I thought Paranormal Activity 2 wasn't bad, but it wasn't as good as the first movie.
Don't get me wrong; it was pretty well done. I just get the feeling that horror movies (paranormal ones in particular) really aren't for me. I hardly ever jump, I'm not superstitious in the least, and I pick them apart so much that I never forget that I'm watching a movie. Instead I predict every other scare and chuckle when the filmmaker does something clever enough to surprise me.
Plus the very end of PA2 is genuinely hilarious, but I won't spoil. :P
When it comes to horror movies, slashers and torture porn do not scare me. With slasher movies, I just watch them for the over the top deaths and torture porn movies just don't do anything for me at all. What I look for in a horror movie is a slow boil that instills a feeling of paranoia and dread.
just watched human centipede with my hallmates....yeah...
That seems like a poor choice when, as you have stated in other threads, you are drunk right now.
Well I wasn't really drunk when I watched it, and it wasn't my idea. They just said, lets go watch a movie, and I found out what it was when I put it in the DVD player.
just watched human centipede with my hallmates....yeah...
That seems like a poor choice when, as you have stated in other threads, you are drunk right now.
Well I wasn't really drunk when I watched it, and it wasn't my idea. They just said, lets go watch a movie, and I found out what it was when I put it in the DVD player.
"Hey guys! Let's watch a movie!" "Cool man! What movie should we watch? Rocky, The Godfather, Scarface, Crank?" "Naw man. Let's watch this movie about a mad scientist that sews peoples mouths and assholes together." "SWEET!"
I watched Goodbye Lenin. It's set in East Berlin, around the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall. A young man's mother was in a coma when the wall came down, and once she wakes up, the young man does all he can to make her think life is carrying on just like normal.
It's meant to be a comedy, but I think I teared up more times than I laughed. Living in Berlin made it resonate with me far more than otherwise, I'm sure.
So an a film that is intentionally made with guerilla-style camerawork is not a good movie in your opinion?
The Bourne Identity is a good movie with production values and guerilla cinematography. It actuallyhadincredibly good editing and cinematography.
Paranormal Activity was shot on with a home camcorder and tripod on a budget of $15k, and is a crap film to boot.
I think the problem with Paranormal Activity is this: because of the use of night vision and faux-security cameras, you are constantly reminded that you are not in danger. The best movies make you feel like you are there with the characters and these kinds of things seperate the audience from the drama, or in this case, horror.
Over the weekend I picked up True Romance on the recommendation of my girlfriend. It were written by Quentin Tarentino which may sway a few people into watching it just by that fact alone. It's a pretty good film. It were funny and I thought that the reactions of the characters were by and large pretty realistic. It were so good I were quite surprised that it flew under my radar for so long.
So I finally got around to seeing Superbad. Despite it being old enough now that everything about it has been spoiled to death, I really had no idea what it was actually about, and my expectations were pretty low based on what I had heard. I was pleasantly surprised. Despite my general dislike for American comedies, ones aimed at teens in particular, it impressed me, and I would definitely watch it again.
Watched Lucky Number Slevin again in a long time. Jason was right, it is very enjoyable especially with the dialogue and how it's fast paced and quit witted. I need to see more movies like that.
Also watched How to Train Your Dragon. I can see why it did so well in the theaters. It is a very enjoyable movie that had me hooked on how adorable and awesome Toothless, the dragon is.
I can easily see this being made into a animated TV series.
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Watched the Adam West Batman movie. Hilariously campy. Only watched it because I hadFilmSack commentary track.
God I can't even bring myself to watch that. As much as I am a person who can watch something ironically, I don't think I could subject myself to that much cheese.
God I can't even bring myself to watch that. As much as I am a person who can watch something ironically, I don't think I could subject myself to that much cheese.
I adore that movie, but I don't think of my enjoyment of it being "ironic". The campiness is so often fully intentional, and it's completely the way it's meant to be enjoyed.
God I can't even bring myself to watch that. As much as I am a person who can watch something ironically, I don't think I could subject myself to that much cheese.
I adore that movie, but I don't think of my enjoyment of it being "ironic". The campiness is so often fully intentional, and it's completely the way it's meant to be enjoyed.
I love that movie with a passion. It's my favourite Batman movie and one of my favourite movies of all time. It is one of those movies that I can watch at any time and get hearty belly laughs the entire time through.
Also, I'm going to pull a page out of Daryl Surat's book and say that it is impossible to like something ironically. You either like something or you don't.
Just because you can't like something ironically doesn't mean others can't.
I don't think you can. If you like something, you like it. Liking something ironically is bullshit - a mere cover-up so that you don't have to feel embarrassed about liking something unpopular or that doesn't fit within your social circle. What I'd like to see - Someone actually define liking something ironically. Consider - Ironically is an adverb that comes from the word ironic, defined as "Characterized by or constituting irony, Given to the use of irony, Poignantly contrary to what was expected or intended."
It's just utter fucking nonsense made up by hipsters with no understanding of irony, or how to use the word "Ironically", so that they can like things that would otherwise mean they would be shunned. You're a hipster and like Justin Bieber? No problem, you like him "Ironically". You're a hipster and you like PCs, rather than macs? You like them Ironically. You're a hipster, and your girlfriend catches you chin-deep in dick? No problem, you only like cock ironically. You like Iron Man 2, rather than some French arthouse surrealist nonsense, or live performances where girls open cans of corn smut with spaghetti labels on them and smear them on themselves? S'all good, you like it ironically.
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Plus the very end of PA2 is genuinely hilarious, but I won't spoil. :P
2) Get Him to the Greek: Hilarious
3) Half of American Gangster: Excellent.
"Cool man! What movie should we watch? Rocky, The Godfather, Scarface, Crank?"
"Naw man. Let's watch this movie about a mad scientist that sews peoples mouths and assholes together."
"SWEET!"
It's meant to be a comedy, but I think I teared up more times than I laughed. Living in Berlin made it resonate with me far more than otherwise, I'm sure.
Paranormal Activity was shot on with a home camcorder and tripod on a budget of $15k, and is a crap film to boot.
Also watched How to Train Your Dragon. I can see why it did so well in the theaters. It is a very enjoyable movie that had me hooked on how adorable and awesome Toothless, the dragon is.
I can easily see this being made into a animated TV series.
Also on the Paranormal Activity debate, I think the first one was a great film IF you watch the cops ending first. Otherwise, it's less than great.
Also, I'm going to pull a page out of Daryl Surat's book and say that it is impossible to like something ironically. You either like something or you don't.
It's just utter fucking nonsense made up by hipsters with no understanding of irony, or how to use the word "Ironically", so that they can like things that would otherwise mean they would be shunned.
You're a hipster and like Justin Bieber? No problem, you like him "Ironically".
You're a hipster and you like PCs, rather than macs? You like them Ironically.
You're a hipster, and your girlfriend catches you chin-deep in dick? No problem, you only like cock ironically.
You like Iron Man 2, rather than some French arthouse surrealist nonsense, or live performances where girls open cans of corn smut with spaghetti labels on them and smear them on themselves? S'all good, you like it ironically.
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