Monster Zero x SciFi Japan - Archive Only

by **canofhumdingers** » Tue Jan 25, 2011 12:32 am

The Maltese Falcon - 35mm print at the local arthouse theatre. What a great movie! I'd never seen it before & this was quite the introduction. Bogart was a master at delivering his lines in a one-two punch that always landed on the mark. And the running gag of sorts with him continually disarming the thugs was just classic! My favorite was the overcoat over the shoulders trick.

And seriously, if you live anywhere near Minnesota and haven't been to The Heights Theater, do yourself the favor and go to one of their many classic film screenings! It's a one screen theater that's been in operation since 1926. The current owners have done a full restoration and do a tremendous job with all the classic films they show. They always get the best source available (every classic film I've had the privelige to see there has been 35mm film, most in incredibly good condition). Seeing classic films in a fully restored classic theater with a good crowd & the Wurlitzer Organ opening the show.... The Heights is a total class act! I wish everyone could see movies this way!

by **jellydonut25** » Tue Jan 25, 2011 3:50 pm

Batman Begins - kinda overlooked but it's really quite good.

The Prestige - love it

The Dark Knight - yeah, I was on a Nolan kick...

I can't wait till February, I pre-ordered the BRD of Memento that's coming out on the 22nd.

by **MekaGojira3k** » Sun Jan 30, 2011 12:12 am

by **Reaper G** » Sun Jan 30, 2011 10:01 am

A double feature of Tokyo Gore Police and Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl.

God I love Japan!

by **jellydonut25** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 4:10 am

by **MekaGojira3k** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 1:08 pm

My favorite part of The Other Guys was the conversation about how the fish would somehow manage to take a lion down in a group. That's an incredibly vague and unfunny way of relaying the line, but still.

by **canofhumdingers** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 1:34 pm

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time - **1/2 out of *****. It was a decent adventure story and was plentry true to the games (from what I know; I've seen bits of the actual game this was based on & played the newer one on the PS3). But maybe a little too true to them... My biggest gripe was the way the action scenes were filmed. The constant shift form normal to slow-mo & back got really annoying and there were some really bizarre and unnatural camera angles an especially camera movements. Ultimately I just did NOT like the fight scene cinematography. I also feel like they tried a little too hard to make it "like a video game" as there are numerous times when I felt like I was just watching someone play a game. But when it didn't feel like that, when it actually felt like a movie, it was quite decent. I think had the filmmakers used the game for inspiration for character, plot, story, etc, but NOT tried to make the actual movie look or feel like a game, this could've been a really good adventure movie. As it is , it's just mediocre with signs of a better film peeking through at times.

by **jellydonut25** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 2:02 pm

by **lhb412** » Thu Feb 03, 2011 7:44 pm

Scaramouche

Early 1950s technicolor flick has the illegitimate son of a noblemen watch his revolutionary (this being a few years before the French Revolution) best friend killed, causing him to train to become a master swordsman to avenge him all the while masquerading as the clown Scaramouche with a group of actors.

You got all that?

Anyway, it's a great swashbuckler. I've been meaning to search out more films of this ilk after seeing The Adventures of Robin Hood last year.

by **Green Dragon** » Thu Feb 03, 2011 11:23 pm

by **jellydonut25** » Fri Feb 04, 2011 4:01 am

by **Green Dragon** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 4:49 am

Went out tonight for dinner and a movie, and all we could agree on, and the pickings are slim right now, after eliminating what either of us has seen or don't want to see, what's showing at a reasonable time, etc.... we settled for SANCTUM, and I went in expecting little and got it.

Excruciating cave exploration melodrama, produced by James Cameron, or something like that, using his 3d equipment used in Avatar. Whee.

The glasses were better quality glasses than I've worn before, these lenses looked like coated glass, not flimsy plastic. Whatever. Will someone just please shoot this pathetic trend in the head and bury it?

3d was decent in parts, I guess, but ultimately it just covered up (and poorly at that) a dull story with utterly flat and worthless characters and cliche storylines, no conviction whatsoever....(though it's supposed to be "inspired" by a true story).....

Sound quality was really bad..... sounded like I had a cotton in my ears. With that and the 3d glasses (I just want to rip those damn things off my face during the movie), it felt like I had a plastic bag over my head.

Some nice photography, a decent score, the type that would have been better off in a good movie, because here it's just...there, and in the service of nothing.

It's the kind of movie you're just waiting to end.

by **Reaper G** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 10:02 am

Jackie Brown

Not my favorite Quentin Tarantino fillm, but then he's probably better with his own material. You can tell, though, how much he loves Pam Grier. (And who can blame him?)

by **MouthForWar** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 12:50 pm

by **lhb412** » Mon Feb 07, 2011 10:12 am

by **lhb412** » Mon Feb 07, 2011 4:33 pm

Libeled Lady

Wonderful screwball comedy which is supposed to star Jean Harlow, but despite her getting top billing it really stars the best romantic duo in Hollywood history: William Powell and Myrna Loy.

The Black Swan

No Natalie Portman in this one, just lots and lots of pirates. It's got a lot going for it, but I could never truly sympathize with the "hero." There's no real reason we should root for him over any of the villians of the movie.

by **MekaGojira3k** » Mon Feb 07, 2011 5:47 pm

by **Tom R VanSlambrouck** » Mon Feb 07, 2011 7:32 pm

Resident Evil: Afterlife- It was decent glad to see it get closer to the games however they really messed Wesker and the Las Plagas up IMO and still no Hunters.

by **Dagarah72** » Mon Feb 07, 2011 8:07 pm

Horrible - This is one of the movies that made it onto the UK's Video Nasties list. It's from italian director Joe D'Amato, who made the similarly banned Anthropophagus which is infamous for a scene that shows the killer pulling a baby out of a pregnant woman's stomache and eating it. This movie doesn't have anything shocking like that, but it does have blood, gore and graphic murders. I found this one more entertaining than Anthropophagus as the story moves at a decent pace and doesn't drag. A hulking dude is being chased by a priest and tries to climb an iron gate but gets impaled on it. He ends up at a hospital, where it gets discovered that his body can quickly regenerate itself. He gains consciousness and goes on a killing spree, while a detective and the priest who knows his secret try to stop him.

Catfish - This was an interesting documentary about a photographer who begins interacting with a family he meets through Facebook. His brother and his friend are filmmakers so they decide to start filming a documentary about his growing relationship with this family. The photographer begins to develop an online relationship with the daughter Megan, talking to each other on the phone and writing each other romantic e-mails and texts. One night he discovers and exposes something that she lied to him about, but this is just the tip of the iceberg as he finds out that this family is not exactly who they claim to be. This doc really brings to light that you never know who you're interacting with when you meet people online. I found it to be intriguing and slightly creepy.

Night Of The Demons - This new remake was entertaining, bringing back the fun spirit of some 80's horror films. A young girl throws a Halloween party at an old abandoned mansion that's rumoured to be haunted. You pretty much know the drill - someone opens the doorway to the beyond and gets possessed by a demon, who then goes around killing/possessing others. Some of demon effects are funny and raunchy, including one demon chick who shoots tentacles out of her nipples. This is a b-movie that doesn't try to be anything else, which makes it so much fun. I could tell that everyone involved had a good time making this.

Ricky

by **MekaGojira3k** » Tue Feb 08, 2011 5:37 pm

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