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Thread title explains itself. Last one I saw was little horror movie "Castle Freak". Some parts were funny (eating a living cat apparently gives superstrength lol). Overall 5,5/10 Before that was "13th floor". It had a few weak parts but overall 8/10

 

Kill The Irishman? I think that was the title. Actually I've only bothered seeing half of it, not sure I'll bother finishing the remaining 40 mins or so. Pretty shit. Despite Val Kilmer, who's always good.

Movie before that was Sniper: Rectalcombopenetration. I don't remember. Part 4 of the Sniper 'franchise'. So shitty I couldn't watch it for more than 20-30 minutes. Fast forwarded to the end, no idea what it was about.

Before that I am Number 4? Picked it up because Olyphant was in it, because I quite like Justified, but eh, Twilight teeny emo super power shit. Shit.

No good movies seen in a long time.

 

Saw Alpha & Omega today. I was kind of forced to watch it and it was just shit.

And saw The Mill and The Cross last week. Very decent and interesting film featuring Rutger Hauer (FUCK YEAH!) playing Pieter Bruegel The Elder, the Flemish Renaissance painter, using his paintings or elements of his paintings as backdrops, merged with actors or sets. Some of the dialogue was very pretentious and Hauer's performance was rather mediocre but it was a striking piece of filmmaking.

 

Tron 20th anniv collectors edition
9/10 - Watched this shortly after the new tron movie and I must say the old one was way more enjoyable and also a bonus for babylon 5 fans. must see if not seen before.

 

Sword of the Strange, came recommended from the anime movie thread here. Enjoyable enough, I give it a solid 6.

 

Last film from beginning to end? 2010, the sequel to 2001.

Nowhere near as good as the original, even stranger and baffling than the original, tainted by Cold War warfare, Helen Mirren was good as a Russian cosmonaut. I'd say about 6.5/10.

Last film I watched, but couldn't finish? Troll Hunter.

It's a Norwegian film that combines Blair Witch project with Cloverfield. Beautiful shots, but the constant "running around with camera on shoulder" angle made me seasick, so I couldn't finish watching the movie. But it looked good, and reviews said it was better than both Cloverfield and BWP.

 

Just saw the film 'Hanna' over the weekeed. It was dissapointing, imo. The performances from Blanchett and S Ronan was solid, but the script felt like a mess and Joe Wright's direction was distracting.

 

Valhalla Rising. 8/10

Beautiful image composition, brutal violence, and slight on dialogue and conventional structure.
Basically a road movie set in medieval times.
Too artsy for some of the folks i saw it with, and the pacing is slow, but if you can into different kind of movies you will probably like this.

 

Three Outlaw Samurai.
A true bromance. Pretty good fight scenes for '60 chambara, and quality is up to a Kurosawa movie. And indeed, it's basically Yojimbo, but with 3 main characters, and less cynical overall but including some social commentary on the side (as in 7 Samurai). Worth watching if you like these kind of flicks, which I do, fuck me, I've watched a whole fucking lot. Of course, Chambara tend to be quality movies as far as I'm concerned, and Three Outlaw Samurai is considered to be one of the classics, so it's an easy choice, but then it's more obscure than the really big names. Well, I say they tend to be quality movies, I'm biased of course, but at least really horrible stuff is rare (at worst you'll get boring and predictable, with overdrawn fight scene (see The Betrayal with Raizo Ichikawa), but nothing face-palm inducing, as these movies are pretty much all set into a historical-traditionnal frame which gives them some class and stops them from being too stupid even with bad story, actors or directors).

I don't rate movies (or anything really) because that would imply I and the ones reading have a shared, coherent picture of what a perfect score is supposed to be. I can give you a rating, but it'll be my own, and since you don't have my standards, which are indeed fastidious and snobbish, it wouldn't mean anything to you. There's more : my standards do not bend themselves to a simplistic mathematical scale, because I am above mathematics. So even if I wanted to give you a score, I couldn't, because this is for plebos

 

You are tiresome, SB. You could convey the same message with the same character with at least 50% shorter text.

 

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx
Awsome. 9/10 because even Itto Ogami isn't pefect, but fuck, he's close. Daigoro makes Hit Girl look like the snot nose kid she always was. Damn, this is a sword movie.

 

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037988/
About a young aristocratic man who doesn't age because of some magical painting.
7/10

George Sanders in this movie is fantastic, here are some fantastic quotes:
Lord Henry Wotton: No civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.
Lord Henry Wotton: I'm analyzing women at present. The subject is less difficult than I was led to believe. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

 

Animal Kingdom - length is just right

Repo Man - length is just right

500 Days of Summer - tough call, maybe could have been a couple of days shorter if you know what I mean

 

500 Days of Summer was boring. Such a silly pointless movie.

 

The Good Heart 7/10 enjoyed it. At some moments I thought about the how much akin the bar was to the Codex.

 

Saw Hanna and Insidious last weekend. I agree with DriacKin about Hanna. I'd give it a 5/10. Insidious was actually pretty good. Definitely one of the better recent horror movies, although it lost some steam towards the end. 7/10.

 

He was a quiet man (2007). Christian Slater in an unusual role of an office drone, who wants to kill his coworkers but ends up as a hero. Or is he?
7/10 very good, i was kinda falling asleep before watching it, but it kept me awake till 2 a.m.

 

The White Ribbon. (2009) About depraved asshole German villagers in the early 20th century and their psychotic progeny. Filmed in Black and white. P. good, 8/10

 

Enter The Void (trailer - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI89ovR36r0&hd=1)
9/10 - fucking awesome. Stunning visuals. Proper mindfuck. Too long.
Gonna watch it again while stoned, but in a cinema this time. It requires a big screen, dark room, and a good sound system.
If you liked Trainspotting or The Acid House, you'll totally like this one too. It's definitely not a comedy though.

 

Cool hand Luke (1967)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061512/
Prison drama/comedy about a cool guy making friends in prison cuz he's cool and flips off The Man.
8/10

I'd say The Sting is a better movie but this is Newman's best performance. The characters, camera work and great lines/dialog are enough for a solid 8 out of 10.


What we got here is... failure to communicate.

 

Gonna watch Fast Five and possibly African Cats tonight. Will report back.

Edit: Sorry, another time.

 

High Plains Drifter
Surrealistic Western with a very weird sense of humour, some badass glares from ole clint and a complete clusterfuck of a finale that was glorious in its deconstruction of the genre. also, trippy music and a touch of the supernatural.

10/10, perhaps the best atypical western I've ever watched. Never been much of a fan of the unforgiven.

 

Yeah, that might be my favorite western of that era. I watched Machete but it was at a party so most of the dialogue was incomprehensible.

Looked like it might be worth a watch though.

 

Sanctum..Rubbishly boring

 

Metropolis (1927) with live piano accompaniment. The movie was okayish but the experience was awesome, the piano made it come to life in a very unique way, changing the mood from scene to scene.