Rate the last movie you saw

[David.]

Manchester.. masochistic. Iteration of synechdoche, NY.

Affleck got schooled by the chick in the crying scene. He actually did a shitty job in it.

 

[David.]

Moonlight is easily the best movie I've seen made in the last year

 

[Kbiz]

Manchester.. masochistic. Iteration of synechdoche, NY.

Affleck got schooled by the chick in the crying scene. He actually did a shitty job in it.

Agreed. Aside from the jail scene, Affleck played the same emotional tone the entire movie. I thought he was better in Gone Girl but it's not like the Oscars should be the mean to judge performances anymore. It's just a big Hollywood circle jerk at this point.

Saw Hacksaw Ridge last night. Incredibly brutal but i thought it was an excellent war film. While Gibson may be a sadist, he can still make a helluva movie. This was dripping with that old-Hollywood vibe. No fancy camera tricks, no hit-you-over-the-head message (was worried the religious aspect would be heavy-handed but it played into the plot well) just an excellent big-time war movie.

 

[Jack Brickman]

Moonlight is easily the best movie I've seen made in the last year

It even won best picture.

Eventually.

 

[Nicky]

Agreed. Aside from the jail scene, Affleck played the same emotional tone the entire movie. I thought he was better in Gone Girl but it's not like the Oscars should be the mean to judge performances anymore. It's just a big Hollywood circle jerk at this point.

Saw Hacksaw Ridge last night. Incredibly brutal but i thought it was an excellent war film. While Gibson may be a sadist, he can still make a helluva movie. This was dripping with that old-Hollywood vibe. No fancy camera tricks, no hit-you-over-the-head message (was worried the religious aspect would be heavy-handed but it played into the plot well) just an excellent big-time war movie.

Are you talking about Ben or Casey? Casey wasn't in Gone Girl.

I saw Captain Fanstatic- Thought it was very good. Acting was great all the way around.

 

[Kbiz]

Are you talking about Ben or Casey? Casey wasn't in Gone Girl.

I saw Captain Fanstatic- Thought it was very good. Acting was great all the way around.

Gone Baby Gone is what i meant...i always make that mistake.

 

[The Human Q-Tip]

We've got Direct TV, and there's a channel dedicated specifically to shorts. It's nice because you can watch all the Oscar-nominated shorts for a year in a bit over an hour and a half.

Mrs. Tip and I just watched 2009's. The winner that year was "Toyland", which was about the friendship between a Jewish boy and German boy in Nazi Germany. Excellent. Our favorite was "New Boy", which was about an African boy's first day of school in Ireland. Amazing how much good stuff was crammed into just 11 minutes. They may even be watchable online -- just 10-30 minutes each. "The Pig" was great too.

 

[chiefwahoo]

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2. I give it 0 out of 5 stars. But a must-see if you have an 8.5-month-pregnant-with-twins wife that insists you watch it with her.

 

[Jack Brickman]

We've got Direct TV, and there's a channel dedicated specifically to shorts. It's nice because you can watch all the Oscar-nominated shorts for a year in a bit over an hour and a half.

Mrs. Tip and I just watched 2009's. The winner that year was "Toyland", which was about the friendship between a Jewish boy and German boy in Nazi Germany. Excellent. Our favorite was "New Boy", which was about an African boy's first day of school in Ireland. Amazing how much good stuff was crammed into just 11 minutes. They may even be watchable online -- just 10-30 minutes each. "The Pig" was great too.

I have mad respect for anyone who can make great short films. I was a film minor in college and I always thought writing a compelling short film script was so much harder than writing full length stuff.

 

[Adrenochrome]

Agreed. Aside from the jail scene, Affleck played the same emotional tone the entire movie. I thought he was better in Gone Girl but it's not like the Oscars should be the mean to judge performances anymore. It's just a big Hollywood circle jerk at this point.

Saw Hacksaw Ridge last night. Incredibly brutal but i thought it was an excellent war film. While Gibson may be a sadist, he can still make a helluva movie. This was dripping with that old-Hollywood vibe. No fancy camera tricks, no hit-you-over-the-head message (was worried the religious aspect would be heavy-handed but it played into the plot well) just an excellent big-time war movie.

Watched Hacksaw Ridge last night also...was worried about the religious aspect also and was tremendously surprised also. Great movie. The last 75 minutes were as intense as any movie I've ever seen, and arguably more terrifying than the battle scenes in Saving Private Ryan

 

[Hurl Bruce]

Watched Hacksaw Ridge last night also...was worried about the religious aspect also and was tremendously surprised also. Great movie. The last 75 minutes were as intense as any movie I've ever seen, and arguably more terrifying than the battle scenes in Saving Private Ryan

I've never felt as uneasy watching a scene from a movie than the scene at the end of Saving Private Ryan when the guy gets the knife in the chest.

 

[The Human Q-Tip]

I have mad respect for anyone who can make great short films. I was a film minor in college and I always thought writing a compelling short film script was so much harder than writing full length stuff.

I was kind of in awe of "New Boy". Just a little movie, nothing big. 11:33, that's all. And I had nothing to do with that stupid header -- just something added by the guy who posted it to youtube.

 

[Kbiz]

I'm intrigued by the latest Alien Covenant trailer. Wasn't a huge fan of Prometheus but just being back in that world was exciting.

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svnAD0TApb8

 

[-Akronite-]

Remake of "It" coming in the fall.

Rewatched IT this Halloween after having never watched it in full. I actually didn't think it was dark enough. I'm hoping the new one is much darker. Horror movies never have any balls anymore. Some truly awful things happened in the book that I think would be really effective on the screen.

The movie didn't address exactly how abusive Bev's dad and husband were, which I think could have made the movie better.

There were some hate crimes committed that built some mystery in the town as to what kind of evil presence was building. Henry Bowers didn't like his baby brother much...or his neighbor's dog.

The ending in the plant isn't particularly strong, but it wasn't strong in the book either. IT is most frightening when it's a clown or some kind of humanoid manifestation of fear... giant spider? Not so much.

Did a great job with the childhood dork group friendships trope, Goonies/Stand By Me/Sandlot/Stranger Things style, which I think was the strongest part of the movie.

This movie could do a great job if it went full out dark and maybe grabbed a couple of those scenes I mentioned that weren't covered in the original. There were many that could be iconic that were not used in the original.

The "I worry about you Bev" from her seemingly genuinely concerned dad was bizarre if you'd read the book. He was a lot more than just uh...concerned with Bev. If they'd focus a bit on Bev's abuse at the hands of her dad, spend some more time developing Henry Bowers and still develop the friendships as well as they did in the original all while having a fresh take on Pennywise's personality...they might not screw this up.

Oh...and don't go too crazy with the CGI. The original did fine with limited effects. They kind of sucked in the plant, but the plant scene sucks in general. I wish the ending could be changed completely honestly.

Hopeful for this movie, but Stephen King movies are usually a miss so we shall see.

As a young kid I thought IT was the scariest movie ever. That clown's face haunted me for years. Watching it as an adult, it has lots of charm and I still enjoy it as a story, but not really scary at all. I'm skeptical of the new film but that's how things go when you're attached to something.

Finally read the book this last year. Very enjoyable read though the ending where it gets very mystical and meandering is not exactly... Satisfying. Like it's not bad but the book does a great job of setting out all this cool lore but it doesn't really pay off.

People want to complain about the giant spider a lot, but two things:

1) Basically IT's a dark god of some sort and the spider is just the closest thing that human mind can comprehend to its form. Might not be scary but as a concept I think it's kinda cool.

2) The clown is featured more prominently in the movie than the book. The film gives the impression that it's basically a killer clown with magic powers, but the book gives more forms that give the impression that the clown is just one of many. The movie threw in a mummy and wolfman, but the book also had a giant bird and shit.

The themes of racial hate and homophobia tying in with the horrors of your hometown are what I love about the book. It's really drawn out in detail and you feel just how fucked this whole town is, from the beginning of time to now. The way each of them dreads home has some truth, even as they enjoy the reunion of friends.

The press photo of Pennywise didn't strike me as an improvement on the Curry design. He looks like a creepy clown rather than a fun one that could actually lure a child. But I don't want to judge too harshly before it's out.

BUT the photo below looks pretty good. In the context of reality rather than "horror lighting" I could see this giving me the willies.

 

[David.]

Are people really scared of clowns?

I always thought that was just a thing people said. Clowns don't know magic, don't have weapons, don't have superpowers. Just face paint.