What is the latest movie you watched and what did you think of it?

Coach Carter 7,5/10 - good movie
Serenity 9/10 - loved the show, movie is great!

Food, Inc. - 9/10....i love documentaries, and this is one of the better ones I've seen in a good while...an engaging, compelling, and fascinating look at the Food industry. Highly Recommended.

Twilight 7/10
Wall-E 8/10



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Ginger Snaps (2000). Emily Perkins, Katharine Isabelle.

A glorious take on the "teen werewolf" genre, Ginger Snaps mixes teenage alienation, menstruation and humor into the best horror film I've seen in a long while.
The title's pretty damn clever, too.

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Originally Posted by clocker

Ginger Snaps (2000). Emily Perkins, Katharine Isabelle.

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there's 2 sequels that followed, but not nearly as good as the 1st.

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Ginger Snaps (2000). Emily Perkins, Katharine Isabelle.

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there's 2 sequels that followed, but not nearly as good as the 1st.

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Yeah, I was aware of those but avoided them.
For the most part, I consider sequels and prequels to be intellectual laziness by both the creators and the audience.

OK, fine, you came up with a good idea and executed it well...now fucking go out and develop another one.
Sequels are easy for the viewer because he already knows the character(s) and the basic framework and thus, doesn't have to start from scratch and figure out what's happening.

People who perform regular jobs get rewarded for mastering a basic skill set and then perfecting it...artists should not.

Paranormal Activity, and I thought it was way overhyped. If you saw the first 20 minutes you've basically seen the whole movie imo. Not really any plot twists or explanations :/

Jennifer's Body. A bit porno and lame, but had its moments

The Machinist 8/10

It's one of those movies that mess with your head so if you enjoy these kinds of films, this is a must watch. It's a mystery/thriller type movie and I love these kinds of movies.

Julie & Julia- Meryl Streep, Amy Adams.
A young New Yorker (Adams) vows to cook her way through Julia Child's (Streep) Mastering the Art of French Cooking, 500+ recipes in one year.

This movie strongly reminded me of two other films...it had the totally sweet aura of Waitress and the masterful depiction of an iconic person shown in The Queen.

It's Streep's movie and she manages to portray Child as a real person instead of the caricature she could easily be...not an easy task.

Maybe the best term for this movie is charming...I liked it.

Watched The Life of Brian first. I thought it was very good for the most part (except Brian's mum, that is).

7/10

Then I went back and watched Monty Python and The Holy Grail again. I remember not liking it as much the first time (don't know what was wrong with me!!!). This stuff is hillarious.

The first part of this vid for example is pure ROFL:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGAYk5VWkTw

9,9/10 (nothing is perfect)

Then I watched The Meaning of life. Meh, I think they crossed the line a few too many times, so it often wasn't funny, it was just weird. Only watched the first half, though.

Lord of the Rings trilogy is crazy I just now watched it for the first time. Extended edition rocks.

The Usual Suspects.

It's good to revisit the classics and I consider this film to deserve classic status both for the densely written script and Kevin Spacey's performance.
Unlike Roger Ebert- who really hated the Matryoshka nature of the story- I think The Usual Suspects plays fair with the audience and rewards their involvement...it's a journey worth taking.

The cast is uniformly excellent (although Benicio Del Toro's approach to his character still baffles me) and the dialogue is crisp and occasionally laugh out loud funny ("One, two, three, four, five, six, seven... Lee Harvey Oswald was a fag.")

A great, noirish thriller.

Yep I loved the Usual suspects too.

Anyway, I watched Heat yesterday.

Have to say that the Canadian fanboi is right, it is a great movie, allthough you're right too clocker when you say some scenes drag on a bit. My fav scene was the one at the port. :P

7,5/10 from me. Definately worth watching, but not without flaws at all. Better than all (most?) shit from nowadays.

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allthough you're right too clocker when you say some scenes drag on a bit.

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Agreed. I made the mistake of watching it well into the night and ended up falling asleep...

inglorious basterds: crap. wtf was all the fuss about? it was like a giant rehash of every tarantino movie to date with nothing original added, combined with a rehash of every shitty jewish resistance/nazi movie, which have also been done to death.

Mister Frost (1990)- Jeff Goldblum, Alan Bates, Kathy Baker.

Supposedly a cult favorite, I'd only recently heard of this film.
It's a odd bird, basically a shit movie with a great casting choice- Goldblum, of course.

The story, completely implausible and riddled with hilarious plot holes, concerns Mister Frost (Goldblum) who, at the very beginning, charmingly admits to being a mass murderer and then goes mute.
Having been shuttled around European mental hospitals for two years (why no prison, who knows?), he arrives at a totally ridiculous high end facility where he deigns to finally speak to Kathy Bates' character, a shrink.

Turns out, Mister Frost is the Devil and if he can get Bates to believe in him it will be a triumph of faith over science...or some such horseshit.

It's really too bad, Goldblum does a great job with a pathetic story and in a better movie could easily rank with Anthony Hopkins as a cinematic evil icon.
He's got the mannerisms and charm to make the Devil a worthy adversary but his choice of Bates as an opponent is baffling...she's a complete lightweight by comparison.

This ain't the movie it should have been and that's a damn shame.

Paranormal Activity - wow this movie redefined boringness...was just awful

3/10

2012 = worst movie evar! and I'm only 20 minutes in.

Heat- Pacino & DeNiro.
Not as bad as I remembered, not as good as it could have been.
Some beautiful photography and some wretched dialogue.
DeNiro is good, Pacino is ridiculous.
Should have been shorter.

Go- Sarah Polley, Katie Holmes.
A bit of Pulp Fiction, a bit of Roshomon, a bit of The Usual Suspects.
A quite enjoyable pastiche with a surprisingly good ensemble cast (Jane Krackowski, yay!), the story loops around itself, returning three times to one pivotal scene which ties it all together.
A fun and painless watch.

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DeNiro is good, Pacino is ridiculous.
Should have been shorter.

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Pacino is already plenty short .

The Boat That Rocked - supreme music, funny acting...decent stuff!

7/10

i saw Public Enemies, its good one but not my cup of tea, lol.

Recomended to everyone who liked the godfather part I and II

Jhonny Depp OWNZ!

I watched UP - it was cool but not as good as say Incredibles - 7/10

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DeNiro is good, Pacino is ridiculous.
Should have been shorter.

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Pacino is already plenty short .

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It's an honor being your straight man.

Inglorious Basterds.
A World War 2 fairy tale, told as only Tarantino could...or would.
Some marvelous performances, Tarantino is one of the few directors who lets a scene unfold at it's own pace with all the subtext intact and as usual, his dialogue is great.
Very stylish visuals and the typical QT idiosyncratic soundtrack.

I liked it.

Jurassic Park I - ahh good memories

8/10

Sunshine Cleaning- Amy Adams, Emily Blunt.
Two sisters- the eldest (Adams) has a kid and ambition and the younger (Blunt) is a slacker- live in the shadow of their mother's suicide.
Also featured are Steve Zahn, Alan Arkin- instant indie cred!- and Mary Lynn Rajskub (24).

This small, slice-of-life drama is leavened with humor and carried by the two leads, who are excellent.
I'm on something of an Amy Adams bandwagon lately and she doesn't disappoint here.

No robots or ninjas and Albuquerque does not get destroyed so if you require CGI in your moviefare, don't bother.

i watched 2012. A friend sent it to me on TwitFile the other day!!!

So what did you think of it?

Sunshine (2007)

I think this movie is a tad overrated. There were some plot holes, imo and I don't get why the picture was all blurry only when it showed the Captain of Ikarus 1. I get it, he was mad and exposed himself to the sun, so he turned out to be ugly. So?

5,5/10

Inglorious Basterds 10/10

Especially the role of Col. Hans Landa

The September Issue.
A documentary about Anna Wintour and the fabled Vogue September issue, the largest magazine release of the year.
Anna Wintour was the model for Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada, and is the undisputed ruler of the fashion world.
Vogue can make or break a designer and this one issue is the flagship offering of the year.
A fascinating look into a frivolous and artificial world.

American Beauty- Kevin Spacey.

A movie written specifically for Spacey (The Usual Suspects being another example)- I can't think of another current actor who gets so much written with them in mind.

Weirdness in suburbia, Spacey's character is slowly going off the rails but achieves a kind of peace and happiness in the end...even as he dies.
Darkly humorous and well acted by the entire cast.

A very good movie.

The Hurt Locker.
How do you survive in the infinitely hostile land of Iraq and what kind of person are you when you discover it's the only place you want to be?
The films follows a US Army bomb squad with but 38 days left of their tour.
One is obsessed with dying, one is just trying to make it out alive and the third absolutely thrives under the pressure and danger.

A stunning film.

Ronin- Robert De Niro, Jean Reno.

A superior spy/heist/thriller with the best car chase scenes ever.
The civilian population of France gets decimated by gunfire and the automotive carnage rivals that of the Bourne series.
De Niro shines in one of the classic tough guy roles in recent memory (he operates on himself) and Reno plays another incarnation of Leon the Professional.

The sound design- both the cars and the guns- is spectacular.

Another great movie...I'm on a roll.

Inglorious Basterds

awesome movie !!

Inglorious Basterds

Rating 10/10

i recommend that movie

Shoot 'Em Up- Clive Owen, Paul Giamatti, Monica Bellucci.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar and sometimes, a movie is just what the title implies.
86 minutes of absurdly over the top gun fantasy sequences...the squib budget on this flick must have been astronomical...although, to be completely fair, one must mention that two people die by carrot.

Roger Ebert said it best: "I may disapprove of a movie for going too far, and yet have a sneaky regard for a movie that goes much, much farther than merely too far."

Don't break out the good stuff for this movie, cheap bourbon is what it demands.
Given a suitable amount you'll think this film is a blast.

I did.

The last weekend it was a European movies weekend for me. Two of the movies I've watched are really good choices

Man som hatar kvinnor
The first one is a mystery thiller from Sweden based on the first part of Stieg Larsson's Millenium a best selling trilogy.
An aged former head of an industrial dynasty hires a just failed journalist to investigate a 40 years old family mystery.
A fascinating mix of serial killers, secrets and hackers in the cold Swedish atmosphere.

I've read the original book last summer and I was thrilled waiting for this movie. The movie is as exciting as the book,
although it's impossible to cover a +600 pages book in 2.5 hours movie. Anyway it's definetely this year's best mystery movie
and I think if it was an English speaking movie it could be something like Silence of the labs of the decade.
Lisbeth is an original character with a unique balance of good and madness

8/10 And I'm waiting for the second part (already read it)


Das weisse Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte
It's been a while since a film really socked and disturbed me. Haneke's film won the Palme d'Or at Cannes this year
and tells the story of a German village on the eve of the first world war beset by sporadic outbreaks of unexplained violence.

The film is shot in black and white and it's a film that I have to see it again soon just to make sure I haven't missed a thing.
Children suffering both physical and psychological are trying to find something that will take them out of that misery.
Haneke is trying to explain the birth of the Nazi generation but he revealed that he could place the story in many other places like modern Iran for example.
The children who carry out acts of random cruelty will grow up to be the generation that will spawn violence were his words in an interview I've read.

9/10

2012- stars several thousand CGI specialists.

Movie pissed me off.
OK, I get it...you want to make a movie where the entire world (except Africa, apparently) gets royally fuckatated. I've got no problem with that.
However, after destroying billions of people, don't expect me to give a fuck about the vapid cliched characters that you've decided will "humanize" the disaster for me.
99.9% of the human race didn't survive their first brush with this cataclysm and you want me to believe this mediocre band made it through multiple incidents of geological hell?

SPOILERS AHEAD...
John Cusack and his unbelievably lucky- and completely undeserving- gaggle make it to the ark and then proceed to fuck up the loading ramp, nearly causing the loss of thousands of (supposedly) precious lives, indeed the entire ark is nearly sunk.
When they manage to right their fuckup, everyone cheers.

I would have fucking shot him. Multiple times.
Oliver Pratt, ostensibly the "bad guy", was entirely correct...leave the ramp closed and get the hell out of there.

Then, less than a month after the entire surface of the Earth has moved all over the globe, the arc surfaces to sunny blue skies.
WTF?
The detonation of Yellowstone alone would have filled the atmosphere with enough dust to put us in an ice age for decades, if not centuries...none of the arc survivors would have seen the sun again in their lifetime, and maybe not even in the kids lifetimes. If you're going to destroy the world, don't go all soft on me in the last five minutes and show me fluffy clouds and ponies, have the courage of your convictions. These people have been through hell and it's only going to get worse.
What's going to happen when all the Pantene and Crest run out?

Finally...Africa.
Seems it was largely left untouched...albeit raised several thousand feet.
All of the surviving arks are headed there.
Wonder how the African survivors are going to feel about being overrun by a bunch of non-native outsiders who, judging by their actions during the rest of the movie, are going to be feeling pretty damn superior and self-righteous (remember, the majority of the survivors bought their way onto the ark and weren't chosen for their ethics and civic mindedness) and not about to let a bunch of indigenous savages get in the way of their plan for repopulating the world.

/SPOILERS

Oh well, I had low expectations and they were fully met, so I really have nothing to complain about.
It was a completely crap movie but, much like New Moon, 2012 catered precisely to it's target demographic and I'm sure they loved it.
It'll make a trillion dollars and the only joy I get from that is wondering what Roland Emmerich can do now that he's destroyed the entire planet...maybe take out the Milky Way?

I'd like to see John Cusack and his whiny kids survive that.

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It was a completely crap movie but, much like New Moon, 2012 catered precisely to it's target demographic and I'm sure they loved it.
It'll make a trillion dollars...

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Hey i saw 2012 last saturday an awesome movie.

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Your use of the word "awesome" totally makes my point.