Movies you have seen lately

[Musopticon?]

Uh-huh.

 

I don't understand why they even titled the movie I am Legend, it has just about nothing to do with the original masterpiece. Enjoyable enough, but after the first half, a real let-down.

[Walsingham]

There were bits of it which stood up on their own. The whole isolation and madness thing works. But why go so cheesy at the end? Bastards.

[Kelverin]

Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight (2008) - Except for the bad/terrible voice work, mediocre music, and less than average cheesy 70's style animation, not a bad adaptation. 5/10

 

The Green Mile (1999) Good Flick, exceptional acting. Me likey 8/10

 

 

To any one that cares, they are showing the first 3 Alien movies on Encore this evening starting at 8:00 p.m. PDT Back to back to back

Edited March 29, 2008 by Kelverin

[BIOShazard]

I Am Legend (With Alternate Ending )

It was kind of stupid to try to talk to those things. After all, you tried to kill all of them.

Everybody, is dead!

 

Book so much better it's not even funny.

I have neither the patience nor the attention span to read the book. I never do

[Deadly_Nightshade]

The Last Man on Earth is a better, but older, version of the same book - or at least I think that was its name.

[Amentep]

The Last Man on Earth is a better, but older, version of the same book - or at least I think that was its name.

 

Yup, the original version with Vincent Price.

 

Then there was THE OMEGA MAN with Charlton Heston in the 70s.

 

And NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD has its origins in Romero's failed attempt to get the rights to film the book.

 

Last two movies I've seen was Demons and Demons 2.

 

First one is a lot better, although they're both enjoyable (and both contain the flaw (IMO) of being internally inconsistent in how the demons are handled), but the theater setting gives a nice claustrophobic feel to the preceedings while the high-rise setting of the second film isn't used very well at all.

Edited March 30, 2008 by Amentep

[Hurlshort]

Hitman - It was odd. It wasn't terrible from an action movie standpoint. I think it needed to either distance itself fully from the video game (like instead on Agent 47, it's some other guy) or get rid of all emotion and the whole girl scene stuff. It just didn't seem to know what it wanted to be. Timothy Olyphant is also a favorite actor of mine, but he didn't pull off Agent 47 at all.

 

Ignoring the video game entirely, it was like a poor man's version of the Bourne series. I guess I'd give it a D+. Not unwatchable, but not terribly good.

[WITHTEETH]

I just saw hitman also.

 

The girl scenes did seem awkward, and him looking at that mag was odd too. Then stabbing her neck with the needle. It would have been better if she was just a professional killer. I wish they focused more on his past too, ohwell. I can always go back to the games. Hitman Bloodmoney was a sweet game, I highly recommend it!

 

I was also forced to watch Enchanted.

 

I actually thought it was entertaining. It was so akward it made me cringe and laugh at the same time. Over all I thought it was funny how they contrasted the cartoons and reality. Pretty good date movie.

[Shryke]

hellboy

 

silly Ron Perlman, why snap off/file down the horns? they look awesome!

[Kelverin]

Rush Hour 3 - Pretty much like all the others bad story, great Chris Tucker/Jackie Chan chemistry. I thought it was pretty funny as well, the nun providing translation was pretty damn funny.

 

6/10

[Kor Qel Droma]

The Count Of Monte Cristo. Not a great movie, but I find the book to be horribly overrated, so go figure.

[Oerwinde]

Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight (2008) - Except for the bad/terrible voice work, mediocre music, and less than average cheesy 70's style animation, not a bad adaptation. 5/10

 

The Green Mile (1999) Good Flick, exceptional acting. Me likey 8/10

 

 

To any one that cares, they are showing the first 3 Alien movies on Encore this evening starting at 8:00 p.m. PDT Back to back to back

 

Thats funny, the voice cast and music are generally the only thing people like about that Dragonlance movie. They were certainly the only things I praised.

 

Last movie I saw was Apocalypto. Not bad, but he would have died horribly of infection and internal bleeding.

 

Also: http://movies.ign.com/articles/863/863492p1.html

 

IGN's april fools joke was rather awesome.

[Kelverin]

Shoot 'Em Up (2007) - Delivers what it promises. Silly, OTT, action flick. Both Clive Owen and Paul Giamatti did a good job and of course Monica Bellucci is always nice to look at.

 

Works well if taken as a spoof of other more "serious" action films. I had a blast and the 86 minutes flew by. 7.5/10

[Kor Qel Droma]

Reign Over Me. Sad and depressing, but still a worthwhile film.

[Deadly_Nightshade]

28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later - they both make me want to play Left 4 Dead.

[Deadly_Nightshade]

IGN's april fools joke was rather awesome.

 

That is was, although it was sort of obvious in retrospect - but then, I guess a lot of games have been made into movies lately (id est Hitman, Dungeons and Dragons, and Dungeon Siege).

[Kor Qel Droma]

Knocked Up. Again. I still laugh my ass off at the pink eye scene and all the stoner humor, but I never realized how plastic the hawt chicks belly looked. It needed more stretch marks.

[Hell Kitty]

"I like Spiderman."

[Humodour]

Well not a movie, but I'm watching Get Smart season 1 and 2.

 

Looking forward to the new Get Smart movie coming out!

[Guest The Architect]

Accept should watch that. It might help him.

[Kelverin]

25 Most Controversial Movies?

 

1. Natural Born Killers

 

2. Midnight Cowboy

 

3. The Last Temptation of Christ

 

4. Birth of a Nation

 

5. Song of the South

 

6. Last Tango in Paris

 

7. Pink Flamingos

 

8. JFK

 

9. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut

 

10. A Clockwork Orange

 

11. Titicut Follies

 

12. Dogma

 

13. Cruising

 

14. Fahrenheit 9/11

 

15. The Passion of the Christ

 

16. Caligula

 

17. Triumph of the Will

 

18. Requiem for a Dream

 

19. Deep Throat

 

20. The Devils

 

21. Crash (1996)

 

22. The Message

 

23. Baby Doll

 

24. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

 

25. The Brown Bunny

 

 

I have seen 5 and have 0 in my collection, what about you?

[Hurlshort]

I'm surprised American History X isn't on the list.

 

I recognize most of them, and I can definitely agree that many were controversial.

[mr insomniac]

Re-watched Memento last night. It funny how the story hinges on loss of memory, cuz it's one of those movies where I can never keep all the details and twists and turns straight. Wish that would happen to me when I play Torment. Ah well... also saw the trailer for Hellboy 2. It looks like it will be fun.

[Pidesco]

25 Most Controversial Movies?

 

1. Natural Born Killers

 

2. Midnight Cowboy

 

3. The Last Temptation of Christ

 

4. Birth of a Nation

 

5. Song of the South

 

6. Last Tango in Paris

 

7. Pink Flamingos

 

8. JFK

 

9. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut

 

10. A Clockwork Orange

 

11. Titicut Follies

 

12. Dogma

 

13. Cruising

 

14. Fahrenheit 9/11

 

15. The Passion of the Christ

 

16. Caligula

 

17. Triumph of the Will

 

18. Requiem for a Dream

 

19. Deep Throat

 

20. The Devils

 

21. Crash (1996)

 

22. The Message

 

23. Baby Doll

 

24. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

 

25. The Brown Bunny

 

 

I have seen 5 and have 0 in my collection, what about you?

 

 

I've seen 10 and own 4.

 

 

Also, while I thought American History X was great, I didn't think it was particularly controversial.

[Hurlshort]

It was great reading about all those movies Kelverin. I show The Message every year in class, so I was pretty shocked to hear how controversial it was in 1977. It even got the approval of the University of Cairo, you'd think those pesky terrorists could let it go with taking hostages and shooting a mayor.