list/discuss/rate - your recently watched movies

I have recently added Rushmore, Bottle Rocket and Darjeeling Limited to my Wes Anderson collection. I enjoyed them all but still rank Tenenbaums as my favorite and Life Aquatic second.

Eagle Eye

A potentially good premise is butchered as two young adults are compelled to run a gauntlet of impossible odds helped along by a faceless voice on a cellphone.   With touches of similar but better films as Enemy of the State and Final Destination, events grow increasingly unlikely as the hand of Hollywood - and Steven Spielberg - cheapens an otherwise smart plot.

Atavachron wrote: Eagle Eye A potentially good premise is butchered as two young adults are compelled to run a gauntlet of impossible odds helped along by a faceless voice on a cellphone.   With touches of similar but better films as Enemy of the State and Final Destination, events grow increasingly unlikely as the hand of Hollywood - and Steven Spielberg - cheapens an otherwise smart plot.

I enjoyed Eagle Eye mainly for the individual stories within the movie.

Troll 2

Haven't seen the first, and heard that the two films are not even remotely connected.

Just finished Stay (2005) and what a mindf**k it was!

Edited by Bj-1 - July 11 2012 at 15:28

Atavachron wrote: The Grey Raw and intense action as a planeload of oil workers crashes in the Alaskan wilderness and are stalked by a pack of huge, aggressive lupines.   It's up to the ever-faithful Liam Neeson and his hunter's experience to save the survivors and keep them out of the wolves' jaws.

When I first heard about this movie I thought it was going to be just another survivor movie.

Hobo With A Shotgun - 6/10

Holy cow, was this movie gory!  The premise is that Rutger Hauer is a hobo who just hopped a train to this new town...everyone/thing is corrupt, brutal murders/child abductions/prostitution/drug abuse/etc is the norm.  A man and his two sons practically run the town, and they are some of the most brutal people there.  After our nameless hobo hero sees some of the brutality, he finally snaps...grabs a shotgun and becomes the title character!  The storyline is...laughable, but they weren't trying to take themselves too seriously with this one.  The gore is over the top, which I think was the plan.  Character development (and the characters themselves) were not the greatest, and the music really reminded me of an 80s horror/action flick.

Overall, I'd say that if you're at all opposed to absurd violence in a movie which doesn't take itself seriously, then don't watch this.  If the violence doesn't bother you, then maybe consider it if you want a good laugh.  Not a masterpiece of the gore-comedy genre (which includes IMO movies such as Dead Alive, Re-Animator, the Evil Dead series, etc), but a fun watch.

SaltyJon wrote: Hobo With A Shotgun - 6/10 Holy cow, was this movie gory!  The premise is that Rutger Hauer is a hobo who just hopped a train to this new town...everyone/thing is corrupt, brutal murders/child abductions/prostitution/drug abuse/etc is the norm.  A man and his two sons practically run the town, and they are some of the most brutal people there.  After our nameless hobo hero sees some of the brutality, he finally snaps...grabs a shotgun and becomes the title character!  The storyline is...laughable, but they weren't trying to take themselves too seriously with this one.  The gore is over the top, which I think was the plan.  Character development (and the characters themselves) were not the greatest, and the music really reminded me of an 80s horror/action flick. Overall, I'd say that if you're at all opposed to absurd violence in a movie which doesn't take itself seriously, then don't watch this.  If the violence doesn't bother you, then maybe consider it if you want a good laugh.  Not a masterpiece of the gore-comedy genre (which includes IMO movies such as Dead Alive, Re-Animator, the Evil Dead series, etc), but a fun watch.

Good (2008)