What was the last movie you watched?

[Sweetie]

^ Yeah, I watched it last week and it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. That's just not my type of movie anyway. I did almost bust my gut laughing when Beowulf decided to fight naked. That shit was funny to me.

[Mel1973]

that was funny .. the grendel was really bad animation...

[greysfang]

The Nines with Ryan Reynolds and Melissa McCarthy. Excellent movie, you should definitely see it.

[Happy_Evil_Dude]

Originally Posted by sputnik

re: the big lebowski. what you wrote in the spoiler, that's precisely the whole point of the movie
pure comic genius.

Yeah, I pretty much figured it was the point, and yeah it's original, but I didn't think that particular originality was that great.

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Anyway:

-The Wicker Man, by Neil LaBute, at home => Robin Hardy's 1973 original is considered one of the best movies of all time, whereas Neil LaBute's 2006 remake is considered one of the best unintentional comedies of all time. I didn't think it was that bad. The story was pretty interesting, but some stuff was left unexplained, Leelee Sobieski's character is one of the weirdest I've ever scene, and things do start to get pretty funny from the moment Nicolas Cage spends a night in the water. On a side note, this film has some of the weirdest cameo casting in history: Aaron Eckhart, James Franco and Jason Ritter, with a completely unrecognizable Aaron being onscreen for half a second, and James' and Jason's faces not even appearing on camera...

-2 Days In Paris, at the cinema => I'd heard a lot of great things about this romantic comedy before going to see it, but I don't think all this praise is deserved. Sure, the movie is pretty funny, but no more than your other average romantic comedies. What I find funny however is how the French are unhappy when an American movie depicts a cliché-ridden France, but when the director of said movie happens to be French herself, they find the clichés hilarious.

-Survivre Avec Les Loups, by Véra Belmont, at the cinema => An okay film about an 8 year old jewish girl in Brussels whose parents are taken by the Germans and who, after spending some time with an unpleasant foster family, runs away, traveling for miles and miles eastward in the hopes of finding her mother again, eventually befriending/becoming part of a pack of wolves. Young Mathilde Goffart should be commended for carrying a whole film on her shoulders at such an early age. She's not amazing, but still. It is to be noted that this film was meant to a "true story", however more than 10 years after her "autobiography" was published and a month after the movie's release, author Misha Defonseca revealed it was all a hoax, that she never was jewish, and that she spent the whole war in Brussels.

-Fargo (1996), by Joel & Ethan Coen, at the cinema => A pretty good film, with great cinematography by Roger Deakins, trademark Coen story, and very good cast. Frances McDormand was good, but I'm not sure her performance was "oscar-worthy". William H. Macy however is brilliant as the bumbling weakling who gets in over his head, you pretty much hate his character the moment he walks into the frame... How Frances is considered "leading" and William "supporting", I'll never know...

-Rambo, at the cinema => I don't care if you disagree, but Sylvester Stallone is a true, accomplished artist. He's a very good actor, a very good director, and most of all, a very good screenwriter. And his talent for storytelling truly shows in this fourth, nostalgic installment of the iconic character. Oh , and there's the action of course... Birman soldiers get their asses kicked...by a machete, woohoo!!!! I'm really happy that Stallone has received the praise he deserves, and also that this film has become a symbol of freedom for the Birman people (it's true, it has become a cult favorite over there).

-The General (1927), by Clyde Bruckman & Buster Keaton, at the cinema => I'd already seen this quite some time ago on TV, and had held a good memory of it. The General is truly a timeless classic of comedy, as witnessed by the numerous laughter of the several children in the audience.

-Fantasia (1940), by many many people, at the cinema => I wouldn't say Fantasia is a great film, many of the other Walt Disney animated features are better, at least as films. It is however, an "important" film, beautiful to look at, beautiful to listen to, with images that you definitely don't forget.

[Dixie Normos]

^ if you liked the remake of Wickerman, I'll have to disregard all of your forthcoming reviews, I'm sorry but that movie was one of the 3 worst movies I've ever seen, including Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.

[witchcurlgirl]

Originally Posted by Dixie Normos

^ if you liked the remake of Wickerman, I'll have to disregard all of your forthcoming reviews, I'm sorry but that movie was one of the 3 worst movies I've ever seen, including Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.

I agree. Truly awful. It made me long for that terrible part in the original, when Britt Ekland does that weird musical dance number nude

[Grimmlok]

Nude For Satan:

Indescribable. Some tacky italian horro movie from the 70's that made no sense. As far as I could tell, there wasn't much nudity, and not much Satan.

[tonks]

Starsky and Hutch, the remake. it was ok, what had me laughing for like half an hour was the gag reel in the bonus section...there..that´s my review lol

[SSDiva]

The Invisible

[Kirsten89]

Hitman- Wasn't impressed. Love Tim Olyphant, but the movie was another blah remake of a video game. Not as bad as Doom though.

No Country For Old Men- Liked it. Pretty creepy and I like Josh Brolin. He's a pretty talented guy.

[Dixie Normos]

Originally Posted by greysfang

The Nines with Ryan Reynolds and Melissa McCarthy. Excellent movie, you should definitely see it.

Watched it last night, not bad, thought the plot was a little lacklustre, given it's content. Any chance to watch Ryan Reynold's half nude is fine by me though, and DAMN can Melissa McCarthy ever act!
I'd give it ***

[CecaFan4Eva]

Childs Play 3
lol

[greysfang]

Originally Posted by Dixie Normos

Watched it last night, not bad, thought the plot was a little lacklustre, given it's content. Any chance to watch Ryan Reynold's half nude is fine by me though, and DAMN can Melissa McCarthy ever act!
I'd give it ***

Melissa McCarthy was the shit, and I like that little Elle Fanning 100x more than her irritating sister, Dakota.

[aabbcc]

Hostel and Hostel 2 ... lots of gore. Good stuff.

[Happy_Evil_Dude]

Originally Posted by Dixie Normos

^ if you liked the remake of Wickerman, I'll have to disregard all of your forthcoming reviews, I'm sorry but that movie was one of the 3 worst movies I've ever seen, including Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.

Originally Posted by witchcurlgirl

I agree. Truly awful. It made me long for that terrible part in the original, when Britt Ekland does that weird musical dance number nude

Seriously? One of the 3 worst? The thing is, you've probably noticed, I watch a lot of movies and I try to enjoy them for what they are. I don't watch every movie comparing it to Citizen Kane or The Godfather. I saw The Wicker Man expecting a b-movie level flick where Nic Cage punches a bunch of women, and that's pretty much what I got. It's not a great a movie by any means, but as far as horror movies go, I didn't think that this was any worse than the House Of Wax and House On Haunted Hill remakes, or I Still Know What You Did Last Summer and Urban Legends: Final Cut, among others, and it certainly was better than I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer, Brocéliande, and even The Grudge. I enjoy most movies on some level or another, but I say it when I really, really love a movie (recently: Le Scaphandre Et Le Papillon, Barry Lyndon, Edward Scissorhands, Breezy, 2001: A Space Odyssey) or when I think it's really bad (Zabriskie Point, Palais Royal!, Catwoman and Vercingétorix are all much worse movies than The Wicker Man, IMO).

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Originally Posted by Kirsten89

Hitman- Wasn't impressed. Love Tim Olyphant, but the movie was another blah remake of a video game. Not as bad as Doom though.

Really? I personally felt Doom was on of the best VG adaptations, along with Silent Hill.

Here's my grading:

1. Doom & Silent Hill
2. Hitman
3. Resident Evil: Extinction & Resident Evil: Apocalypse
4. Resident Evil and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
5. Dead Or Alive & Street Fighter
6, 7 & 8. BloodRayne, Alone In The Dark & House Of The Dead

I left out the Pokémon movies because I don't know what the game itself really looks like (I saw the first 3) and I haven't seen the others yet (Double Dragon, Final Fantasy, BloodRayne 2, Tomb Raider 2, etc...).

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Here goes:

-Fearless, on DVD: My 3rd time watching this. Based on a true story, Jet Li's last martial arts epic is a classic tale of honor and the true meaning of martial arts.Nothing new then, but it still works and has some really beautiful scenes, including superbly shot fight scenes choreographed by the great Yuen Wo-Ping.

-Brocéliande (2002), by Doug Headline, on DVD: a rare French attempt at teen horror, and sadly a failure. The story doesn't manage to conjure up a shred of believability, as plot elementsz seemingly appear out of nowhere. The university where it takes place seemingly doesn't have any other students than our heroine, since she's constantly alone in big empty places. The editor did his best to hide the fact that the few fight scenes are badly and awkwardly performed by actors who obviously weren't paying attention to the choreographer. Oh, and the acting is atrocious, including, and especially by then newcomer Alice Taglioni, who somehow managed to elevate herself to a prominent career after this...

-Plane Dead aka Flight Of The Living Dead: Outbreak On A Plane, at home: a decent enough, if completely unrealisitc, b-level zombie flick (you just don't shoot away on a plane, you just don't) that I imagine could have gone to theaters if it had bigger stars. The most recognizable face here is Erick Avari, the other actors having seemingly been taken from a "poor man's" file: we have the poor man's Nathan Fillion, the poor man's Julian McMahon, the poor man's Cameron Richardson, the poor man's Kristen Bell, etc....