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Movies you've seen lately
Renegade:
Apollo 18.
(see attachment in previous post)
Finally got to see it all the way thorough.
It's...not bad actually. Some pretty good low-key acting on the part of the astronaut characters in a few scenes. It could have been a lot better however. And all this "found footage" schtick is getting pretty old. But Apollo-18 is nowhere near as badly done as some reviewers would have you think.
So, for a cheap no-brainer bit of sci-fi inspired throw-away horror, it's moderately entertaining - even if you can guess the ending from about 20 minutes into the movie. After that, the final "big reveal" is pretty ho-hum. And it's also one that's been used before.
Possibly worth a watch if you don't have anything better to do (I'll admit to a little web surfing while watching it after about 45 minutes in) - or there's nothing else on.
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-40hz (April 03, 2014, 12:56 PM)
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That was a fun flick! :)
In the morbid vein...
Oculus
A woman tries to exonerate her brother, who was convicted of murder, by proving that the crime was committed by a supernatural phenomenon.
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It stars a few people you'll know, and... c'mon... Who doesn't love Amy Pond? :D :Thmbsup:
A lot of horrors are pretty bad, but this was really good. If you like horror films, this is worth a watch.
40hz:
+1 with Ren on Oculus. Very eerie and nicely paced. :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup:
c'mon... Who doesn't love Amy Pond?
-Renegade (May 25, 2014, 09:22 AM)
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What's not to love? Seriously.
Saw a surprisingly good 39-minute short called AM1200 over a friend's house last night. (He's a short-feature fanatic with an unbelievable collection of amazing movies and animations.)
Cocky investment analyst Sam Larson has a lot on his mind. After a financial scam goes horribly wrong, he hits the road in a desperate bid to out run his guilt. A fragment of a radio broadcast that may or may not be a distress call lures him to an isolated transmitting station and into a terrifying mystery of murder, madness and the insatiable hunger of a power beyond his comprehension.
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Weird, lovely little bit of atmospheric horror. Few places can feel weirder than a radio station late at night with nobody in the building but yourself. (Don't ask.) Oddball but believable plot with some Lovecraftian elements woven in. At least to my way of thinking.
Also some of the best soundscape design I've ever heard in a movie. So good it's been mentioned in several reviews. How often does sound get that level of critical attention?
Recommended. :Thmbsup:
Deozaan:
I recently saw (the last half or so of) War of the Buttons on Netflix. It's a French flick with sometimes humorous/confusing errors in the subtitles. The story takes place in France during the WW2 Nazi era and is about some kids from two small, neighboring villages who essentially have a relatively harmless "turf war" in which each gang of kids tries to prove the superiority of their village over the other by outwitting the rival gang.
There's also a deeper theme about the adults dealing with the German occupation of France and the anti-semitic behavior (even among the French), with Jews being hauled away or going into hiding. I wasn't aware that even the French were involved in hauling the Jews away, so that aspect of the history told in this story was new to me.
But it's actually somewhat of a heartwarming/endearing story by the end of it, with a slightly bittersweet ending.
I guess maybe IMDB is better at summarizing it than I am:
In occupied France, Lebrac leads a play war between two rival kid gangs, but his feelings for Violette, a Jewish girl in danger of being discovered by the Nazis, encourage Lebrac to face the reality of what's happening around him.-http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1837587/
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Renegade:
Just saw Melancholia...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1527186/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Don't.
It's painful.
2 hours of boredom.
Use a player that can speed up the video if you watch it.
Spoilers, if you can call it that, & commentaryThis is a "drama/sci-fi" that is an uber sappy chick-flick.
Nothing happens. And then the world ends.
The beginning of the movie shows the entire thing in a couple minutes, and even that's boring as watching a large log being flushed. But that's actually more entertaining and not a waste of time like this.
Really. Nothing happens. Then the world ends. That's the movie.
It has a 7.1 rating at IMDB... There are a lot of bizarre people rating movies.
It will bore you to tears, then the world ends. A planet crashes into Earth. Nothing of any interest happens during the 2 hours of the movie except for that.
You will want to jump into the movie part way through and stab everyone in the neck and watch them bleed to death so that the movie can end. If you're a pacifist.
You can COMPLETELY skip the first hour of the movie. Only the last 20 seconds are worth watching. Seriously.
Then there's a dramatic black screen that drags on like the movie before they roll the credits.
You'll want to stab the director in the neck at this point.
Then in the credits the "Danish Film Institute" is cited for support... You'll want to kill every Dane on the planet for that. And the Swedish Film Institute. Don't forget to kill the Swedes for it.
The people that rated this movie highly are seriously evil bastards.
The music in the film absolutely adds to the homicidal rage that this movie breeds.
If you check the credits further, you'll see France and Germany mentioned... You'll want to nuke them for this kind of atrocity.
You'll hate Tom Cruz forever. The director's list of thanks lists Penelope Cruz at the top.
And that is as kind as I can possibly be about this abomination.
40hz:
And that is as kind as I can possibly be about this abomination.
-Renegade (May 29, 2014, 08:55 AM)
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I tried to get through it on three separate occasions. My GF and I both fell asleep each time.
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