Movie News, Reviews, and Discussion Super-Thread

[Mr. Gundam]

It was fun. I'm not a horror fan, but I still thought it was a good ti me. The trailers and commercials really don't give anything away.

[Joe Molotov]

Watching Jean Rollin's Fascination

70's Eurosleaze, why did you ever have to go out of style?  :'(

[chronovore]

[Great Rumbler]

I liked Brick and The Brothers Bloom, so I'm definitely onboard for this [especially since it looks pretty cool on its own terms].

[chronovore]

I don't know if this museum has always been like this or is just now getting weird but this summer they're showing Nekromantik, the touching German story of a three way love triangle between a man, a woman and a corpse.

 

It may seem naïve now, but when I saw Nekromantic originally, it was the first film that ever made me feel more impure, just for having seen it. It was pretty groundbreaking for its time.

[chronovore]

I liked Brick a lot; I've seen it three times. I didn't know about The Brothers Bloom, so thanks for that.

[Bebpo]

Cabin in the Woods

Was awesome.  Go see it!

I'm very glad I hadn't seen any media on it beforehand.  All I knew was that it was written by Joss Whedon and directed by the guy who did Cloverfield.  Both people I like!  They made a fun movie here.

[ManaByte]

[Great Rumbler]

[Eric P]

Go see Cabin in the Woods.  Avoid learning anything about it other than it's name

though the opening credits basically give it all away.


Also saw Four Flies of Grey Velvet, the "lost" Argento film.  Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.  I think that may have more to do with the British cut they had on hand but I was really unimpressed.

[Bebpo]

Go see Cabin in the Woods.  Avoid learning anything about it other than it's name

though the opening credits basically give it all away.

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well, I don't think story of "OMG WHAT IS GOING ON" is actually of much importance to the film as a whole

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[Mupepe]

In Time
  This movie is so bad its good. Its a terrible Bonnie and Clyde type movie for the modern teenage idiot. There are some neat concepts but instead of fleshing it out they make too many annoying puns and throw too many adolescent metaphors for capitalism in the mix while letting the basis of the world fall apart as the movie goes on and they explain more. It was really stupid fun that thought it was way more clever than it really was.

[Diunx]

lol did they tell Arnie to play the terminator?

[Joe Molotov]

MOTY

[ManaByte]

lol did they tell Arnie to play the terminator?

He's using this gun:

[Robo]

Senna.  Incredible.

[Enl]

The Cabin in the Woods made this horror fan feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Loved all the references and The Evil Dead angles. I'll probably end up seeing this again at the drive-in next week (which is back to back with Wrath of the Titans  )

[Eric P]

Watching The Skin I Live in and my take away is "don't rape"

[Enl]

Watching The Skin I Live in and my take away is "don't rape"

Here's my reaction when I watched The Skin I Live In the other day:

    :'(

[Momo]

Ultimate Avengers 2 : The rise of Black Panther : Absolutely despise ultimate universe designs *spits*

[G The Resurrected]

Senna.  Incredible.

It made me cry. I stayed up and watched it this morning at 4am. Such a great movie.

[Eric P]

Watching The Skin I Live in and my take away is "don't rape"

Here's my reaction when I watched The Skin I Live In the other day:

    :'(

my reaction was "wait, he's doing WHAT?!"

awesome

[Cerveza mas fina]

Tried to watch Contraband, but turned it off halfway through because that dude playing Walhbergs brother in law was just so not credible and made the movie stupid.

[Enl]

Watching The Skin I Live in and my take away is "don't rape"

Here's my reaction when I watched The Skin I Live In the other day:

    :'(

my reaction was "wait, he's doing WHAT?!"

awesome

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At first I was like "Why in the heck is she having a dream/flashback about Antonio's daughter being raped"? Then they slowly pulled open the curtains (quite literally).

My only real complaint is that they don't really tie in the "super" skin at the end, but whatever. It was still an interesting watch.

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[fistfulofmetal]

http://www.comicbookmovie.com/news/?a=57942

Avengers plot synopsis:

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*Loki arrives to Earth via portal,using the active Tesseract.

*Loki arrives in SHIELD base,begins attacking SHIELD agents.Uses mind control on Hawkeye and Dr. Selvig shortly after arrival.

*Thor fights a loose Hulk on the Helicarrier,Hulk tries to pick up Mjolnir,but proves unworthy.

*Jet begins attack on Hulk still aboard the Helicarrier.Jumps aboard the Jet,tears it apart.

*Widow fights Hawkeye,eventually hitting him hard enough for the mind control to wear off.

*Coulson threatens Loki with prototype weapon built from The Destroy of Thor 1.

*Loki appears behind Coulson,stabs him with his spear.Coulson dies.

*Avengers use Coulson's death as motivation to finally team together to bring Loki down.

*Loki uses Tesseract on top of Stark tower in order to summon his army.

*Eventually Banner arrives to the final battle in NYC.Reveals that his secret to controlling the Hulk is that he is always angry. While walking toward the first carrier ship.Becomes Hulk an with one fist smash on the head of the carrier ship,destroys it. More infantry waves keeping coming through portal as well as more carrier ships.

*Hulk and Thor take on carrier down,by Hulk jamming a shard from the carrier itself into the carriers head,and Thor slamming his hammer down on the shard for it to fully penetrate and kill carrier. (seems) like Hulk tries to give Thor a good job jab on shoulder but ends up knocking him a mile out of frame.

*Iron Man flies directly into the mouth of one carrier and comes out the other end,killing it.

*Hulk confronts Loki,Loki rants about how he is a God and blah blah..Hulk just picks him up like a rag doll and slams him around the room repeatedly.

*Widow uses Loki's own scepter in order to close the portal.

* Council decide to nuke NYC,Iron Man grabs nuke and takes it through portal and aims it at the aliens mothership. He loses power and falls down through portal just in time before it closed.

*Falling from the sky Hulk jumps and grabs Iron Man to save his life.

*Loki is taken as a prisoner back to Asgard by Thor. And everyone goes there separate ways.

***(mid credit scene) Thanos is revealed,as he talks about Loki's failure,but that he will go up against humanity again.Turns to camera and smiles.

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From reading through it....

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it sounds like Cap America doesnt really do anything of importance in the movie. He's not mentioned in any major plot point. Hell even Widow is mentioned. lmao

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[Eric P]

Another Earth.  I really liked it a great deal.

[Joe Molotov]

Why would you even need Captain America if you have Iron Man, Thor, and Hulk? "HERP, I gotta shield guyz, you need anything deflected, you call me!"

[fistfulofmetal]

"I'm just gonna be standing over here on this car if you need me, ok guys???"

[Bebpo]

Eric P, I tracked down Ginger Snaps because you mentioned it as an alternative to Teeth and I don't think I'll ever watch Teeth because the thought of penises getting chomped on gives me the shivers.  Hope it's good!


Fast Five

I think...I don't like dumb action movies anymore.  I've never seen any of the Furious movies so I have zero connection to the cast.  But I heard this was a fun popcorn movie that you can jump right into.  I only watched the first 35 mins of this, but it was dreadfully boring and the acting was really terrible.  I really enjoy Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson so I thought I'd dig this, but I dunno if I'm going to bother finishing it.  I made it past the initial CALL OF DUTY ROOFTOP CHASE (which was a reaaally badly directed action scene).  Does it get better?  There hasn't really been much car action yet and I'm guessing that's what this franchise does well.

[Great Rumbler]

The last 30 minutes of Fast Five are INCREDIBLE.

[fistfulofmetal]

the last 130 minutes of Fast Five are INCREDIBLE.

[Great Rumbler]

True, but the last 30 are DOUBLY INCREDIBLE.

[Bebpo]

Well then, I will finish it.

[Phoenix Dark]

That's such a bad shot, made worse by how ridiculous the costume and pose are. It's reminiscent of a similar one in The Dark Knight that looked far more stylistic and...good.

[Bebpo]

Trigger Man

Jesus, Ti West is the MASTER of intense horror.  Movie is about a dude being hunted in the woods.  The pacing is slow but the build up, like House of the Devil, just has you on the edge of your seat afraid to look because any moment something is going to happen.  The first hour is masterful in that sense.  And when it gets going it kind of goes all over the place for a bit, but then the last 30 mins are nerve-racking again.  The camera sticks and stays right behind the main characters head so you only see what he's seeing and that narrow vision makes it tense as hell.  The only thing is that coming from all these FPS games with snipers, it's frustrating that the guy leaves himself open so much, but he's not supposed to be a military guy or anything so it's understandable.

Not much story and probably only a few dozen lines in the entire film, but it's just soaked with atmosphere and intense as it gets.  Worth watching for horror films who enjoy horror for the fear factor and not for the money shots of violence.

[Phoenix Dark]

Finally watched Street Fight. Very gud, and infuriating

[Eric P]

Trigger Man

Jesus, Ti West is the MASTER of intense horror. 

Now to watch The Roost and have that opinion DESTROYED.

The Innkeepers comes out on Blu Ray soon.  Really looking forward to owning that one. Liked it a great deal.

[Great Rumbler]

That's such a bad shot, made worse by how ridiculous the costume and pose are. It's reminiscent of a similar one in The Dark Knight that looked far more stylistic and...good.

[Bebpo]

Haha, yeah I kind of want to see The Roost so I can see all his films, but the reviews are a bit weak on that one.  Hyped for The Innkeepers.  Missed it in theaters unfortunately.

[Eric P]

just wrapped Absentia thanks to the suggestion last year of Planet of Terror. 

damn good low budget horror.  Totally character driven with a really good set up and misdirection that rewards you paying attention to the little character moments as well as a the horrorific elements.  An excellent little thing I'd categorize as being in the "weird" genre.



http://www.planetofterror.com/2011/07/absentia-2011.html

[Eel O'Brian]

Why would you even need Captain America if you have Iron Man, Thor, and Hulk? "HERP, I gotta shield guyz, you need anything deflected, you call me!"

why do you need a justice league if you have superman

can't think about this stuff too much

captain america's cool, that's why

[Phoenix Dark]

Meh, fuck Captain America, Super Man, Jack Shepard, Cyclops, and all the other goodie two shoes bastards in my fiction

[Great Rumbler]

A Dangerous Method

In a word: inconsequential. The production is well-handled and it has some fine performances from the three leads, but it just doesn't amount to anything at the end. It's too disjointed and too purposeless to be truly compelling. Rather than offering an in-depth study of either the characters or psychoanalysis, it exists as rather a brief window into the lives of the characters, but not enough to really understand who they were or what they were all about. Not a terrible movie by any means, but still disappointing.

[Bebpo]

Fast Five part deux

Ok, finished Fast Five and it was...ok.  The caper part was a poor man's Ocean's Eleven.  Diesel vs. the Rock was ok but action direction was choppy.  The vault chase was cool in a totally ridiculous way and the epilogue was great.  Overall, movie was passable, but very generic and forgettable.  I dunno, probably better if you've seen the other one's and care about these characters.  I'll stick with Riddick.

[chronovore]

just wrapped Absentia thanks to the suggestion last year of Planet of Terror. 

damn good low budget horror.  Totally character driven with a really good set up and misdirection that rewards you paying attention to the little character moments as well as a the horrorific elements.  An excellent little thing I'd categorize as being in the "weird" genre.



http://www.planetofterror.com/2011/07/absentia-2011.html

This looks great!

[Eric P]

I was thinking about it a bit more and it really benefits by having actors who look like regular people

[The Sceneman]

watching this



so good

[The Sceneman]

that 50 Cent joint is wacc compared to this



if you are going to watch one film all year, watch Still Flowin

[Mupepe]

Another Earth.  I really liked it a great deal.

I always feel like the stories fall flat in these types of movies but this one was actually pretty effective.  It really pulled off the spooky, existentialist vibe from the whole situation and let it drive the movie. 

Warrior
I'm not usually a fan of sports movies of any kind.  I tend to find them pretty cliche and the backdrop of sports doesn't interest me one bit.  This movie had a lot of the usual cliches from sports movies but it has a pretty unique setting and it has a few different avenues that the movie can take.  You see it all coming from a mile away but it does a good job of building up the excitement for each fight.  And as cheesy as it was I really loved the end.  It was a really great way of ending it. 

[Momo]

Why would you even need Captain America if you have Iron Man, Thor, and Hulk? "HERP, I gotta shield guyz, you need anything deflected, you call me!"

why do you need a justice league if you have superman

can't think about this stuff too much

captain america's cool, that's why

Yeah but superman is actually a giant tard thats easy to beat.

[Robo]

Sean O'Neal is the greatest popculture newswire writer of our time.

http://www.avclub.com/articles/joe-eszterhas-judah-maccabee-script-has-the-sort-o,72471/

Though it wouldn’t seem to have enough fuel, the controversy over Mel Gibson’s proposed Judah Maccabee movie has continued to burn for nearly eight magical nights—and will likely go on for weeks to come, as Gibson remains sustained by his deep, abiding faith that the real problem with making a Mel Gibson Hanukkah movie is the script. Suggesting it has some slight doubts about that, The Wrap delves into the shelved screenplay, revealing that, Gibson’s assertions aside, Joe Eszterhas’ take on the story of Maccabee’s revolt against his Greek-Syrian oppressors is actually “remarkably faithful” to the original tale—a serious and reverent approach that nevertheless does not preclude it from being titled with the mysterious acronym M.C.K.B.I., perhaps because Fast And Hebrew-ious was deemed too silly.  Mel Commentating Knowledgeably to Bunches of Israelites is also not what it stands for, but should, obviously.

By way of disproving Warner Bros.’ notion that Eszterhas’ lacked “feeling” and a “sense of triumph,” The Wrap details the movie’s many scenes of beheading, neck-snapping, “throat-slitting,” eyes being gouged out with daggers, hearts ripped from chests, and “miles of heads on stakes”—all of which sounds very triumphant and full of feelings indeed. “It’s a metaphor, you know, for the way Jews had their heads cut off and hearts ripped out,” Eszterhas probably said. Anyway, as The Wrap needlessly elucidates, that mix of ultra-violence with historical circumstance is a formula “Mel Gibson should absolutely love,” given that it replicates elements of past Gibson projects like The Passion Of The Christ and Braveheart and it even has a guy giving a big, platitude-filled speech about freedom. But of course, this isn’t the first time Gibson has been handed a story about a bunch of Jews getting killed and denied it.

That last line, god damn. 

[fistfulofmetal]

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/lovely_molly_2011/

From the director of Blair Witch Project. It looks interesting.

[chronovore]

Thor from Twisted Mego Theater is the best Thor.

[Eric P]

got invited to a per-release screening of Battleship.  Mad tempted but I'd have to leave work early

[HyperZoneWasAwesome]

gosh dang is Cabin in the Woods great.  Its the best 'fun horror' film to come along in quite some time.  Its hilarious and clever as hell, my only real complaint being that its not particularily scary, but when anything is this entertaining, why sweat the small stuff.

[Bebpo]

Ginger Snaps

Good indie werewolf flick with an interesting twist.  Wasn't huge on the ending, but most of the film is pretty witty and fun.  Might check out the sequel since it has pretty good reviews as well going by RT.

[The Sceneman]

guess I'll be watching Cabin in the Woods since peeps is recommending it

[Phoenix Dark]

I'm waiting for someone to say Cabin In the Woods is bad/overrated so I can say "HA I knew it"

[The Sceneman]

so you haven't see it but you already don't want to like it? Not a very productive attitude

anyhow I'm about to watch Harriet the Spy: Blog Wars. huh, no idea they were still using this IP

[Eric P]

Ginger Snaps

Good indie werewolf flick with an interesting twist.  Wasn't huge on the ending, but most of the film is pretty witty and fun.  Might check out the sequel since it has pretty good reviews as well going by RT.

All three are worth watching.  Time has probably dulled the first one a bit.  I still think the second one should be good and the third one should also be pretty good.  They tried to go for something really different, but it didn't quite work out.  Still worth watching, I'd say.