The last movie you saw

[menkent]

i still cringe a little about the age difference, and it's certainly a weird movie anyway, but it really is a brilliant film.
damned if this isn't reminding me of how many unwatched DVDs I have lying around.

oh, and last i checked Das Schreckliche Mädchen was available streaming on netflix.... here, at least.

[losCHUNK]

I done watched Dredd

Now be honest, you still would ?

[MKJ]

I loved Dredd. Very Verhoven-esque

Fuck Verhoven, watch Verhoeven...

also, it's "Verhoeven".

[Plan B]

Here I was thinking they were talking about Paul Verhoeven.
While they were being all pretentious over some kraut cunt.
Go figure.

[menkent]

Paul and Michael Verhoeven... one Dutch, one German and born less than a week apart. One makes hollywood cult favorites like Robocop and Starship Troopers, the other makes politically aware films. One won a Razzie for Showgirls, the other was nominated for an Oscar.

[Captain]

Best part is, Michael's father's name was Paul Verhoeven, who was also a director.

[MKJ]

Paul and Michael Verhoeven... one Dutch, one German and born less than a week apart. One makes hollywood cult favorites like Robocop and Starship Troopers, the other makes politically aware films. One won a Razzie for Showgirls, the other was nominated for an Oscar.

The Razzie one was nominated 9 times for an Oscar. just fyi.

[menkent]

yeah, i looked at wikipedia and between such getting visual effects nods for classics like Hollow Man and Total Recall he did put out a couple good movies. but Showgirls. ouch.

[feedback]

Kontiki 7/10

[Ryoki]

Looper 3/10

Friend of mine was telling me how he really liked it, but having seen it i have to disagree.

It has to be one of the most tired & uninspired tales of timetravelling i ever saw. What dull and uninteresting dialogues, what a terrible plot full of holes, such pathetic cinematography (it appears they ran out of budget halfway and decided to just shoot the last half on a deserted farm in bumfuck Kentucky). The whole thing is rife with shots that are too long and drawn out, which slows everything waaay the fuck down for no reason at all, the lead actor is supremely unlikable and does his very best not to act at all, Bruce Willis just phones this thing in from what seems like the other side of the country... and i wanted to slap both the child actor and the redhead. Jesus, what a horrible mess this was.

Some of the creative decisions were inexplicabe too: what was with the shotgun / sixshooter cowboy getup of the enforcers? Are we being asked to believe Obama's gun policy worked so well only the least reliable guns are still allowed? Or are the enforcers fashion concious dudes who are just into late 19th century firearms? Doesn't that make them really ineffective morons? Bruce Willis had a machine gun, why didn't they? And did they really have to dress in all black and look like Neo on a budget? Etc.

Watch this only if you're stoned out of your mind to the point where you're nearly incapable of speech, it might seem like a reasonable waste of your time then.

[SoM]

fucking hollywood

they're remaking Evil Dead

IMDB

trailer

[feedback]

it looks pretty gruesome though

[Plan B]

Can't wait for the remake of Citizen Kane.
Spoiler alert; Rosebud is tha swagmeister for real yo.

[SoM]

it looks pretty gruesome though

they all look like those twilight kids

[MKJ]

A Good Day to Die Hard

mmm tis ok. the father/son stuff feels very tacked on and just gets away of the pacing. also, mcclane's motivation is not entirely clear nor believable.
points for dat helicopter scene.

[obsidian]

[GONNAFISTYA]

Red Dawn =

I have no doubt xer0s will love it almost as much as he loved Zero Dark Thirty (but won't admit on this forum). There is no single word for the level of stupidity this POS movie aspires to and no amount of weed will make it better.

[Captain]

I bet he thinks Argo was based on a true story too.

[LawL]

fucking hollywood

they're remaking Evil Dead

IMDB

trailer

Sam Raimi is all over it so hoping it will be good.

[Plan B]

Don't see how Raimi is "all over this".
Just like Bruce Campbell he's a producer, meaning: if this shit somehow turns out to be profitable, they'll take their share.
Nothing else. No creative input. Just safely laying back, and raking it in.

[LawL]

Maybe if you weren't such a bitter moron you'd understand.

[GONNAFISTYA]

lol the title of "Producer" used to mean something (bankroll, catering and generally making sure the project gets completed) but now it's just a name they add to the credits to earn brownie points and convince rubes to part with their money. It used to be the "Executive Producer" was just the name on the credits, but it seems now everyone outside of the actual Director and actual working cast and crew are dead weights and simply taking up chairs and sandwiches during production breaks...all while still cashing cheques.

Like Adam Sandler and his cynical "movie productions", Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell are laughing all the way to the bank on this "remake".

Fuck Hollywood and fuck dumb Australians who defend shit movies and shit projects.

[GONNAFISTYA]

Life Of Pi = 6/10 - It was a mildly entertaining story about a kid in a boat with a tiger he didn't really get along with (and of course the predictable occurs and they make friends...wow...never saw that coming). I have a feeling from the pure nutball fantasy aspect of this story that it was no doubt written by some hack who worked on LOST.

I have no clue why everyone's jizzing their pants over this film. There's nothing special about it at all. Was it because it's trendy these days to get moist and give Oscars to films with Indian characters? The visual effects were indeed beautiful and no doubt deserved the Oscar for their work, but not every shot was well done and some of them look simply awful. I'm also guessing if it weren't for the recent layoffs at the Rhythm and Hues VFX studio that nobody would be really talking about it.

[LawL]

lol the title of "Producer" used to mean something (bankroll, catering and generally making sure the project gets completed) but now it's just a name they add to the credits to earn brownie points and convince rubes to part with their money. It used to be the "Executive Producer" was just the name on the credits, but it seems now everyone outside of the actual Director and actual working cast and crew are dead weights and simply taking up chairs and sandwiches during production breaks...all while still cashing cheques.

Like Adam Sandler and his cynical "movie productions", Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell are laughing all the way to the bank on this "remake".

Fuck Hollywood and fuck dumb Australians who defend shit movies and shit projects.

lol it must suck going through life where you so passionately hate on so much.

[GONNAFISTYA]

No. It's just that "Executive Producer" has always been a bit of a joke: to get a "big name" attached regardless of them actually doing any work on it. Now it seems that the title of Producer is also becoming a bit of a joke as it relates to the overseeing of a project's...well...production, with people like Steven Spielberg reinforcing and proving my point over and over again. The guy shows up for a coffee on-set and everyone's suddenly claiming it's "A Steven Spielberg film".

There's nothing bitter in my pointing out the cynical way these morons all suck each other's dicks and, from sucking each other's dick's, water down their already-worthless projects just for the opportunity to rape the wallets of stupid people.

And are we really going to have this discussion again when it's obvious the remake of a movie will suck harder than the original regardless of who's attached? You know...like the same discussion we've had about nearly every remake that's come out this year and last?

You know...the part where I'm always right.