lol, I'll probably watch it tonight. I didnt like it when I saw it in the cinema.

Yeah Road to Perdition is one hell of a movie. My favourite Mendes picture. Some fantastic acting in there.

Drag Me To Hell - Watched it with my little brother and sister. Apparently my 14-year-old brother can appreciate gross-out humour better than my friends. lol. The movie was better than when I last saw it, but I still have the same problems with it. Decent.

Oh yea I thought Christine was sympathetic. I dont understand how so many people can call her evil and cold hearted. It's exactly what anyone of us would do.

This post has been edited by QuickFire: Sep 28 2009, 10:05 PM

It's goofy horror in the veins of Raimi and Peter Jackson's earlier works. It's never meant to be taken as serious horror. And it is funny, has quite a lo of funny bits actually. Unfortunately between said funny bits there are lots of unfunny, unscary, not very interesting bits. For example, the whole scene before the seance, where they explain the house has unknown forces.... gateway to hell.... bla bla bla. Bla bla bla...... Who gives a shit about details like that.

I recommend Evil Dead II. Now thats an awesome schlock-horror movie. It drips cheapness, and it works all the better because of it.

This post has been edited by QuickFire: Sep 28 2009, 11:06 PM

I think that's great too. The four films by him I've seen are all very good. But I think Road to Perdition is his best.

Dont worry, its not just you.

This post has been edited by QuickFire: Oct 1 2009, 07:46 PM

Dodgeball - An alright comedy. But I have never seen anyone look as bored as vince vaughn is in this movie. Everyone else is having so much fun and he's wallowing in self-pity.

Transformers 2 - Watched this piece of shit halfway before turning it off. Probably will watch the remaining half later with my brother who is watching it right now. Shit story, shit characters, shit bots, shit music, shit dialogue. I'm very hard pressed to find anything that isnt shit in this.

It's deliberate. Vol. 1 and 2, both damn fine movies.

GI Joe - This was supposed to suck! Everyone I trust who has seen it says its worse than Transformers 2! The trailers looked did the opposite of whetting my appetite! I really wanted this to suck so bad so that I could proclaim to my friends who liked it "how can you call this turd a good movie?!". Oh boy. I enjoyed it. It's not miles better than Transformers 2. It's immeasurably better. It gave me a slight Spy Kids vibe, a good sense of fun and some obviously bad and cheesy CGI (which I think was deliberate). You miss nothing by not watching it, but it's harmless fun.

Plus that Rachel Nichols girl is hot! So that's another reason to see this instead of TF2.

This post has been edited by QuickFire: Oct 4 2009, 10:47 PM

I think it's intentional. Like Speed Racer, the cartoonish visuals make it work. Not that I'm implying GI Joe is as good as Speed racer. It's mindless fluff, enjoyable while it lasts and forgettable thereafter.

Unlike you I dont go remembering every single person's reaction to every single movie.

So I take it that... you liked GI Joe?

Pirated dvd lah. Aiyo. Are you a malaysian or not?

I think it's an alright movie. But superman and his lore have never been one of my favourites anyway. Neither is Bryan Singer.

Well if it isnt intentional, then Sommers has had a good slice of luck that it turned out cartoonish. The movie wouldnt have worked otherwise. I have a hard time believing it wasn't intentional though, especially the underwater scenes. The explosions, the colours all point to it being intentional, at least to me.

re: 30 Days of Night and Let the Right One In. I agree with makakeke on both counts, and I thought the ending to 30 Days, well, sucked.

I cant remember much about the movie, there are a few bright spots I think, but overall I didnt like it.

P/S: everything is readily available in malaysia... through the interweb.

This post has been edited by QuickFire: Oct 6 2009, 03:34 PM

Hey mov_freak, are you like 80?

Been on a junk movie run, watched Land of the Lost, which isn't very bad but not worth watching, and the first three Final Destination movies. First is bad, second is fun, third is between the first and second. I cant believe they spent so much time in the third movie talking about the same mumbo jumbo about Death And How He Works which was already covered to death in the first movie. I would have skipped it, but I find it hard to tear my eyes off Mary Elizabeth Winstead.

This post has been edited by QuickFire: Oct 9 2009, 05:25 PM

I cannot imagine. I always thought you were like maybe 30 or 40. To think you might be triple that...

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs - Largely uninteresting, unfunny and flat. 2.5/5

The Brothers Bloom - Really disappointing. It seems Rian Johnson might have had a few ideas, but took them out of the oven before they were fully baked and just ran with it. Everything feels extremely forced. You can feel they were attempting to inject the movie with some quirkiness. There are so many twists, twists to twists, twists in twists. The final twist should be good, it should carry much emotional weight, but it doesn't, because by that time I didnt care anymore. Not for the characters, not for the plot, not for the twists. Mar Ruffalo gives probably the best performance here, though that isnt saying much. Brody once again shows why he is an overrrated actor. 3/5

Gone Baby Gone - This didn't leave me a very big impression on me the last time, but that has changed. What a tight, smart thriller! The multiple characters and the dynamics between them truly make this an edge of the seat affair. There is this simmering explosiveness lurking underneath every scene. It really excels at building tension and suspense. There are a few morally murky and ambiguous situations, they work well and give the movie some added gravitas. This was also evident in Mystic River (though that movie had an infuriating ending scene and morally plain wrong). I guess Dennis Lehane likes writing stories like these (I've never read his books before).

Casey Affleck is good. He doesn't quite cut an authoritative figure, but I think his character recognizes, which explains his reactions whenever he feels stepped on. Ed Harris has a very showy role, and he pulls it off with aplomb. The weakest element I think is Michelle Monaghan, who has this wide-eyed, blank-faced expression 90% of the time. 4.5/5

Incidentally, I just got Lehane's Shutter Island today, along with Brave New World, which until today I thought was banned here. Couldn't find it anywhere for a long time and today I saw 6 or 7 copies at Borders.

Michelle Monaghan sans make up has weird eyes.

The supposedly banned book I was referring to is Brave New World, not Shutter Island which has been on the shelves for a long time now. I have under 20 pages of Shutter Island left. Finishing it now.

lol I didnt even notice

You mean since Ice Age 3.

Oh yeah I saw Orphan yesterday. The ending was spoiled to me by a friend some time ago, so I cant really say how good it is. But even with the knowledge of the final revelation, I found this to be a very well paced, suspenseful flick. I was a bit surprised by the gore actually. Most movies these days either go all-out gore, or shy away from it and opt for suspense-building and atmosphere. This has a nice balance between the two. And I can only imagine being impressed by the twist if I had not known it.

Never in the history of celluloid has Paul Walker managed to upstage a co-star.

Never seen or heard of Lazarus, but I remember enjoying Running Scared. But not because of Paul Walker.

Public Enemis - Such a cold, emotionally-distant film. You dont get to see what makes Dillinger tick, you dont get how a girl can just fall in love with a bank robber out of the blue, you dont get why exactly Dillinger wants to keep robbing banks. Basically, the film shows you how Dillinger helps break his mates out of prison, rob a few banks, get caught, escapes, hides, tries to run away with his girl, and gets shot in the end. That's it, the film tells you almost nothing else. In the end I didnt care about any of the characters. That said, it is almost never boring (though never fully captures your attention too), and the acting is very good. Surprised to see Bale's performance. I thought his methods have grown stale, but I liked him in this.

Btw, the slow-mo gun shot and CGI blood in the end. How ridiculously out of place was that?

That's because it is a horror-comedy. I dunno, I get the feeling some malaysians cant seem to grasp the idea that horror and comedy can coexist. It's either horror or comedy to them, you cant mix the two or they get confused.

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