summer

[grady]

It's started. I've only seen Robin Hood. Meh.

Top priorities for the remainder are the following.

1. Inception
2. Toy Story 3
3. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

That's about all I can pull w/out seeking a release schedule. I'm sure there will be other little things that will surface that I'm itching to see.

[King of Snake]

The A-Team movie

'nuff said

[grady]

And of course, for those of us stateside, there is Gasper Noe's film Enter the Void, finally seeing a domestic release in the states!

[the mongoose]

Despite mixed online reviews, the new "Nightmare on Elm Street" remake that just came out was pretty fucking cool in my opinion and I think everyone should check it out!:cool:

[holden]

My wife will probably drag me along to see "robin Hood".

Me, i like some diversion. Depending on howw bad/mixed/good the reviews are, i'd be up for:
"MacGruber" - apparently, the 20 second SNL skit holds up okay for a full length. thank Val Kilmer.
'Dinner For Shmucks" - really enjoy Paul Rudd. he cracks me up. Steve Carell has his moments, too.
"The Other Guys" - Will Ferrell formula. yes, they're getting low on ideas - race car driver, basketball player, anchor man - now, a cop, but he makes me laugh.

Yeah, nothing particularly high brow in there. But i'll definitely see "Toy Story 3"!

[grady]

My wife will probably drag me along to see "robin Hood".

Good luck on the Robin Hood viewing. It was arduous at best, and I wasn't even paying for it but attending a press screening.

Yeah, nothing particularly high brow in there. But i'll definitely see "Toy Story 3"!

How high brow are you looking to go?

There is the release of the completed version of Metropolis, which is currently playing in NY & LA.

Then there is the rerelease of the classic Powell/Pressburger film, The Red Shoes.

Oh, there is also a rerelease of Jean-Luc Godard's film Breathless.

There is also Cyrus, the new film from the Duplass brothers.

Jean-Pierre Jeunet has a new film that I believe will finally be coming out stateside called Micmacs.

Oh, and take a look at the new trailer for Inception. Damn if that doesn't look like a good film, and it's also a return to Christopher Nolan directing his own material after the recent stint of adaptations and batman films.

[stimpee]

9 high quality clips of Robin Hood on www.Joost.com still hasnt swayed me whether i want to see it our not.

Still need to see KickAss!

[King of Snake]

Despite mixed online reviews, the new "Nightmare on Elm Street" remake that just came out was pretty fucking cool in my opinion and I think everyone should check it out!:cool:

you've got to be kidding me. That was atrocious.
KickAss was actually quite entertaining though.
Micmacs A Tire Larigot was also very good, one of my favourites from the past half year or so.

[chems1919]

Inception. Directed by Christopher Nolan. End of discussion.

I will be there opening night, watching in Imax just like The Dark Knight.

[the mongoose]

you've got to be kidding me. That was atrocious.


No joke, I loved the fuck out of it and I'm a huge classic N.O.E.S. fan.:):):)

Here's the spoiler filled review I posted elsewhere right after I saw it:




Just got back from seeing it and it fucking rocked!

Everytime that ugly burned motherfucker showed up on screen everyone in the theater jumped a foot in the air. Many are just shock scares but FUCK are they effective at making you jump every damn time. The kills are brutal as all hell, the blood and gore is up on the screen, and the makeup and acting for Freddy is spot on and very creepy. Everything about this movie is really just fantastic.






***Major Spoilers Below***














Don't say I didn't warn anyone about spoilers......here goes:


Movie opens with a 8mm film collection of preschool children at play as the credits play out, really just setting the tone more or less. The opening Diner scene is very good as it establishes all of the main characters and their relationships with one another without it feeling cheap or manufactured - just normal teens like in the original Wes Craven version. Plus Dean gets it pretty damn badly (Freddy makes it look like a suicide as Dean cuts his own throat with a steak knife) as the title screen pops into view. You know right then that this movie is going to be fucking crazy as shit.

Creepy shit happens in every fucking scene so the tension never lets up. Kris starts having worse and worse nightmares to the point where she's looking Freddy face to face every other scene. He's scary as fuck and waiting for her ass all over the place too. That bitch gets it in the worst of ways, with her neck slamming into all of the walls snapping her neck and a HUGE slash from neck to crotch that sprays blood all over the wall behind her. It's like that original Tina kill scene on steroids (and ragdoll physics). The blood splatter here would keep Dexter busy for a while.

Rod, er, I mean Jesse runs from the cops and hides in Nancy's room and they both realize that Freddy is a real threat. Jesse gives up to the cops and falls asleep in jail. He gets dispatched in a different way than Rod did in the original. Freddy even gives Jesse a twisted little biology lesson, proving that he does joke a bit on occasion and enjoys fucking with his prey.

Nancy gets in contact with fellow schoolmate Quentin and they Scooby Doo mystery detective the whole Freddy cover up and discuss the nature of sleep deprivation, etc. It's actually a lot more interesting than that sounds though, because much of it is told through cool flashback scenes like Freddy being burned alive, and Freddy taking his preschoolers back to his secret cave.

At this point, Nancy and Quentin are clued in to the old preschool and their parent's roles in Freddy's murder. They confront their parents and learn about the cover up. They struggle with Freddy nearly constantly as they fight to stay awake (alive) and wind up battling Freddy in the final showdown in Freddy's Cave.

They do indeed show Freddy up close quite a bit and I must say that the effects guys deserve some awards for their work. It's straight nasty as fuck looking. Freddy's now a kid fiddler though and much more sexually assualting towards the female victims.

Oh yeah, Nancy's mom still gets it nasty through some glass this time around too.

It's edited very tight with every scene having a tense moment or plot significance to it. Felt edited like a Final Destination movie more than a Freddy movie I'd say. Overall it felt very short and to the point.

Great atmospheric soundtrack and sound FX, really does make you jump out of your fucking skin with every Freddy scare.

Very entertaining movie that I'd gladly go see again (and again).

Definately check it out if you're a fan of the Elm Street movies, you won't be disappointed.

[grady]

I attended an exhibitor screening of Toy Story 3 today. Pixar is at it again. This film was quite good and had quite a few scenes of emotional heft and punch that left me choked up at a few points. Also, the screening was in standard 35mm, not 3D and it was just fine visually, though I'm curious to see what they've done with the 3D on this one.

[King of Snake]

No joke, I loved the fuck out of it and I'm a huge classic N.O.E.S. fan.:):):)



Well I've actually never seen the originals but there was just very little interesting or scary about this movie. Every scare was just a trick with sudden loud sound effects and something moving quickly on screen. Sure I'm gonna twitch at that, but it's just an easy cop out for a general lack of atmosphere or any kind of connection with the audience. How many more of these movies starring an ensemble cast of vacuous, boring, angsty rich american high school teens played by twenty-somethings do we have to see? How many people can really relate to or care about characters like this?
I actually did kind of like Jackie Earle Haley as Krueger though and I will try and watch the original sometime soon.

[Strawman]

It's started. I've only seen Robin Hood. Meh.

Top priorities for the remainder are the following.

1. Inception
2. Toy Story 3
3. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

That's about all I can pull w/out seeking a release schedule. I'm sure there will be other little things that will surface that I'm itching to see.

I just saw Robin Hood and thought it was ok but a bit disappointing....but I did have high expectations. Although I thought Russell Crowe made a fantastic Robin Hood....but the ending really left it open for a sequel...

What do others think?

[Dunwho]

Also, the screening was in standard 35mm, not 3D and it was just fine visually, though I'm curious to see what they've done with the 3D on this one.

Did i miss the day when everyone decided that 3D was in anyway better than normal 2D cinema??

Did we need to fix something? Was there something broken?

... the only reason 3D has made any sort of inroads is because the industry is sick of Pirated versions recorded in front of the cinema screen... with 3D the camera cannot record the movie properly and it looks shit.

Also its just a big marketing ploy to get more kids and all in to the cinema again... plus the extra 1 or 2 bucks for the glasses and your laughing!


In my personal opinion, 3D is utter shite, I mostly watch movies because of their themes, script, plot lines, acting... pretty much everything that cinema is about... and yes i watch it for the cinematography and visual quality... but 3D does nothing to enhance visual quality... in fact it gives me a headache having to change my focus constantly while watching the screen...

2D was fine!!!


BRING IT BACK!!!

Who is with me?

[King of Snake]

of course it's marketing ploy, for 99% of movies. I think Avatar has so far been the sole exception to the rule (despite what you may think of the movie itself, I think most people agree that the 3d part was impressive) and it will be a while before anything like that comes along.

[Andrea]

3D is fun!
I remember the very first time I saw a 3D cinema in 1990 in LA at Disneyland (or was it Sea World..).
It was a short concert sequence with Michael Jackson among others and it was like seeing him "live". It was amazing!
I was very fascinated I remember and have been wondering since then why it took so long time before 3D came to the cinemas. The recording must have been very expensive at that time I guess.

However, I think it was the experience and the adventure and not the copyright issues that created the 3D technology even though it may have other advantages as well nowadays like solving the problems with the pirate recordings.

I haven´t seen any 3D for 20 years so I´m a big fan of and really love Avatar not least because the cat people reminds me of my own Russian Blue cat, Niko.
A real down-loader? Count on that! And a wizard at his mighty mouse :D
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[chems1919]

3D is getting way too out of hand. I think it's good for some films, but the fact that filmmakers are just adding it on to films and using it as a marketing strategy is just annoying. 3D takes away the whole classic, cinema feel to a lot of movies. Now it seems like whenever a movie is being hyped, the studio execs go "well let's make it 3d and then everyone will go insane!" Thank god Christopher Nolan is directing the Batman films otherwise I guarantee it would have plagued those movies and destroyed their brilliance.

As much as it pains me to say this, even Scorsese is praising 3d technology and made a remark about wanting to see "Precious" in 3d...since he's Scorsese, I'll shrug it off but I still can't believe someone of his caliber would make a remark like that.

[grady]

I just wrote an 800 word reply, or what amounted to a page and a paragraph, to the past three post regarding Toy Story 3 in 2D versus 3D but refrained from posting as I wanted to edit it down a bit as I felt like I was getting a bit long winded trying to reply to each of the pas three posts.