What's The Latest Film You Have Seen?

Mojo · 03-20-2009, 08:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Kevorkian Logic

fairly often and I haven't had any trouble with spyware or anything. It's a pretty legit site.

I might check that and the one Molecules uses out again then. I stopped using any site to steam TV shows (or films, even though I never did to begin with) after that. I knew some of them would be perfectly safe but I run fairly frequent spyware checks and after just a few days of finding streams for various shows etc my hard drive was beyond repair. Well, apart from a format of course.

Molecules · 03-20-2009, 08:42 AM

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Originally Posted by mojopinuk

I might check that and the one Molecules uses out again then. I stopped using any site to steam TV shows (or films, even though I never did to begin with) after that. I knew some of them would be perfectly safe but I run fairly frequent spyware checks and after just a few days of finding streams for various shows etc my hard drive was beyond repair. Well, apart from a format of course.

tvlinks has had a spotty history and alot of their links dont work, they keep changing domain names and stuff. Sometimes they can be good but i dont know, there is no one site that comes up trumps really, it depends how desperate you are to see a film for free. With me it's usually i want something to look at while i'm stuffing my face

jackhammer · 03-20-2009, 08:44 AM

The guy who ran tv links was arrested last year. He also lives about 300 yards away. Small world!

boo boo · 03-21-2009, 12:37 PM

Big Fish - ***1/2

Interesting to see Burton tone down the goth stuff for a change. This would have just been another sappy movie if it was put into lesser hands, but Burton keeps things fresh with his sense of humor and great imagination, the way he handles the scenes with Kinney, Crudup and Lange shows how capable he actually is as a "serious" director, this is one of his strongest films in terms of writing.

Bad Santa - ***

A lot funnier than I thought, it's still just one drawn out joke, but Billy Bob makes it work. Wish Zwigoff would have been a little more creative than to use such cliche music though.

Big Lebowski - ***1/2

Man, for some reason this film made me laugh much harder than the last couple of times I've seen it. The interactions between The Dude, Walter and Donny are so classic.

Road to El Dorado - **

Excellent animation but I just didn't care about what was going on or about the characters, and those Elton John songs are f*cking awful.

Antz - ***

Personally I thought this was better than a Bugs Life, it's funnier and it's smarter. Though this was supposed to be a kids film, I don't think kids will really dig all the Woody-isms, and the violent Starship Troopers esque termite battle scene, and the very obvious political overtones.

American Beauty - ****

This is my favorite movie, let's leave it at that, I could go on forever.

Labyrinth - ***1/2

Think Wizard of Oz meets Alice in Wonderland meets The Dark Crystal meets Monty Python. Oh and David Bowie in a Tina Turner wig singing with goblins. This film has aged surprisingly well. There's still some of the expected 80s cheesiness, but it's such a unique film. On a technical level it's still very impressive, all the creatures (which were designed by Brian Froud) as well as the set design, it still looks amazing. I watched a documentary about it and even the little critters you see briefly in the background look very detailed in close up and took a lot of time and effort to create, it's that kind of attention to detail that films today sadly lack because of the overdependance on CGI. Shucks I even like the David Bowie music, though there's still some cringeworthy lyrics like "Put that magic jump on me, slap that baby make it free".

Overall a great family film, and highly recommended if you're into this kinda thing, especially if you're a stoner.

Spirited Away - ****

As with most anime the subs are best, but this is a good example of a very good english dub. Haven't seen this in a while but it's still totally spellbinding. It's a shame that when people think of anime, they think of characters standing perfectly still as their mouths move, everything being flat and people walking like cardboard cutouts. Miyazaki isn't just a great animator by anime standards but overall, he's THE best. There's so much about the animation to appreciate, how the expressions and movements are so fluid and natural, how hair, clothing and even body flesh moves realistically, how things blow in the wind and even the little random things in the background. The character design and animation is first rate, but another great element in this and other Miyazaki films is the overall scenary, the backgrounds could be standalone paintings. Storywise it's also great, it's got a great message about learning to adapt to different cultures. And you know, with most films about kids, the kids don't behave like kids, they act WAY more mature than a real kid ever would, but because Miyazaki specializes in protagonists who are young girls, he fully understands how they really act, Chihiro though a likable and sympathic character, is also whiney, spoiled and clumsy, just like an actual 10 year old. It's one of the many things that makes Miyazaki such an excellent filmmaker.

Open Season - *

Damn, and I thought Madagascar was cheap and lowbrow. Going from Spirited Away to this is really eye opening about the state of American animation. We have a lot of lame CGI films flooding the market right now, and this is the lowest of the low, the animation is very sub-par and the gags are just the same old poop and gonads jokes, there's even a really bad pun on "Bros before ho's". And they wonder why kids are stupid these days. You know things are bad when the best voice talent they could get is Ashton Kutcher and Martin Lawerence.

Wag the Dog - ***

Low key but funny satire of spin politics. A very good script by David Mamet. Dustin Hoffman is fantastic as an egotistical movie producer, the whole cast is good though. The kittens scene is one for the vaults.

And laugh if you must, but I'd still bang Anne Heche.

gunnels · 03-21-2009, 12:49 PM

My movie theater now sells tickets at 1.50$ a piece so now I'll be going to the movies a lot more.
I saw Doubt, which was surprisingly good. Meryl Streep and Heather Goldenhersh were fantastic.

EDGE · 03-21-2009, 06:08 PM

Both great films.

FaSho · 03-21-2009, 06:14 PM

This is the worst movie I've ever seen. Not kidding.

EDGE · 03-21-2009, 06:17 PM

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Originally Posted by FaSho

This is the worst movie I've ever seen. Not kidding.

Haha, did you expect anything less?

sweet_nothing · 03-21-2009, 06:34 PM

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Originally Posted by FaSho

This is the worst movie I've ever seen. Not kidding.

Roger Ebert gave it 4 stars I think, and called it brillant.

FaSho · 03-21-2009, 07:28 PM

I would've said the same thing if I came into it thinkin it was a comedy

03-20-2009, 08:44 AM	#2843 (permalink)
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03-21-2009, 06:08 PM	#2846 (permalink)
EDGE accidental genius Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Boston, MA Posts: 1,161	Both great films.