If you liked Persepolis, you should see Sita Sings the Blues (ignore the silly tagline and weird synopsis - it is great. 100% on Rottentomatoes, like 9 on imdb).

Jonoman92

United States9104 Posts

March 16 2009 01:03 GMT

#244

Fight Club and Quantum Of Solace

I'd always heard about Fight Club, but I just saw it for the first time today. It was pretty awesome.

infinity21

Canada6683 Posts

March 16 2009 01:26 GMT

#245

On March 02 2009 15:18 KissBlade wrote:

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What could have POSSIBLY convinced you it wasn't going to be ..?

Edit: I saw Underworld III and Friday 13th. Both were equally awful but I was forced one way or another by tasteless people.

I actually didn't even know about it until I was at the theater. My friends wanted to see it so I didn't argue since I didn't even know who was starring in it lol

Enki

United States2548 Posts

March 16 2009 02:14 GMT

#246

Alien

Pretty good, what it lacked in special effects it more then made up for in atmosphere.
7/10

Aliens

Liked this much better, probably the best sci-fi movie I have seen so far, everything was so fuckin tense, took awhile for the action to get started but once it did I was on the edge of my seat the whole time.
9/10

zizou21

United States3683 Posts

March 16 2009 02:38 GMT

#247

On March 16 2009 06:49 poilord wrote:

I can see people being divided about the ending, but apart from that it's one of the better sci-fi movies out there imho.

YO nice movie i agree 100% in fact i cant think of a better science fiction movie right now. some really beautiful death scenes in that movie. and altho the ending was a bit crazy i loved it, i loved all of it

7mk

Germany10157 Posts

March 16 2009 03:23 GMT

#248

On February 28 2009 23:26 Nazarene wrote:
Watched the first hour of 'Milk' today.

Too gay (what a surprise huh), and too boring in my opinion. And I honestly don't see why Sean Penn received an Oscar for that. It isn't that it was a mediocre or subpar performance, but it's just too often that actors that play retards or some shit like that gets nominated for an Oscar.

Well go watch the whole movie again, then mystic river (the one he got his first academy award for) like I coincidentally did ... it's insane how perfectly he plays 2 people who just couldn't be more different in such a believable way
I also didnt like the first 30 min of the movie.. just way too much gay kissing etc. but after that it gets pretty good

ive watched quite a few movies lately:
Frost/Nixon: very good and entertaining (It's not a complex political movie in that sense in case youre worried, very easy to enjoy) 7.5/10

The Wrestler:I loved requiem for a dream, The Wrestler was not similar in any way, a lot more "simple" but very good nonetheless (and I love marisa tomei.. although she was a little annoying in that movie... not her fault though ^^) 7.5/10

speaking of Marisa Tomei, go watch Before the Devil knows youre dead with Phillip seymour hoffman, MT ,Ethan Hawke and Albert Finney if you havent... incredible thriller with amazing acting, especially from PSH (as always) and Finney 9/10

Boogie Nights - Finally watched that movie, man it's so insane, Mark Wahlberg playing a kinda retarded porn star named "Dirk Diggler"... that already says a lot :D
Also with philip seymour hoffman and generally with largely the same cast as Magnolia (same director - Paul Thomas Anderson), which is one of my favourite movies 8/10

Slumdog millionaire
I was very skeptical about all the hype surrounding the movie but when I watched it I thoroughly enjoyed the movie, I defnitely thought it easily deserved the oscar for best movie 9/10

Role Models
Comedy with Paul Rudd, Stiffler and McLovin... Was pretty much exactly what I expected which is a good thing, funny and entertaining 6/10
Pineapple Express
I liked Superbad, I loved this movie
James Franco plays his lazy stupid pothead to perfection :D 8/10

And someone mentioned
spirited away also one of my all time favourites, along with
princess mononoke THE best anime there is imho, hayao miyazaki is just a frigging genius.
9.5/10 for both of em =)

Oh and everyone check out "99 francs" if you haven't

wiki summary: The plot mainly concerns the story of a commercial advertisement designer, Octave Parango, who has an easy-going, highly paid job, and an active free life mainly consisting of drugs and random one-time sexual relationships. However, he starts growing weary of his job, and after having his first ever long-time relationship with fellow worker Sophie fail miserably, he organises a revolt against the advertisement business.
This movie is pretty much taking a huge shit on all the hipocrisy in our society, and is just so original and has so many crazy moments... seriously go watch it (just dont do it if your trying to have a nice relaxed dvd evening with your gf ^^)

zulu_nation8

China26351 Posts

March 16 2009 05:16 GMT

#249

before the devil knows youre dead is excellent

food

United States1951 Posts

March 16 2009 05:43 GMT

#250

i think no one posted this yet
Slumdog and City of God is the same fucking movie. Seriously.
I liked Slumdog better but its so similar. On the edge of plagiarism.

zizou21

United States3683 Posts

March 17 2009 07:25 GMT

#251

big eastwood fan but i thought this was pretty bad

mrgerry

United States1508 Posts

March 17 2009 07:37 GMT

#252

got to see Bowie's dick, other than that the plot moved too slow but the shots were very well done. But bowie's dick was the high point of this.

EscPlan9

United States2777 Posts

March 17 2009 08:20 GMT

#253

8/10. Highly recommended! I'm generally a fan of dystopian novels and movies, and this one certainly doesn't disappoint.

6/10. It has a unique story and is somewhat interesting. I watched it stoned and it was a good trip.

4/10. The antagonist clown played by John Belushi (sp?) makes this movie bearable. I saw this movie once before when it first came out in theatres in '97, so I didn't remember anything from the movie except the clown.

Spartan

United States2030 Posts

March 17 2009 08:30 GMT

#254

Sunshine was a horrible movie.

Enki

United States2548 Posts

March 17 2009 19:04 GMT

#255

3/10 - pretty boring, completely shitted up the story. The series seems so lost without Cameron's directing by now. I give them points for trying something new (battling aliens without any weapons omgz) but it really failed for the most part.