LXA, the so bad it's good type of movie is one of my favorite genres and just seeing Corey Feldmans name on something usually guarantees a good chance the movie will fall into that genre! Nice detailed description of the flick! I'm curious to take a bite of that cheese now!
It's hard for a film to truly disturb me as I'm a horror buff and I've seen everything from 70's exploitation horror (Last House On The Left, I spit On Your Grave) to modern day foreign horror (Martyrs, Inside) which are the extremes of the genre. This is a thriller and it managed to hit a nerve that wasn't hit in a while. Don't get me wrong. I feel for all the characters in movies unless the tone of the movie just isn't serious. I mean it's a big difference to see Jason chop up a cliche stoner character or a big breasted ditz. It just takes a lot to make me cringe and say enough already. This movie did it and for that I have to give it kudos. Since the movies job was to truly portray a sociopath it did it brilliantly. Casey Affleck gave a spectacular performance as the guy who could do the unspeakable and have no element of a conscience for it yet fool everyone around him into thinking he's a reserved gentleman. Even the victims of his abuse are drawn to him as they being closer to him can detect a darkside they can't define. The movie pulled no punches. It felt real, not exploitative. Casey Affleck, kate Hudson and even Jessica Alba gave the performance of their lives!
It's honestly unfair to rate this movie but I'll do it anyway because it deserves no rights. How can any movie live up to an event as epic as the end of the world! The scope and context of an event of that nature is impossible to apex peoples imagination. No special effects could fill in something of that magnitude. Then again the movie had an ace card up it's sleeve. It's not the disaster itself that will make people fear no how bad the rest of the movie. It's the melancholy of the idea that inescapable death of epic proportions brings. Even hinting at that idea and the added reality that a large number of people believe that this will happen is kind of a cheat. I know even though some of this movie made me cringe on how bad it was quality wise I still had that depressing feeling. The effects were the only thing the movie did well quality wise though they still felt CGI a lot. I can't truly rate them because I saw them on Netflix Instant watch which is automatically not the sharpest picture.
Anyways, what brought this down is a bad script, horribly fleshed out characters (except Woody Harrelson who ran with his cliche role and was hilarious) and cliches that numbered over 2,012! John Cusack, I'll accept that after a great career you deserved ONE paycheck movie (as long as you admit it's crap once the check clears) but just ONE. Most generic role of his career and while smaller characters were intriguing I cared about not one single main character. They treated death like nothing. They treated every disaster like Indiana Jones would. The difference is Indiana Jones is supposed to be a campy tongue in cheek nod to old movie serials and 2012 is supposed to be the most serious disaster of all humanity. It needed to be serious and stay away from comic gestures.
The characters were so typical: Flawed Man separated from family gets drawn in closer by disaster, wife involved with another man who she loves less but he fits the role of responsible husband and father, that man who is not that bad of a guy but still remains the roadblock between said exes getting together as they were before, stock cute kids affected by this as world is dying around them, evil prick who represents the selfishness of humanity, idealistic moral hero who represents what we want from humanity, crazy guy who believes in government covers up and finds he's finally right and the EEEEEVIL Russian guy! I officially hate large scale disaster movies! What happened to storytelling, plot and character development and quality in general. I mean the ****ing Goonies had that and it was a kids movie! What a wasteful soulless movie this was!
I officially hate large scale disaster movies! What happened to storytelling, plot and character development and quality in general. I mean the ****ing Goonies had that and it was a kids movie! Well, rant over bu
Frozen has all the elements I want in a movie! A great original premise, great tension and realistic characters. If a story and characters get me involved I can even sacrifice reality which is something way to many pricks can't do. I didn't see any obvious flaws but I'm sure it's dissected somewhere by those people who don't watch movies but rather analyze them detail by detail to be smart! This movie about three people trapped on a ski lift with the next sign of people returning to the site being a week away.
Like the other similar movie which I loved Open Water it took characters and put them in an isolated setting surrounded by a threat and let the characters themselves be responsible for most of the viewers investment. They did a great job. I felt tension during every attempt they made and my heart went out to them. I found the characters to only be slightly flawed and they were so likable my heart sank at any possible tragedy. They were actually very brave without being unrealistic macho man brave. The elements were a huge play as well when you consider that height, temperature, isolation, dangerous animals and starvation were all at play!
The movie had NO CGI or green screen which gives it major points!
The movie also used legit heights and real wolves (within reason) and all the authenticity worked in it's favor. 2,012 times better tension building and involvement then my prior rated movie! So I highly recommend this movie as I found it to be the perfect thriller!
I'm enjoying this thread...I'm a movie collector as well..as you know there Soot...Frozen looks good and so does The Killer Inside Me...I kind of agree with you on 2012 too....there were moments I was kind of like....cool..whoah...and other times...
This is why I don't put much in the Last Movie You watched thread! I'm usually strongly opinionated on movies and by the time I'm ready to post I have a review instead. On the other hand if a movie is meh to me I don't even want to give it the exposure anyway. Movies are best when they are really good, so bad they're good or so vile you can at least rant about them!
Jack Nicholson is one of my favorite actors. I have collected everything he has appeared in and just obtained a DVD copy of Witches of Eastwick yesterday for 5 bucks, therefore, I had to watch it last night {I have seen it before, though}
This movie is Rated R, for the bad language in the movie, although I found the vomiting of cherry pits a heap more offensive than hearing the F bomb dropped and the use of the words "Anal Intercourse".
I consider the cast of this movie an all star cast, including Cher. Cher is just as brilliant as an actress as she is a musician. The movie was released in 1987, therefore, the cast is quite young. Michelle Pfeiffer is absolutely adorable and Susan Sarandon looks stunning as a red head. Jack Nicholson plays a great macho devil.
My favorite scene is where Jack Nicholson, who plays the devil, is seducing Cher......and he gets the best look on his face and says, "I'm just your average horney devil". Jack really does have a way with words and body language.
This movie dabbles in the occult and witchcraft, where the 3 women the devil seduces, eventually decide to send the 'perfect' man they conjured up back where he came from. The ritual they perform is utterly fantastic and humorous, sending the devil flying into a church for confession!
I truly love this movie. It has a perfect cast and the story line and plot are excellent. I give the movie an overall rating of 7/10.
I, too, found this movie a huge disappointment. To me, the ending of the earth is filled with despair, fear, and chaos which this movie did a poor job of capturing. The only true disaster was the movie itself.
This was a really good flick. It was said to have possibly influenced Saw and I can see why. It was made in 1997 and it's like a Sci-Fi version of Saw with all these different chambers already set. It has even more of an element of claustrophobia than Saw did as well and that's saying something since Saw was for the most part two guys in a single room. I hate to compare the two because they are both great but the similarities are intriguing. The gore and effects are low budget but pulled of great in this, the acting is solid, the mood, atmosphere, tension and intrigue is perfect and it's a flick to be seen. Whether you like Saw or not I think quite a few people would be impressed by this flick!
Wristcutters: A Love Story is a wickedly original dark comedy, romance, fantasy, roadtrip film. The setting is in a limbo like world that people go to after they commit suicide. Everything in this plane of the afterlife is more or less the same only a little bit worse, there are no stars, no flowers, and it is impossible for anyone to smile. Now think about that for a second, the setting for the film is a bleak world where the characters cannot smile or even really laugh and yet it is still a comedy? Yes, it is. "Wristcutters" not only is able to deliver a very unusual brand of humor but is also able to have legitimately tender moments that make it one of the most original of love stories.
In the opening of the film, the main character Zia (played by Patrick Fugit) "offs himself" by slitting his wrists, hence the title of the film. Upon arriving in limbo he meets Eugene (Shea Whigham) and the two waste their time in bars until Zia learns that his ex girlfriend, Desiree, (whom is the main reason he killed himself), committed suicide several months after he did. Determined to find her, Zia convinces Eugene to come along with him (as Eugene had a car and Zia did not) and the two embark out on a roadtrip. Along the way they pick up a hitchhiker named Mikal (Shannyn Sossamon) who claims to be in their world by mistake and is looking for the People in Charge so that they can send her home. From there the adventure and shenanigans continue....
I hold this movie very highly and applaud it's ability to create merriment in such a dry, bleak setting. It's incredibly creative (for anyone who watches it there is one characteristic to Eugene's car found under the passenger seat that makes me laugh every time ) and I promise that it's a great movie like non you've ever seen before.
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The Man From Nowhere His only friend called him 'the man from nowhere'... Taesik, a former special agent becomes a loner after losing his wife in a miserable accident and lives a bitter life running a pawnshop. He only has a few customers and a friend named Somi, a little girl next door. As Taesik spends more and more time with Somi, he gets attached to her. Then Somi is kidnapped by a gang, and as Taesik tries to save Somi by becoming deeply associated with the gang his mysterious past is revealed...
It's a Korean movie. I think one of the best from Korea this year. Great movie a bit melodramatic yet well made and stylich. Plus I like main actor...it was his first action film and he didn’t fail to deliver.
To be honest, I cried while watching this.
I would recommend this film to those seeking a action/thriller and a good story.
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Nice detailed description of the flick! I'm curious to take a bite of that cheese now! 
) and I promise that it's a great movie like non you've ever seen before. 
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