Last Film You Watched? (use spoiler tags in this topic)

[jonnyhiboy!]

Finally watched The Sixth Sense. It was the real atmospheric tone of this quiet natured horror film that really had me gripped. Some scenes genuinely had me spooked out and it made you think what happens after death. It was overall very good, but a 'massive twist' at the end was too hyped and not that surprising.

[Pelicula]

then it stands to reason that Awakening has some following and isn't near-universally reviled.

Yeah, 1%.

[Hubbs]

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)

I never did understand how this film was so much more successful and popular than the first. Quite clearly the film has gone for a slightly more silly plot losing allot of the straight laced sci-fi from the first. I suppose you could say they lost the aspiring '2001' type sequences and went back to the more well known cardboard effects of Star Trek, shame.

Now I realise the slow building straight faced Star Trek we got in the first film was frowned upon but its hard to see what the fans actually wanted in a big screen version. There were complaints that the original was just an outstretched TV episode with fancy visuals, yet this sequel (in my opinion) was even more of an outstretched TV episode with lousy visuals.

I gotta give it to the creative teams behind the film, it was damn brave going ahead with this plot that's for sure. If you look at the facts here...the plot follows on from an episode which was in the old original TV series back in the mid 60's. So already you are possibly excluding most of your target audience as I'm sure many had not seen this episode and possibly not allot of the original series (of course many would have). So technically unless you had seen that episode you would be wondering what on earth happened before hand and feeling somewhat in the dark.

A bold move on the plot methinks, could of gone all wrong there. That aside I think the film looked pretty poor also, the effects looked allot rougher (which is saying something) and in general the grandiose feeling you got in the first film seemed to have been sucked away. What you had left was a quite cheap looking and very generic film, the only thing that looked spruced up were the character uniforms.

For me the franchise went backwards with this outing, it was kinda cool how they explored and expanded an old TV episode but the whole thing is so basic. I liked the slow strategic 'galleon' type starship battle between 'Kirk' and 'Khan' in the nebulae but apart from that there was nothing really that stuck out as a big moment.

Of course a sneering seething Ricardo Montalbán really helped the film with his portrayal of the dastardly 'Khan' but he doesn't do much does he. A curious one this, I know its a fan favourite and it saved the Star Trek franchise at the time of release but I just don't see why or how. I guess it was all about less fancy eye candy and a more 'down to earth' gritty Trek adventure.

[BASSI]

From Dusk till dawn 3.

First watch, i love the first movie, i did not like the sequel too much at all but this movie is a liittle bit of a mix bag,

For the first hour of the movie, it felt like westen movie with no horror elements in the movie at all,

I found the those scenes very dull and boring.
I was really bored with most of the this movie and i all most turn it off after 45mins of the movie but stuck with it

The movie did pick up in the last half hour of the movie.

That when it went all horror and action really starts and don't stop until end of the movie, there were some decent gory effect in this movie, which i really liked.

The make up effect were really good as well and made some of the vampires look scary and there were one or two funny moment in this movie that laugh at a little.

I going to give this movie 5 out of 10

[BASSI]

i am really tippsy right now, what the best movie to watch ? lol

[jonnyhiboy!]

Originally Posted by BASSI

i am really tippsy right now, what the best movie to watch ? lol

Teen comedy - American Pie maybe?

[Hubbs]

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)

This was the first Star Trek movie I saw at the cinema, and to top that I think I saw it whilst in the US of A too

So the story continues from where it left of in 'The Search for Spock' with Nimoy again at the helm. What can one say about this Trek outing, it certainly took a different route and clearly went for a more comedic approach. Was this the right approach? well maybe, I can't deny that the film is very entertaining with some well crafted family fun moments that make all the veteran actors even more endearing in their now historical roles.

How can anyone fail to love these guys? quite literately old age pensioners in space and still saving the earth, what a team!. So yes a big kudos for the alternate direction and some lovely amusing moments which can't fail to make you smile.

On the other hand did this film really do much to bolster Star Treks sci-fi rankings within the hall of fame/classics?. I'm not so sure really, we all know Star Trek has that little niche of semi serious logical sci-fi mixed with blatant fantasy but for me this plot just took one step too far. There is really only so far you can go before you have to step back and say 'hold on'.

Earth is in trouble (again) so the ageing crew simply decide to use a 'time warp' into the past to casually pick up some humpback whales and bounce back to the their present before anyone knew they were there. Now is it me or is this premise just a tad beyond the realms of a reasonably sensible film? the last film saw a character resurrected and now they can jump through time to fix problems, these guys can't be beaten!.
The story is an ingenious creation (but they do tend to come across allot of unknown energy sapping...problems), a good message about the environment and endangered species but for me the time travel thing just never sat well, its too convenient and renders the Enterprise crew almost insurmountable in any given situation.

That aside its a completely new breathe of fresh air to have the film set almost entirely on a planet surface, especially our own. This does infact render special effects almost obsolete for the film, almost. There are still many nasty bluescreen shots, standard obvious sets and some hideous whale footage crowbarred in but also the odd nice starship model, usual Trek look really.

I can see why this did well upon release as its a fun film with a good message and happy ending, its Star Trek all over. For me the plot has gone from generic in the last two films to completely outlandish in this film, much suspension of disbelief required here. Much like the previous two films I neither overly dislike or overly like this fourth effort. I enjoyed it for what's it worth and of course knew what to expect, but compare these Trek films to other sci-fi and they do look quite childish.

[ROBO]

Wrath Of The Titans- Much better than the first. The plot was much more relevant and everything had purpose. While it's no masterpiece there were a few moments that looked very promising but didn't capitalise. The CG was great and the dialogue was ok, it could have done without some unneeded comedy but a couple of moments had me giggling.

7/10

[TacticalNeuralImplant]

Ariel (1989) -Early Aki Kaurismaki movie that has an interesting story (is it an allegory for Finns' boring lives?). For a relatively short movie its very well paced and accomplishes what many other films twice its length could. 4/5

Le Havre (2011) -4.5/5 I think it could be my favourite movie of 2011. On second thought I still prefer The Skin I Live In.....

Having seen Man Without A Past, I shall be checking out Drifting Clouds and The Match Factory Girl soon. Kaurismaki is shaping up to be one of my favourite directors.

Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011) -3/5 Decent though it feels quite superficial and hollow in its psychological part. Honestly it's trying a little too hard in pulling my leg.

if... (1968) - 1/5 Second viewing. I dont understand why its a classic. Amateurishly shot, intermittent switches from colour to black & white, boring storyline.

Anaconda (1997) - 1/5 Shame on me for liking this when I was a child! Watching it was a total abomination.

[Pelicula]

intermittent switches from colour to black & white

Not out of choice for some scenes at first, it was due to timing and it was faster to shoot/set up lighting in black and white.