Recent Movies

well this weekend i saw Troy and The Day After Tomorrow

Troy was an awesome movie, i was impressed since it had to compete with how good Gladiator was, but overall i actually learned alot from it and i was satisfyed except the GF kept looking at brad pitt :stick:, anyways, the only thing i didnt like was how pansy Orlando Bloom's character was displayed, anyways it was a great movie, espically the Helen character was so fine played by Diane Kruger



The Day After Tomorrow was an ok movie, it got you thinking on Global Warming and how things could be, the previews that you see on TV is pretty much the whole entire movie, for those that have seen it, its really chessey at the ending and that kinda annoyed me since the whole entire movie was great except that. Overall the movie was ok some things were fake but most of everything was awesome.





please post up your current movie reviews

[At-Least-It's-An-Evo]

Just finished seeing "Day After Tomorrow" and I liked it. Scary thought though.

[SuperSleeper]

Theaters:
Saw Shrek 2 in theaters yesterday. Absolutely loved it. If you at all enjoyed the 1st one, you'll love the 2nd one.

Rentals:
Just finished EuroTrip tonight. It was decent... just another one of those highschool party movies--with less character development. Not a total waste of my $4, though.

Monster: Is that really Charlize Theron?! Who knew she could pull off a tom-boy lesbian killer, but she did. Very depressing movie, but well done.

Club Dread. From the makers of Super Troopers with pretty much all the same actors. Enjoyable movie. Had no idea it was supposed to be a psycho killer comedy till I started watching it. The humor was worse than Super Troopers, but some may appreciate it more.

Originally posted by illegaLaser@Jun 1 2004, 11:32 PM
Just finished EuroTrip tonight. It was decent... just another one of those highschool party movies--with less character development. Not a total waste of my $4, though.

Was the movie better then Roadtrip? would it be the kind of movie you watch with your gf or whatever?

[JET]

I just rented a few.

Stuck on You was really good. Matt Damon was good. This is the siamese twin one. It looked really cheesy in the previews, but it was actually really funny. 4 out of 5 stars

Runaway Jury was really good also. Excellent drama with a little suspense and action thrown in there. Very original too, which was a plus. 4.5 out of 5 stars.

Saw Van Helsing a couple weeks ago. The storyline was actually well developed. I was impressed on how they intertwined the stories of Dracula, The Werewolf, and Frankenstien in one soryline. I knew that the only living thing that could kill vampires were werewolves, but how they tied in frankentsien was well done. I was also impressed on how they did the werewolf transformations. The director said that he didnt want to go with a the traditional growing hair method. He decided to have the wolf grow out of his human skin during the transformation and rip it off once he was a certain size in the transformation. A nice change in tradition. Go see it.......

[Kracka]

Saw Shrek 2 and I hated it...really liked the first though. Becky, who also liked the first, thought the second was really bad. Maybe it is just me, but there is practically no plot or storyline whatsoever; it was basically them just showing of their CGI animation or whatever its called.

[SuperSleeper]

There were more characters you could appreciate in Road Trip over EuroTrip. However, overall I think I enjoyed EuroTrip more than Road Trip. RT didn't really do much for me... I watched Euro with my gf and we felt it was worth the 94 minutes.

I agree with Jet on Runaway Jury. Great cast, great plot. I've always liked Gene Hackman.

[ACRucrazy]

I also saw Day After Tomorrow.
First I thought cheezy, then good special effects and such, then I was sitting there thinking that would really suck if it happend, then I got scared.

Mom

[ABV]

Originally posted by JET@Jun 2 2004, 01:57 PM

Runaway Jury was really good also. Excellent drama with a little suspense and action thrown in there. Very original too, which was a plus. 4.5 out of 5 stars.

I just read the book a few weeks ago. I'm hesitant to rent the movie though. The book was awesome, and I've heard from a few people that the movie was good too. But the thing that bugs me is how the story line changed so much (from what I was told). I guess most movies based on books are like that though. I'll probably rent that one sometime.


The last movie I saw in the theatre was Starsky and Hutch. It was funny. Sometimes I like movies that don't make me think alot. Just some slapstick comedy, with a few crude jokes thrown in for good measure. This movie filled that roll very nice.

I also just rented American Wedding recently. I saw it in the theatre when it came out, but it was so funny I had to see it again. I like the dog scene in the beginning. Oh yeah, what's the capital of Thailand... Bangcok (sp?). I'm gonna hang out with my wang out!! Gonna rock out with my cock out.

Sorry, that last paragraph was kind of trailing off into nowhere. If you don't like it, then eat shit, shitbrick.

Van Helsing: Sucks... unless you're into cheesy action and love scenes. Predictable movie. **

LotR: Return of the King: Okay, this isn't recent, but I just watched it on DVD (I'd already seen it.) I say WATCH ALL OF THE LOTR MOVIES. They're awesome. *****

Ginger Snaps 2: Horror movie about werewolves. First one was awesome despite not having the best special effects. Very enjoyable movie with cool characters. *****

Last Samurai: Great movie about the Samurai. Almost perfect in the cultural aspect, except for the Seppuku scene in which a guy gets his head cut off (not going to go into why it isn't right, but it just isn't.) Other than that. Great movie. *****

Suicide Club: Japanese horror movie. Very wierd, nothing special, but a good watch. ***

Battle Royale: Another Japanese movie. If you'd like to see Lord of the Flies on steroids, this is your movie. Very good, although a little cheesy at points. ****

[SuperSleeper]

Geez, I watch more movies than I realize.
I just saw LOTR: ROTK for the first time when it came out last Tuesday. Excellent movie--ending carried on a little bit, but I was still very satisfied.

And I accidentally bought the full-screen version of The Last Samurai when it came out, but anyway... I enjoyed that as well. I don't know if it's one of those movies you can watch over and over again, but still very good.

I will agree w/ on Audious on both of these--5stars.

Dawn Of The Dead (2004 ver.)
wow, awesome movie about zombies over-running the area and a couple people survive and flee to a local mall (this is where it gets interesting) but youll have to watch it to understand, there is an older version of this movie... the whole entire time i was scared and it was just overall a great movie, but appartenly at the end they die? can anybody confirm/denie this?

[Enes]

yes.. they die because when they got to an island they tought they are safe.. however a whole bunch of zombies ran out of woods and had some dinner...

-E

[SquackDiddy]

the butterfly effect - i know its kind of old but i went to go see it on tuesday. i think it was a good movie, id go see it again or rent it or something. makes you think how one little detail that is changed can change everything hmy: .

[CVD]

Damn of the dead spoilers ahead....maybe?



Dawn of the dead I thought was good, but dissapointing. Until I realized that the whole intent of the movie was to depict the end of the world. When you look at it that way it makes a lot more sense.

[Shane@DBPerformance]

Dawn of the dead was a little dissappointing, but still ok. 28 days later was much better.

I didn't think Kill Bill Vol 2 was as good as all the critical hype it got. It was good, but not great.

I can't think of any really good movies that I have seen in the last year. LOTR does nothing for me. I liked #2 the best. #3 was so sappy that I thought the hobbits were going to start fucking each other at the end and the scene where the ghosts finally come and save the day was very anti-climatic.

The first Matrix movie is the last amazing movie that I can remember and would watch more than once. The second and third were crap.

Butterfly Effect was good.

Troy, Van Helsing, Soul Plane, The Day after Tomorrow, etc all looked like crap from the previews. I didn't see The Last Samurai because Tom Cruise was the main character.

[AJ]

Originally posted by ecoli@Jun 3 2004, 08:05 PM
#3 was so sappy that I thought the hobbits were going to start fucking each other at the end and the scene where the ghosts finally come and save the day was very anti-climatic.

That is the funniest thing I have ever seen you type Shane!


I have to chime in on a few movies though.

The Last Samuri didn't look to be all that good as Shane said due to Tom Cruise, but wow! It was a great flick and I usually don't go for those.

Master and Commander..... umm puts me to sleep. Litterally I have tried watching it 5 times and each time I get bored I just pass out. it's a great bedtime story.

You got Served - really sweet hip hop dance movie for thosw who like to watch the new age dance shit with old style break dancing mixed in. Plot was gay, but hey, I wasn't expecting an oscar film there.

I am in the middle of Underword right now.

[SquackDiddy]

yeah i just like the dancing in you got served.

speaking of dancing.. i saw the movie Honey.. worst movie ever and fell asleep 2 times, the only GOOD~! thing about it was Jessica Alba... :drool: