and?

.........

Rob Zombie's Halloween - 8/10

Un Chien Andalou.
Alien.

The Majestic

The Cell.

Always had a soft spot for this one. The creepy visuals, a different twist on the "to catch a killer" plot. Cool, overlooked movie.

well?......

Mixed opinion. I went in to it hoping to love it, and I came out of it liking it just a tad. It's not something I'd buy on DVD, or watch again anytime soon. Not to say it's bad. There were some things that just threw me off.

First off, the visuals. They worked, and they didn't work.

The whole thing feels like a staged production, as it should, because a grand majority of the film takes place within a single building. Upstairs we have Sweeney Todd's barber shop. Downstairs, Mrs. Lovett's Meat Pies shop, and below that, the room where both businesses meat (haw haw... such a pun.) There is of course a few scenes outside of this setting, but they can be counted on one hand.

The actual town is constructed largely using CGI. Some of the camera angles are constructed in pure CGI as well; such as an introductory scene in which the camera pans down numerous streets, twisting and turning. It felt like I was playing a videogame. Also, the very *first* scene, in which some scenery and the title is displayed, is purely CGI as well... and it shows. The audience laughed at how fake this whole thing looked.

While the film contains a satisfying amount of gore (most of it occurring in a montage, and the ending scenes...), some people might be thrown off at how animated the blood looks. I'm pretty sure some of the blood (if not all of it) was CGI. It's a very fake, fake, fake red. As if they were using a red fingerpaint. It doesn't look real, at all.

While all of the deaths occur the same way, it never gets tiring to see just how Tim Burton will chose to send the blood a sprayin'. It's sort of Kill Bill-ish in nature, just how much blood there is, and how violently it sprays out.

I thought the costumes and character designs and set designs were very well done. No complaints.

If you are not aware, this film is a musical. Most of the dialogue is given in song. After most musicals, you might find the audience bursting out of the doors singing their favourite tunes. Sweeney Todd isn't like that. It's a musical yes, but nothing in it is very catchy. Minus one or two songs. Most of it is sung dialogue exchange, rather then repetitious verses and choruses. It's hard to remember the lyrics in any song, so singing along is pretty impossible. I also found that Johnny Depp tended to "talk to the music" rather then "sing to the music"... some scenes had him just saying lines in a slightly different tone, set to music. But a few full-on lyrical sections disproved any rumour that he couldn't sing, he does rather well.

Johnny Depp is excellent as always, in the title role... but you know who really stole the show? No, not Sascha Baron Cohen (who was sporting a Borat-esque accent...) It was Helena Bonham Carter. She was just excellent. Excellent. She's probably the most lovable character in the film; has some of the best lines, best musical sequences, and humorous one-liners. You can't help but like her character. (The middle section contained a number of laugh-out-loud dark-humoured jokes.)

While he first half of the film was rather boring, I thought. Nothing too exciting happened, and the film tended to drag a little (while setting things up...), the closing act made up for this, two-fold. The middle section showed improvement, but the finale - blew me away. It was amazing, I thought. Everything within the film came together; yes, there are twists, and yes, there are shocks. Of course, they are a tad predictable... but they are still there, so that's what counts. It was a satisfying ending that ultimately made me like the film a whole grade higher.

I'd give it a B- / B.

Hatchet - 9/10
My 2nd time seeing it. This time it wasn't on my computer. Hatchet has become one of my new favorites. Adam Green has made the best slasher flix I've seen in a long time. It is definitely a great homage to "Old School American Horror".

I can definitely say, it wasn't one of my favorites. It's low budget with decent cameras. The thing that killed it for me was the horrible looking werewolf. You van tell it's just someone in a suit. Not to mention, it has a purple-ish tint and you can see the persons neck when they move sometimes.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

-Nosferatu(1922).
-About to sit down and have a marathon, I'm watching Bladerunner, Leon The Proffesional, and The Birds.

i read your post, i just didn't want to quote the whole thing.

anyway, thanks for your critique. i had a friend of mine tell me pretty much all the same things you said after seeing it.

i'm going to see it this week, so i'm probably going to enter the theater with different thoughts and expectations than i was originally. we'll see.

I'm not There
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>>: B

The Kingdom

>>: C


Diabolique
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>>: B-

Meet the Parents (2000)

Yeah. Like I've said before, one of my big-time guilty pleasures.

I think this had a LOT less to do with it being CGI and a big budget film than it did with being a Tim Burton film. The almost cartoon-like visuals really fit his style and to be honest, knowing his films, I didn't expect gritty realism. Anyway, I loved the movie personally, thought it was better than any previous incarnation of the story.

bowling for columbine

Knocked Up- cute and stupid, a bit over the top.
3 stars

Clockwork Orange- 8.5/10

Natural Born Killers- 3/10 (that was.... wow.)

Balls of Fury - 3/10
Barely funny. A few chuckles here and there, but that's it.

that's what i figured.

Just finished The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari (1921).

I Am Legend

7/10

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Underground A+

Stardust

With a few casting issues aside, a completely charming and sweet film. Truly "fun for the whole family" as my both my 4 year-old and his seventy year-old grandmother both laughed quite a bit.

7/10

Wishmaster

Black Christmas

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Wow. A slasher film that predates Halloween by 4 years, it's amazing how much the iconic John Carpenter film borrowed from Black Christmas. From the eerie music to the first-person-killer point of view to the direction, it's obvious how much this movie has influenced the slasher genre.

I'm actually quite surprised how much this film does NOT come up in discussion of the every growing slasher mythos and tome... I found the themes, images, an archetypes fascinating that they might have originated here.

And besides from being a quality slasher film, it also touches on controversial topics at the time (1974), women's rights, freedom abortion - I thought that the movie examines the feminine differently than the usual slasher (that simply treats them as objects and victims).

An amazing slasher film and one that I will have to add to my Christmas movie list.

A/A+

EASTERN PROMISES...8.5/10

Very well acted complicated movie about the Russian Mafia in London.

Cronenberg has grown sooo much as a director.....looking forward to his next movie.

i really enjoyed this one, too.
glad you liked it.

can't wait to see what he does next, though. his movies have changed so much.

Took a little time to unwind and go see I am Legend. I thought it was very good. It was a bit more depressing than I thought it would be though.

I watched Bladrunner again last night, Knocked Up, The 40 Year Old Virgin, Begotten, and Leon The Proffesional.

dawn of the dead remake and 12 monkeys

Juno

Very well written and acted.

9/10

Riding The Bullet with Mick Garris Commentary.

Me, Myself & Irene

Ratotuille(sp?) About to put in Rosemary's Baby.

Something Wild
Midnight Run
Bloodsport
Bad Santa

Movies on EiD & Christmas holidays!
 

A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: Dream Master

>>: C+

Sheitan

>>: C-

Revolver
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>>: B-

Frankenstein
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>>: B+

CITY of GOD

There was a scene where Local drug lord Lil' Ze went to exacts revenge on a gang of 9 and 10 year olds and forcing one of his own kid soldiers, to choose a kid from that little gang & kill. Faced with death, one of the kids starts crying and later on.. Lil' Ze shoot on the kid's foot!! Truly...this is one of the most horrifying and shocking scenes for me that I haven't seen on a motion picture for a long time!

>>: A+

Finished Rosemary's Baby, about to watch Hot Fuzz.

Caddyshack