list/discuss/rate - your recently watched movies

avalanchemaster wrote: The Fall- this one is odd.  I really, really enjoyed it's ability to weave a good story within a story, that of art imitating life, just like all films.  This one was supposedly 4 years in the making- and boy does it have some cinematic feasts for the eyes.  Very vibrant and colorful, great views and shots and angles.....in short, it is pure poetry in motion.  The story will perhaps go down as a very tragic one, yet the ending let me down somewhat, because I got sucked into the fantasy of the internal story and left behind the "real" story, meanwhile I think it was an homage to movies, film-makers, stuntmen and all those involved in films.  Like Russian dolls, one inside the other, there are many layers to this one and I think I might actually buy a copy!  do watch this one....it is one of a kind for sure.  The only comparison I can make visually would be the surreality of the film The Cell with Jennifer Lopez, even though that film may not have been so great, the visuals are scrumptious.  Overall though, The Fall is generally a take on the archtypical heroes and their conquests and challenges.  Well done!    8.5/10

yeah, it was made by the same dude that did  The Cell, I also agree with you I wish there was a bit more of the fantasy part with the awesome optical feasts he presents, I was a bit irritating when they would abruptly cut back to reality, but then again I guess that was the purpose because you were feeling the little girl's impatience and eagerness with Roy and his tale as well

Roller Boogie (1979) - okay, I wanted to see this cheese for curiosity's sake, interesting to see this as a period piece that represents slice of pop culture that lasted approximately a 6 month period during the 70s when Roller Skating Rinks were the hip thing of the day, kind of nostalgic in a way being that I can still remember a lot from from this time being that I was in preschool, anyhow goofy as f**k story with little dialog and bad acting with long drawn out scenes with folks doing roller skating tricks and dance maneuvers to pick up the slack for such a piss poor script, but I have a thing for Linda Blair, 4/10

Tonari no Totoro (1988) - Anime made by the legendary Hayao Miyazaki of the Nausicaä fame, I wasn't loving this one though although the animation was dazzling, twas okay not even in the same league as Nausicaä, I plan to see many more of this man's movies, so we'll see where it goes, this one about is about 5/10

The Big Lebowski (1998) - I can't be one to judge this movie with any validity cause I'm really not a fan of comedies, but believe it or not I haven't seen this before and I wanted to see what all the fuss was about, I can see how it would garner a cult following and also make a good drinking game on multiple levels, I really liked John Goodman's character, I chuckled and laughed a handful of times, I thought the over all movie was a bit too long though, 2 hours is testing my patience with this kind of movie, from me 6/10 seems about right

An Angel For May - simple and beautiful filmmaking. I'm a big fan of Tom Wilkinson's acting ever since I saw him in Michael Clayton. 8/10

^^^ So I'm not the only one who didn't like it 

Jimbo wrote: ^ Luckily, it seems the rumours weren't true. BTW, Batman & Robin is one of the worst movies I've ever seen.

Batman and Robin was a better movie than the Dark Knight

Actually, both were equally hilarious in different ways, just one made me wish for death during half of it due to how terrible Bale was.

I've seen about 200-250 movies this year that were better than TDK (obviously not from this year alone), but it's still probably in my top ten favorites. As for best? Oh Jesus, it's so far down.

9 1/2 weeks - 2 hours of sh*t.  0/10

Junebug (2005) - kind of a mild movie, I actually thought the pregnant girl was the most interesting and most tragic character of the movie (also very hot), her husband was a turd and deserved to get kick in the head, 5/10

Epidemic (1987) - back to more familiar territory for me ---> Lars Von Trier (plays himself) along with his partner is contracted to write a screenplay for a movie in 5 days, they come up with the idea of making horror type movie with religious symbolism about an Epidemic, the main character is a doctor unbeknownst to him is the carrier of the plague, so you pretty much have 2 parallel stories going on here; one being Lars and his partner writing the story and the other being the story itself, I was actually disappointed that there wasn't more scenes involving the story about the Epidemic, most of the scenes that were shown were of the 2 writers working on the script as well as just horsing around, drinking beers and having random conversation about other things like toothpaste, old penpals, fine wines, etc, as with most Lars films there is a uniquely drab colored film quality to it with the "Epidemic" trademark logo positioned in the upper left hand corner the entire film, this this wasn't as serious of a movie as I thought it was going to be and I think even Lars would snicker at anyone would claim the film to be a "masterpiece", it actually plays out more like a post-modern inside joke between Lars and his partner, although the ending is rather heavy handed and absurd even by Lars standards, 6/10

Walkabout (1971) - okay, this was excellent, basically the surface story is about an older sister and younger brother stranded in the desert outback of Australia, they happen upon a Aboriginal boy who is on a "Walkabout" (sort of a coming of age passage where he lives on his own and is dependent on his own means for survival) and he ends up helping the white boy and girl survive in such a harsh environment, well this movie does not pull any punches cause it is ugly, plenty of real animal deaths with the Aboriginal boy clubbing kangaroos and lizards over the head and throwing their limbs on a fire for food, also there is an abundance of full frontal nudity scenes of the girl who couldn't have been over the age of 16 when this was filmed, also tons of bugs and ants and maggots over dead carcasses and so forth - it all just enhances the bloody realism they have live through on a day to day basis, there's also plenty of crude sounds and primitive electronic effects that I oh-so love about movies made in the 70s, let it also be known there is a sexual tension between the Aboriginal boy and white female throughout the film which ends in such a callous manner on the girl's behalf that left me feeling very uncomfortable (see it for yourself to see what I mean), there's also a plenty of the directors own ideas about the encroachment of Westerners and our cold culture in an otherwise "pure" untamed land, as well as the beauty of natural law of the wilderness vs. the orderly brick wall environment of "civilization", blah, blah, blah...all that good stuff, anyhoo people into Herzog and stuff like Aguirre and Fitzcarraldo should definitely check this out, its gets a solid 8/10 from me

Clash of Egos, a Danish comedy making fun the film industry. Its plot is... a director of surrealistic artsy movies that do well with critics in Europe (but not in America! ) ends up with his latest movie underperforming, and in order to avoid having his career killed by a lawsuit from an extra he accidentally injured during filming (and the extra absolutely hates the director's movies), he reluctantly agrees to have the extra write and direct his next movie. It was entertaining, but not as much as I expected. I did like that it satirized both of the art movie crowd and the blockbuster action movie fan crowd.

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