NDRU said:

OzlemUcucu said:

Darjeeling Ltd. was interesting, I like road movies, so I give this 4 stars! Tower Heist was entertaining, but average 3 stars!

I liked Darjeeling, but Tower Heist was odd. I expected a comedy and it was not funny at all. Just okay IMO

Yes E. Murphy also had terrible face make up!

OzlemUcucu said:

Anyone seen this movie Freeway? It left me more disturbed than I hoped at the end. A little weird but cool movie.

I liked this one

she was a handful!

ZombieKitten said:

OzlemUcucu said:

Anyone seen this movie Freeway? It left me more disturbed than I hoped at the end. A little weird but cool movie.

I liked this one

she was a handful!

I think it's a hilarious dark dark comedy. And Freeway 2 is even crazier and more indie.

Yep, I thought it was gonna be Sutherland that goes psycho, but it was her. I thought it was cool to see a movie that doesn't victimize the female role.

I don't think this is a comedy tho, it's almost gross as horror. Had no idea there is Freeway 2. Have to check this out then..

3/5 I liked it, the loft was nice, Downey's song at the end I liked too.

Two girls, Carla and Lou meet on the street outside a loft waiting for their boyfriends. In a short time, they find out that they're waiting for the same guy - young actor Blake, who said that he loves only her to both of them but was actually leading double life for a few months already. Angry, they break into his loft and when he returns, a round of accusations and explanations begins.

ufoclub said:

ZombieKitten said:

I liked this one

she was a handful!

I think it's a hilarious dark dark comedy. And Freeway 2 is even crazier and more indie.

OzlemUcucu said:

Yep, I thought it was gonna be Sutherland that goes psycho, but it was her. I thought it was cool to see a movie that doesn't victimize the female role.

I don't think this is a comedy tho, it's almost gross as horror. Had no idea there is Freeway 2. Have to check this out then..

You might like Hard Candy, which also isn't a comedy

ZombieKitten said:

OzlemUcucu said:

Yep, I thought it was gonna be Sutherland that goes psycho, but it was her. I thought it was cool to see a movie that doesn't victimize the female role.

I don't think this is a comedy tho, it's almost gross as horror. Had no idea there is Freeway 2. Have to check this out then..

You might like Hard Candy, which also isn't a comedy

I watched that, thought it was okay. It had a unrealistic twist to it that I didn't like it. I coulda been better cause its kinda indie movie meaning it has not the usual mainstream filming style, but I just thought it was unrealistic. Her acting skills were bad.

Undiscovered gem was Eugene, truly great indie movie, and just mad. It's about extremes on loneliness, sad and touching but without being melodramatic, cause this kinda movies drive me nuts sometimes too. This is just a drama.

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Moonrise Kingdom by Wes Anderson. Five out of five stars. Anderson's loveliest and funniest movie ever.

funkafunky said:

Moonrise Kingdom by Wes Anderson. Five out of five stars. Anderson's loveliest and funniest movie ever.

We are sharing the love here: http://prince.org/msg/100/382998

Prometheus 2.5 out of 5

We talked about in the other thread. Plot holes galore and lack of character development hampers this film that could have been great instead okay. Perhaps the 2nd film will fill in some holes and make it better.

Snow White and the Huntsman 2.5 out of 5

SPOLIER ALERT:

The things right: Charlize Theron perfect as the Queen. The special effects and the overall look of the film are great.

Plot/script issues are the immediate okay will just follow you (Snow White) dwarfs. It would have been better played if the dwarfs would protect her for a gold reward until the see the magical beast bow before her-letting them know she is the true Snow White.

How did Snow White learn to fight? She was shown one move-Now come battle time she's all knowing???

Being locked up in a tower-I doubt she received a proper education. She would not be so elegant in her lets rally the troops speech.

Kristen Stewart was doing okay (acting wise) til she wakes up after the poison apple. She does to much acting and not being.(She is alarmingly false in her acting from that point on.)

If you love Snow White should like the movie. It's a good movie.

4/5 This did terrible on Rotten Tomatoes but I loved it, if you want the true story of Diane Arbus, then read a book, look at her work cause this isn't what this movie is about, at all. Loved the fairytale, loved it subtleness, and the actors were wonderful, expressive and kept me hooked.

Nicole Kidman stars as controversial photographer Diane Arbus, an acclaimed artist who took her own life in 1971, in this provocative biopic that suggests a wild back story to her bizarre and often disturbing images. Capturing both the mundane and the unusual with a dreamlike clarity, Arbus became the first American photographer to have her work exhibited at the Venice Biennale -- but not until after her death. Robert Downey Jr. co-stars.

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This movie was kinda awesome! 4/5

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2/5 It was worth it to me.

Set in the Grand Canyon, a team of Smithsonian researchers have stumbled across a lost walled Aztec city guarded by some evil spirits, including a "great flying serpent of death." As days turn to weeks, Susan Jordan, the daughter of the professor leading the expedition, assembles a team to rescue her father and his colleagues from the clutches of the ancient Aztec warriors and their horrible serpent god.

De Tweeling (Twin Sisters) 2002

3/5 it was OK. I'm not one for children being treated cruelly or wartime romance, but this was OK

Midnight Run (1988)

For an action film, this one was hilarious and in HD looks great. Some really good lines in this one lol

4/5

Happy Feet Two (2011)

2.5 stars

I was dubious about Mumble's parenting skills. First half of the movie I didn't understand that Eric was his kid because Mumble was still covered in chick fluff. Weird.

Neverland (Miniseries in 2 parts)

3/5 Very entertaining adventure - excellent for boys. Effects a bit crap, but it's made for SyFy channel, what do you expect! Rhys Ifans was great as super untrustworthy Hook

We Need To Talk About Kevin - 3.5/5. Elevated by performances, a little hampered in my mind by some visual heavy-handedness and a few other elements that seemed a little overbearing to me.

eh, might as well tell all on myself...guilty indulging pleasures.

2/5 "Scientifically Inaccurate..., Terrible Plot, But Massively Entertaining". I couldn't say that any better.

When a solar eclipse sends a colossal blast of super chilled air towards the earth, it then sets off a catastrophic chain of events that threatens to engulf the world in ice and begin a new Ice Age.

2/5 I had fun with it, that's all that matters

A training exercise for the LAPD SWAT Team goes terribly wrong when they find themselves pitted against two rival gangs while trapped in an abandoned Hangar, armed with nothing but blanks.

damosuzuki said:

We Need To Talk About Kevin - 3.5/5. Elevated by performances, a little hampered in my mind by some visual heavy-handedness and a few other elements that seemed a little overbearing to me.

Agree with you about the performances. Ezra Miller is definitely an actor to watch. I'm still chilled by his Kevin, and I saw the movie about 12 days ago! He's in a new sunny movie with Emma Watson called The Perks of Being a Wallflower and he looks like a completely different person.

sextonseven said:

Hysteria (2011) - The truth of how Mortimer Granville devised the invention of the first vibrator in the name of medical science. Silly, lightweight comedy. 1/2

I just won tickets to see this on the QANTAS FB page, they removed the comp minutes later after some bright spark commented "QANTAS promoting a movie about vibrators? Pure class!"

I better get my tix in the mail still

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ZombieKitten said:

OzlemUcucu said:

Yep, I thought it was gonna be Sutherland that goes psycho, but it was her. I thought it was cool to see a movie that doesn't victimize the female role.

I don't think this is a comedy tho, it's almost gross as horror. Had no idea there is Freeway 2. Have to check this out then..

You might like Hard Candy, which also isn't a comedy

I liked 'Hard Candy,' I think.

'Hard Candy' did not make Cerebus happy. But it introduced him to Ellen Page, who he has liked in everything he's seen her in since.

Polisse (2011) - A journalist covering police assigned to a juvenile division enters an affair with one of her subjects.

The description above is from IMDB, but the movie is so much more than that. Officers in Paris' child protection unit take their jobs very seriously, perhaps too seriously judging by the way their personal lives are affected by work. Parents may find the child abuse cases the cops investigate to be especially heartbreaking. Well done.

ZombieKitten said:

sextonseven said:

Hysteria (2011) - The truth of how Mortimer Granville devised the invention of the first vibrator in the name of medical science. Silly, lightweight comedy. 1/2

I just won tickets to see this on the QANTAS FB page, they removed the comp minutes later after some bright spark commented "QANTAS promoting a movie about vibrators? Pure class!"

I better get my tix in the mail still

I liked the photo history of the vibrator shown over the closing credits.

damosuzuki said:

We Need To Talk About Kevin - 3.5/5. Elevated by performances, a little hampered in my mind by some visual heavy-handedness and a few other elements that seemed a little overbearing to me.

I felt Kevin looked too obviously evil. For a bit, I thought maybe that's just how he appears to his mother and to everyone else, he looks like a normal child/teen--which would have been interesting if that angle was made more explicit visually, having two different-looking Kevins depending on which person was talking to him. I still gave the movie the same rating you did: 3.5/5.

La femme du Vème / The Woman in the Fifth (2011) - A college lecturer flees to Paris after a scandal costs him his job. In the City of Light, he meets a widow who might be involved in a series of murders.

Intentionally vague and unsatisfying. And Kristin Scott Thomas' role wasn't that big. 1/2

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I haven't seen any movies lately, but I am the 2,001st view so I thought that was worth mentioning.

Re-watches

3.8/5 Still enjoy it.

4.5/5 The rare movie I could just put on repeat several times.

3.8/5 I don't know why John Malkovich and that damned pig is funny to me but it is.

i watched roman polanski's "macbeth" yesterday. funny enough for the first time.

eventho i'm a bit macbeth obsessed and read the play at least 25 times now and

wathced orson welles' version multiple times as well.

polanski's macbeth was a solid 9 out of 10 for me.

good stuff.

I loved this french movie called "He Loves me , He loves me not" and Audrey is one of my fav actresses, because she's so versatile. It was def not what I expected, it was so much better. I really enjoyed the twisted story, Ya'll should def see it. . Sorry for my poor review, gottta go and make some food now lol...

sextonseven said:

damosuzuki said:

We Need To Talk About Kevin - 3.5/5. Elevated by performances, a little hampered in my mind by some visual heavy-handedness and a few other elements that seemed a little overbearing to me.

I felt Kevin looked too obviously evil. For a bit, I thought maybe that's just how he appears to his mother and to everyone else, he looks like a normal child/teen--which would have been interesting if that angle was made more explicit visually, having two different-looking Kevins depending on which person was talking to him. I still gave the movie the same rating you did: 3.5/5.

Right, that’s what I felt as well. Kevin’s a bad seed, mentally ill, a troubled kid right from the time he came off the assembly line. To me, that seemed so apparent from our perspective that it made it a little unbelievable that the dad could not see it, or that so many people would hold the mother accountable. Still an interesting & recommendable movie though.

I made the mistake of going to see Prometheus instead of Moonrise Kingdom this week. I felt a little obligated to go because seeing Alien when I was 11 or so was one of my formative movie experiences. I walked out of Prometheus disappointed and a little irritated, and the more I’ve thought about it the more I’ve come to hate it.

I had my biases coming into the film. I knew I hated the premise of ancient astronauts as creators of mankind. I don’t think that’s hard science fiction. I think that’s an infantile fantasy. Wouldn’t it have been so much more interesting to visit a world where Xenomorphs evolved and find out how they exist in their natural habitat, and what kind of ecosystem could co-exist with such a life-form? Personally I think there’s far more interesting a story in aliens as an evolved species than the presentation of the aliens as an unintended (or intended? Do they explain that?) consequence of biological weapon production. But that’s the movie Ridley Scott wanted to make, and I could have put my own preferences aside if the movie was a little compelling. Prometheus is all cookie-cutter plot points and some of the most wooden expository dialogue I’ve heard in a movie.

And I realize science is going to be presented softly in most movies, but why present the scientists as such clichéd characters who display no rational precision or apparent interest in being on an alien planet with actual alien life forms on it, acting without protocol or any kind of informed intelligence? Why finance a trillion dollar mission and staff it with a biologist and geologist who, when presented with an alien world and alien corpses, decide they want to run away like frightened little girls? Why would the lead scientist, upon finding out that he’s apparently infected with an alien organism, be too afraid to tell anyone, in particular the co-lead scientist he apparently loves and may have just infected? And, if the engineers planted the seed of life on Earth (when? 4 billion years ago? 500 million years ago? Who can tell?), why is their DNA apparently identical to ours? They used their DNA to plant their seed on an apparently lifeless world, yet we’ve evolved to be identical to them? No recombination, no genetic drift, no mutation and millions of years of natural selection?

In conclusion: screw you, Prometheus, you stupid, grey, dreary, elephant’s left testicle of a movie. 1/5 for the nice visuals and Michael Fassbender.