Movie Review

[Amos]

okay, i'm not going to do even a semi-long review cause it's hot and i'm tired, but i watched Donnie Darko on dvd today and it is excellent. you must watch this if you haven't already. beg, borrow or steal it, whatever, it is an absolutely gogeous and perfect movie 10/10

(hehe. if you replaced 'Donnie Darko' with 'Amelie' you'd have another review by me)

[Malcor Sylverwood]

So if you don't like quenton tarantino why would you see this movie in the first place?

I didn't even want to see it, but my friend was like "Oh, come on dude, I heard it was great!"

lol

The things we do for friendship sometimes...hehe

-Malcor "Reading comprehension" Sylverwood

[Waffles]

Yeah, I saw Donnie Darko for the first time down at wendy's, and I loved it It is just so.... freakin' cool I think the term is

[Anita Blake]

donnie darko is spectacular. donnie darko *sigh*

[Tatum]

Scary Movie 3 comes out next Friday. Is it wrong that I'm looking forward to it?

[Amos]

Scary Movie 3 comes out next Friday. Is it wrong that I'm looking forward to it?

i think it would be wrong if you weren't..

i know most people aren't that impressesed by them but i'm easily amused and every time i watch the first two they just get funnier. anna faris especially is hilarious

[Christy Sedai]

okay, i'm not going to do even a semi-long review cause it's hot and i'm tired, but i watched Donnie Darko on dvd today and it is excellent. you must watch this if you haven't already. beg, borrow or steal it, whatever, it is an absolutely gogeous and perfect movie 10/10

(hehe. if you replaced 'Donnie Darko' with 'Amelie' you'd have another review by me)

yeah, great movie, very strange and very cool. hehe I didnt know that many people had heard of it. heh the little sister is the girl from The Ring.

[Anita Blake]

Well, finally got to see Kill Bill, Quentin Tarantino's 4th movie.

I have to say, i kind of started to not like Tarantino for a while... i mean, he made these great films, and then kinda disappeared for a while, doing apparently nothing. Well, apparently the nothing he was doing for the past 5 years was Kill Bill... production of thi s film was delayed by a year or 2 by star Uma Thurman's real life pregnancy, and through all that, Tarantino stuck by this, his baby, a japanese-style kung-fu action movie, bloody and gritty to the core.

I now have a newly refound respect for Tarantino, one-time video store clerk-turned-auteur filmmaker.

Kill Bill is surely Tarantino's best work to date, which may be a little premature to state, since only the first half of this epic-length film has been released so far. The plot has been revealed in earlier posts, but it is perfect in it's simplicity. It's a throwback to old-style films that don't try to clutter things up with unneccesary elements.

The Bride, a professional assasin, is betrayed by her former comrades on the day of her wedding, shot in the head and left for dead. In a coma for four years, she wakes up wanting revenge on the ones who nearly killed her, and killed her unborn child. Before she gets to Bill, the dastardly father of the child who put the bullet in her brain, she first must fight her former associates, deadly assasins one and all. And strangely, 3/4 women.

Watching the Bride wake from her coma is a powerfully wrought scene, every emotion is conveyed, her every thought laid painfully bare as she realizes what has been done to her.

One of the interesting things in Kill Bill Volume 1 is that the Bride's biggest, most deadly opponents are women. This is a movie about women kicking other women's asses severly, with more blood and gore than has been seen on the big screen in ages.

Kill Bill is very much a western-style movie. One could easily imagine this film starring Clint Eastwood and taking place in the Wild West, with more guns and less swords, and all men. The geneder reversal is, as i said, one fo the more fascinating aspects of the film. But at the same time, it's pure Tarantino, the action is over-the-top, and so the the blood, but it's ok, because it's so well established as the filmic reality. This is not reality, we are told the instant the movie begins, this is a movie, so sit back and enjoy it. The over-the-top blood and gore actually help to make the movie more convincing as a movie.... it's almost comical the way blood gushes out like it's coming from a firehose when a limb is severed (and that's a pretty frequent occurence in this film). It's so exagerated that it really helps the mind accept all this violence as being OK.... it's obviously not real...it's just a movie.

There's an amazing sequence shot, where the camera moves in and around an entire restaurant, it's clearly the result of amazing planning and rehearsal.... this is what filmmakers strive to do, to create art. It's the kind of shot that's possible with a lot of hardwork, but most directors would rather fake it with CG since that would be easier. One of the great things about Kill Bill is the lack of CG. The tricks are in camera, and they are better for it. The stunts are performed by talented actors and stunt-doubles, not programmed by computer geeks trying to create the ultimate real person on a computer . The painstaking effort put into this film was worth it, because the result is a movie that looks and feels ... like a real movie.

The sound design is excellent as well, taking you in and out of where you need to be, complimenting the visuals perfectly, while helping to create a whole world that you can believe in, no matter how incredulous. One of the shockingly "movie" moments in the film is when the Bride is on an airplane, just sitting in her seat, with a katana at her side. Later, in a wider shot, we see that other passengers also have a katana at their side... on the airplane. Everyone in this movie has a sword... that's the world we're being asked to believe in, and that's the world we are presented seamlessly.

The pacing is slow, with many long shots hovering lovingly on Lucy Liu's impish grin, or Uma Thurman's haunted eyes. Lucy Liu is a real treat in this film, a delight to watch, her character colder than ice, with a friendly, girlish smile. Beautiful.

This is a movie for film geeks. This is a movie for fans of Tarantino's past work. This is a film for people who love film, for people who love action, for people who love to see women fighting, blood, gore, violence, depravation, and at the heart of it all, a lot of soul. This movie is a labour of love, and that love comes through in every gory, blood-soaked frame.

on a scale of good to mind-blowingly-brilliant, guess what i choose
9.5 out of 10

[prophetic_joe]

Anita I love you.

[Amelia]

I saw two movies this weekend. Intolerable Cruelty and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Intolerable Cruelty was crap....pure and utter crap! Do not go see this movie!!! I hate Catherine Zeta Jones but I love George Clooney and even he could not save this film. The best part of the movie was when a frend who was with us did some group participation! There was a scene where George made this big speech about love and yadda yadda yadda and he stepped down and walked out and one person in the audience started to clap so my friend started to clap, then so did I and the other two people with us and then the people behind us started to clap. Then the people in the movie started to stand up and applaud so the guy behind us stood up and then my friend stood up and applauded. By that time I was laughing so hard I couldnt get up.....lauging too hard. The movie was crap!!!! CRAP CRAP CRAP!



Texas Chainsaw Massacre......much much better movie even though it gave me several heart attacks and I left the theatre a changed woman. I dont know how I changed but I felt different about the world and chainsaws and Texas.

I never saw the first one but a friend who was there said it was different than the first, not better or worse, just different. Part of it was typical gory movie stuff but I liked it and I jumped in my seat twenty million times causing the people beside me to jump. I warned the guy beside me I should have informed the girl on my other side. I wished I had a boyfriend to cling to at times. The guy prolly wouldnt have minded but thats a whole other story. ANyway the guy who played the Drill Instructor in Full Metal Jacket plays the Sherriff and he was great. He yelled and screamed and was a preverted creepy sherrif. Im not going to tell you anything else. Just that it was a great movie to see in the Halloween season. Just take somebody with you, ok?

[Apoc]

Matrix Revolutions

I apologise if this contains spoilers, I didn't mean it too.

I thought it was great, yet my bro and two friends disagreed with me saying it was boring and nothing like what the matrix should be about. It got a bit predictable at points yet it still had major bonuses, I really don't want to give any spoilers away for those who have yet to see it but what is expected happens, the people you know have to die, die.

One flaw and probably the only is the underuse of some excellent characters, the Merovingian, Persephone, Sereth and the Trainman are all massively underused.

Something that surprised me greatly was the keyed down fighting, only a couple of fights appear in this film, yes there is the sentinel invasion but the neo vs smith fight and the Club Hell fight are practically the only real fights in the movie and they are far superior to the second instalments brawls.

As expected Smith is the star of the show, yet watch out for Neo's melted eyeball.

Favourite moment has to be the Neo/Smith fight- flying over the city, Slo mo face punch, rain booms and a silloette moment- excellent.

Overall I found it to be very enjoyable, the best movie currently at cinemas for definate. Return Of the King is obviously going to pound this into the ground, but for the moment probably joint film of the year with Kill Bill.

[LaughingTurtle]

Matrix Revolutions:

I don’t want to go too much into it even though this is a movie Review thread, and I’m too lazy to use spoiler text.

I liked it; the critics are just all jumping on the "it's cool to hate the Matrix" bandwagon. That and sequels automatically start out with lowered expectations due to having to live up to the original.

I think it delivered what it promised to. Now a few points-

Yeah some of the characters were great, Hugo was the best by far and the trainman was the helicopter dude from Mad Max, but it was balanced out by the crappyness of some of the minor characters...namely the one mech commander guy giving corny weak ass battle speeches and then the token teenage boy. His few lines were painful in their sheer stupidity, cliché'ishness and predictability.

Some have said there wasn't as much action as compared to the others, namely freeway type scenes....they must have had their eyes closed during the Zion assault

I can't stress enough the greatness of smith and his bringing together the movie. Though I do have one compliant...his fight with Neo at the end reminded me way too much of Dragon Ball Z type fights...I can't really describe it less I tell to much, but those of you who have seen DBZ will have an idea of what I mean.

So in conclusion...a good solid movie...it answered some questions...left others open for the viewers imagination. Wasn't a masterpiece by any standards nor will it best RoTK if the previews are any indication but it was well worth the price and I'd see it again.

[epiph]

there's not really much to add. i think i liked it, but i don't think it stands on its own as a movie. without the matrix, both reloaded and revolutions would be crap. but that was the point, merely an elaboration of the matrix, which, i assume, is what LT was talking about when he said it delivered what it promised.

i still have a problem with trin and neo, but i always will. there is more chemistry between neo and morpheus than neo and trin. and about halfway through reloaded, she decided to join the keanu reeves school of acting, and the two of them together became infinitely boring to watch.

i did really really like the end. or rather, the climax. very nice.

[Buck]

Well I went into the movie avoiding all previews spoilers and trailers AND heresay. I went in not expecting much and came out beaming. If you go in expecting Matrix bar type stuff then your forgetting that this is just another sequel of it. Sequels tend to stink but for a sequel Revolutions was much much better than Reloaded. The graphics were mind bogglingly cool

Also yes, LT damn it you put to words what was on the tip of my toungue That fight was so DBZ it wasnt funny. The only thing he didnt do was a kamehameha

Although there was a bit of mechwarrior in it too...

Overall I givet the movie a solid 4/5 for accomplishing what it was meant to. As LT well put it, it delivered what was needed saving the trilogy from a smoldering ruin.

edit-- Oh btw, I dont think it left any real questions open. Not nearly so as the original. I think the ending scene summed it up pretty darn well.

[JEDIWAN]

I'm w/ LT and Buck on the DBZ thing. I't was starting to remind me of Trunks and Goten.

Revolutions was exactly what I expected, however. Better than Relaoded (which was a perfect transition movie: as it should be), but you can't really beat the first one.

--Oh, anyone who read my theory about Persephany, Thank God I was wrong!!!--

Didn't see the Trinity thing comming though.
Do we all agree (and did we predict) that they left it wide freakin' open for more "I need to pay for the kid's college and 75 new cars" movies?
I mean, hey!, MR Mainframe Source dude! Where ya takin' Neo?
I also think that Alice Walker did a great job taking over for Gloria "The Oracle" Foster.

Who watch the Animatrix and played Enter The Matrix and chuckled a bit?