list/discuss/rate - your recently watched movies

I can't stand superhero movies, except for maybe the first 2 superman movies, I'll give this Dark Knight a shot though when it comes to DVD just to see what all the hype is about, 

88 Minutes --  quick-paced and involving, and you can't beat Pacino..  some very interesting subplots on insanity and criminality, could have been great if not for the absurd plot.

Six Reasons Why (2008) - stupid, nu-western (set in the future, I guess?) horrible acting, boring - 2/10

10 Items or Less (2006) - morgan freeman plays himself preparing for a role, meets some girl in a super market and helps her out for a job interview for a better life, I fell asleep - 2/10

The Call of Cthulhu (2005) - yes! this was great, finally a Lovecraft movie that actually is a close adaptation to the story (gee, what a novel concept) silent b/w movie looks like it was made in the 20s, loved the stop motion Cthutlhu! - 8/10

Suna no onna (Woman of the Dunes - 1964) - my god, what an F'ing movie this is. Just about every dimension of human emotion is present in this film from fear to love. Although not a Horror movie, probably more horrific than anything I've ever seen. And its just as much of an erotic love story as it is a story about imprisonment and a longing for freedom. I've never seen a movie that had an atmosphere quite like it - it was so dirty with all that sand and living in that constricting pit in the desert...after the movie I just wanted to shower and run around outside without any walls of confinement. It was an interesting metaphor, involving the idea of 'working to live, living to work'...even though the man is trapped and in order to live he must work undesirably for the benefit of others, you begin to realize that its not much different than his regular occupation and life he had in the outside world, thus the shocking yet only logical conclusion for this broken man. I can't think of any other reason why this movie shouldn't get a 10/10, this one is destined to be a total cult classic for me.

I recently watched One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest for the 200th time. I still enjoyed it thoroughly. Jack Nicholson is top notch, and it is so well written, I'd have to rate it a 10/10, 100/100 and 10'000/10'000. The greatest movie ever made IMHO.

I`m gonna go see Transporter 3 because it looks just as dumb as the two previous ones. Also because it`s $5 Tuesday and I can go to a matinee all by myself with only a few old people in the theatre

Step Brothers - love the teaming of Ferrell and Reilly and I am quite surprised that this film didn't do better, as I was last year with Walk Hard.  This film wasn't as good as Talladega Nights, which as comedies go in among the best this decade, but it is easily in a dead struggle with Burn After Reading (very different type of commedy) for funniest of 08'.  Commedy scale rating 8/10

My Name Is Bruce- a b grade horror movie starring Bruce Campbell, with a few cameos, Ted Raimi playing tons of characters, a so-so story.....tons of one-liners (self-referential points) and laughs throughout....definitely worth watching!

Ermanno Olmi's I Fidanzati.  

mithrandir wrote: Salò: the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) - finally got to see this one, it didn't have the impact on me that I had hoped, I think if I would have seen it at some underground viewing during the 1970s or seen a 7th generation grainy VHS copy during the 80s it might have been more disturbing, but I do believe the age of the internets has ruined the experience.... when you can see real scat at the click of the button and having seen other true grotesqueries on the net   - Salo is very tame by comparison, so don't blame me, blame the internet if I didn't find this movie as powerful as I ought to have, I understand the deeper meaning behind the potty humor (we're not really free bro! we are all tortured prisoners!) but the whole thing really does comes off as a juvenile attempt to shock, when the 2 women would babble on about their depraved sexual exploits my mind wandered because it was so boring, I understand and appreciate its cult status...but the entertainment value I had was that of casual amusement...nothing more, like an amature message board troll who in his attempts to offend he just comes off as trite...although occasionally they might post something that's worth a chuckle...and thats pretty much my viewing experience of this movie, - 6/10

I suggest that you read about Pasolini's intention in making this film.  He meticulously adhered to de Sade's work (aside from the change of date), and like de Sade was attempting to provide a rather somber summation of so-called humanity.  It's a dark film, and, of course, it is notorious for its gastronomical preferences (though, to be honest, I think its final sequence is its most disturbing--the tortured wantonly assume the role of torturer when given the opportunity).  Still, it is not to be shelved with the likes of the Guinea Pig series or compared with whatever one might find on Goregasm.

WinterLight wrote: mithrandir wrote: Salò: the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) - finally got to see this one, it didn't have the impact on me that I had hoped, I think if I would have seen it at some underground viewing during the 1970s or seen a 7th generation grainy VHS copy during the 80s it might have been more disturbing, but I do believe the age of the internets has ruined the experience.... when you can see real scat at the click of the button and having seen other true grotesqueries on the net   - Salo is very tame by comparison, so don't blame me, blame the internet if I didn't find this movie as powerful as I ought to have, I understand the deeper meaning behind the potty humor (we're not really free bro! we are all tortured prisoners!) but the whole thing really does comes off as a juvenile attempt to shock, when the 2 women would babble on about their depraved sexual exploits my mind wandered because it was so boring, I understand and appreciate its cult status...but the entertainment value I had was that of casual amusement...nothing more, like an amature message board troll who in his attempts to offend he just comes off as trite...although occasionally they might post something that's worth a chuckle...and thats pretty much my viewing experience of this movie, - 6/10 I suggest that you read about Pasolini's intention in making this film.  He meticulously adhered to de Sade's work (aside from the change of date), and like de Sade was attempting to provide a rather somber summation of so-called humanity.  It's a dark film, and, of course, it is notorious for its gastronomical preferences (though, to be honest, I think its final sequence is its most disturbing--the tortured wantonly assume the role of torturer when given the opportunity).  Still, it is not to be shelved with the likes of the Guinea Pig series or compared with whatever one might find on Goregasm.

sorry brotha, it just didn't seem all that dark to me, I couldn't latch on to an atmosphere at all, as I stated I appreciated it for being an underground hush-hush cult classic for so many years in the relative obscurity of midnight showings and in circulation of shoddy copies in the VHS tape trading circuit but I can't force myself to like it just for that reason alone, its kooky viewing and seemed very juvenile in its delivery...but like i said blame the internet for desensitizing me ...the other day I just watched a man brutally murdered by a hammer and a screwdriver...that to me is much more of a "joyful" reminder of the cruelty that only humans are capable of then Salo was, ....seen "1 man 1 jar" clip thats been making the round lately?  once again its stuff like that which ruins the impact that films like Salo once had,