What movie did you last watch? - Page 58

tenet_2012 · 03-13-2006, 05:29 PM

I watched "Hated: GG Allin and The Murder Junkies"...

Wow, that is all I have to say.

If you don't know who GG Allin was you should check this documentary out.

Wow...

Magpie_Tendencies · 03-13-2006, 05:58 PM

Bowling for Columbine.

We were watching it in my law class.
The bit where they show the Columbine shootings and have the parents voiceovers was really, really sad.

WolfMoon · 03-15-2006, 09:48 AM

Brokeback Mountain

Beowulf · 03-15-2006, 10:42 AM

Shi mian mai fu (AKA House of Flying Daggers)

I`ve only just seen this film the other day, and it was brilliant, the cinematography was beautiful, and the art direction was fantastic, creating a beautifully made film.

During the reign of the Tang dynasty in China, a secret organization called "The House of the Flying Daggers" rises and opposes the government. A police officer called Leo sends officer Jin to investigate a young dancer named Mei, claiming that she has ties to the "Flying Daggers". Leo arrests Mei, only to have Jin breaking her free in a plot to gain her trust and lead the police to the new leader of the secret organization. But things are far more complicated than they seem... IMDB

If you liked Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, you will love this film.

Queenofdarkness57 · 03-15-2006, 12:02 PM

The Exorcism of Emily Rose.

Inky · 03-15-2006, 01:39 PM

SAW. It was wonderfully disturbing; best film I've seen in a long time.

Pathogen. · 03-15-2006, 03:12 PM

Blue motherfucking Velvet! I love Neo-Noir. I love David Lynch.

tenet_2012 · 03-15-2006, 05:44 PM

"Reign of Fire"... bald Matthew...

*drools*

Empty_Purple_Stars · 03-16-2006, 10:36 AM

Holy Flaming Enemas Batman!!!!!!!!!!

We watched Saw II last night..

The first one didn't impress us all that much. The ending kinda killed it for me.

But the new one?

Oh. My. God.

Edge of my seat, chewing a hole in my bottom lip the entire time..

Seriously..

It was fucking great!!!!!

I didn't see the ending coming at all, which is rare for me..

A Total Shocker!!

I totally reccommend it to all of our Shock Horror buffs out there..

Fucking. Scary.

Three Extremes is next on our horror list.. ( I'm nervous already)

+Neon Injection+ · 03-16-2006, 10:41 AM

I watched 'March of the Penguins' in the doctor's office at 6 a.m. this morning.
I laughed, I cried.
I still haven't gone to sleep.

*sigh*

Beowulf · 03-17-2006, 05:40 PM

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

My favourite Monty Python film ever !!!

Pathogen. · 03-17-2006, 05:49 PM

2 videos from Cleopatra Records's "Goth Box" DVD ["Clown" by Switchblade Symphony & "Christine" by The Wake]. After that, an old episode of "Biography" [VHS] about Edgar Allan Poe. Hosted by Peter Graves [from the original 1960s "Mission: Impossible" TV programme].

Beowulf · 03-17-2006, 06:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Pathogen.

2 videos from Cleopatra Records's "Goth Box" DVD ["Clown" by Switchblade Symphony & "Christine" by The Wake]. After that, an old episode of "Biography" [VHS] about Edgar Allan Poe. Hosted by Peter Graves [from the original 1960s "Mission: Impossible" TV programme].

Pathogen,

That `Goth Box` DVD sounds intresting, what else is on the DVD (I`m always on the quest for good music) ?.

I think I saw that Poe Documentry on the Biography channel a few years back, it was really good.

tenet_2012 · 03-17-2006, 06:03 PM

"Lord help my poor soul."

ExistentialDisorder · 03-17-2006, 10:44 PM

Underworld: Evolution.... eh, it was alright, for an action film. Nothing spectacular. lots of gore and a lot more blood licking than the first one. special effects were decent, but i've seen better. and i was expecting better. but their budget for fx was limited to begin with. which makes absolutely no sense, considering any idiot would know that film needed major fx. you'd think they would have allotted more, but whatever. i think the first one was better.

psychopenguin · 03-17-2006, 11:26 PM

MirrorMask. It is now OFFICIALLY my favorite movie.
Written by Neil Gaimen (one of my favorite authors) it has an amazing storyline as well as incredible visual and special effects. It really takes you to another world. I HIGHLY recommend you go see it!

ExistentialDisorder · 03-17-2006, 11:59 PM

cool, Psychopenguin. I've never read any of his books or seen his films, but he has a short story called "Nicholas Was" about santa claus that I just freakin love.

03-18-2006, 01:14 AM

Goodfellas. I want to be a Moll.

rockandrose · 03-18-2006, 07:29 AM

Early last week, I watched "Hostel" which I thought was one of the worst movies I have ever come across. Generally speaking, I thought the storyline was very straightforward and predictable. Since I thougnt the movie didn't possess a good storyline, it's ashame the movie failed to convey a sense of "horror" or "gruesomeness" to me. As this aspect could of slightly raise my opinions of this movie.

Overall, this movie sucks and is just another mainstream Hollywood movie that likes to lick a fairy's ass!

Loy · 03-18-2006, 02:58 PM

"History Of Cinema" by Jean Luc Godard-two things that should be clarified, 1-Godard is a genius, and 2-I fucking LOATHE 99% of his output since "Weekend"

Godard is one of those few directors who actually changed the grammar of cinema (his first film, "Breathless", gave film the jump-cut, for example). And since his first gunshot across the screen, other directors have studied/been inspired by/straight out stole from the man.

And whilst you can go through his filmography of the 60s and go "holy fucking shit, this is awesome!" ("Breathless", "Band Of Outsiders", "Contempt", "Masculin/Feminin", "Pierre Le Fou", "2 Or 3 Things I Know About Her", "My Life To Live", "Caribiniers"....oh just get them all!), it's his post-new wave period stuff that's, while intellectually engaging, just not....cinema. Aside from a few films here and there ("Tout Va Bien", "Passion", and parts of "In Praise Of Love"), his stuff consists mostly of self-refferential intellectual jags where all meaning is hermetically sealed, and if you don't get it, well, it's beacuse you're a fucking idiot!!!!!!

For the most part, I have no qualms with a film-maker calling the viewer too dumb to get what they're watching (I love "OldBoy", for christs sake), but I do have a problem with intellectuals who refuse to allow an in to anybody who doesn't go on their knees the second their name is mentioned.

One can easilly call this the greatest and most intelligent Tarantino film ever made (it's composed of completely of scenes from other films edited together, with the film-maker talking nonsense over it.....basically a Tarantino film), but considering the length (about 8 hours or so), the breadth (scenes from films from all over the world, from the entire history of film), and the attitude (scenes blleding into each in such a way that we re-evaluate not only our idea of the film, but how that film fits into different contexts of society, biology, and business....then it totally reconstructs THIS viewpoint about 30 second afterwards), it's not a film I'd suggest for the casual viewer....or even a Godard fan.

The problem is this-Godard HAD done this....and did it better. When the British Film Institute went around the world on the 100 anniversary of film, they asked who they considered the best film-maker of that country to do a history of film from their country. They were asked to keep it to around 1/2 an hour (and they all did, except for Martin Scorsese, who overshot by about 5 hours). This "History" is a needlessly extended and extrapolated version of that wonderful 1/2 BFI production. Which goes to show that whilst Godard is a genius, he's not above fucking up royally.

WolfMoon · 03-18-2006, 08:05 PM

Ultra Violet.

It's complete shit.

They don't delve nearly enough into the character's backgrounds for one thing.

The fight scenes are a blatant rip-off of everything ever done in The Matrix. They're also timed badly. When you can see someone waiting to be signaled to attack, that's just bad. The editors should be fired.

None of the technology is explained it's just kind of there.

And if you didn't clearly here the word "VAMPIRE!" in your brain the first time the phrase 'hemophage' is uttered, then you haven't read enough horror.

Meh! Recycled plot line, bad acting, I almost fell asleep!

Don't watch this movie.

Read a book.

Sobeh · 03-18-2006, 08:29 PM

I actually kind of liked the color use in that movie.... the cinematography was a good watch, even if the content wasn't at all worthy of attention.

I kind of thought that if they had filmed Aeon Flux the way they filmed UV, then it'd have been closer to the Liquid Television inspiration. C'est la vie...

As for what I saw recently, my damned roomie and his S.O. decided to watch Just Friends - oh. My. God. Words can't describe it... I feel like Mz. White from Clue - "Flames, flames! Shooting past my face; hot, flaming flames..."

Just before that was Shooting Gallery, with none other than Freddie Prinze, Jr., in possibly the worst billiards movie of all time. I'm cursed, I tells ya, cursed!

The saving grace is that now it's my selections: Domino with the indefatigable Kiera Knightley, and then Saw II, which has me kind of intimidated...

Empty_Purple_Stars · 03-18-2006, 08:32 PM

Oh my god..

SAVE YOURSELF!!!

Do NOT watch Domino.

Save your Cornea for Saw II which is actually quite good. Much better than the first one. Hmm let me find my Domino review.

Back away from your DVD player in the mean time..

Empty_Purple_Stars · 03-18-2006, 08:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Binkie

Domino

I thought perhaps this movie had potential from reading it's description. Would have been better to watch the previews because that gives you a better idea of what to expect; rude girl with an attitude, ego, british accent, and pretty face. Makes for a long night of constant eye-rolling.

This film also shows you just how much to trust films that begin with "Based on actual events," especially when it deplicts a suicide bombing of the Stratosphere in Las Vegas by a Middle Easterner as having happened in the last 2 years or so. Mmmm'yeah, I don't really recall that ever having gone down. I'm not even going to touch the caricatures of people from Afghanistan either. And as though the insulting of your intelligence wasn't enough for two hours, the writer has the balls to end the film with a monologue by the main character as saying, "As for what is true and isn't true about this story, that's none of your fucking business!" It IS my fucking business, asshole. I paid to see this bullshit, so don't tell me to fuck off when I fell for your stupid ass marketing ploy of "based on actual events."

Seriously though, this was just a mind numbing headache through and through. Aside from the girl with the attitude problem and super ego, they throw in something you'd expect to see out something like say, the Matrix, about a total stranger (Tom Waits) walking up to Domino and spelling out what her destiny is (which is to be part of this "prophecy) based on all this shit he had no way of knowing and answering all of her questions about life (after he goes through this religious bullshit).

And to top it off, it was directed by Tony Scott, president of ADHD films. If you've watched "Man on Fire" with someone prone to epileptic seizures, you'll know what kind of bullshit this involves. Don't even bother feeding yourself or the kids their dosage of Ritalin, because they'd enjoy it much more without it. None of the shots throughout the movie can last for more than three seconds before entering a rapid sequence of 5 cuts that last a fraction of a second each and frame absolutely nothing in it's entirity. And then there's this flickering bullshit with the film exposure. It was enough to drive me into taking several tablets of advil... with 120 proof rum after watching it.

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Originally Posted by Empty_Purple_Stars

A FUCKING MEN!!!!!!!!!!

I want those Two Hours of my life BACK after watching it!!!

Could the plot have been anymore Schizophrenic??

Its an Art Film. It's an Action Film. It's a Biography. It's an Art Film. It's an Action Film. It's a Biography. It's an Art Film. It's an Action Film. It's a Biography.

MAKE UP YOUR FUCKING MIND!!!!!!!!!

Tony Scott takes what COULD have been an interesting story, and violates it like a Giant Herd of Horny Baboons!

And what the FUCK was with the Repeating of the Lines??

Is there an Echo? Echo?

FUCK!!

Equally frustrating is the fact that the film ignores interesting aspects of the real Domino's life. They completely ignored her battle with Pain Killers, which recently ended in her DEATH!! They flip flopped on her Sexuality, which is totally bogus. The list goes on and on.

Which is really sad, because parts of the cast are amazing Actors, and her story WAS an interesting one.

It could have been a great fucking movie..

It just wasn't..

Ugh..

*pours shots*

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Originally Posted by Binkie

Yes... to like everything you said.

I almost forgot about the repetitious bullshit and the coffee can audio filter. "(Normal audio) My name's Domino Harvey... (coffee can audio filter) My name's Domino Harvey. (Normal again) And this is my story... (coffee can audio filter) And this is my story."

Apparently the screen writter called the editing "style" of Domino, "Punk Rock Fever Dream." Mmmmm'yeah. Sounds like the product of several bad acid trips. Did I say sounds like? The whole fucking movie looks like one big acid trip too.

But yeah, it would have been a great movie with A.) a different director, and B.) less of the Hollywood bullshit and more of the real Domino Harvey.

That hits all of the Monotonous Highlights.

Save yourself.

Please?

Saw II = Good
Domino = Frontal Lobotomy

*sporks eyeball*

Beowulf · 03-19-2006, 01:55 PM

The Haunting (Directed by Robert Wise, 1963)

This film is one of my all time favourites, it has so much atmosphere, and unlike its vastly inferior 1999 re-make that relied on tonnes of CG effects to carry the film, Director Robert Wise chose to use the power of suggestion, utilising the fantastic cinematography and editing to create the ethereal atmosphere of hill house to a chilling effect.

"The original film version of The Haunting is remarkable in that it follows the plot of Shirley Jackson's novel very closely for most of the film. The basic plot and cast remains the same, though some minor details (Dr. Montague of the novel becomes Dr. Markway) are changed. Eleanor Vance, Theodora ("Just Theo," she says in the film), and Luke Sanderson accompany Dr. John Markway during an investigation into the paranormal. Markway believes that an old mansion with a sinister past called Hill House will provide him with the proof he seeks of the existence of the supernatural. Luke is the next in line to inherit the house, and is volunteered by the current owner to join Markway both as a skeptic and overseer. Eleanor and Theodora are the only responders to an invitation Markway sent out to various people who had come in contact with the supernatural at some point in their lives. After the four meet up in Hill House, strange things begin to happen, most of which seems centered on Eleanor. Eleanor finds that she enjoys the attention the house affords her, and becomes drawn deeper and deeper in by the forces within the house. The film follows the novel so closely that The Haunting of Hill House article contains all the necessary information on the general events of the story aside from the differences noted in the following section." Source

I think this film is an absolute classic, and reccomend that it is to be watched late at night in the dark...

"SCREAM...no one will hear you! RUN...and the silent foosteps will follow, for in Hill House the dead are restless!"