Movies you've just watched

[BIL]

Woah that sounds amazing. Before I moved house a couple of years ago I used to own a lot of cannon films on VHS. Most of them from charity shops getting rid of VHS tapes for 10 for £1, the cannon logo was always a sure sign of quality!

WHOAH. So many good movies on the cover there! My buddy is a Cannon super-fan and has the logo emblazoned on his right shoulder for life. I'll round that bastard up and watch this with glee!

It's awesome. Affectionate and brutal. Watched it a second time with my dad and brother last night, what a wonderful cross-generational bond. ;-; Pops would rent and we'd watch behind his back.

"Menahem, this guy on the phone says he's gonna blow up the building in five minutes!"
"Tell him to go fuck himself!"

The editors had a good eye for clips too! Most visually invigorating. pls enjoy some possibly NWS xmas "gifs" (waaaaaahahaha)

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[Immryr]

did you just download this or is there some legit way to get a copy?

[BIL]

Downloaded a DVD rip - I'm not sure if it's at retail yet, actually.

[Immryr]

Yeah, I couldn't find one.

[Sly Cherry Chunks]

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Awesome but not the NWS Lifeforce gif I was hoping for.

C'mon it's christmas - post some Mathilda!

[drauch]

Lifeforce is seriously Cannon's magnum opus. It's so perfect, yet so many people dislike it! FOOLS.

[Sly Cherry Chunks]

^and He Man. I haven't seen the doc, but I imagine that's where they spooged all their cash.

No one one should dislike Lifeforce. I can think of at least two reasons why everyone should love it!

[BIL]

C'mon it's christmas - post some Mathilda!

;3

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Naw for real

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nothin' says Christmas like... The Raid 2

wow. this wore me out--I felt like I needed to lie down for a bit after it finished. partly cuz it was 2 1/2 hours long and partly cuz damn.

everything about this series is so intense and beautifully, brutally raw. I love it. and the characters...

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'Hammer Girl'? 'Baseball Bat Man'?

Yes!!

[KindGrind]

A Christmas Story

I watch this every year with my 12 graders. Always a hit. One of my guilty pleasures.

A great classic, infinitely quotable. A movie I'm glad to make them discover... Changes from The Grinch, Scrooge and Miracle on 34th Street Christmas BS movies.

I watched The Lunchbox last night. It showed promise, but failed to deliver. When the credits rolled, I was pissed I had not gone to bed halfway through. There are better Indian movies out there...

[Kaiser]

The Guest (2014)

This is a movie that I would call a mix of 80s, Jason Bourne and Halloween. Strange fusion in theory but it is a movie that does belong honorably in the B-movie library, it's a straight forward thriller that doesn't need twists to push itself forward, there's the classy R-rated violence whenever action's up in the air, it's a slow movie but when it kicks in, it really kicks in with the big levels of badass, the last 15 minutes are GOLDEN and are the best reason I can recommend this movie, those last 15 minutes, too much of good 80s movie in there, so much 80s class to it, it drives me crazy. It's a good movie but it's not for everyone, it is for everyone who grew up with 80s action movies, thrillers or horrors, they should be able to spot the nods.

This movie is like Cabin in the Woods but for thrillers, but it didn't need a big budget to pull it off, it's fun, it's pulpy when it needs to be and the soundtrack is some of the best i've heard in a long time. It's a well crafted fusion of many half-products from the era.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gfMLu9EPWY Better trailer than the official trailer that portrays the movie more accurately but it contains spoilers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1S4rRjvAy0 Spoiler-less official trailer.

[drauch]

and the characters...

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'Hammer Girl'? 'Baseball Bat Man'?

As much as I loved the Raid 2, I could have done without both of those characters. They both just seem so... contemporary Asian "cool" cinema.

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Trainspotting - Hadn’t seen it since it was released back in 96-ish, enjoyed it then but maybe I was a bit too young to fully appreciate the humor in the absurdity of the characters. Also the music is damn good. I must see.

Scrooged - A favorite as a kid, but it had been ages upon ages since I last saw it.

Enders Game - I thoroughly enjoyed it even if it wasn’t 100% faithful or missed some important stuff form the novel. I thought Harrison and Asa (Ender) acted quite well considering the sort of movie it is. I really really liked the ending.

[Ixmucane2]

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Assholes
Overwhelming artistic decadence, with an impressive decay from the merely worrying first part, through the flawed but on the whole decent second part, to this really unacceptable mess.

Two problems are strikingly bad:

• Special effects failures. Many creatures and characters, particularly the giant goats and Legolas jumping (well, floating) over crumbling bridges, are badly animated; there's also serious exaggeration in the amount of troops, as if they overused one of their strengths (the famous Massive software).
• Narrative unbalance: fluff can be good, but not at the expense of what's important.

The last part of the book is about the epic defeat of Smaug at the hands of Bard and various factions having a great battle over the gold of Erebor: in the movie Smaug is quickly disposed of with a very low-dignity stunt, in the traditional fashion of suddenly useless characters, the treasure gets less screen time than the negligible amount of gold of Laketown refugees, Bilbo and the dwarves don't have any serious discussion about splitting their shares, it isn't even made clear who counts as the "Five Armies" (the elves and the Laketown people for sure, but do you count the hill dwarves and Team Erebor as two armies or one? What about the two separate legions of different-looking orcs with two generals? Maybe the Eagles?) and the end of the battle is left implicit and offscreen, devoting time to fairly pointless action sequences (our heroes vs. the two orc generals).

The love triangle subplot with Tauriel and Legolas is embarrassing, but more forgivable than completely missing the point of the book adaptation.

[Necronopticous]

Legolas jumping (well, floating) over crumbling bridges

Takahashi Meijin as Legolas.

[emphatic]

Saw The Penguins Of Madagascar movie yesterday with my kids, 4/5. Fun and action-packed.

[PC Engine Fan X!]

Recently checked out the horror flicks of Wrong Turn 6 & Sanatorium...the former is great with a view of a shapely lass (and the usual big tits and fine ass to oogle at) at about 2 minutes and 34 seconds in to the first act. The latter is another one of those "found recorded footage" type of flicks but with a sinister twist to it towards the end (even resorts to using a GoPro action cam mounted to a body harness for some cheap-ass 1st person viewpoint shots to move the story along).

Both above mentioned newest horror flicks were released directly to video rather than making their proper debut on the big screen, alas making it cheaper for the smaller film studios to recoup some of their initial investment/losses.

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

[Vexorg]

The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies: ***

Just went and saw this with a couple of friends this evening, and I have to agree that it really isn't up to par with the rest of the LotR or even the other Hobbit movies. For one thing, the scope of the battle (which is pretty much the whole point of the movie) just didn't seem all that impressive compared to something like Minas Tirith or even the Battle of Helm's Deep, and that's before they started getting ridiculous with the special effects (even my friends thought a lot of it looked more like a video game than a movie.) And for for as much as they dragged out something that could probably have been done just as well in one movie as in three, they sure left a lot of loose ends dangling. All in all I thought it was an OK way to spend an evening, but as I said, it's just not up to par with the other Middle Earth films.

That said, in the spirit of this XKCD comic, I'm pretty sure I'd pay good money to see "Gimli and Legolas Beat Up Everyone" in the theater.

[Astraea FGA Mk. I]

Scrooged as I do every Christmas. Frank Cross is a badass. I tend not to lose control but this movie cripples me with laughter every time I see it.

[ZellSF]

The last Hobbit movie. It was mediocre and really depressing since I was really impressed with the framerate. Why can't good movies have good framerates too

[GaijinPunch]

Saw The Penguins Of Madagascar movie yesterday with my kids, 4/5. Fun and action-packed.

I always assumed you were single all this time. imagine that.

[Vexorg]

Maleficent: **1/2

This might have actually been a decent movie if it wasn't such a blatant bastardization of its source material. I'm generally OK with Disney stuff (I don't even want to know how much I've spent on trips to Disneyland with my GF over the past few years, having purchased Annual Passes twice) but practically everything about this movie feels like the script was written by the marketing department.

[emphatic]

I always assumed you were single all this time. imagine that.

I just spend my nights alone. In front of the computer. I have three kids, and plan to marry next summer.

[spadgy]

Just watching Short Circuit as a bit of a Christmas holiday nostalgia blast. I forgot quite how good the puppetry work is. And how great G.W. Bailey is.

[GaijinPunch]

I always assumed you were single all this time. imagine that.

I just spend my nights alone. In front of the computer. I have three kids, and plan to marry next summer.

I hear that's catching on in Sweden. I know of another Swede that turned in his cabs for offspring.

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I'm not giving up my cabs tough. My girls play more arcade games than I do. The deal with the woman was "one cabinet for each kid you get". So I just need a larger living space so I can fit the third cabinet now.

[GaijinPunch]

That's actually not a bad trade off!

[spadgy]

Just finished watching Whiskey Galore. Quite a thriller, and brilliantly pace. Utterly brilliant in many ways. I should watch more Ealing Comedies.

[lilmanjs]

Its A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (extended)
I asked for this for christmas and my sister actually delivered! Not my first watching of something from The Criterion Collection, but this is my first thing I've ever owned from them. If there was a way to properly see this on blu-ray on an HDTV I'd be even more happy. One of the few extended length movies that actually had a cast and plot that made the movie what it is. A classic! Even with the fact they couldn't get the entire Roadshow version, they did quite a nice job with what they were given. One of my all-time favorite movies.

[drauch]

Just finished watching Whiskey Galore. Quite a thriller, and brilliantly pace. Utterly brilliant in many ways. I should watch more Ealing Comedies.

Been wanting to see that for quite awhile. A lot of the Ealing stuff is out of print over here, sadly. Looks like I'm going to have to track down some DVDs from your domain, which there seem to be a ton of. How'd you view it yourself?