Last movie you watched

[LargeLeader]

*Begins to google "common fanboy flaming" to find some choice satirical reply, loses interest almost immediately*

No need for that when a simple "Fuck you." will suffice.

[dude]

The Dark Knight Rises

I had to stay home from work today due to being struck with a mild fever. I blame this shit film.
Few things I liked that I thought I'd hate though: Selina Kyle and the Batship. Bane was humorous, everything else was about as interesting as *insert cliché "watching paint dry" here*.

- So you came back to this city to die?
- No, I came back to stop you

*Begins to google "common fanboy flaming" to find some choice satirical reply, loses interest almost immediately*

No need for that when a simple "Fuck you." will suffice.

Amusing... but pointless.



Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

It was pretty decent. I respect it for trying to play it straight. Dominic Cooper and Anthony Mackie should be superstars eventually. But it just lacked that kinetic-ism you'd find in Blade.

[Hubbs]

I respect your dislike of this movie, and since we're at Galaxy you don't have to face idiotic fanboy backlash. Their DKR thread is up to like 1,000 pages or something absurd.

I think I'm going to lower my rating of this movie to a 6.

Oh the fanboy kiddies on Galaxy are something else aren't they haha. One week a film comes out and its the best film ever, the next week something else comes out and that's now the best thing ever, the previous weeks film now being ridiculed lol!

Oh how I love to stir the pot. I swear, they were all pissing themselves over 'Avengers' for AGES, it comes out and its the best thing ever. Few weeks later and the new 'Spider Man' film hits the cinemas, now that film is the best thing ever and 'Avengers' is poor, so fickle its untrue.

Every single film that comes out is 'awesome' and 'the best thing ever', literately every film they see. Hilarious.


Deathstalker (1983)

Hot on the heels of the Arnie vehicle 'Conan' came this Argentine-American production which quite blatantly jumps on that very same bandwagon.

In all fairness this isn't as bad as you might think. Despite being an obvious excuse to see females topless, a Playboy model as a brutal topless female barbarian, mud wrestling females, enslaved females, thongs galore and the obligatory barbarian sex scenes...there is some natty action to be had.

Cheesy plot you say? errrr yeah just a bit, no need to fill you in, just think of any swords n sorcery films. The main hero is played by Rick Hill and his blonde wig, very nice it is too, but he does look pretty sturdy I'll give him that. Bernard Erhard plays the rather generic evil bald sorcerer with goatee, but his approach is nice and hammy, clearly relishing the role. Dunno what that tattoo on his head is all about.

So not much happens really, the final fight to the death warrior competition is probably the best sequence with reasonable fighting going on. The rest is forgettable apart from the sequence in the castle with all the topless girls, but hearing Hill reel of his dialog is quite good fun.

The films title and poster are far more interesting than the final product. The poster actually has nothing to do with the film in any way really, its just there to lure you in I think. Low budget and camp, if it wasn't for the small amounts of blood and large amounts of tits on show it could almost be an Adam West vehicle.
 

[dude]

In The Name of the King 2

Not as Uwe Boll-esque as I would've liked, instead being more of a SyFy original than a Boll disasterpiece. Especially given Dolph Lundgren is the lead. But for about five minutes, this film surprised me. A sad war vet comes home and drinks a toast to his fallen comrades. It's sad, but you sympathise for him, it's subtle, well acted, well shot, but then it turns into a SyFy original.

[Hudson]

Every single film that comes out is 'awesome' and 'the best thing ever', literately every film they see. Hilarious.

Too many people speak only in hyperboles in general. I'm guilty as well. 

[Sebastian]

In regards to Dark Knight Rises, spoilers:

Does anyone else feel like we're missing out on Bane's death? I mean Kyle just rolled in on the Batbike and blasted him off and that was that. There was no satisfactory payoff, no "last breath". Are we going to see his return in what I can only assume to be the next Nightwing film?

Also; hey there's a bomb going off in 45 minutes. Let me just paint this Bat-symbol on this bridge here. It'll just take me about 20 minutes..

[Tryfan915]

The Dark Knight Rises - if it wasn't for my kids wanting to go I'd have waited until it was on TV as I'm not that much of a superhero fan (still haven't seen TDK), but I liked it more so the The Amazing Spiderman we saw last week.

I thought it was a bit messy , but entertaining enough. 7.5

[Hudson]

If those are your sentiments than you'll probably actually enjoy The Dark Knight a lot. It's much more of a crime drama than it is a superhero movie.

And yeah, Sebastian. The first thing you brought up in the spoiler is definitely something I was thinking about when the credits rolled because I completely forgot what happened, it was so unremarkable.

And the second thing you brought up...just another thing that made this movie feel less like the first two films and more like The Avengers.

[Loaf]

Highlander

[Limited Vertigo]

I loved TDKR, but I've always been a Batman fan.  I know there are things you can nitpick about it but as a whole I thought it was a very entertaining finale to the Nolan trilogy.  I'm such a pussy, I actually cried during the movie. 

I'm seeing Total Recall tonight, yes I'm aware of the bad reviews it's been getting.

[dude]

If those are your sentiments than you'll probably actually enjoy The Dark Knight a lot. It's much more of a crime drama than it is a superhero movie.

It's also extremely messy in the plot department.

The Girl who Played with Fire

Decent enough, but that's about it. Rapace is bad ass though. You know who should've really adapted the Millenium films? Paul Verhoeven. He would've owned that.

[SM]

Sans Soleil - I was reminded I had this on DVD following Chris Marker's passing a week or so back.  It dragged in parts, but was ultimately intriguing.  I'm sure I'll go back to it at some point - though not for a while.

[beckmen]

It's also extremely messy in the plot department.

The Girl who Played with Fire

Decent enough, but that's about it. Rapace is bad ass though. You know who should've really adapted the Millenium films? Paul Verhoeven. He would've owned that.

I don't know a lot about the trilogy, but it seems to me it kind of suffers from "Dude trying to write about women's rights" syndrome. Let's have a strong female character who stands up for female victims. How to make her strong? Hmm, give her some male attributes!

[dude]

Well, the whole story is a mess. At least the first one had a plot, infiltrate the dealers, find the supplier solve a disappearance, this one has some flimsy sex trafficking ring, that goes nowhere.

Too much bad writing, like every man ever is a rapist apparently, I didn't know that, I'd be getting laid a lot more often if that where the case. She falls in love with the reporter why? I mean yeah, in one version it's Daniel Craig, but by all accounts he's just a normal everyday guy.

I do like that this one is getting an English language remake too though, if only to see Dolph Lundgren play the crazy Terminator style hitman.

[Hudson]

You know who should've really adapted the Millenium films? Paul Verhoeven. He would've owned that.

You know, that's true in one way, but there's really nothing subtle about any of his films and I like that (first movie at least) tone.

There's an unsimulated male blow job in Spetters; there's no telling how he would have wanted to shoot some of Dragon Tattoo's more "provocative" scenes. But yeah, I would have fucking dove at the opportunity to see his version all the same.

I just want him to make another damn movie.