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Film What's the Last Film You Saw? v. Tell Us What You Thought!

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4/5 stars.
 
^i loved igby so much just because i love the culkins. otherwise, meh. but, fuck it! kieran! yes! no mean creek, though..

love of siam: thai gay love story that could have gone somewhere despite being all half, uh, unbelievable, uh halfcocked, to begin with. but instead the director and screenwriters take the position "oh, i can't love you as a boyfriend, i must make my family proud." and this is supposed to be an uplifting ending, lol. thailand has a ways to come, let's just say that. ugh.

deliverance: honestly terrifying, but i get the context. maybe you have to get how horrifying hicks are up close to know? all i know is i squirmed so much and screamed maybe because it all reminded me one of a relative i had as a child. scarier than anything similar that could have been set in *ahem* tha citay.
shortbus: a real piece of shit. cliches glued together by theatrical orgasms designed to make the real life "avant garde" into glittery kitsch packages of vomit and disconnection
 
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prometheus. i had no big hopes for this one, but oh my god, what an abominable piece of shit through and through. probably the most utterly moronic movie i saw all year.
 
The Ledge (Patrick Wilson, Charlie Hunnam, Liv Tyler, Terrence Howard)

1.5 stars (/5)

Despite the fact that none of the actors could perform their way out of a wet paper bag, even if they were armed with chainsaws and off their heads on coke - plus the painfully-dated flashback structure of the narrative - I quite enjoyed it; it's an unusual and often unbelievable movie, in terms of character motivations, and it seriously lacks subtlety - occasionally to the extent that is downright patronizing.

Charlie Hunnam is, consistently, terrible at accents; and, unlike Ewan McGregor/ Hugh Laurie/ etc, he doesn't have the required charm to pull of a character while failing to speak properly. I assume he is cast in films and television shows because he's a surfer pretty boy type. Though, from what I've seen California is full of surfer pretty boys. I'm not sure why they keep casting Australians and British people in American roles, if they're not good at accents. I understand why they cast Ian Holm, because he is a professional of the highest caliber and his accents - while sometimes bordering on the theatrical - are always convincing. Hunnam's accents don't sound like actual people; they sound as if he impersonating a real person. I find it extremely difficult to watch him in anything.

Liv Tyler constantly speaks in "pillow talk" voice; she is, basically, a contemporary resurrection of Marilyn Monroe: I'm not sure if they are more actor or prostitute. I'd say that both of them probably lean towards the prostitute end of the spectrum. Neither of them have any range, whatsoever. They just shamelessly use their sexuality to manipulate audiences.

Terrence Howard is a fucking horrible actor. He's the worst actor in the film, no question. I can't comprehend how he managed to get nominated for an Academy Award. He doesn't seem interested in what he's doing, like he's partially disassociated when he's performing. He should be on CSI or something; he's not good enough to be in films.

Patrick Wilson is the only actor worth a damn, and this is one of his worst performances, which leads me to conclude that the director was fairly incompetent.

Having said all that, I did like the theological discussions throughout the film, which - while by no means radical or groundbreaking - are quite confrontational and well conceived. The script isn't great, but it's the strongest element the film has to work with.

Paper Heart (Charlyne Yi, Michael Cera)

3.5 stars (/5)

Loved it. A refreshingly unique and original cross-genre cinematic experience.
 
raiders of the lost ark in a new hd print on the big screen. jeez it looked gorgeous.

funny thing i noticed for the first time, when the good guys steal the truck with the ark and drive into the market which quickly hides them, the nazis drive in and shake their fists or whatever. people come offering them fruits and there is a distinct off screen dog barking. one of the nazis grabs a piece of fruit and throws it to a place offscreen (towards but below the camera). the sound of the dog changes to yelping.
 
X-Men: First Class (2011)

Rather silly premise for a film (mutants having involvement in that part of history?) but a decent film nonetheless. Worth the viewing. And it explained a lot--Though I have yet to see* X-Men Origins: Wolverine, which could possibly explain much more. ;)

*And I really should watch X2 and The Last Stand. 8)
 
activepee, don't watch any of those other films if continuity is what you're after. seriously, that is the last thing you want to do for that.
 
Hah, L2R, I'm aware of the lack of continuity in the films--I have seen a few of the others, but none in their entirety or with my undivided attention.
 
I just saw a great South African documentary called Searching for Sugarman. It is a beautifully filmed movie about a Detroit musician from the 60's, Rodriguez. It is ultimately the story of the power of art, the relationship of art and artist and a moving portrait of a very unique man. The shots of Detroit are like paintings. I was ready to go see it again just to soak it up visually but I guess I caught it on the last day so I'll try to rent it.
 
the tall man.
what a. clusterfuck.
horrrible fucking movie although it was mildly entertaining to watch stephen mchattie act circles around jessica biel.
 
Expendable - The Political Sacrifice Of Schapelle Corby

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The Political Sacrifice Of Schapelle Corby

How a government wilfully withheld vital primary evidence from a court of law, deceived its own public, orchestrated an unprecedented campaign of media hostility, and ruthlessly deployed its organs of state against one of its own citizens.

This is a frightening but entirely true narrative; a grotesque political horror story which is still unfolding today. It exposes what happens when an individual's human rights conflict with strategic political need. It reveals the ruthless use of a government's organs of state, and a regime of unprecedented opinion management, against a single working class woman and her desperate family.

It presents, and demonstrates, the crushing, pre-meditated, and often brutal acts which a western government is prepared to inflict upon a helpless citizen, in pursuit of political expediency.
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I am going to switch to the 10/10 scoring system and see how that works out for awhile.

6/10

I know what you're thinking, seriously? 6 out of 10? You must be high. But keep in mind this is my drunk score. I could not have watched this movie without the fifth of gin I had in my backpack and my friend cracking jokes throughout the movie.

It was entirely more fun than it has any right to be. Me and my friend shared a virtually empty theater and just got drunk and laughed at all the god awful action movie cliches that seemed to march across the screen. But I gotta say, being a big action movie fan (especially of Arnold) it was fun to see all these action guys going way over the top and racking up a body count that easily reached the low triple digits.

Watching Arnold sling a heavy automatic shotgun around blowing fools away brought back memories of Terminator 2 (my favorite action movie EVER) even though he looked old and less than his former self. And seeing Chuck Norris come in and then actually saying a Chuck Norris Joke! I nearly pissed myself laughing! It is not a huge spoiler so I'll just give it away as a treat. It will probably make you wanna see it just because of this one joke.

Stallone: "One of the crazier rumors I heard about you was that you survived a cobra bite. Is that true?"

Chuck: "It is true, that after 5 days of the most agonizing pain one could possibly imagine, the cobra died."

I seriously lost it right there. Not because the joke is especially funny, but just having Chuck saying a chuck norris joke! Priceless.

Now for my complaints of which are many. Action movies like this need to spread out the action. In this movie there was a near 45 minute gap of no one getting shot or killed. I nearly passed out of boredom during those 45 minutes of mind crushingly boring and unnecessary character build up. When I see a movie with this many action stars, I don't want a huge amount of dialogue, and the plot is entirely secondary. I want to see people die, in as many ways possible, and as consistently as possible. I don't care who the fuck the pretty boy bad ass sniper guy is dating. I really could not give a fuck if Jason Statham's girlfriend/wife cheated on him twice. I want to see chaos, mayhem, and fucking Arnold holding a huge mother fucking gun blasting away bad guys. And most importantly the constant references to the actors old movies where so God awful I had to laugh out of the sheer absurdness of it all.

Arnold borrows a shotgun from one of the guys in Stallone's crew, the guy says "If you don't give that back, you are gonna get terminated." I laughed but not because it was funny, but it was because it was so forced and awkward that in drunken stupor I couldn't help but laugh at such obvious fan fare.

With all that said, watch if you like action movies. And IMO watch while at least somewhat drunk, otherwise you might just fall asleep despite all the loud explosions.
 
^ of the three, i prefer sympathy for lady vengeance. that movie is so gloriously cold.
watched cosmopolis. as faithful a rendition of the source material as possible. i loved the book, but noticed that don delillo's dialogue is a lot better read than heard out loud. also robert pattinson can actually act. who knew?
 
math of the titans... eh... aussie destroys imaginary cgi things. although it is clear these kinds of movies make money, i truely wonder if anyone is ever actually entertained by them.

math because the plots revolves around: we are men and gods and demi gods and semi gods, but our motivations are 1+1=2 stuff.
 
The master 9/10. If phoenix doesnt get an academy award that will be insanity.

The snowtown murders. 8/10 holy fuck what a really powerful disturbing movie, about these serial killers who go around australia and kill pedophiles. Its really hard to watch at times. check it out its on netflix
 
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