list/discuss/rate - your recently watched movies

I tried watching The Big Lebowski for the first time last night.  I am generally a fan of Coen Brothers movies, but this one I could not abide.  I turned it off just over half way through.  It seemed to have no point, was not very funny, and I simply did not enjoy it.  Am I wrong?

(yes, there are some quotable lines  .)

In the weekend, I watched this:


Swedish comedy about a young man who has becomes hopelessly square and upright as a reaction against his dysfunctional bohemian parents, then has to be shocked into thinking for himself by several friends who want to enlist him in getting their new business started. Along the road, he gets tangled up in a bunch of con artists trying to scam each other out of their money.

It's not bad at all and quite witty, just somewhat darker and nowhere as goofy as the advertising promises often touching on some rather serious subject matter in some of the later plot twists.


Edited by Toaster Mantis - September 08 2015 at 03:00

^ I bet you are also into Lucio Fulci stuff.

Edited by Dayvenkirq - August 25 2015 at 14:43

The Cabin In The Woods

Fantastic Four(Reboot)
Complete and utter trash. Don't waste a dime watching or time discussing this failed attempt to bolster the weakest Marvel entry ever. Don't expect a sequel unless they need a tax write-off.

Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation.

Coincidence - saw this one a couple of days ago & I agree - way better than Raid 1. Better storylines, character development (not just the good guys either) cinematography stunning in places (the fishing scene was beautifully shot), choreography of the fight scenes was jaw dropping - yes, I am using a lot of superlatives, but I think The Raid 2 is a martial arts film for people who don't think they like martial arts films. Loved it.

A solid 9/10 from me.

Edited by Jim Garten - August 10 2015 at 02:46

The man behind Pusher, Bronson and Drive turns his attention to the viking age resulting in one of the most unique sword-and-sandal epics I've ever seen. Imagine the barbaric existential mysticism aspect of the first Conan movie from 1982 turned up to 11, with very little dialogue or narrative structure, and you have a good idea of what you're in store for.

Instead of a typical historical action movie, it's more of a bloody metaphorical journey operating on dream logic into the spiritual struggle between Germanic Paganism and Christianity. There's also quite a few direct references to Werner Herzog's conquistador biopic Aguirre the Wrath of God, and for that matter the fighting choreography is more similar to old samurai movies than to anything to come out of the Occidental film industry in a long while.

It's a quite divisive movie, but I really liked it. Also, is it just me or is the main character meant to be interpreted by the audience as secretly being the one-eyed war-god Odin in the guise of a mortal? You need to know your Norse mythology in order to pick up on all the allusions, so maybe that was lost on audiences outside of Scandinavia...


Edited by Toaster Mantis - August 08 2015 at 11:24

Honestly, one of the best films I've seen for a long time - one of those films so good, the Oscar nominations completely bypass it. An innocent priest told he is to be killed in 7 days in revenge for a parishoner's abuse as a child. The premise being nobody would raise an eyebrow at the killing of an abusing priest, but an innocent one...

Watch it.

Most recently, I saw...Rifftrax Live: Sharknado 2. It was a lot of fun, as expected, though comparing it to former Rifftrax Live events I've been to, it wasn't QUITE as funny as the showing of Santa Claus Conquers the Martians or Night of the Living Dead. Lots of laughs, though, and the short at the beginning was great.