Author Topic: Post mixed comments about recently viewed DVDs (Read 3015 times)

Mondain · « **on:** July 30, 2006, 09:36:33 PM »

These movies recently helped me go through insomnia and my typical melancholic derelict state of mind...

Cool buddy cop film shot in the seventies starring Al Pacino as the weirdo hippie cop "Frank Serpico". Based on a true story. The film's plot about a rogue cop having issues to denounce his New York police chums implicated in corruption is enjoyable, most characters are interesting, although the sub-plots involving Serpico's two female love interests are rather incomplete.

There's hardly any more enjoyable movie about kids and childhood than this nice adaptation of a Stephen King novella about four kids in the fifties going on a journey to find some murdered teen's decrepit body. Almost complete lack of Disney-like cornyness and stereotypes. Surprisingly coarse language, but it feels natural as a whole. Good performances from all the actors. For the 24 fans out there, see Kiefer Sutherland delivering an excellent prestation as a twenty years-old bullie.

Good horror film that doesn't take itself seriously, with CG-devoid special effects that still look very impressive today. Kinda boring plot though with an ending that feels incomplete. Still very well worth watching. Lots of nudity all over, including Jenny Agutter's boobies...

Per opposition to the recent anime TV series, this is a short OVA series dating from 1993. Not very good IMO. The first few episodes are so corny that they're hard to stomach. Rather mediocre animation quality. Good art style though, with the lovely Belldandy.

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #1 on:** July 30, 2006, 09:42:05 PM »

Watched this one a few days ago. I had been interested in it previously but 20 bux is a big gamble, a few people said it was ok and I eventually gave in. This is one of those rare events where I didnt end up with a really shitty movie. Easily one of the most unique movies in my collection. I couldnt understand why IGN bashed the movie so much, the story was honestly plenty and its really there for the pre-teens, the imagery is there for the adults. I highly recommend this movie. Some great moments.

Sure, I had 3 shots of whiskey successively as I fired it up. Sure it was almost 10pm, but I knew that a Uwe Boll movie experience needed these elements to reach the sort of nirvana normally only reached via meditation.

First off, I have to get this quote off my chest:

Rudy: You did all this to become immortal. Why?
Castillo: To live forever!

I mean come on, who wrote this? Whats best is after the question is answered there is a flash back where he says variations of 'live forever' like twice again, then cackles.

The start of the film has acting and writing and hell directing thats so bad you will be entertained with all the normally boring STORY parts of an action movie. Then you get to the action and its like jesus christ wtf who directed this? The best part of the action shots were the completely useless bullet time rotations around each character. I also like how captain kirk is smuggling a very small chest of goods and it just so happens when they are trapped on the island, with these cuban cigars are LOTS OF GUNS and how this small chest can hold tons of guns and a very long semi automatic shotgun. Wtf

Then this girl is bragging about her date to the island exclaiming that he's a WORLD FAMOUS UNDERWEAR MODEL. so this underwear model gets his face hurt in the movie and this girl starts kissing him cause he's gone all emo and he's like YOURE JUST TRYING TO MAKE ME FEEL BETTER and shes like NO IM TRYING TO MAKE ME FEEL BETTER. I lolllled and fell outta my chair.

This is a movie I will buy, because it is without a doubt the worst action movie to own, and for that reason the most hilarious piece of filmmaking ive seen in quite a while. And im saying this after having seen a miyazaki movie where raccoons assault cops with their morphing testicles the very same day.

Stiff competition, lol.

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #2 on:** July 30, 2006, 09:43:52 PM »

House of the Dead: a modern masterpiece.
Ultraviolet: shit onna stick. I think I'm officially tired of Milla Jovovich's midriff.
Pom Poko: distinguished mentally-challenged preachy Miyazaki animu about testicular elephantiasis and the raccoons it plagues.
The Falls: Impenetrably dry British masturbation. Clever, but not clever enough to keep Greenaway's cum from burning my eyes.
Pale Rider: Mediocre Eastwood western from the 80's. Lousy acting; awesome shots of the American highlands. Good shootout at the end where Eastwood owns serious bitches.

Mondain · « **Reply #3 on:** July 30, 2006, 09:43:58 PM »

I want to view HOTD to check Peter Moore's cameo out.

Mondain · « **Reply #4 on:** July 30, 2006, 09:45:06 PM »

Drinky: I couldn't stand to view more than ten minutes of my Pom Poko DVD, does it get any better?

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #5 on:** July 30, 2006, 09:45:54 PM »

If you like giant lumpy testicles, it gets WAY better.

Vizzys · « **Reply #6 on:** July 30, 2006, 09:46:19 PM »

The only OVA series worth watching:

http://www.manganimation.net/hellfreak/images/oav/affiche-hellsingHQ.jpg

In a word: Badass.

Possibly the single most awesome OVA series ever, and only one episode is out. It's pretty much a remake of the original series, only this time following the manga.

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #7 on:** July 30, 2006, 09:51:38 PM »

What is with you three? HOTD -- a masterpiece? Does White Man have some kind of evil witchcraft voodoo?

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #8 on:** July 30, 2006, 09:53:15 PM »

Its a horrible masterpiece. Its sorta like that time back when I worked at Staples and this customer had shotgunned her shit all over the back of the bathroom stall. I mean its horrifying, really, but in the end I think everyone of us held a sort of awe for the terrible work this customer had wrought.

G The Resurrected · « **Reply #9 on:** July 30, 2006, 09:57:02 PM »

Boondocks Season 1:

This here is some funny shit, i like how it makes fun of stereotypes of all different styles. Between the black calocialisms (sp?) and the other funny shit they put into the show its great. Not every episode is great though sadly. But it looks great on my screen and it was made for widescreen. Some funny shit to watch though.

Beverly Hills Cop Trilogy:

1st: I love this movie i dont care its just great

2nd: Not my most favorite but hell of a lot funnier than the 3rd one

3rd: what third movie? what you talking about? nah you crazy there was no third movie.

Red Dawn:

Heard it mentioned a few times and never saw it before so i got it on dvd. HOLY CRAP that would have been one hell of a crazy story. Shit they should redo this with China or something more relavent to today's society. It was a solid movie though really even though were not in the throws of the cold war anymore it was pretty powerful still.

Thats my weekend of movies.

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #10 on:** July 30, 2006, 09:59:50 PM »

Do hillbillies get beat up in red dawn? I heard from someone they did.

G The Resurrected · « **Reply #11 on:** July 30, 2006, 10:10:05 PM »

Yeah pretty much its a hick town that gets attacked.

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #12 on:** July 30, 2006, 10:37:42 PM »

I knew we kept the south around for something!

Smegma Sandwich · « **Reply #13 on:** July 31, 2006, 12:32:34 AM »

Watched Final Destination 3 last night. I thought it was pretty good, the kills in it were easily the best of the 3 films imho but the story loses a bit of its luster the 3rd time through.

I rented the "thrillride" edition or some shit like that, apparently you were supposed to be able to "change the movie" by picking peoples "destiny" for them but the first two situations were gay. SPOILERZ the first one was at the coaster when the two dudes flip a coin to see who would ride with the chick freaking out and when the guy flips it the other dude originally calls "heads". It's heads, so he rides with the other girl. Well, in the special mode of the movie where you get to "choose his fate" you can instead have him call tails but guess what? The fucking coin instead lands on tails so in reality all you changed was a word. Does anyone else have this movie, are they all like this, where you really don't change shit?

MORE SPOILERZ OMG

how awesome was the black dudes, Frankie and the goth bitches deaths? Incredible.

Mondain · « **Reply #14 on:** July 31, 2006, 02:34:20 AM »

Quote from: Willco on July 30, 2006, 09:51:38 PM

What is with you three? HOTD -- a masterpiece? Does White Man have some kind of evil witchcraft voodoo?

never said that HOTD was a masterpiece, still haven't viewed even one Uwe Boll movie yet

apparently they're movies that are not even funny for people who like to laugh at very mediocre films

etiolate · « **Reply #15 on:** July 31, 2006, 02:52:05 AM »

A Sound of Thunder

Horrible, but if I watch it again, I might not take it seriously and enjoy laughing at it. They change Bradbury's story and the CGI is the worst I've ever seen. There's a shot of them walking down the street and you can tell its fake. Yes, they bluescreened walking down the street. It looks like they are on treadmills.

Before Night Falls

Enjoyed the movie, good movie, good acting, but it has one annoying problem: the dialect. The characters randomly switch dialects and languages, and overrun both with thick accents. Most of the time the movie doesn't bother subtitling for you. So while it gives the movie authenticity, it negates it by leaving you wondering what is being talked about. The other problem was this was a rental and there was about 20 minutes cut out due to the disc being shot. I missed the entire prison scene and Johnny Depp's characters.

Gods and Monsters

My favorite of the three, a very good film. Ian is hilarious as.. well as a dirty old bugger. I found the friendship between he and Fraser's character believable. Outside of the bad father connection, they shared the sexual depravity bit too. Deals with loneliness really, a lost mind and male friendship. Even the use of 'bad things happening on a raidny day' didn't bug me simply because of the Frankenstein factor and that it made the old movie cliche fitting.

brawndolicious · « **Reply #16 on:** July 31, 2006, 06:16:43 AM »

Just watched Pleasantvill. Fuck awesome.

morphix · « **Reply #17 on:** July 31, 2006, 08:09:00 AM »

Good show, funny with a lot of juvenal humor and fansevice

Magic girl anime and a good chuck of it takes place in a bath house ;D

FMA just kicks ass

This show is really good but man some eps they just sit around and talk for the entire 22 mins. Makes the action scenes that much better I guess

Cheebs · « **Reply #18 on:** July 31, 2006, 12:07:11 PM »

Rewatched this for the first time in ages. It is the best Python film PERIOD. Anyone who argues is a fool.

Solo · « **Reply #19 on:** July 31, 2006, 12:41:55 PM »

Rewatched Collateral (Mann, 2004) again post-Miami Vice. And I stand firm in my position that it's Mann's best film to date, over the somewhat overrated Heat.

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #20 on:** July 31, 2006, 01:48:51 PM »

I actully enjoyed collateral despite its tom cruise-ness

Solo · « **Reply #21 on:** July 31, 2006, 01:53:05 PM »

Definately. Best Tom Cruise performance ever. He should curb the "all-American good guy" PR garbage and take on more badguy/asshole roles. Collateral and Magnolia, both of which played a douchebag in, he rocked the role.

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #22 on:** July 31, 2006, 01:56:15 PM »

Probably because he's an asshole in real life!

Solo · « **Reply #23 on:** July 31, 2006, 01:58:01 PM »

True that, play what you are. Basically Tom should have played Bateman in American Psycho.

Bloodwake · « **Reply #24 on:** July 31, 2006, 01:58:19 PM »

Quote from: Solo on July 31, 2006, 12:41:55 PM

Rewatched Collateral (Mann, 2004) again post-Miami Vice. And I stand firm in my position that it's Mann's best film to date, over the somewhat overrated Heat.

Collateral kicked fucking ass. It was awesome.

efralope · « **Reply #25 on:** July 31, 2006, 02:19:59 PM »

on DVD -

40 Year Old Virgin - thouight it was gonna be more American Pie/Adam Sandler bathroom and sex comedy, turns out to be both raunchy and a very good story with solid characters... THUMBS WAY UP... I couldn't believe how good the writing and character development were, since I was partially expecting another "Grandma's Boy" type deal...

on HD DVD (only gonna talk about movie) -

Last Samurai - hadn't watched it since the theatres, but good movie overall... I find more things wrong with it each time, but I still like it... characters are too one-dimensional (good samurai vs. evil modern people) and the ending, while audience-pleasing in a Spielberg way, SUCKS... overall though, I recommend it and I'm still a Tom Cruise fan

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - AWESOME, I don't like Val Kilmer (hated Saint and Batman Forvever) and the other guy I'm not a big fan of either, but this movie is GOOD. DELICIOUS. Very creative. Though not perfect, the comedy was good, the action was good enough, and the style was crazy.

Training Day - good movie, but the ending was "eh" and very unbelievable...

hopefullly within the next few days ATL arrives and I tell you guys what I think...

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #26 on:** July 31, 2006, 05:35:16 PM »

morphix, i think you officially have the worst taste in everything. God bless you for having the money to buy shit nobody else with an actual budget would ever consider.

FnordChan · « **Reply #27 on:** August 01, 2006, 02:10:58 PM »

Quote from: Solo on July 31, 2006, 12:41:55 PM

Rewatched Collateral (Mann, 2004) again post-Miami Vice. And I stand firm in my position that it's Mann's best film to date, over the somewhat overrated Heat.

Meanwhile, having missed it in theatres in the first place, seeing Miami Vice inspired me to go rent Collateral. I liked Vice quite a bit, but damn if I really didn't dig Collateral. I maintain that the reason Cruise is so good in the flick is that he isn't acting. Instead, he's simply performing his duties for the Church of Scientology. I kept waiting for him to pull an e-meter out of his briefcase and sell Jamie Foxx on Dianetics.

So, yeah, fantastic film. I think I like Heat better overall, and I'm still smitten with Vice, but Collateral is running a close second. Now I want to go rent Thief.

FnordChan

morphix · « **Reply #28 on:** August 01, 2006, 02:16:46 PM »

Quote from: Drinky Crow on July 31, 2006, 05:35:16 PM

morphix, i think you officially have the worst taste in everything. God bless you for having the money to buy shit nobody else with an actual budget would ever consider.

glad I can be of service ;D

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