Movies you've recently watched

[BuddhaRhubarb]

"A Colt is My Passport" Familiar point of view for a Japanese noir, the hitman as protagonist. This one is good but not great. It's all a bit too low key as it tries hard to straddle that edge between comedy and noir. A truly funny noir is hard to find. This one makes a fair effort, but the actors limit themselves to deadpan. You need Japanese women to be crying more, or it doesn't seem realistic imho. :p) and it falls a bit short of being as cool as it's title. Somehow the story moves quickly, but the actors don't

6.34 "I bet that old scarred guy with sunglasses and a black trench-coat is important to the story" outta 10

[Syt]

Also watched part of Bram Stoker's Dracula on Chiller last night with the tits blurred out.

I liked that movie the first time I saw it right when it came out.  After having read the book I can't figure out how they used the same title; outside of the idea of vampires and the characters' name it was almost completely different story.

The first movie I went to see at theaters twice.

[Lettow77]

 Watched Mongol and Solaris. Mongol is a great film, and I was very pleased to find out sequels are forthcoming.

Solaris is a film I want to like, if only to pretentiously claim my tastes dont solely lie in flashy western sci-fi. But, rather than being too cerebral for me, Solaris is just flat out boring. A car driving in silence for five minutes? At what point does it stop being art, and become some sort of joke on the viewer?

Also communism.

[Admiral Yi]

Saw The Bride Wars last night.  Kate Hudson (boy she fuglied up quick) and whatshername from Get Smart are two bestest friends who end up feuding because their billion dollar weddings are on the same day.  Amazingly self indulgent movie that is basically a two hour infomercial for the wedding industry.

No reason to watch this.

[Tonitrus]

"The Illusionist"

Pretty good movie.  Though I think Paul Giamatti gave the superior performance over Ed Norton.

And even if it wasn't a good film, Jessica Biel's ass in the last scene made the time worthwhile.

[Josquius]

Surrogates- Silly when you thinK about it and it does occasionally feel a bit tv movieish (but is obviously not) but is still overall awesome.

[Capetan Mihali]

Watched "Touch of Evil" again with my free Netflix trial, per Money's inspiration, and it was sublime.  Some movies really live and die on their final punchline.  "Chinatown" is definitely one of those, and so is "Touch of Evil" for Marlene Dietrich's last words:  "He was some kind of a man.  What does it matter what you say about people?"   

[Alatriste]

Watched "Touch of Evil" again with my free Netflix trial, per Money's inspiration, and it was sublime.  Some movies really live and die on their final punchline.  "Chinatown" is definitely one of those, and so is "Touch of Evil" for Marlene Dietrich's last words:  "He was some kind of a man.  What does it matter what you say about people?"   

You had never watched 'Touch of Evil' before? It's really a great movie... IMHO the very best Orson Welles' work, even better than 'The Third Man'.

[Tamas]

Watched the 1986 Transformers animated movie. Sweet memory.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkYuK3AKrxc

Fuck yeah

YUO GOT THE TOUCH... YUO GOT DA PPOWWAAAAAAAA YEAH

pew pew pew

I annoy my friends when we play Guitar Hero since it has this song and when I am drunk I insist on singing it

[Ed Anger]

A canadian "comedy" called Intern Academy or White Coats on Comedy Central. It is a rip-off of Scrubs. Some nice tail(underwear shots) in it though. Like all Canadian shows and movies, it looks incredibly cheap.

I give it 5 Tim Horton's Pumpkin Spice donuts out of 12. Not enough Dave Foley though.

[KRonn]

"The Illusionist"

Pretty good movie.  Though I think Paul Giamatti gave the superior performance over Ed Norton.

And even if it wasn't a good film, Jessica Biel's ass in the last scene made the time worthwhile.

Good one, I liked that movie.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

Watched "Touch of Evil" again with my free Netflix trial, per Money's inspiration, and it was sublime.  Some movies really live and die on their final punchline.  "Chinatown" is definitely one of those, and so is "Touch of Evil" for Marlene Dietrich's last words:  "He was some kind of a man.  What does it matter what you say about people?"  

You had never watched 'Touch of Evil' before? It's really a great movie... IMHO the very best Orson Welles' work, even better than 'The Third Man'.

Urban myth

Sir Carol Reed directed Third Man.

Welles was there for less than two weks of the 6 week shoot. he did rewrite his dialogue a fair bit, but that was part of hiring Orson, he did that no matter who hired him.

[Grey Fox]

A canadian "comedy" called Intern Academy or White Coats on Comedy Central. It is a rip-off of Scrubs. Some nice tail(underwear shots) in it though. Like all Canadian shows and movies, it looks incredibly cheap.

That's because it is. They make movies with 4-5 millions.

I think the record budget for a Quebec movie is like 7 millions.

[Scipio]

Coraline.

Pretty decent, although the 3d at home effects were shit.

[Josquius]

Inlgorious Basterds- This should have been the best thing ever but it was merely alright.There was very little of the basterds actualyl going around slaughtering Germans; that was just bacstory, which is odd. And dissapointing. I wanted a cool OTT action fest. Pitts accent = , with the Italian too.