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Postby GhostontheNet » Mon Feb 16, 2009 10:50 pm

Before and during today's class on horror films, I watched The Day The Earth Stood Still and Invasion Of The Body Snatchers.
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Postby the_wolfs_howl » Thu Feb 19, 2009 7:48 am

Scarecrow (post: 1288388) wrote:Oo actually I agree... I never really cared for Blade Runner either. And if you thought Alien was good, you should see Aliens!!! Alien and Aliens are two different types of movies but I prefer Aliens... just stay away from 3 and 4 >.< 3 ruins everything 2 had going for it and 4 just plain out sucks. And the special effects in Aliens are better than both 1 and 3 (3 they try to use CGI but it wasn't ready yet back then so it just looks like crap). I love how they did the Queen alien at the end. Watching the behind the scenes on that stuff is fascinating. Not like all this CGI stuff they do today.


Oh, really? I was going to pass off Aliens as a probably-horrible sequel. But my brother wants to watch it, so I might sit down with him and watch it too.

And to clarify: I don't hate Blade Runner. I'm not even saying it was all that bad (quality-wise) of a movie. I just didn't enjoy it very much.

I spent like four days watching The Twilight Samurai. Not really sure why it took me so long to finish it :/ Anyway, I really liked it. It was very slow, but very realistic, I thought. The fight scenes especially were realistic. Rather than pulling off super-fancy moves and killing each other with one or two strokes, they made it look like you could actually physically do that stuff, and that's what made the fighters impressive. And I didn't realize it at first, but the guy who plays the main character, Seibei, also plays Ujio in The Last Samurai. That was nice to see.
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Postby ich1990 » Thu Feb 19, 2009 8:49 am

X-Men

Yes, for the first time. I thought it was a mediocre movie with enough explosions and such to be worth watching. Fans of the franchise would probably enjoy it more than I did.
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Postby ich1990 » Sat Feb 21, 2009 7:01 pm

Penelope

The plot mechanics required a painful suspension of logic.
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Postby Sheol777 » Sat Feb 21, 2009 7:12 pm

Gran Torino
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Postby Cognitive Gear » Sun Feb 22, 2009 10:40 am

Foolish Wives- Erich Von Stroheim recreated Monte Carlo to film this movie, and it shows. It was the most expensive movie ever made in 1922. Pretty good for a silent film, though I felt that the pacing was extremely slow.

Chaplin- Sir Richard Attenborough's biopic on Charlie Chaplain. Very good, and Robert Downey Jr's performance is amazing.
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Postby GhostontheNet » Sun Feb 22, 2009 11:02 am

Last night I watched Mars Attacks!
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Postby shade of dae » Sun Feb 22, 2009 11:37 am

I watched X-Men a few days ago, and I must say that I enjoyed it quite a bit more than it probably deserves. I'm not sure if I just really like action movies or if it had something to do with the fact that I had just come back from a 6 day, only women trip and was sorely missing testosterone. Also, I watched Penelope last night and agree whole-heartedly with Ich1990.

GhostontheNet (post: 1289229) wrote:Before and during today's class on horror films, I watched The Day The Earth Stood Still and Invasion Of The Body Snatchers.

You have a class on horror films?
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Postby Htom Sirveaux » Sun Feb 22, 2009 5:45 pm

I just finished watching Mystery Science Theater 3000's presentation of Pod People. (I've been on a major MST3K kick lately.) Wow. Some of the worst movies make for some of the best episodes.

Servo: Uncle Bill?
Crow: Jody?
Joel: Buffy?
Servo: Mr. French?
Joel: Mrs. Beasley?
Servo: Chief?
Crow: McCloud!

Crow: ALF's back, and this time it's personal!
Tom: That is the frumpiest monster I've ever seen.
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Postby GhostontheNet » Mon Feb 23, 2009 10:50 pm

shade of dae (post: 1290840) wrote:You have a class on horror films?
Yep, college is awesome like that. On that note, having just got back from another class at The Horror Movie, I watched Horror Of Dracula before class, and Psycho and a bit of Halloween during it. I've definitely got to check out Halloween, John Carpenter looked like he really knew what he was doing in the clips we saw.
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Postby ich1990 » Tue Feb 24, 2009 9:00 pm

The Exorcism of Emily Rose

Seriously freaky.

I was surprised how little of the film was actually devoted to the exorcism. Most of it was actually an intelligent court room drama. Also, "inspired by a true story" is probably a more accurate statement than "based on a true story".
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Postby GhostontheNet » Tue Feb 24, 2009 9:56 pm

Today in Development of Film Expression we watched The Shop Around The Corner.
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Postby GhostontheNet » Wed Feb 25, 2009 12:13 am

Tonight I watched Ghost In The Shell.
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Postby shade of dae » Wed Feb 25, 2009 9:05 pm

X-Men 2. Nightcrawler is awesome.
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Postby ich1990 » Wed Feb 25, 2009 9:12 pm

X-Men 2

It was more interesting than the first movie, although it would have been much better if it were about 15 minutes shorter.
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Postby the_wolfs_howl » Thu Feb 26, 2009 9:12 am

Spent the last few days watching the four-hour-long Gettysburg! Ah, probably my favorite war movie. I can't believe my parents let/made me watch it when I was in second grade.... :eh: But I was even more surprised when I actually looked at the back of the box and discovered it's only rated PG :wow!:

My favorite parts of the movie are (1) when Chamberlain gets shot and falls down, but then he gets up and sees that it hit his sword, saving his leg (2) the conversation about being "descended from a ape" (3) the conversation about "fattin' fer mah rats" (4) the end, where Tom walks across the battlefield looking defeated, but then he sees his brother and they hug.

Anyway, I've seen this movie a kajillion times, every time I or any of my siblings are studying the Civil War in history. Funny how a war movie can be nostalgic. I intend to make my kids watch it too :evil:
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Postby ShiroiHikari » Fri Feb 27, 2009 2:44 pm

the_wolfs_howl (post: 1289804) wrote:Oh, really? I was going to pass off Aliens as a probably-horrible sequel. But my brother wants to watch it, so I might sit down with him and watch it too.


Aliens is a great film. Easily one of the best sequels of all time. Don't go in expecting more of what you got in the first movie though, because it is a different kind of film altogether.

Anyway, I recently watched the 1985 CBC/PBS adaptation of Anne of Green Gables. It was very true to the book and the acting was outstanding. The production values were quite nice as well, especially for a small screen production.

I have Sin City from Netflix; I need to watch it but I don't really feel like it...
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Postby GhostontheNet » Fri Feb 27, 2009 4:00 pm

I just finished watching Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
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Postby Roz » Fri Feb 27, 2009 7:14 pm

The Cinderella Man.

Gods and Generals yesterday.
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Postby Fantasy Dreamer » Fri Feb 27, 2009 8:36 pm

Watched Dark Night this week.
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Postby GhostontheNet » Tue Mar 03, 2009 11:55 pm

Tonight I watched Samurai X: Reflection.
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Postby ich1990 » Thu Mar 05, 2009 9:04 pm

X-Men 3: The Last Stand

It is a pretty good end(?) to the series. More explosions in this movie than in the other two combined, which is awesome. More fighting in this movie than in the other two combined, which is awesome. More dying in this movie than in the other two combined, which is awesome. Where is Nightcrawler?
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Postby shade of dae » Thu Mar 05, 2009 9:26 pm

X-Men 3: The Last Stand

Watch out, Magneto has a army of moody gypsy goth teen mutants.

Bet you're scared now.
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Postby GhostontheNet » Fri Mar 06, 2009 12:44 am

Did somebody say moody gypsy goth mutants? Tonight I watched Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
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Postby mechana2015 » Fri Mar 06, 2009 3:55 am

Watchmen
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Postby eternalprincess » Fri Mar 06, 2009 7:54 am

Kingdom of Heaven.

One of my favorite movies. Ever.

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Postby GhostontheNet » Fri Mar 06, 2009 5:17 pm

I just finished watching Sleepy Hollow.
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Postby GhostontheNet » Sat Mar 07, 2009 12:11 am

Tonight I watched The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
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Postby Htom Sirveaux » Sat Mar 07, 2009 2:40 pm

MST3k's The Giant Spider Invasion. That was a good one.
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Postby Shiningmonk_e » Sun Mar 08, 2009 10:00 am

I just saw See No Evil on TV. Verdict: Lame...
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