Surprisingly the Last Movie You Saw Didn't Suck

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Into The Wild- although I was expecting to like it. And I sure as hell did. Beautiful film.
V For Vendetta- KICK ASS
Pulp Fiction- One of the best things ever
 
Saw Tropic Thunder today, unexpected beggining, was great throughout the movie, felt the ending was a bit "too perfect" if you catch my drift,
 
Rope.

(excellent thriller, and the first? American film that was shot in continuous action (Hitchcock), I give it a B+)

Gonna watch Once Upon a Time in the West tonight.
 
Green Street Hooligans - Never thought I would like a movie with Elijah Wood in it where he was not a Hobbit.

Rambo - OMG pure senseless war porn. It was awesome! Stallone did a good job directing.
 
shopgirl. i caught it on tv yesterday. i like claire danes a lot in general and the movie was interesting but not exceptional.
 
Saw College and Hamlet 2.

College is like a mix of American Pie and SuperBad but with Nickelodeon type of humor. That's the best way I can describe it and for some reason it seemed like I've seen this movie before (and I haven't). Only a couple parts that were lol worthy - don't bother going to see it if you saw the trailer though.

Hamlet 2. Great premise and well execution. I thought the jokes were well implemented (or maybe I'm just a sucker for puns). I reccomend it only if you could enjoy music-type performances since my friend didn't like that at all. Then again, I loved it.
Rock me, Rock me, Rock me sexy Jesus...

In my opinion, comedies I've seen this year:

Pineapple Express>H&K2>>>>>>Tropic Thunder>>Hamlet 2>Step Brothers>>>>>>>College
 
Persepolis: Beautifully animated, and extremely poignant. A good spectrum of emotions hit too - makes you laugh, makes you sad, makes you angry and disillusioned with humanity. Makes me worry about the future of this country - I could see the same gradual slip into fundamentalist madness here being cheered on by drones of idiots.

My Sassy Girl (American Remake): Surprisingly, this didn't suck total balls like I full well expected it to, and it even followed the Korean classic pretty well. I expected something with an Ashton Kutcher archetype (read: pretty boy frat boy idiot) running around making every retarded sex joke and innuendo as much as possibly could be done when crammed into 95 minutes of film. It didn't help that I never saw this in theaters, and was completely surprised to see it sitting inside Blockbuster. Despite these red flags, I found a competent remake. I'd like to think it's like how one can enjoy the British version of The Office, but still understand the American version to be proper in its own right. I still contend this is one of the only romantic comedies that guys can actually like (that's a short list), and it has the added bonus of making their SOs melt. I haven't watched the Korean one in a while, so I don't know if it is better, but it certainly stands on its own.

Futurama - The Beast with a Billion Backs: You know, ever since these movies have come out, I've seen a huge backlash from the Futurama fanbase, who claim these don't live up to the series. I think some of the complaints are valid, but this show still feels the same to me, and I think the issue is that the more fervent fans are seeing their beloved series through extremely rose-colored glasses, bolstered with a fuck you Fox mentality. These movies are not bad - they try to do a little too much, yeah, but this is Futurama at the core and anyone saying differently really needs to go back and watch the original shows. I'd say a B+ overall.
 
Not sure what the last movie that I've seen, since I've seen so many, and that I haven't posted here in awhile due to being busy, but I guess:

Tropic Thunder - loved every moment of it. I just wish Steve Googan's character didn't die so soon in the film.

Smokey and the Bandit - I liked this one better than I thought I would. Made me want to get a Firebird, and I have no clue how Burt Reynolds laughs like that. Oh, and damn it, I want a CB radio now. That and one of those CB names, I guess Hiccup works, though...

Midnight Express - Enjoyable, but to a point. Ending was kind of dumb, a bit racist/stereotypical, but enjoyable nonetheless. Opening was kind of stupid, but it really is only there to set up the character to be in jail.

Nausicca of the Valley of the Wind - Suddenly this is my absolute favorite Miyazaki flick. This one is better and underrated, compared to the likes of Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away. It's wonderful throughout and lives up to itself, unlike Porco Rosso (though I did enjoy this one greatly, with the exception being how they ended it).
 
[quote name='SneakyPenguin']Sukiyaki Western Django

Still so awesome.[/quote]

I'm hoping this one will get a wider release and stop by in Vegas or New Orleans sometime soon. I so want to see it but haven't found a version of it (*cough* ahem*;)) with decent subtitles.

[quote name='darthbudge']Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. 5/5

Perfect. I just don't know how to explain it, I just loved this movie.[/quote]

That's pretty much my exact reaction to that movie when I saw it.

[quote name='Foo228']Juno

So...why was this movie raved after? I thought it was awful.

imo: the female lead should've been someone else[/quote]


Yup, Juno is in fact quite shitty. I hated that movie and everyone who rated it so highly. Pathetic sad piece of trash film. It's a film in a long slate of shitty ass "indie" flicks which have been tearing up the big screen and getting some form of praise, be it from the critics or otherwise. It adds itself to crappy movies such as Napoleon Dynamite and Little Miss Sunshine, oh and Into the Wild. All movies that have their audiences, have found their niche, are highly acclaimed (supposedly), but in fact are crap.
 
[quote name='hiccupleftovers']




Yup, Juno is in fact quite shitty. I hated that movie and everyone who rated it so highly. Pathetic sad piece of trash film. It's a film in a long slate of shitty ass "indie" flicks which have been tearing up the big screen and getting some form of praise, be it from the critics or otherwise. It adds itself to crappy movies such as Napoleon Dynamite and Little Miss Sunshine, oh and Into the Wild. All movies that have their audiences, have found their niche, are highly acclaimed (supposedly), but in fact are crap.[/quote]

In this post: People who disagree with me are WRONG, for I am RIGHT.
 
[quote name='hiccupleftovers']I'm hoping this one will get a wider release and stop by in Vegas or New Orleans sometime soon. I so want to see it but haven't found a version of it (*cough* ahem*;)) with decent subtitles.



That's pretty much my exact reaction to that movie when I saw it.




Yup, Juno is in fact quite shitty. I hated that movie and everyone who rated it so highly. Pathetic sad piece of trash film. It's a film in a long slate of shitty ass "indie" flicks which have been tearing up the big screen and getting some form of praise, be it from the critics or otherwise. It adds itself to crappy movies such as Napoleon Dynamite and Little Miss Sunshine, oh and Into the Wild. All movies that have their audiences, have found their niche, are highly acclaimed (supposedly), but in fact are crap.[/quote]

Apparently you just don't get indie films my friend.

Juno, Napoleon Dynamite, Little Miss Sunshine and Into The Wild are all excellent films.
 
[quote name='Jesus_S_Preston']In this post: People who disagree with me are WRONG, for I am RIGHT.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, I hate those types of posts. Movies, games, music, etc. are entirely subjective. I hate when people go all elitist like that and post their opinions as facts.

To each their own.
 
[quote name='hiccupleftovers']I'm hoping this one will get a wider release and stop by in Vegas or New Orleans sometime soon. I so want to see it but haven't found a version of it (*cough* ahem*;)) with decent subtitles.[/quote]

You DO realize it's an English language film, right?
 
[quote name='SneakyPenguin']You DO realize it's an English language film, right?[/quote]

Are you sure? I thought you said a multiple pages ago that Sukiyaki Western Django was in Japanese? Hmmm....I'm kind of confused. Time to really research this sucker out I guess.
 
[quote name='hiccupleftovers']Are you sure? I thought you said a multiple pages ago that Sukiyaki Western Django was in Japanese? Hmmm....I'm kind of confused. Time to really research this sucker out I guess.[/quote]

No, I'm not sure, I've only watched it a few fucking times.
 
[quote name='darthbudge']Apparently you just don't get indie films my friend.

Juno, Napoleon Dynamite, Little Miss Sunshine and Into The Wild are all excellent films.[/quote]

Nope, I just can't get into overhyped, over rated crappy films. I mean, if it were a movie where it's so bad it's good, ok, but these are just crappy films that the masses have tried to justify as being good by their mob mentality-adoration that they present them. Juno is lame, ridiculous, crappy film about pregnancy that hardly takes the situation seriously and never indicates it's being anything else (i.e. satire, etc.). The actress is pretentious, the whole film is pretentious, and this is excacerbated (sp) by an already terrible script for which Diablo Cody should never have won the Oscar. The dialogue is simply disgustingly terrible in the movie. Napoleon Dynamite.....don't get me started on that craptacular movie. I've written dozens of posts just on that movie alone. Little Miss Sunshine is just simply overrated with tired characters. There's nothing in that film that merits the acclaim it receives. Into the Wild, well, man, am I looking at the same film that half the world or more is looking at? Is anyone thinking about the characters or the plot at all? I'll give it that it is filmed gorgeously, but that doesn't make a movie. I guess it proves the old adage true, "if you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit."

[quote name='Jesus_S_Preston']In this post: People who disagree with me are WRONG, for I am RIGHT.[/quote]

The difference is that I can back up what I say. Most people will just spout shitty acclaim for a film without being able to back it up.

"Oh!!!! I love this film just because everyone else does!!!!" syndrome. I can't tell you how many times I heard something similar to that (no, really) after I came out from Napoleon Dynamite or entering a different film while it was still playing at the movie theatres. I'm glad to be one of the few dissenting voices on Into the Wild. Hopefully, eventually someone will hear me out.
 
[quote name='SneakyPenguin']No, I'm not sure, I've only watched it a few fucking times.[/quote]

My aplogies Penguin. I humbly bow towards you (where's the bow smilie when you need it). No, but really, just as soon as I looked it up it came in a quick and easy google search. I feel like an idiot since I've been passing it up on the merits that I haven't been able to find good subtitles for it :lol: No wonder, it's in English, but I guess some people have been screwing with people since I've found copies where I guess they must have thrown a Japanese dubbing to it.
 
[quote name='hiccupleftovers']Nope, I just can't get into overhyped, over rated crappy films. I mean, if it were a movie where it's so bad it's good, ok, but these are just crappy films that the masses have tried to justify as being good by their mob mentality-adoration that they present them. Juno is lame, ridiculous, crappy film about pregnancy that hardly takes the situation seriously and never indicates it's being anything else (i.e. satire, etc.). The actress is pretentious, the whole film is pretentious, and this is excacerbated (sp) by an already terrible script for which Diablo Cody should never have won the Oscar. The dialogue is simply disgustingly terrible in the movie. Napoleon Dynamite.....don't get me started on that craptacular movie. I've written dozens of posts just on that movie alone. Little Miss Sunshine is just simply overrated with tired characters. There's nothing in that film that merits the acclaim it receives. Into the Wild, well, man, am I looking at the same film that half the world or more is looking at? Is anyone thinking about the characters or the plot at all? I'll give it that it is filmed gorgeously, but that doesn't make a movie. I guess it proves the old adage true, "if you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit."[/quote]

I agree wholeheartedly on Juno.

I loved lms though. 8-[

[quote name='dmaul1114']Yeah, I hate those types of posts. Movies, games, music, etc. are entirely subjective. I hate when people go all elitist like that and post their opinions as facts.

To each their own.[/quote]

Nothing personal, but this is the biggest bs thing I've read in some time.

You're considered elitist for judging a movie? Wow. I think it takes balls to judge, especially when everyone else is praising it. To judge someone else and say something hypocritical (sorta like when you said "I hate when people...facts") it seems ignorant, not intelligent. Why's it hypocritical? Good question, you answered it up there anyways with "To each their own."
 
Chaos

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A lawless city, a deadly epidemic, and a cop caught on the wrong side provides the setup for Chaos, the latest film from Herman Yau. As the director of cult hit Ebola Syndrome and more recently films like Whispers and Moans and On the Edge, Herman Yau knows a thing or two about vice, violence, and viruses, and he throws everything to the screen in the fittingly titled futuristic thriller Chaos. Starring Gordan Lam (Sparrow), Andrew Lin (The Heavenly Kings), Kristal Tin (Trivial Matters), and Charmaine Fong (Love is Elsewhere), Chaos is set in a restricted region of the city where gambling, prostitution, and drugs reign, and police dare not enter. Officer Mickey and criminal Tai Ho, however, unwittingly enter the hot zone and end up in the hands of Crow, the brutal de facto leader in this desolate no man's land. As Mickey struggles for an escape plan, a deadly virus breaks out in the walled city. The government decides to contain the virus by exterminating everyone in the area.

New movie from Herman Yue (he directed Ebola Syndrome). He actually had a decent sized budget and it shows. One of his best movies and it really makes you wish he could land a huge budget to see what he can do with the money.
 
Howl's Moving Castle -- 7/10

If the last fifteen minutes were rewritten and fully fleshed out I might give it a 9/10... but man that ending sucked.

[quote name='Strell']Futurama - The Beast with a Billion Backs: You know, ever since these movies have come out, I've seen a huge backlash from the Futurama fanbase, who claim these don't live up to the series. I think some of the complaints are valid, but this show still feels the same to me, and I think the issue is that the more fervent fans are seeing their beloved series through extremely rose-colored glasses, bolstered with a fuck you Fox mentality. These movies are not bad - they try to do a little too much, yeah, but this is Futurama at the core and anyone saying differently really needs to go back and watch the original shows. I'd say a B+ overall.[/QUOTE]

I've been watching Futurama a lot lately. Beast With A Billion Backs is significantly weaker than seasons 4 & 5, a little worse than 1 - 3. Bender's Big Score is much better, perhaps even surpassing seasons 4 & 5.

It's subjective, of course, but I don't think dissent is due to skewed memory of the classics.
 
[quote name='Koggit']
I don't think dissent is due to skewed memory of the classics.[/QUOTE]

Oh, it definitely is when you've got a fanbase who is so ready to pounce on some new material as if they are sticking it to Fox, and create such wildly delirious expectations of a product that's a few years after the "glory days."

It's a large factor in play. Yeah the new stuff might not be as good as the old stuff, but the zealotry of the fans squirming is amusing to watch, especially when I know they've carried banners around and threw their tiny arms into the air when the teaser from Comiccon a year or two ago lampooned the execs at Fox.
 
[quote name='SneakyPenguin']Wha?[/quote]

I honestly didn't get why it was praised. Sat through the whole thing expecting some big turn at the end (for comedy's sake) but nothing - just not a funny movie imo.

Guess I'm all about the drug-referencing movies of H&K and Pineapple Express :whistle2:#

(sorry I missed your comment earlier)

edit: infamous was pretty good :)
definitely not what I had in mind though
 
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Rick Cleveland's My Buddy Bill (link to video previews from Comedy Central)

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This is a one-man play. A monologue. It's entirely fictional. It's about Rick Cleveland's adventures with being friends with Bill Clinton over the years. It's not really a movie per se, but it is available on iTunes for two bucks, about 43 minutes long. I couldn't find it available anywhere else.

It's really difficult to recommend this, because I'm sure most people won't like it. Basically it's nothing but extremely dry jokes told in a very normal, direct way.

This makes it sound like it is not funny.

But no.

It is hilarious. So unbelievably hilarious despite how incredibly simple it all is.

Here's an example: One story talks about Rick meeting up with Bill and heading to a hash joint in Amsterdam, where they proceed to get baked out of their minds, which encourages Bill to talk about Monica. Oh yea - Christopher Walken is there throughout all of this too.

I was completely taken off guard by this whole thing.
 
[quote name='dastly75']Don't know if it's been posted but Tobey Maguire and Sam Raimi are coming back to Spiderman 4 and Spiderman 5. The movies will be apparently shot back to back.
http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.c...-raimi-studio-may-shoot-4-and-5-at-same-time/[/quote]
"There’s no deal yet for Kirsten Dunst but Mary Jane Watson will be featured. I’m told Sony “would never recast her” despite her rehab problems."

But what about her acting problems?

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LOL. Oh so brutal. A Venom spin off with Topher at the helm is asking for trouble. A decent actor and I actually like him, but Venom? It's just not in him to produce a memorable performance.

Anyway...

The Brave One

Great movie. I damn near shat myself when Terrence Howard's character...

...gave her a clean gun to shoot the last criminal with and let her go free. Wow. I never saw that coming and that's why it was so damn gangster.
 
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