "doih?".
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Post by UncleJager on Oct 27, 2006 9:54:04 GMT -5
I have to agree Black Dahlia was pretty week. I didn't know much about the murders before, so I was led to belive that there was a string of murders. As Spook said the plot progression was god-awful and so was some of the dialogue. I think the only reason Scarlett Johansson was in this film was because of her super blond hair and her general resembalance to the women of film noir of old. This film tried too hard to be LA Confidential most of the plot twists were in the big picture the same. What really annoyed me at first was the dialogue style that tried to imitate that of LA Confidential the book. By the way as is the case 99.999995% of the time LA Confidential the book was so much better than the movie, way darker and much more twisted.
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Post by UncleJager on Nov 27, 2006 16:56:55 GMT -5
Happiness Of The Katakuris A genra bending film from the director of Itchi The Killer, this film is best described as a musical/comedy/horror. It's hard to take this film seriously, but I think that was how it is ment to be. The basic breakdown of the film is the story of a family struggling to run a small guest house in an out of the way part of Japan (which to me looks to be a garbage dump. Missfortune haunts the family as all their guests drop dead. In a case like this what is a family ment to do? Burst into Michael Jackson's Thriller like dance numbers! Yes there is even decaying Zombies! As has been proven many times the Japanese are great at comming up with the randomest plots, and this film is no exception. If singing and dancing is not enough for you there is also claymation (sometimes mixed with live action). Of course there is a real messege to the film, but to find that out you will have to watch it. For those interested I can provide copies.
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Post by UncleJager on Dec 13, 2006 6:11:39 GMT -5
District B13[ A french martial arts action flick. All snazzed up with urban fasion and bling out cars and some funny looking lip syncing of British English to french mouths. The martial arts was not as dazzling as most asian films, and the plot was ridiculous especialy to the end where it was on the verge of being super cheeze with the good guy man hug and hero music. The Martial Arts in some parts looked more like that extreme walking stuff (guys bouncing around walls). There was a lot in this film but not much of it was anything new, and there was no real 'wow!' factor.
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Post by UncleJager on Feb 15, 2007 22:39:40 GMT -5
I finaly decided to watch War Of The Worlds. I was hoping for something ID4 but got Battlefield Earth instead. I don't know what happened to Speilberg he used to make such good Sci-Fi films. I think he got too caught up in the whole "not a remake, but a retelling from a different view" idea. He tried to squeeze too much into the film, and failed miserably. None of the characters were developed and all three major characters were really annoying. Especialy the two kids, what the fuck was up with them??! One was too busy rebeling to think logicaly and the little girl was just simply annoying. But I guess a small girl might act like that in the face of such situations, but I just had the feeling that she had mental issues. Atleast Speilberg tried to do some interesting shots, there was some really nice dark stuff in there. I especialy liked the sequence when they were in the diner and the guy shots the otherguy outside to get the van. That idea was something we had seen many times, but the composition and the way it was shot and set up made it much more powerful then if we saw it..say, from the street or as a close up/dynamic shot. It felt like Speilberg was unsure of he wanted an action adventure film or a human drama during the shooting and just decided to put both together in editing. This would probably not been a Speilberg film, but how much greater would the film had been if it had that dark, redish gray color to it throughout the entire film and was done more in the sense of a realistic war film. I would have liked to have seen more carnage, but even without it, use some of the elements that worked like the devistated red fields, and the whole clothes/debree falling from the sky with spooky lights. U wouldn't even need intense battle scenes. Give the film a struggle not a shallow tale of family survival. Overall I wish the film was more about the Marsians, and less about the family, or if it needs to be about the family make them more likeable. It seemed the film barely got started and the Marsians were already dying...the sense of time was really messed up in the film, there was no depth to their journey. The ending was probably what sealed the fate of the film. It was simply rediculous. The parents emerge from their immaculate house, in cardigans looking like they were enjoying brunch. Nothings around them is destroyed, except for a random car that was damaged and a turned over bike. I guess even maurading hordes of Marsians know not to interupt of proper social gathering. End then the moronic sun survives the giant fireball/troop of Tripods makes it to Boston on his own, and sits around with his ultra clean relatives in a chared jacket. Than ofcourse there is the cheezy final shot of Tom LoonyCruize perfectly 'hero' lit with a broad smile of satisfaction/conquest on his face.
I was happy I didn't actualy pay to watch this film
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Post by UncleJager on Feb 15, 2007 22:44:55 GMT -5
I also watche SAW3 a couple of weeks ago. Totaly Garbage, I liked the first two, but this one totaly lost all creative ability and suprises. It was Hostle with puzzles. Everything was predictable and there was no suspence or suprize of any type. Plus it really did not make much sense in continuity to the other two. I think they just couldn't come up with a good conclusion to the Cop who was caught at the end of the second one so they just went off the cliff and shoved his storyline quitely under the carpet. There are rummers that there are two more in the works. I hope they are straight to video, cause there is alot of work to be done to make a good story out of the plot now.
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