[drinksinbars]

saw slumdog millionaire, was very good, well recommended. oh and found this on lsash film, blade runner anime style.

[Kurt Montandon]

Watched yesterday:

In Bruges: ... not what I expected. Very funny at times, but a whole lot darker than I expected - especially everything from the bell-tower on.
Plenty of memorable dialogue ("You can't sell horse tranquilizer to a midget!")

Taken: Tolerable rip-off of Frantic crossed with the Bourne movies. Takes way too long to get going, though. And Liam Neeson tries to
come across a bit too much like an Al Pacino/Robert de Niro hybrid, but does fairly good otherwise. Everyone else is forgettable, but characters aren't
really the point in this movie.

[Dr Trouble]

I just watched Boiler Room for the first time. Damn fine movie. I only wish Vin had featured more...

[Slum]

Watched Aronofsky's The Wrestler last night. Great little flick. Not anything like Aronofsky's other work,
but it's genuine storytelling and Rourke is great - he really makes you believe his character.
He looks so weird now, though...botched face lifts FTL...

I recommend checking it out. As far as Best of 2008 films, it's not as good as Slumdog, for me, but it's up there.

[Thelomen Toblerone]

Watched "Oh Mr Porter" for the first time in ages, Id forgotten how great it was. If you ever get the chance to watch any Will Hay films, do. The man's a comic genius. 1930's humour is win.

[Illuyankas]

Harking back to the good old chimney sweep days, are we?

[Slum]

Slumgullion Spitteler, on Jan 16 2009, 09:56 AM, said:

Watched Aronofsky's The Wrestler last night. Great little flick. Not anything like Aronofsky's other work,
but it's genuine storytelling and Rourke is great - he really makes you believe his character.
He looks so weird now, though...botched face lifts FTL...

I recommend checking it out. As far as Best of 2008 films, it's not as good as Slumdog, for me, but it's up there.

Actually, after thinking about it, Rourke deserves a Best Actor Oscar. It's really a beautiful performance on his part.
Definitely the best in recent memory...

It felt real...much better acting than Benjamin Button or Gran Torino.

It took some reflection, and a second viewing of some parts, but Mickey Rourke has delivered what can only be described
as a tour de force of acting talent. Phenomenal.

Really, a true portrayal of a conflicted man beset by life's obstacles...

It took some time for me to digest, but I vote Rourke for Best Actor...

At no time during this film did I question its authenticity of subject matter...

Watch it, I implore you!


EDIT: Watch the trailer...http://movies.yahoo....809994789/video

This post has been edited by Slumgullion Spitteler: 17 January 2009 - 11:28 AM

[Aptorian]

Wait... a wrestling film? Being the big fan of Entertainment wresting and Mickey Rourk I have to see this. I wounder if it makes it to the big screen in Denmark.

Also, damn Mickey is in a good shape for a guy his age.

[Sparkimus]

Watched RUN FAT BOY RUN last night. Excellent movie. I enjoyed it a bit more than HOW TO LOSE FRIENDS AND ALIENATE PEOPLE. I love that cast.

Sometimes you Brits come out with decent movies...sometimes.

[Slum]

Aptorian, on Jan 17 2009, 02:16 PM, said:

Wait... a wrestling film? Being the big fan of Entertainment wresting and Mickey Rourk I have to see this. I wounder if it makes it to the big screen in Denmark.

Also, damn Mickey is in a good shape for a guy his age.

It's so much more than a wrestling movie. It does feature prominently normally unseen elements of a wrestler's life.

But it also, quite poignantly, shows the harsh reality of an aging man coming to grips with the mistakes he's made in pursuit of a
career that has no qualms about abandoning him after his time is through. It's about his struggle to reconnect with society and family, about
the steps he takes to do so, and about how a man, despite his best efforts to change, succumbs to disappointment when he has nothing
left to lose.

Rourke is a major talent. This movie proves that beyond a doubt.

Watch it, apt!

Also, I've heard it said that Mickey put on 20+ pounds of muscle for the role...

This post has been edited by Slum Diggler: 17 January 2009 - 09:06 PM

[Darkwatch]

I watched "Zombie Strippers" the other day with friends.

It was brilliant in it's horribleness. Like a parody of a b-movie genre that doesn't quite pull it off.

The Golf ball scene was pure genius.

[RodeoRanch]

Imaginary Jesus Christ on a pogo, my local theater has only two screens. For over a month one has bee solely dedicated to "Marley and Me." The other has been for other kid movies. It's driving me mad. PLAY BETTER MOVIES SO I'LL PAY YOU TO SEE THEM.

[Abyss]

Aptorian, on Jan 11 2009, 11:22 AM, said:

No seriously... the vampire doesn't actually sparkle when he gets into sunlight does he?

GOD DAMMIT I HATE MODERN FILMS/URBAN FANTASY PISSING ALL OVER THE CONCEPT OF THE MYTHICAL MONSTER THAT IS THE VAMPIRE! FOR FUCKS SAKE VAMPIRES ARE UNHOLY MONSTERS THAT FEED ON THE LIVING AND LIVE IN CRYPTS. THEY DON'T GO TO SCHOOL AND WORRY ABOUT THEIR HAIR! THEY ARE ROTTING CORPSES WALKING ABOUT PREYING UPON THE LIVING!!!

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCKKKK!!!

Aptorian, on Jan 11 2009, 01:50 PM, said:

Dammit I can't get them to load properly. Vampires on Hogwartz woooo!

Aptorian, on Jan 11 2009, 03:18 PM, said:

I am now watching Twilight, it is an... awkward film.

Vampire boy just showed up for the first time. He looks like he's wearing lipstick and they painted his eyebrows. Also he broods a lot.

Fuck, I can't stop chuckling at the actors attempt at portraying "sexual tension" by tilting their heads, pouting their lips and staring like a crazy person.

Aptorian, on Jan 11 2009, 04:03 PM, said:

*vamp boy rips open shirt in sunlight and sparkles* "It's like diamonds... you're beautifull!" the airhead proclaims... OH FUCK NO THEY DID NOT JUST MAKE THE ACTOR SAY THAT!

Why didn't the director just make him pull out his penis in the sunlight so she could fall upon him like the little teenage harlot that she is?!

OH THE RAGE!

Aptorian, on Jan 11 2009, 05:46 PM, said:

Okay finished it.

Some very interesting concept about there being two old familes. One native indian wolf worshippers and the vampire one who came there hundreds of years ago as hunters. This was of course not utilised at all and I now have blue balls of the lack of awesome.

There's a big vampire fight in the end which is also extremely cool and was almost worth watching the film for.

Besides this the movie is utterly forgettable.

Oh and they had to put in a vampire baseball match. Oh Look at us we are vampires and we have traditionel american family values like playing baseball together. Lets show off for the new girl how crazy we are. Bla bla bla. Fuck I wish a bolt of lightning sent by god had come down then and blasted them to cinders...

Then there was the above mentioned seen where he just barges into her house in the middle of the night and tells her he's been watching her sleep for two months, oh and he also really likes her... ooookay... STAKE HIM! STAKE HIM IN THE CROTCH, YOU SILLY COW!!!

This movie sucked (ha ha ha, see what I did there? It's a vampire film. So when I said sucked, it was like vampires drinking... oh never mind)

That reminds me, maybe I just wasn't concentrating enough on the laughable action but at no point during this film did I laugh with the film. It is utterly devoid of proper humor. How this thing can take itself serious I have no idea.

Honestly Apt, just retire from the forums now. Nothing you ever post ever again will be as funny as the above. ever. You're done, go out on a high note now while you still can.



Saw GRAN TORINO. Great film. fucking Clint, only HE could pull that movie (and dialogue!) off and make it work so very well.


- Abyss, ...was saddened there were no mimes as that was about the only group Clint didn't gloriously insult in this film...

[Mezla PigDog]

Slumgullion Spitteler, on Jan 16 2009, 09:56 AM, said:

Watched Aronofsky's The Wrestler last night. Great little flick. Not anything like Aronofsky's other work,
Watch it, I implore you!

I really want to see this movie. I tried to last weekend but the cinema was packed. Hopefully going next weekend.

You know Rourke's face is like that after plastic surgery he had after getting his face smashed in when he had to resort to boxing as a career when he completely destroyed his acting career by being a dick? This role sounds like it was written for him. Aronofsky couldn't get funding for the movie when he told people Mickey Rourke would play the lead. Then there was some talk of funding if Nicholas Cage did it (?!) but Aronofsky refused. He also didn't pay Rourke for it. It's got Oscar written all over it! Mickey Rourke is a crazy legend.

[Thelomen Toblerone]

Illuyankas, on Jan 17 2009, 02:05 AM, said:

Harking back to the good old chimney sweep days, are we?

Say what you like, but I think you'll find the sheer piss poor standard of chimney cleanliness nowadays justifies society's continued need for me.

[Grimjust Bearegular]

Have seen:

Pineapple Express, very funny.

Max Manus - norwegian film about the resistance during the occupation by the germans in ww2 - very, very good. A must-see!

Twilight - too many close-ups and little too much sparkling, but otherwise not so bad:P

[Valgard]

Recently watched Defiacnce a great film of an amazing story well worth watching, even if Daniel Craigs accent does slip quite a lot.

Also saw Che part one a brilliant performence by Benecio del Toro studying the birth of Che as a warrior from the docto he was at the start. It also shows the revolution in cuba in at once a funny and also very brutal manner with lots of people being killed.

Finally also saw Slumdog Millionaire, which is absolutely stunning film, a brilliant story brought to life. The interweaving of the story lines from the past and the present was great and the actors for the young characters were brilliant.

[Slum]

Huh, I've had Defiance on the HD for a couple weeks now....

Maybe I should watch it...I wasn't sure if it'd be any good or not.

[Sir Thursday]

I guess I'm a little late to the Twilight bashing party...but who here thinks: "You're like my own personal brand of heroin." Is a good line? I got dragged to see it, and that was the line that made me snap and burst out laughing at the sheer, hilarious badness of it all.

On a different note, I really need to check out Slumdog. The Wrestler, too.



Sir Thursday

[Darkwatch]

Sir Thursday, on Jan 23 2009, 08:15 PM, said:

I guess I'm a little late to the Twilight bashing party...but who here thinks: "You're like my own personal brand of heroin." Is a good line? I got dragged to see it, and that was the line that made me snap and burst out laughing at the sheer, hilarious badness of it all.

What's disturbing is that it's a story of a pedophile and a necrophiliac finding love in each others arms.