Anyone seen any good movies lately?

HEy don't be fooled by trailers.. Like the movie hell boy man the trailer was awsonem.. But the movie sucked ass. Some of the trailer sucked but the movie is good. But the Fan 4 looks like it's fun. I can't wait for the island. Has anyone seen the trailer yet?

 

Yeah I like Marvel Movies. Espesially Spider Man

 

[bold]SAW[/bold] has been one of my faves this year too WOW what an ending .seems like people really like the movie or they dont like it at all. i think it was filmed in like 18 days ,so iam sure it made money. and word is there working on the second one.

 

I thought man on fire took a while to get into it but after that I thought it was great, staying on DW The Manchurian Candidate was a very good movie. Watched Mr & Mrs Smith the other day that was also good. SAW was a cracking movie, the ending was very Surprising.

 

Second hand Lions was a great film, I honestly didnt want to see it, but I have to admit the only reason why I saw it was because it was the first place you could of saw the LOTR: Return of the King trailer. So I was one of the freaks who bought a ticket to see a preview, but thank god it was a good movie with great storytelling

 

I loved the secondhand lion. It was very good movie. I thought walking tall and punisher was good.

 

The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human (1999)

An anthropologist from an alien planet provides voice-over commentary for a documentary look at human courtship...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0165874/combined

 

I just watched notebook. It was ok.

 

Answer to the question: No.

I'm beginning to be really sad and frustrated: I've been hardcore movie collector and watcher for many years (focused mostly on 60'-80's horror and sleaze) and movies has always been the most important hobby for me - along with video games. Earlier I got lots of pleasure about them but lately I've started to notice that every movie I've watched has been some kind of disappointments, I can't say that all of them has been bad ones but they just don't wake any emotions in me - they all feel the same. I've tried to find reasons for this and it feels like movies won't give anything to me anymore, they just take from me in the form of spended time for watching them, gathering information, trying to find rarities and specific versions etc., and I've been seriously thinking about leaving this hobby and putting my collection for sale if situation doesn't change. It feels bad but if my interesting for them doesn't come back there's no reason to continue this, at least as seriously it has been.

Making this little bit more exact I don't watch much new movies because most of them just doesn't match my taste at all. There's some expectations which have been or might be interesting, like Sin City which I haven't seen yet, but most of 90's or newer movies are just worthless crap. Almost all remakes which seems to became trend nowadays (like ones from original asian horror movies for example) have been just bunch of crap, and I hate from bottom of my heart all glittering and CGI-filled Michael Bay action romps Hollywood spits out. There haven't been many really original movies for a long time, movie industry has became some kind of mass manufacturing lab.

 

Maybe you're becoming more cynical. It's just the way things are, the oldies will always have a different attitude towards the newbies. But sooner or later true orginality, not variation of ideas, but TRUE orginality will not exist except for those who are slightly insane.

 

Toiletman: Yeah, you might be close. Maybe it's about tolerance for quality of the movies, which might be grown so high in my case that only very few movies can match it anymore. There is indeed lots of older films I would like to have, but they are impossible for me to get as originals (which I prefer) because of certain reasons so I can't get them on my hands and it annoys me even more.

 

I just watched house of flying dagger. It was ok. I liked the computer effect of throwing knife that was cool. I don't relly like thoes kinds movie like hero, that was horrible.

 

I saw War of the Worlds on the day it was released and hated it so much I decided to be quiet until others had a chance. I call it this season's first "Must miss" movie.

On one promotion, it was called "Tom Cruise's best performance to date." While, this would not be hard to achieve, I think his range in this one was somewhere around half an octave. In the beginning, you didn't care for him much, but you weren't supposed to. However, as the movie progressed, I learned to dislike him a *LOT* and that is just not what is supposed to happen with a protagonist. The term "character development" never comes into play in this howler. I agree that the little girl was the closest thing we get to an actor in this movie--and her best scene was when she didn't want her dad to watch her pee.

His character was a self-centered shallow dock worker whose personal growth and development was limited pretty much to killing a guy with his bare hands and acting as if he *might* (but probably doesn't) give a damn about his children in the end. Pretty much the only thing he did for the entire movie was *RUN AWAY* and he didn't even do that well. At least Gene Barry was trying to find a way to stop these things, in the original movie. This version lacked a single scientist or politician. All efforts were small-scale military and minor. None of the characters we followed made a gnat's ass of a difference to the situation at all. This was evidently produced from the reality TV school of science fiction.

Over and above the fact that this was a movie that did *NOT* need to be remade, if I *did* remake it, I would chose someone like Quentin Tarantino to do it--since he is far more of the Orson Welles creative bent than Steven "High-tech Disney movies" Spielberg. Why Spielberg thought he could substitute special effects for H. G. Welles' superb writing is beyond me--but he definitely couldn't.

Even throwing in an almost-obligatory knock-off of George Lucas' Imperial Walkers--and have then do transformer gyrations reminiscent of SPACEBALLS--didn't do anything to save this picture. And it was *so* predictable, that I spent the entire movie aggravating the people around me by flawlessly predicting what was going to happen next. In fact, I predicted the almost-obligatory Spielberg/Disney feel-good maudlin ending nearly twenty minutes early.

Other than the very basic framework that allows them to keep the name:

[Skip the next paragraph if you are under four or have lived in a sensory-deprivation box all of your life, and are not familiar with the original WotW. It might act as a spoiler for you.]

(three-legged aliens invade the earth in three-legged machines that are impervious to anything that modern technology can throw at them, until--at the moment it looks like all is lost--they are defeated through no act of man, but by microscopic bacteria.)

....Spielberg kept almost nothing else from the book or original movie--*except* dedicating nearly twenty minutes to the farmhouse scene that he had to Disnify up with a couple of kiddies and a *lot* more repetitive pseudo-suspense scenes that seemed to drag on forever and challenge even the most willing suspension of disbelief.

Time and time and time again, the viewer is asked to forgo even the minutest modicum of logic and reason and believe motivations and actions--let alone entire scenarios--that the average five-year-old would be able to see through, if presented as real. I'll list a very few of them that shouldn't act as spoilers for anyone:
* The aliens send massive bolts of energy into the ground creating a bit of
a hole, and yet the rocks around it are *icy cold*--and nobody gets around
to even a minor guess as to how that could be.

* These bolts disable every electronic device and automobile in New
York--except the one Tom Cruise happens to have handy, simply because it had
a bad starter relay when the EMPs hit. No other car that was off at the
time appears to be usable.

* There is an open line of travel around a zillion stalled cars, rubble, and
bodies, from Tom Cruise's house all the out of New York, and many miles up
the freeway--in spite of a vast quantity of stalled vehicles (which were
theoretically moving at highway speeds when the EMP hit) all along his path.
He never has to stop, or even slow down, the entire way.

* Further hits of the energy bolts never took out the now fully-functional
automobile.

* During the entire journey through the streets of New York, and out beyond
the stalled vehicles on the highway, never once did they run across anyone
who tried to stop them and take their car. I commented on this at the time.
It was only *much* later that Spielberg decided that this might be a likely
occurrence--and he handled it extremely poorly even then (I won't go into
that, because it would be a spoiler).

* Everywhere Cruise went, there were great masses of people, all going in
the same direction. This was *almost* believable when he was fleeing the
city of New York, but once out in the country, people would be just as
likely to be headed in one direction as another.

* What was *really* unbelievable was, as much as *everyone* was fleeing New
York, which was a large city, invaded by mechanical monsters, they *all*
appeared to be going to Boston--which was also a large city, *just* as
invaded by mechanical monsters.

* Machines that were *completely* unaffected by *all* conventional weaponry
for 95% of the movie, suddenly became vulnerable to the lightest hand-held
and shoulder-launched weaponry, just because their operators were ill.

* Spielberg apparently didn't think the original plot and message were
obvious enough (or he knew that he had screwed them up beyond recognition),
so he gave away the ending in the opening credits and then had the narrator
beat us to death with the obvious, again, for the final credits.

...and there is much, MUCH, more, just as bad.

I only paid $3.00 to see this turkey--less than the average DVD rental--and I still felt like asking for my money back.

On the other hand, I paid $7.00 to see CINDERELLA MAN yesterday, and got more than my money's worth.

What a difference a little acting, directing, and writing can make! There must be two guys name Welles spinning in their graves, this week.

bob

 

thanks i was going to go see it now i will probably just wait on the dvd to come out.

Has anyone seen [bold]Crash[/bold]? heard it was good

 

If you mean David Cronenberg's Crash, it's definetely worth of watching like all other movies directed by Cronenberg too: He has really unique and dark visions (reaching the highest stages in Videodrome) which might be even very disturbing for some viewers, but his movies are also very fascinating at the same time. I'd suggest that you should also read J.G. Ballard's original novel, they are very different pieces of art but both of them are very interesting ones and worth of checking out.

 

I saw Batman Begins. Loved the way they potrayed Batman, one of my favourite movies of the year and one of the best of my short 15 year life. And Christian Bale was absolutely entertaining to watch, as usual. In fact, Christian Bale should play every superhero movie that wants to stand a chance at being a good movie. =P

Next up is War of The Worlds, Fantastic Four, and Land of the Dead. (Yes, I'm going to watch a zombie movie for the umpteenth time)