[QUOTE=jaykray;34666646]People come in here and say things like:
"Rocky 8/10" or "Star Trek 9/10"
and no one complains. Don't act like it's his review that's annoyed you.[/QUOTE]
I haven't seen the movie, but I can tell when people put no effort into reviews.
The sole reason I post reviews is to tell the minority who might be interested.
Please guy's, continue your thread. I don't wanna be a bother.
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[QUOTE=AK'z;34666710]I haven't seen the movie, but I can tell when people put no effort into reviews.
The sole reason I post reviews is to tell the minority who might be interested.[/QUOTE]
No effort in reviews? How about those critics that use puns to make the review?
Anyone seen The Seventh Seal?
[QUOTE=AK'z;34666729]Anyone seen The Seventh Seal?[/QUOTE]
No.
If you watch it you'll be the first person in history.
[QUOTE=AK'z;34666729]Anyone seen The Seventh Seal?[/QUOTE]
Haven't seen it but it's always recommended by people online.
[QUOTE=Rocko's;34666713]Please guy's, continue your thread. I don't wanna be a bother.
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No effort in reviews? How about those critics that use puns to make the review?[/QUOTE]
Hey, puns are perfectly valid for reviews. Especially for bad movies.
You guys remember that review of [i]Spider Hole[/i] I did on the last thread? It was chock full of poor puns and creative analogies - mostly because if I tried to keep it dead-serious the review would almost have been as boring as the film itself. Almost.
[QUOTE=AK'z;34666729]Anyone seen The Seventh Seal?[/QUOTE]
I saw like the first five minutes but then I realized I really wasn't in the right mood to watch it
[QUOTE=OutOfExile2;34666796]I saw like the first five minutes but then I realized I really wasn't in the right mood to watch it[/QUOTE]
exact same thing happened to me. Supposed this "symbolic death" story.
A Clockwork Orange - 7.5/10
Production value's high. The surreal feel is well done, you can tell a lot of attention to detail went in to it.
[QUOTE=Rocko's;34666455]
Which Star Trek film is good based on you guys opinions? HBO has most of them on Comcast's On Demand for free.
[/QUOTE]
The Wrath of Khan
The Search for Spock
The Voyage Home
Undiscovered Country
First Contact(just barely, the story is decent but by God did they get the characters wrong)
Star Trek XI
Milk
10/10
my Clockwork Orange dvd is broken.
fuck
[QUOTE=UnidentifiedFlyingTard;34668169]my Clockwork Orange dvd is broken.
fuck[/QUOTE]
my copy of Clockwork Orange on Video Cassette broke my Video Player.
:(
[QUOTE=AK'z;34668396]my copy of Clockwork Orange on Video Cassette broke my Video Player.
:([/QUOTE]
Now that's hardcore.
[B]Martha Marcy May Marlene[/B] - 9/10
Absolutely beautiful movie in both it's cinematography and performances. Really slowly paced but I like that. It also had one of the most abrupt ambiguous endings ever.
[B]The Woman in Black[/B] - 8/10
Expected a cheesy scare movie, which it is, but it also has a very good plot (being based on a classic novel helped in that regard). Seriously though it's pretty damn scary, probably the best of this kind of movie where things jump out at you. I saw it in a packed theatre and most of them were screaming bloody mary every time something happened.
[B]The Muppets[/B] - 8/10
Dave Grohl is in it. Need I say more.
[QUOTE=TheFilmSlacker;34668361]L.A Noire- 9/10
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Hey, it was a very theatrical experience. It was shown at Sundance, I believe. That's good enough for me.[/QUOTE]
I'm actually playing that right now. Nearing the final homicide case. Does it get better?
Begotten(1991)- I don't even think I can give this movie a rating lol
It's some kind of experimental, weird, I dunno it's not really fitting into any normal genre or anything. Kind of a surreallist horror I guess? But it definitely doesn't have the air of a horror film at all, more of an expressive kinda experimental type thing. There's zero dialogue, the only sounds are like footsteps and the moaning of Son Of The Earth and God Disembowelling Himself, as well as like squishing sounds from violence. Music's only used towards the beginning and to close (except that the credits are silent), but there's a constant sound of crickets. After watching the film I read a synopsis on what it's about since the whole film is massively symbolic and very clever actually. But I think the problem with it is that while it's attempted to be symbolic and still subtle, you just cannot pick it up unless you read it, although now that I know what it means I can understand everything.
It's not a horror despite being full of violent and disturbing imagery and a creepy atmosphere. There's very graphic violence in it, for instance the first few minutes of the film is the God character disemboweling himself with a straight razor right in your face, there's blood and guts and rape, but it's not really done in a scary way. It just kind of happens.
Also, the filming was really weird, lots of strange angles and shots, I have the feeling this was just done to create an atmosphere but at the same time it may just be amateur things because this was the director (E. Elias Merhige)'s debut. For instance there are lots of shots that just go on and on, for instance when the hooded figures attack the Son of Earth on the altar and it goes for an overhead shot as you see him writhing and they pull him away, it just lasts so long, the same for when you watch the people dismembering the Son and Mother- it's all done in one long handheld shot with occasional extreme closeups and stuff. And the whole thing is shot in really overexposed black and white reversal film.
If you want to watch it I'd say read what it's about so you actually know what's going on because otherwise you'll just be like "uh what" so I'm gonna watch it again later on now knowing what it's about and I feel I could be able to pick up what happens and the symbolism and shit happening. I actually really really like the concept but it's just SO cryptic you literally cannot pick it up unless you read a synopsis.
I can definitely see lots of people finding this mind numbingly boring as well, I wasn't really bored but I did check the time once or twice, I was actually fascinated by the whole thing, not so much drawn in but the atmosphere was very strange and I was just watching trying to understand.
[QUOTE=mikeyt493;34669291]Begotten(1991)- I don't even think I can give this movie a rating lol
It's some kind of experimental, weird, I dunno it's not really fitting into any normal genre or anything. Kind of a surreallist horror I guess? But it definitely doesn't have the air of a horror film at all, more of an expressive kinda experimental type thing. There's zero dialogue, the only sounds are like footsteps and the moaning of Son Of The Earth and God Disembowelling Himself, as well as like squishing sounds from violence. Music's only used towards the beginning and to close (except that the credits are silent), but there's a constant sound of crickets. After watching the film I read a synopsis on what it's about since the whole film is massively symbolic and very clever actually. But I think the problem with it is that while it's attempted to be symbolic and still subtle, you just cannot pick it up unless you read it, although now that I know what it means I can understand everything.
It's not a horror despite being full of violent and disturbing imagery and a creepy atmosphere. There's very graphic violence in it, for instance the first few minutes of the film is the God character disemboweling himself with a straight razor right in your face, there's blood and guts and rape, but it's not really done in a scary way. It just kind of happens.
Also, the filming was really weird, lots of strange angles and shots, I have the feeling this was just done to create an atmosphere but at the same time it may just be amateur things because this was the director (E. Elias Merhige)'s debut. For instance there are lots of shots that just go on and on, for instance when the hooded figures attack the Son of Earth on the altar and it goes for an overhead shot as you see him writhing and they pull him away, it just lasts so long, the same for when you watch the people dismembering the Son and Mother- it's all done in one long handheld shot with occasional extreme closeups and stuff. And the whole thing is shot in really overexposed black and white reversal film.
If you want to watch it I'd say read what it's about so you actually know what's going on because otherwise you'll just be like "uh what" so I'm gonna watch it again later on now knowing what it's about and I feel I could be able to pick up what happens and the symbolism and shit happening. I actually really really like the concept but it's just SO cryptic you literally cannot pick it up unless you read a synopsis.
I can definitely see lots of people finding this mind numbingly boring as well, I wasn't really bored but I did check the time once or twice, I was actually fascinated by the whole thing, not so much drawn in but the atmosphere was very strange and I was just watching trying to understand.[/QUOTE]
Is it better than Eraserhead. That's the question.
The ending to L.A. Noire sucks so much dick.
[QUOTE=AK'z;34669615]Is it better than Eraserhead. That's the question.[/QUOTE]
I can't say since I've not actually seen Eraserhead, but from what I can tell there's a lot of similarities. I might watch Eraserhead now since I do have it.
It just felt so rushed, like they thought "oh fuck we haven't thought of the ending yet just [sp]make him die yeah that'll work[/sp]".
The ending's already been slightly spoiled for me, I know the final outcome, but I'm enjoying the journey. For some reason I feel like I'm missing things, characters come up that I'm sure haven't been introduced but they act as if they have. I accidentally skipped one of the "Cole's war past" videos so that might be the problem (the one where kelso's, I think, family were due to visit)
[QUOTE=mikeyt493;34669648]I can't say since I've not actually seen Eraserhead, but from what I can tell there's a lot of similarities. I might watch Eraserhead now since I do have it.[/QUOTE]
it's pretty messed up too. I think it's Lynch's best.
Yeah so I hear. I loved The Elephant Man, it was way better than I was expecting actually. Amazing movie. not seen any of his others but I hear Twin Peaks and Blue Velvet are fantastic.
[QUOTE=mikeyt493;34669291]Begotten(1991)- I don't even think I can give this movie a rating lol
It's some kind of experimental, weird, I dunno it's not really fitting into any normal genre or anything. Kind of a surreallist horror I guess? But it definitely doesn't have the air of a horror film at all, more of an expressive kinda experimental type thing. There's zero dialogue, the only sounds are like footsteps and the moaning of Son Of The Earth and God Disembowelling Himself, as well as like squishing sounds from violence. Music's only used towards the beginning and to close (except that the credits are silent), but there's a constant sound of crickets. After watching the film I read a synopsis on what it's about since the whole film is massively symbolic and very clever actually. But I think the problem with it is that while it's attempted to be symbolic and still subtle, you just cannot pick it up unless you read it, although now that I know what it means I can understand everything.
It's not a horror despite being full of violent and disturbing imagery and a creepy atmosphere. There's very graphic violence in it, for instance the first few minutes of the film is the God character disemboweling himself with a straight razor right in your face, there's blood and guts and rape, but it's not really done in a scary way. It just kind of happens.
Also, the filming was really weird, lots of strange angles and shots, I have the feeling this was just done to create an atmosphere but at the same time it may just be amateur things because this was the director (E. Elias Merhige)'s debut. For instance there are lots of shots that just go on and on, for instance when the hooded figures attack the Son of Earth on the altar and it goes for an overhead shot as you see him writhing and they pull him away, it just lasts so long, the same for when you watch the people dismembering the Son and Mother- it's all done in one long handheld shot with occasional extreme closeups and stuff. And the whole thing is shot in really overexposed black and white reversal film.
If you want to watch it I'd say read what it's about so you actually know what's going on because otherwise you'll just be like "uh what" so I'm gonna watch it again later on now knowing what it's about and I feel I could be able to pick up what happens and the symbolism and shit happening. I actually really really like the concept but it's just SO cryptic you literally cannot pick it up unless you read a synopsis.
I can definitely see lots of people finding this mind numbingly boring as well, I wasn't really bored but I did check the time once or twice, I was actually fascinated by the whole thing, not so much drawn in but the atmosphere was very strange and I was just watching trying to understand.[/QUOTE]
Christ, I want to watch that but I don't think my emotions are in the right place at the moment. Even looking at the screenshot on the wikipedia page made me feel shitty
[QUOTE=mikeyt493;34670172]Yeah so I hear. I loved The Elephant Man, it was way better than I was expecting actually. Amazing movie. not seen any of his others but I hear Twin Peaks and Blue Velvet are fantastic.[/QUOTE]
Some might hate me, but I didn't feel Blue Velvet all that much. It's a rare time when I say it's pseudo-artsy expression. And I like Terence Malick so I'm a hypocrite. :)
[QUOTE=strayebyrd;34670258]Christ, I want to watch that but I don't think my emotions are in the right place at the moment. Even looking at the screenshot on the wikipedia page made me feel shitty[/QUOTE]
When you feel like it the whole thing's on youtube in one video, worth watching for sure. I'm gonna have to watch it again at a later point. It's been going over in my head and I think it might have actually been great
[QUOTE=AK'z;34670270]Some might hate me, but I didn't feel Blue Velvet all that much. It's a rare time when I say it's pseudo-artsy expression. And I like Terence Malick so I'm a hypocrite. :)[/QUOTE]
I thought Blue Velvet was highly enjoyable both for its story and the way in which it unfolds, and its more personal and expressive elements.
Lynch has this way with moods, genres and ideas, where he can mix and combine radically different concepts into a single cohesive and often exceptional whole, and I felt Blue Velvet was the perfect example of that.
To each their own tho.
[QUOTE=Conundrum02;34670623]I thought Blue Velvet was highly enjoyable both for its story and the way in which it unfolds, and its more personal and expressive elements.
Lynch has this way with moods, genres and ideas, where he can mix and combine radically different concepts into a single cohesive and often exceptional whole, and I felt Blue Velvet was the perfect example of that.
To each their own tho.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, it might sadden people for me to experience that kind of thing.
It's just that when you're shown these interpretations, it seems copycat and unaffective.
Compared to the "Three Colours" trilogy, where there is a lot of expression with colour, it adds tone to the scenes. With Blue Velvet, it kind of misses the point and makes the colour meaningless for me.
Just be glad I'm not calling it overrated. :downs:
Tucker and Dale vs. Evil - 8/10
It was sort of predictable at times, but really funny nonetheless. I expected it to be darker, but it was really much more of a gorey comedy than a funny horror movie.
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