Movies in a thread

[Good Intentions]

After loving it as a teenager, I eventually came to the opinion that the script is rather sophomorish. But that there is a film that nailed it's aesthetic, that's for sure.

[Greg Nog]

Blade Runner's pretty great!  I saw Inception this weekend, and liked it.  My favorite part, though, was probably how sharp Joseph Gordon-Levitt looks in his nice suits.

[Maaik]

A guy I know wrote a review of Inception which includes the following:

[...]Inception is one of the best movies I have ever seen, even considering the porno genre. I guess a porno of Inception  would have to be called “Insertion”. And the tagline would be “An idea isn’t the only thing he’ll put inside you.” Don’t steal my porn movie spoof idea, pornographers!

[G.C.R]

Man, I'm sure I'll be in the mood for Inception some day, but Nolan sure irritates me a lot of the time. I quite liked the big wallowy mess that was The Prestige, (Bowie! Tesla! Bowie as Tesla!  ) but Nolan sort of inadvertently summed himself up in the dvd interview. paraphrasing, he said something like, "This film is interesting because film makers are like magicians, it's all about trickery and illusion and taking your audience in." Dude. That's not a characteristic of film makers. That's a characteristic of you. Not all filmmakers are trying to con their audience as much as you are, or set out to try and make films that strive to be smarter than their audience by dint of "gotcha!"- style twists and tricks. Watching films would be a universally chastening and eventually patronising experience if all film making was like that.
Sometimes i don't mind watching films like that though, and find things in them other than the feeling of manipulation. Its the exact same for me with Haneke.

[diesel_powered]

Someday I might see Inception because I like Christopher Nolan and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, but right now I just can't get over the fact that it looks like a remake of Dark City and the promotional materials mention The Matrix.

[Good Intentions]

I just watched 42nd Street, quite some years after GCR first showed it to me. And you know what? That's a grand, grand movie.

[Anne the Man]

YESSS
 

[clare]

Someday I might see Inception because I like Christopher Nolan and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, but right now I just can't get over the fact that it looks like a remake of Dark City and the promotional materials mention The Matrix.

Here they mention that and James Bond in the same breath! Though the bloke was saying he'd quite like to see it, as he is a fan of both.

[Anne the Man]

I went to The Runaways today. It was alright. Dakota Fanning was good. Even Kristen Stewart was alright, and goddamn they are a) are mad hottt and b) look like their characters. And they can sing! Jesus, I wouldnt've thought Dakota Fanning had it in her. But dang, it felt like that movie could've been much more fun than it was. The point of rock n' roll movies is that you come out of them feeling pumped and ready to pick up a guitar and go. (Which I did, but that's more because I've been feeling that way in general lately cos of my friend's band being rad.) NOT enough band camaraderie scenes. Lita Ford got to be her angry self briefly, and they introduced Sandy West, but it didn't say what happened to them after. Hmm. It was okay.

[reebty]

Has The Room been discussed in a previous Movies thread?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368226/

It'd be the worst movie ever made if it wasn't so entertaining for all the wrong reasons. Film students should be made to study it and identify all the ways in which it's thoroughly inept. It's as if a Martian came down to Earth, studied human relationships for two weeks and then made a movie about it.

[Greg Nog]

I often say to the cats "You guys are TOO MUCH!" in the style of Michelle.

And speaking of terrible (possibly hilarious) movies, has anyone seen "After Last Season"?  I remember being somewhat amazed by the trailer, but I can't imagine it has the steady WTF-ness of The Room.

[coldforge]

Hence your delightful catchphrase, 'Yes... I've never been to that town, but I've been through it.'

[Greg Nog]

"They've got printers in the basement you can use"

[davy]

I watched Fletch last night. It was pretty fun. What a god damned soundtrack, though. And by "soundtrack" I mean "that one cheesy synth riff over and over again."

[G.C.R]

I think tonight I will watch Horror movies! What are good horror movies that my incredibly crappy loval video store may have? Can you guys recommend something?
I'll get out several, and i think one thing i will get will be Army of Darkness, because i haven't seen it in a blue moon

[davy]

Puppetmaster!

[Thermofusion]

The Passion of the Christ

[G.C.R]

I have seen Passion, and I'm not sitting through that again! Will see if they have Puppetmaster. I watched Army of Darkness last night, and should have remembered that the guys i knew when I was 18 who LOVED it were sort of jerks, and the doucheyness of this movie is unparalleled. And that it is mostly one long, pretty boring battle scene (though the twenty minutes or so of Bruce Campbell by himself onscreen just screaming are sort of funny.)
Then I watched Gremlins 2, just for fun. I hadn't seen it since I was 11, when it seemed pretty scary. I recently watched Tremors, which I hadn't seen since I was about 13, which also scared me at the time a little. I was surprised with both films that even as an adult I still find them actually pretty suspenseful. Not scary, but dang I was totally absorbed with both of them, and fell for every single make-you-jump obvious set up. Quality!
And Whit, if you are lurking: I also have waiting at home for me what will be my very first Jess Franco film (Vampyros Lesbos - is this an ok place to start?). The boyfriends response was: "Huh. Nudity. Ooh! R18! It might even be good nudity!"

[davy]

For a non-ludicrous recommendation, I've heard House of the Devil (2009) is really excellent. They've got it streaming at Netflix, but I've been too creeped out to try it.

[G.C.R]

Good, good. It is so hard tojudge what is going to be a good horror and what is going to be just appalling and unwatchable - the packaging is pretty much universally lurid, so I rarely break out into new territory with the genre much these days (Oh hmm a Cronenberg i haven't seen! I'll just get that! And watch Dark Water again!) )

[davy]

The House of the Devil has a pretty sweet poster.

[Ignatius]

I have watched many horror movies and I have never established any real objective criteria by which to recommend them. Bad movies are so often good horror, and I couldn't explain why I liked a thing if you asked me. If you want something ludicrously silly and cheesy, you should keep an eye out for Phantasm.

I watched Saw III once in a hotel room, and that was awful but not at all in a redemptive way.

Really, we should get the Editor in here or milly as they're the resident experts. Ah_pook, too, I think.

[jebreject]

Saw Inception tonight. A lot of really cool stuff, especially the no-gravity fight scenes and when the dream worlds would start to fall apart. I liked Joseph Gordon Levitt (mostly 'cause I want to marry him) even if he was a bit one-note. The comedic moments were all pretty good, and the acting was good minus Ellen Page who is pretty bad in general. Some really clunky dialog, but the real kicker was inconsistent and often nonsensical internal logic and whole big parts of the plot that really didn't make sense at all.

[Ah_Pook]

the house of the devil is top notch, yea. the first like hour and a half of that movie is fucking perfect. it loses it a little at the climax, but not enough to spoil the movie.

also i will take this moment to recommend Night Of The Creeps, which finally came out on DVD not too long ago.

[Ah_Pook]

the real kicker was inconsistent and often non-nonsensical internal logic and whole big parts of the plot that really didn't make sense at all.

anything specific?