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Badlands is a great movie. Not my favorite Malick film though, Days of Heaven and Tree of Life are his best in my humble opinion. I also have soft spot for Thin Red Line. And I didn't particularly like Woman in Black. It wasn't bad, just kind of slow and didn't hold my interest.

Speaking of slow movies...

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Went ahead and saw this last night. Started out pretty creepy but kind of stalemated after that and didn't maintain the creepy atmosphere. The climax wasn't exactly spectacular either. I thought the first one was better.
 
Just remembered a couple other horror movies I saw

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I think The Bay is underrated. Or maybe I'm just a sucker for found-footage type films. Barry Levinson directs this flick about an epidemic that hits a small town. If you like found-footage films you should at least be somewhat entertained.

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Adgy recommended Coldfish to me a while back. I had no idea what to expect. Man it was a pretty ****ed up film. The characters are crazy. It was unlike any film I've seen. Watching the main character devolve into insanity was pretty awesome.
 
Diehard said:
Badlands is a great movie. Not my favorite Malick film though, Days of Heaven and Tree of Life are his best in my humble opinion. I also have soft spot for Thin Red Line. And I didn't particularly like Woman in Black. It wasn't bad, just kind of slow and didn't hold my interest.
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Did you catch Days of Heaven recently when it played at the Dome?
 
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Another great cartoon movie that's highly recommended, even better if you can relate to the videogame characters featured.



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Have to preface by saying I hadn't seen the first one and that is absolutely required to follow this one properly. Basically, a young filmmaker begins looking into what happened to the people that made the first film and eventually going back to the scene of the crime so you really need to see the first one.

It goes off it's rocker in the 3rd act leading to the end and I thought it was trying to throw way too many elements into the movie. Didn't care much for the movie overall.



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I liked this horror comedy more than I think I should and recommend it. More a fun experience than a funny movie, it featured some hilariously gory kills and a lot of cheesy one liners by the evil clown that comes back to reek havoc on some teens. Expect the standard micro-budget acting from most of the actors and you'll be fine.



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While it wasn't perfect, it is a complete shame that this extremely well done, ultra-bloody sci-fi action flick, didn't do decently in the theaters because it deserved a MUCH better fate. Stylistically and visually impressive with a couple of real nice acting performances, this is a movie that is easily good enough to warrant sequels and every indication I see is that the director would make sure they are amazingly well done. I'm disappointed that it's extremely unlikely to happen now.
 
Take heart Lags...Dredd did so well on dvd/blu rentals/sales that sequel talk is being revisited. Also it wound up on may genre specific sites in the best of 2012 roundups, so that hasn't gone unnoticed. It may be a direct to dvd and or lower budgeted, but at least there is hope. And do you get access to screeners or something? Yo seem to see a lot of movies like Stitches, before their actual release.
 
jerseydevil said:
Take heart Lags...Dredd did so well on dvd/blu rentals/sales that sequel talk is being revisited. Also it wound up on may genre specific sites in the best of 2012 roundups, so that hasn't gone unnoticed. It may be a direct to dvd and or lower budgeted, but at least there is hope. And do you get access to screeners or something? Yo seem to see a lot of movies like Stitches, before their actual release.
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I had heard that as well about Dredd but it did soooo bad in theaters that I remain skeptical. The only reason I am slightly hopeful is because it was made on a fairly reasonable $50 million budget.

I do occasionally have access to movies earlier. Sometimes they are screeners, or like in the case of Stitches in the UK, they are released earlier in other countries.
 
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Not as bad as others would have you believe. It starts off real good and definitely peters out the longer it goes, but as far as big ticket items go these days it was mildly entertaining. I will give credit where credit is due...the design is very nice, Real good blend of practical elements and sort of immersive cgi matte paintings. Weird amount of side scrolling action which is a little different. Not an actors movie though because Farrell, Bryan Cranston and Bill Nighy are all but wasted. Beckinsdale tries really hard to chew scenery but Biel does her standard 'puppy dog eyes' emoting. Good to look at overall, and some nice callbacks to the original but only worth seeing on cable or if you borrow it(like I did).

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Ok. I am the first person to USUALLY dismiss stuff like this as pretentious. It's French, it's very vague and subjective, it's extremely 'artsy'...oh yeah, and it very FRENCH.

BUT...it really is a beautiful movie. With a tremendous performance. And I wish I was smart enough to tell you what it was about. I know what it meant to me, and somehow I think 10 different people might have 10 different experiences. I will watch this again and who knows, maybe I will have another understanding with another viewing. Not for the closed minded and NOT for folks who need a simple answer.
 
Nobody's seen any movies lately? Sons, I am disappoint.

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Saw Dead Man Down on opening night. I saw that most of the critics reamed it but I liked it. Terence Howard was in top form. The plot wasn't the most well constructed but still worth seeing in theaters.
 
I did, I just like to wait for some reason and post a block of movies I've seen every few weeks.
 
Same here. On that note:

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Oz The Great And Powerful - A bit more kid/family friendly than I expected (for some reason), but mostly pretty fun. I was disappointed by Bruce Campbell's cameo, it was smaller than I expected and not as funny as I was hoping. I would personally like to thank the costume designer for putting Mila Kunis in those leather pants for as long as she wore them, and then thank Sam Raimi for getting that excellent shot of her backside in the film. It was much appreciated. I enjoyed the movie, but won't be buying it.


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3:10 To Yuma - The original has been showing pretty regularly on, I think, MGM HD and since Criterion just released it, why not give it a shot? I liked the remake, mostly, but I liked this one better. One man doing what's right because it's right, goddamn it. Well shot, good acting and even fairly tense. The climax ending was a little weak (whereas the remake's ending was over the top silly), but it was solid. Would not mind owning the Blu-ray someday.


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Dogma - Hadn't seen this in a while, and I've watched bits and pieces of Mallrats on TV a hundred times over the last month, so I got the urge to give this a spin again. There's a lot of things to like about this movie. A lot of funny lines, an interesting idea for a story, Salma Hayek stripping... but I frequently find myself caught on some of the stilted, awkward line delivery that happens in some of Smith's older films. Good fun, though.



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Wreck-It Ralph - Still funny and excellent the second time.


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Friday Foster - My least favorite Pam Grier vehicle to date. A great cast, including Yaphet Kotto, Carl Weathers, Scatman Crothers, Jim Backus (for, like, 10 seconds). Normally, I can enjoy a movie like this on Pam alone, but she didn't really do much ass-kicking this time. So I say meh.


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Sheba, Baby - Much better than Friday Foster, but still not even ****ing close to Foxy Brown or Coffy. I liked it well enough, but it's not something I'd come back to.


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Beautiful Girls - My comic guy says this is one of his favorite movies of all time, and he talked us into borrowing his copy. I thought it was pretty boring. Not sure what the appeal is for him, but I'm going to ask him. It's basically one of those mid-90's indie comedies that feels really mid-90's indie comedy. A bunch of guys being stupid about women. Not terribly funny or moving.
 
OOOh totally disagree on Beautiful Girls Adge...just a sweet melancholy little movie, with a terrific cast. It's all about the sadness and regret of later years son. You may appreciate this movie when you get a little older. I dig Timothy Hutton and I truly find it surprising that his career has gone the way it has. Try this one again in 10 years.
 
jerseydevil said:
OOOh totally disagree on Beautiful Girls Adge...just a sweet melancholy little movie, with a terrific cast. It's all about the sadness and regret of later years son. You may appreciate this movie when you get a little older. I dig Timothy Hutton and I truly find it surprising that his career has gone the way it has. Try this one again in 10 years.
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I thought the scenes with Portman and Hutton were great. I agree that it is a slow movie but i still like it.
 
I saw Raging Bull yesterday at the Dome. Pretty good movie. Maybe recommend it if you can accept that it's (mostly) in black and white.
 
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Watched Atrocious since I have a strong affinity for found footage/shaky camera films. It's not the worst, but not that great either. If you're a fan of the subgenre as much as I am it's worth a watch.

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Elite Squad is an excellent film about the Brazilian police and the drug trade, which features a lot of corruption and violence. Will probably watch the second installment sometime soon.
 
Diehard said:
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Elite Squad is an excellent film about the Brazilian police and the drug trade, which features a lot of corruption and violence. Will probably watch the second installment sometime soon.
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Yesssssssssss! Been singing the praises of these two flicks for a while now. The only way you can properly be looking forward to the Robocop remake is by seeing these two ****in' awesome flicks.
 
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