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Post by Crowfan on Dec 31, 2015 18:18:00 GMT -5
A Haunting At Foster Cabin. Five sorority sister friends get together to cheer up Michelle, who's really bummed because her boyfriend, Randy, cheated on her. So Michelle goes up to her family cabin and her friends come to cheer her up. They find Michelle's grandmother's Ouija board in the basement. Michelle confesses that she sometimes has visions and that her grandmother was a medium.
Unfortunately for everyone, the girls play with the Ouija board, and they open up a door which lets out demons, who promptly possess two of the girls. The demons go on a killing spree, killing nice girl Kelly, and chasing Michelle and Randy, who has come up to the cabin to make it right with Michelle. Can Randy and Michelle fight off the demons?
This movie is actually pretty entertaining. The girls are all likeable, and they all get some funny lines. The demon effects are cool as well. Recommended.
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Post by SoCalChevy on Jan 3, 2016 19:36:54 GMT -5
Saw Alien for the first time last night. I liked it, but watching MST has led me to notice small problems like how the cat could have gotten into a locker outside the crew living quarters. Also I suspected that Ripley would survive, but it turned out I guessed based on the wrong reason.
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Post by Mighty Jack on Jan 3, 2016 22:04:34 GMT -5
Saw Alien for the first time last night. I liked it, but watching MST has led me to notice small problems like how the cat could have gotten into a locker outside the crew living quarters. Also I suspected that Ripley would survive, but it turned out I guessed based on the wrong reason. Trust me, cats can get themselves in the most impossible places. Much like Trumpy, they can do magic things.
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Post by Crowfan on Jan 7, 2016 20:29:32 GMT -5
Finally got to see San Andreas. The Rock plays a helicopter rescue pilot who goes to rescue his daughter and ex-wife when a huge earthquake hits San Fransisco. The special effects are fantastic and there's plenty of action as The Rock is on a mission to rescue his daughter. It's almost two hours of non-stop action. Highly recommended.
Re-watched Enemy At The Gates for the first time in years. Set during the WW2 Battle Of Stalingrad, it stars Jude Law as sniper Vasily Zeitzev, who in real life killed around 400 enemy soldiers. The movie itself features Zeitzev, who meets up with a political commissar named Danilov, played by Joseph Finnes, who builds Zeitzev up to give hope to the people of the USSR, during this very dark time. The Germans are advancing and they are trying to capture the city of Stalingrad, which would cut the USSR in half strategically.
The movie portrays a duel between Vasily and a German sniper named Konig, who supposedly was sent from Berlin to kill the "inferior slavic" sniper. This is alluded to, but not said in so many words in the movie. In reality, there was no duel, Zeitzev and his fellow snipers picked off German soldiers and substantially lowered German morale. In all likelihood, this duel was a creation of Soviet propaganda, to raise morale and to encourage the soldiers. There's also a tacked on love story between Danilov, Zeitzev, and a female soldier named Tania, played by Rachel Weisz, who talks Zeitzev into helping her become a sniper.
There are gritty combat scenes and plenty of sniper kills. While snipers only played a small part in the battle, simply because there weren't all that many, you don't really get a great feel of the whole battle, which was a turning point of WW2. The Germans lost the initiative after this battle. I love WW2 movies, and this one is pretty good. Recommended.
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Post by Crowfan on Jan 11, 2016 6:17:26 GMT -5
The Forest. Sara gets a phone call that her twin sister, Jessica, has disappeared. Jessica teaches a class in Tokyo Japan, and she has vanished in Aokigahara, better known as the "Suicide Forest". Sara feels that Jess is still alive, as they have a twin connection. Anyway, everyone tries to persuade her not to go into the forest because she is sad. Being sad will attract the angry spirits in the forest.
Needless to say, Sara goes into the forest with a magazine reporter named Aiden and a Japanese guide. They find Jessica's tent, but no Jessica. The guide insists they can't spend the night and they should come back in the morning. Sara refuses, and during the night she hears and sees things that can't be real, or can they?
The movie starts rather slowly, but once the characters actually get into the forest itself, it's very creepy. The movie has some twists and turns and you're not really sure if you've got it figured out. it also has an ending that I didn't see coming. Recommended.
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Post by CrowTrobotfan92 on Jan 27, 2016 21:45:15 GMT -5
Teenagers from Outer Space on its own.
Dear lord is the acting in this movie terrible. And that giant lobster. Seriously. Could they GET a cheesier effect?
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Post by Crowfan on Jan 29, 2016 7:46:08 GMT -5
The Martian. Matt Damon is Mark Watley, an astronaut who is left on Mars. During a Martian storm, he is knocked out by equipment from the ship. The rest of the crew frantically looks for him, but due to the storm they are forced to leave. Needless to say, Watley is still alive and when he wakes up, he finds himself alone on the Red Planet. He realizes that he has to grow food to survive until a rescue mission can launch, so he grows potatoes.
As the movie goes along, Watley is able to contact NASA, and they tell him that they are going to launch a rescue mission...Watley just has to stay alive long enough. In the meantime, his crew has found out the he is still alive and they want to rescue him, over NASA's objections. So the crew heads back to Mars, and Watley is forced to move across Mars to get to a craft whereby he can escape the planet and meet up with the crew in space. The plan is risky but there is no other choice.
This movie is very exciting. The cinematography is fantastic. I don't know where they filmed this, but the look of Mars is fantastic and very realistic. The Martian is nominated for 7 Academy Awards, and I can see why. The all star cast is great, and the movie pulls you in from the very beginning. Highly recommended.
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Post by SoCalChevy on Feb 15, 2016 18:42:05 GMT -5
Just saw Chinatown for the first time in several years. It was good to watch it knowing how it ends because I was able to catch some foreshadowing, like how there are two scenes where people shoot at a car driving away before the final scene. The first time I watched I was just trying to figure out what was going on. I also think the movie was well cast, and has some very memorable lines.
And knowing the real history of LA makes parts of the movie that were very loosely based on it more interesting. For example, someone mentions a dam Mulwray designed that had collapsed. William Mulholland really did design a dam that ended up collapsing, called the Saint Francis Dam. And towards the end Mr. Cross tells Jake that part of his plan is to get LA to annex the San Fernando Valley. The people of the valley did vote for annexation for water-related reasons: they wanted access to the LA aqueduct.
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Post by Mod City on Feb 18, 2016 14:05:57 GMT -5
Winnebago Man
This documentary tells the story of Jack Rebney, known as the Winnebago Man after VHS tapes of outtakes from a 1989 Winnebago sales training video he shot for the company started making the rounds. When YouTube came into being, the videos ended up there and they became one of the earliest examples of a viral video. The film looks at how Rebney has dealt with his infamy, who he is and why his video holds such appeal for many. It's flat-out hilarious and somewhat moving. Rebney is a strange guy, but damn if you don't understand him when he melts down during what has to be about the worst day at work anyone has ever had.
Incidentally, if you have never seen the Winnebago Man videos on YouTube (also known under titles like RV Salesman and Angriest Man in the World), don't watch them until after watching this movie. I had such a blast watching the clips that weren't included in the movie. The man has a way with curse words.
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Post by CrowTrobotfan92 on Mar 23, 2016 22:21:57 GMT -5
First Spaceship on Venus (in its original German version).
Awful awful awful AWFUL movie..... like DEFINITELY one of the worst films (in my opinion) shown on Mst3k... no wonder it made Servo's head explode. I literally kept looking on my phone checking my Facebook page while the movie was playing.
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Post by Torgo on Mar 25, 2016 0:42:40 GMT -5
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Batman don't like Superman. Superman angsty and pissy against Batman. They fight for convoluted reasons while the teasing for the Wonder Woman movie make you wish you were watching that movie instead. I'm not a Zack Snider fan. I thought Watchman did its job admirably, and I thought Man of Steel had more high points than lows even though it doesn't have much rewatchability. The rest of his filmography can piss off (though I never saw Lord of the Hooters, or whatever that owl movie was called). I was cautiously optimistic for Batman v Superman, as I wanted it to be good but my gut kept telling me not to fall into that "OMG DIS IZ DA MOVIE OF DA YEAR!" trap. I sighed an "Oh crap" at the critical hammering that it has taken in the last few days, but stayed hopeful in that some of the critics that I think higher of than others seemed to like it. Unfortunately, I'm going to side with the majority of critics on it. I liked the previews, which showed off some a stunning string of sweet moments (though I wish deep down that Doomsday was kept a surprise). Turns out the barrage of sweetness was pretty much all the sweetness it had to offer. Like Man of Steel the movie is a slow burn, a dramatic build to one really long action scene that escalates before blowing its load. The drama has its moments, and honestly the movie peaks within its first ten minutes after a sequence featuring Bruce Wayne trying to help as many people as he can during the climax of Man of Steel. If the movie stayed with this much raw power it might have been worthwhile. It thinks it does, but it never reaches that height again. Nor does it come close. I think what bugs me the most is that this movie might be perfectly fine if Snyder didn't do the same thing that bugs me about Tim Burton's Batman movies and put more at stake on being visually cool that maintaining an interesting screenplay. I dislike the various dream sequences throughout the film. The opening dream starts fine with a fairly strong re-enactment of the Wayne murder before escalating into melodramatic visuals for the sake of visuals (the ending is so over the top it's almost funny). The big offender is that wacked out scene we all remember from the trailers, which features Batman going all Mad Max in a future where he hilariously wears a trenchcoat over his costume for pretty much no reason at all and fights a war on evil Superman and his minions. Then it ends with the most balls out odd thing in the movie: which sees a time traveler (internet speculation says it's the Flash, but it's honestly hard to tell) tries to warn him about the coming apocalypse (read: Apokolips...yay Darkseid!). It's a scene that easily could have been excised and have only made the movie better. Unfortunately it remains as another example of ill-advised cinematic universe building. As a cinematic universe builder, the film falls into the same pitfalls of Iron Man 2 and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and ends up with somewhere in between both of their sins. There's annoying cockteasing at several seemingly random points (like the former) and a somewhat unearned confidence in putting its cards on the table and smiling like a douche and saying "You know you'll give us money for this" (like the latter). However, unlike Iron Man 2, BvS at the very least has something resembling a plot. Also, unlike ASM2, pretty much all of what is in the movie is relevant to what actually happens in it. Like Man of Steel, there are high points. I wish they had a better movie featuring them, but there are sequences where the movie glows. The introduction of Wonder Woman on the big screen is outstanding, and brother, let me tell you they've done right by her. And I really hope they keep Hans Zimmer's theme for her in her solo movie, because it's brilliant. The Trinity vs. Doomsday sequence is appropriately "everything but the kitchen sink," though it makes the title bout between Supes and Batty seem neutered in how small scale it is. The casting is mostly triumphant, as I still dig Henry Cavill and Amy Adams as Clark and Lois, meanwhile Ben Affleck stuns as Batman. I dislike that they went back the murderous Batman of the Burton films, but as Caped Crusaders go, he's giving Christian Bale a run for his money. I had reservations about Gal Gadot as our Amazonian Princess, but while her acting comes a little stiff at times, she rocks the outfit and nails the choreography. Lynda Carter, eat your heart out. The one performance I have a problem with is Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor. My initial thoughts on his casting were that this was the unconventional choice that was going to look brilliant in hindsight, like Michael Keaton as Batman or Heath Ledger as the Joker. He isn't. I kept waiting for the inspiration to become obvious, but while Eisenberg's Luthor has more sinister acts under his name than Gene Hackman or Kevin Spacey's, he mostly comes off as a flamboyant doofus. This is quite possibly my most disliked take on Luthor. It pains me to say it, but DC's big Justice League appetizer is a rental at best. Luckily Suicide Squad and Wonder Woman are already in production otherwise I'd say DC's cinematic universe is in major trouble. Hopefully lessons are learned to make the next few films a step in the right direction. As a Superman film: 1. Superman II 2. Man of Steel 3. Superman Returns 4. Superman 5. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice 6. Superman III 7. Superman and the Mole Men 8. Superman IV: The Quest for Peace As a Batman film: 1. The Dark Knight 2. Batman Begins 3. Batman: Mask of the Phantasm Honorable Mention - The Lego Movie 4. The Dark Knight Rises 5. Batman Forever 6. Batman (1966) 7. Batman (1989) 8. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice 9. Batman & Robin 10. Batman Returns
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Post by Mod City on Apr 5, 2016 18:05:44 GMT -5
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice I'm not a Zack Snider fan. I thought Watchman did its job admirably, and I thought Man of Steel had more high points than lows even though it doesn't have much rewatchability. The rest of his filmography can piss off (though I never saw Lord of the Hooters, or whatever that owl movie was called). I think Snyder is fine in small doses, but he refuses to tamp down his visual style most of the time, and he's not really big on developing character. I think Watchmen is far and away his best flick and that he doesn't get nearly enough credit for getting that to the screen in a pleasing way. Really enjoyed that movie. 300 was fine, but I never read the books so I don't have any comparison - and he really went ape on his visual style once again with that one. I agree with you on Man of Steel - pretty cool, but I don't have much desire to watch it again. Loved the last scene, though. And seeing Superman III on your list of Superman movies brought back some memories. I haven't seen it in years and, yeah, I'll bet it's not great, but as a kid I loved that movie. That crazy computer was really freaky to me back then.
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Post by Mod City on Jul 12, 2016 17:34:27 GMT -5
Deadpool
This was really pretty good, but for an R-rated comic book movie that was touted for its profanity, I thought it would be way more offensive, in a good way, than it was. Still, Ryan Reynolds was really perfect casting for this role. He could have screwed it up, but he really hit the mark and made up for the terrible way they handled the character in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. The small budget occasionally shows (apparently it had the lowest budget of any X-Men movie), but it has a nice style that is definitely fun to watch.
What I didn't like about it was Colossus. I always liked the character in the comic books, and while the first few movies with him didn't really use him that much - he rarely talked and was more human-sized than in the comics - I enjoyed his presence. Here, he's a walking, talking idiot that won't shut up. And the voice just sounded over-Russian to me, though I'm not a linguistic expert. Just overdone. To be fair, I thought the interaction between real and CGI characters (ie Angel Dust versus Colossus) looked really good, though.
Other high points for me included the opening credits, the "lent" joke and any scene with the cab driver.
Worth a watch, definitely.
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Post by Crowfan on Aug 25, 2016 18:21:27 GMT -5
Anthropoid. This movie is the story about exiled Czech partisans being parachuted into occupied Czechoslovakia to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich. Heydrich was the 3rd leading Nazi during WW2, and he was running Czechoslovakia by using a carrot and stick approach. If the Czech workers made arms and ammunition for the Nazis, they were rewarded, but if they worked slowly or did sloppy work they were not rewarded. The Czech government in exile in London had a plan to assassinate Heydrich and they trained Czech soldiers who had escaped to England for this mission. The movie focuses on the Czech soldiers, Heydrich is never seen until the plot is ordered, but the film is full of tension and is very well done. You will enjoy it even if you don't know much about the topic, the movie is well acted and quite good. Highly recommended.
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Post by carolina on Aug 29, 2016 4:53:10 GMT -5
Introduced my best friend's kid to the original version of The Empire Strikes Back (there's a working VCR at my house!) and I think he's in love with Leia. I've done my job.
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