Perhaps... Well, probably. My vision's clouded slightly by Plants Vs Zombies, which has a similarly cheesy name and is fecking awesome.

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Brick (2005)

Watched this with a friend last night, although my friend fell asleep at some point in the middle so he woke up pretty confused, although it doesn't take much to be confused by this movie on the first viewing. Thank god they pretty much spell out the plot at the end of the movie for the slow of remembering, but I do think it does kind of marginalize the story a wee bit. Either way, this is the fourth time I've seen this movie and I still love it.

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Roger Dodger (2002)

In keeping with our neo-noir theme (the last few movies we've watched together have been Body Heat (1981) and Brick (2005)) I introduced my friend to this little unknown gem from early in the last decade. It's Jesse Eisenberg's first movie and it's amazing how little he seems to have grown in the 9 years from this to The Social Network (2010) where he practically plays the same character. While his character is definitely nothing to write home about, his uncle, the titular Roger, played by Campbell Scott puts on one hell of a performance.

The general premise of the movie is that Roger is a pick up artist in the days before that Mystery douchebag ruined it for everyone. His nephew, Nick, (Jesse Eisenberg) comes to Roger and asks him to help him lose his virginity, and thus the movie is a night out on the town in New York City as Roger attempts to teach Nick the ins-and-outs of sex and the female mentality, and the imaginary war for dominance between the sexes.

It provides a very nice little window into the mindset and tackles some interesting subjects such as the "malegaze", all while using guerrilla style filming tactics that make many scenes memorable. In fact the opening diner scene is is probably on par with the one from Reservoir Dogs. Definitely look this one up.

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Truly a British experience as there are tons of references to breakfast time TV from the 80's and although it is marketed as a Horror movie, this is more of a romcom with some Horror thrown in and it isn't too shabby. Well directed with good performances all around (Chegwin, Pasquale, Blackburn included) this is definitely worth at least one watch for the British amongst us.
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A typical Euro early 80's Horror from Italy and Spain that has a fantastic score but is fairly lackluster in terms of plot and originality. A bunch of nuclear infected people run rampage in a city. Also has a WTF ending that probably seemed really cool at the time. Worth a watch though :)

Since watching Martyrs, I've been on a quest to see disturbing films. My latest film in this quest was:

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And it was... severely disappointing. I actually hated this movie. While at the movie store I was suggested this movie under the premise that "It's really messed up and you can't watch it more than once." Now I know exactly what that means.

It was not disturbing in the slightest, it was just annoying. I couldn't wait for the family to get murdered so I could stop watching this.

Anyone know any movies (like Martyrs) that are truly disturbing, but also have artistic value? I'm not going to watch Cannibal Holocaust or any weird snuff films.

Salo
The Devils
Trouble Every Day
Ex Drummer
Calvaire (The Ordeal)

Enjoy ;) Ex drummer will seriously mess with your head.

I really, really do not want to watch Salo. I seriously doubt that film has any value other than to be fucked up for fucked up's sake. The others I will check out.

I would really suggest you reconsider your position on Cannibal Holocaust. Did it have the most profound message? Certainly not, but it is an early example of two horror tropes (truly shocking imagery and "found-footage") and if nothing else it's a good reference point and does have some historical ground to stand up on. If nothing else you might still be able to find it on Google video like I did in 2007.

The new Batman movie was pretty good. The Dark Knight Rises, ive seen it twice. Definitely worth checking out!

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I just watched Control. I gotta say, it was pretty damn good. I couldn't have really hoped for more from a movie about Ian Curtis. If you are a Joy Division fan, I recommend it.

I watched Control before I read Touching From a Distance, which the film is based on, and the one complaint I had for it was they really seemed to tone down his assholishness for the film. I mean he was still kind of a prick to Deborah, but they made it out to be more sympathetic, like he was trying to do the right thing but his disorders prevented him from it. For all I know it could have been the reason, but the tone certainly is pretty jarring between the movie and the book.