Home Theater Adventures

Invisible Children

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3166797753930210643#

a documentary about uganda, the lra and child soldiers there.

Ninja Assassin - OH MY!!! Rain is very very very pretty covered in blood EPIC gore and blood, AWESOME movie!!

Repo Men - This is WICKED fun! I actually found myself thinking for once 'Jude Law's not all that bad shakes as an actor' which is something I NEVER in a BAZILLION years thought I'd ever find myself thinking... but even if he hadn't done such a sterling job with his character, it'd be worth it for lovely Liev Schreiber and Forrest Whittaker Very cool movie.

Agora

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1186830/

i really dig the underlying message of the movie
the film itself however had it's flaws …

ZOMBIELAND need I say more EPIC


I do find it disturbing that 21st century zombie can run. Who started that? Resident Evil or 28 Days?

I shouldn't watch this crap - ask WATT - my zombie nightmares should be movies


and ssssssshhhh. don't tell my dad gonna order MOON tonight on pay per view

^^^^^^^^^^^ Ahhh - Zombieland - FABULOUS movie


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oh yeah - and lemme know what you think of MOON

Moon and Zombieland kick arse!!! And let's face it, the idea of a super fast zombie is so much more realistic than a shambling wreck. It's a human either reduced to or reactivated into a basic, primitive form, so realistically they'd be powered by pure adrenalin, rage and hunger - that's a potent mix, which generally doesn't result in some slow-mo stop-motion lurch but a rabid, rocket-fueled barrage. I LIKE the new zombies - it's like boar hunting (which I've always wanted to do) nothing evens the score like being the puny, bloodless mother fucker they want to eat/gore who just happens to be holding the fucking gun!

renbolina wrote:

let's face it, the idea of a super fast zombie is so much more realistic than a shambling wreck. It's a human either reduced to or reactivated into a basic, primitive form, so realistically they'd be powered by pure adrenalin, rage and hunger - that's a potent mix, which generally doesn't result in some slow-mo stop-motion lurch but a rabid, rocket-fueled barrage. I LIKE the new zombies - it's like boar hunting (which I've always wanted to do) nothing evens the score like being the puny, bloodless mother fucker they want to eat/gore who just happens to be holding the fucking gun!

Hahahahahahahaha!!! Yep - couldn't agree more!!

Bogle the Dark Angel wrote:

renbolina wrote:

let's face it, the idea of a super fast zombie is so much more realistic than a shambling wreck. It's a human either reduced to or reactivated into a basic, primitive form, so realistically they'd be powered by pure adrenalin, rage and hunger - that's a potent mix, which generally doesn't result in some slow-mo stop-motion lurch but a rabid, rocket-fueled barrage. I LIKE the new zombies - it's like boar hunting (which I've always wanted to do) nothing evens the score like being the puny, bloodless mother fucker they want to eat/gore who just happens to be holding the fucking gun!

Hahahahahahahaha!!! Yep - couldn't agree more!!

yeah - true - they just weird me out - and I watched Zombieland 3 times in 2 days *check the back seat* I am wracking my brain for a movie that has a better opening credits. . . I can't think of one - Z.L. nails O.Cerds in, MUSIC, background story, mood setting, and beautiful done shots in slow mo - fantastic - Cinematography Shots and Camera Angles - just wow. I snagged the Video from my nephew so I can show watt when he come down.
2 things:
Read World War Z - Max Brooks (I think)
and stolen from Craig furgeson: "Why don't zombies poop? They eat all those brains and people - where does it go? (maybe in Z.L. b/c they are spewing so muck black goo,maybe, they stuff they eat just gets puked back out?


ok

MOON

Wow!!! How utterly possiable and . . . sad - isolated- feeling inducin? It really sucked me in, and made me uneasy in a small deep way. I really loved this movie.


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The only thing that kinda threw me is when he called his daughter and she called to "dad" and in the back ground it was him - was he a clone that made it back before? never left? just a planted fake substitute? Is it a (as Watt would say) "Ain't no tellin'. " Type of thing?

newmoon wrote:

MOON

Wow!!! How utterly possiable and . . . sad - isolated- feeling inducin? It really sucked me in, and made me uneasy in a small deep way. I really loved this movie.


Spoiler alert:




The only thing that kinda threw me is when he called his daughter and she called to "dad" and in the back ground it was him - was he a clone that made it back before? never left? just a planted fake substitute? Is it a (as Watt would say) "Ain't no tellin'. " Type of thing?

Ah great - I KNEW you'd like it ... excellent and poignant - I loved it!


As for the spoiler - it's difficult to say ... mebbe when she called for her Dad, that was her real dad, and he'd been sent back to earth because the cloning technology was now able to replace him with the clones ... don't know, but I reckon that would be the most likely. It is never confirmed either way ... mebbe her real dad - the template for the clones - never even went to the moon ...

all I know is that I like when a movie can leave you with unanswered questions - I don't like being spoonfed ever damn thing and told whats what, life is always about the unanswered questions - movies should reflect that too ...

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I think the original Sam had volunteered his DNA for cloning to be honest. Probably he was paid for the use of it, a continued royalty of sorts. The daughter was fully grown in the call the clone makes to her but it had been clear to me that the videos were limited to three years of life, from before the birth of the daughter to her toddling years. The clones were him in a way and so perhaps he felt driven to give them hope, or the company considered it necessary for continued productivity, clearly his wife was upset by the whole thing. I think she eventually found it too much to speak to a man so like her husband and yet not, she felt the cruelty of it more deeply, because she was colluding with the fiction and knowing that is was never going to be anything more for them.

It was sweet because they tried to keep the clones happy, to make them comfortable and the 'going home', despite being an incineration was so touching. The surviving 'Sam' knew, when he escaped back to Earth, that he would not be going home in the end... it was sort of like the plight of the clones in Bladerunner, limited to few years of life, though they had seven to his puny three. Me and my bloke both cheered when the harvesters ploughed into the signal blockers, leaving the Sam they'd had GERTY wake able to find out for himself that their existence was nothing but an elaborate lie, giving him the choice of freedom too. It handled the subject matter so elegantly. Such a beautiful, tragic, dream-like movie... Duncan is clearly an extremely talented man.

Clones... Oh the fun I could have

Yeah the harvester taking down the blocker tower was awesome - I too yelled "YEAH! "
I too like movie that don't treat you to every answer - the more you wonder hte longer the film stays with you and repeat watches (I just want to see if I missed something) - I love how GERTY was like caring and honest - 2001 series had me paranoid and all waiting for the deception. Was a beautiful thing to watch.

Also watched:



HOT FUZZ 2007 with Simon Pegg, Nick Frost. Made me laugh and grin so much my face hurt. And oddly I got a Peace Lilly plant given to me today - huum.

Same dudes in the below movie



Shaun Of The Dead 2004

was double feature night

Two of mah kids fave movies

couples retreat.... i thought it SUCKED

13thAngel wrote:

couples retreat.... i thought it SUCKED

I walked by that movie a few times while someone else was watching it on TV

I tried to watch "Must Love Dogs" the other night. I love John Cusack, Diane Lane and dogs, but this was simply awful. I only made it 10 minutes.

MOON!!

I came across is On Demand and I remembered everyone here talking about it, so me and Matt watched it. Excellent! Thanks for recommending it!

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I also agree with whoever said that it was awesome expecting GERTY to be an evil HAL type pooter character an he was actually genuinely trying to help Loved that part - Specially since it was Kevin Spacey. All I kept thinking the whole time I was watching it was how hard of a movie it must have been for Sam Rockwell to make... He was literally, basically, the only one in the entire movie which has got to be HARD to carry a movie all by yourself. Then the rest of the time he had to be acting and reacting to/with no one - either when he was acting in scenes with his clone or the voice of Kevin Spacey. Nuts man!

The Keep - sheer bloody awesomeness, have loved this movie for yeeeeeaaaaars

In the Mouth of Madness - very very cool!!

Prince of Darkness - freakin AWESOME!!!

Vampires - The film that led me to finally understand why Family Guy ridicules James Woods so much, he can be the most ASTONISHINGLY appalling cheese merchant!

Cold Souls

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1127877/

Fookin BRILLIANT!!!!

Paul Giamatti plays himself - he's acting in the Chekov play "Uncle Vanya" and is stressed and tortured by the intensity of the role, so decides to put his own soul into cold-storage for the duration of the play ... except that his soul is then stolen by Russian black market soul trafficers and put into the body of a young, female Russian soap star ... the film then follows his mission to get back his soul ...



What a fantastic little film!!!

Oh I LOVE Paul Giamatti - he's truly wickedly awesome!

^^^^^^ keep an eye out for Cold Souls ... we saw it advertised with a little write-up in a movie magazine a year or so ago, but then it never came to any cinemas 'round our way (typical, quirky films don't get a look-in when there's soo many big shiny blockbusters to be had ... meh) ... then we stumbled across the dvd of Cold Souls in Asda of all places, for £6 (probably cheap coz no-one's heard of it) and figured we'd just buy it and see what it was like ... fabulous!!

Stand By Me with the kids.




freaks me out that i can let em watch rated R movies....tho i am still not quite sure why THAT one got the R rating

Role Models THe potty mouthed kid, Kiss the D&D play. Me likey.

THe Watchmen

aaaaah. Even Dr. Manhattens' blue dong didn't keep me from wandering away to smoke without hitting pause. Think it was shoot well with uber camera work (panning to the max) and CGI but - they needed help on the script or a editor with a big pair of sissors. Seen and not heard fits this one. O well, the music was a nice change up here and there.


dr. manhatten

Valhalla Rising

This movie is epic to say at the very least! It was very slow and quiet but had very intense violence however.

It has almost no plot or dialog. The scenery is amazing - pretty much every shot is. The cast is very good, Mikkelsen is amazing as usual.

This is certainly not a movie for everyone. Some people love it, some people hate it. I believe there is not much in between. I, for one, thought it was really honest and simple.



Leaves of Gras

Norton was amazing as usual, Russell was adorable. The rest of the cast was pretty good too. The plot however … it was good but it didn't have any magic in it.

I really wanted to like this movie but it just didn't really work for me.



On a sidenote, both movies were at least partly shot with HD cameras - I fucking hate that! It's such a poor picture aesthetic.

I can't find Valhalla Rising anywhere around here
I want to see it