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[mooniniteG]

I pretty much hate Takashi Miike.

[Ripplin]

This is the only thing I've ever seen/heard related to Miike, and it's just a nice song.

[bucky]

I love Audition. That's the whole point of it. It blindsided audiences when it came out, which was back in 1999, before torture porn ran rampant.

I thought it was intense and very effective. The ending made me kinda bummed for the rest of the day when I watched it, which is something most horror films won't do.

I'd say I liked it because it was well directed and interesting, and I give anything that makes me feel a strong way bonus points, but I don't think I'd care to watch it again.

[thecreeper]

Cabin in the Woods was fantastic. Go watch it now.

Yes it was. I read nothing about it so everything was a really pleasant surprise. The end of the movie was just sheer madness. I loved it.

Also, by far the best credited role in the movie was "Fornicus, Lord of Bondage and Pain". I nearly died when I saw that in the credits.

[GENTLYPORKING]

The thing is, (Cabin in the Woods spoiler)

Spoiler

If you're going to have a sophisticated facility that holds a shit ton of monsters, maybe not have a "release all monsters" button?

[thecreeper]

The thing is, (Cabin in the Woods spoiler)

Spoiler

If you're going to have a sophisticated facility that holds a shit ton of monsters, maybe not have a "release all monsters" button?

well, to be fair, it was a big red button. and you never push those.

oh, and using Nine Inch Nails' "Last", my NIN favorite song, during the credits was awesome. I felt like someone got bored and just made a movie with a ton of things I would like. APPROVED

[urvile]

Would have been cooler if they had used that Butch Vig mix IMO (which you can nab over at remix.nin.com last I checked)

Just finished Terrorvision. It was cool for a cheesy B horror movie. Jennifer Richards, growl

Also watched the 2nd Avengers animated movie and Hulk Vs. Meh.

[MetalBishop]

Just watched this. I'll save you the time if you planed on watching it yourself.
Dopey film maker hears of epic drug antics of a band called Ministry on their '94 tour. He decides to tag along with Ministry for their '96 tour. However, the '94 tour was well funded, arenas, airplanes, fests, ect. The '96 tour was underfunded, clubs, buses, trains, lame. So this film maker guy basically followed the band around for a year during the tour and taped as much as he could, waiting for something to happen. waiting for someone to die, or to OD, or to get arrested, or fight, or ANYTHING. But nothing happened. Everyone got along, everyone did drugs, every show was played on time and well. the film maker then sat on this footage for years and years and years because he didnt get the Al Jourgenson death scene he wanted. Now he is older, with nothing going for him, so he decided to just now (15 years later) put all his footage together to make a weird doc about Al Jourgenson, the person who he had the most footage from. alone, the footage was boring so he pulled some strings and got interviews with people who may or may not have know Al. Jello Biafra? Close friends with Al and the gang. Johnathan Davis? Wtf?

It sucked.

[Ripplin]

Yeah, sounds pretty pathetic.

[kareshi]

Yeah, sounds pretty pathetic.

But according to the Jason X comments, that shouldn't stop many of you.

[raubhimself]

Yeah, sounds pretty pathetic.

But according to the Jason X comments, that shouldn't stop many of you.

I ain't watched a movie in ages, dang.

[weener]

I saw The Avengers last night...it came out in Korea a few weeks earlier than in the U.S., heh heh. I have to say, it wasn't too bad, although I'm sure a lot of stuff went over my head without someone who lives and breathes this stuff explaining it to me the whole time.

First of all I don't find stories about a struggle between good and evil particularly compelling, and I didn't really understand the villain's motivation other than that he was just a bad dude. But once you get past that, it was pretty entertaining. I hate to say it, but Scarlett Johanssen did an OK job in this, way better than she was in Iron Man 2. I could actually believe what she was doing, unlike most of her roles. The best was Hawkeye, that guy was a skilled actor, seemed real, and looked cool too. I have a hard time seeing anyone but Bill Bixby in the role of Banner but the guy they had did a good job. The part about how they got him to join the mission...haha, total 70s TV show stuff.

There were a few things that made me think "Fiddle dee dee! How convenient!" and

Spoiler

WHY THE FUCK DOESN'T THAT STUPID THING CRASH ALREADY, DIDN'T ALL THE ENGINES GO OUT 20 MINUTES AGO? "Do whatever you have to do to bring the communications systems back up?" Great idea boss, why didn't I think of that? Drama doesn't mean anything if there are no actual consequences.

but that's par for the course in movies like this.

[Klatrymadon]

Yeah, I've been hearing it's a "superhero film done right" from friends who (rightly) tend to find them too formulaic and boring. Pretty excited to go and see it!

Some of this made me lol: http://textfail.com/...n-facebook-ftw/

[XMark]

Captain America got on Netflix recently so I gave it a watch. Good movie, but I got the same sort of feeling that I had during Iron Man 2 - it kind of felt like the movie wasn't trying to stand up by itself, and only served as a lead-in to the Avengers movie. If The Avengers doesn't stand up to the hype it's building I'll be disappointed.

The only pre-Avengers movie I have yet to see now is the 2008 Hulk movie.

[Daemon9623]

Captain America got on Netflix recently so I gave it a watch. Good movie, but I got the same sort of feeling that I had during Iron Man 2 - it kind of felt like the movie wasn't trying to stand up by itself, and only served as a lead-in to the Avengers movie. If The Avengers doesn't stand up to the hype it's building I'll be disappointed.

The only pre-Avengers movie I have yet to see now is the 2008 Hulk movie.

Really? I felt like CA was great as a stand-alone. I mean, aside from the first and last 5 minutes there's not a whole lot of Avengers build up, and it was done pretty well, I thought. Go figure it's the same director as the Rocketeer, I quite liked his take on the 40s there too!

Also, The Incredible Hulk is good stuff. WAY better than just Hulk that came out in 2004 (I think). And the Avengers tie in is just short and sweet, nothing explicit like IM2 or CA.