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jackhammer 07-06-2009 05:13 PM

I know Naked myself and it's one of my favourites but it's hardly a well known film so a few words is always helpful for the uninitiated.

cardboard adolescent 07-06-2009 05:14 PM

i've watched one or two of his other films and I find I get nothing out of them but a vague feeling of despair.

adidasss 07-06-2009 06:06 PM

Leigh's one of my favorite directors. Naked is one of his best films.

jackhammer 07-06-2009 06:11 PM

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Originally Posted by adidasss (Post 699484)
Leigh's one of my favorite directors. Naked is one of his best films.

I agree. Naked is probably his most cerebral film and the main characters barcode theory is right up your street Tom. It's a masterpiece.

Son of JayJamJah 07-06-2009 06:13 PM

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Originally Posted by shiseido red (Post 698884)
http://www.collider.com/uploads/imag..._megan_fox.jpg

^ There is some serious eye candy in this flick. I'd go Shia LaBeouf. And Megan Fox.

Yeah I finally saw it last night. Really liked it! Didn't mind the length and was excited to see they set themselves up for a third.

I had the opposite experience.

I thought it was way too long and the editing was horrible. There are useless characters everywhere and Megan Fox has had too much plastic surgery she's already on the decline. The acting is as terrible as you'd expect from the cast, and the visuals are equally stunning. The first movie however moved better and made sense, the Megatron character was reduced greatly in this movie and I also did not like that.

Astronomer 07-06-2009 06:32 PM

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Originally Posted by JayJamJah (Post 699490)
I had the opposite experience.

I thought it was way too long and the editing was horrible. There are useless characters everywhere and Megan Fox has had too much plastic surgery she's already on the decline. The acting is as terrible as you'd expect from the cast, and the visuals are equally stunning. The first movie however moved better and made sense, the Megatron character was reduced greatly in this movie and I also did not like that.

Aw, I liked it! There were some bits that I thought were a bit pointless (e.g. the 'primes' and when he saw them in 'heaven' and all that stuff etc) but since it's obvious they were setting themselves up for a third movie, I thought it was a pretty good go-between. The 'middle' movie is always the most disappointing.

And as if Megan Fox has had plastic surgery? If she has... disappointing. lol.

Dr.Seussicide 07-06-2009 07:10 PM

Up. It's been a while since I saw a good animated film...and this was definitely one

kccv2c 07-07-2009 08:07 PM

fight club. for the 8000th time.

Freebase Dali 07-07-2009 10:31 PM

The Haunting In Connecticut...

I'm so pissed I wasted bandwidth downloading that.

Sparky 07-08-2009 10:20 AM

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Originally Posted by JayJamJah (Post 699490)
I had the opposite experience.

I thought it was way too long and the editing was horrible. There are useless characters everywhere and Megan Fox has had too much plastic surgery she's already on the decline. The acting is as terrible as you'd expect from the cast, and the visuals are equally stunning. The first movie however moved better and made sense, the Megatron character was reduced greatly in this movie and I also did not like that.

this pretty much sums up my opinion of the movie.

I actually enjoyed the first transformers, but this one was super boring.

Anyone else find it borderline racist?

The way some of the transformers talked..

Kevorkian Logic 07-08-2009 01:38 PM

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g2..._d_affiche.jpg
9.5/10
The development of Umberto's relationship with dog is one of the most exquisite developments of a human-canine relationship ever. Heart wrenching but not in the crying like crazy way, which is my favorite type of drama.

http://www.foxmovies.com.au/content/...TULIPS_FLR.jpg
8/10
One of the few movies i've seen where I truly enjoyed and sympathized with having a main character be a woman. I thought the supporting characters where a bit too sterotypical to make it a truly good movie though.
http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDRev...v-lamerica.jpg
8/10
The ending was really good, provided a nice view of how poor Albania is. Some bits i felt were drawn out a bit too much.

http://emol.org/film/archives/goldendoor/goldendoor.jpg
7/10
I could see how some people think this is a really good movie, there were definately some redeaming scenes (like the rivers of milk and the giant olive), but ultimately i felt that the message was lost in an abundance of social commentary and critism of America.

Kevorkian Logic 07-08-2009 01:43 PM

http://www.collider.com/uploads/imag...__italian_.jpg
7/10
The Italian version was miles better than the American version. Pretty much tuined my faith in the human race. I felt that Carolo's friends running away at the end made the movie lose potency and made it just turn into a infedility movie instead of a movie with some form of redemtion.


http://www.cinecultura.it/Rassegna/R...o-un-padre.jpg
9.8/10

The high rating is in relation to other chick flick movies, because it terms of chick flicks it by far surpassed any chick flick I have ever seen. the woman character was extremely charasmic in every way.

Kevorkian Logic 07-08-2009 01:44 PM

http://img.amazon.ca/images/I/510JE7...500_AA240_.jpg
5.5/10

I liked the movie when I saw it, but having been a week since I saw it, I can barely remember anything about it. Therefore i am putitng it in my file of good but unremarkable movies.

Son of JayJamJah 07-08-2009 01:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Freebase Dali (Post 700219)
The Haunting In Connecticut...

I'm so pissed I wasted bandwidth downloading that.

God that movie sucked.

What was the point of the Father's Drinking and it first being completely superfluous and just never really developing as a plot element.

Horror movies have been so bad the last decade. I swear 9\10 is just a disaster, the upside is that it's hard not to enjoy a horror movie at the cinema even a terrible one.

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Originally Posted by matious (Post 700480)
Anyone else find it borderline racist?

The way some of the transformers talked..

Maybe if the cars had bigger rims and were bumpin'.

Oh Shit is that racist?

C'mon Matious, it's not racist, it was stupid and unfunny sure, but not racist, at least not on purpose.

Best part on the movie was that Whore-bot decipticrotch.

Flower Child 07-08-2009 03:29 PM

Spoiler Alert!!!!!!

I watched "A Clockwork Orange" yesterday. That movie plumb wore me out. Twas very weird. My mom and I disagreed, though, about the main character. She said that he was faking being cured the whole time until the very end when he made the deal with the doctor, but I thought that after he jumped out of the window was when he went back to being his normal self. I say this because when he jumped out the window he got over the fear of being "snuffed out" which was the whole point of the treatment was to correlate that feeling with violence, and I think when he got over that fear, thats when he went back to his normal self.

Hmmm. Does that make any sense at all? What do you guys think?

Raust 07-08-2009 03:43 PM

http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/g...ost_town-1.jpg
I liked it. I thought it was funny.

Gone Sugaring 07-08-2009 03:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Flower Child (Post 700645)
Spoiler Alert!!!!!!

I watched "A Clockwork Orange" yesterday. That movie plumb wore me out. Twas very weird. My mom and I disagreed, though, about the main character. She said that he was faking being cured the whole time until the very end when he made the deal with the doctor, but I thought that after he jumped out of the window was when he went back to being his normal self. I say this because when he jumped out the window he got over the fear of being "snuffed out" which was the whole point of the treatment was to correlate that feeling with violence, and I think when he got over that fear, thats when he went back to his normal self.

Hmmm. Does that make any sense at all? What do you guys think?

He was not faking. He was made to believe he was cured and had no choice but to behave.

sweet_nothing 07-08-2009 07:27 PM

http://chrishanaka.files.wordpress.c..._johnston2.jpg
Oh wow this was alot better than I expected it to be.

djchameleon 07-09-2009 12:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Flower Child (Post 700645)
Spoiler Alert!!!!!!

I watched "A Clockwork Orange" yesterday. That movie plumb wore me out. Twas very weird. My mom and I disagreed, though, about the main character. She said that he was faking being cured the whole time until the very end when he made the deal with the doctor, but I thought that after he jumped out of the window was when he went back to being his normal self. I say this because when he jumped out the window he got over the fear of being "snuffed out" which was the whole point of the treatment was to correlate that feeling with violence, and I think when he got over that fear, thats when he went back to his normal self.

Hmmm. Does that make any sense at all? What do you guys think?

No, they successfully brainwashed him but the way the story plays it. They make it seem like when you have an injury like that it jars whatever programming you get from being brainwashed which isn't true but I didn't over think it or complain about it while watching the movie.

jackhammer 07-09-2009 08:18 AM

http://www.rowthree.com/wp-content/u...reversible.jpg

Watching this for the third time has made me realise that this really is a smoke and mirrors film and not very good at that. Much prefer the directors earlier effort I Stand Alone.

Flower Child 07-09-2009 09:25 AM

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Originally Posted by djchameleon (Post 700868)
No, they successfully brainwashed him but the way the story plays it. They make it seem like when you have an injury like that it jars whatever programming you get from being brainwashed which isn't true but I didn't over think it or complain about it while watching the movie.

Ah I see, I guess I was just over thinking it.

Dr.Seussicide 07-09-2009 09:28 AM

Watched this last night... well for the 2nd time... definitely a great film

http://www.chrlc.vic.gov.au/cb_pages...lies%20dvd.jpg

noot 07-09-2009 09:35 AM

I saw Into The Wild for the first time last night.

I loved it!

Anteater 07-09-2009 04:37 PM

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...PEPOSTERsm.jpg

After that stinker Pelham 123, I'd say this one's a winner. Depp and Bale pulled out surprisingly subtle performances that I found satisfying, though I felt the camera work could have been better at times.

Still, great movie. May not be something I'll ever get on DVD, but definitely worth watching atleast once.

keith! 07-09-2009 04:59 PM

watched Donnie Darko again today.

my god do I ever love that movie.

simplephysics 07-09-2009 05:03 PM

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Originally Posted by sweet_nothing (Post 700753)
http://chrishanaka.files.wordpress.c..._johnston2.jpg
Oh wow this was alot better than I expected it to be.

This really made my heart break.

sweet_nothing 07-09-2009 07:53 PM

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Originally Posted by dreadnaught (Post 701199)
This really made my heart break.

ehh I hope youre referring to the movie and not my comment. Before going into the movie I had only 'Fun' by him which I thought was really good, and my ex girlfriend had met him and everything at last year's ACL and I knew he has suffered from mental illness and manic depression. I had expected the documentary to just be interviews with him and his friends and whatever stock footage they had (as these types usually do) but its actually much more in depth. With the home movies and tape recordings of everything from his mom yelling at him to him flipping out on the drummer from Sonic Youth. Some parts I laughed at like the Mountain Dew part "This Daniel Johnston speaking from a Mental Hospital and they say I'm crazy....because I love Mountain Dew so much, I can't get enough of it!" Some of it's really sad about how much his mental condition has almost ended his life and career trying to crash his father's plane, attacking an old woman, and ect. But then you have the people who are their for him through the thick and thin his manager who worked so hard for him even when he fired him and his parents whom he still lives with and take care of him.

khfreek 07-09-2009 08:20 PM

http://earbuds.popdose.com/kelly/pump_up_the_volume.jpg

Awesome. Talk hard.

Janszoon 07-09-2009 08:39 PM

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Originally Posted by khfreek (Post 701244)

Oh man, that's of my favorite nostalgia-inducing movies ever. I don't know why but for some reason the line "no, I'm going to use my finger genius" kind of cracks me up every time I hear it despite the fact that it's in one of the most serious scenes in the movie. On second thought, maybe it cracks me up because it's in one of the most serious scenes. Anyway, I do love that movie.

simplephysics 07-09-2009 09:23 PM

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Originally Posted by sweet_nothing (Post 701228)
ehh I hope youre referring to the movie and not my comment. Before going into the movie I had only 'Fun' by him which I thought was really good, and my ex girlfriend had met him and everything at last year's ACL and I knew he has suffered from mental illness and manic depression. I had expected the documentary to just be interviews with him and his friends and whatever stock footage they had (as these types usually do) but its actually much more in depth. With the home movies and tape recordings of everything from his mom yelling at him to him flipping out on the drummer from Sonic Youth. Some parts I laughed at like the Mountain Dew part "This Daniel Johnston speaking from a Mental Hospital and they say I'm crazy....because I love Mountain Dew so much, I can't get enough of it!" Some of it's really sad about how much his mental condition has almost ended his life and career trying to crash his father's plane, attacking an old woman, and ect. But then you have the people who are their for him through the thick and thin his manager who worked so hard for him even when he fired him and his parents whom he still lives with and take care of him.

I was referring to the movie.. it really makes you appreciate everything he's been through, and gives you a whole new take on his recordings. I only had a few albums before seeing the movie as well (Fun being one of them- the fact that it was a total flop really surprised me) and after watching it got my hands on his earlier, more landmark albums like hi, how are you and yip/jump music. My emotions really get pulled around with this one, like the scenes you mentioned, and when he was harassing that elderly woman who jumped out her window. Like I said, heartbreaking and uplifting at the same time. That being said I really want to see him live, take advantage of living in Texas and go see him play sometime!

sweet_nothing 07-09-2009 09:34 PM

Yeh I am going to see him, in October (I'll tell him you said hi). I was also shocked when he recorded Fun that it only sold 5,800 copies I mean Life In Vain alone is an amazing track. After seeing that I felt guilty for downloading it, so I'm gonna actually pay money for his music instead for doing the whole free download thing. But yeh great documentary.

Freebase Dali 07-09-2009 11:46 PM

Ugh... I watched "the unborn" today...

What's happening to horror nowdays? Is suck becoming an element of fright?
There's a difference between cult horror and just plain crap horror. No matter how many warped visual FX you can toss in, you still need to have some kind of substance. There needs to be one outstanding factor that is NOT centered in FX. Something that keeps you thinking about it long after the movie is over.

The only thing I got out of that movie is that the lead actress is hot. That's pretty much it.

jackhammer 07-10-2009 07:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon (Post 701255)
Oh man, that's of my favorite nostalgia-inducing movies ever. I don't know why but for some reason the line "no, I'm going to use my finger genius" kind of cracks me up every time I hear it despite the fact that it's in one of the most serious scenes in the movie. On second thought, maybe it cracks me up because it's in one of the most serious scenes. Anyway, I do love that movie.

I haven't seen that film in 15 years. I would love to see it again sometime. I thought Slater was great in comedy called Kuffs which really played to his strengths.

khfreek 07-10-2009 09:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Freebase Dali (Post 701349)
Ugh... I watched "the unborn" today...

What's happening to horror nowdays? Is suck becoming an element of fright?
There's a difference between cult horror and just plain crap horror. No matter how many warped visual FX you can toss in, you still need to have some kind of substance. There needs to be one outstanding factor that is NOT centered in FX. Something that keeps you thinking about it long after the movie is over.

The only thing I got out of that movie is that the lead actress is hot. That's pretty much it.

You couldn't tell that was crap from the trailer...?

I'm disappointed in you -_-

Freebase Dali 07-10-2009 03:16 PM

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Originally Posted by khfreek (Post 701469)
You couldn't tell that was crap from the trailer...?

I'm disappointed in you -_-

Haha... I didn't see the trailer. My mom wanted to watch it so I downloaded it and burnt a DVD out of it for her. Figured I may as well have watched it too. Big mistake I guess.

Vote With A Bullet 07-10-2009 03:43 PM

Saw Old School. It was pretty decent.

jackhammer 07-10-2009 05:02 PM

http://www.wildaboutmovies.com/image...orter3_325.jpg

Meh.

Piss Me Off 07-10-2009 05:05 PM

Good to know you're critical on your own movies :D

jackhammer 07-10-2009 05:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Piss Me Off (Post 701628)
Good to know you're critical on your own movies :D

yeah I did suck in that rofl although the redhead was damn cute :D

Raust 07-11-2009 12:21 AM

http://i629.photobucket.com/albums/u...tchen-sink.jpg
Yeah my friends talked me into seeing this one with them. It was just over the top and quiet disturbing. There were some funny moments though not going to lie.


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