So Last What Movie Watch You Did? Vol. XXI

[Crimen y Castigo]

Johnny To's "Election"

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Hong Kong gangster flick about the change of leadership in a Triad Society. It's on Comcast OnDemand right now under IFC or Sundance.

Quite good. There's also a sequel, "Triad Election" which is not as good but a nice continuation of the characters.

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[erick]

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and

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[spejic]

Two posts in an I already have to remind people to type out the names of the movies (and preferably what you thought about it, including plot summary for unusual films). Many image sites for movie posters don't allow hot linking, such as IMP Awards.

[Matrim55]

Two posts in an I already have to remind people to type out the names of the movies (and preferably what you thought about it, including plot summary for unusual films). Many image sites for movie posters don't allow hot linking, such as IMP Awards.
Erick never posts anything about the films he's seen, nor their names. I think he's just dense.

[yasik19]

"Everyone will die, but I will stay."

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Very good movie about 3 9th grader girls in Russia.

[GringoTex]

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This reminded me of the following fake cover:

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[SirManchester]

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Surveillance by Jennifer Lynch. I have to say I was quite surprised how much I liked this. There are slight influences by her father but combined with the nuances of the film she managed to come up with a style that's unique. It's a very finely crafted script that's only tainted with a few cliches - but none that take away from enjoying what is one of the most fun thrillers and suspense films I've seen out of the United States in quite a while.

[Pathogen]

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Not Another Teen Movie: Director's Cut - yep, I should be good for another six months or so.

[Claymore]

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There's a great movie in there somewhere, in search of a good editor.

[riverplate]

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Halloween 2

Incredibly graphic and gruesome. This was only rated R? I just got over a bad case of food poisoning so just the thing I needed was to watch Michael Myers cut open a dog and begin eating it -- raw.

Now on to the previews...

Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland: Enjoy it if Burton's tired look is your bag or you think this tale is the greatest thing ever written and has deserved the zillion film interpretations we've been bored by. CGI characters all over the place. And what's with Johnny Depp doing stuff like this and Willy Wonka?

The Road looks damn interesting. Seems more action-oriented than I thought it might be. Definately checking this one out. The only Cormac McCarthy novel I've read is Blood Meridian so most of the details of this story will be new to me. Wonder what those familiar with the book will think.

The Wolfman: This release has been pushed back until February. Benicio Del Toro doesn't look at ease and I hope to hell Anthony Hopkins wasn't allowed to go off on one of his weird character takes. I'm concerned, but the werewolf looks fine. Geraldine Chaplin is playing Maria Ouspenskaya's role from the original -- you have all seen the 1941 classic, I hope.

[Ismitje]

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Coraline - one remarkably trippy "kids" show. My daughter loves it, and I finally sat down to watch with her. It's really something.

[Demosthenes]

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Coraline - one remarkably trippy "kids" show. My daughter loves it, and I finally sat down to watch with her. It's really something.

Did your daughter read the book?

[Pathogen]

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Appaloosa: meh. I wanted to like it. But it's getting to the point where everytime I see Zellweger in a movie, I wonder what would happen to the universe if she sucked on a lemon. Probably something along the lines of crossing the streams or dividing by zero.

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Max Payne: What a pile of suck. This movie had everything. Except a good writer, editor, and director. But mostly a good editor. And director. And maybe a writer. Or two.

[metroflip73]

In The Loop

I thought this was the best I've seen in a couple of yrs. A brilliant comedy and it literally had me rolling out of my seat. Completely enjoyable, and the script was HILARIOUS. Gandolfini was good in his role, Peter Capaldi as Malcolm Tucker is by far the best. As a matter of fact, the Scottish characters are the best!

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I saw both District 9 and Bastardos Ingloriosos. This movie blows them both away to be honest.

[Belgian guy]

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Max Payne: What a pile of suck. This movie had everything. Except a good writer, editor, and director. But mostly a good editor. And director. And maybe a writer. Or two.

I mentioned this before, but if they had just used the cutscene-comic book from Max Payne two as the basis for their screenplay, they would have ended up with a better movie than this. It was really, really awful.

[Crimen y Castigo]

Appaloosa: meh. I wanted to like it. But it's getting to the point where everytime I see Zellweger in a movie, I wonder what would happen to the universe if she sucked on a lemon. Probably something along the lines of crossing the streams or dividing by zero.


^ x 1,000.

My wife and I were quite enjoying that film and then..... "Is that .... Rene Zellweger...?" Took us both right out of the film, and seemed to derail the plot.

On paper, hers was actually an interesting role. But on the screen it was pooptastic. I did think Jeremy Irons was good. I read some reviews afterward and was surprised how well the film was received.

[nicodemus]

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Slumdog Millionaire

I have to say that I'm rather surprised at all of the hype this got. I kept waiting for it to get good and kept waiting and kept waiting....and it never really happened. There were so many things wrong with it, I don't even really know where to begin. If this movie had been set somewhere not as "exciting and exotic" as India, it probably wouldn't have even made it into production...much less gotten all the hype. Frieda Pinto is the only thing that made it bearable.

[Belgian guy]

I assume you mean her attractiveness and not her acting, since she's even worse than Patel, and the two of them have zero onscreen chemistry.

[nicodemus]

I assume you mean her attractiveness and not her acting, since she's even worse than Patel, and the two of them have zero onscreen chemistry.

Yep.

[bungadiri]

In the middle of watching Sunshine Cleaning. Overall, it's going well but the scene where the principal of her son's school orders her to medicate her kid is a total load of crap.