What was the last movie you've seen?

[samsonlonghair]

Oh shit, my local video rental place just got in a copy of Dead Heat. Oh boy oh boy oh boy.

I thought those stores were dead in the USA

All the big chains are dead or dying, but there are family-owned businesses still open. My local place, video mart, has been owned by the same family for twenty years now. They're not going to quit just because business has gotten tough.

[Fragems]

The Day After(1983)



Picked this up a while ago and just got around to watching it. Pretty dark anti-war movie in which basically the shit hit's the fan and the U.S and U.S.S.R. unleash their nuclear arsenals on each other. Acting is pretty horrible, but the effects are decent for the time. Also the make up for the radiation poising and etc. is pretty disturbing and they really went all out with the extras there are scenes with 300-400+ people and it really gives you the feeling of how chaotic things would be if a situation were to ever occur. Ending is very open, but the film serves it's purpose.

[ExedExes]

Stand Up Guys
This was recently added to Amazon, and the quotes in the graphic here nail it really well. Partners in crime reunite to spend one last night together, except one of them has a mission of his very own. It's just as you'd expect when you seen Pacino and Walken together. Lots of great moments and it's just really fun, highly recommended.



The Guy With The Secret Kung Fu
If you want barrel-scraping chop socky, look no further than Amazon. Here we find 2 brothers, known for being "revolutionaries", sent to take down the Dragon Gang. Good fighting sequences, but terrible editing with lots of bad cuts and freeze frames for no apparent reason, inappropriate use of sci-fi movie music every 5-10 minutes, lots of badly dubbed laughing, and the use of a floating coffin to take out the otherwise invulnerable leader. That's it.

[Fragems]

Stand Up Guys is a really fun flick I highly recommend it as well.

[prfsnl_gmr]

The Guy With The Secret Kung Fu
If you want barrel-scraping chop socky, look no further than Amazon. Here we find 2 brothers, known for being "revolutionaries", sent to take down the Dragon Gang. Good fighting sequences, but terrible editing with lots of bad cuts and freeze frames for no apparent reason, inappropriate use of sci-fi movie music every 5-10 minutes, lots of badly dubbed laughing, and the use of a floating coffin to take out the otherwise invulnerable leader. That's it.

I have actually seen this...and I agree; it sucks.

[Fragems]

Caught a matinee this morning and really enjoyed the movie. Story is good it's got a good sense of humor and a nice balance to where it's not to serious or to goofy. The action is also very well done and there is a lot of it. They did a great job of framing the main actors during shootouts and fights as well which seems to be an issue with a lot of movies. The majority of the fight scenes are also really hectic with anywhere from 5-30+ people being involved in a single action sequence really there are only 1-2 one on one fights in the whole movie yet I never lost track of what was going on. The cast was also great especially Colin Firth, Mark Strong, Michael Caine, and the lead Taron Egerton who all did a really solid job with their roles.


On the other hand there were a few things I didn't like.
1.It was definitely a lot more violent/mature then I was expecting kind of was under the impression that this was going to be like PG-13 level from the tv spots, but it definitely earned an R . There is a lot of gore people get their heads blown off or body parts dismembered pretty frequently, language is pretty crude, and there is a lot of sexual insinuation with one especially awkward sexual moment near the end(discussed further in spoiler).
2. They gave Samuel L. Jackson's character a heavy lisps which was just kind of weird/unnecessary . I guess it was there to make him more unique/different, but his character was eccentric enough without it.

Nothing really major though just definitely not a movie for young kids. I would describe it as kind of like a modern version of Sean Connery's Bond film just with a lot more foul language tossed in and a lot more action. Well worth watching I highly recommend it for fans of action/spy movies.

Awkward/Unnecessary Mature Scene Discussed Further

So for those who have seen the film I'm talking about the Princess scene. Basically it's this scene from the trailer, but with an extra tid bit on the end. It would have been just fine if it had been cut like in the trailer, but instead there is an extra line "I'll give you Anal" at the end which just left everyone in the theater kind of stunned it was especially akward since I was there with my parents . They also went on to actually do a first person anal sex cam at the end which was very awkward as well. You can see a tid bit of her bare back in the red band trailer, but she goes full waste down nudity on screen.

Really I feel like her insinuating that she would have sex with him was far enough and would have made the humor n the scene a lot better. Plus I would have been totally fine with him just closing the door towards the end with maybe some audio playing over the observation monitors as Merlin turned them off as opposed to video. I mean of course we all know whats going to happen you don't need to have first person view of a girl spreading her ass checks in front of him for us to get the picture . I guess subtlety left film along time ago though.

[dsheinem]

I watched the HBO Scientology documentary tonight, but really didn't learn a whole lot that I didn't already know. Still, it is a good primer. Shit's fucked up.

[MrPopo]

I watched the HBO Scientology documentary tonight, but really didn't learn a whole lot that I didn't already know. Still, it is a good primer. Shit's fucked up.

Did they play the clip from South Park?

[dsheinem]

I watched the HBO Scientology documentary tonight, but really didn't learn a whole lot that I didn't already know. Still, it is a good primer. Shit's fucked up.

Did they play the clip from South Park?

No they had their own version of the Xenu story but with more CGI.

[MrPopo]

I watched the HBO Scientology documentary tonight, but really didn't learn a whole lot that I didn't already know. Still, it is a good primer. Shit's fucked up.

Did they play the clip from South Park?

No they had their own version of the Xenu story but with more CGI.

Did they still include the disclaimer "This is what Scientologists actually believe"?