Anyone seen a good movie lately?

Diomedes · August 24, 2009, 06:14:39 PM

this may interest some of you kung fu fanboys

http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/ejM7ZCEzs5A

General_Failure · August 25, 2009, 03:20:41 PM

That trailer is boneriffic.

Watched Crank 2 today. Best intentionally hilarious action movie I've seen in a while. We need more of these movies, and less Transporter sequels.

Seabiscuit36 · August 25, 2009, 06:34:49 PM

watched Max Payne today, not exactly good at all. For cheap entertainment its ok, but its been so long since i played the game i forget how it all went. I did see two bad ass toys though. Saiga 12, and the Taurus Judge I've reconsidered my stance on the Judge, it's a perfect zombie dome splitter

Eagles_Legendz · August 27, 2009, 01:05:32 AM

Inglorious Basterds was really good.
3.5/4

District 9 was also good.

3/4

Very descriptive reviews, I know.

methdeez · August 27, 2009, 07:04:30 PM

I watched Bullet the other day.
This, first of all is a really, really bad movie. I like bad movies sometimes, but this one was terrible.
However, the funny thing about it was that it had probably the best cast to worst movie ratio I have ever seen.
It had as 3 of the 6 or so main characters:
Mickey Rourke, who now everyone seems to think is good again
Adrien Brody, Oscar Winner
Ted Levine, been in a million things, is pretty good.
However, the movie was so gadawful. It was confusing, choppy, terrible characters, just downright horrible.
Might be one the worst movies I have ever seen, especially since it never crossed the line into being bad enough to be entertaining.

rjs246 · August 30, 2009, 01:24:06 PM

W. Boring and speculative. Though there were some good performances.

methdeez · August 30, 2009, 11:07:14 PM

Quote from: rjs246 on August 30, 2009, 01:24:06 PM
W. Boring and speculative. Though there were some good performances.

Funniest lines in that movie were lines that he actually said in real life.
I can't believe people (on this board) voted for that idiot twice.

ice grillin you · August 30, 2009, 11:14:59 PM

you mean once

rjs246 · August 31, 2009, 10:12:03 AM

Zombie Strippers. Jenna Jameson is a Nietzsche-reading pole-kitten. Robert Englund is a germophobic strip club owner. The women are topless for the vast majority of the movie and the zombie infection makes them better strippers.

Possibly the best movie ever made.

reese125 · August 31, 2009, 10:41:17 AM

Jenna Jameson is one of the best actresses of our generation, so I'm taking your last point and sprinting to Hollywood Video

SunMo · August 31, 2009, 05:44:40 PM

Curious Case of Benjamin Button - i kept resisting this because of the length, but i ended up enjoying it. the story was intriguing the the characters kept me interested. pitt was ok, but he didn't make the movie. but for an almost 3 hour movie, i thought it was pretty damn good.

Seabiscuit36 · August 31, 2009, 05:47:50 PM

i watched Babylon AD, decent start, good action, some lulls, worst ending ever. I was expecting something similar to The Fifth Element, and this thing sucked.

methdeez · August 31, 2009, 11:53:06 PM

Quote from: Seabiscuit36 on August 31, 2009, 05:47:50 PM
i watched Babylon AD, decent start, good action, some lulls, worst ending ever. I was expecting something similar to The Fifth Element, and this thing sucked.

That shtein was terrible.

MadMarchHare · September 01, 2009, 09:35:40 PM

Quote from: rjs246 on August 31, 2009, 10:12:03 AM
Zombie Strippers. Jenna Jameson is a Nietzsche-reading pole-kitten. Robert Englund is a germophobic strip club owner. The women are topless for the vast majority of the movie and the zombie infection makes them better strippers.

Possibly the best movie ever made.

While it hit the right level of over-the-top ridiculous, this was bad even for the genre. Meaning I enjoyed it.

rjs246 · September 02, 2009, 09:05:12 AM

I saw Howard Zinn's You Can't Be Neutral this weekend. Any sort of review might as well go in the politics thread. It's all about his lifelong quest to make the stories of the oppressed heard. He's an intellectual and therefore does a good job of making his point of view a compelling one, but as an intellectual there is a lot of "I don't live in the real world" type idealism. The movie is essentially just an adjunct to his writing with no real meat to it so I would just stick to reading his work.

Sidebar: Watching the movie did get me thinking about liberal intellectualism versus conservative intellectualism from a political perspective. I googled the two phrases and was surprised to see roughly 10x as many hits for 'intellectual conservatism' as I did for 'liberal intellectualism'. I'm far more familiar with the liberal side of things so I read through a few of the conservative sites. Aside from economic analysis, I was surprised again by how much of the conservative side of things was just as philosophic and speculative as the liberal side of things. Conservatives tend to tout themselves as realists living in the cold hard facts of the real world while liberals are ivory tower idealists. But in truth neither side has any idea what it's doing or any proof that what it's doing is right/wrong, effective/useless. Even on the economic side of things, some of the most renowned financial minds on the planet are big-government-in-times-of-crisis proponents.

In other words. farg politicians. They don't know shtein and should stop telling us that they do.