"300". In all honesty, I feel that this movie is highly overrated. Why would they lure the Persians to fight in the crevice if you don't bother to stay in it? I mean, a phalanx is only effective if you stay in formation, King Leonidas::)

Well you know as they say "Million Dollar Body, Ten Cent Brain." 8D

Monty Python & The Holy Grail.

Mønti Pythøn ik den Hølie Gräilen
Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretty nasti...

Mulberry Street

One of the 8 Afterdark horror movie fest films that they have here. My friend managed to see 3 of 2007's festival, I only got to see 3 from 2006 and so far, this was easily the best movie out of the 4 I have seen of the movies.

Its a cheap but really well made movie about infected rats in New York city, who bite people and turn them into flesh hungry rat human like creatures and rip the city apart, killing and eating people.

As stupid as it sounds, it was a VERY well made movie. Very nicely directed, great color schemes and music and excellent photography, great make up jobs too.

I've seen several movies recently, mainly for my film class, though two haven't been. The movies I've watched were:

The Graduate

Fantastic film, and it closely struck a cord with me due to the content of it and its meaning, especially the portrayal of a young man drifting through life. I think it was way ahead of its time.

Singing In the Rain

I'm usual not a gigantic fan of musicals, and when I do listen to them, I tend to enjoy the more offbeat entries in the genre then the classical musicals. I have to admit, however, that I loved this film, due greatly to the interaction of the characters played between Gene Kelly and Donald O'Connor. Enjoyable film.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

I've never read Thompsons book, though I eventually intend to do so. THat being said, I have to admit that I'm mixed on how I feel about the film. It was weird and surreal which, while attributes I usually admire in films, made me uncertain how to take Fear and Loathing. I think I may have had an easier time getting through it if I had read the book, and while Depp and Del Toro's acting in the film is amazing, I still could never come to fully enjoy it.

Lone Wolf McQuaid

One of the cheesy, over the top action films Chuck Norris made in the early 80s. While not a particularly great film, it was still enjoyable for camp value. It had some standout scenes in it as well for pure campy delight, such as McQuaid driving out of his own grave and a midget in a motorized wheelchair who is a crime lord, and the most entertaining character in the film. It's a pity we don't see more of him.

Night of the Living Dead [Original]

The undisputable king of zombie films. Enough said.

The Illusionist

I seem to remember, when first this movie came out, it receiving a lot of unfavourable comparisons to the Prestige, another magician-orientated movie released around the same time. With hindsight, this comparison strikes me as being pretty unfair, since the similarities between the two really are superficial at best. Nolan's film may well be the superior specimen overall, but Neil Burger's has a perfectly enjoyable and engrossing storyline all of its own, with a pretty unexpected twist (I didn't pick up on any of the signposts anyway). In many ways, this can even be considered the antithesis of the Prestige, since whereas the latter was a delicious character study concerning some of the darker and more repuslive recesses of the human psyche (and certainly, that the two lead characters were essentially both antagonists proved to be one of the most refreshing things about it) the Illusionist is actually quite a charming and uplifting little mystery story. That in itself doesn't make it any better or worse, just different, and more than worthy of being judged upon its own merits.

George of the Jungle

Kudos to Keith Scott for once again providing the laughs as the Narrator. But really, Brendan Fraser deserves the credit too. He was perfectly cast as George and really played it well! Especially at the climax.

'This biggest swing in jungle history. Will hurt very much, but George must do it!' *wimps* 8D

Lol! Who could forget the 'never argue with the narrator' scene? Absolute classic! Again, kudos to Keith Scott! :frankiesmile:

"TMNT". I finally got to give this one a watch and all I have to say is "Cowabunga!" What a great way to introduce a new generation to the hero's in a half-shell. It really had the spirit of the old movies and show and really made me enjoy myself.
The visuals were great and exciting. The story, for the most part, was very good. The whole thing about ancient warriors trying to catch monsters to break a curse is a little iffy but the character development, especially between Leo and Raph, was fantastic. It felt very natural thanks to the casting. Definitely a must watch for anyone who enjoyed the turtles back when they were a kid, and this definitely earns a place next to the other turtle movies on your shelf.

Star Trek V "The Final Frontier....with wait, let me finish. The Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy, Riff Trax playing over it.

It was so awesome to hear the only black mark of the original Star Trek movie series be ripped apart verbally by two master riffers like Kev and Mike.

21

Certainly much better and no where near as boring as I originally feared. The cast worked well with the story which actually felt like a RL issue, it didn't feel fake or unrealistic. The set up and the characters all felt totally believable and felt like this was something I could totally see happening.

Spacey was great as always, I don't care much for gambling and card games but I found this little trick counting system to be neat and actually got the gist of it. It even had quite a few surprises in it as well, sure didn't see that ending turn of events for the main story. Overall, a good flick to spend your afternoon watching.

"Letters From Iwo Jima"

i guess we now know why the Japanese lost the war. They kept killing themselves. Bad strategy :P

Conversations With Other Women

Such a smart, highly creative film. It never got the attention it deserved. The split screen is sometimes hard to watch because you're sort of watching two things at once, and the plot is very simple, yet...not. I believe those two things make it the unique movie it is, if that makes sense.

Plus Helena Bonham Carter is simply an amazing actress. :P

The Caiman

More brilliance from Nanni Moretti, an Italian film-maker whose films I discovered in early 2007 and who's never ceased to enrapture me since. This one deals with the exploits of a very different kind of Italian film-maker, Bruno Bonomo, a once-successful producer of trashy action flicks (all of which starred his wife, Paola), whose career - and personal life - went down the tubes ten years ago, and who stumbles across a potential opportunity to revive his career by assisting a budding young screenwriter with the production of a movie about controversial political figure Silvio Berlusconi. Nanni Moretti himself only plays a small role in this one, and to some extent I did miss his charming onscreen presence throughout, but I did feel that Silvio Orlando gave a fine performance as Bruno nonetheless, and the script and direction were as witty, wry and wonderful, not to mention deliciously understated, as anything else in Nanni's catalogue. Great stuff.

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

I had never seen any of the Indiana movies before, and with the Kingdom of the Crystal skull rapidly approaching, I wanted to be able to see them to get more "well equipped" for the new film. Luckily my friend had all 3 movies and showed them all to me and I have to say, its a fan-freakingtastic movie series.

The first movie is easily my favorite, with this 3rd one being a close second. I had no idea this movie was THAT funny and well made, the dialog was great and the interaction with Connery as Daddy Jones was priceless stuff. I'm happy to hear sexy Miriam Ravenwood (Karen Allen) is making a come back for number 4.

I thought she was the best girl of all Jones movies in terms of acting, personality, character, and appearance. Very happy I got to see this film series, very happy.

Inland Empire

Whoa...it's kind of strange, but for a film so abundent in imagery and thematics, I can't really think of very much to say about it right now. I guess it's going to take me a little longer and at least another viewing before I'm able to really articulate some thoughts upon it. I love David Lynch's films, and while this one certainly wasn't his shortest, nor his easiest to comprehend (which certainly says something), it was still as ripe with unnerving, skin-crawling delights as you would hope, with a couple of genuinely emotional sequences into the bargain.

My favourite scenes were those involving these eerie anthropomorphic bunnies who seem to inhabit some kind of nightmarish sitcom, wherein a laugh track responds to their various cryptic, vaguely threatening remarks. These were actually derived from a mini-series made by Mr. Lynch (entitled Rabbits), which was apparently available on his official website a few years ago, which I sadly missed out upon, but now really, really want to see in its entirety.

Oh yes, and I had to love that ending. I don't think we've ever had a David Lynch film conclude in quite that manner before. Delightful. ;D

Dang, I've wanted to see Inland Empire, but I haven't gotten the chance. :P

Anyway, last film I saw was Night of the Creeps. Fantastic, fantastic 80s horror-comedy made by Ted Dekker, the writer and director of the movie Monster Squad, another classic horror-comedy from the same period. NotC served as inspiration to the more recent film Slither, though I find NotC to be a far better film, especially for Tom Atkins' role as Detective Ray Cameron.

Rabbits

Hurrah! After a little rooting around the internet, I was finally able to find a place that still hosted this, in this case as a single block as opposed to a series of short films. As mentioned in my previous post, Rabbits was first brought to my attention by the usage of a few small scenes in Inland Empire (which I'd definitely recommend, Nathander - I'd also been wanting to see it for a while, since they never screened it at my local cinema, and it was on my rental list for a bit before they sent it - I am planning to buy the DVD some time in the future, when the price is right).

As also mentioned above (and pictured below), the film revolves around a trio of anthropomorphic rabbits - Jack, Jane and Suzie - who inhabit a sinister sitcom-esque environment. Whenever one of them enters the room, applause is heard, and a laugh track plays at various points throughout, despite there being nothing at all comedic within their verbal exchanges, which are deeply foreboding and jumbled all over, so that whenever one of the rabbits speaks, it rarely pertains to what has just been said. Occasionally, one of the rabbits will stand before the audience and recite some kind of incomprehensible monologue, or they'll engage in what appears to be a kind of ritual, complete with burning torches.

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Indeed, it's a very novel concept and, I felt, used to really great, chilling effect. Can't say I have much of a clue right now as to what any of it's supposed to mean (it is David Lynch, after all), but it genuinely enraptured me, and the fearful, disconcerting little atmosphere it generated was beautifully sustained throughout, with a couple of moments that even made me jump. I can only hope that they'll consider giving this a proper DVD release of its own some time in the future.

Nim's Island

It was a great film, much better than I expected. Jodie Foster shows she still has some comic talant left in her and both Gerard and Abigail were really great to watch. Overall, a funny film and the animals were great as well. :frankiesmile:

"No Such Thing"

pretty brilliant

Wow, I haven't posted in this thread in a while...

Father of the Bride, followed by Father of the Bride II

I first saw the first one in high school. It made a bunch of the girls cry. "I ain't ever gonna' do that to my daddy!!" Yes, it was a touching scene. After the movie ended. :'( 8D

And yet, most of them did a few years later.

Anyway, I've seen II so many more times than I've seen the first one. And I don't think I've ever seen them right after the other. I enjoy them immensely, Steve Martin and Martin Short are so funny on their own. Put them together and it's a riot! 8D

Short Circuit

A classic movie I grew up as a kid, one I still love to this day. It was funny, Johnny 5 is a classic movie character, and MAN I love the soundtrack! There's some really great techno robot theme songs in here and its just a great movie i always enjoy re-watching. Tragically, some of you may have heard this but this movie's getting a remake.

I don't know if its going to be a family movie or different in genre but I did hear some of the original creators/writers are coming back so I don't really know how this is going to turn out. This movie definitely doesn't need a remake (most don't) but I would be curious to see what they do with it.

Airplane!


One of my favorite movies. Some great lines, too.

"Joey, have you ever been to a Turkish prison?"

You got that right.

"Who's Johnny?" she said
And smiled in her special way
"Johnny" she said
"You know I love you"
"Who's Johnny?" she said
And tried to look the other way
Her eyes gave her away

(Now I'll have that song stuck in my head all day long. Thank you ElDeBarge :bloogrin:)

The Ruins

Critters 4

My god, I have NEVER been so disgusted at gore before, at least not for a long ass time. "Ruins" was a pretty well done horror movie. It fell onto some very familiar cliches however the gore was extremely intense and the mysterious "threat" in the movie is certainly an original one.

My friend had seen all the Critters movie but 4 and 4 has to be my favorite even though the Critters weren't in the movie as heavily as the first 3 films. I always loved the Critter monsters, such vicious little creeps with a unique design to them. And to think a VERY young Leonardo Decaprio was in Critters 3!

It's Marion. ;)
I just watched TOD. Short Round kicks butt! The 3rd is my personal favorite, hopefully Skull will replace it.

JUNO: Quite possibly without a shadow of a doubt the best teen pregnancy flick I have ever seen...of course it was one of the only teen pregnancy flicks I have ever seen, so Juno wins by default. :P

But seriously this was great, the actors were charming Michael Cera always brings his A-game and Ellen Page as the titular character was great and very believable and we also get the goods from the likes of Jason Bateman, Jennifer Garner, Allison Janney and J.K Simmons amongst others. Combine that with some nice back and forth dialogue, believable situations and a great soundtrack and you have a good little movie one can waste away the afternoon with.

88 Minutes

It gets harder and harder to impress people with drama serial killer movies, what without making it shocking or surprising or compelling. Luckily this movie was most of these. I love Pacino, love him to death and while I felt he wasn't completely on his A game in this movie, this was a really really neat little story.

Good compelling twists, definitely kept me guessing and always kept the story moving, never let anything slip or any detail to go unmentioned. A great mystery movie all around, not the greatest on Earth but certainly one worth my time.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - on TV

It's always great to see Hermoine punch Draco! 8D

Hermoine - That felt good.
Ron - Not good, brilliant!

As I type, I'm watching Star Wars IV: The New Hope. First time I heard of them giving the first orriginal movie a name. Ah, Star Wars never gets old! I'll always love it. ;D

Forgetting Sarah Marshal

While this was my least favorite of Judd Apatow's seemingly unstoppable perfect movie making record, that does not mean this was a bad movie at all. I was absolutely blown away at how funny this movie and truly tip my hat to Mr. Apatow, the man can do NO wrong.

The cast, the dialog, the situations, it just keeps getting funnier, smarter, better and more accurate then the last.

The 1989 Fred Savage Hour and half Nintendo Commercial motion picture...The Wizard.

Which for my money has one of the greatest lines in the history or recorded film...

"I love the Power Glove...It's so bad." classic.

BTW anyone catching this film, be on the look out for a very young Toby Mcguire he appears in two scenes in the movie complete with a 1980's mullet.

Harold and Kumar: Escape from Guantanamo bay

No Country for old men

I finally got around to seeing "No country" and I had been looking forward to seeing the new Kumar movie too. Country is probably one of the few award jacked up movies I have to say is worth the awards and hype it got. It was well acted, well scripted, and told a very simple yet compelling and dark story.

I was kind of disappointed with Tommy Lee Jones character and the movie's use of him because he essentially......did nothing. Everything else was fine. Harold/Kumar was pretty funny, the humor is much more sexual and they had some pretty clever stuff but, I really feel the first movie is still superior, I was kind of expecting this to be a lot funnier and its good, I just expected better.

Flash Gordon

Boy, those Lizard Men certainly have a hard time of it, don't they?

Anyhow, I love this movie. Fine, so it's not Shakespeare, but it's still brilliant in its own immensely disarming, high-spirited, good old-fashioned (lover boy) entertainment way. The Queen soundtrack compliments it perfectly, and Brian Blessed is awesome as Prince Vultan, but for me it's Topol who really steals the show as Dr. Hans Zarkov...and I always find it so unbearably poignant when he gets to see his entire life flash before his eyes during the whole memory-erasing process. Definitely one of the most thoroughly enjoyable superhero flicks of all time...proving that you don't need a massive budget and lots of CGI to deliver the goods as far as that's concerned.

As of this very moment, it is The Santa Clause III- The Scape Clause

Certainly not as good as the first, but I don't think it's any worse as the second. Not too bad over all I guess. I liked the part where they do a little spoof to It's a Wonderful Life. And movies ending with the birth of a baby always make me happy. :frankiesmile:

As to why I'm watching a Christmas movie at the end of April, I really don't know. Ask my sister, she's the one who put it on. :P

Beetlejuice

I finally had the chance to see this movie via rental, and I really liked it. It's not scary (as the Australian film rating suggests) and both Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder delivered great performances! I especially liked Michael at the end when Spoiler Below

Double Dragon (1994)

Ladies and gentlemen this was without a doubt the absolute worst movie I have ever seen.

For those of you who may or may not know Double Dragon was originally a 1980's arcade game in which you play as one of two martial artists twin brothers out to rescue your girlfriend from a street gang, you know standard video game plot.

The only things the movie has in common with it's source material is that it's protagonists are a pair of martial artist twin brothers and some of the in game baddies show up as characters...that's where the similarities end and the problems begin.

Now the plot has shifted from rescuing the captive damsel to finding both halves of a mystical amulet, in which the villain wants to use not to take over the world but to take over some crappy dystopian burned out version of Los Angeles that has been ruined due to the "big quake" (Oh did I mention, this is all taking place in the oh so futuristic year of 2007) what this leads to is an hour of a half of bad over the top acting (It makes Power Rangers look like the Royal Shakespeare company's production of Hamlet), a paint by numbers plot, lousy special effects even for 1994. (If this was a direct to video affair, I could give that a pass, but this was a theatrical release.) Lame characters (The villain gets his butt handed to him like a thousand times during the movie, even AFTER he gets his hands on the magical golden Macguffin. Oh and wait til you see Alyssa Milano of Charmed and Whose The Boss fame, as the leader of a rag tag team of vigilantes and sporting one of the worst haircuts in moviedom.) All this adds up to, is nothing but pain, and unless you have strong constitutions avoid this movie at all costs.

Rambo 4

Good old-fasioned movie fun from the increasingly odd-looking Stallone. This one's much more played for laughs than the others I remember ( First Blood ended with him in tears) especially toward the end where the very obviously speeded-up action sequences are reminscent of early screen comedy. I especially loved the nutcase SAS guy who was definitely a tribute to the Black Knight from Monty Python & The Holy Grail.

great movie :)

yea those mercenaries were hillarious 8D

Atonement

An interesting and well-acted drama about the family traumas that ensue when a 13-year-old girl's imagination runs away with her. The story was relatively simple, but cleverly structured. I think my dad has a copy of the original novel somewhere, maybe I can pinch it off him sometime, because I'm curious to read it.

The Shootist

John Wayne's last film. He plays a gunslinger trying to die in peace of terminal cancer.

It was his last movie, he would die of cancer a few years later :(