The last movie you saw...

[dinky]

EVIL DEAD 1 & 2: THE MUSICAL

pure comic genius. I've been listening to the audio compilation in the last few weeks, and it's better than the "promotional" vhs rip circulating on ed2k. but the show was quite fun to watch too. I noticed a trend in the audience's reaction where they got the most excited whenever references to AoD came up, despite AoD not technically being part of the story.

[maxpayne2409]

ah i have the vhs cap off newsgroups but havent watched it yet, and the soundtrack of ed1 musical, didn't know there were 2 musicals of it, the ones you have are they dvdrips?

oh also watched The Librarian 1 and 2, because i hoped they might be a mix of Indiana Jones (origs) and National Treasure, they kind of were with a really cheap edge, the second was actually a lot better then the first imo

[spudthedestroyer]

the musical is evil dead 1 and 2 in one

[maxpayne2409]

ah right, i haven't watched it yet

[dinky]

brace yourselves for blasphemy: FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS put me to sleep. this is the second time I've tried to watch this movie. granted, I was actually tired last night. but I didn't care much for it to begin with. it's one of those movies that all my friends who like my favorite movies like, but I just don't give a shit. I want to shoot myself after 5 minutes of it. the closest I can come to how this movie doesn't work for me is that I had a similar reaction to MOULIN ROUGE, which I also could not suffer and turned off inside of 20 mins.

[maxpayne2409]

you realise spud is now cutting himself to ease the pain of your blasphemy

Frankly it's a film that has held no interest with me either, but of course due to the fact spud can't accept my taste in movies as being anything without Leslie Nielson he will most likely ignore the fact it didn't interest me as a passing obviousness in the night

[spudthedestroyer]

I can't help the fact there's idiots out there, there's a guy at work that likes transformers.

[maxpayne2409]

see transformers, ok i can kind of understand liking in a way, but i actually know people who think avp is the best film ever, i want to kill them all

[dinky]

WALL·E. well...it's not nearly as good as I had hoped. it's fine. there's nothing much to see once you've seen the trailers though. Uh...the movie itself covers a lot of very heady and also very well-trodden, classic sci-fi ground. there are elements of 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY; AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH; I, ROBOT; SHORT CIRCUIT; TOY STORY/RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER; and even a nice little shot to remind you of ALIENS - the same scene was also integral to STAR WARS. the problem wasn't really a problem so much as it just wasn't a universal movie. it's all of these things that have been done before and done better (in the sense of intellectually more mature), but this is very clearly a children's version of those stories. So yeah, it's a good movie. All the quality</i> you'd expect from Pixar, but considerably more childish than TOY STORIES or INCREDIBLES, even CARS, which was a more childish movie in theme, had better jokes/gags for adults to enjoy.

iunno. it's tough not to see if you're a sci-fi fan cuz it IS quality and there's so much homage or at least reference to canonical sci-fi works that you should prolly see it just for that. otherwise, though, KUNG FU PANDA is a better ticket if you're only going to buy one.

[spudthedestroyer]

I watched "The Happening". Utterly lame duck... been done countless times, faster, better and with something this film lacked entirely; entertainment value.

Terrible Film
Terrible Plot
Terrible Directing
Terrible, Terrible Writing
Terrible, Terrible Acting

[dinky]

shyamalan is terrific! dunno why boll is so droll but shyamalan, I could rip on him all day. meh.


ACCEPTED on HD-DVD. neat little comedy with justin long (hacker kid in the recent DIE HARD movie). also jonah hill before the bigtime apatow string of hits.

[dinky]

HELLBOY 2. I liked it. it was good. two different things, I guess. anyway, it was similar to the first one but better visual experience and a faster pace. but I thought the first one moved along well too. this one was less heady. it was also derivative of PAN'S LABYRINTH, I think. although I haven't read the comic so I don't know that for a fact. the comic may have always had the same mythology. fun. worth seeing. certainly above average. nothing special though.

[maxpayne2409]

watched Almost An Angel yesterday, Paul Hogan vehicle that i saw years ago on the plane on the way back from a holiday, and when i say years i mean i wasnt even in double figures, anyway i've been waiting for a dvd release for years and it finally came a month ago (i had it preordered anyway) and when it arrived i instantly ripped it, i actually preferred it more this time round.

It's not exactly high quality movie making, but it does what it sets out to.

Anyway watched Cloverfield tonight, very reminiscent of Diary of The Dead (not as good obviously) but with a more scifi tone rather then horror

Still it was enjoyable, made a change from the usual military side that we normally see in such films, or even the "ordinary joes" who arm up with more hardware then the entire world and beat the monster.

While obviously it was a bit glossy, it was more normal based probably because none of the actors/actresses were that attractive

I'm not too sure about the ending

Spoiler:

when the camera drops under the rubble and the 2 remaining characters say "i love you" to each other then everything goes black in a way it lacked closure, you don't find out if they killed the monster and so on, which i liked in a way and in a way i didn't, although it does make me wonder, will they maybe use that as a opening for a sequel? who knows, knowing hollywood probably!

Also been watching Kenny Everetts Tv show and the best of tommy cooper, tommy cooper is a lot more dated comedy then everett

Oh and also 8 out of 10 cats, and jimmy carrs commercial breakdown (during meals)

[dinky]

DARK KNIGHT
very good movie. much more complete of a movie than BATMAN BEGINS. the villains are just plain better, but also more human. and there's actually an actor playing the part of rachel dawes (I thought that was the weakest part of BB). finally, this one corrects a lot of somewhat annoying decisions that its predecessor made especially *spoiler follows* rachel dawes knowing who batman is and batman working closely with gordon. *</spoiler>* anyway, I was expecting this to be good, and it was good. but the flip side to that is that since I came in with high expectations rather than just hoping for something passable, I felt</i> more impressed with BB & IRON MAN. but for the record, DARK KNIGHT is a better film than both, and it's markedly improved over BB regarding the plot construction/(editing) and acting. markedly, hands down, no two ways about it, clearly superior. IRONMAN was lighter fair, so I don't feel comfortable comparing it very deeply to DARK KNIGHT other than the expectations thing.

[maxpayne2409]

note to self regarding my choice of movie decision last night.... huge consumption fo alcohol still will never make any movie starring whoopi goldberg good

it was a knight in camelot (basically a retelling of a conneticut yankee in king arthurs court, just with a middle aged unfunny black comedienne)

thank god i was pissed is all i can say

[dinky]

hmm...I don't remember that. I remember a martin lawrence version (he wears a green ny jets jersey most of the movie).

[maxpayne2409]

yeah the martin lawrence movie was dark knight or something like that, and, as with most martin lawrence films was fucking shit coz all he can do is be a whiney bitchbaby

the whoopi version also starred michael york from austin powers, logans run, riddle of the sands etc as king Arthur

Oh incidently i've now changed my mind, while whoopis movie wasnt great, it was infact better then watching Flood (2007), Robert carlysle was as shit as ever, especially as he was trying badly to put on a london accent, and the 1 hour 45 minute runtime was way too long, and boring and generally crap

[maxpayne2409]

wow this forums really died since the server move, although i guess (in some countrys anyway) it's summer and people are too busy getting skin cancer outside in the sun

watched pilot episode of Bonekickers today, it strikes me it really really wants to be a cross between time team and indiana jones, i will watch ep 2 tomorrow before making a judgement

[Jynks]

Finaly noticed the servers are working agian!!! lol

Got around to seeing Batman - The Dark Knight.... all in all i thought it was very good. The Joker (as always.. you just can not go wrong with that character) ruled. I was pretty shocked when i heard Aussie pretty boy was going to play it but he really pulled it off well. A small nod to Jack Nicks Joker in the way he kept smacking and licking his lips.

Some of teh film was SOOOOOOO bad though... had huge cringe moments... spoesh the end speach.. and WTF is up with batmans voice.. it is so lame.

These kinds of movies, starwars.. what ever... the god guys shoudl be like 15% of teh film and the rest bad guys... instead of the opther way around.

My mate is a film editor.. and we are going to produce a People Cut version of Returns and TDN edited into one film... Joker + Scarecrow bring Chaos to Gothem city... stay tuned.. need to wait for dvd release of TDK.

[maxpayne2409]

but.... scarecrow's never been ina batman movie has he? at least not batman returns, so not really sure what your babbling about