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Started by SmallBlueThing, 04 February, 2011, 12:40:44 PM

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Satanist

I don't think you can complain about Cabin being too self referential as its a love letter to old school horror and a direct response to torture porn.  I loved that it riffs on[spoiler]Evil Dead, Friday the 13th & Hellraiser[/spoiler] but my only issue is that the ending should have been [spoiler]Lovecraft[/spoiler]

Canne wait to see Looper.
Hmm, just pretend I wrote something witty eh?

Apestrife

Run Lola Run.

Been thinking of watching it since the 90s, and came around doing it this weekend. Loved it.

radiator

QuoteEasily the best thing Bruce Willis has been involved with for a long, long time.

So I forgot about Moonrise Kingdom. He was also brilliant in that.

Mardroid

Quote from: Borntohula on 01 October, 2012, 07:30:32 AM
Run Lola Run.

Been thinking of watching it since the 90s, and came around doing it this weekend. Loved it.

Yeah, that's a good 'un. I chanced upon it once, flicking channels and was drawn in. I've seen it a couple of times since then. I guess the [spoiler]scream shattering resolution[/spoiler] was a bit out of nowhere, but it was so fun it didn't bother me much.

A clever original film.

Silent_Bomber

I enjoyed Cabin in the Woods, it really ended up surprising me, I hadn't heard anything about it at all when me and my buddy rented it and I thought it was just going to be a generic Friday the 13th, or Evil Dead knock-off. Liked all the actors involved, Joss Whedon always does a good job in this area IMO.

I saw the Raid last week too, it was alright, but not really anything that special, the novelty of these types of martial arts movies wore off for me a few years ago to be honest.

Colin YNWA

Just finished watching Troll Hunter what a bloody great film. Its funny that I've seen a few people debating whether its a comedy or a horror, or just what its meant to be. The point is it isn't quite either and a bit of everything, why people need such definitions escapes me.

The bloke who plays Hans does an incredible job of playing it completely straight and creates a fantastic character. At times its hilarious, at times as scary as fuck, always entertaining and an absolute little delight.

JamesC

I loved Troll Hunter. In particular the creature designs were really great - they looked like very traditional Nordic trolls which served to make them totally different from almost any other modern monster I can think of.

mygrimmbrother

The Hunger Games - not bad actually, very surprised. Not very nice to see kids killing other kids is it? I hope that was the effect the film had on most viewers...
Cabin in The Woods - again, better than I expected, although as someone else said the ending should definitely have been[spoiler] Lovecraftian[/spoiler]
Lockout - loved the first half, riffing quite heavily on Escape From New York, Pierce does a decent Plissken impersonation and it was great to see This is England's Woody getting to have a go at a movie maniac. Lost interest before the end though.
The Wackness - checked this out because of Olivia Thirlby's involvement, it's ok I suppose, shades of Donnie Darko but without the weirdness. She was great in it.

DeFuzzed

Cabin in the Woods. Quite good fun, and the why was interesting to work out. I'm turning into a fan of Chris Hemsworth too, charming guy alright. Good screen presence. Might even hunt down the new Snow White at this rate. Love the end, a right little fock yoo :)

Men in Black 3. Lightweight, and the baddie was such a damp squid. Bad casting. On the other hand, Josh Brolin, excellent casting.

radiator

Quotethe baddie was such a damp squid

Stop putting him on a pedal stool.

Charlie boy

Quote from: mygrimmbrother on 03 October, 2012, 10:09:04 AM
The Hunger Games - not bad actually, very surprised. Not very nice to see kids killing other kids is it? I hope that was the effect the film had on most viewers...
Haven't seen it yet, a bit curious about it because I've heard various things from various people but I can wait til it's on TV. One friend did describe it to me as "The Running Man for the Twilight generation".

Professor Bear

That's accurate, I think: take Running Man and strip away the self-awareness, the fun and the desire to be enjoyable and you pretty much have Hunger Games.

As an aside, if you want more of that kind of aimless violent twaddle set in a feudalist future where people run around woods killing each other with knives and arrows, US tv just debuted Revolution.  If you liked HG, you'll probably get on fine with Revolution, if only because nobody watched Jeremiah when it first came out and are equally unlikely to have seen it recently and noticed the similarities.

Richmond Clements

Killing Them Softly. Bloody LOVED it.

IAMTHESYSTEM

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Cabin in the woods.

It was good though the first images subtly give away the twist. Certainly at the beginning I had no idea what was happening but when the twist came I'd sort of got a general idea what it might be.

It was ridiculous towards the end, so full of plot holes but it was good gory, fun. It's a sly finger wagging exercise on how our [spoiler]society sacrifices it's own young [/spoiler]  and how that might not be such a great idea after all.
"You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension."

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Zarjazzer

they have to die so our society can live! Um the only prob I hd with CITW is the most important button in human history has no guards and no lock. After that even the horrific purge seemed rather lame.[spoiler]And only a giant hand? What, no chthulhu?[/spoiler]
The Justice department has a good re-education programme-it's called five to ten in the cubes.