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. 

if the script wasn't much longer originally, and then had parts in the middle cut out. That would explain waltz' character change, some very weird montage / "oh here's character A so you've seen him/her before" scenes.

Jackson I really ,really liked as in, he played hilariously good, but probably overshot the target. But it was great fun just watching his performance.

Actually, I think most of the actors were great. Must be a Tarantino thing? A lot of the interaction just felt like the tension etc was all due to his directing. 

Meh, I'dd give it a 6. Probably the highest I've ever given anything Tartinero. Tarnotero. Tarinento... whatever.
Mostly postmodern formalist drivel as far as I'm concerned :P
Could have been a 7 if the second half wasn't so anticlimactic.
Better than the nazi thing, that was one big 2 hour long slowmotion planecrash following the first 15 minutes with the german guy, which was actually good haha. 

But I'm generally very skeptical about Tarantino's movies. With the exception of Jackie Brown, which I like for the music and the chemistry between the two main characters, I find all of his other moves to be meh at best. 

I like Pulp Fiction, Four Rooms and Jackie Brown (I think, been a long time). Kill Bill I loved but I bet if I re-watched them today I would nitpick them to death like a hipster prick.


Taken/96 Hours (2008)
Shallow action movie. A lot of scenes could have been replaced with a simple text "Imagine lots of blur, orchestral umpta umpta music, grunting and glass shattering/cars honking". Some of the resolution made me want to vomit: Fperj gubfr znal bgure tveyf, nyy vf svar vs whfg Xvz vf erfphrq?! Jung unccrarq gb gur bgure tvey ur tbg bhg? V gubhtug vg jnf ure ng gur raq ohg vg jnf whfg gung shpxvat fvatre. Naq jgs nobhg gur sng evpu nenovna zbafgre fgrerbglcr.

Oh wait, top 500 with a 7.9/10 at imdb. I guess I'm wrong. I was gonna say Ricky would like it and with that I was right at least ("excellent"). 

yeah, i stopped watching that after half an hour or so :-) 

Well that movie had a good effect the first time I saw it, but it gets dull after that. The sequel is really wank. 

Source Code

Huh, I liked it and of course being squeamish and hopelessly cheesy I liked the ending. :-)

Fairly shallow but deep in a different way.

Soundtrack sucked donkey balls on CoD maps in spaaaace. Seriously, I have that style up to "upper edge of the lower lip"! FFS! 

I also watched some really perverted juvenile german fan dubs of the Harry Potter movies which I can highly recommend to any germans with a perverted juvenile mind. http://www.coldmirror-synchros.de/

I watched the Porno-Keller one first and thought it was the best too.

LOL du hast Pimmel gesagt. ^_o 

Source Code is pretty good. Another 2011 (half) sci-fi with great pacing is The Adjustment Bureau. 

http://www.myvideo.de/watch/8240275/Herzblatt_Synchro_Part_1_2
http://www.myvideo.de/watch/8240287/Herzblatt_Synchro_Part_2_2 

The Adjustment Bureau

I liked it a lot! Forgot what the summary of it was so I was really surprised at what happened. Feel good movie. 

Been saying this for a while that the amount of intelligent / quirky / cool sci-fi-esque films in recent years is really good. Source Code is definitely a favourite. Adjustment Bureau is the soppy chick-flick of the bunch but still very cool. 

I'm glad you liked it. Of course, it's a bit on the romantic side as Shambler has pointed out but still, it interprets its source material (a short story by P. K. Dick) pretty good. I've never liked Matt Damon much, though he and Emily Blunt perform well as a couple in this context. 

I'd recommend Looper too. It's from the last year. 

 

I found Adjustment Bureau surprisingly not-dark and kinda New-Agey given its source.

Looper was better than both of them, in my view, despite the crazy plot holes. Timecrimes and Triangle both handled time travel, its contradictions and horrifying scenarios, better, though Looper's weak-PK powers scenario was awesome and the writing on the arm thing was pretty clever.