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Ruiner wrote:Birdman

Fantastic. Dark and hard to swallow at times. Essentially about an actor who is only famous for his big, popcorn film franchise void of any substance. Essentially about the dread of being a nobody but being appalled by what it takes to be a sometime with a lot going on between the lines. Every actor in this gives a stellar performance. One thing i really enjoyed is that the entire film is intended to look like one seamless shot. The camera just follows the actor after a scene almost floating behind them and into another room to the next scene that is already going on.

8/10

have you ever seen the behind the scenes work on Children of Men? i just saw something on it the other day. AMAZING how they did some of those scenes in one take/minimal CGI. check out the special rig for the car scene.

Y0UNGBL00D wrote:

Ruiner wrote:Birdman

Fantastic. Dark and hard to swallow at times. Essentially about an actor who is only famous for his big, popcorn film franchise void of any substance. Essentially about the dread of being a nobody but being appalled by what it takes to be a sometime with a lot going on between the lines. Every actor in this gives a stellar performance. One thing i really enjoyed is that the entire film is intended to look like one seamless shot. The camera just follows the actor after a scene almost floating behind them and into another room to the next scene that is already going on.

8/10

have you ever seen the behind the scenes work on Children of Men? i just saw something on it the other day. AMAZING how they did some of those scenes in one take/minimal CGI. check out the special rig for the car scene.

I haven't, i'll have to check it out.

The other movie that comes to mine where the camera is almost a presence and the whole floating seamlessly thing is Enter The Void..... now THAT'S a tough film to swallow. I thought it was fantastic but people i recommend it to either love it or hate it with all their being, no in between

Enter the Void is a 10/10 for sure

note to self: need to watch enter the void, apparently.

Y0UNGBL00D wrote:note to self: need to watch enter the void, apparently.

YMMV.

It's VERY artsy and independent. I loved it, but i would easily understand how people could HATE/DESPISE that movie.

Had to add it to the queue. I tend to love the polarizing movies. A lot of times I think they trip people's brains and make them think in ways they don't normally, and thinking makes a LOT of people angry.

nightflameauto wrote:Had to add it to the queue. I tend to love the polarizing movies. A lot of times I think they trip people's brains and make them think in ways they don't normally, and thinking makes a LOT of people angry.

It's a thinker for sure. Lots of time floating around....

atrox wrote:

Y0UNGBL00D wrote:note to self: need to watch enter the void, apparently.

YMMV.

It's VERY artsy and independent. I loved it, but i would easily understand how people could HATE/DESPISE that movie.

yeah having looked it up, i already know that i will have to save it for when i am in the right mindset for it, to give it its fair chance at an appreciative audience.

John Wick-6/10

Stylish, plenty of violence, plot is fuckin flat. Was $5 movie night so whatever. A few funny moments; the bit with the cop cracked me. Go on cheap movie night and don't expect poetry, or just wait for it on cable or Amazon.

Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie 7.5/10

No idea how I can describe it. If you like their shows on adult swim, you'll like this for sure. Lots of weird shit the entire time.

John Wick.... solid 8/10.... great action shoot um up movie....

Traffic. It was released in 2000 but I purchased the Criterion Collection version which has a bonus disc and was released later. I've never been a fan of Micheal Douglas (his voice makes me cringe) but it's such a good movie I was able to get beyond that. I have to admit Micheal D. did a fine job.

This was recommended to me by ebay based on my previous purchases. They're batting 2/2 so far. Nice feature.

It's all about getting drugs from Mexico to the US and all that goes along with it. 8/10.

Pain & Gain- -/10 I couldn't watch it.

I made it like maybe 30 minutes into it before I just say "Screw it, I don't care about this at all" and shut it off.

Awful. I mean, I wasn't expecting greatness seeing as it stars Marky Mark & The Rock, but there's bad and then there's bad. The Rock had only been in it for like 5 minutes when I gave up. Was expecting dumb action movie and maybe it becomes that, but I can't handle slow starting dumb action movies. It was very much typical Michael Bay "Big build up!" going on and I just didn't care about what was happening.

Good lord man, your scripts SUCK* just get to the freaking point and spare me the pretense that you are anything but a summer blockbuster hack.

I didn't realize it was a Michael Bay movie until I tried watching it.

Notice I didn't rate it as I can't say I really gave it a chance. Maybe it turns into a decent entertaining film, I don't know. I'm highly doubting it though.

*Also, I realize Bay isn't the writer, but he is the director and or producer often and he can take what might have started as a decent script and destroy it. Remember, this is the man that gave us Pearl Harbor one of the worst atrocities to make it to film.

**OMG Transformers 5 is in pre-production? WTF? WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE?

Isn't that the one that's "based on a true story", but the story is that the guys who are the movie's heroes were actually a couple of roid raged out gym rats who ended up murdering several wealthy clients as part of a plan to steal their money and are now serving life sentences? Seems like a weird group to pick as your protagonists.

ShaneV wrote:Isn't that the one that's "based on a true story", but the story is that the guys who are the movie's heroes were actually a couple of roid raged out gym rats who ended up murdering several wealthy clients as part of a plan to steal their money and are now serving life sentences? Seems like a weird group to pick as your protagonists.

Yup.

Its supposed to be a "black comedy" which are hit and miss for me anyway (I didn't realize this going into it). And a Michael Bay directed black comedy starring Marky Mark and The Rock is just as bad as you'd expect.

But then, I generally dislike shows and movies where I don't like any of the characters and while I didn't get to know the Rock's character marky mark's was just an awful meathead moron. The 3rd guy was equally obsessed with getting huge and was also a complete moron. Apparently it gets really sadistically violent and I'm now even happier I gave up on the POS.

John Dies At The End. 9.75/10 Great fucking movie. Horror comedy. I may have brought this one up before...I don't know. I love this film. It is great!

Also: Total Recall (1990) Ahnold is Ahnold. Still stands pretty well after so many years.

John Dies at the End was great! A lot like Tucker and Dale vs. Evil, great horror comedy.

Army of Darkness 10/10 - My favorite of the Evil Dead series. It has the best special effects and animations of any movie ever made.

muscle shoals was pretty cool. had no idea so many records came out of there. but for simple lack of watchability factor on the account that is a pretty chill music doc, we'll go 6/10

watched a tad bit of the through the never thing metallica did, and skipped through. pretty cleverly done concert dvd. bt its metallca. so we'll go 5/10

ShaneV wrote:Isn't that the one that's "based on a true story", but the story is that the guys who are the movie's heroes were actually a couple of roid raged out gym rats who ended up murdering several wealthy clients as part of a plan to steal their money and are now serving life sentences? Seems like a weird group to pick as your protagonists.

Just read the 3 part story in the Miami Times. Couple of these guys got the chair and most of the rest are still in prison. This was the most deranged thing I've read in months. People, man.

Snowpiercer - 7/10. Solid post-apocalyptic sci-fi flick and pretty twisted in places.

Anyone see Interstellar yet? I keep hearing rave reviews

Gunslinger wrote:Snowpiercer - 7/10. Solid post-apocalyptic sci-fi flick and pretty twisted in places.

I fucking loved that movie

Jack Reacheround - 8/10

It was well put together, some holes, good action, sexy lady. Although Tom Cruise is a huge cock, he can executive produce himself a part in which he is the fucking man. It was enjoyable and more than I expected, though it's probably more like a 7 as a movie, mostly because, no tits.

white house down happened to be on tv last night lol

knew itd be shitty and cheesy, but was a little surprised at how good certain parts were (action choreography in certain brief moments) and how shittier than expected some of the parts were (CGI everything WTF...guess they wasted their budget on A-listers)

expected a 3/10, got a 4.5/10

spawnofthesith wrote:Anyone see Interstellar yet? I keep hearing rave reviews

I want to, very much. There is no real chance that it could suck, all things considered.

SuperFlyinMonke wrote:Jack Reacheround - 8/10

It was well put together, some holes, good action, sexy lady. Although Tom Cruise is a huge cock, he can executive produce himself a part in which he is the fucking man. It was enjoyable and more than I expected, though it's probably more like a 7 as a movie, mostly because, no tits.

As distracting as all the extraneous TC-tabloid crap is; the truth is he can make a damn good movie. I will say he has made far more films that I like than ones that I hate. Looking at his IMDB and there are really only a few that are total

Haunter 7/10

Caught this on Netflix as it was recommended on some random FB post about horror films with interesting writing angles. It was nothing original but the premise was a cool flip on the standard ghost story with some solid performances. If you dig ghost stories with more of a thriller/mystery vibe; check this one out.

I wish I was here - 1/10 snooze-fest. I actually enjoyed Garden State, but this was just bad.

Mr Jones - 1/10 - Just stop already.

That last X-Men movie - 7/10. Dug it

Rosemary's Baby - Still a 10/10. One of my all time faves. Have seen it maybe 20 times, would watch another 20.