While not the latest, I will watch Grotesque with my brother in 10 minutes.

The main actor in this tried chatting up my friends girlfriend in a night club last week. She described him as a strange little boy. I'm still planning on watching the movie mind.

I have to admit I thought Submarine was a bit too teen emo for me. I didn't feel like I could really relate and neither did I think the characters were particularly charming. Overall, I thought it would be funnier and felt a bit bored. The most interesting characters and story in there was about the parents, I felt.

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Brilliantly weird film. An unflinching collection of the flagrantly intentionally worst racist stereotypes, crude nudity, violence, and utter irreverence to the viewer's sensitivities. On top of that, a dizzying psychedelic adventure. When I watch a film, I always take in a special regard for creativity, and I really have never seen a film like this.

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I hadn't seen this film in about 20 years and I enjoyed it again. It's a B movie but so what?

It's nowhere near on a par with the same film director William Lustig's 'Maniac' (one of the most sleaziest serial killer films out there) but it was an enjoyable 90 mins. Now onto parts 2 and 3 :)

Not great by any means, but entertaining enough. The second is alright too, but I never saw the third one. The guy who plays the maniac cop sure is weird looking :p:

is that the film with the guy who skins women and staples the skin to mannequin heads?....and has an amazing close range shotgun blast to the head shot?

He sure is. You may recognise him from Tango and Cash:
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That's the one. Great movie and the the head explosion is executed by Tom Savini who did the special effects in the film as well as Dawn Of The Dead and Day Of The Dead. Reverence was returned in From Dusk Till Dawn, one Tom Savini:
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Watched Nightmare Concert, aka A Cat in the Brain, a Lucio Fulci movie from 1990 which was at the very end of his career.

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Reading about the movie, it intrigued me. It's a meta-film about movie making in which director Lucio Fulci stars and satires himself going mad due to working with grotesque horror movies for so long. He suffers psychotic episodes where he can't differentiate between the fiction from his movies and real life and things only get worse when he tries to get help from an even more disturbed psychiatrist.

I have to say the execution was pretty godsdamn awful, though. The plot is so badly presented, it doesn't really do much to engage the viewer. Even worse, it was horribly dubbed and some of the scenes were just plain stupid. Early in the film, Fulci has a psychotic episode where he attacks a woman and tries to rip all her clothes off. When he apologizes for his behaviour, she instead thanks him for the thrill. All of it's just cheap and weird. Constantly throughout the movie, Fulci will see something, like a water running from a tap, which will remind him of something from his movies and we get to see some grisly footage from older movies he's directed or produced.

Basically, what sounds like it could be interesting, the director in front of the screen making a meta film where he spoofs himself and the industry, becomes just another poor excuse to put vast amounts of gore on the screen. This time, the paper thin plot, the horrible editing and weird insertions of stock footage and so on reduce the emotional impact of the violence even more until it becomes the cheapest kind of exploitation.

For those who like gore, it has heads cooked in the microwave, cannibalism, chainsawing off heads and other body parts, face smashed with hammer, stabbings, drownings, nude women getting ****ed, slapped and murdered, all you could want .. but it's still a bore!

The most impressionable thing about it was a nice twist at the very end and a very screwed up start which shows a cat puppet having a feast in some brainy entrails. Overall, I'm disappointed in a movie I thought would be interesting, but turned out to be stupid and incredibly lazy as it recycles a lot of stock footage.

Haha, damn, I think that guy is the only thing I remember from Tango & Cash!

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basically Indiana Jones in motion capture - i am not impressed, also the characters have voices I don't associate them with - 3.5/10

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now this is more like it - gives me the Greek mythology kick that the new Clash of the Titans didn't - super-gory as well - 8/10

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The Burrowers (2008)
A pretty good little horror flick set in the American high plains in the 1800's. I don't want to give away much of the plot as discovering what's going on is part of what makes the movie so entertaining, but suffice it to say it's a classic "group of people being stalked in the wilderness" style film. The wide-open and desolate setting of the plains really helps ratchet up the tension and it's always nice to see a horror movie that takes place in another era. I wish there were more of them.

did it live up to the hype?

I saw "Happy Feet Two" today and was pleasantly surprised!

The movie had many adorable and clever parts, including two of the Best Cartoon Personalities Ever Created!!!!...Will and Bill. :love: They got many of the best lines and had the greatest depth of character development. Will and Bill are even better than Scrat. They were darling, completely fresh and unexpected.

The movie impressed me because it shows the marvelous nature of human creativity and music appreciation. One criticism could be that the movie almost seemed like an extended string of music videos, but Will and Bill kept popping up to add some amusing depth and perspective underneath the repertoire of overly sweet songs of hope.

Anamorph, Willem Dafoe is so underrated

I recently watched The Taking of Pelham One Two Three , both the `1974 and `2009 versions. The original was cool but I give the edge to the `09 version due to technology.

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Sci Fi meets historical epic. It works and it doesn't work. The fact that an 'alien' arrives on planet earth and is then told by his computer that it is 8th century Norway and the language is Norse is correct but Norse automatically becomes the English language which is an absolute load of bollocks. Little things like this annoy the crap out of me.

It works when it portrays ' Vikings' as everyday people who just happened to be damn good at invasion and drinking!

It was the best kind of terrible there is:

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Just saw Cold Souls with Paul Giamatti. A bit of an existential comedy in the vein of Being John Malkovich. I enjoyed it a lot. I found it a little like watching a painting. Not that it was visually stunning but there was a lot of room for your own imagination.

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my future dad in law gave me a whole bunch of action movies, like Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Crank and some Van Damme and Seagal

will give write-ups on them as soon as i've watched them

Just saw Wall-E for the first time last night.. I must admit, I cried a little. Big fan of animated movies.. and classic Disney or Disney-Pixar. Yeah, yeah, I know I'm lame.

I just watched the two best films of the year:

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Drive
2011

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50 / 50
2011

don't be, I cried when i watched Wall-E myself

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is overly ambitious and sprawling, Rodriquez is better shooting some cartoonish violence and quick jump cuts. does show how skewered Mexican politics are, but Johnny Depp is totally wasted in this role. My fave is still the 1st "El Mariachi" - 4/10

Really? You prefer El Mariachi over Desperado. To each their own I guess...


Anyhow I ended up watching this last night.

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It's pretty much if Waiting... was just about the waiting staff and took place in a fancier restaurant then a Red Robin knockoff. Still the movie has some pretty funny moments, Michael Clark Duncan steals every scene he's in which surprised me because I didn't think he'd be that great in a comedy movie. Basically if you liked Waiting... or have worked as a server or know someone who's worked as a server, give this one a try.

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If it wasn't for the two douches wrecking the local town for their old man I may have enjoyed this better, bad acting is acceptable, annoying acting is not. Loved the colour schemes though and I don't think I can listen to Disco Inferno in quite the same way again.

I re-watched Pulp Fiction yesterday. Quentin Tarantino will always be my favourite director. I got Platoon today, which I've been after seeing for a while. Gonna check it out tomorrow.

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Me and the wife just watched Super 8 which, I have to say, was a lot better than I thought it would be! It felt like Goonies meets modern sci-fi thriller. It had likable, relatable characters, a mysterious plot and was thoroughly entertaining from start to finish. Also, those kids were surprisingly good actors!

Platoon is a great flick.
I can watch that over and over.

As for me, I recently watched 50/50, a comedy-drama about a guy who gets diagnosed with some rare spinal cancer. I thought it was quite good.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt & Seth Rogen.
An unusual pairing of main actors, but it works. I'd recommend it.

So I've heard, though I've seen my fair share of Vietnam films. I've seen Full Metal Jacket and Apocalypse Now. If I watch Platoon I will have seen the big three, yes?

Kinda interesting how Martin Sheen plays in Apocalypse Now and Charlie's in Platoon .. But yeah, Platoon is good.

There are more classics than those three, though! I've been told many times that I have to watch The Thin Red Line.

Ive seen all of those Vietnam flicks as well, and they are all good ones. Deer Hunter and Uncommon Valor are a few more to mention. Sylvester Stallone has his share of (First Blood) Rambo movies, and Chuck Norris with his Missing In Action movies also. "We Were Soldiers" (Mel Gibson) is my favorite Vietnam movie. Based on actual events early in the war.

My favorite war movie would have to be the (WWII) movie "Saving Private Ryan" though, Tom Hanks is outstanding.

Saving Private Ryan is one of those films that's impressive the first time, but boring on any re-watches. At least that's how it was for me.

Really..its just the opposite for me. It has such good special effects. I can understand how it could be boring after the first time though.

Those Rambo and Missing In Action movies are the ones I cant take anymore.

Of course, Ive seen Saving Private Ryan enough to do a life time..well..maybe one more time.:laughing:

Have you seen "We Were Soldiers"?

Dennis Hopper is my favorite actor in Apocalypse Now.

My fave war movie is Black Hawk Down

Yeah, that's a good one. Ive watched it multiple times as well.:p:

I vividly remember watching it for the first time with one of my sons right before he left for the Air-Force around 8 years ago.

You should have seen his eyes:yikes: when the remaining soldiers had to run out of the city on foot toward the end of the movie.:o:

He just left for Afghanistan for a 6 month stint. I don't actually know how many different times he has been deployed there already, Iraq, and a few other places around the Middle East. (he is not allowed to tell us a whole lot about it) Try not to think about it to much, if you know what I mean. And it doesn't really help knowing hes being deployed along with Special Ops.

I just know that I'm getting tired of these fucking wars in the Middle East!

PS.
"The Hurt Locker" is a 2009 American war film about a three-man United States Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team during the Iraq War. Its a good movie I would recommend.

I feel completely the opposite. After Forrest Gump, it's my favorite film to rewatch on tv...

Amen. Second best film I've seen this year after Drive. Hopefully Gordon-Levitt gets some award buzz...

I can't stop thinking about Drive. I think I'm re-watching it tonight.

whenever i watch that, i just watch the beginning segment and the final segment, and skip everything in between