The Official Movie Thread

[SweptbackFlame]

So I watched "Basic". Fucking badass movie.

Travolta/S. Jackson FTMFW

 

[Psychonaut]

Milk - Sean Penn did a good job but I failed to really see what all the hub-bub was about.

 

[no country for old wainds]

i fucking hate gus van sant, everything he does is shit

 

[AchrisK]

Just watched Children of the Corn. What a cheese-fest.

Last night I watched Candyman. It was alright.

 

[rms]

Candyman is scary as shit, movie rules. Has anyone seen the last house on the left remake yet?

 

[tagradh]

Watching Deep Cover right now, it's pretty good so far.

 

[challenge_everything]

Candyman is not "alright", it's one of the best horror movies ever.

 

[arg]

the first Friday the 13th was garbage.

 

[Vossyrus]

Candyman is not "alright", it's one of the best horror movies ever.

I haven't seen that film for a while, but I enjoyed it and the musical score is great too.

 

[unknown]

i fucking hate gus van sant, everything he does is shit

and he's been especially annoying these past few years

I watched The Abyss today on Fox Movie Channel...one of my favorite movies but they cut out the whole thing with the aliens sending the tsunamis to wash out humanity! Totally change the meaning of the movie. Fucking rupert murdoch.

 

[challenge_everything]

I haven't seen that film for a while, but I enjoyed it and the musical score is great too.

Phillip Glass' score is one of the all time greats. And how many horror movies manage to be bloody, scary, erotic and intelligently comment on racism and urban decay at the same time?

 

[Psychonaut]

Dororo - Live adaptation of a manga. It was pretty cool and I really liked the premise of the film. Some of the demons looked like extras from a Power Rangers set but regardless, I had fun with it.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Hey, has anyone here seen A Scanner Darkly? I saw that a few weeks ago, and my mind was fucking blown. I can't believe I'd never heard of that movie before just randomly coming across a mention of it on Wikipedia. Such an incredible masterpiece.

If anyone needs some extra incentive to check it out, it was written by the same guy who wrote the book Blade Runner is based on. It also has a really weird animation style that's kind of a blend of animation and live action.

 

[panzerfaust666]

yeeh cool movie.

For some weird reason, that reminded me of waking Life, which is awesome

 

[no country for old wainds]

i've seen it, it's directed by the same guy who did waking life btw. it's cool.

 

[panzerfaust666]

well thats probably why certain parts of the movie have similarities, i.e. The animated live capture...I dont know what you would call it, but yeah....that...

 

[unknown]

it's called rotoscoping. The director films it in live action and then the film is painted/animated over

A Scanner Darkly was a great film and definitely one of Keanu Reeves's better performances. Also, Robert Downey Jr was great in it as well.

 

[challenge_everything]

A Scanner Darkly is probably Dick's most filmable book... hence why it worked. Linklater is a good director. Most Dick adaptations are complete balls-ups: Minority Report, Totall Recall (ok goofy fun but still pretty bad), and I even include Blade Runner in there, but lets not get into that argument again.

Speaking of Linklater, I just rewatched Dazed and Confused. Such a simply pleasurable film.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Glad to see so many people have seen it.

Oh, and Blade Runner was definitely a flawed movie. The acting was terrible, and the pace of the story tends to drag. The visuals more than make up for it though, imo.

 

[no country for old wainds]

i think the criticisms concerning blade runner's slowness are rooted in its being slow in comparison to the genre's conventions, rather than being an outright slow movie. i mean it's slow for the mainstream but otherwise?

the acting criticism is one of those where i don't think it really applies in context with the film - i really think they act in a way that such people (replicants) might well act in such a society. certainly the OTTness of hauer/etc and the blank, clichéd noir acting of ford were calculated decisions rather than oversights. i actually really love that cold love scene between ford and young.

there are a ton of things in blade runner that would be terrible in any other movie. that's why it's such an awesome achievement, it just... works against all the odds. for me, anyway.