Movies you've recently watched

[Savonarola]

Saw the Academy Award Nominated Shorts at the Detroit Film Theate  Through the miracle of the interwebs all of them, except the new Wallace and Grommit Cartoon (A Matter of Loaf and Death) are available:

French Roast:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mwLwkwR0yQ
Granny O' Grimm's Sleeping Beauty:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIDv1jJhoxY
La Dama y la Muerte:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dt47iqLBfU
Logorama http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/02/09/watch-the-oscar-nominated-short-film-logorama/

My personal favorite was A Matter of Loaf and Death; but they were all well worth watching.

[Ed Anger]

Freejack- WTF. A very odd early 90s sci-fi set in the nasty far future Japanese dominated, super rich-poor segregated 2009. Some guy from 1991 who should die in a car crash is brought forward in time so bad guys can steal his body to sell it to a rich guy. Yeah. Oh. And the leader of the bad guys is Mick Jagger, who really can't act. Very strange I've never heard of this thing until recently.

If you can find it, Class of 1999 is a pretty good example of the dystopian films set in the late 20th century.

[ulmont]

Freejack- WTF. A very odd early 90s sci-fi set in the nasty far future Japanese dominated, super rich-poor segregated 2009. Some guy from 1991 who should die in a car crash is brought forward in time so bad guys can steal his body to sell it to a rich guy. Yeah. Oh. And the leader of the bad guys is Mick Jagger, who really can't act. Very strange I've never heard of this thing until recently.

I remember that one.  Not a good movie.

[katmai]

Freejack- WTF. A very odd early 90s sci-fi set in the nasty far future Japanese dominated, super rich-poor segregated 2009. Some guy from 1991 who should die in a car crash is brought forward in time so bad guys can steal his body to sell it to a rich guy. Yeah. Oh. And the leader of the bad guys is Mick Jagger, who really can't act. Very strange I've never heard of this thing until recently.

I remember that one.  Not a good movie.

Emilio!

[BuddhaRhubarb]

BigRiverMan... billed as Herzogian take on Borat. sorta. but don't let that put you off. It's a doc about that crazy alcoholic Slovenian distance swimmer who swims the polluted big rivers of the world to raise awareness of said pollution. In this he swims the Amazon, bringing his people along for the ride to crazytown. A young volunteer navigator from Michigan goes totally . Eventually they finish though. 70 odd days of swimming 50-60 miles a day in The Amazon which he finds actually isn't as polluted as they thought, excpet for all the wacky parasites that the swimmer ingests everyday.

definitely worth seeing a few times. Interesting story about a drunk, really.

old school rating 8.45 bug larvae living in your skull causing hallucinations as you swim past piranha outta 10

[Josquius]

Daybreakers- Very stupid film but fun nonetheless.
A issue though....Sure, vampires are silly from the get go. So I can forgive the whole sun and water cure.
BUT. Why the hell did they need a scientist to figure out how to replicate it? And how on earth didn't they try and use Elvis' blood for a cure? It didn't even need to be processed. Just cured vampire blood. Bloody simple stuff and a common sense thing to try- just take to mailing samples of his blood to improtant people around the country and *bam* they drink it and go human.

[Capetan Mihali]

Saw "Fish Tank" in the theater.  A very powerful British-council-estate social problem slice of life drama combined with teenage female coming-of-age, with more handheld, neo-realistic camera work than earlier films in that mode.  Highly recommended.   

[CountDeMoney]

Tears Of The Sun and Patton are both on.  Can't decide which is more fun to watch, Krauts getting whacked or Africans.

Meh, Monica Belucci is hotter than Karl Malden.

[katmai]

Tears Of The Sun and Patton are both on. 

Meh, Monica Belucci is hotter than Karl Malden.

Take that back !

[DisturbedPervert]

If you can find it, Class of 1999 is a pretty good example of the dystopian films set in the late 20th century.

One of the classics

[Vricklund]

Admiral - Russian take on a classic movie theme. It's basicly historical fiction riddled with nationalism, White Army glorification and "in God we trust". Pretty much a waste of time, unless you enjoy new-fangled russian propaganda.

State of play - Russel Crow playes the seasoned reporter investigating the murder of a young woman - a secretary to non other than an old college roommate and now congressman. For lazy viewing on a sunday afternoon it was pretty good.

[Josquius]

Dragonball Evolution- After quite a long time seeing fanboys bitch about this being the worst thing ever  I finally saw it and...wtf are they complaining about? Its a pretty average-decent film for teenage boys. You can clearly see how it links into the comics, how they've changed things around and merged characters (Piccolo/Pilaf) and its nothing particularly awful. I guess its just morons who only know dbz. Anime fanboys. Pah. Round 'em up and put 'em against the wall.

[Duque de Bragança]

Dragonball Evolution- After quite a long time seeing fanboys bitch about this being the worst thing ever  I finally saw it and...wtf are they complaining about? Its a pretty average-decent film for teenage boys. You can clearly see how it links into the comics, how they've changed things around and merged characters (Piccolo/Pilaf) and its nothing particularly awful. I guess its just morons who only know dbz. Anime fanboys. Pah. Round 'em up and put 'em against the wall.

Ségolènes also don't like that movie since it's inspired by manga (Japan) in a Hollywood way (USA)

[BuddhaRhubarb]

Damned United.

Damned good film, starring Michael Sheen as loudmouth football coach Brian Clough. Nicely crafted actors piece with very good performances all around supporting Sheen's bravura turn here. He should win some award somewhere if he hasn't already for this movie. Solid! Almost made me interested in Soccer, it was that good.

new skool rating: 

[The Brain]

Beowulf. I'm not a huge fan of feature length computer game cutscenes. More importantly I didn't understand what the movie was trying to be. I think it would have been a lot better with a rewrite or two and using the 300 style instead.