I’m kinda the opposite I love Big Lebowski and didn’t really get into Burn After Reading at all.
Alien Autopsy - Pretty fun little film about the making of those “Alien Autopsy: Fact or Fiction” shows Fox used to play back in the mid-nineties. Basically it’s sort of like “Be Kind Rewind” where a young man is shown footage of a real alien autopsy, the footage gets destroyed so him and his friends set about to recreate it. I remembered the Fox specials but I didn’t remember any of the stuff that happened when everyone found out it was a fake.
Mum and Dad - Fuckin’ hated this movie. Maybe it’s because it threw me so far off guard I couldn’t get into it (my friend compared it to Shaun of the Dead before putting it on), but I’m just not really a big fan of the whole torture thing. I can deal with the physical stuff (love the Saw movies), it’s the mental torture that puts my head in a place I don’t like it to go. Not a poorly made or acted film, the acting was actually quite good. Just not my kinda thing.
Where the Wild Things Are - I’d heard a lot of good and a lot of bad about this movie before finally watching it. I fell into the love it crowd. Totally reminded me of when I was a kid. My only real problem with it was that it felt like it was cut down to fit a kid friendly runtime.
3:10 to Yuma (original) - 3/5
Better than the new one but still not a very good movie. You’d figure with Elmore Leonard as your source material you could fuck up twice, but hey, you’d also never figure Avatar would be winning awards.
Johnny Guitar (rewatch) - 5/5
Still a classic, still an awesome western.
All the King’s Men - 2/5
Hasn’t aged well. The first half is pretty interesting before descending into mediocracy for the rest. Some of the dialogue is really cringe worthy fifty years later, so much so that it marked my opinion of the film completely.
My electricity has been shut down in my flat because I forgot to pay the bills. So I crashed at a friends with my roommate and we invited 2 other people. We watched 4 movies til 4 am:
LA Confidential: 4/5 it rocks very much
Mr. Pink if you haven’t seen it, you should. You’ll love every fights haha, they are awesome.
Braveheart: 3/5 not as good as people say it is. Still very nice
5th Element: Must have been my 3rd Re-watch. Still very good
Dumb & Dumber: Must have been my 10 re-watch. Still best movie ever made.
[quote=“RatQuiRit”]My electricity has been shut down in my flat because I forgot to pay the bills. So I crashed at a friends with my roommate and we invited 2 other people. We watched 4 movies til 4 am:
LA Confidential: 4/5 it rocks very much
Mr. Pink if you haven’t seen it, you should. You’ll love every fights haha, they are awesome.
Braveheart: 3/5 not as good as people say it is. Still very nice
5th Element: Must have been my 3rd Re-watch. Still very good
Dumb & Dumber: Must have been my 10 re-watch. Still best movie ever made.[/quote]
WHAT!!! giving Braveheart a 3??? Its one of the greatest movies ever made. The ending was so sad.
And no I havent seen LA Confidential but one of these days I will.
Cold Souls - Kind of baffled me a bit. I really don’t believe the soul exists but I do believe that if it does it exist it’s your brain. This movie supposes that the soul is just a mere part of your brain and can be removed and replaced for a cost. Paul Giamatti (playing himself) undergoes this surgery. It was a good movie for the most part but I just couldn’t get behind the idea that the soul is something that can be swapped in and out of people. I don’t know, maybe I took the premise too seriously but it never really felt like this movie was supposed to be a comedy so I’m not sure how else to take it.
[quote=“Mr.Pink”]WHAT!!! giving Braveheart a 3??? Its one of the greatest movies ever made. The ending was so sad.
And no I havent seen LA Confidential but one of these days I will.[/quote]
No, seriously it can’t be one of the greatest movies ever made. Or it depends on your taste or something but I don’t even think it comes in my top100. The ending was kinda good though, but it’s not what makes a movie. And it relies on the same principle as The Green Mile, and other films that play on the feelings we have when we see someone we’ve liked for an entire movie being tortured or killed in the worst way possible.
Be sure to post your opinion about LA Confidential. IMO it’s far superior to Braveheart and I’m curious to know what you’ll think of it. Just try to put aside what I said about Braveheart when you’ll comment it 
sure will.
Braveheart is another one of those late 90’s-early 00’s blockbuster movies that inserts an A-list actor in a historic setting and says a bunch of “memorable quotes” and big fight scenes. There were alot of those around that time to say one is the best movie ever is crazy since there are alot of the same movie out there. Gladiator, Troy, The Patriot (Mel again) to name a few big ones. Oh and how could I forget Tom Cruise as the Last Samurai. :
[quote=“G”]Braveheart is another one of those late 90’s-early 00’s blockbuster movies that inserts an A-list actor in a historic setting and says a bunch of “memorable quotes” and big fight scenes. There were alot of those around that time to say one is the best movie ever is crazy since there are alot of the same movie out there. Gladiator, Troy, The Patriot (Mel again) to name a few big ones. Oh and how could I forget Tom Cruise as the Last Samurai. :[/quote]
Well, I think Gladiator is better than Braveheart so even in that movie category, Braveheard isn’t the best IMO.
Puppetmaster 9/10
Still one of the greatest low-budget horror movies of all time. It’s campy, eerie, well written, well executed, and just plain fun.
I can’t wait for Puppetmaster 9 - The Axis of Evil to come out soon
Re-Animator 9/10
Crazy awesome horror movie that is well done on all levels. Prime example of quality horror, and the exact opposite of “boring”
[quote=“G”]Braveheart is another one of those late 90’s-early 00’s blockbuster movies that inserts an A-list actor in a historic setting and says a bunch of “memorable quotes” and big fight scenes. There were alot of those around that time to say one is the best movie ever is crazy since there are alot of the same movie out there. Gladiator, Troy, The Patriot (Mel again) to name a few big ones. Oh and how could I forget Tom Cruise as the Last Samurai. :[/quote]
Of the ones you listed I think Troy is the only one I would say is worse than Braveheart. Not that Braveheart’s bad, I just prefer most other epic period pieces over it.
Oh, and Tom Cruise wasn’t playing The Last Samurai he was just fighting alongside them.
You guys are douche bags. Braveheart is the best movie in the past 15 years.
Men Who Stare at Goats - Pretty cool movie. Not nearly as funny as the documentary I saw last year about the true events. The dude from the beginning who runs into the wall is seriously off his rocker (they all are, I guess) but he would just walk straight into walls, back up, and do it again. Years later he was still completely depressed that he wasn’t able to shift his consciousness the right way and walk through walls.
I’m pretty sure the whole Iraq story was fictional, though. The story being told throughout is completely true from what I remember. I think the military still uses remote viewers with amazing accuracy.
“Well, no, he didn’t live. I mean, it’s just exciting that we’re trying things like that.” - Ricky Bobby
Blood Simple - 5/5
Juno - 5/5
Precious - 2/5
The Hurt Locker - 2.5/5
[quote=“Mr.Pink”]Blood Simple - 5/5
Juno - 5/5
Precious - 2/5
The Hurt Locker - 2.5/5[/quote]
Hurt Locker was one of my fav movies of 2009, along with Two Lovers and some others.
I give Hurt Locker - 4/5
I hope it wins best pic at Oscars. Did everyone see the nominations? The worse I have seen I think. You have Avatar, Transformers 2, Harry Potter, Up, District 9, and Star Trek all in the Oscars this year for something.
You have Avatar, District 9, The Blind side, and Up all in the best pic race. How stupid? No need for 10.
I would never have imagined that Mr.Pink would give Juno a 5/5
That’s cool
[quote=“RatQuiRit”]I would never have imagined that Mr.Pink would give Juno a 5/5
That’s cool[/quote]
Yes I feel ashamed to be giving it a 5 but that dialogue was just too funny.
[quote=“RatQuiRit”]I would never have imagined that Mr.Pink would give Juno a 5/5
That’s cool[/quote]
me neither…
Miyazaki’s Spirited Away: 3/5
The plot is just an excuse to create lots of creatures and characters. It’s beautiful to watch and that’s it. I would rather have some kind of story instead of a few events that occur the one after the other without really any story, at all. But well, it wasn’t boring.
Revolutionary Road: 3+/5
A bit disappointed, really. Some scenes are very intense, the actors are great. But something’s missing. I really expected a lot more from it. Especially because Lili enjoyed it so much. (as I’m writing these lines, I have the impression that I already posted my opinion about this movie, and I think I have, haha).
[quote=“RatQuiRit”]
Revolutionary Road: 3+/5
A bit disappointed, really. Some scenes are very intense, the actors are great. But something’s missing. I really expected a lot more from it. Especially because Lili enjoyed it so much. (as I’m writing these lines, I have the impression that I already posted my opinion about this movie, and I think I have, haha).[/quote]
Did you like the end btw ? Some of my friends who enjoyed the movie but as much as I did, probably like you, didn’ tlike the end much and though DiCaprio and Kate Winslet were a bit young to be convincing. I guess I could really relate to the movie cause the couple is some sort of post-Titanic couple : the first scenes build the romance again and before the opening credits start, you understand the glory part is gone, and the rest of the movie is what the Titanic couple might have lived in the end if Jack had survived. That’s the sad part, ahah.