What movies have you seen lately?

[r-type]

Watchmen: Director's Cut
Hellboy II
Coraline

Marley and Me (meh)

[uraydo]

Watchmen: Director's Cut
Hellboy II
Coraline

Marley and Me (meh)

loved Hellboy II

Coraline was amazing but it seemed to have a very weak end to me. I could have sworn I was watching someone playing a video game for the last 30 mins.

Did the Directors cut of Watchmen really improve the story, was was just stuff that should have been cut?

[alexsm]

Hellboy 2 was great, but I think it lacks a bit of the charisma of the first.

[r-type]

loved Hellboy II

Coraline was amazing but it seemed to have a very weak end to me. I could have sworn I was watching someone playing a video game for the last 30 mins.

Did the Directors cut of Watchmen really improve the story, was was just stuff that should have been cut?

The third act did feel a little rushed, but to be honest, at some point Coraline had to gtf out of dodge and take the Other Mother's world with her.

I feel like Watchmen's DC isn't going to sway anybody that wasn't already on board with the theatrical cut. I'll be the first to admit, though, that I'm no Watchmen expert, to be able to tell you how much more faithful this (approx. 24 min extra) cut is to the source. Personally, it felt like it gave a little more nuance to some of the characters with that extra breathing room. Like Hellboy II, I left the theater slightly disappointed and was a lot harsher on both films then. They both grew on me once I watched them again for the Blu-Ray releases and ended up buying them.

Hellboy 2 was great, but I think it lacks a bit of the charisma of the first.

Exactly how I felt, but then I started to appreciate the mythology, mixture of quirky and odd, more after subsequent viewings. Plus, I couldn't stay mad at Del Toro for where he took Hellboy, for very long either.

[taybrian1]

Coraline was amazing but it seemed to have a very weak end to me. I could have sworn I was watching someone playing a video game for the last 30 mins.

Aside from the character Wybie, the movie followed the story pretty close. The book does end like that. Either way, it's a great movie.

I watched "Knowing" the other day. It started out so great and then ventured into something completely weird. I watched it with my parents and had to say 'are you kidding me?"

[Michael Do]

Gran Torino - great film. I enjoyed the character alot and the dialogue.

[alexsm]

Public Enemies

Ok, i think i'm done with Mann. He was great in the past but now he is out of his mind.

How the hell could someone use an anticinematic awful disgusting cinematography? Everything is wrong with it.

And it's a shame because nearly everything else is right.

And another thing i can't understand. How the hell can any critic or people say Bay movies are "hard to see due to the fast cut and the camera movement" and then enjoy this?

[Bayhem]

"Retroactive" /1997 /

I totally forgot how great that movie was - Kylie Travis was absolutely gorgeous and James Belushi was simply insane.

Overall, a must-see gem.

[taybrian1]

District 9: Very bloody and very sweary. Still awesome. It's my #2 movie of the year.

Total Recall: It was on SyFy the other day and I love watching their crappy Saturday movies. Very weird movie. I still have no real clue as to what was going on.

[Michael Do]

Mutant CHronicle - not that great. acting and visual effects really a let down.

[alexsm]

Alligator: Crappy but fairly entertaining monster movie about a giant alligator causing panic and eating things in Chicago.

Alligator 2: The Mutation: Holy hell! who allowed this to be released? It even uses FX footage from the first, made 11 years before...

[razgriz21]

^^^I enjoy the first Alligator. Cheesy, bloody fun.

The Descent (Director's Cut) Still chilling after a re watch.

The Warriors (Director's Cut) Definitely one of my favorite movies right now.

The International A bit of a slow pace thriller but worth watching. Clive Owen is going to be a big star.

District 9 Very cerebral, engaging, entertaining, and though provoking.

Transformers Revenge of The Fallen My third viewing in the first run theater. Almost as good as the first and it makes a good re watch.

[alexsm]

^^^I enjoy the first Alligator. Cheesy, bloody fun.

The Descent (Director's Cut) Still chilling after a re watch.

I also have fun with the first.

It's worth seing the Director's Cut of The Descent?

[warhorse]

District 9

I thought the movie was terrific.

[uraydo]

Mutant CHronicle - not that great. acting and visual effects really a let down.

I had high hopes for this film, but it wouldn't surprise me if it was terrible.

Alligator: Crappy but fairly entertaining monster movie about a giant alligator causing panic and eating things in Chicago.

Alligator 2: The Mutation: Holy hell! who allowed this to be released? It even uses FX footage from the first, made 11 years before...

I love those movies. I was a kid when I saw the first one, and the diving board scene, I was all like,*spoiler* "you can't kill a kid, It's in the rules!"


before I saw Braveheart, I thought horses were immortal.

[razgriz21]

I also have fun with the first.

It's worth seing the Director's Cut of The Descent?

In my opinion, yes.

Pick it up if you have only seen the Rated version (aka the U.S. version).

[Mech_1000]

District 9
Interesting take on aliens.

[alexsm]

Deepstar Six: When i was a child this was a movie i always wanted to see, but never did. Now i found it really disappointing. More than one hour to build the first act, and then the movie ends 20 minutes later... the monster is just lame and appears like 1 minute on screen, and 3 minutes in "presence".

Sean S. Cunningham and his writters waste fine scenarios, decent actors, a great score and a good story setting.

Sean, guy, I tell you, making movies is not for you. You have never made any worth seeing.

Hercules: The Legendary Journeys: Just one episode. It's funny to see the line "Screenplay by Robert Orci & Alex Kurtzman" :lol

[alexsm]

Leviathan

More or less the same as Deepstar Six, maybe a bit more entertaining but also not a good film.

The cast it's better, but the ending is even worst.

SPOILER

It has one really good ending shot but then screws it up with a random shark attack to the main characters and then screws it even more with a nonsensical and ridiculous attack of the monster and then screws it beyond you could imagine with an stupid death to the monster.

What the hell where you thinking about, George?

[uraydo]

Gran Torino - great film. I enjoyed the character alot and the dialogue.

was it me, or could Eastwood's co-star not act. He wasn't bad all the time, but like when he would get mad, I just didn't believe it.

[r-type]

Leviathan

More or less the same as Deepstar Six, maybe a bit more entertaining but also not a good film.

The cast it's better, but the ending is even worst.

SPOILER

It has one really good ending shot but then screws it up with a random shark attack to the main characters and then screws it even more with a nonsensical and ridiculous attack of the monster and then screws it beyond you could imagine with an stupid death to the monster.

What the hell where you thinking about, George?

B movie caliber stuff. Saw those both in the theater. I saw both in in recent years, time was not kind to them. (or had forgotten my nostalgia goggles) Seemed like going underwater was big at the end of the eighties. RIP Cosmatos.

I love those movies. I was a kid when I saw the first one, and the diving board scene

Same here. At the time I was more thrown off that he was pushed in by other kids.

I was all like,*spoiler* "you can't kill a kid, It's in the rules!"

You haven't seen Assault on Precinct 13.


Recent:

Inglorious Basterds - The perverse alternative ending one wishes had happened to the Nazis. Movie has elements of Kill Bill in it (told in chapters, quick flashback cuts, etc.), with the exception that the events are occurring in order this time. The actor that played Landa is getting his due out there, his character was extremely creepy but interesting to watch.

Time Traveler's Wife - More romance than Sci Fi. Date movie. That is all.

The Goods - Piven didn't have The Goods.

[alexsm]

B movie caliber stuff. Saw those both in the theater. I saw both in in recent years, time was not kind to them. (or had forgotten my nostalgia goggles) Seemed like going underwater was big at the end of the eighties.

Yeah, B stuff, but i was expecting more. Leviathan and Deepstar Six where two movies I always saw at the videoclub when I was a kid but never got them and I always loved their artwork. But now i saw them and... well, i wasn't expecting them to be The Abyss, but at least two entertaining and fairly scary flicks.

I think the only two things i'll remember are Amanda Pays, who was hot in 1989, and the awful ending of Leviathan...

[hautbasclair]

Inglorious Basterds - Brilliant stuff from Q.

It does feel like he's getting more conservative with his shooting style.

... and it is a bit long afterall, but there are some really great scenes : the first one is intense, and the Bar scene is just crazy.

[Dynasty]

District 9: Very bloody and very sweary.

Really? *groan*

[Trailbreaker]

Really? *groan*

Doesn't mean it's bad though.