mermaid in a manhole made me vomit....uugghh just disgusting!

I've recommended this movie before, but the 2008 French film Martyrs is easily one of the most twisted movies I have seen in a very long time. Not quite sure if it's on the same level as Antichrist (2009) or A Serbian Film (2010) but it definitely had a profound impact on me. It's like all the Saw and Hostel films combined then multiplied by 1000 in terms of brutality.

ok this sounds very interesting :) i'm so gonna check out martyrs now
thanx alot :D i'll let you know what i think of it

Pete have you seen any of the August Underground films?.....i don't normally suggest them....as they really are that bad....esp. the second one 'Mordom'.....but if sick and "twisted" is what you are looking for you might as well go all the way and watch the closest thing to depraved snuff that you'll ever be able to find.....the first one has tons of boring filler and the third one has production value.....but the second one makes even the worst scene's in A Serbian Film seem PG-13

but August Underground: Mordom still falls short of Salo for most disturbing film ever made....which i find very odd

as for Martyrs....Lee and i have actually discussed this film a few times now in pm.....and i think we both agree that it is sooooo much more than a shock/horror flick....its genuine and original and by far one of the best horror films i've ever seen.....certainly the best with the last few years.....the unrelenting feeling throughout the entire movie is so rare it's almost welcomed with open arms

am i the only person that finds Antichrist in no way shape or form disturbing?....i feel like it's a perfect composition of the wondrous clash of the (vile) human condition and nature's (perfect) entropy.....the only disturbing part of it i saw was the characters themselves sand how ironically perfect they played an adam/eve archetype

another just fucking odd movie that really leaves an impression is Sheitan.....after the first time i saw it....i sat there laughing and saying out loud...."What the fuck did i just watch?"....great flick and as always proof of what an amazing and multi talented man Vincent Cassel is

pretty gnarly
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dont like edward norton recently but this was good

I've seen Godfather. Never watched it before. I know, I'm lame.

A few that i've watched in the past couple weeks.

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I saw that Kevin Bacon was in it. I liked his role, it was more dark than what i'm used to.

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A very twisted version of Alice in Wonderland.

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Just a typical thriller, but I really enjoyed it.

So I seen these movies yesterday
Donnie Darko
The Box
S. Darko

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That's a whole lot of broken links you got there.

Dark Knight Rises. Epic conclusion to an epic trilogy. There will be some surprises for you all.

yes.
marion cotillard performance has some really bad instances but otherwise man this movie kicked ass

Shutter Island

It wasn't bad, but I have to say I was a bit disappointed 'cause one of my friends was telling me how awesome it was and my expectations were way too high.

worst scorsece film i've seen

I can't argue with that since I've seen so few of his films. Gotta take your word for it.

Yeah... it kind of flummoxed me when I saw that he was adapting a Dennis Lahane novel. I mean he's not a bad author, but he's kind of in the same bucket as Stephen King or Clive Barker, enjoyable, but not something that's going to profoundly change your life.

watching "Gacy" ****kkkk! smh

I agree, but I see that as a positive statement about Sorcese because I found Shutter Island to be pretty enjoyable, if quite flawed.

No that's New York, New York!

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It does a good job of describing the genesis of the series and also includes a massive reference and plot point to the original movie which nobody at work today got despite watching the original but there was so many things wrong too.

We have a 10 year time span in the movie yet everyone looks the same, Brian Cox is phoning his performance in and the last 20 minutes is just too much CGI for me however well it's done.

The plot of the film is in the title really isn't it? and I wasn't surprised enough in the film or given a mind blowing plot twist to make me rethink the whole series.

Maybe I am just a cynical old ****er these days but I was expecting a whole lot more.

I think most people were just surprised at how good it was. I don't think i would have liked it as much if i had gone in with loftier expectations.

What film are you referring to?

planet of the apes. sorry, i've really been preferring that instant text box at the bottom instead of clicking quote button.

Oh it was certainly better than it should have been, after all the original film was based on an early 60's novel that certainly had no prequel written but I just found the film too predictable at times unfortunately.

Just saw The Dark Knight Rises. It was really good, but not as good as The Dark Knight. It just didn't have that darkness to it. It was still great though, so great that it kind of made me want to shoot a bunch of people.

Hahahaha I lol'd. But yeah, the movie was great even if it's not as good as The Dark Knight.

Not a spoiler. Honestly, it's hard to surpass the brilliance of The Joker, especially with Ledger's performance. There was a perfect blend of insanity, ferocity, and even humour in The Dark Knight's Joker, while Bane was a pretty damn good villain, but was almost shite by comparison.

um, pardon?

Meant Bane, obviously. Too many Travel Channel specials for me it seems.

Jennifer by Dario Argento. Woman with grotesque face, sensational body, and cat like reasoning seduces Steven Weber. It really resounded with me.

Thought The Dark Knight Rises was mediocre at best. You know it's a bad sign when you're sitting there rooting for the villain to kill everyone and get it over with.

This film made it clear that the success of its predecessor hinged largely on the Joker. I don't just mean his performance, as stellar as that was; the duality, the polar clash of opposing ideas between Batman/Joker was pretty well executed and a delight to watch. Bane was... a very typical superhero villain who was given shockingly little character development and backstory. He did headline the most interesting scene in the film, which was unfortunately shown in the previews (the stadium blowing up), lessening the impact.

A lot of plot explanation was left up to the imagination of the audience as well, and that always sucks. (SPOILERS) I'm supposed to believe that every criminal and half-criminal in the city works for Bane from the get-go? I'm supposed to believe he can somehow quarantine an entire island just by blowing up the bridges? I'm supposed to accept a half-assed 5-sentence scene with the president as explanation for why Gotham is completely shut-off from the rest of the world for 5 months? You're telling me the might of the entire United States couldn't do anything to help aside from quarantine everyone in? And then don't get me started on Batman's miraculous escape from the pit... awful awful awful.

For 2-and-some-change hours, it felt like a 4 hour film. But since this is Christopher Nolan and Batman, I know everyone is creaming their pants over it.

The Dark Knight Rises. It was good but not as good as The Dark Knight which was elevated by Heath Ledger's Joker.

Also, saw The Grey. Its different and I liked it. Recommended.

keep in mind it's based off a comic book. You got spoiled by an amazing batman film in the dark knight.

This film is still great, your main complaint seems to be it's not believable enough. Bane had more back story than joker.

This is a BATMAN movie.

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i just returned for seeing this for the third time :D

RVCA...i understand your complaints but like Sparky said it is a Batman film and will always be over the top and fantastical :)

personally i just could not get enough of it.....even after the third time this morning it was as good as it was on Friday.....sure there are some story flaws...but again it's a batman flick :)

within the first hour....i started thing that in no way is this going to be better than Dark Knight....but by the end i came to the realization that they can't even be compared....just such different movies

i felt Tom Hardy was spectacular and Anne Hathaway turned out to be an excellent Cat Woman

also even though they changed the story arc a bit....



i have to say the Man Of Steel teaser was beyond that.....damn it looks good :)

I don't feel like I could really say if Hardy did well or not. Seeing most of the person's face is integral for me at least.

He did great. His eyes were scary as hell, and he always does a great job bulking up (same with bronson)

Hardy didn't have the benefit of seeing a plethora of other actors tackle bane as with joker. He really had to come up with it from scratch.

exactly his eyes and his body movements they way he walked etc etc

spoilers!

Yes yes but there is a line in the suspension of belief even for superhero movies and batman crossed it. It's not really a problem that unbelievable things happened, it's that they happened and they were poorly executed. Especially Batman's whole "escape from a metaphorical and literal 'rock bottom' after tough physical training and some sage advice from a wizened old man"... what a cringe-inducing cliche!

But that wasn't really my main complaint though, I think if I had to pin down a major complaint it would be that TDKR tried too much. Joseph Gordon Lovett got a LOT of screentime for a role that was pretty uninteresting an ultimately kinda lame (the scene where they called him "Robin" was forced and inaccurate-- Robin's real name isn't ****ing Robin.) The second commissioner's little redemption arc? Completely silly and a waste of time. And then to have Catwoman, the original Commissioner, Bane, and Marion Cotillard's character all vying for their own screentime?

Not to mention Bane's death was the most anticlimactic thing ever....

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That wizened old man was a morphine addict, wallowing in self sorrow, not totally run of the mill. I thought they adapted the idea of "Raz al ghuls pit of immortality" into a real world fairly smoothly. He didn't really get tough physical training as much as just some mild care. The whole point was that he should learn to fear death, this is not totally cliche, though i can see it from your perspective, still.

This is just a difference of opinion. I was actually surprised by how much i enjoyed the film without batman on screen. When batman makes his first appearance I wasn't even expecting it, I had honestly forgot batman was even in the film lol.

But i thought nolan used his superheroes effectively. If the entire film is based around batman whimsically parading around for 90 minutes no elements of the film would have any weight.

I personally prefer this robin origin story to him being a circus gymnast adopted by the bat to fight crime even as a 13 year old kid.