Last seen movies

The Rush doc

thejokeriv wrote:

The Rush doc

I should be receiving that one today on blu-ray. Did you like it?

detuned wrote:

thejokeriv wrote:

The Rush doc

I should be receiving that one today on blu-ray. Did you like it?

Yep it was great!!!!!

Book Of Eli-I purchased it this weekend and saw it with friends who haven't seen it. Unfortunatly one of the guys, Bruce mentioned the suprise ending (he heard it as a rumor but the cat was out of the bag. Just as awesome as the first time and will go down as one of my favorite movies.

How To Train Your Dragon-Me, John and our friends Bruce and Jake went to the $1 theater. My 2nd and their first. I love this movie and it's just as good the second time around, definatly the best of the Dreamworks animated movies since Shrek 2 IMO. The expressions on the face of Toothless are priceless. I will definatly buy this one when it comes out.

LOTR - Return of the King

X-Men

Saw "Young Victoria" last night. Actually rather enjoyable

Just Before Dawn

I'd heard amazing things about this early eighties "slasher" so I probably had too high of expectations for it. Pretty tame and not many scares in it. Not horrible but glad I netflixed it instead of bought.

Superman: The Movie

A long time favorite that never gets old.

jstate wrote:

Just Before Dawn

I'd heard amazing things about this early eighties "slasher" so I probably had too high of expectations for it. Pretty tame and not many scares in it. Not horrible but glad I netflixed it instead of bought.

Superman: The Movie

A long time favorite that never gets old.

I actually have Just Before Dawn on dvd. I don't remember it being the best movie, but I'm sure it's better than most slashers that come out today.

Lethal Weapon 3: whether you do or don't like the politics of Mel Gibson or Danny Glover, you've got to admit they made a great team.

Sherlock Holmes

Believer Home Video

"Daybreakers" - cool horror/sci fi/action hybrid about vampires becoming the dominant species on Earth, and what would happen when their source of food - humans! - starts to run low. Good, gory, violent fun. Sam Neill is great as a sleazy corporate head vamp.

Leap Year

Fat Freddy wrote:

"Daybreakers" - cool horror/sci fi/action hybrid about vampires becoming the dominant species on Earth, and what would happen when their source of food - humans! - starts to run low. Good, gory, violent fun. Sam Neill is great as a sleazy corporate head vamp.

Yeah, I enjoyed that one as well, they found some interesting new angles on a well worn genre and made it work.

I watched the remake of The Crazies and was very pleasantly surprised by that film too.

I need to see both Daybreakers and The Crazies.

detuned wrote:

I watched the remake of The Crazies and was very pleasantly surprised by that film too.

I watch that yesterday morning, pretty good thriller. Never seen the original.

A few days ago I watched *most* of Ninja Assassin. It wasn't really thrilling me but I wasn't in the right frame of mind to watch a movie since my woman of eight flipping years left me on Sunday.

The original version of The Crazies is a little more political in tone (the movie was a reaction to the way the police/military were responding to Vietnam war protesters). The primary difference between the two versions is that the original film is told from both the townsfolk & military points of view...and it's more of a straight action flick.

By removing any insight into the Military side of the equation, it makes it more of a suspense flick.

The remake made me want to go back and revisit the original.

Alice In Wonderland

Sin City

Inglorious Basterds. I really liked certain scenes of this movie but as a whole I thought it didn't quite hang together.

The Tournament. Fun direct-to-video action flick. Some very good action scenes that are mostly well-shot.

Rest Stop

John Carpenter's The Thing.

Awesome.

MetalGuy71 wrote:

John Carpenter's The Thing.

Awesome.

Classic! From a time when FX were created using prosthetics, latex and animatronics. If Hollywood ever remakes this movie they should be confined to the deepest level of hell.

tohostudios wrote:

MetalGuy71 wrote:

John Carpenter's The Thing.

Awesome.

Classic! From a time when FX were created using prosthetics, latex and animatronics. If Hollywood ever remakes this movie they should be confined to the deepest level of hell.

I'm sorta surprised this hasn't been given the re-boot treatment yet. Give'em some time and I'm sure it will happen.

And yes, the FX were great. Maybe because I grew up in the era of doing everything by hand, but there is a part of me that feels like movie makers are somehow "cheating" by using CG. And yet the CG movies cost 100x more. Give Rick Baker $100 bucks and an hour and he could make 3 heads explode and tranform you into a werewolf. Look what George Lucas did with some toy model airplanes.

Ah, f**k it. I'm old.

Just watched 'Black Hawk Down' great film