I agree LOFR is highly overrated. After the first movie my interest dissipated. But I think the Star Wars saga is the most overrated. I know, I know...I'm gonna get a ton of shit for that one.

That's an old pilot episode for a television showto be broadcasted on the CW station but it never aired.

Watched Der Untergang for like the millionth time. Still great, I love German film.

I might have to see it again cause maybe I was wrong.


Even thought I thought it was good but not great.

The Dark Night - Amazing; easily a 10/10, BUT I do prefer Batman Begins (watched it night before TDK) over it.

This might sound like an odd question, but has anyone seen/heard of any (good) movies that revolve around 2 cousins falling in love or something (like Brokeback Mountain but with cousins)
Edit: Cancel that request.

I just finished wathcing Starman on T.V, I'll give the jist of it.
An alien wanders off to another planet (Earth) from it's own realm, where it inhabits the body of a deceased husband to some lady (I dunno her name) and the alien brings the husband back to life. She freaks out obviously, and the alien tells her he has to reach Arizona (that crater) by sometime or he'll die. A bunch of crazy shit happens, the military is after them (watch them to find out lol) eventually the alien returns home and all is well.

I'd rate the movie 4/5 (maybe higher if I had not seen it on T.V because of all those damned commercials) it is definately worth a watch. I'd recommend if your into sci-fi, and drama, as well it does have parts which made me giggle like a little girl.

I hereby declare, ULTIMATE FAILURE.

Dude what's wrong with lying on the ground looking at the stars?

I have. I prefer it.

I am biased, however.

Everything.

Damn, you have another point.

I'm a philosophical genius.

You're just saying that because you've never done it with a girl and want to take out your frustrations.

You've hit me deep Empyreal, you've hit me real deep.

Ouch....this thread has taken a turn for the hurt....

Yes, yes it has. My apologies, back to the movies!

Damn, now I want to watch the Back to the Future films again. Must buy them and spend a night on a Back to the Future marathon.

Saw The Dark Knight on Saturday, and needless to say it was FUCKING AWESOME. There are very few movies that aren't already established classics that I've gone into with high expectations, and had them not only met but exceeded.

what's the bias?

Troma movies!!! What could be better?!?!
Chopper Chicks in Zombietown 3/10
Blood Sucking Freaks 4/10
Sgt. Kabukiman N.Y.P.D. 6/10

Not the best Troma films, but Kabukiman is always hilarious.

Also:
Death Wish 3 6/10
Eastern Promises 7/10
The Janitor 7/10

The Janitor was a great independent film, if you're interested in blood, boobs, and janitors, this is the movie for you.

Wanted was ... absolutely terrible, lol. It felt like Crank, or Shoot em' Up, but just tried way too hard. Did not like it at all.

That's funny, I'm watching it right now. It's definitely something, not sure I hate it.

The ending punchline was .... ugggghhhhh, why.

loom of fate?

are you fucking serious?

this movie is hilarious! there's no way it's supposed to be taken seriously.

Back to the Future II - 5/5

Yet another rip-roaring adventure in the vein of its predecessor, except now even larger and more ridiculously cool than before. I think the first one is a tad bit better, but that doesn't stop the madcap romp of this one! This just hooks you in right from the beginning and keeps you there, twisting and twirling through at least three times as many plot devices as the first one with acrobatic skill. A good deal more epic, too. Now onto the Wild West!

The 3rd one is my least favourite. It's still enjoyable, but it's not as memorable as the first or second movies.

It's the only one I've never seen before, so I'm actually looking forward to it. The previews at the end of the second looked fine to me.

I have a feeling you'll enjoy it more than I did.

hahaha, no way, that ending was great.

I liked the second half of the movie way more than the first, where they kept trying to act and insert drama in my action.

Yeah, well I wasn't taking it seriously, it just got old after awhile. One dumb thing after another (the train scene? lmao...), but it probably didn't help that my friends and I watched it at 6:00 AM after being up all night.

Awesome movie, Bruno Ganz is amazing in it. 9/10.

Saw it last night. I agree totally, but I have to stay Christian was massively upstaged by the villains. best joker ever. i can't wait to see what else is gonna be on the director's cut of the dvd release.

I just came back from that last night too. I had to actively stop myself from walking into another theater room to watch the whole damn thing again. That's probably the only movie i've seen that actually made me want to do that. Heath Ledger's performance is going to stick with me for a while. And I think that Aaron Eckhart did an absolutely fantastic job in his role, but not many people i've heard have really talked about him.

Aaron Eckhart is a great actor in general, but nobody ever talks about him in ANY of his movies. On a side note, most overrated actor EVER: Keanu Reeves.

Yes he did do quite a good job. Still I must admit that when I found out that they were using the guy from Brokeback Mountain I feared the plot would revolve around boner crimes.

Aaron Eckhart is awesome, Thank You for Smoking is one of my top 5 favorite movies ever.

I agree, he was good. As much as I like Bale, it seemed to me like Batman was only there (CAPTAIN OBVIOUS!!!!) because it was a Batman film... if that makes any sense. It could have been the Joker versus any crime fighter, it wouldn't really matter. The Joker was the main attraction.

Who do you know that actually thinks Keanu "One Emotion" Reeves is a good actor?

Oh, and beat those people severely please.

I agree, he's one of those actors who does their role so well he becomes "part" of the movie. Ledger stole the show, but that's because the role practically begets Grand Theft Movie: Eckhart had an important role, but it was required for the movie to be held together, not to showcase itself. Although I had problems with the Dent script/plotting, he gave a really excellent performance.

Also, I notice he managed to get a Two-Face suit tailored remarkably quickly considering the movie's timeframe. For some reason this doesn't bother me, same as wondering how the Joker managed to rig an entire hospital to explode: stuff happened behind the scenes that we didn't see.



People actually rate him as an actor?

I watched Wall-E on Saturday.

SPOILER-DOILERS, METALINOS

Pretty good, I liked it: it didn't blow me away like Toy Story did, but little Wall-E was very endearing, and Eve was adorable. I'm very impressed they got through the film so long with so little dialogue, echoing the old cartoons and to an extent silent films, where the story is communicated through actions, musical cues and little noises instead of words. It was incredibly sad watching this battered little robot trundle around a dead landscape, carrying out its function, completely alone save for a cockroach. When Eve came along, the new dynamic she introduced energised the story, and the love story that emerged was cute.

Then when Eve went autistic and Wall-E tried desperately to get Eve to respond, and Wall-E latched on to the rocket into space, the story kicked up a notch. The new robot characters like that wee cleanerbot were great, and I would have been happy to learn that humanity was extinct and robots were running the show.

But then... we see the humans.

It really started to falter when the humans appeared, mostly because the dialogue and satire was distinctly subpar and pedestrian compared to the sublime simplicity of what came before. I notice that this was also when the kids in the audience started to get restless: I think the film could have easily done without humans, and only had robots in the cast, and it wouldn't have suffered. Every time the humans were there, I was just wanting them to hurry up and get back to the robots. It was also incredibly jarring seeing live action humans with heavily stylized CG humans, I don't know what they were thinking there.

I would also complain about how turning the America of the far future into an armada of bloated atrophied monstrosities was somewhat ironic for a Disney Production (seeing the fleets of fat humans on hoverchairs was very strikingly reminiscent of Disneyworld's legions of fat humans on those scooter devices)... but only because it resulted in dull "fat" humour, which fails to impress me as much as any physical-based comedy. I also think it's a very "easy" aesop to make, which is a shame when you have the multiple stories and fables running through the other Pixar films. Add the poorly-done exposition for the storyline, and I would rather humans didn't figure into the film at all. I also found the "Big Businesses are Bad" intimation quite hilarious given the joint creators.

So, it was really good: anything not directly dealing with humans was absolutely excellent. Much like Toy Story, the human element was incredibly weak: unlike Toy Story, the human element in Wall-E took up a lot more screen time and story, to its detriment.

It's still a really good film, I'd recommend it to animation afficionados. There's an astonishing degree of verisimilitude in the robots and on the earth scenes, which for some reason disappears on the ship (ran out of bump maps?), and the love story between Wall-E and Eve is timeless and most endearing. I especially love the use of stock sound effects, and little references to computer history: the "finished" sound for Wall-E's solar generator was a beautiful little highlight.

I'm going to have to find Silent Running now, considering how people have been pointing out the similarities.

Errr....that was the suit he was in when he caught fire.