Movie review zone.

[Pormogo]

I was going to go see Kick-Ass, but my curse of eavsedropping on every conversation kind of ruined that. I heard just about the entire plot, how the special effects were, and how annoying 8 year children were at a rated R movie.

[Nathan]

wats wrong with nicolas cage? i love "the rock" and "con air"!!!

I thought the first half of Red Work West was excellent.
But then he's been in a lot of things so some were bound to be good.

[Slash68]

finally someeone agrees with me!

[Milts]

Ok, so I finally got my act together and saw kickass.
I then saw it again two days later.
Apart from the scene where you see someone burn to death, and the generic socially awkward scenes at the start, I LOVED IT. And to be honest, those scenes had their merit too, especially the strobe effect Hit Girl uses. Coolest idea EVER.

I'm thinking of seeing it again tonight, to be honest... I'm a bad person like that.

[Deshara]

Apart from the scene where you see someone burn to death

What? That was one of the most powerful and effective scenes out of the whole movie. The ending was completely bland and boring, but that? Fucking powerful. Sent chills up my spine.

[Milts]

I agree, I just didn't particularly enjoy watching someone die slowly and painfully.
Also, I loved the ending, and the soundtrack which went with it. Particularly the hallway scene.

How popular has it been in people's respective countries? Over here it seems a lot of Uni students like it, motorcyclists love it, but it has very few screenings compared with other films and hasn't done too well in terms of sales. I'm hoping to god it did OK overseas, because I want a sequel!

EDIT: THE FUCKING BASTARDS THE LAST SCREENING EVER IN THIS CITY IS MIDAFTERNOON TOMORROW WHILE I'M AT WORK HOW FUCKING DARE THEY. So I can't watch it at the theatre, I can't buy it on DVD... they're ENCOURAGING me to pirate it.

[Nathan]

I saw it. It was very good.
Gives unrealistic hopes to nerds though, I wish films would stop doing that.

I saw Ironman 2 on Sunday. It was reasonable!

[Rayne]

My sister said it was good fun. But she dragged my parents to see the first and they have sworn never to suffer the second, so I'm torn between good taste and silliness.

Also, I loved the ending, and the soundtrack which went with it. Particularly the hallway scene.

It's true, I enjoyed the music too. Perhaps because I recognised it all from other films.

I don't have a real problem with nicking soundtracks from other films, it would be nice to use a new film as an excuse to put together something unique, but I reckon if it works it works. However, the music they nicked from 28 Days Later has always gotten to me because of the scenes it accompanies in the original film, and it was only after I realised that it was the same song that I understood exactly why the scene it accompanied in Kick Ass affected me so much.
Yes, it was an intense scene, but I was getting serious zombie flashbacks.

[Greggers]

I saw District 13 last night, disappointingly unrelated to District 9 but still pretty decent. It was a French martial arts movie about a vengeful but public-spirited parkour expert from the streets who teams up with a by-the-book cop to defuse a nuke in the ghetto of a dystopian future-France where the worst cities have been walled up and left to their own devices.

The plot is pretty much as dumb as it sounds and the acting was OK, but marred somewhat because the version we saw was dubbed in a range of hilariously provincial accents ranging from Irish to Russian and British, but oddly, never French. The best bit was the crazy stunts cos the protagonist is actually played by the guy who invented parkour.

The second best bit was where the protagonist's sister takes off her panties and forces a huge mysoginistic macho thug to chew on them in some kind of bizarre gesture of feminism.

[Deshara]

lolwut

[Greggers]

Yeah, earlier on when she was taken prisoner by the bad guys, a guy had been making rather disrespectful sexual comments at her and expressing an interest in utilising her panties in certain acts, so later on when the good guys have the guns and have taken the evil boss hostage, she pauses on the way out of the building to take off her panties, commanding the guy to open his mouth and when he does so, shoving them inside. He's just standing there like 'what'. Then she calls him a pig and forces him to chew them, so he does, looking pretty uneasy about the whole situation.

I guess the point is that she subverts what would otherwise be something which degraded her by forcing it upon him, thus humiliating him and mocking his previous attitude which, stripped of its context of masculine domination, is actually just silly.

Of course, they take her prisoner again, turn her into a crack whore and presumably systematically rape and abuse her for several years. So I guess feminism doesn't get the last laugh in this story.

[Greggers]

Just saw the end of 'Crash', kind of wish I hadn't missed the start now but oh well. At first I was like 'Psh, as I thought, award-winning movies are totally boring with their believable characters and obscure political messages I can't relate to', but then it was too compelling to stop watching and by the end I was all huddled and rapt.

Still, living in England it was almost hilarious how many of the emotional scenes would have been impossible here, not because we don't have racism, but because we don't have GUNS and an insatiable desire to use them in pro-active self-defence at every opportunity. I guess that's part of the message.

[Johnny Swift]

I just saw Shanghai Nights and learned not to accept my mother's offer rent me a movie.
I learned my lesson not because the movie was awful (it was meh), but because she didn't get popcorn.   

[Greggers]

Jeez, get your own popcorn, fattie.

[Johnny Swift]

I'm (unjustifiably) proud of being the only 17yr old among my friends totally incapable of driving. Some have licenses, some have cars, some even have both, but I alone have neither.