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Earth vs. The Flying Saucers (1959) Tivo'd it off Movieplex!
Also Final Destination 3 Last night on DVD from Netflix!

Monsters, Inc.

Pretty funny. I love the Harryhausen restaurant.

toolbox murders

The Land Before Time - The Big Freeze 8 / 10

Papillon with Dustin Hoffman and Steve McQueen.

Not bad, especially from Mr. Hoffman's end. A pretty good, and surprisingly pretty gory prsion escape action-drama.

oliver twist

Submerged
The Peacemaker

Loved Papillon.

Just watched DEAD MAN'S SHOES

interesting, great performance from Paddy Considine and rather touching ending, but the flashbacks are heavy-handed and a little pretentious
6.5/10

airheads

polanski ?

i bought this - havent watched yet ...

any good ?

Night of the Comet (stereo)

Big favorite, hadn't wartched it in a while.

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

Scrapbook.

I am not very demanding when it comes to film. I can usually find some redeeming feature in anything I watch, and enjoy it for what it is. I have been known to sit through garbage and call it caviar. But this movie was an absolute piece of shit. I watched about 15 or 20 minutes, and fast forwarded the rest. It didn't appear to improve.

I can only find 2 things about this film that redeem it for me:

a) It didn't cost me anything to watch it
b) It was relatively short (especially when played at 16x)

I feel dirty just for reviewing it.

Inside Man

Really glad I decided to check this out....wasnt expecting much, but it turned out great. Really enjoyable...not always 100% believable*, but definately alot of fun.



* (Spoilers below)



For example, one thing that bugged me a bit was the whole thing with the lights blocking out the cameras. Now, wouldnt you think there would be somebody watching the ca,eras? Dont you think they'd notice if the cameras blinked out?

Nothing major though, I still thought it was a very good movie.

Jacob's Ladder

Salem's Lot (1979)

I love the cast of this well-done miniseries. It's not necessarily a good cast...but it's a fun cast.

I spoiled this for myself, as my Grandmother had seen it and told me the ending. Laaame. :p

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About the camera thing, I can't remember entirely since I watched this a bit of time ago and it didn't stick with me that much - but did the cameras flick out and air pre-recorded video that omitted them from the area? If so, my guess would be in a lot of cases, secuity is hired to watch the cameras - but it doesn't mean their eyes would be on it every minute. People don't always do their job 100%, after all. :P
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Cube
I liked it. :) Not horror, more sci-fi - which I'm not usually into, but I still dug it. Loved Leaven's character, and absolutely despised Quentin's character. I really did, fuck he got me angry. Stupid angressive mofo. The movie, I thought, was going to be quite low budget... but suprisingly it showed little signs of being. The only thing that made it seem "cheap" was the shaking-screen effect to imply movement of a room. Cheasily done, I'd say - but how else would they have pulled it off? Nothing really wrong with it - doesn't distract from the film too much. Interesting concept, one which surely inspired the creators of House of 9, if even in the slightest (I reccomend House of 9 to anyone who likes Cube - it's good :)). Not a film that everyone can sit through, no, you need patience. But it keeps your attention pretty well for a movie that consists of a small cast, small area, and math. I'm intrigued enough to hunt down the other two - expecially Zero. Saw it on Space one night, part of it, and the no-budget just appealed to me so much. :) Who knows. I'm wierd.

Session 9 is up next, but at 1:30 in the morning who knows if I can make it. >_<

The sequels aren't made by the same people, and the second one (the only other I've seen) wasn't nearly as good...although it did have some rather trippy effects and a strange time displacement thing going on...but, if you're looking for something similar to the first, it's not really much like it at all. I've NEVER seen cube0 available anywhere...so, if and when you get it, let us know if it's worth tracking down...
But yeah, the original is great, I've had it on dvd for some time now...low budget on this one didn't effect the overall quality.

Last night - Ali G Aiii
Stupid funny stupidity...always makes me laugh.

The Creeping Flesh

Maniac
>>: C-

Fragile
>>: B

Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes (1938)
another complete package of mystry & suspense!! enjoyed every bit of it!!
>>: A

Dawn of the Dead
>>: A-

yep

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the shining was on tv n so was the grinch yet its not even november yet :rolleyes:

Still Spoilers




When the robbers went into the bank, they set up lights...not suspicious, considering the whole dressed like painters thing. The lights were pointed the security cameras, which made them completly black out....somebody should have noticed.

Like I say though, Im just being picky. It was still an awesome show.

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Ah, now I remember. Yeah, someone should have noticed that.

Zero Kelvin 9 / 10

Pulse

Cube Zero is a lot of fun. I loved it, and it's definately worth tracking down. It's very different than the others.

http://www.deepdiscountdvd.com/dvd.cfm?itemID=LGE016689

Cube Zero

couple of episodes of X-files from season 2

taxi 3

Unbreakable
Had forgotten Mr. Night's conventions of always having a great twist at the end - so that came out of nowhere and had a greater impact on me then it would have if I was expecting it. Really great ending; though I could have done without the epilogue dialogue overlayed. If it just ended with Samuel's final line I would have been much happier. That's just me. I'm a big fan of open endings. The sophistication of a regular story is what makes this special - and I have been really interested in media of this nature lately. Even creating my ideal sophistications of vampires, werewolves, zombies and whatnot. Over-done myths that, with a spark of realistic darkness, can be refreshing and original. It's slow and not for everyone, but if you stick with it, it has a great payoff. Love the train station sequence with the glimpses of prior dirty deeds. Definately a good blind-buy for me.

Didn't get to Session 9 - fell asleep before I could pop it in. I'll watch it tonight, though. :)

Finally made myself a nifty avatar, too. :p

Yeah, the handshake was raw...best scene in the film.
My personal favourite (and the only one I've REALLY liked thus far) from MNS.
That said, I've not yet seen the lady in the water.

I finished watching STEAMBOY.
Wow...if you're into shithot animation, have a look, more info on it in my prior post. Breathtaking...

Cursed - I don't really like werewolf films that much...didn't think much of the cast of this one, everyone was at their shittiest, even the guy who plays (IMO) the best Lex Luthor ever on screen...the storyline was weak...the werewolves looked really bad. It had some funny-ish parts, but yeah, wasn't too thrilled...however, I don't think it's the absolutely "terrible" movie everyone seems to think it is...I mean, I didn't turn it off before the end?

The Time Machine
Brotherhood of The Wolf

Scary Movie 4 ...

i thought the animation was fascinating but i didnt like the story or direction..
the characters were flat and i just couldnt get into the story ..
i remember being tired as hell when i saw it and it ran over 2 hours.

i also had high expectations because i love Akira.

i guess i'm just not into this 'steam punk' thing - since they gave it a name.

Loved Unbreakable and I thought the ending was pretty predictable. As far as open endings I think it's done enough and while I enjoy it I think I like a good strong ending better. I think it's harder to write a great ending that really brings things to a close. Like History of Violence, I LOVED that ending.

Last movie I watched was Poltergeist.