Last movie watched...

[Bolt-01]

Ripley's kids were the ones used for the space Jockey scene? Awesome. I didn't know that.

[Chris Tresson]

The last movie I watched was Event Horizon but before that, I watched half an hour or so of Ender's Game... couldn't get into it at all.

[JamesC]

The Lair of the White Worm

A bit of forgotten classic from Ken Russell starring Hugh Grant, Peter Capaldi and Amando Donohoe (who makes a big impression as a seductive snake priestess).
The script is a bit clunky in places but the whole thing is great fun and I really like horror stories that tap into folklore.
I hadn't seen this film in years and I'd forgotten a lot of it (including the strap on death dildoes!) so it was nice to re watch it and for it to be as entertaining as I'd remembered.

[JOE SOAP]

Ripley's kids were the ones used for the space Jockey scene? Awesome. I didn't know that.

Courtesy of Charles Lippincott:

[Link Prime]

The Lair of the White Worm

A bit of forgotten classic from Ken Russell starring Hugh Grant, Peter Capaldi and Amando Donohoe (who makes a big impression as a seductive snake priestess).
The script is a bit clunky in places but the whole thing is great fun and I really like horror stories that tap into folklore.
I hadn't seen this film in years and I'd forgotten a lot of it (including the strap on death dildoes!) so it was nice to re watch it and for it to be as entertaining as I'd remembered.

This was a video store favourite for my pre-pubescent Saturday night movie selection, and suffice to say Amanda Donohoe had a significant part to play in the awakening of certain...feelings....

Very entertaining movie regardless, I caught in on The Horror Channel a few weeks ago, and was surprised by how well it held up.
I only copped that Capaldi was in it on the most recent viewing too- he'd have made a decent doctor even back then!
A quick a Google has revealed the fact that Donohoe is only 52 years old, so she was in her mid-twenties when she made this. Blimey.

[Apestrife]

"The fault in our stars.". Very charming and also very sad. While I didn't cry (I don't do cry) I did ehem, become a bit connected with my feelings. All and all, I really liked it (despite almost forcing my emotions betray my manliness). Really good movie!

[Hawkmumbler]

Bit of an anithisis to my own opinions their Apestrife, frankly I thought it a sizeable turd.

[The Enigmatic Dr X]

Sinister

Freaky. As scary as The Ring. My missus:"get that DVD out our house. I can't sleep knowing the disc is still here"

[Apestrife]

Bit of an anithisis to my own opinions their Apestrife, frankly I thought it a sizeable turd.

Well it did actually feel a bit like a guilty pleasure watching it. Perhaps I was blinded by the sensation of feeling a bit sensitive or something (I'm a cold and calculated scandinav after all.)

[Link Prime]

Sinister

Freaky. As scary as The Ring.

Ah here now.

Ok, maybe the American remake.
The 2nd one.

[Definitely Not Mister Pops]

There used to be a thing they did on cyberspace message boards I used to visit (back in the days of dial-up and AOL discs as coasters) where they would write a story by committee, a genre and hero would be chosen, with someone writing a few lines before passing it on to the next random person who wanted to contribute the next few lines. Sometimes it produced highly enjoyable, if slightly wonky stories. Invariably a proto-troll would ruin it by typing "And then everthing blew-up! THE END!"

I watched Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

[Recrewt]

Sinister

Freaky. As scary as The Ring. My missus:"get that DVD out our house. I can't sleep knowing the disc is still here"

HaHa! Sinister is a great movie and there is something very disturbing about those old films he finds. Does a good job of building a sense of dread and gets under your skin a bit (like a good horror should). 

[The Enigmatic Dr X]

Sinister

Freaky. As scary as The Ring. My missus:"get that DVD out our house. I can't sleep knowing the disc is still here"

HaHa! Sinister is a great movie and there is something very disturbing about those old films he finds. Does a good job of building a sense of dread and gets under your skin a bit (like a good horror should). 

You really need to have kids to appreciate the horror. It's a good tension builder that doesn't rely on gore or jumps.

[I, Cosh]

A couple of films I lazily half-watched from the couch over the weekend. In both cases, I don't think missing the first half hour caused me any issues with the plot but I may have missed some of the spectacle.

I didn't see Pacific Rim at the pictures because I thought it looked utter nonsense. Turns out I was totally right about that but completely wrong to consider it an obstacle. The highest praise I can give it is that the unfolding of each utterly predictable plot point makes you smile/cheer (delete according to enthusiasm) rather than groan. Plus there are some genuinely funny action bits.

I didn't see Taken 2 at the pictures because I thought it looked utter nonsense. Stripped of the novelty of Liam Neeson takin' out the trash and helmed by a director with an even shorter attention span than the first, I guess I was right. The unfolding of each utterly predictable plot point isn't even accompanied by enough action to raise a smile. Although I did think setting off hand grenades in a major metropolitan centre as a means of rangefinding was fairly awesome.

[DaveGYNWA]

I watched In Time (Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried, Cillian Murphy) the other night. That's 109 minutes of my life I'm not getting back.