Movie Review Thread

**doc_bean** · 08-28-2006, 16:59

Underworld evolution

-Kate Beckinsale in leather
-Kate Beckinsale iwithout leather
-lots of fight scenes
-lack of sword fights

I give it

**Puzz3D** · 08-28-2006, 20:13

Watched Ju-on (2003) a Japanese horror movie late last night alone. It's a remake of a Japanese TV movie from 2000, which I've seen part of, and was itself remade as The Grudge in 2004, which I haven't seen, all by the same director. It was effectively spooky focusing on fear and apprehention rather than plot and character development and certainly not gore. If you believe in spirits, this can be an unsettling movie because the victims are all just ordinary people doing ordinary things and are targetted by the malevolent spirit simply because they happened to come into contact with it. The house is ordinary and has people living in it, and the spirit isn't confined to the house. If it targets someone, it will go looking for that person, and spirits are really good at finding people.

**Blodrast** · 08-28-2006, 21:07

Seen The Grudge. I guess it's quite okay, as in the atmosphere is quite spooky and everything. So that part is good. Can't say I was too excited about Sarah Michelle Gellar's acting, but maybe that's just me.
If you're into The Ring-like scary movies, you will probably find this a reasonable way to spend 90 minutes or so.

Beowulf and Grendel (has this been spoken of here already ? I forget...): pretty good for those who enjoy movies in "historical" settings. The movie is obviously based on the anonymous "Beowulf" saga.
Overall most people really enjoyed it (myself included).
Pluses: great landscape, absolutely fabulous soundtrack (esp. the ending song), quite decent acting for the most part.
Minuses: some accents (Sarah Polley's in particular) were not appropriate for the time and place; also, it's hard to be surprised by the plot, since everybody knows the story, more or less.
I enjoyed it, and wouldn't mind seeing it again.

**Fragony** · 08-29-2006, 10:36

Problem with Ju-on, and many other asian horrormovies is that it tries to creep you out every damn scene. Especially in Dark Water it just gets annoying after a while, hey asians, pacing?? There are some gems though, if you can find it, and that is very unlikely, 'Gemini'. And of course 'Audition', kidididididididdidi

**Beirut** · 08-29-2006, 11:19

Originally Posted by doc_bean

Underworld evolution

-Kate Beckinsale in leather
-Kate Beckinsale iwithout leather
-lots of fight scenes
-lack of sword fights

I give it

I thought it was a great flick. Great in a Kate Beckinsale (goodness is she lovely) in leather, vampires fighting werewolves sort of way. There were at least a dozen times during the movie where I pulled a Buthead; "Huh-huh... cool!"

Excellent pizza movie.

**Ja'chyra** · 08-29-2006, 11:39

Got to agree on the evaluation of Miami Vice, it could be one of the worst films I've ever seen, paid £25 for 2 of us to go and see it and wishes I'd stayed in the cocktail bar round the corner. Very slow, poor acting and people applauding in the audience all added to the badness

**Fragony** · 09-11-2006, 10:01

Well yesterday was the before -5 years, and to honor those that have fallen our statechannel broadcasted Fahrenheit 9/11 and Loose change, and a few other conspiracy theories. Oh and a 2 minute interview with a fireman for good meassure.

About Fahrenheit, very amusing, but he should have just called it Bush, would have been more accurate a title. Moore's style is once again hilarious, I am a sucker for cheap shots so I had a great time. I can understand why it pissed of a lot of people though, a little bit too much sugestion for my taste.

**doc_bean** · 09-11-2006, 10:18

Fahrenheit is the one where he aks senators why their kids aren't fighting in the war (Afghanistan back then ?) isn't it ?

Moore is funny, but he's too obviously one sided, I still say the people from the daily show are far better at lampooning politicians than he is. Probably because they have less of a mission...