Author Topic: What Movies Are We Watching: The Flickening. (Read 139955 times)

THUD · « **Reply #120 on:** 29 March 2014, 13:55:21 »

Quote from: mdauben on 28 March 2014, 15:49:33

Having recently watched Pacific Rim and with the new Godzilla movie coming out this year I had a taste for some Kaiju action. So, I slipped the Gamera Trilogy into my player (Gamera: Guardian of the Universe, Gamera 2: Attack of Legion, and Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris). Some pretty entertaining stuff, if you're into Kaiju movies. ;)

You could make the argument that those are the greatest Kaiju movies ever made. If you are a fan, read what you can on the director of those films. He wanted to do Godzilla movies but Toho wouldn't let him. They gave him Gamera instead. Of course when he knocked Gamera out of the park, Toho green lighted his Godzilla project. While his Godzilla movies are good, they are not as good as the Gamera trilogy. A wasted opportunity IMHO. On the other hand, if not for him Gamera would have joined Trigrapa(sp?) Gorgo(sp?) and Vivran (sp?) as forgotten monster moves.

BTW do you have the original ADV release? The Tiger Lily style redub is worth the price of admission alone. Hilarious!

VanVelding · « **Reply #121 on:** 29 March 2014, 16:19:22 »

Watched Stand Up Guys with the guys. It's got Walken, Pacino, and Alan Arkin. There's something of a a slow start, but it's well acted and solidly constructed.

We discuss it at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wdgVgFrWz4

garhkal · « **Reply #122 on:** 29 March 2014, 17:41:38 »

Stand up guys was only OK for me. With that list of 3 great names i expected it to be much better.

Top Sergeant · « **Reply #123 on:** 29 March 2014, 22:32:26 »

Tucker & Dale vs. Evil!

THUD · « **Reply #124 on:** 30 March 2014, 01:05:42 »

Quote from: Top Sergeant on 29 March 2014, 22:32:26

Tucker & Dale vs. Evil!

Any good? Its on my list.

PsihoKekec · « **Reply #125 on:** 31 March 2014, 00:27:13 »

It's a fun movie.

Klep · « **Reply #126 on:** 31 March 2014, 10:24:35 »

I had an auteur-driven weekend watching first The Grand Budapest Hotel and then Noah. I unreservedly recommend both.

Banzai · « **Reply #127 on:** 31 March 2014, 11:58:07 »

Shaolin vs. Wutong on my own, Frozen with my wife and daughter.

BobTheZombie · « **Reply #128 on:** 31 March 2014, 21:47:52 »

Just arrived home from seeing Noah, and let me tell you that I could rant about that for days. PM me if you want details. It's quite confusing even for me to understand and I've even researched this stuff. I'd warn people that it's quite confusing and may not be suitable for children.

MoneyLovinOgre4Hire · « **Reply #129 on:** 31 March 2014, 23:46:30 »

I think that the director said it was supposed to be a survival-horror story.

Nightlord01 · « **Reply #130 on:** 01 April 2014, 07:03:50 »

Just watched 47 Ronin.

Bland, not really all that entertaining, can't recommend it to anyone tbh.

Banzai · « **Reply #131 on:** 01 April 2014, 14:42:22 »

Quote from: Nightlord01 on 01 April 2014, 07:03:50

Just watched 47 Ronin.

Bland, not really all that entertaining, can't recommend it to anyone tbh.

Which just annoys the hell out of me. The Chūshingura is such a classic.

Nightlord01 · « **Reply #132 on:** 03 April 2014, 06:42:19 »

Quote from: Banzai on 01 April 2014, 14:42:22

Which just annoys the hell out of me. The Chūshingura is such a classic.

Well, it was an unfortunate mish-mash of western and oriental ideals, something had to give.

In this case, it was excitement. :P

It was the love story, and the prominence of the half breed that sunk it for me.

Stormlion1 · « **Reply #133 on:** 03 April 2014, 10:39:01 »

Watching Gettysburg right now. One of my favorite Civil War movies.

sir_spamalot · « **Reply #134 on:** 03 April 2014, 10:41:07 »

A very mixed feelings review of NOAH! ;)

http://www.paulsvalleydailydemocrat.com/moviereviews/x1316965754/-Noah-character-a-victim-in-flood-epic

VanVelding · « **Reply #135 on:** 03 April 2014, 14:06:03 »

Quote from: Nightlord01 on 03 April 2014, 06:42:19

Well, it was an unfortunate mish-mash of western and oriental ideals, something had to give.

In this case, it was excitement. :P

It was the love story, and the prominence of the half breed that sunk it for me.

That's pretty great to hear. It looked that way from the trailer, but I had a small doubt that I was actually missing out on a hidden gem.

garhkal · « **Reply #136 on:** 03 April 2014, 15:33:22 »

Quote from: Stormlion1 on 03 April 2014, 10:39:01

Watching Gettysburg right now. One of my favorite Civil War movies.

Much prefered Glory to gettysburg.

BobTheZombie · « **Reply #137 on:** 03 April 2014, 19:19:20 »

Quote from: garhkal on 03 April 2014, 15:33:22

Much prefered Glory to gettysburg.

I've only seen Glory out of the two...

bytor · « **Reply #138 on:** 04 April 2014, 11:08:41 »

I watched Modern Problems last night, a Chevy Chase movie from 1980. A fun movie, kinda cheesy at times but it has it moments. The funny thing is that I was thinking about this movie a couple of weeks ago, couldn't remember the title, then found it on Netflix last night.

Banzai · « **Reply #139 on:** 04 April 2014, 11:56:42 »

My wife took me to see Veronica Mars last night. I was a big fan of the series, and the movie was great for the Marshmallows, but I could see where someone jumping in at that point would be pretty lost. But friends who went and saw it and never new anything of the show other than "plucky girl detective" enjoyed the story for itself.

garhkal · « **Reply #140 on:** 04 April 2014, 15:26:32 »

Caught 2 'snoozers' last night. Jackie Chan's newest flick, Chinese Zodiac. Almost akin to his earlier work Operation Condor and the like. Poor acting and plotline, decent fight scenes. That's all it had imo going for it..
The 2nd was The bag man with John Cusak and Robert De niro. Man how both of them could put their names to such a poor movie is beyond me. Not even worthy of 2 stars out of 5.

bytor · « **Reply #141 on:** 07 April 2014, 15:56:12 »

Watched Gravity over the weekend, really enjoyed it, and I wish I could have seen it in the theaters. I don't think my little 32" HDTV does it justice.

BobTheZombie · « **Reply #142 on:** 07 April 2014, 16:54:55 »

Saw the last half of Iron Giant yesterday. Man, that's still such a great movie.

Aokarasu · « **Reply #143 on:** 07 April 2014, 17:20:02 »

Quote from: BobTheZombie on 07 April 2014, 16:54:55

Saw the last half of Iron Giant yesterday. Man, that's still such a great movie.

Agreed.

VanVelding · « **Reply #144 on:** 08 April 2014, 08:57:34 »

Hellraiser was our movie of choice this week. It held up as well as you could want for a movie made in '87, but it's just so wicked crazy it's impossible not to be a little charmed by it. Also, it stars Andrew Robinson, who played Garak in Deep Space Nine, so that's a plus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jYE0v_4iLA

Mastergunz · « **Reply #145 on:** 09 April 2014, 13:09:14 »

Watched 'The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaugg' last night. Now I enjoyed the first movie well enough, and I loved the LotR Trilogy, but this movie just wasn't what I expected. Having read the book wwwwaaaaayyyyyy back in the day I am wondering how they are going to get a 3rd movie out of the last 30 pages or so of the book from where this movie left off.

-Gunz

Banzai · « **Reply #146 on:** 09 April 2014, 19:00:02 »

Saw Gravity in the cheap theater ($3 Whoo!) Glad to have seen it on the large screen, though this I would have liked to see in 3-D. It was fun, in an intense way, and my wife wished we had seen it at Cinetopia, because she could have used a drink, or two.

I am Belch II · « **Reply #147 on:** 09 April 2014, 22:25:54 »

Quote from: Stormlion1 on 03 April 2014, 10:39:01

Watching Gettysburg right now. One of my favorite Civil War movies.

It's up there for one of the great Civil War movies. It had some great parts in the movie.

MoneyLovinOgre4Hire · « **Reply #148 on:** 09 April 2014, 22:33:48 »

Quote from: Mastergunz on 09 April 2014, 13:09:14

Watched 'The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaugg' last night. Now I enjoyed the first movie well enough, and I loved the LotR Trilogy, but this movie just wasn't what I expected. Having read the book wwwwaaaaayyyyyy back in the day I am wondering how they are going to get a 3rd movie out of the last 30 pages or so of the book from where this movie left off.

-Gunz

Two words: Peter Jackson.

It doesn't matter how little you give him to work with, he will still drag it out forever.

RunandFindOut · « **Reply #149 on:** 09 April 2014, 23:23:50 »

80s binge!!

Past three days after work I've watched Robocop I, Diehard I, and Terminator I. Tomorrow is the first Indiana Jones movie.