The FP http://vimeo.com/14724617 Finally a film that combines my love of low budget desert apocalypse movies and my hatred for teen breakdancing movies into a single fever dream of insanity! Youtube version of the video requires age verification, that's why I didn't link to it.
It's real, Drafthouse Films picked it up for limited theatrical distribution early next year. It's going to be one of those movies that winds up on DVD and On Demand before anyone gets a chance to see it in a theater but that's alright. I saw Rubber earlier this year during a Sci-Fi film festival and the experience of seeing it with a few hundred other people that love pure cheese cinema was what made it worth watching.
Rubber looks dreadful but this film doesn't look all that different from those dance films in the 90's that took themselves so seriously. But sadly, if the theatrical release is limited in the US, it probably won't have one at all in the UK.
Watched Paranormal Entity 1 and 2 the other night. Obviously they're just riding the wave started by Paranormal Activity but I thought I'd give them a chance anyway. They were kinda creepy in the sense that my own imagination was doing all of the work, but I could get the same effect by reading a book and then standing in my own house in the dark. What really annoys me is their failure to provide any real payoff. I think it's because they feel they have to stay as "genuine" and "realistic" as possible, which essentially means no one ever see any ghosts... but in doing so they're no more interesting than watching something like Ghost Hunters, in which we know there are no real ghosts anyway. If you're making a film about ghosts being real the least you can do is show us the damn things. Actually, Paranormal Entity 2 does show you the ghost... but it's quite obviously just an actor filmed through a night vision camera. No more effort was put into the effect than that, not even a bit of transparency.
Rubber is the type of movie you watch in a theater full of people that love bad movies or while extremely drunk or high. Can't really be enjoyed alone in a sober state of mind.
I saw Captain America. Just saying. (my first post in the movie thread and I had to say something relevant to movies)
You really wanted a post in this movie thread, huh? Well welcome, I'm the resident pretentious douchebag, or at least I slowly feel like I'm being made into it.
You probably would have been better off attempting only to protect yourself and a select few, not an entire occupation of critics. Naming some off with links would help your cause. And the caps-lock isn't seen as too impressive around here, either.
They attacked the entire profession, so I defended the entire profession. http://angryjoeshow.com/category/movies/ http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/escape-to-the-movies http://thecinemasnob.com/categories/The%20Cinema%20Snob.aspx
I'll be honest I would have let the whole thing slide if you hadn't of called me a dumbass when really I was just really making a light hearted post about cowboys v aliens. Of course not all critics are the same and I shouldn't tar them all with the same brush so if it offends you that badly you have my apology I probably over reacted a touch. All the best
I just get tired of hearing it, all the time. If I had the money to not need critics, I wouldn't use them. But I can't afford to consume everything I like the look of. It's like when people say 'fu*k da poleese' when they are just a public service like the transport system, so saying 'down with them' is just completely retarded. On a more film related note, watched a GREAT movie last night called 'Stake Land'. It had a really bad ending and some terrible acting with quite a few inconsistencies. But it was such a beautiful film, I had to forgive it. For a serious version of Zombieland, with vampires you'd probably be expecting an actionfest but this played out much more like an art film. Long takes on the apocalyptic scenery, little dialogue and when combat does happen, it's fast and brutal and incredibly tense and more than likely one of the main characters will die. It cuts out on a lot of exposition which in this films case isn't really a good thing, but it does fill the time with adding some unique touches to the film. Like one scene, where they are struggling to kill a vampire because she was so fat before she died. The film is a pounding assault of misery and brutality. It's just all so incredibly dark. And as a bonus, the scenes with the vampires are generally pretty scary and I watch so much horror cinema I thought I'd was desensitized, except for Gozu... *shudder* Even without the vamp scenes, this film was horrifying. Quite early on the camera lingers on a shot of scenery, and not even central to the shot, but off in the corner, a body is hanging from a telephone pole. And you let out a long sigh and this one shot just shows, the world has really gone to hell. I don't know if it was supposed to be social commentary at human behaviour, but it'd work well as one.
My favorite movie is The dukes of the hazard, the movie is a little bit old but the fun and comedy in it is very funny and also I watched transformers 3 recently but the movie was not interesting and thrilling as I expected.
Wait, what? Do you honestly feel film critics are essential enough to make the comparison to the police and mass transit? You don't have to see any movie in a theater and once they hit DVD rental services and cable they become cheap and easy to consume. I don't know what it's like in the rest of the world but here in the US we have redbox kiosks at every gas station, supermarket and Wal-Mart renting out discs for $1 a day. We've got Netflix doing unlimited rentals for $8 a month and substantial VOD services from every cable and satellite provider. Movies are a medium that can't get any cheaper, it's like when people bitch over 99 cent iPhone apps.
About the only thing I know equivalent to that in the UK is Lovefilm, which is around £15 a month, I think. (equivalent to about 25 US dollars) Edit: Oh also, of course they aren't in the same league. It was just a comparison, hating on a tool there to help.
That is unfortunate but I hear Netflix is in negotiations with studios to expand out there once they've got the whole South America deal covered. It'll probably be streaming only but at least you'll get awesome movies like Gor and Gog. Is there no redbox equivalent ether? That would suck! Watching the movie Chopping Mall right now though it appears to be devoid of any chopping, so far it's just tasers, lazers and 1980's horribleness.
I would love to live in same world all 1970's and 80's "trapped in a mall" movies take place in. Apparently indoor malls are huge and have really awesome arcades, furniture stores and gun shops. I could use a new couch and a shotgun.
