Last Film You've Seen

[Sheva Alomar]

Finally got around to watching Buried.

Woo!! How the fuck he made a movie that takes place entirely in a coffin yet was still suspenseful as hell, sad, exciting, and just overall awesome is beyond me.

God daymn.

I finished watching this just now.

I thought it was well made, but it wasn't as "psychological" as the summary made it out to be. Granted, I was right there with Ryan's character for most of the shit that actually happened IN the coffin, but aside from his

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touching LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT bit

, I wasn't as concerned as I think I should have been. I do love Ryan Reynolds as an actor though and love watching any film he stars in. He did a great job, once again.

ALSO, obvious ending was obvious.

 

[butcherthegirl]

Shaolin.

Shaolin kung fu is just FUGGIN AWESOME!!!!

 

[Sheva Alomar]

Milk.

Let's just say, I really fucking wish

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Harvey Milk was still around today so I could shake his wonderful hand.

 

[Sheva Alomar]

Let the Right One In

Not the shitty American remake, mind. This is the phenomenal Swedish film. I'm really tired and can't give a detailed review, but I adored the direction and story. This is an original work of art, folks. Go see it!

 

[Bex]

The Hurt Locker

IT WAS AWESOME. So tense, grabs you by the balls and forces you to watch it.

 

[Super Mario]

Forgetting Sarah Marshall.


Enjoyable, but some parts were awkward to watch. (Unrated Version has Pete dangling about. DISLIKE) But the acting of the cast was great, I only hated that one friend of peter's who has a wife, he sounds like he's trying way too hard for his own good and it doesn't come off as funny but rather annoying. While it does go to lengths to show you a break up, it kind of overplays it, but thats where the comedy lies on. I also like how they place different people around Peter when he needed them the most and arguably, helped him out more than that dumbass who can't tell what hawaiian and native american indian culture is. Sarah Marshall herself is portrayed as somewhat a guilty or conflicted woman during the second half of the film, which sort of intrigues me as she spends the first half passing herself off as a heartless bitch who simply ditched Peter on a whim. But as the film reaches its conclusion, the film gives the viewer a guilty conscience about why she really dumped or cheat on him (this came as shocker to me as well) and makes you think how well you know your own relationship if any.

I'd say the film lived up to expectations, especially with Russell Brand around. But I didn't enjoy the moments with that annoying guy on the skype-like calls, he was useless as a character and they should've just had pete focus on the guys on hawaii who were more dimensional and diverse than his git friend.

 

[Mantichorus]

The Furred Man - a 10min short film that was on Channel 4 last night. The central premise is the police discover a double homicide, and nearby an unconscious man in a werewolf suit. They bring him in for questioning... And to say much more would be to recount the story. Enjoyable, but nothing unexpected (several of the 'twists' are obvious from the moment they begin to be set-up).

Dead Snow - zombie Nazis. A black-comedy-horror, in the vein of Shaun of the Dead, although not as good IMO.

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Most of the human characters seem to want to die. When you're hiding in a tree, and they pass below you without noticing, you then don't try climbing higher. Double points for coming across a bird's nest, triple points for the eggs looking like robin's eggs, but being 'defended' by a crow.

Also, when someone's in a zombie killing rage, the way to let them know you're there is to call their name, not go and grab their shoulder. Idiot.

Some of the lines are hilarious: "what's the matter, you fucking pussies?! Scared of daylight? *beat* I think I might have overdone it, they're going to be fucking pissed." "Fucking Nokia! No battery!"

Favourite moment has to be the Nazi zombie commander at the end, when all his troops have been defeated. What I call the Black Lantern moment.

"ARISE"

Cue all the snow on the hill exploding to reveal rows upon rows of Nazi zombies.

 

[LunarSkye]

Some movie on Sci Fi called Transmorphers (or something like that).
It was pretty much a cheap knock off of Transformers.

 

[Sheva Alomar]

O god why would you bother with that film? D8

 

[Super Mario]

Mock busters. Good only when drunk.

 

[Interslicery]

Let the Right One In

Not the shitty American remake, mind. This is the phenomenal Swedish film. I'm really tired and can't give a detailed review, but I adored the direction and story. This is an original work of art, folks. Go see it!

What exactly's wrong with the remake aside from focusing on a different part of the story?

 

[X-SOLDIER]

Monsters

I really enjoyed the film. It's nice to see Giant Monster films making a comeback. Quite an interesting premise, and impressive that it was all done for <$500,000. Very glad that he'll be directing the new Godzilla film that Legendary is releasing in 2012.


On an interesting nore: It's the second new Giant Monster film that indirectly references me. The events in Cloverfield took place on my 23rd Birthday. The person Kaulder is always on the phone with, who is responsible for the scenario taking place in Monsters is named Pierce.



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[Sheva Alomar]

What exactly's wrong with the remake aside from focusing on a different part of the story?

I never saw it, I just blindly and (perhaps) stupidly label immediate English remakes of foreign films to be shitty because there's no point when the original is fantastic on its own. If people are too lazy to read the subtitles, or filmmakers are ignorant enough to assume this, they shouldn't be able to scoop up the rights and hash it back out in another language. I suppose it's a little different for Let the Right One In and Let Me In because they're two different perspectives? Idk.

 

[Sheva Alomar]

R.E.D. (Retired Extremely Dangerous)

Tremendously fun and funny film. The cast works great together and really drives the action home, even if it plays into stereotypes of a government/secret agent-based action film. Of course, John MalKovich steals the show because he's fucking insane and awesome at the same time.

 

[Hisako]

Shaolin.

Shaolin kung fu is just FUGGIN AWESOME!!!!

It was a great movie with an excellent ensemble cast, but I keep getting the feeling that Andy Lau is in like literally half the fucking movies produced in China atm

He's like a venereal disease in the chinese film industry who happens to be an okay actor

 

[Max Caulfield]

Well, I tried watching Persuasion, but I was like, "WTF is going on?" throughout the entire things. And I've read the book.

THIS IS WHAT I GET FOR WATCHING ROMANCE. UGH.

 

[Hisako]

So on the plane back to Sydney I watched Easy A, Inception, Knight and Day, and Megamind. In that order I think


Easy A was hella fun to watch. Emma Stone carries the movie, ofc. Thomas Haden Church is hilarity on the side, though.

I lowered my expectations for Inception, to be quite honest. I'm glad I did. Not that it was a bad film, but I just didn't think of it as ingenious as people made it out to be. Because of the labyrinthine ideas in this dreaming/inception mind-heist stuff, the main characters themselves save for Cobb and arguably Saito become peripheral noise after their initial introductions. But I guess that's okay, since the whole idea of this movie is just babushka mind-wrecking etc. and the plot itself would be enough for people to get hooked in.
And in the end, I just couldn't care about it enough to throw up theories on what the final scene meant. Call me lazy, but meh.

Knight and Day was a pleasant surprise for me, mainly because the movie was so stupid and everyone in it knew it. Especially Tom Cruise. His character just does everything with a strange hyperactiveness to it and he blows stuff up cheerfully and waltzes through gun battles and car chases with a conversational tone.

Megamind, well I guess I also enjoyed that one too. It really does drive home this idea of the hero-villain dichotomy being a bit stupid; that really sometimes a villain won't really exist without the hero and vice versa. I know some people who loathe Will Ferrell, and this probably won't change their minds, but here in this movie he and his voice just fits right in.

 

[Cthulhu]

Watched Inception for the second time last night. It's a good movie, philosophy and shit, imho .

 

[Hisako]

I just think some of the philosophy isn't as relevant to our society as people make it out to be and they forget this because they immerse themselves so much into this intricate plot

To be honest I was more interested in how Cobb was going to deal with his own shit rather than the inception that he was pulling off with the team

 

[Interslicery]

Cobb's story was the main story. The inception was just the backdrop.

 

[Hisako]

I tend to think of the inception as the hook, the driving plot-line that gets people really thinking and immersing themselves into Nolan's created universe. Cobb's story is a main story, but I think Nolan spent (if what I have been told is right) the past ten years writing more than just Cobb's personal conflicts into the script.

 

[Bex]

Watched True Grit yesterday,
Was really good, makes me wish I lived in the Wild-West.
Acting by Jeff Bridges was fantastic, as well as the girl in it, whose name I can't remember.

 

[butcherthegirl]

Salt

Mmmm, it's so salty.

Okay, seriously, the movie was some awesome shit. But I got a bit confused with the story.

 

[Max Caulfield]

Watched Inception with my mom last night. About ten minutes into it she stated that she didn't get it and she didn't like it. She finished it with me, but I don't think she'll be watching it again any time soon.

 

[Sheva Alomar]

What is not to get? Seriously. =/