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

[clocker]

Too easy.

BTW, I just watched It Might Get Loud...still processing.

[OldIronTits]

Bridesmaids. It is forgettable.

[iLOVENZB]

Brothers // 2009

I actually enjoyed it. That Spiderman cunt still doesn't belong in anything except for a pubescent, dorky, loner 'superhero' character.

[ziggyjuarez]

Death Note - japanese dub movie.very good stuff.any1 else know of it?

[Artemis]

So there was an old Sci-Fi movie that had always been on my list, but one I had never seen Damnation Alley http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075909/ . Being from the same era as Logan's Run and being a post apocalyptic tale (something I have always enjoyed) released by Fox, I figured it was about time to watch it.
All I can say is it is so epically B-Grade and cheesy that Roger Corman must have been seething with jealousy that he was not at the helm.

Now to review this fondue: First the continuity, seriously who ever was looking after continuity for this movie must have just discovered the wonderful world of hallucinogenic drugs. The movie starts in a missile silo bunker in California (really, silo's in shakeyland ?)and the bombs go off. Incidentally the 'interceptor missiles' did a remarkably better job of the anti-missile task than the later Patriot missiles with a creditable 40% hit rate. Then the mushrooms kicked in on the continuity guy, and suddenly we are two years in the future and one of the guards is painting trees on the outside of the bunker, some of the soldiers are still being soldiers while others in early 70's fashion have turned against the establishment, but still oddly live there.

Unfortunately though the nuclear hardened missile bunker is not hardened against stupidity and a guard having a furtive smoke dozes off, dropping said ciggy onto his literature of choice a Playboy magazine. This causes the missile silo to explode ? killing virtually everyone, but luckily for the survivors the garage intact. So it's time for a road trip in two freaky heavily armed (seemingly built for the purpose) recreational vehicles (slight buzz from the continuity man, the vehicles are never properly explained).

So now it is a cross country road trip to find the source of a radio message from Albany. Along the way of course the protagonists must meet some foes, the first of which are some killer cockroaches (yep I think the writers had some shrooms too at this point).It is at this point that the token black guy (this is the 70's) gets completely retarded and instead of running away from the insects he climbs in a car....... so much for the token.

The next set of baddies were swiped from the supporting cast for 'Deliverance' and thrown rather oddly into the middle of the desert with not a banjo in sight. They want to have a party with the feminine interest of the piece, but she is saved from all the nasty men with big guns by a teenage boy with a rock.

The hallucinogens catch up with continuity dude again and suddenly we are in Detroit looking for spare parts for the 'Landmaster' (heavily armed RV). The second one apparently wasn't as well constructed as the first and went tits up in the first few minutes of the roadtrip. With parts from a salvaged truck in hand the merry band jump back aboard the RV just in time for a dam to burst (this dam by the way must have been truly homeric in proportion, it drowned poor Detroit and many miles of surrounding area under 50-60 feet of water. Luckily the RV is waterproof and capable of propelling itself through water.

They land (sigh of relief) and tune into a radio broadcast from Albany and head off to find an idyllic place with horses and farms and well dressed people unaffected by the ravages of a devastating nuclear war. Lucky Albany, being a legislative center and the capital of New York state , the city should have been a huge crater with smoke and shit pouring out in any realistic nuclear scenario....
Swelling music, people hugging each other, not a gun in sight.... THE END
Thank fuck for that!

Next the acting: George Peppard with a truly magnificent mustache or option b a black squirrel died directly under his nose, along with Jan Michael Vincent as his sidekick are so wooden in the roles that I kept looking for the strings. Paul Winfield was entertaining but being the token he was bound to be toast at the earliest opportunity and the cockroaches did for him fairly early on.
The rest of the cast including the female interest Dominique Sanda, were completely two dimensional, they might as well have been cardboard cutouts for the amount of emotion they brought to the roles.

Considering that this movie was released the same year as Star Wars, it is a seminal study in how to blow a big budget and not make a good Sci-Fi film, and as I said earlier Roger Corman, or even maybe Ed Wood, would have been immensely proud.

[IdolEyes787]

I hate to disagree but it is technically impossible for any movie featuring the end of civilization, giant insects and Jan Michael Vincent to be less than awesome.
In much the same way anything with JMV and a helicopter is a guaranteed win.
Wordy cretin.

Anyway watch A Boy and his Dog with Sonny Crockett and then understanding the intricacies of drug addled 70's sci-fi will be easy.
Sonny's wife before she ran off with some Spanish cat starred in Cherry 2000 which is also truly post-apocalyptic award worthy. Here's where it gets really confusing .Sonny's wife is also the daughter of the woman from The Birds.

[clocker]

Artemis, I don't believe the "continuity man" is the one responsible for the lapses you cite.

As I understand it, continuity folk are responsible for keeping the details straight from shot to shot; stuff like making sure that scars don't migrate, the sofa hasn't changed location...shit like that.

I would think that the writer, director and editor would be more accountable for plot holes and jarring/nonsensical segues.

[Artemis]

Anyway watch A Boy and his Dog with Sonny Crockett and then understanding the intricacies of drug addled 70's sci-fi will be easy.
Sonny's wife before she ran off with some Spanish cat starred in Cherry 2000 which is also truly post-apocalyptic award worthy. Here's where it gets really confusing .Sonny's wife is also the daughter of the woman from The Birds.

The difference is I like Cherry 2000, it had no pretensions to be anything else than it was, and was pretty good in it's own right, but with Fox studio's behind this one shirley at some point during the rushes or the previews, didn't at least one of the executives go WTF ????

Artemis, I don't believe the "continuity man" is the one responsible for the lapses you cite.

As I understand it, continuity folk are responsible for keeping the details straight from shot to shot; stuff like making sure that scars don't migrate, the sofa hasn't changed location...shit like that.

I would think that the writer, director and editor would be more accountable for plot holes and jarring/nonsensical segues.

I do realise that a continuity man has a different function, it was the writer/director who were to blame. It just seemed that the story was so disjointed that I needed to blame an individual on drugs, and not have several severely incapacitated persons responsible, a poetic license on my part if you will.

[clocker]

Captain America: The First Avenger- Tommy Lee Jones, the bad guy from The Matrix and no one else I know.

After Planet of the Apes, Captain America is the best popcorn movie of the season.
The production design is gorgeous- like Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow but not as stylishly artificial.
Hollywood steampunk, as it were.

As a "superhero" I thought Capt. A integrated into the world more logically than most and his relatively minor modifications give him an advantage but not overwhelming superiority.
This keeps his exploits to a lower level of incredulity and makes him much more human.
Both good things, I think.

A few random thoughts...
-The bad guys always get the best uniforms. Starting with Nazis, then on to Stormtroopers and now Hydra,
evil comes to the party dressed to the nines and we show up in garb from a K-Mart camping department.
Tim Gunn would be appalled.

-Although not as egregious as Taken, once again the bad guys are astoundingly bad marksmen.
Despite overwhelming numerical, tactical and technological superiority, they apparently spent all their time getting fitted for the spiffy uniforms
and none training as soldiers (although, to be fair they are are also quite good at formations and could probably pull off a fabulous flash mob).
William Tell would be appalled.

-Jingoism is implicit rather than overt.
The bad guys are of no particular race or nationality ( and the leader is weird as fuck) so there's none of that "US against the Krauts/Nips" stuff but on the other hand,
with one major exception there don't seem to be any other people than Americans involved at all.
So, although nominally situated during WWII, the conflict in Captain America is actually much more analogous to Iraq or Afghanistan- except it's the way we wish those wars had gone.
Despite their name "Hydra", the evil army is a totally old school organization- battalions, tanks, etc.- basically, the kind of enemy we are equipped to fight instead of the grassroots, amorphous foe we really face.
If we could get Al-Quida(?) or the Taliban to don uniforms (the cooler, the better because they'll be worth more in surplus stores later), mass up in ranks and march into battle, the War on Terror would be over tomorrow.
And we'd win.


Anyway, Captain America is a good movie all by itself and doesn't need any tie in to the Nick Fury nonsense to be enjoyed.
It has a pretty cool car too.

[gamercliff]

New Star Wars Bluray... it's ok I guess