Movies

[EVERLOSTINDEADETERNITY]

Loved Zombie land.
Where the Wild Things Are was pretty intense and a couple scenes had me feeling pretty sad. I enjoyed it quite a bit.

 

[Krilons Resa]

Bad Boy Bubby

 

[Krilons Resa]

Aurel, have you ever seen Seul contre tous (I Stand Alone) by Gaspar Noe?

 

[lurch70]

I did see it, but don't remember it for being anything great.
Must have rented it after watching IRREVERSIBLE to check out other Noe flicks.

 

[Krilons Resa]

that guy is fucked up. king of disturbia.

 

[lurch70]

I think that title would suit the director of Martyrs more.

 

[Krilons Resa]

i still need to see that. im just so lazy when it comes to subtitles.

 

[lurch70]

uhmmm, the other movie you asked me about was a French one too

 

[Krilons Resa]

yeah, i know.


Martyrs is currently at the top of my Netflix queue.

 

[lurch70]

holy shit was PARANORMAL ACTIVITY utter crud.

I am ashamed to be in marketing as a career after this overhyped piece of shit. I mean you have to be 15 and have no prior exposure to even mild thrillers to be scared from this movie.

 

[swizzlenuts]

No way.

Scariest movie of all time? No. But it was definitely creepy and dark. What about the part with the hoof prints? How is that not scary/creepy?

 

[lurch70]

surely you must be pulling my leg.

 

[swizzlenuts]

What's scary then?

 

[lurch70]

I have no idea what's scary to you ... but for me these ghost tales have more effect in an episode of Hauntings on A&E ...
this was just badly executed.
I mean if you look at the trailer again, you will see every single supposed scary moment right in it. Including the "footsteps" scene.

I was held in suspense though in wait for the chick to show us her rack ...

 

[swizzlenuts]

Yeah, I agree the trailer revealed too much, but how does that make the move suck?

 

[lurch70]

there are obviously 2 very divided camps on this movie all over the internet.
for me it didn't work at what it wanted it to achieve ... there was no punchline ...I had the same feeing in the first 5 minutes of the movie as in the end. It didn't put me through any emotions (except anger )
i saw Hitchcock's Psycho when I was around 10 years old ... that scared the shit out of me then, but it does not now ...

deep rooted psychological thrillers freak me out nowadays ... like Antichrist did recently.

 

[Demilich]

The Birds was the Hitchcock flick that creeped me out most when I was younger... fuckin' birds!

 

[Evil?]

I am never at all freaked out by horror movies and I thought Paranormal Activity was excellent. Maybe it was my lack of sleep, but the movie definitly scared me more than any other horror movie in recent memory. I felt very uncomfortable and uneasy the whole way through and even after the movie had ended. I thought it was great. With the rash of shit slasher/ gore horror movies flooding the market these days, I thought this was a welcome change.

Edit: also, has anyone seen the trailer for the movie version of The Road? Looks great to me.

 

[lurch70]

did anyone watch MOON (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1182345/) ???

looks like some modern version of 2001 combined with Solaris.

 

[spikes77]

yes lurch i recommend it. Science fiction with great atmosphere, a good performance by rockwell, and good pacing. Not the usual science fiction cliches as well.