Movie News, Reviews, and Discussion Super-Thread

[brawndolicious]

I watched a movie called Green Street Hooligans recently and liked it.

I was dragged into seeing it a couple months ago and was surprised how good it was.

[ManaByte]

They're re-releasing a special edition DVD of Black Cauldron with the deleted scenes this summer.

[Mupepe]

Let's be honest, everybody looks the same if you aren't paying attention. Stand me next to three other white guys and try to remember all our names. I DARE YOU.

Yeah, but being able to categorize those unknown masses into groups is what makes this whole thing work and also what makes it fun.  Plus, there is the obvious added ability to be able to recognize characteristics of ethnic groups that you spend more time with.  I notice the difference distinct faces that hispanics.  Anything from the plump booty, to the type of lips, eyes, etc.  This keeps me from saying "All hispanics look the same" while someone else can say that.  All asians look the same because they just have squinty eyes and yellow skin.  That's as far as my categories go for asians.

Holy shit.  This is really not the thread for this.  Sorry for the derail.

[Phoenix Dark]

[youtube=560,345][/youtube]

this looks cool

[ManaByte]

I like how pissed off Tim Burton looks.

[Hitler Stole My Potato]

Either my expectations were incredibly low or I was feeling feverish, but I watched Year One on Netflix and didn't find it nearly as wretched as I thought it would be.  I even laughed during a few parts.

I don't know what this says about me. :/

[Mupepe]

Some parts were actually pretty funny.

But all in all it was an utterly forgettable movie at best.

[etiolate]

we can rerail it baby

all the Navi look the same

[Mupepe]

they really do!  with their big lips, flat wide noses and nappy braided hair.

[Bocsius]

Eh, every race pretty much looks the same. Everybody looks like somebody else. You recogzine they're different, just not different enough to really matter. Random dude #83 is a cross between random dude #7 and #18. Hair color, length, eyes, etc., provide variations on top of generalized face molds. The great equalizer is fat. The fatter the face, the less distinguishable it is from other fat faces.

[Bocsius]

That should be a gameshow.

3 fat people. 1 is secretly hot beneath the blubber.

[Green Shinobi]

Coraline

Vastly superior to New Alice in Wonderland and The Corpse Bride combined. 

It's also better than Up.

[Green Shinobi]

It's been fucking cold and rainy lately, so usually at least two. And a lot of the ones I've watched recently have been pretty short, Barry Lyndon aside.

[WrikaWrek]

New Moon - Is there a reason this bitch always looks like she's going to fall apart when she opens her mouth? Most annoying actress ever. The vampire chick is hot though. Anyway, whatever, better than the first i think and still a very armless movie. Really weird shit that it was able to make over 700 million $, this must be Transformers for girls.

[Diunx]

Just finished Paranormal Activity, really enjoyed it but it really didn't scare me at all, I guess this was a movie theater experience? watching it at home is all just loud noises, Katie had some nice jugs .

Are the other two endings on youtube?

[Bebpo]

What should I watch tonight?

I've narrowed it down to either Black Dynamite, Taking Woodstock, Away We Go, Religulous, Public Enemies, The Box, Che, or Punisher 2.  Trying to watch a movie a night or two and catch up on some of the recent stuff I haven't seen.

[The Fake Shemp]

Public Enemies and The Box suck, so pick from the rest.

[Great Rumbler]

Black Dynamite

[Ichirou]

Watch The Box and review it for us.  Remember, you are the experiment.

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The Miles Trahan Burger Experiment

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[CajoleJuice]

I have zero of those, but I'd probably say Black Dynamite.

[Bebpo]

Public Enemies and The Box suck, so pick from the rest.

Didn't Patel like The Box, though?  :|

And yeah, I heard PE sucked.  But I really like Michael Mann films so I should give it a chance.  I mean I thought Miami Vice dir. cut was great and most people hate that movie.

[The Fake Shemp]

I don't remember if he did, but even if true, everyone has their off days. If Patel was right one-hundred percent of the time, he'd be making films, not baking cupcakes for co-workers like some Japanese ladyboy.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

I thought the Box was interesting. I didn't like it.

The soundtrack is great, and the period detail looks more 70s than the 70s themselves. It has a totally shit last third that's almost barely rerailed by a throwaway line from one of the characters that might just possibly be an explanation.

I wouldn't recommend it, but I thought it was a challenging failure, not just your standard "bad movie."

[The Fake Shemp]

I thought it was pretty much garbage, and very poorly edited. There are severe technical flaws, including awful and inconsistent lighting, a really bad sound mix, etc.

On a technical level, it was easily his worst film. It felt very much like an unfinished work print. Like he gave up.

[Ichirou]

He gave it a B-, that doesn't mean it's one of his favorites.

[The Fake Shemp]

Remember, Transformers is one of Wilco's favorite movies.

While not one of my favorite movies, to its credit, it does have a proper sound mix, proper lighting, etc.

Public Enemies doesn't even deliver on its promise of Depp vs Bale. It's more like Depp vs sloppy editing, guest starring a completely aloof Christian Bale.

I like Mann, probably more than some people. And while I didn't like Miami Vice, I certainly didn't think it was garbage. Public Enemies is a technical mess that not only looks and sounds unfinished, but doesn't have the story to save it.

[The Fake Shemp]

You forgot to say the magic word.

[Bebpo]

Well, watched Black Dynamite and it was indeed a good time. 
Good recommendation Great Rumbler

[Great Rumbler]

Well, watched Black Dynamite and it was indeed a good time. 
Good recommendation Great Rumbler

"WHERE IS BUCKY AND WHAT HAS HE DONE?!"

[Bildi]

What should I watch tonight?

I've narrowed it down to either Black Dynamite, Taking Woodstock, Away We Go, Religulous, Public Enemies, The Box, Che, or Punisher 2.  Trying to watch a movie a night or two and catch up on some of the recent stuff I haven't seen.

Let us know what you think of Che, I'm very curious about that and its sequel.

[Bebpo]

My brother saw Che in the theater and basically went "it's ok".  He felt it wasn't a great epic, but it was a good depiction of what happened during the events covered.

I wanna see it, but the 4 hour length puts me off from starting it.  Kinda like how I bought Kingdom of Heaven DC when blu-rays first started coming out and I still haven't watched it because of the runtime ^^;

[Bildi]

I find myself often checking the runtime of movies lately because some things are crazy long.  I'll have to keep my expectations for Che suitably low as I've heard quite mixed opinions.

[Ichirou]

My brother saw Che in the theater and basically went "it's ok".  He felt it wasn't a great epic, but it was a good depiction of what happened during the events covered.

I wanna see it, but the 4 hour length puts me off from starting it.  Kinda like how I bought Kingdom of Heaven DC when blu-rays first started coming out and I still haven't watched it because of the runtime ^^;

You MUST watch it, Bebpo.

GOD WILLS IIIIIIIIIIT!!!!!!!

[Green Shinobi]

They quote one of my favorite passages from Hamlet in Coraline.  Pretty good use of the quote too, even if they leave off the final line which completely alters the meaning in the play.

[Phoenix Dark]

how doth a learned man embarrass us so

[Green Shinobi]

At least I know a good western when I see one.

[WrikaWrek]

Cop Out -   


The Crazies - 

[Third]

REC2

What the fuck did they do this movie? I hate it when religitards make movies. I want an infection, not some stupid go(o)d vs (d)evil nonsense. The first part also had this twist in the end bout possession. But I don't like that stuff.
But it was quite enjoyable somehow. The plot twist in the end was very predictable though. I saw it coming after I knew that the chick from part 1 was in this movie again.

And what's up with the night vision thing? Pretty creepy stuff, but still stupid.

6.5/10

The original is waaaaaay better.

[fistfulofmetal]

complaining that it's not the same as every zombie movie ever made :\

i appreciated them trying to differentiate it from the typical zombie fi;m.

[Disposable White Guy]

I finally got a bluray player a few weeks ago and have been trying to catch up on the technological times.  So far I've watched Akira, Blade Runner, 300, The Good the Bad & the Ugly (thanks Willco, they had one copy left!), and Terminator 2.  Out of all of them, only 300 has been disappointing, since there seemed to be some kind of grain on the screen that made this whole 1080p BUSTIN NUTZ ON YO CHIN NAGA thing seem totally worthless.  I'm not sure if it was an intentional filter or it's simply how they decided to transfer it.  The Blade Runner transfer, though, completely reminds me why it's my favorite movie of all time, and will probably still look great in whatever distinguished mentally-challenged higher-highest-cokebinge definition is released 2 generations from now.

Rutger Hauer 

Vangelis 

Set Designs 

Ridley Scott 

[Green Shinobi]

I loved [REC]. Fucking loved it. Sad to hear that the sequel isn't as good, although I'll still check it out. The original is honestly one of my favorite zombie films.

Random story involving the original, which I'll put in spoilers so that people who don't give a shit (everyone) won't have to read it:

spoiler (click to show/hide)

[REC] was the movie that my most recent ex (not the Korean bunny thief) and I were going to watch together on what turned out to be our last full day as a couple. She was pretty excited to watch it. But I accidentally downloaded a version without a subtitles file. I tried to get another copy, but the internet at her house was shit, and it was taking forever. So we watched Borat instead. That was probably a factor in things ending the next day.

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[HyperZoneWasAwesome]

The Box is straight up crazy, its like the Donnie Darko auteur got a discarded Shymalan (actually a Twilight Zone episode, but that is a typical Shymalan story) script and decided he could do one better.  The movie veers wildly from full-on brilliant to stupefyingly distinguished mentally-challenged, often within the same minute.  Its a wannabe mind blower that doesn't know it already was well ahead of the game going just by the supposedly normality of the early stuff before shit gets weird, and then it gets mega weird.

Its got a distractingly accented Cameron Diaz that would normally be a major fault, but in the Off-The-Railsvile that Richard Kelley crafts she fits in quite nicely.  Its got a fantastic score and period design, so even when things onscreen are of questionable value (very often) at least its a pleasure to sit through.

The Box is a movie I actually really liked, but I tend to like films that aren't afraid to go full-on nutso to entertain me.  The difference between a successful wackadoo movie like this and utter dreck like Revolver is hard to quantify, but you'll know it when you see it.  Your milage may vary.
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[Diunx]

I loved [REC]. Fucking loved it. Sad to hear that the sequel isn't as good, although I'll still check it out. The original is honestly one of my favorite zombie films.

Random story involving the original, which I'll put in spoilers so that people who don't give a shit (everyone) won't have to read it:

spoiler (click to show/hide)

[REC] was the movie that my most recent ex (not the Korean bunny thief) and I were going to watch together on what turned out to be our last full day as a couple. She was pretty excited to watch it. But I accidentally downloaded a version without a subtitles file. I tried to get another copy, but the internet at her house was shit, and it was taking forever. So we watched Borat instead. That was probably a factor in things ending the next day.

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lol, couldn't you just download a 30kb .srt file?

[Bebpo]

Well, watched Black Dynamite and it was indeed a good time. 
Good recommendation Great Rumbler

"WHERE IS BUCKY AND WHAT HAS HE DONE?!"

I like how the movie had everything.

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Black Dynamite vs. Rival gang
Black Dynamite vs. Drug Dealers
Black Dynamite vs. The Police
Black Dynamite vs. The Italian Mob
Black Dynamite vs. Chinese Mastermind
Black Dynamite vs. The President

And my favorite part was "I threw that before I walked in!" lololol

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[Robo]

Watching Caché last night made me realize how much I've been spoiled by Hollywood's neatly wrapped 90-minutes --ambiguity is intensely frustrating moreso than it incites wonder and the lack of resolution is damn near intolerable-- and how much I am totally fine with that revelation.  Only after reading up on it a bit before bed was I able to appeciate what Haneke was doing.  Appreciated or not, will not watch again.

[Eric P]

Cache is pretty amazing.  I love the Haneke's work.

[Robo]

I had a poor set of expectations going in that I'm pretty certain fucked up the whole thing for me.  I think someone once told me it was like Funny Games.

[Diunx]

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/

Christopher Nolan takes flight with Superman: 'We have a fantastic story'

The topic at the Batcave on Monday night was the future of that other superhero — you, know, the one from Metropolis. “It’s very exciting, we have a fantastic story,” Christopher Nolan said while sipping tea in the sleek editing suite that fills the converted garage adjacent to his Hollywood home. “And we feel we can do it right. We know the milieu, if you will, we know the genre and how to get it done right.”

Nolan said that he admired Singer’s film, especially the way it connected in to director Richard Donner’s version of Superman and the first two movies starring Reeve. Nolan added, though, that this new movie will stand on its own.

“A lot of people have approached Superman in a lot of different ways. I only know the way that has worked for us that’s what I know how to do,” Nolan said, emphasizing the idea that Batman exists in a world where he is the only superhero and a similar approach to the Man of Steel would assure the integrity needed for the film. “Each serves to the internal logic of the story. They have nothing to do with each other.”

“He basically told me, ‘I have this thought about how you would approach Superman,’” Nolan recalled. “I immediately got it, loved it and thought: That is a way of approaching the story I’ve never seen before that makes it incredibly exciting. I wanted to get Emma and I involved in shepherding the project right away and getting it to the studio and getting it going in an exciting way.”

Goyer is now writing the screenplay and Nolan is keeping it close to the vest.

“We’re approaching it in a not dissimilar way in terms of trying to find an incredible story in a way that audiences can engage with it the way they engage with contemporary action films,” Nolan continued. “I think David’s approach is a very good way of doing just that.”

And that third Batman film? Jonathan Nolan is “now doing the hard work” of writing the script based on the story by his sibling Goyer. “My brother is writing a script for me and we’ll wait to see how it turns out...he’s struggling to put it together into the epic story that you want it to be.”

“Batman Begins” was the origin and back story of the hero, while “The Dark Knight” found the hero reeling as his Manichean, good vs. evil world view was  upended by a new villain, the Joker, who was a wild-card agent of chaos going up against order, be it a police department or the mob. The second film ends, literally, with Batman on the run, a fugitive.

So what happens next?

“Without getting into specifics, the key thing that makes the third film an great possibility for us is that we want to finish our story,” he said. “And in viewing it as the finishing of a story rather than infinitely blowing up the balloon and expanding the story.”

His villain choices to date have steered cleared of strongly supernatural or super-science characters (no Man-Bat, Mr. Freeze or Poison Ivy, for instance) but he shook his head when asked if that was trajectory he would continue. He did however concede one tidbit: “It won’t be," he said, "Mr. Freeze.”

“I’m very excited about the end of the film, the conclusion, and what we’ve done with the characters,” Nolan said.“My brother has come up with some pretty exciting stuff. Unlike the comics, these thing don’t go on forever in film and viewing it as a story with an end is useful. Viewing it as an ending, that sets you very much on the right track about the appropriate conclusion and the essence of what tale we’re telling. And it hearkens back to that priority of trying to find the reality in these fantastic stories. That’s what we do.”

http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/03/10/new-inception-tidbits-plot-details-confirmed-running-time-and-conception/

“Basically the film deals with levels of reality, and perceptions of reality which is something I’m very interested in. Its an action film set in a contemporary world, but with a slight science-fiction bent to it. Cobb [Leonardo DiCaprio's character], who is the center of things and expert in a particular technology that the film revolves around, has put this team around him [Ellen Page, Tom Hardy, Joseph Gordon Levitt]. It’s very much an ensemble film structured somewhat as a heist movie. It’s an action adventure that spans the globe.”

http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/03/10/jesse-ventura-also-filmed-role-in-secret-wachowski-brothers-futuristic-war-movie/

Appearing on Tuesday’s episode of the Howard Stern Show on Sirius/XM Satellite radio, the professional wrestler turned actor turned governor Jesse Ventura dropped word that he just got done filming a movie for the Wachowskis. When asked if he missed acting and would ever consider returning to the big screen, Ventura dropped the bomb shell:

    “I just did one with the Wachowski brothers…”

    “Wait til you hear what they did. They brought me, and they brought Arianna Huffington in after me. Arianna was there, and they had her looking like cleopatra. What they did… Do you remember what John Travolta looked like in that horrible film Battlefield Earth? They put multicolored dreadlocks on me all the way to here. They gave me this crazy beard that was hanging down pointed, looked like Travolta, right? And they put a third eye in the middle of my forehead. Because what this is, is this is a hundred years in the future, and they wanted me to talk about the current war in Iraq and how I felt about it. And so I got to vent, looking like this maniac in this whole outfit.”

Ventura said he did his rant about Iraq and then he was questioned by Lana off camera, documentary style. Stern responded that he doesn’t “understand what this part is about”, to which Ventura quickly responded: “Neither do I!”

[Diunx]

Are House of the Devil and Antichrist any good?

[Robo]

The only remote similarity is anonymous VHS tapes.

[Great Rumbler]

Are House of the Devil and Antichrist any good?

House of the Devil is pretty good.

[Mupepe]

I thought they came out a while ago and flat out said Noland was having nothing to do with Superman.  What the fuck.  And the Wachowskis working again

[Cravis]

Still hoping for a classy 30s style gangster Penguin. Phillip Seymour Hoffman would own that role. Go ahead and bring in Killer Croc as his enforcer. Somone with a nasty skin disorder and immense strength. Bane would make an excellent choice too. He matches Batman in both strength and intelligence.

This final film in Nolan's trilogy must deal with redemption. Everyone hates Batman now. They think he's a killer. The trilogy will have to end with him making amends with the city. He will never be the inspiration he was at the beginning of Dark Knight again but he will become Gotham's defender in the eyes of its citizens. A defender they know they will never be able to fully trust.

[Great Rumbler]

I thought they came out a while ago and flat out said Noland was having nothing to do with Superman.

The article from a few weeks ago said he was "mentoring" the new Superman movie, whatever that's supposed to mean.

[Mupepe]

And then they did an interview with some chick from Warner Bros who flat out denied it and said he had nothing to do with it.  Oh well.  PR people being PR people.  I should have known better.

[Great Rumbler]

And then they did an interview with some chick from Warner Bros who flat out denied it and said he had nothing to do with it.  Oh well.  PR people being PR people.  I should have known better.

I guess I missed that interview.

Edit: Here's the quote:

"Wouldn't you like to know!" laughed Nelson when asked if there was any truth to the recent rumor that "The Dark Knight" director Christopher Nolan will oversee a reboot of the "Superman" movie franchise.

"We don't have any plans about that, and as I've mentioned, in the coming months we'll be making a lot of announcements about what our content plans will be," she added. "But right now, that's nothing but rumor — and we frankly don't say a whole lot more about rumor than that, so..."

http://splashpage.mtv.com/2010/02/18/watchmen-sequels-and-christopher-nolans-superman-are-just-rumors-says-dc-president

Yeah, this comes across as one of those "It's true, but we haven't announced it yet so that means it's still just a rumor, we'll tell you later!" kind of things.

[Mupepe]

ah.  i saw someone on gaf paraphrasing and they didn't make it come off that way.  thanks

[muckhole]

Are House of the Devil and Antichrist any good?

House of the Devil is pretty good.

House of the Devil left me a bit torn. It nailed the look and feel it was going for, but I was still a bit underwhelmed by the end of the flick. Maybe I was just expecting more gore.

[Great Rumbler]

I went in with no real expectations and I enjoyed the movie. It's not ground-breaking or mind-blowing or anything like that, just a fun horror movie with some tense moments and a twisted ending.

[Phoenix Dark]

At least I know a good western when I see one.

I actually watched Unforgiven again rather recently. A lot of the dialogue remains bad to me, but I liked it a lot more. I can bump it to an 8/10

Definitely better than Avatar