Movies You've Seen Lately

discostu · **Posted:** Wed May 14, 2008 4:27 pm

Shotgun Stories - directed by the brother Ben Nichols (of Lucero),who did the music for the film.

It was decent enough.

Planning on seeing Mister Lonely. Can't make it to the Nashville premier with director Harmony Korine's attending.

Danny Don't Rapp · **Joined:** Sun Feb 10, 2008 8:20 pm **Posts:** 1530

I really liked this (shitty My Morning Jacket song excluded). For the first few minutes I thought it was going to be a peace of shit but luckily I was proved wrong. The two people I watched it with both thought it sucked, but fuck them. I think Haynes' method was perfect to tell "Dylan's story (more or less)" and I would say its a strong contender for the most gorgeously shot film of the past two decades.

Banger- · **Joined:** Tue Oct 03, 2006 12:57 am **Posts:** 939

Danny Don't Rapp Wrote:

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I hate this poster so very, very much.

Danny Don't Rapp · **Joined:** Sun Feb 10, 2008 8:20 pm **Posts:** 1530

Why's that?

Damen · **Posted:** Tue May 20, 2008 2:17 pm

Grape Ripple Wrote:

Manda Bala (Send A Bullet)—American documentary about Brazil. Specifically, political corruption and the kidnapping trade. The best documentary I’ve seen in a long while and I watch a lot of them. Absolutely fascinating. Also has a great soundtrack that I’m going to try and track down. 5/5 stars

Manda Bala is incredibly good. 2007 was an awesome year for docs & this was among the best, if not the best one. For fans of Errol Morris it's in the same multiple story style as "Fast, Cheap & Out of Control" & Jason Kohn, who worked for Morris, ties it all together very skillfully. And it's shot on super 16 anamorphic & looks gorgeous.

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Standard Operating Procedure - It's gotten mixed reviews & most of it unwarranted IMO. The public is suffering from Iraq fatigue & doesn't want to stare at those photos for almost 2 hours, which is understandable considering how graphic it is (it's a lot of cock). People didn't like it because Morris didn't trace it up to the top & point the finger at Washington. Like the public needs someone to do that in order for us to know who the real guilty parties are here? The point was the humanize the players who were condemed by the media, public & military & I felt that's what Morris did. Or he at least gave them a shot. Not so sure England made the best of her opportunity.

Son of Rambow - It's a predictable teen/tween movie with a cheesy ending, but really entertaining. I liked it a lot & laughed out loud more than a few times.

Timis · **Posted:** Tue May 20, 2008 2:18 pm

Charlie Wilson's War = good movie....i enjoyed it.

Grape Ripple · **Posted:** Tue May 20, 2008 3:46 pm

Wet Hot American Summer--It took me completely by surprise but I HATED this movie. I love the State and all the actors used, especially Paul Rudd. Yes there were funny parts (throwing the kids out of the van and Mollly Shannon's breakdown), but I though 90% was terrible. It didn't seem like they had a fully formulated script that they could go on. I also could have done without the gay sex scene with Michael Ian Black. I know some people on here love this movie so maybe I'm missing something. 1.5/5 stars.

Z · **Joined:** Sat Oct 23, 2004 1:38 pm **Posts:** 7979

one of the things you liked about wet hot american summer was molly shannon? i guess i'm not surprised you HATED it then.

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Tue May 20, 2008 3:56 pm

It's been too long since I've seen that movie. I really need to watch it again. Maybe I should just buy it.

TheTheory · **Posted:** Tue May 20, 2008 4:10 pm

Ninja Scroll - a classic anime movie. Intriguing, though tries to do too much with the time (1.5 hours) to do any of the things any real justice.

Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian - I love the series of books, which is why I was pretty adamantly against the first movie. This specific book is the weakest of the series and I really don't like it too much. Which is why despite this movie changing more than the first movie, I can't find it in my heart to care... In fact, I tend to prefer some of the changes in this movie than how it goes down in the book. The flow is much much better. Still only a 3 out of 5 stars, though.

Cap'n Squirrgle · **Posted:** Tue May 20, 2008 4:12 pm

Grape Ripple Wrote:

Wet Hot American Summer--It took me completely by surprise but I HATED this movie. I love the State and all the actors used, especially Paul Rudd. Yes there were funny parts (throwing the kids out of the van and Mollly Shannon's breakdown), but I though 90% was terrible. It didn't seem like they had a fully formulated script that they could go on. I also could have done without the gay sex scene with Michael Ian Black. I know some people on here love this movie so maybe I'm missing something. 1.5/5 stars.

Seen it twice now, and never really laughed much.

FT · **Posted:** Wed May 21, 2008 3:07 pm

Cap'n Squirrgle Wrote:

Grape Ripple Wrote:

Wet Hot American Summer--It took me completely by surprise but I HATED this movie. I love the State and all the actors used, especially Paul Rudd. Yes there were funny parts (throwing the kids out of the van and Mollly Shannon's breakdown), but I though 90% was terrible. It didn't seem like they had a fully formulated script that they could go on. I also could have done without the gay sex scene with Michael Ian Black. I know some people on here love this movie so maybe I'm missing something. 1.5/5 stars.

Seen it twice now, and never really laughed much.

The "going to town" scene where they all end up strung out on heroin was one of the funniest things I've ever seen. The rest of the movie was hit and miss, but that scene alone merits a full additional star.

shiv · **Posted:** Mon May 26, 2008 3:05 pm

untraceable was a fucking bore.

NeZ · **Posted:** Mon May 26, 2008 3:50 pm

Saw "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead" over the weekend. Didn't like it as much as the critics. It dragged in parts and all the characters were so pathetic it was hard to have a rooting interest in anyone.

Promethium · **Posted:** Mon May 26, 2008 7:46 pm

The last movie I watched was "Paths of Glory" by Stanley Kubrick on TCM Saturday night. I've seen it before, but it is a damn good war movie, even if it deals with the French during WWI.

rogneeb · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:07 pm **Posts:** 12618

NeZ Wrote:

Saw "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead" over the weekend. Didn't like it as much as the critics. It dragged in parts and all the characters were so pathetic it was hard to have a rooting interest in anyone.

yeah that about sums it up

toots · **Posted:** Mon May 26, 2008 8:25 pm

i have Hellraiser from Netflix, but have yet to throw it in the Samsung

Twilightkid · **Posted:** Mon May 26, 2008 10:00 pm

We watched 'The Kite Runner' today. pretty good for the parts I was awake for. She loved it (but not as much as the book).

saint · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:28 pm **Posts:** 4271

i watched escape from NY this weekend. that was some entertaining shit. 1981's idea of the future is hilarious.

FT · **Posted:** Tue May 27, 2008 9:57 am

saint Wrote:

i watched escape from NY this weekend. that was some entertaining shit. 1981's idea of the future is hilarious.

you are the duke of new york you are "a-#1"

paper · **Posted:** Thu May 29, 2008 2:54 pm

Shallow Grave - It was alright. Pretty good ending actually. The female lead looked pretty much like a female Ewan Mcgregor, that was strange.

Anatomy of a Murder - I'm a sucker for the classics and this is a darn good one as courtroom dramas go.

High and Low - This is quite different from all the other Kurosawa films I've seen. His version film noir I guess. I loved the scenes toward the end, it takes a long time to get where he's going, but the payoff is pretty great.

Twilightkid · **Posted:** Mon Jun 23, 2008 1:33 pm

I picked this up at the Fangoria Fest yesterday based on the premise alone....$10 bux

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Ricou Browning, the Olympic swimmer best known as the man inside the suit of The Creature from the Black Lagoon, directed this amazing bit of weirdness which could only have been a product of the cinematically insane 1970s. Richard Jaeckel stars as a Florida policeman tracking a gang of heroin dealers led by evil fatcat D'Angelo (Lloyd Bochner), who naturally has his hooks into everything, including the corrupt police captain (John Agar). There are drag queens, barroom brawls, shootouts, and the usual mayhem, but what makes this film particularly noteworthy is its central hitman, Lou. He has no legs and travels in a motorized wheelchair decked out with double-barreled shotguns. Lou is also strong enough that when he isn't blasting people with his killer wheelchair he can swing around on his arms and use his legless torso to bludgeon people into submission. Rance Howard plays Lou's trusty sidekick, and the film co-stars an African-American dwarf, accomplished stuntwoman Courtney Brown (who gets in a fairly flamboyant catfight), and Flipper's Luke Halpin, who was in the tawdry Mako: The Jaws of Death -- also starring Jaeckel -- at around the same time). Bizarre but oddly lovable, this is entertainingly loopy grindhouse trash emblematic of the days when Times Square showed the nation's strangest films at triple-feature theaters in which the audience was often more disturbing than the mayhem onscreen.

paper · **Posted:** Mon Jun 23, 2008 1:41 pm

Cloverfield - meh, the CGI monster was awesome, but I couldn't get into it. The first 20 minutes are kind of excruciating.
Sword of Doom - pretty awesome.
The Devil's Backbone - I liked it quite a bit, can't wait for Hellboy 2
Wristcutters - not bad, Tom Waits was great.

Timis · **Posted:** Mon Jun 23, 2008 1:52 pm

shiv Wrote:

untraceable was a fucking bore.

i agree

shiv · **Posted:** Mon Jun 23, 2008 2:19 pm

the signal - first 2/3 were pretty great, really lost focus during the last 1/3. enjoyable overall though.

jumper - jamie bell was good in it but otherwise it was just a rip-off of x-men's nightcrawler.

for your eyes only - meh. kind of one of the worst roger moore bond movies. not even any gadgets in it.

live and let die - turns a little goofy at the end but probably my favorite moore bond movie.

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