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[TheLastOutlaw]

I rented Sucker Punch.

It sucked.   

I will say that Zack Snyder can direct an action sequence, and I would probably say go see it just for the action scenes.  But they can't support the whole movie which is a disconnected story that can't decide if it wants to be a music video, women in prison flick, or whatever else got thrown against the wall in the vain hope it would stick.

It had some good concepts but failed in execution.  I get that most of the film takes  place in her imagination but they did a HORRIBLE job drawing the links between her imagination and what really happened.  A throwaway comment feebly trying to get them to marry up at the end is probably worse than not even trying because it just drew attention to the fact it was ignored. 

I hope someone does a fan edit that removes everything but the action scenes because believing that a girl trapped unjustly in a mental institute would dream about being trapped in whorehouse with a viscious pimp as an ESCAPE takes more suspension of disbelief than watching a flying mech with a bunny paint job lay waste to zombie clockwork soldiers the trenches of world war 1.

[Opus Fluke]

First up I finally got to see (most of) "A Town Called Panic". Utter genius. Seriously. Maddest piece of animated joy I've seen since The Magic Roundabout film "Dougal And The Blue Cat".
Also "Hansel And Gretle": seriously messed up Korean horror film featuring deranged kids, child abuse, a serial killer, psychic abilities and some truly disturbing things. Bloody loved it.
So I love horror flicks and kids films. Go figure.

[Yutrzenika]

I rented Sucker Punch.

It sucked.   

I will say that Zack Snyder can direct an action sequence, and I would probably say go see it just for the action scenes.  But they can't support the whole movie which is a disconnected story that can't decide if it wants to be a music video, women in prison flick, or whatever else got thrown against the wall in the vain hope it would stick.

It had some good concepts but failed in execution.  I get that most of the film takes  place in her imagination but they did a HORRIBLE job drawing the links between her imagination and what really happened.  A throwaway comment feebly trying to get them to marry up at the end is probably worse than not even trying because it just drew attention to the fact it was ignored. 

I hope someone does a fan edit that removes everything but the action scenes because believing that a girl trapped unjustly in a mental institute would dream about being trapped in whorehouse with a viscious pimp as an ESCAPE takes more suspension of disbelief than watching a flying mech with a bunny paint job lay waste to zombie clockwork soldiers the trenches of world war 1.

Yeah it was very confusing tell what was in her head and what wasn't. It starts off in some dingy place and then they're all of a sudden in this fancy ass place with literally no apparent transition. One thing to always keep in mind with Zack Snyder movies is that they're all flash, no substance, I've seen 300, Watchmen, and Suckerpunch, and while visually they were great, the story, writing, and whatever else was very subpar.

Anyways, got back from The Dark Knight Rises, that was a great movie, and probably one of the longest ones I've been to in awhile.

EDIT: Silent Hill. I've been watching video game movies with my internet buddies, and honestly, this is the best video game movie I've seen yet, next to Tomb Raider. It does a very good job of capturing the experience and atmosphere of the games, going as far as using music from the games, but aside from some over the top gore, hokey writing, and Pyramid Head for the sake of having Pyramid Head, it was a very good, very enjoyable movie with great acting and production values.

[TheLastOutlaw]

Battle Royale.

I FINALLY managed to get my hands on a copy of this flick, in this case the super deluxe 4 disc korean export set (includes the sequel and two discs worth of extras).  I know it was recently released in the US on DVD and Blu Ray but I didn't feel like dropping 40 bucks on something I may or may not have liked.  Having seen the movie I now know I shouldn't have worried, and I'll probably track down the Blu Ray "complete" collection anyway since the Korean subtitles are horrifically bad in a few spots but I'm getting ahead of myself.

So yea, this movie has been out since 2000 in Japan, but never officially distributed in the US until earlier this year (probably to cash in on the oft heard internet buzz "Hunger Games is a rip off of Battle Royale.")  and if you like Hunger Games, or movies with action and violence (Quentin Tarantino has said Battle Royale is the one movie that has come out since he got in the business that he wishes he had done) or just want to see 40+ kids doing horrible things to each other, this is the one for you.

Set in a horrible alternate Japan where juvenile delinquency is apparently a huge problem the government passed a law allowing them to randomly select a class full of kids and having them fight to the death until only one remains.  Not sure how that helps solve the delinquent problem but it makes for a kick ass movie.  The premise is simple, the class is gassed during a bus trip and wake up on a deserted island where there are given the rules of the game, exploding collars are fitted around their necks and they each get a bag full of supplies that includes a random item/weapon that may be of use.  So watch in horror as these kids start tearing into each other with wild abandon, some becoming remorseless killers and some fighting to subvert the game itself in an effort to tell the program directors to go fuck themselves.  I’m giving this one a full five fros.  The pacing is excellent, the chaos is top notch and the only gripe I have is the wonky subtitling which is more the fact that I bought the region free Korean edition.
 

[Yutrzenika]

The Wicker Man, the original one, not the Nicholas Cage one. It was boring, cop gets report about missing girl, goes to island where people have pagan beliefs, he goes around basically being an asshole to everybody all "YOUR BELIEFS ARE WRONG AND MY BELIEFS ARE RIGHT, YOU SHOULD BE WARSHIPPING THE LAWD AND SAYVYEER JEEZUS CHRIST!", which he seems to care more about than some missing girl, none of the characters were likable and as a whole it was really dull.

[TheLastOutlaw]

Back in the great satanist conspiracy days it was terrifying.

People blamed satanic cults for EVERYTHING for a while there.

[Stan]

I wish I was an eldritch elder god like TLO...

[Yutrzenika]

Cabin in the Woods. Holy shit I loved that movie.

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I really liked the meta behind it all, we, the audience, are the gods who have to be appeased, there's a deep seated and sick need that people have to watch young people being destroyed, and horror movies are our version of that, the elder gods in this movie represent both that dark tendency in humanity, and (on an even more meta level) the people who actually like those kinds of movies.
As far as the ending not actually giving you a good look at the old gods...and going with an unsatisfying "and the world ends" ending...that too is meta in a way, because if the ending had been satisfying, the old gods wouldn't have destroyed their world. So we the audience needed to be left unsatisfied...with the last two characters just chatting idly for three minutes, followed by "end!".

[TheLastOutlaw]

I loved how Cabin explained all the stuff that bugged me about horror movies like, "why do they always drop their weapon after they only stab the bad guy once?"  Or, "why are the acting so fucking stupid all of a sudden?"  Great flick.

[Yutrzenika]

Indeed. Awesome movie.

A part that really made me laugh was...

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The jock suggests they all stick together as it's the safest course of action, meanwhile the dude monitoring them is like "Ah fuck!"

Joss Whedon should really just be his own movie genre.

[Opus Fluke]

"Daywatch". Stayed up until four in the morning to see it through until the end but worth every second though it did take me a while to remember what was going on having seen "Nightwatch" years ago. The whole Chalk of Fate plot was well done.

[sok]

Damn, Opus, i loved the books. If you haven't read them, do it now! Though the 3rd and 4th part suck:(

[TheLastOutlaw]

I need read the books.  I do have both the films and enjoyed them.

[Yutrzenika]

Uwe Boll's Postal. His movies are a lot better when he doesn't take himself so seriously.
The best scene is halfway through the movie, when Uwe Boll shows up for a TV interview at an American theme park called Little Germany, and admits that his films are funded by Nazi gold and that he has an attraction to young children, a few minutes later, a mascot takes its head off to reveal the creator of the Postal games, exclaiming "what did you do to my game??" and tackles Boll. The sequence ends with Al Qaeda showing up and a shootout that results in a park filled with dead children.
Unfortunately the latter half of the movie is kinda boring because Uwe Boll can't make an interesting fight scene, but the ending was good.

EDIT: Saw Trick R Treat. It was okay.

[Synaster]

Watched "Zombie Diaries". It's like "Cloverfield" (as in, the same kind of video-shooting) meets a generic zombie film. The zombies looked good, the acting wasn't that bad, but everything else was pretty frickin' AWFUL. $7.50 down the drain... I think there's a reason why most movies aren't presented like that.

Btw, anyone want it? Pay for shipping and handling and it's all yours. XD