FSM, I couldn't really get past the fact that in real life there's no way that tall dorky loser would even get close to a honey like Kirsten Bell. Or Mila Kunis for that matter. Too unrealistic. 

heh, you should check out the boyfriends/husbands of trophy wives more often then. thankfully looks ain't everything. and people have different taste in things and people. 

Good fun film. 

Watched City of Men as well. Interesting movie, the Rio slums are an amazing place to film. I just watched Fast 5 as well, and they looked even more fascinating in that movie.

Anyway it said on the cover it's from the same makers as City of God. But different actors, location, story, direction, writers... it has nothing in common with City of God other than being in Rio.

I definitely enjoyed City of God a lot more than City of Men. There was more of a storyline going on with drug gangs and the different characters. City of Men was really just about 2 boys with the gangs a bit of a backstory. Would have been more interesting if Midnight and Fasto (the gang leaders) were the story focus; they were both scary. 

Meirelles only attached his name as producer but didnt have any hands on involvement with the content.

Other interesting Brazil filmed movies are Boca (Sao Paulo)and Elite Squad. Both are worth watching but neither are at the City of God level. 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1828194/ 

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And it's really good, if you like slow, thoughtful, Tarkovsky-paced movies. 

the imagery is unbelievable. And all real. 

Not quite worth the mega-rating it gets on Rotten Tomatoes, but a good fun sort of sci-fi thriller with escalating excitement and plenty of LOL moments. The main thing worth knowing is that despite the ominious poster, the catch/hook of this initially-horror-orientated film is nothing weird, freaky, or downright surreal - it's a straight up different rationale for the horror scenario that pans out to be a jolly good romp (albeit with an abrupt ending and an underdeveloped backstory which is a pity as the premise has lots of potential), rather than a horror headfuck. Favourite moments: the entrance of Marty (proper lol if you've seen Dollhouse), and the lift doors moment :). 

halfway through, absolutely loving it. David Simon is a special man. 

based on the trailer i'd completely written cabin in the woods off as the most generic looking horror movie ever made, so quite pleasantly surprised to see such high scores on IMDB/RT. can't imagine i'll catch it before the dvd comes out though 

avengers:
shit 

The Punisher (2004 or 2005)
Could have done with less gory details at times but overall it was very cool. A gazillion times better than Drive which for some reason I feel like comparing it to. Hlarious, brutal, manly and clichee. I liked the style.


The Guard (2011)
Really good. I highly recommended it. Calm and thrilling in a feel good mood. Great soundtrack. Expected some silly comedy but this was quite deep and symbolic. 

I really did not like this at all, In Bruges was much better IMHO. 

Suspiria - this movie is fucked. "Secret Flowers" indeed. The visual style is so unusual, bright colours and odd camera angles, and really eccentric set designs, unless there are actual buildings in Italy that look like this. The soundtrack is creepy as hell. Even at the end you aren't exactly sure what's going on, but I think you could call this a horror classic; it has a ton of atmosphere in any case, and it was made before The Shining (possibly influenced it?).

Heathers - Really mean-spirited comedy that has gained some disturbing implications post-Columbine; some people might be disturbed or offended (and were at the time, the late 80's), but I found it really funny despite being totally ridiculous; the scene where the priest says "Eskimo" was so out there. Apparently the ending was going to be even more ridiculous and dark but the studio forced a somewhat reconciliatory ending onto this otherwise increasingly bizarre and cynical script.

Ginger Snaps - Amusing cheesy b-horror movie about a girl who turns into a werewolf. 

To be honest I found some of Dario Argento's horrors to be a bit overated. Maybe I need to watch them a second time. And I think i've only seen 2 or 3 (Suspiria included). But I got a bit of a Euro trash kind of feeling with them, they were a little bit weird but not it an interesting way. Suspiria reminded me a bit of Santa Sangre I think it was.

Any of you guys watched Alejandro Jodorowsky's movies? El Topo is a 10/10. Extremely weird but brilliant. 

Black Death (2010)
I heard this was one of the best horrors of 2010. Had a good cast, led by Sean Bean and some weird monk dude, but both were pretty good. It was set during the times of the plague, and interesting set during daytime all through the movie. You don't get that often in horror!

Anyway I felt it dragged on a bit in the second half and didn't really go anywhere - perhaps they ran out of money. The killing of certain characters was a surprise. The ending was completely unnecessary though.

Definitely a horror director to keep an eye on. His first horror (Creep) was fucking terrible, but Triangle was really good and so is Black Death, so onwards and upwards :D 

Yeah Suspiria works on atmosphere alone because there's not much else going on. Give Inferno and Deep Red a go too, same style. 

was the soundtrack by Goblin. They did a bunch of scores for Argento and most of them are pretty rad. 

I wouldnt call it shit like Starbuck did but pretty meh. The individual Marvel movies were better (havent seen Thor yet though). 

Thor is absolutely rubbish, trust me.

People praise Avengers everywhere, could you guys elaborate what you disliked? 

so I will give it a go.

As for Avengers, until they get together, the movie is all over the place and doesnt really know what to do. When they get together, theres some decent banter between them until it leads to some totally predictable and cringeworthy in-fighting. The last 1/3 delivers the carnage but I stopped caring by then, despite some really cool action. 

This board is always the dissenting opinion on stuff for whatever reason. EVERYONE I know who saw the movie absolutely loved it. *shrug*