Movie Review Thread

[lesbiaphrodite]

It's been out on DVD for a while now, but if you haven't seen 'The Brave One,' starring Jodie Foster, you should check it out. Great vigilante movie.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Don't know. But I thought I'd link this thread from a year ago as a reference in case anyone was interested.

What are some if the best small movies you've seen

Cool, thanks Jomar...thought we had a thread like that somewhere.......I don't care what your alt says, you're ok.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

It's been out on DVD for a while now, but if you haven't seen 'The Brave One,' starring Jodie Foster, you should check it out. Great vigilante movie.

Omg...I have that one, just didn't watch it yet....now I must!

 

[slyc_willie]

I'm in the same place on that one...

...oh, and I am of the opinion that "Blasts from the past" should be allowed but not take over the thread... I'd like to continue focusing on recent releases to either the theatres or DVD, because we just don't have that here...

Yes they are!


and Shaun of the Dead.........fabulous and funny.

Don't know. But I thought I'd link this thread from a year ago as a reference in case anyone was interested.

What are some if the best small movies you've seen

Thanks for the link, Jomar.

The only reason I considered older ones was because all this thought of movies has made me think of some of my favorites when I was growing up. So, with Abs' encouragement:

Cousins

For whatever reasons, this is my favorite romantic comedy of all time. Ted Danson and Isabella Rosselini star as cousins through marriage who begin an affair and eventually fall in love. Sean Young as Ted's wife plays the part of the apologetic wife perfectly, and William Petersen (Gil Grissom on CSI) as Rosselini's jealous, philandering husband is pretty good, too. But I have to hand it to Lloyd Bridges in this film, and to the kid who plays Ted's son.

One of my favorite pieces of music comes from this Angelo Badalamenti film. Overall, it has a 'feel good' quality with a happy ending.

Jacob's Ladder

On the other end of the spectrum . . . this movie freaked me out when I first saw it. Not just the abrupt and shocking special effects, but the way the story flips back and forth between two different realities. You're never sure of what's really going on until the ending, when the truth is revealed. Tim Robbins displays incredible talent in this film, and I've always loved Danny Aiello.

Best watched with the lights off.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

Not a zombie movie, but Disturbia (Shia LaBeouf, David Morse, Sarah Roemer, Carrie-Anne Moss) is an excellent and well done little thriller.

You mean "Rear window for youngins," right?

 

[lesbiaphrodite]

If in the mood for the truly offbeat and hilarious, check out "Look Back in Angora," about the life of Ed Wood. Also, see any of Eddie's old films, especially 'Jail Bait.' Always a romping good time to be had with the lovely Mr. Wood.

 

[jomar]

I'm still partial to 28 Days Later. Still haven't seen the sequel, though. I get a little wary when Hollywood gets hold of a good cult film.

It's worth watching. I enjoyed it.

 

[jomar]

Cool, thanks Jomar...thought we had a thread like that somewhere.......I don't care what your alt says, you're ok.

Ha! And you're welcome.

 

[jomar]

You mean "Rear window for youngins," right?

I hadn't thought of it that way, but now that you mention it...yeah.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

This is interesting:

http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/10mosthistoricallyinaccurate.html

 

[jomar]

This is interesting:

http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/10mosthistoricallyinaccurate.html

Thanks a lot. Now I'll be surfing that site all night.

 

[rgraham666]

2001: A Space Odyssey
According to this film, in year 2001 we would have had manned voyages to Jupiter, a battle of wits with a sentient computer, and a quantum leap in human evolution. Instead we got the Mir Space Station falling from the sky, Windows XP, and Freddy Got Fingered. Apparently the lesson here is that sometimes it's better when the movies get the facts all wrong.

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[TheeGoatPig]

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I'm late again...

 

[CrimsonMaiden]

Horton Hears a Who: Cute movie for the kiddies with some jokes that only adults will get. It stays pretty true to the Suess book as well, so that makes it score points in my book.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

Just saw The 300. Very testosterone filled, very full of cheesy one liners, and very good fun

Why don't any of these stories from history (embellished or otherwise) ever have happy endings?

 

[PrincessErin]

Someone was reading my mind. I was thinking of starting a thread like this.

I saw Vantage Point last week. Very interesting story line although the first part shows the same scene over and over again which is pertininent to the storyline but annoying just the same. The ending leaves you with a headache since you have to think back to the whole movie to understand exactly what happened.

I also saw Juno when it came out. It was a fantastic movie and would go see it again. I know individuals say that it glorified teen pregnancy but it didn't. It was very realistic. I truly enjoyed the relationship between Jason Bateman and Jennifer Garner (the couple adopting the baby). It really demonstrated the stress of infertility and for someone who has dealt with that it was heartbreaking.

I rented I Am Legend but haven't watched it yet.

Erin

 

[Equinoxe]

Why don't any of these stories from history (embellished or otherwise) ever have happy endings?

Because history is basically a record of humanity's collective misery. It's hard to have a happy ending to a story about people killing each other for trivial reasons.

 

[Trombonus]

If you haven't seen it yet, I strongly recommend going out and renting the movie Once. It's one of the best movies I've seen in a while. The whole experience just felt so real, like we were watching a true story unfold before our very eyes. It's about a struggling musician in Dublin, Ireland who meets a young woman that pushes him to follow his dreams. The story follows their semi-romance and the choices they make regarding their futures. It's an amazing movie.

I also rented Knocked Up, The Simpson's Movie and Superbad. Knocked Up and The Simpson's Movie were hilarious. Superbad not so much.

 

[Belegon]

If you haven't seen it yet, I strongly recommend going out and renting the movie Once. It's one of the best movies I've seen in a while. The whole experience just felt so real, like we were watching a true story unfold before our very eyes. It's about a struggling musician in Dublin, Ireland who meets a young woman that pushes him to follow his dreams. The story follows their semi-romance and the choices they make regarding their futures. It's an amazing movie.

I also rented Knocked Up, The Simpson's Movie and Superbad. Knocked Up and The Simpson's Movie were hilarious. Superbad not so much.

I own Once and Knocked Up and love them.

The thing about Knocked Up that everyone seems to overlook is the message underneath all the laughter. The person that stays true to her? The one everyone treats as a waste and a bad influence.

 

[Trombonus]

I own Once and Knocked Up and love them.

The thing about Knocked Up that everyone seems to overlook is the message underneath all the laughter. The person that stays true to her? The one everyone treats as a waste and a bad influence.

As soon as I have a little more money I shall also own both.

And yeah, I agree about what you said regarding Knocked Up.

You know what really made me smile when I watched it? The part during the end credits where they showed all the pictures of the cast either as a baby or with their babies. It made my soul smile.

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

I love Ellen Page. Her performance in Juno was truely awesome. Loved the language and attitude ("Hey, I'm talking on a Hamberger. Give me a minute.") From the opening credits of her characterized cartoonishly, drinking Sunny D to the tender, revelation ending was wonderful. The movie rates #2 in my book.

Waking Ned Devine is still #1. Love the blackness of the humor in that one.

 

[rgraham666]

I saw 300 a couple of months ago, and it made me laugh.

First to hear Spartans talking about freedom, extolling it, is hilarious. Sparta was a really nasty military dictatorship. They no more cared about freedom than Saddam Hussein did.

And I haven't seen such overwrought imagery since the last Riefenstahl movie I watched. All the good guys were, well, guys. They were all beautiful and apparently not all that interested in women. The one 'good' woman slept with the enemy. The bad guys were all twisted monsters in some way, their evil clearly visible on their form or face. The bad women complete sluts.

As I said, hilarious. A live action cartoon.

 

[OhMissScarlett]

The very idea of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind squicked me out big time.

I don't think I'll ever watch that one.

I had to think a bit to recall the last movie I saw. It was 30 Days Of Night.

And it kinda sucked. Basically a George Romero movie with vampires instead of zombies. The vampires were out of control freaks without a single redeeming feature, not even a decent sense of humour. The characters were pretty much too stupid to live. Not a single one thought of making a flamethrower or Molotov cocktails.

Not recommended.

Agreed. It could have been a great movie. The worst was that there wasn't enough of a backstory to make anyone in the film interesting at all. Oh, and the vampires were so boring. Where did they come from? How did they get here? *snore*

 

[rgraham666]

Agreed. It could have been a great movie. The worst was that there wasn't enough of a backstory to make anyone in the film interesting at all. Oh, and the vampires were so boring. Where did they come from? How did they get here? *snore*

How did the vampires manage to survive as long as they did considering how out of control they were? A couple of weeks of the madness they indulged in and everybody in the world will know there are such a thing as vampires, that vampires are less than benign and we'd better hunt the vampires down and kill all of them right now.

Like a disease that kills everyone it infects, the vampires in this movie couldn't last long.

 

[OhMissScarlett]

The last two I saw were Atonement and Sunshine.

Atonement was amazing and sad at the same time. I loved it, but then again, I love heart-wrenching epic dramas.

Sunshine was one of those movies where you think "Uh-oh, no good can come of this," at the very beginning of the movie and it just gets more and more fatal in every scene. That's Danny Boyle for you. It wasn't 28 Days Later in space and it was a little slow in parts, but the characters are good and wondering if they were gonna save the world was enough to keep me watching.