I just watched Funny Games and it's an incredible thriller. It's a really interesting experiment... the movie sets out to make you think about violence and it involves you, the viewer, in it as well. There's a shot for shot remake coming out (or maybe it is out) but I'm talking about the 1997 one. It breaks many horror rules and just twists everything on its head. It breaks the 4th wall. It doesn't give you satisfaction (the last 10 minutes is one of the biggest fuck yous I've ever seen). It sets itself up like a horror movie as well but it just goes in a completely different direction. Horrible things go on in the movie but it doesn't necessarily show it. It's only a horror movie in the sense that it's psychological torture. It properly messes with your mind. Strongly encouraged if you want to experience something different. You may not like it but I even think that's the point at times...

Today there's been two movies.

The first is Dead Man, and wikipedia says this about it:
Johnny Depp plays William Blake (yes, named after the poet... in fact, the movie quotes various poems of his). Very good movie and I'm looking forward to seeing some of Jarmusch's other films.



And the second was Alien, which I'm behind on seeing. What can I say? It's a very influential action movie with an empowered female, instead of male. It has themes running through it but they're very subtle. Especially sexuality. Essays have been written about it that could say much more about this movie than I ever could.
Or you know, you could see it as just an alien running around killing people.

It succeeds at both, and now I know why it's held in such high regard.

Okay so 3 movies over the couple days. First off we have Doomsday, from Neil Marshall who made The Descent which I thought was pretty good. He also made Dog Soldiers which I haven't gotten around to seeing yet. So what is this movie? Well it's a good time first and foremost. It takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where some virus has ravaged the land and there's an inside "civilized" society and an outside society full of crazy people, y'know. They throw homage after homage at you and do some pretty ridiculous things in the vein of Shoot 'Em Up. This is an over the top action movie through and through but there was obviously some work put into it. I mean, it had crazy punks and knights so it entertained me and that's what these movies go for, but I won't be seeing it again. Watch it but don't expect anything realistic at all because, well, that's not the point at all.

7/10, better than average (5) but not especially great. Preferred Shoot 'Em Up.


Then there was The Corporation. A documentary about corporations and how legally they're people. It's very good and goes into detail about how sneaky these companies are. Since I can't remember all the peoples names, wikipedia says:
I mean, this movie was preaching to the choir for me and I knew I'd love it as soon as I saw it. I read the criticisms on wikipedia and I laughed, because one critic said that it made the communist party look bad while pushing a more anarchist point of view. So we have someone criticizing the movie because it didn't make THEIR party look good. Documentaries should be somewhat even handed but not completely. I mean, it's illogical to assume that anybody who has any beliefs can make a completely unbiased film. And this film does give other sides a chance to talk and the part with the CEO of, I think, Shell was really cool.

Also: The Corporation Filmmakers Official Download Edition - DIVX : Movies > Documentary - Mininova
A torrent of the movie but RELAX AJ! The producer/co-director released this himself because he's proud that it's getting around but he also encourages people to either buy the movie or donate some money, so please do that if you like the film.

9/10

And the last movie was a movie I watched just to get out of the house. Never Back Down... a movie where a bunch of good looking "teenagers" beat up on each other and try to tell us that fighting is bad... or maybe fighting ISN'T bad? Who knows? The movie's a mess. Music that was only put there because it was aggressive (though it played some songs I like), an attempt at an emotional payoff at the end that doesn't really make much sense in context of the rest of the film. Though I'm sure someone would argue that. This movie WAS entertaining, but take that with a truck of salt because most movies entertain me on some level even if they're horrible. Every cliche is thrown at you in here, and it even has an exchange that basically goes like this... don't worry, it's early in the movie, it's really not a big deal anyways...

[Main character walks into party, is doing whatever, the best fighter in the town confronts him after a while, blah blah]
Best Fighter: You wanna be the best, then you gotta beat the best.
Main Character: But I don't want to be the best.

WHERE DID THAT COME FROM??? I thought I missed a line or two before but apparently I did not.

So! Final verdict IS! 3.5/10. Tons better than National Treasure (which I gave a 2 on Kill-Talk), but not really close to being average... a 4 seemed too high. So hence, favourite movie of the year.

Lol. Getting talked to in bold made me laugh.

You sure watch a lot of movies!!!

Haha I figured I should stress it just in case. Plus bold is fun, just ask Butler.

Well I watch quite a few yeah. I try to watch at least one a day.

So then, I watched another episode of The Decalogue (will go respond in the thread I made after this).

And I watched We Own The Night which was a pretty average crime thriller. Didn't really see anything that stuck out but I like Mark Wahlberg (sp?) as a cop so it was worth a watch anyways.

Damn, can't edit my post.
I just want to say that I just watched a Jim Henson short film called Time Piece and it's really experimental. I don't even really know what was going on... I mean, just the images themselves spoke volumes and I know it has SOMETHING to do with time but I can't really wrap my head around exactly what is going on. It's very surreal.
YouTube - Jim Henson's Time Piece

There it is..

I just finnished watching Blades of Glory.....it was on HBO and we had a weekend of HBO for free (probably because it was easter)...I thought it was an OK movie, pretty funny an all

Watched I am Legend today. Pretty decent movie (despite what I heard otherwise).

I liked how the ending tied in with his daughter.

Have you seen the alternate ending? It should be on youtube. It's better.

I Am Legend was great for about 3/4 of the way through. It did some really nice things and there were certain scenes that made me feel really sad. I don't really want to spoil much so I won't give away too much but it was just really fascinating watching Will Smith live with his dog, even though they were doing mundane things.
Then the last quarter shit all over that.
Still definitely worth seeing though.

And I'm glad there's finally some responses in here that aren't mine, haha

i am legends falls into another case of good advertising... bad movie... meaning if you saw the commercial you saw all the good parts to the movie.

You're kidding me right? That movie was all about the oozing atmosphere and how it builds on that. You don't see all that in an ad for it.

I haven't watched a movie today but I'm working on a Bergman film.