Fight Club

....There's not much to say about this movie that's already been said. :P


Go watch it if you have the time, It's amazing.

Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone

Everyone knows the story of him, right? So, there's basically nothing for me to say on this peculiar subject. This is in fact my all time favorite movie, I shouldn't say I'm a huge fan, but I'am one of them and I know just about everything about Harry Potter. More then I ought to, cruse my younger self for reading the books soo many times. Ah well the books were the best thing to ever happen to in my life anyways:)

Peace and Love: J.M Manucy aka iluvBlooQKazoo

Vacancy

First time I saw the trailer for this, I thought it looked bland and simply average at best. Then I read/heard many good things and finally watched it tonight on demand HD and I got to say, I was incredibly impressed. Very well paced horror/drama movie, not too spooky and not too watered down. Luke Wilson worked wonders as a horror actor, tho I always hate Kate Beckinsale even in this.

The pacing was done nicely and the characters didn't do typical stupid horror cliches or mistakes. Everyone acted realistically, intelligently, and accurately. This is a very well done movie for fans of horror, drama and movie fans in general. Definitely recommend checking this one out.

Jeepers Creepers

One of the best movies I have ever seen in my life and still to date, ranks up high in my top ten favorite movies of all time. Its chilling, creepy, shocking, features magnificent camera work and music that still gives me goosebumps and features one of my favorite movie monsters, free of crappy CGI beasts. They don't work in horror movies as well as make up and prosthetic puppets and this movie shows they can still be freaky.

Naked Lunch

Quoth Nelson Muntz, "I can think of at least two things wrong with that title!"

Definitely a lot closer to Cronenberg's sensibilities than it is to Burroughs', this remains a very unique and well-made film, though it does take quite a bit of stomaching at times (like I say, this is a distinctively Cronenberg film). What I like most about it, aside from Peter Weller's strong leading performance, is the awesome puppetry - a good selection of which undoubtedly ranks amongst the most grotesque and unnerving puppetry that you're ever likely to see, but it's hard to deny that there is a certain kind of flair and power to its repulsiveness.

The Faculty

Not a lot of people remember this movie from "Sin City" director Robert Rodriguez but I really enjoyed and really liked it. I call it the recycled actor movie because it has a lot of odd various actors mixed together from Elijah Wood, Salma Hayek, Jon Stewart, Robert Patrick etc.

A few days ago I saw Death Note 2: The Last Name and it really, really kicked ass even though I hadn't seen the first movie or the anime series at all. I've heard about it but never seen and since this was such a fantastic movie and such a rare treat to see it my local theaters, I felt the need to mention it.

The Sum of all fears
Brokeback Mountain

I'll admit it. I didn't actually make it right to end ofThe Sum of all fears and only really brought it up to point out that the bomb that's dropped on President farmer Hoggett is nothing compared to the one that's dropped on poor Ennis Del Mar and everyone watching for that matter. And if that wasn't enough to cope with you get to the end of the film and realise that the brilliant actor you've just been watching isn't going to be in any more movies. Phew. Life is such a fragile thing I'm certainly not going to waste any more of it on The Sum of all fears.

Oh yeh. Donnie Darko was surpising convincing as a middle-aged man too. So yes, cowboy Hats off to Ang Lee, good movie!

Maybe because you're weak to violence. If a little girl saw Two-Face she'd be scared I bet.

Iron Man-
The more I see it, the more I love it. I have high expectations for the sequel, not only because this one was awesome but because Superhero sequels are usually better than the original.

Batman < Batman Returns
X-Men < X2: X-Men United
Spider-Man < Spider-Man 2
Batman Begins < The Dark Knight
Fantastic Four < Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

Once I see it, Hellboy 2 will probably be on the list.

Me, I liked Two-Face. I may be alone on this, but I actually wound up liking him even more than I did the Joker...with no disrespect intended to Heath, who did a magnificent job, but there was just something about TF's character which appealled to me more.


Im Lauf der Zeit (Kings of the Road)

A very well-made German-language film from Wim Wenders about a chance encounter between a travelling movie projectionist and a suicidal hitch-hiker who then join forces for a couple of days. It actually took me a few sittings to get through to the end - partly because I've been really busy lately, but also because, at 170-odd minutes, this is hardly a short beastie. There isn't very much in the way of conventional action, or even an enormous amount of dialogue, but it's an engaging, deeply understated "slice of life" drama with some lovely long atmospheric shots. Be warned that Wenders clearly doesn't object to the inclusion of certain bodily function shots.

it wasnt the violence thing, it was the whole "like, oh my gawrsh, every single bone on that side of his skull is just sticking out" factor that made me kinda scared.(scarred? i need to work on my spelling.) and other than that little thing, i thought he was cool. made a good character, had alot of good lines. dont know how to really explain it, but i just thought he was a good character.


uh, the last movie i watched... uhm.. i suppose it was "to kill a mockingbird" in english class. only about half-way through it i suppose. still only on like chapter 6 in the book, though.

I thought his amount of screen-time was disappointing but atleast it was a vast improvement over the "Batman Forever" Two-Face.

The Incredible Hulk
First time seeing & I'm impressed. It was a fun movie & I really liked how it set up for future events in this new Marvel movie universe. My only con being it felt too short. Plus, Abomination filled the same role that Iron Monger did in "Iron Man", to be a villain who really doesn't do anything except fight the hero in the finale.

Toy Story 2 on TV

It was actually a Toy Story double, playing the two films back to back, but I still love the second one, because of the When She Loved Me scene. :frankiesmile:

Classics; I love them both. I hope #3 is as good as the first two. :frankiesmile:

Little Shop of Horrors

and

Bride of Chucky

I'd say something colorful and insightful about these movies but I'm too tired so I'll just say they were really good, and I always enjoyed them.

8D Me so insightful when tired, lol.

House of Bloo's this morning. I was actually sure to get up in time for it! :o I swear, just hearing the theme song again lifts my spirits, there's just something about it. Like revisiting an old friend whom you've missed soooooooooooo much! It made me happy. :) And I'm never bored in looking for little things that distinguish the show back then from what it has become four years later. I especially like watching Bloo chase Ed for some reason. You can tell he's just on a loop and it was one of the "early" traits of the show.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Got it on DVD a couple of days ago, and, needless to say, this is still a great film, and the film that made me an Indy fan! :frankiesmile:

the nightmare before christmas.

wow, it really has been a while since i saw this. still a great movie.

The Haunted Strangler--you know, the one where Boris Karloff transforms into a monster by curling up one arm and sucking in his lower lip? I love this movie! (This from the guy who also loves The Christmas That Almost Wasn't). Sparky got an out-of-print DVD of this and sprung it on me as a "Halloween present".

Watching it again, I realized that Karloff spends the entire movie trying to get arrested. He keeps begging the sheriff to arrest him, but poor Boris is upper-class British and to quote Peter Cushing in Horror Express, "We're not monsters--we're British!" He gets thrown into an insane asylum, he bribes his way out, he gets committed to a different asylum, then goes insane and kills the potato lady, and is finally shot to death for wielding a tiny knife from thirty feet away and is buried right where he fell, and all he wanted was to go to jail.

Poor Boris.

waynes world, for the first time.

man that was a funny movie. probably one of the funniest movies ive seen in a while.

Jurassic Park III

Where the mighty (and hungry) Spinosaurus debuts. :bloosmirk:

The Hours
Futurama: Bender's Big Score

The Hours is perfectly decent film about 3 ladies in different decades with all sorts of threads connecting their lives all revolving around Mrs Dalloway by Virgina Woolf who is played by Nicole Kidman weraring a false nose. Meryl Streep's character looks so much like Germaine Greer though. When they come to make the Germaine Greer movie...that'll be a blockbuster, eh?

The first of the Futurama movies is a real treat though. I'd forgotten just how much I loved this show. Great to see it back. I gather there's 3 of these things now and one more in production which is very good news. Stirring work as you'd expect from our old friends Phil Lamarr and Tom Kenny among many others. I did wonder why Charles De Gaulle was in this movie but it turns out to be a really fantastic Scott Walker reference, which was appreciated a lot round here.

Movie, number three "Bender's Game" is due out in North America this Tuesday, (The 4'th).

Splendid!

Burn After Reading

Following on from the Academy Award-winning No Country For Old Men, the legendary Coen Brothers here churn out something a notch more lightweight, though still highly entertaining and with all their trademark quirkiness. Actually, it reminded me very much of Intolerable Cruelty, chiefly in the pointed falseness of all the characters' relationships, only with a sturdy injection of Fargo-esque malice and desperation into the bargain (there is at least one rather shocking and nasty moment therein which should keep you firmly on your toes). Here, Frances McDormand, who played arguably the only truly positive character in the aforementioned Fargo (only positive main character, anyway) and who is always a pleasure to watch in a Coen Bros movie, gets her turn at playing the unscrupulous, self-serving idiot...

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...while Pitt, Clooney and Malkovich each turn out some enjoyably energetic performances. The dry, understated Tilda Swinton is also a lot of fun.

One of my only real qualms was that Carter Burwell's score, ingenious though the man may be, did strike me as being perhaps an ounce too similar to that brilliantly unsettling one he already composed for Spike Jonze's Being John Malkovich...though perhaps that was appropriate, given Mr. Malkovich's contribution. Also, the ending felt kind of abrupt. In short, not one of Joel and Ethan's greatest films, and I suspect that anyone hoping for "No Country For Old Men: The Sequel" is going to be disappointed, but it's still a solid dark comedy, and definitely not one which the fans should be missing out on.

A Boy Named Charlie Brown

A fun animated film that I've always liked. Very charming and funny. :frankiesmile:

Kung Fu Panda

You know if it wasn't for the celebrity cast, I would never have guessed that this was a Dreamworks picture. What, with the lack of pop culture references and potty humor and the fact that the only licensed song in the entire picture was played during the end credits. How could anyone tell? ;)

While the story is an overly simple affair about finding your true path and the greatest strength comes from within blah blah blah... (of course most Martial Art films have never been been about the story. So that aspect gets a pass from me.) The crisp animation, beautiful set pieces and stirring musical score was enough to keep me glued to my seat.

These factors make this movie seem like quite the breath of fresh air in the crowded animated feature marketplace, and hopefully Dreamworks will continue on with this trend in future movies.

*Checks newspaper*...."Madagascar: Back 2 Africa, now playing"... well so much for that idea.

I heard Madagascar 2 is pretty good.

Death Sentence

Carrie

The Incredible Hulk

I had never seen Carrie before until today and I have to say i was supremely impressed. Very well acted, very dark movie and very well done. Truly one of the best Stephen King adapted book movies. Right up there with The Mist, The Shining and The Shawshank Redemption.

Madagascar, Escape 2 Africa

Which, I thought was better then the first. :bloogrin:

King Kong vs. Godzilla

The Aristocats

Been a really long ass time since I had seen either film and I have to say, after giving both a long over due needed second looking over, these films are even better then I imagined. Godzilla and Kong SO need a rematch after they're awesome big sumo like brawl at the climax of the movie.

I had heard many people panned Aristocats for being too much of a cheap 101 Dalmatians and that the pencil designs were too shotty. I highly disagree with both points. I think Cats has its own sweet, unique charm in both characters and its penciling. The music is very catchy and enjoyable and I always love hearing Eva Gabor's voice in anything.

Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Not as bad as many people have sad. Of course, you can't take it as a real movie. More like a long version of the show, which is good.

Quantum of Solace

The much anticipated follow up to Casino Royal, which just like Royal delivers another gritty action packed story of love, betrayal and revenge with some nice stunt work and set pieces. Once more Danial Craig delivers a very nice performance that cements his place as James Bond and IMHO puts him up there with the all time great Bond actors, Connery and Moore.

My only complaints about the film was the overuse of "shaky cam" in some of the fighting and chase scenes, it's a nice gimmick to provide a sense of drawing the viewer into the scene but when the editing is overdone to the point in which you're not sure who is who on the screen then the opposite effect is achieved.

Other then that minor flaw, this was a very good film and for any fan of the franchise it would be well worth their while to go and catch it.

Get Smart

Got myself the Shoe Phone Edition (which you can see here), and loved the movie all over again!

Bolt

I caught a sneak preview of it last night and saw it with my girlfriend, I have to say while it was different then what I was expected I was extremely entertained and enjoyed this movie. The story has a lot more heart and emotional charm then I expected, plus I know being a guy it sounds a bit weird but my god, Bolt is RIDICULOUSLY CUTE!

Seriously, watch the first ten minutes of the movie and you will think he is the cutest dog ever animated. The animation is beautifully rendered and really makes the fur and the characters look so fresh and clean. Btw, the hamster in the ball (Rhino)? He steals the show with ease, he is easily the funniest freaking character of the film, every line of his is pure gold. All in all, an excellent Disney film. Its not pixar but its still a wonderful movie with a lot of heart.

Kung Fu Panda

A very funny and cute movie. :)

Ghostwatch

October 31st, 1992. The BBC screened a TV movie so original, so cleverly-conceived and executed, and so audacious that it instantly became the subject of a tidal wave of controversy, greatly jeopardising the likelihood that they will ever risk a re-airing (hasn't happened yet, but apparently it has been shown since in Canada) but fully cementing Ghostwatch's status as pure unabashed cult-viewing. Back in 1992 I was only seven years old and my parents had probably sent me to bed before this came on (though they appear to have missed out on it too), so I caught it for the first time a mere sixteen years later this Halloween (on DVD), and was so taken with it that I have watched it two more times since. Though it does have one or two shortcomings, and can almost certainly never have the same degree of impact that it had upon the night of its original broadcast, in its proper context, it really is quite an engaging and fascinating piece of film-making which holds up suprisingly well upon its own merits.

The film is a mockumentary, done in the style of a live broadcast in which the likes of real-life TV personalities Michael Parkinson, Sarah Greene, Mike Smith and Craig "Dave Lister" Charles investigate the paranormal happenings at an ostensibly ordinary suburban household which has reportedly been the subject of some pretty malicious poltergeist activity, much to the distress of its residents, single mother Pam Early and her two daughters Suzanne and Kim (naturally, the case-story of the Enfield Poltergeist had a pretty strong influence here). The TV crew hopes to milk some interesting Halloween entertainment from the predicament, whereas the Early family just want their plight to be recognised and respected. I'm not going to give anything away, but I will say that the evening has some pretty interesting and intense twists and turns in store for them all, with one particularly brilliant one in the final stages. The problem being, of course, that a large proportion of the film's viewers didn't realise that what they were seeing was all staged and fictional, the result being that mass panic was generated (which apparently included a handful of pregnant women going into labour and, regrettably, a suidicide), and that the BBC was quickly flooded with angry letters and phone calls. Hence the heavy restrictions which have been imposed upon the film ever since. Deception, however, had never really been the intention of Ghostwatch, which came complete with writing and acting credits. The production team behind it have argued since that it was simply an unconventional and particularly involving method of telling a horror story.

As I say, removed from its original context it's kind of hard to recognise the film as anything other than fiction - there are ample winks and nods throughout which, with the benefit of hindsight, audiences will now be more receptive to, coupled with the film's only really prominent shortcoming in that some of the performances are a bit limp. The real TV personalities involved get into the spirit of it wonderfully, and I really enjoyed the input of Parky and his team, but the two girls playing the Early children are very obviously acting. Still, as the story progressed and so much else started happening, I noticed less and less. What really impressed me is just how well it holds up, not just as a slickly made and entertaining mockumentary, but as a genuinely unsettling work of horror...it really does manage to get under your skin, more effectively than most conventional horror movies, and I found the film's antagonist (again, I will elaborate no further) to be utterly spine-chilling. Thanks to Ghostwatch, I now find it very difficult to look at my curtains once I've switched off the light at night (no kidding). What really unsettled me was learning, a little later, of all the things which had passed me by completely unnoticed during my initial viewing. Let's just say that the sharp-eyed viewer will be rewarded at several points throughout.

So, check this one out if you can. It's fascinating, both as a commentary upon media manipulation, and as an entertaining slice of horror-drama.

WALL-E

It came out on DVD today and my sister got it for us to watch. :)

Did you enjoy it?

The last 3 films I saw were Michael Clayton, The Age of Innocence and The Empire Strikes Back. All good movies despite being on the little screen.

Yeah, not my most favorite of the Pixar films, and the soundtrack isn't much to write home about either, but it's still good and funny. :)

An American Werewolf in London

Classic comedy-horror, with some enduring special effects. The central werewolf transformation scene still looks impressive after twenty-seven years, while Griffin Dunne's episodic journey through physical decomposition manages to be simultaneously repulsive and damned near impossible to take your eyes off (I actually find his appearance to be most difficult to handle during his initial visitation, when his wounds still look very nasty and fresh). To me, Dunne's character is very easily the strongest, since he constitutes a pitch-perfect mixture of humour, geniality and ghoulishness, and I find that the film is always at its most effective whenever he's on the scene, though David Naughton does a more-than-decent job as the lycanthrope lead. My only slight qualm is that the storyline does feel just a tad underdeveloped - personally, I would have liked to have learnt more about the backstory of the original werewolf and of the villagers who lived in constant fear of him, and it all ends very abruptly (with a very deliberately jarring choice of end-credits song). But no matter - it's highly entertaining, the horror and the violence is neatly tempered by the macabre humour, and there are a few moments of genuine poignency into the bargain. It's a very well-made and enjoyable package all-round. Just keep clear of the moors and beware the moon.

I'm gonna have to disagree with that one - when I saw it and heard the beautiful new Peter Gabriel track that went with it, one of the first things I did the following morning was to ring up my mother and tell her. That's how excited I was.

The first two Home Alone movies.

Even though the original is often regarded as the better movie, I personally like the second film better...must be the Tim Curry factor. (and The Cameo by Donald Trump almost a full ten years before he clawed his way back to the public consciousness via the realm of Reality TV.) that tips Lost In New York in my favor.