Last Seen 70s/80s Movie

[Elvis_Christ]

Originally Posted by Disease

It's not coming out till late October in Australia, maybe around then for you as well. Bullshit waiting period!

Looks like I'll be grabbing a torrent then...

[psycho d]

Tears of the Sun (2003). The beginning of this flick strongly hinted of an unbelievable and contrived story. In truth, this formula continued, but the fashion in which the story unraveled made up for this stench of Hollywood. In essence, it turned into am entertaining flick that dealt with some rather disquieting facets of human nature whilst trying to establish some overall message as to the duty of first world peoples to act in the affairs of others. Quite an endeavor, and to have done so in an entertaining fashion allots for its fanfare. The acting was solid, with Monica Belluci's role as the "package" that just happened to be wonderfully hot a real delight. Director Antoine Fuqua does a solid job here, but the mainstream feel of this flick a tad disappointing. The saving grace for this "nose towards the sheepish general public" was the audacity shown towards the depiction of the atrocities as they were being committed, which were brutal and far from entertaining. Merci beaucoup.

Genruk'

[Disease]

7/10

[roshiq]

Salvage (2009)



A Britt mediocre, low budget effort that tried to be Right at your Door meets with The Crazies, but didn't that much succeed as a film overall. Not sure whether for the muffled voices or the regional accents, didn't get the quick but vital explanation of the whole thing.

>>: C


The Disappearance of Alice Creed (2009)



With only three characters & as set on very limited locations, I think the director did a pretty convincing job to put things all together in a pretty exact fashion that a tensed & situation driven film required to have & entertain its audience. Overall, it's a gripping & fun kidnap-thriller with nice dose of nudity and the 'matter' of love & relationship;)(yeah...the unexpected twist comes at the middle of the story). Recommended.

>>: B+

The Driller Killer (1979)



>>: B

[The_Return]

The Evil Dead (1981)

Watched this for the first time in a couple years, with some friends that'd never seen anything like it. Nothing better to remind you how awesome it is than watching people react to it for the first time...great fun.

[ferretchucker]

Continued my Jaws Marathon with Jaws III last night, I was sort of in and out. It's the price you pay with a laptop at your disposal.

[DP McCoy]

Major League I,II & III

I have always enjoyed the first two Major League films (The first in particular is a favourite),the third was mildly entertaing but still clearly the weakest of the three.

Major League I - 7/10, ML II - 6/10, ML III - 5/10.

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[neverending]

Dummy

A quirky romantic comedy that manages to make standard plot conventions seem interesting and fun. Really excellent performances from Adrian Brody, Illeana Douglas and Mila Jovovich. I really enjoyed it- and Brody wasn't too bad as a ventriloquist.

[cheebacheeba]

Anchorman.
Now, I've been here and there about Will Ferrell...and after actually avoiding watching a lot of the films he was in, on account of his humour not really being my style in SNL and the like...though I saw some that I ended up liking of late...Stranger than Fiction was pretty cool, I didn't hate "Land of the Lost" (IMO a more watchable version of the recent "Journey"), Blades of Glory was alright, and I actually think Step Brothers was by far one of the better comedy films I've seen in the last five years.
I'm a bit the same when it comes to Steve Carrell, I actually HATE the office, though I think he did a great job in the "Get Smart" movie, and was likeable in Horton.
So, this movie having had both of them in it is something I avoided like the plague at the time, though these days I'm a little more receptive of their works.
So my friend, who seems to be one of the many people who are simply in love with Anchorman has been trying to convince me to watch it for a while...he dropped over his copy.

My thoughts?
Not good.
I actually turned it off after about 45 minutes...which in all honesty was about a half hour longer than I wanted to give it, but I tried.
I cannot enjoy a film where every few moments I think that it's a comedy film made to entertain stupid people. I know what people say about humour like this...well IMO It's not clever, intentional in its stupidity or otherwise...in my opinion it falls pretty flat, and I actually found myself bored most of the time.
To me this is a prime (another) example of essentially a SNL skit dragged on way too long. Just could not find anything to like about this movie. So yeah I switched it off wondering why the holy fuck, people still rave about this shit...
Now, for those who think I'm just ripping into films that are dumb for the sake of it, well, I sat through Kung Pow at least all the way, terrible as it was, this film was simply incapable of retaining any interest.
It's like kids wrote it, in all honesty - What an embarrassing waste of time.