Seen any good movies lately?

[Panda Tar]

Thought so. I believe I'll have to watch Lost to ease my soul.

[Muszka]

But you'll Lost(lose) your mind meantime...

[darknessfood]

Well, went to the cinema (that word cinema is gonna be populair soon, later on more about it, yeah this is an official teaser ) and me and my girl picked 'meet the Spartans' well, it's an AWESOME movie, and a complete copy of 300 storywise. Really funny, you should go see it...

[Caradoc]

Three recent movie viewings:


There Will Be Blood. DDL was fantastic and the story was pretty compelling. Unfortunately the movie fell apart a bit in the last 30 minutes, but overall definitely worth a viewing. The best of the 2008 Best Picture nominees by far (so far). A-

I agree. Great direction and art direction. The flashforward at the end was most unsatisfying.

You should also see No Country for Old Men.

[Metathron]

I thought Day Lewis was the only good thing about There Will Be Snoring.

[Corribus]

You should also see No Country for Old Men.

It's on my queue.

[Corribus]

Watched War with Jet Li. Actually, not bad as far as your standard action fare is concerned. If nothing else, it had a few plot twists that I didn't see for once coming a million miles away. A decent rental for a rainy day. Solid B.

[Muszka]

No country for Old man is very special/strange movie. It requires some taste. But for psycho wannabes is a must.

Watched War with Jet Li

I didn't like Jet's movies, except for 'Romeo must Die'. All the others were to chic.

[ThunderTitan]

GO SEE IRON MAN YOU UNDESERVING CURS... that is all.


ps: wait until the credits are over, there's an extra i missed because i went with other people... stupid socializing...

[Kalah]

There are rumours circulating that MacGyver is returning for another movie...

[Sir William S Titan]

GO SEE IRON MAN YOU UNDESERVING CURS... that is all.


ps: wait until the credits are over, there's an extra i missed because i went with other people... stupid socializing...

Seen it. And did wait for the post-credit extra. Plus, I went with others. Though, luckily they are ones that wanted to watch the little extra as well.

[Corribus]

stupid socializing...

Funny, you don't seem like the socializing type. You know, misanthropy and all.

[Corribus]

Jason Statham is sort of a guilty pleasure of mine. I'm not sure why. His movies aren't exceptionally good. But I like them for sort of the same reason I liked the Arnold and van Damme movies back in the early 90s. They're action movies and they don't try to be anything else.

That said:

In the Name of King Of course, being a video game movie by none other than Uwe Boll, who has made some of the worst movies in the history of movies, according to almost unanimous opinion of critics, I wasn't really expecting much. And it's a good thing, because the movie was, taken as a whole, pretty bad. The movie is an interesting specimen, however, because there is potential underneath all the dirt. There just happens to be a LOT of dirt. The acting was pretty bad all around; Burt Reynolds can barely move his face anymore because of all the plastic surgery he clearly has had; most lines are delivered with either no emotion or way too much emotion; Ron Perlman, an action movie staple, had almost none of his characteristic sarcastic wit; Ray Liotta is particularly poorly cast. Some redemption is to be found in John Rhys Davies and Brian White, who plays Commander Tarish. Costumes were strange because while in some cases they were pretty good, in other cases they look like costumes I might have made for myself for Halloween back when I was six. Ray Liotta plays a wizard who stomps around for most of the movie in a black leather jacket with the collar turned up. The action elements were equally bad, with action coreography (and creatures!) that looked like something out of Xena Warrior Princess. Special effects were OK but clearly low budget. It goes on.

But strangely enough, the movie ends up being more than the sum of its (admittedly awful) parts. Not enough to be good, mind you, but somehow I didn't feel like it was an unmitigated disaster. While this movie was basically a horrible LotR knockoff, there were still some neat ideas. Such as the wizard duel. Also, some of the cinematography was absolutely gorgeous, and the those visuals alone kept me watching to the (predictable) end. Taken as a whole, the movie is passable, though just barely. However, you can't help but feel that the movie might have been good, had it had any budget whatsoever to work with. D

[Corribus]

The Mist.

I admittedly went into this one with rather low expectations. Yet, while I'd give the special effects about a mediocre 5/10, the movie was suprisingly good. And not as a horror flick. There's a lot of interesting food for thought buried beneath what on the surface might appear to just be another B-level horror/gore movie. Think Lord of the Flies. Yes, the creatures outside aren't a whole lot to look at, but the real monsters in this movie are the humans. B+

[jeff4815]

I saw a really creepy movie last night with my friends called "Fronteire" (some French movie with bas subbing in English) which I, when I started watching it, thought it would be one of those crazy French martial arts films. It turned out to be like Hostel except MUCH more effective and with less emphasis on gore, so a GOOD 'Hostel'.

[Metathron]

The Mist.

I admittedly went into this one with rather low expectations. Yet, while I'd give the special effects about a mediocre 5/10, the movie was suprisingly good. And not as a horror flick. There's a lot of interesting food for thought buried beneath what on the surface might appear to just be another B-level horror/gore movie. Think Lord of the Flies. Yes, the creatures outside aren't a whole lot to look at, but the real monsters in this movie are the humans. B+

Phew, thanks for that, Corribus.

I was excited to see this film, as I tend to be with anything that has something to do with Stephen King, but then two of my friends told me it was really bad and I sort of postponed my viewing of it, not being psyched about watching something bad. I'll definitely check it out.

For some reason, most Stephen King stuff that's adapted for the big screen is very low budget (films based on Dean Koontz novels even more so) but that doesn't bother me in the majority of cases.

Have you seen Storm of the Century? This is definitely one of my favourites of King's.

And while we're at it, what about Dean Koontz's Black River? Don't expect to be dazed by any special effects, but I thought the story was captivating.

Recommended!

EDIT: One Stephen King movie I can say I outright disliked was Rose Red. Blah.

[Caradoc]

My quick takes on the King movies:

Apt Pupil -- thought provoking
Boogeyman -- trash
Carrie -- classic
Carrie 2 -- why bother
Children of the Corn -- hilarious but lost me somewhere around #4
Christine -- just bad
Creepshow -- would have been a good TV series
Cujo -- silly
Dark Half -- incomprehensible
Dead Zone -- one of the worst movies ever made
Deloris Claiborne -- go back to horror, Stevie
Dreamcatcher -- great first 3/4 of movie, comic ending
Firestarter -- Carrie again
Graveyard Shift -- pointless
Green Mile -- another pathetic attempt to go mainstream
It -- I don't get 'It'
Langoliers -- his worst
Lawnmower Man -- no, this is his worst
Mangler -- forgot about this one, even worse than LM
Maximum Overdrive -- forget that 2nd career as director
Misery -- well named
Needful Things -- Shameful Thing is more like it (poor Max)
Night Flier -- Vamps on a Plane
Paranoid -- based on a poem?
Pet Sematary -- love Fred Gwynn
Pet Sematary 2 -- they should have at least corrected the spelling
Rose Red -- 6 hours of pain
Running Man -- Arnold was good. Richard Dawson was brilliant.
Salem's Lot -- not worth a sequel
Secret Window -- Depp's worst
Shawshank Redemption -- slow start, happy ending
Shining -- the reason we go see this other crap
Silver Bullet -- nice twist on werewolf
Sleepwalkers -- better than Sominex
Sometimes They Come Back -- but you wish they didn't
Sometimes They Come Back Again -- arg
Sometimes They Come Back For More -- aieeeee
Stand -- 8 hours of nothing happening
Storm of the Century -- if you loved the Stand...
Thinner -- fun with CGI
Tommyknockers -- Traci Lords' best movie (non porn)

I may have missed some, but I need to go throw up now.

[Metathron]

Well, you've definitely seen lots of King-based movies, and I can agree with some of your sentiments...buuuut, I gotta ask, do you like his books? Because even if the movie stank (and a lot of the time this is the case) chances are the book will be pretty good, at worst.

Cause I can't see why you'd think Dolores Claiborne, Misery, Green Mile, The Secret Window and The Shining, at least, are not good/solid movies?

As for IT, you shoulda seen that as a kid, woulda stuck with you more. Gotta hunch that woulda been impossible to arrange, though. The book is still my favourite of all his works.

But ha-ha! y'ain't seen one movie that I have: Hearts in Atlantis. Hard to say where the story was supposed to be going, but I enjoyed it for some reason.

[Caradoc]

I watch a lot of movies, especially on cable. And even his bad ones can be the best thing on so I find myself watching.

My complaint about King's movies and also his books is that they usually have only a short story's worth of ideas and tons of padding. (You can say the same about M. Night Shamaylan.) I've read six or seven of his novels and can't say any were worth the time. On the other hand his short story collections were enjoyable.

I won't go into those others, but I should say that I thought the first Shining was a great picture, one of Kubrick's best. Nicholson at the top of his game, Shelly Duvall, Scatman Crothers -- how could it not be?

[Muszka]

Indeed many King movie there, some i didn't even know that are adaptations of his books, like Running Man - man I do liked that when I was a kid.
A couple of months ago I watched The Green Mile, and liked it.
But I find it weird that you speak so thin of Shawshank Redemption That movie is awesome.