What movie did you watch today?

citizen · Post by **citizen** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 3:04 pm

gone baby gone, out of all the boston cop movies, i think this is my favorite, really put together well, nice to see harris and freeman in different type of roles

Funky Butler · Post by **Funky Butler** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 8:52 pm

all this lang talk made me bust out my rancho notorious

best narrative soundtrack this side of high noon

cascarrabias · Post by **cascarrabias** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 2:20 am

Funky Butler wrote:all this lang talk made me bust out my rancho notorious

best narrative soundtrack this side of high noon

The songs are a riot.

Cloak And Dagger - 8/10 - The first Lang film I didn't absolutely love. Still great though. Word to Gary Cooper karate chopping fascist Italians in the neck.

KritiKal · Post by **KritiKal** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 12:30 pm

"The skill of gymnastics, the kill of karate."

Yes, there is pommel horse fighting.

Spartan · Post by **Spartan** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 2:30 pm

Took a break from ultra geeky star wars model kit constructing and painting and sat down to watch another trashy movie.

Axe (aka The Virgin Slaughter, Lisa Lisa, California Axe Massacre)

4/10

A bunch of sadistic criminals go on the run and hideout on a farm. Unfortunately, the said farm has Lisa living there. Lisa is a bigger nut job than the criminals. She feeds her paralytic grand father raw eggs and in one instance human blood. This movie is just over an hour long and it's slow paced. Obviously, Lisa eventually goes ape shit in the film and as terrible as this film is, I enjoyed the Night of the Living Dead style climax. It's a Harry Novack film, so I'd only recommend it if you're high on something or pissed out of your skull or have a deep appreciation for badly acted trashy films.

cascarrabias · Post by **cascarrabias** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 4:24 pm

Metropolis - 10/10 - An absolute masterpiece. Seen it before but god damn. Amazing. It's like Lang's brain was 20 years in the future and his body wasn't.

Magnum Force - Meh/10 - What a disappointment. Of course Eastwood was awesome but this one doesn't hold a candle to Dirty Harry. Are all the Dirty Harry sequels this bad?

Spartan · Post by **Spartan** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 5:09 pm

cascarrabias wrote:Magnum Force - Meh/10 - What a disappointment. Of course Eastwood was awesome but this one doesn't hold a candle to Dirty Harry. Are all the Dirty Harry sequels this bad?

Magnum Force might not be en par with Dirty Harry but that doesn't mean it isn't fucking dope. Police execution squad concept was something you'd hear about in the Third World and then you see it happening in San Francisco. "A man's gots to know his limitations". I would have given it 8/10.

The Dirty Harry movies start to slip in quality after that. The Enforcer would have been great if Tyne Daly wasn't cast.

StormShadow · Post by **StormShadow** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 5:42 pm

Spartan wrote:
cascarrabias wrote:Magnum Force - Meh/10 - What a disappointment. Of course Eastwood was awesome but this one doesn't hold a candle to Dirty Harry. Are all the Dirty Harry sequels this bad?
Magnum Force might not be en par with Dirty Harry but that doesn't mean it isn't fucking dope. Police execution squad concept was something you'd hear about in the Third World and then you see it happening in San Francisco. "A man's gots to know his limitations". I would have given it 8/10.

The Dirty Harry movies start to slip in quality after that. The Enforcer would have been great if Tyne Daly wasn't cast.

agree with this 100%

also I want to give props to spartan again

he consistently watches and shares his thoughts on random ass interesting sounding movies that I probably won't ever watch but nonetheless enjoy hearing about

furthermore I bought Cinema Sewer the other day and it's pretty fucking awesome.

ThaJim2 · Post by **ThaJim2** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 5:58 pm

KritiKal wrote:

"The skill of gymnastics, the kill of karate."

Yes, there is pommel horse fighting.

I have been looking for this movie for a while.

The Driver 4 out of 10. Probably being generous giving it a 4. I don't know if it was the screenplay or the director but the beginning was a mess. I had no idea why the driver was doing anything or anyone else in the film until almost the half hour mark. The chases where nothing special even for the time it was released. Really the only thing good in the film was O'Neil who was charismatic enough.

Spartan · Post by **Spartan** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 6:05 pm

Cinema Sewer is dope. It's all the best bits from the CS fanzine and just crammed into a trade paper back. The crummy handwritten text and the shitty B&W pics give it some class.

Storm, you might want to check out this if you haven't seen it already. Heavy reading and it's literally heavy.

StormShadow · Post by **StormShadow** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 6:27 pm

Funny you mention it as I placed an order for that last night from amazon uk

I'd been meaning to buy it but forgot and then cinema sewer reminded me

should be here friday, I'm geeked

cascarrabias · Post by **cascarrabias** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 8:23 pm

ThaJim2 wrote:The Driver 4 out of 10. Probably being generous giving it a 4. I don't know if it was the screenplay or the director but the beginning was a mess. I had no idea why the driver was doing anything or anyone else in the film until almost the half hour mark. The chases where nothing special even for the time it was released. Really the only thing good in the film was O'Neil who was charismatic enough.

ThaJim not enjoying an old school Walter Hill car chase movie with minimal dialogue and sweet 70s car chases? What is the world coming to?

drizzle is going to shit a brick when he sees this.

Lance Goodthrust · Post by **Lance Goodthrust** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 10:34 pm

Watched a bunch this weekend.

No Country For Old Men - 9/10
Damn near perfect. Everything about it hits the right note. Can't think of many movies with 3 better performances than Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, and Javier Bardem. Not to mention all the great spots by the smaller players. Call me a snob, but when I hear people complain about the ending I just think they are stupid. When I saw it at the theater I wanted to strangle about 3 chicks who I overheard complaining on our way out.

Trainspotting - 7/10
I dig the whole movie, but the very beginning and very end is fucking great. I just love the way that it throws you into what feels like a movie in progress and dig the talking through the title screen at the end. And is there anything better than an Iggy Pop song about drug use becoming the theme song for a cruise line? I think not. Take that "Pink Houses"!

Hackers - 7/10
Its a Johnny Lee Miller double feature! One of my all time favorite shitty movies. If this comes on cable I can't look away. Things I love about this flick: The ridiculous three dimensional cyber environments they navigate, how dated the movie looks because the computers that are state of the art then are propping up table legs now, Angelina Jolie's tits, that every kid in it dresses like an extra in Tron, Angelina jolie's lips, Matthew Lillard as the most annoying guy in the history of the world, Fisher Stevens playing a tough guy in a couple of scenes, Bunk Moreland!, the hacker handles they use, I could go on.

Blades Of Glory - 6/10
I laughed plenty, no real plot, I forgot it 10 minutes after it was over.

He Got Game - 5/10
Such a beautifully shot movie. Saw it on one of my HD channels and it is so gorgeous. The basketball montage in the beginning looked great. Denzel is fine and Ray Allen is surprisingly good, but there really isn't a whole lot there. I hate the Dakota the hooker sub plot and 15 minutes in you're already tired of getting beat over the head with how everybody in his life is trying to take advantage of Jesus. And the last scene where Denzel throws the ball over the prison wall and it lands on the college court by Ray, he looks up and starts to cry, is embarrassingly bad. I think Spike stole the idea from and eighth grader. Peace to Jill Kelly and Chasey Lain for the best cameo in any Spike Lee joint.

Spartan · Post by **Spartan** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 2:00 pm

Wrong Turn 2: Dead End
6/10

Highly formulaic horror that surprisingly surpasses it's predecessor. The Hills Have Eyes and Texas Chainsaw Massacre play a massive influence on this film, some elements are a direct rip-off. I didn't have a problem with any of that as it was all fun. Henry Rollins and the over excessive gore pretty much lifted this flick into my kind of style. Can't over emphasize how dope Rollins was in this. As much as enjoy this small cannibalistic mutant genre, this pisses over The Hills Have Eyes 2.

bringinoutbangerz · Post by **bringinoutbangerz** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 2:19 pm

Lance Goodthrust wrote:He Got Game - 5/10
Such a beautifully shot movie. Saw it on one of my HD channels and it is so gorgeous. The basketball montage in the beginning looked great. Denzel is fine and Ray Allen is surprisingly good, but there really isn't a whole lot there. I hate the Dakota the hooker sub plot and 15 minutes in you're already tired of getting beat over the head with how everybody in his life is trying to take advantage of Jesus. And the last scene where Denzel throws the ball over the prison wall and it lands on the college court by Ray, he looks up and starts to cry, is embarrassingly bad. I think Spike stole the idea from and eighth grader. Peace to Jill Kelly and Chasey Lain for the best cameo in any Spike Lee joint.

haha spot on review despite the:

Denzel is fine

I've always hated a lot of this movie, but it has like five kick-ass sports scenes like the smooth-talkin' agent dude and the quintessential Rick Fox performance that he has yet to live up to since. Not to mention John Chaney's talking head looking like Jason Voorhees in Spartan's sig.

Speaking of Denzel's "fine" ass:

American Gangster: ****
I thought it was awesome. Probably would have sucked if it wasn't about black people, and three (not including Stringer Bell, didn't one of you blokes say he was a rapper too?) rappers in one movie is a bit too much if it isn't "Who's the Man" or "State Property II," but it was a thoroughly sweeping piece that is Godfather-y enough to make me forgive the inordinate amount of camera time given to Russell Crowe's dullsville character. Brolin's greasy cop-on-the-take was dripping with awesome.

Icesickle · Post by **Icesickle** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 3:21 pm

The He Got Game ending is probably one of the corniest/worst endings to a movie ever. And American Gangster the album >>> the movie.

ThaJim2 · Post by **ThaJim2** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 5:01 pm

cascarrabias wrote:
ThaJim2 wrote:The Driver 4 out of 10. Probably being generous giving it a 4. I don't know if it was the screenplay or the director but the beginning was a mess. I had no idea why the driver was doing anything or anyone else in the film until almost the half hour mark. The chases where nothing special even for the time it was released. Really the only thing good in the film was O'Neil who was charismatic enough.
ThaJim not enjoying an old school Walter Hill car chase movie with minimal dialogue and sweet 70s car chases? What is the world coming to?

drizzle is going to shit a brick when he sees this.

I was shocked too, i thought i would love this movie. I would disagree about the chases being sweet though as they dont hold a candle to other movies from its general time frame like Bullitt, Cannonball Run, French Connection, Blues Brothers, Vanishing Point et al.

StormShadow · Post by **StormShadow** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 6:05 pm

ThaJim2 wrote:
cascarrabias wrote:
ThaJim2 wrote:The Driver 4 out of 10. Probably being generous giving it a 4. I don't know if it was the screenplay or the director but the beginning was a mess. I had no idea why the driver was doing anything or anyone else in the film until almost the half hour mark. The chases where nothing special even for the time it was released. Really the only thing good in the film was O'Neil who was charismatic enough.
ThaJim not enjoying an old school Walter Hill car chase movie with minimal dialogue and sweet 70s car chases? What is the world coming to?

drizzle is going to shit a brick when he sees this.
I was shocked too, i thought i would love this movie. I would disagree about the chases being sweet though as they dont hold a candle to other movies from its general time frame like Bullitt, Cannonball Run, French Connection, Blues Brothers, Vanishing Point et al.

the chases in Bullitt and French Connection are overrated as fuck and get by on being influential

I'm kinda sad thajim didn't like the Driver better

citizen · Post by **citizen** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 6:44 pm

king of california-eh, seems like another indie movie formula gone wrong, movie really makes no sense, i didnt enjoy watching it, pretty much nothing happens and the ending is terrible, but theres some no name indie girl character who wines about her life and a big name actor playing an eccentric goofball. oh but theres a heist and it deals with suicide, brilliant
negative 1 out of 10: would have gotten a zero if it wasnt for the terrible swingers subplot and the guy on motorcycle

blastmaster · Post by **blastmaster** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 7:18 pm

Pistol Whipped- 8.5/10

Its nice to see Steve making moves in the States on a semi-regular basis again. The plot is basic here, Steve's character is a former cop who got kicked off the force due to suspicion that he stole some money from evidence. He owes a shit ton of money all over town that some old guy starts buying up. Long story short, he makes Seagal kill a bunch of people and it turns out that his ex-wife's new husband, his old partner, really stole the money, killed his priest and is a nasty dude. There is a huge shootout in a cemetary. Seagal does a nasty spin move shoot thing and its bad ass as all fuck. Obviously, there is some arm breaking. Normally, I dont like MTVish quick editing and all that fancy glossed out shit, but it is refreshing to see Steve in movies not written by Serbs, filmed by Turks and edited by Frenchmen. There are some really nice little scenes with Steve and his daughter. Great one-liners too. He fucks a Black chick.

The guy is 20-25 lbs from being viable as a big budget action star again in the post-Rambo market. He just needs a chance.

Get this man back on the big screen.

Fuck the FBI.

ThaJim2 · Post by **ThaJim2** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 7:46 pm

Great review of a great movie blastmaster. I could not agree more with everything you have said. This movie shows that the Great One on top of being one of if not the greatest action actors of all time could be a great dramatic actor if not for all the half men bitches in hollywood that will not give him a chance. I do have to disagree with you about him becoming a big budget action star again as much as it pains me to say that. He is just too much of a man in this world where johnny Deep?!? and orlando bloom are leading men.

Trademark · Post by **Trademark** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 4:25 pm

Icesickle wrote:The He Got Game ending is probably one of the corniest/worst endings to a movie ever. And American Gangster the album >>> the movie.

you are a fucking stupid faggot.

cascarrabias · Post by **cascarrabias** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 5:18 pm

Sudden Impact - OH MY GOD FUCK YES MAKE MY DAY HELL YEAH / 10 - Now THIS is what I'm talking about. Fuck Magnum Force. That movie is a joke compared to the first 20 minutes of this one. The elevator scene, the coffee shop robbery, barging in on that wedding, angry lieutenants, BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY MAKE MY DAY AWESOME. This movie ruled. If I had a son I'd show it to him every day of his life.

Duck You Sucker - 7/10 - Not my favorite Leone. Some great moments though. The train crash was

x a billion.

I remember liking He Got Game. Denzel killed it. But I remember it being problematic.

citizen · Post by **citizen** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 5:52 pm

i enjoyed he got game, the ending was suspect though

blastmaster · Post by **blastmaster** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 6:52 pm

Some really nice tits in He Got Game.

Spartan · Post by **Spartan** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 8:41 pm

I see you skipped The Enforcer, Cas.

cascarrabias · Post by **cascarrabias** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 8:42 pm

I did. Library DVDs. It'll be in soon.

Sucka Ducka · Post by **Sucka Ducka** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 12:47 am

dope sig spartan.

I watched NETWORK today, 9/10. Soooo many incredible moments/quotable quotes in that movie.

Anyone seen the show the 4400? I watched the pilot and the first episode the other day and they are real dope as well...

Trademark · Post by **Trademark** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 9:26 am

cascarrabias wrote:Sudden Impact - OH MY GOD FUCK YES MAKE MY DAY HELL YEAH / 10 - Now THIS is what I'm talking about. Fuck Magnum Force. That movie is a joke compared to the first 20 minutes of this one. The elevator scene, the coffee shop robbery, barging in on that wedding, angry lieutenants, BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY MAKE MY DAY AWESOME. This movie ruled. If I had a son I'd show it to him every day of his life.

I remember liking He Got Game. Denzel killed it. But I remember it being problematic.

immediately netflixed Sudden Impact!!!! That sig is dope as fuck......

He Got Game is problematic but the ending isn't it.

cascarrabias · Post by **cascarrabias** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 9:37 am

Trademark wrote:immediately netflixed Sudden Impact!!!! That sig is dope as fuck......

You will not be disappointed.

Harry Callahan: Well, we're not just gonna let you walk out of here.
Crook: Who'se we sucka?
Harry Callahan: [slowly drawing his .44 Magnum] Smith and Wesson... and me.