Recent viewings

Rev. Powell · July 11, 2009, 03:36:03 PM

SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK (2008): Community theater director Caden's marriage and health are crumbling, until he mysteriously receives a MacArthur genius grant that allows him to stage his masterpiece: a recreation of his own town inside a giant warehouse. Surreal, confusing, witty and absurdly hilarious; despite the fractured narrative, a touching and curiously complete portrait emerges of the artist as an old man. One complaint: it's fairly funny and witty in the early reels, but loses that quality and becomes purely depressing by the end. If you liked other Charlie Kauffman scripted movies like BEING JOHN MALKOVICH and ADAPTATION you'll probably like this one too. I do, and I did. 4.5/5.

Frogger · July 11, 2009, 03:46:06 PM

Or maybe not even worth a couple of £....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OFjfU7QE24&NR=1

I was shocked at the sound effects.

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

This fight seen is rather entertaining. The extreme gore is just funny.... in a very bad way...

Doggett · July 11, 2009, 04:30:06 PM

I got the film E.A.

on eBay for £4.00 brand new. So it was no big loss...

Frogger · July 11, 2009, 07:08:52 PM

Quote from: doggett on July 11, 2009, 04:30:06 PM
I got the film E.A. on eBay for £4.00 brand new. So it was no big loss...

Ok Just finished watching it. £4 was not a bad price. Enjoying the negitives of the film had its moments.

Enjoyable film in places. Daft and stupid, yet fun in places. I rather enjoyed the "I am leaving you here to rot. Just joking" part. Most of it was awful. I laughed everytime someone got hit by anything. Apparently if someone cuts the skin it shoots out a large amount of blood but its ok if you get stabbed and then have your arms ripped off..... You can still set up a computer program to destroy a UFO (before the arm ripping of course) and laugh a lot.... lol

I might pick it up for £3 or less if I see it.

My next quest is to find Troll 3 (Its got 4 other names), so hopefully searching the web I should come accross a copy. Wonder if its uploaded on youtube (main issue if finding out what name it has been given in each region).

lester1/2jr · July 12, 2009, 09:19:34 AM

devil times five- alot of the conventions of the horror movie hadn't yet been ironed out by 1974, for better or worse, so you'd have every right to wonder what in the world is going on until about halfway through this. slowly it begins to reveal itself with some disturbing "The Baby" type weirdness : an attractive brunette attempts to seduce a mentally handicapped man, a little boy comments on how well a dress goes with his eyes and appears to be propositioning a middle aged man. All of the suddent it gets rather potent rather quickly. scary kids! 4.5 /5

Jack · July 12, 2009, 09:45:04 PM

Séance (2006) - Three hot babes and a couple of guys decide to have a party in their dorm, which is otherwise deserted due to some holiday. Their room is haunted by the ghost of a little girl, who likes to rearrange the shampoo bottles in their bathroom. Once they're all suitable medicated, they decide to hold a séance to contact the ghost, which as you might guess, doesn't turn out well. They accidentally summon the spirit of a serial killer who lived in the building many years earlier. I thought this was excellent! It started out fun, and transitioned to scary without missing a beat. The characters were very likable; the writing, acting, directing, and especially the theme music were all first class. It did a good job of creating tension, something that's extremely rare in low budget horror movies. Oh, it was a tad cheesy in spots, and there was a plot hole or two, but I'll still give it a 4.5/5. It gets a 4.1/10 over at IMDb, so I guess most people don't share my enthusiasm for it

indianasmith · July 12, 2009, 11:15:44 PM

I finally watched THE CALL OF CHULHU yesterday; it was brilliant. The stop motion version of His Squidness was very cool - old-fashioned enough to be cheesy, but just real enough to give you an IDEA of what Cthulhu might look like. Excellent production, I can't wait to see what they do with THE WHISPERER IN DARKNESS.

I also watched the first two episodes of TRUE BLOOD, Season 1. I had seen the pilot during a freeview weekend last year; the whole idea is kind of intriguing and I will probably watch the rest over the next week or so.

asimpson2006 · July 13, 2009, 07:27:45 AM

Starship Troopers: ** out of **** - I enjoyed the book better than the movie. The movie felt a bit too loose of a adaptation of the book, but considering that the director Paul Verhoeven only read part of the book I can see why it was a bit too loose. I was hoping that the book would have been followed more closely.

3mnkids · July 13, 2009, 10:23:24 AM

American History X~ I love this movie. I havent watched it in ages but I felt my daughter was finally old enough to watch it so we did.

Hammock Rider · July 13, 2009, 01:46:29 PM

The Sasquatch Gang- by the guys who brought you Napoleon Dynamite. It's a more laid back version of the Napoleon Dynamite type humor. You've got your misfits, your bullies, your knuckleheads, Carl Weathers as a Sasquatch hunting Professor Challenger type explorer/academic and possibly Sasquatch. It's great if you're in the mood for something offbeat, low key and funny.

Paquita · July 13, 2009, 08:54:04 PM

Quote from: Jack on July 12, 2009, 09:45:04 PM
Séance (2006) - Three hot babes and a couple of guys decide to have a party in their dorm, which is otherwise deserted due to some holiday. Their room is haunted by the ghost of a little girl, who likes to rearrange the shampoo bottles in their bathroom. Once they're all suitable medicated, they decide to hold a séance to contact the ghost, which as you might guess, doesn't turn out well. They accidentally summon the spirit of a serial killer who lived in the building many years earlier. I thought this was excellent! It started out fun, and transitioned to scary without missing a beat. The characters were very likable; the writing, acting, directing, and especially the theme music were all first class. It did a good job of creating tension, something that's extremely rare in low budget horror movies. Oh, it was a tad cheesy in spots, and there was a plot hole or two, but I'll still give it a 4.5/5. It gets a 4.1/10 over at IMDb, so I guess most people don't share my enthusiasm for it

I'm going to trust you when you say this was good, but I'm surprised. Usually when a movie summary starts out with any form of "a group of college kids" I immediately lose interest, especially if it was made after 2000. I know that isn't wise because some of them can be good, buttit's just so overdone.

Doggett · July 14, 2009, 06:40:08 AM

Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom
4/5
It's been a while since I've seen this and I quite enjouyed it. Yeah, Willie is annoying but not as annoying as Vikki Vale in Batman and the whole child slaves thing was a bit sentimental (they not just slaves, they're child slaves !!! so we have to really care). It's still got something that Indy 4 doesn't have.

Jack · July 14, 2009, 07:23:21 AM

Quote from: Paquita on July 13, 2009, 08:54:04 PM
I'm going to trust you when you say this was good, but I'm surprised. Usually when a movie summary starts out with any form of "a group of college kids" I immediately lose interest, especially if it was made after 2000. I know that isn't wise because some of them can be good, buttit's just so overdone.

I thought it did a real good job of avoiding the usual clichés (okay, one girl was a bit of a nympho). But for the most part they acted like real people who cared about each other. There wasn't a white rapper or a camcorder guy or a jock or any of that rubbish. It was a bit cheesy, especially at the beginning during the fun part, and later on as well, but I really enjoyed it.

Furnace (2006) - Years ago, an evil prison warden and his daughter were killed in the furnace room of the prison, and after the ensuing fire the whole wing was sealed off. In the present day, the wing is re-opened and people start getting killed. Michael Pare (world's most boring actor), is the detective investigating the mystery. Plot didn't make much sense, there wasn't really a story, no character development whatsoever, all the "scary" stuff was just tiresome old editing techniques, etc. I started yawning heavily around the 45 minute mark, and there was nothing to be gained by sitting through the remainder of it. But I did. The girl who starred in Shark Attack 3: Megalodon was by far the most interesting character in it, if that tells you anything. 2/5.

PhilosophyMixtapes · July 14, 2009, 08:12:46 AM

The Return of the Living Dead - This movie is comedy gold!
Invasion of the Body Snatchers - Loved it!

lester1/2jr · July 14, 2009, 09:20:50 AM

The Girl Next Door (1999)- This has almost the same title as the playboy bunny reality show but it's alot grittier. It is similar in some ways though and the star, stacey valentine is alot like one of the girls next door though they were probably like 12 years old when this was made. We also see alot more behind the scenes sort of stuff like all the plastic surgery and therapy she gets. I think this was made when reality tv and whatnot was new and still more or less "real". It would probably be terrible if it was made now. I didn't care for alot of the chick rock sountrack but the star herself is likeable and her story is interesting and matter of fact in a good way. Set in the late 90's it's sort of pre internet style cheeseball porn. In one scene they are in these victorian get ups and Valentine is sick fromm the smoke machine. and it's 4 in the morning and 38 degrees out! the porn people are creepy and weird but so are most people in msot industries.