The Cinema / Rate the last movie you saw

[Tarvu]

I am serious and when I can afford to shall indulge.

The real question is whether or not I mean cock porn.

[GlowBear]

Oh we know

[ClownBaby]

Yeah, I'm not against remakes in general either, some of them better their originals and more at least stand as equals, but it's the pointless and lazy ones that always bog everything down. Like the Friday the 13th remake, there was no reason for it to be a remake. It could easily have been another one in the series, it did nothing new. It just retread the same origins everybody knows and then jumped ahead to hockey mask Jason killing "kids" at the lake. Why make it a remake?

On the flip side, I personally enjoyed the Hills Have Eyes and Dawn of the Dead remakes. Hills outshined it's predecessor, and Dawn took a different approach than the original and did it's own thing that I dug. I still like the originals a lot, but the redos are great too. King Kong was a solid remake too, not just because of the advanced effects, but it certainly helped.

Also, I don't consider Carpenter's The Thing a remake of The Thing From Another World. When you're going and making movies based on books, which they both did, it's just another adaptation of the same source material. Unfortunately Total Recall can claim it was based on the Philip K. Dick story, it's not. Every facet of it is based on the Arnie flick, there's no question about it. From the characters to the storyline to the title, there's nothing making it any more We Can Remember It For You Wholesale than the original Recall. Recall is a remake, The Thing is another adaptation.


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Agreed. What you said about The Thing stands for all the variously named adaptions of I Am Legend.

Also agree with the Arnold thing. A good example is Conan. What's his name from Game of Thrones is badass, but nobody will ever be Conan again after Arnold.

[ZombiePlatypus]

Conan is a tougher one. I don't think it's off limits, because again it's not like the character didn't exist before Schwarzenegger's movies. The Momoa movie was just a bad movie. I watched it on netflix and it was slow and boring, which a Conan movie shouldn't be.

I dunno. Yeah I can't see anybody topping Arnold in the role, but the character isn't "his". That said, I'm not a fan of the character or his history, I'm a fan of Arnold as the character. So yeah, I dunno.

[usedtabe]

That said, I'm not a fan of the character or his history, I'm a fan of Arnold as the character.

Same. Tried reading his comics/stories and was just meh about it. Fuck the Mamoa movie, shit almost put me to sleep 20 minutes in.

[vJ!]

Anyone seen The Dictator yet?
Planning to watch it tonight. Also, loved the director's debut movie Borat..
so i have high hopes from it

[ClownBaby]

Anyone seen The Dictator yet?
Planning to watch it tonight. Also, loved the director's debut movie Borat..
so i have high hopes from it

That wasn't his debut movie.

[Tarvu]

If you're a fan of Borat and Bruno, you'll also enjoy The Dictator.

[vJ!]

that wasn't?
well what was it? and also was it equally good?
and fan of borat, not seen bruno yet, so i guess will see dictator tonight
thnx

[ClownBaby]

Ali G Indahouse

All his characters (Bruno, Borat, Ali G) come from Da Ali G show.

[Tarvu]

CB was right but for the wrong reasons. You're both probably wrong in different assumptions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_C....28director.29

[vJ!]

it doesnt seem to be along the footsteps that he followed Borat onwards..
& since its peak time (midnight) in my hostel, that youtube video is taking ages to buffer :|

[ClownBaby]

I naturally assumed he was talking about Sacha Baron Cohen but didn't realize he had said Director. Poop.

[Tarvu]

Yeah I did that too but I wasn't sure of who directed it. Ali G Indahouse is good but nowhere near as good as his characters/films since to me.

[Steven Hansen]

Watched Willem Defoe in The Hunter last night. Really good & it's now on Netflix Instant, if you're interested. Overall I quite liked it, but, particularly, there were a couple of scenes that absolutely floored me.

[ZombiePlatypus]

I caught that on netflix over the weekend and enjoyed it as well. Really nicely done flick, understated but not boring, with a relatively unique story.

As for more mainstream fare, I just got back from a screening of The Campaign and it was hilarious. Most likely my favorite Ferrell movie since Anchorman. Galifianakis was great opposite him, as was Dylan McDermott, and I just genuinely enjoy Jason Sudeikis in pretty much everything I've seen him in. I had no idea Dan Aykroyd, John Lithgow and Brian Cox were even in the movie, and they all have pretty important roles. There was a cool cameo towards the end as well.

My favorite scene/line is pretty much a spoiler as to what the candidates are willing to do to each other, and even though it's "just" as comedy spoilers suck so I'll tag it. It's a conversation/argument between Ferrell and Sudeikis as his campaign manager where Ferrell is adamant that

Spoiler!

"You get my son to call you 'Dad', I fuck your wife."

Just the whole back and forth between them over it, complete with a "book of bad ideas" had me cracking up, but there's so much more to laugh at in the movie, to me anyways. The humour worked throughout.


Also saw a trailer for Argo before the movie. It's Ben Affleck's new directorial effort and it looks as good as I thought it sounded. It stars Affleck, Brian Cranston, John Goodman, Alan Arkin, etc and is based on the true story of how some Americans were rescued during the Itan hostage crisis in the '70s. Looks good.

[ZombiePlatypus]

I liked parts of Bronson, but put together as a movie it didn't work.

[Stevil]

I love Bronson, mostly for Hardy's performance.

The film is basically a series of sketches, but I like the approach. It would've been TV movie territory if they played it straight, and way too much to Chopper. I mean it's hard to make a movie about somebody who's been banged up all their life - how you make that more interesting and original to watch? You never truly get inside Bronson's head, just the artistic side to him, but that's sort of the point when you read about the guy.

"Now, hold on to your filings, right? Cos this is gonna get fackin' lairy..."

[GlowBear]

V/H/S is available now, gonna give it a go, not sure if I have any high expectations for it.

Still can't seem to get Red Lights anywhere.

[usedtabe]

Watched Willem Defoe in The Hunter last night. Really good & it's now on Netflix Instant, if you're interested. Overall I quite liked it, but, particularly, there were a couple of scenes that absolutely floored me.

Finished this last night as well. Great movie. As someone who hunts/goes outdoors a lot I liked it even more because fucking gorgeous settings.

Spoiler!

Though I kept wondering when/how he sighted in his scope and especially how it never got unsettled after a certain conflict. But that's all movies when it comes to scoped weapons.

Saw Bronson, thought it was pretty terrible.

You make me sad.