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[____no5]

Except I thought Josh Brolin was great in Milk as well.

Ooops a good performance, I've totally forgotten. Strange, even exactly after the film, when I was making the bill...


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Anyway, I have to thank you LC about Wrestler, your review in this thread some months ago,
made me curious to search and watch it -I have recommend it to a few people since... 

Requiem for a Dream was a giant, and pi was great as well, but Wrestler made me a fun of Aronovsky

 

[Natalie]

Anybody else here see District 9?

I thought it was very good, and the lead actor did an amazing job. I'm also deeply saddened that they're already talking sequel. No sequel is needed. Leave it alone!

Saw it yesterday, the first time I was in a drive-in cinema.

I thought it was a great movie, a little unfortunate in how the prawn culture was skimmed over (I would still like to know what was with the cat food), but still a great movie. The lead actor did an amazing job, he was completely believable in his roll, not a great hero, but a lost and bewildered human bureaucrat who ends up doing the right thing. Perhaps that was why the end was so touching, because he seemed like the guy next door if you know what I mean, and he still did such an heroic act.

What amazed me the most about the movie was the graphics, simply because they weren't noticeable. No science-fictiony crap, it was like the prawns were, I dunno, real crabs or something skuttling about on screen.

I was really glad I saw it despite being warned against it (something about it playing the race card), just because it wasn't an apocalyptic movie featuring an alien invasion, it was a far more believable and probably even more plausible rendering of human interaction with a foreign planetary species. I heartily recommend it.

 

[Onhell]

Hokay, So! I just saw if not the most original (what is now a days?), at least the most interesting movie of the year: The Collector. Think "Cube" meets "Saw" Meets "Jeepers Creepers" meets "Halloween" meeting Bob Smiths wife for a nice lunch on a Wednesday afternoon meets ok ok, you get the picture.

I LOVED everything about this movie, from the opening credits, the camera work to the ending credits if it is possible to enjoy a list of people's names (and the sequence after that). It was awesome. It was by and large an old school horror movie which slowly builds the tension like "Halloween" or "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre," yet the "bad guy" is twisted in the way Jigsaw and nuts from "Hostel" were. Not overly graphic or gorey The movie really focuses on Arkin, a handyman/house burglar turned hero under the circumstances: The family he is buglarising is under the torment of the collector (he thinks they were out of town).

Go rent it now! or stream it, but NOW!

 

[Forostar]

I have not seen this film yet but I thought the following sounds interesting enough to watch out for. I collected some stuff from the internet about it, read on:

The film is called Lebanon. Made by Israeli director Samuel Maoz. It draws on his memories as a young soldier in the 1982 Lebanon war.

The film is set almost entirely inside of a tank.

June, 1982 - The First Lebanon War. A lone tank and a paratroopers platoon are dispatched to search a hostile town - a simple mission that turns into a nightmare. The four members of a tank crew find themselves in a violent situation that they cannot contain. Motivated by fear and the basic instinct of survival, they desperately try not to lose themselves in the chaos of war.

"This is not a movie that makes you think 'I've just been to a movie'. This is a movie that makes you feel like you've been to war."

Actually, this weekend is was announced that the film won(!) the Golden Lion award for best film at the 66th Venice International Film Festival.

Ang Lee who was this year's jury president and a two-time Golden Lion winner, speaking to reporters said: "We all come from different countries but we are happy that we are not inside that tank. It could be any tank and any war in the world, that's what is so precious about the film. Although it's a narrow point of view, that of Israeli soldiers, the ripple is incredible."

Lebanon currently has no U.S. release date although it will play during this year’s New York Film Festival.
Trailer (in Hebrew)

 

[Natalie]

Saw 9 on Saturday. No, not District 9, just "9". If any of you guys saw the original 9 minute internet short its based on, then you know what I'm talking about. If not, well then, its a short movie (it felt like no time had passed at all which for me is a good sign) in animated Tim Burton style. Well, it's a Tim Burton movie so that makes sense. I don't think its everyone's movie and I'm not sure its appropriate for kids...set in an apocalyptic post-human world, it's all about the quest of a strange little creature to find out why he was made. Luckily he doesn't have to do it alone . If you're into Tim Burton stuff, I'd stream it. Honestly I wouldn't spend the money on a cinema ticket, save that for something really big like The Hobbit...

 

[Onhell]

I have not seen this film yet but I thought the following sounds interesting enough to watch out for. I collected some stuff from the internet about it, read on:

The film is called Lebanon. Made by Israeli director Samuel Maoz. It draws on his memories as a young soldier in the 1982 Lebanon war.

The film is set almost entirely inside of a tank.


Sounds a lot like the Animated Israeli movie "Walz with Brashear"... which was awesome.

June, 1982 - The First Lebanon War. A lone tank and a paratroopers platoon are dispatched to search a hostile town - a simple mission that turns into a nightmare. The four members of a tank crew find themselves in a violent situation that they cannot contain. Motivated by fear and the basic instinct of survival, they desperately try not to lose themselves in the chaos of war.

"This is not a movie that makes you think 'I've just been to a movie'. This is a movie that makes you feel like you've been to war."

Actually, this weekend is was announced that the film won(!) the Golden Lion award for best film at the 66th Venice International Film Festival.

Ang Lee who was this year's jury president and a two-time Golden Lion winner, speaking to reporters said: "We all come from different countries but we are happy that we are not inside that tank. It could be any tank and any war in the world, that's what is so precious about the film. Although it's a narrow point of view, that of Israeli soldiers, the ripple is incredible."

Lebanon currently has no U.S. release date although it will play during this year’s New York Film Festival.
Trailer (in Hebrew)

 

[Natalie]

Yes, Forostar?

 

[Forostar]

Eh?

I think this is what Onhell posted (but he did it in the quote):

Sounds a lot like the Animated Israeli movie "Walz with Brashear"... which was awesome

 

[Onhell]

holy crap, I have no idea how that happened.... but yeah, THAT'S (Sounds a lot like the Animated Israeli movie "Walz with Brashear"... which was awesome.) what I said.

 

[____no5]

I find Israeli (and Palestinian) cinema very worthy generally -I can't wait to see that film

 

[MisterAJ]

Anybody else here see District 9?

I thought it was very good, and the lead actor did an amazing job. I'm also deeply saddened that they're already talking sequel. No sequel is needed. Leave it alone!

2nd that...

 

[Natalie]

Saw Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs on Sunday (in 3D!). It's a funny kid's movie, although the real plus is that it's in 3D. If you want to have a hearty laugh on an afternoon or something, stream it. Or, take your kids!

Also, saw Drop Dead Gorgeous on the same day. Now that's a great movie, even if you dislike beauty pageants. Great performance by a young Kirsten Dunst.

 

[Forostar]

Saw Rear Window, the 1998 remake starring Christopher Reeve. Better than I thought. The story was different from the Hitchcock original and there were quite some suspenseful moments.

Next Sunday I'll see Inglorious Bastards, looking forward to it.

 

[Natalie]

Next Sunday I'll see Inglorious Bastards, looking forward to it.

Enjoy!

 

[Perun]

Next Sunday I'll see Inglorious Bastards, looking forward to it.

Gonna see that tonight. I'm also looking forward to it, given that everybody told me it is not what it seems like at first.

EDIT: Just returned. It was an... odd movie. I can't describe it, you've got to see it for yourselves.

Spoiler

But the finale in the cinema was worth it all. Hitler's death alone...

 

[Forostar]

... Inglorious Basterds by the infamous Tarantino.  ... Also better acting I think, whoever played the SS officer Hans Landa really did a great job.

Indeed. 

it was great to hear the horrified gasps amid giggles when Brad Pitt told a Nazi officer to "take his Wiener Schnitzel-licking fingers" and point out where the other Nazi's were hiding.

Quite an experience!
@Perun: how was the film for you, when you saw it in Berlin?

Stop reading this and go watch it already.

I saw it and there were indeed shocking moments

Spoiler

(esp. the Bearjew beating someone's brains out

but the humor and the dialogues were so good that it didn't matter. Brilliant and original film (not the story, but the dialogue and the specific tension).

 

[Perun]

Love your new Avatar, Foro! That guy was clearly the highlight of the film.

@Perun: how was the film for you, when you it in Berlin?

I always watch films in original versions, there is one big cinema that shows them that way... and it is usually attended by tourists. But in any case, the entire theater was in stitches most of the time.

 

[Forostar]

Yeah he sure was the highlight. If he won't get an Oscar for that performance..... Hardly seen such good acting before, in this century.

 

[MisterAJ]

Definitively watching I.B...

Now for something different:

Superman & Batman: Public Enemies.

Really good, a must-see for DC fan's.

Synopsis:

Spoiler

Lex Luthor is President, and mad as a hatter due to injections of liquid Kryptonite.
He frames Superman for a murder he didn't commit, so the worlds finest not only have to
fend of every government employed super-human, but also every low-life gunning for the
1 billion $ reward. And time is not on their side:
A huge meteor is heading for earth, something Lex wants to hit the planet, so he can make a perfect society.

My verdict:

Spoiler

Great movie. Animations are superb, lots of action.
The only thing I missed was a little more "detective" from the dark knight, and a little less
"convenient gadget". (at times it almost got plain ridicules.)

Final score: 8.5 / 10... well worth the watch.

 

[jmpoet]

Don't know if anyone has heard of this one yet . . . but I just saw "Paranormal Activity" and it was pretty creepy, scary, whatever else you could call it.    It's going into international release soon, but I have no date on that, sometime in November, I'd guess. 

It's a movie that cost $15,000 to make, and (Blair Witch Style) has brought in millions -- how many millions, well, okay, this in an article I found from Hollywood Reporter, a reliable, industry print publication, and they said going into Halloween weekend Paranormal Activity grossed 66.6 million dollars, and they acknowledged that was indeed a demonic number.

Here's their article: http://movies.yahoo.com/news/usmovies.t ... innovative

Woe to you o earth and sea, for the devil sends the beast with wrath!!  Indeed.  Well, I'd recommend it, even without those numbers.  It's telling that the ads for the movie showed the audience reaction, not movie clips.  So, demon, ghost, or just Eddie getting ramped up for next summer's tour (!), maybe see it and decide or yourselves! (hehhehheh)