House of the dEvil, despite a weak ending. 

Argo (2012)
Nice! Missed some character development like nitin though. 

http://www.collativelearning.com/FILMS%20reviews%20BY%20ROB%20AGER.html

Amazing stuff if you like classic films. 

Main characters were good (suitable Dredd style), city block and cityscape were good. That's all. They could have filled the rest with more exploration of the psychotic baddie, the degeneracy of the city, and the contrast between Dredd's robotic sterness and the freaks he has to deal with, but no, instead it was endless displays of boring death/shooting scenes made worse by pointless slow-motion and cheesy rock soundtrack - the classic MTV-style way to fuck up a potentially decent film. 

wait, didn't you insult me in creative ways when I watched and live-commented it in #tf? I took it too serious to enjoy how trashy it was. might be more fun for fans of the comics I guess. 

Meh Shamb you asking for too much. The slow mo was lovely. And its Dredd ffs, theres nearly too little action as it is lol :D 

I was asking for a dark-ish, gritty, tongue-in-cheek, semi-brutal action flick. Instead I got a pop video.

The slow-mo was utter cheesy drivel, designed solely for angsty teenagers. 

You must be kidding Shamb.
Grumpy old git :P

I dont see how it was cheesy or drivel. Tell me the slow-mo massacre was drivel, it was a beautiful celebration of gore and OTT violence, that is all and it cannot be denied.

Its not cos a bunch of idiots abused slow mo and made shite out of it that no one can use it right. 

Beverly Hills 90210 in space. 

that looked terrible. 

...Was awful

They fucking michael bay'd BSG, arseholes. 

http://sea.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/874483/christopher-doyle-interview-part-2-life-of-pi-oscar-is-an 

http://sea.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/874483/christopher-doyle-interview-part-2-life-of-pi-oscar-is-an 

but you kind of lose the argument at this point:

"I may be wrong, because I haven�t seen the film". 

please review Springbreakers. 

I should have watched that instead of Mad Max which I found to be a generic b-movie with annoying music and a cheap plot. Delighted to see nitin feel similar, http://celephais.net/board/view_thread.php?id=3545&start=2462&end=2462

I was quite sad at the lack of dubstep in the Springbreakers trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVvn9T6bqls but then it finally came and it is Skrillex. I think? Shambler surely knows. Looks like a great movie. 

Mad Max 2 on the other hand is really good IMHO. 

Can't say I agree. I should have excepted it to be a trashy sci-fi "b-movie" like eg Waterworld, then I would liked it better. Ain't got no muscly half-nude leather costume man fetish either. I thought it would be a proper serious movie. :(

The intro was so promising, sounded like some really great scheme of events that changed the world.

Nothing I'd watch again. Some great scenes, some great setups, but overall just so silly and dumb. Actually I think I preferred the serious story of the first one.

At least now I know where all the silly things in Rage (the game) came from. Makes me wish they'd never seen this movie so it wouldn't have been ruined by their feeble attempts of integrating bits into their game. Like that idiotic "everyone, play time is over, clear the wasteland for some racing, afterwards you can go back at playing mutants and bandits again". 

Ain't got no muscly half-nude leather costume man fetish either.

Your loss 

I remember watching the mad max films years ago. I recently watched the first one again and it has not aged well. I remember the second one being funny for introducing the Biker Bum Flap, nothing like a quality leather fashion accessory for the apocalypse! 

mad max 2 is one of my favourites, but you definitely have to watch it like it's 30 years old. :) 

and quite liked it. 

I watched the third one, thunderdome I think (or was it the 4th?), not that long ago, a few years. Fuck it was childish crap. Mad Max 2 is really the only good one. 

 

Django unchained

I mostly really like it but it felt weird. Like it was half-comedy, half-thriller, half-drama, half-action. Yeah, that adds up to 2 and makes as much sense as the mixture. Sometimes the "other" music felt completely out of place, at other times it fit. Samuel L. Jackson's character felt unreal. DiCaprio was ace, imo a much stronger character than Waltz' (which was not coherent imo).

The ending was meh, it could have ended a lot earlier and more logical but I guess that is Tarantino. I hope some day he will stop insisting to play in his movies because it always kills immersion for me.

The colors/brightness often felt super weird.

It was quite brutal at times but it felt in place and justified (unlike that shit in Drive). It also had some music with lyrics that directly referenced the film but it felt alright (unlike that shit in Drive).

I'd recommend watching it. I did not like Inglorious Bastards at all but this one was a lot of fun with great tension.