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The Entrance-  2007 (Jove Pictures/Sleeping giant entertainment)
this film had excellent writing with gritty storytelling of the macabre kind, dealing with a priest's account from the 17th century of a demonic possession of a nun.  We flash to modern times and the games begin.  And by games, I mean nefarious life-or-death games involving punishment for everyone's sins.  Overall the movie was a well spun yarn, like I said, excellent writing, however the payoff needed to be phenomenal to make the film over the top.  It is pretty easy to guess what happens, but it is entertaining.  Of special interest is the dark, sinister ambient soundtrack, with piercing scrapes and drones, violent string explosions and crescendos.  (then they ruin it with some bad nu-metal song during the credits...why do they think I want to hear some hackneyed pop with distorted guitars?) worthwhile........ although I cannot decide if the christian undertones were too much or not....7.5/10


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Originally posted by BroSpence BroSpence wrote:

Originally posted by stonebeard stonebeard wrote:

Originally posted by BroSpence BroSpence wrote:

Indiana Jones "4" - I'm surprised people are saying this sucked.


Yeah, I'm surprised people are saying it's good. There's a major disconnect, and I don't get it.



Why did you think it was so bad though? 

It could have been good if the plot and action weren't augmented to the extent where it seemed to be basically just a special effect demonstration for ADHD children with little content whatsoever.  There were a lot of moments where I just had to laugh because it was so lame and over-the-top.  If I were 12 or under, I probably would have loved it.
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Originally posted by stonebeard stonebeard wrote:

Originally posted by BroSpence BroSpence wrote:

Indiana Jones "4" - I'm surprised people are saying this sucked.


Yeah, I'm surprised people are saying it's good. There's a major disconnect, and I don't get it.



Why did you think it was so bad though? 
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Indiana Jones 4 should be treated as a mediocre comedy film and nothing more. Wink
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The Flock - *** Special Note on this one...This movie was filmed in and around Albuquerque, NM and our Lab actually made a few props for the film, nothing big just a few odds n ends you see for about 5 seconds, ha! The movie stars Richard Gere as a Case Worker for Department of Public Safety who goes around and checks up on the Registered Sex Offenders around the area, also stars Claire Danes as his protege, over all the film is like a "Se7en"-lite, I wanted to like it but I have to be honest it was pretty lame, but it was neat to spot the locations in my hometown and of course the props we made get screen time, those props are a set of huge vampire teeth my boss made which I mounted on one of my articulators and you can also see my old belt-motorhandpiece in the background, a few of our other rusty old dental tools were used too, also kind of neat is they show the articulated vampire teeth in the rotation of the DVD Menu, Avril Lavigne also had a small part in this movie and none other than Ray Wise (Leland Palmer of Twin Peaks fame) which I was the most excited about, was in this movie! I couldn't care less about the other boobs that were in the flick butIm happy to say I had a very small contribution to a movie that Leland Palmer was in! Yay! (4/10 - which is generous but an extra point earned due to the personal connection)
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New Police Story- Jackie Chan has gone back to Hong Kong to make films again and this is a good thing because most of his big hollywood films (except Rush Hour and Shanghai Noon) sucked. I'm a huge fan of the classic Police Story so was a bit aprahencive as to whether this would match up, but it does. Darker and laking much of the slapstick comedy of the first two, it focuses on a cop that is very much out of faver and now on a self destructive path after a raid went very badly wrong. Probably the best acting I've seen from Chan here and the martial arts scenes ae as good as you would expect from a Hong Kong film, 8/10. 
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Originally posted by BroSpence BroSpence wrote:

Indiana Jones "4" - I'm surprised people are saying this sucked.


Yeah, I'm surprised people are saying it's good. There's a major disconnect, and I don't get it.
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Indiana Jones "4" - I'm surprised people are saying this sucked.  It was the same old good adventure movie that was the first three films, only Indy is older.  Sure it wasn't perfect, and there were parts that could have been removed, but overall it was very well done and I'm glad they decided to make another great adventure film.  Something that has been mostly absent in the last two decades. 8/10   (the only downside I see is that there have been many many young people going to see this without having seen the previous three.  Which makes no sense.  Why would you go to the fourth movie before 1 2 or 3? )
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Control (2007) - I think this is the only post-2005(maybe 06) movie I've watched and I enjoyed it.  It's a film depicting the life of Ian Curtis of Joy Division.  The acting is very well done, plus enjoyable the entire way through.  It's entirely black-and-white, but if you're familiar with Joy Division, doing it in color wouldn't make much sense.  Great soundtrack, featuring mostly Joy Division and New Order, but besides that it has Supersister, David Bowie, plus some good punk songs.  8/10
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Originally posted by stonebeard stonebeard wrote:

Indiana Jones 4:  http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/img/facepalm.jpeg


Yea... that pretty much sums it up....

I'm not sure why this movie got such high ratings... I don't think I'd give it more than 2 or 3 out of 10.


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LOL

I thought that would have been the best movie of the year Wink
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Indiana Jones 4:  http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/img/facepalm.jpeg
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Originally posted by sleeper sleeper wrote:

I'm going to give Miike Takashi's Visitor Q another try later, I've seen about half of it and other than the fact that its very uncomfortable watching, I'm not quite sure what to make of it.
 
Isn't that sort of surrealist movie supposed to make you uncomfortable? Tongue
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The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian: I never saw the first one (Well I had read the book and saw the old BBC series), but the first NEW one looked kind of sh*tty (rented it tonight though haha).  Anyways, this movie was actually good.  The acting might be lacking a bit, but most of the actors were...CGI animals, the others did an ok job.  The story was still good though, and the battle scenes were pretty sweet.  7/10

Pathfinder: DVRed this a few days ago because I didn't want to rent it or see it in theaters as it looked like crap.  A remake (I believe), and it was not surprisingly, BAD.  I was hoping there would at least be some sweet Viking vs. Natives battles, but those were lame too.  AVOID this. 1/10

When We Were Kings: A wonderful documentary on Muhammad Ali and the famous "Rumble in the Jungle" with George Foreman.  It was very well done and Ali was spectacular.  Most of the film focused on the weeks leading to the fight and the man that is Ali.  However, the fight is shown too (highlights mostly, but still great).  I recommend this. 9/10

Knocked Up: Another recent DVR.  I was never too interested in paying heaps for it as it didn't look that great compared to the likes of 40 year old virgin, or Superbad.  It had funny moments, but I get sick of Seth Rogan constantly playing himself, and the whole Judd Apatow train has kind of worn itself out.  Good for a few laughs, but I wouldn't really even pay 5 dollars to rent this.  5/10.
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Visitor Q is kookie! the only thing that made me uncomfortable about that movie was the whole lactating thing....grosso! Pinch
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Originally posted by Jimbo Jimbo wrote:

Originally posted by stonebeard stonebeard wrote:

Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance


I don't even know what to say. My mind has been blown for the third time by this director.

I will be watching Oldboy later this week. Judging from the heaps of praise it has received, it should be one hell of an experience. I'll probably rent that one as well eventually. It pays to have a good library system! Geek

That whole trilogy is amazing, Lady Vengance being my favourite of the three.

I'm going to give Miike Takashi's Visitor Q another try later, I've seen about half of it and other than the fact that its very uncomfortable watching, I'm not quite sure what to make of it.
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I'm going to have to watch and rewatch a bunch of his films. Kubrick as well. I think maybe The Shining or
Clockwork Orange tonight.

Need to get a little of the ultraviolence going LOL
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I just finished a classic. Chinatown. I'm left completely speechless and kind of depressed after watching
it. Such amazing cinematography... people these days need to learn a thing or two from the old masters. But
hey, that's just me... I love stuff like 2001: A Space Odyssey. Back to Chinatown... that movie had me
guessing right up to the end... and then the ending... ho-ly sh*t!!!

Oh Polanski... you made such great films.
 
indeed, Polanski is the master of paranoia in film! Knife In the Water, Repulsion, Rosemary's Baby, The Tenant, also brilliant,
 
2001, is a fav of mine too, book and movie!  Wink
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Originally posted by Toaster Mantis Toaster Mantis wrote:

Just be warned - Oldboy is pretty much the definition of a cinematic Rorschach test except that the blots are blood rather than ink.


LOL

Oldboy is amazing. When I first saw it - mind = blown. I've heard of evil villains before... but that dude was evil
to the MAX.

I just finished a classic. Chinatown. I'm left completely speechless and kind of depressed after watching
it. Such amazing cinematography... people these days need to learn a thing or two from the old masters. But
hey, that's just me... I love stuff like 2001: A Space Odyssey. Back to Chinatown... that movie had me
guessing right up to the end... and then the ending... ho-ly sh*t!!!

Oh Polanski... you made such great films.
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I recently watched the Rocky saga..... from 1 to 5, today I'll watch number 6.
 
Rocky StarStarStarStarStar (fantastic underdog story... perfectly told...)
Rocky 2 StarStarStar1/2 (not in the same league but still decent)
Rocky 3 StarStar1/2 (a mess.. but fun at that)
Rocky IV StarStar1/2 (the same)
Rocky V Star (a mess.... and not fun at that)
 
Rocky Balboa (to be seen)
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