Movie Reviews thread =D

Turbo D · 12/07/2007, 10:54 PM

THis thread is for movie reviewing. Here you dudes can tell of good and bad experiences. I guess I'll start.

So I bought the Doom movie at walmart last night for $7.50. THis movie sux; don't buy it. It has nothing to do with any of the games in the series, especially doom3; which is supposed to be based on. Ya, I want my $7.50 back, lol. Anyways they twisted around the story so bad that it just seems like some lame movie. Oh well.

nat · 12/08/2007, 12:12 AM

I saw Doom in the theatre and I think I am one of the 2 people in the world that actually liked it. It's tough making a movie out of a video game because there are all sorts of expectations of what it should be like, and everyone's got their own ideas.

I didn't regret paying the 8 bucks or whatever to see it on the bigscreen, and it entertained me for the hour and a half I was there. I'll probably buy the DVD some day. Yeah, it's no Oscar winner, but it's "fun."

Keranu · 12/08/2007, 01:19 AM

House Guest (1995, starring Sinbad and Phil Hartman) - A cheesy mid-90's comedy flick where the vibrant and goofy Sinbad pretends to be someone else in order to stay with Phil Hartman's rich, yet psychologically disfunctional, family to avoid getting killed by the mafia because of a money scandle. Lots of funny ghetto moments and a bizarre fascination with cheese burgers.

OldRover · 12/08/2007, 02:46 AM

I have the DOOM movie and I could give a rat's ass whether or not it follows any of the existing DOOM storylines. The movie is bloody and violent, with lots of neat weapons and a really cute female co-lead. What's not to like?

Turbo D · 12/08/2007, 02:51 AM

I enjoyed all the violence and sexy ladies

Kitsunexus · 12/08/2007, 02:57 AM

Army Of Darkness sucks. The end.

TR0N · 12/08/2007, 04:40 AM

Quote from: Kitsunexus on 12/08/2007, 02:57 AMArmy Of Darkness sucks. The end.

Say hello to my boomstick

nat · 12/08/2007, 05:23 AM

I like the Evil Dead series. Even the first two movies have a kind of cheesy humor about them, but Army of Darkness is just over the top. I mean, they went way too far. It's like a self-parody. I still like the movie to a certain extent, but I enjoy the first two to a much greater degree.

Joe Redifer · 12/08/2007, 05:37 AM

The Day After Tomorrow

It is an awful movie! I was hoping everyone would die quickly so the movie would just end. But nooooooo.....

First off am I the only one who has a hard time telling the difference between Toby McGuire and Jake Gyllenhaal? They both suck.

Spoilers:
First of all, the CGI in this movie was unwiped-ass quality. They definitely farmed a lot of the effects work out to the lowest bidder. The people who did the tornadoes (probably an effects house in India) have obviously never seen a tornado before. The fact is that The Wizard of Oz has a more realistic looking tornado BY FAR, and that movie is older than the projection equipment generally used at film festivals (ie: older than the planet Earth). The tornadoes here seem fatter at the bottom, have little or no debris clouds, and move exceedingly slow. My guess is that German director Ronald Emmerich told the people in India "We need you to make computer tornadoes for us! Tornadoes are basically funnels of wind or something. Achtung!"

Then there are the wolves who just happen to be wandering around a frozen New York City. How they survived the massive tidal wave that went through the city is beyond me. Obviously they enter a huge Russian tanker which has somehow floated down the narrow streets of NYC to chase Spider Man and his amazing super-friends. What the group doesn't realize is that these wolves can't actually hurt them because they are incredibly fake-looking CGI. Maybe they are running away because they hate bad graphics? That must be it. Why don't the wolves freeze? They've obviously been outside for a very long time. Also where did the huge tanker go at the end of the movie? It's not by the library. It's just gone! And as you look at the wide shot above the library at the end, you see that there was no way the tanker could have ever have gotten there in the first place. That makes me gaseous.

Then there are the sappy side stories which amount to nothing at all. I don't care if Toby McGuire/Jake Gyllenhaal has feelings for the smart chick. She's actually not very smart at all. She knows enough to heat Toby/Jake/Spider-Man up when he comes out of the water, but she's too much of a dip shit to do anything about a giant gash on her leg. She is a stupid whore and she deserves to die. And while I think the 30-something asian lady in the movie is indeed desirable material, the way the young guy looked back at her as he was leaving and the way she looked at him almost made me puke up pizza bits. And what is up with the homeless guy's dog? SHUT UP ALREADY! Ronald Emmerich loves having barking dogs in his movies, and they never die like they should. The scene in Independence Day where the dog narrowly escaped the explosion made me go diarrhea on my seat. Also, am I supposed to feel sad when the old guy cuts his own rope and falls down to save the other two assholes? My reaction was "Good riddance! You should have died 10 years ago you old fart!" I would have killed myself too if I were in this crappy movie. Oh! And the 3 idiots in England drinking 12 year old scotch worrying about the loo was just retarded. Am I supposed to care about them? Their contribution to the story is about as essential as picking the lint out of my belly-button before I shoot myself for having to watch this P.O.S. BUT THAT'S NOT ALL!!! There are so many side stories in this movie that you may think that some of them are commercials in a TV show. Spider Man's mom is caring for this dippy kid in a hospital bed. We are supposed to be worried and/or concerned for the kid who needs transport to some place. For some reason he can only be moved with an ambulance even though the only thing hooked up to the little bastard is an oxygen tank which could be carried by hand. Sela Ward should be frozen and thawed out when they find a cure for lousy acting.
End Spoilers

Sucks.

Turbo D · 12/08/2007, 06:14 AM

apparently if you put the doom movie in your xbox, you can play a demo of doom3. THats pretty cool, I never heard of such a cool feature!!!

Too bad I don't have an xbox

Good news though, I have doom3 on pc

termis · 12/08/2007, 06:56 AM

They Live. A pretty good late 80s B sci-fi movie starring Rowdy Roddy Piper. That alone will raise some interest with some folks.

Anywayy, it came recommended to me by my dad of all people. It's basically about roddy stumbling across a pair of shades that allows him to all these subliminal messages everywhere (such as consume, buy, marry and reproduce, do not question authority, etc), not to mention alien creatures that are all over earth.

After seeing it, I can see why my dad recommended it -- he's a socialist at heart (him and I have our differences in thought

), and this movie basically criticizes capitalism, after all.

But even without the political messages that the director John Carpenter intended, it's good as a B sci-fi movie gets. As a lot of you grew up in the 80s, I recommend it.

nat · 12/08/2007, 07:35 AM

Quote from: Joe Redifer on 12/08/2007, 05:37 AMThat makes me gaseous.

Were you able to pass it in time?

GUTS · 12/08/2007, 07:00 PM

Bullit- Awesome. Movies now suck shit compared to the 40s through the 70s.

M1Savage · 12/08/2007, 10:48 PM

I watch a lot of movies but, like my taste in music, I'm sure few will enjoy what I do. Still I'll list some that I've seen recently that I enjoyed for one reason or another.

Angel-A - I like most Luc Besson films (Leon: The Professional, The Fifth Element, etc.) so I figured I'd like this too. I did.

Paprika - nightmare of my dreams. great visuals

Inland Empire - David Lynch. Enter at your own risk.

Tekkonkinkreet - cool.

Ok, not exactly reviews, but I liked 'em.

Tatsujin · 12/08/2007, 11:04 PM

Quote from: TRON on 12/08/2007, 04:40 AM
Quote from: Kitsunexus on 12/08/2007, 02:57 AMArmy Of Darkness sucks. The end.
Say hello to my boomstick

best parody of ever. be smart.

Tatsujin · 12/08/2007, 11:11 PM

Quote from: thumpin_termis on 12/08/2007, 06:56 AMThey Live. A pretty good late 80s B sci-fi movie starring Rowdy Roddy Piper. That alone will raise some interest with some folks.

i love it and watch it periodicaly (as most of the greater carpenters > the fog, princes of darkness, the thing, snake plisken...). when i watched the movie the first time, i was kind of dissapointed that not russel could took over the main role. but that's now about 18 years ago, and in the meantime roddy became the best fitting actor for this specific movie just possible.

rag-time4 · 12/08/2007, 11:46 PM

Quote from: GUTS on 12/08/2007, 07:00 PMBullit- Awesome. Movies now suck shit compared to the 40s through the 70s.

Great call! Bullitt was a great mystery. I was totally fooled the first time through!! Also, did you catch the part when the Congressman wanted the black doctor replaced because he was "too young and inexperienced"??

When I first saw it I thought that character was being a total racist, but the second time I saw it, it seemed like the Congressman was more concerned that the doctor was colluding with McQueen's character.

What are your thoughts, if you remember the part I'm talking about?

rag-time4 · 12/08/2007, 11:55 PM

Robocop: Who is he, what is he, where does he come from?

What many people see as a special-effects showcase with little substance, to me, is one of the most politically explosive movies I've ever seen.

Robocop takes a major shot at the capitalist system and western society in general, by showing how big business and private enterprise do not ensure a healthy or safe society.

Totally my favorite movie as a kid. When I first rented it, I watched it over and over until it was time to return it. It's still up there as a favorite.

The Thomas Crown Affair (Steve McQueen original version): Very unique among McQueen's movies.. this is one of the few films where the "king of cool" really loses control of his emotions and laughs out loud!

This movie was really quite deep in a spiritual sense, and it was another politically subversive movie as well. McQueen's character was very wealthy are a result of his currency arbitrage activities.... but was spiritually unfulfilled. He organizes a bank robbery and ends up getting mixed up in a love affair with the female insurance investigator who is on his case!

I never thought there would be a movie I would enjoy as much as I enjoyed Robocop but this one is it. I've seen the remake as well but being a McQueen fan I have to go with the original!!! (Also, the ending was very different)

NecroPhile · 12/09/2007, 01:15 AM

The last three movies I sat through:

300 - shit with annoying narration, junk CGI, and half of it's in slow-mo
Transformers - shit with decent CGI
American Pie Naked Mile - shit, but funny shit with boobies

All in all, about six hours of my life that I ain't getting back.

Turbo D · 12/09/2007, 01:31 AM

at least there were boobies

Sinistron · 12/10/2007, 10:12 AM

Quote from: m1savage on 12/08/2007, 10:48 PMPaprika - nightmare of my dreams. great visuals

Inland Empire - David Lynch. Enter at your own risk.

Tekkonkinkreet - cool.

Paprika is on my Christmas wish list. Been dying to see it.

Inland Empire I saw at the NY Film Festival- Lynch was there and answered questions. When I first saw him I turned my head and he was in this little balcony spot looking exactly like the lady with the weird hair in the Club Silencio balcony in Mullholland Dr. Anyway Lynch is my favorite director- I'm not an apologist- some of his stuff is trash but I feel that there's a handful of complete masterpieces there.

I saw Teekonkinkreet over the weekend and fucking loved it.

Are these reviews only about DVDs? Last couple of movies I saw in the theatres was No Country for Old Men (similar in ways to Fargo- only much better and more hopeless) and The Mist. The Mist was enjoyable- but I couldn't help feeling that if it was on the Sci-fi network I would have thought it was incredible. Then again- I probably would have said "wow! this is good enough to be in theatres!" I would have been wrong. CGI is pretty bad. The first creature looks the worst - the cgi in Dreamcatcher was better. Not a big Thomas Jane fan either. There are however- some shout-outs (I counted five) to The Dark Tower series. Recommended only for King geeks.

guyjin · 12/10/2007, 11:48 AM

Robocop is very populist considering it was made in the regan era.

However, the anti-japanese subtext bothers me a lot. (or was that the second movie?)

Sinistron · 12/10/2007, 01:56 PM

Nothing sweeter though than Indy bringing it back home for '08.

NecroPhile · 12/10/2007, 02:04 PM

Quote from: Sinistron on 12/10/2007, 01:56 PMNothing sweeter though than Indy bringing it back home for '08.

Except that Ford's 108 years old. I still have my hopes up, but I really don't want to see Indy with a walker and wearing Depends.

Kitsunexus · 12/10/2007, 02:12 PM

Quote from: m1savage on 12/08/2007, 10:48 PMPaprika - nightmare of my dreams. great visuals

YES! I have wanted to see this for quite some time.

Turbo D · 12/10/2007, 02:38 PM

Quote from: guest on 12/10/2007, 02:04 PM
Quote from: Sinistron on 12/10/2007, 01:56 PMNothing sweeter though than Indy bringing it back home for '08.
Except that Ford's 108 years old. I still have my hopes up, but I really don't want to see Indy with a walker and wearing Depends.

he's probably going to be computer animated

rag-time4 · 12/10/2007, 02:48 PM

Quote from: guyjin on 12/10/2007, 11:48 AMRobocop is very populist considering it was made in the regan era.

However, the anti-japanese subtext bothers me a lot. (or was that the second movie?)

The one with the Japanese corporation was Robocop 3.

The first 2 dealt only with the American OCP corporation.

NecroPhile · 12/10/2007, 03:16 PM

Quote from: turbo D on 12/10/2007, 02:38 PMhe's probably going to be computer animated

Mwuhahahahaha!

Joe Redifer · 12/10/2007, 06:27 PM

Indy's face in that poster looks like his dentures aren't in. Serious!

GUTS · 12/10/2007, 07:31 PM

Yeah my feeling through all of Bullit was definitely that the Congressman was up to no good, but that's only because the actor that played him ALWAYS plays the corrupt asshole politician type character, hah. I really liked how they left the mystery partially unsolved at the end to keep the realism, it was great to see it end up like I assume most real detective work does.

You guys really liked Tekkonkonkrit or whatever its called? Man that was the worst animation I've seen in ages. Fucking awful character design, a story that made no sense whatsoever and never went anywhere, and everybody's motives were flimsy at best. The writing was horrible, the story was lame and boring (not to mention leaving TONS of unexplained occurrences), and if it wasn't for the really good CG backgrounds I'd say it had the worst animation since those old Hannah Barbera cartoons.

Kitsunexus · 12/11/2007, 02:49 AM

RE: Tekkonkinkreet: I am scared at night that those characters will jump out and eat me. THEY'RE JUST TOO FREAKY!

Also, Escape From New York and Escape From L.A. are WONDERFULLY AWESOME movies, with the latter having a kickass remix of the former's theme song.

_{► /downloads/Escape from LA.mp3}

M1Savage · 12/11/2007, 10:03 AM

Should be interesting to hear what you guys think of Paprika after you've seen it. I have a feeling it's gonna be a real love it or hate it type of thing. I thought that the character designs in Tekkonkinkreet were at least interesting in that they were different than similar movies. I will agree that at first I thought the animation was a little weak though by the end of the movie I didn't care.

On a totally different note, watched Superbad the other day. Thought it was pretty funny.

nat · 12/11/2007, 11:36 AM

Superbad is one of the funniest movies released in a long, long time. To be completely honest I thought it was going to be one of those stupid high school movies that relied on tits and ass and lame attempts at humor that, more often than not, failed.

What I found instead is a movie that actually has a hint of intelligence and some of the funniest character moments ever to grace movies as we know them. The humor was spot-on and hit the ball out of the park nearly 100% of the time which is more than you can say for it's contemporaries. I've seen it twice now and I bought the DVD the day it was released.

Superbad is like a Jenga tower. If you remove just one piece, the whole thing could fall apart.

GUTS · 12/11/2007, 01:26 PM

Superbad was awesome. I also loved Hot Rod- the fight dance scene was the closest I've ever come to literally pissing myself laughing, I thought I was going to fucking die. I think I'm wired to find fight dancing incredibly awesome, I just finished watching Flight of the Conchords and the episode where Bret fight dances out his anger had me in tears.

nat · 12/11/2007, 01:34 PM

Funny that you mention that, because we just rented and watched Hot Rod last night. It had it's moments, but I liked Superbad better.

Kitsunexus · 12/11/2007, 01:36 PM

Quote from: m1savage on 12/11/2007, 10:03 AMShould be interesting to hear what you guys think of Paprika after you've seen it. I have a feeling it's gonna be a real love it or hate it type of thing.

From what I've seen on Youtube, I love it. I hope some company releases an English dub of it here.

GUTS · 12/12/2007, 08:37 PM

Its out on Blu Ray this month, I have it on my netflix list, so I assume there's a DVD out too. Is it not dubbed or something? I always watch anime subtitled anyway, but I know some people like dubs too. I thought they did dual jap/english audio on all anime DVDs now.

M1Savage · 12/12/2007, 11:10 PM

Paprika is out on both Blu Ray and regular DVD here in the USA but I watched it subtitled so couldn't tell you about the dub. The special features are pretty interesting on the dvd too. I did find this list of features for the Blu Ray disc on the animeondvd website -

* Japanese 5.1 TrueHD Language
* English 5.1 TrueHD Language
* Chinese (Cantonese) 5.1 Language
* Chinese (Mandarin -Taiwan) 5.1 Language
* French (Parisian) 5.1 Language
* Portuguese (Brazil) 5.1 Language
* Spanish (Latin Am) 5.1 Language
* Thai 5.1 Language
* English Subtitles
* Tsutsui and Kon's Paprika: A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Paprika with novelist Yasutaka Tsutsui and director Satoshi Kon
* A Conversation about The Dream: Director Satoshi Kon novelist Yasutaka Tsutsui and voice actors Megumi Hayashibara and Toru Furuya talk about production of Paprika
* The Art of Fantasy: A look at the art direction with Art Director Nobutaka Ike
* The Dream CG World; A look at the cinematography and computer-generated world of Paprika with cinematographer Michiya Kato

As for Superbad, I know a guy we've now nicknamed "McLovin" because he acts so much like the kid in the movie.

Kitsunexus · 12/13/2007, 02:23 AM

Quote from: m1savage on 12/12/2007, 11:10 PMPaprika is out on both Blu Ray and regular DVD here in the USA

YES. I will find this.

Sinistron · 12/13/2007, 10:37 AM

Just saw the 1973 Fantastic Planet for the first time last night. I highly recommend it - as long as you go in knowing that the ending is ludicrously abrupt and cheap. The animation is great- looks like Dali meets Gilliam meets the old Star Trek cartoons. It was funny- while watching it my girlfriend screamed out- "that guy has a penis slung over his shoulder!", replaying the scene- in which a bunch of humans (or Ohms) are standing around debating- sure enough one of the guys standing there had what appeared to be a big penis slung over his shoulder. Highly unusual to say the least.

Kitsunexus · 12/13/2007, 03:35 PM

Quote from: Sinistron on 12/13/2007, 10:37 AM"that guy has a penis slung over his shoulder!"

He's probably just like me, no pants will fit his enormity.

Kitsunexus · 12/20/2007, 08:57 PM

Crank, was for lack of a better word, FUCKING AMAZINGLY AWESOME. I am so glad I bought that.

Final Fantasy: Spirits Within is actually pretty good too, even though it has NOTHING to do with Final Fantasy. I wonder if that's the only reason people dump on it so much, taken outside the Final Fantasy context it's a great movie, much like how the Mario Bros. movie is a great movie when you forget it's based on Mario. Also I forgot it had Steve Buscemi in it! HE RULES.

I haven't watched Advent Children yet, that's for tommorrow.

GUTS · 12/20/2007, 10:05 PM

Just watched Paprika today on blu-ray (awesome transfer, looked incredible) and it was amazing, I didn't know it was by the guy who did Millennium Actress so I was pleasantly surprised when I found out. I need to rent Tokyo Godfathers next, I had no idea he did that one too until I saw the ad in Paprika.

Turbo D · 12/20/2007, 10:13 PM

blu-ray kicks ass! Spiderman in 1080p is freaking lifelike dudes

Kitsunexus · 12/21/2007, 12:01 AM

Quote from: GUTS on 12/20/2007, 10:05 PMJust watched Paprika today on blu-ray (awesome transfer, looked incredible) and it was amazing, I didn't know it was by the guy who did Millennium Actress so I was pleasantly surprised when I found out. I need to rent Tokyo Godfathers next, I had no idea he did that one too until I saw the ad in Paprika.

Screw that dude, it's by the Cowboy Bebop/Trigun people, of course it's good!

MissaFX · 12/22/2007, 12:42 AM

Quote from: m1savageShould be interesting to hear what you guys think of Paprika after you've seen it.

I felt like I was watching a Ghost in the Shell story, but without the well written monologues. It's not that I dissliked it, but I just felt like the ground had already been covered. It's well animated though.

Kitsunexus · 12/22/2007, 12:44 AM

Quote from: Missa on 12/22/2007, 12:42 AMI felt like I was watching a Ghost in the Shell story, but without the ~~well written~~ boring monologues.

Fixed.

GITS is good for cool gunplay and robot titties, and that's about it.

Kitsunexus · 12/22/2007, 02:09 AM

OK, Final Fantasy Advent Children for the most part was a good movie, but the ending...

=SPOILERS=

OK, so they're in a church, Cloud wakes up in a lake inside the church (being born again) and then he baptizes a little kid while Barret says "PRAISE THE LORD!". After this, Cloud notes that he will no longer be alone.

I mean, come on, you should have had Aeris nailed to a fucking cross, for a movie that caters to the Buddhist idea of a "life-stream" for 95% of the flick, it's weird to see all these Christian overtones come out of the woodwork from nowhere.

Spirits Within was almost as bad with the Scientology shit, but it wasn't as obvious, only in hindsight do you realize what they were trying to say.

So what we have is two great movies marred by religious agendas. It doesn't have to be that way, you don't have to preach anything to make a good movie, hell Crank was a FUCKING FANTASTIC movie and all it preached was "LOOK THERE'S THIS GUY WHO WILL DIE IF HE DOESN'T STOP DOING CRAZY SHIT, SO LET'S MAKE HIM DO CRAZY SHIT!".

Theoretically, I could edit Advent Children to start from the scene when the three androgynous Sephrioth clones enter the city and end when he kills Sephrioth, and I'd have the best CGI movie ever made, and it would fit on a CD-R to boot. I think I might do that.

rag-time4 · 12/29/2007, 12:47 AM

Just got done watching Rush Hour 3.

It was deliciously cheesy. At first, the cheesiness bothered me, but when I got used to it, I had a lot of fun. It's a fun movie.

When it was all over, I had a smile on my face, so for anyone who liked the first two and who likes cheesy movies and cheesy humor I would have to recommend it.

My favorite thing about the series is the Chinese/black dynamic... it's something that really should be explored more often, with other types of characters from each side.

Ceti Alpha · 12/29/2007, 01:01 AM

QuoteJust got done watching Rush Hour 3.

It was deliciously cheesy. At first, the cheesiness bothered me, but when I got used to it, I had a lot of fun. It's a fun movie.

I hear ya. I'm not generally into those kind of movies, but I'm a sucker for the Rush Hour series. I'm definitely going to check that one out.

I just watched AVP:R the other night. I had low expectations going in so I wasn't too disappointed. Some of the action/fight scenes were pretty cool, but the human characters just got in the way of the fight scenes. It would have been OK if the human character scenes actually helped to move the plot, but that wasn't the case.