Movie Review Thread

**R'as al Ghul** · 08-22-2006, 11:36

Fragony, I hope you haven't bought the second season only because of her.
You're in for a surprise.
It's a brilliant TV-series, I can hardly wait for the next season.

**Fragony** · 08-24-2006, 10:23

Originally Posted by R'as al Ghul

Fragony, I hope you haven't bought the second season only because of her.
You're in for a surprise.

She's not going to die I hope? I enjoy watching here. I have 12 episodes, and there was no surprise, is there more goodness? Oh and YES shannon dies. Can't stand the type.

Anyway, El Elemein, italian WW2 movie.

Best warmovie ever, I would have liked to see some gore a la Saving Private Ryan for some reason, but it's still GREAT. Very little war in this movie, just the last 10 minutes. The way it builds up though, terrifying sweat in your hands tension when nothing really happens.

**R'as al Ghul** · 08-24-2006, 13:46

Originally Posted by Fragony

She's not going to die I hope? I enjoy watching here. I have 12 episodes, and there was no surprise, is there more goodness? Oh and YES shannon dies. Can't stand the type.

I was also happy about Shannon's death.

About Ana-Lucia:
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**Dutch_guy** · 08-24-2006, 15:06

Recently saw the movie Crash, and must say it was a great movie. It really got to me at times, which was not only due to the neatly interwoven story lines but also due to the great cast. I mean, Even Ludacris' good

Racism isn't an unfamiliar theme for a movie to have, and more often than not those movies depict the exact same clichés and actually don't differ from eachother in any way other than the title. Crash however does, believable characters (major and minor ones) and a very well written script make the film stand out from the rest.

Crash, in my opinion, deserves it's oscar.

**GoreBag** · 09-15-2006, 03:08

I went with the bittie and my drummer to see Crank and Beerfest on a double-bill. I enjoyed myself.

A shame that the cinema downtown stopped showing Kurosawa films, though. I've managed to buy Rashomon on VHS, but nothing else so far.

Oh, and I saw Running Scared on the weekend. 'Twas good. The bittie was a little disturbed at certain parts, though. We also rented the remake of The Hills Have Eyes, but we turned it off after an hour. It was pretty boring.

**doc_bean** · 09-15-2006, 22:13

I just saw Dreamcatcher, it's typical Stephen King stuff and not very interesting. However it does feature aliens growing inside of humans and coming out of their rectums, rather violently.

**Fragony** · 09-21-2006, 09:33

Originally Posted by doc_bean

However it does feature aliens growing inside of humans and coming out of their rectums, rather violently.

About time someone makes a movie about that.

Anyway, Jarhead is great. Warmovie without war, they want to kill so badly but never get to fire a shot and go kinda nuts.

**Puzz3D** · 09-27-2006, 19:51

The Passenger (1975) directed by Michelangelo Antonioni is a very interesting film about identity presented from an existentialist viewpoint. On the surface, it's a thriller but with a very unusual pacing and little dialog as most of the clues are visual, and many shots contain symbolic meaning. What dialog there is can be ambiguous and requires the viewer to think about what it means. It's quite demanding on the viewer, and probably has to be seen more than once to catch everything because Antonioni sometimes uses distraction to make the viewer miss something and you might also be less attentive due to the slow pacing. Not a film for people who want crystal clear storytelling and unambiguous characters. I did get a bit confused right near the end, but everything is there to figure it out.

**Puzz3D** · 10-01-2006, 16:33

Kiss Me Deadly (1955) by director Robert Aldrich is a very hard hitting, late film noir adaptation of a Mickey Spillane novel. Aldrich alters the story quite a bit. Some people think this is the ultimate film noir for it's camera work, complex narrative and immorality of just about every character in the in the movie including the protagonist, Mike Hammer. If you ever wanted to slam a desk draw closed on someone's hand because they hesitated getting you something out of the draw or slap around a 70 year old desk clerk because he wouldn't answer a question, this is a movie for you. This isn't one of the bad guys doing this. It's the protagonist! The bad guys are much worse, and the police are incompetent. I watched this movie thinking there was going to be a moral to it, but there isn't. It's just Mike Hammer trying to find an item out of greed because he assumes it's valuable since other people are trying very hard to find it, but he doesn't know what it is. No big name actors in this except possibly the lead, but everyone does a good job with the quirky character they play. Overall I would say the pieces of this movie are better than the whole, but the climax is certainly startling and much better with the restored ending.

Fury (1936) by Fritz Lang (his first movie after leaving Germany) is a drama that is an indictment of mob violence. It has remarkabley strong criticism for the townspeople who try to protect the rioters after the fact. Good performances by the leads, Spencer Tracy and Silvia Sydney. This movie kept my interest all the way through. It has the typical, quickly wrapped up ending on a positive note usually insisted on by the studios.