The Official "Last Movie You Saw" Thread 2: Secret of the Boogaloo

Premonition (aka Yogen, the 2004 original which the 2007 remake starring Sandra Bullock was based on)

One of the better horror films I've seen. Great atmosphere. Lots of great moments.

Step Brothers lmao/10

Man, I love Will Ferrel & Crew. Seriously, it's just that I lose it right when I see their faces. The actor supporting Will is as awesome as Will is (Talladega Nights, Step Brothers)

John C. Reilly, who was already an awesome and accomplished actor well before his recent collaborations with Ferrell/McKay/Apatow (though I agree they're a great team)

Are Pineapple Express and Step Brothers already out on DVD?

i don't know but i downloaded a a:10/v:10 version of Step Brothers, so maybe yes...

no, they're not yet. Step-Brothers comes in Dec, Pineapple Express in Jan

holy shit greatest emoticon ever.

Someone rated Brazil in the last thread... I forgot what they said about it. But they were either saying it's really good or it's really bad. Either way it's been on HBO or Cinemax lately. I was wondering if I should take the time to watch it.

Good god why don't you people watch Carandiru?

it. **. the ending is absolutely fucking ridiculous. the first 2/3 isn't bad at all. kinda campy, but quite entertaining despite some occasionally bad acting (jonathan brandis!). the editing is epic and dramatic as fuck, in a good way.

wet hot american summer. ***1/2. so fucking funny.

yes you should, it's a great movie

I had the feeling you knew something about it, Doc. I think someone was saying it was terrible and you were disagreeing with them. I suppose it can't hurt to give it a chance. Thanks.

Watched Waking Life for the tenth time or something. Still probably the greatest film I've ever seen. It's unreal how much it's touched me.

Spider-Man 3 - 9/10

I remember this being bad when I saw it in theaters, but I wasn't into action movies then and I kept complaining about stupid things like "narrative" and "characters". The campy street-dancing and jazz club scenes are awesome for their sheer campy brilliance (which is hard to come by, but if anyone can do it, it's Sam Raimi), and the action scenes are goddamn masterpieces. The melodrama is the same as the last two, I don't see why people waited until now to start complaining, and I don't see anything wrong with it. It's just melodrama.

It is regrettable that Topher Grace is in this film, and that his character is so badly written. In fact, it's almost the exact same arc used in the first (and worst of the three) film, which was the biggest problem that film had. At least it didn't have Willem Dafoe making an already badly-written part worse with his overacting. Just Topher Grace looking extremely confused and outclassed.

oh yeah, I think that did happen in the old thread, right at the end. somebody gave it a really low rating and said they hated it. they're in the minority though, it's widely regarded as a great movie... I mean, if that helps encourage you to check it out. it's definitely worth giving it a shot

I'm A Cyborg But That's Okay

what did you think?!

see the specific thread for my thoughts

RocknRolla - 8/10. Not as good as Snatch or Lock Stock but an entertaining crime flick nevertheless.

I also watched Batman Begins again last night. It was a bit different from how I remember but still totally awesome.

Rocknrolla

Better than Lock Stock, but not quite as good as Snatch. Extremely funny. I love films like this where criminals get mixed the fuck up.

Rachel Getting Married - a lot/10

wonderful movie bursting with life; joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain, family, love, music. lots of beautiful music. good performances across the board and Anne Hathaway is great.

fatal attraction. ***1/4. nice, taut thriller. fuck dem crazy bitches!

Return to Sleepaway Camp


Lulzy as hell, great B movie material. It has the most annoying main character in any movie ever. Lacked tits though.

I saw a trailer for that last night, and thought... "for fuck's sake..."

Insomnia - it was a pretty solid thriller. Al Pacino did his standard going crazy thing well and the Alaskan landscape worked nicely. 7/10

Just watched Evil Dead 2 a little bit ago. Fucking yes.

Das/The Experiment - 9/10

German film about the Stanford Prison Experiment. Even though I know what happened in real life, and the movie follows it all closely, it managed to be tense and always interesting.

A must see if you like psychology or just good movies in general.

as in, "for fuck's sake, that looks good" or what? cause it is a great movie.

Bender's Game - 8/10

This movie is freakin' awesome. I always wondered if it was an actual based in real events story or just a hoax like Blair Witch Project was...

It's weird to think about, but every psych class I've taken and every book I've read about it says that's pretty much how it happened. Some things were embellished I'm sure, like the almost rape of the female doctor and other things here and there, but still, it did get way out of hand like that.

Crazy

Na... for fuck's sake as in, ""

you have bad instincts then, because it's a great movie

Blood Simple - fuck yes. i love movies about very human people getting messed up with criminal activity

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

It was okay, I guess, but at a certain point (around half way in) I started wondering how much was left of it. Doesn't make it better that I've actually seen it once before.

The Pirates of the Caribbean movies are all too long. If you're really into serious pirate epic... well, this isn't it anyway. They're fun and have some great scenes, but there's just too much.

Casablanca - 9/10

Actually the first time seeing it, so I kind of knew what was going to happen. That didn't lessen my enjoyment and it was fun to see the many memorable quotes surfacing throughout the film.

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - 8-9/10

Such a great, relaxing film. I love the humour in it.

From the 25 hour horror movie marathon I went to over the weekend:

The Fog (original) - 5/5
Destroy All Monsters - 4/5
Wicked Wicked - 5/5
The Incredible Shrinking Man - 4/5
Phantasm 2 - 5/5
Nightmare on Elm Street - 4/5
Fright Night - 4/5
Dead and Buried - 4.5/5
Boogeyman (original) - 3.5/5
Who Can Kill a Child? - 4.5/5
Equinox - 3/5
Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 - 4.5/5
Food of the Gods - 4/5
Return of the Living Dead - 5/5

Some ratings may reflect enjoyment more than actual quality. For more thoughts on some of the films and the overall experience see my thread about the marathon.

Quoting this to take note and download everything from that list which I haven't seen yet.

The Aviator - i enjoyed this movie, good story and well done. the dinner scene and the plane crash were uncomfortable to watch. 8/10

Good Advice - A made-for-TV romcom that I caught on HBO. Predictable but enjoyable, and much better than I expected. Contains some of the wittiest verbal exchanges I've heard in a while. 8/10

Oh man... last night I watched In The Valley of Elah. I give it a strong 9/10. Tommy Lee Jones is so great these days. His role in this film is as strong as his role in No Country... This movie is intense and at times slightly disturbing, but I suggest it to anyone.

Burn After Reading.

Started slow, but once they tied the stories together, it was fantastic.

The Wicker Man(s)

watched them finally over the weekend (copy+paste from my blog):

These are a couple of a handful of reviews I mean to add here in the next few days/weeks as I'm starting to consume a fair amount of new films now.

My background with "The Wickerman" is this. I know a fella on some message boards who goes by that screen-name for one, but if I'm not mistaken, he takes it from the song that Iron Maiden wrote. Perhaps the song itself was inspired/named-after the movie or story.

The band Agalloch released an EP earlier this year titled "The White" which takes samples from it. Very folky, dreamy, acoustic. It's really a moving album in fact, and it certainly always made me curious of the source of the samples until I found out they were taken from that 1974 picture, which honestly, reminded of something taken from The Twilight Zone or perhaps The Outer Limits. Even Mysterious Island..when the sample referred to an island, pagans, and a heathen.

Well I happen to be a pretty big fan of Christopher Lee. Mainly a nostalgia and lover of the british "Hammer Series" Dracula pictures. Many others, along with Peter Cushing. He always commands a presence on screen.

Cutting to the chase. I finally saw the 1974 supposed *Horror Classic* which I rented for Halloween. The best things I can say about it is, I liked it more than the remake (not surprisingly), the performances were good from Lee, Edward Woodward (who may be best known for playing the lead role in the 80's crime-drama "The Equalizer"), Ingrid Pitt, and Britt Ekland who among many of the female cast, is hardly shy for the camera (hehe).

The biggest criticism I have are about it is

a) What was up with ALL THE MUSIC? I felt like I was watching a Ken Russell film at times, lol. I mean I guess part of the intent of the director was to make it creepy, in a subtle, lack-of-a-sense-of-reality sort-of-way. I guess. But I'm sure I'm not the only one who kind of got lost watching girls sing while naked over bonfires. And at the same time, I think Woodward's meltdown at them also added to it's lack of suspense.

b) I wished they'd shown more background on how Sgt Howie or whoever on the mainland got word of the girl's disappearance in the 1st place. I suppose it's not something they care about, but logically, it doesn't make a ton of sense for them to call the cops to search for a girl in an entirely different portion of land. I mean, part of it is the society there, but my 1st reaction if I were receiving the notice would be to ask if they have any authorities on the island 1st and foremost for that sort of thing. But that would defeat the purpose of the whole story of course.

I also didn't love how un-poetic the ending was. Had I written it, I'd have had Woodward escape out of the Wickerman and somehow caused Christopher Lee's "Lord Summerisle" to die either at the hands of the Wickerman or just from shear shock. It definitely is a film that didn't include the most complete resolution. At the same time, Lee has claimed it's his best or favorite performance of his career (or it was the best film he was ever in, I forget exactly what the bio info said on the DVD)

7/10

Now the remake from '06 at least did give more background on the girl and the fact Nicholas Cage as the cop, comes over to see an old flame and learn it's his own daughter who became missing.

They did try to make it more suspenseful or horror-movie-like. Maybe the best or most creepy thing they had were these two twin ladies who really could have been the much older versions of the two creepy girls that are flashed so freakishly in Kubrick's "The Shining." I genuinely felt creeped out watching them; although the fact it was in daylight didn't help.

The other real headscratcher that the filmmaker Neil LaBute put in this adaptation was this scene at the beginning with Cage on the highway stopping this lady and her daughter; which eventually leads to a Semi hitting them and Cage attempting but failing to save both the girl or the mother. They kept flashing back to it, which I thought could have worked well, but their never really was any explanation about the significance of it. Was that supposed to be his daughter, Rowan Woodward? (last name I imagine used a cameo sort-of to Edward from the original) Was the fire supposed to be a foreshadow for things to come? It really ended up just being a random event that gives you only your imagination as to what the point of that scene was.

The love story I guess added something, but I would agree with a lot of the comments and reviews online about it. Cage did a good enough job, it's just the material was so predictable and trying to be creepy just for the sake of it, that it didn't add much or have the out-of-left-field approach that the original at least did. At the same time, I probably wouldn't go as far as to think it's the worst movie this decade or anything. Some reviews totally panned it, and I guess for me, it was watchable at least, especially for someone who hadn't seen the original (although of course I would recommend seeing that one as well).

4/10

Traitor - Don Cheadle/10

21. 6/10.

Semi-entertaining but predictable as fuck.

now & then. **1/2. a cute movie about a group of 12-year old girls that are best friends, and how they had a memorable summer and made a pact to always be friends. awwww. the script is actually pretty clever within its own formulaic bounds. good dialogue and acting.

sleepless in seattle. ***. meg ryan used to be soooo good and cute, like an 80s ingrid bergman. what the hell happened to her? tom hanks is good, of course. good script. good movie.

looks like someone's on a chick flick kick

(not that there's anything wrong with that)