Author Topic: The last movie I saw was... (Read 488661 times)

B E C K · « **Reply #2400 on:** Dec 13, 2011, 12:48:51 AM »

Merla still hasn't bought it so she can have it for me not to rewatch it.

Rama · « **Reply #2401 on:** Dec 13, 2011, 09:58:38 PM »

Condorman.

I remember loving this movie as a kid. It is a kind of Batman meets James Bond thing made by Disney back in the early 80s.

Chopper Face 69 · « **Reply #2402 on:** Dec 14, 2011, 07:45:16 AM »

I watched Gremlins last night. Good movie. Some thoughts...

Judge Reinhold can't catch a break. He pines after Phoebe Cates in 2 movies in the early 80s.

The Mogwai/Gremlin species defies all logic and natural selection. How does a species have a one way metamorphosis, which it is constantly compelled to do, but then the metamophosised version spawns that same version, not the original. How do Mogwai still exist?

blanktoe · « **Reply #2403 on:** Dec 14, 2011, 05:07:04 PM »

The Dark Knight Rises or some shit http://www.twitvid.com/AMDF4

B E C K · « **Reply #2404 on:** Dec 18, 2011, 11:45:06 AM »

I watched:

Two Can Play That Game w/ Vivica A. Fox where she has a set of rules for keeping men in line and "has" to use them on her boyfriend. It wasn't terrible but I just found her guy so stupid it took away from my enjoyment of it. I would've like it better if he hadn't tried to follow stupid Anthony Anderson's advice on everything. He calls the Vivica character out on her shit but not until the end of the damn movie. Get your own damn brain, fool, you're supposed to be an educated man. Like Motives, an inferior-looking sequel was made that takes out a main character. Bleh. Imma gonna pass on that.

I then saw We Are The Night or Wir sind die Nacht, which is a German film that the director says is his take on the vampire story Carmilla. It kinda came off to me like an older, German version of The Craft with vampires. It has one of those open-assed endings, which I didn't care for in this movie. To me it seems like the director just ran out of ideas or didn't know how to end things. It came off lazy. I would still recommend this movie though.

I also saw the director of the above's other film The Wave (Die Welle). Or actually, I saw about 40 minutes of it: 20 minutes of the beginning and 20 of the end. I do this when the movie's kinda interesting but I'm getting fuckin' bored. Even though both films are German this one was in German on Netflix streaming while the other above appeared to be English-dubbed. Anyway, it's about a highschool class doing an experiment in autocracy which results in a mini Nazi-light dictatorship led by their teacher with the others as followers. I found it kinda boring, so I don't mind blowing the entire goddamn movie and saying it changes almost everyone for the worst. The teacher's marriage falls apart, a boyfriend and girlfriend fight, people are ostracized or some shit, and the teacher decides all of this shit is bad so he gathers up all the students. He ends the experiment saying that he's sorry and what happened was an example that a dictatorship can still occur in modern day Germany. Everyone is humbled except for the fuckin' outcast who finally believed he belonged. He gets a gun and shoots one of his friends before killing himself. The teacher is arrested (huh?) and taken away in front of all of the sad, dissappointed students, families, and staff. The fucking end. I guess I'm not German enough to appreciate this one. I was hoping we were in for a more clever experiment like in The Exam but we're not.

I then saw Burglar, an eighties film starring Whoopi Goldberg. It was decent but moved kinda slow and has the classic "look, it's one of them evil homosexuals!" twist. I don't care if I just spoiled that, the movie's over 20 fuckin' years old. And my God, I'm certain Bobcat Goldthwait's voice has induced mass suicides.

The D · « **Reply #2405 on:** Dec 19, 2011, 01:55:48 PM »

Equilibrium:
Heard this is a cult classic, decided to give it a chance. I personally give it a thumbs sideways.

It was okay but not great. Moments of somewhat boring drama interspaced between moments of semi-entertaining gun battles. Okay, the gun battles were crappier than the Matrix. This movie came out back during the WE MUST CAPITALIZE ON THE MATRIX'S SUCCESS BY MAKING CRAPPY MATRIX CLONES era.

The idea of the story is WW3 happened years ago, and a utopian city was formed with a giant wall to keep out all the nutters outside. And everyone inside the city takes daily drugs to suppress their emotions, because emotions=BAD. It stars Batman... I mean Christian Bale, and Sean Bean. Sean Bean was the better actor in the movie, he's an emotion cop who starts having emotions at the beginning of the film. And Christian Bale is this emotion cop, the best of the best, who kills people who start having emotion. And he too misses a dose of his drug and starts having emotion.

There are some good moments, like when Bale is told to kill a cute puppy because it might stir emotions. But I kept wondering why people who show emotion are killed rather than just injected with happy drugs again (you keep that shit up, and the entire population will be dead). And then some people SHOW emotion, like Bale's black sidekick who seems to enjoy his job, even grinning and laughing a little a couple times. And the leader of the city himself shows emotion all the time, including getting so angry he throws something and punches his desk. While everyone’s investigating Bale to see if he has emotion, HAS ANYONE NOTICED EVERYONE ELSE HAVING EMOTION TOO? Or are they just really shitty actors?

Stargate: Continuum
The local station that syndicates SG1 all the time has been playing Arc of Truth to death, even after they reset the series back to the first season. Then they finally played this. And it wasn’t bad. Although, not quite sure why the US didn’t at least TRY to fire nukes at Baal’s fleet when they attacked. And… *SPOILER* I knew Teal’c would blow himself up near the end. Still awesome. Because, you know, it’s Teal’c, and he’s awesome. Although I expected him to throw in an “indeed” there when he did it, one for the road.

Well, I now have the very strange Bunraku here, and hopefully National Lampoons Christmas for Christmas.

Rama · « **Reply #2406 on:** Dec 20, 2011, 01:38:08 AM »

Mad Monster Party

Chopper Face 69 · « **Reply #2407 on:** Dec 20, 2011, 09:45:36 AM »

Quote from: The D on Dec 19, 2011, 01:55:48 PM

Equilibrium:
Heard this is a cult classic, decided to give it a chance.

Cult classic? Is that what we call movies that are unpopular or unknown these days? There was way too much sense crime by every character in this movie.

B E C K · « **Reply #2408 on:** Dec 20, 2011, 10:41:56 PM »

Yeah, I was kinda wondering about him calling it that. Never heard about Equilibrium being referred to as a cult classic or with any words other than "gunnnnnnnn-fu!"

Rama · « **Reply #2409 on:** Dec 21, 2011, 12:32:37 AM »

Jerry Lewis: Method of the Madness.

IDE · « **Reply #2410 on:** Dec 21, 2011, 04:25:43 AM »

I just saw The Hobbit trailer. It was epic.

Rama · « **Reply #2411 on:** Dec 22, 2011, 12:47:17 PM »

The Help.

I got it for my Mom for her birthday and she wanted me to watch it with her. Pretty good movie. 1960's Mississippi really was like another world. So many times I caught myself thinking "Oh that can't be real." but sadly it was. Although the most disturbing thing was how crazy Emma Stone's face was in this movie. I kept thinking "This was the chick that I thought was kinda cute in Easy A? Cause they don't even look like the same person."

B E C K · « **Reply #2412 on:** Dec 27, 2011, 12:22:40 PM »

I saw What Dreams May Come. My god, Robin Williams is fucking annoying. Why did I never see this before? I don't know why I was so immune before but watching him now he seriously makes me want to punch something. He can be good when the director or whoever reins him in but that's not often enough. And Cuba Gooding Jr.--who seems to be here only for affirmative action just like Rosalind Chao (even though I LOVE her and it pains me to say so)--is like "shit, bitches, I need to outdo this motherfucker" and thus is equally annoying. I have not read the book but can confidently say, from what I know about it, it was completed raped with this movie. Most of it was dull. This is a film that needs a remake bad. Someone fix this shit.

IDE · « **Reply #2413 on:** Dec 27, 2011, 12:26:36 PM »

Family guy made a joke about What Dreams being a really shitty movie.

I actually like it. I think maybe it's the story itself that makes me not notice the crap you're talking about...I don't know.

I love, bitches.

I love hard.

B E C K · « **Reply #2414 on:** Dec 27, 2011, 12:37:46 PM »

But... but Robin Williams!!

IDE · « **Reply #2415 on:** Dec 27, 2011, 12:46:06 PM »

SPOIOILLERRER ALART!! (not that you're going to see it anyway)

When he goes down to hell and realizes his son is standing by him and then he gets there and is like fuck this I'm not leaving. I just start blubbering like a little kid lost in a department store. It just really gets to me because I know there is no woman out there that deserves that kind of devotion. Tag'm and Bag'm! That's all they're good for! Why can't you see that Robin!! WHYYYYYYYYYY!? /sob /cry

B E C K · « **Reply #2416 on:** Dec 27, 2011, 12:57:40 PM »

I don't think they were trying to make you cry for that reason.

Anyway, if they followed the book, she would've gotten out on her own in 20-something years anyway: She was never confined there for eternity, she was forced to spend what would've been the rest of her life on earth there since she ended it prematurely with suicide.

IDE · « **Reply #2417 on:** Dec 27, 2011, 01:07:37 PM »

haha really?

Was he still risking spending an eternity there? Did he know she was gonna get out in 20 years?

Oh wait you haven't read it.

Poop.

B E C K · « **Reply #2418 on:** Dec 27, 2011, 01:44:28 PM »

Yeah, it's on my list of shit to read. I'll get to it and let you know. But he apparently gets her out but discovers she does not join him in Heaven or whatever. She's already been sent back to earth and will die young as an alternate punishment or something. Anyway, the book sounds cool. Apparently, the author did a lot of research for it. He's the same guy that wrote I Am Legend and Stir of Echoes. He's also responsible for the gremlin-airplane episode of The Twilight Zone with Shatner.

Rama · « **Reply #2419 on:** Dec 27, 2011, 09:08:13 PM »

Halloween (The Rob Zombie one.)

He really humanized Mike Myers too much. Like it better when he was just killing machine with a very loose back story.

IDE · « **Reply #2420 on:** Dec 27, 2011, 09:19:27 PM »

The book does sound cool. A lot more Neil Gaimany and less heart wrenching.

I just saw the new Mission Impossible. It was a decent watch. It has more funny human moments than any of it's predecessors and I think that makes it more entertaining.

Fiero · « **Reply #2421 on:** Dec 27, 2011, 10:53:09 PM »

Quote from: Rama on Dec 27, 2011, 09:08:13 PM

Halloween (The Rob Zombie one.)

He really humanized Mike Myers too much. Like it better when he was just killing machine with a very loose back story.

I really liked the story.

B E C K · « **Reply #2422 on:** Dec 27, 2011, 11:04:31 PM »

Quote from: IDE on Dec 27, 2011, 09:19:27 PM

I just saw the new Mission Impossible. It was a decent watch. It has more funny human moments than any of it's predecessors and I think that makes it more entertaining.

I'm just glad that movie took the top spot instead of the Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.

Rama · « **Reply #2423 on:** Dec 28, 2011, 12:09:03 AM »

Quote from: Fiero on Dec 27, 2011, 10:53:09 PM

Quote from: Rama on Dec 27, 2011, 09:08:13 PM
Halloween (The Rob Zombie one.)

He really humanized Mike Myers too much. Like it better when he was just killing machine with a very loose back story.

I really liked the story.

I didn't have a problem with the story...more I don't want to feel sorry for the crazed killing machine Monster of the film. I just need a loose story to tie in why he is killing people. This movie showed me in depth. Hell the first half hour of the movie was that. Anyway I didn't get to finish it, so I don't know how it ended anyway.

Chopper Face 69 · « **Reply #2424 on:** Dec 28, 2011, 12:16:08 PM »

City of Ember. I thought this movie would be shitty based on the poster alone so I ignored it assuming it was fantasy. Then my cousin is like "You should watch this, you'd like it" to which I gave no thought until she said "It's kind of like... after the Apocalypse" so I watched it that very night and it was pretty cool. The city they're in kind of reminds me of Rapture...

Mission Impossible 4. If you like Mission Impossible movies, you will like this movie. If you don't, you should not even consider watching it. Simple enough...

B E C K · « **Reply #2425 on:** Dec 29, 2011, 12:53:40 PM »

Is it like MI3: good enough to sit down and see once and never watch again?

Fiero · « **Reply #2426 on:** Dec 29, 2011, 04:42:08 PM »

Quote from: B E C K on Dec 29, 2011, 12:53:40 PM

Is it like MI3: good enough to sit down and see once and never watch again?

That's what I've heard.

Also I think there's a Batman preview, for those who care.

B E C K · « **Reply #2427 on:** Dec 30, 2011, 12:18:36 AM »

Looks MEH.

jonhammstein · « **Reply #2428 on:** Dec 30, 2011, 10:54:15 AM »

TGWTDT.

Read the book. Haven't seen the Swedish original. Saw the American version in a group and we all seemed to enjoy it.

But man, it is getting smoked at the box office.

Rama · « **Reply #2429 on:** Dec 30, 2011, 12:04:59 PM »

The Dragon Lives Again.

I talked a little about this movie on Facebook, but I just scratched the surface one this one. I might have to actually update my blog to talk about this one complete with screen caps. I really thought I had seen it all when it came to "WTF" movies before this one came along. I was wrong...really wrong.

This movie is known as a Bruceploitation film. Movies that took advantage of the void in Marital Arts movies when Bruce Lee died, by using a string of look a likes named Bruce. (Bruce Li, Bruce Le, Bruce Lei, etc.) I actually have a few of these already, like Bruce Lee Fights Back From the Grave. Which isn't what this movie is called, but really should have been.

The movie starts with Bruce Lee waking up in Hell to find himself in front of the King of Hell. (Which I have to tell you Chinese hell isn't that bad. They got noddle shops, Kung Fu classes, and cute girls wanting to bone you. Doesn't sound much like Hell to me.) There is a whole bit about Bruce Lee's Nunchucks making it look like he has a boner in the very first scene of this movie. .

Anyway, The King of Hell has a gang of bad guys that start to give Bruce Lee trouble. This gang includes James Bond, The Man with No Name, Dracula, Zatoichi, and soft core legend Emmanuelle. But Bruce finds allies in the form of Caine from the show Kung Fu, and Popeye. Now these aren't just look a likes in the movie...they actually call them by name. Bruce also befriends an old man that has a talking skeleton in his house for some reason. So Bruce has to fight his way through all these bad guys to get to the King of Hell and get back to Earth. Along the way he also fights guys dress in skeleton costumes and Mummy outfits just like Power Rangers fighting putties.

Anyway this has got to be on the craziest movies I've ever see and that is saying a lot.

Edit: Forgot to say what is going on in the pic below. That is Bruce Lee using his "Third Leg of Bruce" to kick Dracula square in the face