The last movie you saw...

[dinky]

dragon dynasty started bad and got worse. and sadly, it was about on par with the last legion, which I guess is going to be a major summer release.

[Nikolon]

It was "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End"

It was cool

[MyK]

"Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer" and it was interesting to say the least. Also watched "Hot Fuzz" yesterday... that was something. Immediate and total immersion for the duration of the movie. Loved the way they introduced the viewer to the whole story/background of it with short, fast, funny and totally believable/life-like sketches. I was hoping someone would build on what "Life on Mars" brought to TV sets and extend that to the big screen. Expected "Crank", got what I was hoping for and even more

[maxpayne2409]

watched more red dwarf eps, Queeg this time

[dinky]

I've had an hd rip of perfume.... on the hdd for a while. mood never seems to strike, though. thinking about this david schwimmer + simon pegg flick big nothing.

[Jynks]

Perfume the movie is a pretty decent attempt at an extremely amazing book. I think it well worth a check out Dinky if you have not seen it.... better yet go read the book... it is very abstract and serial, something the film is not.... so the film kind of boils down into a "who is the killer" story instead of a magical supernatural, alternative reality type thing.

This week:

Faster Pussy Cat Kill Kill (awesome)
The Forbidden Zone (Meh... take it or leave it.. interesting but ... narr not my thing)
Hot Fuzz (Realyl liked it.. not as good as the zombie one but still pretty cool.... loved James Bond in it heh heh
Short Circuit (Heh, i really enjoyed this trip down memory lane film.... I was worried it would have the goonies effect [a term my movies mates use to describe a film we loved as a kid but can not stand to watch now we are older)... it did not, still liked it.
It came from Venus to drink your blood (This is one that I know Max would like.... cheese and chicks)

meh wat to watch tonight?

[dinky]

umm...surreal?

I enjoy a little LSD on me Lucky Charms. makes it a surreal cereal while I read my daily installment of the prince valiant serial.


ah. I keed. I keed.

JOHNNY 5 ALIVE! hehe.

can't read perfume. got waaaay too much stuff that I NEED to read for school to do any leisure reading.

[maxpayne2409]

i can't find ed2k link for It came from Venus to drink your blood

[dinky]

first three eps of sanctuary. I think I shall not be watching anymore eps. an awful lot of cgi. inexplicably only 20 m in eps.

dragon storm. another dud. although it was better than dragon dynasty. really saying little there.

and finally, the ultimate waste of the night, final fantasy vii: advent children. it's not technically anime, being a cgi adaptation of a video game, but it confirms my deep seated disdain of anime in general. more action than your basic anime shots (and less annoying freeze frames), but ludicrously helter skelter plots, frenetic, meaningless, mindnumbingly pointless action sequences and monsters and magic tricks. I feel appreciably dumber for having watched this movie. cgi itself looked nice though. I mean, I liked the way the human figures looked (esp. in comparison to the other FF movie, which had a far more discernible and coherent plot). seriously, I think you have to be a FF junkie to think this movie is anything but...junk. stay the fuck away. there it is. you've been warned.

[maxpayne2409]

i have a great hate of anime and final fantasy so 2 reasons for me too avoid it

[dinky]

ever play the phantasy star games?

[maxpayne2409]

no, although i have heard of them, i did play Blaze & Blade: Eternal Quest, for a time on the PSX

[spudthedestroyer]

I saw 28 weeks later and enjoyed it, it was pretty good. The opening sequence was excellent, really excellent. Well shot, brilliant cinematography and tone.

However, I couldn't help but sense it lost it a bit with the nato/yanky control territory and there was a prolonged period of silliness, before some more enjoyment came.

If it would have been able to sustain the beginning of the movie, and I think it could have done by not having all the american/nato crap and done a survival thing instead.

i'll leave it at that to avoid spoilers, I think it could have been a lot better and if it would have sustained the excellent opening tone and scenes it would have been a truely great horror film. It didn't though, which is a crying shame.

At least it had the happy ending.

[maxpayne2409]

Watched Idiocracy, it was pretty good, some funny moments, scarily though it's also pretty accurate to how the world is going.

[dinky]

F4: Rise of the Silver Surfer. s'funny. from a plot/story perspective, this is pretty much exactly the right movie to make. oh. you know it's not great just by the previews. hell, by the announcement of a sequel. surfer and doom looked</i> good. in fact, doom looked very good in his dr. doom getup. umm...the first movie was better, I thought. neither one is particularly offensive and both are shallow but faithful - enough. I've always maintained that F4 is not an easy sell in this day and age. they're just bad x-men.

dumbest fucking stupidity that everyone already knew was in the movie is when the surfer flies into galactus and saves the planet. oh! and yes, galactus is just a giant fookin' cloud/storm. that killed the movie. it just killed it dead. everything else is yeah. sure. ok. whatever. uh huh. all in good fun. but then WTF? that's just...as max would say...supreme gayness. I had a similar reaction to the hulk with its killer poodles and oh! guess what the supremely bad, anti-climactic battle was? yep. you guessed it. big badass incredible hulk vs. the the giant storm cloud of rage the eats kinetic energy.

[dinky]

top gun. missed the beginning. was on hdtv. some tongue action in the love scene. dayum. almost porno-like. I'm not complaining. just sayin'. hadn't noticed it before.

[maxpayne2409]

watched Doctor who last night, it was awesome, although i had been saying since it restarted in 2005 that

Spoiler:

the master would not stay dead

god damn i fucking hate people who release dvdrs and don't scan adn release the fucking cover, I HATE THEM

[dinky]

bak 2 skool maxy

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entourage "season" premiere. was funny. shot as a docu on the latest film.

Star Wars Robot Chicken. 30 mins of RC dedicated to SW. there was a lot of new stuff I hadn't seen before (only saw s1), but the best stuff were skits I'd already seen (luke & vader in cloud city; palpatine on the phone with vader).

[maxpayne2409]

it was 2:43 am when i posted that, do you think i stuck around long enough to check it was right

anyway, watched School For Scoundrels earlier, it was ok, not as good as idiocracy

[MyK]

not as good as idiocracy

So, basically... it's total crap

"Shooter" was a nice action flick for scorchingly hot days here and looking at what's coming out this summer might be the last of the good ones. It's not anything new but it's done right. OK, so some scenes are totally impossible and beyond physical limitations on this planet, but hey... if there wasn't any cheesy moment in it, would Max still be interested?

Also: "Longitude" - good, "Breach" - almost good, "Astronaut Farmer, The" - blah but quite watchable,... few eps of some TV crap (didn't think the last dr. who was all that good but seeing who's the master... dunno... sorta promises a whole lotta more for the next part).

That's all I had time to watch this few days. It's getting ridiculously hot and all I could do is hold my head in the freezer for the better part of the day (a local slang for drinking cold beer excessively)... kinda hard to watch movies at the same time... must buy myself that fridge with a LCD panel