A couple o' movie mini-reviews

[Necromancer]

I have always hated Ronald Emmerich.  He sucks ass.  Tha Day Afta Tommrow was a horrible, horrible movie.  Don't make me review that!  So was Independence Day.

Agreed, though his name is Roland.  The only movie of his that I've enjoyed was Stargate, but my enjoyment would better be credited to Russell and Spader than to him.

And back in the day when ID came out, it kicked ass. I haven't actually watched it in like 10 years though so I don't have a fresh perspective on it.

Here's a fresh perspective for ya: it sucks sweaty ball sacks, just like it did in '96. 

[ceti alpha]

Here's a fresh perspective for ya: it sucks sweaty ball sacks, just like it did in '96.  Very Happy

Holy crap!! It was 12 years ago that piece of crap movie came out?! Crazy. In any case, Emmerich has a really crappy resumé.

[Kitsunexus]

Wow. To say Trainspotting is a good movie is an UNDERSTATEMENT OF THE MOST SEVERE KIND. 


Not that I was ever going to, but now I am 100000% sure I will NEVER do heroin. EVER.

[MissaFX]

We are the Strange
Don't let the name of the film maker "M. dot Strange" keep you from watching this gem.  It's part stop motion, part mirriors and crystals, part Mario Paint (!) and part 3-D CG with hardly any dialog and a mixture of 8bit and normal music through out.  The case says it combines "8bit graphics with anime" but Mario Paint is 16bit unless I am mistaken, and there is hardly any anime.  I guess they figured those two words would sell it.  It's really part Svankmajer, part laser light show and part acid trip.  Or maybe it is the type of movie Svankmajer would do if he was 30 years old.  It's slow, hard to follow at times but is a breathtaking experience if you will only let yourself sit down and watch through it from beginning to end.

The kicker is though that once you have watched the movie you discover you have wasted your time...In the extras you can play the movie with deleted scenes added back into it.  Yeah, I watched it twice, in a row...and it was actually more enjoyable the second time through because you have some clue of what the hell is going on.

I would give it 4 out of 5 stars.  With more dialog though it really could have been a 5 star movie.

For those of you who will never see the movie, I am going to put a small text spoiler you can paste somewhere else to tell you what happens in the movie:

A girl gets fired from her job as a stripper because everytime she speaks, her skin errupts into a rash.  She wanders through a creepy forest, stumbling upon a boy.  The boy and her go to the city to get ice cream.  When they arrive at the city the icecream store is closed and the girls boss is killing everyone.  The boy does his best to kill the boss, but he ends up destroying nearly everything and he thinks everyone he cares about is dead.  However the girl ends up being alive and she tells her boss to shut up, thus killing him.  The end. (yeah, that took 2 hours for the movie to convey)

[Keranu]

King of Kong - MUST SEE! Billy Mitchell has a new challenger against his ground breaking Donkey Kong high score in the 80's. The challenger, Steve Wiebe, soon realizes that numbers don't matter as Billy and his disciples will do anything to prevent his high score from getting broke. This documentary is extremely well made and not just some amateur online gaming forum film or something like that. Even non-gamers will enjoy it!

[MurderDate]

that's two votes for THE KING OF KONG.  It's actually turning into kind of a cult hit.  People really like it - people and gamers alike. The characters are so over the top.  Like I said , Billy Mitchell is insane !!  Beyond socially awkward.   Excellent movie.

more movies:   STREET TRASH (yay), DEADBEAT AT DAWN (yay), BASKET CASE (yay), BRAINDEAD (yay), PARIS IS BURNING (yay), BLUE WATER WHITE DEATH (extreme yay), 60 SPINS AROUND THE SUN (yay), POUND (nah)

gonna watch THE HOST today.. looks awesome

[Sinistron]

Yeah my girl loved King of Kong and she couldn't give a shit about historic video games. 

Joel- The Host- good flick.

[Kitsunexus]

People really like it - people and gamers alike.

I forgot we aren't people, we're just energy drink zombies. "BAAAAWWWWLLLLS......BAWWWWWLLLLSSSS".


Anyway, I bought Jackie Brown, it's a good movie.

[ceti alpha]

Anyway, I bought Jackie Brown, it's a good movie.

It certainly is. It's a story - point A to point B. 

[MurderDate]

JACKIE BROWN is good but COFFEY and CLEOPATRA JONES are surely better.

[TR0N]

King of Kong - MUST SEE! Billy Mitchell has a new challenger against his ground breaking Donkey Kong high score in the 80's. The challenger, Steve Wiebe, soon realizes that numbers don't matter as Billy and his disciples will do anything to prevent his high score from getting broke. This documentary is extremely well made and not just some amateur online gaming forum film or something like that. Even non-gamers will enjoy it!

Now if some body could get chaseing the ghost on dvd.

[ceti alpha]

Yeah, King of Kong is the shit!

[nat]

Star Trek - I've been a rabid Trek fan since the 80s, before TNG hit screens. I'm not old enough to have seen TOS in it's original run during the 60s, but I saw 'em all by the time Encounter at Farpoint (first TNG episode) came around. I was just a kid but I grew up loving TOS, and later TNG to a lesser degree.

So I took my wife, who has never sat through an entire Trek episode outside of The Doomsday Machine. She loved it! Wants to go back and watch all the TOS episodes now. Lots and lots of "homage" and reference moments in this movie that I picked up on. My favorite is early in the movie, when the Captain of the Kelvin is being brought on board Nero's vessel, the orifice his shuttle enters through opens in a strikingly similar manner to the orifice of the V'Ger vessel in the first TOS film. Lots and lots of little moments like this scattered throughout. Anyway, as a movie in general this one was amazingly well done. Best movie I've seen in a while, and that's speaking just as a general moviegoer and not a Trek fan. As a matter of fact, as a Trek fan, I'm still on the fence about how I feel about it. I'm not overly thrilled with introduction of this alternate timeline, but my feelings on that may change as I get used to the idea. I'll say more on specifics once more people see it as I don't want to spoil too much.

I highly recommend this movie to anyone and everyone, especially those who think they "don't like Star Trek" as this movie will undoubtedly change your opinion a bit.

[Lord Thag]

Agreed, just saw it last night. Outstanding flick. They did a great job with the casting, and they captured the feel and tone of the old show whil updating it and making it feel very modern.

I give it an A, and I don't really like Star Trek all that much. If they made an actual series with these actors, I'd be glued to the set.

[Arjak]

Saw this at the sneak preview the night before it opened in my town, (Thursday, May 7, 2009) with my Dad. We're both casual Star Trek fans, and I thought the movie was pretty good!

I loved the mixture of freshness and familiarity, and I thought the casting and writing was excellent.

My only complaint was that it felt more like Star Wars than Star Trek at times. But besides that, I was completely enthralled. I loved the cast, I thought they did a wonderful job of channeling the original cast.

One of my favorite moments was the skydive onto the drill early in the movie. When I saw that redshirt going with them, I smiled. I KNEW what would happen, and I was not disappointed. In fact, I think that had to be the most spectacular redshirt death I've ever seen.

I loved the humor, the whole audience erupted with laughter throughout the movie, and my favorite joke has to be when Kirk meets Old Spock. What Kirk says has to be one of the most hilariously ironic moments in Star Trek history.

I liked seeing Kirk cheating the Kobiyashi Maru, but I kept wondering throughout the scenes at the academy when we would meet Fennigan! (See Shore Leave from the Orrignal Series).

So, overall, the movie, despite a few small disappointments, was great. My Dad liked it too, comparing it to Wrath of Khan, his (and many Trekkies') favorite Star Trek movie.

I will definitely be buying this when it comes out on Bluray! (I'm trying to save for a PS3)