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Mulholland Drive
Seriously, is there any way to understand it the first time you see it? I liked where the movie was going, but then suddenly it got very very weird and I can't see how they tried to explain it.

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Seriously crulsettesy? Seriously?

Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 2

Quite good though it really did feel like the second half a movie. The epilogue was...weird. Felt like kids dressed up pretending to be adults.

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The Social Network

Well acted, and very well directed. But without the brilliant editing the story is actually pretty dull.

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Some leftovers I saw over Halloween weekend...

Trollhunter:

I'd been meaning to see this for a while. It's very silly but I really enjoyed how sincerely it is played. It's funny, but not directly played for campy laughs. I liked it a lot.

Dead Snow

This was also pretty great. I liked the Evil Dead homages and some of the hammy cliche moments. Didn't take itself too seriously while still having some brutal kill scenes. Pretty good blueprint for an enjoyable horror film.

The Fog

I had heard a lot about this one and was kind of disappointed. The story is just really weird and told in a strange way. John Carpenter wasn't at his best between Halloween and The Thing...

Submarine

This one is not horror related of course! Director Richard Ayoade has been dubbed "the British Wes Anderson" and it kind of makes sense when you look at the style of this movie. Not super original in a lot of ways. Maybe a cross of Rushmore and The Squid and the Whale, but not quite as good. I still liked it.

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Maybe I took it way too serious, because I never saw what was so funny about it... I just loved the suspense, the atmosphere and the realistic take on fairy tales.

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I think the last part of your sentence is what made it kind of funny to me; "a realistic take on fairy tales." Just the idea of this gruff, gritty "trollhunter" talking about things like "Ringlefinches" and their traits, along with the veterinarian studying them is just kind of silly, but in a charming way that worked for the movie.

I liked it, but it gave me a couple of good chuckles I guess, but not in a bad way.

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Don't forget the soundtrack! Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.

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Green Lantern
The story was just soooooo simple and boring, don't like it

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Back to the Future Parts I, II, & III
Took me long enough to finally get around to watching these. So good.

The Shawshank Redemption
Good, but not #1 at IMDb good.

Wristcutters: A Love Story
Really enjoyed this one. Surreal, quirky, and quite funny at times.

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Blazing Saddles
Some good bits but overall didn't love it. Too Luny Tunes-ish for me and did not care for the end. Felt way out of place.

Win Win
Really quite good. Writer/director of The Station Agent and The Visitor. Both of which I liked. He also co-wrote....Up. I did not know that. And it stars Paul Giamatti. That automatically ups the rating.

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I just saw War Horse. It was quite good, I enjoyed it quite a bit. Probably my favorite Spielberg movie since The Terminal. (I know Munich was a great film but it just wasnt really my cup of tea, and War of the worlds was only OK. )

Also, the music in War Horse is great. John Williams is like super old but hes still got it.

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I'm so envious of you. I'd love to watch these movies for the first time again.

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Oh if only you knew how many of these sort of movies I've missed out on. Never saw the first three Star Wars in their entirety either.


Super 8
Really liked this. Didn't even need the alien bit. Great kid actors. The lens flare was fricking distracting though. Almost made me turn it off in the beginning. It's that bad.

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Watched Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol last night. Really fantastic action movie.

Also saw Super 8 a few days ago - the characters in that movie (the kids) really made the movie.

Favorite line: "He's too stoned!"

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Seen a movie called Rubber. The trailers just looked too bad, had to watch it. It ended up not being too horrible.. but maybe because of my low expectations :)

(If you're going to watch these trailers, watch them in the order I put them)

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Tucker and Dale vs Evil
Such a fun movie. Had me smiling throughout the entire thing.

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The Inbetweeners Movie
Pretty funny with no shortage of awkward moments. Was like watching a longer episode with better production values. The character actually mature somewhat rather than continue to be caricatures of themselves as they had become. A nice way to end the show.

True Grit
Pretty gritty. Truly it was.

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Shattered Glass
Really good movie. I had no idea what it was about and I really liked it. 7.5/10

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Apocalypse Now
Eh...ok I guess. I got it mixed up with Full Metal Jacket and kept expecting the drill sergeant scene.

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War Horse

Found a copy online. Pretty good. Beautifully shot, and you kind of know exactly what's going to happen, but it's definitely well done. Maybe a little too long and it's not something that will stick with me as super memorable, but it was fine .

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I bet the horse dies at the end.

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I'm watching the 2 Star Wars trilogies with neighbours (2 girls had never seen them). We're doing them in this order: 4,5,6,1,2,3
Yesterday it was time for Episode I. Some creatures speak a weird language and we hadn't loaded any subtitles... and the creepy thing was that I was able to translate pretty much all of it. Just out of memory. That's what you get when you watch it more than 5 times?

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Its not 2 trilogies, its a sextilogy.
And you watched episode one more than 5 times?
You brave soul, I could barely make it through the first time.

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The battles are pretty amazing.

And I'd rather see them as 2 separate trilogies. They're so different. We actually had a huge discussion with the girls about the large difference in style. They pointed out it makes no sense that the fighting style of 4/5/6 is slower than in 1/2/3. We did our best defending the SW lore, but in the end it comes down to the difference in film styles.

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Shutter Island - 2nd time through and I'm only halfway. The film charms with is use of dream colours and the frantics. Scorsese pretty much made double metaphors out of everything in this film.

Charade - Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn. Her flutter eyes and Grant's humour make this an enjoyable romp through 1963; mock feminist fun.

Bobby Fischer Against the World - Pseudo doc on THE chessmaster. I would read up thoroughly on Fischer before taking the slant of this film. Exceptional children and the role of media. Interesting case study.

Monkey Business (1952) - Early Monroe and Grant comedy. Funny/silly
Which reminds me I never got all the way through Monkey Business (marx bros). Sooo funny.

A Night in Casablanca (1946) - This marx bros movie was pretty good. Some pretty good laughs.

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Fargo
Fine. Seemed a little weird to introduce the hero so far in. Guess she would have just been going about normal police work before things went down, being a true story and all, rather than tie in some other way.

The Fighter
Quite good. Always love Christian Bale when he's not dressed as a bat. The rest of the cast weren't half bad either.

Horrible Bosses
Not a good movie. It appeared to have potential at first but came off as disjointed. It was probably due to having watched the extended version though. Could see a bunch of things that should have been cut. Either way, a lot of the jokes fell flat for me. But hey, two cameos from The Wire.

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I saw Johnny English Reborn a few weeks ago. Don't watch it, it's terrible. :( It's trying hard to be funny, but it just doesn't work.

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Saw The Chronicle over the weekend. Pretty good movie, and pleasantly short. Not a lot of filler.

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Fargo is one of my favorite movies ever. As with most of the Coen brother films...it is really just a black, black comedy with some hilarious social commentary and interesting people on screen. Also, the cinematography is OUTSTANDING. There are a couple of long shots out on the highway that are just spectacular.

I'm a film and music geek...and I would put Fargo in my top 100 for sure. Easy. The music is outstanding too:



William H. Macy is awesome too. I love that guy.



Anywayyyyy....


Moneyball - This was really good. I think it captures the spirit of sports and why people love the game. Brad Pitt is always interesting on screen, and the guy is always eating food in his movies! I swear he talks to the directors about eating food on screen. Check this out:



Brad Pitt, ALWAYS EATS FOOD IN HIS FILMS!!!!!

Rise of the Planet of the Apes - This movie did nothing for me. It didn't capture any social or racial justice like the original films, and it didn't have any particularly dark or unique twists. Other than that, it was a standard "good film." Worth seeing, probably on DVD, but I wouldn't seek it out again.

Repo Men - Terrible. This movie sucked. I think what pisses me off the most is that the ending is a carbon copy rip off of Brazil. And I'm pretty sure the "trick ending" is the only reason people are giving this movie good reviews. This is a muddled, messy, disjointed, poorly put together film that meanders, has no direction, and cannot figure out if it is Blade or some dark dystopian social commentary. Avoid this piece of crap and just go watch Brazil which is a much more interesting and funny film.

How can you NOT want to watch a movie which features this soundtrack:



But yeah. Repo Men has flashes of black comedy...flashes of horror...flashes of dystopian social commentary. But it never really unifies or pulls together one theme. The ending is a ripoff and just feels like a cheap tack-on to boost the movies "intellectual chops." The cinematography is whack. You get some close up and creepy horror shots, and Matrix/Blade style action shots. Really, just avoid this piece of crap and go watch Brazil, Blade, The Matrix, and Minority Report.

So yeah. That's my movie roundup for the night.

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Attack the Block

Really fun UK horror/thriller/comedy. I think if I hadn't ever listened to a Dizzee Rascal record I wouldn't have understood what some of these kids were saying. That said, it was charming, funny, and over quickly as it should have been.

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Ides of March - Ryan Gosling can cum all over my face. Oh, this was a pretty good thriller too.

Paranormal Activity 3 - I guess I'm a fan of the series, I saw the first two. Number two was the most terrifying, really hitting that Poltergeist note to great effect. This movie added humor and some much needed back story involving some creepy exorcism stuff. There were a number of good gags as well, including a set piece with a bed sheet that merits renting this movie if you like horror.

[Rec] - The Spanish original that was remade as "Quarantine." Way better than the American version. There are a couple of "gross out" scenes and a scene with a kid that is compelling. The ending makes more sense as well. Sure, it isn't as dressed up in CGI or million-dollar effects, but some of the shots were actually more effective. And I always feel like a stranger when I watch a foreign film, and to me that adds a layer of unknown which creates some horror depth. I plan to just sit down and watch the series, both Spanish and American. [Rec 3] is coming out 2012!

Catfish - Profoundly interesting if you are remotely interested in human interactions (both in terms of the film's premise and in the likelihood the film itself is exaggerated or fabricated). This movie did throw a completely touching curve ball at the end, and ended on a very humble and non-judgmental note that almost pulled some heartstrings except by that point I was debating if this documentary is legit or a hoax (I have a list of like 100 reasons why this documentary did not actually happen, but I digress...). The movie negates some of the cautionary stuff that a privileged person might not have to deal with, but overall an interesting documentary.

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Twilight: Breaking Uterus

As always, a hilariously cheesy, poorly written, and poor acted good time. My favorite part was the tacked out, out of nowhere climax based on a "law" that had never existed until that moment.

One good thing: I thought the effects they did for Bella withering away were very effective.

KG - Brazil is one of my favorite movies of all time. It ranks up there with the greats, and is easily the best Gilliam has ever made, followed by Tideland.

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I have not seen Tideland, I will have to check it out.

My favorite Gilliam films are Brazil and Twelve Monkeys. You can't forget Monty Python either. Brazil is easily one of my favorite films. It is such a memorable, bleak, and dark, dark comedy. There's also a lot going on in that film.

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Chronicle - I'll have to see this one again, but this may sneak into my top 5 favorite comic book movies. There was so much joy in this film, so many good special effects, and a few moments that really made me wish I could fly.

I mean, this movie captured what X-Men touched on a bit, and Spider-Man failed to capture, which is the realization of your powers, and then the implications.

And I think the movie's budget was a humble 12 to 15 million, and it looks phenomenal.

Comic nerds, go see this movie.

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I just saw 50/50. GREAT MOVIE. Totally got snubbed for a best Picture Nomination.

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It was a fantastic film.
And I agree

At the same time, I haven't seen a single best pic nom yet so..

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The Human Centipede - LOL. I had to eventually see it....the final scene was disturbing but this movie was pretty mild...minus the fucked up premise. I'm hoping the sequel is better.

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The Double- It was on Netflix. And suffers from the same issue Salt did, in which they try to make a compelling, who's bad movie.. by literally making everyone in the movie have double or triple allegiances. One twist is cool.. 2.. is a annoying.. 3 is damning... any further and its a complete mess.

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Scott Pilgrim vs The World.
:D