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to go back on topic, Ils (they) is now on instant. i thought it was alright, but i was expecting a much bigger twist at the end (based on reviewer's comments). some critics were saying how the last 20 minutes contained the best twist since the 6th sense, so i went in with high expectations. then again i guess thats not fair to the film. regardless, it was nice to see a film create suspense without gore, especially for a french horror. however, martyrs and inside and even frontiers was much better than this. they is pretty bare boned. C+ in my opinion but not anything higher
I Saw The Devil Just saw this was on netflix download last night and decided to give it a look. This is a well made Korean thriller. It starts out a bit slow for me, but once the game is afoot, it takes off. A Korean special agent tracks down his wife's murderer and instead of killing him, he tortures him and then lets him go several times. The great thing about this film is that The antagonist is far more resourceful then our protag gives him credit for. Again, The villain outshines the hero on screen here.
I guess you could call this a film about revenge going bad. A good guy taking things too far and it blows up in his face so to speak. The thing i liked best about the antag was that no matter how much pain he endured whenever our hero showed up, he never feared the man. He was bent on showing him he fucked with the wrong guy. That you can't simply change the mind of a madman.
Its a bit long at about 2hrs 20 minutes. Some of the dramatic scenes are drawn out too much for me. There is one kick-ass scene where the antag gets in a cab with a couple of thugs and ends up knifing the hell out of both of them.
Again, if you like a good villain, I think this film is worth your while. I think there is a thread for it, but since its on netflix now, I plopped my review here...
Saw Ip Man 2 and while it was still entertaining, the story just had nowhere near the gravity that the first one had. This flick also had one of the more cartoonish bad guys I've seen in awhile.
SPOILERS Ip Man has arrived in Hong Kong and wishes to open a school. The local masters insist that he pays his monthly fees, which go toward keeping the British police off their backs. Of course, Ip resists. The movie does kind of an antag switch in the middle of the story, with Ip looking to avenge the death of the local master that was trying to extort him.
So, the bad guy is this English boxer who makes Ivan Drago look like Gandhi. Some of the fight scenes in this are so over the top they're borderline hilarious. One of the things I really liked about the the first movie was that they always tried to keep the story grounded in the brutal reality of the Japanese occupation of China. There are no such constraints here.
The period detail, just like the first film, is superb. It really evokes Hong Kong of the 1950's. Overall, a fun film, and Donnie Yen is awesome again as Yip Man, Bruce Lee's original teacher. But once again, even though they seem to be trying to pass this off as a biographical piece, I suspect hardly anything in this story actually happened to the real Yip.
No, this isn't a good movie. In fact, it may be up there with the very, very worst of them, but it's definitely one of those so bad it's actually entertaining.
As I was watching, at first I wasn't sure if it was even meant to be taken seriously, and I'm still not 100% sure, but it's so completely ridiculous and over the top, it almost has to be seen to be believed.
There are countless hilariously bad scenes and things that make zero sense. I could go on and on, but there is one scene, and 1 line in particular that is absolutely unbelievably hilarious. I was actually falling alseep, and this little ditty hit me, and I was wide awake and laughing my ass off. In checking info out for this gem, I found numerous posts on Google, talking about this very classic line.
Out of the blue, and for literally no reason (as there is no back story or sexual history between the 2 characters), the main male lead says to the main female lead, and I quote...
"What do you say you let me take you home and eat your pussy?"
Apparently, this line was ad libbed when the director told the actor to say anything he could think of to get a rise out of the costar.
And from there, we go immediately to a sex scene with them.
I don't think anything more needs to be said. See it with friends who are drinking or smoking heavily. You'll have fun and wait for the look on their faces when that now infamous line is spoken.
Rubber is instant now. Not sure if anyone's checked it out, but it's definitely worth seeing. It's a little smug and things get a little slow when the tire isnt exploding heads, yet it's incredibly bizarre and has that wtf factor. The best movie about a serial killer tire that you'll ever see guaranteed. It knows what it is and makes several critiques about movie audiences, believability, and what happens to characters after the viewer is no longer watching them. This is where the smug factor comes in. To me, all the "explanations" weren't needed. It was almost too spoon fed. I would have rather just focused on the tire the whole time with small hints interjected here and there.
Those netflix bastards. They're pretty much doubling the price of mailed dvds/streaming movies. Apparently because it "better reflects the costs of each." Whatever the hell that means:
"We are separating unlimited DVDs by mail and unlimited streaming into two separate plans to better reflect the costs of each. Now our members have a choice: a streaming only plan, a DVD only plan, or both.
Your current $9.99 a month membership for unlimited streaming and unlimited DVDs will be split into 2 distinct plans:
Plan 1: Unlimited Streaming (no DVDs) for $7.99 a month Plan 2: Unlimited DVDs, 1 out at-a-time (no streaming) for $7.99 a month
Your price for getting both of these plans will be $15.98 a month ($7.99 + $7.99). You don't need to do anything to continue your memberships for both unlimited streaming and unlimited DVDs.
These prices will start for charges on or after September 1, 2011.
You can easily change or cancel your unlimited streaming plan, unlimited DVD plan, or both, by going to the Plan Change page in Your Account.
We realize you have many choices for home entertainment, and we thank you for your business. As always, if you have questions, please feel free to call us at 1-888-357-1516.
–The Netflix Team"
This came out of nowhere for me. Did they send out a warning about this?
I haven't heard of any changes. I pay $19.66/month for unlimited streaming and unlimited 2 DVD's at a time in the mail. SO I'm getting basically 6 DVD's per week plus unlimited streaming, which I feel is a sweet deal.
Well, I think the majority of netflix users have the one dvd at a time, free streaming deal, like me. And this doubles that price, outta nowhere. It's not like its gonna break the bank, but I would have liked some warning, instead of them saying, hey, in two weeks, your plan doubles in price, sincerely, Netflix.
Here's a flick I've had in my instant que for a long time. Finally decided to watch it, and I'm actually glad I did.
Fairly strong star power here, with Billy Bob Thornton, Patricia Arquette, William Devane, and Sela Ward, plus a few faces you'll recognize in smaller parts.
Pretty wild (and deep) story here when it all goes down, and very different from most mainstream stuff of similar content. Lots and lots of sordid, transsexual, bisexual, sleezy life shit going down in Louisiana.
Starts out rather slow and seems to be both dull and predictable, but it changes quite drastically in the 2nd half, and for me, at least, earns its stars in the long run.
Good performances from most. I've always had a thang for Patricia, even though her teeth are so messed up and she has some "ugly" qualities to her. I find something about her very appealing and attractive and although she plays a character that's pretty outside anything you'd expect, she has a way about her that just makes this thing work for me.
It's definitely not great, but it's loads better than the average DTV. Written and directed by the same guy, it just seems to me that the actual script was most likely much better than the finished product and the reason so many "good" actors signed on. $6 Million budget, pretty good looking film overall, with some "bad" camera techniques by the director that probably doomed its theatrical release.
The Burrowers was just released to streaming on 9/1. It's a very impressive Western/creature feature flick. made for $7 Million, it's a beautifully shot and filmed movie, looking like it cost a Hell of alot more. Strong performances form everyone, shockingly great FX work, and even a good story to boot. If you like Westerns and/or creature feature horror, chances are very good you'll be impressed with this DTV release from 2008. Check it out while its available. Great flick!
Watched this last night on Comcast OnDemand. Decent enough overall product.
The story was a little hokey: these semi-human mammals are really going to dig through the ground pursuing these guys on horseback across miles and miles of variable terrain? Really? For really? And the cliche bad Union officer is going to just assume the original party was abducted by "Indians" from miles and miles away and begins a trek in THAT direction to rescue them? Really? And I don't know WTH wuzzup with the spinning sod. That's how we mechanically DRILL for stuff, but it's certainly no biological way to relocate dirt around a burrowing body. Big fat WHATEVER! I'll just go with it.
Audio was pretty mumbly, too.
It's interesting to see how $7M can be spent, especially out in the middle of Santa Fe, New Mexico nowhere.
I can't say camera work, SFX or star power made or broke any one of these four. Five bucks says it's all story which leads to distribution deals.
Spend your production bucks accordingly.
What an interesting way in which the camerawork and lighting came together, aside from that cliche color desaturation and grading which seems to be cloyingly popular lately.
It's listed as regular 35mm film and Panavision lenses at IMDB, so... interesting, still.
Amazing leap of quality from the writer/director's NYU thesis film, which amazingly was shown at Sundance, (shake my head amazing).
Exit Through The Gift Shop - A must-see documentary/mockumentary?/doesn't matter for anyone who works in any kind of art form, directed by legendary graffiti artist, Banksy. The less said about the content itself, the better. It seems like a good film to watch cold.
I should note that this is a major love-it-or-hate-it film with plenty of people already on both sides. If you fall in the latter category, you'll probably find it pretentious and/or offensive. The likelihood that you'll hate it sort of depends on how you feel about "art" and all which the term implies.
Right on! I remember seeing Dead and Buried at the theater when it came out, oh so long ago. And mark of the Devil rings a bell, but I can't remember when I saw it. One of them will be seen tonight.
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