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I just saw the cabin in the woods.

It was fucking awful.
I was surprised to see that the guy who directed the movie was a producer in two of my favorite shows of all time, Lost and Alias.


Spoilers ahead:

The scene where all the supernatural creatures are freed from their cages is hilariously bad. It’s so bad that it’s good and then becomes bad again.

IRON SKY

Very silly action comedy about Nazis hiding out on the Dark Side of the Moon who are then co-opted as part of a presidential re-election campaign. As you can imagine, it doesn’t end particularly well, but it is very funny in a lot of places and it includes a sexy young female Nazi.

3/5 stars.

You have no appreciation for the horror genre. That film was utterly brilliant. If you realize it’s a film about films.

Red Dawn (the original)

Surprisingly bad. Awful script, pretty awful acting, lots of Commies getting blown up. Would be an amusing satire on US hypocrisy over ‘terrorism’, except that it isn’t a satire, it’s a military propaganda film.

1.5/5 stars.

Me and my basketball team started to watch that movie one time (before I knew how relevant it would be in the future) and we all hated it too, turning it off quickly. Still, I commend whatever coach of ours had the balls to put it on.

How is it going to be relevant in the future?

By the future I mean now.

This was several years ago.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but the Russians and Cubans haven’t invaded the US…

Correct.

However there is a new one coming out, which means they are prepping people for the idea.

I feel like it’s somewhat fair to say war is coming/planned for the United States… even without the new movie.

Probably. It is part of the reason I watched the original, I want to see how it differs from the remake.

Possibly, I have heard people outlining some scenarios which I think are moderately plausible but the optimist in me says it won’t happen soon. I can see a controlled political revolution happening in the US, which might look a lot like Red Dawn.

Stay tuned, folks.

Reprise → imdb.com/title/tt0827517/

Quite a strange film. Very beautiful at times, poetic even. However also very vague, abstract and disjointed.
Can’t really say much more then that.

A History of Violence

Amusing thriller about a guy in smalltown America who turns out to be a gangster trying to escape his former life. Very violent in places, darkly funny, bit of an underwritten script but rattles along very quickly. Highly enjoyable.

3.5/5 stars.

great film, although i think its better the less you know about it tbh. good either way though :slight_smile:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcBjOVKKxh0[/youtube]

I can’t wait.

The Conversation

70s thriller about spying on people. About an hour into this film I realised it was Gene Hackman playing the central character, a bugging and surveillance expert who gets mixed up in a corporate conspiracy when he is hired to bug a conversation between a man and a woman. Wonderfully paced, largely well acted except for a young Harrison Ford who is far too pretty to pretend to be menacing, some great camerawork too. Lots of visual storytelling - these days they’d have the central character rabbiting on all the time so you knew what he was thinking, and they’d probably cast Shia Lebouf in the main role. Still, this was awesome, right up there with All the President’s Men (and the haircuts are even better in this film). Perhaps not quite as good as Three Days of the Condor, but it doesn’t have Faye Dunaway so it can be forgiven that.

4.5/5 stars.

Has anyone seen any of these:

Prometheus
The new Judge Dredd
The new Total Recall

Looking forward to The Hobbit

Just watched Inception, boooooorrrrringggg!!! 0 out 5

Anyone seen Looper?

Dredd 3D was a total let-down, a waste of 15 English pounds, and I can’t believe they went with such a crap storyline… was that story ever in one of the comics?