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Tobe Hooper remade it last year :) Think ultra-low budget, pretty crappy, but entertaining horror. It's vaguely watchable, but not worth spending much money on..

Best thing is Guillermo Del Toro, Ron Perlman and Selma Blair turned up for Hellboy :cool: I got GdT to sign my version of "The Devil's Backbone".
 
Russell said:
Tobe Hooper remade it last year :) Think ultra-low budget, pretty crappy, but entertaining horror. It's vaguely watchable, but not worth spending much money on..
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That's so weird. As if stalker/slasher flicks weren't already saturating the horror scene for the last 20 years, he remakes one? And he chose one that had Tom Savini doing the original FX?

Best thing is Guillermo Del Toro, Ron Perlman and Selma Blair turned up for Hellboy :cool: I got GdT to sign my version of "The Devil's Backbone".
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That's great! "Devils Backbone" is probably in my top 10 films, and GdT is easily in my top 3 directors.
 
Yeah, bit of an odd choice I must say. He'd turned it into more of a supernatural movie than a stalk and slash tho. I must say, I haven't seen the original, so I can't compare :)

But hey, some of the films were just amazing. Oldboy for example, really worth checking out. A Korean flick about a guy who's imprisoned for 15 years, his wife is murdered, he is framed, and is then released and given a week to find out why it all happened. Amazing camerawork, one fight scene is a single 5 minute take moving up and down a corridor. Great score, good acting, generally an unusual and very cool movie.

And Switchblade Romance is one of the most tense stalk and slash movies I've seen in a very long time.. The machinist (by the guy who did session 9, Brad Anderson) was also a very pleasent surprise :)

GdT was really cool, you could just go up and chat to him and he was always really friendly.
 
The Girl Next Door

A helluva lot better than I expected. This is basically an "adult" teen movie. No gross out gags, or over-the-top characters. Kind of a corny problem to solve, but it worked. I liked the ending. The "bad-guy" was friggin' hilarious. The protagonist's friends made the movie for me. They stole every scene they were in.

And of course, the presence of Elisha Cuthbert can only mean good things. THrow in Sung Hi Lee and some hot blonde bimbo and it means even more good things. Throw in a titty bar scene along with a laugh-inducing lap dance scene, and you've got a solid "mature" movie aimed at teens. Though I don't think the teenies liked this one that much since it didn't do so well at the box office. I enjoyed it thoroughly.
 
I'd like to see that just for the chicks.

Dinosaur

Not really sure why I watched this, let alone the commercial interrupted TV version, but it was pretty cool. Typical Disney cheese with a decent story, great characters, and fantastic visuals (CGI + real backgrounds worked pretty well). Of course, I've always had a fascination with thunder lizards.
 
Adrian said:
Typical Disney cheese with a decent story, great characters, and fantastic visuals (CGI + real backgrounds worked pretty well). Of course, I've always had a fascination with thunder lizards.
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watched "russian ark" last night. not that exciting but the sheer beauty makes up for it.
i've a bit of a penchant for historical clothing in movies (18th and 19th century mainly) and that flick has heaps of it since it all takes place within the ermitage and winter palace of st. petersburg :D
 
Hero - almost as good as everyone here said. That sounds wrong, it was bloody fantastic, but I felt like the hype here got a bit strong for it. My only complaint was the slow-motion was a bit overused, IMO. Other than that, I loved it. Great visuals (I loved the color themes), great story (is this actually a Chinese folklore?), and much deeper than the previews would've led me to believe. Easily the best I've seen from Jet Li, but I haven't seen a lot of his stuff.

Garden State - I haven't left a movie feeling so fulfilled since Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (before that, a 2 year gap since Adaptation). This movie is just flawless. It's one of those movies that really makes you reflect on your own life, and I like those kinds of movies. A perfect mix of thought-provoking insight and quirky, sometimes dark, comedy. I want to have Natalie Portman's lovechild even more now than I did before. The girl I went with said it was the best movie she's ever seen in her entire life. I wouldn't go that far, but #2 this year for sure (behind Eternal Sunshine).
 
watched "russian ark" last night.
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is that the movie that supposedely was filmed in one long take .. with no cuts or edits????
will have to check this out one day



Garden State - I haven't left a movie feeling so fulfilled since Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (before that, a 2 year gap since Adaptation). This movie is just flawless. It's one of those movies that really makes you reflect on your own life, and I like those kinds of movies. A perfect mix of thought-provoking insight and quirky, sometimes dark, comedy. I want to have Natalie Portman's lovechild even more now than I did before. The girl I went with said it was the best movie she's ever seen in her entire life. I wouldn't go that far, but #2 this year for sure (behind Eternal Sunshine).
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Both those are on my long lists of "must watch" ... I like the serious Jim Carrey ... he seems like such a tortured soul
 
Lurch was one click just ONE click away from learning the truth:
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2000 Actors. 300 years of Russian History. 33 Rooms at the Hermitage Museum. 3 Live Orchestras. 1 Single Continuous Shot.
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I saw Master and Commander today. It's not bad at all, but I can't imagine ever seeing it again. One viewing is good enough. The cinematography is just fantastic, especially when the ships are chasing each other. Although it's based on a set of novels, I think Russell Crowe modelled his persona against Anthony Hopkins in that version of Mutiny on the Bounty.

The thing that bothers me is the battle sequence choreography. The hand to hand combat, or swordplay, is shot so 'up close and personal' that it becomes difficult to tell who's killing who. I see this often in movies -- even Gladiator suffered from this in its intro sequence with the Romans battling the Germanians.

I've yet to see better (non-CGI) battle sequences than Braveheart.
 
The thing that bothers me is the battle sequence choreography. The hand to hand combat, or swordplay, is shot so 'up close and personal' that it becomes difficult to tell who's killing who. I see this often in movies -- even Gladiator suffered from this in its intro sequence with the Romans battling the Germanians.
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I think that is done on purpose as it aids in easy editing not to mention makes shooting the movie easier ... as it you can "cheat" so to speak.


I've yet to see better (non-CGI) battle sequences than Braveheart
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I agree. That movie is amazing, in both terms of cinematography, story, acting ... saw it so many times and never get tired of it.

Speaking of Gibson, just saw The Passion of the Christ last week. Not being a very religious person, I am not sure what to really make of it. Nobody in the movie was really portrayed in a positive light and I could almost "understand" everyones point of view of why they acted the way they did.

The beating of Christ was relentless, of the 120 minutes of the movie, I think they literally beat him for 90.

I would be interested to hear different points of view about this movie ...
 
The Butterfly Effect
WHy did the critics dislike this movie? I thought it was highly entertaining. Ashton Kutcher actually did act in this movie and Amy Smart is a cutie. Ths movie kept you guessing, and I dug that. The ending was a little too perfect, though, especially since the everything that preceded it was a mindfuck.

Along Came Polly
Predictable love story with scant few funnies. Wait for it on TBS, and only if nothing else is on.
 
i dont get people that turn off movies that they rent, or walk out on movies that they paid 10 fuckin bux to see...you shelled out the $$$, you dont have anything better to do, why not just finnish the damn thing? did you get mystery men thinking it wasnt going to be completley fucking stupid? c'mon, pack another bowl and finnish the stupid fuckin movie.
 
Well, that's the point. I actually do have better things to do than waste 1.5 - 2 hours of my life on stupidity that IS NOT funny. I'm all for stupidity but not if it isn't funny.

PS - I would never walk out on a movie in the theaters because I agree with you on the $ thing. Also, I got Mystery Men for my free non-new release rental on my Rewards card. :)
 
I think I'm the only person alive, apart from a few of my friends, that loved Mystery Men. I thought it did a perfect job of making fun of comic books. But, anyhoo.

As for Natalie Portman, she is a bit overrated in the looks department, but I've seen interviews with her and she's a smart cookie, and to me, smart is extremely sexy. So, I still want to have her lovechild.
 
oh, and about Passion of the Christ; I thought it was an excellent film. It portrayed the events of the New Testament fairly accurately to how they were written. Whether that is historically true is another debate. But, I agree, the beatings were a bit overwrought. It seriously was almost 90 minutes of the movie, if you count all the cross-carrying stuff (which went on FOREVER). Being a former Christian, I found it to be quite interesting, but I doubt I'll ever watch it again. And it didn't make me want to go back to church or anything.
 
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