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the7k wrote:Just watched Surrogates.

Meh. Nothing good, but nothing bad either. Perfectly average. Perfectly Meh.

I thought it was ok, but it was more from me reading The Singularity is Near. I felt the actual detective story wasn't as interesting. Quite a few of the major twists could be seen coming, and some just seemed forced.

I'm glad Bruce Willis is working, though.

Beyond that, I watched The Host, an interesting(and funny) South Korean monster movie. I loved the design of the creature and the hijinks the family has to resort to to handle anything. On a funny note, the movie was praised in North Korea for its "anti-US message."

I also watched Altered States, a film in which a Harvard professor takes hallucinogenic mushrooms and then sticks himself in an isolation chamber. The result is that he begins shifting back and forth on the evolutionary spectrum, eventually reaching the birth of the universe. Also, it's a love story. The best word I have to describe it is odd. I liked it more than I thought I would, but...odd.

Ack wrote:

the7k wrote:Just watched Surrogates.

Meh. Nothing good, but nothing bad either. Perfectly average. Perfectly Meh.

I thought it was ok, but it was more from me reading The Singularity is Near.

Damnit Ack!

I took a second to google that book and it's scaring the shit out of me.

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izdead wrote:I saw miracle at st. anna. It has got to be the stupidest/worst war film I have ever seen. Dont see this movie. I cant believe spike lee directed it.

Sorry to hear that - I love Lee's stuff and was looking forward to finding the time to watch it. What's so bad about it?

I like his work too, which made this movie all the more disappointing. It's hard to explain what was wrong with it, but this amazon review is pretty spot on:

I had wanted to like this movie so much. As much as I wanted to like Windtalkers. Both had potential to be really great but were unable to rise above an absolutely juvenile and cheesy script. I am an avid WWII buff and I give alot of license to war movies and don't pick them apart for their accuracy or lack there of but this one not only insults the viewer but the legacy of the 92nd/Buffalo.

The Good : Absolutely beautiful cinematography. If you could mute the sound (dialogue) one might think they were watching a pretty decent WWII era movie. Battle scenes were shot well. Uniforms were pretty dead on accurate and the weapons were accurate although Thompson SMGs and 1911 .45 caliber HGs did not have 100 round clips......

The Bad : Awful and embarrassing dialogue embellished with overacting which made it almost comical. Obligatory nudity. Soldiers using language and phrases that would be used only today. A German louspeaker that blares Axis Sally's propaganda for several square miles over the battlefield and is audible to all. Fragmented story with a total lack of cohesion (like this review). My favorite is the commanding white officer (Nokes?) stating that the Germans were going to cause a race riot by piping in the propaganda. I think that those valiant soldiers were more interested in staying alive and protecting their comrades than starting a race riot in Italy under fire. But then again this shows the mentality of Spike Lee and the writer.

The Ugly : All white officers and soldiers portrayed as bigoted haters. In one instance the commanding officer refuses to believe members of the 92nd crossed the river so does not send supporting artillery strikes. His reasoning for this is "He is lying".
This same commanding officer condescendingly orders a black soldier to get him water. The black soldier spits into the canteen before giving it to white officer. Not only does this lower the mentality of the movie several notches but also slanders the memory of those brave men of the 92nd/Buffalo that fought for their country.

This movie had potential, unfortunately it was executed by someone who was unable to deliver. It is filled with contemporary language, modern topics of discussion, poor acting, and endless preaching about the evils of America. Spike Lee had scolded Clint Eastwood for not having any African Americans in Iwo Jima and had wanted him to rewrite history. Well, Spike has done that with this movie.

Altered States
To that movie I say Amen. It's really not that amazing as a movie, but as an exercise and in taking a crazy concept to its end its alright. If you enjoyed that, which you might have, I would recommend From Beyond by Stuart Gordon, same guy who did Reanimator, it's a fucking good movie about losing your mind through science.

and if anyone wants a really terrible movie, see the new Taking of Pelham 1 2 3. Holy hell that movie was bad, I'm not even Xaggerating. LIke, I can just imagine Tony Scott tarding out in the director's chair w/ Ridley looking over his shoulder helping him make the shit that gets him going.

Book of Blood. Good, but mostly for die-hard Clive Barker fans only.

I finished all of G Gundam. It is easily the most hilarious Gundam series of all time!

LOOK! THE EAST IS BURNING RED!

Reverend wrote:I finished all of G Gundam. It is easily the most hilarious Gundam series of all time!

LOOK! THE EAST IS BURNING RED!

I will transcend the boundary from being simply Master Asia to become Super Asia!

New flicks from NetFlix:

* The Call of Cthulhu (the silent one)
* The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (first in a gialli trilogy from Dario Argento, the second and third are The Cat o' Nine Tales and Four Flies on Grey Velvet, respectively)
* Ginger Snaps
* Terror Firmer

And that's the proposed order in which I will watch them.

REPO Man wrote:New flicks from NetFlix:

* The Call of Cthulhu (the silent one)
* The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (first in a gialli trilogy from Dario Argento, the second and third are The Cat o' Nine Tales and Four Flies on Grey Velvet, respectively)
* Ginger Snaps
* Terror Firmer

And that's the proposed order in which I will watch them.

I love Ginger Snaps. You're in for a treat with that one.