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Majorly average.

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This history of anti-black racism in American cinema could've been really good but unfortunately, even at 52 minutes, it feels long and dull. The points Melvin Van Peebles makes may be all too true but the way in which he presents them comes off not so much as biting social commentary or enlightening historical narrative but rather like listening to the drunk guy in the corner of the bar grouse about the state of the world for an hour.

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a lot of talking heads and a lot of graphs/charts, but what do you expect? It's a documentary about mortgages and wall street. That being said, there were some really powerful and revealing interviews. I loved the interviewer's (directors?) wit, too. Saying things like "Forgive me but you can't be serious?" when interviewees would say ridiculous things. It was definitely worth watching, even if only for the one liners such as "Americans are, for the first time in history, less prosperous and less educated than their parents" and "Inequality of wealth in the United States is now higher than in any other developed country"

Also, great aerial cinematography.

The Box

starring Cameron Diaz

had a good premise, disappointing development

Couldn't agree more. Really, really average movie. I think that's true with most movies starring Ricky Gervais.

Has anybody seen the film "Reflecting Skin" (looks at jackhammer specifically)

Because, i dont really know what to make of it...

I saw it so long ago that I can't even remember what it was about.

i found the torture sequences especially hard to watch and tear-inducing


it's "Robert E. Howard" I didn't watch that cos the trailer looked like a cross between Lord of the Rings and Van Helsing.

they shoulda used the gothic-like template of the Marvel comics mini-series

edit - I also believe the books were set in Puritan-era America

Never Let Me Go

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I quite liked it, but I feel it didn't impact me as much as the book. That being said, it was still pretty upsetting and very enjoyable. Well, as enjoyable as a very quiet and sad movie can be.

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I love this movie Dead and Breakfast.

This is pretty much the American version of Shaun of the Dead.

There is a great scene where the zombies start singing and break out into country line dancing.

Shaun Of The Dead 10/10

Absolute quality, such a good laugh. The best part is when Shaun and Ed mistake the girl zombie from the supermarket in their garden for a drunk and they end up stabbing her right through the heart but the zombie just keeps on walking! British Rom Com at it's very best, love the way it plays around with stereotypes!

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10/10

If you haven't seen this version, it's a must see. I can't believe they remade this into the crap that came out in 2000 whatever.

The DVD has features of about 2 hours or so more car crashes. It is pure win!

Both of these look good (for completely different reasons obviously).

:Runs off to update Netflix:

Oh, I'll have to check that out. I saw the 'crap' version, lol, and liked it. Interested to see how this compares! :)


Latest movie I saw was 'Boy in the Striped Pajamas'. ;(

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This was so non-scary and boring I almost shut it off. 3/10

they need to kill POV horror movies. they are done!

I hate that Paranomal Activity made so much money and almost seemed to revive it when it was starting to fade.

This is England 10/10

Absolute class

So it's worse than the first one?

Yeah, there are other celebrated horror movies in that niche as well though, like Noroi: the Curse or [Rec], both films that may have helped interest in POV films stay alive. None of them are american though .. and both are (despite the fact I think they're a bit overrated) way better than Paranormal Activity!

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Leon Morin, Priest

Trying to complete my Jean-Pierre Melville collection. This is mostly a story of repressed desire and love between Barny, a widow of a Jew and the titular priest, with curt lesbianism (Barny's love for her ebony boss) and curt paedophila (a Nazi soldier falls in love with her half-Jewish daughter of 6, albeit a brief innuendo). It is a bit boring and hardly as captivating as Melville's other adaptation of another book set in a similar era, The Silence of the Sea, which is more atmospheric and tense than this. Set during the Nazi occupation and directly after, the Catholic theology is a bit too much Christianity 101 but the interaction between Emmanuelle Riva and Jean-Paul Belmondo is rivetting and compelling. And it ends with the typical Melville ending. Not really a good Melville effort, even if it did win the Venice Grand Prix (or whatever). 6/10

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The Purple Rose Of Cairo.
Highly enjoyable fare from Woody Allen, perfectly cast and pitched although the ending is a bit flimsy.

Let The Right One In 7/10

Far superior to Twilight but not as good as the brilliant book, the film just doesn't go into as much detail in terms of graphic imagery.

Let Me In is rubbish hollywood crap as I expected.

Yeah I heard about [Rec] but I didn't get to see it before the bastardized American version came out and that's the one I saw.

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Watched this for the 3rd time tonight and despite some really great scenes and dialogue I still think it overrated.

As a fun film for 100 mins it is decent enough but as a homage to grindhouse.... it is actually far too slick in places for it's own good.

Where is the bad acting? Badly dubbed scenes? Visible boom mikes or unimaginative cinematography? this is what grindhouse was all about!

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Essentially Quentin Tarantino remaking the 1960's Batman. A hyperviolent cartoon that was like a non-crap Scott Pilgrim Vs The World.

there were scenes with the grain of the film becoming pretty bad and you see the reel on the side of the screen. There are also some spots where they have a scene completely cut out because the film gets interrupted by it being burned away. I don't remember if that stuff was on the dvd but it was in the theater version I watched.

Yeah, I didn't like that one very much, but I thought it was decent. This was just terrible.

[REC] is pretty good at what it does, presenting a claustrophobic view of people trapped in a hotel with zombies. Nothing THAT great, but not bad either. Didn't bother with the American version at all.

I don't like it much. Not even half as much as Machete, or even a quarter as much, even.

Sweet Sixteen 7/10

Dim social realism film that leaves the audience in a dark place, it's hard to understand the dialogue of the actors because of their broad Scottish accents. This is England is more watchable.

Rules Of Attraction

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I liked it a lot.

and this

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this one I didn't like so much.

that's why it's good to type out the title of the movies even if you post the image

I have no idea what the first movie is

Yeah, there was plenty of that "by the numbers" stuff in there, which is precisely why I thought it was so mediocre and unimaginative. Whatever you may think of Tarantino, he never just copy-pastes, but rather uses the old to create something new and fresh. :\

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How much did Tarantino have to do with it though? I'm genuiely curious. I only remember it saying Tarantino presents....I didn't think he was listed as the director or w/e.

Also, Robert Rodriguez was the one attached to Planet Terror

Tarantino was more connected to Death Proof.

In Death Proof, there was foot fetish scenes, long boring dialogue scenes and a few other things that you can tell Tarantino had his hands over that movie.

thanks.....I saw Rules of Attraction but I didn't get it at the time. I need to re-watch it.

I was comparing Planet Terror with Tarantino's Death Proof, which I find vastly superior...;)

Also, I really don't understand how anyone can find Tarantino's dialoges "boring".

Oh yes, when I first saw Death Proof in theaters. I was like meh, Planet Terror owned it in so many ways but when I re-watch them both. Immediately upon the second viewing, I appreciated Death Proof more and tend to side with it.

the first half of Death Proof is awesome

the second half? erm....................

the second half? you mean with the awesome car chase scene?

There is a little bit of a lull thanks to Tarantino liking to have long dialogue scenes but when it gets back to the driving is the best part of the movie so i have to disagree with you on that one. the second half is the best part of it.

I feel exactly the opposite. That whole extended car chase is badass.

it's just some sort of tribute to the way it was done in the 70s, one long take, not quick cuts like now, more realistic flow

personally, if I wanted 70s-ish car chases, I'd go to the source, such as the original Vanishing Point, which is shot 10,000,000 times better

I don't feel that it was much different from Vanishing Point.

That was the point of the movie imo. they pay tribute to those type of car chase movies from the 70s. I would have never seen Vanishing Point or the original Gone in 60 seconds if it wasn't for Death Proof.

So it was educational to me.